US12170409B2
Systems, methods, and non-transitory media are provided for cross-coupling modeling and compensation. An example method can include determining one or more cross-coupling coefficients representing electrical cross-coupling between a first signal path through a component and a second signal path through the component; based on the one or more cross-coupling coefficients, determining a first modified beamforming weight for a first signal associated with the first signal path through the component and a second modified beamforming weight for a second signal associated with the second signal path through the component, wherein the first and second modified beamforming weights compensate for the electrical cross-coupling between the first signal path through the component and the second signal path through the component; applying the first modified beamforming weight to the first signal associated with the first signal path; and applying the second modified beamforming weight to the second signal associated with the second signal path.
US12170406B2
An antenna apparatus includes a first component layer having a plurality of RFICs arranged in a first lattice geometry (e.g., rectangular), where each RFIC comprises beamforming circuitry. A second, parallel component layer overlays the first component layer and includes a plurality of antenna elements arranged in a second, different lattice geometry (e.g., triangular). The antenna elements have respective feed points each coupled to an input/output (I/O) pad of an RFIC. Each I/O pad is aligned with the feed point coupled thereto along an axis orthogonal to the first and second layers.
US12170402B2
An electronic device includes a decoupling member, a first radiator, a second radiator, a first feed unit, a second feed unit, and a rear cover. A gap is formed between the first radiator and the second radiator, the decoupling member is indirectly coupled to the first radiator and the second radiator, and the decoupling member is disposed on a surface of the rear cover. The decoupling member does not overlap a first projection, and the first projection is a projection of the first radiator in a first direction. The decoupling member does not overlap a second projection, and the second projection is a projection of the second radiator in the first direction. The first direction is a direction perpendicular to a plane on which the rear cover is located.
US12170399B2
Base station antennas, and components for base station antennas, such as reflectors, feeder components, frames, and column components. A base station antenna may include a reflector; a first radiator located at the front side of the reflector; mutually parallel first and second ground plates extending backward from the reflector and basically perpendicular to the reflector; and a first conductor strip extending between the first and second ground plates and configured to feed power to the first radiator. The first conductor strip and the first and second ground plates may be configured as a first stripline transmission line. The reflector and the first and second ground plates may be configured as one piece so that the reflector is grounded via the first and second ground plates without soldering.
US12170394B2
The invention concerns a locking mechanism (10) configured to switch from a locked state to an unlocked state, comprising: a. a processor (11) configured to read an identification code of an identification key (13) and configured to cause the locking mechanism (10) to switch from the locked state to the unlocked state if the identification code of the identification key (13) is an authorized code of the locking mechanism (10), b. a printed circuit board (14) in a first plane comprising an aperture (15) configured to accept insertion of the identification key (13) according to a first axis (Y) secant to the printed circuit board (14), the identification key (13) comprising a NFC passive part (16), c. a NFC active part comprising a wire antenna (18) positioned on the printed circuit board (14), the wire antenna (18) comprising a first at least one winding around the aperture (15), the wire antenna being connected to the processor (11), wherein the locking mechanism is configured to establish a NFC communication between the NFC active part of the locking mechanism and the NFC passive part (16) of the identification key (13) when the identification key (13) is inserted into the aperture (15).
US12170393B2
A polarizer for a waveguide, comprising a main body for transmitting an electromagnetic wave, a first delay member being provided in the main body. A second delay member arranged downstream of the first delay member in the working direction (A) of the electromagnetic wave is provided in the main body, and the polarization axis (P2) of the second delay member is rotated relative to the polarization axis (P1) of the first delay member by a delay angle (β).
US12170388B2
A battery for an implantable medical device (IMD) configured to support a relatively high rate of energy discharge relative to its capacity to support energy intensive therapy delivery, such as high energy anti-tachyarrhythmia shocks, by the IMD. The battery includes a first electrode, a second electrode separated a distance from the first electrode, an electrolyte disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode. The electrolyte includes a lithium salt including LiAsF6, an organic solvent, and an electrolyte additive that includes vinylene carbonate.
US12170387B2
A lithium primary battery including a current collecting wire that electrically connects an electrode body and a sealing body or a battery can, in which the electrode body includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a separator, the negative electrode includes at least one selected from the group consisting of metal lithium and a lithium alloy, the current collecting wire includes a first lead connected to one of the positive electrode and the negative electrode, a second lead connected to the sealing body or the battery can, and an overdischarge suppressing element interposed between the first lead and the second lead, the overdischarge suppressing element includes a first metal layer connected to the first lead, with the first metal layer being thinner than the first lead, a second metal layer connected to the second lead, with the second metal layer being thinner than the second lead, and a conductive layer interposed between the first metal layer and the second metal layer disposed to face each other, the conductive layer includes a resin and a conductive material dispersed in the resin, and the conductive material inserts lithium ions at a potential that is lower than that of the positive electrode.
US12170384B2
A battery pack includes a plurality of battery modules, and each battery module includes: a plurality of battery cells mutually laminated in a first direction and forming a laminated structure; a pair of end plates, each end plate of the pair of end plates being in surface contact with a first and a second ends of the laminated structure, respectively, in the first direction; and a pair of busbar assemblies. In particular, each bus bar assembly of the pair of bus bar assemblies is disposed at the first end and the second end of the laminated structure, respectively, in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction.
US12170371B2
The present application relates to lithium iron phosphate, a preparation method therefor, and a lithium-ion battery. The preparation method includes: sintering dry materials of an iron source, a lithium source, a phosphorus source, and a reductive carbon source to obtain lithium iron phosphate, wherein the sintering atmosphere includes a mild oxidizing gas, the mild oxidizing gas includes carbon dioxide, and the sintering temperature is 800-900° C.
US12170361B2
Silicon materials suitable for use as an anode material and associated method of production are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a silicon material includes crystalline silicon in a matrix and macro-scale pores distributed in the matrix of the crystalline silicon. The macro-scale pores can have a size greater than 100 nanometers, and surfaces of crystalline silicon in the macro-scale pores are coated with carbon.
US12170360B2
Described herein are battery modules comprising immersion-cooled prismatic battery cells and methods of fabricating thereof. A battery module comprises prismatic battery cells that are stacked along the primary module axis. The module also comprises top, bottom, and side covers and two end plates, collectively enclosing these battery cells. Each cover forms two fluid channels, both fluidically open to the prismatic battery cells. Furthermore, the module comprises bus bars that interconnect the cell terminals and protrude into the fluid channels formed by the top cover. One end plate comprises two fluid ports for connecting to a thermal management system. Each port is fluidically coupled to one fluid channel, formed by the top cover, and one fluid channel, formed by the bottom cover. The other end plate fluidically couples the two fluid channels, formed by the top cover, and, separately, the two fluid channels, formed by the bottom cover.
US12170359B2
A cell and a battery are disclosed. The cell includes: a barrel, a first end cover and a second end cover being arranged at two ends of the barrel respectively, the barrel, the first end cover and the second end cover defining an accommodating space in which a battery cell assembly is arranged; and a heat exchange pipe passing through the first end cover, the second end cover, and the accommodating space, and an outer wall of the heat exchange pipe being in contact with the battery cell assembly. The battery includes at least two cells, the heat exchange pipes of the adjacent cells communicate with each other, so that external fluid can enter the heat exchange pipe at one end of the battery pack and then exchange heat with all the cells.
US12170358B2
Methods and apparatus for thermal management of batteries are disclosed herein. An example battery disclosed herein includes a housing defining a cavity and a battery cell disposed in the cavity of the housing. The battery cell has a terminal. The battery further includes a bus bar disposed in the cavity of the housing. The bus bar is coupled to the terminal. A fluid channel formed in the bus bar. The fluid channel is to receive a cooling fluid to cool the bus bar and reduce a temperature of the battery.
US12170356B2
Disclosed is a battery apparatus that measures a temperature of the battery apparatus, determines an estimated naturally-decreasing temperature based on information including a difference between the temperature of the battery apparatus and an atmospheric temperature in response to the temperature of the battery apparatus being higher than the atmospheric temperature, determine a stop temperature based on a reference temperature of the stop temperature and the estimated naturally-decreasing temperature, and stops a cooling operation of the battery apparatus in response to the temperature of the battery apparatus being lower than the stop temperature.
US12170353B2
Making a rechargeable Lithium energy storage device begins by forming one or more trenches in a solid silicon substrate. One or more region interface precursors are deposited in the trench followed by one or more anode materials, one or more solid polymer electrolytes (SPE), and one or more cathode materials. Electrically cycling transforms the battery structures prior to full operation of the battery. Some, or all, of the process steps can be performed while the materials are within the trench, i.e. in-situ.
US12170348B2
Various embodiments of light emitting devices, assemblies, and methods of manufacturing are described herein. In one embodiment, a method for manufacturing a lighting emitting device includes forming a light emitting structure, and depositing a barrier material, a mirror material, and a bonding material on the light emitting structure in series. The bonding material contains nickel (Ni). The method also includes placing the light emitting structure onto a silicon substrate with the bonding material in contact with the silicon substrate and annealing the light emitting structure and the silicon substrate. As a result, a nickel silicide (NiSi) material is formed at an interface between the silicon substrate and the bonding material to mechanically couple the light emitting structure to the silicon substrate.
US12170345B2
The present invention provides a display device using a semiconductor light-emitting element and a manufacturing method therefor, the display device transferring semiconductor light-emitting elements on a temporary substrate, and then directly implementing, through a stack process, the structure of a wiring substrate on the temporary substrate on which the semiconductor light-emitting elements are arrayed, thereby enabling the semiconductor light-emitting elements and the wiring substrate to be electrically connected.
US12170332B2
A semiconductor structure includes a first device and a second device. The first device includes a plurality of first fins, a first work function layer over the plurality of first fins, and a first contact layer over the first work function layer. The second device includes a plurality of second fins, a second work function layer and the first work function layer over the plurality of the second fins, and a second contact layer over the first work function layer and the second work function layer. A distance between a bottom surface of the first work function layer and a bottom surface of the first contact layer is greater than a distance between a side surface of the first work function layer of the first device and a side surface of the first contact layer.
US12170324B2
A transistor comprises a channel region having a frontside and a backside. A gate is adjacent the frontside of the channel region with a gate insulator being between the gate and the channel region. Insulating material having net negative charge is adjacent the backside of the channel region. The insulating material comprises at least one of AlxFy, HfAlxFy, AlOxNy, and HfAlxOyNz, where “x”, “y”, and “z” are each greater than zero. Other embodiments and aspects are disclosed.
US12170323B2
A method includes forming a first sacrificial layer over a substrate, and forming a sandwich structure over the first sacrificial layer. The sandwich structure includes a first isolation layer, a two-dimensional material over the first isolation layer, and a second isolation layer over the two-dimensional material. The method further includes forming a second sacrificial layer over the sandwich structure, forming a first source/drain region and a second source/drain region on opposing ends of, and contacting sidewalls of, the two-dimensional material, removing the first sacrificial layer and the second sacrificial layer to generate spaces, and forming a gate stack filling the spaces.
US12170316B2
A semiconductor device includes first and second nitride semiconductor layers. The second layer on the first nitride has a first region, a second region, and a third region between the first and second regions. A first gate electrode is in the first region and extends parallel to a surface of a substrate. A first source electrode is in the first region and extends in the first direction. A second gate electrode in the second region and extends in the first direction. A second source electrode is in the second region and extends in the first direction. A drain electrode coupled to a first and a second wiring. The first wiring directly contacts the second nitride semiconductor layer in the first region. The second wiring directly contacts the second nitride semiconductor layer in the second region. An insulation material is in the third region.
US12170307B2
A display device comprises a first substrate, a first power bottom line on the first substrate, a second substrate on the first power bottom line, the second substrate having a first power connection hole to expose the first power bottom line, and a pixel driving unit including a plurality of switching elements on the second substrate.
US12170301B2
An electrode controls transmittance of a blocking layer over a photodiode of a pixel sensor (e.g., a photodiode of a small pixel detector) by changing oxidation of a metal material included in the blocking layer. By using the electrode to adjust transmittance of the blocking layer, pixel sensors for different uses and/or products may be produced using a single manufacturing process. As a result, power and processing resources are conserved that otherwise would have been expended in switching manufacturing processes. Additionally, production time is decreased (e.g., by eliminating downtime that would otherwise have been used to reconfigure fabrication machines.
US12170297B2
This application belongs to the technical field of semiconductor devices, and relates to a pixel circuit, a control method, and an image sensor, including: at least two pixel units arranged in an array, wherein transmission transistors of at least two pixels of at least one pixel unit are connected to a corresponding first group of transmission control lines, and a transmission transistor of one other pixel is connected to a corresponding second group of transmission control lines. Therefore, the pixel circuit, the control method and the image sensor provided in the present application can control the density of phase focus of the image sensor by controlling the first group of transmission control lines and the second group of transmission control lines without changing the structure of the pixel, the structure is simple, and the optical performance is good.
US12170293B2
An array substrate includes a thin film transistor including a drain electrode, a first insulation film included in an upper layer than the drain electrode and including a contact hole overlapping the drain electrode, a pixel electrode included in an upper layer than the first insulation film and overlaps the drain electrode at least inside the contact hole and is connected to the drain electrode, a second insulation film included in an upper layer than the pixel electrode and overlaps the pixel electrode inside the contact hole and extends outside the contact hole, a conductive portion included in an upper layer than the second insulation film and overlaps the pixel electrode at least inside the contact hole, and an insulation portion included in an upper layer than the pixel electrode and in a lower layer than the conductive portion and overlaps the pixel electrode inside the contact hole.
US12170270B2
An anisotropic conductive film in which conductive particles are dispersed in a resin includes a first region having a first pattern in which the conductive particles are discretely arranged, and a second region having a first shape by aggregating the conductive particles. Further, a display device includes a substrate provided with a plurality of electrodes arranged in a first pattern, the anisotropic conductive film, and a plurality of light emitting diodes. The plurality of light emitting diodes is electrically connected to the plurality of electrodes through the conductive particles in the first region.
US12170268B2
Techniques are disclosed herein for creating metal bitlines (BLs) in stacked wafer memory. Using techniques described herein, metal BLs are created on a bottom surface of a wafer. The metal BLs can be created using different processes. In some configurations, a salicide process is utilized. In other configurations, a damascene process is utilized. Using metal reduces the resistance of the BLs as compared to using non-metal diffused BLs. In some configurations, wafers are stacked and bonded together to form three-dimensional memory structures.
US12170265B2
A semiconductor package includes a processor die, a storage module and a package substrate. The storage module includes an array of cache units and an array of memory units stacked over one another, and electrically connected to the processor die, wherein the array of cache units is configured to hold copies of data stored in the array of memory units and frequently used by the processor die. The package substrate is on which the processor die and the storage module are disposed.
US12170264B2
Provided are integrated circuit packages and methods of forming the same. An integrated circuit package includes an integrated circuit structure, a first die stack and a dummy die. The first die stack includes a plurality of first die structures and is bonded to the integrated circuit structure at a first side of the first die stack. The dummy die includes a plurality of through substrate vias, is located aside the first die stack and is electrically connected to the integrated circuit structure at the first side of the first die stack. In some embodiments, the height of the through substrate vias of the dummy die is the same as the height of the first die stack.
US12170256B2
A method for fabricating a semiconductor product includes forming a dielectric layer over a top level metallization layer of a semiconductor process wafer. The dielectric layer is patterned using a grayscale mask process to define a contact pad opening in the dielectric layer, thereby producing a patterned dielectric layer in which the contact pad opening is aligned to a contact pad defined in the top level metallization layer. A metal layer is deposited over the patterned dielectric layer, including within the contact pad opening. A portion of the metal layer is removed by a chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) process, with a remaining portion of the metal layer having a sloped sidewall.
US12170249B2
Provided is a semiconductor package including an interposer. The semiconductor package includes: a package base substrate; a lower redistribution line structure disposed on the package base substrate and including a plurality of lower redistribution line patterns; at least one interposer including a plurality of first connection pillars spaced apart from each other on the lower redistribution line structure and connected respectively to portions of the plurality of lower redistribution line patterns, and a plurality of connection wiring patterns; an upper redistribution line structure including a plurality of upper redistribution line patterns connected respectively to the plurality of first connection pillars and the plurality of connection wiring patterns, on the plurality of first connection pillars and the at least one interposer; and at least two semiconductor chips adhered on the upper redistribution line structure while being spaced apart from each other.
US12170245B2
A method includes providing a semiconductor structure having a metal gate structure (MG), gate spacers disposed on sidewalls of the MG, and a source/drain (S/D) feature disposed adjacent to the gate spacers; forming a first metal layer over the S/D feature and between the gate spacers; recessing the first metal layer to form a trench; forming a dielectric layer on sidewalls of the trench; forming a second metal layer over the first metal layer in the trench, wherein sidewalls of the second metal layer are defined by the dielectric layer; and forming a contact feature over the MG to contact the MG.
US12170244B2
An integrated circuit (IC) die package substrate comprises a first trace upon, or embedded within, a dielectric material. The first trace comprises a first metal and a first via coupled to the first trace. The first via comprises the first metal and a second trace upon, or embedded within, the dielectric material. A second via is coupled to the second trace, and at least one of the second trace or the second via comprises a second metal with a different microstructure or composition than the first metal.
US12170239B2
A method includes applying a sintering precursor material layer to each of a first surface and a second surface of a ceramic tile, and assembling a precursor assembly of a direct bonded copper (DBC) substrate by coupling a first leadframe on the sinter precursor material layer on the first surface of the ceramic tile and a second leadframe on the second surface of the sinter precursor material layer on a second surface of the ceramic tile such that the ceramic tile is disposed between the first leadframe and the second leadframe. The method further includes sinter bonding the first leadframe and the second leadframe to the ceramic tile to form a sinter bonded DBC substrate.
US12170237B2
A semiconductor structure includes a circuit substrate, a semiconductor die, and a cover. The semiconductor die is disposed on the circuit substrate. The cover is disposed over the semiconductor die and over the circuit substrate. The cover comprises a lid portion and a support portion. The structure includes a first adhesive bonding the support portion to the circuit substrate and a second adhesive bonding the support portion and the lid portion.
US12170233B2
A plasma treatment apparatus includes a light generator that generates light, a chamber that receives the light generated from the light generator, an optical element provided between the light generator and the chamber, a light detector that detects the light reflected in the chamber, and a controller connected to the light generator and the light detector. The chamber includes an electrostatic chuck provided in a lower portion of the chamber, an edge ring provided around the electrostatic chuck, an outer wall for sealing an inner space of the chamber, and a gas supply that injects a process gas into the chamber. The optical element branches the generated light to irradiate branched light to different regions of the chamber.
US12170224B2
A method of processing a wafer includes a groove forming step of forming grooves in the wafer to a depth equal to or larger than a thickness of chips to be produced from the wafer from a face side of the wafer along projected dicing lines, a separation initiating point forming step of positioning a focused spot of a laser at a depth in the wafer corresponding to a thickness of the chips from a reverse side of the wafer, applying the laser beam to the wafer while moving the focused spot and the wafer relatively to each other, thereby forming separation initiating points in the wafer that are parallel to the face side of the wafer and made up of modified layers and cracks, and a chip peeling step of peeling off the chips from the wafer at the separation initiating points.
US12170215B2
A method for correcting misregistration measurements of a semiconductor wafer for errors therein arising from tilt of the wafer including measuring, for at least one location on a wafer, a difference between a Tool Induced Shift (TIS) of a metrology device in a first illumination arrangement with respect to the wafer wherein a surface of the wafer is generally orthogonally illuminated by an illumination source of the metrology device and a TIS of the metrology device in a second illumination arrangement with respect to the wafer, wherein the surface is obliquely illuminated by the illumination source, and correcting a misregistration measurement measured by the metrology device at the at least one location for errors therein arising from tilt of the wafer at the location by subtracting from the misregistration measurement a weighted value of the difference between the TIS in the first and second illumination arrangements.
US12170212B2
The present invention discloses a method and apparatus to correct surface non-uniformities between a donor substrate and a system substrate using a bonding tool. The bonding tool has multiple segments with internal structure to facilitate the objective. In particular, arc shaped guideways and resulting movements exemplify the method.
US12170211B2
A laser processing apparatus includes an energy distribution correcting unit that forms skirt parts of a Gaussian distribution of an energy distribution in a Y-axis direction regarding a laser beam emitted from a laser oscillator into a perpendicular distribution, an imaging lens group composed of two or more lenses that form an image of the beam shape of the laser beam for which the energy distribution has been corrected by the energy distribution correcting unit on the upper surface of the workpiece, and one cylindrical lens that adjusts the energy density in an X-axis direction regarding the laser beam for which the energy distribution has been corrected by the energy distribution correcting unit.
US12170201B2
A method for preparing a semiconductor structure, and a semiconductor structure are provided. In a prepared first pattern structure, a thickness of a first insulating layer is equal to a thickness of a second insulating layer, and a thickness of a third insulating layer is equal to a thickness of a fourth insulating layer.
US12170198B2
A deposition method of depositing a silicon nitride film on a surface of a substrate includes: (a) exposing the substrate to a plasma formed from a nitriding gas containing nitrogen (N) and hydrogen (H); (b) exposing the substrate to a plasma formed from hydrogen (H2) gas; (c) exposing the substrate to a plasma formed from a process gas containing a halogen; (d) supplying trisilylamine (TSA) to the substrate; and (e) repeating (a) to (d) in this order.
US12170180B2
An arc quenching device for a three-phase electrical switchgear. The device includes a first busbar, a second busbar and a third busbar, each of a respective phase of the three-phase switchgear. The device also includes at least one piston of an electrically conductive material and having a tapered shape, tapering towards its front end. The device also includes only one pyrotechnical actuator arranged to, when the pyrotechnical actuator is fired, axially move each of the at least one piston until all of the first, second and third busbars are short-circuited to each other via the at least one piston.
US12170172B2
A capacitor includes a capacitor body including a plurality of dielectric layers and a plurality of internal electrode layers being stacked alternately. The plurality of dielectric layers mainly include crystal grains containing barium titanate as a main component. The plurality of dielectric layers contain magnesium, a rare earth element, and manganese. The plurality of dielectric layers include oxide grains containing at least one of the magnesium, the rare earth element, or the manganese as a single element.
US12170165B1
Electrical/magnetic components and methods of making such components are provided. One method includes providing a multilayer printed circuit board (PCB) including conductive features arranged on conductive layers of the PCB to form one or more windings around one or more predetermined axes. The method further includes forming a hole in the PCB at each of the one or more predetermined axes to accommodate one or more core legs. For each hole, an inner edge of one of the windings overlaps an edge of the hole in a lateral direction after the hole is formed. The method further includes assembling a magnetically permeable core including the one or more core legs, each core leg extending into one of the holes at the one or more predetermined axes.
US12170164B2
A magnetic assembly includes a multilevel lamination or metallization structure with a core dielectric layer, dielectric stack layers, a high permittivity dielectric layer, and first and second patterned conductive features, the dielectric stack layers having a first relative permittivity, the high permittivity dielectric layer extends between and contacting the first patterned conductive feature and one of the dielectric stack layers or the core dielectric layer, the high permittivity dielectric layer has a second relative permittivity, and the second relative permittivity is at least 1.5 times the first relative permittivity to mitigate dielectric breakdown in isolation products.
US12170160B2
A soft magnetic powder contains a particle having a composition represented by FexCuaNbb(Si1-yBy)100-x-a-b, and 0.3≤a≤2.0, 2.0≤b≤4.0, and 75.5≤x≤79.5, and y is a number satisfying f(x)≤y≤0.99, and f(x)=(4×10−34)x17.56. The particle includes a crystal grain having a grain size of 1 nm to 30 nm, a Cu segregation portion, and a crystal grain boundary. A content proportion of the crystal grain is 30% or more. When the Cu segregation portion positioned in a surface layer portion and having a grain size of 2 nm to 10 nm is referred to as a first Cu segregation portion, and the Cu segregation portion positioned in an inner portion and having a grain size of 2 nm to 7 nm is referred to as a second Cu segregation portion, a number proportion of the first Cu segregation portion is 80% or more, a number proportion of the second Cu segregation portion is 80% or more, and the number of the second Cu segregation portion is twice or more the number of the first Cu segregation portion.
US12170158B2
A metallic cable includes, in order from an inner side thereof, a plurality of coated conduction wires, a press winding tape, a laminated tape, and an outer jacket. The outer jacket is provided on an outer circumference of the laminated tape and such that it covers the outer circumference of the laminated tape. The outer jacket is made of polyethylene having a density greater than or equal to that of medium-density polyethylene (MDPE) (≥930 kg/m3), and more preferably made of high-density polyethylene (≥942 kg/m3). If polyethylene having a density that is equal to or greater than that of MDPE is used to form the outer jacket, the temperature that is appropriate for extruding MDPE approaches a bonding temperature range of the resin layer of the laminated tape. The resin layer and the metal layer can be bonded and joined together at an overlapped part, tightly enclosing a cable core.
US12170146B2
A computer-implemented method for treating a medical condition via a digital therapeutic platform, the method including receiving one or more user inputs, generating a script at a script generator, based on the one or more user inputs, determining therapeutic digital content by applying the script as an input to a therapeutic machine learning platform, receiving the therapeutic digital content via at least one of a therapeutic content database or a content generator, identifying a user platform to output the therapeutic digital content, modifying the therapeutic digital content for output via the user platform, providing the therapeutic digital content via the user platform, receiving feedback based on user consumption of the therapeutic digital content via the user platform and adjusting at least one of the script generator or the therapeutic machine learning platform based on the feedback.
US12170143B1
A multi-sided match making (“MMM”) computer system including at least one processor in communication with at least one memory device for matching consumers to providers is provided. The at least one processor is configured to: (i) receive registration data from a user, (ii) receive user data from at least one of a sensor and a mobile device associated with the user, (iii) analyze the registration data and the user data, (iv) determine a need based upon the analyzed registration and user data, (v) transmit the determined need to at least one caregiver associated with the user, and (vi) match the user to at least one provider based upon the determined need, wherein the provider is at least one of the caregiver, another caregiver, and a service, and wherein the provider is able to meet the determined need for the user.
US12170140B2
Systems and methods for generating and using a customized hanging protocol for the display of medical images. The methods may include receiving an indication to create a first hanging step of the hanging protocol, displaying a workspace having a plurality of viewports for displaying medical images, and displaying a plurality of building blocks corresponding to different types of medical images. The method may also include receiving a selection of a first building block in the plurality of building blocks, wherein the first building block corresponds to a first type of medical image, and receiving an indication of a location in the workspace for the first building block to be placed. Based on the indication of the location in the workspace for the first building block, one or more of the plurality of viewports is filled with the first building block.
US12170139B2
An extended reality (XR) visualization device worn by an orthopedic surgeon outputs a XR visualization for display. The XR visualization includes a set of one or more virtual checklist items. Each of the one or more virtual checklist items corresponds to an item in a checklist of steps of an orthopedic surgery. Additionally, the XR visualization device detects a command of the orthopedic surgeon to select a virtual checklist item in the set of virtual checklist items. In response to detecting the command, the XR visualization device updates the XR visualization to include additional information regarding a step of the orthopedic surgery corresponding to the selected virtual checklist item.
US12170138B2
An athletic parameter measurement device worn by an athlete during an athletic activity session includes a housing which attaches to the athlete, a display, a processor associated with the display, and an athletic parameter measurement sensor. During the athletic activity, the device detects, using the sensor, a vertical jump height of the athlete, and displays, during the performance of the athletic activity session, a representation of the vertical jump height on the display.
US12170134B2
A method for coordinating the manufacturing of an expanded cell therapy product for a patient may include receiving a cell order request to expand the cell therapy product for the patient; generating a patient-specific identifier or cell order identifier associated with the cell order request; and initiating a process to expand the cell therapy product from at least some of a solid tumor obtained from the patient. If acceptance parameters for the expansion cell therapy product do not meet certain acceptance criteria at a second time point subsequent to a first time point in the expansion process, it is determined whether re-performing the expansion of the cell therapy product using the cell expansion technique is possible from the first time point based on the acceptance parameters at the second time point. If such re-performing the expansion is possible, patient treatment events that use the expanded cell therapy product are rescheduled.
US12170133B2
In one example, a method being performed by a computer system comprises: receiving an image file containing a pathology report; performing an image recognition operation on the image file to extract input text strings; detecting, using a natural language processing (NLP) model, entities from the input text strings, each entity including a label and a value; extracting, using the NLP model, the values of the entities from the input text strings; converting, based on a mapping table that maps entities and values to pre-determined terminologies, the values of at least some of the entities to the corresponding pre-determined terminologies; and generating a post-processed pathology report including the entities detected from the input text strings and the corresponding pre-determined terminologies.
US12170126B2
A memory device includes a first dynamic random access memory (DRAM) integrated circuit (IC) chip including first memory core circuitry, and first input/output (I/O) circuitry. A second DRAM IC chip is stacked vertically with the first DRAM IC chip. The second DRAM IC chip includes second memory core circuitry, and second I/O circuitry. Solely one of the first DRAM IC chip or the second DRAM IC chip includes a conductive path that electrically couples at least one of the first memory core circuitry or the second memory core circuitry to solely one of the first I/O circuitry or the second I/O circuitry, respectively.
US12170118B2
According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a non-volatile memory and a memory controller. The non-volatile memory includes a first block that includes first and second sub-blocks. The memory controller instructs the non-volatile memory to execute a data erase process in units of sub-blocks on data stored in the non-volatile memory. In response to a first value corresponding to the first sub-block having reached a first threshold value, the memory controller reads first data from the first sub-block, executes an error correction process on the first data read from the first sub-block, and writes the first data on which the error correction process has been executed into the non-volatile memory.
US12170116B2
A method for operating a memory is provided, including, for example, obtaining a set of read voltages, each of which can include an initial voltage value and an offset voltage value with a certain offset relative to the initial voltage value. The initial voltage value in each of the set of read voltages can be a preset read voltage for distinguishing two adjacent memory states of memory cells of the memory. The operating method can further include performing read operations respectively based on the initial voltage values and the offset voltage values, obtaining the quantity of memory cells in which a read result corresponding to each voltage value meets set conditions, determining a difference between the two quantities corresponding to every two adjacent voltage values belonging to the same set of read voltages, and determining an optimal read voltage for distinguishing the two adjacent memory states based on the difference.
US12170110B2
A memory including a memory array having a plurality of bit-line inputs and a plurality of word-line inputs; a bit-line decoder; and a control circuit is provided. The bit-line decoder includes a first circuit and a second circuit including a plurality of low-voltage field effect transistors (FET). The control circuit provides control signals to the plurality of low-voltage FETs in a sequence of a pre-pulse phase, a pulse phase, and a post-pulse phase, wherein at the pulse phase, the first circuit and the second circuit receives a desired voltage. The control circuit provide control signals the plurality of low-voltage FETs a voltage no greater than a low-voltage at the pre-pulse phase and the post-pulse phase. In silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technologies, use of low-voltage FETs in the bit-line and word-line decoders reduces the area of the periphery circuits of the memory array without requiring change to the memory array itself.
US12170103B2
A system for determining a fly height includes a first head of a disk drive, a second head of the disk drive, a capacitive sensor circuit coupled to the first head and the second head, and a logic device coupled to the capacitive sensor circuit. The capacitive sensor circuit is configured to measure a first capacitance between the first head and the first disk, remove noise from the first capacitance using a second capacitance between the second head and the second disk, and based thereon determine a corrected first capacitance. The logic device is configured to determine the fly height between the first head and the first disk using the corrected first capacitance.
US12170097B2
A system comprises error microphones disposed in a predetermined pattern to capture audio signals including speech and one or more reference sensors to capture a reference noise signal from a noise source. A portion of the reference noise signal is removed from the captured audio signals to generate partially processed audio signals, which are paired to form signal pairs. For each signal pair, a modified cross-correlation vector, with effects of low frequency contents removed, is generated, then converted to a rotated angular domain cross-correlation vector based in part on a physical angle associated with locations of an associated pair of error microphones. The rotated angular domain cross-correlation vectors are summed, and a weighting vector is applied to the sum to identify direction information of a desired audio signal associated with the speech. The directional information is utilized to beamform the partially processed audio signals and output the desired audio signal.
US12170089B2
Systems and processes for operating an intelligent automated assistant are provided. In one example, a plurality of speech inputs is received from a first user. A voice model is obtained based on the plurality of speech inputs. A user input is received from the first user, the user input corresponding to a request to provide access to the voice model. The voice model is provided to a second electronic device.
