US12159051B2
A method for application migrating from a first cluster to a second cluster. The method may include detecting application migration request from the first cluster to the second cluster for performing application migration; identifying first volumes associated with the first cluster that are used by the application; establishing data copying from the first volumes of a first storage device associated with the first cluster to second volumes of a second storage device associated with the second cluster; determining if a copy condition is met based on the data copying; for meeting the copy condition, stopping the application on the first cluster; flushing uncopied data from the first volumes to the second volumes; determining whether the flushing of the uncopied data is completed; and for the flushing of the uncopied data being completed, deploying the application on the second cluster.
US12159048B2
A method, comprising: receiving, by an agent that is executing in a first guest operating system, a request to mount a storage partition; detecting, by the agent, whether the storage partition is identified in a read-only list; when the storage partition is identified in the read-only list, setting the storage partition as read-only at a block level, and mounting the storage partition in the first guest operating system as a read-only volume; and when the storage partition is not identified in the read-only list, mounting the storage partition in the first guest operating system as a read-write volume and updating the read-only list to include an identifier of the storage partition.
US12159035B2
An electronic device, and more particularly, a Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) interface device is provided. The PCIe interface device includes a root complex configured to support a PCIe port which is a root port that could be coupled to an input/output (I/O) device, a plurality of endpoints each coupled to the root complex through a link, and a Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) controller configured to control RAID-coupling of a plurality of storage devices that are respectively coupled to the plurality of endpoints, wherein the RAID controller requests a host to allocate a capacity to each function in the plurality of storage devices based on a reference capacity.
US12159034B2
This application provides a method for detecting margins of a data signal. A receive end of a data signal may adjust a voltage of a reference power source; adjust, based on a plurality of reference moments included in a reference moment set, a moment of an edge of a data strobe signal transmitted by a transmit end of the data signal; and during the adjustment, for each reference voltage and each reference moment, determine whether a bit error exists in data obtained by decoding the data signal when the voltage of the reference power source is the reference voltage and the moment of the edge of the data strobe signal is the reference moment, to obtain a timing margin of the data signal at each reference voltage and a voltage margin of the data signal at each reference moment.
US12159028B2
A device with one or more input devices receives a user input for navigating through a representation of a set of assets, determines that an attribute associated with the received input is above threshold value, and in response, sets a scrolling mode to be an accelerated navigation mode. While the scrolling mode is in the accelerated navigation mode and while scrolling through the representation of assets in accordance with the input, the device provides one or more asset subset identifiers that identify a respective subset of the assets through which the device is currently scrolling in accordance with the input.
US12159027B2
A control method and device of an interactive white board is provided. The method includes receiving a first selection operation and a first windowing operation on a whiteboard application interface, in response to a handwriting of a first target element overlapping a first sub-window, generating an overlapping part of the handwriting behind the first sub-window, and the first sub-window is displayed in a front of the whiteboard application interface. The method solves the technical problem in the related art that when some operations are performed in the whole current writing region, and the elements on the screen will move or disappear accordingly, causing inconvenience to the user.
US12159026B2
A system includes a development tool for adding electronically-driven effects to a dynamic user-influenced media experience. The development tool is adapted to receive first user input and second user input. The first user input defines an audio trigger corresponding to one or more words or phrases appearing in a textual transcript of an audio content stream that includes audio data to be played as part of the dynamic user-influenced media experience. The second user input defines an event that is to be executed in temporal association with an audible occurrence of the audio trigger. The development tool generates metadata based on the first user input and the second user input, and an application engine interprets the metadata as an instruction to selectively trigger execution of the event in association with the audible occurrence of the audio trigger while presenting the dynamic user-influenced media experience.
US12159025B2
Position marking method, apparatus, and device in virtual scene, storage medium, and program product
A method, apparatus and device including: displaying a map of the virtual scene; displaying at least one marker based on a position marking instruction for a virtual resource in the virtual scene; controlling the target marker to move in the map with the execution of a dragging operation based on the dragging operation for the target marker in at least one marker; and marking the target marker at a current position of the target marker in the map based on a release instruction for the dragging operation.
US12159010B2
A touch sensor device (TSD) includes TSD electrodes associated with a surface of the TSD. Also, an overlay that includes marker electrode(s) is also associated with at least a portion of the surface of the TSD. The TSD also includes drive-sense circuits (DSCs) operably coupled to the plurality of TSD electrodes. A DSC is configured to provide a TSD electrode signal to a TSD electrode and simultaneously to sense a change of the TSD electrode signal based on a change of impedance of the TSD electrode caused by capacitive coupling between the TSD electrode and the marker electrode(s) of the overlay. Processing module(s) is configured to process a digital signal generated by the DSC to determine characteristic(s) of the overlay that is associated with the at least a portion of the surface of the TSD.
US12159006B2
A CPU of an image capturing apparatus acquires a motion amount of a target including a virtual object and performs exposure control based on the acquired motion amount. The CPU captures an image of a real space using the exposure control. The CPU combines the captured image of the real space with an image of the virtual object to generate a mixed reality image.
US12158985B2
A method of operating a virtual image generation system comprises allowing an end user to interact with a three-dimensional environment comprising at least one virtual object, presenting a stimulus to the end user in the context of the three-dimensional environment, sensing at least one biometric parameter of the end user in response to the presentation of the stimulus to the end user, generating biometric data for each of the sensed biometric parameter(s), determining if the end user is in at least one specific emotional state based on the biometric data for the each of the sensed biometric parameter(s), and performing an action discernible to the end user to facilitate a current objective at least partially based on if it is determined that the end user is in the specific emotional state(s).
US12158982B2
Systems and methods are provided for performing AR button selection operations on an augmented reality (AR) device. The system displays, by an AR device, a plurality of AR objects on a display region that overlaps a first real-world object, each of the plurality of AR objects being associated with an object selection region. The system computes a first spatial relationship factor for a first AR object of the plurality of AR objects based on a position of the first AR object relative to a position of a second real-world object and adjusts the object selection region of the first AR object based on the first spatial relationship factor. The system activates the first AR object in response to determining that the second real-world object overlaps the object selection region of the first AR object.
US12158974B2
Generally discussed herein are devices, systems, and methods for scan surface reduction in sensitive information scanning. A method can include receiving a document, determining, by an evidence checker, a keyword that indicates sensitive information of a sensitive information type, is present in the document, responsive to determining the keyword is present, determining, by a sensitive information scanner and based on a regular expression associated with the sensitive information type, that sensitive information is present in the document, and performing a sensitive information mitigation operation to mitigate the sensitive information.
US12158971B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to electronically sharing patient data. One aspect includes a method comprising capturing a computer readable code comprising an authentication code and clinic identifying information using an image capture component of a patient mobile device. The method also comprises authenticating the identified clinic with an information provider. The method further comprises displaying the clinic identifying information for confirmation and authenticating the patient. The method additionally comprises receiving a request to provide the clinic with patient data from the clinic. The method then comprises determining that the clinic is authorized to receive access to the patient data based on authentication of the clinic, authentication of the patient, and confirmation to share the patient data. The method also comprises transmitting the patient data to the clinic based on the determination that the clinic is authorized.
US12158969B2
An example operation may include one or more of transmitting, from a client application, a proposed storage request to a plurality of endorser nodes of a blockchain, receiving a first endorsement of the storage request from a first endorser node, the first endorsement comprising a full-step hash verification of the proposed storage request, receiving a second endorsement of the storage request from a second endorser node, the second endorsement comprising a reduced-step hash verification of the storage request, and transmitting a storage proposal including the full-step hash endorsement and the reduced-step hash endorsement to an ordering node of the blockchain.
US12158968B2
Systems and methods are provided executing jobs immediately upon receipt of a notification. The systems and methods may include receiving, at a cloud compute service, a notification that a sensitive file comprising sensitive data has been received at a file receipt location, the sensitive file being sent by a client device; generating, by the cloud compute service, a container instance in response to the notification; retrieving, by the container instance, the sensitive file from the file receipt location; generating, by the container instance, a stripped file by stripping the sensitive data from the sensitive file based on a configuration file; transmitting, by the container instance, the stripped file to a storage location; deleting the sensitive file and associated file pointers from the file receipt location; and terminating the container instance, wherein terminating the container instance comprises deleting files comprising sensitive data and associated file pointers.
US12158966B2
Methods and systems that allow a user to see the people or groups who have access to files that are maintained by a plurality of cloud content sharing services. In particular, the user may see what specific party has access to each particular file or directory, regardless of multiple cloud content sharing services involved. Moreover, a user interface and exposed application program interface allows the user to manipulate the permissions, e.g., granting access, to another person or group, to a file or directory. The user interface may also allow the user to terminate access to the file or directory for a person or group. The user's action to change a permission may be effected independently of the particular cloud content sharing service.
US12158953B2
There is disclosed a circuit for monitoring the security of a processor, wherein the circuit is configured to access a memory configured to store execution context data of a software program executed by the processor; to determine one or more signatures from said execution context data; and to compare said signatures with predefined signatures to monitor the security of the processor (110). Developments describe that context data can comprise control flow data, that a signature can comprise a hash value or a similarity signature, or that the integrity of signatures can be verified for example by using a secret key (e.g. obtained by random, or by using a physically unclonable function). Further developments describe various controls or retroactions on the processor, as well as various countermeasures if cyber attacks are determined.
US12158945B2
This application provides an authentication credential protection method and system. The protection method includes the following steps: generating authentication secret information based on a lock screen password and hardware secret information of a first device; randomly generating, by the first device, a symmetric key, and using the symmetric key as an encryption key for the authentication secret information; splitting the encryption key into at least two first key segments by using a multi-party data splitting algorithm, where one of the at least two first key segments is stored on the first device; and sending, by the first device, another first key segment to a trusted device. In the foregoing technical solution, the authentication secret information is generated by using the lock screen password and the hardware secret information, increasing information complexity. In addition, different trusted devices are used to store the split key segments, improving security of the encryption key.
US12158940B2
A method for backing up data includes: receiving, by a driver in a host controller of a data storage device, an indication of a threatening event identifying one or more data files in the data storage device; delaying, by the driver, the threatening event; and backing up, by the driver, the one or more data files in the data storage device, prior to allowing the threatening event.
US12158937B2
Systems and methods for uniquely identifying and regularly authenticating users at login are disclosed. A method may include an authentication computer program receiving a user identifier for a user as part of a login attempt from a workstation computer program; communicating a multifactor authentication request to an authenticator application executed on a user mobile electronic device; receiving a response to the multifactor authentication request from the authenticator application; verifying that the response to the multifactor authentication request matches an expected value; and saving user activity data associated with the login attempt, and a user trust computer program calculating a user trust score based on the user activity data; determining that the user trust score is above a threshold; and authorizing the login attempt to the workstation and a user session on the workstation.
US12158925B2
A method for an online mapping system includes localizing a location of an ego vehicle relative to an offline feature map. The method also includes querying surrounding features of the ego vehicle based on the offline feature map. The method further includes generating a probabilistic map regarding the surrounding features of the ego vehicle queried from the offline feature map.
US12158924B2
The present disclosure relates to computer-implemented systems and methods for training and using generative adversarial networks. In one implementation, a system for training a generative adversarial network may include at least one processor that may provide a first plurality of images including representations of a feature-of-interest and indicators of locations of the feature-of-interest and use the first plurality and indicators to train an object detection network. Further, the processor(s) may provide a second plurality of images including representations of the feature-of-interest, and apply the trained object detection network to the second plurality to produce a plurality of detections of the feature-of-interest. Additionally, the processor(s) may provide manually set verifications of true positives and false positives with respect to the plurality of detections, use the verifications to train a generative adversarial network, and retrain the generative adversarial network using at least one further set of images, further detections, and further manually set verifications.
US12158916B2
The present disclosure provides systems and methods for content quasi-personalization or anonymized content retrieval via aggregated browsing history of a large plurality of devices, such as millions or billions of devices. A sparse matrix may be constructed from the aggregated browsing history, and dimensionally reduced, reducing entropy and providing anonymity for individual devices. Relevant content may be selected via quasi-personalized clusters representing similar browsing histories, without exposing individual device details to content providers.
US12158912B2
The present disclosure provides a multi-task deep Hash learning-based retrieval method for massive logistics product images. According to the idea of multi-tasking, Hash codes of a plurality of lengths can be learned simultaneously as high-level image representation. Compared with single-tasking in the prior art, the method overcomes shortcomings such as waste of hardware resources and high time cost caused by model retraining under single-tasking. Compared with the traditional idea of learning a single Hash code as an image representation and using it for retrieval, information association among Hash codes of a plurality of lengths is mined, and the mutual information loss is designed to improve the representational capacity of the Hash codes, which addresses the poor representational capacity of a single Hash code, and thus improves the retrieval performance of Hash codes.
US12158906B2
A computer-implemented method is disclosed. The method includes: obtaining at least one query; clustering a set comprising the at least one query into first clusters; for each first cluster, identifying, by a large language model (LLM), queries in the cluster that are semantically dissimilar; clustering the queries identified as semantically dissimilar into one or more second clusters; receiving an incoming query; matching the incoming query to a particular cluster from the first or second clusters; obtaining one or more generated response messages based on providing, to the LLM, data associated with the particular cluster for the incoming query.
US12158902B2
Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for searching the content of voice conversations. The conversations are translated into text and analysis of the conversation is performed to identify information in the conversation. The information identified includes turns taking data in the conversation and states identified within each state. A powerful user interface (UI) is provided to review the conversations and add annotations that tag the different turns. Additionally, parameter values are extracted from the text. A powerful search engine is provided with multiple search options, such as searching for text, searching by state within the conversation, searching by parameters extracted from the conversation, or a combination thereof.
US12158887B2
This invention is directed to an on-board data storage method and system. The on-board data storage method includes obtaining, in a current time period, various pieces of time sequence data to be processed written into the on-board database; for each piece of the time sequence data to be processed, determining a node to be stored in the on-board database and a partition to be stored in the node according to the piece of the time sequence data to be processed, and writing the piece of the time sequence data to be processed into a corresponding time sequence in the determined partition to be stored; and writing each piece of the time sequence data written into each partition to be stored into each corresponding data bucket in memory.
US12158886B2
Methods and systems for managing the automated retrieval, aggregation, and selection of virtual machines, virtual disks, and electronic files using an integrated data management and storage system are described. In some cases, the integrated data management and storage system may acquire a query with search criteria to identify a set of objects accessible via the integrated data management and storage system, determine the set of objects that satisfies the search criteria, determine a first subset of the set of objects less than all of the set of objects to render, render and display a listing of the first subset, determine a selection of a first plurality of the first subset, and initiate concurrent actions on the first plurality using the integrated data management and storage system. The size of the first subset may vary over time and be determined based on prior user feedback.
US12158884B1
In various implementations, a client device includes a dashboard rendering framework that processes a dashboard definition. A search query in the dashboard definition is associated with smart source tokens corresponding to lifecycle events of the search query being executed. A dynamic data source transmits the search query to retrieve field values and a token management system automatically sets the smart source tokens to be updated. As the search query is being executed, and the token management system receives updated data values and updates the smart source tokens. The dashboard rendering framework retrieves events with the applicable values for the smart source tokens and renders the dashboard according to the dashboard definition by substituting smart source tokens with the corresponding values. The dashboard rendering framework then updates one or more visualizations in real time as the token management system updates the smart source tokens in real-time.
US12158876B2
Systems and methods are provided for implementing automated user interface testing with integrated machine learning models. Systems and methods for detecting and preemptively correcting flow path errors are disclosed. Systems and methods for minimizing user input and optimizing testing efficiency are disclosed. A result dashboard is disclosed in which testing results and errors are displayed and a user may interact with interactive testing reports.
US12158874B2
Systems and methods for generating tables are provided. The systems and methods perform operations comprising accessing a text document comprising a plurality of strings; processing the text document by a machine learning model to generate a table comprising a plurality of entries that organizes the plurality of strings into rows and columns over a plurality of iterations; and at each of the plurality of iterations, estimating by the machine learning model a first value of a first entry of the plurality of entries based on a second value of a second entry of the plurality of entries that has been determined in a prior iteration.
US12158859B2
An amount of expiration time extension for one or more objects associated with a first archive of a first snapshot of a source storage is determined based at least in part on a second data management policy associated with a second archive and one or more dynamically determined metrics. The first archive that includes the one or more objects is caused to be stored to a remote storage. At least a portion of content of the first archive is referenced by data chunks stored in a first chunk object of the remote storage and the first archive is associated with a first data management policy. Based on the determined amount of expiration time extension, an expiration time for the one or more objects associated with the first archive is stored in an archive metadata of the one or more objects associated with the first archive.
US12158857B2
A host (100) includes a PCIe Root Complex (102), a PCIe Expander (116) configured to be connected to a general-purpose network N, and a PCIe switch (108) including PCIe ports and configured to switch a connection between the Root Complex (102) and the Expander (116), in which the Expander (116) enables PCIe ports (109, 113) connected to upstream ports of the Root Complex (102) and the Expander (116) and disables a PCIe port (110) connected to a downstream port of the Expander (116) when the host (100) functions as a master, and disables the upstream port (109) and the downstream port (113) and enables the upstream port (110) when the host 100 functions as a slave.
US12158856B2
The present disclosure provides a data transmission apparatus and a data transmission system. The data transmission apparatus comprises a first transmission unit and a second transmission unit. The first transmission unit comprises a plurality of sensor interfaces and is configured to receive sensor data from a plurality of sensors through the plurality of sensor interfaces, and the second transmission unit comprises a computing system interface and is configured to receive the sensor data from the first transmission unit and to send the sensor data to a computing system through the computing system interface.
US12158852B2
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for direct memory access instruction set architecture support for flexible dense compute using a reconfigurable spatial array are described. In one embodiment, a processor includes a first type of hardware processor core that includes a two-dimensional grid of compute circuits, a memory, and a direct memory access circuit coupled to the memory and the two-dimensional grid of compute circuits; and a second different type of hardware processor core that includes a decoder circuit to decode a single instruction into a decoded single instruction, the single instruction including a first field to identify a base address of two-dimensional data in the memory, a second field to identify a number of elements in each one-dimensional array of the two-dimensional data, a third field to identify a number of one-dimensional arrays of the two-dimensional data, a fourth field to identify an operation to be performed by the two-dimensional grid of compute circuits, and a fifth field to indicate the direct memory access circuit is to move the two-dimensional data indicated by the first field, the second field, and the third field into the two-dimensional grid of compute circuits and the two-dimensional grid of compute circuits is to perform the operation on the two-dimensional data according to the fourth field, and an execution circuit to execute the decoded single instruction according to the fields.
US12158846B2
In a method, an instance management node receives a request for creating a service instance; the instance management node obtains a cache configuration corresponding to the service instance; and the instance management node creates the service instance on a computing node, and creates a cache instance on the computing node based on the cache configuration. In this way, the service instance may provide a service by using the matched cache instance.
US12158840B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods related to memory access statistics monitoring are described. A host is configured to map pages of memory for applications to a number of memory devices coupled thereto. A first memory device comprises a monitoring component configured to monitor access statistics of pages of memory mapped to the first memory device. A second memory device does not include a monitoring component capable of monitoring access statistics of pages of memory mapped thereto. The host is configured to map a portion of pages of memory for an application to the first memory device in order to obtain access statistics corresponding to the portion of pages of memory upon execution of the application despite there being space available on the second memory device and adjust mappings of the pages of memory for the application based on the obtained access statistics corresponding to the portion of pages.
US12158837B2
Disclosed herein is a system and a method for generating automation test scripts dynamically for Human Machine Interface (HMI) testing. Test configurations are generated for a Device Under Test (DUT) (115) based on a screen transition dataset upon receiving a user request (105). Based on test configurations and the screen transition dataset, HMI components located in a test path are identified for transitions from source HMI screens to destination HMI screens. Based on the HMI components, reference images are determined for the destination HMI screens from a screen design dataset. The test configurations are executed on the DUT (115) via an external simulating device (113) and transition associated with the test path is validated based on matching the real time destination HMI screen image with the reference image. Based on a validation result, automation test report (117) is generated for the DUT (115).
US12158835B1
Systems and methods support generation and validation of log records. For instance, a software object may generate log records and save those log records to a first repository. Either the same or a different software object may then generate a hash for each log record and then encrypt each hash and store each hash in another repository. A software object that consumes the log records may then validate a given log record by accessing its corresponding encrypted hash, decrypting the hash, and comparing the decrypted hash to a re-generated hash of the particular log record.
US12158832B2
Management of a storage device is disclosed. A method for managing a storage device includes acquiring evaluation information for a candidate fitting model in candidate fitting models. The evaluation information indicates at least a historical fitting degree between the candidate fitting model and historical data. A model selection strategy is determined based on the evaluation information. The model selection strategy indicates at least a probability that the candidate fitting models is selected for fitting target data. The target data indicates a storage state of the storage device over a first time period. Further, based on the model selection strategy, a target fitting model is determined from the candidate fitting models for use in determining a storage state of the storage device over a second time period. In this manner, the fitting model suitable for actual business data can be determined more efficiently, and additional system overhead can be avoided.
US12158824B2
Multi-site distributed storage systems and computer-implemented methods are described for improving a resumption time of input/output (I/O) operations during an automatic unplanned failover (AUFO). A computer-implemented method includes determining, with a second storage cluster, whether heartbeat information from one or more storage objects of a CG of a first set of CGs is received during a time period, determining an out of sync state for a data replication relationship between the CG of the first set of CGs and a mirrored CG of a second set of CGs when the heartbeat information is not received during the time period and sending a single bulk role change call with a cluster identifier from the second cluster to an external mediator to provide a role change from follower to leader in the second set of CGs.
US12158823B2
Methods and systems to detect and resolve failure in a distributed database system is described herein. A first node in the distributed database system can detect an interruption in communication with at least one other node in the distributed database system. This indicates a network failure. In response to detection of this failure, the first node starts a failure resolution protocol. This invokes coordinated broadcasts of respective lists of suspicious nodes among neighbor nodes. Each node compares its own list of suspicious nodes with its neighbors' lists of suspicious nodes to determine which nodes are still directly connected to each other. Each node determines the largest group of these directly connected nodes and whether or not it is in that group. If a node isn't in that group, it fails itself to resolve the network failure.
US12158818B2
A data backup server may obtain, for a set of databases that includes a primary database and a set of standby databases configured to be synchronized with the primary database. The data backup server may identify, based on the role information, a data backup group that includes a subset of the databases. In some examples, the first database may be included in the data backup group based on being a primary database, the one or more second databases may be included in the data backup group based at least in part on being standby databases of a first type, and the one or more third databases may be excluded from the data backup group based on being standby databases of a second type. The data backup server may then perform a backup procedure based on generating a snapshot of a database within the data backup group.
US12158808B2
A method of characterizing an error in a NAND flash memory, and an error estimation method and a storage system control method using the same are provided. The method of characterizing an error in a NAND flash memory characterizes an error source of the NAND flash memory using a center distance between one pattern and another pattern among a plurality of patterns in a threshold voltage distribution of NAND flash memory cells as a parameter.
US12158806B1
A controller includes an interface and a processor. The interface communicates with memory cells. The processor reads a Code Word (CW) from the memory cells using read thresholds to produce respective readouts, the read thresholds defining zones, identifies a subgroup of the memory cells associated with zones positioned about a Read Voltage (RV) predetermined between adjacent first and second Programming Voltages (PVs), estimates for each zone, based on the readouts, first and second cumulative counts of the memory cells corresponding to the first and second PVs, models first and second PDFs associated respectively with the memory cells programmed to the first and second PVs, based on the first and second cumulative counts, calculates for the zones respective reliability measures, based on the first and second PDFs, and assigns the reliability measures to bits of the CW, and decodes the CW by applying soft decoding to the assigned reliability measures.
US12158797B2
In example aspects of this disclosure, a method includes generating, by one or more computing devices, a parametric model that expresses condition states for each of a plurality of assets, and the probability of the assets transitioning between the condition states; generating, by the one or more computing devices, stochastic degradation predictions of a group of the assets, based on the condition states and the probability of transitioning between the condition states for at least some of the assets; and generating, by the one or more computing devices, a maintenance schedule based on: the stochastic degradation predictions of the group of the assets, costs of corrective maintenance for assets in a failed state, and costs of scheduled maintenance for the assets.
US12158792B2
Methods and apparatus for using characterized devices such as memories. In one embodiment, characterized memories are associated with a range of performances over a range of operational parameters. The characterized memories can be used in conjunction with a solution density function to optimize memory searching. In one exemplary embodiment, a cryptocurrency miner can utilize characterized memories to generate memory hard proof-of-work (POW). The results may be further validated against general compute memories; such that only valid solutions are broadcasted to the mining community. In one embodiment, the validation mechanism is implemented for a plurality of searching apparatus in parallel to provide a more distributed and efficient approach. Various other applications for characterized memories are also described in greater detail herein (e.g., blockchain, social media, machine learning, probabilistic applications and other error-tolerant applications).
US12158789B1
A method for controlling total power consumption of system by setting controller parameters based on phases is provided, which is applied to a system at least including heat-generating element, fan, and controller. The method includes: setting the controller with heating control parameter and cooling control parameter; reading, by the controller, current temperature and temperature at a previous moment of the heat-generating element; and comparing, by the controller, current temperature with temperature at the previous moment to determine whether the heat-generating element is in heating phase or in cooling phase; in case of the heating phase, the controller provides feedback control to the fan based on the heating control parameter; in case of the cooling phase, the controller provides feedback control to the fan based on the cooling control parameter; thereby controlling the total power consumption of the system.
US12158782B2
A foldable touch screen display device made up of flexible or tiled display segments that can be folded from a compact state to an expanded state which also includes a 360 degree camera system. The form factor of the compact state is roughly the size of a typical handheld phone or smaller. The form factor of the expanded state is roughly the size of a larger phone or tablet computer, which may also include the mechanical functionality of a laptop. The device form factor may also be a flip phone configuration. Both folded states may include an integrated speaker and microphone. The 360 degree camera utilizes the inherent folded segment positions and their respective cameras such that they can be configured at different angles to achieve the appropriate camera array geometry. The device may further include sensors to indicate the position of each display segment. In one embodiment, a module attached to, situated within, or otherwise associated with at least one segment of the flexible display or rigid display may contain all or substantially all processing and memory, along with a communications system, which may be used in any folded state.
US12158780B2
A hinge constituent component according to the disclosure includes a plate-like portion extending along a length direction, a pair of rotating shafts or a pair of bearing portions provided at each of both ends of the plate-like portion in the length direction, and at least one protruding portion protruding from the plate-like portion in a width direction of the plate-like portion.
US12158777B2
The present invention provides a display device, including a flexible display assembly carried on a housing. The housing includes a first housing and a second housing. The second housing is provided with a winding assembly, a sliding assembly, and a pretension member. The present invention drives the sliding assembly to slide through a relative sliding of the first housing and the second housing. The winding assembly is used to reel in or pull out the flexible display assembly by sliding the sliding assembly, and the sliding assembly slides under driving of a pretension of a pretension member.
US12158776B2
A dock for a mobile device includes a housing; a mobile device connector disposed at least partially within the housing; a power source connector for coupling a power source to the dock, wherein the power source connector is electrically coupled to the mobile device connector; a controller disposed in the housing for facilitating data transfer between the mobile device and a data device, wherein the controller is electrically coupled to the mobile device connector; a data device connector for coupling the data device to the dock, wherein the data device connector is electrically coupled to the controller; wherein the controller, data device connector, power source connector, and mobile device connector are configured for simultaneously providing data transfer between the mobile device and the data device and charging the mobile device using the power source with a charging current of at least 1 Amp.
US12158773B2
Disclosed are methods and systems to improve the time synchronization of power distribution systems and/or other distributed device networks. The disclosure relates to nesting selection algorithms to elect a grand master clock from among groups of devices in a network.
US12158772B2
Disclosed is a clock multiplexing circuit which includes a first transistor that is between a first input terminal that receives a first input clock signal and an output terminal that outputs an output pulse signal and operates based on a logic level of a second input terminal receiving a second input clock signal, and a second transistor that is between the output terminal and a first voltage node and operates based on the logic level of the second input terminal. The first input clock signal and the second input clock signal have the same period and have different phases. The output pulse signal transitions to a first logic level at a first time when the first input clock signal transitions to the first logic level and transitions to a second logic level at a second time when the second input clock signal transitions to the first logic level.
US12158769B2
A current booster circuit, which can be coupled between a gate driver and a power switch, includes controlled current sources and current sensors to provide a scaled copy of the booster input current at the booster output while operating in a current-gain mode during on-to-off or off-to-on switching periods. During switched-on or switched-off periods, the booster can pull the output to the high or low rail, respectively, through low-impedance circuitry to hold the switch on or off. A voltage and/or current feedback path between the booster output and the booster input permits the booster to control the voltage input during switching operation. The current booster devices and methods can be compatible with both smart and conventional gate drivers of either the voltage-driven or current-driven variety.
US12158766B2
The present invention discloses systems, modules and methods for an autonomous orchestrion of at least one first swarm, comprising offline model-based subsystem for precomputation of swarm strategies to be performed at real-time; and a real-time subsystem intercommunicated with the offline pre-commutating subsystem.
US12158762B1
A method is provided, that includes: receiving camera data from a perception system of an autonomous vehicle; and providing the camera data to a visual language model, where the visual language model includes a mapping of a corpus of images and a corpus of text to a common parameter space. The method further includes: receiving from the visual language model an output corresponding to one or more text tokens; accessing a configuration file comprising a plurality of text tokens representing a plurality of objects or events of interest to the autonomous vehicle; and identifying a respective object or event of interest in an environment of the autonomous vehicle by determining that a text token of the output matches a respective one of the plurality of text tokens in the configuration file. The autonomous vehicle can then be controlled based at least in part on the respective object or event of interest.
US12158761B2
Provided are methods for location based parameters for an image sensor, which can include determining the geographic location of the vehicle, adjusting the parameters of the image sensor of the vehicle from a first setting to a second setting based on the geographic location of the vehicle, receiving sensor data associated with the image sensor based on the second setting, and processing the sensor data to generate an image. Systems and computer program products are also provided.
US12158756B1
An autonomous vehicle fleet may include multiple autonomous vehicles. The autonomous vehicles of the fleet may be configured to request remote operator input in response to encountering a situation internally or in the environment that the vehicle is unable to resolve. The autonomous vehicle of the fleet requests remote operator input through a fleet queue system that prioritizes the input requests and matches requests to available remote operators for processing and resolving the situations.
US12158749B2
The technology disclosed herein enables automation of component sourcing when designing a process system in an industrial environment. In a particular embodiment, a method includes receiving design specifications of a process system in an industrial environment via a system design application. The method further includes determining components to implement the process system from the design specifications and identifying a first subset of the components for sourcing from an external provider. The method also includes populating the first subset into a component sourcing application.
US12158747B2
Provided is a technology for efficiently arranging equipment. A method of arranging equipment in a plant for processing a fluid includes: calculating a risk; obtained by multiplying a probability that flowing-out of a fluid requiring use of the equipment occurs by an impact degree of the flowing-out of the fluid; setting a distance of a range in which the equipment is arrangeable so that, when the calculated risks of a plurality of devices are compared with each other, the range in which the equipment is arrangeable is shorter for a device for which the risk is high, and the range is longer for a device for which the risk is low; and then determining a position to arrange the equipment based on positions at which the plurality of devices are arranged in the plant, and on the distance of the range in which the equipment is arrangeable.
US12158745B2
The present disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for cycle-based programming of a control program for a numerically controlled machine tool at a control apparatus of the machine tool. Geometrical features, which have been detected and/or identified within a data analysis processing performed on the basis of workpiece data including a 3D workpiece model, each detected and/or identified geometrical feature being associated with a respective predetermined machining operation, are associated with a respective machine control cycle which is associated with a respective predetermined machining operation with which the respective associated geometry feature is producible. Further, one or more user-selectable options for cycle-based programming of the control program for the machine tool are provided by a graphical user interface on a display of a control panel of a control apparatus of the machine tool, each user-selectable option enabling a user to select a respective one of the machine control cycles being respectively associated with a respective one of the detected and/or identified geometrical features.
US12158737B2
A method includes displaying a first user interface, displaying a first simulated operating state of a smart home device in a status display area in response to selecting a first control, receiving an association success notification, displaying a second user interface, and sending a control instruction to the smart home device in response to selecting a second control. The first user interface includes the first control for controlling the smart home device and a status display area of the smart home device. The second user interface includes the second control for controlling the smart home device and the status display area of the smart home device. The control instruction instructs the smart home device to enter a first operating state according to the selecting the second control, and displaying a second simulated operating state of the smart home device in the status display area of the second user interface.
