US12158318B2
The present disclosure provides systems and techniques that can be implemented in a gun, such as an electromechanical gun. The gun may charge a capacitor bank, identify a trigger break based on an output generated by a trigger sensor, and transmit a signal based on the trigger break. Transmitting the signal may result in the capacitor bank discharging electric charge such that electric current is directed at an actuator mechanism so as to cause displacement of the actuator mechanism, and the displacement of the actuator mechanism may result in the propulsion of a projectile through a barrel of the gun. The gun may determine that a projectile has been fired based on an output of an accelerometer or a gyroscope, and the gun may recharge the capacitor bank in response to determining that the projectile has been fired.
US12158317B2
A rearward-travel stop assembly for a firearm includes: a trigger guard portion; and an adjustable stop assembly coupled to the trigger guard portion and configured to limit rearward-travel of a trigger of the firearm by engaging a lower portion of the trigger.
US12158314B2
A cold plate apparatus that has an outlet plenum leading to an outlet opening includes an outlet transition that connects the outlet opening to the outlet plenum. The outlet transition defines a smoothly curving flow path from a direction along a long dimension of the outlet plenum, which is parallel to a plane defined by the outlet opening, to a direction along a centerline of the outlet opening, which is at an angle from the plane defined by the outlet opening. The outlet transition provides a smooth variation of cross-sectional area from the outlet plenum to the outlet opening.
US12158300B2
In a refrigerator control method, an operation corresponding to a deep-freezing chamber load, in which both a refrigeration chamber valve and a freezer chamber valve are opened, is performed when a deep-freezing chamber mode is turned on and the input condition of the operation corresponding to a deep-freezing chamber load is satisfied.
US12158297B2
A refrigerator may include: a first tray forming a part of ice-making cells; a second tray forming the other part of the ice-making cells; a heater for supplying heat to the ice making cells; a cooler for supplying cold to a storage compartment; and a control unit for controlling the heater and the cooler. The operation modes of the refrigerator include a first mode and a second mode. The control unit may control so that either or both of the amounts of cooling by the cooler and the amount of heating by the heater vary in the first mode and the second mode.
US12158295B2
A cryogenic freezer and a method of controlling temperature within the cryogenic freezer. The cryogenic freezer includes an inner vessel. The inner vessel defines a storage chamber. The cryogenic freezer includes an outer vessel surrounding the inner vessel. The outer vessel may define a vacuum-insulated space in between the outer vessel and the inner vessel. The cryogenic freezer includes a temperature sensor configured to measure a temperature within the storage chamber. The cryogenic freezer includes a controller coupled to the temperature sensor. The controller is configured to pulse an amount of cryogen into the storage container to control the temperature within the storage container.
US12158293B2
The refrigerant circulation direction is switched between first and second circulation directions. In the first circulation direction, the refrigerant is circulated in order of a first heat exchanger, a compressor, a second heat exchanger, and a first decompressor, and circulated in order of the first heat exchanger, the compressor, a third heat exchanger, and a second decompressor. A controller identifies a specific heat exchanger from among the second heat exchanger and the third heat exchanger. When an elapsed time from activation of the compressor is shorter than a reference time, the controller makes an opening degree of a specific decompressor that communicates with the specific heat exchanger larger than an opening degree of the decompressor that is among the first decompressor and the second decompressor and different from the specific decompressor, and sets the refrigerant circulation direction to the second circulation direction opposite to the first circulation.
US12158288B2
A light-splitting reflection high-concentration photovoltaic photothermal integrated cavity receiver includes a photothermal assembly and a photovoltaic assembly. The photothermal assembly includes a high-temperature heat storage system, a low-temperature heat storage system, a plurality of heat exchange tube bundles defining a reflective cavity, and an ultraviolet and visible light reflective film arranged on an inner surface of the reflective cavity. The plurality of heat exchange tube bundles are communicated to form a heat collection circuit, and the heat collection circuit has an input end connected with the low-temperature heat storage system, and an output end connected with the high-temperature heat storage system. The photovoltaic assembly is arranged at a focus of the reflective cavity, and includes a near-infrared reflective film, a high concentration photovoltaic integrated receiver and a concentration photovoltaic cooler stacked sequentially along an incident direction of light.
US12158285B2
A diffuser to distribute vapors throughout a building using an HVAC system. The diffuser has an inner tube with vents and a rotatable outer tube with vents, being rotatable by a rotation mechanism. The vents on both tubes can be misaligned, or fully or partially aligned by rotation of outer tube. The inner tube has a connector at one end to removably connect to a liquid container, and an annular flange. An elbow is located between the connector and the flange such that the container may be oriented vertically when the tubes are horizontal. A cavity in the inner tube is open to the container, and a wick in the cavity transmits liquid from the container to the cavity. Vapor diffuses out of the cavity through the vents when they are at least partially aligned. The diffuser may be installed into an HVAC duct.
US12158270B2
A combustor comprising a dome wall, an annular liner, a combustion chamber, a set of fuel cups, and a set of dilution passages for each fuel cup of the set of fuel cups. The set of fuel cups circumferentially spaced along the dome wall relative to the combustor centerline. The set of dilution passages terminating in a plurality of slots spaced about the corresponding fuel cup in the set of fuel cups.
US12158269B2
A combustion device includes: a combustion chamber; a plurality of hydrogen injection holes facing inside of the combustion chamber; a first air injection hole facing the inside of the combustion chamber and extending in the circumferential direction on a radially outer side with respect to the plurality of hydrogen injection holes; a second air injection hole facing the inside of the combustion chamber and extending in the circumferential direction on a radially inner side with respect to the plurality of hydrogen injection holes, the first and second air injection holes being annular; first swirling blades provided in the first air injection hole and inclined in the circumferential direction with respect to a combustion-chamber-side axial direction; and second swirling blades provided in the second air injection hole and inclined to the same side as the first swirling blades in the circumferential direction with respect to the combustion-chamber-side axial direction.
US12158268B2
An improved and high capacity gas igniter for furnaces and burners. The igniter can include an igniter tip that is annular in shape and includes various holes of different sizes and angular projections distributed throughout. The igniter tip may utilize a slip-joint-like mechanism or sleeve that connects inner and outer tubes of a guide tube that allows the inner tube to slide when undergoing thermal expansion. This configuration alleviates stress from building up on the inner tube and igniter tip, preventing damage.
US12158267B2
Embodiments of a pressure regulator for delivering gas to a cooking station. The pressure regulator includes a body defining a gas inlet and a gas outlet. The body also includes a knob coupled to the body, the knob manually rotatable about an axis defined by the knob. The pressure regulator also includes a lever arm within the body. The lever arm extends to an end portion positioned adjacent the gas inlet, the lever arm pivotable via rotation of the knob such that rotation of the knob adjusts gas flow pressure through the body between about 11 inches of water column and about 8.5 inches of water column.
US12158264B2
The invention relates to an optical component (140) for a luminaire (100). The optical component (140) comprises a carrier plate (141) having an upper surface (141a) and a lower surface (141b), and a plurality of lens elements (142) provided on the upper surface (141a). Each two neighboring lens elements (142) has an intermediate region (143). In each intermediate region (143), the carrier plate (141) comprises a slit (144) having an elongated shape with an axis of elongation parallel to a plane of the carrier plate (141). The optical component (140) can be used in a luminaire (100) to meet the office requirements regarding glare, in particular the L65 requirement.
US12158257B1
The present disclosure provides a handheld lighting device with adjustable lighting direction. The handheld lighting device has a housing assembly having a handle and a bracket with a steering groove, a lamp head assembly supported by the housing assembly and including a lamp head main shell and a rotating leg extending from the main shell toward the housing assembly, the rotating leg being received in the steering groove such that the lamp head assembly is deflected relative to the housing. The handheld lighting device is in a first lighting state when the direction of lighting of the lens of the lamp head assembly is in the same direction as the lengthwise of the handle. The handheld lighting device is in a second lighting state when the direction of lighting of the lens of said lamp head assembly deviates from the lengthwise direction of the handle.
US12158252B2
The purpose is to facilitate the adjustment of the size of a light emitting region of a lens structure. A lens structure for a vehicle light body includes a light emitting part and a base. The light emitting part includes an introduction reflective surface which causes light from the base to completely reflect as parallel light to the Z− direction, and a back-side reflective surface arranged to the Z direction in the light emitting back surface. Each back-side reflective surface has a normal direction sloping relative to the Z direction, and causes the parallel light from the introduction reflective surface to completely reflect to the Y+ direction. The light emitting surface emits light from the back-side reflective surface.
US12158251B2
A flame simulation projection device including a first light source, a light reflection mechanism, a second light source and a housing, wherein the first light source, the light reflection mechanism and the second light source are separately matched and connected to the housing; the first light source is disposed facing the light reflection mechanism; the housing forms an inner cavity; and the second light source is disposed facing the outside of the inner cavity. Since the first light source, the light reflection mechanism, the second light source and the housing form a standardized, serialized and integrated module, it can not only speed up the progress of production, assembly and maintenance of products, but also be designed by DIY. Users can freely arrange flame imaging screens and/or simulated fuel beds.
US12158247B2
Provided is a lighting device that includes a light source assembly having at least two light sources with different light emitting characteristics, turned on and turned off independently to emit a light beam by one light source of the at least two light sources; a lens module, arranged on a light path of the light beam to receive the light beam; and an optical component, arranged on the light path to receive the light beam from the lens module, he optical component has a first light exiting portion and a second light exiting portion, and can move relative to the light source assembly, so that the light beam is exited from one of them, and a beam angle of the light beam exited from the first light exiting portion is different from the beam angle of the light beam exited from the second light exiting portion.
US12158236B2
A lubricating oil tank includes: a tank casing extending in a first direction; a plurality of introduction portions disposed separately from each other in the first direction; a receiving portion disposed below the plurality of introduction portions in a vertical direction inside the tank casing and configured to receive the lubricating oil introduced from the plurality of introduction portions and cause the lubricating oil to flow toward a second end portion of the tank casing in the first direction; and a strainer configured to capture a foreign matter in the lubricating oil having flowed on the receiving portion. The receiving portion is inclined downward in the vertical direction toward the second end portion in the first direction. The strainer is disposed at a position closer to the second end portion than the plurality of introduction portions in the first direction.
US12158227B2
A flow control structure of a water hose joint has: a hose connector, a coupler, a control section, and a hose. The coupler is coupled with the hose connector, the control section is sleeved on the coupler, and the coupler is inserted into the hose, so as to complete a flow control structure of the hose connector. By combining the hose connector with a connecting pipe and rotating the control section to adjust the relative position of the control section and the coupler to change the water flow, which has the effect of simple flow adjustment.
US12158224B2
A casing constituting a housing type pipe joint is divided into an inner casing which externally fits to a sealing member to restrain a shape of a sealing member and an outer casing which is prepared outside the inner casing, engages with a pair of tubular members with their tube ends opposing each other inside the sealing member and presses the inner casing against the sealing member, these inner and outer casings being constituted by plural segments, each of which is formed as an integrated object from a metal plate, and a plate thickness of the inner casing is equal to or larger than a plate thickness of the outer casing. Thereby, a housing type pipe joint which can achieve both a function to restrain a shape of a sealing member and a function to engage tubular members at a sufficiently high level and is compact and lightweight is provided.
US12158214B2
A rotary valve comprises: a valve body having a cylindrical cavity; a rotor having a cylindrical surface that abuts a surface of the cylindrical cavity, the rotor including: a center bore; a first channel extending between the center bore and a first opening in the cylindrical surface; a second channel extending between the center bore and a second opening in the cylindrical surface; a third channel extending between the center bore and a third opening in the cylindrical surface; and a fourth channel not connected to the center bore, the fourth channel extending between a fourth opening in the cylindrical surface and a fifth opening at an end surface of the rotor, the end surface adjacent the cylindrical surface; and ports extending through the valve body between the surface of the cylindrical cavity and an outside of the valve body.
US12158206B2
A torsion spring for an oil pump chain tensioner for use in an engine. The torsion spring has: a second end; a leg connected to the second end through a hook bend; an outer coil connected to the leg having an outer coil outer circumference and an outer coil inner circumference; a first inner coil connected to the outer coil, the first inner coil having a first inner coil outer circumference and a first inner coil inner circumference, the outer coil inner circumference being adjacent to the first inner coil outer circumference; and a second inner c-shaped coil connected to the first inner coil through a bend back loop, the second inner coil having a second inner coil outer circumference and a second inner coil inner coil circumference and terminating in a first end, where the second inner coil outer circumference and the first coil inner circumference define a gap.
US12158202B2
A gear device includes a first gear, a second gear, and a third gear. The second gear is offset eccentrically when the first gear is rotated. The third gear is rotated at a speed slower than a rotation speed of the first gear when the second gear is offset eccentrically. The stopper plate is engaged with the second gear through a fitting structure thereby restricting rotational movement of the second gear while permitting linear movement of the second gear. One of the second gear and the stopper plate includes an engagement claw. The other one of the second gear and the stopper plate includes a recess engaged with the engagement claw. The engagement claw includes a grease sump that holds grease applied between the recess and the engagement claw.
US12158200B2
In a gear pair in which a first gear and a second gear having a larger number of teeth than the first gear share a meshing line (L) of teeth that mesh with each other, at least a part of the meshing line (L) includes a region where a pressure angle (a) is not constant, and the pressure angle (α) weakly increases in a section of the meshing line (L) from a pitch point (Pp) to an end point (Pe1) on a tooth-root side of the first gear (G1). This allows both desired properties (for example, strength) and smooth meshing to be achieved, and also allows effective increase in strength of the tooth-root side of the gear having the small number of the teeth (that is, the first gear) subject to a large load and susceptible to damages on the tooth-root side.
US12158199B2
A torque converter includes a front cover arranged to receive a torque and an impeller having an impeller shell connected to the front cover. The torque converter further includes a turbine in fluid communication with the impeller and including a turbine shell. The torque converter further includes a lock-up clutch including a clutch plate that is non-rotatably connected to the turbine shell.
US12158197B2
A transmission system for a vehicle, in particular a front wheel driven vehicle, having an input arranged for connection to a drive source, and an output arranged for connection to a load. The transmission system comprises a transmission which in turn comprises an output shaft connected to the output, a first input shaft and a first speed transforming gear coupling the first input shaft to the output shaft, and a second input shaft and a second speed transforming gear coupling the second input shaft to the output shaft.
US12158196B2
An actuator device includes a housing, parallel rolling screws supported in the housing, an actuator element, an actuator spindle anchored in the actuator element, a control system, sensor heads, and position sensors. Each rolling screw is coupled to an electric motor and engages a roller nut. Rotating the rolling screws axially displaces the rolling nuts. The actuator element engages with each rolling nut. One sensor head is arranged on the actuator element near each roller nut. One position sensor is fastened in the actuator adjacent each sensor head and communicates position information of each sensor head to the control system. Each electric motor has an encoder coupled to the control system. The encoder provides a primary motor control. The control system compares information from each position sensor with information from the encoder. The information from each position sensor acts as a secondary position control of the actuator element.
US12158188B2
A disc brake includes a pressure piece, an adjusting spindle, and an adjustment unit. The adjusting spindle is guided through an opening, provided with a thread unit, of the pressure piece. The adjusting spindle is guided through the adjusting unit, and the adjusting unit protrudes into the opening. The adjusting spindle has a limitation disposed in a thread turn of the adjusting spindle.
US12158186B2
Disclosed herein are systems and methods including an electromechanical brake used downhole to impart dynamic or static braking capabilities while absorbing or otherwise reducing shock loads. The electromechanical brake may be used for a downhole electromechanical linear actuator to control a valve for the production of subterranean fluid. In some examples, it may be desirable for an electromechanical linear actuator to maintain a retracted position during certain safety and/or maintenance operations. The electromechanical brake includes a brake housing, a first armature rotatably disposed in the brake housing, a second armature rotatably disposed in the brake housing for rotation by a motor, an electrical coil energizable to urge the second armature into axial engagement with the first armature, and a rotational spring for biasing the first armature to a neutral rotational position relative to the brake housing while allowing a limited rotation of the first armature relative to the brake housing.
US12158165B2
A centrifugal compressor for a chiller includes an impeller, a motor, a diffuser, and at least one injection port. The impeller is attached to a shaft rotatable about a rotation axis. The motor is arranged and configured to rotate the shaft in order to rotate the impeller. The diffuser is disposed downstream from the impeller. The at least one injection port is located within the diffuser. The at least one injection port is configured and arranged to supply liquid refrigerant into the diffuser from a condenser or an economizer of the chiller.
US12158160B2
A ceiling fan or similar air-moving device can include a motor for rotating one or more blades to drive a volume of air about a space. A connector can be used to connect the blade to a blade iron to mount the blade to the motor. The connector can include a set of receptacles configured to insert into openings on the blade, with the set of receptacles connected by a set of arms. A set of mount posts on the blade iron can seat within the receptacles to mount the blade to the blade iron.
US12158156B2
A ceiling fan infrared detection and control system has a wall-mounted controller, a ceiling fan controller, and a motor. The wall-mounted controller has an infrared sensor that is arranged outwardly and horizontally. The wall-mounted controller is pivotally equipped with a lens outside the infrared sensor for detecting infrared rays of a human body within a detection range. The control unit can output a wireless signal to the ceiling fan controller to control the motor according to the infrared detection result. The ceiling fan infrared detection and control system uses the technical feature that the lens is rotatable relative to the wall-mounted controller, so that the detection range can be moved synchronously along with the lens. The detection range has directivity and the function of adjusting the detection position, which can avoid false detection of a pet below the height of the detection range.
US12158149B2
The present invention provides a fluid transfer apparatus comprising: a rotating shaft comprising a rotation unit extending along an axial direction and a first eccentric unit and a second eccentric unit disposed to be spaced apart from each other along the axial direction; a first rotor housing forming a first fluid compression space in the shape of an epitrochoid curved surface; a second rotor housing forming a second fluid compression space in the shape of an epitrochoid curved surface, and positioned to be spaced apart from the first rotor housing along the axial direction; a first rotor disposed in the first fluid compression space so as to delimit the first fluid compression space into multiple variable-displacement spaces, and coupled to the first eccentric unit while surrounding the first eccentric unit in the radial direction of the first eccentric unit; and a second rotor disposed in the second fluid compression space so as to delimit the second fluid compression space into multiple variable-displacement spaces, and coupled to the second eccentric unit while surrounding the second eccentric unit in the radial direction of the second eccentric unit.
US12158147B2
A single screw compressor comprises a main rotor and at least one gate rotor, a casing for the main rotor having a discharge port at a discharge end of the casing, and a slide slidable within a bore in the casing adjacent the main rotor. The slide has a cut-out (6) between first (2) and second (4) sealing parts of the slide, the slide is slidable between a high volume ratio position where the cut-out (6) is within the casing and provides a path to the discharge port, and a low volume ratio position where the slide is beyond the discharge end of the casing to provide a fixed discharge path in the bore of the casing.
US12158144B2
A method of assembling a fluid end includes inserting a valve through a bore of a housing of the fluid end and into an interior volume of the fluid end, inserting a valve cover into the bore such that the valve cover seals the bore, and coupling a lock cover to the housing, the lock cover positioned over the bore to prevent removal of the valve cover from the bore. When the lock cover is coupled to the housing, the lock cover does not apply a preload against the valve cover.
US12158138B2
Renewable geothermal energy harvesting methods may include distributing the working fluid from a ground surface into thermal contact with at least one subterranean geothermal formation; transferring thermal energy from the subterranean geothermal formation to the working fluid; distributing the working fluid from the subterranean geothermal formation back to the ground surface; and distributing the working fluid directly to at least one thermal application system. The thermal application system may be configured to utilize the thermal energy to perform work. The thermal energy may be utilized at the thermal application system to perform the work. Renewable geothermal energy harvesting systems are also disclosed.
US12158123B1
An assembly is provided for a turbine engine. This turbine engine assembly includes a supplemental thrust section and a duct. The supplemental thrust section includes a rotating detonation combustor. The duct includes a supplemental thrust section inlet fluidly coupled with and leading to the rotating detonation combustor. The supplemental thrust section inlet has a flow area that decreases as at least a first portion of the supplemental thrust section inlet extends towards the rotating detonation combustor.
US12158120B2
The present invention suppresses leakage of combustion gas from a contact surface. A cylinder head (20) is attached to a cylinder block. The surface (26) of the side of the cylinder head (20) that is attached to the cylinder block includes a first region (AH1) and a second region (AH2) that has higher hardness than the first region (AH1).
US12158110B2
A gas turbine engine includes a propulsor having blades extending from a propulsor hub. A compressor section includes a first compressor and a second compressor. A speed reduction device includes an epicyclic gear system. The epicyclic gear system includes a sun gear, a plurality of intermediate gears, a carrier supporting the intermediate gears and the propulsor hub, and a ring gear. A turbine section includes a first turbine and a second turbine. The second turbine drives the propulsor through the epicyclic gear system. The epicyclic gear system is straddled by forward and aft bearings that engage the carrier.
US12158091B2
A V-type engine in which exhaust pipe arrangement is easily performed and purification of exhaust gas can be performed by a single catalyst. Cylinders where pistons operate are arranged in a V-shape, a crankshaft driven by the driving of the pistons is disposed vertically, exhaust pipes communicating with exhaust openings in the respective banks of a cylinder head are included, rear exhaust pipes in the respective banks are merged outside on a side of the crankshaft, and a catalyst holder that holds a catalyst is provided in a merge portion of the rear exhaust pipes. Since the rear exhaust pipes in the respective banks are merged and the catalyst holder is provided in this merge portion, exhaust gas from each bank can be purified by the single catalyst, so that the number of catalysts installed is reduced to thus be able to reduce manufacturing cost.
US12158078B2
A method of manufacturing a compressor. A member is cast having forward and aft annular portions. A cavity forward wall extends from the forward annular portion to a first inner end. A cavity aft wall extends from the aft annular portion to a second inner end. A cavity outer wall extends between the forward and aft annular portions and defines an outer aperture. A cavity inner wall is cast and welded between the cavity forward and aft walls such that the cavity inner wall is offset from the first and second inner ends of the cavity forward and aft walls to form a U-shaped end channel. The compressor case is capable of receiving a vane so that a trunnion bearing extends from a vane root to a trunnion bearing outer end, through the inner aperture in the cavity inner wall and the outer aperture in the cavity outer wall.
US12158077B2
There is provided a compact turbine-compressor assembly 25. The turbine-compressor assembly 25 includes a turbine wheel 39 with one or more turbine blades 41 and a compressor wheel 47 that includes one or more compressor blades 49. The compressor wheel 47 is concentric with the turbine wheel 39. Furthermore, the compressor wheel 47 and the turbine wheel 39 are not located at opposite ends of a common axle with a medial portion of the axle distancing them apart, as is the case with prior art turbine-compressor assemblies that are known. In contrast, the turbine wheel 39 and the compressor wheel 47 are located adjacent to each other and in one embodiment they axially overlap each other so that one nests within the other to thereby provide a compact arrangement. The turbine-compressor assembly 25 includes a first fluid path 67 which is configured to convey fluid, which will typically be air, through the turbine blades 41. The turbine-compressor assembly 25 also includes a second fluid path 77 which is configured to convey fluid, which will typically be air, through the compressor blades. The turbine-compressor assembly 25 is arranged so that the first fluid path 67 is distinct from the second fluid path 77 and vice-versa.
US12158066B2
Methods and apparatus pertaining to scaling of the proportional gain and the integral gain in PI controllers of an autodriller based on drilling context. For example, a proportional gain and an integral gain are each determined for utilization by a PI controller of an autodriller controlling operation of equipment to be utilized for a drilling operation to drill a borehole into a subterranean formation. During the drilling operation, the integral gain is updated in real-time utilizing current values of drilling parameters that change with respect to time.
US12158053B2
A method of treating a region of a subterranean formation adjacent a wellbore zone, the method including cooling the wellbore zone to a wellbore temperature below a temperature of the region of the subterranean formation adjacent the wellbore zone, injecting a gellable treatment composition through the wellbore zone into the region of the subterranean formation adjacent the wellbore zone, and allowing the gellable treatment composition to gel in the region to prevent or reduce flow of an unwanted fluid from the region into the wellbore zone.
US12158043B1
An apparatus may include a connector sub rigidly securable to a conveyance for running the connector sub along a wellbore. The connector sub has a connector lug. Further, the apparatus may include a spool mandrel coupled to the connector sub and having a mandrel lug. The spool mandrel is rotatable with respect to the connector sub, and contact between the connector lug and the mandrel lug bounds rotation of the spool mandrel with respect to the connector sub between a first angular position and a second angular position. Additionally, the apparatus includes a control line extending between the connector sub and the spool mandrel. The control line is displaceable to permit rotation of the spool mandrel with respect to the connector sub.
US12158034B2
A furniture drive for moving a furniture part includes a housing to be located on or in a furniture panel, and an actuating arm mounted movably relative to the housing and on which the movable furniture part can be fastened, and the housing has an end face through which the actuating arm protrudes in a relative position. A spring can exert a force onto the actuating arm, an adjustment bar can adjust the force that can be exerted onto the actuating arm by the spring, and a display can display the force adjustment carried out by the adjustment bar. The display is formed separately from the adjustment bar and can be read in an installed position of the furniture drive, in which position the housing is located completely, except for the end face, in the furniture panel of the furniture body.
US12158029B2
A closure latch assembly for installation in a vehicle door and method of construction thereof is provided. The closure latch assembly has at least one ratchet, a primary pawl, and an auxiliary pawl. At least one ratchet is moveable between a striker capture position and a striker release position. The primary pawl is moveable between a closed position and an open position. The auxiliary pawl is moveable between a closed position and an open position. An auxiliary pawl release lever is moveable between a rest position, whereat the auxiliary pawl is located in its closed position and the primary pawl is located in its closed position, and an engaged position, whereat the auxiliary pawl is moved to its open position and the primary pawl is moved to its open position.
US12158020B2
A pool cleaner with a cover assembly that includes a bottom cover with a cover opening, a supply mast, a distributor manifold, a timer assembly, a scrubber assembly, and a venturi vacuum. The distributor manifold receives water from the supply mast and encircles the suction mast. The venturi vacuum is in fluid communication with the distributor manifold and is designed to vacuum debris from a pool surface.
US12158018B2
A selectively deployable screening assembly for screening an event from being viewed by passersby includes a set of shielding devices, the shielding devices of which are selectively mutually couplable. Each shielding device comprises a frame, a panel, and a base. The frame comprises a lower element and a pair of side elements, each of which is hinged and foldable. The side elements also are foldable into substantial abutment with the lower element. The panel, which is substantially opaque, is attached to and extends between the lower element and the side elements. The base is attached to the lower element and stabilizes the frame on a surface. The set of shielding devices is deployable proximate to a perimeter of a site of an event, such as an accident, a crime scene, and the like, to screen the event from being viewed by passersby.
US12158015B2
The present invention relates to a walking robotic cell for the manufacture of on-site printed buildings using a multi-axis 3D printing system, and a method for operating said walking robotic cell. The walking robotic cell comprises a quadruped mobile robotic system acting autonomously and remotely operated, a feeding device, and a multi-axis actuator, which is a reprogrammable electromechanical system, automatically controlled, and programmable offline or online in all its degrees of freedom from an external or remote computer.
US12158012B2
A panel including a centrally located core, at least one first coupling part and at least one second coupling part connected respectively to opposite edges of the core, which first coupling part includes an upward tongue, at least one upward flank lying at a distance from the upward tongue and an upward grooved formed in between the upward tongue and the upward flank wherein the upward groove is adapted to receive at least a part of a downward tongue of a second coupling part of an adjacent panel; which second coupling part includes a downward tongue, at least one downward flank lying at a distance from the downward tongue, and a downward groove formed in between the downward tongue and the downward flank, wherein the downward groove is adapted to receive at least a part of an upward tongue of a first coupling part of an adjacent panel.
US12158004B2
Devices configured to operate on an angled surface (e.g., a roof), and associated systems and methods are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, representative systems include an apparatus with a body assembly, an arm assembly coupled to the body assembly, and a material handling assembly coupled to the arm assembly. The body assembly can include a body frame, and a plurality of positioning assemblies coupleable to cables and configured to position and/or orient the body frame on the surface. The arm assembly includes a proximal end portion rotatably coupled to the body portion and a distal end portion opposite the proximal end portion. The material handling assembly is coupled to the distal end portion of the arm assembly and is configured to carry a surface material to be positioned on the angled surface.
US12158002B1
The reinforced concrete beam with a corrugated web reinforcement plate uses a web reinforcement plate for reinforcing deep and shear critical concrete beams. A corrugated plate is embedded in the concrete beam, where the corrugated plate has a top edge with a periodic shape and a bottom edge with a periodic shape. The periodic shape of the top edge has a larger wavelength than a wavelength of the periodic shape of the bottom edge. The corrugated plate may have a plurality of openings formed therethrough. A plurality of pipes may be received by, and pass through, at least a portion of the plurality of openings formed through the corrugated plate. Each of the pipes may have a pair of obliquely angled open ends such that the planes defining the open ends are normal to the top and bottom faces of the concrete beam.
US12158000B2
A structure-lining apparatus comprising a plurality of transversely and longitudinally extending panels connectable to a structure and connectable edge-to-edge via complementary connector components on their longitudinally extending edges. Each panel comprises transversely extending edges generally orthogonal to their longitudinally extending edges. Each panel comprises first and second complementary connector components on first and second longitudinally extending edges thereof. The apparatus comprises at least one edge-to-edge connection between a first connector component of a first panel and a second connector component of a second panel wherein a primary male connector component of the second connector component of the second panel is extended into a primary female connector component of the first connector component of the first panel and a secondary male connector component of the first connector component of the first panel is extended into a secondary female connector component of the second connector component of the second panel.
US12157992B2
A valve manifold for a universal rough-in valve, the manifold comprising a first inlet; a second inlet; a first outlet; a second outlet; a cavity to receive a fluid mixing valve; a first transition in flow communication with the cavity and the first inlet; a second transition in flow communication with the cavity and the second inlet; a first channel in flow communication with the cavity and the first outlet; a second channel in flow communication with the cavity and the second outlet; wherein the manifold comprises a venturi tube extending from the second manifold outlet towards the first manifold outlet; and wherein the manifold is configured to be removably disposed in a rough-in valve chamber; and the manifold is configured to be removably coupled to the fluid mixing valve.
US12157991B2
This display system is provided with: an image acquisition unit for acquiring a captured image obtained by capturing an image around a work vehicle; a detection unit for detecting an obstacle around the work vehicle; and a display control unit which, on the basis of the result of detection of the obstacle, generates a signal for displaying a marker image in a position corresponding to the obstacle, and a signal for causing the form of the marker image to change over time.
US12157987B2
A rotary working vehicle includes a lower traveling body, an upper rotating body, a rotating frame constituting the bottom of the upper rotating body, a boom bracket supported by the rotating frame so as to be capable pivoting horizontally, a first vertical plate and a second vertical plate, which are raised from the bottom plate of the rotating frame, a swing cylinder provided on the opposite side of the second vertical plate from the first vertical plate and connecting the rotating frame and the boom bracket, a protrusion piece protruding toward the swing cylinder from a side wall of the second vertical plate above the swing cylinder, a hose guide provided to the protrusion piece, and first and second hydraulic hoses which pass above the first vertical plate and the second vertical plate, extend downward from above through the hose guide, and reach the swing cylinder.
US12157982B2
This disclosure discloses a fish-passing system and a fish-passing method with tourist ornamental function, belonging to the technical field of water conservancy and hydropower ecological protection. The system comprises a dam, a Ferris wheel, a water supplement component, and a central controller (9). The upstream of the dam is equipped with a fish-release chute, and one end of the fish-release chute extends into the water body of the dam reservoir. The downstream of the dam is equipped with a fish passage transfer mechanism, and the fish passage transfer mechanism is connected to the downstream water body of the dam through a fish passage. The Ferris wheel is located between the fish passage transfer mechanism and the fish-release chute, and a number of human-ascending mechanisms (8) are evenly arranged on the Ferris wheel.
US12157977B2
A waterproof architectural element comprising an elongated panel member composed of compressed fibrous material having a first planar surface and an opposed second planar surface. At least one elongated cellulose layer is composed of Kraft paper having paper basis weight between 30 and 90 pounds and an average thickness between 0.003 and 0.009 inches. The elongated substrate has a first planar face and an opposed second planar face. A polymeric layer overlies at least a portion of the first planar face of the elongated substrate and comprises a polymeric blend of between 50 and 80 wt. % styrene butadiene copolymer and 0.2 and 3 wt. % of a cellulose ether compound. The cellulose ether compound comprises hydrogen or an alkyl group selected from the group consisting of methyl, ethyl, hydroxyethyl, hydroxypropyl carboxymethyl, hydroxyethyl methyl, hydroxypropyl and between 30 and 50 wt. % calcium carbonate and water.