US12170086B1
A speech interface device is configured to switch between languages, at the request of a user, in order to locally process utterances spoken in different languages, even in instances when a remote system is unavailable to, slower than, or otherwise less preferred than the speech interface device. For example, a user can request to set the language setting of the speech interface device to a second language, different from a first language to which the language setting of the device is currently set. Based on this user request, a local speech processing component of the device may load a language model(s) associated with the second language. The speech interface can also output voice prompts in the second language to manage the user's experience while a language update is in progress on the speech interface device.
US12170079B2
A method includes training a set of teacher models. Training the set of teacher models includes, for each individual teacher model of the set of teacher models, training the individual teacher model to transcribe unlabeled audio samples and predict a pseudo labeled dataset having multiple labels. At least some of the unlabeled audio samples contain named entity (NE) audio data. At least some of the labels include transcribed NE labels corresponding to the NE audio data. The method also includes correcting at least some of the transcribed NE labels using user-specific NE textual data. The method further includes retraining the set of teacher models based on the pseudo labeled dataset from a selected one of the teacher models, where the selected one of the teacher models predicts the pseudo labeled dataset more accurately than other teacher models of the set of teacher models.
US12170076B2
A musical instrument with novel configurations and performance techniques that can play notes and scale tones is disclosed. The musical instrument implements design and ergonomic changes to a Theremin's traditional configuration and use. The musical instrument includes an additional sound generation device such as an actuator that is operated to provide rhythm and tonal results. The musical instrument includes a pitch antenna that is configured in a horizontal position, which creates a different plane of reference with respect to performance motions employed for modifying the pitch. The musical instrument allows for a user to play notes and scale tones in a standing, seated, or ambulatory position. Improved playing interfaces, accessory items, and other characteristics for enhancing the playing of the musical instrument are provided.
US12170070B2
A driving method for an electronic paper display device is provided, belongs to the field of display technology, and can solve the problem of ghost in the existing electronic paper display device. A driving stage of the electronic paper display device includes a first shaking stage including a first sub-shaking stage; the balance stage is before the display stage. The method includes: based on a to-be-displayed image, applying first, second and third driving signals to first electrodes in macrostructures to display black, white and red, respectively; applying a voltage signal to the second electrodes, the voltage signal includes an alternating second pulse signal in which positive, zero and negative voltages are sequentially alternated in the first sub-shaking stage; the first and second pulse signals are equal in an absolute value of an active voltage and are opposite to each other in voltage polarity.
US12170058B2
The present disclosure relates to a signal processing device and an image display apparatus including the same. The image display apparatus includes a display, an image receiver configured to receive an input image, and a signal processing device configured to perform signal processing of the input image from the image receiver and to output image data to the display, wherein, when a luminance deviation of a first input image is greater than a luminance deviation of a second input image, the signal processing device controls a luminance adjustment change rate of a first input image to be less than a luminance adjustment change rate of the second input image. Accordingly, contrast of an image displayed on the display is improved.
US12170056B2
A light emitting substrate is provided. The light emitting substrate includes a plurality of light emitting controlling units arranged in M rows and N columns, M is an integer equal to or greater than one, N is an integer equal to or greater than one, wherein a respective one of the plurality of light emitting controlling units includes a plurality of light emitting elements arranged in J rows and I columns, J being an integer equal to or greater than one, I being an integer equal to or greater than one, a i-th column of the I columns of light emitting elements includes J rows of light emitting elements, 1≤i≤I; (M×J) number of first voltage signal lines; and (M×J) number of groups of second voltage signal lines.
US12170055B2
A compensation method for a display panel, which first selects a rectangular test area in a display area of the display panel, and then obtains a first average current value flowing through all sensing transistors and a second average current value flowing through all driving transistors in the rectangular test area, and then obtains a first current curve and a second current curve flowing through the driving transistors based on the first average current value and the second average current value under different driving voltages, and then determines a transmission loss coefficient of a data signal data according to the first current curve and the second current curve, and then compensates a driving voltage of each pixel circuit in the rectangular test area based on the transmission loss coefficient.
US12170052B2
Provided are a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a pixel circuit and a light-emitting element. The pixel circuit includes a drive module and a first initialization module. The drive module is configured to generate a drive current. The first initialization module is configured to supply a first initialization voltage to a first node. The first node is connected to the light-emitting element. A first control terminal of the first initialization module is configured to transmit the first initialization voltage to the first node in response to a first scan control signal. A display period of the display panel includes a first display stage and a second display stage. In the first display stage, a total effective-pulse duration of the first scan control signal is T1. In the second display stage, the total effective-pulse duration of the first scan control signal is T2. T1
US12170051B2
A source driver IC capable of cancelling an output offset is provided. The source driver IC comprises a reception circuit configured to receive an input data packet from a timing controller when operating in a normal mode and obtain an image data and a first clock signal from the input data packet, a control circuit configured to receive and output the image data and the first clock signal from the reception circuit when operating in the normal mode. The control circuit is configured to receive and output a second clock signal from the timing controller when operating in a low power mode. The source driver IC further comprises an output buffer circuit configured to output a data voltage related to the image data when operating in the normal mode and maintain an output of the data voltage when operating in the low power mode.
US12170050B2
A moving object detecting apparatus includes a display panel and a processor. The display panel is configured to display a plurality of pixels. The processor is configured to detect the pixels of a detected area to generate a first color value and a second color value corresponding to the detected area, and the first color value corresponds to a first time point and the second color value corresponds to a second time point. The processor is further configured to compare the first color value with the second color value to generate a color boundary variation value corresponding to the detected area. The processor is further configured to determine whether a moving object appears in the detected area based on the color boundary variation value.
US12170049B2
A display device includes a display unit including a pixel which displays an image based on a first power voltage and a data signal, a gamma voltage generator which generates gamma voltages, and a data driver which generates the signal using the gamma voltages and provides the data signal to the pixel. The gamma voltage generator generates first and second reference voltages, generates first and second corrected reference voltages by correcting the first and second reference voltages using a target voltage and an external power voltage provided from the display unit in correspondence with the first power voltage, and generates the gamma voltages by dividing the first and second corrected reference voltages. The gamma voltage generator sets the target voltage based on at least one selected from the first reference voltage, the second reference voltage, and a ground voltage.
US12170048B2
The present disclosure provides a brightness regulating method, a regulating system and a displaying device. The method is applied to a displaying device. The displaying device includes a backlight module. The regulating method includes acquiring maximum grayscale values of the light areas and a maximum grayscale value of the backlight source; according to the maximum grayscale values of the light areas and the maximum grayscale value of the backlight source, obtaining a plurality of first brightness parameters; according to the plurality of first brightness parameters, obtaining a second brightness parameter; and subsequently, according to the second brightness parameter and the initial brightnesses of the light areas, regulating brightnesses of the light areas.
US12170042B2
There is provided a detection circuit, a display panel and a detection method. The detection circuit includes: a conversion circuit configured to acquire a photoelectric sensing signal in real time and convert the acquired photoelectric sensing signal into a luminance value; a storage circuit configured to store N luminance values from the conversion circuit on a first input first output basis; a discrimination circuit connected to the storage circuit and configured to determine whether at least two of the N luminance values meet a preset condition; and an output circuit connected to the discrimination circuit and the storage circuit, and configured to output a preset default luminance value in response to the at least two luminance values meeting the preset condition and output at least one of the N luminance values in response to the at least two luminance values not meeting the preset condition.
US12170038B2
A device includes a backplane and a plurality of elements arranged on the backplane. The plurality of elements form an irregular pattern. The backplane includes a plurality of circuits. The plurality of elements are coupled to the plurality of circuits by conductive vias that are regularly spaced.
US12170037B2
Tiled displays having display tiles, are described as well as methods of making and/or operating tiled displays and tiles. Methods and devices are described for a tiled display having tiles lying in an X-Y plane, the methods and devices being for setting or adjusting the position of neighbouring tiles in a tiled display to reduce differences in the Z direction between tiles of a tiled display, whereby the tiles lie in the X-Y plane.
US12170030B2
A camera with a field of view toward an external environment of an aircraft is disposed within an aircraft door such that an engine inlet of an engine of the aircraft is within the field of view of the camera. A display device is disposed within an interior of the aircraft. A processor is operatively coupled to the camera and to the display device. The processor analyzes image data captured by the camera to determine whether persons or foreign objects are present near the engine inlet, or detect damage or deformation of the engine inlet.
US12170026B2
A method for planning a vehicle trajectory is provided. The method comprises obtaining an edge map representation corresponding to one or more terrain images of a given area, and identifying a total number of edge pixels in each of a plurality of sub-regions of the edge map representation. The method further comprises determining a measurement probability density function (PDF) for each of the sub-regions based on the number of edge pixels with information content in each sub-region. The method then computes a trajectory cost for each of the sub-regions by dividing a user-selected scalar by a sum of: a user-selected value and the number of edge pixels with information content in each sub-region. Thereafter, the method selects a trajectory for navigation of a vehicle over the given area based on the trajectory cost for each of the sub-regions.
US12170023B2
This disclosure relates to a system that generates data describing physical surroundings of vehicles during operation. Individual vehicles carry sensors configured to generate output signals conveying information related to one or both of the physical surroundings of the vehicles and/or the operation of the vehicles. Based on the generated output signals, the physical surroundings in which the first vehicle is operating are derived, such as, for example, the speeds of different nearby vehicles, and their distances to each other.
US12170017B2
A method of testing a smoke alarm system including: receiving a first manual input via an input device of a mobile device from a user of the mobile device, the first manual input indicating that the user would like to initiate a test of the smoke alarm system including one or more smoke alarms, the one or more smoke alarms including at least a first smoke alarm; determining a time slot allocation, the time slot allocation indicating when each of the one or more smoke alarms should emit an alarm; transmitting the time slot allocation to each of the one or more smoke alarms, wherein each of the one or more smoke alarms is configured to activate the alarm in accordance with the time slot allocation; activating a first alarm on the first smoke alarm; and receiving a second manual input indicating that the user has heard the first alarm.
US12170008B2
In some aspects, a server device may obtain information relating to a location of a device that is to be delivered to a physical location associated with a recipient. The server device may transmit, based at least in part on the information indicating that the location of the device is at the physical location of the recipient, a first communication prompting the recipient to indicate whether the recipient is in possession of the device. The server device may receive a second communication indicating whether the recipient is in possession of the device. The server device may transmit a signal to cause a change of an activation state of one or more operations of the device based at least in part on whether the second communication indicates that the recipient is in possession of the device. Numerous other aspects are described.
US12170007B2
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to systems, devices, and methods for displaying and securing articles of merchandise. In one example, a merchandise security system includes a plurality of articles of merchandise on display in a retail store and at least one machine learning camera configured to capture images of one or more of the articles of merchandise for detecting information regarding the articles of merchandise, making predictions based on such information, and providing notifications based on such information.
US12170005B2
Methods and systems for processing messages received from a security device are presented. In some embodiments, a server may receive one or more messages from a security console and subsequently may determine the location of the security console. The server then may identify one or more other devices that are grouped, e.g., located within a predetermined distance, with the security console. Thereafter, the server may send one or more alert messages to the identified devices.
US12169993B2
The filling of value documents cassettes involves a cassette receiving device for receiving a value document cassette and a gripping device for transporting a value document stack from a value document container into the value document cassette. The apparatus optionally has a formatting device for the automatic alignment of a value document stack removed from the value document container before the stack is inserted in the value document cassette. A finger element is attached to the transport device of the gripping device, and besides the gripping device, the finger element is guided into the value document cassette before the value documents are inserted.
US12169983B1
Systems and techniques for ranking and selection of headshots from a collection of images. The systems and techniques for ranking use heuristics to rank extracted headshots from a set of images based on features of the faces within the images. The ranking may be used to generate a training dataset for a machine learning model to determine quality scores for faces within images. The ranked images may then be stored for later access in reference to a video or set of images containing the individual.
US12169978B2
Provided in the present disclosure are a print recognition module and a display apparatus. The print recognition module includes: a base substrate; a driving circuit layer located on one side of the base substrate and including a plurality of driving transistors arranged in an array; a first insulating layer located on the side of the driving circuit layer that is away from the base substrate and including a plurality of first via holes running through the thickness thereof; a connecting electrode layer located on the side of the first insulating layer that is away from the driving circuit layer and including a plurality of connecting electrodes which are in one-to-one correspondence with first electrodes of the driving transistors; and a plurality of photoelectric conversion portions located on the side of the connecting electrode layer that is away from the first insulating layer.
US12169976B2
The system prepares PDF documents to be digitally populated or signed. The method may comprise converting a document into an image; detecting words on the document; searching the words for keywords; searching for an object on the document; determining an object field based on the keywords and the object; creating a tag with metadata about the object field; and associating the tag with the object field. The method may also comprise determining, by a processor, metadata about a document; creating, by the processor, a hash from the metadata; storing, by the processor, an association of the hash, the metadata and the document in a knowledge database; creating, by the processor, a new hash for a new document; comparing, by the processor, the hash with the new hash; and determining, by the processor, that the new document has similar characteristics as the document based on the comparing.
US12169974B2
High resolution object detection systems and methods provide accurate, real-time, one-stage processing, and include a backbone network configured to receive an input image and generate multi-scale feature representations, a feature fusion block configured to fuse the multi-sale feature representations, a plurality of representation transfer modules configured to isolate and decouple sub-task networks and the multi-scale feature representations, and a cascade refinement module configured to process each representation transfer module output to refine predictions. The backbone network generates a plurality of image features corresponding to each of a plurality of image scales and includes a plurality of convolutional layers and a stem block after the first convolutional layer, wherein the stem block improves feature extraction performance. The feature fusion block generates feature outputs for each of a plurality of image scales.
US12169969B1
An application executing on a mobile device generates a geo-positional query including a time stamp representing the time of the query. The application can be, for example, an augmented reality application, a pointing search application, or a mapping application that searches based on geolocation and/or physical proximity. The query can include, in addition to a location, one or more of a direction, orientation, and camera field of view of the mobile device. A system processes the query to return a time-based state of an object and/or location addressed by the mobile device at the time of the query. The system can use the time stamp to identify which objects may have been located at a certain location at a certain time and/or to identify the state of located objects at a certain time. For example, the state of an electronic billboard can identify an advertisement displayed at the time.
US12169963B2
A processing system includes a processor with hardware. The processor is configured to perform processing of acquiring a detection target image captured by an endoscope apparatus, controlling the endoscope apparatus based on control information, detecting a region of interest included in the detection target image based on the detection target image for calculating estimated probability information representing a probability of the detected region of interest, identifying the control information for improving the estimated probability information related to the region of interest within the detection target image based on the detection target image, and controlling the endoscope apparatus based on the identified control information.
US12169958B1
The invention relates to the technical field of image processing, and in particular to a method, a system and a device for acquiring a seaweed bed area, and a storage medium. In the acquisition method, firstly, an initial seaweed bed image with fog is firstly subjected to the fog thickness removal which is convenient for quick calculation, checking whether the quality of the fog thickness removal chart meets the requirements. If the quality of fog thickness removal chart is not up to the standard, a more detailed fog concentration removal method is used to improve the image quality of the initial seaweed bed image until the fog concentration removal chart is up to the standard and then feature extraction is performed. If the quality of fog thickness removal chart is up to the standard, the feature extraction is performed directly.
US12169957B2
An image processing device comprises pixel group setting part that sets plurality of pixel groups including first and second pixel groups, which are not connected to each other, based on image data of first image which shows target object including linear portion; pair setting part that performs setting pair of first and second pixel groups including pixel within predetermined range from first pixel group to calculate connecting degree of second pixel group with respect to first pixel group; and calculation part that calculates connecting degree of pair, wherein predetermined range is search range set based on first distance between first and second pixel groups, or search range set on based on first angle formed between first line segment corresponding to first pixel group and second line segment corresponding to second pixel group, and calculation part calculates first distance or first angle using first distance or first angle.
US12169951B2
At least one embodiment relates to the transfer, between two processing units or memories, of a three-channels texture image and at least two image-structured data used for reconstructing the geometry of the point cloud. Such transfer comprises copying the three channels of the three-channels texture image into the three channels of a four-channels image, and storing, in the fourth channel of the four-channels image, a combined information obtained by combining altogether the at least two image-structured data. The four-channel image is then transferred.
US12169935B2
A system for determining a bacterial load of a target is provided. The system includes an adaptor for configuring a mobile communication device for tissue imaging and a mobile communication device. The adaptor includes a housing configured to be removably coupled to a mobile communication device and, an excitation light source for fluorescent imaging. The excitation light source is configured to emit light in one of ultraviolet, visible, near-infrared, and infrared ranges.
US12169932B2
Provided are an information processing device, a program, a trained model, a diagnostic support device, a learning device, and a prediction model generation method that can perform prediction with high accuracy using images. An information processing device includes: an information acquisition unit that receives an input of image data and non-image data related to a target matter; and a prediction unit that predicts an aspect related to the matter at a time different from a time when the image data is captured on the basis of the image data and the non-image data input through the information acquisition unit. The prediction unit performs weighting calculation by a calculation method, which outputs a combination of products of elements of a first feature amount calculated from the image data and a second feature amount calculated from the non-image data, to calculate a third feature amount in which the first feature amount and the second feature amount are fused and performs the prediction on the basis of the third feature amount.
US12169928B2
The current invention concerns a method, a computer system, and a computer program product for blood vessel image extraction from ultrasound signals, and a method and apparatus for ultrasound imaging A set of ultrasound signals at successive times in a plurality of spatial points is obtained. The ultrasound signals are decomposed as a sum of terms. Each term consists of a time-independent spatial component image factor and a space-independent temporal component signal. The spatial component images are mutually orthonormal. The temporal component signals are mutually orthogonal. A sharpened spatial image for each of multiple spatial component images is determined. A processed image being a bilinear combination of multiple sharpened spatial images is generated.
US12169923B2
A method of detecting an abnormality includes: acquiring an image of an inspection target as a captured image; generating a restored image by inputting the captured image into a first learning model, wherein the first learning model has learned with a normal image, wherein the normal image obtained by capturing a normal inspection target; generating a difference image between the captured image and the restored image; generating a restored difference image by inputting the generated difference image into a second learning model, wherein the second learning model has learned with a normal difference image; and detecting abnormality of the inspection target using the difference image and the restored difference image.
US12169921B2
Systems and methods for automated detection and classification of objects in a fluid of a receptacle such as, for example, a soft-sided receptacle such as a flexible container. The automated detection may include initiating movement of the receptacle to move objects in the fluid contained by the receptacle. Sequential frames of image data may be recorded and processed to identify moving objects in the image data. In turn, at least one motion parameter of the objects may be determined and utilized to classify the object into at least one of a predetermined plurality of object classes. For example, the object classes may at least include a predetermined class corresponding to bubbles and a predetermined class corresponding to particles.
US12169920B2
A method of detecting a deformation in a lattice structure comprises capturing first image data of the lattice structure via a first image capturing device with a first telecentric lens and a second image capturing device with a second telecentric lens. The first telecentric lens is directed toward the lattice structure, and the second telecentric lens is spaced apart from the first telecentric lens and also directed toward the lattice structure. The method includes compressing the lattice structure; capturing second image data of the lattice structure via the first and second image capturing devices; and detecting the deformation based at least in part on the first and second image data.
US12169913B2
Method and system for a high-frequency attention network for efficient single image super-resolution
Example aspects include techniques for implementing a high-frequency attention network for single image super-resolution. These techniques may include extracting a plurality of features from an original image input into a CNN to generate a feature map, and restoring one or more high-frequency details of the original image via an efficient residual block (ERB) and a high-frequency attention block (HFAB) configured to assign a scaling factor to one or more high-frequency areas. In addition, the techniques may include generating reconstruction input information by performing an element-wise operation on the one or more high-frequency details and cross-connection information from the feature map and performing, by the CNN, an enhancement operation on the reconstruction input information to generate an enhanced image.
US12169911B2
Systems and methods for identifying a personalized prior within a generative model's latent vector space based on a set of images of a given subject. In some examples, the present technology may further include using the personalized prior to confine the inputs of a generative model to a latent vector space associated with the given subject, such that when the model is tasked with editing an image of the subject (e.g., to perform inpainting to fill in masked areas, improve resolution, or deblur the image), the subject's identifying features will be reflected in the images the model produces.
US12169905B2
Systems and methods enable users to engage in meaningful, authentic, online interactions by extracting objects (virtual or real) from an image or video and transferring the extracted objects into a real-world environment of another user in three-dimensional augmented reality. An object to be sent from the first user to the second user is generated using a drawing application, extracted from an image or a video, or an AR object is captured. A video is recorded showing the object responding to an action of the first user and metadata is generated relating to the response of the object to the action of the first user. The video and metadata are sent to the second user. Upon receipt, the video is watched by the second user and the object is selected for presentation in a display environment of the second user. The state of the object is preserved by the metadata.
US12169900B2
A method of three-dimensional reconstruction of human heads using a single photo in the form of polygonal mesh, with animation and realistic rendering capabilities for novel head poses is provided. The method includes encoding, by using a first convolutional neural network, a single source image into a neural texture; estimating, by a pre-trained detailed expression capture and animation (DECA) system, a face shape, a facial expression, and a head pose by using the single source image and a target image, and providing an initial mesh; providing a predicted mesh of a head mesh based on the initial mesh and the neural texture; rendering a human image by using the predicted mesh.
US12169897B1
A computer-based system for generating customized character figures and customized stories. The system utilizes input data and transforms the data to display interactive character figures in an immersive digital form or in a physical form and generates a corresponding story to which the user can relate.
US12169890B2
Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program, and a method for performing operations comprising: capturing a video that depicts a person; identifying a set of skeletal joints of the person depicted in the video; storing a movement vector representing previously captured three-dimensional (3D) movement of the set of skeletal joints of the person depicted in the video; receiving input that selects a 3D avatar; and animating, based on the movement vector, the 3D avatar to mimic the previously captured 3D movement of the set of skeletal joints of the person depicted in the video.
US12169889B2
Systems and methods are provided for enhanced animation generation based on generative modeling. An example method includes training models based on faces and information associated with persons, each face being defined based on location information associated with facial features, and identity information for each person. The modeling system being trained to reconstruct expressions, textures, and models of persons.
US12169877B2
A split hierarchy graphics processor system including a master node executing a virtual reality (VR) application responsive to input from a client device received over a network to generate primitives for in a VR environment. The graphics processor system including render nodes performing rendering based on the primitives for views into the VR environment taken from a location in the VR environment, the views corresponding to a grid map of the VR environment. Each of the render nodes renders, encodes and streams a corresponding sequence of frames of a corresponding view to the client device. The processor system including an asset library storing input geometries for the objects used for building the VR environment, wherein the objects in the asset library are accessible by the master node and the render nodes.
US12169870B2
Methods and apparatuses are described for automatic data-driven optimization of a target outcome using machine learning. A server generates a first feature dataset and applies a trained outcome prediction model to the first feature dataset as input to generate a second feature data set and a first predicted value for a target outcome. The server displays the first predicted value on a client device. The server receives input corresponding to one or more preferences or constraints from the client device and adjusts the trained outcome prediction model based upon the received input to incorporate the one or more preferences or constraints. The server applies the adjusted outcome prediction to the second feature dataset as input to generate a third feature data set a second predicted value for the target outcome. The server displays the second predicted value on the client device.
US12169864B2
A system for leveraging email to complete an online checkout from a customer accessing a third party vendor website is disclosed. The system may store customer information including a name, email address, shipping address, and billing information. The system may receive a request for a purchase from the third party vendor including a customer email address and an item to be purchased. The system may authenticate the customer email address. The system may send a first email to the customer email address requesting authorization to complete a purchase. The system may receive a second email, from the customer email address, encoded with the token and confirming or canceling the purchase. The system may authenticate the second email using the customer email address and the token. And the system may transmit a confirmation of purchase of the at least one item to the third party vendor website.
US12169855B2
A computer-aided design system enables physical articles to be customized via printing or embroidering and enables digital content to be customized and electronically shared. A user interface may be generated that includes an image of a model of an article of manufacture and user customizable design areas that are graphically indicated on the image corresponding to the model. A design area selection may be received. In response to an add design element instruction and design element specification, the specified design element is rendered in the selected design area on the model image. Customization permissions associated with the selected design area are accessed, and using the customization permissions, a first set of design element edit tools are selected and rendered. User edits to the design element may be received and rendered in real time. Manufacturing instructions may be transmitted to a printing system.
US12169846B1
In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a website of a known merchant and creating an active shopping cart on the website of the known merchant. The method further includes applying a discount code at a UI element of the website for inputting discount codes, collecting a network trace of the applied discount code, and translating the network trace of the applied discount code to an ECMA class format.
US12169820B2
The present disclosure provides a system and method for identifying items. The method includes scanning a first item using a first barcode scanner and a second barcode scanner and determining, based on signals from the first barcode scanner and the second barcode scanner, a first two-dimensional light grid indicating where the first item broke beams of the first barcode scanner and the second barcode scanner. The method also includes predicting, using a machine learning model and based on the first two-dimensional light grid, a first category for the first item, receiving, from a camera, an image of the first item, and comparing the image of the first item to a first set of images assigned to the first category to determine an identity of the first item.
US12169810B2
The technologies described herein are generally directed to monitoring the configuration of an inventory of devices using captured images of a site. For example, a method described herein can include identifying a group of equipment installed at locations within a site. The method can further include, based on an image captured at the site by image capture equipment, detecting configuration activity at the site. Further, the method includes, based on analysis of the image, associating, by the tracking equipment, the configuration activity with equipment of the group of equipment.
US12169803B2
Techniques are described herein for using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) to automate, accelerate, and enhance various aspects of comparative user experience testing. Embodiments interface with generative language models to compare user experiences and summarize the results of the comparison. In some embodiments, automated systems and programmatic processes access a series of analysis contexts, where a context includes a collection of message content fragments. The systems and processes may use the message content fragments for a given context to construct a dialogue with a generative language model to compare separate user experiences based on the results of a set of user experience tests. The output of the generative language model at one stage of the analysis may be combined with content fragments for another context to craft a dialogue at another stage of the analysis and/or to perform additional analyses of the user experiences.
US12169799B2
Techniques are described for optimizing various aspects of rental vehicle systems. According to an embodiment, a system is described for optimizing fleet utilization of a battery electric vehicle (BEV) rental system based on predicted charge levels. The system comprises a memory that stores computer executable components, and a processor that executes the computer executable components stored in the memory. These computer executable components comprise a charge prediction component that determines forecasted charge levels of BEVs in association with usage of the BEVs in a vehicle sharing operation wherein the BEVs are available for renting for varying durations of time. The computer executable components further comprise a booking component that controls the renting of the BEVs based on the forecasted charge levels.
US12169797B2
An operation management apparatus includes a controller that acquires performance data indicating a usage record of vehicles, predicts, based on the performance data, a ride demand, determines to operate each vehicle as a regularly scheduled vehicle during the time slot when a first predicted value of the ride demand is higher than a first threshold, determines to operate each vehicle as a non-scheduled vehicle during the time slot when the first predicted value is not higher than the first threshold, acquires status data indicating an existence status of a user when each vehicle is operated as a regularly scheduled vehicle during the time slot, predicts a ride demand during a remaining time of the time slot based on the status data, and determines to introduce an additional vehicle onto the route for the remaining time when a second predicted value of the ride demand is higher than a second threshold.
US12169784B2
Today, artificial neural networks are trained on large sets of manually tagged images. Generally, for better training, the training data should be as large as possible. Unfortunately, manually tagging images is time consuming and susceptible to error, making it difficult to produce the large sets of tagged data used to train artificial neural networks. To address this problem, the inventors have developed a smart tagging utility that uses a feature extraction unit and a fast-learning classifier to learn tags and tag images automatically, reducing the time to tag large sets of data. The feature extraction unit and fast-learning classifiers can be implemented as artificial neural networks that associate a label with features extracted from an image and tag similar features from the image or other images with the same label. Moreover, the smart tagging system can learn from user adjustment to its proposed tagging. This reduces tagging time and errors.
US12169783B2
This application relates to the field of artificial intelligence and the field of computer vision. The method includes performing feature extraction on an image to obtain a basic feature map of the image, and determining a proposal of a region possibly including a pedestrian in the image. The basic feature map of the image is then processed to obtain an object visibility map in which a response to a pedestrian visible part is greater than a response to a pedestrian blocked part and a background part. The method further performs weighted summation processing on the object visibility map and the basic feature map to obtain an enhanced feature map of the image, and determines, based on the proposal of the image and the enhanced feature map of the image, a bounding box including a pedestrian in the image and a confidence level of the bounding box including the pedestrian.
US12169781B2
In one aspect, the inventions include a system for control of a software defined computer network state system. First, an application plane layer is adapted to receive instructions regarding operation of the state system. Preferably, the application plane layer is coupled to an application plane layer interface. Second, a control plane layer includes an adaptive control unit, such as a cognitive computing unit, an artificial intelligence unit or a machine-learning unit. Third, a data plane layer includes an input interface to receive data input from one or more data sources. A title transfer network element is provided to transfer digital assets via a blockchain. The system may use domain transformations and difference engines.
US12169773B2
An optoelectronic synaptic memristor includes: a bottom electrode layer, a porous structure layer modified with quantum dots, a two-dimensional material layer, a transparent top electrode layer, and a waveguide layer, which are arranged in sequence from top to bottom, wherein the waveguide is ridge shaped for light conduction, comprising a wedge-shaped output terminal, wherein: through the wedge-shaped output terminal of the waveguide, light is vertically injected into the two-dimensional material layer and the porous structure layer modified with the quantum dots. By integrating the waveguide and the optoelectronic memristor, the present invention obtains the highly controlled characteristics with high alignment and confinement for light effect on the device and has advantages in realizing optoelectronic synergy in the optoelectronic synaptic memristors. The present invention has strong controllability and excellent performance and can be widely used in high-density integration of storage and computing, artificial synapses, artificial intelligence, etc.
US12169771B2
Techniques in wavelet filtering for advanced deep learning provide improvements in one or more of accuracy, performance, and energy efficiency. An array of processing elements comprising a portion of a neural network accelerator performs flow-based computations on wavelets of data. Each processing element comprises a compute element to execute programmed instructions using the data and a router to route the wavelets in accordance with virtual channel specifiers. Each processing element is enabled to perform local filtering of wavelets received at the processing element, selectively, conditionally, and/or optionally discarding zero or more of the received wavelets, thereby preventing further processing of the discarded wavelets. The wavelet filtering is performed by one or more configurable wavelet filters operable in various modes, such as counter, sparse, and range modes.
US12169763B2
Techniques are disclosed for providing a scalable multi-tenant serve pool for chatbot systems. A query serving system (QSS) receives a request to serve a query for a skillbot. The QSS includes: (i) a plurality of deployments in a serving pool, and (ii) a plurality of deployments in a free pool. The QSS determines whether a first deployment from the plurality of deployments in the serving pool can serve the query based on an identifier of the skillbot. In response to determining that the first deployment cannot serve the query, the QSS selects a second deployment from the plurality of deployments in the free pool to be assigned to the skillbot, and loads a machine-learning model associated with the skillbot into the second deployment, wherein the machine-learning model is trained to serve the query for the skillbot. The query is served using the machine-learning model loaded into the second deployment.
US12169756B2
A wireless networking system is disclosed. The wireless networking system includes an application layer associated with one or more applications having a wireless bandwidth requirement. A first wireless transceiver resource associated with an actual MAC layer and PHY layer is employed. The first wireless transceiver resource has a first bandwidth availability up to a first actual bandwidth. A second wireless transceiver resource associated with the actual MAC layer and the PHY layer is employed. The second wireless transceiver resource has a second bandwidth availability up to a second actual bandwidth. A processing layer evaluates the wireless bandwidth requirement and the first and second bandwidth availabilities of the wireless transceiver resources. The processing layer includes a bandwidth allocator to allocate at least a portion of each of the first and second actual bandwidths to virtual MAC and virtual PHY layers, and to satisfy the application layer wireless bandwidth requirement.
US12169751B2
An object marking including a first security element and at least a second security element, wherein each security element is associated with a set of data segments and each security element exhibits depending on the capturing conditions, in particular the viewing angle and/or the direction of illumination, a code segment which is an optoelectronically readable representation of one of the data segments of the set associated with the respective security element, wherein different distinct data segments are represented by different code segments and that the set associated with the first security element and the set associated with the second security element differ in at least one data segment; method for producing and method for authenticating the same.