US12158736B2
An electronic apparatus activation control apparatus includes a communication unit and a data processing unit. The communication unit is configured to perform communication via a network. The data processing unit is configured to output an activation instruction to a network apparatus connected to the network through the communication unit. The data processing unit recognizes a state transition from a non-active state to an active state of the electronic apparatus activation control apparatus and outputs the activation instruction to the network apparatus on the basis of recognition of the state transition.
US12158733B2
Provided is a calendar allowing a user to easily read the display for a particular day. A calendar 10 includes a day-display section displaying a day. The day-display section has a plurality of arc FIGS. 28(1) to 28(5), each of which has an arc centered on a vertex of a polygon. The day is sequentially and continuously displayed along the plurality of arc figures.
US12158731B2
An analogue display watch (10) including an electronic horological movement including a first and a second electric motor (13, 14) kinematically connected respectively to an hour hand (15) and to a minute hand (16), the electric motors being power supplied by an electric accumulator (12), the horological movement also comprising an integrated circuit (17) connected to the motors and to a control member (18), the watch (10) being characterised in that the integrated circuit (17) is configured so as to control, when the control member (18) is requested by a user, the first and the second electric motor (13, 14) to rotate the hour (15) and minute (16) hands at an angular speed of displacement of six degrees per second, and in such a way that they are disposed so as to be collinear and that they are superimposed on each other.
US12158730B2
A stepping motor, a driver, a current detection circuit, a first driving circuit configured to output a first driving signal to the driver, a rotation detection circuit configured to detect rotation of the rotor, and a second driving circuit configured to output a second driving signal selected from plural kinds of the second driving signals with different supply times of the driving current supplied to the coil, and configured to output a correction driving pulse that is preset to the driver when, after outputting the second driving signal, the rotation detection circuit detects that the rotor is not rotating, are included, and a resistance value R[Ω] of the coil and the driving voltage V volts of the stepping motor satisfy 900×V[Ω]≤R[Ω]≤1100×V[Ω], and 1.8 volts≤V≤2.4 volts.
US12158728B2
Disclosed are a method and a system for processing a computer-generated hologram (CGH). The system for processing a CGH includes a CGH generation apparatus and a display apparatus. The CGH generation apparatus repeatedly performs a process of propagating object data from a first depth layer to a second depth layer, changing amplitude data of the object data to second predefined amplitude data, back-propagating the object data from the second depth layer to the first depth layer, and changing the amplitude data of the object data to first predefined amplitude data, and generates a CGH by using the object data.
US12158726B2
A pop-up floating type hologram system mounted on a vehicle a pop-up floating module in which a hologram video projected by a video player provided with a skin plate as a vehicle external skin is implemented by a 45° tilted cube of a transparent plate externally exposed through any one of a crush pad, an emblem, an air spoiler, and a mobile holder in a pyramid form or externally exposed through a roof in a reverse pyramid form by the movement by a repulsive force between an electromagnet forming an N pole and a permanent magnet facing the electromagnet as an N pole by a power source supply, hiding the pop-up floating type hologram system using the external skin upon non-operation.
US12158718B2
A fixing apparatus according includes: a heater that includes a substrate, a heating element provided on the substrate, and an electrode provided on the substrate and electrically connected to the heating element; and a power supply member that includes a first member bonded or coupled to the electrode to supply power to the heating element and a second member bonded or coupled to an opposite surface of the first member to a surface, which is bonded or coupled to the electrode, of the first member, wherein the heater generates heat by power supplied via the power supply member, and an image formed on a recording material is heated by heat of the heater; and a liner expansion coefficient of the first member is different from a liner expansion coefficient of the second member.
US12158710B2
An image forming apparatus forms an image on a recording medium and includes a rotatable image bearing member, and a rotatable developer carrying member that carries a developer, forms a developing portion by contacting the image bearing member, and forms a developer image on a surface of the image bearing member by supplying the developer to an electrostatic latent image formed on the surface of the image bearing member in the developing portion. After performing an image forming operation, a controller controls driving of the image bearing member and the developer carrying member to perform a rotation operation for rotating the image bearing member with rotation of the developer carrying member stopped in a state where an amount of carried developer in the developing portion during the rotation operation is smaller than the amount of carried developer in the developing portion during the image forming operation.
US12158708B2
An exposure head includes a first light emitting board group, a first lens array, a second light emitting board group, and a second lens array. The first light emitting board group is disposing a plurality of first light emitting boards each including a plurality of first light emitting elements disposed side by side in a second direction intersecting with the first direction. The plurality of first light emitting boards are disposed along the second direction and alternately in the first direction. The first lens array condenses light emitted from the plurality of first light emitting elements disposed on the first light emitting board group onto the surface of the image bearing member. The second light emitting board group is disposed in a manner separated with respect to the first light emitting board group in the first direction.
US12158705B2
Embodiments herein describe methods, devices, and systems for rupture detection and end-of-life monitoring of dynamic gas lock (DGL) membranes and pupil facet mirrors in lithographic apparatuses. A method for detecting rupture of a dynamic gas lock membrane in a lithographic apparatus includes illuminating the dynamic gas lock membrane with a measurement beam using a radiation source, in which the dynamic gas lock membrane is arranged between a wafer and projection optics of the lithography apparatus, and determining whether any radiation from the measurement beam is reflected from the dynamic gas lock membrane by using reflection collection optics, in which the reflection collection optics are arranged above the dynamic gas lock membrane. A rupture in the dynamic gas lock membrane is detected if no radiation is reflected from the dynamic gas lock membrane. If radiation is reflected from the dynamic gas lock membrane, the dynamic gas lock membrane is not ruptured.
US12158690B2
A camera integrates a magnet at one end of a housing to magnetically attract and attach the camera to a front side of a peripheral display, such as to support a video conference through an information handling system interfaced with the display. Camera position movement at a display panel front face is detected, such as with a touchscreen of the display panel, and accelerometer or an infrared curtain presented from the camera dock along the display panel front face. Audio and visual information communicated from the camera is altered when movement is detected at the camera, such as muting a microphone of the camera and cutting off capture of visual images by the camera module.
US12158689B2
An image capturing apparatus on which an accessory including a first mount is mountable includes a second mount. The second mount is configured to allow bayonet coupling to the first mount of the accessory. The second mount includes a plurality of terminals disposed in a circumferential direction, and a terminal holder configured to hold the plurality of terminals. Each of the plurality of terminals is electrically connectable to a terminal of the accessory. The terminal holder has a height level difference in a center-axis direction of the second mount. The plurality of terminals include a first terminal configured to be used to detect mounting of the accessory on the image capturing apparatus. The first terminal is disposed further in a mount direction of the accessory than the other terminals among the plurality of terminals on a first stage of the terminal holder.
US12158688B2
The present disclosure relates to a camera structure of a terminal device. An accommodating cavity with an opening is disposed in the terminal device. A lift structure body is disposed inside the accommodating cavity and a camera assembly is disposed on a top of the lift structure body. The accommodating cavity is further provided with a lift drive mechanism for driving the lift structure body to protrude or retract the camera assembly out of or into the accommodating cavity via the opening and a rotation drive mechanism for driving the camera assembly to rotate. The camera assembly is mounted insides in the present disclosure. The camera assembly can be hidden inside the terminal device. The camera assembly can perform operations such as lifting and rotation to perform shooting at multiple angles at the same time, thus replacing and expanding the functions of the front and rear cameras.
US12158685B2
A segmented optical modulator includes two optical modulator segments located along a main face of a photonic chip, and two RF transmission lines connected to drive a corresponding one of the two optical modulator segments. A signal electrode of one of the transmission lines includes a segment that is vertically capacitively coupled to a plurality of spaced ground-connected metallic elements disposed in sequence along a length of the segment above or below thereof so as to be capacitively coupled thereto.
US12158681B2
The embodiment of the application provides a display module and a display device. The display module includes a metal back frame and a display panel. The display panel includes a first substrate disposed on the metal back frame and disposed opposite to the first substrate and between the first substrate and the metal back frame. The first substrate includes a substrate and a thin film transistor layer disposed on one side of the substrate close to the second substrate.
US12158680B2
A display device includes a substrate including a display region including three or more divided regions disposed in a first direction on a main surface, a scanning line extending in a first direction, a data line extending in a second direction, a plurality of pixels, and a scanning line connection wiring line extending in the second direction, which are disposed in each divided region, a plurality of data line drive circuits respectively connected to the data lines in each divided region, and a plurality of scanning line drive circuits corresponding to each divided region. The scanning line drive circuits and the data line drive circuits are respectively arrayed in the first direction outside the display region, each of the scanning line connection wiring lines electrically connects the scanning line drive circuit to the scanning line, and the scanning line drive circuit and the data line drive circuit display an image in at least one of the three or more divided regions at a frame frequency different from that in the other divided regions.
US12158679B2
A display device includes a first pixel, a second pixel, and a third pixel arranged in a first direction in a display area arranged on a first substrate, a first source wiring, a second wiring, and a third wiring extending in the first direction, and connected to each of the first pixel to the third pixel, and a first gate wiring, a second gate wiring, and a third wiring intersecting the first direction, and connected to each of the first pixel to the third pixel. The first pixel includes a first transistor electrically connected to the first gate wiring and the first source wiring and a liquid crystal element electrically connected to the first transistor, the first pixel to the third pixel are arranged between the first source wiring and the third source wiring, and the second source wiring, and the first source wiring intersects the third source wiring.
US12158675B2
A display device includes a backlight module and a display panel. The display panel is disposed on the backlight module and includes two substrates, a sensor, and a light-shielding element. The sensor is disposed between the two substrates. The light-shielding element at least partially surrounds the sensor. A height of the light-shielding element is greater than a height of the sensor.
US12158673B2
An electronic apparatus includes: a housing having a backside and lateral sides; a cover window arranged on the housing; a display apparatus arranged under the cover window; a sensor unit arranged under the display apparatus; and a camera unit arranged under the display apparatus. The display apparatus includes: a substrate; a plurality of first electrodes arranged over the substrate; a plurality of emission layers on the plurality of first electrodes; a second electrode overlapping the plurality of first electrodes and the plurality of emission layers; and a shield pattern arranged between the substrate and the plurality of first electrodes, and overlapping the plurality of first electrodes in a plan view; The shield pattern includes a first part and a second part apart from the first part, and the second electrode includes an opening arranged between the first part and the second part in the plan view.
US12158672B2
An array substrate, a manufacturing method thereof, and a display panel are provided. The array substrate includes a substrate layer, an insulating layer, a plurality of first electrodes, and a plurality of second electrodes. The plurality of first electrodes are disposed in the grooves, the plurality of second electrodes are disposed on one side surface of the insulating layer away from the substrate layer and outside the grooves, and the plurality of second electrodes and the plurality of first electrodes are insulated from each other.
US12158665B2
A display device includes a first substrate, a first alignment layer, a second substrate, a second alignment layer, and a display medium. The first alignment layer is disposed on the first substrate. The second substrate is disposed opposite to the first substrate. The second alignment layer is disposed on the second substrate, and the first and second alignment layers are located between the first and second substrates. The display medium is located between the first and second alignment layers, where a surface of the first alignment layer facing the display medium and a surface of the second alignment layer facing the display medium have topographies with irregular areas surrounded by micro-structures. Besides, a manufacturing method of the display device is also provided.
US12158663B2
To provide a light emitting device that is used for a display that is able to display an image having a wider color gamut. This light emitting device includes: a first light source configured to perform an operation of blinking first emission light including first blue light and first red light; and a second light source configured to perform an operation of blinking second emission light independently of the operation of blinking the first emission light by the first light source. The second emission light includes second red light and green light.
US12158661B2
A display device includes a first nitride insulating film arranged on a first substrate, a gate electrode arranged along a first direction on the first nitride insulating film, a second nitride insulating film arranged on the gate electrode, a first oxide insulating film arranged on the second nitride insulating film, and an oxide semiconductor layer arranged on the first oxide insulating film, wherein the gate electrode has a first titanium layer, an aluminum layer, and a second titanium layer stacked in order from the first nitride insulating film side, and a thickness of the second titanium layer is greater than a thickness of the first titanium layer.
US12158656B2
A display device includes a display panel, and a front panel overlapping with the display panel. The front panel includes a first substrate, and a second substrate located on an opposite side of the first substrate with respect to the display panel, the front panel has an active region capable of being switched between a display state in which an image is displayed and a reflection state in which a reflected image is provided, and a frame region around the active region, and a metal layer is arranged in the frame region of the second substrate.
US12158654B2
A polarizing plate and a display device including the same is disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a polarizing plate includes a polarizer which allows only light polarized in a specific direction to pass through; and a haze adhesive film disposed on a one surface of the polarizer and having a haze of 49% to 65%, wherein the haze adhesive film is configured to adhere to the display device, and reduce moire occurring in the dual cell structure of the display device.
US12158648B2
A display device including: a housing including a first vent through which external air is introduced and a second vent through which the introduced external air flows out; a display panel disposed inside the housing and configured to transmit an image forward; a first flow path formed inside the housing; a first blower configured to exchange heat with the display panel and generate an airflow flowing in the first cooling flow path; a second cooling flow path intersecting the first cooling flow path in communication with the first vent and the second vent and formed inside the housing; a second blower configured to generate an airflow flowing in the second cooling flow path; and a heat exchanger positioned behind the display panel, wherein the heat exchanger includes a first channel in which a part of the first cooling flow path is formed and a second channel intersecting the first channel and in which a part of the second cooling flow path is formed.
US12158642B2
A display panel includes a plurality of pixel units. At least one pixel unit includes a display region and an anti-peep region. The anti-peep region includes a first light-blocking layer and a second light-blocking layer. The first light-blocking layer is on a side of the second light-blocking layer facing a light-exiting surface of the display panel. Along a direction perpendicular to the light-exiting surface of the display panel, a distance between the first light-blocking layer and the second light-blocking layer is greater than zero. Along a fifth direction, the first light-blocking layer includes a plurality of first light-blocking strips and a plurality of first openings. A first opening is arranged between two neighboring first light-blocking strips. The fifth direction is parallel to the light-exiting surface of the display panel. Along the fifth direction, the second light-blocking layer includes a plurality of second light-blocking strips and a plurality of second openings.
US12158634B2
This application provides an optical lens, a camera module, and a terminal. The optical lens includes a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element, and a sixth lens element in sequence from an object side to an image side; and each lens element of the optical lens satisfies the following relations: 0.2≤BFL/TTL≤0.6, and 0.2≤TTL1/MIC≤0.5. Therefore, the optical lens has an improved back focal length BFL and a small total on-axis thickness TTL1 of the plurality of lens elements while achieving high imaging performance. Further, a thickness of the terminal can also be reduced.
US12158631B2
The present invention provides a camera module includes a lens assembly comprising a liquid lens and at least one solid lens disposed above or below the liquid lens, the liquid lens comprising a plurality of individual electrodes and a common electrode; a driving driver configured to supply a voltage through the common electrode and at least one of the plurality of individual electrodes in the liquid lens in order to control an interface of the liquid lens; a capacitance measurement circuit configured to measure capacitance between the common electrode and at least one of the plurality of individual electrodes in the liquid lens; an operation state storage unit configured to store information on capacitance that varies depending on variation in temperature in the liquid lens; and a control unit to determine a temperature in the liquid lens based on the capacitance measured by the capacitance measurement circuit and the information.
US12158628B2
A fiber module is disclosed with an improved design that creates at least two work areas for managing fiber within the module body by including a work area floor that partitions the interior of the module to define at least two work areas. Each of the work areas includes their own fiber management equipment, as well as fiber routing elements for managing a length of slack fiber within each of the work areas. By segmenting the interior of the module into the multiple work spaces, the module described herein is more efficient when managing larger numbers of fibers.
US12158626B2
An optical module includes a shell, a circuit board, a light source, and a silicon optical chip. The circuit board is located in the shell, a hollow portion is provided in the circuit board, and the hollow portion penetrates the circuit board. The light source includes at least one laser assembly, and the at least one laser assembly is mounted on the shell and is located in the hollow portion, and the at least one laser assembly is electrically connected to the circuit board. The silicon optical chip is mounted on the shell and is located in the hollow portion. The silicon optical chip is electrically connected to the circuit board and is connected to the light source.
US12158624B2
An optical coupler includes: a plurality of waveguide core layers that are (i) stacked vertically one over another, (ii) spaced apart vertically one from another and (iii) extending from a light receiving end of the optical coupler longitudinally through the optical coupler to a light output end of the optical coupler, wherein each of the plurality of waveguide core layers includes a plurality of distinct waveguide paths extending from the light receiving end of the optical coupler along a length of the optical coupler; and a cladding formed from a cladding material cladding material surrounding each of the plurality of waveguide core layers. Light propagating within outer ones of the plurality of waveguide core layers is directed toward an interior one of the plurality of waveguide core layers via evanescent coupling between adjacent ones of the plurality of waveguide core layers.
US12158620B2
A field installable fiber optic connector for use with polymer optical fibers includes a housing that releasably connects to another optical device. A mechanical termination assembly is located in the housing to mechanically terminate a plurality of individual fibers of the polymer optical fibers. Ferrules are supported by the housing. Each ferrule is positioned to receive one of the individual fibers from the mechanical termination assembly.
US12158612B2
Gratings may be used in waveguides. Deep surface relief gratings (SRGs) may offer many advantages over conventional SRGs, an important one being a higher S-diffraction efficiency. Deep SRGs can be implemented as polymer surface relief gratings or evacuated periodic structures (EPSs). EPSs can be formed by first recording a holographic polymer dispersed liquid crystal (HPDLC) periodic structure. Removing the liquid crystal from the cured periodic structure provides a polymer surface relief grating. Polymer surface relief gratings have many applications including for use in waveguide-based displays.
US12158606B2
A closure for an apparatus comprises: a plurality of light sources; a lightguide to distribute light from the plurality of light sources, the lightguide having a first primary surface opposite a second primary surface, wherein the first primary surface has a first surface treatment, and wherein light emitted from the lightguide indicates a status of the apparatus; and a frame supporting the plurality of light sources and the lightguide for selective movement of the closure vertically or horizontally relative to the apparatus.
US12158605B2
Embodiments described herein provide for methods of forming optical device structures. The methods utilize rotation of a substrate, to have the optical device structures formed thereon, and tunability of etch rates of a patterned resist disposed over the substrate and one of a device layer or the substrate to form the optical device structures without multiple lithographic patterning steps and angled etch steps.
US12158603B2
Disclosed are a backlight module and a display device. The backlight module includes a backplate, a led-bar, a light guide plate and an optical sheet group; wherein the led-bar includes a plurality of light sources disposed towards the light entrance surface of the light guide plate; the light exit surface and the light entrance surface of the light guide plate are adjacent; a portion of the light exit surface of the light guide plate near the light entrance surface is provided with a step structure in which heights of steps gradually decrease in a first direction; the optical sheet group includes a plurality of optical sheets stacked on the side where the light exit surface of the light guide plate is located, and each of the optical sheets is fixed to a corresponding step in the step structure.
US12158595B2
The dual camera module according to an embodiment comprises: a first lens assembly comprising a first liquid lens; and a second lens assembly comprising a second liquid lens, the first and second liquid lenses each comprising a cavity, conductive and non-conductive liquids disposed in the cavity, first and second electrodes, and an insulating layer disposed as to cover at least a part of the first electrode along an inner surface defining the cavity, wherein the insulating layer of the first liquid lens and that of the second liquid lens may have different thicknesses.
US12158578B2
A vehicle glazing and display system includes a vehicle compound glazing unit including a layer or surface which diffusely reflects incident light directed to the glazing unit from the interior of the vehicle and having a maximum gain in the range of 0.1 to 0.8 and a viewing angle for a real image element generated within the glazing plane of more than 60°, in a first direction and of more than 30°, in a second direction, perpendicular to the first direction, and a projector for projecting an image to the vehicle glazing unit to generate a real image in the plane of the glazing unit and wherein the vehicle compound glazing unit is a windshield.
US12158576B2
Systems and methods for mitigating and reducing contamination of one or more components of overlay inspection systems are disclosed. Specifically, embodiments of the present disclosure may utilize a counterflow of purge gas through a counterflow nozzle to reduce the presence of contaminants within one or more portions of an inspection system. The system may include a source chamber, one or more vacuum chambers, an intermediate focus housing having an aperture, an illumination source configured to generate and direct illumination through the aperture in an illumination direction, and a counterflow nozzle configured to direct a counterflow of purge gas into the source chamber in a direction opposite the illumination direction.
US12158571B2
An imaging system configured to transform a lateral scan motion into axial refocusing, thus enabling aberration free remote focusing. In one embodiment, the imaging system provides aberration free remote focusing by causing a beam of light to be scanned over a stationary mirror having a variable height in the scan direction, thereby causing the beam of light to be defocused in an axial direction in the return direction (e.g., the direction of propagation for the reflected beam of light). By configuring the back-reflected light resulting from the lateral scan component as described herein, a pure axial scan motion may be obtained at the rate of the employed (lateral) scanning technology (e.g., a GSM). This capability allows the imaging system of the present inventive concept to leverage rapid lateral scan technologies to produce rapid axial displacement of the axial focus of the beam of light.
US12158569B2
A laser beam circulator includes a first mirror and a second mirror. The first and second mirrors are symmetric with respect to an axis therebetween. The circulator also includes a sample that is substantially planar. The axis extends through the sample. The sample is oriented at an angle with respect to a plane that is perpendicular to the axis. The angle is from about 0.1° to about 10°. The circulator also includes a laser configured to emit a laser beam that circulates multiple times from the second mirror to the sample to the first mirror and back to the second mirror. The laser beam passes through the sample during each circulation. The sample absorbs a portion of the laser beam each time the laser beam passes through the sample.
US12158567B2
Provided are: a zoom lens including, in order from an object side, a positive first lens group, a negative second lens group, an intermediate group as a whole, a negative lens group, and a rear group, wherein the intermediate group includes, in order from an object side, a first positive lens subgroup including one or two positive lenses, a first negative lens subgroup including only one cemented lens, a second negative lens subgroup including a negative lens with a concave surface facing an object, and a second positive lens subgroup including one or two positive lenses, the cemented lens constituting the first negative lens subgroup has at least one cemented surface with a convex surface facing an object, and a lens, closest to an image, of the second positive lens subgroup is a positive lens; and an imaging apparatus including the zoom lens.
US12158564B2
The present invention discloses a camera optical lens including, from an object side to an image side in sequence, a first lens having a positive refractive power, a second lens having refractive power, a third lens having a negative refractive power, a fourth lens having a positive refractive power, and a fifth lens having a negative refractive power. The camera optical lens satisfies the following conditions: 1.20≤f1/f≤3.00, −8.00≤f5/f≤−2.00, 3.00≤d5/d6≤10.00, and −1.00≤(R3+R4)/(R3−R4)≤0. The camera optical lens according to the present invention has excellent optical characteristics, such as large aperture, wide angle, and ultra-thin.
US12158559B2
A pest detection device including a capacitive sensor having a plurality of traces that can be capacitively sensed using self-capacitance or mutual capacitance measurements. The sensor including conductive shield traces to facilitate a number of sensing applications. The sensor including a coated portion to facilitate crawling of pests over the sensing area of the circuit board.
US12158557B2
A method for predicting a deep geothermal field based on a temperature, pressure, and resistivity coupling constraint includes: equally dividing logging resistivity-overburden pressure-temperature data of m boreholes in a study area into N formations on a depth basis, and normalizing resistivity in each formation; deducing an accurate relationship characterization between a normalized resistivity, a temperature and a pressure in different formations of different formations; inverting an electromagnetic data volume in the study area to obtain a resistivity distribution characteristic, equally dividing an inverted resistivity into M formations, and normalizing the inverted resistivity into a normalized inverted resistivity; inverting a density distribution based on gravity observation data, and converting the density distribution into an overburden pressure; and calculating a distribution characteristic of a deep underground temperature field based on the accurate relationship characterization in different formations, the normalized inverted resistivity, and the overburden pressure.
US12158556B2
Systems and methods to assess formation data are disclosed. The method includes partitioning a formation containing a plurality of rock types into a plurality of sections. For a section of the plurality of sections, the method also includes determining, for each rock type of the plurality of rock types, a probability that the rock type is present in the section. The method further includes assigning a value to the section of the plurality of sections based on a probability that the section contains one or more rock types of the plurality of rock types. The method further includes analyzing the formation based on the value associated with the section.
US12158555B2
A method can include acquiring data associated with a field operation in a geologic environment; processing the data by partitioning operationally and representing symbolically; formulating a symbolic query for an operating procedure specification; performing a search of the symbolically represented data utilizing the symbolic query and a probabilistic chain model; receiving a search result responsive to the search; assessing compliance with the operation procedure specification utilizing the search result; and issuing a control signal to field equipment utilizing the assessment of compliance.
US12158545B2
Embodiments discussed herein refer to using LiDAR systems for steering consecutive light pulses using micro electro-mechanical system (MEMS) to illuminate objects in a field of view. Embodiments discussed herein also refer to using a multiple lens array to process returned light pulses.
US12158542B2
The present technology relates to a light-receiving element and a distance-measuring module for enabling improvement of characteristics. A light-receiving element includes an on-chip lens, a wiring layer, and a semiconductor layer arranged between the on-chip lens and the wiring layer, the semiconductor layer includes a first voltage application portion to which a first voltage is applied, a second voltage application portion to which a second voltage different from the first voltage is applied, a first charge detection portion arranged around the first voltage application portion, and a second charge detection portion arranged around the second voltage application portion, and the wiring layer includes at least one ground line having a wider line width than a power supply line. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a light-receiving element that generates distance information by a ToF method.
US12158541B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to radar-based signaling for detecting, measuring, and/or characterizing a target object. An electronic device may transmit a plurality of detection signals and receive a plurality of reflection signals reflected from the target object. The electronic device then processes the plurality of reflection signals to extract one or more parameters of the target object. Based on the reflection signals, the device can measure and/or characterize the target object, e.g., to obtain a heart rate and/or breathing rate. In other examples, the device may determine whether the reflection signals indicate human vital signs, such as a heart rate or breathing. The electronic device may then adjust at least one transmission parameter based on whether human vital signs are detected at the target object, and transmit the adjusted signal using the transmission parameter. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also claimed and described.
US12158538B2
A system for unsupervised radar calibration of a vehicle is contemplated. The system may include a radar having a plurality of antennas configured to transmit radar signals and responsively receive reflected signals. The system may further include a calibration controller configured to determine a plurality of detections from the reflected signals corresponding with unsupervised objects in the vicinity of the vehicle, and based on the detections, to generate a calibration matrix sufficient for calibrating the radar.
US12158537B2
A radar device includes: a transmission unit; a reception unit; an interference signal processing unit that cancels an influence of an interference signal from a beat signal; and an object detection unit that detects the object based on the beat signal. The interference signal processing unit includes: a digital converter that converts the beat signal into a time sample; a multiple resolution analysis unit that converts the time sample into time-frequency plots; an interference plot detection unit that detects an interference plot; an interference cancellation unit that cancels the influence of the interference signal; and a reverse converter that reverse converts the time-frequency plots into the time sample. The object detection unit detects the object using the reversely converted time sample.
US12158519B2
Example embodiments relate to self-reflection filtering techniques within radar data. A computing device may use radar data to determine a first radar representation that conveys information about surfaces in a vehicle's environment. The computing device may use a predefined model to generate a second radar representation that assigns predicted self-reflection values to respective locations of the environment based on the information about the surfaces conveyed by the first radar representation. The predefined model can enable a predefined self-reflection value to be assigned to a first location based on information about a surface positioned at a second location and a relationship between the first location and the second location. The computing device may then modify the first radar representation based on the predicted self-reflection values in the second radar representation and provide instructions to a control system of the vehicle based on modifying the first radar representation.
US12158518B2
Systems and methods for resolving elevation ambiguity include acquiring, using a 1-D horizontal radar antenna array, a radar frame with range and azimuth information, and predicting a target elevation based on the frame by computing a depth map with a plurality of target depths assigned to corresponding azimuth-elevation pairs. Computing the depth map includes processing the radar frame with an encoder-decoder structured deep convolutional neural network (CNN). The CNN may be trained with a dataset including training radar frames acquired in a number of environments, and compensated ground truth depth maps associated with those environments. The compensated ground truth depth maps may be generated by subtracting a ground-depth from a corresponding ground truth depth map. The ground truth depth maps may be acquired with a 2-D range sensor, such as a LiDAR sensor, a 2-D radar sensor, and/or an IR sensor. The radar frame may also include Doppler data.
US12158500B2
A system, comprising: a plurality of first latches; a compressor circuit, coupled to the first latches, configured to compress an first signal having X bits from the first latches to a second signal having Y bits, wherein X and Y are positive integers and X is larger than Y; and at least one second latch, coupled to the compressor circuit, configured to receive the second signal to generate a scan output, wherein each of the first latches and the second latch forms a D flip flop. The system outputs the first signal but none of the scan output in a normal mode, and outputs the scan output but none of the first signal in a test mode.
US12158499B2
An integrated circuit device includes an n-bit register comprising: a plurality of latches and at least one flip-flop, and clock gating circuitry, which includes a clock signal coupled to the latches and the flip-flop. Each latch comprises a latch gating terminal configured to receive a gating signal, wherein a respective latch is configured to receive the gating signal that either corresponds to the clock signal or is determined according to a logical operation including the clock signal such that a transparency for each respective latch is controlled in dependence upon a level of the gating signal. The integrated circuit device is configured to operate in a scan test mode, wherein during a scan shift operation, an input signal terminal of the flip-flop is configured to receive a test input signal and the flip-flop is configured to load the test input signal to an output signal terminal of the flip-flop.
US12158494B2
In an automatic test system, a test computer of a kind of test equipment communicates with a loading-and-unloading computer of a kind of loading-and-unloading equipment. The loading-and-unloading equipment automatically loads a plurality of target devices on a plurality of test carriers according to the state of the test equipment, and the test equipment automatically tests the target devices loaded on the test carriers according to the state of the loading-and-unloading equipment. In addition, after the test is completed, the loading-and-unloading equipment automatically unloads the tested target devices from the test carriers, and automatically sorts the tested target devices according to the test results generated by the test equipment.
US12158492B2
Second Harmonic Generation (SHG) can be used to interrogate a surface such as a surface of a layered semiconductor structure on a semiconductor wafer. In some instances, SHG is used to evaluate an interfacial region such as between metal and oxide. Various parameters such as input polarization, output polarization, and azimuthal angle of incident beam, may affect the SHG signal. Accordingly, such parameters are varied for different types of patterns on the wafer. SHG metrology on various test structures may also assist in characterizing a sample.
US12158490B2
A front-end device for monitoring operation of an associated electric power device with semiconductor power switches generating a power output, e.g. a three-phase power output. The front-end device has input terminals arranged for connection to the electric phase(s) of the power output of the associated electric power device, and an electric circuit connected to the input terminals and connected to at set of output terminals. The electric circuit has a passive interconnection comprising electric semiconductor switches and diodes. The electric circuit serves to electrically block any high voltage component from the input terminals from reaching the output terminals, while allowing an on-state voltage of at least one semiconductor power switch in the associated electric power device to pass to the at least two output terminals. The front-end allows low voltage equipment to be connected to its output terminals for determining an on-state voltage of switches of the electric power device. Especially, embodiments with self-powered reference voltage circuits provided by zener diodes allow compact low cost versions for use in e.g. portable test equipment or as part of permanently installed health condition monitoring of power devices. The front-end device can be used as a simple and low cost solution for non-invasive health condition monitoring of power devices, e.g. power converters in such as power electric generation system or electric vehicles. Such monitoring allows predictive maintenance to be performed to avoid any faults in the power device that may cause permanent damages.
US12158487B2
A vehicle power supply circuit monitoring system and a vehicle power supply circuit monitoring method are provided. The vehicle power supply circuit monitoring system is adapted to a vehicle power supply and a vehicle load device, and includes a power monitoring circuit and a control circuit. The power monitoring circuit is electrically connected to the vehicle power supply and the control circuit. The power monitoring circuit monitors two different input load powers at two different time points. The control circuit calculates an external power loop equivalent impedance according to the two different input load powers. When the external power loop equivalent impedance is greater than a designed impedance threshold, the control circuit executes a warning procedure.