US12157974B2
There is provided a method of producing a paper, comprising the steps of: a) providing a pulp having a Schopper-Riegler (SR) number measured according to ISO 5267-1:1999 of 25-50, which pulp comprises at least 70% by weight sulphate or sulphite pulp; b) diluting the pulp to a consistency of 0.1%-0.9%; and c) forming a web from the diluted pulp from step b) in a forming section at a machine speed of at least 1100 m/min, such as 1100-1800 m/min.
US12157964B2
A laundry appliance includes an outer cabinet having a top panel that defines an aperture for accessing an interior of the cabinet. A tub is positioned within the outer cabinet and below the aperture. A rotating drum disposed within the tub. A pretreat basin is selectively positioned in an installed position relative to the top panel and above the drum. The pretreat basin has an outer frame and a pivoting central portion that rotationally operates within the outer frame between a sealed position defined by the pivoting central portion being in alignment with the outer frame and a rotated position defined by the pivoting central portion being rotated out of alignment with the outer frame.
US12157960B2
A volumetric weaving approach employs a vertical aspect of woven warp and weft fibers to generate volumetric structures through formation of tie-downs. Tie downs define warp and weft fibers that take a vertical path or component extending perpendicular to a weave plane. Independently controlled heddles provide selective warp fibers control, and a two-dimensional creel that dispenses the warp fibers at differing feed rates allows manipulation of the fibers into three dimensional structures or portions. As a shuttle draws the weft fiber, different layers are raised and lowered to lend a vertical axis to the resulting volumetric structure. Interconnections between the portions include the use of the tie downs to connect multiple portions to define 3-dimensional panels of a finished article such as a shoe. A single pass defining all the interconnected portions of the shoe generates the fully formed shoe without subsequent cutting and seaming of different textile panels.
US12157958B1
An improved ultraviolet (UV) blocking fabric that has an ultraviolet protection factor (UPF) rating of at least 49 in accordance with AATCC 183. The fabric does not require ultraviolet protecting coating(s) or finish(es) or such other treatment for achieving the desired ultraviolet protecting efficiency. Further, the fabric affords maintenance of the UPF rating even after the fabric has been subjected to several laundering cycles.
US12157951B2
Provided are a plating method, an insoluble anode and a plating apparatus capable of reducing consumption of an additive in a plating solution, when plating a substrate including a via or a hole for forming a through electrode. The plating method includes the steps of preparing a substrate including a via or a hole for forming a through electrode, preparing a plating solution tank that is divided, by a diaphragm, into an anode tank in which an insoluble anode is disposed and a cathode tank in which the substrate is disposed, and electroplating the substrate with an anode current density when plating the substrate in the plating solution tank being equal to or more than 0.4 ASD and equal to or less than 1.4 ASD.
US12157949B2
The embodiments herein relate to apparatuses and methods for electroplating one or more materials onto a substrate. Embodiments herein utilize a cross flow conduit in the electroplating cell to divert flow of fluid from a region between a substrate and a channeled ionically resistive plate positioned near the substrate down to a level lower than level of fluid in a fluid containment unit for collecting overflow fluid from the plating system for recirculation. The cross flow conduit can include channels cut into components of the plating cell to allow diverted flow, or can include an attachable diversion device mountable to an existing plating cell to divert flow downwards to the fluid containment unit. Embodiments also include a flow restrictor which may be a plate or a pressure relief valve for modulating flow of fluid in the cross flow conduit during plating.
US12157944B2
A method of forming a diffusion barrier layer on a dielectric or semiconductor substrate by a wet process. The method includes the steps of treating the dielectric or semiconductor substrate with an aqueous pretreatment solution comprising one or more adsorption promoting ingredients capable of preparing the substrate for deposition of the diffusion barrier layer thereon; and contacting the treated dielectric or semiconductor substrate with a deposition solution comprising manganese compounds and an inorganic pH buffer (optionally, with one or more doping metals) to the diffusion barrier layer thereon, wherein the diffusion barrier layer comprises manganese oxide. Also included is a two-part kit for treating a dielectric or semiconductor substrate to form a diffusion barrier layer thereon.
US12157941B2
Barrier films including a (co)polymeric substrate, at least one dyad on the substrate, each dyad made of a (co)polymer layer and an oxide layer overlaying the (co)polymer layer, and an outer (co)polymer layer overlaying the dyads. Optionally, at least one outer oxide layer overlays the outer (co)polymer layer. The barrier films transmit visible light and transmits, at an incident light angle of at least one of 0°, 30°, 45°, 60°, or 75°, at most 70 percent of incident ultraviolet light at a wavelength range from at least 100 nanometers to 400 nanometers or in a wavelength range from at least 100 nm to 350 nm. The barrier films exhibit atomic oxygen degradation of less than 1×10−20 mg/atom. The barrier films may be applied to decorative objects or electronic devices, (e.g., light receiving or emitting devices, in a satellite or aircraft. Methods of making the barrier films also are disclosed.
US12157939B2
Coated tool comprising a coated surface, the coated surface comprising a substrate having a surface on which a coating is deposited, wherein the substrate is made of a material comprising cobalt, and wherein the coating comprises at least one boron-comprising layer, wherein the at least one boron-comprising layer comprises Al and the boron comprised in this layer is present as boride, thereby the boron-comprising layer is able to form further layers for providing a diffusion barrier layer effect, in particular for stopping diffusion of cobalt from the substrate surface to the coating, when the coated tool or the coated surface is exposed to temperatures in a range between approximately 600 and 1200° C.
US12157938B2
A method of producing an integrated monolithic aluminum structure, the method including the steps of: (a) providing an aluminum alloy plate with a predetermined thickness of at least 3 mm, wherein the aluminum alloy plate is a 2xxx-series alloy provided in an F-temper or an O-temper; (b) optionally pre-machining of the aluminum alloy plate to an intermediate machined structure; (c) high-energy hydroforming of the plate or optional intermediate machined structure against a forming surface of a rigid die having a contour in accordance with a desired curvature of the integrated monolithic aluminum structure, the high-energy hydroforming causing the plate or the intermediate machined structure to conform to the contour of the forming surface to at least one of a uniaxial curvature and a biaxial curvature; (d) solution heat-treating and cooling of the high-energy hydroformed structure; (e) machining and (f) ageing of the final integrated monolithic aluminum structure.
US12157936B2
Grain-oriented electrical steel sheet excellent in magnetic properties and excellent in adhesion of primary coating to steel sheet provided with a base metal steel sheet having a predetermined chemical composition and a primary coating formed on a surface of the base metal steel sheet and containing Mg2SiO4 as a main constituent, where a peak position of Al emission intensity obtained when performing elemental analysis by glow discharge optical emission spectrometry from a surface of the primary coating in a thickness direction of the grain-oriented electrical steel sheet is arranged within a range of 2.4 to 12.0 μm from the surface of the primary coating in the thickness direction, a number density of Al oxides at the peak position of Al emission intensity and of a size of 0.2 μm or more in terms of a circle equivalent diameter based on the area is 0.03 to 0.18/μm2, and, in a plurality of Al oxides in an observed region in an observed region of 30 μm×50 μm at the peak position of Al emission intensity, a total cross-sectional area of identified Al oxides with cross-sectional areas of 0.4 to 10.0 μm2 is 75.0% or more of the total cross-sectional area of all Al oxides in the observed region.
US12157929B2
Methods and apparatus for integrated alkali metal extraction are disclosed. Various exchange media are used to separate a chosen alkali metal, usually lithium, from a source stream and render the alkali metal into a product. In some cases, absorption/desorption processes, using solid and/or liquid absorption media, are used to purify a brine stream into a concentrate stream having elevated concentration of the desired alkali metal. Various processes, which may include use of liquid absorbents, electrochemical processing, centrifugation, evaporation, electrical mixing and separation, or combinations thereof, are used to separate the chosen metal from the source, and aqueous streams are recycled among the processes to facilitate the various separations.
US12157921B2
In the present invention, there is provided a coating liquid for forming an insulation coating for a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet, including: a solvent; and one or two more layered clay mineral powders having a specific surface area of 20 m2/g or more. In addition, in the present invention, there is provided a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet including: a base metal; and an insulation coating provided on a surface of the base metal, in which the insulation coating contains SiO2, and one or two of Al2O3 and MgO, and has a porosity of 10% or less.
US12157915B2
Provided is a method capable of simply and exponentially amplifying circular DNA, and particularly, long-chain circular DNA, in a cell-free system. Specifically, provided herein is a method for amplifying circular DNA which comprises mixing circular DNA having a replication origin sequence (origin of chromosome (oriC)) with a reaction solution comprising: a first enzyme group that catalyzes replication of circular DNA; a second enzyme group that catalyzes an Okazaki fragment maturation and synthesizes two sister circular DNAs constituting a catenane; a third enzyme group that catalyzes a separation of two sister circular DNAs; and also, a buffer, NTP, dNTP, a magnesium ion source, and an alkali metal ion source, to form a reaction mixture, which is then reacted.
US12157910B2
Presented herein are methods and compositions for targeted amplification of DNA and sample identification. The methods are particularly useful in validation and quality control of samples and to confirm that WGS sequence data is properly paired with a patient sample prior to delivering sequence data to a physician or to a patient.
US12157904B2
The disclosure relates to engineered plant acyl-ACP thioesterases having improved activity for the production of medium-chain fatty acid derivatives including e.g., eight carbon and ten carbon fatty acids and fatty acid derivatives. The disclosure further relates to recombinant host cells comprising the engineered plant acyl-ACP thioesterases having improved activity for the production of medium-chain fatty acid derivatives. The disclosure also relates to methods of decreasing toxicity and improving production of medium-chain fatty acids and derivatives.
US12157887B2
The present invention concerns bioactive renal cell populations, renal cell constructs, and methods of making and using the same.
US12157870B2
An agent, such as a detergent or cleaning agent, may include a polyesterase. A method for cleaning textiles may include applying the agent to a textile for removing soiling. The polyesterase may also help to reduce pilling effects in the agent.
US12157869B2
Novel methods and compositions for treating textiles and other materials are disclosed in which persistent odor or other symptoms of biofilm presence can be reduced through the use of compositions comprising N-acetyl cysteine or other agents in combination with certain enzymes.
US12157854B2
A drilling fluid composition includes an aqueous base fluid, 0.01 to 10 wt. % of a date palm leaves extract (DPLE), 1 to 10 wt. % of clay particles, and 0.01 to 1 wt. % of a base, where each wt. % based on a total weight of the drilling fluid composition. The DPLE is homogenously disposed on surfaces of the clay particles. The clay particles disposed with the DPLE are present in the drilling fluid composition in the form of a composite. A pellet made from the clay particles treated with the DPLE has a swelling value at least 75% less than a swelling value of the pellet in an aqueous composition that does not contain the DLPE. A method of making the drilling fluid composition.
US12157853B2
In accordance with the present invention refrigerant compositions are disclosed. The compositions comprise a refrigerant mixture consisting essentially of HFC-32, HFO-1234yf, and CO2. The compositions are useful in processes to produce cooling and heating, in methods for replacing refrigerant R-32, and in refrigeration, air conditioning or heat pump systems. These inventive compositions are match cooling performance for R-32 with GWP less than 400 or less than 300.
US12157850B2
This patent document provides a conditioning formulation or composition containing a rheology modifying polymer and optionally one or more of a dispersant, a thickener, a gelling agent, a glue or resin, a wetting agent, a buffer, an anti-foam agent, and soil amendments. Also disclosed is the use of the formulation for optimizing the soil or sand surface of a field.
US12157849B2
This disclosure pertains to the field of nanotechnology. The disclosure provides methods of preparing nanostructures using a Group IV metal halide. The nanostructures have high quantum yield, narrow emission peak width, tunable emission wavelength, and colloidal stability. Also provided are nanostructures prepared using the methods. And, nanostructure films and molded articles comprising the nanostructures are also provided.
US12157844B2
A pretreatment composition for adhesive bonds, including i) between 10 and 30 parts by weight of at least one polyurethane polymer PU containing isocyanate groups, obtained from the reaction of at least one poly(meth)acrylate polyol P and at least one polyisocyanate I1, with the proviso that the poly(meth)acrylate polyol P has an OH number of at least 35 and the polyurethane polymer PU has an NCO content of between 2.0% and 25.0% by weight, based on the polyurethane polymer PU; ii) 0.1 to 10 parts by weight of at least one organosilane OS; iii) 0 to 10 parts by weight of at least one further polyisocyanate I2; iv) 60 to 90 parts by weight of a solvent L; v) 0 to 15 parts by weight of an industrial carbon black; vi) 0 to 10 parts by weight of a fumed hydrophobic silica.
US12157839B2
The present application relates to an epoxy-based adhesive composition, which may include (a) one or more epoxy resins, (b) a urethane resin having a weight average molecular weight (Mw) of 30,000 or less, and having a polytetrahydrofuran unit, (c) a core-shell rubber in the form of secondary particles in which two or more core-shell rubbers in the form of primary particles are aggregated and (d) one or more epoxy curing agents. The adhesive composition of the present application can provide excellent adhesion strength, peel strength and impact-resistant strength uniformly over a wide temperature range.
US12157838B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a hydrogenated copolymer composition and the like having an excellent balance among initial tack strength, suppression of increase in tackiness, and suppression of uneven thicknesses of a tacky layer. The object can be achieved with the following hydrogenated copolymer composition. A hydrogenated copolymer composition comprising: a component (a) comprising a polymer block comprising a vinyl aromatic monomer unit as a main component and a polymer block comprising a conjugated diene monomer unit as a main component; and a component (b) comprising a polymer block comprising a vinyl aromatic monomer unit as a main component and a polymer block comprising a conjugated diene monomer unit as a main component.
US12157835B2
A method of forming an adhesively bonded structure may comprise applying a primer compound to a first substrate, wherein the primer compound comprises a functionalized nanomaterial dopant, drying the primer compound on the substrate to form a primer layer comprising the functionalized nanomaterial dopant, applying an adhesive compound over the primer layer to form an adhesive layer, wherein the adhesive compound comprises the functionalized nanomaterial dopant, contacting the adhesive layer with a second substrate and curing the adhesive layer to form an adhesively bonded structure, wherein the first substrate is metallic and the second substrate is at least one of metallic or composite.
US12157833B2
A composition includes a first solvent selected from methyl acetate, dimethyl carbonate, acetone, or a combination thereof, a second solvent selected from thiophene, 1,3-dioxolane, thioacetic acid, or a combination thereof, and, optionally, a third solvent selected from dimethyl sulfoxide, methyl glyoxal, propylene carbonate, gamma butyrolactone, ethylene carbonate, 2-chloro-1-propanol, methanol, ethanol, ethylene glycol, propylene glycol, 1-propanol, 2-propanol, or a combination thereof. The respective amounts of each solvent are further described herein, and the total amounts of the first solvent, the second solvent, and the third solvent sum to at least 90 volume percent of the total volume of the composition. The composition can be particularly useful for removal of a coating from a surface. Accordingly, a method of removing a coating from a surface is also disclosed.
US12157830B2
The invention relates to coated effect pigments, wherein the coating comprises a binder which is suitable for powder paints. They comprise a crystalline and an amorphous fraction which is determined by C13 NMR MAS relaxation measurements, the relaxation of the 13C cores being fitted as a biexponential relaxation according to the formula (II) and the degree of crystallinity c being in a range between 40 to 85%, and relaxation having a short average relaxation time T1s and a long average relaxation time T1l, and T1l being in a range of from 65 to 130 s. The effect pigments coated according to the invention have at least one endothermic peak with a maximum from a range of Tmax=100 to 150° C. and an enthalpy ΔH associated with said peak from a range of 15 J/g to 80 J/g in DSC at a feed speed of 5° C./min, the enthalpy being calculated relative to the amount of the binder. The binders are applied to the effect pigment by way of spontaneous precipitation.
US12157827B2
An inkjet ink contains at least a first carbon black, a second carbon black, and water. The first carbon black has a DBP oil absorption of less than 130 mL/100 g and a BET specific surface area of less than 300 m2/g. The second carbon black has a DBP oil absorption of at least 130 mL/100 g and a BET specific surface area of at least 300 m2/g.
US12157825B2
The present invention is directed towards natural colorants comprising a material selected from the group consisting of genipin, purified genipin, pre-genipin compounds, iridoid compounds, genipin deriviatives, a genipin-containing substance, and combinations of any thereof; and a primary amine containing compound. Processes of making natural colorants are further disclosed. Additionally, processes of producing a desired color of natural colorants are disclosed.
US12157823B2
An asphalt composition comprising 0.1 to 10.0 wt.-% monomeric methylene diphenyl diisocyanate (MDI) based on the total weight of the composition, wherein the monomeric MDI is carbodiimide modified and wherein the weight percentage of 4,4′-MDI in the carbodiimide modified monomeric MDI is in the range of from 65 to 85% and the weight percentage of carbodiimide is in the range of from 15 to 35% in the carbodiimide modified monomeric MDI; wherein at least 18% by weight based on the total weight of the composition are particles with a sedimentation coefficient above 5000 Sved in a white spirit solvent.
US12157820B2
The invention relates to a method for checking the silanization of pale-colored fillers, where a mixture comprising at least one silanized pale-colored filler, preferably silanized silica, and comprising at least one rubber is irradiated with ultrasound waves in a frequency range of 4 to 10 MHz, preferably of 5 to 7 MHz, and the signal strength of the ultrasound waves is determined after transmission through the rubber mixture, where the relative attenuation coefficient αrel of the rubber mixture in the frequency range of the ultrasound waves is determined, the standard deviation σ of the relative attenuation coefficient αrel is determined, and αrel and σ are used for detection of incipient crosslinking of the rubber mixture.
US12157819B2
The invention relates to a rubber composition for a mechanical member with a dynamic function, to a process for preparing this composition, to such a member and to a use of a polymer bearing urethane functions. The composition is based on at least one elastomer and comprises a reinforcing filler and said polymer dispersed in the elastomer, the composition comprising the product of an in situ thermomechanical blending reaction of the elastomer with the filler, precursors of the polymer and a chain extender. According to the invention, the composition has a ratio G′ 0.5%/G′ 20% of storage moduli G′ relative to the complex shear moduli G* satisfying at least one of the following conditions (i) to (v), G′ 0.5% and G′ 20% being measured according to the standard ISO 4664 at respective dynamic strain amplitudes of 0.5% and 20%, on double shear test specimens subjected to shear strains of from 0.02% to 50% at the same frequency of 5 Hz and at the same temperature T: G′0.5%/G′20%≤1.15 for T=100° C., (i) G′0.5%/G′20%≤1.40 for T=65° C., (ii) G′0.5%/G′20%≤1.50 for T=25° C., (iii) G′0.5%/G′20%≤1.60 for T=0° C., (iv) G′0.5%/G′20%≤2.50 for T=−30° C. (v)
US12157816B2
The present technology relates to a latex composition for dip molding comprising a carboxylic acid-modified nitrile-based copolymer latex satisfying General Formulas 1 and 2, wherein the carboxylic acid-modified nitrile-based copolymer includes a conjugated diene-based monomer-derived unit, an ethylenic unsaturated nitrile-based monomer-derived unit, and an ethylenic unsaturated acid monomer-derived unit, and a molded article.
US12157802B2
The present invention provides a polyimide film comprising inorganic fillers, the inorganic fillers comprising: a first filler group having a particle diameter (D50) falling within the range of 2-2.7 μm; and a second filler group having an average particle diameter (D50) falling within the range of 1-1.7 μm, wherein each of the first and second filler groups satisfies relational expression 1, 0.7≤(D90−D10)/(D50)≤1.2, with respect to the particle diameter.
US12157794B2
A curative for epoxidized plant-based oils and epoxidized natural rubber is created from the reaction between a naturally occurring polyfunctional acid and an epoxidized plant-based oil is disclosed. The curative may be used to produce at least one of six different materials, wherein each type of material may be configured as a thermosetting elastomer that is crosslinked with β-hydroxyester linkages. The materials may be configured as a leather-like material, a foam material, a molded elastomer, a coating, an adhesive, and/or a rigid or semi-rigid material. Illustrative articles made from any combination of the six materials may be recycled using a mechano-chemical process to de-crosslink the thermosetting elastomer.
US12157789B2
The invention relates to a two-component polyurethane adhesive, in particular for laminating films, wherein the PU adhesive, based on the total weight of the laminating adhesive composition, (a) contains as resin component at least one NCO-terminated polyurethane pre-polymer having a content, based on the total weight of the resin component, of at least 40 wt % of diphenylmethanedi-isocyanate (MDI), wherein the MDI is 4,4′-diphenylmethanediisocyanate or a mixture thereof with 2,4′-diphenylmethanediisocyanate, and 2 to 20 wt % of polyglycol having a molecular weight Mw of 200 to <1000 g per mol, and (b) contains as hardener component a polyol mixture comprising 2, 3, or more different polyols and is free of polyesters. The invention further relates to the use of the adhesive for bonding films, to methods for producing composite films, and to composite films bonded with the adhesive described.
US12157785B2
The present disclosure relates to an oxidation-reduction polymer which can be used in an electrochemical sensor, and particularly, in a polymer backbone of an electron transfer medium of the electrochemical sensor. More specifically, the present disclosure relates to: an oxidation-reduction polymer which can be used in a poly (allyl glycidyl ether)-based electrochemical sensor including a repeating unit derived from allyl glycidyl ether; and an electron transfer medium and an electrochemical sensor including same, wherein the oxidation-reduction polymer is advantageous in confirming the completion of reaction during manufacture, has high immobilization efficiency of the transition metal complex, has low possibility of having problems of toxicity and side effects, and can add various functions.
US12157774B2
Disclosed herein are polynucleic acid molecules, pharmaceutical compositions, and methods for treating facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD).
US12157770B2
The present invention relates to anti-HLA-G antibodies and methods of using the same.
US12157765B2
Provided herein are modified immunoglobulins comprising an amyloid reactive peptide joined to an antibody, as well as humanized antibodies that bind to human amyloid fibrils and antibody-peptide fusion proteins. Also provided herein are methods of treating amyloid-based diseases by administering a modified immunoglobulin, humanized antibody, or antibody-peptide fusion protein.
US12157763B2
The present disclosure relates to an antibody or antigen-binding fragment thereof that specifically binds to a spike protein of SARS-CoV-2. The present disclosure also relates to a pharmaceutical composition, a method for treating and/or preventing diseases and/or disorders caused by a coronavirus in a subject in need thereof, and a method for detecting a coronavirus in a sample.
US12157760B2
Some aspects of this disclosure provide strategies, systems, reagents, methods, and kits that are useful for the targeted editing of nucleic acids, including editing a single site within the genome of a cell or subject, e.g., within the human genome. The disclosure provides fusion proteins of nucleic acid programmable DNA binding proteins (napDNAbp), e.g., Cas9 or variants thereof, and nucleic acid editing proteins such as cytidine deaminase domains (e.g., novel cytidine deaminases generated by ancestral sequence reconstruction), and adenosine deaminases that deaminate adenine in DNA. Aspects of the disclosure relate to fusion proteins (e.g., base editors) that have improved expression and/or localize efficiently to the nucleus. In some embodiments, base editors are codon optimized for expression in mammalian cells. In some embodiments, base editors include multiple nuclear localization sequences (e.g., bipartite NLSs), e.g., at least two NLSs. In some embodiments, methods for targeted nucleic acid editing are provided.
US12157756B2
A method of purification and/or separation of glycopeptides and quantitation of same. The method includes contacting a sample comprising glycopeptides to a hydrophilic enrichment substrate under conditions that permit the glycopeptides to bind to the hydrophilic enrichment substrate. The glycopeptides are eluted from the hydrophilic enrichment substrate with an ammonium formate and acetonitrile (ACN) in water solution to create an enriched glycopeptide sample, which may be subjected to analysis to identify specific glycopeptides.
US12157749B2
The present application provides a borate ester compound suitable for being used as a proteasome inhibitor, a preparation method and use thereof, and the compound has the following structure wherein, R1, R2 is asymmetric substituent in para-position, and R1 and R2 are both selected from the group consisting of halogen; and when R1 is F, R2 is not Cl; when R1 is Cl, R2 is not Br or F; and when R1 is Br, R2 is not Cl; X1, X2 is selected from the group consisting of hydroxyl, or X1 and X2 together form a substituted or unsubstituted 4 to 10 membered ring containing 1 to 4 heteroatoms being selected from the group consisting of O, N and S.
US12157746B2
The present invention relates to compounds of formula (I), wherein R1 to R6, m and n are I a described herein, and their pharmaceutically acceptable salt, enantiomer or diastereomer thereof, and compositions including the compounds and methods of using the compounds.
US12157742B2
Pharmaceutical compositions of the invention comprise kinase inhibitors having a disease-modifying action in the treatment of diseases associated with BCR-ABL activity that include cancer, including chronic myeloid leukemia, acute lymphoblastic leukemia, acute myeloid leukemia, chronic lymphocytic leukemia, multiple myeloma, lymphomas, and metastatic carcinoma.
US12157738B2
Disclosed are compounds of formula (I) or (II): that inhibit ALK, TRKA, TRKB, TRKC and ROS1. Also disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions containing the compounds and methods of using the compounds to treat disease.
US12157720B2
Provided is a method for producing an unsaturated aldehyde including subjecting an alkene to partial oxidation using a fixed bed multi-tube reactor to produce the corresponding unsaturated aldehyde, in which n catalyst layers (n is 2 or more) in a gas flow direction in a reaction tube are provided, when a filling length of the catalyst layers from a first catalyst layer to an (n−1)th catalyst layer from a gas inlet side of the reaction tube is L, and a filling length of an nth catalyst layer from the gas inlet side of the reaction tube is Ln, a relationship between L and Ln satisfies the following equation (1): 1 < L / Ln ≤ 3 , ( 1 ) and a composition of a catalytically active component contained in the catalyst layers from the first catalyst layer to the (n−1)th layer from the gas inlet side of the reaction tube is different from a composition of a catalytically active component contained in the nth catalyst layer from the gas inlet side of the reaction tube.
US12157717B2
The present invention provides compounds of formula (I) for use in the treatment of respiratory diseases of animals, especially Bovine or Swine Respiratory disease (BRD and SRD).
US12157716B2
The present invention relates to a process for preparing a crystalline merocyanine compound, comprising the step of dissolving a merocyanine compound in an organic, polar solvent, wherein the process is performed at a pH below than 7 in the presence of an acid, wherein residual levels of colored impurities are eliminated.
US12157713B2
Disclosed herein are compounds of formula I, where said compounds displays antibacterial properties. Also disclosed herein is the use of said compounds to treat microbial infection. The compounds of formula I have the following structure: where n, m, p, q, X, R1 to R11 are as defined herein.
US12157707B2
Methods of using a curable composition, the curable composition including at least one polyether having blocked hydroxyl groups as the plasticizer on at least one alkaline substrate. The curable composition is storage-stable, easy to handle and highly elastic after curing, and does not show any tendency to separate or migrate. It enables elastic bonding, sealing or coating of alkaline substrates, such as, in particular, fresh or green concrete or cement mortar, without occurrence of troublesome odors triggered by plasticizer hydrolysis.
US12157704B2
A method of forming a ceramic matrix composite (CMC) comprises applying a boron nitride (BN) aerogel to a fibrous material to form a pretreated fibrous material, depositing, using chemical vapor infiltration (CVI), a BN interface coating (IFC) on the pretreated fibrous material, and depositing a matrix on the BN IFC and the pretreated fibrous material.
US12157703B2
A space filler for forming a fibrous preform may comprise an additively manufactured ceramic material. The additively manufactured ceramic material may define a plurality of pores. A shape of the additively manufactured ceramic material may complement a shape of a void formed by fibrous regions of the fibrous preform.
US12157702B2
A ceramic substrate includes a substrate main body, and a conductor layer provided inside of the substrate main body. The substrate main body includes an insulator layer that is ceramics composed of aluminum oxide, and a composite oxide layer of aluminum and silicon, the composite oxide layer being formed between the insulator layer and the conductor layer.
US12157695B2
Use of a benzoxazine resin (12) for the bonding of a monofilament (10) made of glass-resin composite including glass filaments (101) embedded in a thermosetting polyester resin (102), to a thermoplastic material (14), notably polyester; process for adhering such a monofilament to the thermoplastic material (14), including at least the following steps: —impregnating the monofilament (10) with a benzoxazine resin (12) in the liquid state; —after impregnation, heat-treating the monofilament (10) thus impregnated, so as to at least partly polymerize the benzoxazine resin (12); —depositing, onto the monofilament (10) thus adhesively coated, the thermoplastic material (14) in the molten state; —after cooling, optionally heat-treating the monofilament thus coated (R-1, R-2) to totally polymerize the benzoxazine resin (12) on contact with the thermoplastic material (14).
US12157693B2
A method of manufacturing a window and a window manufactured by the same are provided. A method of manufacturing a window includes laser cutting a base glass into a preliminary window using first laser light, irradiating, with second laser light, a point spaced apart from an edge of the preliminary window at a first distance, and providing a window including a flat portion and an edge portion by wet etching the preliminary window irradiated with the second laser light. A method of manufacturing a window having a chamfer shape at the edge portion is facilitated.
US12157692B2
A water reclamation system that includes a primary module with separation capabilities and a dirty water tank, a secondary module with a treatment tank, ozone generating capabilities, a recirculation circuit and a catalyst filter, a tertiary module with filtration capabilities, and a treated water tank. The system may also include a desalination module, a turbulence promoter inside the treatment tank and/or water electrical conductivity measuring elements for water electrical conductivity control in the treated water tank. The water reclamation system has overall measures smaller than 15 meters of length, 4 meters of width or 3 meters of height and the nominal design flow of water to be treated is between 0.5 and 25 m3/h. A corresponding water treatment method is also provided.
US12157690B2
The invention relates to cold temperature-resistant microbials for use in waste water treatment. More particularly, the invention relates to isolated Bacillus strains ALG and DRT, and strains having all of the identifying characteristics of these strains, and combinations thereof, for a use comprising the above-mentioned use.
US12157675B2
The present invention concerns a process for producing calcium carbonate from a calcium-containing alkaline slag material, the process containing the steps of extracting the alkaline slag material in a series of extraction steps, including at least 2 extraction steps, using extraction solvent(s) containing salt in an aqueous solution, whereby a calcium-containing filtrate and a residual slag is formed in each extraction step, separating the residual slag from the filtrate after each extraction step, carrying each residual slag to the following extraction in the series of extractions, to be used as raw material in said following extraction, and discarding the residual slag separated from the last extraction, carrying each filtrate to the previous extraction in the series of extractions, to be used as extraction solvent in said previous extraction, and carrying the first filtrate, separated from the first extraction step, to a carbonating step, carbonating calcium as calcium carbonate from the first filtrate, the first filtrate also used as the carbonation solvent, and using a carbonation gas, whereby calcium carbonate precipitates, separating and recovering the calcium carbonate from the remaining carbonation solvent, and recycling the remaining carbonation solvent to the last extraction step in the series of extraction steps, to be used as extraction solvent.
US12157670B2
A method for transferring a carbon nanotubes aqueous phase dispersion into an organic phase dispersion includes: providing the carbon nanotubes aqueous dispersion; mixing the carbon nanotubes aqueous dispersion with a first solvent to obtain a first suspension, where the first solvent includes a hydrophilic organic solvent; mixing the first suspension with a second solvent to form two stratified phases, allow to obtain a second suspension, where the second solvent includes a hydrophobic organic solvent; mixing the second suspension with a third solvent to obtain a third suspension; and subjecting the second suspension or the third suspension to dispersion treatment to obtain a carbon nanotubes organic dispersion, thereby realizing solvent transfer of the carbon nanotubes dispersion from aqueous to organic phase. The method can transfer the carbon nanotubes aqueous dispersion into the organic dispersion, and the transfer efficiency is 70%-95%.
US12157669B2
There is described a method of producing hydrogen and nitrogen using a feedstock gas reactor. Reaction of feedstock and combustion gases in the reactor produces hydrogen and nitrogen through pyrolysis of the feedstock gas. Parameters of the process may be adjusted to control the ratio of hydrogen to nitrogen that is produced such that it may be suitable, for example, for the synthesis of ammonia.
US12157665B2
The disclosure relates to a process for producing a base of an analysis cell for analyzing a biochemical material. Here, carbon-rich precursor molecules and low-carbon precursor molecules are deposited on a substrate in a defined mixing ratio in order to form a precursor layer, wherein the low-carbon precursor molecules have a defined size and a hydrophobic end group. In a further step, the precursor layer is post-treated in a suitable manner in order to produce the base as a layer with at least one pore having a pore size dependent on the defined size and a pore count dependent on the defined mixing ratio.
US12157664B2
In one or more embodiments, an apparatus generally comprises a microelectromechanical system (MEMS) module comprising a plurality of air movement cells and a power unit operable to control the plurality of air movement cells, and a housing configured for slidably receiving the MEMS module and positioning the MEMS module adjacent to a heat generating component of a network device. The MEMS module is operable to dissipate heat from the heat generating component and is configured for online installation and removal during operation of the heat generating component.