US12169745B2
Provided are an image processing method and an image processing apparatus which can acquire, based on first image data acquired from a first print medium, second image data that realizes high color reproducibility for printing on a new print medium. In an image processing method and an image processing apparatus, first image data is acquired from a first print medium on which an image is printed, and first image processing is performed with respect to the first image data according to a color reproduction characteristic of the first print medium to acquire the first image data subjected to the first image processing as second image data.
US12169742B2
Methods, apparatuses, and computer-program products are disclosed. The method may include deploying a runtime agent onto a private compute architecture for running one or more federated application programming interfaces (APIs) on the private compute architecture. The method may include receiving, via a user interface of a federation management service, user input to manage an operation of the one or more federated APIs, where the federation management service is hosted on public cloud-based resources. The method may include communicating, based on the user input, control signaling between the runtime agent and a runtime manager that is hosted on a control plane of the federation management service in the public cloud-based resources.
US12169727B2
Described embodiments provide systems and method for determining action insights to address, correct or fix application failures. A device can identify an assignment of a user to a virtual machine and the assignment can enable launch of an application with use of the same virtual machine on behalf of the user. The virtual machine can be one of a delivery group of virtual machines. A threshold can be determined for the virtual machine that indicates a likely failure of the virtual machine to launch the application based data about performance of the delivery group. The device can modify the assignment of a user from the virtual machine to another virtual machine of the delivery group based on a comparison of a load on the virtual machine and the determined threshold, so as to avoid failure of the application to launch.
US12169715B2
A retrieval-augmented neural transformer model with chunk cross-attention predicts a code review given a proposed source code change, represented as a code diff hunk, and a set of historical code review comments. The code diff hunk represents proposed edits to a source code snippet with its surrounding context that has not been changed. The historical code review comments are associated with code edits that are semantically similar to the proposed source code changes. The code diff hunk is partitioned into chunks which are used to find semantically similar historical code review comments. The set of historical code review comments is aggregated and used to guide the model in makings its predictions.
US12169714B2
A system and method for performing static analysis on an application having an external initialization includes receiving an application code having an external initialization code component, the application code deployed in a cloud computing environment; simulating a local computing environment in which to execute the received application code; emulating at least the external initialization code component in the simulated local computing environment; recording an action performed by the external initialization code component; and generating a set of instructions for a static analyzer to perform static analysis on the application and the generated set of instructions.
US12169709B2
A method includes: predicting a jeopardy associated with an edge server included in the server cluster that communicates with a central server; responsive to predicting the jeopardy, detaching the edge server from the server cluster; determining a patch based on the jeopardy; pushing the patch to the edge server; validating the patch by performing regression testing; and responsive to validating the patch, inducting the edge server into the server cluster.
US12169707B2
A computer system is coupled to infrastructure systems each configured to implement an environment for providing resources to each of instances forming an application. The computer system is configured to: receive a deployment plan generation request for the application which includes a serverless instance for which, as an activation method, any one of a warm start and a cold start is selectable; generate, based on a resource amount required for the each of instances, an allocation pattern which is a combination of an environment of a deployment destination of the each of instances; generate an activation pattern which is a combination of the activation method for the each of instances; plan an activation timing of the serverless instance for the activation pattern; generate a plurality of deployment plans by combining the allocation pattern, the activation pattern, and the activation timing.
US12169702B2
An in-memory computing method and an in-memory computing apparatus are adapted to perform multiply-accumulate (MAC) operations on a memory by a processor. In the method, a pre-processing operation is respectively performed on input data and weight data to be written into input lines and memory cells of the memory to divide the input data and weight data into a primary portion and a secondary portion. The input data and the weight data divided into the primary portion and the secondary portion are written into the input lines and the memory cells in batches to perform the MAC operations and obtain a plurality of computation results. According to a numeric value of each of the computation results, the computation results are filtered. According to the portions to which the computation results correspond, a post-processing operation is performed on the filtered computation results to obtain output data.
US12169698B2
Embodiments described herein provide a pipelined natural language question answering system that improves a BERT-based system. Specifically, the natural language question answering system uses a pipeline of neural networks each trained to perform a particular task. The context selection network identifies premium context from context for the question. The question type network identifies the natural language question as a yes, no, or span question and a yes or no answer to the natural language question when the question is a yes or no question. The span extraction model determines an answer span to the natural language question when the question is a span question.
US12169691B2
Introduced here are computer programs and associated computer-implemented techniques for discovering the presence of filler words through tokenization of a transcript derived from audio content. When audio content is obtained by a media production platform, the audio content can be converted into text content as part of a speech-to-text operation. The text content can then be tokenized and labeled using a Natural Language Processing (NLP) library. Tokenizing/labeling may be performed in accordance with a series of rules associated with filler words. At a high level, these rules may examine the text content (and associated tokens/labels) to determine whether patterns, relationships, verbatim, and context indicate that a term is a filler word. Any filler words that are discovered in the text content can be identified as such so that appropriate action(s) can be taken.
US12169690B2
Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for automatically generating phrase-based talent-screening questions. One method includes analyzing job descriptions to generate ngrams. Each ngram comprises one or more words. Further, the method includes identifying, from the ngrams, an ngram set comprising a predetermined number of bigrams and trigrams according to frequency of appearance in the job descriptions. The method further includes removing, from the ngram set, bigrams and trigrams comprising one or more of stop words, negation words, or requirement words, to obtain first seed phrases. The first seed phrases are filtered based on a frequency of appearance of the seed phrase in the job descriptions to obtain second seed phrases. Further, the second seed phrases are added to the first seed phrases to obtain third seed phrases. Each seed phrase is a sequence of one or more words that is associated with a category of talent-screening questions.
US12169682B2
A processing method includes obtaining input information from an input member of an electronic apparatus. The input information includes a behavior parameter in a process of inputting a target word. The method further includes determining a display parameter of the target word based on the behavior parameter to display the target word on a target display according to the display parameter. The display parameter represents feature information when inputting the target word.
US12169663B1
Techniques for content output are described. A computing component determines that a first zone identifier is associated with at least a first permission that enables identifying first content output and controlling the first content output, and that a second zone identifier is associated with a second permission that enables identifying second content output and prohibiting the second content output. Based at least in part on the first permission, this component causes the first content output by a first speaker associated with the first zone identifier and causes a first display associated with the first zone identifier to present a first graphical user interface that identifies the first content and includes a content control component. Based at least in part on the second permission, this component causes the second content output by a second speaker associated with the second zone identifier and causes a second display associated with the second zone identifier to present a second graphical user interface that identifies the second content.
US12169660B2
A glasses-type information device configured to execute an application includes at least one memory storing instructions, and at least one processor executing the instructions causing the glasses-type information device to execute display control in such a manner that an image corresponding to an operation unit relating to remote control on the application is projected in a field of vision of a user wearing the glasses-type information device by using the glasses-type information device, the remote control being executed by a linked device held by the user, and execute function control of the application based on a command received from the linked device in accordance with a user operation performed by the user on the linked device.
US12169657B2
A display control device includes: a display device information acquiring unit to acquire display device information indicating each of a plurality of display devices that displays a preset image; a preset image acquiring unit to acquire preset image information indicating a preset image displayed by each of the display devices; an operation state acquiring unit to acquire operation state information indicating an operation state of each of the display devices; a display image generating unit to generate a display image, wherein the display image generating unit generates, for each of the display devices, the display device image in which display device information, a preset image indicated by preset image information, and the operation state information are associated with each other, and generates a display image in which a plurality of generated display device images are aligned.
US12169655B2
An image forming apparatus comprises: a connection unit configured to connect with an information processing apparatus in order to allow execution of a remote operation of the image forming apparatus by the information processing apparatus; a detection unit configured to detect an event that has occurred in the image forming apparatus; and a disconnection unit configured to, in a case where occurrence of a predetermined event corresponding to a state of use of the image forming apparatus is detected by the detection unit while connected with the information processing apparatus by the connection unit, disconnect the connection with the information processing apparatus.
US12169643B2
Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed that increase data reuse for multiply and accumulate (MAC) operations. An example apparatus includes a MAC circuit to process a first context of a set of a first type of contexts stored in a first buffer and a first context of a set of a second type of contexts stored in a second buffer. The example apparatus also includes control logic circuitry to, in response to determining that there is an additional context of the second type to be processed in the set of the second type of contexts, maintain the first context of the first type in the first buffer. The control logic circuitry is also to, in response to determining that there is an additional context of the first type to be processed in the set of the first type of contexts maintain the first context of the second type in the second buffer and iterate a pointer of the second buffer from a first position to a next position in the second buffer.
US12169642B2
According to an example of the present disclosure, a system is provided. A system may include a processor configured to output a memory control signal including an artificial neural network data locality, and a memory controller configured to receive the memory control signal from the processor and control a main memory in which data of an artificial neural network model corresponding to the artificial neural network data locality, is stored.
US12169641B2
A method for status signaling in a non-volatile memory including a plurality of logical units (LUNs), each of the plurality of LUNs having a status terminal coupled to a common status terminal of the non-volatile memory and a data bus coupled to a common data bus of the non-volatile memory. The method including performing, by a first LUN of the plurality of LUNs, a first set of one or more operations; completing, by the first LUN of the plurality of LUNs, the first set of one or more operations; and sending, by the first LUN via the common terminal, a pulse to a controller responsive to completing the first set of one or more operations.
US12169640B2
The present disclosure provides a memory system for selecting from among a plurality of read retry routines based on metadata. The memory system can include one or more memory devices and a memory controller. The memory controller can also detect a failure of a read operation. The memory controller can also analyze a set of values that correspond to a set of effectors of the read operation. The memory controller can select one or more read retry routines from a plurality of read retry routines based on the analyzing. Each of the plurality of read retry routines can associated with a different effector from the set of effectors and a read voltage that corresponds to the different effector. The memory controller can also perform the selected one or more read retry routines at the portion of the one or more memory devices to negate the failure of the read operation.
US12169637B2
Techniques are provided for processing read operations while splitting a clone volume from a parent volume whose data is stored within objects of an object store. A transfer map is created to track mappings of child object identifiers to parent object identifiers of the parent objects to copy as child objects having the child object identifiers. The transfer map for the object store is traversed to copy the parent objects as the child objects for the split clone operation. The child objects are verified as being successfully created with valid data. In response to determining that the parent object has been copied as the child object, a context check is performed using the reverse map to verify a block within the child object. In response a successful context check, the read operation is processed using the block of the child object.
US12169630B2
Single input/output writes in a file system hosted on a cloud, virtual, or commodity-server platform
Systems and methods for performing single I/O writes are provided. According to one embodiment, responsive to receipt of a write operation from a client by a file system layer of a node of a distributed storage system and a data payload of the operation having been determined to meet a compressibility threshold, an intermediate storage layer of the node logically interposed between the file system layer and a block storage media is caused to perform a single input/output (I/O) write operation that persists the compressed data payload and corresponding metadata to support asynchronous journaling of the write operation. The single I/O write operation coupled with the use of a new pool file that maintains a list of available blocks for single I/O write operations and a modified node crash recovery approach allows the write operation to be acknowledged to the client while the journaling is performed asynchronously.
US12169628B2
A display apparatus includes a display, a single physical button and a processor configured to control the display to display a guide user interface (UI), a selection UI and a plurality of menu items, based on a user input received via the single physical button being identified as a short click input, move the selection UI from one menu item among the plurality of menu items to another menu item among the plurality of menu items, based on the user input being identified as a long press input, select the one menu item and execute a control function corresponding to the selected one menu item, and based on an execution of the control function, control the display to display a setting UI indicating a current setting value of the control function.
US12169627B2
An image display method includes: acquiring a first image; acquiring a captured image obtained by imaging a projection receiving object of projection light; and displaying a setting image including a first region in which the first image is displayed, a second region in which the captured image is displayed, and a third region in which a preview image including at least a part of a deformed image obtained by deforming the first image according to an image of the projection receiving object included in the captured image is displayed.
US12169621B2
Systems, devices, media, and methods are presented for dynamic presentation and management of messages within a graphical user interface by presenting content icons, monitoring consumption status of the presented content represented by the content icons, transferring a content item from a first set of content to a second set of content, and causing presentation of the content item as part of the second set of content.
US12169616B2
A touch panel and a display device are provided by embodiments of the present application, a self-capacitance module in an original touch panel is replaced with a mutual capacitance module, and a combination of self-capacitance and mutual capacitance is adopted to effectively reduce wiring in the touch panel and to reduce cost at a same time.
US12169610B2
A method for determining a spectrally shaped waveform, and related apparatus, are described. In one or more example, such a spectrally shaped waveform may be for touch sensing. An example of such a method includes: receiving an indication of allowable electromagnetic emissions; choosing radio frequency subcarriers responsive to the indication of allowable electromagnetic emissions; and generating and storing a spectrally shaped time domain digital waveform responsive to the chosen radio frequency subcarriers.
US12169604B2
To prevent drawing by pen input from stopping due to a failure in receiving an uplink signal, an active pen according to the present disclosure includes a processing circuit that transmits, at a second timing decided based on a first timing of a first uplink signal received from a sensor controller, a position signal and a data signal from a pen-tip electrode and receives a second uplink signal, and a wireless communication circuit that wirelessly communicates with the sensor controller. The processing circuit determines whether the second uplink signal has been received at the second timing, and in a case of determining that the second uplink signal has not been received, the processing circuit transmits at least part of the data signal via the wireless communication circuit while transmitting the position signal from the pen-tip electrode.
US12169601B2
This application provides a stylus and an electronic device assembly. With a mainshaft and a pressure sensor assembly disposed in the stylus, one end of the mainshaft connected to a tip assembly, and the pressure sensor assembly fixed in a barrel assembly and touching the other end of the mainshaft, the tip assembly moves under a pressure and drives the mainshaft to move, the mainshaft transfers the pressure on the tip assembly to the pressure sensor assembly, and the pressure sensor assembly detects the pressure on the tip assembly. With a second electrode fitting around a signal board, the moving of the tip assembly can drive the first electrode and the second electrode to move synchronously so that relative positions of the second electrode and the first electrode remain unchanged, improving measurement accuracy of a tilt angle of the stylus relative to a touchscreen by the electronic device.
US12169592B2
A method for switching a configuration of an enhanced reality headset is provided. The method includes identifying a scenario to switch a configuration of an enhanced reality headset between a virtual reality configuration, an augmented reality configuration, and a direct reality configuration, wherein the virtual reality configuration and the augmented reality configuration include a computer generated image, and the direct reality configuration and the augmented reality configuration include a real-time image of an environment of a user of the enhanced reality headset. The method includes providing a notification to a user of the enhanced reality headset including an intent to switch the configuration of the enhanced reality headset, and switching the configuration of the enhanced reality headset according to the scenario.
US12169587B2
A mobile device may comprise a secure memory. The mobile device may receive a request from a mobile application executing on the mobile device to store data in the secure memory. The request may comprise the data and a group identifier associated with the mobile application. A primary symmetric key associated with the group identifier may be determined. The data may be encrypted, using the primary symmetric key, to produce first encrypted data. A secondary symmetric key associated with the group identifier may be determined. The first encrypted data may be encrypted, using the secondary symmetric key, to produce second encrypted data. The second encrypted data may be stored to the secure memory.
US12169584B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture for distributed use of a machine learning model are disclosed. An example edge device includes a model partitioner to partition a machine learning model received from an aggregator into private layers and public layers. A public model data store is implemented outside of a trusted execution environment of the edge device. The model partitioner is to store the public layers in the public model data store. A private model data store is implemented within the trusted execution environment. The model partitioner is to store the private layers in the private model data store.
US12169580B2
Using container-centric managed access, an administrator is enabled to define a set of future grants for each object that will be created in the future in a container managed by the administrator. When a user creates a database object, the system checks the future grants to determine if any apply to the user, the database object, or the combination. Any applicable future grants are applied to the database object before the user is allowed to modify it. As a result, the administrator is enabled to control the privileges associated with the database object even before the database object is created, while restricting individual object owners from managing privileges on their owned objects.
US12169569B2
In an illustrative embodiment, methods and systems for cybersecurity assessment of an organization's technology infrastructure include identifying features of the technology infrastructure and automatically generating a threat profile relevant to both the technology infrastructure and the organization's business (and/or business objectives), where the threat profile includes potential threat actors and threat scenarios applicable to the technology infrastructure. The methods and systems may include evaluating cybersecurity controls of the organization's technology infrastructure in light of the threat profile to identify and rate vulnerabilities within the technology infrastructure.
US12169566B2
An untrusted orchestrator function subsystem inventory and verification system includes an untrusted orchestrator device, an operating system, a BIOS, and a management device. In response to presentation by the untrusted orchestrator device of a function subsystem to the operating system during runtime, the operating system generates a function subsystem detection alert that identifies the function subsystem. In response to the function subsystem detection alert, the BIOS generates and transmits a BIOS inventory update. The management device receives the BIOS inventory update, and determines whether the operating system is authorized to use the function subsystem at least in part based on the BIOS inventory update. If so, the management device allows the operating system to utilize the function subsystem while, if not, the management device prevents the operating system from utilizing the function subsystem.
US12169560B2
A computer-implemented method for verifying messages in a service-oriented communication system of a vehicle, including receiving a message and a signature in a first entity of the service-oriented communication system, the message and the signature being received via the service-oriented communication system; checking if the message corresponds to a dedicated message and the signature corresponds to a signature belonging to the dedicated message; and verifying the message, if the checking turns out positive. A computer-implemented method for generating predetermined messages in a first entity of a service-oriented communication system of a vehicle, and a service-oriented communication system in a vehicle, which is configured, are also described.
US12169559B2
A system for improving data security for computing devices receives a data input stream indicating changes to data security threats posed to the computing devices. The system detects, based at least in part on the changes to the data security threats, a new data security threat posed to the computing devices. The system determines one or more available data security controls that align with the new data security threat. The one or more available data security controls comprise security countermeasures available to the computing devices for resolving the new data security threat. After determining that a security vulnerability rating is greater than a threshold value, at least one of the one or more available data security controls may be automatically implemented at the computing devices.
US12169557B2
Techniques described herein relate to a method for predicting results using ensemble models. The method may include receiving trained model data sets from a model source nodes, each trained model data set comprising a trained model, an important feature list, and a missing feature generator; receiving a prediction request data set; making a determination that the prediction request data set does not include an input feature for a trained model; generating, based on the determination and using a missing feature generator, a substitute feature to replace the input feature; executing the trained model using the prediction request data set and the substitute feature to obtain a first prediction; executing a second trained model using the prediction request data set to obtain a second prediction; and obtaining a final prediction using the first prediction, the second prediction, and an ensemble model.
US12169551B2
A processing system may obtain a request from a user device to activate an access credential locker for use in accessing at least one enterprise system of an enterprise via the processing system, the request comprising a token that identifies the access credential locker, obtain a first key from the user device, transmit, to the enterprise, a request for a second key, obtain the second key from the enterprise in response to the request, apply the first key and the second key to the access credential locker, the access credential locker being encrypted in accordance with the first and second keys and being decrypted via the applying of the first and second keys, and establish a communication session between the user device and the at least one enterprise system via the processing system using at least one access credential that is stored in the decrypted access credential locker.
US12169548B2
The disclosure provides a device for generating a unique response to a challenge, the device comprising: a plurality of structures, each structure being able to change from a first distinct state, to a second distinct state, in response to an appropriate input challenge; the device being arranged to facilitate a challenge of the plurality of structures in combination, by changing an input to the plurality of structures in combination, to cause each structure of the plurality of structures to change from the first distinct state, to the second distinct state; as part of the challenge, the device being arranged to facilitate a measurement of an output of the plurality of structures in combination, in response to the input; wherein the unique response is at least indicative of a sequence in which the change in state takes place for each of the plurality of structures, in response to the input.
US12169540B2
Face management server includes user manager that manages a face image for registration for each user acquired by registration device registering the face image of the user and specific information other than the face image in association with each other, the specific information being used for specifying each user; device manager that manages information on a face authentication machine acquiring the face image for authentication of the user; and screen generator that generates a management screen for confirming or changing an information management status by user manager and device manager.
US12169539B2
Technologies and techniques for biometrically authenticating a user for an apparatus. User biometric data is generated via a biometric capture device. A processor processes the user biometric data to generate one or more biometric templates. A memory stores the biometric templates and one or more previously generated biometric templates. A biometric manager module associates executable applications with respective biometric templates, wherein the processor matches one of the biometric templates with the previously generated biometric templates to determine if the matched biometric template is associated with the executable application. The processor generates at least one of a password and/or a cryptographic key for allowing access to the associated executable application based on the matched biometric template.
US12169535B2
One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods are provided. In an example, a method comprises receiving, by a device, attribute data for a region served by a telecommunications service. A cluster label is determined by the device for the region based on the attribute data. A first region persona is determined by the device for the region using a decision tree classifier model based on the cluster label and the attribute data. Recommended service parameters are implemented for the telecommunications service in the region based on the first region persona.
US12169526B2
The present disclosure relates to extracting key concepts from digital content items and determining associations between the key concepts and candidate terms for use in generating and presenting a correlation graph object based on the determined associations. For example, systems described herein involve determining frequency of co-occurrence between various key concepts and applying a classification model (e.g., a zero-shot classification model) to the key concepts and candidate terms to determine associations between the key concepts and candidate terms for a given domain of interest. The systems further involve generating a graph object and processing graph queries in a way that enables fast and efficient presentation of slices of the graph object that provide a visual depiction of key concepts and edges representing associations between pairs of the key concepts.
US12169518B2
Technologies are described for retrieving documents using image representations in the documents and is based on intra-image features. The identification of elements within an image representation can allow for deeper understanding of the image representation and for better relating image representations based on their intra-image features. The intra-image features present in image representations can be used in searches. Search results can further be reranked to improve search results. For example, reranking can allow search results to conform to intra-image dominant image features.
US12169510B2
A system and a method are disclosed for receiving, from a source of a plurality of candidate sources, a payload comprising content and metadata. The system selects a destination to which to route the payload based on the source and the content, and generates an entry at the destination based on the content. The system inputs the metadata into a classification engine, and receives, as output from the classification engine, one or more classifications for the payload. The system applies a metadata tag to the entry, the metadata tag indicating the one or more classifications. The system receives a search request from a client device specifying at least one of the one or more classifications, and, in response to receiving the search request, provides the entry to the client device based on a matching classification.
US12169509B2
In some embodiments, a method receives a label for a record in a database. A first operation is performed using a first value associated with the record to generate a first reporting object for a sustainability metric that is based on a resource. A second value for the first reporting object is generated based on performing the first operation using respective first values associated with first records based on a relationship in a data model to a first reporting object. The method uses the label to perform a second operation using the first value associated with the record to generate a third value for a second reporting object for the sustainability metric. The second reporting object is generated based on performing the second operation using respective first values associated with second records that are associated with the label.
US12169503B2
The subject matter herein provides a method, apparatus and computer program product that combines, in one intuitive interface, visualization user interfaces (UIs) as used for descriptive analytics, with workflow UIs as used for predictive analytics. These interfaces provide a visual workspace front-end. The workspace is coupled to a back-end that comprises a data processing engine that combines progressive computation, approximate query processing, and sampling, together with a focus on supporting user-defined operations, to drive the front-end efficiently and in real-time. The processing engine achieves rapid responsiveness through progressive sampling, quickly returning an initial answer, typically on a random sample of data, before continuing to refine that answer in the background. In this manner, any operation carried out in the platform immediately provides a visual response, regardless of the underlying complexity of the operation or data size.
US12169492B1
The present disclosure is directed to systems and processes for adaptively optimizing query execution. To improve efficiency and reduce costs of executing queries, machine learning may be utilized to automatically choose or adjust the processing blocks used to execute or process queries based on the nature of the cloud processing outputs and client preferences, among other considerations. A machine learning engine may group queries together into topics based on characteristics of the queries. The machine learning engine may receive execution statistics for the topics and, using the execution statistics, identify which topics enhance or optimize query execution. The machine learning engine may determine which topics may be executed by which processing blocks, at which times of day, and on which platforms, among other considerations in order to enhance or optimize cost or processing efficiency according to client-specified parameters.
US12169490B2
Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for providing a cluster view method of a database to perform compaction and clustering of database objects, such as database materialized view. A cluster view system identifies a materialized view including data from one or more base tables, a portion of the data of the materialized view including stale data. The cluster view system performs an integrated task within a maintenance operation on a database, the integrated task including compacting the materialized view, the maintenance operation including clustering the materialized view, and stores the compacted and clustered materialized view in the database.
US12169480B2
Described herein are a system and method for forming a container image. The system and method include obtaining a first layer of a plurality of layers of the container image. The contents of the first layer are stored in a directory such that a first disk image layer file is mounted to the directory. A second layer of the plurality of layers is obtained, and the contents of the second layer are stored in the directory so that the first disk image layer includes contents of the first layer and the second layer. The first disk image layer is saved and is mountable and includes files of the container image.
US12169476B2
A computer-implemented method, computer program product and computing system for: receiving an unencoded data file; processing the unencoded data file to identify a plurality of file segments; mapping each of the plurality of file segments to a portion of a dictionary file, thus generating a plurality of mappings, wherein each of the plurality of mappings includes a starting location and a length; and generating a related encoded data file based, at least in part, upon the plurality of mappings.
US12169473B2
A method of modifying metadata associated with a media file is described the method comprising receiving a first media file; receiving a first metadata associated with the first media file; receiving an identifier of a second media file; and modifying the first metadata to include the identifier of the second media file.
US12169469B2
This disclosure provides methods, devices, and systems for transmitting and receiving image data. The present implementations more specifically relate to repurposing non-video interfaces to receive image data. In some aspects, an image processing device may be coupled to an image source via an audio interface. For example, the audio interface may be an inter-IC sound (I2S) serial bus interface having at least a serial data input and a word select (WS) input. In some implementations, the serial data input may be coupled to receive image data from the image source and the WS input may be coupled to receive a WS signal that tracks a horizontal synchronization (HSYNC) signal associated with the image data. Accordingly, the image processing device may capture (or store) frames of received image data, where the beginning of each frame is aligned with an edge of the WS signal (and thus, the HSYNC signal).
US12169461B2
Methods, systems, and devices for status check using chip enable pin are described. An apparatus may include a memory device, a pin coupled with the memory device, and a driver coupled with the pin and configured to bias the pin to a first a voltage or a second voltage based on a status of the memory device. The status may indicate, for example, whether the memory device is available to receive a command. The driver may bias the pin to a first voltage based on a first status of the memory device indicating that the memory device is busy. Additionally, or alternatively, the driver may bias the pin to a second voltage based on a second status of the memory device indicating that the memory device is available to receive the command. In some cases, the pin may be an example of a chip enable pin.
US12169459B2
A heterogeneous processing system and method including a host processor, a first processor coupled to a first memory, a second processor coupled to a second memory, and switch and bus circuitry that communicatively couples the host processor, the first processor, and the second processor. The host processor is programmed to map virtual addresses of the second memory to physical addresses of the switch and bus circuitry and to configure the first processor to directly access the second memory using the mapped physical addresses according to memory extension operation. The first processor may be a reconfigurable processor, a reconfigurable dataflow unit, or a compute engine. The first processor may directly read data from or directly write data to the second memory while executing an application. The method may include configuring the first processor to directly access the second memory while executing an application for reading or writing data.
US12169447B2
Methods, systems, and devices for managing software agent health are described. A software platform may output multiple requests to one or more software agents. Each request may be associated with operation of a respective software agent. The software platform may obtain statistics for each software agent in response to the multiple requests. The statistics may corresponds to a respective performance of each software agent of the one or more software agents. The software platform may output a recommendation for each software agent, of the one or more software agents, based on the statistics and one or more rules configured at the software platform.
US12169441B2
A data management system for backing up data in a first environment to a second environment includes: backup management information in which source data, backup data, a backup method, and data backed up using the backup method are associated; and a secondary usage data copy unit serving as a secondary usage processing unit that receives a usage request for the backup data stored in the second environment, wherein the secondary usage processing unit refers to the backup management information, specifies the backup data required for processing the usage request, specifies the backup method for the backup data, restores the backup data on the basis of the specified backup method, and enables processing of the usage request.
US12169436B2
Systems and methods for enabling serial attached Non-Volatile (NV) memory are provided. In some embodiments, a method of operation of a computing system including: in an NV Random Access Memory module (NVRAM) having a non-volatile device, a volatile memory device with data, a NV Controller unit (NVC), and a serial host interface, the method includes: receiving a request for data on the serial host interface and providing the requested data, from the volatile memory device with data, on the serial host interface. The method also includes: detecting a disruptive volatile memory event; copying the data of the volatile memory device to the NV device based on the disruptive volatile memory event; and restoring the data of the volatile memory device from the NV device. In this way, Dynamic Random-Access Memory (DRAM) level endurance and speed/latency can be provided while making it NV.
US12169433B1
Monitoring and detecting errors by location and common dependency within a complex digital ecosystem
A computing device including a display screen, the computing device being configured to display on the screen a visual indication of a health status of a monitored application, wherein the screen displays a listing of interfaces, with each interface affecting the health of the application. Each interface is associated with physical host location(s) and the computing device is additionally configured to display on the display screen a set of status icons associated with each interface in the listing of interfaces. The status icons are simultaneously arranged in a first grouping to visually depict a physical host location associated with the interfaces and a second grouping to visually depict dependencies common between interfaces. Each status icon includes a visual indicator indicating an interface health status of the interface, and the combination of the visual indicators form the visual indication of the health status of the monitored application.
US12169430B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for reducing power consumed by capturing data from an I/O device. Techniques disclosed include receiving descriptors, by a controller of an I/O host of a system, including information associated with respective data chunks to be captured from an I/O device buffer of the I/O device. Techniques disclosed further include capturing, based on the descriptors, the data chunks. The capturing comprises pulling the data chunks from the I/O device buffer at a pulling rate, where the data chunks are transferred to a local buffer of the I/O host, and pushing segments of the pulled data chunks from the local buffer, where each segment is transferred to a data buffer of the system after a respective target time that precedes a time at which the data chunks in the segment are to be processed by an application executing on the system.
US12169429B2
The present application relates to a power supply abnormality detection circuit and a display terminal, where the circuit includes a power supply conversion module for converting an input power supply into an output power supply; a comparison module for comparing a current output power supply with a preset reference power supply to obtain a first comparison signal; a control module for generating a control signal based on the first comparison signal; and a power supply management module for determining a first operation state corresponding to normality of the output power supply and a second operation state corresponding to abnormality of the output power supply based on the control signal.
US12169427B2
Methods and devices for manipulating the temperature of a surface are generally provided. The present disclosure relates to a device including one or more heating and/or cooling elements, or other suitable thermal adjustment apparatus(es), placed near a surface, such as the skin of a user. The device may be configured to generate one or more (optionally alternating) thermal profiles at the surface, which may include a series of thermal pulses and/or essentially continuous or semi-continuous thermal input, which may vary over time. Such thermal profiles, when suitably applied, may provide enhanced thermal sensations for a user which, in some cases, may provide the user with a more pleasurable thermal experience than would otherwise be the case without the generation of the thermal profiles. In some embodiments, an alternating thermal profile may include an average frequency, an oscillation window, and/or an average temperature, each of which may be adjustable.
US12169422B2
In some aspects, mobile devices with foldable and rollable displays can use a sensor to detect vertical acceleration with respect to the ground to determine if the mobile device has been dropped. If the sensor detects that the mobile device has been dropped the foldable device can fold or retract at least partially to afford protection from the fragile display from striking the ground. Even folding the display to an angle less than 180 degrees can afford some protection because the mobile device can strike edges of the mobile device instead of the display itself. In various embodiments, a rollable device can retract the display if predetermined acceleration limits are exceeded.
US12169408B2
A robot control system acquires request information requesting a robot to keep within a prescribed distance from a user and to collect surrounding information, acquires, from the robot, location information indicating a location of the robot and confirmation information indicating that the robot is near the user, and transmits, to the robot, a command for changing a setting of the robot from a first specification to a second specification in response to the request in a case where it is determined, on a basis of the map information, the location information, and the confirmation information, that the user of the robot is accompanying the robot outside a home area of the user, the first specification enabling the robot to collect the surrounding information inside the home area, and the second specification enabling the robot to collect the surrounding information outside the home area.