US12158480B2
An inspection jig includes a rod-shaped probe, a first support portion that supports one end portion side of the probe, a second support portion that supports the other end portion side of the probe, and a separation holding member that holds the first support portion and the second support portion to be separated from each other. The first support portion includes a support plate in which a through hole through which the probe is inserted is formed. A reinforcing plate having bending strength stronger than that of the support plate is disposed on a surface of the support plate facing the second support portion.
US12158477B2
A cartridge capable of a centrifugation and an automatic analysis according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: at least two or more sample wells, a centrifugation well, a measuring well, and a tip receiving well, in which a container is formed into a lower portion along a circumference of a circular plate with a predetermined interval, wherein the centrifugation well is sealed with one lid paper along with at least two or more of the sample wells, a blood injection unit is further formed inside of a radius direction for the centrifugation well, the blood injection unit has an outer blood injection hole formed to be spaced inside the centrifugation well in the radius direction, an inclined passage that communicates with the centrifugation well from the outer blood injection hole, and a cover integrally attached to the outer blood injection hole to open and close the blood injection hole.
US12158470B2
Disclosed herein are ATP biosensor fusion proteins and their use for assaying ATP levels in cells.
US12158466B2
The present invention relates to a method for determining the total amount and/or concentration of an analyte in the presence of a binding molecule as well as kits, compositions and uses relating thereto.
US12158463B2
Disclosed is an ex vivo model for subcutaneous injection and aims at providing an in vitro method including the steps of i) immersing a skin explant in a solidifiable liquid matrix such that the upper face of the epidermis is not covered, which matrix is itself contained in a cell culture insert, the bottom of which consists of a porous membrane, and (ii) solidifying this matrix so as to trap the immersed portion of this skin explant, wherein the upper face of the epidermis is not covered, and adhering this same matrix to the side walls and the porous membrane of the insert, wherein the skin explant includes a thickness of at least 5 mm of hypodermis.
US12158451B2
Provided is a repeated moment generation device that includes: a principal shaft; principal bearing members; lever members; principal eccentric weight rotors; auxiliary eccentric weight rotors; and drive means (such as a motor) for causing the principal eccentric weight rotors and the auxiliary eccentric weight rotors to synchronously rotate. Eccentricity directions of the principal eccentric weight rotors are different from each other by 180 degrees around shaft centers of shaft bodies thereof, eccentricity directions of the auxiliary eccentric weight rotors are different from each other by 180 degrees around shaft centers of shaft bodies thereof, and the eccentricity direction of the principal eccentric weight rotor and the eccentricity direction of the auxiliary weight rotor located on the same side as the principal eccentric weight rotor with respect to the principal shaft 1 are different from each other by 180 degrees around the shaft centers of the shaft bodies thereof.
US12158450B2
A system and method are provided for applying mechanical strain to a specimen of tissues and/or cells, for measuring the deformation of the specimen caused by the mechanical strain and for recording the deformation history for the specimen. The system comprises a specimen holder configured to hold a specimen and a strain-inducing apparatus coupled to the specimen holder and configured to apply a straining displacement of a preselected magnitude in at least a first preselected direction to the specimen to strain the specimen in a preselected manner. A measurement tool of the system measures the deformation of the specimen caused by the mechanical strain and a recording tool of the system records the deformation history for the specimen in memory.
US12158447B2
A wear monitoring method of a polymer thrust bearing based on an ultrasonic reflection coefficient amplitude spectrum (URCAS), includes: selecting a corresponding delay block probe based on a material of a to-be-tested bearing, and setting corresponding parameters of a pulse generator; after collecting a primary echo from a surface of the delay block probe as a reference signal, placing the delay block probe in a designated region on a back of the to-be-tested bearing, and collecting time-domain echo signals from upper and lower surfaces of the bearing; establishing a propagation model of an ultrasonic signal in a polymer bearing, and calculating a theoretical URCAS based on the propagation model; calculating a measured URCAS; and constructing an objective function, and solving the objective function by using a differential evolution algorithm. A plurality of parameters of the polymer bearing is solved to meet a requirement for wear monitoring by adopting the method.
US12158445B2
A method of synthesizing an oligonucleotide using a nanofluidic device including a plurality of nanopore channels, a plurality of electrodes, and an electrolyte solution, includes coupling a primer to an inner wall of a nanopore channel of the plurality of nanopore channels, the primer having a protecting group. The method also includes applying a voltage to an electrode of the plurality of electrodes that corresponds to the nanopore channel to produce an acid from the electrolyte solution at the electrode. The electrode includes an anode and a cathode disposed at opposite sides of the nanopore channel. The method further includes the acid removing the protecting group from the primer. Moreover, the method includes coupling a nucleotide to the primer with the protecting group removed to form an intermediate product. In addition, the method includes repeating the steps on the intermediate product until the oligonucleotide is synthesized.
US12158440B2
A sensor device includes a first sensor including a heating element configured to heat up the first sensor in a controllable manner and a second sensor thermally coupled to the heating element of the first sensor such that the heating element is further configured to heat up the second sensor in a controllable manner.
US12158434B2
In an embodiment, a system includes: a broadband light source; a wafer with a first side facing the broadband light source; a first light sensor configured to detect reflected light from the broadband light source emanating from the first side; a second light sensor configured to detect emergent light emanating from a second side of the wafer opposite the first side, wherein the emergent light originates from the broadband light source; and a detector module configured to analyze the reflected light and the emergent light to identify wafer defects.
US12158432B2
A method includes: accessing a first selection of a first test variable; based on the selection, photocuring a first test build by varying a value of the first test variable over a first set of test regions; accessing a first set of measurements of the first test build; calculating a target range of the first test variable based on the first set of measurements; accessing a second selection of a second test variable; based on the second selection, photocuring a second test build by varying a value of the second test variable over a second set of test regions while maintaining a target value of the first test variable within the target range of the first test variable; accessing a second set of measurements of the second test build; and calculating a second target range of the second test variable based on the second set of measurements.
US12158415B2
A system for real-time spectrographic analysis for automatically identifying contaminants in water comprising: a spectrometer configured to process electromagnetic radiation emitted by a plasma created between a solid electrode and a liquid electrode; and a control node operatively connected to the spectrometer, the control node comprising a processor and a memory on which are stored machine-readable instructions that when executed by the processor, cause the processor to acquire spectroscopic data from the spectrometer and to analyze the spectroscopic data to determine concentration levels of contaminants in the water sample.
US12158410B2
The present disclosure relates to a real-time quantification method of cell viability through a supravital dye uptake using a lens-free imaging system. The method includes a step of incubating a sample cell in a cell culture medium, steps of detecting light penetrating the cell culture medium and identifying a boundary region of the sample cell at a preset time interval based on the detected light, a step of staining the incubated sample cell with the supravital dye, a step of detecting intensity of light penetrating the cell culture medium at a preset time interval, a step of calculating absorbance of the sample cell included in the cell culture medium at a preset time interval based on the boundary region and the detected intensity of light and a step of analyzing a viability of the sample cell based on the calculated absorbance.
US12158403B2
Devices and methods for use in extraction procedures of analytes (organic and inorganic, including heavy metals) from matrices (e.g., complex matrices) in various fields (e.g., biological, clinical, chemical, environmental, toxicological, and forensic) are provided. The device can comprise a support structure acting as a rigid and stable support for extraction materials that can be inserted thereinto. The device can comprise a plurality of windows in the support structure through which the extraction materials can be exposed. The device can include two portions that can join together (e.g., using an interlocking system).
US12158399B2
Provided herein are compositions including a CaMKK2 inhibitor and an anti-cancer therapeutic agent and methods of treating cancer in a subject by administering a therapeutically effective amount of the composition to a subject. The subject may be selected for treatment based on an immune cell measurement of a sample from the subject. Methods of treating cancer by administering a therapeutically effective amount of a CaMKK2 inhibitor, and administering a therapeutically effective amount of an anti-cancer therapeutic agent to the subject are also provided. Kits including combination of a CaMKK2 inhibitor and another anti-cancer therapeutic agent are also provided.
US12158395B2
A system for detecting a leak in a building layer comprising a plurality of dual foil insulation panels arranged to cover at a base building surface, each panel including: an insulating body and upper and lower conductive layers covering, respectively, upper and lower surfaces of the insulating body. The system comprising: a plurality of upper electrodes formed by respective rows of electrically interconnected upper conductive layers of the panels; a plurality of lower electrodes formed by respective transverse rows of electrically interconnected lower conductive layers of the panels; and a control circuitry configured to: apply a voltage between the upper and lower electrodes to measure an electrical property therebetween; and detect the presence of a leak within the building layer based on a measurement of the electrical property between the upper and lower electrodes.
US12158394B2
An assembly is provided for an aircraft. This aircraft assembly includes a fuselage and a second system. The fuselage includes a wall and a hatch configured to close an opening in the wall. The sensor system includes an optical fiber, a transmitter and a receiver. The optical fiber is arranged at an interface between the hatch and the wall. The transmitter is configured to transmit first electromagnetic radiation into the optical fiber. The receiver is configured to detect second electromagnetic radiation received from the optical fiber to provide receiver data. The sensor system is configured to detect fluid leakage across the interface between the hatch and the wall based on the receiver data.
US12158383B2
A package-type flow sensor includes a flow sensor chip having a sensor part configured to detect a flow of fluid, a package including a flat board part, forming an accommodating chamber configured to accommodate the flow sensor chip, and a connection terminal, provided on an outer surface of the board part, and connected to an external board. Further, in this package-type flow sensor, the board part is provided with a first vent hole communicating to inside and outside of the accommodating chamber, the package is provided with a second vent hole communicating to the inside and the outside of the accommodating chamber, at a position different from the board part, and the flow sensor chip is disposed on a flow passage of the fluid formed by the first vent hole and the second vent hole.
US12158373B2
A Brillouin modality can be supplemented by an auxiliary modality, such as an optical imaging modality or a spectroscopy modality. In some embodiments, the auxiliary modality can be used to guide the Brillouin measurement to a desired region of interest, so that acquisition times for the Brillouin measurement can be reduced as compared to interrogating the entire sample. The auxiliary modality may have an acquisition speed faster than that of the Brillouin modality. In some embodiment, the auxiliary modality determines a composition of materials within a voxel in the sample interrogated by the Brillouin modality. Using the information provided by the auxiliary modality, the Brillouin signatures corresponding to the materials within the voxel can be unmixed, thereby providing a more accurate measurement of the sample.
US12158370B2
The number of articles in a weighing pan of a multihead weigher is to be determined. A set of weight distributions including a first weight distribution and a second weight distribution are defined. The first weight distribution representing a weight distribution of a first integer number of articles, and the second weight distribution representing a weight distribution of a second integer number of articles. The weight of the articles in the weighing pan is compared to the first weight distribution, and the second weight distribution respectively—the number of articles corresponding to the first integer number when the weight being inside said first weight distribution, and to the second integer number when the weight being inside said second weight distribution.
US12158364B2
An on-site calibration method of an ultrasonic flowmeter based on acoustic velocity detection includes: collecting layered water temperature measured values of respective acoustic channels of the ultrasonic flowmeter, to obtain abnormal data of the layered water temperature measured values; and based on an abnormal acoustic channel corresponding to the abnormal data, calibrating the abnormal acoustic channel of the ultrasonic flowmeter through acquiring a layered line flow velocity. The calibration method aims at practical problems such as accuracy calibration of stock equipment in-use, and technical updating and iteration of ultrasonic flowmeter based on acoustic velocity detection, and proposes an ideological system of three key technologies, namely, direct measurement and indirect measurement technology, laboratory comparison and real flow comparison technology, and measurement uncertainty combine technology, which makes the inspection of the massive flow rate and high precision transit-time ultrasonic flowmeter develop towards the direction of no submission for inspection.
US12158363B2
Methods of measuring an anomaly, any induced change in physical parameters such as strain, temperature, and so forth, in an optical fiber. One method may include launching a plurality of probe pulses from a probe source; recording a Brillouin scattering spectrum from a plurality of reflection signals generated in the optical fiber, responsive to the plurality of probe pulses; determining a relative motion between the optical fiber and the anomaly during the recording the Brillouin back-scattering spectrum; and dynamically adjusting the Brillouin back-scattering spectrum according to the relative motion, or performing an adjustment of the Brillouin back-scattering spectrum after acquisition of the Brillouin back-scattering spectrum.
US12158358B2
A vehicle leveling device for ensuring that a vehicle is level for calibration of sensors that are installed on the vehicle is presented. A lifting jack is placed under each of the vehicle's wheels and a mounting clamp is mounted to each wheel. Each mounting clamp has a sizing frame having two ends, a clamping member slidably mounted upon each end of the sizing frame and a pair of pivotally mounted engagement hooks. A support member mounted central to the sizing frame that supports an indicator that allows a level reading to be taken. The lifting jacks may be actuated under each of the vehicle's wheels as needed the ever level indicator reads the same indicating that each wheel is coplanar and the vehicle is level.
US12158350B2
A computer-implemented method and computer program product for directing a driver of an electric vehicle to a point of interest and a charging station in close proximity to the point of interest. The method includes the steps of: (a) receiving from a user a requested activity of interest; (b) identifying one or more points of interest matching the requested activity of interest and that are within a pre-determined point of interest range from the electric vehicle; (c) identifying charging stations within a pre-determined station distance from each of the identified points of interest; and (d) presenting to the user the identified points of interest having an identified charging station within the pre-determined station distance. The computer program is configured to perform the aforementioned steps.
US12158345B2
A method for estimating a precise position of a vehicle on a map includes acquiring at least one geolocated position of the vehicle by way of a geolocation system, pre-positioning the vehicle on the map, and particle filtering in which possible positions of the vehicle, called particles are processed. The particle filtering includes distributing particles on the map, and then updating the particles on the map, calculating the likelihood of each particle, selecting a limited set of particles, and, if an indicator relating to the likelihood of the selected particles and to the number of selected particles drops below a threshold, resampling particles on the map.
US12158343B2
A video control device includes a processor and a memory including a program that, when executed, causes the processor to perform operations including: obtaining a position of a vehicle determined by a satellite positioning system; obtaining an estimated position of the vehicle estimated based on dead reckoning; estimating a deviation in an orientation of the vehicle, based on the position of the vehicle determined by the satellite positioning system and the estimated position of the vehicle estimated based on the dead reckoning; calculating an estimated orientation of the vehicle, based on the deviation in the orientation of the vehicle estimated; and outputting the estimated orientation of the vehicle to a video display device that displays information which is based on the orientation of the vehicle.
US12158337B2
An apparatus for measuring a dimension of a freight item. The apparatus includes an elongate gauge member having a sequence of machine-readable codes visible along its length. Each of the machine-readable codes represents a length value corresponding to a position along the gauge member. The apparatus also includes a marker device, movable along the gauge member, for designating a selected position. The marker device includes a machine-readable reference symbol on an external surface thereof, with the reference symbol being located on the marker device such that in use the reference symbol on the marker device and a subset of the machine-readable codes on the gauge member are simultaneously visible. In a preferred embodiment the elongate gauge member includes a coilable tape and the marker device includes a housing within which the coilable tape is enclosed. A system including the measuring apparatus together with a mobile computing device is also disclosed.
US12158335B2
A method for determining an edge profile of a custom decorative article to be installed in an installation area is disclosed, the installation area having a perimeter having a plurality of corners. A computing device receives data indicative of a plurality of coordinates corresponding to the plurality of corners of the perimeter of the installation area. Based on at least first, second, and third coordinates respectively corresponding to first, second, and third corners of the plurality of corners of the perimeter of the installation area, the computing device determines dimensional and/or geometric characteristics of a pair of opposed portions of the edge profile that, in an installed position, are configured to meet to form a corner of the custom decorative article when installed at the second corner of the perimeter of the installation area.
US12158325B1
Switchless sensing is provided to control electronic devices of the type associated with deterrent devices.
US12158311B2
A fin of a heat exchanger includes: a substrate including aluminum or an aluminum alloy, the substrate including a plurality of holes or a plurality of cutout portions in which a plurality of heat transfer tubes are to be disposed respectively; and an organic layer disposed on an end face of the substrate.
US12158306B2
A furnace has a melting chamber with a periphery defined by a surrounding wall structure. The furnace is provided with a purge system configured to direct inert gas to flow downward in the melting chamber in the configuration of a curtain that adjoins the wall structure and reaches only partially around the periphery of the melting chamber.
US12158305B2
Method for cooling a heating element of an electric heater in a thermal process cycle comprising the steps of cooling the heating element at a first cooling rate from a first temperature to a second temperature and cooling the heating element at a second cooling rate from the second temperature to a third temperature, wherein the second cooling rate is faster than the first cooling rate.
US12158302B2
Described herein are apparatuses and systems related to at-shore liquefaction of natural gas. The at-shore water-based apparatuses can include a hull, an air-cooled electrically-driven refrigeration system (“AER System”), a plurality of liquefied natural gas (“LNG”) storage tanks that are on a lower deck of the hull, and a closed loop ballast system. The closed loop ballast system can include a ballast fluid to assist in stabilizing the water-based apparatus moored to an at-shore location without discharging the ballast fluid to water proximate the at-shore location. Systems including an at-shore water-based apparatus can also include a land-based source of electricity and a land-based source of feed gas.
US12158294B2
An air-conditioning apparatus includes a refrigerant circuit including a compressor, a strainer, and an expansion valve, and a controller configured to control the expansion valve in the refrigerant circuit. In the air-conditioning apparatus, in a case where the expansion valve is closed, the controller performs control to close the expansion valve after opening the expansion valve to cause an opening port diameter of the expansion valve to be greater than a mesh diameter of the strainer.
US12158290B2
A compressor is disclosed, including an outer casing and a fluid guide around a cavity within the casing. An inlet is in operative fluid communication with the cavity, and an outlet is also in operative fluid communication with the cavity. A prime mover includes an actuator disposed in the cavity. The actuator includes a surface arranged to receive fluid in the cavity from the inlet, impart compression to received fluid in the cavity, and discharge compressed fluid to the outlet. A surface of the compressor includes a cladding of a second aluminum alloy over a core of a first aluminum alloy, wherein the second aluminum alloy is less noble than the first aluminum alloy and includes an alloying element selected from tin, indium, gallium, or combinations thereof.
US12158287B2
A water heater has one or more heating elements and an internal wall that causes an increased rate of heating within a sub-volume within the water heater tank. Water from the sub-volume is directed to the tank outlet.
US12158283B2
A three-pipe, multi-split system and a control method thereof. The three-pipe multi-split system includes an outdoor unit, a multi-split indoor unit, and a hydraulic module. By optimizing a refrigerant system, the phenomenon that a refrigerant is throttled before flowing through a refrigerant heat dissipation module or supercooled when passing through a plate heat exchanger which causes a relatively low temperature of the refrigerant entering the refrigerant heat dissipation module and consequent condensation on the refrigerant heat dissipation module to produce condensate water and then causes a damage to a compressor frequency conversion module can be avoided. In addition, more refrigerant is caused to flow through the refrigerant heat dissipation module to reduce the temperature of the module.
US12158281B2
A sensor mounting device (100) of the present disclosure includes: a power supply unit (110) configured to generate power that is to be supplied to the device; a sensor (120) configured to acquire information of the environment around of the device; a first control unit (130) configured to give an instruction based on the information acquired by the sensor (120); and a second control unit (150) configured to control the device in accordance with the instruction of the first control unit (130) Power to the sensor (120) and the first control unit (130) is directly supplied from the power supply unit (110). Power to the second control unit (150) is supplied from the power supply unit (110) via a switching unit (140) whose ON/OFF state is controlled by the first control unit (130).
US12158280B2
Provided in the present application are a control system of an air conditioner and an air-conditioning device. The control system of the air conditioner comprises: a main machine control assembly receiving a feedback parameter of a main machine, to adjust, according to the feedback parameter, a water discharge temperature of the main machine; a water pump control assembly, and the water pump control assembly is in communication with the main machine control assembly, to adjust, according to a feedback parameter of the water pump, an operating parameter of a water pump; a cooling tower control assembly, and the cooling tower control assembly is connected to the water pump control assembly, to adjust, according to an environment parameter and a target water discharge temperature, the current water discharge temperature of a cooling tower; and a tail end control assembly.
US12158279B2
An fluid monitoring system can include a filter having an upstream face and a downstream face and defining a form factor, a sensor package arranged within the form factor of the filter to detect at least one quality factor of a surrounding medium, a transmitter electronically coupled to the sensor package and including an antenna for autonomous wireless transmission of the detected fluid quality information, and a power subsystem coupled to the sensor package and the transmitter to provide access to continuous electrical power thereto.
US12158275B2
A hot water supply apparatus includes a hot water supply channel. The hot water supply channel includes a heating section configured to heat water and a tank configured to store the water heated by the heating section. The hot water supply channel is configured to execute a first hot water supply operation in a hot water storage state in which a low-temperature layer, a medium-temperature layer, and a high-temperature layer are formed in the tank. The first hot water supply operation includes heating water in the medium-temperature layer to a first temperature by the heating section and supplying the water heated to a hot water supply target.
US12158259B2
An LED strip light, including: a first signal line, a second power supply wire and a third power supply wire along a first direction as well as a first LED luminous body and a second LED luminous body along a second direction, and the first LED luminous body being electrically connected to the second LED luminous body; a first type of pins of the first LED luminous body and a first type of pins of the second LED luminous body are in a roughly aligned spatial location relationship along the second direction; and moreover, the strip light has any one of the following characteristics: when the first LED luminous body and the second LED luminous body are connected in series, different types of power supply pins are arranged on a same straight line in a staggered manner.
US12158248B2
A light emitting diode, LED, filament arrangement (100) arranged to emit LED filament arrangement light, comprising first and second LED filaments (110a, 110b) arranged to emit first and second LED filament light, respectively, wherein the first and second LED filaments elongate along a first axis, A, and comprise first and second arrays (120a, 120b) of a plurality of first and second LEDs (130a, 130b), a carrier (210) arranged to support the first and second LED filaments, at least one structure (160) arranged to at least partially redirect the first and second LED filament light, wherein the at least one structure is arranged adjacent at least one of the first and second LED filaments, and a controller (180) configured to individually control the operation of the first and second arrays of the plurality of first and second LEDs, respectively.
US12158243B2
The invention relates to a sealed and thermally insulating tank wall comprising a thermally insulating barrier defining a support surface for a sealing membrane, the thermally insulating barrier comprising two adjacent insulating panels jointly delimiting an inter-panel space, the tank wall further comprising an insulating insert arranged in the inter-panel space so as to fill the inter-panel space, the insulating insert comprising an insulating core at least partially covered by a wrapper, the insulating core comprising layered glass wool, the layered glass wool comprising laps of fibers superposed in a direction of layering, the insulating insert being arranged in the inter-panel space in such a way that the direction of layering of the layered glass wool is parallel to a widthwise direction of the inter-panel space.
US12158242B2
A tank for storing liquefied gas, having a shell delimiting a storage volume extending in a main direction which is horizontal in the use configuration of the tank, the tank comprising multiple deflecting walls in the storage volume which extend in an offset manner in the main direction configured to force the fluid to perform at least one back-and-forth movement in the main direction as the fluid passes between the lower end and the upper end of the storage volume, wherein a plurality of these deflecting walls are located in the lower half of the storage volume.
US12158241B2
The invention relates to a pressurized fluid storage and dispensing assembly (1) for a vehicle, comprising: a plurality of pressurized fluid reservoirs (3), each reservoir (3) comprising a first end piece (13) provided with at least one fluid passage duct configured for dispensing fluid from the reservoir (3) and for filling the reservoir (3), a use collector duct (5) which comprises an opening (19) for supplying and/or dispensing fluid and a plurality of orifices, each orifice being configured to be fluidically connected to a reservoir (3) via its fluid passage duct, and an electrically operated valve (7) which is arranged at one end of the use collector duct (5) and selectively closes or opens the fluid passage through the opening (19). The invention also relates to a vehicle comprising such a storage and dispensing assembly (1).
US12158238B2
The invention relates to a hybrid pressure vessel with a fiber-composite component and a metallic component. Furthermore, the invention relates to a manufacturing method for such a hybrid pressure vessel. The hybrid pressure vessel according to the invention has a liner having an inner face and an outer face, with an outer diameter DL, and a metallic boss with an outer diameter DB, the metallic boss being adapted to accommodate a valve, the hybrid pressure vessel having a storage volume on the inside, the liner being pipe-shaped and the outer diameter DB of the boss being at least as large as the outer diameter DL of the liner.
US12158237B2
An insertion amount grasping device includes: a first jig fixed to a fixation target in a state where the first jig is positioned against the fixation target, the first jig having a guide through-hole extending toward an application portion in a state where the first jig is fixed to the fixation target; an insertion portion inserted into the guide through-hole such that the insertion portion is introduced toward the application portion in a state where an operator grips the insertion portion; and a protruding portion as a protruding portion provided in the insertion portion, the protruding portion inserted into the guide through-hole and cause friction between the protruding portion and the guide through-hole when a predetermined positional relationship is established between a distal end part of the insertion portion and the application portion along with an introduction operation to introduce the insertion portion toward the application portion.
US12158233B2
A fluid flow apparatus includes a body and an insulation system. The body has an exterior surface having a passage extending therethrough from a first to a second portion. The passage has first and second end portions adjacent to the first and second portions, respectively, and an intermediate portion extending between the first and second end portions. A cross-sectional area of the intermediate portion is larger than that of the first and second end portions. The insulation system has an outer and an inner liner. The outer and inner liners are arranged in the passage to engage with the body so as to line the passage and to provide a barrier between the body and a fluid flowing along the passage. The outer liner thereby engages with the body, and the inner liner is partially enclosed by the outer liner and the body at the first and second end portions.
US12158219B2
A valve trim that is configured to abate noise in a control valve. These configurations may include a cage with a flow path that has interior and exterior openings. The cage may also have a bore to receive a closure member or “plug.” This plug can travel longitudinally to change parameters of flow through the control valve. In one implementation, the interior and exterior openings are vertically offset or spaced from another along the axis of the bore. In one implementation, the exterior openings are in a section of the cage that is not normally exposed to flow. This feature can increase density of noise-abating features within given dimensions for the cage (or the valve trim itself). Use of additive manufacturing may be useful (or even necessary) to create these parts within certain design envelopes because these techniques can create the unique flow geometry within a unitary or monolithic body. In this way, the valve trim of the present disclosure can maintain, or even reduce, costs of the control valve, while at the same time it can simply the overall construction of the valve device.
US12158217B2
A fluid valve having a magnetic drive unit for a valve closing body is provided. The drive unit can include a core, a coil partially surrounding the core, and an armature movable by the energization of the coil and the resulting magnetic force, wherein a bearing portion can be provided at the armature, which bearing portion comprises a bearing area, by which the armature is pivotably mounted on a main body of the drive unit.
US12158213B2
A multiport valve unit for medium- to high-viscosity fluids having a housing comprising at least: an inlet plate having at least one main flow channel, an outlet plate having at least one main flow channel, and at least one secondary flow channel. At least one intermediate plate and/or at least one spacer element are located between the inlet plate and the outlet plate. The multiport valve unit also has at least one switching element mounted pivotably or rotatably in the housing, which switching element is located between the inlet plate and the outlet plate, and, in a starting position, connects the main flow channels to one another via at least one passage opening.
US12158212B2
A hydraulic valve device includes a first inlet port (20) and a second inlet port (22) and a valve element (24) for selectively closing one of the first and the second inlet port. The valve element (24; 24′) is rotatable between two valve positions such that a surface of the valve element is moved in a direction parallel to openings of the inlet ports. The valve element includes two separate sealing portions (72, 74), a first sealing portion (72) for closing the first inlet port and a second sealing portion (74) for closing the second inlet port. The two sealing portions are arranged such that in a first valve position a first sealing portion closes the first inlet port and in a second valve position a second sealing portion closes the second inlet port. A centrifugal pump device includes such hydraulic valve device.
US12158194B2
The invention relates to a securing pin (16) which, in order to secure two chain connector shackles (12, 14) of a chain connector (10) against becoming disengaged, can be inserted into an opening (28) formed by the two chain connector shackles (12, 14), comprising a base body (30) with a through-hole (32), at least one spring ring (34), at least two balls (36), and a securing member (38) inserted into the through-hole (32), wherein an annular groove (54) in which the spring ring is inserted (34) is provided in a lateral surface (59) of the base body (30), wherein the annular groove (54) is provided with two bore holes (66) which are aligned with the through-hole (32) and in which the balls (36) rest, and wherein the spring ring (34) has at least one leg (64) which extends in the longitudinal direction of the base body (30) and which bends out of shape if the securing pin (16) is inserted into the opening (28) incorrectly. The invention further relates to a chain connector (10) for connecting two chains formed from links and to a method for connecting two chains by means of a chain connector (10) and for securing the chain connector shackles (12, 14) of the chain connector (10) against becoming disengaged by means of a securing pin (16).
US12158193B2
A guide channel for guiding an energy chain along a vertical line or along a line running with a vertical component, which guide channel has delimiting walls that are formed by separate guide plates and are arranged opposite each other. The two guide plates have smooth sliding surfaces on their sides facing the energy chain, which sliding surfaces are provided, in their lateral edge regions, with guide flanges protruding at a right angle. The guide plates are retained in brackets, which can be fastened, with a height offset at distances, to a supporting wall and which are U-shaped. The exterior side of the U web of the bracket lies against the supporting wall, and the guide plates can be fastened to the interior sides of the U legs of the bracket.
US12158191B2
Disclosed herein are active hydraulic cylinders for use in active vehicle suspension systems, and methods for assembling active hydraulic cylinders for use in an active vehicle suspension system. In particular, in certain embodiments a manifold may encircle a portion of an outer tube of a twin tube assembly. The manifold may mechanically and fluidly couple a pump assembly to the twin tube assembly. In certain embodiments, the manifold may be welded onto the outer tube.
US12158178B2
A clamp may include two substantially planar plates opposite from and generally parallel to one another, each plate having a mounting hole formed therein for receiving a fastener, two teeth, each tooth extending from a respective one of the two plates, such that each tooth is generally perpendicular to the plates, and such that each tooth extends towards the other from its respective plate, and a tongue opposite from and mechanically interfaced between the two plates, such that the tongue has a concave curved profile between the plates, and such that when a force is applied in a first direction by a fastener engaging with the clamp through the mounting holes, compression of the plates towards one another causes deflection of the tongue in a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction.
US12158169B2
A clamping device (100) includes a first movable member (210) that is movable along an extending direction of a first body interior space (120), a disc spring (260), an annular spring (270), a spring (280) and a collet (300). A driving mechanism (400) has a second movable member (430) that moves along an extending direction of a second body interior space (130) with rotation of a rotary member (410). When the rotary member is rotated in one direction, the first movable member moves toward an oil-filled closed space (121) and the clamping device is set to a clamping mode that will hold a tool holder (510). On the other hand, when the rotary member is rotated in the opposite direction, the first movable member moves towards the side opposite of the oil-filled closed space and the clamping device is set to an unclamping mode that will release the tool holder.
US12158163B1
An electric water pump includes: a housing in which a cooling water inlet and a plurality of cooling water outlets are formed; a stator provided inside the housing; a rotor that is provided inside the housing and spaced apart from the stator at a predetermined interval in a radial direction; and an impeller provided integrally with an upper portion of the rotor. The electric water pump further includes: a pump body provided between the stator and the rotor, and having a first middle outlet; and a driving device selectively fluidly communicating any one of the plurality of cooling water outlets, and the first middle outlet by rotating the pump body at a predetermined angle.
US12158154B2
A control system for operating a plurality of air compressors collectively supplying compressed air to a manufacturing facility is disclosed which includes a demand forecast module configured to estimate the manufacturing facility's demand for the compressed air at a predetermined future time, a dynamic adjustment module configured to acquire a current air pressure from the manufacturing facility, the dynamic adjustment module combining the current air pressure and the estimated manufacturing facility's demand for compressed air to make a final forecast, and an optimization module configured to determine a target operating combination of the plurality of air compressors at the predetermined future time based on the final forecast and a current operating combination of the plurality of air compressors.
US12158153B2
A blower includes a base, a motor attached to the base, a first impeller to be rotated by the motor, and a second impeller to be rotated by the motor and independent of the first impeller. The base includes an annular cover that covers at least a portion of the motor, a support that extends from an upper end of the cover, and a bottom extending inward from a lower end of the cover and to which the stator is fixed. The bottom includes a shaft hole to accommodate a shaft. The first impeller and the second impeller are fixed to an upper portion and a lower portion of a rotor, respectively. At least one of the first impeller and the second impeller is fixed to the shaft.