US12157663B2
A venting device includes an anchor structure and a membrane. The membrane is anchored on the anchor structure and configured to form a first vent and a second vent. The membrane includes a first flap, a second flap and a third flap. The membrane partitions a space into a first volume and a second volume, and the first volume and the second volume are connected when the first vent and the second vent are formed. The first flap is actuated to move toward a first direction and the second flap is actuated to move toward a second direction opposite to the first direction, so as to form the first vent. The first flap is actuated to move toward the first direction and the third flap is actuated to move toward the second direction opposite to the first direction, so as to form the second vent.
US12157662B2
In an embodiment, a medication dispensing assembly includes a housing containing a plurality of electronically activated guidance devices which are configured to guide medications from at least one medication dispenser into a plurality of containers. The housing includes a panel which closes off at least a portion of one side of the housing. The panel has a plurality of wire openings that are spaced apart from one another. A plurality of wires extend through a portion of an interior of the housing and extend through the wire openings of the panel from the interior of the housing to outside of the housing. The wires are electronically connected with electronically activated guidance devices. At least one of the wire openings includes a slot which extends to an edge of the panel.
US12157660B2
Disclosed is an apparatus for beverage line cleaning that enables an easy and traceable cleaning process. The apparatus and system can optimize the cleaning process by dynamically monitoring and using remote connections in order to perform an effective cleaning process.
US12157659B2
A valve arrangement establishes passage from a dedicated beverage product flow path to the valve arrangement to a dedicated beverage product flow path from the valve arrangement. The valve arrangement further establishes passage into the valve arrangement of a user selectable one of a plurality of diluent flow paths, while blocking passage into the valve arrangement of each of the plurality of diluent flow paths other than the one of the plurality of diluent flow paths. The valve arrangement still further establishes passage from the one of the plurality of diluent flow paths to the fixed diluent flow path from the valve body. The valve arrangement establishes passage into the valve arrangement of a user selectable one of the plurality of diluent flow paths functionally independent of establishing passage to the fixed diluent flow path of the one of the plurality of diluent flow paths.
US12157653B2
A machine to apply tape to a surface includes a handle for manipulation by a user connected to a wheeled applicator allowing the tape to be dispensed from the applicator and rolled onto a surface. The applicator includes two sidewalls adjustable relative to each other on guide bars to define space therebetween where rolls of tape having different widths can be accommodated. The sidewalls further include bottom portions shaped complimentarily with the wheel to define a path sized for a width of the tape around the wheel, and where the sidewalls further define a path sized for the width of the tape over at least one guide bar. The applicator also may include a clutched take-up reel operatively connected to the wheel, where rotation of the wheel causes the take-up reel to rotate and collect a liner.
US12157644B2
A robotic line kitting system is disclosed. In various embodiments, a sensor reading associated with a force sensor associated with a robotic instrumentality comprising the robotic line kitting system is received. It is determined based at least in part on the sensor reading that a condition requiring human intervention has been detected. A task to be performed by a human worker to correct the condition is scheduled.
US12157643B2
A stack of products is moved with a robot which has an articulated arm and at least one gripper disposed on the articulated arm to grip the stack of products. The stack of products can be selectively turned. The step of moving terminates at a selected deposit location of a number of deposit positions of a predefined deposit scheme. The stacks of products are moved in an automated way and, in particular, the stacks are deposited in a turned or unturned arrangement.
US12157637B2
A guide system for an extendable conveyor that conveys a product includes a bracket configured to be coupled to the conveyor such that the bracket moves with the conveyor as the conveyor is moved into different positions. A guide member having a leading end that is coupled to the bracket and a trailing end that is configured to be coupled to the conveyor at a position spaced apart from the bracket. The guide member is configured to guide the product along the conveyor, and as the conveyor is moved, the guide member extends or retracts.
US12157636B2
A cleanable conveyor frame and a method for making a cleanable frame having a simplified frame design. Infeed and outfeed assemblies are movable between operating and cleaning positions. An outfeed assembly includes a drive for a conveyor belt and a scraper assembly. The scraper assembly comprises a scraper blade mounted to a mounting bar extending between two connecting plates and a leaf spring extending rearward from the mounting bar for biasing the scraper blade into contact with the conveyor belt.
US12157633B2
A system and method for operating robotic pallet transportation carts and providing uniform spacing between pallets of goods, to improve the vertical alignment of the gaps between the pallets of a multilevel commercial warehouse rack. Indicators are positioned along a storage lane, such as on side walls of cart support rail structures, on the left and/or right sides with respect to the pallet transportation cart. The cart has one or more sensors (optical, magnetic and otherwise), such as on a side of the cart to detect the indicators on the side of the lane. The cart is programmed to count the indicators and lower the pallet of goods after sensing a selected indicator number. By spacing the indicators an appropriate distance apart, the pallets can be arranged to have vertically aligned gaps, even if there are minor variations in the length of pallets of goods.
US12157629B2
A goods-transport vehicle comprises a vehicle body (2) and a goods rack (3) arranged in the vehicle body (2), the goods rack (3) is provided with a plurality of storage spaces (34) used for storing goods (1). The goods-transport vehicle further comprises a fixing mechanism (4) and a picking mechanism (5). The fixing mechanism (4) is arranged in each storage space (34). After the goods (1) are placed in the corresponding storage space (34), the fixing mechanism (4) is used to automatically fix the goods (1) relative to the storage space (34). The picking mechanism (5) is arranged in the vehicle body (2), and is used to automatically place the goods (1) in each storage space (34) and to automatically take the goods from each storage space (34).
US12157625B2
A beverage-ingredient container to be used in the preparation of a beverage by a beverage dispensing apparatus. The container has a first optical code on the first surface of the container, wherein the first optical code is positioned on a first surface to be read by an optical scanner of the beverage dispensing apparatus when the container is received by the apparatus in a first orientation, and a second optical code on a second surface of the container, wherein the second optical code is positioned on the second surface to be read by the optical scanner of the beverage dispensing apparatus when the container is in a second orientation. The first optical code and the second optical code each stores container-related information including a container identifier which, when read by the optical scanner of the beverage dispensing apparatus, can be used by the beverage dispensing apparatus to control beverage preparation.
US12157624B2
A single-serving condiment packet holder that allows an opened packet to maintain an upright position without spilling its inner contents and also without having the opening of the open packet touch any part of the holder. The single-serving condiment packet holder has an opening to receive the packet and can have a thin three-dimensional cavity which is defined by one or more sidewalls. The holder may also have sidewalls, a base side, and a top side that is any geometric shape. A clip or hook may be used to suspend the holder.
US12157623B2
Herein is disclosed an apparatus and method for delivering a fluid to an individual in such a manner that sloshing of the fluid is substantially suppressed, even when the fluid has been only partially consumed. The apparatus includes a reservoir for containing the fluid and a valve in fluid communication with the reservoir. A biasing mechanism exerts a force upon the reservoir, causing it to contract and force fluid through the valve, when the valve is opened. The biasing mechanism and reservoir are housed within a body, according to some embodiments.
US12157606B2
A container storage system comprises structural members with particular hole patterns. In particular, a series of holes placed on an exterior face of a “core” module horizontally along its centerline relative to its height (core module height/2) are also placed on any additional module the same distance (core module height/2) from its mating face (to the core module) to facilitate connection with hinges and connectors by the use of inserting removable hardware through the holes. This structural arrangement allows for a combination of modules to be disassembled and reconfigured as a user's storage needs and/or conditions change over time. The modular storage system is scalable to any size and may be made from any material strong enough to support its own weight and the weight of its contents.
US12157605B1
Difficulties associated with transferring fluids are overcome by providing jugs for such containers that are stackable and attachable to wheel assemblies and a pole that can serve as a handle for pulling or pushing the containers.
US12157602B2
An aluminum can that has a maximum height of roughness Rz1 in the circumferential direction of not more than 0.5 μm on the outer surface of the thinnest portion of the body portion and, as viewed on the side surface, has a ratio Ra1/Ra2 in a range of 0.8 to 1.2, the ratio Ra1/Ra2 being that of a mean surface roughness Ra1 in the circumferential direction on the outer surface of the thinnest portion of the body portion and a mean surface roughness Ra2 in the circumferential direction on the outer surface of the lower end portion of the body portion.
US12157601B2
To provide a composite preform that can ensure that worsening of the appearance of a surface of a plastic member caused by near-infrared heating prior to blow molding is effectively prevented and that an inner preform is efficiently heated. The composite preform of the present invention includes a preform and a heat-contractive plastic member, the preform including a mouth part; a trunk part linked to the mouth part; and a bottom part linked to the trunk part, and the heat-contractive plastic member being disposed so as to surround the outside of the preform and including at least a colored layer that contains a resin material and a colorant, wherein the heat-contractive plastic member has a near-infrared transmittance of 50% or higher.
US12157585B2
Systems and methods for pointing photovoltaic arrays for optimal power generation. One or more methods among a plurality of methods for pointing an array may be used by a spacecraft control system to point the array. Example methods to use to point the photovoltaic array relate to analyzing current output, analyzing image data, and analyzing computational knowledge of reflective bodies or light sources. The spacecraft may be further controlled to reduce shadow by re-orienting, receiving light reflected off spacecraft, and orienting a photovoltaic array relative to incoming light sources based on topographic properties of the array such as cell grooves.
US12157582B2
An observation control device is applicable to a detector installed onboard a spacecraft for performing observation. The observation control device includes an orthogonal direction control unit configured to move an observation range in a direction orthogonal to a travel direction of the spacecraft, the observation range being a range observed by the detector, and a travel direction control unit configured to move the observation range in the travel direction of the spacecraft.
US12157580B2
Systems and methods for transferring aircraft within a landing area of an aerial transport are provided. A system includes a plurality of robotic devices configured to move aircraft within the landing area. The system obtains facility data to dynamically determine accessible and prohibited areas of the landing area. The system determines a robotic device to transfer an aircraft based on map data representing the prohibited/accessible areas of the landing area and robotic data representing attributes of each robotic device. The system determines a number of routes for the selected robotic device to transfer the aircraft within the landing area while avoiding prohibited areas of the landing area. The system generates command instructions for the selected robotic device and provides the command instructions to the selected robotic device to travel in accordance with the number of routes.
US12157573B2
A compactor trolley for aeronautical applications, more particularly a trolley, includes a flap for direct access to the waste storage compartment and a safety locking mechanism for the flap.
US12157553B2
The technology described herein relates to autonomous aerial vehicle rotor configurations. In some embodiments, the aerial vehicle includes a central body that extends along a longitudinal axis from a forward end to an aft end including a port side opposite a starboard side. Multiple rotor arms each have a proximal end coupled to the central body and a rotor assembly arranged at a distal end to provide propulsion for the aerial vehicle. The rotor assemblies include a first set of rotor assemblies and a second set of rotor assemblies. The first set of rotor assemblies are arranged in a non-inverted configuration on a top side of the aerial vehicle such that each rotor assembly includes an upward-facing rotor. The second set of rotor assemblies are arranged in an inverted configuration on a bottom side of the aerial vehicle such that each rotor assembly includes a downward-facing rotor.
US12157552B2
A laminate (1) delimited by at least a protective skin (30) and provided internally with reinforcing means (10) comprising a plurality of traction members (12, 20) arranged according to lines (L) traced in a given manner; at least one plastic matrix (M) shaped so as to stably embody each traction member (12, 20) to maintain it, under load, stably arranged point to point just as the corresponding line (L).
US12157551B2
Devices, such as aerodynamic kites used in kiteboarding (also known as kitesurfing), handheld aerodynamic wings used in wing foiling and wing surfing, and paddles used in paddleboarding, for generating a force for powering a user on an appropriately configured vehicle, such as a kiteboard, kitesurfing foilboard, hydrofoil board, surfboard, wing board, wing foil board, stand up paddleboard, stand up paddleboard with hydrofoil, roller skates, rollerblades, skateboards, snowboards, skis, or ice skates, to traverse across a body of water, sand, earth, paved area, snow, or ice, are provided with a thrust generating device (e.g., an electric ducted fan system) to assist in generating said force.
US12157547B2
Disclosed herein is an inflatable watercraft barrier in one example having an inflatable perimeter tube. Also disclosed is a diaphragm sealed to the perimeter tube to form the watercraft barrier between a watercraft and the water in which the watercraft barrier and watercraft float. In one example, a portion of the perimeter tube forms a gate portion which is at least partially selectively deflated so as to be denser than water, and therefore rotates about a gate pivot such that the watercraft may enter the watercraft barrier through the gate portion. Also disclosed is a water pump in fluid communication with the watercraft barrier so as to evacuate water from between the watercraft barrier and the watercraft.
US12157545B2
A method for constructing a floater for a floatable wind energy power plant includes providing a first pre-assembled part with at least one first connection arrangement, providing a second pre-assembled part with at least one second connection arrangement, arranging the at least one first connection arrangement of the first pre-assembled part proximate to the at least one second connection arrangement of the second pre-assembled part so as to form a connection site which includes at least a part of the at least one first connection arrangement and at least a part of the at least one second connection arrangement, sealingly arranging an enclosure about the connection site so as to seal the enclosure against an ingress of water, and connecting the first pre-assembled part and the second pre-assembled part at the connection site. Each of the first pre-assembled part and the second pre-assembled part are floatable.
US12157527B2
This steering control device is provided with a microcomputer. The microcomputer includes: a basic assist component calculation unit for calculating a basic assist component; an angle command value calculation unit for calculating an angle command value; an angle feedback control unit that calculates an assist command value via angle feedback control in which a pinion angle is made to follow the angle command value; and a control signal generation unit that generates a motor control signal on the basis of the assist command value. The basic assist component calculation unit includes: a torque command value calculation unit for calculating a torque command value that is a target value for steering torque to be input by a driver; and a torque feedback control unit that calculates the basic assist component via torque feedback control in which the steering torque is made to follow the torque command value.
US12157526B2
An apparatus including a command front wheel angle acquirer to acquire a command front wheel angle, a four-wheel target angle calculator to calculate a turning radius, which is a distance from a center of rotation when a vehicle is turning to a center of gravity in a Bicycle model, using the model in a state in which a front wheel angle of the model is simulated as the command front wheel angle, to calculate a rotation angle at the center of gravity of the model on the basis of a ratio of rotation angles of front and rear wheels of the vehicle calculated from a state parameter of the vehicle, and to calculate a target angle of each of the four wheels on the basis of the turning radius and the rotation angle, and a controller to independently control steering of the four wheels using the calculated each target angle.
US12157525B2
An electric power steering device includes a torque sensor provided between a steering wheel and steered wheels mounted on a vehicle body; an assist device that adds an assist force when the steered wheels are steered according to a torque detected by the torque sensor; and a vibration suppressor that outputs a vibration suppressing force from the assist device to suppress a vibration of a steering system according to a signal of a predetermined frequency band of the torque.
US12157517B2
The present floor tunnel is laid on a floor surface of a vehicle interior along a vehicle front-rear direction, extends substantially linearly along the vehicle front-rear direction, has a front end and a rear end, and has an open cross-sectional shape of a hat shape in which a shape of a cross section perpendicular to the vehicle front-rear direction protrudes from the floor surface. The floor tunnel includes a front end region that has the front end and a main region that has the rear end and continues to the front end region. When a total length from the front end to the rear end is L (mm), a boundary position between the front end region and the main region is within a range between a position at 30 mm from the front end toward the rear end and a position at L/5 from the front end toward the rear end. Yield strength of the front end region is lower than yield strength of the main region.
US12157516B2
An embodiment casting vehicle body structure includes a fender apron upper member, a shock absorber housing disposed under the fender apron upper member, a front side member disposed under the shock absorber housing, a side member runner protruding from an inner surface of the front side member, and a side member rib protruding from the side member runner.
US12157513B2
This frame member includes a corner section extending along the longitudinal direction; a first wall section extending from an end portion of the corner section in a direction orthogonal to the longitudinal direction; and a second wall section extending from an opposite end portion of the corner section, wherein the corner section is formed with a deformation starting portion from which a deformation starts when a load is input to the frame member in the longitudinal direction, the deformation starting portion having a shape protruding to an inner bending side or an outer bending side of the corner section, and an average hardness value H(K1) at a first region is equal to or greater than 330 Hv in Vickers hardness, and a 3-sigma range of a standard deviation σ in a frequency distribution of the hardness at the first region is equal to or greater than 60, the first region being located at a portion outwardly apart from an end portion of the deformation starting portion in the longitudinal direction by 10 mm in the longitudinal direction, at a depth of ¼ thickness of the frame member from a surface.
US12157508B2
A method for measuring wear of a rail (20) comprises detecting a first set of wheel signals (SW1) by a wheel sensor (21) mounted to the rail (20), determining a first average wheel signal (AV1) of the first set of wheel signals (SW1), detecting at least one second set of wheel signals (SW2) by the wheel sensor (21), where the second set of wheel signals (SW2) is detected after detecting the first set of wheel signals (SW1), determining a second average wheel signal (AV2) of the second set of wheel signals (SW2), and determining a difference signal (DIF) given by the difference between the second average wheel signal (AV2) and the first average wheel signal (AV1), wherein a wheel signal is detected when a wheel (22) of a rail vehicle passes the wheel sensor (21). Furthermore, an evaluation system (23) for measuring wear of a rail (20) is provided.
US12157505B2
Provided is a side wall window structure module of a train, the side wall window structure module comprising a window wallboard (100), supporting members shaped like the Chinese character “” and reinforcing members shaped like the Chinese character “”, and stand columns (210) and supporting cross beams (311, 312, 313, 314) using the supporting members shaped like the Chinese character “”, wherein two flanging edges of each supporting member shaped like the Chinese character “” are fixed on the inner side, facing the interior of the train, of the window wallboard (100); each reinforcing member shaped like the Chinese character “” comprises a longitudinal reinforcing member (220) and a transverse reinforcing member (320); two flanging edges of each reinforcing member shaped like the Chinese character “” are fixed to one side edge of each supporting member shaped like the Chinese character “”; and an arched high edge of each reinforcing member shaped like the Chinese character “” is fixed to the other side edge of each supporting member shaped like the Chinese character “”. Further provided is the train comprising the window structure module. The side wall window structure module of the train has a strong capacity in terms of buckling resistance.
US12157501B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, that obtain scene features in an environment that includes an autonomous vehicle, a first target agent, and a second target agent, and determines whether the first target agent is an emergency vehicle that is active at a current time point. In response to determining that the first target agent is an emergency vehicle that is active at the current time point, an input is generated from the scene features. The input can characterize the scene and indicate that the first target agent is an emergency vehicle that is active at the current time point. Also in response, the input can be processed using a machine learning model that is configured to generate a trajectory prediction output for the second target agent that characterizes predicted future behavior of the second target agent after the current time point.
US12157499B2
An assistance method of safe driving applied in a vehicle-mounted electronic device obtains RGB images of scene in front of a vehicle, processes the RGB images by a trained depth estimation model, obtains depth images and converts the depth images into three-dimensional (3D) point cloud maps, determines 3D regions of interest therein, and obtains position and size information of objects in the 3D regions of interest. When the position information satisfies a first preset condition and/or the size information satisfies a second preset condition, the presence of obstacles in the 3D regions of interest is determined and controls the vehicle to issue an alarm. When the position information does not satisfy the first preset condition and/or the size information does not satisfy the second preset condition, the 3D regions of interest are determined as obstacle-free, and permitting the vehicle to continue driving.
US12157490B2
A method is performed by a control device (100) of a first module (30, 40) of a vehicle (1), for electrically disconnecting the first module (30, 40) from a second module (30, 40) that is physically connected to the first module (30, 40), wherein the assembled vehicle (1) is configured to communicate with a control center (200). The method includes: identifying (s101) that the assembled vehicle (1) is ready to be disassembled; inactivating (s102) communication means (50) in the first module (30, 40) for establishing the electrical disconnection; and transmitting (s103) a verification of the electrical disconnection to the control center (200).
US12157478B2
Method for a sensor assembly, sensor assembly, computer program product and computer-readable medium
A method for a sensor assembly of a vehicle that includes self-calibration of the vehicle variable sensor of the sensor assembly, the actual location and/or the actual position of the sensor assembly being automatically ascertained and compared with at least one setpoint location and/or setpoint position for the at least one operating routine of the sensor assembly. Outputting an error message if the actual location and/or actual position automatically ascertained does not essentially match any of the at least one setpoint locations and/or setpoint positions or if the actual location and/or actual position automatically ascertained does essentially match one of the at least one setpoint locations and/or setpoint positions then storaging the operating routine of the sensor assembly correlating to this setpoint location and/or setpoint position of the sensor assembly for a subsequent operation of the self-calibrated vehicle variable sensor of the sensor assembly.
US12157476B2
An interlock component for a software system may comprise an input for receiving an interaction request for a first system component and system data, a processor arranged to assess the interaction request and the system data relative to predefined system logic rules to determine if the interaction request satisfies the system logic rules, and an output arranged to output the interaction request to the first system component if the system logic rules are satisfied.
US12157474B2
A determining method for determining a state of a road surface includes: sequentially acquiring a rotational speed of tires mounted on the vehicle, sequentially acquiring a driving force of the vehicle, calculating a slip ratio based on the sequentially acquired rotational speed of the tires, calculating a regression equation and a confidence interval width for a relationship between the slip ratio and the driving force, based on data sets of the slip ratio and the driving force in a predetermined zone, and determining a state of the road surface on which the vehicle travels, based on the confidence interval width calculated for the predetermined zone.
US12157467B2
A driving assist device includes a camera and a controller. The camera detects the presence of another vehicle ahead of a host vehicle. The controller sets a detection field of the camera. The controller determines that another vehicle has cut in front of the host vehicle if a degree to which the other vehicle has entered into the detection field exceeds or equals a first prescribed value when the host vehicle is traveling, or the other vehicle has cut in front of the host vehicle if the degree exceeds or equals a second prescribed value that is smaller than the first prescribed value when the host vehicle is stopped.
US12157459B2
A manager installed in a vehicle includes one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to receive, from a plurality of advanced driver assistance system (ADAS) applications, a plurality of kinematic plans and identification information of the ADAS applications. The one or more processors are configured to arbitrate the kinematic plans, and calculate a motion request based on arbitration results. The one or more processors are configured to distribute the motion request to at least one actuator system. The one or more processors are configured to determine, when the kinematic plans include a request relating to stopped state holding of the vehicle, a mode of stopped state holding of the vehicle in accordance with the identification information of the ADAS applications.
US12157458B2
A controller detects partitioning lines OL and BL of a road and a road edge E based on an image taken by a camera, generates a pair of left and right virtual lines ILL and ILR that extend from the side to the front of a vehicle along the partitioning lines OL and BL, controls the steering so the vehicle travels between the left and right virtual lines ILL and ILR, moves the left virtual line ILL to a position in proximity to the road edge E and fixes the left virtual line ILL to this position, and then, moves the right virtual line ILR to a position separated from the left virtual line ILL by the width of the vehicle and fixes the right virtual line ILR to this position, and controls brakes to stop the vehicle after fixing the left and right virtual lines ILL and ILR.
US12157451B2
Various technologies for reducing or increasing a speed of a vehicle by rotating its handlebar.
US12157447B2
Disclosed herein an actuator for a brake device includes a housing including a motor accommodating portion configured to accommodate a motor, and a gear accommodating portion configured to accommodate a reduction device; a power connection unit connected to the motor; and the reduction device connected to the power connection unit; wherein the reduction device includes a first reduction gear unit connected to the power connection unit and a second reduction gear unit connected to the first reduction gear unit, and the first reduction gear unit is provided as a bevel gear assembly.
US12157440B2
A cleaner unit for vehicles include: a plurality of vehicle onboard cameras arranged in a row in an air sending-out direction, a multiple-blade fan for sending out the air jetted to the plurality of vehicle onboard cameras in the air sending-out direction, and one air duct for conveying the air coming from the multiple-blade fan to the plurality of vehicle onboard cameras. The air duct has a partition plate arranged along a direction that intersects the air sending-out direction, causing the direction of some of the air to be changed.
US12157437B2
A roof cargo tray for a motor vehicle includes a loading surface, which is formed by two outer longitudinal profiles, a plurality of inner longitudinal profiles, two side profiles, a front transverse profile and a rear transverse profile. The side profiles and the transverse profiles delimit the loading surface of the roof cargo tray laterally. The inner longitudinal profiles have identical profile cross sections and include a longitudinal groove and a surface which is located opposite the longitudinal groove and is of closed design. At least one of the inner longitudinal profiles is arranged in a first orientation such that, when the roof cargo tray has been mounted on the motor vehicle, the longitudinal groove faces upward, and wherein at least one of the inner longitudinal profiles is arranged in a second orientation, which is rotated through 180° about a longitudinal axis and in which the longitudinal groove faces downward.
US12157432B2
A system having a theft event sensor; a primary alarm actuator; a display alarm actuator; and a vehicle security device to: receive a theft event signal from the theft event sensor, transmit a primary alarm signal to the primary alarm actuator, and transmit a display alarm signal to the display alarm actuator.
US12157422B2
A surveillance platform is provided for mounting in an interior cabin of a vehicle. The interior cabin of the vehicle has a roof with an opening. The surveillance platform includes a retractable telescoping structure having surveillance equipment mounted so as to extend through the opening of the roof, and to fully retract into the interior cabin. The surveillance platform also includes a sealing device that mounts to the retractable telescoping structure below the surveillance equipment and oriented parallel to the roof of the interior cabin. The sealing device includes an elastically deformable gasket that elastically deforms during travel of the sealing device through the roof of the interior cabin when the surveillance equipment extends through the opening in the roof during extension of the retractable telescoping structure, and when the surveillance equipment retracts into the interior cabin during retraction of the retractable telescoping structure.
US12157419B1
A vehicle-mounted child monitoring device relating to the technology field of monitoring devices is provided, including a base; a camera assembly disposed on the base and configured to take pictures of children in a back passenger seat; a mobile communication device provided with an APP program and configured to be executed in conjunction with the camera assembly; and a connection wire disposed between the camera assembly and the mobile communication device and configured to interconnect the camera assembly and the mobile communication device, so that the camera assembly is electrically connected to the mobile communication device and a video image captured by the camera assembly is stably transmitted to the mobile communication device and displayed on the mobile communication device through the APP program.
US12157415B2
A monitoring system that monitors periphery of a shovel moving on ground and reports a tumble risk of the periphery of the shovel to an operator includes: a risk determination unit configured to determine a tumble risk in a case of movement of the shovel to the periphery based on distance information measured by a first sensor that is mounted on the shovel and measures a distance to a ground object including the ground in the periphery of the shovel and slope information measured by a second sensor measuring a slope of the shovel; and a display video generation unit configured to generate and output an image indicating the tumble risk determined by the risk determination unit.
US12157414B2
A method for assembling an electrochromic mirror reflective element includes providing front and rear glass substrates, disposing a transparent electrically conductive coating at a second surface of the front glass substrate, and disposing an electrically conductive coating at a third surface of the rear glass substrate. The front and rear glass substrates are joined via a perimeter seal and an electrochromic medium is disposed within an interpane cavity established between the front glass substrate and the rear glass substrate and bounded by the perimeter seal. With the front glass substrate joined with the rear glass substrate, and with the electrochromic medium disposed within the interpane cavity, the first and second perimeter edges are ground to round the first and second perimeter edges to provide a rounded perimeter edge of the electrochromic mirror reflective element that has a radius of curvature of at least 2.5 mm.
US12157408B1
A trailer system and method of use for towing a load are provided. The trailer system include a trailer body supported by suspension arms on a trailer frame. A hoist mechanism having a winch device and a flexible connector can raise and lower the trailer body by swinging on the suspension arms, which maintain the trailer body in a substantially horizontal orientation during the swing. A modular wheel suspension can be attached to the trailer system.
US12157406B2
The invention relates to a seat arrangement for a vehicle, in particular for a fork-lift truck, the seat arrangement having a first spring part, on which a vehicle seat is arranged, and a second spring part, which can be moved relative to the first spring part by means of a connecting unit and is connected to the body, the relative movement of the first spring part to the second spring part being sprung by means of a spring unit, the spring unit and the connecting unit being arranged laterally on the first spring part.
US12157377B2
A power distribution system is provided that ensures that a car is able to operate safely in an autonomous mode. The system includes multiple power rails, including a pair of safety critical power rails. Associated with each safety critical power rail is a safety switch, vehicle sensors (e.g., vehicle location and obstacle sensors), vehicle actuators (e.g., braking and steering actuators) and an autonomous control unit. If a fault is detected during vehicle initialization or general operation, the safety switch which detected the fault opens and that particular power rail is decoupled from the general purpose power rail as well as the remaining safety critical power rail. The remaining safety critical power rail is then able to provide power to a sufficient number of sensors, actuators and controllers to allow the car to safely and autonomously complete an emergency stop on the side of the road.
US12157376B2
A system may be configured to replace a manual service disconnect (MSD). Some embodiments may: provide a set of batteries that include an MSD; remove the MSD; and install a contactor at the MSD. The replacement may be performed via substantially similar housing previously used by the MSD.
US12157366B2
The disclosure is directed to an apparatus or a system for generating energy in response to a vehicle wheel rotation. The apparatus or the system may include a roller configured to be positioned in substantial physical contact within a groove of a wheel of the vehicle. The roller may be configured to rotate in response to a rotation of the wheel. The apparatus or the system may further include a flexible arm rotatably couplable to the roller such that rotation of the roller causes the flexible arm to rotate. The flexible arm may be configured to exert a downward force on the roller to increase the friction between the roller and the groove of the wheel. The apparatus or the system may further include a first generator operably coupled to the flexible arm and configured to generate an electrical output based on the rotation of the flexible arm shaft and convey the electrical output to an energy storage device or vehicle motor.
US12157362B2
A battery assembly for an electric vehicle is provided that includes a housing, one or more battery units, and a mounting system. The one or more battery units are disposed within the housing. The mounting system is disposed adjacent to a top surface, e.g., on a planar top surface or within an upwardly oriented concavity. The mounting system has a frame member bracket and a housing bracket system. The housing bracket system includes a housing bracket, a load member and a vibration isolator. The housing bracket is configured to be coupled to the frame member bracket. The load member has a first portion disposed adjacent to an upper surface and a second portion disposed along a lateral portion of the housing. The vibration isolator is disposed between the load member and the housing bracket. The vibration isolator is configured to reduce load transmission from the frame member of the vehicle to the housing.
US12157351B2
Disclosed are an electric spiraling piston and systems, devices, apparatuses, and methods utilizing same. An electric spiraling piston includes a drum around which the piston spirals as it is being retracted. A spinning axis of the drum is functionally connected to the drive shaft of a motor, such that motor torque is relayed to the axis. The axis, when spinning with the drum in a first direction, causes the piston to un-spiral and extend out of a housing—while rounding its cross section—to assume a straight, rigid position/orientation. The Axis, when spinning with the drum in a second direction, causes the piston to be retracted back into the housing—while flattening its cross section—to assume a spiral orientation within the housing.
US12157347B2
Control systems for time-based pulldown and/or pull-up operation of transport climate control systems include a controller receiving a time for pulldown or pull-up, with the controller modeling the conditioned space and determining a trajectory for efficiently completing the pulldown or pull-up according to the received time. The controller further operates the transport climate control system according to the determined trajectory. The controller can receive information from the conditioned space and adjust operations in order to bring the pulldown or pull-up closer to the determined trajectory. The model can be a dynamic model of the specific conditioned space in which the pulldown or pull-up is being performed. The controller can further determine when a pulldown or pull-up will be completed and provide notifications based on whether the pulldown or pull-up can be completed by a particular time. The model can be updated based on system dynamics observed during pulldown or pull-up.
US12157344B2
A load introduction element (3) for a chassis component (1) of a chassis, having a receiving opening (5) for receiving a joint arrangement (6) and a spline (8) with teeth (9A, 9B) extending substantially axially parallel to the longitudinal axis of the load introduction element (3), The load introduction element (3) is made from a fiber-reinforced plastic semifinished product, and has flat blanks (13, 14, 15) of the plastic semifinished product which are arranged one above the other in layers in an assembly direction (AR) and form a base body (11) of the load introduction element (3), wherein the blanks (13, 14, 15) of the base body (11) have at least two different geometries with different preferential fiber directions (20, 21).
US12157342B2
A system and method for controlling a vehicle, where the system includes independent driving modules each including a connection device having a rotation center spaced apart from a driving shaft in a forward/rearward direction and configured to connect the wheel and a vehicle body to move the wheel in the forward/rearward or an upward/downward direction, a shock absorber extending in a longitudinal direction and configured to contract or stretch, to connect the vehicle body and the connection device, and to restrict an upward/downward movement of the connection device, and a driving device configured to rotate the wheel, a road surface detector configured to detect a height displacement or a state of a road, and a controller configured to control velocities of the front and rear wheels of the independent driving modules, and to change a height of the vehicle based on the height displacement or the state of the road.