US12169407B2
A device for steering an agricultural machine having independently steerable axles includes first and second steerable axle interface to couple with a first steering mechanism of a first steerable axle and a second a second steering mechanism of a second steerable axle. The device includes a planning module having a guidance path for the agricultural machine, and a steering control module to coordinate steering of the steering mechanisms. The steering control module includes a translational comparator to determine a translational difference between a location of the agricultural machine relative to the guidance path, an angular comparator to determine an angular difference between an angular orientation of the agricultural machine relative to the guidance path, and a translation steering controller to actuate the first and second steering mechanisms according to the translational difference. The device includes an angular steering controller to actuate the second steering mechanism according to the angular difference.
US12169403B2
A method for monitoring the vitality of a number of participant devices of a distributed technical system, wherein each of the participant devices has a number of electronic components, comprises: continuously detecting a plurality of physical environmental and/or operating parameters in each of the participant devices and/or in each of the electronic components of the participant devices; storing for retrieval the plurality of physical environmental and/or operating parameters in a vitality data storage device; calculating for each of the electronic components, on the basis of the plurality of physical environmental and/or operating parameters, a number of statistical characteristics that form vitality parameters and that represent at least one of safety, reliability, or the availability of the electronic component; and initiating exception processing in response to a predefined or predefinable threshold value of a statistical characteristic being reached or exceeded.
US12169402B2
System includes an article supply location that includes a plurality of articles to be sorted, first and second transport vehicles, each having a first position in which an article is stowed about the vehicle and a second position in which the article is deposited into a proximal container, and one or more removal devices that transport the container to a location of further processing. System further includes a control system configured to receive an order for a plurality of disparate articles, determine one destination container of a plurality of destination containers to direct the transport vehicle to deposit a selected article, direct the first transport vehicle to transport a selected article to the destination container, deposit the article in the destination container, and transport the destination container to a location for further processing by manipulation of the removal device.
US12169388B2
An image forming apparatus includes a fixing portion, a conveyance path, a roller pair, and a duct. The roller pair includes a first roller and a second roller, the first roller and the second roller being configured to nip a sheet conveyed in the conveyance path to cool the sheet. The duct is provided to extend in a width direction orthogonal to a sheet conveyance direction. The duct includes a ventilation path forming portion and an opening portion continuous with the ventilation path forming portion and facing the conveyance path, the ventilation path forming portion being disposed to face a side of the roller pair opposite to a nip of the roller pair across a center line of the first roller and configured to form a ventilation path configured to allow air to pass therethrough between the first roller and the ventilation path forming portion.
US12169379B2
A power control device includes a heater, a zero-cross detecting unit, a triac, a supplying unit, and a controlling unit. The supplying unit discharges an electric charge when a control signal is outputted in a half-wave of each of a first polarity and a second polarity and charges the electric charge when the control signal is not outputted in the half-wave of the first polarity. The controlling unit outputs: in a first half-wave, a first control signal on the basis of the zero-cross point and a second control signal in a first phase different in timing from the first control signal, and in a second half-wave, a third control signal on the basis of the zero-cross point and a fourth control signal in a second phase different in timing from the second control signal. The first phase and the second phase are different from each other.
US12169371B2
An image forming apparatus includes first and second image forming portions, a power source portion, and a controller. The power source portion is constituted so that when the power source portion applies a charging voltage to a first charging member of the first image forming portion, the charging voltage is also applied to a second charging member of the second image forming portion. The controller carries out control so that a timing of a start of discharge of a first photosensitive drum in the first image forming portion is made earlier than a timing of a start of image formation by the first image forming portion and so that a timing of a start of discharge of a second photosensitive drum in the second image forming portion is made earlier than a timing of a start of image formation by the second image forming portion.
US12169368B2
The present invention provides a positioning apparatus for positioning of an object, the positioning apparatus including a first actuator and a second actuator configured to be arranged along a first direction so as to be parallel to each other, and to cause a beam to move in the first direction, a third actuator configured to be built in the beam, and to cause the object to move in a second direction relative to the beam, the second direction intersecting with the first direction, and a control unit configured to control the first actuator, the second actuator, and the third actuator.
US12169362B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a chemical liquid having excellent developability and excellent defect inhibition performance. Another object of the present invention is to provide a chemical liquid storage body, a chemical liquid filling method, and a chemical liquid storage method. The chemical liquid according to an embodiment of the present invention is a chemical liquid containing an organic solvent, a metal impurity, and an organic impurity, in which the metal impurity contains metal atoms, a total content of the metal atoms in the chemical liquid with respect to a total mass of the chemical liquid is equal to or smaller than 50 mass ppt, a total content of the organic impurity in the chemical liquid with respect to the total mass of the chemical liquid is 0.1 to 10,000 mass ppm, the organic impurity contains an alcohol impurity, and a mass ratio of a content of the alcohol impurity to the total content of the organic impurity is 0.0001 to 0.5.
US12169355B2
A photographic paper comprising a base layer having an average surface roughness (Sa) of at least 0.7 pm and an outer-most layer comprising a hydrophilic colloid binder and colloidal silica, wherein: (i) the weight ratio of colloidal silica to hydrophilic colloid binder in the outer-most layer is 0.05:1 to 0.28:1; and (ii) the amount of colloidal silica present in the outer-most layer is in the range of 8 mg/m2 to 280 mg/m2. The photographic paper is useful for preparing ‘non-noisy’ photobooks.
US12169350B2
An apparatus for interrogating a media to be analyzed, such as an avian egg, is provided. Such an apparatus includes an emitter assembly configured to emit light toward a media. The emitter assembly has a first emitter source configured to emit a first light signal and a second emitter source configured to emit a second light signal. The first and second light signals are transmitted through the media in phase quadrature. A detector assembly is configured to detect the first and second light signals transmitted through the media. The detector assembly is further configured to resolve a relative or absolute amplitude of each of the first and second light signals. A processor is configured to process the detected signal to identify a property of the media using at least one of the relative and absolute amplitudes of the first and second light signals. An associated method is also provided.
US12169338B2
The present application discloses a display panel and a display device, which include a plurality of sub-pixels, and each of sub-pixel includes a first pixel electrode with a first pixel voltage and a second pixel electrode with a second pixel voltage; when the sub-pixels are in a low-gray-scale state, the second pixel voltage and the first pixel voltage have a first ratio; when the sub-pixels are in a high-gray-scale state, the second pixel voltage and the first pixel voltage have a second ratio, and the second ratio is greater than the first ratio.
US12169330B2
An operation display device includes: a touch panel including a transparent base and an electrostatic capacitance sensor sheet, the transparent base having an operation surface in a front surface thereof to which or with which an operation body approaches or comes into contact, the sensor sheet being provided on a back surface of the transparent base to detect the approach or the contact of the operation body; a liquid crystal panel facing a back surface of the touch panel; an outer cover covering a portion of the touch panel other than a front surface of the touch panel; and a sealing member sealing a gap between the touch panel and the liquid crystal panel, the outer cover including a spacer between the touch panel and the liquid crystal panel, and the sensor sheet being not to be interposed between the transparent base and the spacer.
US12169327B2
A method for preparing an ophthalmic lens to be edged based on a presentation lens, includes: fixing a first support a face of the presentation lens, the first support's shape defining a first reference point; positioning the presentation lens by the first support in an optical machine having an image sensor; acquiring, with the image sensor, an image of the presentation lens; determining, on the acquired image, the outline of the presentation lens; positioning a pupillary point relative to the outline; positioning the outline of the presentation lens relative to the ophthalmic lens so the pupillary point is superimposed on a centering point of the ophthalmic lens; and fixing a second support a face of the ophthalmic lens, the second support having a shape defining a second reference point, the second support fixed on the ophthalmic lens so its second reference point is superimposed on the first reference point.
US12169314B2
A short-waveband active optical component based on a vertical emitting laser and a multi-mode optical fiber has an emitting end and a receiving end. In the emitting end, multiple VCSELs generate multiple optical signals of different wavelengths, and multiple photodiodes in the receiving end receive the optical signals emitted by the VCSELs. Both ends use a focusing lens array to collimate and focus the optical signals A Z-block-shaped prism performs a light combining function at the emitting end, while another Z-block-shaped prism performs a light splitting function at the receiving end. Both ends use a focusing lens for collimating and focusing the optical signals at ends of a multi-mode optical fiber, which is used for transmitting the optical signals generated by the VCSELs. The short-waveband active optical component has a small size and a high transmission rate.
US12169311B2
A waveguide coupler includes a first waveguide and a second waveguide. The waveguide coupler also includes a connecting waveguide disposed between the first waveguide and the second waveguide. The connecting waveguide includes a first material having a first index of refraction and a second material having a second index of refraction higher than the first index of refraction.
US12169304B2
A photonic integrated circuit chip includes a substrate and a wafer on the substrate. The wafer itself includes a photonic grating coupler with a taper portion and grating features. The grating features extend from the taper portion toward the substrate.
US12169300B2
The present invention relates to a light guide plate containing a glass plate and a resin layer that is formed on at least one major surface of the glass plate, in which the resin layer is made of a resin containing metal oxide fine particles dispersed, and an absolute value of a refractive index difference between the glass plate and the resin layer is 0.07 or smaller over an entire range of a wavelength of 430 nm to 700 nm.
US12169299B2
A planar light source includes a support member; a light guide member including a first surface located proximate to an upper surface of the support member, a second surface opposite to the first surface, and a through hole extending from the first surface to the second surface; a light source unit including a light-emitting element and a wavelength conversion member that covers an upper surface and a lateral surface of the light-emitting element and disposed on the support member at a position of the through hole; a light-transmissive member disposed between the light source unit and the light guide member in the through hole; and a light adjustment member disposed on the light source unit and the light-transmissive member. An upper surface of the wavelength conversion member of the light source unit is located higher than the second surface of the light guide member.
US12169297B2
The present disclosure relates to the field of display and, in particular, to a polarizing structure, a modular structure, and a manufacturing method thereof. The polarizing structure includes a support film having first and second bonding sides disposed oppositely in the thickness direction thereof, wherein the first bonding side can be bonded to the curved cover plate, and a polarizer bonded on the second bonding side of the support film. An outer contour of the orthographic projection of the support film on a reference plane is located outside the outer contour of the orthographic projection of the polarizer on the reference plane. The minimum distance between the outer contours of the orthographic projections of the support film and the polarizer on the reference plane may be, for example, greater than 0.5 mm. The reference plane is a plane perpendicular to the thickness direction.
US12169296B2
An embodiment of the present disclosure provides a display apparatus, including: a display panel and a functional substrate that is located on a light exit side of the display panel; the functional substrate includes: a transparent substrate configured to have a first total reflection angle; a specular reflection layer located on a side of the transparent substrate; and a holographic film layer located between the transparent substrate and the specular reflection layer and configured so that a part of incident light, of which the propagation direction faces towards the transparent substrate and the incident angle is within a first incident angle range, is diffracted and is emitted to the transparent substrate at a first exit angle, the first exit angle being greater than or equal to the first total reflection angle. Further provided are a preparation method for a display apparatus and a smart mirror.
US12169278B2
An HMD employs a multifocal module having one or more voltage controlled optical elements. By changing the voltage applied to the one or more optical elements, the HMD can change the focal length of an image generated by the micro-display. The multifocal module can include a cholesteric liquid crystal (CLC) element and a polarizer switch. By controlling the voltage applied to each of the CLC element and the polarizer switch, the HMD can change the focal length of the image passed through the multifocal module. The HMD can thereby change the focal length of any image generated by the micro-display.
US12169275B2
A light filed (LF) display system for displaying holographic performance content (e.g., a live performance) to viewers in a venue. The LF display system in the venue includes LF display modules tiled together to form an array of LF modules. The array of LF modules create a performance volume (e.g., a stage) for displaying the performance content in the venue. The array of LF modules displays the performance content to viewers in viewing volumes. The LF display system can be included in a LF presentation network. The LF presentation network allows holographic performance content to be recorded at one location and displayed (concurrently or non-concurrently) at another location. The LF presentation network includes a network system to manage the digital rights of the holographic performance content.
US12169274B2
Described herein is a fibre positioning system (100) for positioning a tip (102) of an optical fibre (104). The system (100) includes a piezoelectric tube scanner (106) disposed along an optical axis (107). The piezoelectric tube scanner (106) has a first end (114) fixedly mounted with respect to a mounting structure (116), a hollow interior (118) for receiving the length of the optical fibre (104) and a second end (120) being freely able to bend in a lateral direction perpendicular to the optical axis (107) in response to one or more first actuation signals from a controller (122). A glass end cap (124) is fixedly mounted at the second end (120) of the piezoelectric tube scanner (106) and optically spliced to the tip (102) of the optical fibre (104) such that bending of the piezoelectric tube scanner (106) results in lateral movement of the tip (102) of the optical fibre (104) with respect to the optical axis (107).
US12169267B2
Single fold optical systems that include a power prism and a lens stack including two or more refractive lens elements. The single fold optical system may provide a long mechanical back focus without increasing the Z-height of the optical system. Providing power on the prism may reduce the optical total length and reduce the X-length of the optical system. The single folded optical systems may provide reduced Z-axis height and reduced X-axis length when compared to conventional double folded optical systems with similar optical characteristics. In addition, the optical systems may include an anamorphic lens that is oriented to correct for astigmatism caused by surface errors of the reflective surface of the prism.
US12169265B2
A photographing optical lens system includes seven lens elements which are, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element, a sixth lens element and a seventh lens element. Each of the seven lens elements has an object-side surface facing toward the object side and an image-side surface facing toward the image side. The object-side surface of the first lens element is convex in a paraxial region thereof. The seventh lens element has negative refractive power. The object-side surface of the seventh lens element is concave in a paraxial region thereof. At least one of all lens surfaces of the seven lens elements is aspheric and has at least one inflection point.
US12169261B2
A radiation detection module according to an embodiment includes an array substrate including multiple photoelectric converters, a scintillator that covers a region in which the multiple photoelectric converters are located and that has larger dimensions than the region in which the multiple photoelectric converters are located when viewed in plan, and a light-absorbing part that is located on the scintillator and is capable of absorbing visible light. The light-absorbing part is located outward of the region in which the multiple photoelectric converters are located when viewed in plan.
US12169260B2
Systems and methods to estimated mean randoms include acquisition of list mode data describing true coincidences and delay coincidences detected by a positron emission tomography scanner during a scan of an object, determination, for each crystal of the positron emission tomography scanner and for each of a plurality of time periods of the scan, of delay coincidences including the crystal based on the list mode data, determination, each crystal, of determine a singles rate associated with each time period based on the delay coincidences determined for the crystal over the time period, determination, for each time period, of determine estimated mean randoms for each of a plurality of pairs of the crystals based on the singles rate associated with the time period for each crystal of the crystal pair, and reconstruction of an image of the object based on the estimated mean randoms for each time period and the detected true coincidences.
US12169255B2
In an example implementation, a first light measurement is obtained using a photodetector of a sensor module. The first light measurement corresponds, at least in part, to ambient light in an environment of the sensor module. Modulated light is generated using a light source of the sensor module, and a second light measurement is obtained using the photodetector of the sensor module. The second light measurement corresponds, at least in part, to modulated light reflected from an object toward the photodetector. A distance between the sensor module and the object is estimated, using an electronic control device, based on the first measurement, the second light measurement, and the modulated light.
US12169241B2
Techniques, systems, and devices are disclosed for spatial and temporal encoding of transmission in full synthetic transmit aperture imaging to achieve optimal spatial and contrast resolution and large signal-to-noise ratio for medical imaging applications with fewer signal transmissions, which can be equal to or less than the number of array elements within the aperture. In some aspects, a method of signal transmission is disclosed that includes a sequence of one or more sets of transmissions on a plurality of elements with unique, random, and/or optimized combinations of waveforms using amplitude and phase, and/or delay encoding. Sets of echoes corresponding to the sequence are beamformed such that fewer transmissions are needed than the number of array elements within the aperture, while maintaining complete spatial sampling of the aperture as if sampled according to a full set of synthetic transmit aperture transmissions on the same aperture.
US12169236B2
A radar receiver is operable to capture and process reflections from a nearby target, of relatively large size. Phase history data is extracted from the received reflection signal, the phase history data being transformed into range migration compensated data. The range migration compensated data is then processed, with reference to Doppler migration to produce Doppler migration compensated data. The Doppler migration compensated data is then mapped into a Cartesian reference frame.
US12169235B2
A method for operating a synthetic aperture radar, SAR, mode, in an SAR instrument, wherein the method comprises the steps of: acquiring at least one subswath positioned in an across track direction of a movement of the SAR instrument, wherein the at least one subswath is acquired during at least one acquisition burst duration and/or at a predetermined radio frequency bandwidth; adjusting the at least one acquisition burst duration and/or the predetermined radio frequency bandwidth and/or a number of parallel simultaneous subswaths and/or an inserted burst duration for a further subswath based upon a predetermined parameter; constructing an SAR image based on the acquired at least one subswath.
US12169228B2
The present disclosure discloses a magnetic isolator, including a substrate, a magnetic field generating unit, a magnetic field sensing unit, a shielding layer, and an isolation dielectric, where the magnetic field generating unit includes a current conductor, the current conductor is arranged to extend along a first direction on one side of the substrate, the magnetic field sensing unit and the current conductor are arranged on the same side of the substrate, the magnetic field sensing unit is located on a lateral side of the current conductor, and a distance between the current conductor and the magnetic field sensing unit is greater than 0 along a second direction, where the first direction is perpendicular to the second direction; an isolation dielectric is arranged between the current conductor and the magnetic field sensing unit; and an isolation dielectric is arranged within the distance between the current conductor and the magnetic field sensing unit along the second direction, thereby playing a role in electrical isolation, facilitating improving the isolation strength, and simplifying the process. The shielding layer can absorb external interfering magnetic fields, and further improve the signal-to-noise ratio.
US12169226B2
Systems, devices, and methods including a first drive winding wound on a first core, where the first drive winding may be driven with a first input signal; a second drive winding wound on a second core, where the second drive winding may be driven with a second input signal, and where the second input signal has an opposite polarity of the first input signal; a first comparator configured to receive a first drive signal from the first drive winding; a second comparator configured to receive a second drive signal from the second drive winding; and a processor configured to receive the output signals from the first comparator and the second comparator, determine a saturation status of the first core and the second core, and determine a potential leakage signal based said saturation status of the first core and the second core.
US12169224B2
Determining an energy storage device plan includes determining a benefit gradient associated with charging or discharging of an energy storage. It further includes determining, using an energy storage lifetime model, a cost gradient associated with a degradation of the energy storage due to charging or discharging. It further includes applying a threshold to the benefit gradient and the cost gradient. It further includes facilitating charging or discharging of the energy storage based at least in part on the threshold being met or exceeded.
US12169223B2
Embodiments of the present application provide a method and an apparatus for battery SOC correction, and a battery management system, which relate to the technical field of batteries. The method includes: acquiring a voltage-SOC variation curve of a battery during a charging process; generating a voltage differential curve of the battery according to the voltage-SOC variation curve, the voltage differential curve being a variation curve of a differential value with SOC, the differential value being a ratio of a voltage variation to a SOC variation corresponding to the voltage variation during the charging process; determining a peak point on the voltage differential curve, the peak point being between any two adjacent plateaus on the voltage-SOC variation curve and not located on the any two adjacent plateaus; performing SOC correction on the basis of the peak point. This method is used to improve the SOC estimation accuracy.
US12169220B2
Apparatus for cooperating with a stationary integrated circuit test board. The apparatus includes a frame for positioning relative to a stationary integrated circuit test board, where the test board is for coupling to an integrated circuit device under test. The apparatus also includes a probe having a tip, and a processor-controlled actuator apparatus coupled to the frame and for moving the probe tip to selectively electrically contact a test point on the integrated circuit test board.
US12169208B2
An automated system for controlling a conductive probe of a nanoprober system in situ to a charged particle beam (CPB) imaging system can include a nanoprober comprising an actuator and a conductive probe; signal measurement circuitry electrically coupled to the conductive probe and to receive an electrical signal from the conductive probe; and a hardware processor to execute operations. The operations can include activating a CPB within a first reference frame, the first reference frame associated with the CPB; causing, by a computerized control system, the CPB and the conductive probe to intersect; measuring an electrical response from the intersection of the CPB with the conductive probe; and determining a location of the conductive probe in a second reference frame based on the electric response from the intersection of the CPB with the conductive probe, the second reference frame associated with the conductive probe.
US12169201B2
A method for evaluating a biological material for unassociated virus-size particles having a particular epitope uses a fluorescent antibody stain specific for binding with the epitope and a fluid sample with the virus-size particles and fluorescent antibody stain is subjected to flow cytometry with identification of fluorescent emission detection events indicative of passage through a flow cell of a flow cytometer of unassociated labeled particles of virus size including such a virus-size particle and fluorescent antibody stain.
US12169198B2
The present disclosure provides systems and methods for processing or analyzing a sample. Methods may include generating supports (e.g., beads) comprising barcode molecules coupled thereto. A support comprising barcode molecules may be useful for analyzing or processing one or more analytes such as nucleic acid molecules, proteins, and/or perturbation agents.
US12169195B2
A bracket a thrombelastography device, and a support system are disclosed. The bracket comprises: a fixed support part (101), a movable support part (102), and a connection part (103). The connection part comprises a first fixing connection member (1031) and a second fixing connection member (1032). The first fixing connection member is fixedly connected to the fixed support part; the second fixing connection member is fixedly connected to the movable support part; the first fixing connection member is connected to the second fixing connection member in point contact fashion, such that the first fixing connection member and the second fixing connection member can rotate relative to each other; the movable support part is fixedly connected to a supported object; when driven by the supported object, the movable support part rotates relative to the fixed support part by means of the point contact between the first fixing connection member and the second fixing connection member. The thrombelastography device comprises a rotational shaft and a bracket. The rotational resistance to the supported object when it rotates can be reduced.
US12169192B2
The present disclosure provides methods for identifying a hydrocarbon fuel, such as the presence and/or amounts of marker compounds having a fluorescence intensity and, through correlation, the presence and/or amounts of additive package(s) within the hydrocarbon fuel. The methods include obtaining a sample of a hydrocarbon fuel including a marker compound having fluorescence, combining the hydrocarbon fuel with water, and subjecting a water phase thereof to light for observing fluorescence.
US12169165B2
An antigen protection method for enabling delayed sample processing may include: fixing a sample; embedding the sample; sectioning the sample and placing a section of the sample in contact with a microscope slide to produce a sectioned sample; de-embedding the sectioned sample; optionally rehydrating the sectioned sample; performing target retrieval on the sectioned sample; and optionally performing target visualization on the sectioned sample. The method may further include the steps of: applying a protecting reagent onto the sectioned sample; drying the protecting reagent; and waiting a period of time, such as greater than six hours, and these steps may be performed after the de-embedding step, rehydrating step, and/or target retrieval step.
US12169164B2
A diffusive gradients in thin films (DGT) test device for lake water, including: a floating ball and a plurality of water sampling units. A DGT detection device, a water quality detection device with a multi-parameter probe, and a water sampling device are disposed in each of the water sampling units. The water sampling device includes: a plurality of sampling bottles, each of the sampling bottles is provided with an inlet pipe and an exhaust pipe, each of the inlet pipes and exhaust pipes is provided with a one-way solenoid valve; a peristaltic pump, a water sample outlet of the peristaltic pump communicates with the inlet pipes of the plurality of sampling bottles via a multi-way connector; the exhaust pipes of the plurality of sampling bottles are connected to an exhaust manifold via a multi-way connector; a control device connected with the peristaltic pump and each of the one-way solenoid valves.
US12169162B2
An anthropomorphic test device includes a pelvis member. The pelvis member has a foam core and includes an abdomen region defining a first cavity and a pair of thigh regions extending from the abdomen region. The pelvis member also includes a buttock region positioned below the abdomen region and rearward of the pair of thigh regions. The buttock region defines a buttock cavity separate from the first cavity with the buttock region also defining at least one vent port. The buttock cavity compresses from an open condition to a collapsed condition when the anthropomorphic test device is placed onto a surface for approximating a force applied by a body weight of a human.
US12169160B2
A hydrocarbon dispensation line pressure sensor adapted to work without requirement of a separate closed valve. The system closes the dispensation line upstream via an isolation valve. The pressure can be sensed from the dispensation line through the valve to provide dispensation line pressure. A channel in fluid communication with the dispensation line may be provided to allow pressure measurement apart from the main dispensation line. Further, a method for measuring the pressure drop profile of a dispensation line and various methods to determine the pressure loss due to leaks in dispensation line.
US12169144B2
Methods, apparatus and systems that relate to a low-cost reconfigurable polarimetric imaging are described. One example polarization imaging system includes a lens positioned to receive light reflected from one or more objects, and a spectral-polarization filter positioned at an aperture plane of the lens to filter the light received by the lens. The polarization imaging system can further include a sensor positioned to detect the filtered light from the spectral-polarization filter to form a polarization image of the one or more objects. The spectral-polarization filter comprises a first array of multiple spectral filters and a second array of multiple polarizers.
US12169141B2
A gravity-enforced photon momentum radiometer incudes: a magnetic array; a diamagnetic shuttle that levitates above the magnetic array; a mirror on the diamagnetic shuttle that receives laser light and moves the diamagnetic shuttle due to the optical force; a tiltable platform for the magnetic array; a photogate producing gate light that can be blocked by a photo interrupter and that produces a detector signal that provides a position of the diamagnetic shuttle relative to the tiltable platform for determining a position of the diamagnetic shuttle relative to the photogate.
US12169137B2
To provide an airflow amount measuring device capable of accurately measuring a flow amount of air without occurrence of warpage in a thin film portion when an airflow measuring element is mounted on a lead frame to form a resin-sealed package in which the airflow amount measuring element and the lead frame are sealed. A chip package includes a lead frame, an element mounted on the lead frame and having a detection portion, and a structure for sealing the lead frame and the element such that at least the detection portion is exposed. Then, the curvature radius ρ of the exposed portion of the element exposed from the sealing resin member is 2.13 or less.
US12169132B1
A system and method for using gaming as a tool to determine optimum routes through areas that have experienced a disaster are provided. Due to the disaster, an area may have some destroyed roads and other infrastructure. In one embodiment, input data collected from people on the ground, drones, and other aerial vehicles can be used to generate a virtual simulation of the area. The virtual area may include renderings of destroyed roads and infrastructure. Once created, the virtual area may be uploaded to an online gaming environment where users can participate in online games that permit them to find the best routes through the virtual area between starting and destination points. Once optimal routes are found, the system may send these routes to navigation systems used by rescuers and other people in the area to help them navigate the disaster area.
US12169127B2
A system includes an inertial navigation system module (INS module) that detects vehicle yaw rates and vehicle lateral speeds, a controller circuit communicatively coupled with the INS module. The controller circuit determines a tire cornering stiffness (Cf, Cr) based on vehicle physical parameters and vehicle dynamic parameters. The controller circuit determines a vehicle moment of inertia (Iz) based on the vehicle physical parameters, the vehicle dynamic parameters, and the tire cornering stiffness (Cf, Cr).
US12169114B2
A firearm slide accessory includes a charging handle attachment including a first member and a second member. The first and second members are formed with one or more mounting holes through which pass one or more fasteners. The first member includes an illumination device.
US12169108B2
The disclosure relates to a firearm suppressor including a multi-material baffle configured to reduce at least audible discharge and muzzle flash. For example, a cone insert of the baffle may be formed of a first material, and a tubular member of the baffle may be formed of a second material different from the first material. The baffles may include a proximal circumferential flange having a plurality of through-wall ports through which fluid may be directed into a chamber defined by exterior surfaces of the baffles and the interior surface of an external can. The disclosure also relates to a firearm suppressor endcap having a plurality of through-wall ports radially disposed on a tubular body of the endcap, and a conical ramp configured to direct fluid across the conical ramp and through the plurality of through-wall ports of the endcap during operation of the suppressor.
US12169106B2
A hybrid metal and composite barrel assembly for a firearm preferably includes a metal inner barrel liner and a composite outer barrel sleeve. The composite outer barrel sleeve preferably includes at least one layer of woven metal mesh material comprising a plurality of metallic fibers, and at least one layer of carbon fiber material comprising a plurality of carbon fibers. The composite outer barrel sleeve is preferably engaged around the metal inner barrel liner, and optionally incorporates a tensioning nut to retain the sleeve on the liner.
US12169100B2
A heat exchanger device with at least one heat exchanger which is flowed through by a fluid, at least one fan and at least one adiabatic air cooler for cooling air which is drawn in from the surroundings by the fan, wherein the air that has been drawn in is conducted firstly through the air cooler and subsequently through the heat exchanger and the adiabatic air cooler has at least one humidification means, which is arranged in the air cooler and which is composed of a moisture-absorbing material and a liquid feed, which feeds a liquid to the humidification means in order to keep the humidification means moist. In order that the most uniform possible wetting of the humidification means and higher heat exchange performance can be made possible without an impairment of the stability and the handleability of the humidification means and without oversaturation of the humidification means in the upper region with the liquid, provision is made whereby the humidification means comprises at least two mats arranged one above the other and whereby the liquid feed has a distributor device which is arranged above each mat and which serves for uniformly distributing the liquid onto the mats, wherein each distributor device is connected to a feed line via which the distributor devices can be charged with the liquid.
US12169099B2
A single inlet/single outlet modular counterflow cooling tower having two heat transfer sections installed atop two cold water basin sections and below three fan sections, each heat transfer section having its own water distribution system and draining into its own distinct cold water basin section. The water distribution system can provide flow over both heat transfer sections or over only a single section. The center fan support section supports the mechanical drive system for the fan and has a sealing plate at its bottom for sealing the gap between the two heat transfer sections.
US12169097B1
A centrifugal sand drying system improves the removal of sand from liquid through the inclusion of a centrifugal separator with a hopper and screw. The mixture of sand and liquid is directed in a continuous feed to the centrifugal separator where it rotates to isolate the sand from the liquid. The liquid then returns to the hopper while the sand is directed to the screw where it is extracted from the system.
US12169090B2
A control device controls a heating capacity during a heating operation and a defrosting capacity during a defrosting operation. The defrosting capacity of the first refrigeration cycle unit is determined to fall within a range satisfying a first determination condition and within a range satisfying a second determination condition. The first determination condition is a condition that a sum of a load capacity of a load device when the first defrosting start condition is satisfied, and the defrosting capacity of the first refrigeration cycle unit does not exceed the heating capacity of a second refrigeration cycle unit. The second determination condition is a condition that a sum of an inter-unit defrosting interval and a defrosting period of the first refrigeration cycle unit does not exceed a shortest defrosting interval of the second refrigeration cycle unit.
US12169078B2
A heating unit for heating fluid is described having a first manifold having at least one inlet, a second manifold connected to the first manifold and having at least one outlet, and a third manifold. The heating unit also includes one or more heating systems which extend from the third manifold to the first manifold via the second manifold, where the one or more heating systems have an inner tube and an outer tube. Further, the heating unit includes a fluid flow path from the at least one inlet to the at least one outlet via the first manifold, an area between the inner tube and outer tube, the interior of the inner tube and the second manifold.
US12169073B2
A breezeless structure and an air conditioner are provided. The breezeless structure has an air dispersing structure, which has a stationary blade assembly and a rotating member spaced apart from each other in an air-flowing direction. The rotating member is rotatable relative to the stationary blade assembly. The stationary blade assembly has a plurality of stationary blades spaced apart from each other in a circumferential direction of the stationary blade assembly. The rotating member has a plurality of rotating blades spaced apart from each other in a circumferential direction of the rotating member. Each rotating blade is obliquely disposed to allow air to flow on opposite side walls of the rotating blade. Alternatively or additionally, each stationary blade is obliquely disposed to allow air to flow on opposite side walls of the stationary blade.
US12169070B2
A deflector assembly in a cooking appliance door includes a fin with a directing flange and a projection. The projection extends toward the central panel and is configured to concentrate cool air flow within the channels of the cooking appliance door. The directing flange cooperates with a tab to define a single opening through which the cool air is concentrated and directed toward an upper portion of the cooking appliance door.