US12158151B2
The invention relates to a pump device having a pump (8) and an energy supply device (5, 18), wherein the pump has a conveying element (9, 11) which conveys a fluid by means of supplied energy, wherein the pump has a transport state and an operating state, and wherein at least one first element (9, 9a, 10, 10′, 11) of the pump has a different shape and/or size in the transport state than in the operating state. The operating safety of such a pump device is increased by a detection device (12, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 27, 28, 29) which detects whether at least the first element is in the operating state with respect to shape and/or size by means of a sensor.
US12158148B2
A screw pump includes a pump housing in which a pump spindle is rotatably mounted with the involvement of a hydrostatic thrust bearing for absorbing the axial thrust which is produced at the spindle during operation, the hydrostatic thrust bearing being formed by a housing-fixed bearing surface, against which an end-face, spindle-fixed bearing surface of the pump spindle is indirectly supported, by virtue of the fact that the housing-fixed bearing surface and the spindle-fixed bearing surface form a bearing gap therebetween, which bearing gap is fed, in its central region, with a pressure fluid which flows out through the bearing gap in the radial direction, preferably into the intake region, and the hydrostatic pressure of which counteracts the axial thrust.
US12158146B2
A vacuum booster assembly includes, but is not limited to, a booster housing defining a booster chamber and including a gas inlet and a gas outlet; a first rotor positioned within the booster chamber and adapted for rotation therein, the first rotor including a first shaft and at least two lobes defining a first lobe profile; and a second rotor positioned within the booster chamber and adapted for rotation therein, the second rotor including a second shaft and at least two lobes defining a second lobe profile, wherein the first and second rotors are formed from a metal having a coefficient of thermal expansion from about 1 (10−6 in/in*K) to about 13 (10−6 in/in*K), and wherein at least one of the outer surface of the first rotor, the outer surface of the second rotor, or the booster chamber includes a coating.
US12158125B1
An ozone generation system for an internal combustion engine. The ozone generator having a conductive cylindrical containment shell with a first cylindrical electrode and a second cylindrical electrode disposed inside the conductive cylindrical containment. A high voltage source is connected between the first and second cylindrical electrode, the voltage sufficient to cause production of ozone. The ozone generator permits air to flow therethrough wherein a change from oxygen to ozone occurs in the air flowing through the ozone generator. At least one monitor module having a voltage sensor for sensing the voltage differential between the first and second cylindrical electrode and at least one control module for controlling the voltage differential between the first and second cylindrical electrode are implemented in the system.
US12158118B2
A computer-implemented method for operating a technical device with the aid of a multi-dimensional characteristic map. The characteristic map is defined by data points, to each of which a characteristic field value is assigned. For reading out the characteristic map, an output value is determined, as a function of an input variable point to be evaluated for the technical device, with the aid of one-dimensional basis functions, which are assigned to each dimension of a data point. The function values of the one-dimensional basis functions respectively have a monotone curve to a neighboring data point, which has the function value 0, and are outside of the neighboring data point 0. The technical device is operated as a function of the output value.
US12158109B2
Aircraft turbine engine assembly comprising a passive valve for by-passing a fuel/oil heat exchanger
An aircraft turbine engine assembly, including a lubricating oil circuit and a fuel supply device, the assembly also including a passive bypass valve enabling the oil to bypass an exchanger, the valve including a valve body and a piston arranged to move in a sliding space defining a first actuating chamber supplied with oil from the oil circuit, as well as a second actuating chamber supplied with fuel from the device, the valve being configured so that when the differential pressure between the oil pressure in the first actuating chamber and the fuel pressure in the second actuating chamber drops below a predetermined value of differential pressure, the piston moves from a normal operating position to an exchanger bypass position.
US12158108B2
A system includes an engine case for a gas turbine engine defined around a longitudinal axis. A plurality of access openings are defined through the engine case. A combustor is housed in the space inside the engine case. The inner annular wall of the combustor includes a first rail on an upstream end thereof with a radially outward opening slot. The outer annular wall of the combustor includes a second rail on an upstream end thereof. A plurality of circumferentially spaced apart dome liners extending from the first rail to the second rail. Each dome liner extends tangentially in a direction oblique relative to a radius extending from the longitudinal axis. A plurality of multipoint fuel injector components are assembled across the first and second rails to from a combustor dome together with the dome liners.
US12158101B1
This invention describes an internal continuous combustion rotary engine. It consists of a compressor with air tank storage, fuel pump with fuel pressure tank, combustion chamber with air-fuel feed rate control and spark plug, pneumatic rotary vane motor with output shaft, and mechanical means to drive the compressor from the motor. As the stored pressurized fuel and air fed into the combustion chamber with a spark to initiate combustion, which will generate pressurized combustion gases. Pressurized combustion gases will drive the pneumatic rotary motor, which will then drive the compressor and fuel pump to maintain adequate supply of pressurized air and fuel for continuous operation, and produce mechanical work. The pneumatic motor is a positive displacement, fully sealed, radial vane rotary type motor, with simple reliable inverted crank slider mechanism to drive the vanes in cyclic angular speed ratio in one direction.
US12158096B2
A mixer assembly comprises a tubular housing including an exhaust gas inlet, an exhaust gas outlet, and a reductant inlet on a side of the tubular housing. An upstream mixing element is positioned within the tubular housing upstream from the reductant inlet. A downstream mixing element is positioned within the tubular housing downstream from the reductant inlet and the upstream mixing element. The upstream and downstream mixing elements at least partially define a reductant receiving mixing chamber in which the injected reductant and exhaust gas mix. A divider is positioned within the tubular housing downstream from the upstream mixing element to split the exhaust into two divided flow streams prior to exiting through the exhaust gas outlet.
US12158095B2
A computer implemented method to performing sensor analysis in an exhaust gas aftertreatment system (EATS) coupled downstream of an internal combustion engine (ICE). The methodology is specifically adapted for determining a scale factor for a NOx sensor that is arranged downstream of a position where an amount of a reductant is injected into exhaust gases from the ICE.
US12158094B2
A device includes an exhaust gas turbocharger and an annular catalytic converter, which is mounted downstream of the turbocharger in the flow direction, wherein the annular catalytic converter has a first tubular flow section, a deflecting region, and a second annular flow section, wherein the tubular flow section is formed by an inner tube, and the annular flow section is formed between an outer tube, running substantially parallel to the inner tube, and the inner tube, and the deflecting region is designed to deflect the exhaust gas flow out of the tubular flow section into the annular flow section, wherein the tubular flow section of the annular catalytic converter comprises the same components as the gas outlet of the turbocharger mounted upstream in the flow direction.
US12158090B2
A method of encoding video including: writing a plurality of predetermined buffer descriptions into a sequence parameter set of a coded video bitstream; writing a plurality of updating parameters into a slice header of the coded video bitstream for selecting and modifying one buffer description out of the plurality of buffer descriptions; and encoding a slice into the coded video bitstream using the slice header and the modified buffer description.
US12158088B2
An apparatus includes one or more thermal storage blocks that define a radiation chamber and a fluid flow slot positioned above the radiation chamber to define a fluid pathway in a first direction. The apparatus includes a heater element positioned adjacent to the radiation chamber in a second, different direction, wherein the radiation chamber is open on at least one side to the heater element. The apparatus includes a fluid movement system configured to direct a stream of fluid through the fluid pathway in the first direction.
US12158086B2
A gas turbine engine comprises a turbine, a combustor fluidly coupled to the turbine, and a cooling air system. The turbine includes including a turbine rotor having a shaft mounted for rotation about an axis of the gas turbine engine and a set of turbine blades coupled to the turbine rotor for rotation therewith. The combustor includes an outer combustor case and an inner combustor case that cooperate to define a combustion chamber. The cooling air system is configured to cool the turbine using air form the combustion chamber of the combustor.
US12158084B2
A turbomachine component such as a blade, includes a wall provided with at least one cooling hole having a metering portion and a tapered diffusion portion. The diffusion portion includes a central edge forming a bottom of the diffusion portion that is oblique with respect to a flow axis of the cooling hole.
US12158080B2
In a turbine vane repairing method, a damaged spot removing step of removing a damaged spot in one shroud of two shrouds, a member disposing step of disposing a deformation curbing member which comes into contact with each of the two shrouds and curbs change in relative positions between the two shrouds, an overlay welding step of performing overlay welding with respect to a removed part from which the damaged spot is removed in the one shroud and filling the removed part after the damaged spot removing step and the member disposing step, a member detaching step of detaching the deformation curbing member from the turbine vane after the overlay welding step, and a finishing step of polishing at least a surface of a part subjected to the overlay welding in the one shroud are executed.
US12158073B2
A variable geometry turbine includes: a turbine rotor; a scroll passage forming part which forms a scroll passage; an exhaust gas passage forming part which forms an exhaust gas passage for introducing an exhaust gas from the scroll passage to the turbine rotor; and a variable nozzle unit including a plurality of nozzle vanes disposed in the exhaust gas passage and configured to be rotatable about respective rotation centers. The exhaust gas passage forming part includes: a first plate member having an annular first plate part; and a second plate member having an annular second plate part which defines the exhaust gas passage between the first plate part and the second plate part and is disposed closer to a turbine outlet than the first plate part in an axial direction of the turbine rotor. The first plate member has, in a hub-side passage surface of the first plate part facing the exhaust gas passage, at least one groove portion extending from an inner peripheral edge of the first plate part toward an outer peripheral side.
US12158071B2
A device for detecting a content of critical gas in a mining chamber of a tunnel boring machine includes a separation module by which a fluid fed in via an extraction line connection is cleaned of solid and liquid components. A gas line arrangement arranged downstream of the separation module in the flow direction of the fluid carries the fluid, including substantially only gaseous components, through a pressure reducer and through a flow control valve of a metering module by which the gas to be analyzed can be delivered in a controlled manner assisted by a double diaphragm pump and a pressure stabilizer to a gas analysis unit even at high pressures in the cavity.
US12158065B2
An end-to-end well construction system includes an e-program for receiving a first input selected from well planning data, rig historical performance data, rig parameters, drilling engineering input, management of change, and a combination thereof, and configured to produce a first output selected from a machine and/or human readable sequence, a time depth curve, a drilling program, and a combination thereof, and a second output including analytics data. Further, the end-to-end well construction system includes a drilling control layer, configured to receive the first output from e-program, and to produce a third output including an automated sequence, and a smart well analytics system configured to receive the analytics data from the e-program and a second input selected from drilling data, downhole data, base data from the e-program, a modeling software, and a combination thereof, and to produce a fourth output to the drilling control layer for automated adjustment.
US12158063B2
A method for predicting a risk of early screen-out in a near-well zone based on distributed fiber acoustic sensing (DAS) is provided. The method comprises: obtaining an acoustic signal during a fracturing process based on distributed optical fibers deployed in a well to be fractured, and obtaining pressure monitoring data based on at least one sensor deployed in the well to be fractured; determining, based on a location of a perforation cluster, and an acoustic signal of the perforation cluster, fracturing fluid flow velocity data of the perforation cluster by a first predetermined algorithm; determining, based on the fracturing fluid flow velocity data of the perforation cluster and perforation parameters of the perforation cluster, a perforation friction resistance pressure drop of the perforation cluster by a second predetermined algorithm; determining a near-well friction resistance pressure drop of the perforation cluster based on a fluid pressure, the perforation friction resistance pressure drop, a slit fluid pressure; determining a near-well friction resistance coefficient of the perforation cluster based on the near-well friction resistance pressure drop of the perforation cluster; and determining, based on the near-well friction resistance coefficient, whether the perforation cluster has the risk of early screen-out in the near-well zone.
US12158062B2
Methods and systems for producing oil from a subsurface reservoir include drilling a horizontal production well into the subsurface reservoir and drilling a horizontal injection well into the subsurface reservoir below the horizontal production well. Carbon dioxide and a second gas are mixed to form a gas mixture with a density more than a density of reservoir fluids between the horizontal production well and the horizontal injection well. The gas mixture is injected into the subsurface formation through the horizontal injection well and fluid is produced from the subsurface reservoir through the horizontal production well.
US12158055B2
Methods for shortening the waiting-on-cement (WOC) time during primary and remedial cementing operations are disclosed. A fluid pill is injected into the wellbore that comprises reactants. The reaction is acclerating hydration and shortening the time necessary for the slurry to set and harden.
US12158052B2
A system includes a bridge plug for isolating a section of a wellbore. The bridge plug includes a cylindrical body and an engagement assembly mounted to an outer diameter of the cylindrical body and selectively extendible between a recessed position and an extended position. The system further includes a plug assembly for regulating flow through the cylindrical body of the bridge plug. The plug assembly includes a housing connected to the cylindrical body of the bridge plug, a frangible component that creates a seal within the housing, and a pin disposed within the housing and designed to fracture the frangible component.
US12158051B2
A drill string circulation apparatus has a sleeve member with an elongated tubular body and a longitudinal bore, with an outer diameter suitable for being sealingly gripped by a blowout preventer. A drill string has an outer diameter sized to fit within the sleeve member bore, and has one or more seals disposed on an exterior surface. The seals are sized to create a seal between said sleeve member and the drill string, when the drill string and seals are positioned within the sleeve member bore, while said drill string is still capable of reciprocation and/or rotation within the sleeve member when the seals are within the sleeve member bore.
US12158048B1
A wellbore magnet tool including a plurality of magnets positioned about an outer circumference of the wellbore magnet tool; a plurality of sensors, including: a first sensor proximal one or more of the plurality of magnets; and a second sensor positioned downhole from the first sensor, and an electronics board. The first sensor and the second sensor are electronically connected with the electronics board, and the first sensor and the second sensor detect changes in a magnetic field proximate thereto, which changes result from debris collection by the wellbore magnet tool.
US12158035B2
Some embodiments of the disclosed subject matter are directed to a vehicle door that includes a door frame and a door trim with pinch sensor located adjacent the door frame. A door harness coupler can hang within the door frame prior to assembly of the door, and can be connected to a pinch sensor coupler adjacent the door trim to electrically connect the pinch sensor to a controller and/or door actuator. Thus, the pinch sensor can be installed at the end of a door assembly line.
US12158033B2
Provided are a seamless charging flap opening/closing device and a vehicle including the same. A charging flap cover is additionally provided with a pop-up function to also function as an opening/closing door for an air channel of an air breather, such that the charging flap cover is integrated with the air breather to be unperceivable from the outside during driving and is only opened during charging to allow a battery to be charged. The single charging flap cover is used in common by a charging flap device and the air breather maintaining independent functions. The exterior quality of a product and the efficiency of use of a package is improved, a vehicle body has a distinctive novel exterior image, and the charging flap cover is easily matched adjacently to a moving part located adjacent thereto.
US12158030B2
A latch mechanism of an opening/closing door, which is used in a device including an opening/closing door that opens/closes an opening of a device body by using the opening/closing door, restrains the opening/closing door at a closing position, and releases a restrained state when the opening/closing door is opened, the latch mechanism includes an elastic component provided in one of the opening/closing door and the device body facing the opening, having a spring member expanding/contracting to be elastically deformable in one predetermined direction, and holding both end positions of the spring member to be floatable via a holder, and a latch component provided in the other of the opening/closing door and the device body, coming into contact with the holder of the elastic component when the opening/closing door closes the opening, having a latch member restraining the elastic component in a state where the spring member is elastically deformed from an initial state, and moving the holder against a biasing force of the spring member to release the restrained state between the elastic component and the latch member when the opening/closing door is opened from the closing position.
US12158024B2
An electronic lock compatible with left and right opening and a method for the electronic lock, comprising a lock body and a lock tongue seat, the lock body is provided with a switch knob, a rotating shaft is connected to the switch knob, and a lock tongue and a first transmission assembly are arranged on the lock tongue seat, the first transmission assembly is provided with a first rotating member, the first rotating member is provided with a front and rear through inserting slot. The rotating shaft can be inserted from a front end to a rear end of the inserting slot and can be inserted from the rear end to the front end. A driven gear is drivingly connected in the lock body, wherein a circumferential transmission mechanism is arranged between the driven gear and the switch knob, and the lock body is also provided with a sensing mechanism.
US12158019B2
A method and apparatus for removing a layer of sediment which has settled on the bottom of a large water body includes using a structural frame configured to contain a bottom water flow and for containing liquid and suspended particles dispersed during removal of bottom sediment in a suctioning area that is at least about 3 square feet, up to and including 8 square feet, that has support elements and/or silt containing elements, with a plurality of supporting wheels. A sediment removing vacuum unit is operably associated with the structural frame to conduct suctioned bottom water flow through suction lines to a filtering station outside of the water body, such that the water can then be returned to the large water body.
US12158016B2
Equipment for burying poles into the ground. The equipment includes a base frame associable with a machine for the movement of the equipment; a hammering assembly associated movable with the base frame and adapted to bury a pole to allow its at least partial penetration into the ground at a burying position; and a gripping and positioning assembly of the pole, associated with the base frame and adapted to grasp the pole and to position it under the hammering assembly at the burying position.
US12158013B2
A floor panel for forming a floor covering wherein the floor panel is substantially realized on the basis of synthetic material. The floor panel is rectangular and comprises a first pair of opposite edges and a second pair of opposite edges such that both pairs of opposite edges comprise coupling parts allowing for mutually coupling a plurality of such floor panels to each other. The coupling parts of at least the first pair of opposite edges are configured such that two of such panels can be coupled to each other at these edges by means of a turning movement and the coupling parts to this aim consist of a tongue and a groove as well as locking parts, which, in the coupled condition, prevent the shifting apart of the tongue and groove. The floor panel has a global thickness which is smaller than or equal to 4.5 millimeters.
US12158009B2
A panel for covering a substrate including: a body having a first connecting profile and a second connecting profile, and a mesh, the first connecting profile and the second connecting profile being complementarily shaped in such a way that adjacent panels are coupled to one another via the first connecting profile and the second connecting profile, each of the first connecting profile and the second connecting profile comprising a pocket and a flange, the pocket of the first connecting profile being shaped for receiving the flange of the second connecting profile and the pocket of the second connecting profile being shaped for receiving the flange of the first connecting profile, wherein the mesh overhangs both the pocket of the first connecting profile and the pocket of the second connecting profile, said mesh overhangs configured for attachment of the panel to the substrate.
US12157997B2
A shock absorbing equipment having shear-wall-like mechanism with enhanced damping force for a building includes a longitudinal transmission rod, an upper dampers, and a lower dampers. The two upper dampers are mounted on the upper half wall. Two ends of each of the upper dampers is connected to the upper end of the longitudinal transmission rod and the upper half wall. The two lower dampers are mounted on the lower half wall. Two ends of each of the lower dampers is connected to the lower end of the longitudinal transmission rod and the lower half wall. The shock absorbing equipment sensitively amplifies a displacement between the floors caused by earthquake, so as to early dissipate seismic energy. Moreover, the needed number of the shock absorbing equipment for the building can also be reduced and impact on traffic flow and ambient lighting in the building can be reduced.
US12157988B2
According to the present invention, a controller determines whether the current performance of a piece of equipment satisfies a determination criterion, on the basis of the current state of the equipment, acquired by a sensor. If the controller determines that the current performance of the equipment does not satisfy the determination criterion, the controller calculates a parameter with which the performance of the equipment satisfies the determination criterion, on the basis of the current state of the equipment, acquired by the sensor, and the determination criterion. The controller changes a parameter managed by a storage device to the parameter calculated by the controller.
US12157983B2
A pile (100) includes a first elongated hollow body (101) having a first end and a second end, the first end being closed by an end member (103) provided with an opening (104). The pile (100) includes a second elongated hollow body (102) having a first end and a second end, the second elongated hollow body (102) being arranged inside the first elongated hollow body (101) so that the first end of the second elongated hollow body (102) extends through the opening (104) and is attached to the end member (103). A method is for installing a pile (100) into the ground.
US12157981B2
The invention provides a method for preventing super large-scale floods and debris flows. First, the scale corresponding to certain standard floods in the watershed is evaluated based on field investigations and historical data. Second, the design standards of the system are chosen based on the prevention of super large-scale floods, and the design standard of critical control engineering is further determined. Finally, the design methods of check dams with different functional zones are proposed according to the design standards of critical control engineering. The invention allows part of the key control dam to fail under safe operating conditions of the entire system by increasing the cross-sectional areas and the flow discharges. The unbroken foundation of the dam can effectively control the channel entrainment and regulate the cross-sectional discharge. The design is helpful in mitigating giant floods and debris flows, thus protecting downstream infrastructures.
US12157980B2
The present invention relates to an algae collection device and, in particular, to an algae collection device using an escalator-type lift equipped with a screen having a level state. The present invention may collect algae using an escalator-type lift equipped with a screen having a level state while the algae do not move down. The present invention may effectively collect, into a collection box, the algae transported on the escalator-type lift by means of compressed air generated by a compressor.
US12157959B2
Provided are a silica glass yarn and a silica glass cloth which have a signal transmission speed that is made stable through stabilization of a characteristic impedance in addition to a low dielectric constant and a low loss. The silica glass yarn has a yarn habit density of 0.10 piece/cm or less of yarn habits each having a bending point with a radius of curvature of 5 mm or less and a bending angle of 120° or less. It is preferred that the silica glass yarn have a tensile strength of 2.0 GPa or more, and silica glass filaments forming the silica glass yarn each have a breaking start strength of 80.0% or more of the tensile strength of the silica glass yarn.
US12157956B2
A method of performing HVPE heteroepitaxy comprises exposing a substrate to a carrier gas, a first precursor gas, a Group II/III element, and ternary-forming gasses (V/VI group precursor), to form a heteroepitaxial growth of a binary, ternary, and/or quaternary compound on the substrate; wherein the carrier gas is H2, wherein the first precursor gas is HCl, the Group II/III element comprises at least one of Zn, Cd, Hg, Al, Ga, and In; and wherein the ternary-forming gasses comprise at least two or more of AsH3 (arsine), PH3 (phosphine), H2Se (hydrogen selenide), H2Te (hydrogen telluride), SbH3 (hydrogen antimonide, or antimony tri-hydride, or stibine), H2S (hydrogen sulfide), NH3 (ammonia), and HF (hydrogen fluoride); flowing the carrier gas over the Group II/III element; exposing the substrate to the ternary-forming gasses in a predetermined ratio of first ternary-forming gas to second ternary-forming gas (1tf:2tf ratio); and changing the 1tf:2tf ratio over time.
US12157955B2
A method for simultaneously manufacturing more than one single crystal of a semiconductor material by physical vapor transport (PVT) includes connecting a pair of reactors to a vacuum pump system by a common vacuum channel and creating and/or controlling, with the vacuum pump system, a common gas phase condition in the inner chambers of the pair of reactors. Each reactor has an inner chamber adapted to accommodate a PVT growth structure for growth of a semiconductor single crystal.
US12157954B2
Crystal pulling system having a housing and a crucible assembly are disclosed. The system includes a heat shield that defines a central passage through which an ingot passes during ingot growth. A cover member is moveable within the heat shield along a pull axis. The cover member may include an insulation layer. The cover member covers at least a portion of the charge during meltdown.
US12157946B2
An automated system for measuring the voltage potential across test coupons, reference cells and metal structures is disclosed. The system may evaluate the amount of cathodic protection that may be applied to the metal structure. The system may automatically take, store and transmit data to a backend system via wireless and/or satellite communication systems.
US12157945B2
Silicon oxide, silicon nitride, and silicon oxynitride films may be deposited by thermal atomic layer deposition (thermal ALD) in a single wafer plasma reactor. The single wafer plasma reactor can perform thermal ALD and plasma-enhanced atomic layer deposition (PEALD). Highly conformal films may be deposited at a high deposition rate without damaging or with minimal damage to the substrate using thermal ALD. The substrate may be heated at an elevated temperature during oxidation and/or nitridation. In some implementations, the elevated temperature is between about 500 C and about 750 C. In some implementations, hydrogen and oxygen may be flowed as reactant gases during oxidation, where the hydrogen and oxygen may react in an exothermic reaction to drive formation of oxide.
US12157932B2
A Nickel-based alloy which includes (in wt %): Cobalt (Co) 27.0%-29.0%; Chrome (Cr) 16.0%-18.0%; Aluminum (Al) 11.6%-12.6%; Yttrium (Y) 0.3%-0.5%; Iron (Fe) 4.0%-5.0%; optionally Tantalum (Ta) 0.6%-0.8%; Molybdenum (Mo) 0.4%-0.6%; Silicon (Si) 0.4%-0.6%; and the rest Nickel (Ni).
US12157931B2
The present disclosure provides a method for co-extraction of vanadium, titanium and chromium from vanadium slag. The method selectively reduces pyroxene and fayalite wrapped on spinel through low-temperature hydrogen reduction, iron removal by ferric chloride, and low-temperature leaching of the vanadium slag by oxalic acid, thereby destroying a structure of the spinel, dissociating a spinel phase and a silicate phase, and fully exposing the spinel phase. The method also directly leaches the vanadium slag at a low temperature by acidity and strong complexation of the oxalic acid, and destroys the structure of the spinel, such that vanadium, titanium, chromium and oxalate are complexed into a solution to co-extract vanadium, titanium and chromium. The present disclosure extracts vanadium, titanium and chromium from the vanadium slag, with a leaching rate each being greater than 99%.
US12157923B2
A high-strength hot-dip galvanized steel sheet includes a hot-dip galvanized layer on a surface of the steel sheet and has a specific component composition and a steel microstructure containing, on an area percentage basis, 90% to 100% of martensite and carbide-containing bainite in total and 0% to 10% of retained austenite, and containing prior austenite grains having an aspect ratio of 2.0 or less, in a region extending from 300 μm to 400 μm from the surface layer, in which the ratio of the average amount of C at 5 μm from the surface layer to the average amount of C at 70 μm from the surface layer is 0.2 to 0.8, and the ratio of the standard deviation of the amount of C to the average amount of C in a region extending from 300 μm to 400 μm from the surface layer is 0.40 or less.
US12157922B2
A method IS for producing a cold rolled steel sheet having a tensile strength ≥1470 MPa and a total elongation TE≥19%. The method includes the steps of annealing at an annealing temperature AT≥Ac3 a non-treated steel sheet whose chemical composition contains in weight %: 0.34%≤C≤0.40%, 1.50%≤Mn≤2.30%, 1.50≤Si≤2.40%, 0%≤Cr≤0.7%, 0%≤Mo≤0.3%, 0.01%≤Al≤0.07%, the remainder being Fe and unavoidable impurities, quenching the annealed steel sheet by cooling it to a quenching temperature QT
US12157918B2
A treatment method for cerebral vasospasm involves determining amounts of let-7b-5p, miR-9-3p, miR-142-3p, miR-15b-5p, miR-17-5p, miR-19b-3p, miR-20a-5p, miR-24-3p, miR-29a-3p, miR-125b-5p, and miR-142-3p in a biological sample obtained from a subject following aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (aSAH) to identify the subject as having an elevated risk of cerebral vasospasm, and administering a treatment to the subject when the elevated risk of cerebral vasospasm is identified.
US12157907B2
Provided is a method capable of replicating or amplifying circular DNA, and particularly, long-chain circular DNA, in a cell-free system. Specifically, provided is a method for suppressing generation of a DNA multimer as a by-product, when circular DNA having a replication origin sequence (origin of chromosome (oriC)) is replicated or amplified by using the following enzyme groups: (1) a first enzyme group that catalyzes replication of circular DNA; (2) a second enzyme group that catalyzes an Okazaki fragment maturation and synthesizes two sister circular DNAs constituting a catenane; and (3) a third enzyme group that catalyzes a separation of two sister circular DNAs. Moreover, also provided is a method comprising introducing oriC into circular DNA by using a transposon.
US12157902B2
Disclosed are a recombinant acid-resistant yeast having lactic acid-producing ability and suppressed glycerol production and a method of preparing lactic acid using the same. More particularly, disclosed are a recombinant acid-resistant yeast into which a gene involved in lactic acid production is introduced and in which a gene involved in glycerol production is deleted or attenuated, and a method of preparing lactic acid using the same. When producing lactic acid using the recombinant acid-resistant yeast, the production of lactic acid is maintained while the production of glycerol is reduced, so crosslinking by glycerol can be suppressed in the oligomerization reaction for conversion to lactide, and thus the conversion yield of lactic acid to lactide can be increased.
US12157897B2
The present invention relates to vectors and their use to develop host cell lines for production of a protein of interest, and in particular to vectors which utilize a weak promoter to drive a selectable marker.
US12157882B2
A novel Lactobacillus plantarum strain ATG-K2, ATG-K6 or ATG-K8 and a composition for the prevention or treatment of vaginitis containing the same are proposed. The Lactobacillus plantarum strain ATG-K2, ATG-K6 or ATG-K8 has excellent antimicrobial effects against various pathogenic strains as well as Candida albicans and Gardnerella vaginalis, which are vaginitis pathogens, and thus can be easily used as a composition for the treatment of bacterial vaginosis, vaginal candidiasis, etc., or as a functional health food for the prevention or amelioration of these diseases.
US12157881B2
The present invention relates to the use of a defoaming agent for preventing pellet morphology of thermophilic fungi when grown at acidic pH in chemically defined media. The invention pertains to processes for producing a fermentation product, wherein the thermophilic fungus, e.g. a Rhizomucor species, is grown in submerged culture at acidic pH in a chemically defined medium and wherein the strain is cultured in the presence of a defoaming agent. The defoaming agent can be a vegetable oil such as olive or sun flower oil and the fermentation product can be single cell protein in the form of biomass of the thermophilic fungus for use as a dietary source of protein.
US12157879B2
A method and a kit for cell culture clarification, as well as a system or apparatus for clarifying a cell culture and purifying biomolecules of interest, are described. The cell culture comprises at least one biomolecule of interest. The method comprises adding one or more compounds to the cell culture that allow the formation of floccules of solutes and/or particulates in said cell culture harvest, adding an amount of diatomaceous earth (DE) to said cell culture harvest, agitating the obtained solution, and transferring said solution to a filtration vessel comprising a support filter having a surface, whereby the diatomaceous earth in said solution forms a layer on said surface and filtering said harvest solution through said layer and support filter.
US12157874B2
This disclosure relates to equipment utilized to manufacture chemical agents, particularly biopharmaceuticals. In some embodiments, reactor systems comprising a mobile carriage assembly; a disposable reaction container removably attached to the carriage assembly; and, a carriage holder into which the mobile carriage assembly may be removably inserted are provided.
US12157867B2
A composition for a candle which is characterized in that it includes, in percent by weight: from 0 to 40% of at least one fatty alcohol, from 3 to 10% of at least one volatile alkane whose flash point is less than 180° C. from 0 to 3% of at least one wax, from 0 to 3% of at least one mixture of unsaponifiables, and from 47 to 95% of at least one at least partially hydrogenated vegetable oil.
US12157864B2
Unleaded aviation gasoline. An aviation gasoline fuel blend includes an unleaded aviation gasoline base fuel, with an effective amount of selected alkyl benzenes to improve the functional engine performance to avoid harmful detonation sufficient to meet or exceed selected standards for detonation performance requirements in full scale aircraft piston spark ignition engines designed for use with Grade 100LL avgas. Suitable alkylated benzenes may include a mixture of xylene isomers. Aromatic amines, such as m-toluidine, may also be added to increase MON. Base fuels may be a high quality aviation alkylate, or may be a commercial iso-octane, or a mixture of high quality aviation alkylate enhanced by iso-octane, or by commercial iso-octane mixtures, and may include iso-pentane or butane or both iso-pentane and butane in sufficient quantity to provide appropriate vapor pressure for the final fuel blend.
US12157861B2
Hydrocarbon-containing fluids are provided for use during solvent-assisted hydroprocessing of pyrolysis tar, such as steam cracker tar. The hydrocarbon-containing fluids can be used at any convenient time, such as during start-up of a pyrolysis process when recycled liquid pyrolysis product is not available; when the amount of liquid pyrolysis product available for recycle is not sufficient to maintain desired hydroprocessing conditions; and/or when the changes to the quality of the liquid pyrolysis product reduce the suitability of the recycle stream for use as a utility fluid.
US12157856B2
The present invention provides a proppant or proppant mixture having insert materials configured for providing a mechanical or physical function in a well to hold open fissures or pathways created in formations caused by well fracking to allow a release of a hydrocarbon from the well, the insert materials being configured at least partly with beads having a functionalized polymer so as to form functionalized polymer proppants that are configured to respond to the hydrocarbon or other composition of matter released from the well, including water, and provide at least one chemical taggant containing an indication about the hydrocarbon or other composition of matter released from the well. The functionalized polymer may include a dual-monomer structure.