US12157332B2
Rods for use in a filing system are disclosed. An example file folder rod includes a first end, a second end and an elongated body extending between the first end and the second end, the elongated body having a longitudinal axis. The example rod also includes a hook coupled to the first end of the rod. The example hook includes a longitudinal portion extending along the longitudinal axis, an elongated hook portion coupled to an end of the longitudinal portion with the elongated hook portion extending from the longitudinal portion a first distance, and a first extension extending from the longitudinal portion with the first extension extending from the longitudinal portion a second distance, the second distance less than the first distance.
US12157328B2
A method for producing a recorded matter includes a first ejection step of ejecting a first ink, which is a radiation-curable ink jet composition, and adhering the first ink to a recording medium, a first irradiation step of irradiating radiation to the first ink adhered to the recording medium to obtain a cured coating film of the first ink, a second ejection step of ejecting a second ink, which is a radiation-curable ink jet composition, and adhering the second ink to the cured coating film of the first ink so that the duty is 1% or more and 20% or less, a second irradiation step of irradiating radiation to the second ink adhered to the recording medium to cure the second ink to obtain a recorded matter, and a lamination step of laminating, in the recorded matter, a recording surface to which the first ink and the second ink have been adhered, and a non-recording surface to which the first ink and the second ink have not been adhered, so that both surfaces face each other.
US12157325B2
A printer having a housing with a printing chamber, a printing device, a holding device for an exchangeable magazine for holding an object to be printed on, a control and evaluation unit, a memory, and at least one optical sensor in the housing for detection of an identification located on a magazine inserted into the receiving device. The control and evaluation unit is able to compare the identification on the inserted magazine which has been detected by the at least one optical sensor to an identification stored in the memory for a magazine which is allowable for the print object to be printed upon, and for outputting an error message when the comparison establishes a difference between the detected identification and the stored identification.
US12157322B2
A system for aligning print-heads in a printing-press, which includes a print-head array which includes a plurality of print-head-rows. Each print-head-row includes a plurality of print-heads and prints print a color associated with therewith. Each print-head includes an array-of-nozzles, which includes a plurality of nozzle-lines. The system includes an imager and a processor. The imager includes at least one imaging-sensor. The imager is configured to acquire an image of a printed first-alignment-pattern and further configured to acquire an image of a printed second-alignment-pattern. The processor is configured to receive the image of the first-alignment-pattern and the image of the second-alignment-pattern and to determine alignment of reference print-heads in at least a reference-row of print-heads from the image of the first-alignment-pattern. The processor is also configured to determine alignment of color print-heads in rows other than the reference-row of print-heads, relative to the reference print-heads, from the image of the second-alignment-pattern.
US12157319B2
According to an aspect of the present disclosure, an information processing apparatus executes software that obtains and manages information of a printing device, and the information processing apparatus comprises: a requesting unit configured to request a delivery of a cartridge for exchange based on residual amount of recording agent in a cartridge containing the recording agent installed in the printing device, the residual amount being included in first information obtained from the printing device by using the software; and a control unit configured to perform, when initially obtaining a residual amount of recording agent from the printing device after booting the software or the information processing apparatus, controlling to output a message for checking whether the requesting is necessary if the requesting has not been performed in response to detecting a cartridge having an increased residual amount compared to a previously obtained residual amount of recording agent.
US12157316B2
A nozzle surface recovery device includes: a cap configured to cap a nozzle surface of a liquid discharge head; a guide configured to guide the cap in a first direction; and a first position adjuster configured to adjust a position of the cap with respect to the nozzle surface in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, and the first position adjuster including: a first roller rotatable along the guide to move the cap in the first direction between a capping position at which the cap caps the nozzle surface and a retraction position at which the cap is retracted from the capping position; and a first adjustment plate coupled to the first roller, the first adjustment plate configured to adjust the position of the cap with respect to the guide in the second direction.
US12157313B2
An inkjet print head includes a plurality of droplet jetting devices. The plurality of droplet jetting devices is formed of a nozzle layer defining, for each of the plurality of droplet jetting devices, a nozzle, a membrane layer carrying, on a membrane, a restrictor layer and an actuator for generating pressure waves in a liquid in a pressure chamber that is connected to the nozzle. The actuator is positioned in an actuator chamber in the restrictor layer, and a distribution layer defining a supply line for supplying the liquid to the pressure chamber. The restrictor layer includes an inlet restrictor having a cross-section and an outlet restrictor positioned on opposites sides of the actuator and having a cross-section that is different from the cross-section of the inlet restrictor.
US12157307B2
A liquid discharge apparatus includes a substrate stage configured to be movable while holding a substrate, a discharge unit having nozzles for discharging droplets, a control unit configured to perform control to supply driving signals for discharging droplets from the nozzles to the discharge unit while moving the substrate stage, and an acquisition unit configured to acquire sizes of the droplets discharged onto the substrate, wherein the control unit performs control to discharge a plurality of droplets from the nozzles onto the substrate by supplying a plurality of driving signals for discharging droplets of different volumes to the discharge unit, and wherein the control unit identifies the driving signals corresponding to the droplets on the substrate based on the sizes of the droplets on the substrate acquired by the acquisition unit.
US12157304B2
An inkjet printer is disclosed that has a substrate support; a calibration module disposed adjacent to the substrate support and comprising a stage member; and a print assembly disposed across the substrate support, the print assembly comprising a printhead and a calibration imaging device positionable to face the stage member.
US12157300B2
A printing apparatus, having a conveyer configured to convey a recording medium along a first conveying direction, an image recorder to record an image on the recording medium supported by a supporting portion, a liquid storage arranged on an outside of the supporting portion in a direction intersecting with the first conveying direction, a cutter assembly to cut the recording medium, and a controller, is provided. The controller is configured to move the cutter assembly to an outside of the supporting portion in a scanning direction, which intersects with the first conveying direction, to cut the recording medium; and control the cutter assembly to stand by at a standby position located on a side of the supporting portion opposite to the side, on which the liquid storage is arranged, on the other outside of the supporting portion in the scanning direction.
US12157298B2
A printing apparatus, which applies ink to a target print medium to form an image by a print unit, includes a plurality of temperature regulation units juxtaposed in a conveyance direction of the target print medium and each configured to regulate a temperature of the target print medium, a plurality of measurement units each configured to measure the temperature of the target print medium, and a control unit configured to make a temperature regulation capability of each temperature regulation unit variable, wherein each temperature regulation unit regulates temperature in a widthwise direction of the target print medium, each measurement unit measures the temperature in the widthwise direction of the target print medium, and the control unit controls the plurality of temperature regulation units based on the measured temperatures.
US12157291B2
A display body characterized in that there is at least one white printing layer permitting printing by means of laser irradiation; said white printing layer has a nonprinted region and a printed region at which laser printing has been carried out; and (1) through (3) are satisfied. (1) An absolute value of a difference in color L* values between the printed region and the nonprinted region is not less than 1.0 but not greater than 10.0. (2) Total luminous transmittance of the nonprinted region is not less than 8% but not greater than 50%. (3) Fractional decrease in thickness of the printed region in a cross-sectional direction is not less than 1 vol % but not greater than 80 vol % of that of the nonprinted region. A high-quality display body, with high productivity is provided.
US12157285B2
A food baking apparatus includes a compressible die and a mechanical stop for controlling a die spacing of the compressible die. The mechanical stop includes a supporting system and a mounting element mounted onto the supporting system. The mounting element includes at least one protrusion having a particular amount of protrusion from the mounting element, which amount of protrusion may be adjustable for any single protrusion. By translation or rotation of the supporting system and/or the mounting element during operation of the apparatus, a protrusion is selected. The protrusions mechanically stop further compression of the dies during an operation of the food baking apparatus. Thus, the selection determines the die spacing applicable for the baking process, based on the amount of protrusion of the selected protrusion.
US12157284B2
A shoe upper manufacturing method is provided. The shoe upper manufacturing method includes the steps of obtaining materials for shoe uppers, forming the shoe uppers, processing the shoe uppers, and printing the shoe uppers carried out in turn. Thus a multi-layer composite footwear fabric is produced and further processed to form shoe uppers required. Thereby different heating temperature and time are set for heat melting and adhesion of thermoplastic elastomer onto footwear fabric made from different materials in order to meet different requirements of users. Moreover, production efficiency is improved and production capacity is increased by combination of one upper mold with a plurality of lower molds. The present method is more efficient than those in current use.
US12157281B2
A continuous forming apparatus of a fiber reinforced composite includes a tension detection mechanism, a drive motor, and a drive control device. The drive control device is configured so that a material roll is rotationally driven in a delivery direction of a reinforced fiber base material during a time period from a time point of end of pressurization in a forming process to a time point of end of a pulling-out process, and is also configured to perform tension control on the reinforced fiber base material based on a detected tension value from the tension detection mechanism and a target tension value, during a time period from a time point of start of the pulling-out process to a time point of end of the pressurization in the forming process in a next forming operation.
US12157280B2
A method for forming a composite component, the method comprising: providing a mould (15) comprising a first part (8) of the mould and a second part (13) of the mould, the first part (8) and second part (13) when assembled define an exterior surface of the composite component; loading the first part (8) of the mould with reinforcing material (20); injecting matrix precursor into the first part (8) of the mould to impregnate reinforcing material (20) located in the first part (8) of the mould with matrix precursor; closing the second part (13) of the mould and the first part (8) of the mould around the reinforcing material (20) and matrix precursor to assemble the first part (8) and second part (13) to define an exterior surface of the composite component; and injecting matrix precursor into the closed mould to impregnate reinforcing material (20) located between the first and second parts (8, 13) of the mould with matrix precursor.
US12157275B2
Provided herein is a system for producing a product. The system generally comprises a large-area micro-stereolithography system, an optical imaging system, and a controller in communication with the large-area micro-stereolithography system and the optical imaging system. The large-area micro-stereolithography system is capable of generating the product by optically polymerizing successive layers of a curable resin at a build plane. The controller is capable of analyzing a focus level of the reference target based on the captured image; and based on the analyzing, adjusting a focus property of the projected image beam of the stereolithography system.
US12157273B2
An apparatus and method are provided for extracting a build part from an additive manufacturing machine. Upon completion of the build part by the additive manufacturing machine, a pin array is placed above the build part, the pin array including a plurality of pins slidably supported by a support plate for vertical movement relative to the support plate. The pin array is moved toward the build part so that the plurality of pins contact the build part and conform to the contour of the build part. The pins of the pin array are locked with the pins in contact with and conforming to the build part. The pin array and build part are inverted so that the build part is supported by the locked pins of the pin array. All of the pins of the array are locked simultaneously by a common locking component. The build plate can be formed on a sacrificial interposer plate that is removed by an etchant bath supported on the pin array when the build part is inverted.
US12157264B2
A plastic container and a method for producing a plastic container for liquids comprising an outer jacket made of latticework or of sheet metal material and a pallet-type understructure, the plastic container including a blow-molded body having a container socket in a container wall, the container socket provided with a container opening and connected to a flange of the container fitting via a welded joint, wherein the container wall has an inner layer made of a first plastic material and an outer layer made of a second plastic material, and the container socket has a longitudinal cross section widening toward the container opening such that an end face of the container socket is formed at least in part by an inner layer segment disposed opposite the outer layer, and a welding contact surface of the container socket is formed by the inner layer segment.
US12157254B2
A hollow body composite component is produced by a method using an injection mold, wherein a cavity of the injection mold is filled at least partially with a flowable material by injection of the flowable material, and a mandrel is driven through the flowable material to form a hollow body. Using the mandrel, at least one strip-shaped reinforcing element is introduced into a hollow body interior and is arranged on a surface of the hollow body facing the hollow body interior.
US12157250B2
A composite wood panel is manufactured from thin wood laminae cut from wood unsuitable for peeler logs or dimensional lumber. At least one bonding agent is applied to the wood laminae, and they are formed into a randomly oriented mat that is compressed into a thin wood web that can be a corrugated web or a flat web that is permanently set in a single press operation.
US12157246B1
A machine for applying tubular film to objects includes a mandrel about which a tubular film is passed, a perforation assembly for forming a perforation line across a width of the tubular film prior to the tubular film moving onto the mandrel, and a sleeve ejection arrangement associated with the mandrel to separate the tubular film along the perforation line to create a tubular sleeve that is ejected off of the mandrel and onto an object. The perforation assembly includes a perforation unit mounted for movement across the width the tubular film, the perforation unit including a perforation blade that is rotated over the tubular film, to apply the perforation line, as the perforation unit moves across the width of the tubular film.
US12157241B2
A cutter including a cutting head and an adjustable handle pivotally coupled to the cutting head. The adjustable handle includes a first adjustment assembly to change a length the adjustable handle extends from the cutting head. The adjustable handle also includes a second adjustment assembly to change the position of the adjustable handle with respect to the cutting head.
US12157233B2
Systems and methods for quantitatively measuring wheel slippage in differential drive robots are disclosed herein. According to at least one non-limiting exemplary embodiment, data from wheel encoders is compared to data from a gyroscope during execution of at least one of two tests disclosed herein to produce a quantitative value proportional to wheel slippage due to a differential drive robot rotating or turning.
US12157226B2
Disclosed techniques for decreasing teach times of robot systems may obtain a first set of parameters of a first trained robot-control model of a first robot trained to perform a task and determine, based on the first set of parameters, a second set of parameters of a second robot-control model of a second robot before the second robot is trained to perform the task. In some cases, a plurality of sets of parameters from trained robot-control models of respective robots trained to perform a task may be obtained. Thus, for example, a convergence of values of those parameters on a value, or range of potential values, may be determined. Embodiments may determine values for parameters of the control model of the (e.g., second) robot to be trained within a range, or a threshold, based on values of corresponding parameters of the trained robot(s).
US12157224B2
A spherical surface link mechanism includes a proximal end link hub, a distal end link hub, a plurality of links, a plurality of intermediate link hubs, and a shaft member. Each of the plurality of links includes a first end link member, a second end link member, and an intermediate link member. The first end link member is coupled, at one end, to the proximal end link hub to be rotatable about a first rotation axis. The second end link member is coupled, at one end, to the distal end link hub to be rotatable about a second rotation axis. The intermediate link member is coupled, at one end, to the other end of the first end link member to be rotatable about a third rotation axis and is coupled to, at the other end, the other end of the second end link member to be rotatable about a fourth rotation axis.
US12157212B2
A hand tool including a first assembly including a first handle and a first jaw, a second assembly including a second handle pivotally connected to the first handle and a second jaw pivotally connected to the second handle, a link member, and a link adjustment member movably connected to the first handle. The link adjustment member is configured for engaging with and axially moving the first end of the link member for adjusting a force applied by the first jaw and the second jaw onto the element in the closed position. The hand tool further includes a cutting assembly including a cutting member connected to the second jaw. The cutting member is configured for cutting the element.
US12157211B2
A pair of adjustable pliers with lever type positioning device includes a clamp body, a first handle slidably engaged with the clamp body, a second handle, and a lever type positioning device. The first handle includes an adjustment tooth. The lever type positioning device pivotally combines the second handle with the first handle, so that the second handle and the clamp body are linked. The lever type positioning device includes a lever member and a positioning member. The lever member pivots between a locked position and a release position. The positioning member is combined with the lever member and includes a positioning tooth. At the locked position, the positioning tooth is engaged with the adjustment tooth. At the release position, the positioning member is disengaged from the adjustment tooth, thereby adjusting the opening degree between the clamp body and the first handle.
US12157210B2
Device (1) for installing/removing a seal (12) for an injection group of a coffee machine, comprising a body (2) which is elongate along a longitudinal axis (XX′), a handle (3) for gripping the body (2) and two rows of lugs (4), one of which is arranged at one end and the other of which is arranged at the other end of the elongate body (2). Each lug (4) of a row, which is radial relative to the body (2), is arranged around the body (2) on a centre circle which passes through the longitudinal axis (XX′) of the body (2), and each lug (4) of a row has a face (41) which is called the internal face and which is directed towards the lugs (4) of the other row and which forms a helical ramp (5) which is inclined to allow, in the positioned state of the ramps (5) of a row of lugs (4) in bearing contact with inclined surfaces forming ramps with complementary shapes, and, in the state in which the body (2) is rotated about its longitudinal axis (XX′), axial displacement of the body (2). One of the ends (6), which is called the seal installing end, of the body (2) is provided with a rotating plate (7) for receiving a seal (12) to be installed. The opposite end of the body (2) is provided with anchoring members (9) which project from the aforementioned end (8).
US12157202B2
A polishing machine with an automatic feed and discharge function includes a machine frame, a clamping mechanism, a polishing shaft, a feed mechanism and a discharge mechanism. The clamping mechanism, the discharge mechanism, the polishing shaft and the feed mechanism are mounted on the machine frame. Multiple polishing heads are mounted on the polishing shaft. The feed mechanism includes a feed frame, a sliding platform, a sliding drive member, multiple columns of storage mechanisms for storing polishing pads, and multiple columns of push mechanisms, and the number of the columns of the storage mechanisms matches the number of the columns of the push mechanisms. The feed frame is mounted on the machine frame. The sliding platform is slidably arranged on the feed frame. The storage mechanisms are mounted on the sliding platform. The push mechanisms are mounted on the feed frame and are located above the storage mechanisms.
US12157195B2
An apparatus for detecting the status of a tool in a machine tool may include: a sensor unit configured to sense acceleration of a spindle of the machine tool in an x-axis direction and a y-axis direction during processing; and a processing device configured to convert the x-axis signal and the y-axis signal, sensed by the sensor unit, into signals capable of representing a cutting force by processing the x-axis and y-axis signals, detect a resultant force, and plot the detected resultant force on a polar coordinate system.
US12157193B2
This multi-product pallet device (1) includes a multi-product pallet (2) deforming a shape thereof in conformity with a shape of a workpiece; and a device main body (3) to which the multi-product pallet is attached and which stores shape restoration data for deforming the multi-product pallet and restores the shape of the multi-product pallet based on the shape restoration data, wherein the multi-product pallet is detachable from the device main body.
US12157186B2
Provided is an electrode sheet manufacturing method including preparing a sheet stack including an electrode composite material layer and a separator provided on the electrode composite material layer, irradiating the separator of the sheet stack with a first laser beam having a wavelength to be absorbed by the separator, and moving an irradiation position of the first laser beam relative to the sheet stack. The method further includes irradiating the sheet stack having been irradiated with the first laser beam with a second laser beam having a wavelength to be absorbed by the electrode composite material layer, and moving an irradiation position of the second laser beam relative to the sheet stack, wherein the irradiation position of the second laser beam moves so as to follow a track of the irradiation position of the first laser beam.
US12157181B2
A holder for a transmissive optical element is specified, having a frame and a mount for the transmissive optical element. The mount is mounted within the frame with two adjusting elements and with a guide pin arranged between the adjusting elements and its distance from the frame can be adjusted. The adjusting elements are each mounted in the frame so that they can pivot and are adjustable in their respective lengths independently of one another. The mount-side ends of the adjusting elements can each be pivoted in the mount and are attached so that they can be displaced in the longitudinal direction of the respective adjusting element. The frame-side end of the guide pin is fixed to the frame, and the frame-side end of the guide pin is pivotably mounted in the frame in the X and Y directions and slidable in the longitudinal direction of the guide pin. A method for adjusting the position of a transmissive optical element is also specified.
US12157175B2
A reciprocating cutting tool includes a shoe that is less likely to slip off when pulled frontward, for positioning the shoe, beyond a predetermined position such as a maximum pull position. The reciprocating cutting tool includes a motor, a slider being rod-like and including a tip tool holder, a reciprocation converter that converts rotation of the motor to reciprocation in a direction in which the slider extends and transmits the reciprocation to the slider, a shoe slidable in a front-rear direction to come in contact with a workpiece to which the tip tool is applied, a shoe lock unit engageable with the shoe to restrict the shoe from sliding and disengageable from the shoe to allow the shoe to slide, and a pin that interferes with the shoe slid to a predetermined position.
US12157154B2
A method for preparing a high-performance difficult-to-deform metal precision seamless pipe includes steps of performing a heat treatment; drilling; externally grinding; internally grinding; straightening; performing four-roller warm-rolling; performing warm-drawing to reduce a diameter; performing warm-expansion to reduce a wall thickness and increase the diameter; performing precise cold-rolling; degreasing; brightening; performing surface grinding; cleaning dust; detecting flaws; testing metal structure performance; and sizing and packaging. By cycling the warm-drawing, the warm-expansion, and the precision cold-rolling, key indicators such as product dimensional accuracy, surface quality, material properties, and crystal grain size can be collaboratively controlled, to achieve higher accuracy, better performance, and more outstanding extreme specifications. Product requirements of different hard-to-deform metal materials and different product specifications can be satisfied, to flexibly prepare metal pipe products with different material characteristics, which greatly improves production efficiency and effectively reduces production costs.
US12157151B2
A method and an apparatus for cleaning a channel, especially a transmission and/or cooling channel, in any type of device, machine, installation, and/or tool, particularly in any type of heat exchanger and/or a molding core, cavity and/or insert is proposed, wherein a channel is cleaned through dynamic, bi-directional pulsation of cleaning medium inside the to-be-cleaned channel, the method being realized by a cleaning apparatus equipped with a diaphragm pump module, plugged either only in the feed side of the transmission line or in the feed side and in the return side, which, after connecting the diaphragm pump module to the external energy source and shutting off the flow control system from the reservoir and the feed pump, allows for putting cleaning medium into a state of two-way dynamic pulsating motion.
US12157149B2
A system is provided for cleaning a drive over reader sensor component. The system includes a drive over reader that in turn includes a housing. At least one sensor component is mounted in a wall of the housing, and a lens of the sensor component is mounted on the wall. The lens is disposed at an angle from about 5 degrees to about 10 degrees relative to a vertical plane of the drive over reader. A fluid nozzle may optionally be mounted to the housing near the lens and oriented at the lens. When employed, the nozzle is fluidly connected to a source of liquid and sprays the lens with the liquid when flow of the liquid is actuated. A method for cleaning a drive over reader sensor component is also provided.
US12157143B2
A UV irradiation apparatus for coating systems that coat rigid or film-like workpieces, in particular furniture parts, having a transport apparatus for transporting workpieces provided with coating material from an inlet to an outlet through the UV irradiation apparatus, a UV light source arranged above the transport apparatus that irradiates the coated workpieces with UV light in an irradiation region between the inlet and the outlet, and a reflector or cover which shields the UV light source upward. A housing covers the irradiation region and the UV light source, which generally extends above the transport apparatus. A sensor of a measuring apparatus for direct or indirect automated measurement of radiant flux of the UV light source is arranged in the housing, and the sensor is in particular fitted fixed or movably on the housing or a holder. A method for quality assurance using this UV irradiation apparatus is also provided.
US12157137B2
A powder layer composite includes a base and a powder layer having a thickness of 100 μm or less and disposed on the base. An average of a total value of a number of powder aggregates having a long diameter of 500 μm or greater and a number of pinholes having a long diameter of 500 μm or greater, in any of a plurality of different regions of 20 mm×20 mm on a surface of the powder layer, is 0.2 pieces/cm2 or less.
US12157126B2
The invention generally relates to systems and methods for synthesizing a reaction product and increasing yield of the same. In certain aspects, the invention provides a multi-mode reaction system in which in a first mode one or more valves of the system are configured to cause reagents to flow from one or more reagent reservoirs of the system through one or more components of the system to generate a reaction product; and in a second mode the one or more valves are configured to change flow within the system such that the one or more reagent reservoirs are isolated from a remainder of the system and the generated reaction product and any remaining reactants are recycled back through the multi-mode reaction system to increase a yield of the reaction product.
US12157125B2
Methods and systems are provided for a sample holder for a multi-detector quantitative microscopy system. In one example, the sample holder includes a frame with a central opening, a pivotable arm positioned adjacent to the central opening and having a whippletree assembly at a first end of the pivotable arm, and a movable ram, in contact with a second end of the pivotable arm, the movable ram configured to pivot the pivotable arm.
US12157123B2
Devices, systems, and associated methods are provided for manipulating and/or determining one or more characteristics of cells contained within a biological sample. In particular a device and methods of use thereof are provided, the device comprising a sorting component configured to separate cell-containing microdroplets from empty ones into a population of cell-containing first microdroplets; a microdroplet manipulation component configured to manipulate the first microdroplets using real or virtual electrowetting electrodes, and an optical detection system configured to detect an optical signal from the microdroplets via the one or more detection windows.
US12157114B2
A method for making a magnetic-nanoparticle-supported catalyst includes reacting a ferrocenyl phosphine compound with an amino alcohol compound to form a ligand having a phosphine group, an amine group and at least one hydroxyl group; anchoring the ligand to a surface of magnetic nanoparticles via an oxygen atom of the hydroxyl group to form a ligand complex; combining the ligand complex with a metal precursor comprising Rh to bind the metal precursor with the ligand complex and form the magnetic-particle-supported catalyst. The magnetic-particle-supported catalyst is a Rh complex of magnetic-Fe3O4-nanoparticle-supported ferrocenyl phosphine catalyst.
US12157112B2
A protein template is added to a solution in which metal ions of iron and copper are dissolved to introduce the metal ions into the protein template; the protein template is separated from metal ions that have not been incorporated in the protein template; the metal ions that have been incorporated in the protein template are reduced to obtain a protein containing alloy nanoparticles of iron and copper; a sol or gel in which a co-continuous body is dispersed is frozen; the frozen sol or gel is dried in a vacuum to obtain a porous body; the porous body is allowed to support the alloy nanoparticle containing protein; and the protein is removed.
US12157111B2
Metal oxides are provided that have selective hydrogen combustion activity while also acting as solid oxygen carriers (SOCs). The metal oxides correspond to a metal oxide core of at least one metal having multiple oxidation states that is modified with an alkali metal oxide and/or alkali metal halogen (such as an alkali metal chloride). The resulting modified metal oxide, corresponding to a solid oxygen carrier, can allow for selective combustion of hydrogen while reducing or minimizing combustion of hydrocarbons, such as within a propane dehydrogenation environment. Additionally, it has been unexpectedly found that modifying the core metal oxide with the alkali metal oxide and/or alkali metal chloride can also mitigate coke formation on the solid oxygen carrier. Methods of using such metal oxides for selective hydrogen combustion are also provided.
US12157110B2
Semiconductor particles are used as a photocatalyst for inducing a water-splitting reaction where water molecules decompose into oxygen molecules and hydrogen molecules by addition of a co-catalyst and light irradiation, the semiconductor particles including strontium titanate doped with scandium. A synthesis method of a semiconductor for the photocatalyst includes a synthesis step of synthesizing the semiconductor particles including strontium titanate doped with scandium by mixing strontium chloride (SrCl2), strontium titanate (SrTiO3), and scandium oxide (Sc2O3) and firing the mixture.
US12157107B1
Disclosed are a sulfur-molybdenum cluster modified MOF material and a preparation method and application thereof, and the material is prepared by taking an MOF material as a metal organic framework material, and modifying ammonium tetrathiomolybdate inside the metal organic framework material; and according to the mass percentage, the MOF material accounts for 45 wt % to 90 wt %, and a modification amount of the ammonium tetrathiomolybdate accounts for 10 wt % to 55 wt %. The ammonium tetrathiomolybdate is embedded into an MOF material framework in a solution in a form of an anion MoS42− for modification. According to the invention, the MOF material is modified by the ammonium tetrathiomolybdate, and compared with an existing sulfydryl modified composite material, the modified composite material shows a higher adsorption capacity, a higher adsorption rate and a higher S atom effective utilization rate in the application of removing Hg (II) in water, and meets a wider practical application scene.
US12157099B2
Micro puree machines have a locking assembly for locking a container to a coupling on the machine, preventing the container from rotating out of the coupling during processing. The locking assembly includes at least one protrusion on the container configured to slidably engage a slot on an interior surface of the coupling when the container is rotated in a clockwise direction. The coupling has a clip that is moveable from a first position, in which the clip prevents rotation of the container in the counterclockwise direction, to a second position, in which the clip allows rotation of the container in the counterclockwise direction. The clip is spring biased toward the second position. Pressing a button on the coupling moves the clip from the first to the second position.
US12157098B2
A method for mixing, milling, and coating a plurality of constituents comprises placing the constituents in a container that includes a cylindrical inner surface; applying a first vibration to the container such that a motion of the vibration is parallel to a longitudinal axis of the container; and applying a second vibration to the container such that the motion of the vibration is not parallel to the longitudinal axis of the container.
US12157087B2
A low cost, high selectivity asymmetric polyimide/polyethersulfone (PES) blend hollow fiber membrane, a method of making the membrane and its use for a variety of liquid, gas, and vapor separations such as deep desulfurization of gasoline and diesel fuels, ethanol/water separations, pervaporation dehydration of aqueous/organic mixtures, CO2/CH4, CO2/N2, H2/CH4, He/CH4, O2/N2, H2S/CH4, olefin/paraffin, iso/normal paraffins separations, and other light gas mixture separations. The polyimide/PES blend hollow fiber membrane is fabricated from a blend of a polyimide polymer and PES and showed surprisingly unique gas separation property with higher selectivities than either the polyimide hollow fiber membrane without PES polymer or the PES hollow fiber membrane without PES polymer for gas separations such as for H2/CH4, He/CH4, H2S/CH4, CO2/CH4 separations.
US12157086B1
A flare seal drum having an amine liquid seal. The flare seal drum includes: a baffle separating the flare seal drum into a first section and a second section; a waste gas inlet receiving waste gas into the first section and being combined with amine in the first section; a gas collecting pipe located in the first section; a packing pipe receiving waste gas from the gas collecting pipe; a packing filling the packing pipe, the waste gas passing through the packing; an amine spray nozzle located above the packing pipe and supplying amine to the packing in the packing pipe; and an amine pump that removes amine and waste gas from the second section through an amine line.
US12157080B2
An air filter apparatus includes at least one frame that is configured to receive a filter media, and at least one sensing mechanism for sensing contamination of the filter media. The sensing mechanism can include a wave emitter and a wave detector. The wave emitter and the wave detector can be arranged so that the wave travels along a path that is substantially parallel to outer faces of the filter media. The wave detector can be located at a first edge of the frame, and the wave emitter can be located spaced apart laterally from the wave detector at a second edge of the frame, so that waves from the emitter can travel along the path through and laterally across the filter media towards the detector. The path can be substantially perpendicular to the general direction of air flow within the filter media.
US12157076B2
A fractionation column can be used to separate a liquid containing multiple components into its constituent components based on vapor pressure. While the fractionation column may be designed for certain operational performance, the operational characteristics may change, for example, due to changed flow rates through the column and/or fouling in the column. In some examples, a fractionation column is described that includes a fractionation tray formed of multiple tray decks that move relative to each other. The tray decks can have apertures that move relative to each other between a position in which there is a comparatively large amount of open area through the fractionation tray to a position in which there is a comparatively small amount of open area through the fractionation tray. Movement of the trays can control turndown and/or clear fouling buildup on the tray surface.
US12157069B2
A toy that simulates a stand mixer provides users, for example, children with the experience of preparing foods. The mixer includes a base shaped to sit on a horizontal surface. A vertical member extends from the base and holds an extension that extends over a portion of the base. A bowl is sized to fit on the base below the extension. The extension includes a semicircular clip aligned with a semicircular slot on the extension. The mixer includes interchangeable tools, such as a whisk, a dough hook, or a paddle blade. The clip and the extension define a circular space to hold a handle of the tool and allow the tool to spin, simulating the mixing action of a stand mixer. The clip flexes away from the extension to allow one tool to be removed and another tool to be connected.
US12157066B2
The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, a modular toy vehicle that includes a vehicle body defining a seat space that is at least partially enclosed and defines an interior volume to contain one or more character figures, a first character seat assembly removably mountable to the vehicle body within the seat space as a first simulated seat, and a second character seat assembly removably mountable to the vehicle body within the seat space as a second simulated seat that is sized differently from the first simulated seat such that the second character seat assembly is prevented from removably mounting to the vehicle body within the seat space when the first character seat assembly is removably mounted to the vehicle body within the seat space.
US12157063B2
Methods, apparatus and systems are provided for training a first reinforcement-learning (RL) agent and a second RL agent coupled to a computer game environment using RL techniques. The first RL agent iteratively generates a sub-goal sequence in relation to an overall goal within the computer game environment, where the first RL agent generates a new sub-goal for the sub-goal sequence after a second RL agent, interacting with the computer game environment, successfully achieves a current sub-goal in the sub-goal sequence. The second RL agent iteratively interacts with the computer game environment to achieve the current sub-goal in which each iterative interaction includes an attempt by the second RL agent for interacting with the computer game environment to achieve the current sub-goal. The first RL agent is updated using a first reward issued when the second RL agent successfully achieves the current sub-goal. The second RL agent is updated when a second reward is issued by the computer game environment based on the performance of the second RL agent attempting to achieve said current sub-goal. Once validly trained, the first RL agent forms a final first RL agent for automatic procedural content generation (PCG) in the computer game environment and the second RL agent forms a final second RL agent for automatically interacting with a PCG computer game environment.
