US12217432B2
Assessment of pulmonary function in coronavirus patients includes use of a computer aided diagnostic (CAD) system to assess pulmonary function and risk of mortality in patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The CAD system processes chest X-ray data from a patient, extracts imaging markers, and grades disease severity based at least in part on the extracted imaging markers, thereby distinguishing between higher risk and lower risk patients.
US12217431B2
Systems and methods for generating a panoptic segmentation mask for an input image. The methods include receiving the input image comprising a plurality of pixels, generating a semantic mask and an instance mask from the input image, and combining the semantic mask and the instance mask to generate a panoptic mask for the input image. The semantic mask includes a single-channel mask that associates each pixel in the input image with a corresponding one of a plurality of labels. The instance mask includes a plurality of masks, where each of the plurality of masks identifies an instance of a countable object in the input image, and is associated with an indication of whether that instance of the countable object is hidden behind another object in the input image.
US12217426B2
A system and a method for measuring a maturation stage of a biological organ are based on quantitative MR maps for the organ. The method includes acquiring with a first interface and for a subject, a quantitative MR map for the organ. The quantitative MR map includes voxels each characterized by a quantitative value. The quantitative value of each voxel represents a measurement of a physical or physiological property of a tissue of the biological organ for the voxel. The method also includes applying to the quantitative map a trained function to estimate the subject organ maturation stage, and the trained function outputting an age. The method provides with a second interface the maturation stage of the organ of the subject as being the output age.
US12217425B2
A method for interpreting an input image by a computing device operated by at least one processor is provided. The method for interpreting an input image comprises storing an artificial intelligent (AI) model that is trained to classify a lesion detected in the input image as suspicious or non-suspicious and, under a condition of being suspicious, to classify the lesion detected in the input image as malignant or benign-hard representing that the lesion is suspicious but determined to be benign, receiving an analysis target image, by using the AI model, obtaining a classification class of a target lesion detected in the analysis target image and, when the classification class is the suspicious, obtaining at least one of a probability of being suspicious, a probability of being benign-hard, and a probability of malignant for the target lesion, and outputting an interpretation result including at least one probability obtained for the target lesion.
US12217423B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for receiving one or more digital images associated with a tissue specimen, detecting one or more image regions from a background of the one or more digital images, determining a prediction, using a machine learning system, of whether at least one first image region of the one or more image regions comprises at least one external contaminant, the machine learning system having been trained using a plurality of training images to predict a presence of external contaminants and/or a location of any external contaminants present in the tissue specimen, and determining, based on the prediction of whether a first image region comprises an external contaminant, whether to process the image region using an processing algorithm.
US12217414B2
A system for detecting carryback within a dump body of a haul truck may include at least one camera and at least one controller. The at least one camera is configured to generate a scan of an interior surface of the dump body. The at least one controller is configured to receive the scan of the interior surface of the dump body and determine a type of dump body by comparing the scan of the interior surface of the dump body with at least one scan of an interior surface of a known dump body.
US12217399B2
A tone mapping circuit includes: a tone mapping unit suitable for generating a corrected color image by correcting an input image corresponding to pixel data provided from a pixel array; and a noise removing unit suitable for calculating a deviation of the input image based on the input image and the corrected color image, and removing noise from the corrected color image to generate a new output image.
US12217398B1
A system for intelligent image dehazing based on haze type classification. The system receives a hazy image and classifies the haze type using either a Single Selective Classifier (SSC) or a Hybrid Conditional Classifier (HCC), based on user preference. If SSC is selected, a specific single model is used for classification. If HCC is selected, all pre-trained and pre-defined models are used. The system then selects a suitable specialized dehazer based on the predicted haze type and applies it to the input image to mitigate the effects of the haze. The system is flexible, allowing for adjustments to various parameters as per the users' requirements and target application domains.
US12217383B2
Techniques for aligning image content are disclosed. The alignment occurs by concurrently identifying corner and line features and by aligning the images based on those features. As a result, relaxed constraints can be used during the alignment process as compared to constraints that are required when aligning images using only corner features. To achieve these benefits, first and second images are acquired. A first set of pixels that correspond to corner features are detected within the images. In parallel, a second set of pixels that correspond to line features are detected within the images. Image content is then aligned from the two images. The aligning process is performed using at least some of the pixels from the first and second sets.
US12217378B2
A method for an image-captured initialization of an array of devices, said method comprising the steps of: receiving a video stream featuring a plurality of end devices in a gaming station, wherein said end device renders at least one of a lighting, haptic, or air-blowing effect from a specific location within the gaming station; detecting the plurality of end devices by vision processing at least a frame of the gaming station stream; and positioning a virtual representation of the detected end devices on a digital canvas representing a user's physical space based on a tonal frequency-dependent light-emission from a frequency-defined end device.
US12217374B2
Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program, and a method for rendering three-dimensional virtual objects within real-world environments. Virtual rendering of a three-dimensional virtual object can be altered appropriately as a user moves around the object in the real-world through utilization of a redundant tracking system comprising multiple tracking sub-systems. Virtual object rendering can be with respect to a reference surface in a real-world three-dimensional space depicted in a camera view of a mobile computing device.
US12217364B2
A modeling system displays a three-dimensional (3D) space including a 3D object including a plurality of points and a cage model of the 3D object including a first configuration of vertices and quad faces. Each of the plurality of points is located at a respective initial location. The modeling system generates cage coordinates for the cage model including a vertex coordinate for each vertex of the cage model and four quad coordinates for each quad face of the cage model corresponding to each corner vertex of the quad. The modeling system deforms, responsive to receiving a request, the cage model to change the first configuration of vertices to a second configuration. The modeling system generates, based on the cage coordinates, the first configuration of vertices, and the second configuration of vertices, an updated 3D object by determining a subsequent location for each of the plurality of points.
US12217363B2
A system, method, and device are provided for creating a data processing pipeline to capture, transport, and interactively display in both recorded and real time any 3D volumetric simulation that was generated by a separate application. The system, method, and device enabling the interactive viewing of virtual and mixed reality simulations by a plurality of users.
US12217362B2
A test system includes a computer, a 3D printer, and a test device. The computer obtains shape data which indicates a three-dimensional shape of a workpiece and material data which indicates a material of the workpiece. The 3D printer forms a structural object which has a three-dimensional shape that is indicated by the shape data. The test device performs a test on a pseudo workpiece which has been prepared by adding, to the structural object, a test piece made of the material that is indicated in the material data.
US12217360B2
A system receives, from a second space, a second picked-up image signal obtained by picking up by a second imaging unit, and projects in a first space an image on the basis of the second picked-up image signal. The system includes a region setting section that sets a specific output region, a signal processing section that generates post-processing image data by performing image signal processing on the second picked-up image signal in such a way that a luminance value of the image projected onto the specific output region becomes equal to or smaller than a specific value; and a device control section that causes projection of the image on the basis of the post-processing image data.
US12217358B2
3-D rendering systems include a rasterization section that can fetch untransformed geometry, transform geometry and cache data for transformed geometry in a memory. As an example, the rasterization section can transform the geometry into screen space. The geometry can include one or more of static geometry and dynamic geometry. The rasterization section can query the cache for presence of data pertaining to a specific element or elements of geometry, and use that data from the cache, if present, and otherwise perform the transformation again, for actions such as hidden surface removal. The rasterization section can receive, from a geometry processing section, tiled geometry lists and perform the hidden surface removal for pixels within respective tiles to which those lists pertain.
US12217355B1
A three-dimensional (3D) streaming system and associated methods optimize 3D content streaming to remote devices by receiving 3D data that is distributed across a 3D space. The system partitions the 3D space into different regions, and compresses a different subset of the 3D data that is within each partitioned region as a separate compressed file. The system receives a request for a particular field-of-view in the 3D space and streams a set of compressed files that contain the different subset of 3D data for a set of the partitioned regions within the particular field-of-view. In response to a request for an updated field-of-view with a region that is not within the particular field-of-view, the system selects the compressed file that contains the 3D data within that region and streams the selected compressed file in response to the request for the updated field-of-view.
US12217353B2
Techniques are disclosed relating to intersection tests for ray tracing in graphics processors. In some embodiments, test circuitry is configured to perform an intersection test based on traversal of an acceleration data structure that includes hierarchically-arranged bounding volumes for a graphics scene, where the test operates on: reduced-precision representations of rays that are quantized versions of initial representations of the rays and reduced-representatives of primitives that are quantized versions of initial representations of the primitives. The test may generate a first result for a first ray and a first primitive that indicates that a line coincident with the first ray definitively intersects the first primitive. The graphics processor may record an intersection for the first ray with the first primitive, based on the first result, without performing an intersection test for the first ray using the initial representation of the first ray and the first primitive.
US12217352B2
Graphics processing systems and methods provide soft shadowing effects into rendered images. This is achieved in a simple manner which can be implemented in real-time without incurring high processing costs so it is suitable for implementation in low-cost devices. Rays are cast from positions on visible surfaces corresponding to pixel positions towards the center of a light, and occlusions of the rays are determined. The results of these determinations are used to apply soft shadows to the rendered pixel values.
US12217350B2
Disclosed techniques relate to acceleration data structure for ray intersection testing. In some embodiments, storage circuitry stores node data for a spatially organized acceleration data structure, including to store the following node information for a given node: origin coordinates for the node and, for a given child node of multiple child nodes, child information that includes: quantized bounding region information for a bounding region corresponding to the child node, where the quantized bounding region information encodes bounding region coordinates as offsets relative to the origin coordinates. Traversal circuitry may traverse multiple nodes of the data structure and determine whether a ray intersects a bounding region indicated by given a node of the data structure based on the node information. Disclosed techniques may provide substantial improvements to performance, data size, and power consumption.
US12217346B2
Various input modes and output modes may be used for a three-dimensional (3D) environment. A user may use a particular input mode (e.g., text, audio, video, etc.) for animating a 3D avatar of the user in the 3D environment. The user may use a particular output mode (e.g., text, audio, 3D animation, etc.) in the presentation of the 3D environment. The input/output modes may change based on conditions such as a location of the user.
US12217339B2
A method for increasing the confidence of a match between a test image and an image stored in a library database in which features are extracted from the test image and compared to features stored in the image database. If a match is determined, one or more transformations are performed on the test image to generate pose-altered images from which features are extracted and matched with pose-altered images in the database. The scores for the subsequent matchings can be aggregated to determine an overall probability of a match between the test image in an image in the library database.
US12217334B2
There are disclosed a method, apparatus, electronic device, and medium for rendering. The method for rendering comprises: determining colors of predetermined areas on a target object, the number of predetermined areas being at least a predetermined number, which is greater than 1; determining a target color superimposed to a target position according to the color of each predetermined area; superimposing the target color at the target position.
US12217323B2
A vehicle data management system and data jurisdiction system manage vehicle data between multiple jurisdictions and enables a set of jurisdiction rules involving rules of various jurisdictions to be applied consistently. The vehicle data jurisdiction system can detect changes in jurisdiction of a vehicle based on various pieces of received vehicle information and applies appropriate jurisdiction rules from a set of jurisdiction rules. Various jurisdictions may have conflicting jurisdiction rules and, in such circumstances, the data jurisdiction system resolves potential conflicts between the rules using a jurisdiction rules resolution workflow. Based on the resolution of the conflict, the data jurisdiction system can migrate data of the vehicle to one or more other jurisdictions, or otherwise implement the correct rules determined by resolving the conflict.
US12217321B2
One or more graphical user interfaces (GUIs) and/or a console management, modeling, and analysis system is described. In some embodiments, the GUI and/or management system can be used to analyze investment purchases and/or sales. In some embodiments, users may be allowed to enter data used to produce dynamic models. In some embodiments, data may be aggregated from various users and/or sources to provide adaptive, dynamic models and/or projections.
US12217311B2
Apparatus and associated methods related to generate at least one quotation request from records related to tangible property. In an illustrative embodiment, a signal corresponding to input from a user identifying a real environment is received. For example, the user may transmit a quotation request associated with the real environment. Based on the quotation request, for example, identify information related to the real environment based on predetermined requirements associated with at least one API related to a type of the request. For example, at least one second quotation request may be generated as a function of the information to a plurality of vendors through the at least one API. Various embodiments may perform virtual environment operations to present a plurality of records related to the real environment.
US12217309B1
A computer-implemented method obtains information related to a business process. The computer-implemented method may include (1) capturing business event information for a business event that occurs during the business process; (2) generating a unique identifier configured to identify the business event; (3) translating the business event information into a final event record including the unique identifier, the final event record being configured according to a common data structure; and (4) storing the final event record in a database for analysis. As such, the computer-implemented method permits business information to be captured from disparate business processes and to be stored in a common format to facilitate efficient and productive analysis.
US12217307B1
A method is provided for a virtual floor trading implemented via an exchange computer system. The method includes maintaining a virtual environment that facilitates audio-visual interaction between a plurality of remote market participants; establishing a secure connection with a computing device; receiving, from the computing device, information relating to a financial instrument transaction order; providing the information relating to the financial instrument transaction order to the plurality of remote market participants; receiving a response to the financial instrument transaction order from at least one remote market participant from among the plurality of remote market participants; providing information relating to the response to the plurality of remote market participants; and facilitating a transaction based on the information relating to the financial instrument transaction order, the information relating to the response, and one or more order matching rules.
US12217306B2
The present disclosure provides various transformations to be used in analysis of a large number of transactions to detect anomalies that would indicate potential fraudulent or criminal activity. Such transformations may be applied, for example, using a machine learning system. According to some examples, each of various transformations may be used to detect a particular type of behavioral anomaly. When multiple disparate transformations are considered together by the machine learning system, anomalous activity related to potential fraudulent or criminal activity can be detected more frequently and with greater accuracy.
US12217297B2
Techniques are disclosed for hyper-segmented personalization using machine learning-based models in an information processing system. For example, a method obtains one or more product experience recommendation data sets respectively from one or more product entities, and one or more purchase experience recommendation data sets respectively from one or more commerce entities. The method applies a federated ensemble-based machine learning algorithm to at least one of the one or more purchase experience recommendation data sets and at least one of the one or more product experience recommendation data sets to generate a personalized model, and causes adaptation of a purchasing interface of at least one of the one or more commerce entities with respect to a given user based on the personalized model.
US12217285B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to expand panelist enrollment are disclosed. An example first media device includes processor circuitry to at least one of instantiate or execute the machine readable instructions to scan at least one local area network to which the first media device is connected, store an identification of a second media device connected to the at least one local area network, in response to scan of the at least one local area network indicating that the second media device is commonly connected to the at least one local area network with the first media device, add the identification of the second media device to a fingerprint, and transmit the fingerprint to a central facility.
US12217281B2
To provide an information distribution management device configured to analyze distribution in consideration of the number of unique users. An advertisement management device 100 includes a heat map generation unit 101configured to generate a heat map indicating the necessity of advertisement distribution to a designated target layer for each of a plurality of units of digital signage 300 and for each time slot, a reach curve generation unit 103 configured to function as a viewing estimation unit that estimates the viewing frequency of unique users of the target layer for the digital signage 300to which the heat map is applied, and an evaluation unit 104 configured to evaluate the heat map on the basis of the number of viewers who are unique users of the target layer (equivalent to viewing frequency) and the total number of viewers who are all users to whom the heat map is applied (viewing frequency).
US12217275B1
An electronic computing device includes a processing unit and system memory. The system memory includes instructions which, when executed by the processing unit, cause the electronic computing device to receive data associated with one or more customers of an institution. The data is received from one or more other electronic computing devices. The received data is analyzed to identify grammatical elements in the data. Relationships are derived between a plurality of the grammatical elements. At least one derived relationship is used to update a profile for a customer. At least one derived relationship is used to identify a customer for which a remedial action is warranted.
US12217268B2
Methods and systems of exchanging data using payment cards with universal reference numbers are disclosed. A merchant computing system includes a merchant input/output assembly receiving a universal reference number from a customer at a point of sale. A merchant database retrievably stores a plurality of universal reference numbers and customer information associated with each of the plurality of universal reference numbers. A transaction circuit receives the universal reference number from the merchant input/output assembly, retrieves customer information associated with the universal reference number, and provides an output relating to a transaction based on the customer information.
US12217258B2
A secure user authentication system, operable over a client-server communications network to authenticate a system user. The system includes an application server which includes a site which is able to be enabled, and an authentication server, which is able to enable the application server site. The authentication server includes a core database, and receives and stores user authentication-enabling data in the core database. The system further includes a client, and a client program which is able to be actuated in the client. The client program includes the user authentication-enabling data. Upon actuation, the client program automatically directly connects to the authentication server, and sends the client authentication-enabling data to the authentication server, for secure user authentication by the authentication server.
US12217242B2
A computer-implemented method for prepaid card funding for sponsored purchases includes receiving a payment request for funding a sponsored purchase using a payment vehicle, deducting funds from a financial account associated with the payment vehicle, such that the financial account has a negative balance, and loading additional funds into the financial account associated with the payment vehicle, such that the financial account has a zero balance.
US12217241B2
A system for a mobile gift card marketplaces is disclosed. The system may initiate a contactless payment at a merchant via a mobile app. The system may receive an authorization message based on the contactless payment. The system may execute an authorization process in response to receiving the authorization message to determine an authorized transaction. The system may validate the authorized transaction to determine whether the authorized transaction is associated with a customer. The system may execute a merchant validation process to determine if the authorized transaction is associated with a merchant. The system may determine an available gift card account balance of the customer associated with the merchant in response to determining the authorized transaction is associated with both the customer and the merchant. The system may execute a gift card redemption process to redeem the available gift card account balance of the customer associated with the merchant.
US12217232B2
The present disclosure concerns methods and systems for increasing anonymity and traceability of a digital property management system that manages digital property transactions on a distributed transaction consensus network. The digital property management system comprises a sender's digital property manager and a recipient's digital property manager. The sender's digital property manager further comprises a sender's module and a sender's transaction node and the recipient's digital property manager further comprises a recipient' module and a recipient's transaction node. To increase anonymity of a remittance transaction between, sender's module is not allowed to access a recipient's virtual identification. Thus, recipient's module generates a token to temporarily replace a recipient's virtual identification. To increase anonymity, an encrypted label is generated for each sub-transaction to identify sub-transactions and their sequence in the same remittance set.
US12217229B2
Various embodiments herein each include at least one of systems, methods, and software for biometric authentication of pre-staged self-service terminal transactions. One embodiment in the form of a method includes connecting, wirelessly via a wireless communication device of a mobile device, to a Self-Service Terminal (SST), such as an ATM or self-service checkout terminal. The mobile device then receives, via the wireless communication device from the SST, biometric authentication data to authenticate an account holder. The received biometric data is then compared on the mobile device with biometric data stored on or read by a biometric reader of the mobile device. When the comparing identifies a match between the received biometric data and the biometric data read by or stored on the mobile device, the method then transmits an authentication message via the wireless communication device to the SST indicating the match.
US12217228B2
The disclosed embodiments include systems and methods for executing a point of sale deposit. In one embodiment, a system may include one or more memory devices storing software instructions, and one or more processors configured to execute the software instructions to receive transaction information related to a point of sale deposit from a client device, and generate a pending deposit transaction based on the transaction information. The one or more processors may be further configured to execute the software instructions to receive a first transaction token from the client device, receive a second transaction token from a third-party device, match the first transaction token to the second transaction token, and complete the pending deposit transaction based on the match.