US12157855B2
A steam-assisted gravity drainage method is described that includes a two stage solvent injection scheme, wherein steam plus solvent injection is followed by steam plus heavier-solvent injection. The two solvent injections improve recoveries of both the heavy oil and the injected solvent while limiting steam requirements, thus improving the economics of the method.
US12157851B2
The present invention pertains to: a liquid crystal composition for controlling light that contains, as a dichroic dye, an anthraquinone compound having a specific structure; and a light-controlling element that contains a cured product of said liquid crystal composition for controlling light and exhibits excellent contrast, light-blocking performance, lightfastness, and heat tolerance during current supply. More specifically, the present invention pertains to: a liquid crystal composition for controlling light that contains a compound represented by formula (A) (in the formula. R1 represents a C1-12 alkyl group or a C1-12 alkoxy group, and each R2 independently represents a C1-8 alkyl group), a liquid crystal material, a photocurable compound, and a photoinitiator; and a light-controlling element that is formed by sandwiching a photocured product of said composition between a pair of substrates.
US12157846B2
One aspect of the present invention relates to a method for producing a hot-melt adhesive, comprising: introducing a fluid into a heating kneader while or after kneading a hot-melt adhesive material in a liquid state, at an amount of 0.3 parts by mass or more with respect to 100 parts by mass of the hot-melt adhesive material; and performing vacuuming while heating stirring or dispersing the hot-melt adhesive material and the fluid so as to come into contact with each other.
US12157836B2
The present invention provides a preparation method of an oxidized anticoagulant starch adhesive, comprising the following steps: (1) an original starch and deionized water are mixed to form a starch emulsion, then the pH is adjusted to perform an oxidation reaction; a reductant is added to react with the unreacted oxidant, after the reaction is completed, an esterifying agent is added to perform an esterification reaction after adjusting pH; then a product is neutralized, washed, filtered and dried to obtain starch granules; and (2) a 40-50% starch emulsion is formulated by using the starch granules obtained in the step (1), the pH is adjusted to 6.5-7.5 after gelatinization, and dispersing agent, defoamer and water are added to form a starch adhesive. The esterifying agent used is composed of an anion and a cation, which significantly improves anticoagulant effect of the starch adhesive.
US12157832B2
The present invention is directed towards an electrodepositable coating composition comprising a cationic electrodepositable binder; a phyllosilicate pigment; and a dispersing agent. Also disclosed are methods of making the electrodepositable coating composition, coatings derived therefrom, and substrates coated with the coatings derived from the electrodepositable coating composition.
US12157829B2
The present invention relates to coating compositions for wind turbine blades. The compositions are particularly useful as topcoats for wind blades and for Leading Edge Protection (LEP). The invention also relates to a wind blade coated with a coating composition of the invention and to a method for application of the coating composition and to a method for repairing and/or replacing the existing coating layer on a wind blade by application of a coating composition of the invention. The invention also relates to a kit of parts comprising the base composition and the curing agent used in the coating composition. The coating composition used for coating a wind blade comprises a base composition comprising a polyetheraspartic ester having the formula (I) below, wherein each R represents a linear or branched C1-C10 alkyl residue, such as a linear or branched C1-C6 alkyl residue, such as for example a methyl, ethyl, propyl or butyl residue; and wherein X is a polyether. The coating composition further comprises a curing agent.
US12157810B1
A composite is provided comprising a polymer matrix including at least one thermoplastic elastomeric polymer (TPE) component, and at least one soft elastomeric polymer component; and a high specific gravity reinforcing filler, and, optionally, carbon black dispersed in the polymer matrix, wherein the composite has a specific gravity of greater than one. The composite is useful in the preparation of: (1) polymeric-based less-lethal ammunition designed to incapacitate the target without inflicting serious or life-threatening injuries; and (2) Drug-eluting electrospun fiber mats for medical applications.
US12157803B2
A polymer composition includes a conjugated diene polymer (A) and a compound (B). The compound (B) is at least one compound selected from the group consisting of a polysiloxane compound and a fluorine-containing compound. The conjugated diene polymer (A) contains, when the composition ratios (molar ratios) in the polymer of the structural units represented by formulas (1) to (4) are p, q, r, and s, respectively, a polymer (A-1) satisfying formula (i). 0.75≤(p+(0.5×r))/(p+q+(0.5×r)+s)≤0.95 Formula (i):
US12157800B2
A method of processing a water-dispersible, polymer-based material in a bath of a water-based solution includes providing a molten water-dispersible polymer material having monovalent cations. The water-dispersible polymer is introduced into a water bath comprising multivalent salt dissociated in the water bath into multivalent cations and anions. The water-dispersible polymer is retained within the water bath with the dissociated multivalent cations to quench the water-dispersible, polymer-based material while the monovalent cations proximate a surface of the water-dispersible polymer are exchanged with multivalent cations to form a barrier that temporarily resists dispersion of the water-dispersible, polymer-based material within the water bath. The method includes removing the water-dispersible polymer from water bath after the exchange step.
US12157793B2
An object is to provide a cured product and the like with excellent fire retardancy, heat resistance, and dielectric properties by using a curable resin having a specific structure and a curable resin composition containing the curable resin, a radical polymerization initiator, and a fire retardant. Specifically provided are a curable resin represented by General Formula (1) and a curable resin composition containing the curable resin, a radical polymerization initiator (B), and a fire retardant (C): in the formula, Ra and Rb each independently represent an alkyl group, an aryl group, an aralkyl group, or a cycloalkyl group with a carbon number of 1 to 12; k indicates an integer of 0 to 3; X represents a hydrocarbon group; and Y represents General Formula (2) or (3) below: in the formula, Z represents an alicyclic group, an aromatic group, or a heterocyclic group.
US12157791B2
Provided herein are compositions and methods of making high density nucleic acid polymers.
US12157790B2
The invention relates to reaction mixtures having a high ratio of isocyanate groups to isocyanate-reactive groups, which reaction mixtures mostly cure through the formation of isocyanurate groups, and to the use of such reaction mixtures for producing semifinished materials.
US12157788B1
Cross-linked polyvinyl polymers comprising charged groups and methods of making are disclosed. The polymers are effective and durable adsorbent of dyes from aqueous solutions. Also, a method of removal of dyes from contaminated water is disclosed.
US12157783B2
A contact lens includes a body, having the plurality of monomers including at least some silicone monomer units including at least one zwitterionic distributed throughout the body. The contact lens includes a front surface and a back surface, where the silicone monomer including at least one zwitterionic group can be present in a greater concentration nearest the front surface than the back surface or a point therebetween. The contact lens can be formed by casting a polymer mixture containing the silicone monomer including at least one zwitterionic group.
US12157781B2
The invention relates to a process for the preparation of low density polyethylene (LDPE) wherein the polymerisation takes place in a tubular reactor at peak temperatures ranging from 180° C. to 350° C. and at pressures ranging from 150 to 350 MPa and wherein the total effective length of the polymerisation reactor divided by the number of reaction zones is in the range from 230 to 350 m.
US12157779B2
A new class of synthetic cyclodextrin dimers is described. Exemplary cyclodextrin dimers can treat atherosclerotic plaques by targeting various forms cholesterol both intracellularly and extracellularly. Also provided are methods of depleting atherosclerotic plaques of cholesterol, cholesterol esters, 7-ketocholesterol and 7-ketocholesterol esters by treatment with such cyclodextrins. Further described are subclasses of dimers that have high specificity for 7-ketocholesterol.
US12157773B2
The present disclosure relates to biologically active molecules comprising a single domain antibody (sdAb) that specifically binds to the extracellular domain of human IL27Rα, compositions comprising such antibodies, and methods of use thereof.
US12157769B2
The present disclosure provides a virus composition. The efficacy of a variety of virus compositions loaded with different functional genes was detected, and several virus compositions with excellent antitumor effect were confirmed.
US12157767B2
Disclosed herein are methods for the isolation and purification of anti-IL-13 antibodies wherein the use of an affinity chromatographic step results in an antibody composition sufficiently pure for pharmaceutical uses. The methods described herein comprise pH viral reduction/inactivation, ultrafiltration/diafiltration, affinity chromatography (e.g., Protein A affinity chromatography), ion exchange chromatography, and hydrophobic chromatography. Further, the present invention is directed toward pharmaceutical compositions comprising one or more antibodies of the present invention.
US12157766B2
The present invention provides host cells having an oxidizing cytoplasm, which are capable of growing to high cell densities and producing recombinant proteins in soluble form. Also provided are methods for growing such host cells to high densities, methods for optionally modulating the growth rates of the host cells, and methods for inducing the host cells to produce the desired gene product in soluble form. Further aspects of the invention relate to host cell preparation and storage methods, which utilize the advantages of producing gene products in host cell cytoplasm to provide methods for long-term storage and/or transport of expressed gene products that are retained in a stable and soluble form within the host cells.
US12157762B2
Disclosed are nucleic acids and polypeptides which provide the co-expression of interleukin (IL)-21 and IL-15 by a host cell, each interleukin being bound to the cell membrane by a cell membrane anchor moiety. Also disclosed are related recombinant expression vectors, host cells, populations of cells, pharmaceutical compositions, and methods of treating or preventing cancer.
US12157757B2
The present invention provides improved methods of protein purification using CEX chromatography. Such methods generally comprise the steps of: contacting a protein of interest (e.g., an antibody) with a cation exchange resin at a first pH, that is less than the pI of the most acidic isoform of the protein of interest, such that the protein of interest binds to the resin; washing the cation exchange resin at a second pH that is greater than the first pH, but less than the pI of the most acidic isoform of the protein of interest; and eluting the protein of interest from the resin at a third pH that is about equal to or less than the first pH. The methods of the invention are particularly useful for the commercial purification of recombinant therapeutic proteins (e.g., antibodies).
US12157753B2
A method for the preparation of a compound of Formula IV wherein P1 is H or a suitable protecting group, comprising preparation of a compound of Formula I wherein P2 is H or a suitable protecting group and R1 is H or C1-6alkyl.
US12157735B2
BRD9 protein degradation compounds or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof are provided for the treatment of disorders mediated by BRD9, including but not limited to abnormal cellular proliferation.
US12157718B2
A source material gas (31) is supplied to a catalyst (30), a first heating medium (21) is caused to flow through a first heat exchange section (22) so that a temperature of a surface of the first heat exchange section (22) on a catalyst side is maintained higher than a dew point of a reacted gas (32), a second heating medium (51) is caused to flow through a second heat exchange section (52) so that a temperature of a surface of the second heat exchange section (52) on a space (4) side is maintained not higher than the dew point of the reacted gas (32), and a liquid obtained by condensation in the space (4) is allowed to fall down so as to be separated from the source material gas.
US12157708B2
A method for forming a hole in a ceramic matrix composite component includes providing a first tool component with a first hole, providing a fiber preform of the ceramic matrix composite component on the first tool component, positioning a second tool component on the fiber preform, such that the fiber preform is disposed between the first and second tool components, inserting a rod into the first and second holes and through the fiber preform, and performing a densification step of the fiber preform in the first and second tool components. The second tool component has a second hole coaxial with the first hole. The fiber preform is densified with a ceramic matrix.
US12157701B2
The present invention relates to a process for producing building materials, such as bricks, lightweight aggregates and concrete, which building materials comprise digestate obtained from municipal solid waste (MSW) which has been added one or more enzymes to liquefy the organic fraction of MSW.
US12157699B2
A process for producing a mineral foam having water repellent properties includes a) separately preparing a slurry of cement and an aqueous foam, wherein the cement slurry includes water, at least one water repellent agent different from organosilicon compound, and Portland cement and the aqueous foam includes a co-stabiliser; b) contacting the slurry of cement with the aqueous foam to obtain a slurry of foamed cement; and c) casting the slurry of foamed cement and leave the slurry of foamed cement to set.
US12157689B2
A method for treating wastewater or sludge comprises the steps of adding the wastewater or sludge to a reactor and mixing the wastewater or sludge with a stream to thereby decrease a ratio of alkalinity to ammonium in the reactor, the reactor containing ammonium oxidising bacteria that oxidise ammonium to produce nitrite and decrease pH.
US12157678B1
An electron transport includes a metal co-doped zinc oxide compound having a formula MnxCo0.015Zn1-xO, wherein x has a value in a range of 0.001 to 0.014. The electron transport material of the present disclosure may be used in a perovskite solar cell.
US12157677B2
A method of preparing iron oxide nanoparticles using an herbal mixture comprising Capparis spinosa, Cichorium intybus, Solanum nigrum, Cassia occidentalis, Terminalia arjuna, Achillea millefolium, and Tamarix gallica. The method produces crystalline γ—Fe2O3 nanoparticles which are superparamagnetic. The iron oxide nanoparticles are used in a method of killing or inhibiting the growth of a bacteria and/or fungus, particularly in the form of a biofilm. The nanoparticles are also used in a method of treating colon cancer.
US12157666B2
A nanowire electrode array has a plurality of vertical nanowires extending from a substrate, each of the nanowires including a core of unitary first dielectric material that also covers the substrate and is unitary with the substrate. Each core has a sharp sub-100 nm diameter tip and a wider base, electrode leads on sidewalls to the tip of the nanowire, and second dielectric covering the electrode leads. The tips in the array can penetrate individual cells in cell culture, such as a mini-brain culture. The substrate can include a window for simultaneous optical imaging and electrophysiological recording.
US12157657B2
Disclosed is an elevator system having: a holding relay configured to energize and deenergize a circuit, the holding relay configured to communicate over a wireless network with a mobile device, wherein the holding relay is configured to: deenergize the circuit responsive to receiving a first signal via the wireless network from the mobile device, indicative of the mobile device being in or near a first architectural location.
US12157655B2
A spool assembly configured to support a roll of material. The spool assembly comprises a first and second flange coupled together via a first and second arbor member. The first arbor member is slidably coupled within a first at least one slot of the first flange and slidably coupled within a second at least one slot of the second flange. A biasing member is coupled to the first arbor member such that the first arbor member is biased radially inward toward a longitudinal axis of the spool assembly. Rotation of the first flange relative to the second flange causes the first arbor member to translate within the first at least one slot and the second at least one slot causing a change in the arbor diameter.
US12157647B2
Various embodiments are directed to unloading system and methods of using the same. In various embodiments, an unloading system comprises a trailer bed configured to receive a container thereon, wherein the trailer bed comprises one or more joints configurable between a plurality of joint positions, wherein the trailer bed is configured to lift, tilt, and oscillate at least a portion of the container based on the joints; and an extendable conveyor configured to receive a box that has been released from the container and convey the box away from the trailer bed. Various embodiments are directed to a method comprising tilting the container such that an open end of the container is lower than a closed end of the container, wherein the open end of the container is proximate to an extendable conveyor; and oscillating the container to facilitate release of a box from the container onto the extendable conveyor.
US12157641B2
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for shifting, orienting, organizing, and/or routing objects including parcels and packages. In different aspects, the systems can shift objects, re-orient the objects, e.g., based on dimensions and/or geometries, and then can deposit the objects into transport receptacles used for additional shifting, organizing, and/or routing. In one aspect, an object-orienting mechanism includes a pivot-assembly having a plurality of pivoting-extensions, e.g., that can be independently rotated into different positions, e.g., to manipulate a package. In another aspect, a bin for holding objects includes a base, a plurality of sidewalls extending from the base, and a releasing mechanism that is adjustable into different configurations. In another aspect, a method of re-orienting objects onto a side of smallest dimension or cross-section is provided. This can be used to increase the efficiency of processing objects, e.g., in a logistics network operation.
US12157632B2
An automated carrier system is disclosed for moving objects to be processed. The automated carrier system includes a discontinuous plurality of track sections on which an automated carrier may be directed to move, and the automated carrier includes a base structure on which an object may be supported, and at least two wheels assemblies being pivotally supported on the base structure for pivoting movement from a first position to a second position to effect a change in direction of movement of the carrier.
US12157627B2
A method of dislodging entrapped particulate material from an assembly of a bin and a hopper for dispensing the particulate material is disclosed. The method includes lifting at least one of a plurality of support legs off of the foundation by a predetermined amount by using at least one lifting mechanism that is resting on the foundation and operatively attached to one of the plurality of support legs; and dropping the at least one support leg into a free fall down on to the foundation using the lifting mechanism, whereby an impact shock thus produced is transmitted to the assembly of the bin and the hopper through the support leg and promote dislodging of any of the particulate material that may be in a non-flowable state to enhance dispensing of the particulate material from the assembly of the bin and the hopper.
US12157620B2
A delivery container for a drone includes: an outer container (2) which is formed of an elastic material and is watertight and has a load opening (3) that opens and closes which is provided with a water stop portion (3a) to be watertight; and a cushioning portion (5) formed of an elastic material having an air chamber (6) and which is interposed between a load (B) stored inside the outer container (2) and the outer container (2) to hold the load (B) within a predetermined range inside the outer container (2). The delivery container can prevent a load to be delivered from getting damaged or wet and can easily and more reliably protect the load is provided.
US12157615B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to a carton for packaging one or more article and a blank for forming the carton. An aspect of the invention provides a corner folding arrangement comprising a first panel (18) having a corner defined by an end edge and a side edge. A second panel (32b) is hingedly connected to the end edge of the first panel along a first fold line. A third panel (20) hingedly connected to the side edge of the first panel along a second fold line. A fourth (34b) and fifth (36b) panel couple the second panel to the third panel. The fourth panel is hingedly connected to the second panel along a third fold line and the fifth panel is hingedly connected to the third panel along a fourth fold line. A severance line (70) extends between the first and fourth fold lines or between the second and third fold lines. In an unfolded blank form the severance line bypasses a notional intersection of the first and second fold lines such that the notional intersection is located on one side of the severance line spaced apart from the fourth and fifth panels.
US12157609B2
A receptacle for dispensing cosmetic product includes a base adapted to receive a cup containing the product, a cover being rotatable between a position in which the receptacle is closed and a position in which the receptacle is open, connected to the base by a first hinge connection at the rear part of the receptacle, and a platform being rotatable and clamping the cup in position in the base. The receptacle also includes a structure braking the cover on opening and closing, located in the rear part of the receptacle, and a structure braking the platform on opening and closing, also located in the rear part of the receptacle.
US12157607B1
A drip prevention device comprises a strip of flexible and absorbent material extending from a first free end to a second free end. A first fastener is attached to the first free end and a second fastener is attached to the second free end. The strip is configured with sufficient length to be wrapped around a bottle and knotted to form a knot on one side of the bottle with the first and second fasteners fastened on an opposite side of the bottle, thereby securing the drip prevention device to the bottle.
US12157599B2
A container labeling machine that includes a conveyance device for conveying containers to be labeled along an advancement path and at least one labeling station arranged along the advancement path of the containers, the labeling station including an unwinding assembly for a labeling ribbon wound in a spool and a cutting drum which supports at least one cutting device, the cutting device including a respective suction chamber which accommodates at least one blade; a diagnostic device for diagnosing the correct operation of the cutting device is also provided, with a detection device for detecting at least one parameter correlated with the pressure present in the suction chamber.
US12157598B2
A vertical flow-wrapper that includes a form-fill-tube along which a film is transported in a transport direction and formed into a film tube; a longitudinal-sealing means, which seals two opposing longitudinal ends of the film tube together to form a longitudinal seal, the longitudinal-sealing means includes a seal jaw and a pair of guiding rollers provided upstream from the seal jaw to guide the two opposing longitudinal ends of the film tube through the seal jaw and pressing means to press the two opposing longitudinal ends of the film tube together; and a cross-sealing means and a cutting means which provide cross seals to each package and separate the packages from each other; an axis of rotation of the pair of guiding rollers are provided parallel to a transportation plane of the two opposing longitudinal ends of the formed film and not perpendicular to the transport direction.
US12157593B2
The invention relates to a method for operating a bagging machine (01) having at least one vibration sensor (15, 18, 19) and a vibration evaluation device (16), wherein airborne and/or structure-borne signals can be measured with the vibration sensor (15, 18, 19), and wherein the measurement signals of the vibration sensor (15, 18, 19) can be evaluated with the vibration evaluation device (16), wherein a) airborne and/or structure-borne signals produced by the filling material during operation of the bagging machine (01) are measured with the vibration sensor (15, 18, 19) on the format tube (06), b) the measurement signals of the vibration sensor (15, 18, 19) are evaluated by the vibration evaluation device (16), c) a function signal is output depending on the evaluation results.
US12157592B2
A particle removal device for a filling machine configured to form, fill, and seal individual packages is provided. The particle removal device comprises an air supply pipe, and a controller being programmed to activate the particle removal device such that a jet of air is directed into a ready-to-fill package passing the particle removal device.
US12157590B2
A rotary sealing apparatus for a blister packaging machine is disclosed. The rotary sealing apparatus includes a guide plate adapted to support a movement of a base foil having a plurality of blister pockets. The rotary sealing apparatus includes a counter sealing roller adapted to rotate to advance the base foil in a direction away from the guide plate and a sealing roller adapted to feed a seal foil between the counter sealing roller and the sealing roller. The counter sealing roller includes a plurality of cavities adapted to accommodate the plurality of blister pockets. The rotary sealing apparatus includes a cavity alignment unit disposed on the guide plate and adapted to align the plurality of blister pockets with the plurality of cavities. The cavity alignment unit is adapted to clamp the base foil on the guide plate to stretch the base foil to align the plurality of blister pockets with the plurality of cavities.
US12157589B2
A machine for packaging articles with a conveyor designed to feed a preformed carton in a feed direction. The machine comprises conveyor belt for placing an article to be packaged on the carton and mobile article holding device, which hold the article during placement, limiting the speed of the article to that of the carton. The placement device comprise a conveyor belt for placement with at least one curved section, designed to convey the article along a curvilinear route, and an alignment station designed to place the article on the placement conveyor belt in a position that ensures the article is placed from the placement conveyor belt onto the carton in a suitable position. The alignment device comprises a mobile undercarriage which moves transversely to the article feed direction and a conveyor belt on top of the undercarriage, which is designed to feed the article in the article feed direction.
US12157588B2
A displacement device for a handling device, including an articulation mechanism on which the handling device is accommodated, wherein the handling device is displaceable by the articulation mechanism between a first position and a second position. The articulation mechanism has a four-pivot arrangement with a first link and a second link, wherein the first link is connected to the second link via a coupler. The coupler has a receiving section for receiving the handling device, wherein the first link, the second link and the coupler are matched to one another so that a substantially rectilinear displacement of the handling device takes place from the first position into the second position. In a method for displacement of a handling device by such a displacement device, the handling device is displaced substantially rectilinearly by the articulation mechanism between the first position and the second position. A packaging machine includes the displacement device.
US12157578B2
Aircraft power plants and associated methods are provided. A method for driving a load on an aircraft includes: transferring motive power from an internal combustion (IC) engine to the load; discharging a flow of first exhaust gas from the IC engine when transferring motive power from the IC engine to the load; receiving the flow of first exhaust gas from the IC engine into a combustor; mixing fuel with the first exhaust gas in the combustor and igniting the fuel to generate a flow of second exhaust gas; receiving the flow of second exhaust gas at a turbine and driving the turbine with the flow of second exhaust gas from the combustor; and transferring motive power from the turbine to the load.
US12157572B2
A thin, lightweight control surface is fabricated by induction consolidation of thermoplastic components. The control surface includes a forward section co-consolidated with a rear section. The front section includes a cover and the rear section includes a truss core covered by an outer skin.
US12157567B2
An aircraft wing is disclosed including a main wing element and a movable wing tip device attached to a tip end of the main wing element. The movable wing tip device can move relative to the main wing element to vary a span of the aircraft wing. An inductive coupler is arranged to inductively transmit data and/or power between the main wing element and the movable wing tip device. The inductive coupler removes the need for wires and cables to pass across a joint between the main wing element and a movable wing tip device. Additional embodiments include a method of maintenance, and a method of operating the aircraft wing to transmit data and/or power between the main wing element and the movable wing tip device.
US12157562B2
A helicopter is described comprising: a tail boom; a fin projecting from the tail boom; and a tailplane arranged at the tail boom and transversal to the fin; at least one of the fin and the tailplane defining a first aerodynamic surface generating a first aerodynamic force; at least one first element transversal to the first aerodynamic surface; and a second aerodynamic surface generating a second aerodynamic force, connected to the first element, facing and spaced from the first aerodynamic surface; the second aerodynamic surface is spaced from the other of the fin and the tailplane.
US12157561B2
A rotorcraft having an electric drive for driving a main rotor of a rotorcraft, more particularly a helicopter, the electric drive comprising: a coupler for coupling the electric drive to a rotor mast, which can be coupled for conjoint rotation with a drive unit of a helicopter rotor transmission, for coupling for conjoint rotation with the main rotor or tail rotor. A rotorcraft with an electric drive is provided with which the space requirement is reduced, the construction is simplified and the maintenance requirement is reduced. This problem is solved in that the electric drive is designed as an electric ring motor, with the electric ring motor being arranged and attached coaxially with the rotor mast.
US12157560B2
A commanded control signal is compared against an adaptive control signal in order to detect a rotor strike by a rotor included in an aircraft, wherein the adaptive control signal is associated with controlling the rotor and the adaptive control signal varies based at least in part on the commanded control signal and state information associated with the rotor. In response to detecting the rotor strike, a control signal to the rotor is adjusted in order to reduce a striking force associated with the rotor.
US12157557B2
An aircraft undercarriage includes a leg for mounting on a structure of the aircraft so as to be movable between a deployed position and a retracted position, the undercarriage being fitted with a breaker strut including two hinged elements that are hinged together at a knee, with a first element for coupling to the structure of the aircraft and a second element for coupling to the undercarriage, a return member being arranged between the two elements to urge them towards a substantially aligned position that is defined by respective abutments. According to the invention, one of the strut elements incorporates a linear actuator having a slidable rod that is coupled to the other strut element by means of a link, the assembly being arranged in such a manner that moving the slidable rod of the actuator in a single direction causes, in succession, the elements of the strut to move out of alignment and the undercarriage to move from the deployed position to the retracted position.
US12157556B2
In an aspect a system for fly-by-wire flight control configured for use in electric aircraft including at least a sensor, wherein the sensor is communicatively connected a pilot control and configured to detect a pilot input from the pilot control and generate, as a function of the pilot input, command datum. A system includes a flight controller, the flight controller including a computing device and configured to perform a voting algorithm, wherein performing the voting algorithm includes determining that the sensor is an allowed sensor, wherein determining that the sensor is an allowed sensor includes determining that the command datum is an active datum, determining the command datum is an admissible datum, generating, as a function of the command datum and the allowed sensor, a control surface datum wherein the control surface datum is correlated to the pilot input.
US12157554B2
A monolithic or laminated glazing is bolted or pinched by a frame which is itself bolted onto or through a structure, wherein, in at least part of the periphery of the glazing of maximum flexibility or of minimum stiffness with respect to the buckling phenomenon, the bolting is performed by at least one bolt inserted into a bush concentric to the bolt, or replaced by the insertion of a bush or of a pin, each bush or each pin being mounted without play on the glazing or on the frame, and on or through the structure.
US12157548B2
An underwater docking system according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes: an underwater vehicle that sails in water; and an underwater station with which the underwater vehicle docks. One of the underwater vehicle and the underwater station includes: a reference point; and a first fitting located around the reference point as a center. The other of the underwater vehicle and the underwater station includes: a detector that detects the reference point; and a second fitting located around the detector as a center and fitted to the first fitting. One of the first fitting and the second fitting is an annular groove. The other of the first fitting and the second fitting includes at least two protrusions that are inserted into the annular groove.
US12157543B2
A water flow deflection device to enhance a watercraft's wake. An elongated base with two ends is aligned along the side of the watercraft. The base has a deflector interface with concentrically arranged teeth. A deflector assembly is operably attached to the base between the two ends, with a face that deflects water. The deflector's leading end is closer to the watercraft than the trailing end. The deflector assembly has a base interface with concentrically arranged teeth. Two or more suction cup assemblies attach to the elongated base to provide removable attachment, with one attached between a first end and the deflector interface and another attached between a second end and the deflector interface. The concentrically arranged teeth of the deflector interface and the base interface operably interlock, allowing rotational adjustment of the deflector relative to the base.
US12157540B2
A boat includes at least three trim devices positioned aft of the boat's transom. To improve the boat's ability to get on place, each trim device is initially positioned to a deployed position. The speed of the boat is then determined as the boat gains speed. When the speed of the boat exceeds a first predetermined threshold, the first trim device is moved from the deployed position to a non-deployed position. When the speed of the boat exceeds a second predetermined threshold, the second trim device is moved from the deployed position to a non-deployed position. When the speed of the boat exceeds a third predetermined threshold, the third trim device is moved from the deployed position to a non-deployed position. At least one of the first, second, and third predetermined thresholds is different from the other two of the first, second, and third predetermined thresholds.
US12157538B2
A human-powered vehicle component includes a housing and a joint provided on the housing and configured to be attached to a support of the human-powered vehicle by a fastener. The joint includes a metal base, a metal coupling portion provided on the base and coupled to the fastener, and an intermediate portion provided between the coupling portion and the base. The base includes a first material having a first standard electrode potential. The coupling portion includes a second material having a second standard electrode potential. The intermediate portion is formed by a third material having a third standard electrode potential or a fourth material having an electric insulating property. A difference of the third and first standard electric potentials and a difference of the third and second standard electrode potentials are each smaller than a difference of the first and second standard electrode potentials.
US12157533B2
A cockpit assembly for a micro-mobility fleet vehicle may include at least two visible and at least partially opposed faces linked by a fold aligned along an axis of a handlebar assembly, such as a first face, a second face, and an intermediate portion connecting the first face to the second face. The first face may include a headlight assembly. The second face may include a display of a user interface that is arranged to face a rider of the fleet vehicle. The display may be disposed adjacent to and/or beneath a mobile device holder. The first face, the second face, and the intermediate portion may wrap at least partially around the handlebar assembly to position the first face towards a front of the fleet vehicle and the second face towards a rear, a rider, and/or a seat of the fleet vehicle.
US12157523B2
The present disclosure relates to a technology for removing adverse effects on input torque by torque offset to improve and maintain a control function related to steering. A method for controlling torque offset compensation in a steering system, includes obtaining a torque offset value (input torque change value) for each steering angle under a hands-off condition of a steering wheel; determining compensation torque configured to counterbalance the torque offset value regarding the steering angle when the steering wheel is steered; and determining a final torque by applying the compensation torque to an input torque detected according to steering of the steering wheel.
US12157520B2
A tire hoist system mounted beneath a vehicle body and supporting a spare tire for raising and lowering. The tire hoist system comprises a take-up reel rotatable about a reel axis; a flexible support member; and a tire support for a spare tire. The flexible support member is coupled to the take-up reel. A reduction gear system includes a plurality of meshed gears, including a reduction input gear. An input gear system has (a) an output gear coupled to the reduction input gear of the reduction gear system such that rotation of the output gear drives the reduction input gear, (b) a driving input gear meshed with the output gear, and (c) an input element fixed with the driving input gear and engageable by a drive tool. The output gear is rotated about an output axis parallel or coincident with the reel axis and the input element and the driving input gear is rotatable about an input axis oriented at an angle to the reel axis. The input gear system is an adapter input gear system comprising an input gear system housing, and is assembled separately from the reduction gear system and mounted by the input gear system housing being mounted to an exterior surface of the reduction gear system housing. A method for adapting a tire hoist system is also disclosed.
US12157519B2
A recirculating-ball steering system for transmitting a steering movement to a steering arm, includes: a housing having a steering piston arranged inside the housing, wherein the steering piston includes a ball screw drive and is displaceable along its longitudinal axis, and an electrical actuator for assisting the movement of the steering piston. Also described is a vehicle having the recirculating-ball steering system.
US12157504B2
The automatic driving assist system includes a traveling information acquirer that acquires vehicle width information, passing date and time, and position information when passing the measurement point, on preceding vehicles, from the preceding vehicle passing through the measurement point for each measurement, a traveling environment information acquirer that acquires traveling environment information at each measurement point, a calculator that acquires a travelable width at the measurement point based on information of the preceding vehicles and the traveling environment information, and a determiner that determines whether the own vehicle can travel to pass through the measurement point by automatic driving by comparing the travelable width with an own-vehicle travelable width. The calculator aggregates the position information and the vehicle width information acquired during a period from when the own vehicle is expected to pass the measurement point until before a predetermined time, to acquire the travelable width.