US12169062B2
An illumination device includes a spool body having a top flange extending from a perimeter of a first end of the spool body and a bottom flange extending from the perimeter of a second end of the spool body opposite the first end of the spool body, a rope light selectively wrapped around the spool body, and a power source disposed with the spool body and electrically coupled to the rope light such that the power source causes the rope light to emit light. An end of the rope light may be secured to the spool body and a second send of the rope light may include an attachment device for attaching the rope light to a rope or like support. Circuitry components may be configured to electrically couple the power source to the rope light and control an illumination mode of the rope light.
US12169059B2
A lighting strip has a printed circuit board with one or more perforated lines at which the printed circuit board length may be adjusted by breaking off an end portion of the printed circuit board. A first layer has a first set of conductive tracks and a second layer has a second set of conductive tracks corresponding to the first set of conductive tracks. Each conductive track of the second set is vertically aligned and positioned over the corresponding conductive track of the first set. An array of contact terminals is provided on a third layer. A plurality of lighting elements is disposed along the lighting strip, each electrically connected to a respective pair of the contact terminals. The lighting strip further comprises a set of vias connecting each conductive track of the first set to the corresponding conductive track of the second set.
US12169048B2
A linear light apparatus includes a light strip, a main bracket, two end covers and a bottom holder. The light passing cover has two side arc openings and two lateral bottom edges. The two lateral bottom edges of the light passing cover are respectively attached to two lateral walls of the main bracket. The ladder groove has a central surface and two tilt surfaces. The two tilt surfaces respectively extend from top edges of the two lateral walls to lower the central surface below a bottom line of the side arc opening. The two end covers respectively have a top part and a bottom part. The top parts of the two end covers respectively cover the arc openings of the light passing cover. The bottom parts of the two end covers respectively cover the lateral groove.
US12169046B2
A pressure vessel is provided that has a structural shell formed by winding filaments upon a substantially cylindrical form. The structural shell has a first filament and a second filament. The first filament includes of a first material. The first filament is wound about the form in a primarily hoop direction. The second filament includes a second material. The second material is different from the first material. The second filament is wound about the form in a primarily helical direction. The first filament and second filament are interwoven in a layer upon the form.
US12169039B2
A tamper-resistant hydraulic connection may include a fitting that has a flange, a head, and a central body disposed between the flange and the head. The head may have lobes that protrude radially relative to the central body. The fitting may be inserted into a port where a fluid-tight connection is formed. A central opening of the port includes pockets where the lobes of the head are retained, with the pockets preventing rotation and longitudinal retreat of the lobes. An elastic member disposed on the fitting may be compressed longitudinally between the flange of the fitting and the port. The fitting and the port may be sized and shaped such that assembly of the tamper-resistant hydraulic connection requires pushing the head into the central opening longitudinally past a first radially-extending plane where the pockets are located, rotating the head, and moving the head longitudinally back into the first radially-extending plane.
US12169026B2
Valve control device (100) for a coolant circuit of a motor vehicle, said valve control device (100) comprising a first valve (120) having an assigned first functional element (125) comprising a first engagement unit (122), a second valve (150) having an assigned second functional element (155) comprising a second engagement unit (152), wherein the first valve (120) and the second valve (150) in terms of the switch position thereof are configured so as to be variable by rotating the respective assigned functional element (125, 155), a locking mechanism (200) comprising an entrainment installation ( ), wherein the locking mechanism (200) is configured so as to be able to be driven by means of a drive (300), wherein the locking mechanism (200) in a rotating movement, by means of the entrainment installation (210) engaging in the first engagement unit (122), is configured for transferring the first functional element (125) from a first switch position to a second switch position, and/or, by means of the entrainment installation (210) engaging in the second engagement unit (152), is configured for transferring the second functional element (155) from a first switch position to a second switch position, and wherein the engagement unit (122) of the first functional element (125) comprises a first number of engagement contours (123), and the engagement unit (152) of the second functional element (125) comprises a second number of engagement contours (153), wherein the first number differs from the second number.
US12169022B2
A piston compressor includes a crankcase (11), a crankshaft (12), connecting rods (13), a crosshead (14) with an arranged piston rod (15) and a piston (16), dry-running guided in a cylinder (17). Valves (18) are provided. A piston rod sealing device (19), around the piston rod between the cylinder (17) and the crankcase, includes a gland device (22), arranged in a gland housing (21), inserted into a piston compressor housing (20). The gland device includes a gland jacket (24) pushed into a gland (23) limiting, with the piston rod, a sealing gap (25), which is open over a common longitudinal section, has a width in the μm range and allows a leakage flow (26) of the compressed medium therethrough. The gland and the gland jacket are formed of different materials with a resulting coefficient of thermal expansion essentially the same as the material of the piston rod.
US12169018B1
Systems and methods for gear cooling. In one example, the gear cooling system includes a spray tube positioned within a central opening that is included in a first gear. The spray tube includes an oil outlet, the oil outlet is positioned within a smaller diameter section of the central opening, the smaller diameter section is axially offset from an outer toothed portion of the first gear, and the central opening includes a larger diameter section that is positioned interior to the outer toothed portion of the first gear.
US12168999B2
A position sensor includes a plurality of E-shaped ferromagnetic cores arranged to define a circular opening therethrough to receive a shaft. Each E-shaped ferromagnetic core has a plurality of teeth, wherein adjacent E-shaped ferromagnetic cores of the arranged plurality of E-shaped ferromagnetic cores have an overlapping tooth. The position sensor further includes a frame surrounding the arranged plurality of E-shaped ferromagnetic cores, with the E-shaped ferromagnetic cores coupled to the frame.
US12168994B2
This application provides a rotating mechanism, a support apparatus, and a terminal with a foldable screen. A problem that a rotating part with a large volume affects lightening and thinning of an existing terminal with a foldable screen is resolved. A transmission assembly is in a transmission connection to a first swing arm and a second swing arm, so that the first swing arm and the second swing arm rotate between a folded position and an unfolded position. When the first swing arm and the second swing arm rotate from the folded position to the unfolded position, a connection plate moves in a direction away from the shaft cover, and when the first swing arm and the second swing arm rotate from the unfolded position to the folded position, the connection plate moves in a direction close to the shaft cover.
US12168982B2
A portable blower fan assembly that includes a housing that forms a pair of air tunnels. The pair of air tunnels are configured to provide a first airflow path across a surface in a downward direction. The portable blower fan assembly further includes a pair of fan assemblies. Each fan assembly is positioned within one of the air tunnels with a downward angle. The portable blower fan assembly further includes a power supply that is configured to provide electrical power to the first motor and the second motor.
US12168972B2
A method of determining a value of a pitch speed for a pitch actuator of at least one rotor blade of a wind turbine includes: providing a quantity being indicative of a value of a bearing moment of the rotor blade; determining the value of a pitch speed based on the quantity and a reference quantity indicative of a reference value of the bearing moment of the rotor blade such that, if the quantity indicates that the value of a bearing moment of the rotor blade is below the reference value of the bearing moment of the rotor blade, the value of a pitch speed is determined to be above a reference value of the pitch speed.
US12168969B2
A Current Energy Collection Unit (1) is provided, having a turbine (2) housed within a tubular trapezoid wall (3), forming a densely opaque circular area perpendicular to a natural direction of an upstream water volume flow line (11) capable of causing a variation in the momentum of an upstream water mass (10) absorbing energy from the upstream water mass.
US12168962B2
A method for controlling a dual fuel engine system includes estimating a total indicated engine load, where the total indicated engine load is based on a sum of a measured engine power and a power loss estimate. The method further includes determining a total fueling amount based on an engine speed and the total indicated engine load, where the total fueling amount includes a gas fueling amount and a diesel fueling amount. The method also includes controlling the dual fuel engine system using the total fueling amount.
US12168948B2
A forklift includes a downstream exhaust pipe that releases engine exhaust gas into the atmosphere. The downstream exhaust pipe includes a tail pipe extending in a width direction of a vehicle body. A closure part that closes a tail pipe's opening is provided at the tail pipe's tip end portion. A first exhaust port which discharges the exhaust gas rearward from the vehicle body and a second exhaust port which discharges the exhaust gas rearward from the vehicle body at the tail pipe's tip end side with respect to the first exhaust port are provided in the tail pipe's circumferential surface portion. The first exhaust port and the second exhaust port are disposed in a region where cooling air flows. A throttling part that changes a flow path area for the exhaust gas is disposed between the first exhaust port and the second exhaust port in the tail pipe.
US12168944B1
The present invention provides an absorption-desorption based Carnot battery designed to achieve a high-efficiency, large-density, and low-loss conversion battery system for power-heat-power purpose. Based on the rational operating strategies, the current Carnot battery system design demonstrates outstanding energy storage density and round-trip efficiency, while the self-discharging loss is minimal even after prolonged standby time. The battery system of the present invention also enables further designs with flexibility in adopting different operating modes for versatile functions to provide electricity, heating, and cooling.
US12168941B2
A turbine including a casing and a nozzle including an outer metallic shroud secured to the casing, an inner metallic shroud, and a plurality of nozzle segments made of CMC forming a crown extending between the outer shroud and the inner shroud, each segment including a strut, an inner platform, an outer platform and at least one airfoil having a hollow profile traversed by the strut, wherein for each airfoil, the outer platform includes an axial stop extending in outward radial protrusion from the outer platform, and the outer metallic shroud comprises a complementary axial stop extending in inward radial protrusion from the outer metallic shroud, the axial stop being upstream and axially bearing against the complementary axial stop, and machined with an angle of machining chosen to adjust the orientation of said at least one blade of the segment with respect to the axial direction.
US12168929B2
A method, system, and taggants (tracers) for quantifying zonal flow in a multi-lateral well having a wellbore with a first lateral and second lateral. The technique includes flowing first produced fluid from a formation via the first lateral into production tubing providing a first taggant through a first dosing tubing to the first lateral, and flowing second produced fluid from the formation via the second lateral into the production tubing and providing a second taggant through a second dosing tubing to the second lateral. A produced stream having the first produced fluid and the second produced fluid flows uphole through the production tubing and discharges from the wellbore. The produced stream may be analyzed to measure an amount of the first taggant in the produced stream and an amount of the second taggant in the produced stream.
US12168922B2
Tuning fracture hydraulic conductivity can be provided so that high hydraulic conductivity in high temperature zones and low hydraulic conductivity in low temperature zones can be defined in enhanced geothermal systems (EGS). Uniform thermal gradient along flow paths can be provided or defined to help provide such conductivity zones. Experimentation performed to evaluate embodiments showed that embodiments could prevent appearance of dominant flow paths between the wells and maintain high heat extraction rates. Embodiments can greatly increase cumulative heat extraction. Embodiments can also be provided for application solely to the injection wells. Other embodiments can position tuning agents between the wells and still help provide control of the fluid flow in the reservoir and enhance heat extraction.
US12168917B2
Systems and methods for controlling a vertical pumping unit are provided. The method includes a self-learning phase and a running phase, wherein the self-learning phase includes obtaining a self-learning result and the running phase includes controlling a motor of the vertical pumping unit to run according to the self-learning result and preset running parameters. The method enables the vertical pumping unit to adjust running parameters of the running phase according to the self-learning results, avoid the accumulation of errors effectively so that changes in stroke length and stroke frequency caused by the motor V-belt, load belt extension and retraction and other elastic links are limited to a minimum range so as to ensure the running accuracy of the vertical pumping unit.
US12168910B2
A method and apparatus for sealing a well conduit includes moving a plugging tool (21) to a first position in the well conduit, the plugging tool (21) comprising a perforating tool (12) and a hollow mandrel (8) with a heater (8) inside and a meltable material on the outside. The perforating tool (12) is actuated to create openings in the well conduit. The heater (8) is operated to melt or activate the material disposed on an exterior of the mandrel (9). The melted material is allowed to solidify in the conduit to form a plug and to flow into the openings to fill a cross-section of an annular space outside the conduit. A logging tool (2) may thereafter be inserted into the hollow mandrel (9) to check the integrity of the plug.
US12168909B1
A tubing hanger recovery tool and a recovery method are provided. The tubing hanger recovery tool includes a mandrel, a locking part and a hook claw part; a lower end face of the mandrel is in contact with an inner side of the locking part, and when the mandrel moves towards the tubing hanger, the locking part is squeezed and locked with the tubing hanger; the hook claw part surrounds the mandrel, and when the mandrel moves towards the tubing hanger, it drives the hook claw part to move towards the tubing hanger, and the hook claw part is clamped with the setting ring of the tubing hanger.
US12168901B1
A panel is supported by a track for movement along the track between a closed position and an open position, and is further supported by a pivot assembly that is configured to pivot the track and the panel.
US12168893B2
A slide latching system for latching a sliding door panel to a door frame includes a jamb strike, a latch assembly, and a handle set. The jamb strike is connected to the door frame. The latch assembly is connected to the sliding door panel, and has a latch member having a latch hook portion configured to engage the jamb strike. The latch hook portion is movable between a latched position and an unlatched position. The handle set is mounted to the sliding door panel. The handle set is drivably coupled to the latch assembly. The handle set is configured to facilitate both of a moving of the latch hook portion of the latch assembly to the unlatched position and a sliding of the sliding door panel in a first direction in a continuous motion applied to the handle set by a user.
US12168887B2
The present invention relates to a Door locking device (1) comprising a containment casing (I), having a window (34), a slider (5), comprising a locking portion (51), intended to engage with a door (91) of an appliance (9), wherein said slider (5) is contained in said containment casing (I) and wherein said slider (5) is capable of assuming a retracted position, in which said locking portion (51) is at least partially contained in said containment envelope (I), and an extracted position in which said locking portion (51) is at least partially extracted from said containment envelope (I), moving through said window (34), and a moving and controlling system (6, 7) of said slider (5), configured for allowing the passage of said slider (5) from said retracted position to said extracted position and vice-versa, characterized in that said containment casing (I) comprises a base (2), a containment intermediate element (3), couplable with said base (2), and a top lid (4), couplable with said containment intermediate element (3), wherein said moving and controlling system (6, 7) is arranged between said base (2) and said containment intermediate element (3) and wherein said slider (5) is interposed between said containment intermediate element (3) and said top lid (4).
US12168884B2
The innovation relates to a pool covering system that is usable as a flooring surface. The pool covering system includes brackets and support beams spanning the pool opening. The beams provide structural support to cross members and flooring placed on top of the beams. The pool covering system does not require significant drainage of the pool and does not damage the pool structure during installation and use.
US12168879B2
Described herein are methods for installing field-assembled flooring systems wherein the underlayment is a hybrid design that includes a combination of structural board and cementitious product. The hybrid design is configured to reduce or eliminate the curing time requirement after pouring the cementitious product (e.g., gypsum concrete). The field-assembled flooring systems can reduce or eliminate the chances of the onset of mold due to high moisture levels by removing the cementitious product from the prone areas and replacing it with structural boards. The structural boards (e.g., cellulose fiberboards) can be installed in non-critical areas such as underneath cabinets, around the perimeter of the floor, under bathtubs, in non-walk-in closets, anywhere drywall reaches the floor, or the like.
US12168878B2
In the field of decorative floor coverings, decorative panels are known having a MDF (Medium Density Board) or HDF (High Density Board) based core layer on top of which a decorative substrate is attached to provide the panels a desired appearance. The invention relates to a panel, in particular a decorative panel, a floor panel, a ceiling panel or a wall panel. The invention also relates to a floor covering consisting of a plurality of mutually coupled panels.
US12168876B2
Described herein is a cladding fixing system for affixing a cladding structure to a load-bearing substrate of a building having an insulation material, the total cross section of thermally conductive elements of the cladding fixing system extending from the insulation abutting surface of the base plate 100% or more of the insulation material body thickness is 500 mm2 or less per square metre of insulation material when installed, a cladding system including the cladding fixing system and an insulation material body, a method of attaching a cladding structure to a load-bearing substrate of a building using the cladding fixing system and system described herein and a building with a cladding system installed.
US12168872B2
Concrete suction anchor including a cylindrical structure (100) that has a lateral cylindrical wall and a longitudinal axis, wherein the cylindrical structure (100) is open at a bottom end and closed at a top end, wherein the cylindrical structure (100) defines a main cavity (115; 175; 730) open at the bottom end, wherein said lateral cylindrical wall of the cylindrical structure (100) includes a plurality of internal channels housing at least one pair of sets of post-tensioning tendons (125, 130), wherein a first set of post-tensioning tendons (125) is inclined with respect to said longitudinal axis by a first angle opposite to a second angle according to which a second set of post-tensioning tendons (130) is inclined with respect to said longitudinal axis, wherein each of said first and second angles has an absolute value larger than 0° and lower than 90°.
US12168866B2
A beam coupler adapted to couple two beams mounted side by side. One coupler comprises a central plate mounted to the first beam, comprising two central-plate side faces in the coupling orientation; and a longitudinal oblong hole providing a passage connecting the two side faces. The coupler also comprises a pair of side plates mounted to the second beam, each comprising an interior face to neighbor the central plate; an exterior face; and a circular side-plate hole providing a passage connecting the interior face with the exterior face. The coupler further comprises compression means applying an inward preload over the plates, comprising a body extending between the exterior faces through the circular and oblong holes. The oblong holes allow displacement of the body of the compression means therein in the longitudinal direction upon a displacement of the plates resulting from a deflection of the beams.
US12168854B2
Articles, such as sanitary tissue products, including fibrous structures, and more particularly articles including fibrous structures having a plurality of fibrous elements wherein the article exhibits differential cellulose content throughout the thickness of the article and methods for making same are provided.
US12168851B2
Disclosed are woven papermaking fabrics having a textured sheet contacting surface with machine and cross-machine direction topography. The machine direction (MD) topography may be imparted by substantially MD oriented protuberances comprising a warp strand supported by a shute strand. The cross-machine direction (CD) topography may be imparted by substantially CD oriented protuberances comprising a shute strand supported by a warp strand. The CD protuberances may extend continuously in the CD and intersect the MD oriented protuberances to form discrete pockets there between. The pockets may have a variety of shapes and size depending on the MD and CD oriented protuberance. In certain instances the pockets may be rectilinear and have a pocket depth greater than 1.0 mm and a pocket angle greater than 28 degrees.
US12168850B2
A forming fabric tape for a machine for producing and/or processing a fiber material web, the forming fabric tape including an upper fabric layer including upper longitudinal threads and upper transversal threads woven into the upper longitudinal threads; and a lower fabric layer including lower longitudinal threads and lower transversal threads woven into the lower longitudinal threads, wherein the upper fabric layer and the lower fabric layer are arranged on top of one another so that the upper fabric layer is oriented towards the fiber material web being produced when the fabric tape is being used in the machine and the lower fabric layer is oriented away from the fiber material web being produced, wherein a first distance A1 between two directly adjacent lower longitudinal threads is greater than a second distance A2 between two directly adjacent lower longitudinal threads.
US12168822B2
An apparatus and method for continuous operation for the production of conductors that include twisted or stranded wires or filaments includes supply payoff for providing a plurality of strands that have been work hardened. The wires or strands are annealed in line with the payoff and subsequently cooled by a chiller in line with the annealer for cooling the annealed strands output from the annealer to a predetermined temperature. A strander in line with the annealer and cooler or chiller is provided for imparting at least one twist to the annealed and cooled strands. Speed control, for example a dancer, is provided in line between the cooler and the strander for adjusting and controlling the speed or velocity of the strands moving along the line to maintain a speed compatible with the take up speed of the strander. The predetermined temperature is selected to be the ambient operating temperature of the strander for copper or aluminum cable.
US12168817B2
According to one embodiment, an alpha-beta titanium alloy comprises, in weight percentages: an aluminum equivalency in the range of about 6.7 to 10.0; a molybdenum equivalency in the range of 0 to 5.0; at least 2.1 vanadium; 0.3 to 5.0 cobalt; titanium; and incidental impurities.
US12168813B2
Provided are an electrokinetic device and method for in-situ leaching of uranium. The electrokinetic device for in-situ leaching of uranium includes an injection well, a pumping well, a positive electrode, a negative electrode, leaching solution, and a direct current power supply. Uranium ore is provided between the injection well and the pumping well, the negative electrode is arranged in the injection well, and the positive electrode is arranged in the pumping well. The leaching solution is injected from the injection well, flows through the uranium ore, and then is pumped from the pumping well for uranium extraction. The direct current power supply is respectively connected to the positive electrode and the negative electrode, and is configured to apply direct current between the positive electrode and the negative electrode to promote the pooling of uranium-carrying ions towards the pumping well.
US12168808B2
The present disclosure provides a method of making low carbon steel. The method includes tapping the liquid steel out of a primary steelmaking furnace. Deoxidizing the liquid steel. Transferring the deoxidized liquid steel to a ladle metallurgy furnace. Removing sulfur at the ladle metallurgy furnace. Adding fluxes and arcing the liquid steel to prevent sulfur reversion. Transferring the liquid steel from the ladle metallurgy furnace to an RH degasser for carbon removal. The removal of oxygen and sulfur prior to transferring the liquid steel to the RH degasser facilitates nitrogen removal and prevents carbon pick up during the step sulfur removal.
US12168806B2
A full-automatic detection apparatus and system for important zoonotic pathogen, and a control method therefor. The full-automatic detection apparatus for important zoonotic pathogen includes: a base capable of moving; an air collection device, configured to collect a to-be-detected sample in air along with the movement of the base; a nucleic acid detection and analysis device, configured to detect the to-be-detected sample collected by the air collection device to determine whether an infectious pathogen exists in the to-be-detected sample; an intelligent mobile device, configured to plan and control a moving path of the base; and a control device, configured to control the intelligent mobile device to plan and control the moving path of the base and to control a sampling period of the air collection device according to a control instruction of the terminal, and transmit a detection result from the nucleic acid detection and analysis device to the terminal.
US12168802B2
Disclosed herein are methods of diagnosing, and treating and/or preventing CD55-deficiency, hyperactivation of complement, angiopathic thrombosis and protein-losing enteropathy (CHAPLE). The method of diagnosing includes: providing a sample from a patient; performing an assay detecting at least one of at least one mutation in a DNA sequence of a CD55 gene, at least one mutation in a RNA sequence of a CD55 transcript, at least one mutation in a DNA sequence of a CD55 complementary-DNA (cDNA), CD55 protein, CD55 protein binding, complement deposition or combination thereof, and diagnosing the patient with CHAPLE. The method of treating and/or preventing at least one symptom of CHAPLE includes: administering an effective amount of a composition comprising at least one complement inhibitor to a subject in need thereof, wherein the composition is effective in treating or preventing at least on symptom of CHAPLE. The disclosure further relates to compositions effective at treating and/or preventing CHAPLE.
US12168800B2
Methods for evaluating microsatellite instability (MSI) analyze nucleic acid sequence reads corresponding to a plurality of marker regions for MSI. The marker regions may include long homopolymers and/or short tandem repeats (STRs). For a target homopolymer, a histogram of homopolymer signal values is calculated based on flow space signal measurements for the homopolymer region in the sequence reads. A score per marker based on features of the histogram of homopolymer signal values is determined for each marker region corresponding to the target homopolymers. For a target STR, the method includes calculating a histogram of repeat lengths for sequence reads corresponding to the marker region of the target STR. A score per STR marker is calculated based on features of the histogram of repeat lengths. A plurality of per marker scores may be combined to form a total MSI score for the sample.
US12168797B2
This disclosure provides methods, systems, compositions, and kits for the multiplexed detection of a plurality of analytes in a sample. In some examples, this disclosure provides methods, systems, compositions, and kits wherein multiple analytes may be detected in a single sample volume by acquiring a cumulative measurement or measurements of at least one quantifiable component of a signal. In some cases, additional components of a signal, or additional signals (or components thereof) are also quantified. Each signal or component of a signal may be used to construct a coding scheme which can then be used to determine the presence or absence of any analyte.
US12168789B2
The invention provides for systems, methods, and compositions for altering expression of target gene sequences and related gene products. Provided are structural information on the Cas protein of the CRISPR-Cas system, use of this information in generating modified components of the CRISPR complex, vectors and vector systems which encode one or more components or modified components of a CRISPR complex, as well as methods for the design and use of such vectors and components. Also provided are methods of directing CRISPR complex formation in eukaryotic cells and methods for utilizing the CRISPR-Cas system. In particular the present invention comprehends optimized functional CRISPR-Cas enzyme systems. In particular the present invention comprehends engineered new guide architectures and enzymes to be used in optimized Staphylococcus aureus CRISPR-Cas enzyme systems.
US12168787B2
A process of recovering oil, comprising (a) converting a starch-containing material into dextrins with an alpha-amylase; (b) saccharifying the dextrins using a carbohydrate source generating enzyme to form a sugar; (c) fermenting the sugar in a fermentation medium into a fermentation product using a fermenting organism; (d) recovering the fermentation product to form a whole stillage; (e) separating the whole stillage into thin stillage and wet cake; (e′) optionally concentrating the thin stillage into syrup; (f) recovering oil from the thin stillage and/or optionally the syrup, wherein a protease and a phospholipase are present and/or added during steps (a) to (c). Use of a protease and a phospholipase for increasing oil recovery yields from thin stillage and/or syrup in a fermentation product production process.
US12168785B2
Provided is a recombinant KOD polymerase, which is the following A) or B): the polymerase shown in A) is a protein having DNA polymerase activity that is obtained by modifying amino acid residues in at least one of the following 18 positions in a wild-type KOD DNA polymerase amino acid sequence: 675th, 385th, 710th, 674th, 735th, 736th, 606th, 709th, 347th, 349th, 590th, 676th, 389th, 589th, 680th, 384th, 496th and 383rd; the polymerase described by B) is a protein having DNA polymerase activity that is derived from A) by adding a tag sequence to an end of the amino acid sequence of the protein shown in A).
US12168774B2
Compositions and methods for controlling pests are provided. The methods involve transforming organisms with a nucleic acid sequence encoding an insecticidal protein. In particular, the nucleic acid sequences are useful for preparing plants and microorganisms that possess insecticidal activity. Thus, transformed bacteria, plants, plant cells, plant tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions are insecticidal nucleic acids and proteins of bacterial species. The sequences find use in the construction of expression vectors for subsequent transformation into organisms of interest including plants, as probes for the isolation of other homologous (or partially homologous) genes. The pesticidal proteins find use in controlling, inhibiting growth or killing Hemipteran, Lepidopteran, Coleopteran, Dipteran, fungal, and nematode pest populations and for producing compositions with insecticidal activity.
US12168771B2
The invention provides recombinant DNA molecules and constructs, as well as their nucleotide sequences, useful for modulating gene expression in plants. The invention also provides transgenic plants, plant cells, plant parts, and seeds comprising the recombinant DNA molecules operably linked to heterologous transcribable DNA molecules. Also provided are methods of the use of the recombinant DNA molecules and constructs and the transgenic plants, plant cells, plant parts, and seeds comprising the recombinant DNA molecules and constructs.
US12168759B2
A detergent composition is a detergent composition for removing temporary adhesive containing a silicone compound that is present on a substrate. The detergent composition contains: (A) an organic solvent: 75 to 99 parts by mass; (B) water: 0 to 5 parts by mass; and (C) an ammonium salt: 1 to 20 parts by mass (where (A)+(B)+(C)=100 parts by mass). The organic solvent does not contain an organic solvent having a hydroxy group and contains, in 100 parts by mass of the organic solvent, 50 parts by mass or more of an organic solvent having a heteroatom. The ammonium salt contains at least one kind of a hydroxide ion, a fluoride ion, and a chloride ion.
US12168750B2
A composition for lost circulation material (LCM) usable in subsurface well intervention includes particles of a hydrated superabsorbent polymer (SAP) mixed with an aqueous solution of a salt tolerant osmotic barrier polymer. A method for stopping fluid loss from a well into a formation penetrated by the well includes pumping a selected volume of the composition into the well until the selected volume is adjacent to the formation.
US12168745B2
(A) an organopolysiloxane having, per molecule, two groups each represented by formula (1) (R1 represents a C1-20 monovalent hydrocarbon group, R2 represents an oxygen atom or the like, R3 represents an acryloyloxyalkyl group or the like, and p and a respectively represent numbers satisfying 0-10 and 1-3); (B) a monofunctional (meth)acrylate compound not including a siloxane structure; (C) an organopolysiloxane resin which comprises a unit (a) represented by formula (2) (R1, R2, R3, a, and p are identical to those described above), a R43SiO1/2 unit (b) (in the formula, R4 represents a monovalent hydrocarbon group having 1-10 carbon atoms), and a SiO4/2 unit (c), and in which the mole ratio of the total of units (a) and (b) to unit (c) is in a range of 0.4 to 1.2:1; and (D) a photoinitiator.
US12168744B2
The subject matter of the invention is an adhesive tape, in particular a wrapping tape for sheathing cables (1) in automobiles, comprising a strip-type fabric backing (2, 3) that has at least one first layer (2) made of a woven fabric and a second layer (3) made of a nonwoven, the two layers being coupled together by a polymer layer (4) and/or by threads that penetrate both layers (2, 3), and comprising an adhesive layer (5) applied to at least one side of the backing (2, 3), characterised in that the nonwoven is produced from an aromatic polyamide.
US12168742B2
The inventive perforated tape is a masking tape that has an elongate tape member further having a polymer coating top layer, a biodegradable paper mask layer middle layer, and a biodegradable polymer perforated lining member contiguously coupled to a bottom surface of the paper mask layer, a plurality of hole members parallelly disposed laterally and longitudinally substantially covering the entire polymer perforated lining member. The polymer perforated lining member further includes a plurality of solid portions of the polymer perforated lining member disposed laterally and longitudinally between the plurality of hole members adapted to resist tear so the elongate tape member tears substantially perpendicularly to longitudinal sides of the elongate tape member along a user-selected one row of a plurality of linear rows of hole members. An adhesive compound is disposed substantially on the entire bottom surface of the perforated lining member.
US12168740B2
Hot melt adhesives comprising (i) styrene butadiene copolymer, (ii) olefin block copolymer (OBC), and (iii) water white hydrogenated hydrocarbon resin are described. The adhesives exhibit high optical clarity and are relatively clear over a wide range of temperatures. The adhesives also exhibit good adhesion at cold temperatures. Also described are laminates of the adhesive with polymeric films, such as adhesive labels that can be used in labeling containers. In addition, various goods such as containers labeled using the adhesives are described.
US12168739B2
A method of manufacturing an adhesive member includes providing, for a substrate, a resin composition having a viscosity of about 5 cP to about 50 cP, as measured according to JISK2283 method, at about 25° C. The resin composition is exposed to a first light to form a preliminary adhesive member having a curing rate of about 80% to about 98%. The preliminary adhesive member is exposed to a second light having a light integral/dose that is more than that of the first light to form an adhesive member. The preliminary adhesive member may have a loss tangent (tan δ) of about 0.2 to about 0.6 and may have a glass transition temperature of about −70° C. to −30° C. Accordingly, the preliminary adhesive member and adhesive member formed by the method of manufacturing an adhesive member may exhibit increased reliability.
US12168730B2
The present invention relates to an optical filter containing: an absorption layer containing a near-infrared absorbing dye (A) having a maximum absorption wavelength in dichloromethane being in a wavelength range of 850 to 1,100 nm and a transparent resin; and a reflection layer formed of a dielectric multilayer film, in which the near-infrared absorbing dye (A) satisfies the following Formulae (1) to (4). ABS400(A)DCM/ABSλmax(A)DCM<0.10 (1), ABS550(A)DCM/ABSλmax(A)DCM<0.04 (2), ABS400(A)TR/ABSλmax(A)TR<0.15 (3), and ABS550(A)TR/ABSλmax(A)TR<0.10 (4).
US12168727B2
Highly transparent (up to 92% light transmittance) wood composites have been developed. The process of fabricating the transparent wood composites includes lignin removal followed by index-matching polymer infiltration resulted in fabrication of the transparent wood composites with preserved naturally aligned nanoscale fibers. The thickness of the transparent wood composite can be tailored by controlling the thickness of the initial wood substrate. The optical transmittance can be tailored by selecting infiltrating polymers with different refractive indices. The transparent wood composites have a range of applications in biodegradable electronics, optoelectronics, as well as structural and energy efficient building materials. By coating the transparent wood composite layer on the surface of GaAs thin film solar cell, an 18% enhancement in the overall energy conversion efficiency has been attained.