US12217226B2
A system to allocate resources via information technology infrastructure is described. A server includes processors to provide to a plurality of devices, an electronic benefits account transaction application programming interface (“API”) configured to receive transaction requests from a plurality of heterogeneous electronic funding sources. The server can receive a request to initiate a single transaction to fund an electronics benefit account. The server can transmit data in an alert format indicating a denial of the single request responsive to a comparison of a value to one or more threshold limits.
US12217218B2
Implementations relate to an automated assistant that provides augmented reality content, via a display interface of computerized glasses, resulting from post-processing of application content. The application content can be identified based on prior interactions between a user and one or more applications, and the application content can be processed to determine objects, and/or object classifications, that may be associated with the application content. When the user is wearing the computerized glasses, and the object is detected within a field of view of the computerized glasses, the automated assistant can cause certain content to be rendered at the display interface of the computerized glasses. In some implementations, the content can be generated to supplement, and/or be different from, existing content that the user may have already accessed, in furtherance of preventing duplicative usage of applications and/or preserving computational resources.
US12217217B2
Systems and methods are provided herein for altering a start time of an event based on indicia of how late event attendees will be for the event that are retrieved from location applications corresponding to each attendee of the attendees. For example, a media guidance application may determine a start time of an event, a location of the event, and attendees of the event. The media guidance application may determine location applications corresponding to the attendees. The media guidance application may query the location applications for arrival times of each attendee. The media guidance application may calculate a plurality of differences between each of the arrival times and the start time of the event. Based on the plurality of differences, the media guidance application may delay the start time of the event.
US12217205B1
Techniques are described for analyzing and presenting alert-based information for an enterprise business. In particular, a central device in a computer system receives alerts from other devices associated with different office branches of the enterprise business, and analyzes the alerts on a periodic schedule. For example, every month, the central device may calculate a weighted alert volume by district based on the risk scores calculated for the office branches within the district, calculate an average weighted alert volume across the entire enterprise, and calculate the standard deviation of the average weighted alert volume to determine the alert risk rating for the district. The central device may also analyze the dispositions of the alerts on the period schedule. For example, the central device may determine coaching rates and/or disposition rates by district. The central device may further output the alert and/or disposition information to users in a simple format.
US12217201B2
Disclosed are a method and device for managing a project by using a data pointer. A project is efficiently operated by dividing a project based on a minimum unit task and designing a plurality of child projects connected in sequential order such that a plurality of child projects proceed in order.
US12217197B2
Transaction-enabled systems and methods for transaction execution with licensing smart wrappers are disclosed. An example system may include a smart contract wrapper configured to access a distributed ledger comprising a plurality of IP licensing terms for a plurality of IP assets comprising an aggregate stack of IP. The smart contract wrapper may be further configured to interpret an IP description value and an IP addition request and, in response to the request and IP description value, to add an IP asset to the aggregate stack of IP. A transaction execution circuit provides a transaction implementation command in response to at least one of a transaction geographic value or a transaction jurisdiction value.
US12217189B2
A learning processing unit that causes a second neural network (NN) to be trained, with a hyperparameter set of a first NN accepted as input, so as to output post-learning performance that is the performance of a trained first NN to which the hyperparameter set is set. A GA processing unit adjusts the hyperparameter set of the first NN by a genetic algorithm, with the hyperparameter set of the first NN handled as entity, the fitness of said algorithm being configured to be a value that corresponds to the post-learning performance of the first NN to which the hyperparameter set is set. In processing in each generation of the genetic algorithm, the post-learning performance of the first NN corresponding to each hyperparameter is acquired using the second NN.
US12217180B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for training a text summarization neural network. One of the methods includes pre-training the text summarization neural network including learning values of a plurality of network parameters through self-supervised learning using unlabeled data comprising unlabeled first texts, the pre-training including: obtaining an unlabeled first text comprising a plurality of segments; selecting one or more of the plurality of segments; processing a masked first text that excludes the one or more selected segments to generate a prediction of the one or more selected segments; and determining, based on a difference between the prediction and the one or more selected segments, an update to the current values of the plurality of network parameters; adapting the pre-trained text summarization neural network for a specific text summarization task using labeled data comprising second texts and respective summaries of the second texts.
US12217175B2
Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to conditionally activate a big core in a computing system are disclosed. An example apparatus including instructions stored in the apparatus; and processor circuitry to execute the instructions to: in response to a request to operate two or more processing devices as a single processing device, determine whether the two or more processing devices are available and capable of executing instructions according to the request; when the two or more processing devices are available and capable: split the instructions into first sub-instructions and second sub-instructions; provide (a) the first sub-instructions to a first processing device of the two or more processing devices and (b) the second sub-instructions to a second processing device of the two or more processing devices; and generate an output by combining a first output of the first processing device and a second output of the second processing device.
US12217163B2
Methods and systems for budgeted and simplified training of deep neural networks (DNNs) are disclosed. In one example, a trainer is to train a DNN using a plurality of training sub-images derived from a down-sampled training image. A tester is to test the trained DNN using a plurality of testing sub-images derived from a down-sampled testing image. In another example, in a recurrent deep Q-network (RDQN) having a local attention mechanism located between a convolutional neural network (CNN) and a long-short time memory (LSTM), a plurality of feature maps are generated by the CNN from an input image. Hard-attention is applied by the local attention mechanism to the generated plurality of feature maps by selecting a subset of the generated feature maps. Soft attention is applied by the local attention mechanism to the selected subset of generated feature maps by providing weights to the selected subset of generated feature maps in obtaining weighted feature maps. The weighted feature maps are stored in the LSTM. A Q value is calculated for different actions based on the weighted feature maps stored in the LSTM.
US12217159B2
Systems, devices, and methods related to a Deep Learning Accelerator and memory are described. For example, an integrated circuit device may be configured to execute instructions with matrix operands and configured with random access memory (RAM) to store parameters of an artificial neural network (ANN). The device can generate random bit errors to simulate compromised or corrupted memory cells in a portion of the RAM accessed during computations of a first ANN output. A second ANN output is generated with the random bit errors applied to the data retrieved from the portion of the RAM. Based on a difference between the first and second ANN outputs, the device may adjust the ANN computation to reduce sensitivity to compromised or corrupted memory cells in the portion of the RAM. For example, the sensitivity reduction may be performed through ANN training using machine learning.
US12217157B2
Described are a system, method, and computer program product for dynamic node classification in temporal-based machine learning classification models. The method includes receiving graph data of a discrete time dynamic graph including graph snapshots, and node classifications associated with all nodes in the discrete time dynamic graph. The method includes converting the discrete time dynamic graph to a time-augmented spatio-temporal graph and generating an adjacency matrix based on a temporal walk of the time-augmented spatio-temporal graph. The method includes generating an adaptive information transition matrix based on the adjacency matrix and determining feature vectors based on the nodes and the node attribute matrix of each graph snapshot. The method includes generating and propagating initial node representations across information propagation layers using the adaptive information transition matrix and classifying a node of the discrete time dynamic graph subsequent to the first time period based on final node representations.
US12217154B2
A neural network operation method includes: receiving an input vector sequence including a plurality of channels; performing a first convolution operation on a first input vector of the input vector sequence; and performing a second convolution operation on a second input vector of the input vector sequence that is adjacent to the first input vector in a channel direction.
US12217148B2
The technology disclosed relates to a webinterface production and deployment system. In particular, it relates to a presentation module that applies a selected candidate individual to a presentation database to determine frontend element values corresponding to dimension values identified by the selected candidate individual, and which presents toward a user a funnel having the determined frontend element values.
US12217145B2
An Online Machine Learning System (OMLS) including an Online Preprocessing Engine (OPrE) configured to (a) receive streaming data including an instance comprising a vector of inputs, the vector of inputs comprising a plurality of continuous or categorical features; (b) discretize features; (c) impute missing feature values; (d) normalize features; and (e) detect drift or change in features; an Online Feature Engineering Engine (OFEE) configured to produce features; and an Online Robust Feature Selection Engine (ORFSE) configured to evaluate and select features; an Online Machine Learning Engine (OMLE) configured to incorporate and utilize one or more machine learning algorithms or models utilizing features to generate a result, and capable of incorporating and utilizing multiple different machine learning algorithms or models, wherein each of the OMLE, the OPrE, the OFEE, and the ORFSE are continuously communicatively coupled to each other, and wherein the OMLS is configured to perform continuous online machine learning.
US12217112B2
An IC card provided with an IC chip, and configured to enable at least one of contact communication and contactless communication, the IC card including an ultrasonic fingerprint sensor connected to the IC chip and a storage unit in which fingerprint data for matching is stored. An outer surface of the IC card is formed of synthetic resin, and the ultrasonic fingerprint sensor is covered with the synthetic resin.
US12217096B2
Multi-cloud deployment strategy is based on automated analysis of context and requirements for an activity workload. The activity workload is defined by user input including information regarding project cost, performance requirements, and geographical preferences. Selection of cloud-based resources for handling the activity workload is based in part on service availability record, projected cost of resources, and physical geographic locations. A cloud services registry provides cloud service provider data for selection to perform aspects of the activity workload.
US12217095B1
The subject disclosure pertains to provisioning of a hybrid cloud services solution to users. A request for hybrid cloud service can be received from a user by way of a portal. Target users of a hybrid cloud service are identified in response to the received request. Out-of-band touch points can next be determined based on the target users and the request. In one instance, the touch points can be determined based on enterprise or industry rules regarding touch points. Subsequently, a hybrid cloud service solution can be provisioned that integrates the out-of-band touch points. Automatic life cycle management controls can also be provisioned to address patches.
US12217088B2
Techniques described herein can optimize usage of computing resources in a data system. Dynamic throttling can be performed locally on a computing resource in the foreground and autoscaling can be performed in a centralized fashion in the background. Dynamic throttling can lower the load without overshooting while minimizing oscillation and reducing the throttle quickly. Autoscaling may involve scaling in or out the number of computing resources in a cluster as well as scaling up or down the type of computing resources to handle different types of situations.
US12217087B2
A system for processing a financial transaction request and a method executed by the system can include receiving, at a first server, a request to execute the financial transaction request. The first server can determine transaction middleware (TM) super-modules that are stored on the first server and are required to execute the financial transaction. The first server can detect capacities of the TM super-modules and annex control over memory space of a second server if needed. The first server can replicate at least one of the TM super-modules on the memory of the second server and direct the financial transaction request to the TM super-module replicated on the second server. That TM super-module can generate a corresponding output received by the first server, which can then cede control over the memory space of the second server.
US12217085B2
An electronic device includes: a host processor configured to control an operation of the electronic device; accelerators of heterogeneous hardware types configured to exchange data with each other through direct communication; and a control unit configured to convert a command received from the host processor, based on a type of each of the accelerators and transfer a result of the converting to a corresponding accelerator among the accelerators.
US12217082B2
Methods and systems for automating deployment of applications in a multi-tenant database environment
In accordance with embodiments disclosed herein, there are provided mechanisms and methods for automating deployment of applications in a multi-tenant database environment. For example, in one embodiment, mechanisms include managing a plurality of machines operating as a machine farm within a datacenter by executing an agent provisioning script at a control hub, instructing the plurality of machines to download and instantiate a lightweight agent; pushing a plurality of URL (Uniform Resource Locator) references from the control hub to the instantiated lightweight agent on each of the plurality of machines specifying one or more applications to be provisioned and one or more dependencies for each of the applications; and loading, via the lightweight agent at each of the plurality of machines, the one or more applications and the one or more dependencies for each of the one or more applications into memory of each respective machine.
US12217078B2
A system and method for scanning of virtual machine images. The method includes creating a virtual machine instance of a virtual machine based on a virtual machine image of the virtual machine and an application programming interface (API) of an environment in which the virtual machine is to be deployed, wherein the virtual machine image has an entry point such that the virtual machine instance executes the entry point; and replacing the entry point of the virtual machine instance with a lightweight script, wherein the lightweight script is configured to retrieve a static scanner executable, to execute the static scanner executable, and to send results of the scanning.
US12217074B2
A computer-implemented method is provided for managing Garbage Collection (GC) safepoints. The method includes determining whether a GC safepoint for a target native method can be removed by checking a heap occupancy ratio prior to executing the target native method. The method further includes removing the GC safepoint responsive to the heap occupancy ratio prior to executing the target native method being less than a threshold occupancy amount percentage. The method also includes determining whether the GC safepoint for the target native method can be removed by checking a most recent GC pause time. The method additionally includes removing the GC safepoint responsive to the most recent GC pause time being shorter by a threshold pause time amount percentage than an execution time of the target native method.
US12217060B1
Techniques are disclosed that relate to executing pairs of instructions. A processor may include fusion detector circuitry configured to detect a pair of fetched instructions and fuse the pair of fetched instructions into a fused instruction operation, and execution circuitry coupled to the fusion detector circuitry and configured to execute the fused instruction operation. In some embodiments the pair of instructions is executable to generate a remainder of a division operation. In some embodiments the pair of instructions is executable to compare two operands and perform a write operation based on the comparison. In some embodiments the pair of instructions is executable to perform an operation and apply a mask bit sequence to the result. The fusion detector circuitry may also be configured to obtain first and second portions of a constant value from first and second instructions and store the first and second portions in a destination register.
US12217049B2
A method of synchronizing container image lists is provided. A first container image list having first container images is accessed from a remote source. The first container images listed in the first container image list include a first tag and a first digest. A second container image list having second container images is accessed from a cloud-computing system registry. The second container images listed in the second container image list include a second tag and a second digest. Container images in the accessed container image lists are compared with each other. The comparison includes comparing the first tag with the second tag and, based on the tag comparison, the first digest with the second digest. The first container image list is synchronized with the second container image list based on the comparison of the container images.
US12217048B1
A first firmware source code portion corresponding to an immutable firmware portion of specific firmware to be deployed with embedded devices is identified. A second different firmware source code portion corresponding to a mutable firmware portion of the specific firmware to be deployed with the embedded devices is identified. The first firmware source code portion is used to generate the immutable firmware portion of the specific firmware. The second firmware source code portion is used to generate the mutable firmware portion of the specific firmware. The immutable firmware portion of the specific firmware is caused to be installed in fixed storage drives of an embedded device in the embedded devices. The mutable firmware portion of the specific firmware is caused to be installed in swappable storage drives of the same embedded device.
US12217046B2
In some implementations, a system may receive, in a state event store, a deployment state event notification based on deployment of a new event consumer in the system. An old event consumer of the system may retrieve the deployment state event notification from the state event store. The system may deactivate an old event consumer based on retrieving the deployment state event notification, wherein the old event consumer refrains from processing topic event notifications after deactivation and continues to monitor the state event store for state event notifications. The old event consumer may publish a deactivation state event notification to the state event store based on deactivating the old event consumer. The new event consumer may retrieve the deactivation state event notification from the state event store. The system may activate the new event consumer based on retrieving the deactivation state event notification.
US12217029B1
This specification is generally directed to techniques for generating interfacing source code between computing components based on natural language input. In various implementations, a natural language input that requests generation of interfacing source code to logically couple a first computing component with a second computing component may be processed to generate an interface request semantic embedding. The interface request semantic embedding may be processed based on one or more domain models associated with the first and second computing components to generate a pool(s) of candidate code snippets for logically coupling with first and second computing components. A plurality of candidate instances of interfacing source code may be generated between the first and second computing components. Each candidate software interface may include a different permutation of candidate code snippets from the pool(s) of candidate code snippets.
US12217026B2
An industrial integrated development environment (IDE) is extended to support creation of device profiles using an intuitive graphical development environment. The environment comprises a device profile development interface that allows a user to select device profile views to be included in a device profile for an industrial device, and to submit edits to the underlying code for the selected device profile views. The system can then generate a new device profile from the modified device profile code. The device profile can be registered with the industrial IDE and used to view and edit device parameters of a corresponding industrial device. The device profile development environment also supports dynamic validation of profile view edits, rendering of graphical previews of the modified device profile view, and submission of both code-based and graphical profile view edits.
US12217021B2
A parallel processing unit employs an arithmetic logic unit (ALU) having a relatively small footprint, thereby reducing the overall power consumption and circuit area of the processing unit. To support the smaller footprint, the ALU includes multiple stages to execute operations corresponding to a received instruction. The ALU executes at least one operation at a precision indicated by the received instruction, and then reduces the resulting data of the at least one operation to a smaller size before providing the results to another stage of the ALU to continue execution of the instruction.
US12217016B2
An electronic apparatus, including a microphone; a memory configured to store at least one instruction; and a processor configured to: acquire a first token corresponding to a first user voice input in a first language acquired through the microphone, acquire a first text in a second language by inputting the first token into a first neural network model, acquire a feature value corresponding to a predicted subsequent token, which is predicted to be uttered after the first token, by inputting the first text into a second neural network model, and based on a second token being acquired subsequent to the first token, acquire a second text in the second language by inputting the first token, the second token, the first text, and the feature value into the first neural network model.
US12217015B2
A translator pen and a translation method using same are provided. The translator pen includes a housing and a pen head. The housing forms a first accommodation cavity adapted to accommodate an image collector. An outer contour of the pen head is formed into a tapered shape, an outer diameter of the pen head gradually decreases along a direction of the pen head away from the housing and forms a second accommodation cavity adapted to accommodate a pen core. At least a portion of the end of the housing, which does not form the pen head, forms an inclined surface. The inclined surface is inclined relative to the outer contour of the pen head toward an outside of the housing along a direction of the housing away from the pen head. The image collector is configured to face the inclined surface.
US12217012B1
A method classifies feedback from transcripts. The method includes receiving an utterance from a transcript from a communication session and processing the utterance with a classifier model to identify a topic label for the utterance. The classifier model is trained to identify topic labels for training utterances. The topic labels correspond to topics of clusters of the training utterances. The training utterances are selected using attention values for the training utterances and clustered using encoder values for the utterances. The method further includes routing the communication session using the topic label for the utterance.
US12216992B2
A system and method for electronic document management including: creating an executable document object, wherein the executable document object comprises at least one programmable element; constructing an interaction schema object, wherein each interaction schema comprises: executable logic and a trigger as part of an inbound interaction schema or an outbound interaction schema that associates an external resource with the executable document object; and bundling the interaction schema object with the executable document object. The method further includes: in response to triggering an inbound interaction schema trigger: activating the executable logic of the inbound interaction schema, initiating at least one programmable element of the executable document object, and updating the state of the executable document object; and in response to triggering an outbound interaction schema trigger: activating the executable logic of the outbound interaction schema, and modifying the associated external resource with respect to the state of the executable document object.
US12216987B2
The information processing device generates headings from structured documents. The acquisition means acquires a structured document including headings and texts. The feature word extraction means extracts feature words from subordinate elements of the heading for the headings included in the structured document. The heading generation means generates a new heading corresponding to the subordinate elements based on the extracted feature words.