US12157061B2
An electronic device 10 includes: a setting unit 231 that sets an association between a first game medium that is selected by a player and that serves as an operation target in the game and a second game medium that is selected by the player; a skip-processing-procedure deciding unit 232 that decides, on the basis of priorities respectively associated with skill-related processing procedures of the first game medium and the second game medium, the skill-related processing procedure that becomes a skip target; and a skill-processing-procedure executing unit 233 that executes skill processing procedures respectively associated with the first game medium and the second game medium on the basis of a player input, wherein the skill-processing-procedure executing unit 233 skips the decided skill-related processing procedure when the skill processing procedures associated with the first game medium and the second game medium are executed.
US12157058B2
An interaction information processing method includes: displaying a battle interface of a multiplayer online game, the battle interface including a target virtual object (201); displaying an interaction icon presentation region in response to an icon presentation operation on the target virtual object, the interaction icon presentation region including at least one candidate interaction icon (202); receiving a selection confirmation operation on a target interaction icon in the at least one candidate interaction icon (203); and displaying, in the battle interface, interaction information corresponding to the target interaction icon at an interaction presentation position corresponding to the target virtual object (204).
US12157057B2
A method for correcting a position of a target object is provided. In the method, a position correction process for the target object is determined according to at least one of an update time window of a server, a motion state of the target object, or a position deviation of the target object, the position deviation being a difference between a first position of the target object in the server and a second position of the target object in a client, and the position correction process moving the target object from the second position to the first position. The position correction process is executed during the update time window to move the target object from the second position to the first position. Apparatus and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium counterpart embodiments are also contemplated.
US12157052B1
A system, method and apparatus for capturing data from a plurality of users for providing online gameplay based on captured user sensor data. User sensor data is captured from a plurality of sensor capture devices relative to an associated user so as to be transmitted to a gameplay server. The gameplay server executes instructions to generate a user interface on a user's client computing device for providing gameplay on each user client portable computing device utilizing, and pertinent to, the captured sensor data.
US12157051B2
According to aspects of the present disclosure, there are provided methods and apparatus for providing a user characteristics determination module for use with a head-mountable display device, comprising: a biological characteristics handler to determine whether biological sensor data is indicative of a predefined biological characteristic of the user; and determination logic to determine and output a predefined response to the determined biological characteristic of the user.
US12157042B2
Provided is a putter cradle including: a base plate 10 that attaches firmly to a ground surface, on a top side of which a putter head 7a of a putter 7 is placed; an upward extension 20, one end of which is connected to one side of the base plate, and the other end of which extends at an angle toward the base plate; and a shaft holder 30, one end of which is connected to an upper end of the upward extension, and which has a mounting groove at the other end where a putter shaft of the putter is mounted.
US12157037B2
In an aspect, an apparatus is provided and includes an air-tight object having an outer layer, an inner layer, and a cover, and a light module. The opacity of the outer layer is greater than the opacity of the inner layer. The outer layer defines a first aperture and a second aperture. The inner layer and the cover define a first interior region. The inner layer defines a second interior region. The light module is encapsulated within the first interior region and is configured to send light through the inner layer, through the second interior region of the air-tight object, and through the second aperture of the outer layer, wherein the cover is disposed between the light module and the outer layer.
US12157035B2
A system and method for monitoring performance of a physical exercise routine. The system comprises a plurality of motion and position sensors configured to generate sensory information including at least a rate of movements of a user performing the physical exercise routine; a database containing routine information representing at least an optimal execution of the physical exercise routine; a training module configured to: compare the generated sensory information to the routine information to detect at least dissimilarities respective thereof, wherein the dissimilarities indicate if the pace of performing the physical exercise routine is incorrect; provide feedback to the user with at least instructions related to correcting the pace of performing the physical exercise routine; and a display for displaying the feedback.
US12157030B1
A pivoting dumbbell is an exercise device which allows use of exercise resistance bands with dumbbells. The exterior ends of a dumbbell rod are provided with a latching swivel hook. The swivel hook allows for unlimited three-hundred-sixty degree (360°) along the axis of the dumbbell using bearings. Each hook allows a user to attach one of a plurality of resistance exercise bands. The user may easily switch out the bands for bands of different resistance or even attach multiple bands at once.
US12157021B2
An enclosure for safe transportation and storage of a battery or a collection of batteries. The enclosure contains a plurality of batteries held together by a polymer structure, wherein the polymer structure contains s pockets capable of encapsulating at least one fire extinguishing fluid. Sensors deployed on a surface of each battery in the plurality of batteries are capable of monitoring surface temperature and volume expansion of each battery in the enclosure and providing signal output. The enclosure also contains a toxic gas release management and containment system.
US12157018B2
An example method includes generating an acoustic ultrasound wave that is focused at a focal point. The method further includes sequentially directing the focal point upon distinct portions of an object to form respective shock waves at the distinct portions of the object. The method further includes, via the respective shock waves, causing the distinct portions of the object to boil and form respective vapor cavities. The method further includes causing substantially uniform ablation of a region of the object that comprises the distinct portions. The substantially uniform ablation is caused via interaction of the respective shock waves with the respective vapor cavities. An example ablation system and an example non-transitory computer-readable medium, both related to the example method, are also disclosed.
US12157016B2
An anti-collision simulation device and a radiotherapy system relate to the technical field of medical equipment. The anti-collision simulation device is applied to a radiotherapy device, and includes a supporting frame and a simulation rod rotatably connected to the supporting frame. A space enclosed by a rotation track of the simulation rod is matched with a space in a therapy cabin of the radiotherapy device. The supporting frame includes a fixing frame and a movable frame. The fixing frame is fixedly installed relative to the radiotherapy device. The simulation rod is rotatably connected to the movable frame, and the movable frame is able to move relative to the fixing frame, so as to enable the simulation rod to be located at different positions.
US12157015B2
A method for monitoring a hadron beam during hadron-therapy treatment of a subject including tumour cells labelled with a radiopharmaceutical product, in which the hadron beam includes a plurality of discrete hadron bursts, the method including the following steps: when a burst impacts on the subject, detecting the prompt gamma generated by the interaction of the hadrons of the burst with the tissues of the subject using a Compton telescope and reconstructing an image of the interaction volume; when no burst impacts on the subject, extracting the position of the tumour cells labelled with the radiopharmaceutical product using the Compton telescope and reconstructing an image of the total volume of the tumour; comparing the image of the interaction volume and the image of the total volume of the tumour so as to locate the measured interaction volume relative to the measured total volume of the tumour.
US12157013B2
A control circuit accesses a memory having stored therein a plurality of hierarchically-diversified radiation treatment planning templates. These templates include at least a first radiation treatment planning template that specifies radiation treatment planning information at a first hierarchical level. These templates also include at least a second radiation treatment planning template that specifies radiation treatment planning information at a second hierarchical level, wherein the second hierarchical level is more granular than the first hierarchical level. By one approach, the control circuit may access a plurality of differing ones of the second radiation treatment planning templates wherein each such template specifies radiation treatment planning information at the second hierarchical level. The control circuit is configured to optimize a radiation treatment plan for a given patient using a given radiation treatment facility as a function of at least the first and the second radiation treatment planning template.
US12157012B2
An infrared radiant panel is formed by overlaid substrates having conductors thereon which are electrically activated to generate heat to cause infrared radiation of desired wavelengths. The conductors are arranged to cancel magnetic fields caused by current flow therethrough. A conductive shield further suppresses fields generated by the panel.
US12157010B2
An energy harvesting module includes a pendular unit with piezoelectric transducer elastically deformable in bending with a clamped end and a free end coupled to an inertial mass. The transducer includes at least one piezoelectric beam configured into two adjacent arms formed single-piece, with external and internal arms arranged side-by-side. The external arm has a clamped proximal end and a free distal end, and the internal arm has a free proximal end supporting the inertial mass, and a free distal end connected to the distal end of the adjacent external arm. An annular mount surrounds the beam at its proximal end and includes the clamp to which is fastened the proximal end of the external arm. The mount includes, in a central region in the vicinity of the clamp, a cavity inside which the inertial mass carried by the free proximal end of the internal arm can oscillate.
US12157006B2
According to an embodiment, an implantable hearing aid system is disclosed. The implantable hearing aid system includes an external unit which includes an electronic unit operationally coupled to a first inductive coil arrangement configured to transmit power and/or data signals, and where the first inductive coil arrangement includes a loop structure with coils wound around and along at least a part of length of the loop structure, and the loop structure comprises an opening. Furthermore, the implantable hearing aid system includes an implantable unit which comprises a second inductive coil arrangement configured to form a transcutaneous link with the loop structure and to receive the power and/or data signals over the transcutaneous link, and where the second inductive coil arrangement is configured to be implanted fully or partially within a part of an ear of a user of the implantable hearing aid system. The external unit includes a housing and an earhook, and where a first end-face of the loop structure is arranged within the earhook and a second end-face of the loop structure is arranged within the housing or within the earhook.
US12156986B2
A disposable electronically controlled infusion pump system includes at least one disposable infusion container and at least one disposable electronically controlled medication pumping system. The at least one disposable infusion container is configured to contain infusion fluid. The at least one disposable electronically controlled medication pumping system is fluidly connected to the at least one disposable infusion container. The at least one disposable electronically controlled medication pumping system includes an infusion channel, a disposable electronically controlled micropump, and valves, but may further include a microprocessor, a memory, a battery or a power receiver configured to wirelessly receive power, a wireless communication device, and other components. The memory is in electronic communication with the microprocessor. The wireless communication device is configured to receive a wireless signal which wirelessly controls the at least one disposable electronically controlled medication pumping system. The disposable electronically controlled micropump is configured to pump the infusion fluid through the infusion channel. The valves are connected to the infusion channel.
US12156984B2
A single-use suppository insertion device includes a barrel, a plunger configured to be movably coupled to the barrel, and a disabling feature of the barrel or the plunger. The disabling feature may be configured to be activated during operational motion of the plunger relative to the barrel, such as during insertion of or withdrawal away from a suppository. The device can include a structural element of the barrel or the plunger configured to engage with the disabling feature of the barrel or the plunger during insertion of or withdrawal away from the suppository to activate the disabling feature. The disabling feature may be implemented in a number of ways to ensure single-use operation of the single-use suppository insertion device.
US12156982B2
An intravascular catheter for peri-vascular and/or peri-urethral tissue ablation includes multiple needles advanced through supported guide tubes which expand around a central axis to engage the interior surface of the wall of the renal artery or other vessel of a human body allowing the injection an ablative fluid for ablating tissue, and/or nerve fibers in the outer layer or deep to the outer layer of the vessel, or in prostatic tissue. The system may also include a means to limit and/or adjust the depth of penetration of the ablative fluid into and beyond the tissue of the vessel wall. The catheter may also include structures which provide radial and/or lateral support to the guide tubes so that the guide tubes expand uniformly and maintain their position against the interior surface of the vessel wall as the sharpened injection needles are advanced to penetrate into the vessel wall.
US12156975B2
A catheter for use in medical applications is disclosed. The catheter comprises tubing with a tip hole at one end and an end portion at the other end. Fluid exits the catheter at the tip hole thereof. One or more alternative fluid pathway(s) are provided on the sidewall of the catheter to permit outflow of fluid medication from the catheter to ensure proper delivery of the medication to the intended target area, particularly when the tip opening is occluded or restricted for any reason.
US12156971B2
Disclosed herein is an indwelling urinary catheter having a guidewire anchoring mechanism. The indwelling urinary catheter includes a catheter tube having a proximal opening, a distal opening, a catheter tube lumen with the catheter tube having a first wall thickness. The guidewire anchoring mechanism is configured to transition between an insertion state and an anchored state. The guidewire anchoring mechanism can include a proximal portion having a top cap, a collapsible section having a second wall thickness less than the first wall thickness, and a distal portion including a holder cap coupled to a holder. The holder can be coupled to the catheter tube, the distal portion can be in communication with the proximal portion, and a guidewire can be coupled to the proximal portion, the guidewire extending through the catheter tube lumen to the distal portion.
US12156963B2
Disclosed systems and methods relate to status indication using a canister of negative pressure wound therapy apparatus. A method of providing a visual indication to a user of a negative pressure wound therapy apparatus can include, by a controller of the negative pressure wound therapy apparatus, determining a plurality of conditions associated with provision of negative pressure wound therapy by a negative pressure source of the negative pressure wound therapy apparatus and causing provision of a plurality of visual indications associated with the plurality of conditions to a user and, by at least one light pipe, transmitting light associated with at least one visual indication of the plurality of visual indications through at least a portion of an interior volume of a canister of the negative pressure wound therapy apparatus.
US12156960B2
Systems and methods are adapted for treating the carotid artery. The systems include interventional catheters and blood vessel access devices that are adapted for transcervical insertion into the carotid artery. Embodiments of the systems and methods can be used in combination with embolic protection systems including blood flow reversal mechanisms, arterial filters, and arterial occlusion devices.
US12156951B2
A fuel tank disinfection system, including one or more ultraviolet (UV) light emitters disposed within a fuel tank and configured to irradiate one or more water collecting areas within the fuel tank with UV light; and one or more UV light sensors disposed within the fuel tank and in proximity to the one or more water collecting areas and configured to measure the UV light irradiated on the one or more water collecting areas.
US12156944B2
This invention is related to an oral pharmaceutical composition that contains a cholinergic agent, a natural plant alkaloid in particular, selected from the group of lobeline, anabasine, cytisine, galantamine or their acceptable salts, in the form of tablets and capsules. The excipients of the developed oral composition include cellulose powder, calcium sulphate, silica colloidal and magnesium stearate, the total content of cellulose powder and calcium sulphate dihydrate being from 64.5 to 97.5% of the mass of the dosage form and at least 90% of the alkaloid particles being ≤100 μm. The oral composition contains also at least one biologically active amino acid selected from: L-carnitine, tryptophan or a combination of them. The oral composition according to this invention achieves uniform distribution of the active substance in the composition, as well as stability of the composition due to the included excipients selected so as to react to a minimum with the alkaloid to form the qualitative and quantitative related substances admissible for the pharmaceutical composition. The composition according to this invention is applicable in the treatment of dependency and addiction to nicotine, tobacco products and alcohol.
US12156937B2
An oral film dosage form includes a high viscosity polymer in an amount of from 1% to 5% by dry weight to reduce, modulate and/or control Cmax of an active agent. The high viscosity polymer has a viscosity of from 100 cps to 500 cps as determined at 2% concentration in water by weight at 25° C. using a Brookfield LVF viscometer with spindle no. 2 at 60 rpm.
US12156935B2
The invention relates to the use of an extract of the fungus Inonotus obliquus for maintaining and/or increasing the cohesion of the skin tissues, for preventing the appearance of and/or for reducing shadows and/or bags in the area around the eyes, for maintaining and/or increasing the radiance and/or homogeneity of the skin complexion and/or for maintaining and/or increasing the barrier function of the skin and/or for increasing the skin microcirculation. The invention also relates to the extract of I. obliquus or a dermatological composition comprising same, for its use for reducing ruddiness and/or for preventing and/or reducing pathologies resulting from a reduction in the cohesion of the skin tissues, notably itching and/or couperosis.
US12156932B2
The instant disclosure relates to hair cosmetic compositions that include a cationic vinylpyrrolidone copolymer, a cationic thickening agent comprising at least one unit derived from acrylic or methacrylic acid, a cationic surfactant, including a cationizable surfactant; a fatty alcohol, present in an amount of not more than about 3 wt. %; panthenol, an amino functionalized silicone, a plant or vegetable oil, present in an amount of not more than about 4.5 wt. %; and water. Methods for using such hair cosmetic compositions are also provided.
US12156924B2
Provided is an inorganic powder composite used for a water-in-oil type fine dispersion system which is excellent in emulsification and emulsification stability. The inorganic powder composite includes: an inorganic powder; and a first hydrophobic treatment agent, a second hydrophobic treatment agent, and a hydrophilic treatment agent, which cover at least one part of a surface of the inorganic powder, the first hydrophobic treatment agent is a silicon compound, the second hydrophobic treatment agent is a fatty acid, and the hydrophilic treatment agent is hydrous silica.
US12156920B2
The present invention relates to a compound or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof having a chemical structure comprising: A compound or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof of formula (I): (A)-x1-(B)-x2-(C), wherein (A) is at least one motif specifically binding to cell membranes of neoplastic cells; (B) at least one chelator moiety of radiometals; (C) a dye moiety; x1 is a spacer covalently connecting (A) and (B); x2 is a spacer or a chemical single bond connecting (B) and (C); wherein (C) has the formula wherein R1 to R4, R9, a, b, Y and X1 to X4 have the meaning as indicated in the claims and description. The invention further relates to compositions comprising said compounds as well as a method for detecting neoplastic cells in a sample in vitro with the aid of the compounds or composition.
US12156910B2
The NS1 protein of influenza virus is a key virulent element with multi-functional roles in virus replication and acts as a strong interferon (IFN) antagonist. A live attenuated virus (LAIV) is provided using a master backbone, which contains the influenza B (HK8038) virus and includes a deletion of the NSI coding region (DelNS1). The LAIV is based on novel adaptive mutations, which support DelNS1 influenza B live attenuated virus (LAIV) replication in vaccine producing cells. DelNS1 influenza B LAIV shows spontaneous cold adaption with preference to grow at 30-33° C. but restriction at 37-39° C. The LAIV can be used to protect a subject, against a lethal challenge of antigenic distant influenza B viruses. DelNS1 LAIV with adaptive mutations for growing in vaccine producing systems is an important strategy for making highly attenuated and immunogenic live attenuated influenza vaccines with the ability to induce broad cross protective immunity for seasonal influenza.
US12156908B2
The present disclosure provides virus like nanoparticles (VLPs), which are capable of displaying multiple copies of a SARS-CoV-2 antigen, for eliciting protective immunity against a SARS-CoV-2 infection, as well as polypeptides, compositions and methods thereof.
US12156901B2
An IL-15 super agonist (IL-15N72D:IL-15RαSU/IgG1Fc; N-803) increases circulating NK cells, effector memory and effector memory RA cells in post-allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplant patients (HCT). Methods of treatment include administration of N-803 to subjects in need of such treatment.
US12156892B2
The present invention relates to a novel strain having the activity of reducing advanced glycation end products and a use thereof and, more particularly, to a food composition having the activity of reducing advanced glycation end products and a pharmaceutical composition for preventing or treating a disease caused by advanced glycation end products each of which comprises a Lactococcus lactis KF140 (accession number KCCM11673P) strain, a Bacillus subtilis KF11 (accession number KCCM11981P) strain, a Lactobacillus pentosus KF8 (accession number KCCM11997P) strain, or a Lactobacillus paracasei KF00816 (accession number KCCM11998P) strain, which are all novel strains; a lysate thereof; or a culture thereof as an active ingredient. In addition, the present invention relates to a composition for intestinal regulation, a probiotic composition, a feed composition, and a fermented product, each of which comprises the novel strain of the present invention, a lysate thereof, or a culture thereof as an active ingredient.
US12156890B2
The present invention relates to novel compositions and methods to produce 3D organ equivalents of the brain (i.e. “mini-brains”). The invention also relates to methods of using human induced pluripotent stem cells, a combination of growth and other soluble factors and gyratory shaking. Cells from healthy or diseased donors or animals can be used to allow testing different genetic backgrounds. The model can be further enhanced by using genetically modified cells, adding micro-glia or their precursors or indicator cells (e.g. with reporter genes or tracers) as well as adding endothelial cells to form a blood-brain-barrier.
US12156885B2
The disclosure provides methods and compositions for treating heart conditions. In particular, the disclosure provides compositions comprising lithium, or a salt thereof, either alone or in combination with at least one additional anti-arrhythmia agent, and methods for treating heart conditions using such compositions.
US12156879B2
Disclosed pharmaceutical compositions including a Beta site APP Cleaving Enzyme (BACE1) inhibitor and an metabotropic glutamate receptor (mGluR) agonist, and methods for use of such compositions to treat Alzheimer's disease (AD), Down's syndrome, Parkinson's disease, vascular dementia, Dementia with Lewy Bodies, dementia, and/or frontal temporal dementia.
US12156877B1
The present disclosure provides methods of alleviating a symptom or delaying disease progression of a condition associated with a thiamine deficiency, a thiamine-dependent enzyme, or an associated cofactor and/or treating a condition associated with a thiamine deficiency, a thiamine-dependent enzyme, or an associated cofactor. The present methods result in alleviating a symptom or delaying disease progression of the condition associated with the thiamine deficiency, the thiamine-dependent enzyme, or the associated cofactor, treatment of the condition associated with the thiamine deficiency, the thiamine-dependent enzyme, or the associated cofactor, and/or alteration of a phenotypic characteristic of the condition associated with the thiamine deficiency, the thiamine-dependent enzyme, or the associated cofactor.
US12156874B2
The present invention relates to compounds of formula (I) wherein A, X, R1, R2, R3, R4 and R5 are as defined herein, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. The invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds, methods of using these compounds in the treatment of various diseases and disorders, such as hypertension, preeclampsia, restenosis, a cardiac or respiratory condition, renal disease, liver disease, muscular dystrophy, fibrotic disorders, pain, ischemia or ischemic reperfusion injury, and cancer.
US12156871B2
The present invention relates to compounds of formula (I), or their isotopic forms, stereoisomers, tautomers or pharmaceutically acceptable salt (s) thereof as muscarinic M1 receptor positive allosteric modulators (M1 PAMs). The present invention describes the methods of preparation, pharmaceutical composition, combinations and the use of compound formula (I), their stereoisomers, isotopic forms or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof.
US12156867B2
A method of therapeutic treatment of a tumor pathology including melanoma, tumors of the gastrointestinal tract, and/or thyroid carcinoma by administering to a subject in need thereof melanocortin receptor-4 (MC4R) antagonists is provided. The melanocortin receptor-4 antagonists are suitable in a targeted anti-tumor treatment, and particularly in an adjuvant therapy or in a therapy affecting onset and/or progression of tumor metastasis. A pharmaceutical composition including a melanocortin receptor-4 (MC4R) antagonist in a pharmaceutically acceptable vehicle, and in combination with optional adjuvants, stabilizers and/or preservatives, is also provided.
US12156859B2
The present disclosure relates to utilizing the N6-methyllysine for reducing fat percentage in an organ or tissue or for treating obesity, obesity-related diseases or cancers. More specifically, the present invention relates to the method using Nε-Methyl-L-lysine or Nε-Methyl-L-lysine producing bacteria or Nε-Methyl-L-lysine/l-lysine mixture or Nε-Methyl-L-lysine/probiotics mixture to treat obesity, obesity-related diseases or cancers.
US12156858B2
A pharmaceutical gel composition for intra-intestinal administration comprises (i) a dopamine replacement agent, (ii) a dopamine decarboxylase inhibitor (DDI), and (iii) a COMT inhibitor.
US12156853B2
The medication dispensing assembly includes a housing having an interior. A medication bottle is disposed in the interior with its cap assembly facing vertically downwardly. The cap assembly includes outer, middle, and inner pieces. The outer and inner pieces are fixed with one another, and the middle piece is fixed with the bottle. A drive unit is disposed in the interior of the housing and is configured to rotate the bottle and the middle piece of the cap assembly about a vertical axis. The three pieces of the cap assembly have respective medication openings, and rotating the bottle causes individual pills to travel first from the bottle into the inner piece, then into the middle piece, then around the vertical axis, and then outside of the cap assembly through the medication opening of the outer piece.
US12156849B2
Smart pill bottle caps are provided. In general, a smart pill bottle cap can include a housing. The housing can include a sensor that is configured to monitor one or more characteristics of a pill bottle to which the housing is attached and can include a communication mechanism configured to communicate the one or more characteristics of the pill bottle to an external device. The communicated characteristic(s) of the pill bottle can be used to track usage of pills in the pill bottle, such as a date and time of when a pill was taken and/or a number of pills remaining in the pill bottle. A smart pill bottle cap can also be configured to engage a secondary, standard pill bottle cap that is used with a standard pill bottle.
US12156844B2
An assistive device for stair-climbing assistance includes a powered rail-sliding platform that assists its user through a unique human interface. The device provides powered assistance (a gentle pulling force) and protection (through a safety belt) to help users climb or descend stairs.
US12156828B2
An apparatus and associated methods relate to an external catheter configured with a urine collection bag having a semi-rigid and flexible internal tube adapted to permit fluid engagement with urine streaming from a patient, in a manner that does not require precisely locating a patient's buried, retracted or retractive penis supported by secure connection to the patient coincident to the outer circumference of the internal tube with an adhesive having a removable non-adhesive backing to prevent the dislodging or misplacement of the external catheter or obstruction of the flow of urine and the secure attachment of the tube to a transparent urine collection bag permitting visualization of the inner contents of the bag.
US12156826B2
A boot-type orthopedic or sports footwear usable for controlled walking with stiffening for the lower extremities of legs, comprises: a sole provided with a substantially vertical rear positioning element; a first pair of rear half-hulls, each of which is hinged onto the sole and which cover, when in the closed position, an ankle and part of the lower portion of a leg, i.e. the calcaneal-tibial-tarsal zone, of an individual who is wearing the footwear; a second pair of front half-hulls, each of which is hinged onto the sole and which cover, when in the closed position, at least an upper part of a foot of the individual who is wearing the footwear.
US12156824B2
The invention relates to medical devices and methods of using them. The devices are prostheses which can be percutaneously deliverable with (or on) an endovascular catheter or via other surgical or other techniques and then expanded. The prostheses are configured to have a lattice resistant to dilation and creep, which is defined by a plurality of openings. The prosthesis may also optionally have a stent disposed proximal to the lattice. In exemplary embodiments, the fluoropolymer is expanded polytetrafluoroethylene. The composite materials exhibit high elongation while substantially retaining the strength properties of the fluoropolymer membrane. In at least one embodiment, the lattice is made of a composite material that includes a least one fluoropolymer membrane including serpentine fibrils and an elastomer. A lattice including a generally tubular member formed of a composite material including a least one fluoropolymer membrane containing serpentine fibrils and an elastomer is also provided.
US12156818B2
A method and system for performing bone fusion and/or securing one or more bones, such as adjacent vertebra, are disclosed.
US12156816B2
An apparatus, system, and method may be used to replace a natural or artificial articular surface of a joint, and to repair a bone that is associated with the joint. In some embodiments, the apparatus, system, and method may include a joint replacement prosthesis with a prosthetic articular surface, a support structure securable to the bone, and a first attachment interface. The system may also include a bone plate with a bone engagement surface securable to the bone on either side of a fracture formed in the bone, or a damaged area of the bone. The bone plate may include a second attachment interface that is attachable to the first attachment interface of the joint replacement prosthesis in order to couple the bone plate to the joint replacement prosthesis.
US12156812B2
A holder for a prosthetic heart valve includes a base having an annular portion defining an aperture, and a spool rotatably mated with the base. The spool has a platform and a head extending in a longitudinal direction from the platform. The holder further includes a button housing having an aperture sized and shaped to receive the head of the spool, and a button inserted in the button housing. The button housing is detachably coupled to the spool in an assembled condition. The button is movable relative to the button housing to move the button housing from a condition locked to the spool to a condition removable from the spool.
US12156810B2
Methods are described herein for delivering a replacement valve to a native valve location. In one method, ventricular anchors of the replacement valve are released and allowed to reverse orientation while positioned in the atrium of a human heart. After reversing orientation, the ventricular anchors extend in a generally proximal direction. The ventricular anchors can then be advanced through the annulus into the ventricle and then moved back toward the atrium to capture native valve leaflets between the main body and the ventricular anchors of the replacement valve. In one modification, the ventricular anchors are allowed to reverse orientation at a level adjacent the annulus. The implantation methods described herein are preferably performed via a transseptal delivery approach or a transapical delivery approach.
US12156808B2
A method of forming prefabricated units used in production of systems of prosthetic aortic valve transcatheter implantation and prosthetic aortic valve prefabricated unit with an non-thrombogenic smooth surface layer or with a porous fibrous layer constituting a scaffold for epithelium cell culture, intended for manufacturing TAVI system. Stents for covering and solutions of polycarbonate silicones and/or polycarbonate urethanes and/or polyurethane with average molecular weight in the range from 50 000 g/mol to 200 000 g/mol in the solvent DMAC are prepared. Initially a smooth layer of polycarbonate silicone is applied in the electrospinning machine by electrospraying with use of the solution in DMAC with the concentration of 2-8% w/w. and/or a fiber of polycarbonate urethane is applied by electrospinning on the roller with use of the solution in DMAC with the concentration of 8-20% w/w to obtain the first surface layer, with a specified speed, number of heads, thickness of capillaries, speed of movement, voltage and distance between the capillary and the roller and the specified flow of the solution on the feeding pump and after a certain time the layer covering the roller with thickness of 1-100 μm is obtained. Thereafter the inner intermediate layer of polycarbonate silicone is formed by electrospraying. When the thickness of the layer is approximately 5 to 100 μm the process is stopped and stents are placed on the formed layer and similarly like applying the former intermediate layer the application of the inner intermediate layer is continued on the whole length of the roller. Thereafter the final surface layer is applied like the first surface layer until a prefabricated unit with the polymer material thickness from 50 to 250 μm is obtained.
US12156804B2
An optical device including a partial or incomplete optic configured operatively as an add-on (e.g., supplemental lens/optic) for an (existing) optical element or system, the partial or incomplete optic having an active area configured in relation to the optical element or system such that the partial or incomplete optic controls or changes foci of light incident upon or provided to the active area, but does not control or change foci of light bypassing optically relevant portions of the partial or incomplete optic, and associated methods for enhancing vision.
US12156779B2
The present invention relates to an abutment of a dental implant system for connecting a dental implant and a suprastructure, said abutment comprising an abutment basic body extending from an apical end to a coronal end arranged opposite to the apical end. The abutment basic body comprises a dental implant connecting portion facing the apical end and adapted to fit with a corresponding abutment connecting portion of the dental implant and/or an intermediate part to be directly or indirectly connected with the dental implant. It further comprises a support portion facing the coronal end and designed such to allow the suprastructure to be mounted directly or indirectly. According to the invention, the abutment further comprises nanostructures formed on at least a portion of the outer surface of the abutment basic body, said nanostructures extending in at least two dimensions to 200 nm at most.
US12156772B2
Described herein is a device for dental hygiene, including a brushing apparatus configured to wrap simultaneously all teeth of the upper or lower dental arch, a supporting structure including a covering case configured to be entirely inserted inside the oral cavity and to support the brushing apparatus, and a motorization unit configured to move cleaning elements of the brushing apparatus. The brushing apparatus includes a first brushing assembly configured to act on the vestibular surface of the teeth, a second brushing assembly configured to act on the lingual surface of the teeth, and a third brushing assembly configured to act on the occlusal surface of the teeth.
US12156771B2
The present disclosure relates to a nozzle fixing assembly and a water pick. The nozzle fixing assembly is configured to mount a nozzle having a limiting groove. The nozzle fixing assembly includes: a locking assembly including a housing provided with a first through hole and an elastic element connected to the housing; a support base including an elastic piece and a locking sleeve provided with a second through hole. An outer periphery of the locking sleeve is provided with a latching groove in communication with the second through hole. The nozzle extends through the first through hole and the second through hole and biases the elastic element, such that the limiting groove is aligned with the latching groove, the elastic piece is engaged in the limiting groove and the latching groove.
US12156762B2
Ultrasound devices are described. The ultrasound devices may be flexibly configured to output a certain number of multilines per channel of ultrasound data and to process certain channels of ultrasound data per processing cycle. The ultrasound device may then be configured to either output more multilines per channel and process fewer channels per processing cycle, or output fewer multilines per channel and process more channels per processing cycle. In other words, the circuitry may be configured to change to a configuration with increased resolution and increased processing time or to a configuration with decreased resolution and decreased processing time.
US12156758B2
A method is for actuating a medical imaging device for generating an image data set of a patient's measurement region affected by respiratory movement. In an embodiment, the method includes provisioning a respiratory curve of the patient describing the respiratory movement of the patient over a respiratory cycle; automatically deriving a measurement parameter based upon the respiratory curve, the measurement parameter derived determining a temporal resolution of the at least one slice image data set; and actuating the medical imaging device to generate the image data set based upon the measurement parameter. For a z position, a plurality of projection data sets from various projection angles are acquired with relative rotational movements between a radiation source of the medical device and the patient. The at least one slice image data set of the image data set is generated based upon the plurality of projection data sets acquired.
US12156757B2
In the rotation mechanism for an X-ray inspection apparatus, a plurality of adjustment members configured to adjust the shape of an outer race of a bearing by deforming the outer race are arranged in a circumferential direction of the bearing. The adjustment members are movable relative to an adjustment member holder in a diameter direction of the bearing and contactable with an outer circumferential surface of the outer race. A gap S configured to allow deformation of the outer race is formed between the outer circumferential surface of the outer race and the adjustment member holder in the diameter direction of the bearing.