US12168722B2
A resin producing method is a method of producing a resin with which an insulating structure formed on an outer peripheral portion of a conductor is impregnated, the method including: a filler mixing step of mixing a nanofiller at a ratio of 15 wt % or more with an epoxy resin to form a mixture; a shear mixing step of causing the mixture to be subjected to shear mixing; a diluent mixing step of mixing a reactive diluent that reduces a viscosity of the epoxy resin, with the mixture after the shear mixing step; and a curing agent mixing step of mixing an acid anhydride curing agent with the mixture after the diluent mixing step.
US12168721B2
An embodiment of the present invention provides a coating composition comprising a composite in which a dissociated natural polymer compound is bound onto at least a portion of the surface of acrylic polymer particles.
US12168717B2
The present disclosure discloses a semi-aromatic polyamide and a preparation method therefor. The semi-aromatic polyamide is obtained by polymerization reaction using a diamine, a dibasic acid and a monoacid as main raw materials while adding a special end-capping agent. The semi-aromatic polyamide prepared according to the present disclosure has good thermal stability, a yellowness index of less than 20, a glass transition temperature of 90° C. or above, and a melting point of 300° C. or above, and can be applied to spare parts for fuel pipelines in automobiles, and electronic and electrical industries such as LED panels.
US12168704B2
The present invention relates to a process for producing an aqueous polymer dispersion by free-radically initiated aqueous emulsion polymerization, and also to the aqueous polymer dispersions produced by the process and to the use of these as a binder, adhesive, sizing agent for fibers, for the production of coatings or for the production of a paper coating slip.
US12168703B2
Water-dispersible or water-dispersed polymers are made by reacting (i) an unsaturated monomer containing one or more cyclic carbonate groups, or (ii) an unsaturated or saturated oligomer or polymer containing a plurality of cyclic carbonate groups, with a tertiary amine in the presence of an acid, or with an acid in the presence of a tertiary amine, or in the presence of an acid and a tertiary amine, to provide a water-dispersible or water-dispersed monomer, oligomer or polymer. When step a) provides a monomer or oligomer, the monomer or oligomer is reacted with one or more monomers in the presence of an initiator to provide a water-dispersible or water-dispersed polymer. When step a) provides a polymer, the polymer is optionally used to support emulsion polymerization of one or more unsaturated monomers in the presence of an initiator to provide a water-dispersible or water-dispersed further polymer.
US12168701B2
The present disclosure relates to compositions comprising mixtures of hydroxypropyl-β-cyclodextrin, wherein the compositions may be isomerically purified. The disclosure also relates to methods of isomerically purifying a mixture of hydroxypropyl-β-cyclodextrins.
US12168700B2
The disclosure relates to compositions comprising isolated mitochondria or combined mitochondrial agents, and methods of treating disorders using such compositions.
US12168699B2
The invention provides anti-polymeric IgA (plgA) antibodies and methods of using the same.
US12168695B2
Disclosed are compositions and methods for targeted treatment of TAG-72-expressing cancers. In particular, bispecific antibodies are disclosed that are able to engage T-cells to destroy TAG-72-expressing malignant cells.
US12168689B2
An IgG1 Fc monomer, a preparation method therefor and an application thereof. Causing an Fc dimer of a novel IgG1 Fc monomer sequence for which an antibody IgG1 constant region is modified to become an Fc monomer by means of the modification on a human antibody IgG1 constant region Fc that uses antibody engineering technology, and maintaining an FcRn binding function; the present application has the feature of very low non-specific binding with unrelated proteins, and the main features of the Fc monomer comprise the T366, L368, P395, and K409 positions in a CH3 region of the constant region of the antibody having mutations, and the monomer being highly efficiently expressed in prokaryotic cells; the monomer may bind to FcRn by using a pH-dependent specific binding mode, and has the feature of very low non-specific binding. By using said Fc monomer, the same may be fused or coupled with various proteins, polypeptides, small molecules, nucleic acids and the like for different targets such that the fused or coupled molecules have the feature of being capable of binding to FcRn by using pH dependence.
US12168686B2
Compositions of TNF family of cytokines in covalently linked trimeric forms are disclosed. The resulting fusion proteins are secreted as disulfide bond—linked homotrimers, which are more stable in structure and therapeutically more efficacious than their native counterparts.
US12168681B2
This disclosure relates to IL-2 variants and methods of use thereof, including methods of treating or inhibiting a cancer or tumor. The IL-2 variants may have reduced ability in binding to or activating IL-2Rα. The IL-2 variants may retain the ability in binding to or activating IL-2Rβ and/or IL-2Rγ. In addition, the IL-2 variants may have decreased Treg activity but maintain the capacity to activate NK cells and T effector cells.
US12168674B1
The present disclosure provides reagent compounds, reactive biopolymeric compounds, and methods of making and using these materials for the rapid and efficient synthesis and purification of biopolymeric compounds at low cost. The materials and methods yield highly pure synthetic biopolymeric compounds, including synthetic oligonucleotides and polypeptides, and reduce or eliminate the need for toxic solvents in the synthetic process.
US12168672B2
Processed lignin comprising the elements carbon (C), hydrogen (H) and oxygen (O) in the following amounts: C in an amount of between 60 and 85% by weight, H in an amount of between 3.0 and 6.0% by weight, O in an amount of between 10 and 29% by weight, wherein the weight ratio C/H is at least 12.5, the ratio C/O is at least 2.5, the processed lignin comprises less than 0.1% by weight of total CI, a sulphur content below 1 g/kg, and a moisture content less than 3% by weight. A process to prepare the processed lignin comprising subjecting particles comprising lignin and cellulose and optionally hemicellulose to acidic hydrolysis using hydrochloric acid of at least 35%, subjecting the obtained residue to a high temperature treatment of between 300 and 500° C. under inert gaseous atmosphere to a total CI level of below 0.1% by weight, after drying.
US12168665B2
Provided are compounds of formula (I): or a cosmeceutically acceptable or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. Additionally provided are pharmaceutical and/or cosmeceutical compositions and formulations comprising the compounds and/or the cosmeceutically acceptable or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, therapeutic and/or cosmetic methods using same for modulating (e.g., inhibiting) CREB binding protein (CBP)/β-catenin mediated signaling in treating skin related diseases, conditions or disorders (e.g., dermatitis, psoriasis, scarring, alopecia, etc.) mediated by aberrant CBP/β-catenin signaling, and cosmetic methods for treating skin conditions (e.g., aging, etc.) mediated by aberrant CBP/β-catenin signaling.
US12168663B2
The present invention provides novel compounds of Formula (I), and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, solvates, hydrates, polymorphs, co-crystals, tautomers, stereoisomers, isotopically labeled derivatives, prodrugs, and compositions thereof. Also provided are methods and kits involving the inventive compounds or compositions for treating and/or preventing proliferative diseases (e.g., cancers (e.g., leukemia, acute lymphoblastic leukemia, lymphoma, Burkitt's lymphoma, melanoma, multiple myeloma, breast cancer, Ewing's sarcoma, osteosarcoma, brain cancer, neuroblastoma, lung cancer, colorectal cancer), benign neoplasms, diseases associated with angiogenesis, inflammatory diseases, autoinflammatory diseases, and autoimmune diseases) in a subject. Treatment of a subject with a proliferative disease using a compound or composition of the invention may inhibit the aberrant activity of a kinase, such as a cyclin-dependent kinase (CDK) (e.g., cyclin-dependent kinase 7 (CDK7)), and therefore, induce cellular apoptosis and/or inhibit transcription in the subject.
US12168661B2
A series of novel donor-acceptor type TADF luminogens have been designed with the aim of developing stable OLEDs with enhanced operational stability and improved color purity. These materials can be utilized in full color displays and lighting applications.
US12168654B2
The present invention discloses a pyrimidine derivative containing one deuterium atom, a preparation process thereof and a use thereof. It is demonstrated through in vivo and in vitro animal experiments that the antitumor activity of the pyrimidine derivative containing one deuterium atom provided in the disclosure is significantly superior to that of the positive drug Tepotinib, and the preparation process is simple and low in cost.
US12168651B1
An 9-(6-flouro-2-hydroxypyridin-3-yl)-10-(2-hydroxyethyl)-3,6-diphenyl-3,4,6,7,9,10-hexahydroacridine1,8(2H,5H)-dione compound, its synthesis, and its use as an antimicrobial agent.
US12168650B2
Crystalline forms of 3-(5-(2-hydroxy-2-methylpropoxy)-6-methylpyrazin-2-yl)-1H-indole-7-carbonitrile
This disclosure provides crystalline forms of an androgen receptor modulator, and methods of making and using these forms.
US12168642B2
The invention relates to a process for producing 4,4′-dichlorodiphenyl sulfoxide comprising: (I) reacting thionyl chloride, chlorobenzene and aluminum chloride in a molar ratio of thionyl chloride:chlorobenzene:aluminum chloride of 1:(6 to 9):(1 to 1.5) at a temperature in the range from 0 to below 20° C., forming an intermediate reaction product and hydrogen chloride; (II) mixing aqueous hydrochloric acid and the intermediate reaction product at a temperature in the range from 70 to 110° C. to obtain an organic phase comprising 4,4′-dichlorodiphenyl sulfoxide and an aqueous phase; (III) cooling the organic phase comprising the 4,4′-dichlorodiphenyl sulfoxide to a temperature below the saturation point of 4,4′-dichlorodiphenyl sulfoxide to obtain a suspension comprising crystallized 4,4′-dichlorodiphenyl sulfoxide; (IV) solid-liquid-separation of the suspension to obtain a residual moisture containing solid 4,4′-dichlorodiphenyl sulfoxide comprising crystallized 4,4′-dichlorodiphenyl sulfoxide and mother liquor.
US12168638B2
A system and a process for dimerizing cyclopentadiene (CPD) including producing a C6+C7 rich bottoms stream and a C5 rich side draw from a debutanizer, where the C5 rich side draw and at least a portion of the C6+C7 rich bottoms stream are directed to a dimerizer where the CPD is thermally dimerized to dicyclopentadiene (DCPD). DCPD is more stable than CPD and thus safer to handle.
US12168637B2
A fluoropropene composition comprising Z-1,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene, E-1,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene, 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene, and optionally 1,1,1,3,3-pentafluoropropane wherein the 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene being present in an amount of 0.001 to 1.0%. A method of producing the fluoropropene, methods for using the fluoropropene and the composition formed are also disclosed.
US12168633B2
A heat-insulating and flame-retardant nano-composite sheet and a preparation method thereof are provided. The preparation method includes the following steps: S1: adding aerogel slurry, a flame retardant, an opacifying agent, fumed silica, high-silica glass fiber, and an additive A into a stirring tank; and stirring until uniformly mixed to acquire pasty composite slurry; S2: filling a glue tray of a roller coating device with the composite slurry acquired in step S1; and scrape-coating surfaces of a plurality of layers of a base material with the composite slurry by using discharging assemblies of the roller coating device; S3: drawing and collecting the plurality of layers of the base material acquired in step S2 at a compounding position; and pressurizing to acquire a semi-finished product; and S4: drawing the semi-finished product acquired in step S3 onto a coating line; and carrying out high-temperature drying to acquire the heat-insulating and flame-retardant nano-composite sheet.
US12168625B2
A method for manufacturing an optical fiber includes: gripping a preform by a gripper that includes an aligner; forming a bare fiber by melting the preform in a melting furnace; cooling the bare fiber by blowing gas in a cooler; applying a resin and coating an outer circumference of the bare fiber; curing the resin; acquiring input information that changes a flow rate of the gas blown to the bare fiber in the cooler; and adjusting based on the input information an entry position of the bare fiber into the cooler by controlling the aligner and moving the preform.
US12168609B2
The present invention describes an improved catalytic reactor system with an improved catalyst that transforms CO2 and low carbon H2 into low-carbon syngas with greater than an 80% CO2 conversion efficiency, resulting in the reduction of plant capital and operating costs compared to processes described in the current art. The inside surface of the adiabatic catalytic reactors is lined with an insulating, non-reactive surface which does not react with the syngas and effect catalyst performance. The improved catalyst is robust, has a high CO2 conversion efficiency, and exhibits little or no degradation in performance over long periods of operation. The low-carbon syngas is used to produce low-carbon fuels (e.g., diesel fuel, jet fuel, gasoline, kerosene, others), chemicals, and other products resulting in a significant reduction in greenhouse gas emissions compared to fossil fuel derived products.
US12168606B2
The present invention relates to a method for molten metal pyrolysis of hydrocarbons to produce hydrogen gas and carbon. Liquid salt is used to separate produced carbon from the molten metal and to facilitate isolation of produced carbon.
US12168603B2
A complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) device embedded with micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) components in a MEMS region is disclosed. The MEMS components, for example, are infrared (IR) thermosensors. The MEMS sensors are integrated on the CMOS device monolithically after CMOS processing. For example, the MEMS sensors are formed over a BEOL dielectric of a CMOS device. The device is encapsulated with a CMOS compatible IR transparent cap to hermetically seal the MEMS sensors in the MEMS region.
US12168594B2
A crane is provided. The crane includes an acceleration sensor that detects the acceleration of a load, wherein a target velocity signal is converted into target location coordinates of the load, current location coordinates of a boom are calculated from a slewing angle, a luffing angle, and an expansion/contraction length, the spring constant of a wire rope is calculated from the previously calculated location of the load from a unit time earlier, the current location coordinates of the boom, and the current accelerations of the load as detected by the acceleration sensor, target location coordinates of the boom are calculated from the accelerations, the spring constant, and the target location coordinates of the load, and an actuator operation signal is generated.
US12168589B2
A sheet feed roller portion (12) feeds a plurality of bound sheets (S1) to a conveying path (18). The ultrasonic sensor (19) detects a voltage value that changes according to a thickness of the sheet (S1) at a measurement position (P2) on the conveying path (18). A determination processing portion (53) determines whether or not a voltage difference between voltage values of the sheet (S1) detected by the ultrasonic sensor (19) is equal to or greater than a preset threshold value. A light amount adjustment processing portion (54) adjusts a light amount of light emitted from a CIS sensor (23) and irradiated onto the sheet (S1) when the determination processing portion (53) determines that the voltage difference is equal to or greater than the threshold value.
US12168568B2
A tipper assembly includes a base configured to couple to a tailgate of the refuse vehicle and an actuator assembly comprising an actuator and a transmission device. The actuator may be coupled to the transmission device and may be configured to provide an input to the transmission device. The transmission device may be configured to reduce a speed of the input. The tipper assembly further includes an arm extending from and pivotally coupled to at least one of the actuator assembly or the base and an implement coupled to the arm. The implement may be configured to engage with a refuse container and facilitate the dumping of contents within the refuse container into an opening in the tailgate.
US12168566B2
A packaging unit for one or more of transport or storage of at least one organic peroxide. The packaging unit comprises one or more outer container, such as a transport container and/or a storage container. The packaging unit may also comprise an inner container. The outer container and/or the inner container is filled with the at least one organic peroxide. The packaging unit also comprises one or more extinguishing agent container filled with an extinguishing agent. The extinguishing agent container may be at least one bag and/or at least one bottle. The extinguishing agent container is separately introduced into one or more of a receiving area of the outer container or the inner container. The extinguishing agent container is removable from the outer container. The extinguishing agent container may be detachably connected to or not connected to the outer container, or the extinguishing agent container may be detachably connected to or not connected to the inner container. The extinguishing agent is released from the extinguishing agent container by heat-induced melting, bursting, burning or tearing of the extinguishing agent container.
US12168564B2
The present disclosure relates generally to tension-activated, expanding articles, films, and sheets including a multi-slit pattern. In some embodiments, these articles, films, and/or sheets are used as cushioning films and/or packaging materials. The present disclosure also relates to methods of making and using these tension-activated, expanding articles, films, and sheets.
US12168563B2
A packing member includes first and second members. The first member includes a first base surface portion intersecting a first direction and first and second side surface portions that are folded to intersect a second direction from both ends of the first base surface portion, the second member includes a second base surface portion, and third and fourth side surface portions that are folded to intersect a third direction from both ends of the second base surface portion. The third and fourth side surface portions are folded on the same side as the first and second side surface portions. The second member is coupled to the first member so that the first base surface portion is positioned between a third folding line and a tip end of the third side surface portion and positioned between a fourth folding line and a tip end of the fourth side surface portion.
US12168561B2
A product mailer with an envelope and a first card positioned within the envelope. The first card has a bottom surface and a plurality of containers mounted to the bottom surface of the first card. Each of the containers mounted to the first card defines a cavity dimensioned to hold a respective product. A second card is positioned within the envelope. The second card has a bottom surface facing the bottom surface of the first card. A plurality of containers are mounted to the bottom surface of the second card. Each of the containers mounted to the second card defines a cavity dimensioned to hold a respective product. The containers mounted to the first card are offset from the containers mounted to the second card.
US12168551B2
Embodiments of the present invention include food and beverage packaging utilizing heat seal technology, and specifically include food and beverage containers with end closures having seals or liners and snap-fit closure mechanisms. In some embodiments, the food and beverage containers and the end closures are metal. In further embodiments, the food and beverage containers include a domed portion on the bottom closed end. The end closures can snap onto the food and beverage containers such that the packaging is reclosable. Moreover, the sealed packaging with reclosable features can retain a variety of internal pressures including pressures higher than possible with the heat seal alone.
US12168525B2
A composite-material aircraft structure includes: a laminated structure formed by laminating composite-material layers; and a curved structure having a circumferential length difference in a longitudinal direction. The laminated structure is maintained in the entire part including the curved structure. In each of the composite-material layers, the reinforced fiber is constituted by a single continuous fiber not including a joint portion and includes a partial slit portion and a notch portion that is the slit portion in an open state.
US12168523B2
This application discloses an apparatus and method for displaying pilot control authority. This apparatus and method include using a controller to identify a condition of an aircraft and determine a limitation in pilot control authority. Using this, an indicator on a display may show a visual representation of a pilot control authority, the limitations thereof, and a pilot input.
US12168518B2
An environmental control system includes an ambient air conduit and a bleed air conduit, an electric compressor connected to the ambient air conduit and a mechanical compressor connected to the electric compressor. The electric compressor is supported for rotation independent of the mechanical compressor. A turbine is operatively connected to the mechanical compressor, the turbine connected to both the ambient air conduit and the bleed air conduit to provide conditioned air to a conditioned air conduit. Computer program products and methods of providing conditioned air to conditioned air loads are also described.
US12168516B2
An aircraft lavatory monument is provided that includes a first lavatory including a first door providing access to the first lavatory from an aisle of an aircraft; a second lavatory proximate the first lavatory, the second lavatory including a second door providing access to the second lavatory from the aisle of the aircraft; and a movable wall disposed between the first lavatory and the second lavatory, the movable wall including a latching mechanism positioned on an exterior edge of the movable wall and accessible from the aisle of the aircraft, where the latching mechanism, responsive to being in a locked position, causes the movable wall to be positioned at a first position separating the first lavatory from the second lavatory and providing privacy therebetween, and where the latching mechanism, responsive to being in an unlocked position, allows the movable wall to collapse thereby forming an enlarged bathroom space.
US12168514B2
An interior aircraft lighting assembly comprises: at least one infrared lighting device for emitting infrared light; at least one further lighting device for emitting visible light; a lighting assembly controller for controlling an operation of the at least one infrared lighting device and of the at least one further lighting device; a supplementary infrared lighting device controller; and a power supply network, which is configured for supplying electric power from the lighting assembly controller to the at least one further lighting device. The supplementary infrared lighting device controller is tapped into the power supply network. The lighting assembly controller is configured to provide an electric trigger pulse on the power supply network for activating the at least one infrared lighting device.
US12168513B2
An in-flight risk management system includes an eye sensor, a seat sensor, and one or more in-flight risk management computers that perform operations including: obtaining history information for a flight crew member, obtaining flight information associated with a flight on which the flight crew member will be present, determining, based on the history information and the flight information, a predicted fatigue profile for the flight crew member, determining, based on the predicted fatigue profile for the crew member, one or more fatigue indicator profiles for the flight crew member, obtaining, from at least one of the eye sensor or seat sensor, one or more measured fatigue indicator values associated with the flight crew member, generating, based on the one or more measured fatigue indicator values, one or more updated fatigue indicator profiles, and generating, based on the one or more updated fatigue indicator profiles, an updated predicted fatigue profile.
US12168511B2
A flow body for an aircraft is disclosed having a stiffening structure and a flow surface at least partially enclosing the stiffening structure, the flow surface having a leading edge and a trailing edge at a distance to each other in a chordwise direction, the flow body including a first heating device attached to or integrated into the flow surface in a first chordwise section, a second heating device attached to or integrated into the surface body in a second chordwise section. The first chordwise section and the second chordwise section are distanced from each other, the first chordwise section is closer to the leading edge than the second chordwise section, and at least the second heating device comprises an electric heater.
US12168497B1
A hydrofoil board having a hydrofoil and individually controllable flaps configured to be controlled to stabilize the board in a level position even when incurring waves. The flaps are spaced from the hydrofoil to generate a gap, and direct fluid flowing under the hydrofoil through the gap, and over the flaps. The flaps control the pitch and direction of the hydrofoil board when propelled in motion. A processor uses an internal measurement unit (IMU) to obtain orientation and acceleration information of the hydrofoil board. A global positioning system (GPS) unit is also used as an additional speed and location sensor. The processor combines IMU data with a user/rider's input, such as selected speed and direction via handheld wireless controller, and individually controls the flap motors to position the flaps, and the propulsion motor to set speed. In one example, the controller is configured to bring the hydrofoil board to a complete and stabile stop.
US12168495B2
An operating device for a human-powered vehicle includes a base member and an operating member. The base member includes a first end portion, a second end portion, a base body, and an accommodating structure. The first end portion is configured to be coupled to a handlebar. The second end portion is opposite to the first end portion. The base body is configured to accommodate at least one of a hydraulic unit. The accommodating structure is configured to accommodate at least one of circuitry accommodating part and a power-supply accommodating part. The operating member is pivotally coupled to the base member about a pivot axis. The accommodating structure is a separate member from the base body. The accommodating structure is detachably attached to the base body at the second end portion.
US12168494B2
A conveyance seat includes a saddle-type seat on which an occupant sits to straddle and a seat height adjustment unit which is attached below the seat and is able to adjust a height position of the seat. The seat height adjustment unit includes a rotation link which rotates together with the seat with respect to a chassis to adjust a height position of the seat, an upper link support member that is provided between the seat and the rotation link and is used so that an upper end portion of the rotation link is attached thereto, a lower link support member that is provided between the rotation link and the chassis and is used so that a lower end portion of the rotation link is attached thereto, and a flexible cover member that covers the rotation link from the outside in a front to back direction of the seat and a width direction of the seat.
US12168492B2
A vehicle corner module (VCM) is provided for regulating motion of a host vehicle which comprises a vehicle-on-board vehicle-controller. The VCM comprises a sub-frame mountable to a reference frame of the host vehicle; a wheel-hub assembly comprising a wheel-hub; VCM-sub-systems mediating between the sub-frame and the wheel-hub assembly, e.g., a drive subsystem, a steering subsystem, a suspension subsystem and/or a braking subsystem; and an VCM-onboard VCM-controller, comprising one or more processors and a computer-readable medium storing program instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to establish a communication link with a vehicle-controller, including electronically transferring information about the VCM from the VCM-controller to the vehicle-controller, and to perform, in response to an installation of the VCM on a vehicle, a post-installation validation-process that includes validating the VCM-subsystems and communicating a result of the validating to the vehicle-controller.
US12168489B2
The present invention provides an electric vehicle platform according to an embodiment of the present invention. The electric vehicle platform includes two side frames extending from front wheels to rear wheels of a vehicle, a plurality of support frames connecting the side frames, a driving motor disposed between two front wheels or between two rear wheels, a battery configured to supply power to the driving motor, a controller configured to control the driving motor and the battery, and a cover assembly connected to the side frames and the support frames so as to cover the driving motor, the battery, and the controller. Here, the cover assembly is divided into a first area defined above the front wheels, a second area defined between the front wheels and the rear wheels, a third area covering the battery and the controller, and a fourth area defined above the rear wheels.
US12168478B2
A vehicle body structure includes a system of connected unitized body structure components, with at least one of the system of connected unitized body structure components including a hollow portion.
US12168476B2
A pillar for a vehicle including at least two different localized areas of different tensile strengths. The pillar includes a body defining a width that merges into sidewalls at a transition. The body having a first tensile strength and the transition has a second tensile strength, wherein the first tensile strength is smaller than the second tensile strength. The variety in tensile strength resulting from at least one of varying the material treatment and varying the gauge. The pillar is press-hardened until it reaches a tensile strength of 1500 MPa to 2000 Mpa.
US12168472B2
A steering device includes: an upper column having a cylindrical shape that is disposed on a radially outer side of a steering shaft; a lower column having a cylindrical shape that is fitted to the upper column and is capable of relatively moving in an axial direction with respect to the upper column; an attachment portion that is attached to the upper column and provided with a column long hole; a column bracket that includes a side plate portion located on a side of the upper column and is attached to a vehicle body; a liner slot that is inserted into the column long hole of the attachment portion and restricts an axial movement; and a pin that extends along a vehicle width direction and penetrates through the side plate portion and the liner slot, in which the liner slot is provided with a through-hole through which the pin penetrates.
US12168470B2
The present disclosure relates to an adjustable steering column for a motor vehicle, comprising a support unit by which a positioning unit is adjustably held, and an adjustment device which is designed to adjust the positioning unit relative to the support unit. Associated with the steering column is a control unit which is designed to receive a signal, to evaluate the signal in terms of a predefined release condition, and to produce a release state of the steering column when the signal meets the release condition, and to produce a locked state of the steering column when the signal does not meet the release condition. Adjustment of the positioning unit is thus enabled exclusively in the release state.
US12168463B2
A driving assistance device reflects, in autonomous driving control on a vehicle, a driving characteristic of a driver who drives the vehicle learned during manual driving of the vehicle. The driving assistance device includes a storage that stores information on an individual risk potential set for the vehicle by learning a risk sensed by the driver for each of one or more obstacles during the manual driving, a vehicle risk calculator that sets, for the vehicle, a vehicle risk map that reflects the individual risk potential of an occupant of the vehicle during autonomous driving of the vehicle, and a driving condition setter that sets a driving condition for the autonomous driving of the vehicle based on information on the vehicle risk map and information on an obstacle risk map that reflects an obstacle risk potential set for the each of the one or more obstacles.
US12168457B2
An autonomous driving apparatus and a method for generating a precise map using the autonomous driving apparatus are configured to vary an application ratio of interpolation to precise map data to be stored depending on an accident risk on a corresponding road and a distance from a host vehicle during driving so as to optimize the precise map data to be stored. The autonomous driving apparatus includes an accident risk classification unit configured to vary the application ratio of interpolation to data and whether or not to store data acquired by applying interpolation to the data depending on the accident risk on the corresponding road and the distance from the host vehicle during driving, and an autonomous driving controller configured to generate the precise map data depending on the accident risk classification unit.
US12168456B2
This application is directed to aerial view generation for vehicle control. A vehicle obtains a forward-facing view of a road captured by a front-facing camera of a vehicle and applies a machine learning model to process the forward-facing view to predict determine a trajectory of the vehicle and a road layout based on a Frenet-Serret coordinate system of the road for the vehicle. The trajectory of the vehicle is combined with the road layout to predict an aerial view of the road, and the aerial view of the road is used to at least partially autonomously drive the vehicle. In some embodiments, the machine learning model is applied to process the forward-facing view to determine a first location of an obstacle vehicle in the Frenet-Serret coordinate system. The obstacle vehicle is placed on the aerial map based on the first location of the obstacle vehicle.
US12168444B2
A method for, during creep mode, performing gearshift in a vehicle powertrain comprising a combustion engine, a gearbox, and a clutch is provided. The method comprises, in response to a request for gearshift, disconnecting the combustion engine from the gearbox by opening the clutch. The method further comprises, when the combustion engine is disconnected from the gearbox, shifting the gearbox and controlling the speed of the combustion engine to a target speed. Said target speed constitutes a combustion engine speed corresponding a desired combustion engine torque for completing a torque ramp during closing of the clutch. The method further comprises connecting the combustion engine to the gearbox by closing the clutch. A control device configured to perform the method and a vehicle comprising the control device are also provided.
US12168433B2
A material processing apparatus has as a power supply system comprising an electrical power supply and a hydraulic power supply. The electrical power supply comprises a battery pack and an electrical generator. The power supply system is operable in different power supply modes in which said at least one battery and/or said electrical generator supply electrical power to the electrically powered components of the system.
US12168432B2
A vehicle system includes: a reprogramming slave device that is an electronic control unit (hereinafter, referred to as ECU) to be a target of updating an update file of a program stored among a plurality of the ECUs; a reprogramming master device that transmits the update file to the reprogramming slave device in response to a request from a terminal operable by a vehicle user to control updating of the program stored in the reprogramming slave device; and a determination unit that determines traveling propriety of a vehicle when the update file is rewritten in the reprogramming slave device. The vehicle device functions as the reprogramming master device, and includes: an obtaining unit that obtains the traveling propriety determined by the determination unit; and a notification command unit that commands a notification medium to notify information of the traveling propriety obtained by the obtaining unit.
US12168431B2
A brake system for a motor vehicle has electromechanical wheel brakes, a brake operating unit and a central brake control unit. The wheel brakes each have a local brake control unit. The central brake control unit is connected to the brake operating unit and the local brake control units via a first data connection. The brake operating unit is connected to the local brake control unit of at least one wheel brake via a second data connection. In a normal operating mode the central brake control unit determines at least one brake demand from first operating information, received via the first data connection and transmits control signals corresponding to the brake demand to the local brake control units. In a fallback operating mode the local brake control units actuate the respective wheel brakes basis on second operating information, received via the second data connection.
US12168426B2
An electromechanically drivable brake pressure generator for a hydraulic braking system of a vehicle. The electromechanically drivable brake pressure generator includes an electric motor, using which a driving rotational speed is generatable; a planetary gear, which is driven on the input side by the electric motor to convert the driving rotational speed of the electric motor into a slower rotational speed, the planetary gear including an annulus gear, accommodated rotatably fixedly thereto in an annulus gear receptacle; and a hydraulic module, which is connected to an output side of the planetary gear and using which a brake pressure is generatable. A torque support is situated between the annulus gear and the annulus gear receptacle, which extends in an axial direction to the planetary gear and which cooperates with a recess so that the annulus gear and the annulus gear receptacle are held rotatably fixedly with respect to one another.
US12168422B2
The deploying stepway includes a guide frame and a step assembly. The step assembly includes a plurality of steps, a step frame pivotally coupled to the steps and including a pivot assembly, and a proximal portion and a distal portion defined on either side of the pivot assembly. The deploying stepway is configured to transition among a stair configuration, in which the proximal and distal portions are aligned and extend from the guide frame at a declined stair angle, a ladder configuration in which the distal portion is pivoted relative to the proximal portion and extends from the guide frame at a declined ladder angle, and a stowed configuration in which the step assembly is at least substantially received in the guide frame. The methods include deploying the deploying stepway from the stowed to the stair configuration and transitioning the deploying stepway from the stowed to the ladder configuration.
US12168413B1
A device includes a body structure, a seat assembly that is connected to the body structure, and an inflatable structure. The inflatable structure includes one or more surfaces that are configured to react forces by engaging with a first feature to control motion of a second feature.
US12168411B2
CAPROP (Tools Hood): It is a tool box located at the top rear of the cart. The intention is to equip it with the necessary tools to make it independent. The flap covering the CAPROP tool box opens and is secured with a double leg hinge, exposing different attachments, deployed in their particular spaces. The flap of the tool box closes with a twist lock with key. It has a night work led bulb inside and a red emergency light on top of the flap outside. All those tools within CAPROP are necessary to solve different emergency situation. Behind each tools pocket is a 10 foot piece of nylon rope. Inside the drawer are a pair of gloves, a first aid kit, a tire repair kit and a clean cloth. The uses of golf carts has been on the rise given their low cost maintenance and its accessibility in rural areas. It is used frequently by disabled persons.
US12168406B2
A hydraulic deck comprising a frame consisting of a pair of horizontal members and a pair of vertical members, wherein the frame is configured to be mounted in a bed of a pickup truck; a pair of pivot arm members in telescoping engagement with the pair of horizontal members and a pair of extension members in telescoping engagement with the pair of vertical members; a platform member configured to support at least one vehicle; a pair of pillars rotationally connected to pin members positioned on the pair of extension members, wherein the pair of pillar extend perpendicularly from the platform member; and a mechanically operating lifting system configured to slide and lower the platform from the bed in a stored position to a ground surface in a loading position.