US12216982B2
The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media that dynamically capture, organize, and utilize digital media clips. For example, in one or more implementations, the disclosed systems can capture and generate digital media clips of content items that include both content metadata of the content items as well as contextual metadata of contextual signals surrounding the content item. Additionally, in some implementations, the disclosed systems analyze contextual metadata to search, retrieve, discover, and organize new and existing digital media clips. Further, in various implementations, the disclosed systems facilitate generating digital media clip libraries as well as the creation of digital media collections, where different types of digital media clips can be combined in a cohesive interactive graphical user interface.
US12216977B1
Aspects of the present disclosure address systems and methods for routing an integrated circuit design based on a maximum turn constraint. Data describing an integrated circuit is accessed. The integrated circuit design comprises a net specifying a connection between a first pin and a second pin. A maximum turn constraint is accessed. The maximum turn constraint specifies a maximum number of turns for connection paths generated in routing the integrated circuit design. The net is routed based on the maximum turn constraint. The routing of the net results in a routed net comprising a connection path between the first pin and the second pin that includes a number of turns that satisfy the maximum turn constraint. A layout instance for the integrated circuit design is generated based in part on the routed net.
US12216971B2
An example computing system is configured to (i) receive a request to generate a cross-sectional view of a three-dimensional drawing file, where the cross-sectional view is based on a location of a cross-section line within the three-dimensional drawing file and includes an intersection of two meshes within the three-dimensional drawing file; (ii) generate the cross-sectional view of the three-dimensional drawing file; (iii) add, to the generated cross-sectional view, dimensioning information involving at least one of the two meshes; (iv) generate one or more controls for adjusting a location of the cross-section line within the three-dimensional drawing file; and (v) based on an input indicating a selection of the one or more controls, adjust the location of the cross-section line within the three-dimensional drawing file, update the cross-sectional view based on the adjusted location of the cross-section line, and update the dimensioning information to correspond to the updated cross-sectional view.
US12216968B2
Ship structural ultimate bearing analysis and design research is involved. A method for implementing ultimate strength analysis of plate frame structure based on isogeometric analysis includes the following steps: according to the plate frame structure, constructing an IGA model, wherein the IGA model comprises several plane shell elements; carrying out a coordinate transformation on the plane shell elements; carrying out a weak coupling on boundaries of transformed plane shell elements by Nitsche method and carrying out a mesh refinement; setting material properties, loads and boundary conditions of refined plane shell elements, and constructing a nonlinear equation according to setting results; and solving the nonlinear equation by Newton-Raphson iteration method, and carrying out a simulation analysis by NX software to obtain an ultimate strength of the plate frame structure.
US12216967B2
A computer-implemented method for real-time simulation of the operation of a specific electric motor by a simulator arithmetic unit comprising a programmable logic device on which a generic motor model is implemented. The method includes: providing a generic system of equations corresponding to the generic motor model; receiving specific information corresponding to the specific motor to be simulated for the generic system of equations and inputting this information into the generic system of equations; generating a specific library containing at least some of the arithmetic operations required for the matrix operations for calculating the operation of the specific motor; implementing references in the generic motor model to the arithmetic operations of the specific library required for real-time simulation of the operation of the specific electric motor; and simulating the operation of the specific electric motor by running the generic motor model on the simulator arithmetic unit.
US12216965B2
Systems and methods for collecting and analyzing lighting conditions associated with a physical space in order to effect circadian-effective design. According to certain aspects, a data capture machine may include various sensors and components, such as at least one image sensor that captures digital images of a set of luminaires, at least one laser that detects physical objects as well as the location of the data capture machine in the physical space, a detector that collects a set of spectral power distribution (SPD) measurements, and a video capture device that collects images at a set of locations of the physical space. The data capture machine may aggregate the captured information and generate an electronic file that a computing device may use to present a visual representation of the lighting conditions of the physical space.
US12216960B2
A method and system for automated routing of pictures taken on mobile electronic devices to a digital picture frame including a camera, microphone, and speaker integrated with the frame, and a network connection module allowing the frame for direct contact and upload of photos from electronic devices or from photo collections of community members. Clustering photos by content is used to improve display and to respond to photo viewer desires. Trends or patterns can be detected from the photo collections and that information used for various purposes beyond photo display. The frame includes a conversational intelligence that provides a verbal communication with a viewer, such as for determining an identity or preferences of the frame viewer, determining photos to display for the viewer, discussing displayed photos with the viewer, or telling stories to the viewer based upon photo content.
US12216958B2
An information processing method includes obtaining parameter information, in response to an electronic device being in a sharing scenario, displaying, based on the parameter information, a sharing identifier for sharing the source device, and in response to obtaining an input operation for the sharing identifier, sending display data of the source device obtained through a first connection channel to a server of the sharing scenario based on a second connection channel, to achieve real-time sharing of the display data of the source device by at least one sharing object in the sharing scenario. The parameter information is configured to characterize a connected source device. The source device is capable of processing and displaying information. The display data of the source device includes dynamically changing data generated by the source device for display.
US12216949B2
An image forming apparatus including a first processor configured to control a first image former that forms a first image using a color material having a first color composition and a second processor configured to control a second image former that forms, using a color material having a second color composition, a second image to be superimposed on the first image. The first processor is configured to cause the first image former to form the first image in accordance with a first image formation instruction, corresponding to the first color composition, out of the image formation instruction and the first different image formation instruction, and transmit to the second processor a second image formation instruction corresponding to the second color composition. The second processor is configured to cause the second image former to form the second image in accordance with the second image formation instruction.
US12216946B1
A software Redundant Array of Independent Disk (RAID)/management trusted storage-device-based communication system includes a chassis housing a software Redundant Array of Independent Disk (RAID) subsystem, a storage device that is coupled to the software RAID subsystem and that includes a storage device memory subsystem, and a management subsystem that is coupled to the storage device. The management subsystem authenticates the storage device to establish management subsystem/storage device trust between the management subsystem and the storage device and, in response, uses the storage device to establish management subsystem/software RAID subsystem trust between the management subsystem and the software RAID subsystem. In response to establishing the management subsystem/storage device trust and the management subsystem/software RAID subsystem trust, the management subsystem transmits communications with the software RAID subsystem via the storage device memory subsystem in the storage device.
US12216938B2
The present disclosure relates to a memory controller which supports an interworking method for a test between an external device and a storage device, and a host. The memory controller proposed in the present disclosure may include a first interface configured to communicate with an external device, a second interface configured to communicate with a memory, a command queue configured to store commands received from the external device and a processor configured to perform a control operation according to a command stored in the command queue, and suspend the performance of the control operation according to the command for a waiting time corresponding to a value of a mutex counter for the command, when a mutex flag for the command is activated.
US12216930B2
A primary storage system reads a plurality of journal data, and performs collective compression that is compression of data that is at least a part of the plurality of pieces of journal data in the plurality of journals and is larger than a size of one journal data. The collectively compressed data, which is a plurality of pieces of journal data subjected to collective compression, is a transfer target from the primary storage system to the secondary storage system. The journal is journal data and metadata including a write order of the journal data and associated with the journal data. The journal data is a copy of data written in the primary volume. The secondary storage system acquires a plurality of pieces of journal data by decompressing one or more pieces of collectively compressed data, and writes the plurality of pieces of journal data to the secondary volume.
US12216929B2
A storage system includes multiple storage nodes. Each storage node includes a first storage device of a first type and a second storage device of a second type, and a performance level of the first storage device is higher than the second storage device. The globe cache includes a first tier comprising the first storage device in each storage node, and a second tier comprising the second storage device in each storage node. The first tier is for storing data with a high access frequency, and the second tier is for storing data with a low access frequency. The management node monitors an access frequency of target data stored in the first tier. When the access frequency of the target data is lower than a threshold, the management node instructs the first storage node to migrate the target data from the first tier to the second tier.
US12216924B2
A semiconductor device of an embodiment includes a seed generator circuit configured to generate a seed from inputted data by using first random number sequence data generated by an XorShift circuit; and a random number generator circuit configured to receive the seed as input to generate second random number sequence data by a second XorShift circuit.
US12216913B2
A system and a method are disclosed that provides atomicity for large data writes to persistent memory of an object storage system. A segment of persistent memory is allocated to an application. The persistent memory includes non-volatile memory that is accessible in a random access, byte-addressable manner. The segment of persistent memory is associated with first and second bits of a bitmap. The first bit is set indicating that the segment of persistent memory has been allocated. Data is received from the application for storage in the segment of persistent memory, and the second bit is set indicating that data in the segment of persistent memory has been finalized and is ready for storage in a storage medium that is different from persistent memory. The atomicity of the data in persistent memory may be determined based on the first bit and the second bit being set.
US12216912B2
Disclosed herein are operation methods of a memory controller which controls a memory device. The method includes storing write data in a first area of the memory device, extracting first error position information indicating a position of at least one error included in data stored in the first area, storing the first error position information in a second area of the memory device, reading read data from the first area of the memory device, reading the first error position information from the second area of the memory device, refining the read data based on the first error position information to generate refined data, performing soft decision decoding based on the refined data to generate corrected data, and outputting the corrected data.
US12216910B1
A resilient software Redundant Array of Independent Disk (RAID)/management communication system includes a chassis housing a software RAID subsystem coupled to a plurality of storage devices that are also coupled to a management subsystem. The software RAID subsystem designates a first storage device in the plurality of storage devices as a primary storage device and a second storage device in the plurality of storage devices as a secondary storage device, and uses the respective storage device memory subsystem in the first storage device to transmit first management communications with the management subsystem. If the software RAID subsystem determines that the first storage device is unavailable, it uses the respective storage device memory subsystem in the second storage device to transmit second management communications with the management subsystem.
US12216905B2
Techniques are described herein for performing a flush operation for a write booster buffer of a memory system. The flush operation may include swapping valid blocks in the write booster buffer for invalid blocks in a storage space of the memory system. After swapping the blocks, the memory system may transfer the information from a first type of blocks that were formerly assigned to the write booster buffer to a second type of blocks in the storage space. In such a flush operation, space is made available in the write booster buffer with less latency than it would take to transfer information between blocks, thereby improving the performance of the write booster mode.
US12216892B2
Described herein are techniques for replaying a session of an application executed by a device (e.g., a mobile device). The session may be a session in which a user was interacting with the application. The techniques replay a session by replicating a sequence of visualizations that were rendered in an application GUI by the device in a replay GUI displayed on another device. The techniques replicate visualizations by: (1) accessing data associated with the visualizations from the device executing the application; and (2) replicating the visualizations in the replay GUI to provide a replay. A user of the other device viewing the replay GUI will see a replay of the visualizations rendered in the application GUI in the session.
US12216890B2
An extensible user experience framework uses a graphical user interface (GUI) panel output for display at a client device to display alerts of real-time communications and presenting single-click options for a user of the client device to select to initiate actions in response to those alerts. The GUI panel persists at a top of a foreground of a display of the client device. An entry identifying a real-time communication received at the client device is output within the GUI panel and includes one or more response actions that are each selectable within the GUI panel to initiate a different action for the real-time communication. Based on a selection of a response action of the one or more response actions, an action is initiated for the real-time communication.
US12216877B2
The present disclosure relates to a triboresistive touch sensor capable of generating electric power by electrification and electrostatic induction, and thus sensing a touch position without a grid.
US12216874B2
A touch structure includes first and second touch units. A first touch unit includes first touch electrodes and first connection portions; a second touch unit includes second touch electrodes and second connection portions. A first connection portion and a second connection portion cross to constitute an adjustment connection unit located in a corner region. A reference point where a first reference line and a second reference line intersecting each other is located outside the corner region and is located father away from a center of a main touch region than the adjustment connection unit. The corner region is located around the main touch region.
US12216869B2
Provided are a display panel and a display device. An isolation dam is provided in a peripheral area of the display panel. The display panel includes: a display functional layer comprising a plurality of display signal traces; and a touch-control functional layer comprising a plurality of touch-control signal traces. On the binding side, there are a first boundary and a second boundary, and a first trace area located between the first boundary and the second boundary, the first boundary is closer to the display area than the second boundary. In the first trace area, the touch-control signal trace is arranged along a first direction and are led out from the binding circuit and connected to the touch-control pattern via the isolation dam and the first trace area in sequence, the display signal trace is arranged along a second direction and intersects with the touch signal trace.
US12216867B2
An electronic pen is provided which indicates a position on a plane-shaped sensor through communication with an electronic device including the plane-shaped sensor. The electronic pen includes a reception circuit configured to receive a signal transmitted from the electronic device, a pen pressure sensor configured to output a detection signal correlated with an amount of pen pressure exerted on a pen tip of the electronic pen, and a value conversion circuit configured to convert, according to a conversion rule, a detection value indicated by the detection signal output from the pen pressure sensor, into a conversion value indicating a magnitude of the amount of pen pressure. The value conversion circuit adjusts, according to a strength of the signal received by the reception circuit, rising sensitivity at which the amount of pen pressure transitions from zero to non-zero on a conversion characteristic curve identified by the conversion rule.
US12216859B2
A display device includes a display panel. The display panel includes pixels. A sensor layer overlaps the display panel and includes sensors. A sensor driver is configured to transmit a driving signal to the sensors and receive sensing signals from the sensors. The sensor driver is configured to transmit a first driving signal to the sensors to detect a first sensing area where a touch occurs in a first mode, and to transmit a second driving signal to at least a portion of the sensors corresponding to a second sensing area different from the first sensing area in a second mode.
US12216856B2
A floating image display device comprises a floating image display module and a signal processing module. The floating image display module has a first upper assembling surface and a first lower assembling surface, and comprises a first pin located on the first lower assembling surface. The floating image display module is configured to form a floating image. The signal processing module has a second upper assembling surface and a second lower assembling surface, and comprises a plurality of second pins located on the second upper assembling surface. One of the plurality of second pins is detachably connected to the first pin. The signal processing module is configured to identify the floating image display module according to the position of the first pin corresponding to the plurality of second pins, and transmit a display signal associated with the floating image to the floating image display module through the first pin.
US12216855B2
The present disclosure is directed to a touch display device that is capable of reducing a load of a touch sensor structure disposed in a display panel and improving the accuracy of touch sensing capabilities of the touch display device. In one aspect, touch electrode lines disposed on an active area are disposed to be separated into a plurality of sub-areas. A number of touch routing lines connected to the touch electrode lines are disposed on the active area, thus a touch sensor structure with a reduced load can be provided while minimizing an increase of a non-active area due to an arrangement of the touch routing lines.
US12216847B2
Methods and apparatuses for a mobile device (e.g., a mobile phone) supporting virtual peripherals are described. The mobile device may include a projecting component configured to project images to external surfaces outside of the mobile device. In some cases, the mobile device may project an image of a document on a first external surface and an image of a keyboard on a second external surface. Moreover, the mobile device may include an imaging component to receive inputs based on sensing an input device overlaid on the projected image (e.g., the keyboard). Accordingly, the mobile device may function as a computer with an external monitor and a keyboard, virtually added to the mobile device. In some cases, the mobile device may serve two or more users or purposes at a time. For example, the mobile device may operate as an infotainment device of a vehicle.
US12216842B2
Disclosed is an electronic pen including a casing, a core body, a core body holding part disposed in the casing and holding a portion of the core body, electronic parts disposed at a rear stage of the core body holding part in the casing and performing electronic pen functions, an internal constituent part through which the core body penetrates on a pen tip side in the casing, a first ring-shaped elastic component in contact with an entirety of a circumference of a side surface of the internal constituent part and an entirety of a circumference of an inner wall surface of the casing, and a second ring-shaped elastic component in contact with an entirety of a circumference of a side surface of the core body holding part and an entirety of a circumference of an inner wall surface of the internal constituent part.
US12216825B2
A display device includes a display panel displaying an image, a lower frame disposed under the display panel, a first vibration element attached to a lower surface of the display panel and which generates a first vibration based on a first vibration signal, a second vibration element disposed under the lower frame and which generates a second vibration based on a second vibration signal, and a first vibration driver circuit which provides the first vibration signal to the first vibration element, where a phase of the second vibration signal is opposite to a phase of the first vibration signal.
US12216824B2
A mute-able input device with keystroke tactile feedback includes: a plurality of keys, each including a tactile structure and a sound-generating structure for respectively generating operational tactile feedback and operating sounds; a plurality of adjusting mechanisms, each including an adjusting portion corresponding to one of the keys; at least one switching unit including an operating portion and a switch member, the operating portion connecting the switch member and the adjusting mechanism, the switch member generating a switching signal involving a mode switching between different tactile modes or different sound modes for one or more keys. When the operating portion moves in response to a force, the switch member is triggered to achieve the mode switching; meanwhile, the adjusting portion moves to interfere with at least one of the tactile structure or the sound-generating structure along with the movement of the operating portion.
US12216820B2
A method for compensating for a visual impairment in a virtual reality environment, by multiple computer systems associated with a head mounted display, including, rendering an initial image for display in a virtual reality environment, determining a first visual adjustment to the HMD based on an input received by the HMD, the input being associated with a visual impairment of a user of the HMD, determining that the first visual adjustment does not satisfy a threshold measure of compensation for the visual impairment of the user, determining a second visual adjustment to the HMD, and rendering an adjusted image for display in the virtual reality environment based on the first visual adjustment and the second visual adjustment.
US12216813B2
A processing method for a request for a digital service in an interactive environment, where the method includes: generating an enriched request based on an interpretation of signals received from a multimodal set of human-machine interactions resulting from human-machine interactions coming from coordinated actions of a plurality of distinct users in the interactive environment, where each human-machine interaction, considered individually, is only indicative of one simple request and where the enriched request triggers sending at least one command.
US12216792B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for managing privacy of data are provided. The method includes providing at least one database containing user data, at least one processor in communication with the at least one database, a memory device including readable instructions, and at least one user device in communication with the at least one processor via a network connection; receiving at least one preference related to the user data; storing the at least one preference in the at least one database; and using the at least one preference to selectively control at least one non-verbal interaction with the at least one user device.
US12216791B2
A system, method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for providing auditability of a distributed ledger technology (DLT) of de-identified data of entities, stored in the DLT. In certain embodiments, data related to an entity is de-identified. The de-identified data is stored in the DLT. Access to the de-identified data is determined. Instances of access to the de-identified data is recorded to the DLT. In certain embodiments, information used to re-identify the de-identified data is store on the DLT. Access to the information can also be determined and recorded to the DLT.
US12216789B2
User permissions for a search on content managed by a content management system (CMS) can be evaluated in a search engine based on a user identity of a user providing a query input for the query rather than after return of an initial results set to the CMS or some other front-end application. The search engine can constrain possible results returned from a search for the query input using a content index of a plurality of content items maintained in a repository of the content management system. The constraining can include limiting the search engine from adding a content item of the plurality of content items to a permissions-filtered results set unless the evaluating of the user permissions and the search for the query input against the content index do not exclude the content item. Other aspects can support index updating by selective use of a metadata index.
US12216787B2
A searchable encryption system includes a registration device including an index generation unit (624) and an encrypted index generation unit (625). The index generation unit (624) generates a registration keyword index by using a registration keyword, authorized-person attribute information corresponding to an authorized person who has an authority to search for the registration keyword, a user key function to generate a user key corresponding to a searcher, a search query function to generate a search query having the user key incorporated therein, and an index query function to generate an index query having the search query incorporated therein. The encrypted index generation unit (625) generates an encrypted index by encrypting the registration keyword index by using the index disclosure key.