US12157503B2
A computer-implemented method comprising: receiving sensor data from sensors of a first vehicle associated with a first person, the sensor data generated by the sensors; applying a machine-learning algorithm to the sensor data to define a driving envelope for an assisted-driving system, the assisted-driving system installed in a second vehicle; and providing the driving envelope to the assisted-driving system installed in the second vehicle.
US12157498B2
An approach for assisting users with disabilities in an emergency situation relating to a vehicle is disclosed. The approach determines the profile of the passenger in a vehicle by noting preferences and disabilities associated with the passenger. After a vehicle accident, the approach determines the condition of the vehicle and the condition of the passenger. Based on various information received, the approach creates an action list of solutions for the passenger, wherein the action list has assigned dynamic risk scores. The approach determines the best solution based on the risk scores and selects the best solution from the action list.
US12157496B2
A control device executes the following processes: a first process of detecting that autonomous traveling control is not able to be continued and executing stop control of a vehicle; a second process of determining whether a person is present in the vehicle; and a third process of unlocking a door lock of the vehicle when at least one person is present in the vehicle after the vehicle is stopped by the first process.
US12157489B2
An HMI control device is configured to control an HMI device mounted in a vehicle, which is capable of performing an autonomous driving as a first task. The HMI control device is configured to: acquire a possible duration for the autonomous driving; and present, by the HMI device, a second task that an occupant on a driver's seat is able to start executing during the autonomous driving based on the possible duration acquired by the time acquisition unit.
US12157486B2
A road surface evaluation apparatus includes a microprocessor configured to perform: acquiring driving information of each of a plurality of vehicles, including a position and an acceleration of each of the plurality of vehicles while traveling, and a map information including road information on a road where the plurality of vehicles travel; evaluating a surface roughness of the road based on accelerations of the plurality of vehicles acquired in the acquiring within a predetermined period and, when a degree of accumulation of the accelerations of the plurality of vehicles acquired within the predetermined period is less than a predetermined value, evaluating the surface roughness by complementing the acceleration of the plurality of vehicles acquired before the predetermined period; and outputting information on the surface roughness evaluated in the evaluating in association with the road information acquired in the acquiring.
US12157485B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus for a monitoring system to monitor and detect a vehicle load. The monitoring system includes a first camera configured to capture first image data including a load in the vehicle, a memory configured to store image data, and an electronic control unit coupled to the first camera and the memory. The electronic control unit is configured to obtain, from the first camera, the first image data including the load, determine a movement of the load based on the first image data, and provide a notification when the movement of the load exceeds a first threshold.
US12157484B2
A roll-over alert system for a vehicle when navigating a curve in a road. The system includes a transceiver, a memory, and a control module. The transceiver is configured to receive a map message including a general curve speed recommendation for the curve. The memory is configured to store the map message and vehicle-specific data relevant to safely navigating the curve. The control module is configured to: (i) calculate a vehicle-specific curve speed based on the vehicle-specific data and the general curve speed recommendation included in the map message; and (ii) generate an alert to an operator of the vehicle when an actual vehicle speed exceeds the vehicle-specific curve speed during navigation of the curve by the vehicle.
US12157481B2
Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer program products for vehicle path planning. The methods comprise: estimating a current state of a vehicle based on sensor data; generating a control error representing a difference between the estimated current state of the vehicle and a desired state of the vehicle as described by a previously published trajectory; comparing the control error to a threshold value; generating a first plan for the vehicle using an open-loop path planning approach when the control error is below the threshold value or a second plan for the vehicle using a closed-loop path planning approach when the control error is above the threshold value; and causing the vehicle to execute the first or second plan.
US12157465B2
Techniques for determining unified futures of objects in an environment are discussed herein. Techniques may include determining a first feature associated with an object in an environment and a second feature associated with the environment and based on a position of the object in the environment, updating a graph neural network (GNN) to encode the first feature and second feature into a graph node representing the object and encode relative positions of additional objects in the environment into one or more edges attached to the node. The GNN may be decoded to determine a first predicted position of the object. The first predicted position may be determined to be outside of a bounded area of the environment. Based on this determination, a second predicted position of the object may be determined using map data associated with the object.
US12157461B2
A system for limiting use of an electronic mobile device by a driver of a vehicle. The system includes a mobile device controller for removable connection with a vehicle and for wireless communicating with one or more electronic mobile devices and an electronic mobile device for wireless communicating with the mobile device controller. The mobile device controller comprises a radio frequency receiver or transmitter. The electronic mobile device includes a radio frequency transceiver in wireless communication with the radio frequency receiver or transmitter of the mobile device controller, an application installed thereon and an electronic mobile device processor programmed to execute one or more instructions of the application stored in a non-transitory computer readable storage medium of the electronic mobile device.
US12157457B2
An oil dilution inhibiting apparatus is configured to inhibit oil dilution caused by mixture of fuel into engine oil. The oil dilution inhibiting apparatus includes a control unit. The control unit is configured to estimate friction of an engine and determine that the oil dilution occurs when the friction of the engine is decreased to a value lower than or equal to a predetermined threshold value to perform control so that the engine is operated at a higher speed.
US12157454B2
The braking control device includes a control amount derivation unit that derives a target vehicle braking force representing a target value of a vehicle braking force applied, and a braking control unit that controls a regenerative braking device and a frictional braking device based on the target vehicle braking force. When the target vehicle braking force is increased, the braking control unit executes a braking force application process of increasing the frictional braking force applied to the wheel so that such frictional braking force becomes larger than the regenerative braking force applied to the wheel. When the target vehicle braking force is increased, the braking control unit executes a switching process of switching at least a part of the frictional braking force applied to the wheel to the regenerative braking force to increase the regenerative braking force applied to the wheel after execution of the braking force application process.
US12157450B2
Embodiments herein are directed to an emulator assembly. The assembly includes a housing with a cavity, a pedal arm, an elongated member, a carrier, an end plate and a compressible member. The pedal arm is at least partially received in the cavity and has a pedal pad on one end. The elongated member extends and couples to the pedal arm on one end and couples to a carrier on an opposite other end. The end plate is spaced apart from the carrier. The compressible member is positioned in the space between the carrier and the end plate. When the pedal pad is depressed, the elongated member moves the carrier in a direction towards the end plate which drives the carrier into the compressible member such that the compressible material compresses to generate a force feedback onto a foot positioned on the pedal pad.
US12157449B2
A system for predicting a negative pressure of a brake booster of a vehicle includes: a driving information detector detecting driving information related to driving of the vehicle; and a controller determining a negative pressure of an intake manifold based on a pressure of the intake manifold and an atmospheric pressure which is the driving information and including a booster negative pressure predictor predicting the negative pressure of the brake booster by integrating over time a change rate according to a charging rate and a discharging rate of the negative pressure determined using a negative pressure of the brake booster determined in a previous cycle according to a logic for predicting the negative pressure of the brake booster and the negative pressure of the intake manifold of a current cycle and an imitated brake pedal force signal of the current cycle imitating an acceleration of the vehicle.
US12157446B2
Provided is an electronic parking brake system including: an electronic parking brake provided in at least one of a front wheel and a rear wheel of a vehicle and driven by a motor; and a controller electrically connected to the motor, wherein the controller is configured to determine whether a gear stage of an electronic transmission system (a shift by wire: SBW) is shifted to a neutral position during ignition-off of the vehicle, and upon determining that the gear stage is shifted to the neutral position, release engagement of the electronic parking brake.
US12157443B2
An outdoor grounds maintenance vehicle is self-propelled by a hydrostatic traction drive system that provides dynamic braking to the vehicle without the need for separate service brakes acting on the wheels of the vehicle. An engine kill device can be manually actuated by the operator to access the dynamic braking of the traction drive system by reducing the speed of the prime mover that powers the pump of the traction drive system. This provides an auxiliary braking system that can be used in an emergency or on demand by the operator in the event the accelerator pedal does not properly control the pump swashplates. The operator can control the rate at which the auxiliary brake system reduces the speed of the prime mover to zero.
US12157427B1
The present disclosure relates generally to aggregation of data associated with events related to automotive vehicles. Automotive vehicles may include a variety of sensing devices used in local sensing operations. However, these sensing devices may not be leveraged beyond the local sensing operations. When automotive vehicles are operated, sometimes events occur. As discussed herein, an event-based data aggregation service may aggregate sensing data from one or more sensing devices, such as sensing devices of the automotive vehicles, in response to receiving an event notification associated with one or more of the events and may use the sensing data when responding to the event notification.
US12157424B2
A high-voltage module, such as a traction battery, a traction inverter, or a DC/DC converter of a traction powertrain of an electrified vehicle (EV), includes an enclosure, an electronics assembly for performing electrical power operations, and a fuse box for providing a power distribution and fuse protection arrangement to the electronics assembly. The enclosure includes a main enclosure portion and a secondary enclosure portion integrated together. The electronics assembly is housed within the main enclosure portion and the fuse box is housed within the secondary enclosure portion.
US12157423B2
A device for power supply for a vehicle, including: a first battery; a second battery; a fault-detecting apparatus for detecting a faulty state of the batteries; and a switching apparatus having four battery interfaces and a load interface for connecting at least one electrical load to the device. The first battery interface is connected to a first terminal of the first battery, the second battery interface is connected to a second terminal of the first battery, the third battery interface is connected to a first terminal of the second battery, and the fourth battery interface is connected to a second terminal of the second battery. In a normal state, the switching apparatus connects the second battery interface to the third interface, and in an emergency state, the switching apparatus disconnects the second battery interface from the third interface and connects the second or fourth battery interface to the load interface.
US12157417B2
A camera monitor system including a first mirror replacement assembly including a housing supporting a rear facing camera and a rear facing range sensor, a controller in communication with the mirror replacement assembly, the controller including a processor and a memory, the memory storing instructions for identifying at least one object in an image feed from the camera and determining an angular position of the object using image analysis, identifying a distance of the at least one object from the mirror replacement assembly using the range sensor; and fusing the distance and the angular position of the object into a single data set, and a display connected to the controller and configured to display a mirror replacement view including at least a portion of the image feed.
US12157409B2
An expandable vehicle comprising a vehicle chassis and an expandable structure that is fixed to, carried by, and supported by the vehicle chassis. The expandable structure is expanded when the expandable vehicle is stationary for the stationary purpose of the expandable vehicle and is contracted when the expandable vehicle is being moved. The expandable structure comprises an expandable frame and an expandable body. The expandable body is fixed to, carried by, and supported by the expandable frame while the expandable frame is fixed to, carried by, and supported by the vehicle chassis. As the expandable frame is expanded and contracted, the expandable body is correspondingly expanded and contracted.
US12157402B2
A seat for a vehicle may comprise a back assembly; a cushion assembly comprising a cushion frame coupled to a base frame; and an adjustment mechanism to raise and lower the cushion frame relative to the base frame. The adjustment mechanism may comprise a frame and an adjuster. The frame may comprise an interface comprising a dome-shaped seat for the adjuster. The seat may comprise an interface comprising a recess for the adjuster at the cushion frame. The adjuster may comprise a bladder to be inflated for a raised position; the actuator may comprise a pneumatic actuator. The bladder may be cylindrical, disc-shaped, ball-shaped, multi-segment, etc. The adjustment mechanism may comprise a stop and a frame such as an interface, bracket, compliant element, etc. The cushion frame may be pivotally coupled with the base frame. The adjustment mechanism may comprise a set of adjusters.
US12157397B2
A vehicle battery cooling apparatus configured to cool a battery mounted on a vehicle includes a first fluid circuit and a second fluid circuit. In the first fluid circuit, a first cooling fluid to cool the battery is to be circulated while the vehicle is traveling. In a second fluid circuit, a second cooling fluid to cool the battery is to be circulated while the battery is being charged. The first fluid circuit and the second fluid circuit are independent from each other.
US12157391B2
A control device includes a processor configured to output, in a case where communication between a server instructing a power feeding vehicle to proceed for power feeding to a feeding target facility and the power feeding vehicle is interrupted, a control signal for causing the power feeding vehicle to move to an installation site of the server.
US12157390B2
The present systems, devices, and methods relate to managing vehicle battery charging. Payment for charging is preauthorized, and a receipt for preauthorization is sent from a payment management device to a user device when the user device has access to internet or cellular communications. This preauthorization receipt is later sent from the user device to a charge station where internet or cellular communication is not available, to enable charging of the vehicle battery at the charge station. Another receipt is sent from the charge station to the user device after charging of the vehicle, indicating a payment amount for actual energy used to charge the battery. Later, when the user device has access to cellular or internet communications, the user device sends the receipt indicating payment amount for actual energy used to the payment management device, for final payment balancing.
US12157379B2
Methods and systems for charging an electric vehicle (EV) are described herein. An EV may require additional battery power to reach a charging station. A remote server in communication with the EV or an on-board computer or mobile device in the EV may obtain data to determine a location for the EV to meet a charging vehicle. The charging vehicle may be dispatched to meet the EV and deliver power to it, enabling the EV to reach a charging station or other destination. In some examples, the charging vehicle may deliver power to the EV while both vehicles are stationary. In other examples, the charging vehicle may couple to the EV while both vehicles are in motion.
US12157375B2
An on-board battery charger (OBC) includes (i) rail circuits having respective rail controllers and (ii) a main controller. The rail controllers sample voltages supplied to their rail circuits and transmit a fault signal to the main controller upon a comparison between a sampled voltage and a threshold being affirmative of an improper voltage condition (overvoltage or undervoltage) of the sampled voltage. The main controller controls all of the rail controllers to stop operation of all of the rail circuits in response to receiving the fault signal from any of the rail controllers. In a variation, the main controller samples the voltages supplied to the rail circuits and stops operation of all of the rail circuits upon a comparison between a sampled voltage and the threshold being affirmative.
US12157370B2
An embodiment hybrid powertrain for a vehicle includes a first input shaft configured to be interlocked with an engine, a second input shaft configured to be interlocked with a first motor and to be parallel to the first input shaft, a third input shaft configured to be interlocked with a second motor and to be parallel to the second input shaft, an output shaft mounted parallel to the third input shaft, a first selective mesh device configured to transmit power from the second input shaft to the output shaft at multiple different gear ratios, a second selective mesh device configured to transmit the power from the third input shaft to the output shaft at the multiple different gear ratios, and a third selective mesh device configured to transmit the power from the first input shaft to the second input shaft or the third input shaft.
US12157368B2
The present disclosure provides an autonomous vehicle and associated interface system that includes multiple vehicle interface computing devices that provide redundant vehicle commands. As one example, an autonomous vehicle interface system can include a first vehicle interface computing device located within the autonomous vehicle and physically coupled to the autonomous vehicle. The first vehicle interface computing device can provide a first plurality of selectable vehicle commands to a human passenger of the autonomous vehicle. The autonomous vehicle interface system can further include a second vehicle interface computing device that provides a second plurality of selectable vehicle commands to the human passenger. For example, the second vehicle interface computing device can be the passenger's own device (e.g., smartphone). The second plurality of selectable vehicle commands can include at least some of the same vehicle commands as the first plurality of selectable vehicle commands.
US12157355B2
A guide rail includes: a first rail that has a bottom wall on which a load roller rolls and supports the weight of a sliding door; a second rail that has side walls on which two guide rollers roll and defines a moving direction of the sliding door; and a first restriction part that restricts the motion of the load roller in an axial direction.
US12157353B2
A panel door applied for a vehicle including a stiffness member made of a plastic material and integrally formed on an internal surface of the panel door, includes an external panel, an internal panel coupled to the external panel, and a stiffness member formed to connect a frame forming a circumference and stiffness elements provided for reinforcing stiffness inside the frame and coupled to at least one of the external panel and the internal panel.
US12157336B2
The present disclosure is directed to a wheel cover that is coupled to a wheel of a vehicle utilizing a mounting assembly that has a bearing block. A retainer assembly in combination with the bearing block of the mounting assembly allows the wheel cover to be coupled to the wheel in a manner such that the wheel cover does not rotate with the forward and backward rotation of the wheel when the vehicle is being driven. The wheel cover covers the wheel and partially covers a gap or space between a tire of the wheel and a fender of the vehicle, which increases the aerodynamic performance of the vehicle. The retainer assembly provides at least one degree of freedom such that the wheel cover may move with the wheel when steering the vehicle in a leftward direction and a rightward direction.
US12157327B2
A medium includes a heat-sensitive medium and an adhesive medium. The heat-sensitive medium includes a first base material and a first color-developing layer. The first base material has a transparency. The first color-developing layer has a transparency. The first color-developing layer is provided on a first surface of the first base material. The first color-developing layer is configured to become less transparent to develop a first color when heated to a first temperature or higher. The adhesive medium is to be superimposed on and bonded to the heat-sensitive medium in their thickness direction. The adhesive medium includes a second base material and an adhesive layer provided on the second base material. The adhesive medium is to be bonded to the heat-sensitive medium on an opposite side of the first color-developing layer from the first base material. The first base material has one or more images pre-printed thereon.
US12157326B2
Described are colour developers of formula (I) Ar1—NH—CO—NH—C6H4—SO2—O—C6H4—NH—CO—NH—Ar2 (I), a heat-sensitive recording material comprising a carrier substrate and also a heat-sensitive, colour-forming layer containing at least one colour former and at least one phenol-free colour developer, wherein the at least one colour developer is the compound of formula (I), and a method for producing this heat-sensitive recording material.
US12157324B2
Various embodiments are directed to a printhead pressure arm assembly for a printing device. In various embodiments, the printhead pressure arm assembly comprises a pressure arm comprising an arm base element defined by an arm base length; and distal arm wings extending from a distal end of the arm base element in outward directions perpendicular to the arm base length, wherein the pressure arm defines a T-shaped configuration; and one or more leaf spring elements operably secured to a respective bottom surface of each distal arm wing and configured to operatively engage a printhead assembly; wherein each leaf spring element defines a flexible configuration to facilitate an elastic contact with the printhead assembly; and wherein the leaf spring elements define evenly distributed contact points through which the printhead pressure arm assembly is configured to apply a collective pressure force onto the printhead assembly in an at least substantially uniform distribution.
US12157321B2
An inkjet printer prints on a first side of a media sheet less than all of the color separations in an image, generates a first set of image data of the printed color separations to identify image features, returns the partially printed media sheet to a position that precedes the print zone in the printer, generates a second set of image data of the partially printed media sheet before it reenters the print zone to identify the image features, compares the positions of the image features in the first set of image data to the positions of the image features in the second set of image data to register one or more color separations remaining to be printed with the color separations printed on the first side of the media sheet, and prints the remaining registered color separations on the first side of the partially printed media sheet.
US12157317B2
The ratio of the rotation speed Nr of the take-up roller (take-up rotation speed) and the rotation speed Nu of the feeding roller (feeding rotation speed) is used. That is, knowledge that the roll diameter Drr of the sheet S taken up on the take-up roller is given by a function using the ratio of the rotation speeds Nr and Nu as a variable was obtained. Accordingly, the roll diameter Drr is computed from this ratio.
US12157310B2
A head drive controller to drive a head to discharge a liquid, the head drive controller includes a drive waveform generator configured to generate a drive voltage waveform to drive the head, a switch coupled to the head and the drive waveform generator, the switch configured to select passing or non-passing of the drive voltage waveform generated by the drive waveform generator to the head. The drive voltage waveform includes a first expansion waveform element to expand a pressure chamber in the head, and a second expansion waveform element to expand the pressure chamber, the second expansion waveform element having a slew rate smaller than a slew rate of the first expansion waveform element.
US12157309B2
A liquid ejecting apparatus includes an ejection head including a plurality of nozzles communicating with a pressure chamber and an actuator configured to apply pressure on liquid stored in the pressure chamber, a carriage, a storage storing information relating to a first timing when a non-ejecting flashing operation is started, and a controller. The actuator applies pressure on the liquid in the pressure chamber in the non-ejecting flashing operation so as to vibrate, without ejecting, the liquid in the plurality of nozzles of the ejection head, while the carriage is decreased in speed so as to be stopped. The controller is configured to select, based on status information, one of the first timing and a second timing, and start the non-ejecting-flashing operation at the selected timing while the carriage is decreased in speed so as to be stopped.
US12157299B2
A printing apparatus includes a print unit configured to print an image on a print medium, a conveyance unit configured to convey a print medium to the print unit, a first feed unit configured to feed a first print medium to the conveyance unit, a second feed unit configured to feed a second print medium to the conveyance unit, and a control unit configured to control the first feed unit, the second feed unit, and the conveyance unit. The control unit is configured to start, in a state in which the first print medium is being conveyed by the conveyance unit, feeding of the second print medium to the conveyance unit by the second feed unit.
US12157295B2
A building panel, such as a floor panel, having a core comprising at least one or more of a thermoplastic material, a thermoset material, a mineral based material or a combination thereof. The building panel further including a first arrangement, arranged on said core, having a surface layer and a sublayer, where the sublayer is arranged between the core and the surface layer.
US12157287B2
This invention relates to devices integrally comprising fibres that have emissivities, particularly of infrared radiation, that can be controllably varied. The active emissive surface comprises graphene layers with intercalated ions.
US12157283B2
A method for depositing at least one colored layer on the surface of a vulcanized tire sidewall includes applying by inkjet a colored layer to the whole of the sidewall or to at least a part of the sidewall of the tire and then, after drying, selectively removing the colored layer in such a manner as to create a first pattern. A tire obtained on completion of that method is also disclosed.
US12157277B2
During a formation method, a first component and a second component are provided. The first component is configured from or otherwise includes a first fiber-reinforced thermoplastic composite. The first component also includes a base and a material buildup on a portion of the base. The second component is configured from or otherwise includes a second fiber-reinforced thermoplastic composite. The second component is arranged with the first component. The second component abuts the material buildup. The second component is vibration welded to the first component to provide a weld joint between the first component and the second component. At least a portion of the material buildup is displaced during the vibration welding.
US12157270B2
A substrate holder for an inkjet printer is described herein. The substrate holder has a contact member having a contact surface and a carriage surface opposite from the contact surface and a carriage coupled to the carriage surface, the carriage having a direction of motion extending in a first direction. The carriage has a base member and a linear slide mechanism coupling the base member to the contact member, the linear slide mechanism oriented with a direction of linear displacement at an acute angle with the direction of motion in a plane parallel to the contact surface.
US12157267B2
A large area deposition type additive manufacturing equipment is disclosed. The large area deposition type additive manufacturing equipment includes a light source module, a dynamic photomask module, a raw material tank and a deposition module. The light source module includes a plurality of light emitting members, a light diffusion member, a light enhancement member and a light emitting angle limiter. Light emitted from the light emitting members passes through the light diffusion member, the light enhancement member and the light emitting angle limiter to become a collimated curing light. The collimated curing light travels through a transparent member of the raw material tank and a dynamic photomask module to reach liquid photocurable material in the raw material tank, thereby curing the liquid photocurable material. The angle of emitted light ranges within ±30° with respect to a normal line of an incident plane of the light source module.
US12157265B2
A method of manufacturing a coupler for an air suspension includes: preparing a topping cord sheet and a rubber band; connecting the topping cord sheet and the rubber band to each other by attaching the rubber band to an outer circumferential surface of the topping cord sheet; and vulcanizing an intermediately formed body made by the connecting of the topping cord sheet and the rubber band to each other.
US12157260B2
A method of making thermoplastic polymer particles may include mixing in an extruder a mixture comprising a thermoplastic polymer and a carrier fluid that is immiscible with the thermoplastic polymer at a temperature greater than a melting point or softening temperature of the thermoplastic polymer and at a shear rate sufficiently high to disperse the thermoplastic polymer in the carrier fluid; cooling the mixture to below the melting point or softening temperature of the thermoplastic polymer to form solidified particles comprising thermoplastic polymer particles having a circularity of 0.90 or greater and that comprise the thermoplastic polymer; and separating the solidified particles from the carrier fluid.
US12157258B2
A molded product take-out apparatus includes: a controller independent of a molding machine; a take-out robot for releases a molded product from a mold in the molding machine by a command from the controller; a temperature controller regulates the temperature of the mold; a material dryer dries material to be supplied to the molding machine; and a material conveyor supplies the dried material to the molding machine. The controller is network-connected to the take-out robot and the temperature controller and the material dryer and the material conveyor. The controller is configured to control a release operation of the take-out robot to differentiate a release place between when judging that a detection data to be within an allowable range and another case.
US12157257B2
A cooling and retaining pin (1) for cooling, by air blowing, and retaining, by air suction, a plastic preform, the pin comprising a body (2), defining a longitudinal axis and having a first opening (5) at a first end thereof, coaxial to said longitudinal axis and adapted to be connected to a handling station; a movable element (3) adapted to slide at least partially inside said body; at least one air passage gap provided at a second end of the body or at said first end; wherein the movable element (3) is adapted to move from a first position, to which a first air passage section corresponds, to a second position, to which a second air passage section corresponds, which is smaller than said first section, so as to adjust a blowing air flow during the cooling step and a suction air flow during the step of retaining the preform.
US12157256B2
A powder injection molding apparatus including an injection unit, mold formed of two mold parts with parting surface between first and second mold part, enclosing in assembled state of mold a mold cavity fluidically connected with injection unit via transfer channel, vibrational energy generator and transducer, and clamping unit designed to retain under the effect of clamping force first and second mold parts in contact with each other. Apparatus is characterized in that first and second mold parts include a first and second retaining hole, respectively, each extending essentially perpendicularly to parting surface and arranged opposite to each other respective to parting surface, clamping unit includes first and second pin each extending essentially perpendicularly to parting surface, wherein first and second pins cooperate in assembled state of mold with retaining portion of first and second retaining holes, respectively, to retain first and second mold parts in contact with each other.
US12157253B2
Provided are a method for producing a tire vulcanization mold and a maintenance method. A positioning member protrudes at a position corresponding to a position on a master mold surface. A positioning hole is formed by a tip end of the positioning member in a rubber mold to which the surface of the master mold is transferred. The tip end is embedded in the positioning hole so that a rear end protrudes from the surface of the rubber mold. The rear end is embedded in a plaster mold to which the surface of the rubber mold is transferred. A case is detachably fixed to the tip end protruding from the surface of the plaster mold. The case is cast into a mold to which the surface of the plaster mold is transferred and fixed. A valve body is inserted into the case from which the positioning member is removed.
US12157251B2
Methods and systems for separating mixed plastic waste are provided herein. The methods generally comprise separating the mixed plastic waste into a PET-enriched stream and one or more PET-depleted streams. The separating may be accomplished using the combinations of two or more density separation stages. Exemplary density separation stages include sink-float separators and centrifugal force separators. The PET-enriched and PET-depleted streams may be recovered and/or directed to downstream chemical recycling processes.
US12157249B2
A flexible structure is formed by subjecting cellulose-based natural wood material to a chemical treatment that partially removes hemicellulose and lignin therefrom. The treated wood has a unique 3-D porous structure with numerous channels, excellent biodegradability and biocompatibility, and improved flexibility as compared to the natural wood. By further modifying the treated wood, the structure can be adapted to particular applications. For example, nanoparticles, nanowires, carbon nanotubes, or any other coating or material can be added to the treated wood to form a hybrid structure. In some embodiments, open lumina within the structure can be at least partially filled with a non-wood substance, such as a flexible polymer, or with entangled cellulose nanofibers. The unique architecture and superior properties of the flexible wood allow for its use in various applications, such as, but not limited to, structural materials, solar thermal devices, flexible electronics, tissue engineering, thermal management, and energy storage.
US12157247B2
Machine for punching a box-shaped element, or suchlike, including at least one punching head provided with at least one punch and translatable in a direction toward or away from a substantially vertical side of the box-shaped element and at least one counter-head that contrasts the punching head, the side of the box-shaped element is positioned during use between the punching head and the counter-head, the counter-head is configured to be inserted inside the box-shaped element and to rest against an internal surface of the side in order to maintain the box-shaped element in position on a work plane, and the punching head is translated toward the counter-head in the direction so as to perforate the side by means of the punch and make at least one through hole therein.
US12157245B2
A cutting apparatus is disclosed to form a weakening line of a of an anti-tampering device of a cap made of plastics for closing a container, in which the cutting apparatus includes a feeding device for feeding the caps along a feeding path, a blade arranged in the feeding path to form the weakening line, at least one abutting wall on which the cap can roll, and a micrometric screw configured for adjusting the corresponding position of the blade with respect to the abutting wall, so that blade wear can be compensated by advancing the blade to the feeding path of the caps independently of the abutting wall.
US12157242B2
A hand-held knockout driver includes a main housing having a handle portion, a motor positioned within the main housing, a pump assembly driven by the motor, and a secondary housing coupled to the main housing and defining a bore therein. The hand-held knockout driver also includes a working piston moveable within the bore from a rest position to an actuated position to define a piston throw distance therebetween. The hand-held knockout driver also includes a draw stud coupled to the working piston, a die coupled to the secondary housing, and a punch coupled to the draw stud opposite the working piston for movement therewith relative to the die. The die has a depth greater than the piston throw distance.
US12157237B2
Provided are a painting robot system that may perform painting well not only on a forward path but also on a backward path, and a painting method. An image processing portion (210) included in a painting robot system (11) creates image data for a forward path in a state of having first strip image data of a strip shape corresponding to nozzles (54A) in a first nozzle column (55A) and second strip image data of a strip shape corresponding to nozzles (54B) in a second nozzle column (55B), the image processing portion (210) creates the second strip image data as image data for a backward path in a state of deviating relative to the first strip image data, and the amount of position deviation is set as the following position: the Pth nozzle (54B) in the second nozzle column (54B) lands first relative to the Pth nozzle (54A) in the first nozzle column (54A) with an adjacent landing position at a distance of multiplying the number (N) by twice of the distance (L1).
US12157236B2
A control method for a robot system includes a detection step of detecting a position of a female connector, a reference position setting step of setting a reference position as a reference for determination as to whether or not an insertion of a male connector into the female connector is successful based on the position of the female connector, and an insertion operation step of moving the male connector in an insertion start position along an insertion direction of the female connector, with a position where a force sensor of a robot detects a predetermined force generated by contact between the male connector and the female connector during the movement as a comparison position, and determining whether or not the insertion is successful by comparing the reference position and the comparison position.
US12157230B2
A technique for automatically finding a collision-free return-to-home path for a robot. The technique includes running a simulated virtual 3D environment which emulates the physical robot and workcell in real time, including the positions and poses of all robots, workpieces and obstacles in the workcell. Upon request by an operator, a return-to-home path search is executed based on the virtual 3D environment, where the path search calculates a solution which moves the robot from a current position to its home or recovery position while avoiding collisions with other robots, workpieces or objects in the workcell. In addition to collision avoidance, the path search considers other constraints such as prohibited zones in the workspace and robot joint positions. When the recovery path is computed, the solution program is sent back to the physical environment for execution by the physical robot.
US12157229B2
A work program production system includes a photographing unit that photographs an image including an object to be welded, a coordinate system setting unit that sets a user coordinate system based on a marker included in the image photographed by the photographing unit, a point-group-data plotting unit that detects a specific position of the marker on the basis of the image, sets the detected specific position on point group data acquired by a distance measurement sensor that measures a distance to the object to be welded, and plots, in the user coordinate system, the point group data to which coordinates in the user coordinate system using the set specific position as an origin are given, and a program production unit that produces a welding program.
US12157227B2
A robot control method for controlling a robot is provided. The robot has a robot arm and a force detection unit detecting a force applied to the robot arm and grips a target object conveyed on a belt with an end effector provided at the robot arm. The method includes: a gripping step of executing an operation of gripping the target object with the end effector; and a determination step of determining whether the gripping of the target object is normally performed or not, based on a result of detection by the force detection unit in the gripping step.
US12157221B2
A system for providing a thermal interface material on a tray for an electric vehicle battery includes a material dispensing system (MDS) and a vision system. The MDS includes a set of pumps, a robotic dispensing system (RDS), and a controller. The set of pumps includes a first pump to house a first material and a second pump to house a second material different from the first material. The RDS is fluidly coupled to the set of pumps and dispenses a third material on the tray in a defined pattern, where the third material is a mixture of the first and second materials. The vision system is configured to capture a first set of images. The controller is configured to determine a nozzle offset of the RDS based on the first set of images and control a position of the RDS based on the nozzle offset.
US12157220B2
A power tool stand includes a base and a projecting frame connected to the base. The power tool stand also comprises a power tool carriage moveably mounted on the projecting frame. The power tool stand further comprises a tool interface mounted on the power tool carriage arranged to secure a removeable power tool. The power tool carriage comprises at least one duct having a duct inlet in fluid communication with a duct outlet.