US12168404B2
A seat rotating device includes a base plate, a rotating plate, a coupling unit, and a drive unit. The coupling unit includes a link, a guide having a linearly extending shape, and a moving body that is movable along the guide and supports the rotating plate. The drive unit can move the moving body along the guide. The link includes a fixing end and a rotating end. The guide has a shape extending linearly along a diameter of a virtual circle, the virtual circle having length twice the distance between the fixing end and the rotating end as its radius, and having the fixing end as its center. The moving body moves the rotating plate along the guide while relatively rotating the rotating plate with respect to the moving body.
US12168399B2
A battery boost converter system for a bicycle includes a bicycle frame and a motor mounted to the bicycle frame. The system also includes a battery mounted to the bicycle frame and configured to provide power to the motor. The system also includes a boost converter configured to receive a first output signal from the battery and to provide a second output signal to the motor. The boost converter is also configured to determine, based on an operating condition, whether to boost a voltage of the first output signal such that the second output signal has an increased voltage.
US12168394B2
An in-wheel drive device includes: a wheel bearing including a hub; and a speed reducer at least partially disposed in an internal space of the wheel bearing. The speed reducer includes: planet gears; a ring gear configured to engage the planet gears; and a carrier coupled to the planet gears and configured to transmit, to an outside of the in-wheel drive device, power generated by a revolution of the plurality of planet gears. A first sealing part is disposed in a region in which the carrier and the wheel bearing face each other.
US12168389B2
A ventilation system and method of purging volatile organic compounds from an interior space of the vehicle. The ventilation space including an air extractor connected to a vehicle wall and having an interior side within the interior space defined by the vehicle wall, a fan attached to the interior side, and a controller configured to operate in a shipping mode to activate the fan to generate ventilation flow through the air extractor.
US12168379B2
A shock assembly is disclosed. The assembly includes a damper chamber having an outer wall with a first inner diameter (ID). A secondary chamber within the damper chamber, the secondary chamber comprising an exterior wall with an external diameter (ED) less than the ID of the outer wall to form an annular region therebetween. A damping piston coupled to a piston rod, the damping piston disposed in the secondary chamber and axially movable relative to the secondary chamber, the damping piston to bifurcate the secondary chamber into a compression side and a rebound side. A valve to control a flow of a working fluid between the annular region and the secondary chamber.
US12168366B2
A vehicle wheel having a rim part to which a tire is mounted and a vehicle body attachment part which is attached to a vehicle body, in which the rim part has, on an inner circumferential surface thereof, a plurality of fins each having a heat dissipation surface, and in which the fins are arranged periodically along a circumferential direction.
US12168362B2
A greeting card that selectively opens and closes. The greeting card assembly simulates a firework display in the background of a foreground message when opened. The greeting card assembly has a card section that contains an internal compartment covered by a top panel. A plurality of cutouts are formed through the top panel that are shaped as firework starbursts. LEDs are positioned within the internal compartment for selectively backlighting the cutouts. A light diffusing element is interposed between the cutouts and the LEDs. A speaker is positioned within the internal compartment for playing a digital soundtrack of exploding fireworks. At least one foreground panel is provided that is positioned a distance from the top panel when the greeting card assembly is opened. When viewed, the foreground panels stand in front of a card section that is playing a soundtrack and flashing lights behind starburst cutouts to simulate background fireworks.
US12168359B2
A process for creating a mask for making a printing plate from an unexposed flexographic plate having a masking layer. The process includes providing image information as a first screen having a first plurality of pixels and defining openings in the masking layer in accordance with the image information by superimposing on at least a portion of the image information a base pattern of equally sized spots. Each spot corresponds to an imaged discrete element represented on the mask and has a size corresponding to a smallest discrete element formed on the mask. The spots in the base pattern are aligned in horizontal rows and columns having a non-zero spacing between adjacent rows and columns. In at least a portion of the mask, a size for forming each imaged discrete element is selected such that each set of four neighboring imaged discrete elements has a non-imaged discrete area centered therebetween.
US12168350B2
A mist collecting unit for collecting a mist of ink droplets. The mist collecting unit includes the following elements. An introduction pipe, a mist introducing box with the introduction pipe mounted to have an upper part open, and a collecting box attached to a lower part of the mist introducing box. The gas is introduced from the introduction pipe into the collecting box, thereby capturing the mist included in the gas by inner surfaces of the collecting box.
US12168346B2
A feed tray configured to accommodate a roll, in which a sheet-shaped medium is rolled in a roll shape, the feed tray includes: a support portion configured to contact an outer peripheral surface of a lower portion of the roll at two support positions with a lower end of the roll being interposed therebetween and to rotatably support the roll; and a path having an inlet disposed between the two support positions and configured to guide the sheet-shaped medium unrolled from the roll. The two support positions are shifted from each other in an upper-lower direction.
US12168345B2
A recording device has: at least one medium storage section that stores a medium on which to perform recording; a recording section positioned vertically above the medium storage section, the recording section performing recording on the medium; and a reversing path by which the medium that passed through a position at which the medium faces the recording section is reversed in a direction including a vertically upward component by being transported in a transport direction including a vertically downward component and being made to pass through a curved reversing path curved so as to be convex downward. When only one medium storage section is provided, an overlap is found between at least part of the one medium storage section and at least part of the curved reversing path when viewed horizontally. When a plurality of medium storage sections are provided, an overlap is found between at least part of the topmost medium storage section in the vertical direction and at least part of the curved reversing path when viewed horizontally.
US12168334B2
According to some illustrative embodiments, a system and method is provided that includes, e.g., means for continuously conveying an assembly of layered sheets including a first paper sheet, at least one expanded sheet and a second paper sheet in a conveying flow between, e.g., a rotary mandrel or member at an upstream position in a direction of conveyance and a rotary die crushing and cutting tool, with said rotary mandrel or member and said rotary die crushing and cutting tool maintaining the at least one expanded sheet in an expanded state, said rotary tool having a crushing component that crushes a portion of the at least one expanded sheet such as to form a flap forming region of an envelope and a cutting component that cuts the assembly of layered sheets such as to separate individual envelope units.
US12168328B2
An automated production line for the production of ophthalmic lenses comprises: a production line front end (1) comprising: a first injection-molding machine (10) and a second injection-molding machine (12) a casting module (14) comprising a filling station (144) and a capping station (145); a stacking module (15) and a curing module (16); a destacking module (17) and a demolding and delensing module a production line back end (2) comprising: a scalable treatment module (20) comprising a number of liquid baths for a liquid bath treatment of the cured lenses (CL) carried by the treatment carrier tray (200) to obtain the ophthalmic lenses, wherein the number of liquid baths are reduced or increased pending on the number of ophthalmic lenses concurrently produced by the production lines.
US12168326B2
The invention relates to a method for producing a test body (30) for mechanically destructively testing a materially bonded joining connection, wherein the method comprises the following steps: providing an areal fiber composite substrate formed from a fiber composite material which has a fiber material and matrix material in which the fiber material is embedded, applying at least one test fabric and an adhesive to a substrate surface of the areal fiber composite substrate, and curing the adhesive, and therefore a materially bonded joining connection is produced between the test fabric and the substrate surface by way of the cured adhesive, wherein a Dutch-weave fabric and/or a square-mesh fabric is provided as the test fabric.
US12168320B2
Embodiments disclosed herein relate to methods of constructing a structure and related non-transitory computer readable medium. In an embodiment, the method includes (a) defining a vertical first slice and a second vertical slice of the structure. A lateral cross-section of the structure within the first vertical slice is different than the lateral cross-section of the structure for the second vertical slice. In addition, the method includes (b) depositing a plurality of first vertically stacked layers of an extrudable building material with a printing assembly to form the first vertical slice. Further, the method includes depositing a plurality of second vertically stacked layers of the extrudable building material atop the first vertical slice with the printing assembly to form the second vertical slice.
US12168318B2
A nozzle tool system for extrusion blow molding has an intermediate module and at least first and second nozzle outlet units, each forming an adjustable nozzle outlet gap between a mandrel extending axially and a deformable sleeve. The units can be connected with the intermediate module as replacements for one another, and have a first outlet diameter and a larger second outlet diameter different from one another. At least one setting drive for reversible deformation of the sleeve is arranged on the intermediate module and can be connected with the deformable sleeve by way of a releasable coupling arrangement. The first nozzle outlet unit delimits a first setting path of the setting drive, using at least one inner mechanical stop, and the second nozzle outlet unit delimits a second setting path of the setting drive, greater than the first setting path, using at least one inner mechanical stop.
US12168316B2
An injection molding apparatus comprising: An actuator having a driver receiving electrical energy or power from an electrical drive, the electrical drive comprising an interface, the electrical drive being housed within or by and actuator housing or being mounted on or to the housing, the housing and the electrical drive being mounted on, to or in close proximity to the heated manifold, a cooling device disposed between the heated manifold and the housing adapted to substantially isolate or insulate at least the electrical drive from communication with heat emanating from the heated manifold or to heat sink or absorb heat communicated or communicable to the electrical drive from the heated manifold or both.
US12168311B2
A machine and method for compacting a powder material; the machine comprises a compacting device, which is adapted to compact the powder material; a conveyor assembly to convey a layer of powder material, along a portion of a given path, to the compacting device; and an adjusting assembly, which is adapted to change the width of the layer of powder material along the portion of the given path and consequently the thickness of the layer of powder material at its longitudinal edges.
US12168310B2
Embodiments disclosed herein include dissolvable and intentionally degradable objects that are useful for hydraulic fracking operations. Such objects are at least in part manufactured using materials that are soluble in certain fluids including water. The dissolvable and intentionally degradable fracking objects can be manufactured from one or more materials, including composite materials. In one embodiment, dissolvable fracking objects are manufactured from ceramic materials that are soluble in fluids such as water. Such dissolvable fracking objects include fracking balls and plugs. These fracking balls and plugs are arranged to seal a well for a predetermined period of time and dissolve over that predetermined period of time until the well is no longer sealed. In another embodiment, tools generally useful in fracking operations are manufactured to have desirable elastomeric properties. Such tools can be manufactured from a combination of materials that are soluble in fluids and generally dispersible in fluids.
US12168309B2
A method is provided for casting a component. Accordingly, data indicative of at least one location of a unitary core-shell mold which is susceptible to a stress concentration is received. An additive manufacturing process is employed to form the unitary core-shell mold defining a casting cavity. The unitary core-shell mold includes a shell wall defining an outer component shape and a core wall positioned inward of the shell wall. The core wall defines an inner component shape. The core wall and/or the shell wall defines at least one reinforcement recess adjacent to the at least one location which is susceptible to the stress concentration. Following the forming of the unitary core-shell mold, at least one support member is positioned within the reinforcement recess in contact with the at least one location. With the support member in place, the component is cast within the casting cavity.
US12168305B2
The invention relates to a packaging machine comprising an apparatus for cutting food packagings to size along a longitudinal direction, wherein the apparatus defines an inner space and an outer region, said apparatus having a first shaft, which extends in the inner space and on which at least a first cutting blade is arranged, and a second shaft which extends in the inner space and on which at least a second cutting blade is arranged, said second cutting blade forming a cutting unit arranged in the inner space together with the first cutting blade during operation, wherein the first cutting blade is axially displaceably supported on the respective shaft to change an axial spacing and an axial contact pressure between the first cutting blade and the second cutting blade of the cutting unit, and said apparatus having an adjustment mechanism, wherein the adjustment mechanism is coupled to the axially displaceable first cutting blade to displace the displaceable cutting blade in an axial direction. The invention furthermore relates to a method of setting a contact force between a first cutting blade and a second cutting blade of a cutting unit of a packaging machine.
US12168298B2
A cable terminal end detection method includes a gripping step for gripping, using a hand including a first gripping section and a second gripping section disposed to be separated on an X axis and configured to open and close in a direction along a Z axis, a cable in two places separated in a longitudinal direction with the first gripping section and the second gripping section, a moving step for, in a state in which the cable is gripped by the hand, moving the cable to the first gripping section side in a direction along the X axis relatively to the hand, and a detecting step for detecting, with a tactile sensor disposed in the second gripping section to be in contact with the cable, that the cable has slipped out from the second gripping section and detecting that a terminal end of the cable is located between the first gripping section and the second gripping section.
US12168292B2
An information processing device including: an information obtaining unit that obtains environmental information from sensor information obtained by a sensor with which an autonomous moving body is provided; an extraction unit that extracts, from the environmental information, specific environmental information to be saved; and an action control unit that controls an action of the autonomous moving body so as to output the specific environmental information to the outside.
US12168290B2
A health and safety handle embodied as a multi-purpose rail-gripping device comprises a main handle member ergonomically shaped to be grasped by a user/rider, a rail-gripping arm connected to a first end of the handle, and a holder that is movable relative to the main handle member between a stowed position and a deployed position to hold an object while the main handle member is being grasped. The rail-gripping arm has a gripper to grip a grab rail, pole or bar in a public transit vehicle such as a bus, train, subway, streetcar) to stabilize the rider while isolating the rider's hands from contaminants or health hazards potentially present on the rail/pole/bar. The handle may also include a hook for suspending objects (e.g. backpack, bag, umbrella, etc.). The handle may include magnetic and/or mechanical retention elements for retaining one or multiple other objects/accessories, e.g. beverage container, smartphone or other items.
US12168283B2
A socket for use with an anvil of a rotary power tool includes a socket body with a driven end and a working end. The socket also includes a locking element adapted to engage a locking recess in the anvil. The locking element is positioned within a slot in the socket body and movable between a lock position and a release position. A locking sleeve surrounding the driven end of the socket body is also included. The locking sleeve is movable between a lock position and a release position. An engagement ring is included on the locking sleeve and is adapted to engage the locking element preventing radially outward motion of the locking element when in the lock position. The socket also includes a first spring adapted to bias the locking element toward the lock position, and a second spring adapted to bias the locking sleeve toward the lock position.
US12168281B2
Methods of forming a cutting element include leaching a diamond table of the cutting element and subsequent to leaching the diamond table of the cutting element, forming a chamfer on the diamond table of the cutting element at an interface between a cutting surface of the diamond table and an outer side surface of the diamond table. Methods of forming earth-boring tools include forming a cutting element and securing the cutting element to a body of the earth-boring tool. Forming the cutting element includes including leaching a diamond table of the cutting element and subsequent to leaching the diamond table of the cutting element, forming a chamfer on the diamond table of the cutting element at an interface between a cutting surface of the diamond table and an outer side surface of the diamond table.
US12168274B2
An end effector and a light bar assembling device having the end effector are provided. The light bar assembling device is configured to assemble a light bar with a backplane, and includes: an adjusting platform configured to carry the light bar to be assembled and adjust a position of the light bar to be assembled on the adjusting platform; and a robot assembling mechanism configured to obtain a light bar after being adjusted in position from the adjusting platform, and assemble the light bar with the backplane, wherein the robot assembling mechanism includes a mechanical arm and an end effector at a free end of the mechanical arm, and the end effector includes: a first connecting seat, a first frame, a first pick-and-place mechanism including at least two first suction cup groups, and a first positioning mechanism including at least two first positioning pins.
US12168270B2
A welding system comprises a hand-held weld tool comprises a positioning and orientation measurement system having an inertial measurement unit (IMU), a processing subsystem, and a calibration apparatus. The processing subsystem is operable to compute, based on data generated by the IMU during a weld operation on a workpiece, one or more actual motion attributes for the hand-held weld tool. The calibration apparatus is configured to hold the hand-held weld tool in a known position and orientation and in stationary state for calibration of the positioning and orientation measurement system.
US12168269B2
An example welding interface device, includes: a user interface device; a processor; and a machine readable storage device comprising machine readable instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to: determine, via the user interface device, information describing physical characteristics of a workpiece for a weld to be performed; based on the physical characteristics, determining at least one of a thermal characteristic of the workpiece, an electrical characteristic of the workpiece, or a chemical characteristic of the workpiece; determine a boundary condition associated with the workpiece based on the at least one of the thermal characteristic, the electrical characteristic, or the chemical characteristic; and output a welding process based on the boundary condition.
US12168261B2
A friction stir joining device includes a tool, a rotary driver, a linear-movement driver, and a control device. The control device is adapted to (A) dispose so that a first member opposes to the tool, and the first member, a second member and a third member are located in this order, (B) control the linear-movement driver and the rotary driver so that a tip-end part of the tool presses a joined part of a to-be-joined object while the tool is rotated, (C) control the linear-movement driver and the rotary driver so that the third member softened extends above an upper surface of the second member, and the tip-end part of the tool reaches a first position, and (D) control the linear-movement driver and the rotary driver so that the tool is drawn out from the joined part while the tool is rotated.
US12168244B2
A method and system for nanoscale precision programmable profiling on substrates. Profiling material is dispensed on a substrate or a superstrate. The superstrate is brought in contact with the substrate. The profiling material is then cured after bringing the superstrate in contact with the substrate. The superstrate is separated from the substrate after curing. An optical metrology of points on the substrate corresponding to the final substrate profile is then performed.
US12168238B2
Apparatus used to allow separation of one or more components from a liquid supplied to the apparatus and then, following use of the apparatus, the one or more separated components can be used for further purposes. The apparatus includes a rotatable shaft to which is mounted one or more columns which rotate with the shaft and which also rotate about their own axes and through which the liquid passes. The columns are provided with liquid from flying lead assemblies and the invention provides improved connecting means between the columns and flying lead assemblies to allow the same to be modular. An improved cooling system is also disclosed.
US12168235B2
Magnetic systems and methods for oxygen separation and purification from fluids utilizing the paramagnetic properties of oxygen. A magnetic field gradient is established in a tube having a first end in flow communication with a source of a fluid containing oxygen. The fluid is flowed through the tube. The magnetic field gradient causes oxygen to be enriched in the fluid on a first interior side of the tube as compared to a second interior side of the tube. For a fluid like air having oxygen, a paramagnetic substance, and other, e.g., diamagnetic, components like nitrogen, argon, carbon dioxide and water vapor, the technology of the disclosure effectively separates oxygen molecules from the other components in magnetic field gradients of sufficient magnitude.
US12168233B1
A microtiter plate mixing control system is disclosed. The system includes a frame, a suspension system attached to the frame, and a magnetically responsive horizontal platform supported on the frame by the suspension system. A solenoid is adjacent the platform for moving the platform on the suspension system. A proximity sensor is adjacent the platform for determining the position of the platform with respect to the frame. A controller is in communication with the proximity sensor and the solenoid for driving the solenoid and moving the platform in response to the proximity sensor.
US12168222B2
A synthesis gas production catalyst structure or the like which can maintain stable high catalytic activity for a long period of time without degradation and can allow efficient production of a synthesis gas including carbon monoxide and hydrogen. The synthesis gas production catalyst structure 1 for use in producing a synthesis gas comprising carbon monoxide and hydrogen, the synthesis gas production catalyst structure 1 including: supports each having a porous structure and including a zeolite-type compound; and at least one catalytic material present in the support, in which each of the supports has channels communicating with one another, each of the supports has a ratio (L/d ratio) of long side dimension L to thickness dimension d of 5.0 or more, and the catalytic material is present at least in the channel of each of the supports.
US12168212B2
Systems and methods for the treatment of plants, including decarboxylation, photo-oxidation, oxidation and/or combinations thereof, of cannabis and hemp plants and oils for biosynthesizing THCA, CBDA, and CBCA from CBGA are disclosed. A cannabinoid compound solution is fed into a cavitation zone of a controlled cavitation apparatus where the cannabinoid compound solution is subjected to cavitation and interaction with UV light for conversion of the cannabinoid compound solution to form a synthesized cannabinoid THC, CBD, CBC, CBG, CBNA, CBEA, CBLA product, or combinations thereof.
US12168210B2
A method of synthesis of a nucleotide chain, the nucleotide chain including an ordered plurality of nucleotides, the method including: identifying a first nucleotide of the ordered plurality of nucleotides; controlling a polymerase enzyme to assemble the first nucleotide onto the nucleotide chain by electrically modulating an electrode; identifying a subsequent nucleotide in the ordered plurality of nucleotides as a current nucleotide; and controlling the polymerase enzyme to assemble the current nucleotide onto an end of the nucleotide chain by electrically modulating the electrode.
US12168197B2
A carbon dioxide scrubber includes an adsorption chamber through which an adsorption airflow is directed, a regeneration chamber through which a regeneration airflow is directed, and a divider wall separating the adsorption chamber from the regeneration chamber. A carbon dioxide sorbent bed extends across the adsorption chamber and the regeneration chamber. The carbon dioxide sorbent bed is configured to adsorb carbon dioxide from the adsorption airflow into the sorbent bed and exhaust carbon dioxide from the carbon dioxide sorbent bed into the regeneration airflow. The carbon dioxide sorbent bed is continuously movable through the adsorption chamber and the regeneration chamber.
US12168196B2
The present disclosure relates to a carbon capture adapter that may attach to high air flow locations. A carbon capture adapter may utilize the air flow of a high air flow location to allow for capture of unfiltered air, allowing for carbon removal and the scrubbing of the unfiltered air. The carbon capture adapter may comprise carbon sensors that may detect carbon levels of the air before and after the carbon has been scrubbed or removed from the ambient air. The carbon capture adapter may capture and transform the carbon into secondary substances that may be useful unto itself. The carbon capture adapter will have all inputs, outputs, processes, and flows that meet all aspects of a closed loop system that is specifically designed for CCS. The carbon capture adapter may be at least temporarily secured to at least one portion of a vehicle.
US12168195B2
An all-in-one, universal bacteria filter apparatus which (i) can be used with oxygen concentrators produced by numerous different manufactures, (ii) can be used with concentrators of different capacities, and (ii) can be use in both vertical and horizontal orientations.
US12168184B2
An apparatus for an amusement park includes a bogie system positioned on a track. The bogie system directs motion along the track. The apparatus also includes an arm extending radially outward from the bogie system. The arm is rotatably coupled to a body of the bogie system. Furthermore, the apparatus includes a vehicle positioned on the arm.
US12168183B2
Systems, devices, and methods for a system for a 3-D combination puzzle cube. A game device may include: an outer shell defining a set of guide channels, an inner shell housed within the outer shell, a tumbler system housed within the inner shell, and a set of cube components configured to slide across the set of guide channels, where the set of cube components are arranged to form a 3×3×3 cube, and where at least four cube components on each side of the formed 3×3×3 cube have an imprinted chess piece.
US12168182B2
Skill measurement systems and methods include interaction pairs and an interaction uncertainty. The interaction pairs are pairwise matches corresponding to instances of interactions between players. The interaction uncertainty variable corresponds to the instance of interaction and is based in part on the uncertainties of a player, player team, and/or gameplay aspects. The interaction pairs and interaction uncertainty are used to more accurately determine a skill rating of a player based in part on interaction data among gameplay data from a gameplay session of a video game.
US12168177B2
A virtual resource processing method and apparatus in a game scene, a terminal, and a storage medium are disclosed. The method includes: in response to a disassembly instruction, detecting whether the virtual resource is attacked by a virtual character; when detecting that the virtual resource is attacked by the virtual character, determining the virtual resource attacked by the virtual character as a first virtual resource to be disassembled; and when the first virtual resource to be disassembled satisfies a preset condition removing, the first virtual resource to be disassembled from the game scene. A processing apparatus, a mobile terminal and a computer storage medium are also disclosed. The present disclosure provides a novel user interaction mode. A user may conveniently achieve attacking and removing of a virtual resource in a game scene. The number of interactions between the user and an interaction interface is reduced. The user experience is improved.
US12168174B2
Methods and systems are provided for selecting a viewport into a video game for a spectator viewing a video game played by a player. The method includes identifying a plurality of virtual cameras for providing a plurality of viewports into scenes of the video game. The method includes accessing a spectator playbook, the spectator playbook is stored in association with a profile of the spectator. The spectator playbook identifies viewing history of the spectator for types of video games viewed by the spectator. The method includes accessing a player playbook, the player playbook is stored in association with a profile of the player. The player playbook identifies performance of the player for types of video games played by the player. The method includes accessing gameplay data for the video game played by the player. The method includes selecting a viewport from the plurality of viewports into the video game. The selected viewport is dynamically updated based on processing the spectator playbook, the player playbook, and changes in the gameplay data. The method includes streaming a spectator video stream for the spectator. The spectator video stream automatically changes based on the dynamic updating of the viewport while the spectator views the video game. In this way, viewports into a video game are selected and dynamically updated to provide the spectator with a customized viewing experience.
US12168172B2
A lag detection method includes: obtaining a first image frame and a second image frame in a running process of an application; converting a difference image between the first image frame and the second image frame into a grayscale image; determining, according to grayscale values of pixels in the grayscale image, whether a lag occurs from the first image frame to the second image frame in the running process of the application. A difference image between two image frames in a process video is converted into a grayscale image, and a lag situation between the two image frames is determined by using the grayscale image, so that the lag situation can be determined without the need of obtaining an FPS value in a running process of a terminal application.
US12168166B2
Embodiments of golf club heads with energy storage characteristics are presented herein. In some embodiments, a golf club head comprises a body comprising a strikeface, a heel region, a toe region opposite the heel region, a sole, a crown, and an internal radius transition from the strikeface to at least one of the sole or the crown. In many embodiments, the internal radius transition region is not visible from an exterior of the golf club head and comprises a first tier, a second tier and a tier transition region between the first tier and the second tier.
US12168161B2
An exercise system includes a base module having a seat with a seat depth, and a vertically adjustable back configured to fixedly engage with the base module at a first seat depth and a second seat depth different from the first seat depth.
US12168146B2
The invention relates to a system for determining a radiation therapy plan for a radiation therapy system (100), comprising a multi-leaf collimator. The radiation therapy plan determination system (110) comprises a therapy system characteristics providing unit (111), wherein the characteristics comprise possible leaf positions and possible radiation fluence values, a planning objectives providing unit (112), wherein the planning objectives are indicative of a desired therapeutic radiation dose distribution, an optimization function providing unit (113), wherein the optimization function is indicative of a deviation of a radiation dose distribution from the planning objectives and of an uncertainty of the radiation dose distribution at edges of the possible apertures, and a therapy plan optimization unit (114) adapted to determine a sequence of possible apertures and possible radiation fluence values for which the optimization function is optimized. Thus, an optimal therapy plan can be provided for each individual patient.
US12168142B2
According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a light outputting device for skin care includes a care module including at least one or more care light sources and a care module substrate on which the at least one or more care light sources are mounted; a housing configured to surround the care module; a care body including the care module and the housing; and a length adjustment part connected to both ends of the care body, wherein the housing and the care module substrate are formed to have a first curvature in a first direction and a second curvature in a second direction, and wherein at least one of the first curvature and the second curvature is variable within a predetermined range.
US12168136B2
A portable wearable defibrillator device, a distributed defibrillator system, and a computer-implemented method use at least one node that is connected to a wireless network and communicates with sensors, electronic mobile devices, and/or defibrillator devices to determine when a person is having a cardiac or pulmonary event or other event, identify a person who is able to assist the arresting person, and notify the assisting person and/or any other emergency contacts and/or emergency personnel. The electronic components of the wearable defibrillator are arranged in serial to minimize the size of the defibrillator. The control circuit of the wearable defibrillator is configured to provide fast charging for the capacitor, such that the defibrillator is able to be used at any time and frequently. An application for an electronic mobile device is used to interface with an assisting person and other people, e.g., emergency contacts or emergency personnel, associated with the network.
US12168130B2
A system for restoring muscle function to the lumbar spine to treat low back pain is provided. The system may include electrodes coupled to an implantable pulse generator (IPG), a handheld activator configured to transfer a stimulation command to the IPG, and an external programmer configured to transfer programming data to the IPG. The stimulation command directs the programmable controller to stimulate the tissue in accordance with the programming data. The system may include a software-based programming system run on a computer such that the treating physician may program and adjust stimulation parameters.
US12168128B2
Systems and methods are disclosed that allow a patient to self-treat a medical condition, such as migraine headache and trigeminal neuralgia and the like. The system comprises a stimulator configured for wireless coupling to a mobile device and comprising a signal generator that generates an electrical impulse and an energy source. The stimulator includes a contact surface configured to contact an outer skin surface of a head of a patient and a user interface for selecting a therapy regimen. The stimulator transmits the electrical impulse transcutaneously through the outer skin surface to a nerve at a target region of the head, wherein the electrical impulse is sufficient to modulate the nerve and modify the medical condition. The system further comprises a software program downloadable onto the mobile device and configured to communicate with the stimulator.
US12168110B2
A needleless connector includes a housing having a central longitudinal axis, a body portion, and a base portion. The body portion includes an inner surface forming an internal cavity, and a first port forming a first fluid passage to the housing cavity. The base portion includes a top end section and a bottom end section. The top end section has a protrusion, and the bottom end portion has a second port forming a second fluid passage to the housing cavity. The needleless connector further includes a valve having a wall with an inner surface forming a valve cavity. The valve is coupled with the housing such that the protrusion is positioned in the valve cavity, and a proximal end of the protrusion is spaced apart from a proximal end of the valve cavity.
US12168106B2
A medical device may include an introducer sheath, having a distal and a proximal end and a lumen extending from the distal end to the proximal end. The introducer sheath may also include a tab formed at the distal end and extending distal to the lumen, and a frangible portion extending between the distal end and the proximal end.
US12168094B2
A vaporizing device such as an electronic cigarette includes a housing (11) containing a battery (12) or other electrical power source electrically connected to a high frequency oscillation circuit (50). Two electrodes or electrode pads (56) with a liquid space (70) between them are electrically connected to the high frequency oscillation circuit (50). A liquid supply (34) in the C housing (11) provides a liquid into the liquid space (70). The high frequency oscillation circuit (50) is switched on by a manual switch or by a sensor (24) sensing inhalation by a user. The liquid is vaporized by dielectric heating.
US12168091B2
An atomizer, a liquid storage assembly thereof and an electron atomizing device are disclosed. The atomizer includes an atomizing core assembly having a liquid inlet. The liquid storage assembly includes a housing defining a liquid storage cavity and a first assembling hole, wherein the first assembling hole is configured to receive an end of an atomizing core assembly; an inner wall arranged in the liquid storage cavity, configured to sleeve around the atomizing core assembly, wherein a capillary gap is defined between the inner wall and an outer wall of the atomizing core assembly, and the capillary gap is configured to guide liquid in the liquid storage cavity to pass through the liquid inlet.
US12168089B2
A peritoneal dialysis (“PD”) system includes a dialysis fluid pump having a reusable pump body that accepts PD fluid for pumping; a dialysis fluid inline heater including a reusable heater body that accepts PD fluid for heating; a patient line connector; a drain line connector; a first reusable PD fluid line including a first connector configured to mate with the patient line connector; a second reusable PD fluid line including a second connector configured to mate with the drain line connector; and a control unit configured to run a heat cleaning (e.g., heat disinfection or heat sterilization) sequence after PD treatment, wherein the first connector of the first reusable PD fluid line is mated with the patient line connector, the second connector of the second reusable PD fluid line is mated with the drain line connector, and the dialysis fluid pump and perhaps the dialysis fluid inline heater are actuated.
US12168082B2
The present invention relates to a composition and a kit for regeneration and treatment of cartilage, preferably, fibrous cartilage or elastic cartilage and a regeneration method using the same. A composition and a kit for cartilage regeneration according to the present invention may be administered simply in a minimally invasive manner to a site in which fibrous cartilage or elastic cartilage is needed to be regenerated or restored from injury, exhibit resistance to degradation enzymes without toxicity within the body, and are attached to or detained at and thus retained at the injured, administered site, whereby behavioral improvement may be brought about in surrounding cells, which leads to effectively inducing defected tissues of the meniscus to be regenerated. Therefore, the composition of the present invention is useful as a mediator for aiding the regeneration of biological tissue defected regions in the biomaterials field.
US12168074B2
The present invention relates to a transdermal therapeutic system for the transdermal administration of guanfacine comprising a guanfacine-containing layer structure, said guanfacine-containing layer structure comprising: A) a backing layer; and B) a guanfacine-containing layer; wherein the transdermal therapeutic system comprises at least one silicone polymer.