US12216784B1
Systems and processes for synchronizing disparate applications are described herein. In various embodiments, the process includes: (1) receiving and validating a log-in request; (2) receiving a request submission comprising a plurality of data items; (3) writing the plurality of data items into a dynamic and scalable data model; (4) determining request parameters associated with the plurality of data items; (5) determining a recommended deployment strategy based on the one or more parameters and characteristic values stored in the data model; (6) generating a and transmitting one or more notifications according to the recommended deployment strategy; and (7) generating and/or modifying a display based on the notification(s).
US12216782B2
The subject disclosure provides systems and methods for providing secure data access for electronic devices. The secure data access can allow processes, such as scripts, at a device to be executed to obtain and process restricted data locally on the device without requesting user authorization for the access and processing. The secure data access can prevent the processes from exporting the data, and/or data derived from the data, from an execution space of the processes, whether locally on the device or externally from the device, without obtaining user authorization for the exportation. In this way, user authorizations can be obtained for securing restricted data, in a way that is efficient for the device, for the processes accessing and processing the data, and for the user.
US12216776B2
A system for noise-resistant quantum communication using hyperentanglement includes a quantum system that includes a plurality of qubits, a processor, and a memory. The memory includes instructions stored thereon, which, when executed by the processor, cause the quantum system to access a signal of a quantum system that includes a plurality of qubits and obtain hyperentanglement of the plurality of qubits via an entanglement source. The hyperentanglement of the plurality of qubits is in at least two dimensions, including a first dimension and a second dimension. The instructions, when executed, further cause the quantum system to transmit the hyperentangled plurality of qubits via a communication channel; perform a communication of the signal with the first dimension of the at least two dimensions; and filter results of the communicated signal based on the second dimension of the at least two dimensions.
US12216772B2
Mechanisms are disclosed for performing efficient lossless encryption and decryption to reduce power consumption and improve the efficiency of processing streams of digital data. An input data stream associated with a stream of input data is received. A discrete wavelet transform is applied to a first serial input data value in the input data stream. Distributed components of the first serial input data value are distributed by computing a cumulative probability that the first serial input data value is less than or equal to a power-of-two range value associated with a power-of-two probability distribution function. An entropy encoded encryption value is computed based on a range variant asymmetrical numeral system based on the power-of-two probability distribution function. The entropy encoded encryption value is unloaded based on one or more computed next states. Compressed serial output data streams are compressed based on the unloaded entropy encoded encryption value.
US12216768B2
An asset scoring method and apparatus, a computer device, and a storage medium are provided. The method includes: obtaining multi-dimensional threat information data of assets to be assessed; obtaining sub-scores of dimensions according to the multi-dimensional threat information data and a preset security scoring model; according to the sub-scores of the dimensions, determining a security scoring result of the corresponding assets to be assessed; and according to the security scoring result and a preset level division rule, determining security levels of the corresponding assets to be assessed.
US12216765B2
Techniques are provided for identity-based verification of software code layers. One method comprises obtaining, by a current layer of software code executing on a security processor of a security sub-system, in connection with a boot of the security sub-system, an identity key of the current layer, wherein the identity key of the current layer is based on a value generated during a provisioning of the security sub-system, wherein the value is based on a firmware image of at least one layer of the software code; obtaining an encrypted secure boot public key of a next layer; decrypting the encrypted secure boot public key of the next layer using the obtained identity key of the current layer; verifying the next layer using the decrypted secure boot public key of the next layer; and executing the next layer based at least in part on a result of the verifying.
US12216761B2
Systems, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to adaptable canary values. In one embodiment, a method includes acquiring state information about a program executing within a vehicle. The state information specifies at least a security level of segments of the program. The method includes, responsive to the program satisfying a generating threshold, generating a canary value according to the state information. The method includes inserting the canary value into a memory address associated with the program.
US12216760B2
An apparatus includes a memory that stores instructions; and a processing unit that executes the instructions to identify a created process, to receive a notification of a first event for an ancestor process and a notification for a second event for the created process, the notification of the first event indicating a first ActivityID and a first ID, the notification of the second event indicating a second ActivityID and a second ID, the first ID being different from the second ID, to perform a first determination that the created process was created by a component object model (COM) call, at least in part based on the second ID, and to perform a second determination that the ancestor process indirectly created the created process, at least in part based on the first and second ActivityIDs and the first determination.
US12216755B2
A system and method to verify the authenticity of a physical object, based on the efficient acquisition and digital post-processing of a large amount of optical data. An optical system, comprised of an array of microscope-type “micro-cameras” and a patterned illumination source, acquires spatial, spectral and angular information about the physical object in the form of micro-camera images. The set of all acquired images comprise one object dataset, which a post-processing system then digitally transforms into a multi-gigabyte set of semi-random keys. Authentication takes place at a later date following a challenge-and-response protocol. The high resolution (<15 μm) of the acquired data presents a significant challenge to attempted duplication of the physical object, and the large size (>1 Gigabyte) of the key set similarly prevents both physical and digital forgery attempts.
US12216748B2
An authentication device includes a comparison unit and a determination unit. The comparison unit compares, with feature value master data for authentication, each feature value needed for authentication that has been extracted from a plurality of pieces of acquired biometric information. The determination unit determines not to provide authentication when, as a result of comparison by the comparison unit, there is no difference in each of the feature values that resulted in a mismatch.
US12216745B2
Methods and systems are presented for bot detection. A movement of a pointing device is tracked via a graphical user interface (GUI) of an application executable at a user device. Movement data associated with different locations of the pointing device within the GUI is obtained. The movement data is mapped to functional areas corresponding to a range of the different locations of the pointing device within the GUI over consecutive time intervals. At least one vector representing a sequence of movements for at least one trajectory of the pointing device through one or more of the functional areas and a duration the pointing device stays within each functional area is generated. At least one trained machine learning model is used to determine whether the sequence of movements of the pointing device was produced through human interaction with the pointing device by an actual user of the user device.
US12216740B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to evaluating sources of training data for model generation. A computing platform may receive, from one or more data sources, a labelled data set. The computing platform may apply, to the labelled data set, an unsupervised learning algorithm, resulting in a clustered data set. The computing platform may compare, for each data point in the labelled data set, corresponding clustering information and labelling information to identify discrepancies. The computing platform may flag, for data points with identified discrepancies between the clustering information and labelling information, a labelling error. The computing platform may grade, based on the flagged labelling errors, each of the one or more data sources. Using remaining data of the labelled data set, not flagged with labelling errors, the computing platform may train a supervised learning model by weighting the remaining data based on: a corresponding data source and its grade.
US12216733B2
A method for decoding an encoded video bit stream in a video decoder is provided that includes determining a scan pattern type for a transform block to be decoded, decoding a column position X and a row position Y of a last non-zero coefficient in the transform block from the encoded video bit stream, selecting a column-row inverse transform order when the scan pattern type is a first type, selecting a row-column inverse transform order when the scan pattern type is a second type, and performing one dimensional (1D) inverse discrete cosine transformation (IDCT) computations according to the selected transform order to inversely transform the transform block to generate a residual block.
US12216719B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for presenting user profiles on a user interface. In some implementations, a server receives a request to view profiles for each of one or more other users from a client device associated with a requesting user. The server applies matching criteria to a profile of the requesting user and profiles for respective users to identify profiles for a sequence of profiles. The server enables sequential display of information representative of the identified profiles on a user interface of the client device, including enabling display of first information representative of a first profile of the identified profiles, determining a user review attribute for the first profile, dynamically adjusting the sequence of profiles based on the user review attribute, and enabling display of second information representative of a second profile of the identified profiles in the adjusted sequence of profiles.
US12216708B2
A method, system and product including obtaining a media sample of a media stream; retrieving from a database a media record that matches the media sample of the media stream; aligning the media record with the media stream, wherein aligning the media record comprises determining an offset from a start of the media record; comparing the media stream with the media record according to the offset; and upon identifying a semantic deviation between the media stream and the media record, determining that the media stream is semantically manipulated.
US12216705B2
A visual search system includes a computing device, where the computing device includes an image processing engine for generating a feature vector representing a user-selected object in an image. The computing device also includes, an object detection engine for locating one or more objects in the image and for determining a category of a user-selected object from objects in the image, where the object detection engine uses the category to generate a plurality of attributes for the user-selected object. The computing device further includes a product data store for storing a plurality of tables storing one or more attributes associated with a category of the user-selected object. The computing device additionally includes an attribute generation engine for generating a plurality of attribute options and an attribute matching engine for comparing attributes and attribute options of the user-selected object with attributes and attribute options of visually similar products and images.
US12216701B2
An electronic device including a microphone, a communication circuit, an output device including at least one of a speaker or a display, a processor operatively connected to the microphone, the communication circuit, and the output device, and a memory operatively connected to the processor are provided. The memory may store one or more instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to receive a voice input of a user through the microphone, to transmit the voice input and context information to an external server through the communication circuit, the context information including information about an application running on the electronic device, to receive a response for playing content corresponding to a category determined based on category priority information from among pieces of content matching a keyword included in the voice input, from the external server through the communication circuit, the category priority information being determined based on the context information, and to play the content through the output device.
US12216695B2
Provided are an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program capable of performing analysis of a text with high accuracy. An information processing apparatus includes one or more processors and one or more memories that store a command executed by the one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to acquire a text, classify attributes of information described in the text into a fixed unit of the text, analyze the text for each of the same classifications based on a result of the classification, and output a result of the analysis.
US12216694B1
Systems and methods for using prompt dissection to prompts one or more machine learning models for a set of one or more documents are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: store a set of document segments from the set of one or more documents; present a user interface to obtain a compound query that includes a first subquery and a second subquery; create subquery vectors that semantically represent the subqueries; determine a subset of a set of semantic vectors based on comparisons with the subquery vectors; create a combination of the individual document segments that are associated with the subset; provide one or more prompts to the one or more machine learning models, using the combination of the individual document segments as context; present replies from the one or more machine learning models, and/or perform other steps.
US12216692B1
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for automatic generation of summaries for record objects using one or more large language models. The system can identify a plurality of electronic activities matched to a record object of a customer relationship management system. The system can generate one or more text strings from the plurality of electronic activities using the large language models. The system can generate a first set of topics by inputting a first set of text strings into the large language models. The system can generate a second set of topics by inputting a first subset of text strings of the first set of text strings into the large language models. The system can transmit one or more topics to a computing device for presentation.
US12216691B2
Disclosed herein are embodiments of systems, methods, and products comprising a data power server for secure storage and retrieval of trade data. The server receives a request from a user to review or confirm one or more trade documents via a webserver. The server communicates with a connector grid server to retrieve the user's accessible documents. The connector grid server determines the electronic file IDs that are accessible to the user based on the accessibility policy. The server instructs a digital library server to download the electronic files containing the requested trade data. The digital library server retrieves and downloads the electronic files based on the file IDs. The webserver renders a GUI displaying the electronic files on an electronic client device operated by the user. Upon receiving the confirmation response from the user, the server instructs the digital library server to update the trade status.
US12216686B1
Systems and methods for using machine learning models to predict an outcome of a product test are described. According to certain aspects, an electronic device may calculate, based on a received set of small-scale results as a first input to a first machine learning model of a plurality of machine learning models, a first result predicting an outcome of the product tested according to the large-scale product test. The electronic device may then calculate, based on the set of small-scale results as a second input to at least one second machine learning model of the plurality of machine learning models, a second result predicting the outcome of the product tested according to the large-scale product test. The electronic device may then predict an outcome of the large-scale product test based at least on the first result and the second result.
US12216681B1
An automated method and apparatus are provided for comparing a first database and a second database that are intended to be kept in synchronization with each other. Applications process changes that are posted to the first database and the second database. Changes made to the first database are applied to the second database, and vice-versa. Changes made to the first database resulting from changes posted to the first database are collected into a first change log. Changes made to the second database resulting from changes posted to the second database are collected into a second change log. Representations of the changes that correspond to the same respective changes in the change logs are compared with each other. Corrective action is performed when the comparison indicates that the corresponding representations of the changes in the first change log and the second change log do not match.
US12216676B2
A system and method for implementing a dynamic query mechanism to facilitate on-demand data visualization is disclosed. The method includes receiving user interaction in association with rendering a visualization of a data cube, determining a set of visibility constraints based on the user interaction, periodically checking in with a data container to determine whether there is data to load based on the set of visibility constraints, issuing a query to fetch values of the data from a database responsive to determining that there is data to load, dynamically loading the fetched values of the data into the data container, and rendering the visualization of the data cube using the data container.
US12216675B2
Methods and systems for accessing, maintaining, analyzing, and visualizing structured data are presented. The system receives from a requesting computing device, a first request for a first hierarchical record. The system searches a first repository having first structured data. The system determines whether the first hierarchical record is present in the first structured data and creates, based on the first hierarchical record, a snapshot query criterion. The system then searches, based on the snapshot query criterion, a second repository comprising a first snapshot of the first structured data. The system determines whether a second hierarchical record at least partially matches the first hierarchical record. In response to determining that the first hierarchical record at least partially matches the second hierarchical record, the system determines whether version information associated with the first snapshot of the first structured data is available and transmits information associated with the second hierarchical record.
US12216651B2
In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for providing extensibility in an analytic applications environment, including a semantic layer that enables the use of custom semantic extensions to extend a semantic data model (semantic model). In accordance with an embodiment, when customizations are made to the semantic model, the system stores changes to the semantic model as an action-set, rather than as a changed-state. This allows the system to replay changes on the factory model, to get back to a desired end state, much as an operating system update does not affect the underling setup.
US12216647B1
Provided are a method, system, and device for a neural architecture search (NAS) pipeline for performing an optimized neural architecture search (NAS). The method may include obtaining a first search space comprising a plurality of candidate layers for a neural network architecture; performing a training-free NAS in the first search space to obtain a first set of architectures; obtaining a second search space based on the first set of architectures; performing a gradient-based search in the second search space to obtain a second set of architectures; performing a sampling method search utilizing the second set of architectures as an initial sample; and obtaining an output architecture as an output of the sampling method search.
US12216646B2
Techniques and solutions are provided for processing query requests from a software application, such as one having a user interface model, using an analytical data protocol that accesses an analytic query. Often, user interface models access data using transactional data protocols, which can limit analytical actions that can be performed through a user interface, particularly actions altering data presented or a data format as compared with pre-defined analytical objects. A query request associated with a user interface query model is received and converted to be executable using at least one analytical query model object. The request, in an analytical protocol, is submitted to a virtual data model. The query request in the analytical protocol is converted to be used with an analytic query defined in the virtual data model. The converted query request is executed against a data store and query results are returned to a user interface layer.
US12216645B1
In some aspects, search functionality is provided in an observability analysis system. In some implementations, search results are obtained from prior search queries, the search results include a subset of event data generated in a computing environment. Metadata are generated by analyzing the event data to identify a plurality of fields and values for each of the plurality of fields. A partial search query is received through a user interface at a first computer node; the partial search query represents at least a portion of a request to search the event data. Autocomplete suggestions are generated at the first computer node based on the partial search query and the metadata. Each of the autocomplete suggestions includes a suggested field selected from the plurality of fields, a suggested value selected from the values, or both. At least one of the autocomplete suggestions is displayed in the user interface.
US12216643B2
A list updating method and a list updating apparatus are provided. The method includes: receiving a list updating request sent from a client, where the list updating request includes list updating data for updating a list determining a target list corresponding to the list updating request according to the list updating data and a list configuration file, where the list configuration file includes configuration information of all configured lists; and updating the target list according to the list updating data.
US12216638B2
Techniques described herein can accelerate change data capture determinations such as stream reads, which show changes made to a table between two points in time. Three distinct row bitests that mark deleted, updated, inserted, rows in micro-partitions can be added as metadata for the table. These bitsets can be generated during DML operations and then stored as metadata of the new partition generated by the DML operations. The bitsets can then be used to generate streams showing the changes in the table between two points in time (changes interval).
US12216635B2
An embodiment for improved linking of tabular columns to column types in an ontology unseen during training. The embodiment may for a target table, encode a target tabular query column, table headers, and target types independently to generate permutation invariant representations of tabular data associated with the target table. The embodiment may, for each of the target types, extract and further encode auxiliary information. The embodiment may process the encoded tabular data to obtain a first vector and a second vector. The embodiment may concatenate the first vector and the second vector to generate a final query vector. The embodiment may process the encoded target types through a third transformer to obtain a third vector. The embodiment may calculate a score to model interactions between the target tabular query column of the target table and the target types.
US12216632B2
Example embodiments involve a system and methods for identifying valuable view item pages for search engine optimization. The system and methods provide an improvement over existing systems, which do nothing to identify or select valuable view item pages for use in driving traffic from display sites. The system and methods described herein improve the earlier system by predicting the probability of future traffic for a given product based on a number of product level factors as input variables, and identifying a selection of view item pages corresponding to the products with the probability of the highest future traffic in order to maximize the driving natural search traffic to a linked site of the corresponding view item page.
US12216631B1
A system that enables the efficient identification and/or retrieval of certain timeline content from amongst e.g. a great many options of similar content. Generally, a set of timeline metadata that describes some aspect or aspects of the content of the timeline is produced. This set of timeline metadata includes timing and descriptive information that maps the described aspect or aspects to specific locations within the source timeline. When a user initiates a search of the timeline content, the search criteria is quickly matched against the contents of this separate set of metadata, rather than the raw timeline data itself. When the search criteria is matched, the metadata, original data, or both may be returned.
US12216625B2
Various embodiments comprise systems and methods to sample data outputs of a data pipeline. In some examples, data monitoring circuitry monitors the data pipeline wherein the data pipeline receives an input data set, processes the input data set, and responsively generates and transfers an output data set. The data monitoring circuitry ingests the output data set, determines an amount of available computing resources, and selects an amount of the values from the output data set based on the amount of available computing resources. The data monitoring circuitry generates a quality score for the selected values based on a data quality, generates a confidence score based on the amount of the selected values, and reports the quality score and the confidence score.
US12216612B2
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for updating select files in an image backup. In an exemplary aspect, a method comprises performing an image backup of a storage device comprising a plurality of files. The method comprises selecting a file of the plurality of files based on file selection rules and subsequent to the image backup, detecting that the file has exited a full consistency state. The method comprises monitoring the file to detect a return to the full consistency state. In response to detecting that the file has returned to the full consistency state, the method comprises identifying a physical address of at least one sector comprising the file on the storage device, and updating a version of the file previously captured in the image backup with a version of the file after returning to the full consistency state.
US12216609B2
There is provided an operation of a 2-wire interface including: performing, by a master device, at least one transaction with a slave device to compare a calculated expected value and a return value of a register to confirm whether an out-of-sync occurs, and resetting a state machine of the slave device to a reset_done state and receiving, by the maser device, an acknowledge byte from the slave device to recover a synchronization between the master device and the slave device when the out-of-sync occurs.
US12216604B2
A virtual wire system includes a source device, a target device, and a mesh interface connecting the source device and the target device. One or more mesh messages are transmitted over the mesh interface from the source device to the target device, and the one or more mesh messages indicate a change in a value of a signal level at the source device. The source device may include a plurality of virtual wire sources, a virtual wire encoder, and a virtual wire arbiter operatively coupled to the plurality of virtual wire sources and the virtual wire encoder. The virtual wire arbiter is configured to determine whether information from a virtual wire source should be transmitted to the virtual wire encoder. The virtual wire encoder is configured to receive information from the virtual wire arbiter, combine the information into a single virtual wire message, and transmit the single virtual wire message to a first mesh interface component in the source device.