US12156755B2
For position sensors, e.g., a fiber-based system, that build a shape of an elongated member, such as a catheter, using a sequence of small orientation measurements, a small error in orientation at the proximal end of the sensor will cause large error in position at distal points on the fiber. Exemplary methods and systems are disclosed, which may provide full or partial registration along the length of the sensor to reduce the influence of the measurement error. Additional examples are directed to applying selective filtering at a proximal end of the elongated member to provide a more stable base for distal measurements and thereby reducing the influence of measurement errors.
US12156747B2
Various methods and systems are provided for a table support for a mobile imaging system. In one example, a table support for a mobile imaging system includes a fixture comprising a frame and a plurality of posts coupled to the frame, a table interface comprising a set of table flanges configured to be attached to a patient table of the mobile imaging system and a set of complementary table flange acceptors coupled to a top surface of the frame of the fixture, and a floor interface including a set of floor brackets removably coupleable to a set of floor panels configured to be attached to a floor of a unit configured to house the mobile imaging system, each floor bracket coupled to two respective posts of the plurality of posts.
US12156743B2
The invention provides a body-worn vital sign monitor that measures a patient's vital signs (e.g. blood pressure, SpO2, heart rate, respiratory rate, and temperature) while simultaneously characterizing their activity state (e.g. resting, walking, convulsing, falling) and posture (upright, supine). The monitor processes this information to minimize corruption of the vital signs and associated alarms/alerts by motion-related artifacts. It also features a graphical user interface (GUI) rendered on a touchpanel display that facilitates a number of features to simplify and improve patient monitoring and safety in both the hospital and home.
US12156742B2
An illustrative hearing system may be configured to receive, from an inertial sensor included in a hearing device configured to be worn by a user, inertial sensor data representative of at least one of motion of the hearing device or orientation of the hearing device. The hearing system may further be configured to determine, based on the inertial sensor data, an activity state of the user and to determine, based on the activity state, a cardiorespiratory quality index representative of a quality level of a measurement of a cardiorespiratory property of the user.
US12156737B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for linking a point-list to a three-dimensional anatomy of the heart. Techniques disclosed include recording a point-list, where each entry in the point-list comprises data elements, and is associated with a location in the heart and a measurement. The associated measurement is acquired by an electrode of a catheter that is placed at the associated location in the heart. Techniques disclosed further include selecting one or more anchor points associated with a region of interest in the heart, then, for each entry in the recorded point-list, computing a data element of distance between the entry's associated location in the heart and the selected one or more anchor points, and manipulating entries in the point-list based on their respective data elements.
US12156736B2
A medical apparatus includes a probe configured for insertion into a body of a patient. The probe includes electrodes configured to contact tissue of a region within the body. The apparatus further includes a display screen a position-tracking system, and a processor. The processor is configured to acquire electrophysiological signals from the electrodes, to extract electrophysiological parameters from the signals, to compute a measure of consistency of the electrophysiological parameters at each of the locations with respect to a weighted median of the parameters extracted at neighboring locations, and to render to the display screen a map of the tissue while overlaying on the map a visual indication of the extracted electrophysiological parameters for which the measure of consistency satisfied a predefined consistency criterion, and automatically omitting from the map the electrophysiological parameters for which the measure of consistency did not satisfy the criterion.
US12156735B2
A method, a system, an apparatus and a computer program product, for detecting and monitoring cognitive capabilities pertain to driving. The method comprises applying a series of stimuli on a driver while is driving a vehicle. The series of stimuli comprises a first portion matching a pattern and a second portion deviating from the pattern, and configured to induce an ocular response from eyes of the driver. The method further comprises obtaining a set of images of the eyes of the driver, that are captured during the application of the series of stimuli. The method further comprises analyzing the set of images to determine a set of ocular features corresponding each image; and determining, based thereon, a cognitive state of the driver. Based on the cognitive state of the driver, a determination whether the driver is capable of operating the vehicle safely may be performed.
US12156731B2
A method is provided which includes providing a sensor operable to measure movement over time on a user. The sensor includes an alert unit. The sensor is configured with a threshold to activate the alert unit when the measured movement over time is below the threshold. The measurements of movement over time are obtained, and it is determined whether the measured movement over time is below the threshold. When the measured movement is below the threshold, the alert unit at the sensor is activated to alert the user.
US12156724B2
The present invention relates to the field of medical monitoring, and in particular non-contact monitoring of one or more physiological parameters in a region of a patient during surgery. Systems, methods, and computer readable media are described for generating a pulsation field and/or a pulsation strength field of a region of interest (ROI) in a patient across a field of view of an image capture device, such as a video camera. The pulsation field and/or the pulsation strength field can be generated from changes in light intensities and/or colors of pixels in a video sequence captured by the image capture device. The pulsation field and/or the pulsation strength field can be combined with indocyanine green (ICG) information regarding ICG dye injected into the patient to identify sites where blood flow has decreased and/or ceased and that are at risk of hypoxia.
US12156723B2
Persons with sleep disordered breathing (SDB) may, or may not, recognize that they have symptoms of SDB, and/or that they may be at-risk of, or suffering certain health problems associated with SDB, including death. The disclosed Energy Conversion Monitor (ECM) sensor, when embodied, for example, in a wearable upper-armband format, has been demonstrated to be more sensitive and responsive than pulse oximetry monitoring of blood oxygen saturation as an indication of hypoxic stress induced by SDB, and is compatible with: (1) inclusion in sleep laboratory polysomnograph (PSG) testing instrumentation, (2) home-based diagnostic testing for SDB, (3) control of home-use airway therapy devices, (4) continuous remote surveillance and refinement of airway therapy, and (5) spot-check and continuous surveillance of sleep quality in the general population. The disclosed ECM also provides new measurements of physiologic stress during and following exercise. When applied during initial care of premature newborn infants, it offers improved therapeutic guidance during their transition from their limited in utero oxygen supply conditions, to the increased oxygen availability from breathing air. When applied during resuscitation of persons suffering from hypoxia and during reperfusion of ischemic tissue, such as during treatment of ischemic stroke, or ischemic heart attack, the ECM sensor can provide objective guidance regarding the safe and effective resupply of oxygen to the hypoxia-adapted tissue to help reduce or prevent microvascular occlusion and cellular injury. As a continuously worn physiologic surveillance monitor, the ECM offers the potential of early detection of sepsis. With the elderly and infirm, it offers a convenient and comfortable means of continuously assessing variations in status while awake and asleep.
US12156702B2
A method for generating an intraoperative 3D brain model while a patient is operated. Before an opening in a patient's skull is made, the method includes: providing a preoperative 3D brain model of a patient's brain and converting it to a preoperative 3D brain point cloud; providing a preoperative 3D face model of a patient's face and converting it to a preoperative 3D face point cloud. After the opening in the patient's skull is made, the method includes: matching the intraoperative 3D face point cloud with the preoperative 3D face point cloud to find a face point transformation; transforming the intraoperative 3D brain point cloud based on said face point cloud transformation; comparing the intraoperative 3D brain point cloud with the preoperative 3D brain point cloud to determine a brain shift; and converting the preoperative 3D brain model to generate an intraoperative 3D brain model based on said brain shift.
US12156687B2
An instrument for electrosurgical treatment including an instrument head which forms a conveying body with a gas-fillable lumen. The lumen is connected to at least one first opening and at least one second opening in the instrument head. A primary stream of gas leaves through the first opening. The second opening is arranged such that a secondary stream exits the second opening next to the primary stream and/or with additional secondary streams out of additional second openings—away from the instrument head, at least partially peripherally surrounding the primary stream. An electrode is located in the flow of gas exiting out of the first opening for igniting a plasma between the first opening and the tissue to be treated. Due to the secondary stream accompanying the primary stream, an ignition of the plasma is successful even if the instrument is at a relatively large distance from the tissue.
US12156684B2
Embodiments are directed to fusion implants, insertion instruments, and methods of using the same for implanting one or more fusion implants across a sacroiliac joint and into an ilium and sacrum for fusing the sacroiliac joint. In some cases, fusion-promoting material may be inserted in the fusion implant for further promoting fusion across the sacroiliac joint. In some cases, neurophysiologic monitoring may be performed as the fusion implants are placed across the sacroiliac joint.
US12156680B2
The present invention discloses an interspinous process fusion device, a method of fabricating the interspinous process fusion device, and a surgical method for maintaining a space between two spinous processes in a spine of a patient using the fusion device. The interspinous process fusion device including a distal tip member, a middle plate, a proximal plate, an elongate member, and a plurality of movable wings. The elongate member having a first end, a second end, and a longitudinal axis extending between the first and second end. The distal tip member is connected to the first end of the elongate member, the proximal plate is connected to the second end of the elongate member, and the middle plate and plurality of wings are positioned intermediate the distal tip member and the proximal plate along the longitudinal axis to form the interspinous process fusion device assembly.
US12156648B2
An assembly includes a flexible fixation member, a suture, and a delivery device. The fixation member includes a body with two terminal ends. A suture passes through the flexible fixation member at various points along a length of the body such that portions of the fixation member are slidable relative to the suture and configurable to form a cluster within a surgical site. The delivery device includes a tubular member, an elongated inserter, and a trigger. The elongated inserter is slidably disposed within the tubular member. The inserter has a forked distal end configured to receive a portion of the flexible fixation member and the suture. The trigger is finger-engagable and fixedly coupled to the proximal end of the inserter. It is configured to advance and retract the inserter relative to the tubular member. The trigger includes a retention member for retaining a proximal end portion of the suture.
US12156641B2
The present invention comprises methods and devices comprising a scraping element used to contact circumferentially and longitudinally the surface walls of the uterine cavity to provide for broad contact of the intended surface with the device, resulting in attainment of a sufficient volume and comprehensive tissue sample for analysis as an endometrial biopsy or screening uterine cancer. The device may provide for a reservoir for the obtained sample to be contained when removing from the uterine cavity, cervical canal, and vagina. The device may be comprised of a detachable means or be of a material that allows the user to cut the sampling head of the device for placement in collection means to maximize the amount of tissue or cells being sent to the laboratory for analysis.
US12156639B1
A curved electric laryngoscope is provided. The curved electric laryngoscope includes a handle and a display screen, where the display screen is rotationally provided at an upper part of the handle; a lower end of the handle is connected to a curved outer tube; the handle is provided therein with an inner tube and an inner tube position adjustment assembly; the inner tube includes an upper end connected to the inner tube position adjustment assembly and a lower end inserted into the curved outer tube; the inner tube position adjustment assembly includes a drive motor, a lead screw, a slide rail, a slider, and a slider bracket; the slide rail is provided along a length direction of the handle; and the lead screw is parallel to the slide rail; the drive motor is fixed at an upper end inside the handle.
US12156638B2
A medical device includes an insertion unit; and a drive unit, the insertion unit has first, second and third lumens, the drive unit has first and second pulleys disposed to be movable advance and retraction, first and second wires are wound on the first and second pulleys, respectively, and a pulling mechanism to pull the first and second pulleys toward a proximal end side, the first wire has a first end inserted into the first lumen and fixed to a distal end side of the insertion unit and a second end inserted into the second lumen and fixed to the distal end side of the insertion unit, and the second wire has a first end inserted into the third lumen and fixed to the distal end side of the insertion unit and a second end fixed to the drive unit.
US12156626B2
A hand vacuum cleaner has a cyclone provided in the air flow path and a dirt collection chamber external to the cyclone. The cyclone air inlet and the cyclone air outlet are located at the cyclone chamber rear end and the dirt outlet is located at the cyclone chamber front end. When the upper end of the hand vacuum cleaner is positioned above the lower end of the hand vacuum cleaner, the central longitudinally extending axis of the cyclone is oriented generally horizontally, the cyclone air inlet is located at a lower end of the cyclone and the dirt outlet is located at an upper end of the cyclone.
US12156620B2
An example autonomous moving device includes a housing in which at least one moving part and a first actuator for providing power to the moving part are accommodated; a first charger which is disposed to be adjacent to at least a portion of the surface of the housing and which is for the wireless charging of electric power used by the device; a second actuator for causing air to flow; a first opening, formed at one side of the housing, for discharging the air toward the first charger in order to remove foreign material from the first charger or around the first charger; and a first duct connected to the first opening from the second actuator.
US12156617B2
A toilet apparatus includes: a toilet seat disposed above a toilet bowl; an image sensor photographing an inside of a bowl of the toilet bowl; and a control unit controlling the image sensor to execute an automatic photographing mode of automatically photographing the inside of the bowl. When acquiring a user's photographing intention information indicating whether or not the user has an intention to photograph the inside of the bowl, the control unit switches between executing and stopping of the automatic photographing mode based on the acquired photographing intention information.
US12156608B2
A water reservoir for a drinks machine has a housing having a base and a side wall forming a water chamber. An outlet structure is formed on the base with an inner wall upstanding from the base, wherein an inner volume of the inner wall leads to an outlet of the water reservoir. An outer wall structure extends around the inner wall and a space between the inner wall and the outer wall structure forms a connection interface for connecting a water treatment unit. A lowest region of the inner wall defines the lowest liquid level in the reservoir. When the liquid is at the lowest liquid level, the water surface extends uninterrupted between the outside of the inner wall and the inside of the side wall.
US12156603B2
A bedding with viewing lenses is provided including a flexible body having a first aperture therethrough. The first aperture is disposed on an upper portion of the flexible body, wherein the upper portion is defined above a first midline bisecting the flexible body between opposing lateral sides of the flexible body. A translucent lens is disposed within the first aperture, wherein the lens extends across an entirety of the first aperture. In some embodiments, a second aperture and lens is disposed on the flexible body to accommodate multiple individuals viewing through the bedding simultaneously.
US12156602B2
The present disclosure relates to a modular mat system. More particularly, the disclosure is directed to a modular mat system with that may be built out using common pieces of mats. Specifically, a modular mat system with a mat piece with a top plate with inserts, a bottom plate with a plurality of tabs and recesses operative to engage with further mat pieces to build a mat system is discussed. The modular mat system is operative to remove water and other detritus from shoes of a user or other such platform moving across the mat system and feed it to a perimeter drain below the system.
US12156596B2
The present invention relates to an exercise equipment bench or seat cover for use with conventional benches or seated equipment used in gyms and fitness centers. The cover is non-slippery and absorbs sweat, water, and other fluids, thereby preventing the benches and seats from causing contamination. The cover encloses a bench such the top surface of the bench is covered completely and an elastic band of the cover securely holds the cover around the bench. An individual performing an exercise lies down or touches the cover and not the bench or seat directly. The sweat is absorbed by the top sweat or moisture absorbing layer while the bench is protected by the bottom rubbery or plastic layer. The cover is machine washable and reusable and helps in reducing the spread of germs, viruses, and bacteria in public gym environments.
US12156594B2
A sofa bed with three moving seat bases that transforms between a bed configuration and a sofa configuration. The sofa bed includes supporting legs and armrest. The armrest does not extend to the floor and allows the set of rails to form a notch such that the back end of the sofa bed may be installed on a raised area. Each of the seat bases, and corresponding cushions, are located between the armrests. The seat bases are interconnected with a set of slide rails that allow the seat bases to move relative to one another. The sofa bed also includes a locking mechanism to hold the sofa bed in the sofa configuration.
US12156591B2
Various implementations and configurations of a user configurable modular storage apparatus are disclosed. In an example implementation, a storage apparatus comprises: a side wall and a back wall which form an interior portion of a cabinet and an opening through which the interior portion is accessible; and a pair of slotted walls comprising pairs of slots configured to receive a storage module comprising a left mounting rod and a right mounting rod, wherein the storage module is insertable into the interior portion through the opening thereby enabling a user mounting and unmounting of the storage module to a pair of slots of the pair of slotted walls. In some implementations, slots comprise pockets for engaging mounting rods of storage modules. In some implementations, a slot may comprise a plurality of pockets for receiving a plurality of storage modules mounted in a stacked module configuration.
US12156589B2
A multifunctional table includes a table body, a carrier member, and a holder. The table body includes a board and a support member connected to each other. The board has a table top and a groove. The carrier member is connected to the table body and includes a first slideway. The holder includes a slidable attaching portion and a holding portion connected to each other. The holding portion includes a first holding surface. The first holding surface corresponds to the groove when the slidable attaching portion is slidably attached to the first slideway in a first attached state. A holder includes a slidable attaching portion and a holding portion connected to each other. The holding portion includes a first holding surface and a second holding surface opposite to each other. The first holding surface and the second holding surface are asymmetrical about a central x axis of the holder.
US12156579B2
Disclosed is a fluid product dispensing assembly including: an external container equipped with an opening, the container including an internal wall defining an internal space; an internal lining which is disposed in the internal space; and a dispensing member, such as a pump, which is used to dispense the fluid product. The assembly also includes a barrier envelope which is intended to contain the fluid product and which is disposed inside the aforementioned internal lining, such that the fluid product does not come into contact with the internal lining. The container is made from a transparent or translucent material, such as glass, such that the internal lining is visible through the container. The internal lining is substantially opaque so as to mask the above-mentioned barrier envelope at least partially and preferably completely.
US12156575B2
A bracelet clasp including a first rigid strip of which a first end is hinged on a first end of a second folding strip configured to receive a first strand of the bracelet at the second end thereof, and of which the second end of the first strip is hinged on a first end of a third folding strip from which first and second arms extend, and a cap hinged at one of the strips. The clasp is provided with first and second push-pieces. The clasp includes a banking which is housed between the first and second arms of the third strip in the closed position of the clasp, so as to ensure a symmetrical opening of the arms when simultaneous pressures are exerted on the push-pieces.
US12156571B2
Systems relating to a mechanical closure or locking device configured to allow for quick connect and disconnect. The systems can be used in conjunction with compression garments. The systems can include a buckle that couples to an anchor. The buckle and anchor can include complementary features that can mechanically interface to secure the buckle and anchor together. The buckle and anchor can include complementary magnetic elements to secure the buckle and anchor together. The buckle can be manipulated to tighten or loosen an adjustable strap.
US12156570B2
A fastening device including a case unit and a spool is provided. The case unit includes a wall forming a receiving space, an upper opening communicated with the receiving space, and a lower opening opposite to the upper opening and communicated with the receiving space. The spool is within the receiving space. The spool is limited by the wall, and the wall prohibits the spool from leaving the receiving space from the upper opening.
US12156567B2
A sole structure for an article of footwear having an upper includes a heel region, a forefoot region, and a mid-foot region disposed between the heel region and the forefoot region. The sole structure also includes a fluid-filled chamber including a first barrier layer cooperating with a second barrier layer to define a first segment extending between a medial side of the sole structure and a lateral side of the sole structure within the forefoot region, a second segment extending between the medial side of the sole structure and the lateral side of the sole structure within the forefoot region, and a web area disposed between and connecting the first segment and the second segment, the first barrier layer being attached to the second barrier layer within the web area.
US12156566B2
The present disclosure includes embodiments in which a knit upper in an article of footwear comprises various zones having different properties. For example, some zones may include thermoplastic yarns for bonding to other elements of the article of footwear such as a sole or a lacing system. Zones may also possess varying degrees of elasticity to, for example, accommodate a wearer's foot or provide the knit upper with stability. The knit upper may further include a visible or machine-detectable bite line to indicate the intended placement of elements of the article of footwear.
US12156564B2
The present invention relates to a goggle brace for a helmet. The brace includes a first bracket and an extension member. The first bracket includes a first resting member and a first supporting member. The first supporting member enables integrating the brace within the helmet. The extension member has a hole. The brace is attached on the inner surface of the helmet by a fastening member. The goggles is made to rest over the resting member. The goggles is tightened over the braces through a strap. The ends of the strap are attached to the edges of the goggles and other ends of the strap are attached over the rear surface of the helmet though a single strap or two or more buckles or latches.
US12156559B2
A clothes folding device includes a loading assembly which pushes in the clothes and seats the clothes on a loading conveyor for transportation, a folding assembly which transports the clothes forward or backward and performs the folding of the clothes, an unloading assembly which is provided below the folding assembly and loads the clothes discharged from the folding assembly. The unloading assembly includes an upper unloading layer where the clothes finally folded by the folding assembly is primarily dropped and seated and which includes an unloading conveyor, a rotation drive unit that rotates the unloading conveyor, an upper front-rear drive unit which moves the upper unloading layer in a forward and backward direction, a lower unloading layer where the clothes seated on the upper unloading layer are secondarily dropped and seated, and an up and down drive unit which moves the lower unloading layer in an up or down direction.
US12156553B2
A safety glove having a protective member or insert extending around the fingertip of the safety glove is provided. The protective member may be positioned along the outer surface or the inner surface of the glove. Alternatively, the protective member may be integrally formed between two layers of glove material. The protective member terminates distally from an interphalangeal joint line to enable finger flexion in order to grasp an item, such as a slab of meat to be deskinned in a skinning machine. The glove may include a rough outer surface formed from thrice dipping the glove and allowing the glove to cure. Additionally, the glove may have a width near the wrist that is wider than the width near the palm to enable the glove to be rapidly removed (i.e., doffed) in an emergency event of the glove getting caught in a rotating blade on the skinning machine.
US12156552B2
A glove has a protective member in the thumb-crotch region and includes a textured outer surface. The protective member is configured to protected against slicing done by sharp objects. The textured outer surface enables grip ability in greasy environments. The textured outer surface may be formed via a foaming process during manufacture of the glove. There may be a colored layer between an inner liner and the protective member that establishes a color splash effect in the event that a portion of the glove ruptures or fails.
US12156550B2
The invention relates to a brassiere 40 customized for a user comprising two cups 41, 42 for each receiving a breast of the user, each cup 41, 42 being made of an elastic material, characterized in that each cup 41 42 is detachable and in that the brassiere comprises for each cup 41, 42 an element 26 for fitting the cup to the shape of the breast in the form of a 3D curved rod 20 produced according to the measurements of the user said that 3D curved rod being designed to contour the entire length of the shape of the inflammatory fold of the user, and extending from the vicinity of the sternum of the user to the vicinity of the armpit of the user such that said 3D curved rod 20 stretches the cup 41, 42 in such a way that it molds the shape of the breast.
US12156548B2
A wearable article includes a front and back elastic belts, a crotch region, a waist opening, and leg openings. Each elastic belt is a laminate having an inner sheet, an outer sheet, and an elastic member. Elastic adhesive bonding continuously bonds the elastic member for at least about 10 mm in the direction of stretch adjacent the side edges of the belts. A discrete patterned adhesive bonding is applied to at least one of the inner and outer sheets to intermittently bond the inner and outer sheets. The discrete patterned adhesive bonding extends substantially along the transverse direction between the elastic adhesive bonding, and substantially along the longitudinal direction between the distal and proximal edges of the elastic belts. The same adhesive agent provides the elastic adhesive and discrete patterned adhesive bonding. Heat bonds form side seams, and the remainder of the laminate is free of heat bonds.
US12156546B2
An electrically heatable aerosol-generating device for heating an aerosol-forming substrate to form an inhalable aerosol when heated is provided, the device including: a receiving cavity to removably receive at least a portion of an aerosol-generating article including the substrate; an electrical heater to heat the substrate when the article is received in the cavity; and a puff detector including a temperature sensor to detect a temperature change of air flow in the cavity indicative of a user taking a puff, the sensor being arranged outside the cavity at a predefined distance to a test spot on an inner surface of the cavity and is further to detect a change of the temperature of the cavity at the test spot that is caused by a change of the temperature of the air flow passing along the inner surface at a place of the test spot when the user takes the puff.
US12156545B2
The electronic cigarette having a power chip with automatic closed-loop control for output comprises a vaporizer and a battery assembly which are connected with each other. The vaporizer comprises a heating element. The battery assembly comprises a battery and a control circuit board arranged with a control circuit. The control circuit comprises a microcontroller, and comprises a power chip, a microcontroller power supply unit, and a starting switch, which are electrically connected with the microcontroller, respectively. The control circuit is further arranged with a reference resistor connected with the heating element. The power chip is electrically connected with the battery, the reference resistor, and the heating element. The power chip is configured to perform automatic closed-loop control by determining the resistance value of the reference resistor and feedback for output voltage under a command of the microcontroller, to output precisely adjustable voltage to the heating element.
US12156539B2
The present disclosure relates to aerosol delivery devices, methods of forming such devices, and elements of such devices. In some embodiments, the present disclosure provides devices configured for vaporization of an aerosol precursor composition that is stored in and/or transported to a heater by a porous monolith, which can be, for example, a porous glass or a porous ceramic. A heater can be in a heating arrangement with an external portion of the porous monolith or can be substantially internal to the porous monolith.
US12156530B2
The present technology is directed to a system for vacuum cooking a non-animal protein, High Moisture Extrusion (HME) food product using steam injection. In various instances the system may comprise: a vacuum cooking food processing system. In various instances the vacuum cooking food processing system may comprise a vacuum tumbler. In some embodiments, the vacuum tumbler may comprise: a vacuum sensor; a temperature sensor; a vacuum valve; a steam injector; and a dosing nozzle.
US12156527B2
The present disclosure provides a sweetening composition including a) acesulfam or aspartame, b) sucralose, a stevia compound, saccharin or cyclamate, c) neohesperidin, thaumatine, rubusoside, a rubusoside derivative, phloretin, trilobatin, monatin and/or hesperetin, and d) tannin in an amount in the range from 1 mg/l to 400 mg/l or wherein, based on the total weight of components a), b), c) and d), the component a) is present in an amount in the range from 10 to 50 wt-%, component b) in an amount in the range from 15 to 65 wt-%, component c) in an amount in the range from 0.1 to 4 wt-%, and component d) in an amount in the range from 5 to 50 wt-%. Moreover, the present disclosure is about the use of said sweetening compositions for sweetening and preparing beverages as well as for preparing syrups as precursors and for the preparation of such beverages. The disclosure is also about a beverage including said sweetening compositions as well as about a process for preparing such beverage.
US12156525B2
A bulk fluid monitoring system and method for monitoring milk is provided, including a plurality of sensors for providing information in relation to properties of a bulk fluid, a memory for holding data parameters including information provided by the sensors and a predetermined time-and-temperature curve for a fluid, a processor for determining whether the information in relation to properties of the bulk fluid is within the bounds of the time and temperature curve for a fluid.
US12156524B2
Liquid antimicrobial disinfectant compositions for treatment of coronaviruses and specifically the Covid-19 virus (SARS-CoV-2) on skin and surfaces such as PPE (personal protective equipment) are disclosed that are highly efficacious and exhibit total eradication below detectable limits at 30 minutes (>6 log kill) against coronavirus (resulting in complete inactivation), while remaining non-toxic, safe and non-irritating (including at a cellular level and with extended contact) to skin and endogenous tissue. Such disinfectant compositions are additionally highly effective against other pathogens, have extended antimicrobial and antiviral activity for more than 24 hours, have a bio-compatible pH, are suitable for personal, clinical and surgical use and are safe to skin, mucous membranes and wounds, remain stable without precipitation, discoloration or loss of antimicrobial efficacy for at least 12 months, and are beneficial for a range of applications and uses in improving and supporting human and animal health.
US12156520B2
One nonlimiting variation of a detection arrangement includes one or more sensors each structured to detect at least one biochemical substance indicative of biochemistry of one or more target insect species and provide a corresponding sensor signal, a controller responsive to the sensor signal of each of the one or more sensors to determine if the one or more insect species are present and generate a corresponding output signal, and an indicator responsive to the output signal to indicate the presence of the one or more insect species.
US12156513B2
A movable livestock grazing enclosure is disclosed for regenerative grazing in agriculture. An example movable livestock grazing enclosure may include a front boom, and a first side boom and a second side boom both attached to the front boom to form a contained grazing paddock. The movable livestock grazing enclosure may also include a trough on at least one of the front boom, the first side boom, and the second side boom. The trough provides at least one of water, food, and food supplements for livestock. The movable livestock grazing enclosure may also include a head unit attached to the front boom. The head unit is configured to move the contained grazing paddock to a predetermined location for grazing the livestock within the contained grazing paddock. In an example, the head unit is at least partly automated.
US12156505B2
A pet seat apparatus for an ATV. The pet seat apparatus includes a seat base with at least one customized side to closely fit contours of a part of the ATV. The seat base includes a first support side for supporting a pet in the ATV and a second support side. The pet seat apparatus also includes a support apparatus for holding the seat base at a desire position in the ATV.
US12156504B2
Inbred corn line, designated KW4ER1502, are disclosed. The disclosure relates to the seeds of inbred corn line KW4ER1502, to the plants and plant parts of inbred corn line KW4ER1502 and to methods for producing a corn plant, either inbred or hybrid, by crossing inbred corn line KW4ER1502 with itself or another corn line. The disclosure also relates to products produced from the seeds, plants, or parts thereof, of inbred corn line KW4ER1502 and/or of the hybrids produced using the inbred as a parent. The disclosure further relates to methods for producing a corn plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic plants produced by that method and to methods for producing other corn lines derived from inbred corn line KW4ER1502.
US12156492B2
A row unit has a seed meter and a seed delivery system. A target seed population is obtained and a motor that drives at least one of the seed meter and the seed delivery system is intermittently pulsed to plant seeds in groupings based on machine speed and target seed population.
US12156489B2
A vehicle has a vehicle frame having a first end and a second end and a first siderail and a second siderail spaced laterally and each extend longitudinally from the first end to the second end. A caster wheel having a lateral axis is rotatably coupled to the vehicle frame towards the first end. Drive wheels defining an axis are rotatably coupled to the vehicle frame towards the second end. A prime mover coupled to the vehicle frame has a base and a vertical driveshaft, which is in operative communication with the drive wheels, extending from the base. The vertical driveshaft has a driveshaft axis closer to the second siderail than the first siderail laterally and closer to the caster wheel axis than the drive wheel axis longitudinally. The base is positioned vertically below most of the length of each of the first siderail and the second siderail.
US12161057B2
A method for forming a semiconductor memory structure include forming a pillar structure. The pillar structure includes a first conductive layer, a second conductive layer and a data storage material layer between the first and second conducive layers. A sidewall of the first conductive layer, a sidewall of the data storage layer and a sidewall of the second conductive layer are exposed. An oxygen-containing plasma treatment is performed on the pillar structure to form hydrophilic surfaces of the sidewall of the first conductive layer, the sidewall of the data storage layer and the sidewall of the second conductive layer. An encapsulation layer is formed over the pillar structure and the dielectric layer. The encapsulation layer is in contact with the hydrophilic surfaces of the sidewall of the first conductive layer, the sidewall of the data storage layer and the sidewall of the second conductive layer.
US12161045B2
A pyrromethene-boron complex that can be used as a red light fluorescent material with improved emission efficiency and color purity is provided. A pyrromethene-boron complex represented by the following general formula (1) and satisfying at least one of (A) and (B) is provided: wherein, in the formula, X and R1 to R9 are selected from predetermined groups, at least one of four pairs of R1 and R2, R2 and R3, R4 and R5, and R5 and R6 has a ring structure represented by any one of the following general formulas (2A) to (2D): wherein, in the formulas, R101, R102 and R201 to R204 have the same meaning as R1 to R7 in the general formula (1), Ar is a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic hydrocarbon ring, or a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic heterocycle, R101 and R102 may form a ring, and * indicates a connection with the pyrromethene skeleton.
US12161040B2
A display panel is provided. A display panel has a light-emitting layer including a first light-emitting pixel and a second light-emitting pixel. A first pixel opening is provided in the first light-emitting pixel. A passivation layer and the second light-emitting pixel are disposed in an overlapped manner. In addition, a height from a bottom surface of a color resist in a first light-emitting pixel region to a substrate is different from a height from a bottom surface of a color resist in a second light-emitting pixel region to the substrate, so that a light output rate and a performance in the display panel are effectively enhanced.
US12161037B2
A display panel disposes a first display area and a second display area. The display panel includes a plurality of OLED pixel units disposed in the first display area, and a plurality of Micro LED pixel units disposed in the second display area. By replacing the OLED pixel units corresponding to the under-screen camera or used to display a fixed picture with the Micro LED pixel units, the image quality of an under-screen camera can be improved, and the burning screen problem caused by displaying the same picture for a long time can be solved.
US12161033B2
A display device includes a display panel including an edge extending along a first direction, a main circuit board adjacent to the edge of the display panel, and a connection circuit board which connects the main circuit board to the display panel at the edge thereof. The connection circuit board includes a plurality of board side pads which are arranged along the first direction and at which the connection circuit board is connected to the main circuit board. Each of the plurality of board side pads includes a first pad, and a second pad adjacent to the first pad along the first direction. The second pad includes a plurality of signal pads which are arranged along a second direction which crosses the first direction and are each aligned with the first pad along the first direction.
US12161032B2
The present application discloses a display panel in which a second data line in a display area is located between a first data line and a third data line, and a spacing between the first data line and the second data line is less than a spacing between the third data line and the second data line. A second pad is located between a first pad and a third pad in a direction perpendicular to the display area pointing to a binding area, the first pad is electrically connected to the first data line, the second pad is electrically connected to the third data line, and the third pad is electrically connected to the second data line.