US12168068B2
Provided are: a hydrophilized organic powder that is obtained by a hydrophilization treatment of a hydrophobic organic powder and has favorable properties; and a cosmetic that includes the hydrophilized organic powder. A hydrophilized organic powder that has a hydrophilizing-coat of polyoxyethylene (10) isostearyl ether on a hydrophobic organic powder is provided. Further, a cosmetic that includes the hydrophilized organic powder is provided. The hydrophobic organic powder is preferably an organic resin powder or a metallic soap powder, or a combination thereof.
US12168062B2
RNA molecules comprising a guide sequence portion having 17-20 nucleotides in the sequence of 17-20 contiguous nucleotides set forth in any one of SEQ ID NOs: 1-3010 and compositions, methods, and uses thereof.
US12168060B2
The present disclosure relates to antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) wherein one or more active agents are conjugated to an anti-B7-H3 antibody through a linker. The linker may comprise a unit that covalently links active agents to the antibody. The disclosure further relates to monoclonal antibodies and antigen binding fragments, variants, multimeric versions, or bispecifics thereof that specifically bind B7-H3, as well as methods of making and using these anti-B7-H3 antibodies and antigen-binding fragments thereof in a variety of therapeutic, diagnostic and prophylactic indications.
US12168058B2
The present disclosure relates to novel glutarimide-containing compounds with KRAS mutant form degradation activities, pharmaceutical compositions containing such compounds, and their use in prevention and treatment of diseases and conditions.
US12168056B2
There are provided, inter alia, compositions including a scintillator nanocrystal linked to a chemical agent moiety through a scintillator-activated photocleavable linker, and methods of use thereof.
US12168053B2
The present invention relates to a microneedle system (MNS for short) for the intradermal application of a hepatitis vaccine, namely the antigen HBsAg.
US12168050B2
The present invention is directed to an artificial nucleic acid and to polypeptides suitable for use in treatment or prophylaxis of an infection with Norovirus or a disorder related to such an infection. In particular, the present invention concerns a Norovirus vaccine. The present invention is directed to an artificial nucleic acid, polypeptides, compositions and vaccines comprising the artificial nucleic acid or the polypeptides. The invention further concerns a method of treating or preventing a disorder or a disease, first and second medical uses of the artificial nucleic acid, polypeptides, compositions and vaccines. Further, the invention is directed to a kit, particularly to a kit of parts, comprising the artificial nucleic acid, polypeptides, compositions and vaccines.
US12168049B2
The present invention provides for modified Flavivirus such as a modified Zika virus. The modification according to various aspects of the invention results in reduced viral proteins compared to a parent virus, wherein the reduction in expression is the result of recoding one or more regions of the virus. For example, the prM, or envelope (E) region, or the nonstructural protein 3 (NS3) region or both the E and NS3 regions can be recoded. In various embodiments one or more regions are recoded by reducing the codon pair bias or codon usage bias of the protein-encoding sequence. These modified Flavivirus are used as vaccine compositions to provide a protective immune response.
US12168048B2
Combination therapeutics for the treatment of cancer include the use of immune effector cells, IL-15 based superagonists and one or more immunotherapeutic agents such as Bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG).
US12168041B2
The present invention provides, among other things, compositions and methods for CNS delivery of lysosomal enzymes for effective treatment of lysosomal storage diseases. In some embodiments, the present invention includes a stable formulation for direct CNS intrathecal administration comprising an arylsulfatase A (ASA) protein, salt, and a polysorbate surfactant for the treatment of Metachromatic Leukodystrophy Disease.
US12168019B1
8-Hydroxy quinoline derivative compounds for enhancing telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT) expression, and methods for using the same, are provided. These compounds and methods find use in a variety of applications in which increased expression of telomerase reverse transcriptase is desired.
US12168018B1
The invention relates to pharmaceutics and concerns a pharmacologically active liposomal composition comprising quercetin and zinc. According to the invention, the composition further comprises zinc chloride, while including a zinc ion into liposomes, and the composition is a lyophilized powder in the following ratio of components (wt. %): quercetin 1 phosphatidyl choline 36.7 zinc ion 0.11-0.43 lactose 54.51 remainder—water, chloride ion. Therewith, the content of liposomes has the following ratio: phosphatidylcholine:quercetin:zinc ion—1:0.027:0.002-1:0.027:0.023. The claimed composition possesses anti-inflammatory effect and may be used as a pharmacotherapeutical agent in acute respiratory distress syndrome in a form of emulsion for inhalation and/or injection use.
US12168017B2
Provided herein is an ophthalmic composition formulated in deuterated water. Also disclosed herein are methods of treating, ameliorating, or reducing ophthalmic conditions or diseases by administering to an eye of an individual in need thereof an effective amount of an ophthalmic composition as described herein.
US12168015B2
The present invention relates to aryl- or heteroaryl-substituted benzene compounds. The present invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions containing these compounds and methods of treating cancer by administering these compounds and pharmaceutical compositions to subjects in need thereof. The present invention also relates to the use of such compounds for research or other non-therapeutic purposes.
US12168013B2
The present invention provides prodrugs and methods of use thereof.
US12167995B2
The present invention pertains generally to the field of therapy. More specifically the present invention pertains to a certain compound, [((1R,2S,5R)-2-isopropyl-5-methyl-cyclohexanecarbonyl)-amino]-acetic acid isopropyl ester (also referred to herein as “AX-8” or “Gly-O-iPr”), as described herein, for use in a method of treatment of the human or animal body by therapy, more specifically, for use in a method of treatment of chronic cough (CC), including, for example, refractory chronic cough (RCC) and idiopathic chronic cough (ICC), as described herein.
US12167992B2
Oral pharmaceutical compositions of sodium oxybate having improved pharmacokinetic properties when administered less than two hours after eating are provided, and therapeutic uses thereof.
US12167991B2
Oral pharmaceutical compositions of sodium oxybate having improved pharmacokinetic properties when administered less than two hours after eating are provided, and therapeutic uses thereof.
US12167989B2
A package that is configured to store and dispense fluids. The package includes a container and a dosing dispenser for closing an opening to the container. The dosing dispenser includes a body portion having a discharge aperture. Discharge aperture may be closed and opened using a flip-top cap of the dosing dispenser.
US12167981B2
A patient transport apparatus comprises a support structure. The support structure comprises a base, a frame, and a patient support surface to support a patient. One or more handle assemblies are coupled to the frame to maneuver the patient transport apparatus. Each handle assembly comprises a handle and a handle extension supporting the handle. The handle extension is configured to articulate relative to the frame from a stowed position to a use position such that the handle is adjacent to the frame in the stowed position and the handle is extended from the frame by the handle extension in the use position. The apparatus also includes a locking device comprising one or more locking elements configured to discretely lock and unlock the handle extension relative to the frame in the use position or the stowed position.
US12167975B2
In one embodiment according to the present invention, a stent is described having a generally cylindrical body formed from a single woven nitinol wire. The distal and proximal ends of the stent include a plurality of loops, some of which include marker members used for visualizing the position of the stent. In another embodiment, the previously described stent includes an inner flow diverting layer.
US12167967B2
A lumbar interbody fusion device includes a first wing, a second wing, and a bridge. The bridge has an arcuate resting shape and include a first end connected to the first wing, a second end connected to the second wing, and at least one aperture extending through the bridge in a radial direction relative to the arcuate resting shape of the bridge. The bridge is elastically deformable such that a distance between the first wing and the second wing may vary according to elastic deformation of the bridge.
US12167954B2
The disclosure provides improved methods and devices to create a hammock effect to stabilize the urethra without creating an incision in the abdomen or the vagina, and without using a surgical mesh. Such implementations can also leave no permanent material in the body. The simplicity afforded by such procedures and methods permits treatment of patients on an outpatient basis, and avoids risks and disadvantages associated with the installation of a permanent mesh.
US12167947B2
A suction device for use with a dental prophy angle, the suction device comprising a generally horizontal, tubular, open-bottomed hood and a generally vertical suction channel. The hood is configured to cover an upper circumferential portion of the prophy angle head and optionally an upper circumferential portion of the prophy angle's working tip (such as a soft rotary cleaning cup) to define an upper suction region above the head and tip, while leaving a lower circumferential portion of the prophy angle head and full circumferential portion of at least an outer end of the tip exposed. The suction device may be a removable or a permanent part of the prophy angle.
US12167943B2
A method of controlling a medical tool includes determining an insertion path and pose for the tool based on a target and deploying first and second articulated arms of a computer-assisted medical device based on a size and shape of a tool guide. The arms include respective pluralities of moveable links actuated by at least one respective actuator and forming respective kinematic chains extending from a base. The method further includes receiving the tool guide for coupling with the arms using respective mounting arms of the tool guide such that the tool guide functions as a link in a closed kinematic loop formed by joining the kinematic chains, orienting a guide hole of the tool guide to align with the insertion path, positioning the guide hole a desired distance away from the target, receiving the tool in the guide hole, and advancing the tool along the insertion path.
US12167937B2
Various methods and systems are provided for display of live images. In one example, a method for motion compensation in the live images includes acquiring a first set of imaging data from a visible sector of an imaging system, the visible sector including a region of interest displayed to a user, and acquiring a second set of imaging data at an area offset from the visible sector, during the acquiring of the first set of imaging data. The second set of imaging data is used to compensate for gross motion of the region of interest resulting in displacement of at least a portion of the region of interest outside of the visible sector.
US12167935B2
Systems and methods for a virtual sonography team are described. An ultrasound system includes an ultrasound scanner that is configured to generate ultrasound data based on reflections of ultrasound signals transmitted by the ultrasound scanner and communicate the ultrasound data over a communication network to at least one display device and an archiver. An ultrasound machine is coupled to the ultrasound scanner and is configured to determine examination data for the ultrasound examination and communicate the examination data to the archiver over the communication network. The display device is configured to generate an ultrasound image based on the ultrasound data as part of an ultrasound examination and communicate the ultrasound image to the archiver for aggregation with the examination data into a patient record of the ultrasound examination.
US12167931B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure are configured to assess the severity of a blockage in a vessel and, in particular, a stenosis in a blood vessel. In some particular embodiments, the devices, systems, and methods of the present disclosure are configured to assess the severity of a stenosis in the coronary arteries by monitoring fluid flow. In some embodiments, the devices, systems, and methods of the present disclosure receive analog sensor data that includes fluid flow data and digitizes the analog sensor data according to a quadrature sampling rate. A weighted accumulator performs a baseband conversion on the digitized sensor data and may perform other signal processing steps. The processed data is then provided for use in any one of a number of diagnostic assessments.
US12167930B2
A biological sound acquisition device (10) includes a housing (100), a first acceleration sensor (210), and a second acceleration sensor (220). The first acceleration sensor (210) is disposed in the housing (100). The first acceleration sensor (210) is mechanically connected to the housing (100) through a first vibration damping member (410). The second acceleration sensor (220) is disposed in the housing (100).
US12167924B2
A medical image processing apparatus according to an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to obtain medical image data related to a coronary artery of a subject. The processing circuitry is configured to derive a value of a blood flow parameter indicating hemodynamics of the coronary artery, on the basis of the medical image data. The processing circuitry is configured to display information indicating a change in the value of the blood flow parameter along the coronary artery, by using a graph of which the vertical axis expresses values of the blood flow parameter and of which the horizontal axis corresponds to the distance direction along the coronary artery and is configured to further display supplementary information indicating the structure of the coronary artery together with the graph.
US12167916B2
An ambulatory medical device including a plurality of sensing electrodes and one or more processors operably coupled to the plurality of sensing electrodes is provided. Each sensing electrodes is configured to be coupled eternally to a patient and to detect one or more ECG signals. The one or more processors are configured to receive at least one electrode-specific digital signal for each of the plurality of sensing electrodes, determine a noise component for each of the electrode-specific digital signals, analyze each of the noise components for each of the plurality of sensing electrodes, generate electrode matching information for each sensing electrode of the plurality of sensing electrodes based upon analysis of each of the noise components, determine one or more sensing electrode pairs based upon the electrode matching information, and monitor each of the one or more sensing electrode pairs for ECG activity of the patient.
US12167912B2
A mouth guard senses concussive forces, calculates risk factors for head injury, and displays status of risk and potential injury. The mouth guard may be used to identify, treat and prevent exacerbating injury. The mouth guard can be programmed with biometric data to better calculate and anticipate impact thresholds and more precisely predict and prevent injury.
US12167908B2
This disclosure is directed to devices, systems, and techniques for dynamically adjusting a bio impedance measurement range. An example device includes a plurality of electrodes. The device also includes sensing circuitry configured to sense a bio impedance and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to apply an excitation signal to the sensing circuitry and, based on the application of the excitation signal, determine a sensed bio impedance value within a bio impedance measurement range. The processing circuitry is also configured to determine whether the sensed bio impedance value is within a predetermined portion of the bio impedance measurement range for a predetermined period of time and based on the sensed bio impedance value being within the predetermined portion of the bio impedance measurement range for the predetermined period of time, adjust the excitation signal.
US12167907B2
Wireless systems and methods are provided for protecting vital organs from blood flow loss, and for physiological monitoring of a subject in various settings. The systems and methods permit the coordinated delivery of various treatment protocols involving inflation or deflation of cuffs to multiple limbs of the subject.
US12167892B2
An ophthalmologic information processing apparatus corrects an image of a subject's eye formed by arranging a plurality of A-scan images acquired by scanning inside the subject's eye with measurement light deflected around a scan center position. The ophthalmologic information processing apparatus includes a specifying unit and a transforming unit. The specifying unit is configured to specify a transformation position along a traveling direction of the measurement light passing through the scan center position, the transformation position corresponding to a pixel position in the image. The transforming unit is configured to transform the pixel position into the transformation position.
US12167887B2
A transoral ultrasound probe for imaging a temporomandibular joint and a method of imaging a temporomandibular joint using a transoral probe.
US12167881B2
The present invention generally relates to improved medical devices, systems, and methods. In many embodiments, devices, systems, and methods for locating and treating a target nerve with integrated cold therapy and electrical stimulation systems are provided. For example, nerve stimulation and cryoneurolysis may be delivered concurrently or alternately with the cryo-stimulation device. In some embodiments, the device may be operated by a single operator or clinician. Accordingly, embodiments of the present disclosure may improve nerve targeting during cryoneurolysis procedures. Improvements in nerve localization and targeting may increase treatment accuracy, physician confidence in needle placement during treatment, and clinical efficacy and safety. In turn, such improvements may decrease overall treatment times, the number of repeat treatments, and the re-treatment rate. Further, additional improvements in nerve localization and targeting may reduce the number of needle insertions, applied treatment cycles, and may also reduce the number of cartridge changes.
US12167873B2
Disclosed herein are a spinal fixation assembly and method to provide adequate rigidity and support for a vertebral column without requiring additional pedicle screws and spinal rods. The spinal fixation assembly includes a spinal rod loop with multiple sides configured to be attached to a vertebral body with two or more pedicle screws. Each pedicle screw is adapted to fit at various locations along the spinal rod loop.
US12167872B2
A medical implant assembly includes a shank having a head and an anchor portion, and a receiver having a central bore with a locking recess adjacent a bottom opening, an expansion recess above the locking recess, and a horizontal ridge extending circumferentially above the expansion recess. The assembly also includes an insert uploadable into a first position within the central bore with outer surfaces engageable with the horizontal ridge in a first position, a locking ring initially positionable within the lower locking recess or the upper expansion recess, and a blocking ring positionable within the central bore at least partially above the locking ring. The locking ring is first expanded within the expansion recess during uploading the shank head through the bottom opening, and then moves downward into the locking recess to capture the shank head within the central bore. The insert is downwardly displaceable by tooling to a second position with the insert engagement with the shank head, and with the blocking ring occupying the expansion recess to inhibit the locking ring from moving back up into the expansion recess.
US12167866B2
A system configured to control operation of an ultrasonic surgical instrument is disclosed. The system comprises a generator configured to generate a signal, and a computer communicably coupled to the generator. The computer is configured to receive a first set of variables corresponding to a first signal at a first power level of the instrument, evaluate the first set of variables with a model to generate a first output, wherein the first output comprises a value between the first set of variables and a condition set, and wherein the condition set comprises a plurality of conditions that correspond to a plurality of responses, determine the first output meets a first threshold value for a first condition; determine a first response corresponding to the first condition, wherein the first response is a second power level for the instrument, and transmit the second power level to the generator for a second signal.
US12167864B1
A method for attempting to fragment or comminute an object in a body using ultrasound includes producing a burst wave lithotripsy (BWL) waveform by a therapy transducer. The BWL waveform is configured to fragment or comminute the object. The BWL waveform includes a first burst of continuous ultrasound cycles and a second burst of continuous ultrasound cycles. A burst frequency corresponds to a frequency of repeating the bursts of the BWL waveform. The method also includes determining a cycle frequency f of the continuous ultrasound cycles within the first burst and the second burst based on a target fragment size D, where the cycle frequency is: f(MHz)=0.47/D(mm).
US12167855B2
A device for implantation in a left atrial appendage of the heart comprises docking station comprising a radially expansible element that is adjustable between a contracted orientation suitable for transluminal delivery and a deployed orientation configured to anchor within the left atrial appendage and fluidically isolate the left atrial appendage from the left atrium, the docking station also includes a recessed socket accessible from the left atrium through an opening, and a closure coving the opening. A modular active element is configured for detachable engagement within the recessed socket of the docking station. The modular active element comprises a treatment element configured to electrically stimulate heart tissue, thermally stimulate heart tissue, electroporate heart tissue, or deliver a substance into heart tissue or a chamber of the heart, or a sensing element configured to detect a parameter selected from temperature, pressure, electrical signal, heart rate, or respiratory rate.
US12167854B2
Occlusive implants are provided with various embodiments of active and/or passive release structures. Systems for delivering the occlusive implants as well as methods for making and delivering the implants are also provided.
US12167852B2
A surgical stapling device includes a staple reload and a handle assembly that supports a drive rack, a motor assembly, a gear assembly, a reload select mechanism, and a safety toggle mechanism. The gear assembly is adapted to facilitate uncoupling of the motor assembly from the drive rack to allow manual movement of the drive rack. The reload select mechanism allows the length of a stroke of the drive rack to be selectively adjusted to allow the stapling device to accommodate different length staple reloads. The safety toggle mechanism is provided to move the stapling device from a non-firing state to a firing state to allow for firing of the stapling device.
US12167850B2
A surgical fastener applier having a housing containing a compartment therein, an elongated member extending distally from the housing and first and second jaws. A firing mechanism is positioned within the housing movable to a second position to effect firing of fasteners. A power pack is removably loadable into the compartment, the power pack having one or both of a) a first motor and a first engagement member removably engageable with the firing mechanism when the power pack is loaded into the compartment to effect movement of the firing mechanism; and b) a second motor and a second engagement member removably engageable with an articulating mechanism in the housing of the surgical fastener applier to effect movement of an articulation mechanism to effect articulation. One or both of a firing position and an articulation position are tracked during the surgical procedure. Sensors are provided to detect select parameters and instrument functions.
US12167845B2
A readily implantable knotless suture anchor that de-couples the angle of insertion of the anchor from the tissue passage step and other steps of conventional procedures. An anchor provides an internal locking mechanism configured such that: suture knots do not have to be tied; suture and tissue tension can be easily adjusted intraoperatively; and suture passage and tensioning can be done at a variety of positions and angles. A method includes: passing a first suture through a patient's tissue and then through a loop of a shuttle suture; pulling the free end of the shuttle suture until the first suture passes through an internal suture locking mechanism; applying tension in the first suture until adequate tension is achieved with respect to the tissue; automatically engaging an internal locking member; and securing the first suture against further relative movement with respect to the anchor.
US12167833B2
A biopsy valve includes a body having a first groove adapted to fit over a lip of an endoscope working channel and a second groove and a first membrane. A primary cap is mechanically coupled to the body by a primary strap extending between the primary cap and the body. The primary cap includes a primary cap lip to couple into the second groove of the body, a second membrane and a primary cap groove. A guard cap is mechanically coupled to the body by a guard cap strap extending between the guard cap and the body. The guard cap includes a guard cap lip which couples into the primary cap groove of the primary cap, and a third membrane. A triple membrane biopsy valve and a method of using a biopsy valve with an endoscope working channel are also described.
US12167823B2
A household appliance comprising: a support for goods arranged inside the household appliance; and an arrangement for extracting and retracting the goods support out from and into the household appliance, wherein the arrangement comprises: first and second rail units extending substantially along and in parallel with each other, wherein the first and second rail units are moveable in a longitudinal direction in relation to each other; and first and second sets of roller elements distributed longitudinally between the first and second rail units along first and second opposite outer surfaces of the first rail unit so as to facilitate said relative movement. The first rail unit is provided with supporting material in a region that extends between and is located intermediate to the first and second opposite outer surfaces so as to allow for absorption of compression forces in the supporting material and resistance of compression deformation of the first rail unit when one or more of the roller elements exerts a force onto any of the outer surfaces.
US12167819B2
A robotic cleaner executing operations such as capturing data indicative of locations of objects in a workspace through which the robot moves; generating or updating a map of at least a part of the workspace based on at least the data; and navigating based on the map or an updated map of the workspace. The robotic cleaner may include a side brush with a main body with at least one attachment point and at least one bundle of bristles attached to the at least one attachment point of the main body.
US12167818B2
A toilet cover plate includes a seat ring including a seat ring hole disposed at a middle portion of the seat ring and includes a seat ring sealing element disposed at a bottom portion of the seat ring. The seat ring sealing element includes a first sealing strip configured to seal a toilet body of a toilet. The toilet cover plate also includes a seat cover, including a seat cover sealing ring disposed at a bottom portion of the seat cover and configured to seal the seat ring. When the seat ring is closed to cover the toilet body, the first sealing strip is contacted with the toilet body. When the seat cover is closed to cover the seat ring, the seat cover sealing ring is contacted with the seat ring.
US12167813B2
The systems and methods provide a container assembly comprising: a container having a known storage capacity for storing a liquid; an additive dispensing assembly, the additive dispensing assembly dispensing variable, non-zero quantities of one or more additives into the liquid stored in the container; one or more vessels that each contain one of the additives, of the one or more additives, to be dispensed into the liquid; and a gas dispensing assembly, the gas dispensing assembly releasing a gas into the liquid stored in the container, and the gas dispensing assembly including: an onboard gas tank; a valve assembly; and a gas outlet, and the valve assembly controlling flow of gas from the onboard gas tank, through the valve assembly, and to the gas outlet so as to output the gas into the liquid; and wherein the valve assembly, to perform the controlling the flow of gas, is movable between: an open position, in which flow of gas is allowed to flow from the onboard gas tank to the gas outlet; and a closed position in which the flow of gas is prevented to flow from the onboard gas tank to the gas outlet.
US12167811B2
A coffee machine includes a first housing and a second housing, wherein the second housing is disposed on top of the first housing. The second housing comprises a first platform, a second platform disposed below the first platform, and a lift disposed at a first side of the second housing and configured to translate between the first platform and the second platform. The second housing further comprises a first robotic arm disposed above the first platform, a second robotic arm disposed between the second platform and the first platform, and a coffee brewing machine actionable to dispense one or more fluids into a cup. The coffee machine further comprises an information handling system comprising a processor, wherein the processor is configured to actuate the first robotic arm, the second robotic arm, the coffee brewing machine, and the lift.
US12167794B2
An unsealed submersion system for at least partially submerging furniture in a body of water. The unsealed submersion system comprising one or more pieces of furniture having an interior chamber configured to simultaneously hold water, while maintaining an internal vacuum, and still allowing water to freely flow between the interior of the furniture and the body of water. The unsealed submersion system also includes a pump assembly to draw air out of the interior chamber thereby creating the interior vacuum.
US12167791B2
A storage stand, comprising at least one shelf, the shelf bounded by a perimeter, the perimeter having at least four points defining a polygon, the at least four points forming a mounting axis of rotation with respect to its adjacent clockwise point and its adjacent counter-clockwise point, and at least four mounting locations arranged within the perimeter of the at least one shelf, each of the four mounting locations having a compression centroid, each mounting location forms a compression axis of rotation with respect to its adjacent clockwise mounting location and its adjacent counterclockwise mounting location such that at least one compression axis of rotation is non-parallel to its respective mounting axis of rotation.
US12167789B2
A floor cleaning machine that includes a disc broom that is rotatable about a rotation axis. The disc broom has a base body, bristles and a cover element. The base body has a circumferential outer edge. The bristles are attached at one end to the base body and extend away from the base body towards a sweeping plane that is perpendicular to the rotation axis. The cover element has a shell that is made of a flexible material. The shell extends away from the base body and towards the sweeping plane. The shell has an inner side, which faces an interior of the shell, and an outer side that faces an exterior of the shell. The shell envelopes the bristles perpendicularly to the rotation axis such that the bristles are disposed in the interior of the shell. A related disc broom and sweeping device are also provided.
US12167785B2
Provided is a container puff and a container provided with same, the container puff including a cushion such as liquid silicone filled in a space between a soft type first skin and a hard type second skin, and maximizing application performance and convenience of use of a stored material discharged from a coupled container through a through hole (or a nozzle provided through the through hole). By using the container puff and the container provided with same, the spreadability (uniform and fast application characteristics) of the agents is improved and the use thereof is convenient when cosmetics such as sunblock, medications such as a pain relieving liquid, adhesives such as glue, and various liquid application agents such as other gel type agents are rubbed onto an object subjected to application, such as a body.
US12167784B2
A luggage case 20 has a main container 30 having a parallel piped shape and defining a rectangular block cavity 22. The container 30 includes a base 40i and a narrow rear wall 50. The base 40i includes a wheel base 42 comprising two sets of multi-directional wheels 44i and 44ii. Each wheel set 44i-44ii includes a rigid, beam or rod 46i, 46ii providing a substantially rigid and non-axially compressible structure at each end of the base 40i. The structures 461, 46ii may form part of a wheel base 42 frame or may be simply formed in the interior of the generally stiffly constructed base 40i. The wheel sets 44i, 44ii include wheels 10,10i mounted to mounting points 26a, 26b, and are housed in recesses 24 at extreme ends of the first and second ends of the first and second edges 251, 25ii. Handle arms 51 are housed in widely spaced channels 54 at the extreme sides of the rear wall 50.
US12167779B2
The present invention is directed toward an article of footwear with an improved eyelet system independent of the upper. The article of footwear includes an upper and a sole structure, where the sole structure includes a top surface, a bottom surface, a lateral side and a medial side. The article of footwear further includes an eyelet system coupled to the top surface of the sole structure. The eyelet system includes a base structure and a plurality of looped strand portions coupled to the base structure. The base structure is coupled to the top surface of the sole structure such that the plurality of looped strand portions extend outwardly from the sole structure, enabling the looped strand portions to receive a fastening element.
US12167777B2
The present invention generally relates to golf shoes having a lace tightening system. The shoe includes an upper, midsole, and outsole. The upper includes various lace guides that are separated by gaps. The lace is threaded through these guides and the lace can be tightened or loosened by a rotary dial mounted on the shoe. The lace tightening system can be used to close the instep region around the foot to secure the shoe and provide a comfortable fit. The midsole provides cushioning to the shoe. The outsole preferably contains multiple traction members to provide good stability and ground contact. The shoes of this invention help provide the golfer with stability and balance.
US12167776B2
A sole or insole for an orthopedic shoe for persons with hallux valgus. The sole or insole includes a main part located at least under and supporting the Digitis Pedis II to V and the ball of the foot, and an element movably connected to the main part that is located under and supports the Digitis Pedis I. The main part of the sole or insole includes a cavity under the Digitis Pedis II to V and/or the transverse arch of the foot that contains a hydraulic, mechanical, pneumatic, electric or other device that causes rotary movement of the moveable element in the horizontal plane laterally away from the main part during a walking movement, in particular caused by the compressive force caused by the wearer's own weight on the sole or insole.
US12167762B2
The present disclosure relates to a core-sheath conjugate fiber for artificial hair including a core part and a sheath part. The core-sheath conjugate fiber for artificial hair has a flat multilobed cross sectional shape, and has a core-to-sheath area ratio of 2:8 to 9:1, and a viscosity ratio a/b between a melt viscosity a of a core part resin composition and a melt viscosity b of a sheath part resin composition is 2.0 or more and 7.0 or less. The present disclosure provides a core-sheath conjugate fiber for artificial hair having a touch close to that of human hair, excellent peel resistance at room temperature, and good combing property, a hair ornament product including the core sheath conjugate fiber, and a production method.
US12167759B2
A headband is provided which has a fabric layer defining pockets, padding layers positioned circumferentially around the headband in the pockets, and an impact panel. The impact panel is positioned to be proximate to the forehead of a wearer of the headband. One of the padding layers is positioned behind the impact panel, such that the padding layer is positioned between the impact panel and the forehead of a wearer.
US12167756B2
A method utilizing a tag with embedded RF-enabled chip that includes steps of providing an apparel body of a cloth material or a body of a non-apparel tangible item such as, without limitation, mug, bottle, box, hat, or any other widely available retail product, a RF tag layup with a first tag layer of a polymeric adhesive material directly coupled to the apparel body or body and a second tag layer directly coupled to the first tag layer to encapsulate and define a chip cavity with an electronic chip disposed therein and having a non-transitory memory storage operably configured to store digital data thereon and a data transmitter operably configured to wirelessly transfer the stored digital data through an electronic communication protocol and using radio waves, and a data reader operably configured to receive the digital data stored on the non-transitory memory storage of the electronic chip. Then, the process includes storing digital data and utilizing the data reader to receive the digital data from the non-transitory memory storage of the electronic chip.
US12167750B2
Provided herein is an ultrasonic-based aerosol generation device. The aerosol generation device according to some embodiments of the present disclosure includes a liquid reservoir configured to store an aerosol-forming substrate in a liquid state, a wick configured to absorb the stored aerosol-forming substrate, an ultrasonic vibrator configured to vaporize the absorbed aerosol-forming substrate through ultrasonic waves to generate an aerosol, and a controller configured to control the ultrasonic vibrator. Here, at least a portion of the wick and at least a portion of the ultrasonic vibrator may be implemented to have a flat shape and may be disposed to come in close contact with each other. In this way, a vaporization area may be maximized, and vapor production may be significantly enhanced.
US12167745B2
Disclosed is a cigarette including a tobacco rod, a supporting segment positioned at a downstream end of the tobacco rod, a cooling segment positioned at a downstream end of the supporting segment, and a mouthpiece positioned at a downstream end of the cooling segment. The cigarette according to the present embodiment may include a plurality of air channels formed along a longitudinal direction of the cigarette and the cooling segment having porosity of 50% or less.
US12167743B2
An oral product includes a body that is wholly receivable in an oral cavity. The body includes a mouth-stable polymer matrix, cellulosic fibers embedded in the mouth-stable polymer matrix, and nicotine or a derivative thereof dispersed in the mouth-stable polymer matrix. The oral product is adapted to release the nicotine or derivative thereof from the body when the body is received within the oral cavity and exposed to saliva.
US12167737B2
Described is a machine for making liquid or semi-liquid food products, including a first container for processing a liquid or semi-liquid base product defining a processing chamber and a stirrer for mixing the product of the first processing container. The machine also includes a plurality of detection devices designed to detect a quantity or an operating parameter of said machine and to generate a signal representative of the quantity or of the operating parameter. The machine includes a processing and control unit configured to receive the representative signals and to derive an operating condition of the machine based on the signals. The machine also includes a user interface connected to the processing and control unit and comprising a single control operable by an operator to selectively perform power on and power off of the machine.
US12167735B2
A poultry defeathering apparatus comprising a compression plate with a central aperture operationally associated with a hub drive shaft of a feather plucking machine, wherein the compression plate is secured to the hub drive shaft, a finger plate operationally associated with the hub drive shaft and the compression plate, the finger plate includes a central aperture, an annular abutment ring operationally associated with the central aperture, a plurality of finger apertures surrounding the central aperture, a plurality of fingers secured to the finger plate by insertion through the finger plate, with the body extending through a finger aperture, wherein the hub drive shaft is secured to the finger plate and wherein the oversized base of each finger is compressed between the compression plate and the finger plate and a mounting bolt secured on the finger plate within the mounting hole of the hub drive shaft.
US12167722B2
An apparatus for growing invertebrates, such as arthropods, rheumatoid worms and nematodes is described. The apparatus includes a rotatable casing defining a chamber and at least one growing platform inside said casing. Inside the casing there is a group of first pipes having a pipe wall. The first pipes are configured to act as growing platforms providing growing spaces for the invertebrates. Preferably the number of first pipes is more than three. The first pipes may be immovably attached to the casing.