US12216603B2
Described are methods for configuring computing system for and computing systems for PCIe communication between remote computing assets. The system uses a fabric interface device configured to receive multi-lane serial PCIe data from functional elements of a computing asset through a multi-lane PCIe bus, and to transparently extend the multi-lane PCIe bus by converting the multi-lane PCIe data into a retimed parallel version of the PCIe multi-lane data to be sent on bidirectional data communication paths. The fabric interface device is also configured so that the multi-lane PCIe bus can have a first number of lanes and the bidirectional data communication paths can have a different second number of lanes.
US12216597B2
Disclosed is a memory controller including: a first external interface controller configured to communicate with a first external device and to receive a second external device access request message from the first external device; a second external interface controller configured to communicate with a second external device; a third external interface controller configured to communicate with a third external device, wherein the third external device is connected to a plurality of memory controllers, receive and store state information from the plurality of memory controllers, and determines a memory controller among the plurality of memory controllers for the second external device access request; and a main controller configured to determine, based on its state information, whether to process the second external device access request by itself or by another one of the plurality of memory controllers.
US12216593B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes a first circuit, multiple second circuits, and a first number of first channels connected to the first circuit. One or more second circuits are connected to each first channel. The control circuit is connected to the semiconductor memory device via a second channel. The control circuit generates multiple first access requests each for one of the second circuits. The control circuit determines order of execution of the first access requests to allow concurrent execution of a second number of first access requests designating two or more of the second circuits connected to different first channels. The control circuit executes in parallel the second number of data transfers responsive to the second number of first access requests via the second channel at a transfer rate the second number of times a transfer rate of one of the first number of first channels.
US12216587B2
A packet cache system includes a cache memory allocator for receiving a memory address corresponding to a non-cache memory and allocated to a packet, and associating the memory address with a cache memory address; a hash table for storing the memory address and the cache memory address, with the memory address as a key and the cache memory address as a value; a cache memory for storing the packet at a location indicated by the cache memory address; and an eviction engine for determining one or more cached packets to remove from the cache memory and place in the non-cache memory when occupancy of the cache memory is high.
US12216579B2
Disclosed embodiments relate to atomic memory operations. In one example, an apparatus includes multiple processor cores, a cache hierarchy, a local execution unit, and a remote execution unit, and an adaptive remote atomic operation unit. The cache hierarchy includes a local cache at a first level and a shared cache at a second level. The local execution unit is to perform an atomic operation at the first level if the local cache is a storing a cache line including data for the atomic operation. The remote execution unit is to perform the atomic operation at the second level. The adaptive remote atomic operation unit is to determine whether to perform the first atomic operation at the first level or at the second level and whether to copy the cache line from the shared cache to the local cache.
US12216565B2
A programming support system includes one or more terminal devices and storage accessible from the one or more terminal devices. Each of the terminal devices includes: a providing module for providing a development environment for a program; an acquisition module for acquiring information indicating content of a failure event that has occurred in the program. A determination module determines an address from information indicating the content of the failure event according to predetermined rules. The storage holds information for each failure event in association with an address determined from the information indicating the content of each failure event.
US12216559B2
Presented embodiments facilitate efficient and effective flexible implementation of different types of testing procedures in a test system. In one embodiment, a multiple-name-space testing system comprises a load board, testing electronics, and a namespace testing tracker. The load board is configured to couple with a plurality of devices under test (DUTs). The testing electronics are configured to test the plurality of DUTs, wherein the testing electronics are coupled to the load board. The controller is configured to direct testing of multiple-name-spaces across the plurality of DUTs at least in part in parallel. The controller can be coupled to the testing electronics. The namespace testing tracker is configured to track testing of the plurality of DUTs, including the testing of the multiple-name-spaces across the plurality of DUTs at least in part in parallel. In one embodiment, the DUTs are NVMe SSD devices.
US12216558B2
A test and measurement system has a test and measurement instrument having an adaptor with an interface configured to communicate through one or more communications links with a new device under test to receive new test results, a memory configured to store a database of test results and a database of analyzed test results related to tests performed with one or more prior devices under test, a data analyzer connected to the test and measurement instrument through the one or more communications link, the data analyzer configured to analyze the new test results based on the stored test results, and a health score generator configured to generate a health score for the new device under test based on the analysis from the data analyzer.
US12216556B2
This disclosure describes techniques for adaptive disaster recovery of applications running on network devices. The techniques include generating an application template and an application template clone that include application attributes usable to deploy an application stack at an application site. The techniques also include sending the application template clone to a disaster recovery site group to await deployment instructions. In some examples, an observer may determine that a health metric of the application site indicates that a disaster recovery process be triggered. A disaster recovery site of the disaster recovery site group may be selected based at least in part on a performance metric. The application stack may be deployed at the disaster recovery site utilizing the application template clone.
US12216549B2
Described is a system for cloud-based processing of backup data for storage onto various types of object storage systems. A specialized cloud-based component (e.g. proxy server) may act as an intermediary when backing up data from a client system to an object storage. For example, the cloud-based component may be provided as part of backup service that operates in conjunction with a client system. Accordingly, the system may allow different clients of a backup service to efficiently and seamlessly interact with the different third-party object storage providers via a single cloud-based component. To provide such object-storage-agnostic functionality, the cloud-based component may include a function library that includes object-storage-specific functions. For example, the cloud-based component may invoke a specific set of operations that interact with a storage API provided by a particular object storage provider.
US12216547B1
Described is a system (and method) that maintains deduplication efficiency when storing data within a clustered data storage environment that implements a global namespace. To provide such a capability, the system may obtain granular data source identifying information from a client system that provides data to be backed-up by a backup component. The data source identifying information may take the form of a placement tag that is associated with the received data. The backup component may then provide such placement tags when providing the backup data to the clustered storage system. The placement tags may then be used to intelligently distribute backup files to particular storage nodes of the clustered storage system to improve deduplication efficiency.
US12216528B2
A monitoring apparatus includes: an input unit that accepts equipment identifying information for identifying monitoring object equipment and an analysis purpose; and an output unit that, when analysis item data corresponding to the analysis purpose among operation data indicating an operating status of the identified monitoring object equipment is a value within a specified range on the basis of the equipment identifying information and the analysis purpose which have been input, outputs a tendency of the analysis item data compared with predetermined comparison item data. According to the above-described configuration, the status of the monitoring object equipment can be diagnosed and visualized for the sake of the condition based maintenance to perform maintenance in accordance with the status of each equipment.
US12216527B1
A computerized method is disclosed for automated handling of data ingestion anomalies. The method features operations of detecting a data ingestion anomaly and determining a cause for the data ingestion anomaly. The causal determination may be conducted by at least (i) determining features of an anomalous data ingestion volume, (ii) training a second data model, after a first data model being used to detect the data ingestion anomaly, with data sets consistent with the determined features, (iii) applying the second data model to predict whether a data ingestion sub-volume is anomalous, (iv) obtaining system state information during ingestion of the anomalous data ingestion sub-volume, and (v) determining the cause of the anomalous data ingestion volume based on the system state information.
US12216523B2
An apparatus, method, and computer program product are provided to detect error conditions and otherwise monitor the status of request data object and network response assets and related systems to allow for the efficient movement of network resources and other resources in high-volume network environments. In some example implementations, otherwise unrelated request data objects and their related parameters, along with otherwise unrelated network response asset systems are depicted on a single interface such that pairings between request data objects and network response assets, and other status information can be readily viewed. Some example implementations contemplate the use of location data in connection with error detection and remediation. Some example implementations also contemplate the establishment and use of a communication channel between an interface system and a system associated with a request data object and/or a network response asset upon the detection of an error condition.
US12216515B2
A power converter circuit included in a computer system may include a phase circuit and a sample circuit. The phase circuit compares a voltage level of the regulated power supply node to a reference voltage to generate a demand current that is used to adjust the voltage level of the regulated power supply node. The phase circuit also digitizes the demand current and stores the resultant bit stream in a memory circuit. The sample circuit generates timestamp information that points to particular storage locations in the memory circuit that correspond to trigger events, allowing the operation of the power converter circuit to be analyzed during different circumstances as well as to adjust operating parameters of the power converter circuit.
US12216499B2
A foldable device includes: a display panel; a digitizer disposed on a surface of the display panel and comprising a base layer, first conductive patterns disposed between the base layer and the display panel, and second conductive patterns disposed on an opposite side to the first conductive patterns with the base layer interposed therebetween; a first adhesive member disposed between the digitizer and the display panel and in direct contact with the digitizer; and a second adhesive member disposed on an opposite side to the first adhesive member with the digitizer interposed therebetween and in direct contact with the digitizer. The digitizer further defines a digitizer hole penetrating through the digitizer, and the base layer comprises a protrusion having a shape protruding from an edge of the base layer located at a shortest distance from the digitizer hole toward an outside of the base layer.
US12216487B2
A circuit and method for generating a protection voltage includes a pair of voltage-generating circuits that generate voltages from the power supply voltage. The voltages have a differing dependence on the power supply voltage so that a difference between the first voltage and the second voltage changes sign for a particular value of the power supply voltage. The voltages are supplied to a protection voltage generating circuit that includes a pair of amplifiers having inputs that receive a respective one of the voltages and each of the amplifiers provides negative feedback to the other. An output circuit generates the protection voltage according to a maximum or a minimum value among the amplifier outputs, so that the protection voltage is monotonic with respect to variation of the power supply voltage.
US12216479B2
An aerial vehicle landing method includes controlling to decelerate, with aid of one or more processors and in response to at least two of a plurality of conditions being satisfied, the aerial vehicle to cause the aerial vehicle to land autonomously. The plurality of conditions includes determining that an external signal related to a human is detected via one or more sensors; determining that a location/orientation change of the aerial vehicle is detected while the aerial vehicle is airborne; and determining that an external contact from an external object is exerted upon the aerial vehicle, the external object being an object that is not part of the aerial vehicle.
US12216472B2
One or more information maps are obtained by an agricultural work machine. The one or more information maps map one or more agricultural characteristic values at different geographic locations of a field. An in-situ sensor on the agricultural work machine senses an agricultural characteristic as the agricultural work machine moves through the field. A predictive map generator generates a predictive map that predicts a predictive agricultural characteristic at different locations in the field based on a relationship between the values in the one or more information maps and the agricultural characteristic sensed by the in-situ sensor. The predictive map can be output and used in automated machine control.
US12216470B2
Disclosed are a vehicle control system and a driving method of a vehicle using the vehicle control system. The vehicle control system includes a processor that processes data related to driving of a vehicle, and a vehicle controller that controls the driving of the vehicle. The processor performs an operation of excluding a travel trajectory from data to be clustered and excluding a travel trajectory in updating a sparse map or an operation of adjusting a range of a driving control right of the vehicle, based on the travel trajectory.
US12216466B2
A method of maintaining a favorable emotional state of a rider of a vehicle. The method includes: receiving emotional state indicative wearable sensor data of the rider in the vehicle; classifying, at a rider emotional state determining neural network, the emotional state indicative wearable sensor data and generating output data indicative of a classification of the rider emotional state as one of a favorable emotional state of the rider or an unfavorable emotional state of the rider; converting the output data from the rider emotional state determining neural network into a vehicle operational state datum; and adjusting a vehicle operating parameter in response to the vehicle operational state datum.
US12216455B2
A substrate processing system includes a process chamber, one or more robot, a substrate measurement system, and a computing device. The process chamber may process a substrate that will comprise a film and/or feature after the processing. The one or more robot, to move the substrate from the process chamber to a substrate measurement system. The substrate measurement system may measure the film and/or feature on the substrate and generate a profile map of the film and/or feature. The computing device may process data from the profile map using a first trained machine learning model, wherein the first trained machine learning model outputs a first chamber component condition estimation for a first chamber component of the process chamber. The computing device may then determine whether to perform maintenance on the first chamber component of the process chamber based at least in part on the first chamber component condition estimation.
US12216446B2
A ballbar testing tune-up method for machine tool includes the steps of letting a machine tool system execute a ballbar test; obtaining a phase characteristic and a peak-value characteristic; creating a Lagrange interpolation polynomial and inputting a servo controller parameter, a phase characteristic and a peak-value characteristic of the machine tool system each time when executing the ballbar test, and obtaining a proposed servo parameter. This method is simple and easy without incurring additional equipment costs, but just using existing equipment to find the proposed servo parameter quickly and input it into a machine tool system, so as to improve the response issue of a servo system and reduce manufacturing contour error to enhance the working precision of the machine tool system.
US12216444B2
A control device can modify a first user program and first setting information in the storage unit executed by a control engine respectively using a second user program and second setting information received by the control device. A security engine of the control device verifies identity between the first user program and the second user program, evaluates the validity of setting indicated by the second setting information, and permits or prohibits performance of the above modification based on such a verification result and the evaluation.
US12216443B2
A control circuit includes a latching relay, a power loss activation circuit, and a watchdog circuit. A microcontrol unit (MCU) communicates with the watchdog circuit in a normal operation of the control circuit. As an action of a failsafe precaution in the event of a main power loss or a component failure, the MCU stops communicating with the watchdog circuit, at which point the watchdog circuit instructs the power loss activation circuit to continue operation of the control circuit. The control circuit further operates to implement mitigation operations in the event of a main power loss or component failure.
US12216442B2
A creation device includes processing circuitry that acquires process information about multiple processes executed by one or more industrial machines, controls display, based on the process information of the processes, of a specification screen in which at least one of a pre-process and a post-process of each of the processes is specified, and creates a control program of a control device that controls the one or more industrial machines such that the processes are executed in an order specified using the specification screen.
US12216433B2
An electronic time piece includes a dial, a sub dial provided to the dial, a control circuit that controls operation of a function hand disposed on the sub dial, a plurality of terminal portions, a wire that electrically connects the plurality of terminal portions with the control circuit, a push button that receives operation by a user and switches an electrical connection state between one terminal portion of the plurality of terminal portions and the control circuit. The one terminal portion of the plurality of terminal portions and other terminal portion are electrically connected to the control circuit by a common wire.
US12216425B2
An image forming system including: a reading unit configured to read, through a transparent member, an image on a first sheet conveyed by a conveyance unit; an opposed member provided opposite to the reading unit with respect to the transparent member, the first sheet passing through a gap between the opposed member and the transparent member; and at least one processor configured to control, based on the image read by the reading unit, a geometric characteristic of an image to be formed on a second sheet by an image forming portion, and control a changing unit to change the size of the gap to a first size when the thickness of the first sheet is a first thickness, and to a second size larger than the first size when the thickness of the first sheet is a second thickness larger than the first thickness.
US12216423B2
An image forming system includes an image forming apparatus, a fixing device, a varnish image forming apparatus, an image reading portion, and a controller. The controller corrects first image data depending on first detection image data of a toner image formed on a first recording material and read by the image reading portion, and then depending on the corrected first image data, a toner image is formed on a second recording material subsequent to the first recording material. The controller corrects second image data depending on second detection image data of a varnish image read by the image reading portion, and then depending on the corrected second image data, a varnish image is formed on the second recording material.
US12216422B2
According to one embodiment, a fixing device includes a cylindrical fixing body, a heater unit, and a heat transfer member. The heater unit is in an interior region surrounded by the cylindrical fixing body and includes a heating element group. The heater unit extends lengthwise in a first direction parallel to an axial direction of the cylindrical fixing. The heat transfer member has a contact surface that contacts heater unit and an opposite surface on a side opposite the heater unit. The outer edges of the opposite surface in the first direction are at positions along the first direction that are beyond the outer edges of the contact surface in the first direction.
US12216412B2
An overlay error measurement method includes disposing a lower-layer pattern over a substrate that includes disposing a first pattern having a first plurality of first sub-patterns extending in a first interval along a first direction and being arranged with a first pitch in a second direction crossing the first direction. The method includes disposing a second pattern having a second plurality of second sub-patterns extending in a second interval along the first direction and being arranged with a second pitch, smaller than the first pitch, in the second direction crossing the first direction. The second sub-patterns are disposed interleaved between the first sub-patterns. The method includes disposing an upper-layer pattern including a third pattern having the first pitch and at least partially overlapping with the lower-layer pattern over the lower-layer pattern and determining an overlay error between the lower-layer pattern and the upper-layer pattern.
US12216411B2
An apparatus includes a decision module that is configured to: receive a performance metric relating to performance conditions of an optical system emitting a light beam; estimate, based on the performance metric and a predetermined learning model, an effectiveness of a proposed change to the optical system; and output a change command to the optical system if it is estimated that the proposed change to the optical system would be effective.
US12216409B2
An exposure system according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes a laser apparatus emitting a pulse laser beam, an illumination optical system guiding the pulse laser beam to a reticle, a reticle stage moving the reticle, and a processor controlling emission of the pulse laser beam and movement of the reticle. The exposure system performs scanning exposure of a semiconductor substrate by irradiating the reticle with the pulse laser beam. The reticle has first and second regions. The processor instructs the laser apparatus about, based on proximity effect characteristics corresponding to the first and second regions, a value of a control parameter of the pulse laser beam corresponding to each region so that the laser apparatus emits the pulse laser beam with which a difference of the proximity effect characteristic of each region from a reference proximity effect characteristic is in an allowable range.
US12216408B2
An apparatus for drying a wafer, includes: a drying chamber; a supercritical fluid supply module configured to supply supercritical fluid to the drying chamber; a main exhaust line connected to the drying chamber and in which a main valve is installed; and an auxiliary exhaust unit connected to the main exhaust line. The auxiliary exhaust unit includes: an auxiliary exhaust line connected to the main exhaust line and configured to exhaust the supercritical fluid from the drying chamber when the main valve is closed; a negative pressure tank installed in the auxiliary exhaust line; a first valve, installed in the auxiliary exhaust line, that is configured to be opened when the main valve is closed; and a second valve, installed in the auxiliary exhaust line, that is configured to be opened in conjunction with the first valve.
US12216407B2
A multi-spray RRC process with dynamic control to improve final yield and further reduce resist cost is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method, includes: dispensing a first layer of solvent on a semiconductor substrate while spinning at a first speed for a first time period; dispensing the solvent on the semiconductor substrate while spinning at a second speed for a second time period so as to transform the first layer to a second layer of the solvent; dispensing the solvent on the semiconductor substrate while spinning at a third speed for a third time period so as to transform the second layer to a third layer of the solvent; dispensing the solvent on the semiconductor substrate while spinning at a fourth speed for a fourth time period so as to transform the third layer to a fourth layer of the solvent; and dispensing a first layer of photoresist on the fourth layer of the solvent while spinning at a fifth speed for a fifth period of time.
US12216397B2
A reflective mask blank for EUV lithography includes: a substrate; a multilayer reflective film for reflecting EUV light; and a phase shift film for shifting a phase of EUV light, the multilayer reflective film and the phase shift film formed on or above the substrate in this order. The phase shift film includes a layer 1 including ruthenium (Ru) and at least one selected from the group consisting of oxygen (O) and nitrogen (N). Among diffraction peaks derived from the phase shift film observed at 2θ: from 20° to 50° by out-of-plane XRD method, a peak having the highest intensity has a half value width FWHM of 1.0° or more.