US12161024B2
A display apparatus for improving a reflective color sense includes a thin film transistor disposed over a substrate, a planarization layer disposed over the thin film transistor, a pixel electrode disposed over the planarization layer and electrically connected to the thin film transistor through a contact hole provided in the planarization layer, a pixel definition layer covering an edge of the pixel electrode to expose a center portion of the pixel electrode, and a bank arranged apart from the pixel defining layer and disposed over an area of a portion of the pixel electrode exposed by the pixel definition layer, the bank overlapping the contact hole when viewed in a direction perpendicular to the substrate.
US12161022B2
A display panel and a display device are disclosed. The display panel includes a substrate, a cathode suppression layer, a cathode, and a polarizer. The cathode suppression layer includes a first cathode suppression portion located in a first light-transmitting area. The cathode is located in a first light-emitting area and the first light-transmitting area, and covers at least part of the first cathode suppression portion. The polarizer includes a first light-transmitting portion located in the first light-transmitting area. A projection of the first light-transmitting portion projected on the substrate is located within a boundary of a projection of the first cathode suppression portion projected on the substrate.
US12161011B2
A method of providing a display device includes preparing a display panel including a first area, a bending area extending from the first area, and a second area extending from the bending area, attaching an impact absorbing layer to the display panel, removing a first removal portion of a first release film which overlaps the second area, among portions of the first release film disposed on the impact absorbing layer, and providing a cover tape on a first portion of the impact absorbing layer from which the first removal portion is removed.
US12161007B2
An object is to provide a light-emitting element which uses a plurality of kinds of light-emitting dopants and has high emission efficiency. In one embodiment of the present invention, a light-emitting device, a light-emitting module, a light-emitting display device, an electronic device, and a lighting device each having reduced power consumption by using the above light-emitting element are provided. Attention is paid to Förster mechanism, which is one of mechanisms of intermolecular energy transfer. Efficient energy transfer by Förster mechanism is achieved by making an emission wavelength of a molecule which donates energy overlap with a local maximum peak on the longest wavelength side of a graph obtained by multiplying an absorption spectrum of a molecule which receives energy by a wavelength raised to the fourth power.
US12161006B2
A display device having a high display quality is provided. A display device that can perform desired display without image data conversion is provided. The display device includes a first pixel. The first pixel includes a first light-emitting element, a color conversion layer, and a first memory circuit. The first light-emitting element exhibits blue light. The color conversion layer has a function of converting light emitted by the first light-emitting element into light having a longer wavelength. A first image signal and a first correction signal are supplied to the first pixel. The first memory circuit has a function of retaining the first correction signal and a function of adding the first correction signal to the first image signal. The first pixel has a function of displaying an image using the first image signal and the first correction signal.
US12161004B2
Embodiments of an electroluminescent device are described. The electroluminescent device includes a substrate, a first electrode disposed on the substrate, a first transport layer disposed on the first electrode, an emission layer having luminescent nanostructures disposed on the first transport layer, a second transport layer having an organic layer, and a second electrode disposed on the second transport layer. A first portion of the organic layer is disposed on the emission layer and a second portion of the organic layer is disposed on the first transport layer.
US12161003B2
Discussed is an organic light emitting display device including an anode, a first emission part on the anode, and including a first hole transfer layer, a first emission layer, and a first electron transfer layer, a second emission part on the first emission part, and including a second hole transfer layer, a second emission layer, and a second electron transfer layer, and a cathode on the second emission part. At least one among the first emission part and the second emission part can include an emission control layer having an absolute value of a HOMO energy level which is larger than an absolute value of a HOMO energy level of the first hole transfer layer or the second hole transfer layer. A hole mobility of the emission control layer is 1.0×10−1 cm2/Vs to 1.0×10−2 cm2/Vs lower than a hole mobility of the first hole transfer layer or the second hole transfer layer.
US12160995B2
In some embodiments, the present disclosure relates to a memory device including a semiconductor substrate, a first electrode disposed over the semiconductor substrate, a ferroelectric layer disposed between the first electrode and the semiconductor substrate, and a first stressor layer separating the first electrode from the ferroelectric layer. The first stressor layer has a coefficient of thermal expansion greater than that of the ferroelectric layer.
US12160992B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate having a cell region and a connection region, a first stack structure with a plurality of first gate layers and a plurality of first interlayer insulating layers, and a second stack structure with a plurality of second gate layers and a plurality of second interlayer insulating layers. Each of the first gate layers includes a central portion in the cell region of the substrate and an end portion in the connection region of the substrate. Each of the second gate layers includes a central portion in the cell region of the substrate and an end portion in the connection region of the substrate. A thickness difference between the end and central portions of each first gate layer is different from a thickness difference between the end and central portions of each second gate layer.
US12160987B2
Embodiments provide a method for fabricating a memory and a memory. This method includes: providing a substrate, the substrate being internally provided with a plurality of active areas, and each of the plurality of active areas including a first contact region and a second contact region; forming a plurality of bit lines on the substrate, each of the plurality of bit lines being connected to at least one of the first contact regions; forming an isolation layer on each of the plurality of bit lines, the isolation layer covering each of the plurality of bit lines and the substrate, the isolation layer being further provided with a plurality of filling holes corresponding to the plurality of second contact regions one to one; etching the isolation layer and the substrate along the plurality of filling holes, to fill in the plurality of second contact regions.
US12160978B2
A liquid immersion cooling apparatus includes a box, a cover and a refrigeration device. The cover and the box form a closed space. The closed space includes a liquid storage space configured to accommodate a first coolant and at least one heat generating device and a gas storage space. The refrigeration device is located in the gas storage space. The refrigeration device includes a coiled tube, a liquid-cooled heat exchanger, and a cooling chip. The liquid-cooled heat exchanger is connected to the coiled tube to form a first circulation channel. The first circulation channel is configured to accommodate a second coolant. The cooling chip includes a hot end and a cold end, the cold end is thermally coupled to the liquid-cooled heat exchanger.
US12160966B2
A display apparatus and a control method thereof are provided. The display apparatus includes a display, a motor, a sensor, and a processor configured to receive a signal including information on acceleration of the display apparatus from the sensor while the display is rotated by the motor, identify the size of the acceleration of the display apparatus based on the information on the acceleration, and based on identifying that the display collided with an object based on the size of the acceleration of the display apparatus, control the motor to stop the rotation of the display.
US12160959B2
A bonded body includes a ceramic substrate and a copper plate, in which the copper plate is bonded to the ceramic substrate via a bonding layer, the copper plate includes a surface perpendicular to a direction in which the ceramic substrate and the copper plate are bonded, and a number percentage of copper crystal grains having major diameters greater than 400 μm in three 5 mm×5 mm regions included in the surface is not less than 0% and not more than 5%. The bonding temperature is favorably not more than 800° C. The number percentage of the copper crystal grains having major diameters greater than 400 μm is favorably not more than 1%.
US12160956B2
Inspection robots with independent, swappable, drive modules are described. An example inspection robot may have a center body with a plurality of power interfaces, a plurality of communication interfaces, and a plurality of cooling interfaces. The example inspection robot may have a plurality of drive modules, where each drive module is structured to be coupled to a power interface, a communication interface, and a cooling interface.
US12160953B2
A circuit board structure includes a carrier, a thin film redistribution layer disposed on the carrier, solder balls electrically connected to the thin film redistribution layer and the carrier, and a surface treatment layer. The thin film redistribution layer includes a first dielectric layer, pads, a first metal layer, a second dielectric layer, a second metal layer, and a third dielectric layer. A top surface of the first dielectric layer is higher than an upper surface of each pad. The first metal layer is disposed on a first surface of the first dielectric layer. The second dielectric layer has second openings exposing part of the first metal layer. The second metal layer extends into the second openings and is electrically connected to the first metal layer. The third dielectric layer has third openings exposing part of the second metal layer. The surface treatment layer is disposed on the upper surfaces.
US12160951B2
A flexible printed circuit board whose end part side is connected to a print element substrate capable of ejecting ink using a print element, so as to be capable of transmitting a signal from a control part of a printing apparatus to the print element substrate via wiring and to be capable of transmitting a signal from the print element substrate to the control part via the wiring, wherein a side part side of high-potential wiring includes at least one of a regulation part that regulates penetration of ink and a wiring part that is configured with low-potential ground wiring and low-potential liquid signal line whose signal value transmitted by the control part or operation based on a signal is monitored.
US12160940B2
A micro light emitting diode (LED) die can include a matrix of micro LEDs with a variety of forward voltages. A method of reducing a number of undriven or under driven uLEDs can include providing, by a power supply, an alternating current voltage (VLED) with a minimum voltage (VMIN) and a maximum voltage (VMAX), VMIN being sufficient to drive a plurality of micro light emitting diodes (uLEDs) of a uLED die using a plurality of uLED drivers, identifying, by a controller coupled to the uLED drivers, a uLED of the plurality of uLEDs with a forward voltage (Vf) greater than VMIN, and altering, by the controller, a time of a rising edge of a pulse width modulation (PWM)-on time of the uLED such that Vf of the uLED is less than VLED for the PWM-on time.
US12160938B2
A lamp including a light source including at least one string of light emitting diodes (LEDs) within a tube body; end caps having contacts on each end of the tube body; driver electronics within the tube body including a filament detector portion provided by a passive resistance capacitor (RC) circuit that simulates the filament load of a fluorescent lamp when installed into a ballast containing fixture; and a power level selector switch in communication with the driver electronics for selecting the power level for powering the light source.
US12160928B2
A method for determining support information includes: transmitting, by a first SIM in the multiple SIMS, information on n first network slices supported by the first SIM to a network-side device, during a process of establishing a connection by the first SIM with the network-side device, n≥1; receiving, by the first SIM, first support information of the network-side device for the n first network slices, from the network-side device; and transmitting, by the first SIM, the first support information to a second SIM in the multiple SIMs.
US12160922B2
The present application provides an intersecting procedure processing method, an intersecting procedure processing device, an apparatus and a storage medium. The method, applied to a master node, includes: receiving a secondary node procedure message sent by a secondary node; and determining a service processing procedure according to a scenario of a master node service, a scenario of the secondary node procedure and a preset priority of service scenarios, a handover scenario of the secondary node procedure is determined by the secondary node procedure message.
US12160919B2
Embodiments of this application provide a data service handover method and an apparatus. The method includes: a terminal device detects failure of a secondary cell group; and the terminal device starts a timer, and if a network device has not handed over to a master base station within a timing duration of the timer a data service transmitted by the secondary cell group, when the timer expires, the terminal device notifies the network device to hand over the data service to the master base station.
US12160913B2
Methods and apparatuses are described herein for multi-subscriber identification module (SIM) connected mode operation. In one embodiment, a wireless communications device may receive, from an access stratum interface, a request access to the receiver chain during a receiving opportunity. The wireless communications device may determine that the receiver chain is available during the receiving opportunity. The wireless communications device may send a response indicating access is granted to cause the access stratum interface to receive a downlink transmission during the receiving opportunity. The wireless communications device may receive, from the access stratum interface, a second request for a transmitter chain during a transmitting opportunity. The wireless communications device may determine that the transmitter chain is available during the transmitting opportunity. The wireless communications device may send a second response indicating access is granted to enable the access stratum interface to transmit an uplink transmission during the transmitting opportunity.
US12160911B2
A method of multi-hop relay chain formation in a wireless communication network includes discovering, via a remote electronic device, one or more other electronic devices in communication range of the remote electronic device; selecting one of the discovered electronic devices as an relay electronic device for communicating in the multi-hop relay chain; after selecting the relay electronic device, transmitting, via the remote electronic device, a request to establish a PC5 link; and establishing the PC5 link with the remote electronic device to join or form the multi-hop relay chain within the wireless communication network.
US12160908B2
This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-readable media, for priority access on a shared wireless channel. A priority station (STA), an access point (AP), or a network operator may activate a priority access service. The priority access service provides priority access to authorize priority STAs by allowing them to use more aggressive contention parameters for contention-based access of the wireless channel as compared to other STAs. In some implementations, non-priority STAs may be configured with weakened contention parameters to increase or ensure the likelihood that a priority STA will win contention for access to the wireless channel.
US12160906B2
The disclosure provides methods and devices for confirming the resource configuration of uplink signal transmission. The method includes receiving, from a base station (BS), a synchronization signal and physical broadcasting channel (PBCH) block (SSB); receiving, from the BS, information configuring a physical random access channel (PRACH) occasion; and transmitting, to the BS, an uplink signal on a resource set associated with the SSB.
US12160905B2
A method and a device for sending a random access message in a wireless communication network includes: sending a first random access message based on a first retransmission configuration in a two-step random access process, in which the first random access message includes a physical random access channel (PRACH) and a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH); and sending specified content based on a second retransmission configuration in response to meeting a condition of sending the specified content, in which the specified content is content of the first random access message in the PUSCH; the first retransmission configuration being different from the second retransmission configuration.
US12160902B2
A communication method and system for converging a fifth generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a fourth generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of things (IoT) are provided. The communication method and system may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. A method for performing a random access procedure in a wireless communication system is provided.
US12160900B2
The present disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for information transmission, the method including: transmitting a Physical Random Access Channel (PRACH) or a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) over an uplink narrow band to a wireless communication node, wherein the uplink narrow band is selected from a set of narrow bands based on a coverage level of each narrow band in the set of narrow bands; and receiving a downlink control channel or a Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) over a downlink narrow band corresponding to the uplink narrow band or an anchor carrier, wherein the set of narrow bands is configured by the wireless communication node.
US12160899B2
A system and method for random access configurations are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method performed by a wireless communication device, includes: obtaining measurement results by performing measurements on a plurality of signals transmitted by a wireless communication node; determining, based on at least one parameter for communication with a communication node: a plurality of random access channel (RACH) groups, and an association between at least one RACH group of the plurality of RACH groups and the measurement results, wherein the at least one parameter indicates a number of preambles in the at least one RACH group; determining a matching RACH group from the plurality of RACH groups based on the measurement results; and sending a message using at least one resource of the matching RACH group to the communication node.
US12160896B2
A UE may obtain an indication of a first subset of PRACH resources in a set of PRACH resources, the first subset of PRACH resources having a set of channel metrics that is greater than or equal to a first threshold value, select a first PRACH resource from the first subset of PRACH resources based on a first set of channel metrics of the first PRACH resource or a first RO associated with the first PRACH resource, and transmit a RACH message to a network node in the first RO. The UE may evaluate the multiple qualifying SSBs/CSI-RSs and select one SSB/CSI-RS among the qualifying SSBs/CSI-RSs based on a scheduling opportunity of the associated ROs and a power usage on the UE side.
US12160888B2
The present application provides a wireless communication method and apparatus, and a communication device. Said method comprises: a terminal device receiving first indication information sent by a network device, the first indication information indicating first channel access parameters, the first channel access parameters being used to transmit a first uplink channel, the first indication information being information carried in a first DCI, the first DCI being used to determine the transmission of the first uplink channel and a second uplink channel; the terminal device determining that at least part of the first channel access parameters is used to transmit the second uplink channel; or the terminal device determining that second channel access parameters are used to transmit the second uplink channel; or the terminal device determining not to transmit the second uplink channel. In the implementations of the present application, the terminal device may determine that at least some channel access parameters in the first uplink channel or the second channel access parameters transmit the second uplink channel, or determine not to transmit the second uplink channel, thereby ensuring fair sharing of resources on a shared channel.
US12160883B2
A mobile communication system capable of easily notifying the interference-related information and avoiding interference in a situation in which a macro cell and local nodes are deployed to coexist. In the system, a macro cell (eNB) notifies, via user equipments (UEs) present in a coverage, HeNBs present in the coverage of the interference-related information related to the interference to a physical resource to be used, for example, a high interference indication (HII) and an overload indicator (OI).
US12160882B2
Methods, systems, and devices are described for providing network access services to mobile users via multi-user network access terminals over a multi-beam satellite system. Quality-of-service (QoS) is controlled for the mobile devices at a per-user level according to user-specific traffic policies. Mobile users may be provisioned on the satellite system according to a set of traffic policies based on their service level agreement (SLA). System resources of the satellite may be allocated to mobile users based on the demand of each mobile user and the set of traffic polices associated with each mobile user, regardless of which multi-user network access terminal is used to access the system. Dynamic multiplexing of traffic from fixed terminals and mobile users on the same satellite beam can take advantage of statistical multiplexing of large numbers of users and on different usage patterns between fixed terminals and mobile users.
US12160867B2
Provided are a transport block (TB) scheduling method and device, a storage medium and an electronic device. The method includes: in the case that one DCI schedules multiple TBs, the sizes of the multiple TBs are indicated through a resource assignment field, an MCS field, offset value indicator information and NDI information of the DCI, wherein the NDI information is used for determining whether the multiple TBs are newly transmitted or retransmitted; or the sizes of the multiple TBs are indicated through the resource assignment field, the MCS field, and the offset value indicator information of the DCI; and the DCI is transmitted over a PDCCH.
US12160857B2
Aspects herein relate to wireless devices, circuits, and methods for indicating, by a wireless device, to a wireless station, an ability to support semi-persistent (SP) measurement gap (MG) configuration; receiving, from the wireless station, a SP MG configuration; receiving, from the wireless station, a message to activate the SP MG configuration; performing, in response to receiving the message to activate the SP MG configuration, a target carrier frequency measurement, wherein the target carrier frequency measurement is performed in accordance with the activated SP MG configuration; receiving from the wireless station, a message to deactivate the SP MG configuration; and discontinuing, in response to receiving the message to deactivate the SP MG configuration, the performance of the target carrier frequency measurement. In other aspects, the wireless device may indicate, to the wireless station, an ability to support aperiodic (AP) MG configuration, which does not require explicit deactivation by the wireless station.
US12160845B2
A vehicle-enabled user equipment (VUE) and related techniques are disclosed. In one aspect, the VUE issues a periodic broadcast, or signals a response to a requesting source, identifying its location management capability (LMC). The UE forms a link with a recipient VUE of the broadcast to perform joint localization of the pedestrian UE (PUE). Joint localization by VUE and another VUE may be performed by VUEs and PUEs in the region exchanging ranging signals and ego measurements. The VUE determines a location jointly of the PUE. The location can be determined upon a request, periodically, or in response to a triggered event.
US12160841B2
Methods and devices related to determining a propagation time of wireless transmissions between wireless communication devices are provided. A propagation time of wireless transmissions between a first wireless communication device and a second wireless communication device is determined. The determining is based on a roundtrip time of a wireless transmission exchange between the first wireless communication device and the second wireless communication device, a reply time of the wireless transmission exchange, and on the first time interval and the second time interval. The first time interval is a time interval between a first transmit event at the first wireless communication device and a second transmit event at the first wireless communication device. The second time interval is a time interval between a first receive event at the second wireless communication device and a second receive event at the second wireless communication device.
US12160840B2
In some examples, a source device categorizes a plurality of messages for transmission to a recipient device, the plurality of messages comprising vehicle-related information. Based on the categorizing, the source device identifies selected messages of the plurality of messages to be aggregated. The source device aggregates the selected messages into a single transmission from the source device to the recipient device.
US12160839B2
The embodiments are a method and a system for synchronizing data. The method includes: sending, by any remote control in at least two remote controls, a configuration message to an unmanned aerial vehicle, the configuration message carrying current configuration information of the any remote control; broadcasting, by the unmanned aerial vehicle, the received configuration message; and synchronously updating, by the at least two remote controls, current configuration information of the at least two remote controls according to the received broadcast configuration message. Therefore, in a scenario in which a plurality of remote controls interact with an unmanned aerial vehicle, information synchronization among the plurality of remote controls may be implemented in a simple communication manner without adding a hardware module.
US12160834B2
A communication device includes transmitting means for transmitting a signal in one or more frequency bands of a frequency channel including a plurality of frequency bands, identifying means for identifying occupancy of the plurality of frequency bands, and control means for controlling transmission power for transmitting the signal from the transmitting means, on the basis of an identification result obtained by the identifying means.
US12160833B2
A terminal according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes: a receiving section that receives configuration information on uplink transmission of one of a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) and a sounding reference signal (SRS), the configuration information not including spatial relation information and information on a reference signal for pathloss reference; and a control section that uses a reference signal in an active transmission control indication (TCI) state having a lowest ID with respect to a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) for pathloss calculation for the uplink transmission.
US12160829B2
A method includes obtaining a sleep-wake schedule associated with Wi-Fi communication of a Wi-Fi station (STA). The method also includes obtaining UWB-related information associated with ultra-wide band (UWB)-communication of a ranging capable device (RDEV). The method also includes determining a UWB ranging timeline based on a comparison of the sleep-wake schedule and the UWB-related information. The method also includes instructing the RDEV to use the UWB ranging timeline in a UWB ranging event.
US12160823B2
A method for transmitting a physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU) and a device using the same are provided. The device receives a trigger frame for requesting a transmission of a high efficiency (HE) trigger-based (TB) PPDU and transmits the HE TB PPDU. A duration of the HE TB PPDU is calculated based on a duration of the trigger frame.
US12160822B2
Provided in the present disclosure is an electronic device used for a network control terminal and a method used for the electronic device, and an electronic device used for a network node and a method used for the electronic device. The electronic device used for the network control terminal comprises: a processing circuit, configured to configure, for a relay link between the network node and one or more other network nodes, a SL-DRX for the network node and/or the one or more other network nodes and perform relay transmission between the network node and the one or more other network nodes on the basis of the configuration of the SL-DRX.
US12160816B2
Systems and methods for admitting new nodes into an existing network, for example a MoCA network. As a non-limiting example, various aspects of the present disclosure provide systems and methods for adding a new node to an existing network without requiring on-site manual configuration, for example utilizing communication between the new node and a network coordinator of the existing network prior to admission of the new node to the existing network.
US12160814B2
A method for authenticating an electronic device which receives an edge computing service from an authentication server of a mobile communication system, includes performing first authentication of the electronic device by an authentication and key agreement with the electronic device, when the first authentication is successful, providing first authentication information to the electronic device and performing second authentication for the edge computing service of the electronic device, and when the second authentication is successful, providing the electronic device with second authentication information which includes an access token for authentication of the edge computing service.
US12160808B2
A system, method and storage medium for operating a stealth mode of an emergency vehicle includes receiving input data including at least one of an input from an operator or one or more program input parameters; determining a data operation mode based on the received input data, wherein the data operation mode is one of a normal mode and one or more stealth modes; and generating a control signal based on the determined operation mode. When the data operation mode is one of the one or more stealth modes, the control signal is adapted to control a first device to suspend a transmission of at least one data group among candidate suspended data to at least one second device in communication with the first device.
US12160804B2
A vehicle broadcasts a lane change intent message indicating parameters of a maneuver to be performed by the vehicle operating as a main traffic participant vehicle, the maneuver requiring use of a road resource. Response messages are received from recipient vehicles indicating approval or disapproval of performance of the maneuver. Responsive to one of the recipient vehicles returning a response message indicating conflict with use of the road resource required for performance of the maneuver, a conflict resolution procedure is performed between the main traffic participant vehicle and the conflicted recipient vehicle, the conflict resolution procedure using a pre-agreed identical conflict resolution algorithm executed on each of the main traffic participant vehicle and the conflicted recipient vehicle to each make a same distributed decision whether to proceed with the maneuver.
US12160800B2
A device, system and method for managing talkgroups is provided. A computing device determines that a communication device is communicating with a talkgroup via a first communication network, the talkgroup dominated by other communication devices communicating on one or more second communication networks different from the first communication network. The computing device determines a level of activity of the communication device in the talkgroup via the first communication network. When the level of activity meets a threshold condition, the computing device: requests a confirmation from the communication device to cease communication with the talkgroup; and when the confirmation is received, drops the communication device from the talkgroup.
US12160798B2
A resource indication method and device, and a communication apparatus are provided. The method comprises: a distributed unit (DU) receiving first indication information sent by a centralized unit (CU), the first indication information indicating a location of a radio resource for multimedia broadcast multicast service (MBMS) data.
US12160789B2
Distributed antenna systems provide location information for client devices communicating with remote antenna units. The location information can be used to determine the location of the client devices relative to the remote antenna unit(s) with which the client devices are communicating. A location processing unit (LPU) includes a control system configured to receive uplink radio frequency (RF) signals communicated by client devices and determines the signal strengths of the uplink RF signals. The control system also determines which antenna unit is receiving uplink RF signals from the device having the greatest signal strength.
US12160788B2
A position estimation method for estimating a position of a mobile terminal includes: an acquisition step of acquiring distance values and radio wave intensity values between communication devices provided in a vehicle and the mobile terminal by communicating the communication devices with the mobile terminal; a communication availability determination step of determining that a corresponding communication device is communicable when the distance value is not more than a first value and the intensity value is not less than a second value; an area determination step of, based on a result of the communication availability determination step and communication maps mapping communicable ranges of the communication devices, determining an area where the mobile terminal exists by superimposing the communication maps; and an estimation step of estimating the position of the mobile terminal based on a result of the area determination step.
US12160783B2
Provided is a method for a user equipment. The method includes starting performing a handover (HO) with a target Primary Secondary Cell (PSCell) in response to receiving an HO command instructing the HO with the target PSCell, wherein the HO with the target PSCell comprises target PSCell addition/change, and performing the target PSCell addition/change in response to receiving a trigger message from a target Primary Cell (PCell) or sending a trigger message to the target PCell, wherein the trigger message is a message transmitted between the UE and the target PCell during the HO with the target PSCell.
US12160780B2
A UE in a wireless network determines whether it has been configured with carrier(s) to be used for secondary serving cell carriers in the wireless network. The UE performs, using a selected one of the carrier(s) as a selected secondary serving cell carrier, a request for a cell on the selected secondary serving cell carrier to become a secondary serving cell for the user equipment. The UE receives a response from the cell that the request to have the cell become the secondary serving cell for the user equipment was successful. The request is received on the carrier at a cell in the wireless network to have the cell become the secondary cell for the user equipment. The cell indicates to the UE that the request to have the cell become a secondary cell for the user equipment was successful.
US12160779B2
Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for a media device operating on a first network that can detect and switch media service to a second network to maintain access of a desired service quality. The media device can cause a presentation of the recommended second network, and receive a selection (e.g., user input) of the second network before the switch. The recommendation can be user-initiated or occur while accessing service without user initiation. The recommendation of the second network can be based on: a signal quality of the second network and/or the capabilities of the device providing the second network; a correlation of characteristics that indicate that stored credentials of a first network can be reused in another network; a security level of the first network; and/or platform capabilities of the media device.
US12160776B2
A base station transmits a rate recommendation to a first user equipment (UE) device. The rate recommendation is to be used for a Voice over Long-Term Evolution (VoLTE) call between the first UE device and a second UE device. In some instances, the first UE device and the second UE device negotiate the rate to be used for the VoLTE call, based on the rate recommended by the base station. If the negotiated rate is supported by the base station and/or matches a supported codec rate, the UE devices implement the rate and provide rate feedback to the base station.
US12160775B2
Provided are apparatuses and methods for identifying network slices in a transport network. In an embodiment, the apparatus is configured to receive a slice creation request to create a network slice. The slice creation request includes a global identifier corresponding to the network slice. The apparatus is further configured to search a transport slice mapping database for the global identifier. The apparatus is further configured to generate a transport slice identifier corresponding to the network slice. The apparatus is further configured to add a mapping entry to the transport slice mapping database mapping the global identifier to the transport slice identifier. The apparatus is further configured to add another mapping entry to a transport slice path mapping database mapping the transport slice identifier to a network path assigned to the network slice. The apparatus is further configured to publish the mapping entries to a performance monitoring system.
US12160767B2
Various arrangements for performing cellular network slice assignment are detailed herein. A cellular network can be used to provide cellular network service to user equipment (UE) using a first slice of the cellular network. The cellular network can receive from the UE a request to transition to a different slice of the cellular network that provides a quality of service (QoS) parameter that is greater than the QoS on an original slice. The cellular network can determine that the UE is eligible to be moved to the different slice based on a location of the UE. Based on receiving the request to transition and the location of the UE, the UE can be reassigned to the different slice of the cellular network.
US12160750B2
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing dynamic, prioritized spectrum utilization management. The system includes at least one monitoring sensor, at least one data analysis engine, at least one application, a semantic engine, a programmable rules and policy editor, a tip and cue server, and/or a control panel. The tip and cue server is operable utilize the environmental awareness from the data processed by the at least one data analysis engine in combination with additional information to create actionable data.
US12160740B2
It is an object to provide a core network device that can satisfy security requirements required for respective network slices. A core network device (10) according to the present disclosure includes a storage unit (11) configured to store a security parameter associated with a network slice allowing a communication terminal. The core network device (10) further includes a communication unit (12) configured to transmit identification information on the network slice, and identification information on the security parameter to the communication terminal.
US12160737B2
In general, techniques are described by which to perform secure fine time measurement for wireless communication protocols. An initiating station comprising wireless communication circuitry may be configured to perform the techniques. The wireless communication circuitry may be configured to receive, in accordance with a wireless networking protocol for communicating between the initiating station and a responding station, a first fine time measurement specifying a first time. The wireless communication circuitry may also be configured to receive, in accordance with the wireless networking protocol and for the corresponding first time, a first message integrity code. The wireless communication circuitry may next be configured to authenticate, based on the first message integrity code, the responding station to establish that the fine time measurement is from a trusted responding station.
US12160736B2
A communication device may obtain second security information in a case where a first instruction for establishing a second wireless connection with a second parent station is accepted under a state where a first wireless connection with a first parent station is established, and determine whether a second security level indicated by the second security information is lower than a first security level indicated by first security information in a memory. The communication device may execute at least one process of a notification process or an acceptance process in a case where it is determined that the second security level is lower than the first security level and establish the second wireless connection with the second parent station without executing the at least one process in a case where it is determined that the second security level is not lower than the first security level.
US12160733B2
A power saving method for lower-power devices is disclosed. Unencrypted IoT packets are received from low-power sensors. An identity of a mobile device is registered and public keys are exchanged between an MQTT agent and the mobile device. An advanced encryption standard (AES) key is generated according to public and private keys of the MQTT agent and a public key of the mobile device and received IoT packets are encrypted using the AES key. The encrypted IoT packets are transmitted to an MQTT broker. The MQTT broker forward the encrypted IoT packets to the mobile device. The mobile device exchanges the AES key with the electronic device according to its own public key through the secure shell (SSH) mechanism. The mobile device decrypts the IoT packets through the AES key.
US12160730B2
Presented herein are techniques to facilitate wireless wide area (WWA) virtualized Radio Access Network (vRAN) (e.g., 5G) to wireless local area (WLA) RAN (e.g., Wi-Fi) steering or WLA RAN to WWA vRAN steering for one or more UE. In one example, a method may include obtaining first performance metrics associated with links of a WWA vRAN (e.g., fronthaul, midhaul, and backhaul links); obtaining second performance metrics associated with links WLA RAN (e.g., backhaul links); and in response to determining that one of the WWA vRAN is experiencing degraded performance based on the first performance metrics or the WLA RAN the second performance metrics, activating a steering event that causes, at least in part, an indication to be communicated to a UE to cause the UE to connect to the WWA vRAN or the WLA RAN that is not experiencing degraded performance.
US12160727B2
A sound management system for a multimedia display apparatus includes: a first audio device built in a display apparatus to provide first audio, a second audio device separated from the display apparatus to provide second audio, a portable device separated from both the display and the second audio device, optionally being moved to the first or second position to receive and analyze either a first sound field at a first position or a second sound field at a second positions respectively formed by the first audio and the second audio, and a controller used to notify the first and/or second audio devices to adjust the first and/or second audio according to the analysis to synthesize either a first adjusted sound field at the first position or a second adjusted sound field at the second position with sound characteristics similar to that of a target sound audio.
US12160723B2
The present invention provides a coaxial speaker including a frame, a magnetic circuit system, a first vibration system and a second vibration system. The magnetic circuit system includes a magnetic bowl having a side wall, a top wall, a first magnet assembly and a second magnet assembly. The first vibration system includes a first diaphragm and a first voice coil assembly. The second vibration system includes a second diaphragm and a second voice coil assembly, and the second voice coil assembly is at least partially inserted into the second magnetic gap. The coaxial speaker is arranged with strong performance, simple structure and low cost.
US12160713B2
A system and method for performing sound quality testing of audio equipment in a conference room, the method comprising: determining, at a time t1, in a conference room with a set of audio video equipment, the set of audio equipment comprising one or more loudspeakers, one or more microphones, and audio signal processing equipment that includes at least an acoustic echo cancellation function, an initial audio performance level (IAPL) with the acoustic echo cancellation function turned off, and storing the same; determining, at a second time t2, following the first point in time t1, a current audio performance level (CAPL) with the acoustic echo cancellation function turned off, and storing the same; comparing the CAPL to the IAPL; and determining if the audio equipment in the conference room passes or fails the sound quality test based on the comparison of the CAPL to the IAPL.