US12157214B2
The present invention discloses a fastening device, comprising a main body and a holding part, wherein the main body constitutes a main plane, and the holding part and the main body are rotatably connected to each other; and the holding part comprises a first arm and a second arm, the first arm is provided with a first connection mechanism and a second connection mechanism, the first arm is rotatably connected to the main body via the first connection mechanism, and the second arm is rotatably connected to the first arm via the second connection mechanism. Such a fastening device can be used for the installation of floorings. Not only can the height of a handle be changed, but also the angle at which the handle is held can be changed at the same time. Moreover, the fastening device is further provided with a detachable auxiliary moving device, which can easily move a base during use, but the auxiliary moving device can be removed when it is not needed, which is convenient for packaging and transportation.
US12157203B2
The present disclosure provides a grinding wheel for grinding, configured such that a fiber-reinforced plastic (FRP) layer in a wheel outer peripheral part located on the outer surface of a wheel central part is provided at a position and thickness that vary depending on the type of weaving pattern layer, thereby exhibiting superior mechanical properties and superior vibration/shock absorption and offsetting effects compared to conventional grinding wheels, so problems such as cracking and fatigue failure due to burning do not occur, and moreover, the quality and productivity of processed products can be improved. Moreover, the grinding wheel is lighter in weight than conventional grinding wheels, and when an abrasive part is completely consumed, it can be replaced with a new abrasive part through removable attachment thereof, whereby the wheel outer peripheral part (wheel body) can be reused continuously, and the exchange time and the amount of tool wear can be reduced.
US12157201B2
An oscillating device of a belt sander is disclosed. The belt sander includes a base, a rotating unit, an oscillating unit, and a control unit. The rotating unit is disposed on one side of the base. The rotating unit includes a motor and a roller. The oscillating unit is disposed on the other side of the base. The oscillating member includes a rolling wheel and an electric motor. The motor and the electric motor drive the roller and the rolling wheel to rotate, and the control unit controls the oscillation frequency of the electric motor. The service life of the motor and the electric motor can be prolonged, thereby improving the working efficiency of the belt sander.
US12157200B2
A method for producing a groove pattern on a cylinder surface includes providing an abrasive module, including an abrasive mesh article and collector block, providing a patterning head, which including the abrasive module and pressing actuator, pressing the abrasive module against the cylinder surface by using the actuator, forming a plurality of grooves on the cylinder surface by causing relative motion between the abrasive module and cylinder surface, and drawing gas through the abrasive mesh article to collect particles released from the cylinder surface. The abrasive mesh article includes a plurality of abrasive grains bonded to a flexible mesh backing, defining openings. The collector block has a curved supporting surface defining openings. The abrasive mesh article is attached to the curved supporting surface by a releasable fastening system. The openings of the flexible mesh backing are in communication with the openings of the collector block via the releasable fastening system.
US12157199B2
A cylindrical workpiece with a helical axial groove allowing for centerless grinding which has an angular overlap around the outer circumference on the body of the workpiece. The angular overlap ensures continuous tangential contact with the grinding wheels as the workpiece is rotated.
US12157196B2
Disclosed is a method for loading a sheet placement device of a flat bed machine tool with a material sheet, wherein the material sheet is supplied to the machining operation carried out by the flat bed machine tool, starting from a target position assigned to the machining operation in a machine coordinate system, and the flat bed machine tool comprises a camera system having at least one camera. The camera system is designed to produce captured images of the sheet placement device, which are calibrated three-dimensionally in relation to the machine coordinate system of the flat bed machine tool. The method comprises the steps: producing a captured image of the material sheet in the region of the sheet placement device; evaluating the captured image to determine an actual sheet position in the machine coordinate system; measuring a deviation of the determined actual sheet position from the target position; and using the measured deviation to align and position the material sheet.
US12157194B2
A bearing apparatus includes a bearing that rotatably supports a main spindle around a rotation axis, a spacer including an inner-ring spacer adjacent to an inner ring of the bearing and an outer-ring spacer adjacent to an outer ring, and a heat flux sensor provided in an inside surface of the outer-ring spacer. A distance in a direction along the rotation axis from a center of the bearing to a center of the heat flux sensor is longer than 0.5 time and shorter than one time of a dimension of the bearing in the direction along the rotation axis.
US12157184B2
A processing apparatus has: a light irradiation apparatus that irradiates a surface of an object with a plurality of processing lights; and a first change apparatus that changes an intensity distribution of the plurality of processing lights from the light irradiation apparatus on the surface of the object, the processing apparatus changes a thickness of a part of the object by irradiating the surface of the object with the plurality of processing lights.
US12157179B1
Additive manufacturing systems and methods are disclosed. A housing includes a passageway having first and second open ends. A material is fed through the passageway and exits its second open end. A friction stir weld (FSW) bobbin pin tool is mounted in the housing with a radial edge of the pin tool's annular volume disposed adjacent to the second open end of the passageway. The annular volume is adapted to receive a substrate. The FSW bobbin pin tool is operable to be rotated so that the substrate and the material exiting the second open end of the passageway are plasticized in the annular volume for deposition onto the substrate.
US12157172B1
A cutting tool, including: a base; and a coating disposed on the base, wherein the coating includes a first layer, the first layer is composed of an alternate layer in which a first unit layer and a second unit layer are alternately stacked, the first unit layer has a hexagonal crystal structure, the first unit layer is composed of W(C1-aNa)x, a represents 0.3 or more and 0.8 or less, x represents 0.8 or more and 1.2 or less, the second unit layer is composed of TicSi1-cN, and c represents 0.80 or more and 0.99 or less.
US12157171B2
A surface coated cutting tool comprises: a tool substrate and a coating layer on a surface of the tool substrate; wherein the coating layer comprises a lower layer, an intermediate layer, and an upper layer, in sequence from the tool substrate toward the surface of the tool. The lower layer comprises an A layer having an average composition represented by formula: (Al1-xCrx)N, where x is 0.20 to 0.60; the intermediate layer comprises a B layer having an average composition represented by formula: (Al1-a-bCraSib)N, where a is 0.20 to 0.60 and b is 0.01 to 0.20; and the upper layer comprises a C layer having an average composition represented by formula: (Ti1-α-βSiαWβ)N where α is 0.01 to 0.20 and β is 0.01 to 0.10; and the upper layer has a repeated variation in W level with an average interval of 1 nm to 100 nm between adjacent local maxima and minima.
US12157158B2
A die apparatus including a first die element, a plurality of second die elements, a plurality of actuators, and a controller is provided. Each of the plurality of actuators is mounted to one of the plurality of second die elements. The controller is programmed to activate the actuators to contact and compress portions of a blank disposed between the die elements at separate pressures to influence microstructure forming for one of a geometry transition region, a deformation region, and a joining region. One of the separate pressures applied to one of the portions of the blank may be approximately 5 N/mm2 or less to form a soft strength zone. The pressure of approximately 5 N/mm2 or less may be applied to the one of the portions of the blank for approximately one to two seconds.
US12157150B2
A curable composition on a substrate is cured in a state where a member is in contact with the curable composition. Thereafter, the member having adhered to the curable composition is separated from the substrate, whereby the curable composition and a particle are removed from the substrate.
US12157141B2
A system and method for applying a construction material is provided. The method may include mixing blast furnace slag material, geopolymer material, alkali-based powder, and sand at a mixing device to generate a non-Portland cement-based material. The method may also include transporting the non-Portland cement-based material from the mixing device, through a conduit to a nozzle and combining the transported non-Portland cement-based material with water at the nozzle to generate a partially liquefied non-Portland cement-based material. The method may further include pneumatically applying the partially liquefied non-Portland cement-based material to a surface.
US12157140B2
There is provided a multi-slot die coater in which a step is formed between rear surfaces of die blocks through a fixing block having a step portion. The fixing block has the step portion of a preset height, and any one die block is coupled to the step portion and the other die block is coupled to the other portion than the step portion, and thus the step is naturally formed between the rear surfaces of the die blocks by the coupling of the die blocks to the fixing block. Thus, it is possible to always maintain the distance of the front ends of the die blocks and the substrate, since the fixing block is fixed between the die blocks, once it is set, the coating gap does not change and is maintained during the process, thereby suppressing the widthwise coating gap deviation.
US12157135B2
A portable variable volume paint spray enclosure or booth includes a frame assembled from longitudinal members and detachable clamps. The clamps secure together adjacent ends of the longitudinal members. The paint spray enclosure further includes a flexible cover disposed upon the frame such that a relatively air tight enclosure having a predetermined configuration is formed. The assembled frame and flexible cover extend from grade level to a predetermined elevation to encase an object to be painted. The paint spray enclosure also includes an air flow input apparatus for allowing air flow into the enclosure, and an air extraction apparatus/air scrubber for removing air from the enclosure, such that air mixed with vaporized paint inside the enclosure is removed from the enclosure before the paint vapor and air combine to form an explosive mixture, thereby preventing an explosion and/or fire from occurring inside the enclosure, and preventing operators from being exposed to harmful fumes. The air scrubber removes the paint vapor from the air as the combination exits the enclosure, thereby allowing only “clean” air back into the atmosphere.
US12157134B2
A portable variable volume paint spray enclosure or booth includes a frame assembled from longitudinal members and detachable clamps. The clamps secure together adjacent ends of the longitudinal members. The paint spray enclosure further includes a flexible cover disposed upon the frame such that a relatively air tight enclosure having a predetermined configuration is formed. The assembled frame and flexible cover extend from grade level to a predetermined elevation to encase an object to be painted. The paint spray enclosure also includes an air flow input apparatus for allowing air flow into the enclosure, and an air extraction apparatus/air scrubber for removing air from the enclosure, such that air mixed with vaporized paint inside the enclosure is removed from the enclosure before the paint vapor and air combine to form an explosive mixture, thereby preventing an explosion and/or fire from occurring inside the enclosure, and preventing operators from being exposed to harmful fumes. The air scrubber removes the paint vapor from the air as the combination exits the enclosure, thereby allowing only “clean” air back into the atmosphere.
US12157124B2
A sample holder includes a first member featuring a first retaining mechanism configured to retain a first substrate that includes a sample, a second member featuring a second retaining mechanism configured to retain a second substrate that includes a reagent medium, and an alignment mechanism connected to at least one of the first and second members, and configured to align the first and second members such that the sample contacts at least a portion of the reagent medium when the first and second members are aligned.
US12157122B2
The present invention relates to a microfluidic connection device for enabling faster observation of reactions even with only sample amount far less than that of reaction experiments in which a 96-well particularly used for a conventional sample reaction is used. The objective of the present invention is to provide the microfluidic connection device comprising: a microtube having a fine tube shape; a microvalve comprising a fluid moving unit for causing samples filled in the microtube to flow or stop; a plate-shaped plate; a reaction zone in which chemical reactions between samples supplied through the microtube occur, which has an observation window through which chemical reactions are observed, and which is provided on the upper surface of the plate; a supply tube for connecting the reaction zone with the microtube; and a reaction plate comprising a discharge tube for discharging reactants from the reaction zone.
US12157115B2
Monodisperse polystyrene microspheres are self-assembled on a conductive surface of FTO glass by vertical deposition method to prepare three-dimensional ordered photonic crystal opal template; the three-dimensional ordered photonic crystal opal template is immersed in a solution containing rhodium source, titanium source and strontium source, and is then calcined to prepare a rhodium doped strontium titanate inverse opal material; and the rhodium doped strontium titanate inverse opal material is added to water containing pollutants, and is then subjected to illumination and/or ultrasonic treatment to complete the removal of the pollutants in the water. The three-dimensional ordered macroporous rhodium doped strontium titanate inverse opal material may be applied in the field of photocatalysis. Under the action of external force, a built-in electric field formed by the spontaneous polarization of the material may effectively separate the photo-induced carriers, which may thus enhance the photocatalytic performance and improve the photocatalytic efficiency.
US12157108B2
A method for preparing superabsorbent polymer is disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a method includes polymerizing a monomer composition to form a hydrogel polymer, wherein the monomer composition comprises a water soluble ethylenically unsaturated monomer and a polymerization initiator, drying and grinding the hydrogel polymer to prepare a base resin powder, surface cross-linking the base resin powder using a surface cross-linking agent to prepare surface cross-linked base resin powder, and hydrating the surface cross-linked base resin powder by pulse spraying water to prepare a superabsorbent polymer, wherein a scattering index of droplets generated during the pulse spraying is 5 to 10, and wherein the scattering index is calculated in accordance with the following Mathematical Formula 1. The superabsorbent polymer can have an improved moisture content to prevent surface property change of the superabsorbent polymer, and decreased amount of fine powder which improves processability during manufacture of articles using superabsorbent polymer.
US12157096B2
An adjustable additive cartridge that provides adjustable metering of additive to a base fluid as the base fluid is flowing through the cartridge. A spout is mounted for limited rotation within a base element of the cartridge. Rotation of the spout results in varying degrees of flow of additive into a base fluid flow path through the cartridge. The cartridge may be used with a portable beverage container, such as a sports bottle or off-the-shelf water bottle. The supply of base fluid in a container used with the cartridge may be kept in an unmixed, pure state, and other cartridges, each having different additives (i.e., flavors) may be used interchangeably with the same base fluid supply. The cartridge allows a consumer/user to experience different additives, such as different flavors or supplement compositions, for a given supply of base liquid in a single container. A check valve on the cartridge prevents backflow of the base fluid. An integrated filter for filtering base fluid flowing into the cartridge may be provided. The additive cartridge may be sealed to provide for extended storage and to provide a user/consumer with evidence of integrity, quality and/or tampering prior to purchase and/or use. Visual and tactile indicators of the amount of additive being added to a base fluid may be provided. A container may retain a spare additive adjustable cartridge on the container.
US12157093B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide the integration of the function of the feed spacer, the permeate carrier, or both, as a part of the membrane sheet in a spiral wound membrane element.
US12157073B2
In certain embodiments, the invention provides a method of purifying a protein of interest from a mixture which comprises the protein of interest and one or more contaminants.
US12157067B2
A replica eye with programmable iris illumination and a method of making the same is provided. The replica eye includes a programmable lighting element having a planar base with electrical pins outward of a centrally disposed light source is electrically coupled via the pins to one or more electrical connections. One end of a transparent cylinder approximately coextensively abuts the light source. The outer portions of the planar base and its electrical connections are folded into a folded assembly that is received into and adhered along an inner circumferential wall of a ring. The electrical connections are further adhered along a rear portion of the ring and planar base. A semi-spherical dome sandwiches an opaque body to an opposing end of the transparent cylinder, thereby defining an illuminable iris and pupil, respectively.
US12157065B1
A target assembly for an amusement device includes a switch stack comprising a target leaf spring, a contact leaf spring, and a spacer electrically isolating the target leaf spring from the contact leaf spring. An anti-rotation shell is mounted to the switch stack and at least partially surrounds one end of the target leaf spring and the contact leaf spring. The anti-rotation shell is sized and configured to substantially prevent relative movement between the target leaf spring and the contact leaf spring. In some examples, a switch mount bracket includes slot to receive side walls of the anti-rotation shell.
US12157062B2
A method and system for assisting a play is disclosed. A gameplay of a user of media content that is associated with a game type is received. A skill involved in the gameplay of the user is determined based on the gameplay of the user and the game type. A skill level of the user is determined based on the gameplay of the user. A training curriculum is provided to the user based on the skill and the skill level of the user upon detecting a triggering event.
US12157055B2
An example of an information processing system sets a room in a virtual space based on an operation input provided by a player and places an item object in the room. If an item object is placed in a room by the player, the information processing system increases the appearance rate of a character of a type relating to the placed item object in accordance with the type of the placed item object and causes a character to appear in the virtual space based on the increased appearance rate.
US12157049B2
An accessory mounting system to mount accessories onto recreational vehicles. The accessory mounting system can include an accessory mounting frame with an elongated seat, left and right attachment wings extending perpendicularly away from a first side of the seat and an accessory post extending in parallel between the left and right attachment wings to receive an accessory rack thereon. The accessory mounting system can also include an accessory rack with a sleeve to receive the accessory post therethrough and a flexible accessory clip to clip onto the accessory post when the accessory post is inserted through the sleeve, the accessory rack can also include at least two fastening devices to fasten an accessory bag thereto.
US12157045B2
A ball bat includes a barrel portion and a tapered transition portion. An elastomeric coupler is positioned around a distal portion of a handle. A rigid sleeve is positioned around the elastomeric coupler and the handle is passed through the barrel and transition portion until the distal portion, elastomeric coupler, and rigid sleeve are positioned within the transition portion. The elastomeric coupler may be compressed by the rigid sleeve and may be stretched to be positioned around the distal portion. The distal portion may be flared. Adhesive may be used to secure the distal portion, elastomeric coupler, rigid sleeve, and transition portion to one another. Ridges on the elastomeric coupler may engage grooves in the rigid sleeve to resist rotation.
US12157041B2
A golf club head having an adjustable weight system. The golf club head having a single, relatively compact slot for receiving a weight assembly. The weight assembly comprising a relatively high mass. Wherein small lateral movements of the heavy weight assembly are sufficient to shape a golfer's shot. Wherein the small movements also prevents the reduction of the total golf club head moment of inertia, thus preserving the forgiveness of the golf club when the ball is miss-hit.
US12157034B2
The invention of the present disclosure may be lower extremity training system comprising a plate comprising an upper surface and a lower surface, a hook orthogonal to the upper surface, a strap reversibly coupled to the hook, and a belt reversibly coupled to the strap, wherein the strap includes a fixed length, and wherein a pull force, originating at the belt, exerted away from the upper surface induces one or more push forces towards the upper surface. A lower extremity testing system may further comprise one or more force sensors configured to capture and determine the magnitude of the one or more push forces.
US12157028B2
A protective housing in explosion-protection-type pressure-proof encapsulation. At least one device for reducing explosive pressure is associated with the housing. The housing includes a first housing part having a first sealing surface and a second housing part having a second sealing surface, wherein, when the housing is in the closed pressure-proof state, a resilient seal is held between the first sealing surface and the second sealing surface so as to be elastically deformed, and, as a result, closes the space between the first sealing surface and the second sealing surface in a flame-proof manner in the event of an explosion inside the housing. The flame-proof arrangement can replace a planar gap between, for example, a surface of a cover and a surface of a housing part, which gap requires conformity to relatively narrow manufacturing tolerances.
US12157026B2
Installation and protective devices for a fire protection sprinkler assembly having a support cup disposed about the sprinkler assembly. A protective cap engages the support cup to protect the sprinkler and facilitate its installation. The protective cap has an insertion wall that defines a cup chamber to house the sprinkler therein and protect operational components of the sprinkler during storage, transport, installation and when awaiting to be placed into service. The protective cap includes a plurality of slots formed externally and peripherally to the insertion wall to provide tool access to a tool path between the insertion wall and the inner surface of the support cup. The protective cap includes a shielding wall axially adjacent the insertion wall that circumscribes the central cap axis to shield the slots of the protective cap and the tool path.
US12157025B2
A fire protection sprinkler system and method includes a sprinkler which, in use, is operatively connected to a supply pipe. The sprinkler includes a nipple. A frame extends from the nipple. A duct passes through the nipple and frame creating a flow path for a water jet exiting the supply pipe. A deflector is mounted to the frame at a location spaced from the nipple. A splitter is disposed in the water flow path between the supply pipe and the deflector. The splitter separates the water jet into two distinct sub-jets before the water contacts the deflector. The splitter directs the two separate water streams onto the deflector so that less pressure is required resulting in more economical system smaller pipe size, less labor, etc.
US12157024B2
The present invention relates to a sprinkler system, and more specifically, to a sprinkler system which can be assembled without welding. To this end, the sprinkler system according to the present invention comprises: a main pipe through which fluid is supplied from an externa source; a first branch pipe for branching the fluid supplied through the main pipe; a second branch pipe for branching the fluid supplied through the first branch pipe so that said fluid is supplied to a sprinkler; and a detachable first coupler for interconnecting the main pipe, the first branch pipe, and the second branch pipe.
US12157020B2
A method for monitoring generation of dust in a self-contained breathing apparatus involves performing a preliminary empirical compilation of databases related to an amount of dust that results from vibrations and/or mechanical impacts; determining a total empirical amplitude value; registering vibrations and/or mechanical impacts on a self-contained breathing apparatus under actual operating conditions; comparing a total breathing apparatus amplitude value with the total empirical amplitude value; generating a signal of inoperability when the dust content value exceeds a preset maximum allowable value. A monitoring device comprises a three-axis accelerometer and microcontroller configured to convert acceleration vectors into the total breathing apparatus amplitude value and compare this value the total empirical amplitude value. The device generates a signal of inoperability when the dust content value exceeds the preset maximum allowable value. The monitoring device may be part of a monitoring system comprising multiple breathing apparatuses and monitoring devices.
US12157019B2
A shuttle (20) for a climbing protection system (10) is provided and includes a clamping member (26) mounted on a frame (22) for movement between a an opening position, a free position wherein the shuttle (20) can move freely along an elongate support member (12), and a clamping position wherein the clamping member (26) resists movement of the shuttle (20) relative to the elongate support member (12), and an anti-inversion member (30) mounted on the frame (22) for movement between a first closed position blocking insertion of the elongate support member (12) and an open position where the anti-inversion member (30) does not block insertion of the elongate support member (12). The anti-inversion member movable from the open position to the closed position when the shuttle (20) is moved from a desired orientation to a non-desired orientation relative to gravity with the clamping member (26) in the opening position and wherein the clamping member (26) and the anti-inversion member (30) are engaged to maintain the clamping member (26) in the opening position when the shuttle (20) is in the non-desired orientation.
US12157009B2
An extra-cardiovascular implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) having a low voltage therapy module and a high voltage therapy module is configured to select, by a control module of the ICD, a pacing output configuration from at least a low-voltage pacing output configuration of the low voltage therapy module and a high-voltage pacing output configuration of the high voltage therapy module. The high voltage therapy module includes a high voltage capacitor having a first capacitance and the low voltage therapy module includes a plurality of low voltage capacitors each having up to a second capacitance that is less than the first capacitance. The ICD control module controls a respective one of the low voltage therapy module or the high voltage therapy module to deliver extra-cardiovascular pacing pulses in the selected pacing output configuration via extra-cardiovascular electrodes coupled to the ICD.
US12156999B2
A method of operating an implantable blood pump and a pacing device, the method includes determining an end diastolic volume (EDV) and ejection fraction of one from the group consisting of the right ventricle and the left ventricle at a predetermined pump set speed. An average flow rate based on the predetermined pump set speed is determined. A target heart rate based at least in part on the determined EDV, ejection fraction, and average flow rate is determined. A lower rate for the pacing device is determined, the pacing device being in electrical communication with a chamber of the heart. The chamber of the heart is paced when a measured heart rate drops below the lower rate.
US12156996B2
An autoinjector includes a case adapted to hold a medicament container having a needle, a needle shroud telescopically coupled to the case, and a plunger rotationally and slidably disposed in the case. The needle shroud is movable between a first extended position relative to the case in which the needle is covered and a retracted position relative to the case in which the needle is exposed. The plunger is rotatable relative to the case between a first rotational position in which the plunger is engaged to the case and a second rotational position in which the plunger disengages the case. The needle shroud is operably coupled to the plunger. When the needle shroud translates from the first extended position to the retracted position, the plunger rotates from the first rotational position to the second rotational position.
US12156992B2
A medicament delivery device extends along a longitudinal axis and includes: a generally tubular elongated housing having a proximal and a distal end, where the generally tubular elongated housing is arranged to accommodate a medicament container; a drive unit comprising a drive element and plunger rod operably arranged to act on the medicament container; a tubular element rotatably arranged in relation to the housing and operably arranged to the plunger rod, where the plunger rod includes at least one holding member and where the tubular element includes at least one arm extending generally transversal to the longitudinal axis of the device, wherein the at least one arm is arranged to engage the at least one holding member on the plunger rod to releasable hold the drive unit in an energy accumulated state.
US12156991B2
Injection systems for drug delivery are disclosed. A system may include a container filled or fillable with a drug, a stopper movably disposed in the container, a plunger, an energy source outputting a force, a mechanical linkage operable to transmit the force output by the energy source to the plunger to cause the plunger to act on the stopper to expel the drug from the container, and a trigger member. The system may have pre-injection state where the trigger member inhibits actuation of the mechanical linkage, an injection state where the trigger member permits actuation of the mechanical linkage, and a post-injection state where the plunger is stationarily positioned in an end-of-dose position. The system may be designed to limit the number of components included in various force transmission loops present in the pre-injection, injection, and/or post-injection states.
US12156989B2
A technical solution for monitoring operation of a medical delivery device such as an infusion pump for occlusion is provided that employs sensing pump motor current and monitoring average motor current difference as between dispense and aspirate strokes in a pump cycle. The solution can be implemented alone or in combination with other occlusion sensing methods that use one or more of pump measurement data such as pump stroke duration (e.g., duration of aspirate stroke or dispense stroke in a rotational metering-type pump or a reciprocating-type pump), end-stop or limit switch activation, and duration difference between aspirate and dispense strokes to detect occlusion.
US12156977B2
A system includes an expandable distal-end assembly, a proximal position sensor, a distal position sensor, and a processor. The expandable distal-end assembly is coupled to a distal end of a shaft for insertion into a cavity of an organ of a patient. The proximal and distal position sensors are located at a proximal end and a distal end of the distal-end assembly, respectively. The processor is configured to estimate a position and a longitudinal direction of the proximal sensor, and a position of the distal sensor, all in a coordinate system used by the processor. The processor is further configured to project the estimated position of the distal sensor on an axis defined by the estimated longitudinal direction, and calculate an elongation of the distal-end assembly by calculating a distance between the estimated position of the proximal sensor and the projected position of the distal sensor.
US12156964B2
An ultrasonic device for an ultrasound-assisted lipoplasty is provided. The ultrasonic device according to one embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a handpiece; an ultrasonic driving unit provided inside the handpiece; a probe including one end portion connected to the ultrasonic driving unit inside the handpiece and configured to extend outward of the handpiece from the one end portion; and a protection unit formed to extend along a longitudinal direction of the probe and to surround an outer circumferential surface of the probe. A heat-insulation member is provided in at least a portion of an inner circumferential surface of the protection unit.
US12156962B2
Filtering cassettes, filtering systems, and methods for using the same are disclosed. An example filtering cassette may include a cassette housing. An inlet may be coupled to the cassette housing. The inlet may be configured to receive cerebrospinal fluid from a catheter. An outlet may be coupled to the cassette housing. The outlet may be configured to direct filtered cerebrospinal fluid to the catheter. One or more filters may be disposed within the cassette housing. An arcuate surface may be defined along a periphery of the cassette housing. The arcuate surface may be configured to engage a controller assembly when the cassette housing is mounted to the controller assembly.
US12156957B2
Methods, systems and devices associated with a scented electronic candle are described. In one example, an electronic candle includes an outer shell with one or more openings configured to allow a fragrance to exit to an ambient environment of the electronic candle. The outer shell comprises a central opening such that a flame element protrudes at least partially through the central opening. The device includes a light emitting component to emit a light onto the movable flame, and a mounting base positioned below the movable flame element. The device also includes a scent storage component removably coupled to the mounting base. The scent storage component includes a container to store a fragrance and an absorption member configured to draw the fragrance to the ambient environment of the electronic candle through the one or more small openings of the outer shell.
US12156956B2
A method of treating a spinal disk according to the present invention can include inserting an alloplastic bulking agent into the spinal disk to treat the defect. The alloplastic bulking agent has a plurality of microparticles and a suspending agent comprising hyaluronic acid. The bulking agent results in at least one of sealing the defect, increasing a pressure of the disk, increasing a height of the disk, improving stability of the disk and improving structural integrity of the disk.
US12156954B2
The application discloses a composition for hard tissue repair comprising a monomer (A), a polymer powder (B) and a polymerization initiator (C), wherein the polymer powder (B) comprises a polymer powder (B-x) having an aspect ratio of 1.10 or more, and the cumulative ratio of powder particles having aspect ratios of 1.00 or more and less than 1.10 in all of the powder particles contained in the composition for hard tissue repair is 75 cumulative % or less, as well as, a kit for hard tissue repair comprising three or more members, in which each of the components of the monomer (A), the polymer powder (B) and the polymerization initiator (C) contained in this composition for hard tissue repair are divided and contained in the members in an optional combination.
US12156946B2
Method for preparing particles comprising metal oxide coating and particles with metal oxide coating
The invention relates to a process for coating a solid, water-insoluble particulate matter, with a metal oxide comprising: (a) contacting the solid, water-insoluble particulate matter with an ionic additive and an aqueous medium to obtain a dispersion of said particulate matter having positive charges on its surface; (b) subjecting the particulate matter to a coating procedure comprising precipitating a metal oxide salt onto the surface of the particulate matter to form a metal oxide layer thereon to thereby obtain particulate matter coated by a metal oxide coating layer; (c) repeating step (b) at least 4 more times; and (d) aging said coating layer. The invention further relates to particles comprising a particulate matter coated by a metal oxide layer, to a use of the particles for topical administration, and to a method for preventing, reducing, or eliminating pests at a locus, using the particles.
US12156943B2
The invention relates to a tablet dosage form for buccal absorption of active ingredients comprising a population of particles and an active ingredient to be released in the oral cavity for absorption through the oral mucosa, the population of particles comprising directly compressible (DC) and non-directly compressible (non-DC) sugar alcohol particles, the non-DC particles providing the tablet with a plurality of discrete non-DC areas.
US12156942B2
Compositions and methods for treating eye disorders by administering a drug delivery system into an eye compartment of the patient, wherein the drug delivery system contains a particle containing a core; a coating associated with the particle, wherein the coating is covalently or non-covalently associated with the particle and presents a hydrophilic region to the environment around the particle; and a therapeutic agent are disclosed. The eye compartment can exhibit reduced inflammation or TOP after administration of the drug delivery systems to a patient than if a drug delivery system including an uncoated particle were administered to the patient.
US12156940B1
Embodiments of the present disclosure relates to a new and improved large scale commercial manufacturing process of making bupivacaine multivesicular liposomes (MVLs). Batches of bupivacaine MVLs prepared by the new process have high yields, improved stabilities, and desired particle size distributions.
US12156923B2
Provided are a hydrogel patch, which controls syneresis of a hydrogel so as to enhance transdermal delivery of an active ingredient and has good physical properties, and a preparation method therefor. The hydrogel patch contains: a hydrogel composed of a mixture of phase A consisting of a crosslinking agent and purified water, phase B consisting of an organic polymer and a polyhydric alcohol, and phase C consisting of a pH adjusting agent and purified water; and a filling solution composed of a mixture of phase D consisting of a humectant and purified water, phase E consisting of a thickener and a polyhydric alcohol, and phase F consisting of a pH adjusting agent and purified water. The hydrogel of composition A is filled with the filling solution of composition C, and the hydrogel of composition B is filled with the filling solution of composition D.
US12156922B2
Complexes comprising a coordinated Cu(II) ion are described herein, which are capable of binding to an extracellular portion of Ctr1 such that the complex with the Cu(II) ion is transported through the Ctr1. The complexes may comprise a Cu(II) ion coordinated to a ligand and to a peptide, wherein the peptide is released upon contact of the complex with an extracellular portion of Ctr1, thereby forming a second complex comprising the ligand, the copper ion and the extracellular portion of Ctr1. Further described herein are uses and methods utilizing the complex, in imaging, in radiation therapy, and for determining a redox state of cells.
US12156918B2
A majority of neuroendocrine (NE) cancers overexpress somatostatin receptors (SSTRs). Disclosed herein are anti-SSTR2 monoclonal antibodies, and antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) for use as NE cancer targeting therapeutics. Also disclosed is an isolated nucleic acid encoding the disclosed antibodies, as well as nucleic acid vectors containing this isolated nucleic acid operably linked to an expression control sequence. Also disclosed are cells transfected with these vectors and the use of these cells to produce the disclosed recombinant antibodies. Also disclosed is a method of treating a neuroendocrine (NE) cancer in a subject, comprising administering to the subject an effective amount of the disclosed antibody conjugated to an anti-cancer agent.
US12156914B2
This disclosure relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising bupropion and cysteine, and pharmaceutical dosage forms comprising bupropion and cysteine. The disclosure also relates to molecular complexes of bupropion and cysteine. These compositions and dosage forms may have improved stability of bupropion.