US12216392B2
A projector includes a light source, an integrating rod, an image panel, a beam shaper, and an actuator mechanically connected to the beam shaper. The image panel is configured to display an image at a displayed aspect ratio. The beam shaper includes multiple prisms shaped and oriented such that when the beam shaper intersects an optical path of the illumination between the integrating rod and the image panel, the illumination transmitted by the beam shaper is collinear with the illumination incident on the beam shaper. The actuator is configured to switch the projector between (i) a first configuration, in which the beam shaper does not change an aspect ratio of the illumination, and (ii) a second configuration, in which the beam shaper intersects the optical path between the integrating rod and the image panel and changes the aspect ratio of the illumination.
US12216379B2
A liquid crystal lens includes a liquid crystal layer, a first electrode layer, a second electrode layer, transparent substrates. The second electrode layer includes multiple electrode units arranged sequentially from a position adjacent to a center thereof r toward a position away from the center thereof. Each of the electrode units includes at least one conductive line which extends from a first position of the electrode unit to a second position of the electrode unit. A distance between the second position and the center of the second electrode layer is greater than a distance between the first position and the center of the second electrode layer. A spacing distance between adjacent conductive lines is less than or equal to 100 μm. A way of driving the liquid crystal lens is simple, and an ideal potential distribution can be obtained and not affected by change of characteristics of a high-resistance film.
US12216373B2
According to one embodiment, a display device includes a display panel configured to modulate a first polarization component, a first viewing angle control panel including a first liquid crystal layer containing twisted liquid crystal molecules, a second viewing angle control panel including a second liquid crystal layer containing twisted liquid crystal molecules, and a polarization axis rotation element provided between the first viewing angle control panel and the display panel. A second polarization axis of a second polarization component which passed through the first viewing angle control panel is different from a first polarization axis of the first polarization component. The polarization axis rotation element is configured to rotate the second polarization axis.
US12216364B2
The present disclosure provides a display substrate, a manufacturing method of the display substrate and a display apparatus. The display substrate includes a base substrate; an alignment layer, on the base substrate; a first electrode, located between the base substrate and the alignment layer and being in contact with the alignment layer; and a pattern layer, located between the base substrate and the alignment layer and being in contact with the alignment layer. An orthographic projection of the pattern layer on the base substrate does not overlap an orthographic projection of the first electrode on the base substrate, and a ratio of a contact angle of the pattern layer to a contact angle of the first electrode is greater than or equal to 7/12 and less than 3/2.
US12216362B2
A display panel and a display device are disclosed. The display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate and a spacer. The first substrate and the second substrate are aligned and bonded together. The spacer is arranged between the first substrate and the second substrate. The second substrate includes multiple pixel regions arranged in an array and a shielding region located between adjacent pixel regions. One end of the spacer is fixed to the first substrate, and the other end abuts on the respective shielding region. The second substrate further includes an anti-skid structure arranged in the shielding region and disposed between the respective adjacent pixel regions. Both ends of the anti-skid structure extend along the shielding region to form a guide member.
US12216357B2
In some examples, an apparatus may include a backlight unit (BLU) including an electronic integrated circuit layer, a photonic integrated circuit layer, a color conversion module, and a display interface layer. In some examples, a BLU may include at least one laser or may be configured to receive laser light from at least one external laser source. Laser light may be transmitted towards a portion of the display interface layer using the photonic integrated circuit. Color conversion modules may be used to convert the laser light into one or more desired colors. Example apparatus may be used in head-mounted devices such as augmented reality and/or virtual reality devices. Other devices, methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US12216355B2
A display device includes a display panel including a front substrate and a back substrate, a plurality of brackets attached to a non-display area of a back surface of the back substrate using an adhesive, and a backlight unit positioned in the rear of the display panel. The backlight unit includes a frame including at least one protrusion, a light guide plate disposed between the frame and the display panel, the light guide plate including at least one groove or hole corresponding to the at least one protrusion of the frame, an optical layer disposed between the light guide plate and the display panel, and a light source disposed on the side of the light guide plate.
US12216347B2
A backlight module includes a back plate, a plastic frame disposed on one side of the back plate and connected with the back plate, a light source assembly located on an inner side of the plastic frame, and a reflective sheet, a light guide plate, and an optical membrane group sequentially stacked and located on the inner side of the plastic frame; the light source assembly includes a circuit board and a light source disposed on a first side surface of the circuit board, and the light source is located at a first side edge of the light guide plate; the light guide plate includes a first surface facing the reflective sheet and a second surface facing away from the reflective sheet; a first rectangular annular step and a second rectangular annular step are provided on an end face of the plastic frame facing the back plate.
US12216333B2
An optical imaging system includes a plurality of lenses disposed along an optical axis from an object side of the optical imaging system toward an imaging plane of the optical imaging system. The lenses are separated from each other by respective air gaps along the optical axis between the lenses. The lenses include a first lens closest to the object side of the optical imaging system. The conditional expressions 1.5 mm
US12216331B2
Apparatuses, systems, method, reagents, and kits for conducting assays as well as process for their preparation are described. They are particularly well suited for conducting automated analysis in a multi-well plate assay format.
US12216324B2
A lens barrel 10 comprises a substantially cylindrical first lens group unit 11 that holds a lens L1, and a substantially cylindrical front frame unit 12 that is disposed in a state of being close to the outer peripheral surface side of the substantially cylindrical first lens group unit 11. The first lens group unit 11 has a rectilinear key 11c that protrudes outward in the radial direction on the outer peripheral surface of the lens L1 on the image plane side in the optical axis direction. The front frame unit 12 has an inside diameter that is smaller than the outside diameter of the first lens group unit 11 in the portion where the rectilinear key 11c is provided. The first lens group unit 11 and the front frame unit 12 are formed so that a gap is formed between the outside diameter of the first lens group unit 11 and the inside diameter of the front frame unit 12 at a position opposite the rectilinear key 11c in the radial direction.
US12216323B2
A laser system includes a first laser cavity to output a laser light along a first path, a first mirror to receive the laser light from the first laser cavity, and redirect the laser light along a second path that is different than the first path, a second mirror to receive the laser light from the first mirror, and redirect the laser light along a third path that is different than the first path and the second path, a beam splitter located at a first position on the third path, a beam combiner located at a second position on the third path; and a coupling lens assembly, the coupling lens assembly including a lens located at a third position on the third path, wherein the coupling lens assembly moves the lens in x-, y-, and x-directions.
US12216318B2
A package includes a first die with a bridging element with a first interconnect region, a first photonic transceiver portion, a second interconnect region, a first photonic path to an optical interface (OI), and a second photonic path from the OI to the first photonic transceiver portion. The first interconnect region electrically couples the first photonic transceiver portion to a second photonic transceiver portion in an analog/mixed-signal die (AMS die), while the second interconnect region connects a third photonic transceiver portion in a general die to the second photonic transceiver portion using an electrical coupling embedded in the first die. The electrical interconnects in the first interconnect region are less than two millimeters in length.
US12216317B2
A multi-channel optical sub-assembly includes a printed circuit board with a signal processor mounted thereon, a package window mounted on the printed circuit board, the package window including a transparent material, a package mounted on the package window, and an optical device accommodated into an inner space of the package and configured to convert an electrical signal, input from the signal processor, into an optical signal, wherein the electrical signal sequentially passes through a window through electrode buried in the package window and a package through electrode buried in the package and is input to the optical device.
US12216305B2
A front light module includes a light guide sheet and a light bar. The light guide sheet has two light receiving laterals, a fold line, a first pattern area, and a second pattern area respectively located on two sides of the fold line. One light receiving lateral is protruded to form first taper sets, and the other is protruded to form second taper sets. The second pattern area is superimposed on the first pattern area, and the first and second tapers set are engaged and coplanar to form a light incident surface after folding along the fold line. The light bar provides light toward the light incident surface, the first pattern area is lit by the odd positions of the light bar via the first taper sets, and the second pattern area is lit by the even positions of the light bar via the second taper sets.
US12216294B2
An optical element includes a first light-transmissive member made of a first resin and having a first surface having an aspheric shape and a first joint surface provided on the side opposite from the first surface, a second light-transmissive member made of a material different from the material of the first light-transmissive member and having a second joint surface, and a first joining member and a second joining member that join the first joint surface and the second joint surface to each other. The first joining member is made of a silicone adhesive and disposed in the smaller one of effective diameter regions of the first light-transmissive member and the second light-transmissive member. The second joining member is made of an adhesive having adhesiveness higher than the adhesiveness of the silicone adhesive and is disposed outside the first joining member and outside the smaller effective diameter region.
US12216291B2
In various embodiments, alignment systems for laser resonators generate near-field and/or far-field images of input beams produced by the laser resonators to enable the alignment of the input beams.
US12216281B2
The present specification describes examples of position-based switching of display devices. An example augmented reality (AR) device includes an AR display device to render display data. The example AR device also includes a wireless communication device to transmit and receive wireless signals. The example AR device further includes a processor to: 1) determine a position of the AR device relative to a computing device based on wireless signals communicated with the computing device; and 2) switch an activity state of the AR display device based on the determined position of the AR device relative to the computing device.
US12216278B2
A light source device which is miniaturized, can be manufactured at low cost, and is suitable as an illumination light source of a display device of an electronic device such as an HUD and an aerial floating image display apparatus is provided. The light source device includes: a light source configured to generate white light by irradiating a phosphor with light emitted from a solid-state light source; a collimating optical system (15) configured to convert a divergent light flux of the white light emitted from the light source into parallel light; a light guide configured to cause the light emitted from the collimating optical system (15) to be incident as incident light and emit the incident light in a direction different from an incident direction; and a filter configured to reflect light in a blue region of the parallel light to irradiate the phosphor.
US12216276B2
A mirror unit includes an optical scanning device, a frame member, and a window member. The frame member includes first and second wall portions facing each other in an X-axis direction. The first wall portion is higher than the second wall portion. The window member is disposed on a top surface of the first wall portion and a top surface of the second wall portion and is inclined with respect to a mirror surface of the optical scanning device. In a cross-section parallel to the X-axis direction, the first wall portion is separated from a first line passing through a first end at a side of the first wall portion in the mirror surface and a first corner portion formed at the side of the first wall portion by an outer surface opposite to the frame member and a first side surface in the window member.
US12216271B2
An optical device includes: a first reflector; a second reflector facing the reflector; a light emitter between the first reflector and the second reflector; a base supporting the second reflector with space between the light emitter and the second reflector; a piezoelectric body configured to, in response to application of drive voltage, deform to cause the second region to deform to drive the second reflector so as to change a distance between the first reflector and the second reflector. The base has a first region and a second region having a lower stiffness than the first region. The second region has the second reflector and the piezoelectric body thereon. The optical device is configured to emit a laser beam whose wavelength is changeable with the distance between the first reflector and the second reflector.
US12216267B2
Systems and methods for adjusting one or more properties of a deformable lens are described herein. The deformable lens includes a photoswitch material that, when irradiated by a radiation, causes a curvature of a surface of the deformable lens to change from a first curvature to a second curvature based on the intensity of the radiation.
US12216264B2
Disclosed are a dark-field confocal microscopic measurement apparatus and method based on vortex dichroism. The apparatus includes an array vortex light generation module, an array vortex light illumination module and an array dark-field confocal detection module; an array vortex wave plate of the array vortex light generation module generates vortex light to illuminate a sample of the array vortex light illumination module; and the array dark-field confocal detection module extracts scattering signals, and identifies differences between scattering signals collected under the illumination of opposite-order vortex light. Three-dimensional distribution information of defects, such as subsurface scratches, abrasion, subsurface cracks, and bubbles, can be extracted by directly analyzing the scattering signals under the 1-order vortex illumination; and chirality information of the micro-nano material can be obtained by analyzing difference values of the scattering signals under the illumination of the opposite-order vortex light.
US12216258B2
The present embodiment relates to a prism actuator comprising: a housing; a holder having at least a part spaced apart from the housing; a prism disposed on the holder; a shape memory alloy member for connecting the housing and the holder to each other; and an elastic member for connecting the housing and the holder to each other, wherein the shape memory alloy member comprises first and second shape memory alloy members disposed on one side of the prism, the first shape memory alloy member connects an upper part of the holder and a lower part of the housing to each other, and the second shape memory alloy member connects a lower part of the holder and an upper part of the housing to each other.
US12216240B2
A method for obtaining a gas saturation value of a subterrain formation involves a tool having multiple dual-function detectors that detect neutrons and gamma rays. The method includes steps of emitting neutrons into the formation, detecting neutrons and gamma ray signals form the formation using the detectors, determining formation parameters including the formation type and formation porosity, and further determining parameters such as the ratio of thermal neutron count rates from at least two of three detectors, the ratio of capture gamma count rates from at least two of three detectors, and calculating the real-time gas saturation value using the determined parameters.
US12216233B2
Ultrasound attenuation coefficient estimation (“ACE”) techniques that can ameliorate frequency power ratio curve oscillations caused by signal interferences, non-uniform tissue structures, or both, are described. The resulting smoothed frequency power ratio curves enable more accurate ACE and reduced region-of-interest (“ROI”) sizes for linear regression.
US12216232B2
It is an object of the present technology to acquire distance measurement data having the maximum likelihood value by performing appropriate noise reduction. For this object, an arithmetic processing apparatus according to the present technology includes an operation processing part that performs processing of: calculating a first distance to a measurement object by emitting and receiving first irradiation light of which intensity is modulated by a first modulation signal of a first frequency; calculating a second distance to the measurement object by emitting and receiving second irradiation light of which intensity is modulated by a second modulation signal of a second frequency different from the first frequency; calculating a corrected first distance using first correction data that has been acquired; and determining the corrected first distance within an error range of the second distance as a third distance using the second distance.
US12216229B2
In an embodiment, a method includes: transmitting a plurality of radar signals using a millimeter-wave radar sensor towards a target; receiving a plurality of reflected radar signals that correspond to the plurality of transmitted radar signals using the millimeter-wave radar; mixing a replica of the plurality of transmitted radar signals with the plurality of received reflected radar signals to generate an intermediate frequency signal; generating raw digital data based on the intermediate frequency signal using an analog-to-digital converter; processing the raw digital data using a constrained L dimensional convolutional layer of a neural network to generate intermediate digital data, where L is a positive integer greater than or equal to 2, and where the neural network includes a plurality of additional layers; and processing the intermediate digital data using the plurality of additional layers to generate information about the target.
US12216226B2
Radar System The disclosure relates to a radar system having multiple radar transceiver modules, in which each module has a clock signal that is synchronised with a clock signal generated by a leader transceiver module. Example embodiments include a radar system (400) comprising a plurality of radar transceiver modules (401, 402) mounted to a common PCB (404), the plurality of radar transceiver modules comprising a leader module (401) and one or more follower modules (402), the leader module (401) comprising a first oscillator (403) configured to provide a first clock signal at a first frequency to each follower module (402), each of the leader and follower modules comprising a phase locked loop, PLL, clock signal generator (300), the PLL clock signal generator (300) comprising a divide by n clock divider (304) arranged to output 2n phase shifted clock signals (314) at a third frequency and a multiplexer (306) connected to receive the 2n phase shifted clock signals from the divide by n clock divider (304) and output a third clock signal (308) selected by an input phase select signal (307).
US12216215B2
An antenna alignment apparatus may include magnetic field sensors as an alternative to or in addition to GNSS sensors. The magnetic field sensors may measure the earth's magnetic fields at corresponding locations, and a processor may use the measurements to calculate at least one of a roll, tilt, or azimuth of an antenna. For an optical alignment, the antenna alignment apparatus may, additionally or alternately, include a reference object (e.g., a printed mark or a physical stud) located within a field of view of a camera. A location of the reference object may indicate the alignment of the antenna vis-à-vis the structures within the field of view.
US12216198B2
Disclosed is a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) system for target recognition with complex range profile. The SAR system comprising a memory, a recurrent neural network (RNN), a multi-layer linear network in signal communication the RNN, and a machine-readable medium on the memory. The machine-readable medium is configured to store instructions that, when executed by the RNN, cause the SAR system to perform various operations. The various operation comprise: receiving raw SAR data associated with observed views of a scene, wherein the raw SAR data comprises information captured via the SAR system; radio frequency (RF) preprocessing the received raw SAR data to produce a processed raw SAR data; converting the processed raw SAR data to a complex SAR range profile data; processing the complex SAR range profile data with the RNN having RNN states; and mapping the RNN states to a target class with the multi-layer linear network.
US12216193B2
In an apparatus for detecting a target using a radar according to one aspect of the present invention, a first radar and a second radar, which are multi-channel radars each including a plurality of transmitting antennas and a plurality of receiving antennas, are installed to be spaced apart from each other, and position information of a target and velocity vector information of the target are calculated from first position information and first velocity information of the target acquired from the first radar and second position information and second velocity information of the target acquired from the second radar and then are used to detect and track the target.
US12216192B2
In some implementations, a user equipment (UE) may determine an angular motion using at least one gyroscope. The UE may adjust at least one measurement from at least one sensor that is associated with the UE and used to measure relative position, based at least in part on the angular motion. Additionally, in some implementations, the UE may determine at least one distance between the at least one sensor and an estimated grip associated with the UE, and determine at least one translation associated with the at least one sensor based at least in part on the angular motion and the at least one distance. Accordingly, the UE may adjust the at least one measurement by offsetting the at least one measurement based at least in part on the at least one translation.
US12216181B2
An information processing apparatus capable of preventing erroneous connection at a time of connection using cables without deteriorating versatility. The information processing apparatus is communicable with an external device via two cables. A first connector is connected to one of the two cables and has terminals, which include a first terminal that is arranged at a first position and receives a predetermined signal output according to start-up of the external device. A second connector of a same shape as the first connector is connected to another of the two cables and that has terminals, which are identical to the terminals of the first connector in number and arrangement and include a second terminal that is not used to output a signal and is arranged at a position corresponding to the first terminal. A controller notifies of an error through a notification device when the second terminal receives the predetermined signal.
US12216179B2
A safety circuit, in the form of a switch box, for coupling with a catheter, detects DC leakage or emission from an amplifier circuit of the catheter, and switches a switch to immediately terminates (cuts-off) power to the amplifier circuit. This immediate power termination instantaneously stops DC leakage, which if left unchecked or otherwise undetected, may reach the heart, and disrupt its electrical activity and cause other damage.
US12216178B2
A fail-safe operating method for a decentralized power generation plant DG includes determining a leakage capacitance of a generator of the DG before connecting the DG. The method also includes comparing the determined leakage capacitance with a predetermined first limit value, and connecting the DG to a grid only if the determined leakage capacitance is smaller than the predetermined first limit value. A decentralized power generation plant is configured to perform the method.