US12160711B2
A component of a bone conduction device, including a housing and a piezoelectric bender located in the housing, wherein the component is configured to limit bending of the piezoelectric bender relative to that which would otherwise be the case in the absence of the limits via application of a stopping force at a centralized location of an assembly of which the bender is a part.
US12160709B2
An exemplary system includes a memory storing instructions and one or more processors communicatively coupled to the memory and configured to execute the instructions to perform a process comprising: accessing fitting data representative of fitting parameters set by a fitting application to fit a hearing device to a user; determining user behavior data indicative of a hearing intention of the user in an auditory scene where the user is located; determining auditory scene data representative of information about the auditory scene; and implementing, based on the fitting data, the user behavior data, and the auditory scene data, a sound processing delay scheme for use by the hearing device.
US12160701B2
A dual structure thermoplastic elastomer (TPE) eartip having a wax guard, which is an eartip mounted on one side of an earphone and inserted into an external auditory meatus of a wearer to stably fix the position of the earphone including a core portion formed in a hollow cylindrical structure corresponding to an outer circumferential surface of one end of the earphone and configured with a TPE material having a first hardness value; a wax guard portion formed in a plate-type structure integrally formed with an upper end of the core portion and having a plurality of through-holes formed therein and configured with the same material having the same hardness value as the core portion; and a flange portion formed in a structure continuously forming a curved structure sideward and downward in a radial shape after extending a predetermined height upward from the upper end of the core portion.
US12160695B1
A magnetic modular audio device includes a plurality of magnetic modular audio units. A speaker is provided on a front side of the audio unit, and a diaphragm is provided on a back side thereof. A top surface of the audio unit is provided with a connection contact and a bottom surface of the audio unit is provided with an elastic contact pin corresponding to the connection contact. A plurality of the audio units can be stacked with each other with the connection contact(s) of one of two adjacent layers of the audio unit(s) in contact with the elastic contact pin(s) of the other layer of the audio unit(s) to form a circuit and signal connection between the audio units. The plurality of audio units can be easily combined and can each produce sound simultaneously.
US12160691B2
Technologies pertaining to accounting for pulse history effects are described herein. In connection with accounting for pulse history effects, an amount of time between a first current pulse and a second current pulse that are to be transmitted to a pulsed laser is determined. Based upon such an amount of time, a determination is made as to whether a porch pulse is to be prepended to the second current pulse. When the porch pulse is to be prepended to the second current pulse, an amplitude and duration of the porch pulse are computed based upon the amount of time. The porch pulse is transmitted to the pulsed laser immediately followed by the second current pulse, wherein the porch pulse pre-charges the pulsed laser for emitting a pulse of light based upon the second current pulse.
US12160672B2
A head-mounted display device includes a main body, a first sensor and a second sensor. The first sensor is disposed on a first setting area of the main body. The second sensor is disposed on a second setting area of the main body. The first setting area and the second setting area respectively have a first central point and a second central point, where the first central point and the second central point are disposed on a horizontal axis. There is a first angle between a connection line of the first central point and the first sensor with the horizontal axis, and there is a second angle between a connection line of the second central point and the second sensor with the horizontal axis, where the first angle is different from the second angle.
US12160669B2
Disclosed are an image capture scene recognition control method and apparatus and an image capture device. The method comprises the following steps: obtaining a preview image of a current image capture scene collected by an image capture device; extracting a brightness component of the preview image, and obtaining brightness component information of the preview image; obtaining a distribution estimation of the brightness component information and a desired ideal brightness distribution; determining the relative entropy between the distribution estimation of the brightness component information and the desired ideal brightness distribution; according to the relative entropy, determining whether the current image capture scene is a shaded image capture scene; when determined that the current image capture scene is a shaded image capture scene, controlling the image capture device such that the light source of the image capture device compensates the light source in the shaded image capture scene.
US12160656B2
An image capturing apparatus includes an operation member that receives an operation from a user, an image capturing unit including a first function of performing still image capturing when a first operation on the operation member is received, a second function of starting moving image recording when a second operation on the operation member is received, and a third function of automatically starting moving image recording, and a control unit configured to, when the first operation is received via the operation member while the third function is performed, perform control to stop the moving image recording by the third function and perform the still image capturing by the first function, and when the first operation is received via the operation member while the second function is performed, perform control to stop the moving image recording by the second function and not perform the still image capturing by the first function.
US12160650B2
The present disclosure relates to a sensor package, a method of manufacturing the same, and an imaging device that can achieve downsizing and height reduction and suppress occurrence of a flare. A sensor package includes: a solid-state imaging element that generates a pixel signal by photoelectric conversion in accordance with a light amount of incident light; a circuit board electrically connected to the solid-state imaging element; a sensor package substrate that is arranged on an incident light side of the solid-state imaging element and brings the solid-state imaging element into a sealed state; and a lens formed on a lower surface of the sensor package substrate, the lower surface being located on a side of the solid-state imaging element. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, the imaging device or the like.
US12160642B2
Technologies for presenting an advertisement on a media consumption device includes receiving a request to seek past a commercial included in media content played on the media consumption device, determining an advertisement based on the commercial, and presenting the advertisement to a user of the media consumption device during performance of the requested seek function. The advertisement may be, for example, an extracted frame or image of the commercial and may include a logo or phrase associated with a product or service advertised in the commercial. Similar technologies related to a media content distribution system are also disclosed.
US12160640B2
Systems and methods for dynamically skipping a presentation of a portion of frames to catch up to live based on a user selection is disclosed herein. For example, a streaming application generates a content item for live streaming where the content item comprises a plurality of frames. In response to determining that playing of the content item lags behind the live streaming of the content item, the streaming application presents a selectable option for a user input where the option comprises (a) catch up to live in a particular time period. In response to receiving the user input via a corresponding option to (a) catch up to live in the particular time period, the streaming application skips a presentation of a portion of the plurality of frames, such that the playing of the content item catches up to live in the particular time period.
US12160637B2
User information can be determined based on a user input received from a user, a user profile about the user, and a profile of a user community including the user. Metadata associated with a media content can indicate a first portion of the media content to be of a first content category, and a second portion of the media content to be of a second content category different from the first content category. The media content can include an audio stream and a video stream, and the first content category or the second content category can be determined based on the audio stream or the video stream of the media content. Based on the metadata and the user information, a first action can be performed for playing the first portion of the media content and a second action can be performed for playing the second portion of the media content.
US12160627B2
A method for playing multimedia content between devices includes a first device that receives first playback information from a second device, where the first playback information corresponds to first multimedia content played by the second device, and the first device and the second device are located in the same wireless network. The first device displays a first playback control card corresponding to the first multimedia content, where the first playback control card includes a first control and a second control, and the second control controls playback of the first multimedia content. In response to a first user input performed on the first control, the first device obtains the first multimedia content from a server based on the first playback information, and takes over the playing of the first multimedia content based on the first playback information.
US12160617B2
According to embodiments of the present document, information for performing in-loop filtering by crossing virtual boundaries can be efficiently signaled. In one embodiment, the value of a virtual boundary-related flag signaled through a picture header can be determined on the basis of the value of a virtual boundary-related flag signaled through an SPS.
US12160612B2
An image decoding method according to the present document may comprise: a step of deriving transform coefficients for a current block by performing inverse quantization on the basis of residual information; and a step of deriving modified transform coefficients by applying LFNST to the transform coefficients, wherein the step of deriving the transform coefficients comprises a step of parsing position information of a last non-zero transform coefficient, an LFNST index related to application of the LFNST is parsed after parsing a position of the last non-zero transform coefficient, and the transform coefficients are derived after parsing the LFNST index.
US12160608B2
An information processing apparatus, information processing method, reproduction processing apparatus, and reproduction processing method, capable of providing a viewing experience that meets the viewer's requests. An encoding unit encodes point cloud data in such a way as to have a phased hierarchical structure corresponding to a level of detail (LoD) indicating a level of quality to generate a bitstream being constituted of a data region including one or more geometry slices. A metadata generation unit generates partial slice-specific information being used for specifying a correspondence of the LoD to a partial slice used as a partial region corresponding to the LoD in the geometry slice. A file creation unit creates a file including the partial slice-specific information.
US12160606B2
An apparatus for block-wise decoding a picture from a data stream and/or encoding a picture into a data stream, the apparatus supporting at least one intra-prediction mode according to which the intra-prediction signal for a block of a predetermined size of the picture is determined by applying a first template of samples which neighbours the current block onto a neural network. The apparatus may be configured, for a current block differing from the predetermined size, to: resample a second template of samples neighboring the current block, so as to conform with the first template so as to obtain a resampled template; apply the resampled template of samples onto the neural network so as to obtain a preliminary intra-prediction signal; and resample the preliminary intra-prediction signal so as to conform with the current block so as to obtain the intra-prediction signal for the current block.
US12160600B2
An image decoder has circuitry coupled to a memory. The circuitry splits a current image block into a plurality of partitions. The circuitry predicts a first motion vector from a set of uni-prediction motion vector candidates for a first partition of the plurality of partitions, and decodes the first partition using the first motion vector.
US12160594B2
This application provides a method and apparatus for processing non-sequential point cloud media, a device, and a storage medium. The method includes: processing non-sequential point cloud data of a static object using a Geometry-based Point Cloud Compression (GPCC) coding scheme to obtain a GPCC bitstream; encapsulating the GPCC bitstream to generate an item of at least one GPCC region; encapsulating the item of the at least one GPCC region to generate at least one piece of non-sequential point cloud media of the static object; transmitting media presentation description (MPD) signaling of the at least one piece of non-sequential point cloud media; receiving a first request message transmitted by a video playback device; and transmitting first non-sequential point cloud media, the item of the GPCC region being used to represent a GPCC component of a three-dimensional (3D) spatial region corresponding to the GPCC region, and the non-sequential point cloud media including: an identifier of the static object, so that a user can purposefully request non-sequential point cloud media of a same static object a plurality of times, thereby improving the user experience.
US12160591B2
A method, apparatus and a non-transitory computer readable medium are provided for receiving an input picture divided into a plurality of coding units (CUs) and comprising a virtual boundaries between a dirty area and a clean area of the input picture, each CU located within either the clean area or the dirty area. The virtual boundary is treated as a picture boundary for coding units within the clean area and as a non-boundary for coding units within the dirty area. For a current CU, a history-based motion vector prediction (HMVP) table can be prepared that identifies other CUs as HMVP candidates for inter prediction, the HMVP candidates being adjacent the current CU. The HMVP candidate CUs are limited to CUs previously coded in the clean area. The current CU can be intra coded based at least upon the HMVP candidates from the HMVP table.
US12160585B2
Embodiments of this disclosure provide a data processing method and apparatus. The method includes: acquiring M candidate quantized state chains of a transform block in multimedia data; acquiring N syntax elements corresponding to a transform coefficient i in the transform block, and acquiring fixed probability models respectively corresponding to K syntax elements; performing context modeling for (N-K) syntax elements according to adjacent coding coefficients of the transform coefficient i, to obtain target probability models respectively corresponding to the (N-K) syntax elements; determining a coefficient rate distortion cost of the transform coefficient i according to the fixed probability models, the target probability models, and a quantization reconstruction value of the transform coefficient i; and determining path rate distortion costs respectively corresponding to the M candidate quantized state chains according to a coefficient rate distortion cost of each transform coefficient.
US12160582B2
Systems and methods are described for refining motion compensated predictions in block-based video coding. In an example embodiment, motion-compensated prediction is used to generate predicted sample values in a current block of samples. A precision difference value and a motion vector refinement for the current block are signaled in the bitstream. For each sample in the current block, a spatial gradient is calculated at the sample, and a scalar product is calculated between the spatial gradient and the motion vector refinement. The scalar product is scaled (e.g. bit-shifted) by an amount indicated by the precision difference value to generate a sample difference value, and the sample difference value is added to the predicted sample value to generate a refined sample value.
US12160577B2
Decoding and/or encoding video information included in a bitstream can involve a predicted quantization matrix associated with at least a portion of the video information and a syntax element indicating that at least one coefficient of the predicted quantization matrix is to be interpreted as a residual such that the decoding and/or encoding of at least a portion of the video information is based on a combination of the predicted quantization matrix and the residual, where the syntax element is obtained from the bitstream during decoding, or included in the bitstream during encoding.
US12160574B2
A video coder may be configured to determine a partitioning for a block of video data using geometric partitioning mode; construct two uni-prediction motion vector candidate lists for the block of video data, and code the block of video data using uni-prediction based on at least one of the two uni-prediction motion vector candidate lists to generate a decoded block of video data.
US12160573B2
Intra block copy with triangular partitions is described. One example method includes determining for a conversion between a block of a video and a bitstream representation of the block, that at least one of intra block copy (IBC) mode, intra mode, inter mode and palette mode is applied to multiple sub-regions of the block, wherein the block is split into two or multiple triangular or wedgelet sub-regions; and performing the conversion based on the determination.
US12160570B2
An image encoding/decoding method is disclosed. An image decoding method of the present invention may comprise deriving an intra-prediction mode of a current block by using an intra-prediction mode of a neighbor block adjacent to the current block, configuring a reference sample of the current block, and performing intra-prediction on the current block by using the intra-prediction mode and the reference sample, wherein when the intra-prediction mode of the neighbor block is unavailable, the intra-prediction mode of the neighbor block may be replaced with a planar mode.
US12160564B2
Prediction information of a current block in a current picture is decoded from a coded video bitstream, where the prediction information indicates that the current block is to be predicted based on an affine model. A plurality of affine motion parameters of the affine model is derived via affine bilateral matching in which the affine model is derived based on reference blocks in a first reference picture and a second reference picture of the current picture. The plurality of affine motion parameters is not included in the coded video bitstream. Control point motion vectors of the affine model are determined based on the derived plurality of affine motion parameters. The current block is reconstructed based on the derived affine model.
US12160563B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide a method and an apparatus for video coding. In some examples, the apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry determines, for a current block in a current picture, motion information including a first motion vector (MV) that has a x component and a y component. Each of the x and y components has a fractional MV precision that is 2−N of a sample size in the current block and has one of 2L+1 MV values with the fractional MV precision, N being 4 and indicating the fractional MV precision, and a magnitude of the first MV being represented by L bits. At least one sample of the current block is encoded based on the motion information.
US12160556B2
There is provided an information processing device, an information processing method, a program, and an information processing system capable of providing a user who views a free viewpoint moving image with better user experience. The information processing device of the present technology includes: a transmission unit that transmits a moving image; and a control unit that controls the transmission unit to transmit a free viewpoint moving image or a real camera viewpoint moving image on the basis of a result of determination on whether or not the free viewpoint moving image has been successfully generated, the free viewpoint moving image being a moving image generated by using a plurality of camera moving images generated by imaging a subject by using a plurality of cameras and viewed from an arbitrary position and direction, the real camera viewpoint moving image being a moving image generated from a camera moving image generated by imaging the subject by using a camera and viewed from a position and direction of the camera. The present technology is applicable to a real-time volumetric system that transmits a free viewpoint moving image in real time.
US12160554B2
A color image forming apparatus includes a controller implemented using one or more hardware processors, wherein the controller: detects a line area; detects a background area adjacent to the line area; detects first one or more ink colors of first one or more inks to be used in the line area; detects second one or more ink colors of second one or more inks to be used in the background area; compares the first one or more ink colors and the second one or more ink colors to identify a combination pattern of the first one or more ink colors and the second one or more ink colors; and determines whether to correct amounts of the first one or more inks and amounts of the second one or more inks, based on the identified combination pattern.
US12160553B2
A printing device is provided with a print head having a plurality of nozzles configured to eject ink droplets therefrom, a supplier configured to supply ink contained in a container to the print head, and a controller. The controller is configured to perform obtaining ink information having correlation with a height of a liquid surface of the ink contained in the container, obtaining subject image data representing an image to be printed, generating print data based on the subject image data, and causing the print head to eject ink droplets based on the print data. The generating includes adjusting the print data in accordance with the ink information.
US12160552B2
A computer-readable storage medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute a control method of an information processing apparatus includes acquiring first sheet information registered in a first sheet storage unit of a first image forming apparatus and second sheet information registered in a second sheet storage unit of a second image forming apparatus, and displaying, on a display unit in an identifiable manner, that the first sheet information acquired is sheet information registered in the first sheet storage unit and that the second sheet information acquired is sheet information registered in the second sheet storage unit.
US12160541B2
An anti-communications fraud apparatus includes: an analysis unit that analyzes a voiceprint of a communication voice of a calling party; a determination unit that acquires, from a database in which the voiceprint and a degree of fraud risk are stored in association with each other, the degree of fraud risk corresponding to the voiceprint of the calling party, and determines whether the degree of fraud risk exceeds a predetermined threshold; and a notification unit that notifies that the calling party is dangerous when the degree of fraud risk exceeds the threshold.
US12160540B1
An electronic device, method, and computer program product expedite authentication of a user by capturing a palmprint, without necessarily requiring a dedicated user action. The electronic device monitors for detection of an image via a palmprint scanner, positioned by a translation mechanism, in response to identifying a requirement to authenticate the user. The translation mechanism slides a blade assembly relative to the device housing between extended and retracted positions. The blade assembly includes a blade, a flexible display, and the palmprint scanner sized to cover at least a portion of a back side of the device housing for receiving the palmprint while the blade assembly is at least in the retracted position. The electronic device authenticates the user in response to identifying a palmprint in the image corresponding to an authorized user and presents visual content via the flexible display positioned on a front side of the display housing.
US12160536B2
A method includes: when it is determined that a user's gesture of moving an electronic device is a preset gesture, obtaining a capacitance measurement value sensed at a contact in a preset area of the touchscreen, where the preset area is located in a peripheral edge area of the touchscreen; and when the obtained capacitance measurement value meets a first preset condition, controlling display status switching of the touchscreen.
US12160535B2
A protective case for foldable mobile devices is described. The folding case comprises a first case and a second case, wherein the folding case further comprises a side cover which rotates by an elastic part as the foldable mobile device is folded or unfolded, and provides a full protection for the entire foldable mobile device including each corner of its hinge part. The folding case according to the present invention covers the hinge part smoothly without any unfavorable space or gap, and it provides the satisfaction with the use and the beauty of the overall appearance as the users would conceive that the two separated case parts and the hinge part operates as if those parts form one united case.
US12160534B2
Disclosed herein is a social media platform profile identification and social discovery feature. Disclosed social media networks enable introduction of users that may not otherwise know one another based on commonality between those users. Social media profiles are identified by digital objects instead of or in addition to more traditional indexing methods such as real names or screen names. Social discovery on a social network is performed via matching to similar behavior profiles in activity monitored by a block explorer. Machine learning models categorize behavior patterns observed by the block explorer into a machine recognized glossary. Social networks further recommend actions by users based on the monitored online behaviors of social connections.
US12160532B2
A method for creating and maintaining immutability, agreement and availability of data including the steps of building an alternating structure of blocks and timestamp attestations; determining an order of blocks; determining which of the blocks are on a main chain; and using a trusted replication service to replicate all of the blocks, timestamp attestations, sequence attestations, and leaves of the Merkle trees. A computer program product comprising a storage device storing instructions in a non-transitory manner, which instructions cause the computing device to create and maintain immutability, agreement and availability of data according to the foregoing method. A computing device comprising a processing unit, memory or other storage device coupled to the processing unit, the memory or other storage device storage instructions, which cause the computing device to create and maintain immutability, agreement and availability of data according to the foregoing method.
US12160526B2
An electronic apparatus including a memory, a communication interface, and a processor configured to store, in the memory, a first certificate including first certification information and a first electronic signature corresponding to the first certification information received from a first server based on an application data request, and store a second certificate including second certification information and a second electronic signature corresponding to the second certification information received from a second server. The processor obtains first hash data by decrypting the first electronic signature using a public key of the second server included in the second certification information, and second hash data by converting the first certification information. verifies the first server based on the first hash data and the second hash data, and controls, based on a the first server being verified, the communication interface to transmit a request signal for the application data to the first server.
US12160522B2
The present disclosure relates to a system and method for providing secure access to an asset, for example, in the form of a cryptographic key needed to perform cryptographic operations, such as signing transactions of digital assets. The system makes use of three interrelated data objects; a policy object that defines access control rules, one or more online vault objects that are linked to the policy object, and one or more assets that are linked to one of the vault objects. The policy object and the assets are all created in a cold storage environment, with their integrity being protected using a key-based cryptographic technique. The vault object is created in an online environment, wherein a cryptographic hash is used to generate a vault ID, with specific data fields within the vault object being used as inputs to the hash function.
US12160516B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for securely communicating sensitive data (e.g., interaction data) during a process for offline authentication. A data packet may be received by an access device from a user device in a one-way communication. The data packet may be converted to obtain interaction data comprising a digital certificate certified by the certificate authority and a digital signature value generated by the user device. A second public key associated with the user device may be obtained utilizing the digital certificate and the first public key associated with the certificate authority. The validity of the interaction data may be determined based at least in part on the digital signature value and the second public key associated with the user device. When the interaction data is determined to be valid, an identifier of the interaction data may be authorized and access may be provided based on this authorization.
US12160512B2
A testing method for verifying keys uses a dataset of integers, the dataset being previously split into subsets of the integers, each subset of the integers having a product data structure for a product of the integers in the subset. Each ordered pair of subsets in the dataset has a remainder data structure for factors of the integers in the subsets of the ordered pair. The method includes creating a subset including integers to be added to the dataset of integers, and generating a product data structure for the created subset, the product data structure based on computing a product of the integers in the created subset. The method also includes identifying distinct ordered pairs of subsets, each distinct ordered pair of subsets including a subset from the dataset and the created subset.
US12160508B2
A system and related methods that generate encryption keys using two inputs. The first input is random data measured or supplied at the time the encryption keys are created. The second input is predetermined data held by the server and device. Given knowledge of the predetermined data and the random data, the UxS will be able to regenerate its previous encryption keys and also to re-establish communication by the server and device.
US12160507B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for securely publishing and accessing a media's premium content. Methods include a media that comprises premium content encrypted with a first cryptographic key. The media also comprises data structures that include this key and the access entitlements. These data structures are encrypted using the key for each entity that can authorize user access to the media. Methods further include verifying user access to the media and then providing the decrypted premium content. Methods include decrypting the data structure using the authorizing entity's key and providing the first cryptographic key in the decrypted data structure to the client device, after verifying that the user has the appropriate access entitlements for the media. Methods include decrypting the premium content using the first cryptographic key and then displaying the media, including the decrypted premium content, on the client device.
US12160504B2
A plurality of public encryption keys are distributed to a plurality of participants in a federated learning system, and a first plurality of responses is received from the plurality of participants, where each respective response of the first plurality of responses was generated based on training data local to a respective participant of the plurality of participants and is encrypted using a respective public encryption key of the plurality of public encryption keys. A first aggregation vector is generated based on the first plurality of responses, and a first private encryption key is retrieved using the first aggregation vector. An aggregated model is then generated based on the first private encryption key and the first plurality of responses.
US12160501B2
A cryptographic system includes a block transfer engine and a crypto map unit. The block transfer engine is configured to receive a plurality of encrypted counter values and a plurality of packet attributes. The block transfer engine is further configured to determine a subset of encrypted counter values from the plurality of counter values that is to be used to encrypt a subset of incoming packets from a plurality of incoming packets. Encrypted counter values other than the subset of encrypted counter values are stored for later encryption use. The crypto map unit is configured to receive the plurality of incoming packets and the subset of encrypted counter values from the block transfer engine. The crypto map unit is further configured to encrypt the subset of incoming packets from the received plurality of incoming packets with the subset of encrypted counter values.
US12160497B2
A clock generator circuit may include a multiplex circuit and a phase-locked loop circuit. The multiplex circuit may generate a reference clock signal for the phase-locked loop circuit by selecting one of different clock signals. In response to a switch of the reference clock signal from one clock signal to another, the phase-locked loop circuit may disable phase-locking and enter into a frequency acquisition mode during which the frequency of the phase-locked loop circuit's output clock signal is adjusted based on the frequency of the newly selected reference clock signal. After a period of time has elapsed, the phase-locked loop circuit returns to phase-locking operation.
US12160496B2
A signal transmission device includes a first pulse transmitting circuit configured to generate a first transmission pulse signal in synchronization with one of a rising edge and a falling edge of a first reference clock signal, a first pulse receiving circuit configured to receive a first reception pulse signal and generate a second reference clock signal, a first insulation communication circuit configured to transmit the first transmission pulse signal as the first reception pulse signal while insulating between the first pulse transmitting circuit and the first pulse receiving circuit, and a drive clock signal generating circuit configured to generate a drive clock signal having a predetermined oscillation frequency and a predetermined duty or a predetermined pulse width in synchronization with the second reference clock signal.
US12160488B2
In an example, a proxy server includes a proxy callback interface supporting a plurality of webhook channels, each channel of the plurality of webhook channels being identified by a respective webhook channel address. The proxy callback interface receives a webhook call, the webhook call including a specific webhook channel address identifying a specific webhook channel, and payload callback data. The proxy server also includes a database interface to store a callback record that includes the payload callback data in a proxy server database. The proxy server also includes a query interface to receive a callback query, the callback query identifying the specific webhook channel address. The query interface further identifies a plurality of callback records, associated with the specific webhook channel address, that were stored within the proxy server database subsequent to receipt of a previously-received callback query, and returns the plurality of callback records, responsive to the callback query.
US12160476B2
Embodiments of this application provide a data sharing method and apparatus applied between vehicles, a medium, and an electronic device. The data sharing method applied between vehicles includes: obtaining communication quality of a data sharing link between a first vehicle and a second vehicle; selecting, according to the communication quality, a sensor data level that matches the communication quality, the sensor data level being determined by a first parameter in at least one of the following dimensions of sensor data: quality of the sensor data and quantity of the sensor data; and sharing, according to the selected sensor data level by using the data sharing link, sensor data corresponding to the sensor data level with the second vehicle.
US12160475B2
A response communication that includes one or more data packets is received at a broker associated with a storage node of a plurality of storage nodes via a virtual network associated with the plurality of storage nodes of a storage system. The one or more data packets are provided, via the virtual network associated with the storage nodes, to a tenant communication component associated with an intended destination. A connection between the broker and the tenant communication component associated with the intended destination is terminated. A new connection between the intended destination and the tenant communication component associated with the intended destination is established. The new connection is associated with a virtual network associated with a storage tenant. The one or more data packets are sent to the intended destination via the virtual network associated with the storage tenant.
US12160469B2
Systems and methods for a unified approach that is compatible with all blockchains, protocols, etc. The systems and methods use a bifurcated indexing system with a dynamically selected application service. The systems and methods bifurcate the indexing process into a storage layer and a compute layer.
US12160466B2
The present invention provides a FiWi network load balancing method and system based on edge computing. The method includes the following steps: establishing a path protection (PP) scheme; establishing a server protection (SP) scheme; and establishing a load balancing protection (LBP) scheme: when protection is provided for a user service, separately calculating and comparing network resource utilizations when the PP scheme and the SP scheme are performed for the service, and selecting a scheme with the lower network resource utilization to provide a service to the user service. The present invention can effectively restore a MEC service and reduce both a maximum MEC server load and consumption of protection bandwidth resources in a network, thereby implementing a balance between a resource load of a server and a traffic load of an optical fiber link.
US12160464B2
A system and method that supports an integrated user interface experience with third party hosted applications selected and installed by a user within a user-installed native application of a user communication device.
US12160454B2
Methods and apparatus for seamless transition between network conferences. In an embodiment, a method is provided for transitioning between network conferences. The method includes attending a first network conference using a first conference state and conferencing application, and displaying, on a display screen, Up-Next conference status comprising a meeting time for a second network conference and images of attendees that have joined the second network conference. The method also includes joining the second network conference using the first conference state and the conferencing application.
US12160453B2
Devices, methods, and non-transitory program storage devices are disclosed to enable the automatic establishment of a secure audio/video data streaming connection between electronic devices. For example, a first electronic device may enter into a first state of a peer device advertising protocol, and then, based on a determination that the first electronic device meets a first set of device state criteria (e.g., including at least an orientation state criterion), the first electronic device may enter into a second (e.g., enhanced) state of the peer device advertising protocol. In response to detecting a presence of a second electronic device in its proximity, the first electronic device may connect to the second electronic device via a secure peer-to-peer connection protocol and then send one or more images captured by a first image capture device of the first electronic device to the connected second electronic device via the secure wireless peer-to-peer connection protocol.
US12160452B2
Techniques are provided for client-driven Randomized and Changing Media Access Control (MAC) address (RCM) mechanisms. In one example, a wireless client is configured to wirelessly communicate with a wireless network. The wireless client obtains data relating to a level of security for one or more MAC addresses of the wireless client. Based on the data, the wireless client computes a score that represents the level of security for the one or more MAC addresses. Using the score, the wireless client determines when or how frequently to rotate the one or more MAC addresses. Based on determining when or how frequently to rotate the one or more MAC addresses, the wireless client rotates the one or more MAC addresses.
US12160449B2
Provided are systems and methods for analyzing actions performed by users in using a cloud service, and adjusting the configuration of a security management and control system based on the analysis. In various examples, the analysis can include generating a weighted directed graph that reflects a user's use of the cloud service, and/or reflects the tenant's overall use of the cloud service. When the security monitoring and control system generates security alerts, the actions that resulted in the alerts can be compared to the graph to determine whether the actions are in accordance with prior behavior of the users. When the actions do correspond to the graph, the system can recommend that the security control or security policy that triggered the alert be modified. In various examples, the graphs can also be used to determine whether any user's actions are anomalous as compared to earlier behavior.
US12160447B2
A method for preventing an email phishing attack is disclosed. The method involves calculating a victim risk score of a user, receiving an email addressed to the user containing at least one of an attachment and a URL, based on the victim risk score of the user, performing one of: forwarding the email to the user with the at least one of the attachment and the URL, forwarding the email to the user without the at least one of the attachment and the URL, holding the email and the at least one of the attachment and URL in quarantine and blocking the email from being forwarded to the user.
US12160441B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to providing training and information based on simulated cybersecurity attack difficulty. A computing platform may retrieve data associated with a plurality of attack templates for simulating cybersecurity attacks. Subsequently, the computing platform may use one or more models to compute a predicted failure rate for each template of the plurality of attack templates in order to yield a plurality of predicted failure rates for an organization. Based on the plurality of predicted failure rates, the computing platform may use one or more of the plurality of attack templates to configure a simulated cybersecurity attack on the organization. Then, the computing platform may send, via the communication interface, to an administrator user device associated with the organization, information about the simulated cybersecurity attack and may execute the simulated cybersecurity attack.
US12160435B2
Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for dynamic node analysis for network security response. The present invention is configured to detect, using a node analysis engine, a change in a network security protocol associated with a first node within a distributed network; extract information associated with the change in the network security protocol associated with the first node; identify one or more adjacent nodes with a first degree of separation from the first node in response to detecting the change; determine a first set of changes to the network security protocols for the one or more adjacent nodes based on at least the information associated with the change in the network security protocol of the first node; and automatically implement the first set of changes to the network security protocols of the one or more adjacent nodes with the first degree of separation from the first node.
US12160434B2
The present invention concerns a method for processing system logs of a computer system. A system log generator (LG) transmits these system logs to a system log analyser (SIEM) after they have been encrypted by means of a symmetric encryption key and sends the symmetric encryption key in parallel with a homomorphic cryptosystem public key. The system log analyser carries out a transcryption of these logs then a processing thereof in the homomorphic domain. The result of the processing in the homomorphic domain is then transmitted to a security centre (SOC) or even directly to the system log generator to be decrypted there. The security centre can establish a security report or propose a countermeasure before sending it, in form encrypted by the symmetric key, to the system log generator.
US12160433B1
Systems and methods for device-to-account anomaly detection are disclosed. For example, device information associated with user account data is queried from a user registry and from an external system. The device information from both sources is hashed or otherwise formatted and compared to determine whether a dissimilarity is present. A difference value may be generated and utilized to determine whether an anomaly is present for device-to-account associations as between the user registry and the external system. Utilizing the difference value and/or historical difference values associated with the external system, one or more actions for correcting the anomaly may be selected and performed.
US12160426B2
Human system operator identity audit trail systems, methods and products for improving computer technology, including in the field of cloud security in the use of computer networks and legal compliance of computer systems and networks is disclosed. An audit trail of a human system operator's identity and time-stamp to network activities of a containerized application may be established. A human system operator may be prevented from escalating privilege and making unauthorized use of service accounts available to the containerized application in order to issue commands such as higher privilege queries and requests than the ones within the granted access of the human system operator. Granular black-box testing mechanisms may also be provided to assess functional changes across software versions using boundary-scan techniques.
US12160423B1
Methods for authenticating a user utilizing a smart speaker system are presented, the methods including: requesting a user authentication by issuing a voice command to a smart speaker; playing a sonic one-time password (OTP) on the smart speaker received from an authentication server in response to the requesting a user authentication; receiving the sonic OTP by a mobile device of the user; transmitting an OTP decoded from the sonic OTP to the authentication server; and authorizing the user by the authentication server to execute a secure transaction using the smart speaker system.