US12156911B2
Vaccine compositions comprising a single KSHV-LP comprising two or more KSHV glycoproteins and/or one or more T cell antigens and methods of preventing or treating KSHV infections using the vaccine compositions. An expression system or a single expression vector for co-expressing two or more KSHV glycoproteins simultaneously to generate a vaccine comprising a single virus-like particle. The expression system may include a single plasmid inserted with two or more nucleic acid sequences that encode two or more KSHV glycoproteins linked by one or more linking sequences such that the KSHV glycoproteins are co-expressed simultaneously.
US12156907B2
The present invention relates to a technique of preparing a vaccine composition from PCV2 isolated from a plant transformed with a chlorophyll-targeting recombinant vector for expression in plants and provides a recombinant vector carrying a polynucleotide coding for a recombinant protein in which a chlorophyll-targeting protein and a PCV2 capsid protein are fused to each other. In addition, provided are a transgenic plant transformed with the recombinant vector, a method for isolating and purifying a target protein from the transgenic plant, a method for preparing a vaccine composition containing virus-like particles by using same, and a vaccine composition prepared by the preparation method.
US12156898B2
The disclosure provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising terlipressin having increased concentration with long term storage stability.
US12156895B2
A pharmaceutical composition includes a Quisqualis indica extract as an active ingredient, for preventing or treating prostatic hyperplasia, and to a food composition. The Quisqualis indica extract can be favorably used to treat and prevent prostatic hyperplasia by exhibiting effects of a reduction in prostate weight, a reduction in DHT as a prostatic hyperplasia inducing factor, and a reduction in prostate epithelial cell hyperplasia.
US12156894B2
The present invention is directed to recombinantly-modified adeno-associated virus (rAAV) having improved packaging efficiency, pharmaceutical compositions comprising such rAAV, and methods for their production and use. The present invention is particularly directed to recombinantly-modified adeno-associated virus (rAAV) that have been further modified to comprise Cis-Elements, including replication origins, promoters and enhancers, that are capable of regulating the replication of an rAAV genome and that improve rAAV replication. Preferably, such Cis-Elements are provided within domains of the rAAV that precede and/or follow the 5′ and/or 3′ inverted terminal repeated sequences (ITR) of an rAAV. The invention particularly concerns the presence and the use of polynucleotide Cis-Elements that comprise actual or potential G-Quadruplex Sequences, polynucleotide Cis-Elements that comprise DNA sequences from wild-type AAV (wt AAV) and polynucleotide Cis-Elements that comprise DNA sequences from other viral genomes or from the human genome.
US12156887B2
The disclosure provides methods of treating a malignancy comprising administering an effective dose of a chimeric receptor (e.g., CAR or TCR) genetically modified T cell immunotherapy. Some aspects of the disclosure relate to methods of characterizing the pre-infusion tumor microenvironment and determining an effective dose of a T cell immunotherapy.
US12156881B2
Disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions and oral dosage forms including capsules containing (17-ß)-3-oxoandrost-4-en-17-yl tridecanoate, and related methods. The capsule fill can include an additive and about 14 wt % to about 42 wt % for androst-4-en-17β-ol-3-one esters that comprise (17-ß)-3-oxoandrost-4-en-17-yl tridecanoate or a combination of (17-ß)-3-oxoandrost-4-en-17-yl undecanoate, (17-ß)-3-oxoandrost-4-en-17-yl dodecanoate, and (17-ß)-3-oxoandrost-4-en-17-yl tridecanoate. A single oral administration to a male subject of one or more dosage forms with a total androst-4-en-17β-ol-3-one equivalent dose of about 150 mg to about 895 mg is provided. In another embodiment, a method for providing a serum concentration of androst-4-en-17β-ol-3-one within a target PK performance for a male subject is provided. In a further embodiment, the pharmaceutical compositions and methods comprising androst-4-en-17β-ol-3-one ester loading of 14 wt % to 42 wt % achieve androst-4-en-17β-ol-3-one PK performance targets and require titration(s) to show therapeutic effectiveness for treatment of hypogonadism.
US12156876B2
Provided herein are compositions of an antiviral therapeutic to treat influenza suitable for administration via inhalation.
US12156873B2
A composition for use in the treatment of ocular hyperemia includes an anti-angiogenic agent and an α adrenergic receptor agonist. A method for treating ocular hyperemia for a patient includes inhibiting a plurality of kinase receptors of the patient with an MKI; and activating α adrenergic receptor of the patient with an agonist of the receptor.
US12156869B2
The present disclosure relates to stable, liquid pharmaceutical compositions of losartan or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof for oral administration. The present disclosure further provides powder compositions for reconstitution to provide a liquid formulation. In further aspects, the present disclosure relates to processes for preparation of such pharmaceutical compositions, and methods of treating a subject in need of losartan by administration of a formulation described herein.
US12156866B2
Provided are methods of treatment of a sphingosine 1-phosphate subtype 1 (S1P1) receptor-associated disorder comprising prescribing and/or administering to an individual in need thereof a standard dose of (R)-2-(7-(4-cyclopentyl-3-(trifluoromethyl) benzyloxy)-1,2,3,4-tetrahydrocyclopenta[b]indol-3-yl)acetic acid (Compound 1), or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, hydrate, or solvate thereof.
US12156865B2
Topical formulations comprising soft glycopyrrolates are useful for treating excessive sweating conditions in subjects, such as humans suffering from hyperhidrosis. Preferably, at least one soft anticholinergic agent is provided in an effective amount or concentration in an anhydrous formulation that can inhibit excessive perspiration resulting from a condition such as hyperhidrosis.
US12156863B2
A method of treating cancer in a subject includes administering an active agent selected from ascorbic acid, an ascorbic acid derivative, and/or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof and administering a pentaaza macrocyclic ring complex corresponding to formula (I) below:
US12156862B2
The present invention relates to medicaments for use in the prophylaxis or treatment of vasoconstriction related disorders or conditions. Specifically, the present invention relates to (2R) enantiomeric form of a 6-chromanol derivative for use in the prophylactic or treatment of vasoconstriction related disorders or conditions. A preferred 6-chromanol derivative is (6-hydroxy-2,5,7,8-tetramethylchroman-2-yl)(piperazin-1-yl)methanone; N-(benzyl)-6-hydroxy-2,5,7,8-tetramethylchroman-2-carboxamide; N-(phenyl)-6-hydroxy-2,5,7,8-tetramethylchroman-2-carboxamide; methyl 4-(6-hydroxy-2,5,7,8-tetramethylchroman-2-carboxamido)benzoate; (6-hydroxy-2,5,7,8-tetramethylchroman-2-yl)(morpholino)methanone, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof.
US12156860B2
Some aspects of the invention provide for a method of treating hepatic disorders, lipidemias and cardiac-related risk factors using polyunsaturated fatty acids which are modified in certain positions to attenuate oxidative damage by Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) and/or suppress the rate of formation of reactive products and toxic compounds.
US12156852B2
An item storage apparatus includes a first storage to store items, a carrier to take an item from the first storage and convey the item, a first support supporting the carrier to be movable back and forth in a first horizontal direction, a second support supporting the first support to be movable back and forth in a second horizontal direction perpendicular to the first horizontal direction, a vertical moving mechanism supporting the second support to be movable back and forth in a vertical direction perpendicular to the first horizontal direction and the second horizontal direction, and a second storage to store the item. At least one of the first or second storage has a multi-tier structure in which a space for movement of the carrier is between tiers. The first support has a cantilever structure in which one end is secured to the second support and another end is free.
US12156847B2
A mechanical chest compression device is secured to a gurney, transport stretcher or ambulance cot while engaging a patient's thorax to provide mechanical CPR during transport. The mechanical chest compression device compresses the patient's thorax against the gurney deck. The mechanical chest compression device may engage the side rails on the gurney, the gurney deck or any suitable structural elements of the gurney.
US12156840B2
A knee replacement therapy unit comprising a base board configured to be attached with a chair; a winch having a crank, the winch attached to the base board and configured to wind a cable thereon; and a feed mechanism attached to the base board and configured to receive a cable therethrough from the winch.
US12156839B2
A patient support apparatus for removably retaining differently-sized portable electronic devices. The patient support apparatus comprises a base, a litter with a patient support deck for supporting the patient, and a side rail. The side rail is coupled to the litter and arranged for movement relative to the base. The side rail includes a caddy comprising a back, a first brace, and a second brace spaced from the first brace. The first brace extends laterally from the back and defines a first bottom support region. The second brace extends laterally from the back and defines a second bottom support region converging toward the first bottom support region to arrange the first and second bottom support regions to provide differing points of contact for retaining differently-sized portable electronic devices.
US12156832B2
A cosmetic pad, having a top layer constructed of non-woven material, a bottom layer constructed in a manner to allow for ventilation through the bottom layer, and at least one heating element between the top layer and the bottom layer and methods for using the cosmetic pad and cosmetic agents therein are provided. A system for applying a cosmetic agent to a subject's skin, hair, hands, feet or face is also provided.
US12156829B2
A reusable penile attachment for urinary incontinence which uses pressure differential as means of attachment, a cup having a depth having an opening having a first width and an exit having a second width, wherein the first width is greater than the second width; and, wherein the opening of the cup is configured to fit onto a glans of a penis. The exit is fluidly connected to a connector which includes an integrated square angle elbow which positions the connector into a generally horizontal configuration. The connector then connects to a tube having a first end and a second end, wherein the first end is attached to the connector; a collection bag having attachment straps, wherein the collection bag is attached to the second end of the tube; the collection bag is configured to collect urine leakage. The horizontal configuration in cooperation with the clothes worn by the intended user provides a pressure differential for retaining the cup onto the penis and for retaining is a suction effect created by the shape of the cup.
US12156827B2
An adjustable over corrective therapeutic scoliosis brace configured to facilitate the correction of spinal curvature during a treatment period of a patient is provided. In some embodiments, the scoliosis brace comprises an external shell and one or more periodically adjustable modular internal pads systems. The one or more internal pad systems can be selectively moved and fixedly positioned in a plurality of positions along at least one of the lateral direction or the vertical direction within the external shell, wherein the plurality of positions are designed for periodic adjustment of the corrective force on the spinal curvature during the treatment period.
US12156820B2
An instrument includes a sleeve extending between proximal and distal ends. The sleeve defines a passageway. The distal end defines an engagement portion including an engagement surface extending from a first end to a second end. A peg extends outwardly from the first end. An opening that is in communication with the passageway extends through the second end. A knob is coupled to the proximal end. A shaft includes a proximal end and an opposite distal end. The distal end of the shaft includes a mating portion. The mating portion extends through the opening. The proximal end of the shaft is coupled to the knob. The knob is rotatable relative to the sleeve to rotate the shaft relative to the sleeve. Methods of use are disclosed.
US12156819B2
An expandable intervertebral cage device includes a first base plate and a second base plate, a proximal block with internal threading that mechanically couples the first base plate and the second base plate, and a distal block comprising an internal passage. The device has exactly two arm assemblies, one on each side. Each arm assembly includes a first arm mechanically coupled to the first base plate and the distal block, and a second arm is mechanically coupled to the second base plate and the distal block. A screw is arranged partially within the internal threading of the proximal block and passes through the internal passage of the distal block, such that rotation of the screw relative to the proximal block causes a change in distance between the proximal block and the distal block, and a corresponding change in the spacing and lordosis of the device.
US12156807B2
Various embodiments of a seal for a stent-valve, and methods of production, are described. In some embodiments, the seal or a skirt comprises a fabric wall portion and a polymeric material fused to the fabric wall portion, the polymeric material having a melting temperature that is lower than that of the fabric wall portion. The fibres of the fabric may remain unmelted at the interface with the polymeric material, the polymeric material being attached to material to the fibres of the fabric wall portion by fusion. The polymeric material may provide a welded joint to another fabric wall portion and/or may reinforce the fabric and/or may occlude pores of the fabric.
US12156806B2
A prosthetic heart valve includes a radially expandable and collapsible frame with an inflow end including a plurality of inflow apices and an outflow end including a plurality of outflow apices. A plurality of valve leaflets are positioned in the frame and configured to control blood flow through the prosthetic heart valve. A covering is disposed around the frame. The covering has an inflow end portion having an inflow edge and an outflow end portion having an outflow edge. The inflow end portion of the covering is disposed over the inflow apices of the frame such that the inflow edge of the covering is inside the frame. The outflow end portion of the covering is disposed over the outflow apices of the frame such that the outflow edge of the covering is inside the frame, and the covering covers an entire outer surface of the frame.
US12156803B2
Provided is an intraocular lens having at least one optical part and having a haptic coupled to the optical part, and having an optical principal axis that passes through a front side and a back side of the optical part, the haptic comprising at least one haptic loop, wherein a coupling element of the intraocular lens is integrated on the haptic loop and a mating coupling element of the intraocular lens is integrated on the optical part or on a connector coupled to the optical part, the coupling element being formed for direct coupling to the mating coupling element and, in the coupled state of coupling element and mating coupling element, an outer edge segment of the haptic loop being arranged at a radially shorter distance from the optical part than in the case of the uncoupled state of coupling element and mating coupling element.
US12156791B2
The present invention relates to a biocompatible, foldable, thin profile, low mass and high surface area, chitosan dressing, optionally modified with catechol, and suitable for treating bleeding in a physiological environment, e.g. bladder, and in particular in connection with the TURP procedure. The characteristics and structures of the chitosan dressing are provided. Methods of making and using the chitosan dressing are also provided.
US12156790B2
A method and apparatus for producing absorbent sanitary articles including an absorbent body having two front oblique sides and two rear oblique sides, and two longitudinal elastic bands attached to the absorbent body along said oblique sides, where each of said elastic bands includes a front section and a rear section separated from each other by transverse cuts and joined together by refastenable closure formations.
US12156778B2
A self-ligating bracket, a double-wing spacing adjustable bracket and a dental appliance are described. The self-ligating bracket includes a bracket base plate, a first elastic support, a bracket body, and a position-limited member. A first end of the first elastic support is connected to the bracket base plate. The bracket body has a hollow structure. A second end of the first elastic support is connected to a distal end of the bracket body. The distal end of the bracket body is provided with a distal-end gap. The distal end of the bracket body is expanded radially by the second end of the first elastic support. The position-limited member is movable in an axial direction of the bracket body, and the position-limited member is sleeved on an outside of the bracket body for overcoming elastic force provided by the first elastic support and making the bracket body contract in a radial direction.
US12156770B2
The present disclosure relates to the field of endoscopy. Specifically, the present disclosure relates to systems and methods which allow the distal portion of a catheter to be visualized within the body using a colored marker and one or more secondary markers. In particular, the present disclosure relates to systems and methods which indicate when a medical device is properly positioned for deployment within a body lumen.
US12156769B2
Examples relate to a surgical microscope system and a corresponding apparatus, method and computer program. The surgical microscope system comprises one or more sensors for providing sensor information about a balance of the surgical microscope system. The surgical microscope system comprises one or more brakes for holding at least one component of the surgical microscope system in place. The surgical microscope system comprises a surgical microscope. The surgical microscope system comprises a processing module, configured to process the sensor information. The processing module is configured to determine an information about the balance of the surgical microscope system. In some embodiments, the processing module is configured to provide a warning to a user of the surgical microscope system based on the information about the balance of the surgical microscope system. The warning indicates danger of imbalance in the surgical microscope system. Alternatively or additionally, the processing module may be configured to control a release of the one or more brakes based on the information about the balance of the surgical microscope system.
US12156763B2
An ultrasound system including: a scanner module including a housing including a first fastener element, an ultrasound transducer, a rotational actuator, and an electronics module; and a positioner module including a second fastener element; operable between a first mode, wherein the first and second fastener elements cooperatively couple the scanner module to the positioner module, and a second mode, wherein the scanner module and positioner modules are separate. An ultrasound system including: a housing including a handle region and a membrane; an ultrasound transducer; a reservoir; a rotational actuator; and an electronics module.
US12156753B2
A method of generating images of a specimen that includes triggering a source of electromagnetic radiation to emit a beam of electromagnetic radiation along an axis through a tissue specimen and towards an imaging detector, generating at least one image with the received beam at the imaging detector, and superimposing, into or adjacent the at least one image by a system controller, a set of graphical indications that convey portions of a patient's body from which respective portions of the specimen were assumed to have been excised.
US12156752B2
Various methods and systems are provided for computed tomography imaging. In one embodiment, a method includes acquiring, with an x-ray detector and an x-ray source coupled to a gantry, a three-dimensional image volume of a subject while the subject moves through a bore of the gantry and the gantry rotates the x-ray detector and the x-ray source around the subject, inputting the three-dimensional image volume to a trained deep neural network to generate a corrected three-dimensional image volume with a reduction in aliasing artifacts present in the three-dimensional image volume, and outputting the corrected three-dimensional image volume. In this way, aliasing artifacts caused by sub-sampling may be removed from computed tomography images while preserving details, texture, and sharpness in the computed tomography images.
US12156744B2
A sensor device and method for tightening and positioning the sensor device with a wristband or strap (62) for a range of wrist sizes and shapes or other body portions, such that the optimal sensor position is obtained and maintained during ambulatory use, which provides two-sided fastening of the strap (62). The strap (62) has a marker (67) that is positioned by the wearer at a predetermined measuring position, e.g., on the middle of the volar side of the wrist. The wrist is then put on the table to fix its position, and the strap (62) is tightened on both sides of the wrist. This ensures a precision of at least 5 mm of the position of the sensors (66) in the strap.
US12156738B2
A multimodal human-robot interaction system for upper limb rehabilitation, including an electroencephalography signal acquisition and processing module, a robot module, a comprehensive affected upper limb muscle signal acquisition and processing module, a rehabilitation training evaluation module, and a virtual reality module. The electroencephalography signal acquisition and processing module captures a motion intention of a patient by means of electroencephalography signals to trigger rehabilitation training. The robot module assists an affected upper limb with rehabilitation exercise. The comprehensive affected upper limb muscle signal acquisition and processing module acquires and obtains a comprehensive assessment of the affected upper limb. The rehabilitation training evaluation module is used for processing and analyzing the comprehensive assessment of the affected upper limb, so as to obtain a quantitative evaluation of the affected upper limb during rehabilitation training. The virtual reality module is used for displaying a virtual environment for rehabilitation training, and interacting with the patient.
US12156734B2
A sensor insertion device comprises a lower case and an upper case. A base holder and a needle holder are disposed in the lower case. A needle holder raising mechanism is disposed above the needle holder. A sensor base having a sensor unit is held by the base holder. When the upper case is pushed down, the base holder and the needle holder move toward an opening on the lower surface side of the lower case, and the needle holder is raised by the needle holder raising mechanism. A protrusion that holds the upper case on the lower case is provided to the upper case in a state in which the upper case has been pushed down until the opening on the lower surface side comes into contact with the skin.
US12156732B2
The present disclosure includes a connector assembly that is a part of a sensor assembly for collecting patient physiological data. The connector assembly can include a first connector tab with catches, a second connector tab with openings, a retainer with pins, and a circuit board coupled to a cable. Each of the pins of the retainer can include a detent that can engage one of the catches of the first connector tab. The pins can extend through the openings of the second connector tab so that the retainer is coupled to the first connector tab by the detents engaging the catches. The first and second connector tabs can thereby be coupled together to support the circuit board and the cable between the first and second connector tabs.
US12156720B2
The portable blood pressure measuring device includes a body part in which a controller for calculating blood pressure information, a display for outputting blood pressure information, and a power supply are built; a wrist strap coupled to the body part; a fastening unit for fastening the wrist strap to the wrist; a first pressure sensor coupled to a first position of the wrist strap; and a second pressure sensor coupled to a second position of the wrist strap, in which the first pressure sensor is disposed to be adjacent to a position under which the user's radial artery passes, and the second pressure sensor is disposed to be adjacent to a position under which the user's ulnar artery passes, in which the controller calculates a blood pressure based on a first pressure, a second pressure and an interference constant determined by the wrist strap.
US12156714B2
Methods and systems for imaging removable dental appliances. Image data taken while a removable dental appliance was worn on a patient's teeth may be used to identify one or more locations of undesirable contact between the removable dental appliance and the patient's teeth and/or one or more attachments on the patient's teeth. The one or more locations of undesirable contact can correlate with undesirable tooth movement compared to expected tooth movement according to a treatment plan. A three-dimensional (3D) model of the removable dental appliance and the patient's teeth may be displayed on a user interface, with the identified one or more locations of undesirable contact highlighted in the 3D model. An alert of the identified one or more locations of undesirable contact may be emitted via the user interface.
US12156709B2
A robotic electromechanical surgical instrument includes a housing, an elongated shaft that extends distally from the housing, a wrist assembly supported on the elongated shaft, an end effector coupled to the wrist assembly, cables coupled to the wrist assembly, and an electrical cable coupled to the end effector. The wrist assembly includes a first joint coupled to a second joint. The first joint includes a proximal segment defining an arcuate surface and a distal segment defining an arcuate surface. The electrical cable is positioned relative to the proximal arcuate surface and the distal arcuate surface such that during articulation of the wrist assembly the electrical cable rolls off of the distal arcuate surface as the electrical cable rolls on to the proximal arcuate surface and the electrical cable rolls off of the proximal arcuate surface as the electrical cable rolls on to the distal arcuate surface.
US12156708B2
The present disclosure provides a system and method for controlling an articulating member including a tool. The method includes determining a first confidence indicator based on a manual control mode for the articulating member, determining a second confidence indicator based on an autonomous control mode for the articulating member, generating an allocation function based on the first confidence indicator and the second confidence indicator, and generating a control command for the articulating member based on the allocation function.
US12156707B2
The invention relates to an arrangement 10 with an OCT device 20 for scanning an object region volume 22 arranged in an object region 18 with an OCT scanning beam 21, comprising an item 24 which has a section 84 that is arrangeable in the object region 18 and is localizable in the object region volume 22 by means of the OCT device 20, and having a computing unit 60 connected to the OCT device 20 and having a computer program for determining a 3-D reconstruction of the object region volume 22 and determining the location of the portion of the object 24 in the object region volume 22 by processing OCT scan information obtained with the OCT device 20 by scanning the object region volume 22. According to the invention, the computer program has a calculation routine for determining a target area in the 3-D reconstruction of the object region volume 22, which routine determines a reference variable for the object 24 for the target area. The computer program contains a path planning routine that uses a criterion to calculate an optimal path for object 24 to the target spatial position, the criterion being a shadow measure that quantifies the occurrence of shadows caused by object 24 in the calculated 3-D reconstruction. The invention also relates to a computer program and a method for determining a 3-D reconstruction of an object region volume 22 in an object region 18.
US12156704B2
A robot-assisted endoscope system and control methods thereof allow a user to perform intraluminal interventional procedures using a steerable sheath. A processor generates a ghost image based on a non-real-time insertion trajectory of the sheath, and a real-time image based on a real-time insertion trajectory for inserting an interventional tool through the sheath towards the target site. A display screen outputs navigation guidance data for informing a user how to manipulate the distal section of the sheath towards the target site such that the real-time image overlaps or coincides with at least part the ghost image and the real-time insertion trajectory becomes aligned with the non-real-time insertion trajectory.
US12156696B2
Systems, devices, and methods are described for assessing the risk of developmental, cognitive, social, or mental abilities or disabilities in very young patients (e.g., in the first 2-6 months of life). Generally, the decline in visual fixation of a subject over time with respect to certain dynamic stimuli provides a marker of possible abilities or disabilities (such as ASD). The visual fixation of the subject is identified, monitored, and tracked over time through repeated eye tracking sessions, and data relating to the visual fixation is then analyzed to determine a possible increased risk certain conditions in the subject. A change in visual fixation as compared to similar visual fixation data of typically-developing subjects or to a subject's own, prior visual fixation data provides an indication of a developmental, cognitive, or mental ability or disability.
US12156688B2
Structures for treating tissue with high-frequency energy, methods of making a structure for treating tissue with high-frequency energy, and methods of treating tissue with high-frequency energy. A structure for use in treating tissue may include multiple microblades composed of an electrical conductor. Each of the microblades may include a shaft and a tip arranged adjacent to an end of the shaft. The tip includes multiple surfaces that surround a solid core of the tip and at least two of the surfaces may taper toward the end of the shaft.
US12156685B2
The present invention provides a medicament delivery device configured for delivery of a medicament through a removable cartridge which includes a cylindrical construct configured for receiving a plunger rod at a proximate end with a central chamber having a side portal and an axial end portal in communication with a distal bone delivery end, the side portal extending from the central chamber and configured for receipt of the removable cartridge, the central chamber having a radially extending sidewall which presents an elliptical body and the axial end portal configured for reciprocal receipt of a telescopic plunger, the distal bone delivery end being in communication with the removeable cartridge for distribution of a medicament therethrough.
US12156682B2
An inserter for attaching a modular yoke to a bone screw and for providing an indication of attachment, comprises a tubular body having a central lumen, distal and proximal ends, and an attachment portion for releasable attachment to a yoke having a bottom opening for receipt of a head of said bone screw. The inserter includes an inner shaft having a distal end configured to be received into the yoke, the shaft being axially movable within the lumen from first to second axial positions in response to the introduction of the bone screw head into the yoke bottom opening. An indicator button supported by the body is movable in response to axial movement of the shaft from a first indicator position indicating the first axial position of the shaft relative to the body to a second indicator position indicating the second axial position of the shaft relative to the body.
US12156681B2
A set for dorsal spinal fusion comprises a detachable handle made of plastic material and a screwdriver that can be coupled to the removable handle without the use of tools. A receptacle of the handle for the screwdriver is made of plastic material. Also, a handle is disclosed, which in particular comprises a ratchet mechanism.
US12156677B2
A device for clearing an obstructed airway of a subject, including an airway interface configured to be positioned over a mouth and/or nose of the subject, a pump in fluid communication with the airway interface and configured to generate suction at the airway interface when activated, and a sleeve surrounding the pump, where the device is configured to activate the pump to generate the suction when the airway interface is pushed against the mouth and/or nose of the subject by pushing on the sleeve, where the device is configured to be held and activated with one hand.
US12156675B2
A steerable transseptal punch system and method of using the steerable transseptal punch system to access the left atrium.
US12156666B2
An aspiration thrombectomy system includes an aspiration catheter configured to accommodate fluid and having a proximal end and a distal end. The system includes connection tubing coupled to the aspiration catheter and configured to act as a common conduit for fluid communication. The system further includes controllable valves operable to control a level of pressure, and pressure sensors positioned downstream from the distal end of the aspiration catheter. A controller is configured to detect and identify pressure levels associated with an open flow state of the aspiration thrombectomy system, and to determine a vascular pressure level of the patient.
US12156663B2
An orthopaedic surgical instrument system includes a compression socket configured for coupling with a selected one of a number of compressible bases. Each compressible base is shaped to conform with a posterior surface of either a dome patella implant component or an anatomical patella implant component.
US12156662B2
A system for preparing a bone for implantation of a component of an orthopedic implant device. The system includes a forming tool having a sleeve member that is selectively received within a handle member. The sleeve member has a guide slot that is sized to receive axial passage of at least a portion of a guide. The guide slot and/or sleeve member may be positioned and/or configured to facilitate at least linear and/or rotational displacement of the forming tool about, or relative to, the guide, and thereby provide a degree of freedom in the location at which the forming tool may form a shape or opening in the bone relative to one or more reference axes. The handle member may include a connection member that is structured to be operably coupled to a bone preparation device that is structured to facilitate the displacement of bone material.
US12156660B2
A customized alignment system of the instruments used in total knee arthroplasty. The alignment system includes a fixed femoral guide and a tibial guide configured to adapt to the femur and the tibia, resting on these bones without invading the cartilage of the articular surfaces. The tibial guide and two joinable femoral guides that can be coupled to the fixed femoral guide allow performing bone perforations adequately arranged to allow subsequent placement of cutting guides for the placement of a conventional total knee prosthesis. The guides are designed from a preoperative bone model. The system provides a more precise alignment compared to other conventional techniques, avoids the use of intramedullary alignment and simplifies surgery for the placement of a total knee prosthesis.
US12156655B2
A surgical stapling device includes a tool assembly and a drive assembly for actuating the tool assembly. The tool assembly includes a cartridge assembly having a staple cartridge and an anvil assembly that supports a lockout mechanism. The staple cartridge includes a cartridge body and an actuation sled and knife assembly that includes an actuation sled and a knife. The actuation sled and knife assembly is movable in relation to the cartridge body to eject staples from the cartridge body and to cut tissue. The anvil assembly supports a lockout mechanism that includes a lockout member that is movable between a locked position and an unlocked position. The drive assembly is movable from a retracted position to an advanced position to move the actuation sled and knife assembly from its retracted position to its advanced position. In the locked position, the lockout member obstructs movement of the drive assembly from its retracted position towards its advanced position.
US12156642B2
A transseptal system can include a guidewire, a dilator, and a deflectable sheath configured to safely deliver a puncture needle through a septal wall associated with the fossa ovalis and into a central region of the left atrium of a heart. The dilator can include a dilator nose having a first outer diameter and a dilator beveled segment, extending proximal of the dilator nose, tapering from a second, greater outer diameter to the first outer diameter. The length and interplay of the puncture needle and the dilator nose can be configured such that the puncture needle is inhibited from bending and impinging upon the left side of the atrial septum of the heart during use. A body of the guidewire can include at least one loop segment to provide stable support in the left atrium for delivery of a diagnostic or therapeutic device along its more proximal portions. The deflectable sheath can position and align the dilator nose relative to the fossa ovalis.
US12156640B2
Disclosed herein are endoscope assemblies, and more particularly endoscopes with a working channel for use in hysteroscopy, and methods of use thereof. Devices and systems related to an integrated hysteroscopic treatment system including an endoscopic viewing system, a fluid management system, a resecting device and a controller for operating all the systems. Also disclosed are integrated hysteroscopic treatment systems that include an endoscopic viewing system, a fluid management system, a resecting device and a controller for operating all the systems.
US12156636B2
An endoscope includes a frame component provided at a distal end portion of an insertion portion, an exterior member with conductivity in which the frame component fits, an imaging unit fixed to the frame component and configured to pick up an image, a conductive part provided in the imaging unit, an electrical connection part, a first end portion of which is connected to the conductive part, a neighboring part of a second end portion on an opposite side of the first end portion of which is sandwiched and fixed between an outer surface of the frame component and an inner surface of the exterior member and configured to electrically connect the conductive part and the exterior member, and an opening provided in the exterior member and configured to expose part of the frame component and cut an extra portion of the electrical connection part during assembly.
US12156634B2
A continuum robot control device, configured to control operations of a continuum robot having a bendable portion that is bent by driving at least part of a plurality of wires, includes a kinematics computing unit that computes a driving amount lk1b of the at least part of the plurality of wires, based on a target bending angle that is a target value for a bending angle of the bendable portion, a compensation amount computing unit that computes a compensation amount for compensation of the driving amount lk1b, based on the target bending angle, and a displacement of one of the plurality of wires at the target bending angle, and an adding unit and position control unit that set a driving control amount of performing driving control of the at least part of the plurality of wires, based on the driving amount and the compensation amount obtained by computation.
US12156633B2
The present disclosure relates to a cleaner system including: a cleaner; a cleaner station; and an imaginary plane including an imaginary suction flow path through line penetrating a suction flow path in a longitudinal direction and an imaginary suction motor axis defined by extending a rotation axis of a suction motor, in which when the cleaner is coupled to the cleaner station, the plane penetrates at least a part of the cleaner station, such that a center of gravity of the cleaner is disposed to pass through a space for maintaining balance of the station, and as a result, it is possible to stably support the cleaner and the station while preventing the cleaner and the station from falling down.
US12156631B2
A vacuum cleaner includes a first latch moveable between a locked position and an unlocked position and a second latch moveable between a locked position and an unlocked position, and a spring pressing the second latch to the locked position. The vacuum cleaner also includes a dust bin securable on the housing with the first latch and the second latch. When the dust bin is being installed onto the housing, the second latch is moved from the locked position to the unlocked position until the spring presses the second latch back to the locked position. The dust bin is removable from the housing when the dust bin is installed on the housing, the first latch is in the unlocked position, and the second latch is in the locked position.
US12156623B2
A cleaning attachment for a utility bucket is disclosed. The cleaning attachment can be used to sweep debris into the utility bucket. In one non-limiting example, among others, the cleaning attachment includes a ramp, a back platform, a rim engagement slot, and a retractable tab. The ramp includes a first end and a second end, and the second end having a greater height than the first end. The rim engagement slot engages a rim of a utility bucket. The rim engagement slot is formed between a front wall of the second end of the ramp and the back platform. The retractable tab extends from a back wall of the back platform. The retractable tab formed between two slots, and the retractable tab moves toward and away from the back wall for attaching and releasing the utility bucket.