US12216174B2
A current sensor device for measuring a current in a conductor comprising: current sensing means comprising a magnetic sensing element for contactlessly measuring the current; amplification means arranged to act in a first and second state, said amplification means in said first and second state being arranged for amplifying a first and second signal, respectively, from said current sensing means with an adjustable first gain and a second gain and a first and second bandwidth to yield a first and second amplified signal, respectively, wherein said first gain is higher than the second gain, wherein the first gain and the second gain are larger than 1; processing means for controlling at least said first gain, for detecting an event based on at least said second amplified signal and for producing a signal indicative of said event; an output terminal arranged for outputting a signal indicative of said current based on said first amplified signal; and an output terminal arranged for outputting said signal indicative of the event.
US12216160B2
An integrated circuit for transition fault testing comprises a synchronizing circuit including a first set of shift registers coupled to receive a scan enable signal and to provide a synchronizing signal based on the scan enable signal; a clock leaker circuit coupled to the synchronizing circuit and including a second set of shift registers coupled to receive a first clock signal based on the synchronizing signal and to provide a second clock signal that includes a set of pulses; and a multiplexer (MUX) that includes a first input coupled to receive a shift clock, a second input coupled to the clock leaker circuit to receive the second clock signal, and an output configured to provide an output clock signal that includes a second set of pulses.
US12216159B2
Described herein are improved techniques for measuring propagation delay of an integrated circuit that facilitate performing propagation delay measurements on-chip. Some embodiments relate to an integrated circuit comprising programmable oscillator circuitry with a plurality of oscillator stages that are switchable into and out of a delay path based on control signals from a controller, allowing the same programmable oscillator to generate many different oscillator signals according to the received control signals, for the controller to determine a central tendency and/or variance of propagation delay of the integrated circuit. Some embodiments relate to an integrated circuit including programmable delay paths configured to provide an amount of cell delay and an amount of wire delay based on control signals from a controller, allowing the same programmable delay path to generate signals for measuring delays due to cell and wire delays of the integrated circuit.
US12216157B2
A package structure and a testing method are provided. The package structure includes a wiring structure, a first electronic device and a second electronic device. The wiring structure includes at least one dielectric layer, at least one conductive circuit layer in contact with the dielectric layer, and at least one test circuit structure in contact with the dielectric layer. The test circuit structure is disposed adjacent to the interconnection portion of the conductive circuit layer. The first electronic device is electrically connected to the wiring structure. The second electronic device is electrically connected to the wiring structure. The second electronic device is electrically connected to the first electronic device through the interconnection portion of the conductive circuit layer.
US12216156B2
The present disclosure includes a die test pressing-down apparatus and a formation method. The die test pressing-down apparatus includes a support frame capable of moving along a vertical direction; and a pressing-down block installed on the support frame. A part to-be-pressed is disposed directly below the pressing-down block. The pressing-down block is connected to the support frame through an installation plate; a strip-shaped through hole is formed at an upper surface of the support frame; a first protruding strip is at each lower portion of two opposite inner walls of the strip-shaped through hole; a corresponding second protruding strip is at each upper portion of two opposite side surfaces of the installation plate; and a side of a strip-shaped block is fixedly connected to the upper surface of the support frame, and another side of the strip-shaped block is connected to the second protruding strip through at least two springs.
US12216153B2
A semiconductor product, which comprises a semiconductor chip, an edge integrity detection structure extending along at least part of an edge of the semiconductor chip, and evaluation circuitry formed in and/or on the semiconductor chip, being electrically connected with the edge integrity detection structure, and being configured to evaluate an electric characteristic of the edge integrity detection structure to provide an evaluation signal indicative of a detected edge integrity status of the edge.
US12216145B2
The present disclosure generally relates to an anechoic chamber for testing a device under test over-the-air, a system, and a method. The anechoic chamber includes at least one reflecting surface being configured to variably manipulate in a defined manner at least one reflection process of at least one electromagnetic wave usable for testing the device under test.
US12216140B2
A probing system includes a device-under-test, a probe device, and a die bonder. The device-under-test includes test patterns. The probe device includes tilt angle sensors. The tilt angle sensors include spikes that protrude from the probe device. The die bonder is operational to mount the device-under-test, mount the probe device facing the device-under-test, compress the probe device and the device-under-test together to causes a subset of the spikes to contact the test patterns, measure a number of connections formed between the tilt angle sensors and the test patterns, determine a first offset angle and a second offset angle between the device-under-test and the probe device based on the number of connections, adjust the spherical positioner in one or more rotational axes in response to the first offset angle and the second offset angle to change a parallelism between the device-under-test and the probe device.
US12216126B2
A sample preparation kit related to the present invention provides a significantly versatile analytical technique that is not affected by the diversity of antibodies, difference in species, matrix and the like. For preparing a sample to be used for detection of a monoclonal antibody through high-performance liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS), the kit includes a porous body for immobilizing a monoclonal antibody to be detected; nanoparticles with an immobilized protease; a reaction vessel for selectively digesting the monoclonal antibody by bringing the porous body and nanoparticles into contact; a buffer to be introduced into the reaction vessel along with the nanoparticles and porous body so that a protease reaction is carried out; and a filtration membrane to remove the porous body and nanoparticles after the proteolysis so as to extract the reaction product and the buffer.
US12216121B2
Described herein are nucleic acid molecules and complexes useful for spatiotemporally mapping intra-endosmal thiol disulphide exchange. Aspects of the disclosure relate to a composition comprising a first nucleic acid conjugated to a normalization moiety; and a second nucleic acid conjugated to a catalytic substrate; wherein reaction of the substrate with a catalyst produces a detectable product; and wherein the first and second nucleic acids are complementary or substantially complementary. Further aspects relate to a composition comprising: a first nucleic acid conjugated to a normalization moiety and to a catalytic substrate; and a second nucleic acid; wherein reaction of the substrate with a catalyst produces a detectable product; and wherein the first and second nucleic acids are complementary or substantially complementary.
US12216116B2
The present disclosure relates to, inter alia, devices, systems, and methods for use in the magnetic separation of biological entities from fluid samples. This device includes a magnetic separation chamber configured to receive a fluid sample for magnetic separation, where the magnetic separation chamber includes at least two magnets mounted on the surface or in the wall of the magnetic separation chamber. The device also includes a force provider configured to move the magnetic separation chamber in a side-to-side motion to mix and/or magnetize the fluid sample. In one embodiment, the magnetic separation chamber is in a form of a sleeve and comprises a substantially central channel for loading a vessel containing the fluid sample therein. The systems and methods of the present disclosure involve the use of this device to separate biological entities from fluid samples.
US12216111B2
Systems and methods are provided for characterizing shuttle capture events in a nanopore sensor. The method first collects time-dependent current blockage signatures for at least one bias voltage. The method then identifies each signature as corresponding to a permanent or transient event. The method then generates a protein dynamics landscape (PDL) for the transient event signatures. The PDL comprises a set of histograms of nanopore current data and characterizes current through the nanopore during shuttle capture events. The method can then comprise identifying an entrance level blockage value based on the permanent event signatures. Permanent event captures can be determined by time duration which is larger than a certain threshold time value. Applying a voltage between the fluidic chambers above a threshold voltage level can be used to control that the vast majority of events are permanent.
US12216108B2
An evaluation method for ecological performance of an asphalt-related material is provided. Firstly, working condition parameters are determined for evaluating the ecological performance of the asphalt-related material; secondly, based on the working condition parameters, a simulation test is performed on emission of asphalt-related pollutants during a preparation stage of the asphalt-related material; finally, based on a result of the simulation test, a quantitative evaluation of the ecological performance of the asphalt-related material is performed under different environmental impacts. The evaluation method is a laboratory scale simulation method based on measured pollutant emissions and various environmental impact factors, ultimately achieving laboratory scale ecological performance evaluation of the asphalt-related material, which has important reference value for green material selection of asphalt pavement.
US12216104B2
A change rate of in-vehicle carbon dioxide concentration at an optional time point when the vehicle is in a parked state is estimated on the basis of detection signals of a CO2 concentration sensor at two different time points when in the parked state; and on the basis of a detection signal of the CO2 concentration sensor at the optional time point, a preset time constant of concentration change of the in-vehicle carbon dioxide concentration, and the estimated change rate, the in-vehicle carbon dioxide concentration at a time point when a predetermined time according to the time constant has elapsed since the optional time point is estimated (steps S4 to S7). A detection target organism is determined to be present in the vehicle when the estimated in-vehicle carbon dioxide concentration is equal to or more than a threshold value set according to the detection target organism (steps S8 and S9).
US12216098B2
Apparatus for processing a liquid comprising a target substance, preferably a biomolecule, is provided. The apparatus comprises at least a first and a second means for carrying out a unit operation, each means for carrying out a unit operation comprising a feed for a liquid in fluid connection with the inlet of a flow-controller comprising a variable flow inlet valve and an outlet, wherein at least one of the means for carrying out a unit operation comprises feeds for at least two liquids, the feeds being in fluid connection with the inlets of a multiple inlet flow-controller comprising two or more variable flow inlet valves for dosing the at least two liquids, the flow-controller also comprising an outlet; a feed for a liquid feedstock comprising the target substance in fluid connection with the outlet from the flow-controller thereby to enable combination of the feed for a liquid comprising the target substance with the mixed bioprocessing liquids to produce a device feed; a device for achieving a processing operation comprising a device inlet and a device outlet, the device inlet being in fluid connection with the device feed; and a means for imparting flow through the flow controller and from the feed for the liquid feedstock through the processing device via the device inlet; and wherein the feed for a liquid feedstock comprising the target substance for the second means for carrying out a unit operation comprises the outlet from the first means for carrying out a unit operation.
US12216093B1
A material testing system that uses at least one hydraulic grip is improved with cable clips that are attachable to a respective lateral side of each hydraulic grip wedge. Each cable clip has another end that extends to engage a cable(s) extending from a corresponding wedge retention spring hole. The cable(s) enable manual extension of a wedge retention spring for engagement and disengagement from the hydraulic grip wedge. The cable clip maintains the cable in a noninterfering position during operational use of the material testing system.
US12216091B2
A phase-based approach can be used for one or more of acquisition, storage, or subsequent analysis, e.g., A-scan reconstruction or Total Focusing Method imaging, in support of acoustic inspection. For example, binarization or other quantization technique can be used to compress a data volume associated with time-series signal acquisition. A representation of phase information from the time-series signal can be generated, such as by processing the binarized or otherwise quantized time-series signal. Using the representation of the phase information, a phase summation technique can be used to perform one or more of A-scan reconstruction, such as for pulse-echo A-scan inspection, or a TFM imaging technique can be used, as illustrative examples. In such a phase summation approach, time-series representations of phase data can be summed, such as where each time-series can be delayed (or phase rotated) by an appropriate delay value and then aggregated.
US12216090B2
A device is provided for blade detection. The device comprises a supporting frame, a linear track, and a fixture. The supporting frame comprises a plurality of aluminum extruded bodies with connectors thereof and a plurality of rotating adjusting pads with fixing plates thereof; the linear track comprises a plurality of tracks with connectors thereof and a plurality of sliders; and the fixture comprises a bearing holder part, a bearing connector, a sliding rod, a joint bearer with a connector thereof, a chuck, and a detector. On detecting a blade, the present invention helps the detector to be maintained on the blade surface for detection in horizontal and vertical directions without deviating from track; and the detector is in contact with the blade surface to move precisely and regularly without missing or repeating detection areas. Thus, the area is detected completely with time saved and accuracy improved.
US12216089B2
A method for fixing a biological sample includes delivering energy through a biological sample that has been removed from a subject, while fixing the biological sample. A change in speed of the energy traveling through the biological sample is evaluated to monitor the progress of the fixation. A system for performing the method can include a transmitter that outputs the energy and a receiver configured to detect the transmitted energy. A computing device can evaluate the speed of the energy based on signals from the receiver.
US12216087B2
A truck mounted portable electromagnetic inspection (EMI) machine assembly is disclosed. The truck mounted portable EMI assembly includes a portable EMI machine having an input port coupled to a scanning tunnel and adapted to receive a tubular for passing through the scanning tunnel, the scanning tunnel comprising an excitation coil configured to induce an eddy current in a surface of the tubular passing through the scanning tunnel, and an output port coupled to the scanning tunnel and adapted to allow the tubular to exit from the scanning tunnel, and a mechanical turntable adapted to mount the portable EMI machine on a truck and adjust an orientation of the portable EMI machine with respect to the truck. The mechanical turntable includes an upper base and a lower base coupled together.
US12216080B2
A system for assaying a biological sample for a presence of a target analyte includes an assaying device and a computer controller. The assaying device includes a housing, a receptacle disposed in the housing, and a source of activation energy. The receptacle is configured to accept an electrophoresis cell. The electrophoresis cell has a recess area configured to accept a chip configured to accept the biological sample. The chip includes a polymeric separation medium with activatable functional groups that covalently bond to the target analyte when activated. The source of activation energy is configured to supply activation energy to activate the activatable functional groups. The computer controller is operably coupled to the source of activation energy and is configured to activate the source of activation energy to direct an application of activation energy to the polymeric separation medium to activate the activatable functional groups.
US12216078B2
An electrochemical fuel cell measures ethanol in human breath and a process maintains such an electrochemical fuel cell. The electrochemical fuel cell includes a first electrode (1), a second electrode (2) and a third electrode (3). The first electrode (1) is used as a measuring electrode in a regular operating mode of the electrochemical fuel cell and as a measuring electrode or as a reference electrode in a maintenance mode of the electrochemical fuel cell. The second electrode (2) is used as a counter electrode in the regular operating mode of the electrochemical fuel cell and as a measuring electrode or as a reference electrode in the maintenance mode of the electrochemical fuel cell. The third electrode (3) is used as a counter electrode in the maintenance mode of the electrochemical fuel cell.
US12216072B2
A reticle thermal expansion calibration method includes exposing a group of wafers and generating a sub-recipe, performing data mining and data parsing to generate a plurality of overlay parameters, extracting a plurality of predetermined parameters from the plurality of overlay parameters, performing a linear regression on each of the predetermined parameters, and generating a coefficient of determination for each of the predetermined parameters.
US12216070B2
An insulating device includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and an insulating film. The insulating film is located between the first electrode and the second electrode. The insulating film includes a positive charged region. The positive charged region is located at a portion in a direction from the first electrode toward the second electrode.
US12216068B2
Methods for using a single electron microscope system for investigating a sample with twin electron beams having different focal lengths include the steps of emitting electrons toward the sample, forming the electrons into a two beams, and then modifying the focal properties of at least one of the two beams such that they have different focal planes. Once the two beams have different focal planes, the first electron beam is focused at the sample, and the second electron beam is focused so that it acts as a TEM beam that is parallel beam when incident on the sample. Emissions resultant from the first electron beam and the TEM beam being incident on the sample can then be detected by a single detector or detector array and used to generate a TEM image.
US12216060B2
Color quantification of chemical test pads and titration of analytes can be performed under different lighting conditions. In one embodiment, the lighting condition is estimated under which a digital image is captured and utilized to select a set of reference colors from which the quantified color is compared to determine the titration. In another embodiment, a plurality of comparisons are made with different lighting conditions with the result having the highest confidence level being selected to determine the titration.
US12216052B2
A turbidity calibration-correction apparatus is configured for an automated calibration-correction of a turbidity. The calibration-correction apparatus includes: a turbidity calibration standard configured for calibration of the turbidity measurement apparatus, a memory configured to store an attribute-value including at least a correction-value that is a function of a turbidity value of the turbidity calibration standard measured by the turbidity measurement apparatus, where the calibration-correction is based on the correction-value, and a communicator configured to transfer at least an identity of the turbidity measurement apparatus and the correction-value from the turbidity measurement apparatus to the calibration-correction apparatus.
US12216049B2
A gas sensor for measuring concentration of a predetermined gas includes a light source (2) arranged to emit pulses of light, a measurement volume (10), a detector (4) arranged to receive light that has passed through the measurement volume (10), and an adaptable filter (6) disposed between the light source (2) and the detector (4). The gas sensor has a measurement state in which it passes at least one wavelength band which is absorbed by the gas and a reference state in which said wavelength band is attenuated relative to the measurement state. A controller is connected to each of the light source, the detector and the adaptable filter to change the adaptable filter between one of said measurement state and said reference state to the other at least once during a gas sensor operation period.
US12216048B2
A measuring apparatus includes a light source configured to emit light in a mid-infrared region, the light including: first-wavelength light having a wave number of from 970 cm−1 or more to 1010 cm−1 or less; and second-wavelength light different from the first-wavelength light, the second-wavelength light having a wave number of from 950 cm−1 or more to 990 cm−1 or less; a photosensor configured to detect the light emitted from the light source and reflected by a measurement target; and an information processing device configured to: obtain a first absorbance of the first-wavelength light and a second absorbance of the second-wavelength light from an output of the photosensor; and determine a biomarker of the measurement target based on the first absorbance and the second absorbance.
US12216046B2
Methods and apparatus for analyzing optical measurements to determine whether a liquid includes dissolved oxygen, to determine a predicted concentration of the dissolved oxygen in the liquid, and/or to determine additional or alternative feature(s) related to dissolved oxygen in the liquid. An optical source can be controlled to emit optical radiation into a container that contains the liquid. The optical source can be located outside of the container, and the optical radiation includes (e.g., is restricted to) radiation that conforms to a dissolved oxygen absorption band. The optical radiation can be pulsed or can be periodically intensity modulated. A photodetector, located outside of the container but in optical communication with the interior of the container, can generate the optical measurements used in the analysis.
US12216038B1
A sample observation container and methods of use thereof are provided. The sample observation container includes a base and one or more sidewalls extending from the base. The one or more sidewalls form a sample enclosure for holding a sample undergoing a sample observation test such as sedimentation photographical capturing and dynamic light scattering, among other tests. The one or more sidewalls form a sample enclosure of adjustable cross-sectional area. The cross-sectional area may be adjusted by feeding or retracting a flexible sheet from a source roll to the sample enclosure. The cross-sectional area may further be adjusted by removing an innermost sidewall from among one or more nested sidewalls. The containers allow for physical adjustment of the cross-sectional area while performing subsequent sample observation tests, thereby allowing assessment of the effects of container size on the results of the sample, such as particles in liquid suspension.
US12216024B2
This signal analysis device provides information to assist determining the state of a time series signal. An identification unit (120) identifies events included in the time series signal, and a ranking generation unit (140) generates a ranking among multiple event types.
US12216020B2
A method of testing a photonic device includes providing a plurality of optical test signals at respective inputs of a first plurality of inputs of an optical input circuit located on a substrate, combining the plurality of optical test signals into a combined optical test signal at an output of the optical input circuit, transmitting the combined optical test signal through the output to an input waveguide of an optical device under test, the optical device under test being located on the substrate, and measuring a response of the optical device under test to the combined optical test signal. Each of the plurality of optical test signals comprises a respective dominant wavelength of a plurality of dominant wavelengths.
US12216018B2
A method of moving material, using a first machine, from a first location to a second location, the second location being a dump bed of a second machine. The method includes determining, by a controller of the first machine, a type of a material to be moved, sending, by the controller of the first machine, the material type to a controller of the second machine, determining, by a controller of the second machine, a load distribution on the dump bed based on the material, determining, by the controller of the second machine, a first position of the dump bed at which a first dump should be unloaded from the first machine, and sending, by the controller of the second machine, an identification of the first position to the controller of the first machine.
US12216017B2
A compliant tri-axial force sensor is disclosed that may be incorporated into soft robots or electronic skin. The sensor comprises a first electrode layer including column electrodes in a first orientation; a second electrode layer including column electrodes in a second orientation that is orthogonal to the first orientation; a force-dependent active layer provided between the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer configured to change at least one property—such as quantum tunneling, conductivity, resistivity, or electrical charge—when subjected to a force; at least one three dimensional bump arranged to transmit externally applied force through the active layer; and at least one spacer arranged to maintain a separation between two or more layers in the sensor until an external force is applied.
US12216010B2
There is described a method of producing a flexible structure and sensor devices incorporating the former, such as wireless LC sensors, that comprises a plurality of thin-film layers of elastomeric material and at least one layer of micro-wrinkled electrically conductive material. The method includes steps leading to 2D wrinkled metallised polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) layers enabling considerable flexibility with negligible bending failure for angles up to 180 degrees.
US12216009B2
An arrangement includes a supply unit of an industrial control system and a superordinate computing unit assigned to the supply unit. The supply unit includes an electronic assembly which includes an electronic component. The supply unit is configured to calculate a first temperature of the electronic component using a first thermal model. The superordinate computing unit is configured to calculate a second temperature of the electronic component using a second thermal model when the supply unit is without current, with the supply unit providing the superordinate computing unit with relevant data for a calculation of the second thermal model. The supply unit and the superordinate computing unit interact in such a way that at least one of the first temperature and the second temperature of the electronic component is calculated.
US12216006B2
An infrared light source device includes: a heater portion which emits infrared light by being heated; and a cover member arranged to cover an entire circumference of the heater portion without contacting the heater portion, and having a hole formed therein for emitting the infrared light from the heater portion to outside. A material for the cover member is a pure aluminum (an aluminum alloy with a purity of 99% or more), which has a high heat reflectivity and is less likely to be denatured by heat dissipation from the heater portion.
US12215988B2
A position detection device includes a magnet that generates a magnetic field to be detected, and a magnetic sensor. The magnetic sensor detects the magnetic field to be detected and generates a detection value corresponding to the position of the magnet. The magnetic field to be detected has a first direction that changes within a first plane, at a reference position in the first plane. The magnetic sensor includes four MR elements. Each of the MR elements includes a first magnetic layer having first magnetization that can change in direction within a second plane corresponding to the each of the MR elements. The first plane and the second plane intersect at a dihedral angle α other than 90°. A detection value depends on the direction of the first magnetization.
US12215987B2
A map data output device includes: a map storage that stores map data that represents lane network information; a position determination portion that determines a current position of a vehicle; a read processing portion that reads the map data of an area established based on the current position; a control map generation portion that generates control map data obtained by adding information to the map; and an output portion that outputs the control map data to a vehicle control device.
US12215985B1
A method includes obtaining a first map element from a first map, identifying second map elements from a second map based on locations of the second map elements relative to the first map element, and identifying first and second point on the second map elements based on proximity to beginning and ending points of the first map element. One or more of the second map elements define a corresponding portion of the second map between the first point and the second point. The method also includes determining a registration score for the first map element relative to the corresponding portion of the second map, and in response to determining that the registration score indicates a match between the first map element and the corresponding portion of the second map, defining registration information that describes a relationship between the first map element and the corresponding portion of the second map.
US12215979B2
A vehicle position estimation device includes an external information acquisition unit for acquiring external information, a vehicle parameter acquisition unit for acquiring a vehicle parameter, a satellite positioning acquisition unit for acquiring a latitude and longitude of a self-position of the vehicle, a map data acquisition unit for acquiring map data, and a position estimation unit. The position estimation unit estimates the self-position, and includes a reliability calculation unit and a lane estimation unit. The reliability calculation unit calculates a reliability of each lane based on the external information and the map data when the vehicle is traveling on a road having multiple lanes. The reliability of each lane indicates a probability of the vehicle being traveling in the lane among the lanes. The lane estimation unit estimates a lane in which the vehicle is located by using the reliability calculated by the reliability calculation unit.
US12215975B2
Processes and systems for adaptive pedestrian inertial navigation are provided. Configurations can adjust to various navigation scenarios, including different floor types and different gait paces. A combination of IMU data partition, principal component analysis (PCA), and artificial neural network may be used to perform the floor type detection. Floor type results may be used in the multiple-model extended Kalman filter. In each extended Kalman filter, an adaptive threshold is used for the stance phase detection to enable the detector to adjust to gait frequency without tuning design parameters during navigation. A floor type classification of high accuracy is demonstrated, and the position error in a velocity-changing navigation system using adaptive threshold is reduced.
US12215970B1
The system for measuring the angle of repose of high temperature granular material includes a hollow chamber with an optically transparent window. A cylindrical receptacle is rotatably mounted within the hollow chamber, with an open end thereof releasably covered by an optically transparent plate. The cylindrical receptacle is oriented with respect to the hollow chamber such that the optically transparent plate faces, and is aligned with, the optically transparent window. The cylindrical receptacle is controllably rotated within the hollow chamber. The temperature within the hollow chamber may be selectively adjusted by one or more heating elements mounted therein. A camera detects the angle of repose of granular material in the cylindrical receptacle when the cylindrical receptacle is rotated within the hollow chamber. The camera is positioned such that the granular material may be viewed thereby through the optically transparent plate and the optically transparent window.
US12215959B2
The present invention provides a process for producing a ballistic-resistant curved molded article said process comprising pressing in a mold a stack comprising a plurality of layers of unidirectionally aligned polyolefin fibers substantially absent a bonding matrix and a plurality of layers of adhesive; characterized in that a means for dispersing pressure is employed against at least one surface of the stack. Also provided are a ballistic-resistant curved molded article and a press-pad having substantially the shape of a curved mold.
US12215952B2
Launcher apparatus and methods for a toy projectile blaster with a breechless projectile alignment module having a receptacle or hopper for multiple received projectile rounds, a passage at the alignment module including a barrel seal to align received projectiles for launching through a blaster barrel, and a channel into the alignment module for a compressed air source. A pre-firing area defines a junction inside the alignment module extending between the receptacle, the channel, and the barrel seal. An actuator at the housing is linked with the compressed air source for causing compressed air to expel through the channel into the alignment module and outwardly launch the received projectile rounds.
US12215951B2
The present disclosure is directed to a firearm capable of holding more than one magazines. In a particular embodiment, the firearm can include an operational magazine well adapted to receive an operational magazine and a secondary magazine well adapted to receive a secondary magazine, wherein the secondary magazine well is nonoperational.
US12215948B2
An upper receiver assembly of a firearm is disclosed. The upper receiver assembly contains a barrel, an extension block removably coupled with the barrel, an upper receiver removably coupled with the extension block, a handguard mounting block removably coupled with the barrel, and a handguard removably coupled with the handguard mounting block.
US12215941B2
A firearm lock mechanism includes a trigger, a hammer, a stirrup connected to the hammer at a stirrup connection point, and a spring operably connected to the stirrup at a spring connection point. Progressive pivoting of the trigger drives corresponding progressive pivoting of the hammer. The stirrup connection point is disposed forward of the hammer pivot point. One of the spring connection point, hammer pivot point, and stirrup connection point is offset relative to and laterally spaced between the others of the points to be a vertex of an intermediate angle cooperatively defined by the points. The angle increases in magnitude as the trigger drives pivoting of the hammer. A toggle line is defined between the trigger pivot point and the hammer pivot point. The trigger contacts the hammer at a contact point that shifts across the toggle line as the trigger drives pivoting of the hammer.
US12215937B2
A plate heat exchanger comprises a heat exchanger plate having a quadrilateral shape with two opposite primary sides and two opposite secondary sides, and a longitudinal central axis being parallel with the primary sides. The heat exchanger plate comprises a heat exchanger area having a corrugation of ridges and valleys. Four porthole areas are located at a respective corner of the heat exchanger plate and each comprises a respective porthole extending through the heat exchanger plate. An edge area extends around and adjoins the heat exchanger area and the porthole areas. The heat exchanger area comprises a main area and a local part area extending along one of the primary sides and adjoining the edge area and one of the porthole areas. The valleys of the local part area are tapering towards the longitudinal central axis.
US12215932B2
A heat exchanger includes a first pipe, a second pipe, a plurality of heat exchange tubes, an inlet/outlet pipe, and a first member. The first pipe has a main channel, and the heat exchange tube is connected between the first pipe and the second pipe. The heat exchange tube includes a plurality of channels disposed to be spaced apart. The plurality of channels include a first channel with a largest flow cross-sectional area and a second channel with a smallest flow cross-sectional area. The first member is located in the main channel of the first pipe to define a first flow channel and a second flow channel. The first flow channel is connected to the inlet/outlet pipe, and the second flow channel is connected to the heat exchange tube. The first member includes through-holes.
US12215930B2
A tube-in-tube unified shell element heat exchanger including an outer tube structure with an interior surface including an augmentation structure, an end cap and a flow outlet; an inner tube structure including a tubular shaped inner body defining an internal flow area, the inner tube structure including surface features formed on the exterior of the inner tube structure; the inner tube structure including a top ring connected to the exterior proximate an inlet port of the inner tube structure; inner tube structure includes an outlet port opposite the inlet port; wherein the top ring of the inner tube structure is connected with a top section of the outer tube structure; and a gap formed between the outer tube structure and the inner tube structure, the gap fluidly coupled between the inlet port and the flow outlet.
US12215928B2
A thermal energy storage and power generation system includes a thermal energy storage device including a container, a heating element in the container, a pair of fins in the container and arranged on opposite sides of the heating element, a thermal storage material in the container, and a tube in the container and extending around the thermal storage material. The system also includes a generator in communication with the thermal energy storage device for converting thermal energy into electrical energy as well as subsystems for regulating and controlling the system.
US12215926B2
Systems and methods for fabrication of ceramics from celestial materials using microwave sintering and mechanical compression for space mining applications are disclosed. In one aspect, a chamber for sintering loose mineral material into solid ceramic shapes includes a plurality of zirconia insulting plates configured to clamp the mineral material and forming a cavity in which the mineral loose material is contained, and at least one dipole array configured to generate microwave energy and apply the microwave energy to the mineral material.
US12215923B2
One or more specific embodiments disclosed herein includes a method for separating hydrogen from an olefin hydrocarbon rich compressed effluent vapor stream, employing an integrated heat exchanger, multiple gas-liquid separators, external refrigeration systems, and a rectifier attached to a liquid product drum.
US12215922B2
A method for removing heavy hydrocarbons from a feed gas by: feeding, into an absorber, a top reflux stream and a second reflux stream below the top reflux stream, wherein the absorber produces an absorber bottom product stream and an absorber overhead product stream; depressurizing and feeding the absorber bottom product stream to a stripper to produce a stripper bottom product stream and a stripper overhead product stream; cooling and feeding a portion of the absorber overhead product stream back to the absorber as the top reflux stream; and pressurizing and feeding the stripper overhead product stream back to the absorber as the second reflux stream. Systems for carrying out the method are also provided.
US12215921B2
A photoelectric hydrogen production energy storage and cold energy recovery coupled dry ice production device and a use method are disclosed. The device comprises a photoelectric conversion liquid hydrogen energy storage unit, photoelectricity participates in electrolysis of water in the storage unit to prepare hydrogen, and surplus hydrogen meeting downstream process requirements is liquefied in the unit; liquid hydrogen is output, so that intermittent photoelectric energy is converted into hydrogen energy to be stored. When hydrogen production through electrolysis of water is insufficient but industrial hydrogen is continuously used, high-grade and low-grade cold energy of low-temperature liquid hydrogen serving as cold sources in the unit is recovered from industrial tail gas purified CO2 and air separation nitrogen, liquid nitrogen and liquid CO2 are output and used for the storage unit and dry ice production respectively, and the liquid hydrogen is reheated and supplied to a downstream process.
US12215914B2
A refrigerator includes a first discharge part such that a temperature distribution difference between the upper section (upper space relative to the center portion of the inside of a storage compartment) of the inside of the storage compartment and the lower section (lower space relative to the center portion of the inside of the storage compartment) of the inside of the storage compartment may be reduced. In addition, water produced in the surrounding area of a blower fan may flow down into a flow path formed under the blower fan such that the loss of the flow amount of cold air may be reduced. Due to such a structure of the refrigerator, even temperature distribution inside of the storage compartment may be realized, and consumption efficiency may be improved.
US12215909B2
An ice maker of a refrigerator includes a tray assembly having an upper tray that defines upper portions of a plurality of ice making chambers. Each of the plurality of ice making chambers is configured to receive water and generate an ice piece. The tray assembly also includes a lower tray that is located vertically below the upper tray, that is configured to rotate relative to the upper tray, and that defines lower portions of the plurality of ice making chambers, wherein at least one of the upper tray or the lower tray comprises a flexible tray made of a flexible material. Additionally, a case is configured to accommodate the flexible tray to restrict a deformation of the flexible tray. A heater that is located between the case and the flexible tray is configured to supply heat to the plurality of ice making chambers through the flexible tray.
US12215902B2
A support system includes a display and a server. Upon acquiring first information on arrangement of a first refrigerant shut-off unit, second information on each of utilization-side units in a first utilization-side unit group, and third information on one of or both a length and an internal volume of the first connection pipe group, the server determines, based on an allowable leakage amount of the refrigerant into a space where a corresponding one or more utilization-side units is installed, whether the first, second, and third information are suitable for the design, and causes the display to display a result of the determination; or the server calculates a first refrigerant amount as a sum of an amount of the refrigerant in the first refrigerant circuit and an amount of the refrigerant, and causes the display to display the first refrigerant amount.
US12215896B2
A device, system, and a method are provided for notifying a user to replace a sacrificial anode in a pool or spa system. The device is provided in the form of a body defining a cavity, a sacrificial anode, and a sensor. The sacrificial anode substantially surrounds the cavity when the sacrificial anode is coupled to the body. The sensor is at least partially received into the cavity and is in communication with a pool automation system. The sensor is designed to transmit a signal to the pool automation system when the sensor detects water within the cavity. The signal is processed by the pool automation system, and the pool automation system may then transmit a notification to a user that the sacrificial anode is depleted.
US12215893B1
A method and an apparatus are provided for on-demand and instant warm water supplying at the point of consumption. In this method only cold water is distributed and supplied to different places within a building through a single piping system. The apparatus has only a single input pipe for cold water and heats water in a heating unit just as needed on demand at the point of consumption after harvesting the heat energy of wastewater from drainage. The heating unit alternatives are an electric resistive element, a magnetron generating microwave, or a thermoelectric body warming the input water as needed and no more through a controller. No hot and cold-water mixer is used. The method and apparatus help the building industry save on plumbing costs and consumed energy and water, while bringing more comfort to users through direct and local discharging of warm water on demand and as adjusted instantly.
US12215886B2
An HVAC system is provided. Embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to heat exchangers having tubing with a reduced diameter compared to traditional systems. In one embodiment, a ducted HVAC system comprises an outdoor heat exchanger with tubing that has an outer diameter of eight millimeters (8 mm) or less and an indoor heat exchanger with tubing that has an outer diameter of nine millimeters (9 mm) or less. Additional systems, devices, and methods are also disclosed.
US12215881B2
A wireless controller (200) is configured to send commands to a mini-split HVAC unit (100) that thermostatically controls the temperature in a space (50) using the temperature sensed and a programmable set point. The wireless controller (200) may include an IR transmitter (208), a temperature sensor (210), a user interface (214), and a controller (212). The controller (212) may receive a selection of a shortcut button definition option, present menu screens that allow a user to select functions for assignment to a shortcut button, receive selections of functions for assignment to the shortcut button, assign the selected functions to the shortcut button, and when the shortcut button is subsequently activated, transmit commands to the mini-split HVAC unit (100) that carries out the selected functions assigned to the shortcut button.
US12215876B2
Disclosed are a heat exchanger fin, a heat exchanger, an indoor unit and an air conditioner. The heat exchanger fin includes a fin body, and the fin body includes an air outlet contour line arranged on one side and an air inlet contour line arranged on the other side; refrigerant pipe mounting holes are provided in the fin body; and on a straight line where the curvature radius of the air outlet contour line of the fin body is located, or on a straight line where the curvature radius of the air inlet contour line of the fin body is located, the distance between the air inlet contour line and the air outlet contour line of the fin body is gradually reduced from the middle to two ends of the heat exchanger fin.
US12215873B2
An electric heater includes a substrate; and a first plane heating element disposed on one surface of the substrate, in which the first plane heating element includes a first track; a second track spaced apart from the first track; and a third track spaced apart from the second track. At least a portion of the second track is located between the first track and the third track, and the first track and the second track are connected by a first bridge, where the first bridge includes a first outer protrusion protruding toward the third track. The third track is formed with a curved portion which protrudes in an outward direction, and the first outer protrusion faces an inside of the curved portion in the outward direction and is spaced apart from the curved portion.
US12215867B2
A gas turbine engine combustor includes: a head end section containing a fuel nozzle assembly and defining a head end air plenum; and a liner extending downstream from the head end section toward an aft frame and defining a combustion chamber therein. First injectors are disposed at a first axial location spaced apart from the head end section to direct a first fuel/air mixture through the liner. A dynamics mitigation system includes cold-side resonators disposed wholly within the head end air plenum, each resonator of the plurality of cold-side resonators having a resonator body with a closed end and an open neck extending from the resonator body opposite the closed end. Each resonator body defines a respective volume, and the open neck is in fluid communication with the head end air plenum. In some embodiments, quarter-wave tube dampers are installed within the fuel nozzle assembly of the head end section.
US12215858B2
A soot-suppression flame-separation combustion device for combustion calorimetry and in-situ free radicals monitoring is mainly composed of a premixed combustion gas guide tube, an inner flame generating seat, an oxidation flame separation guide, and a sample combustion chamber. The inner flame generating seat is arranged in the premixed combustion gas guide tube, the oxidation flame separation guide is arranged on the premixed combustion gas guide outlet end of the premixed combustion gas guide tube, the sample combustion chamber is a cavity arranged inside the oxidation flame separation guide, and the oxidation flame separation guide is evenly arranged with at least 4 oxidation flame separation guide paths in a manner of surrounding the sample combustion chamber. The combustion device utilizes the special structure of the oxidation flame separation guide to suppress the generation of smoke and limit the smoke particles to a specific combustion area.
US12215847B1
A connection combination structure with free-rotating waterproof lamp conductive module, which has a lamp is provided on each of multiple light poles. Each light pole has a plug-in post on one end, and a plug hole on the other end. When assembling multiple light poles, the plug-in post of one light pole is inserted into the plug hole of another light pole. Through the thread locking and axial positioning structure of the plug-in post and plug hole, each light pole is axially locked and can rotate 360 degrees in the circumferential direction, and cannot be directly pulled out axially, and the conductive terminals in the plug-in post and plug hole conduct to each other. In this way, light poles can rotate with each other to adjust lamp illumination direction, and the connection structure of multiple light poles also has the functions of electrical connection and waterproofing.
US12215846B2
A light fixture system includes a first light fixture that includes a first fixture wire harness coupled to a first electrical connector mounted to a first joiner. The first joiner is attached to the first light fixture. The light fixture system further includes a second light fixture that includes a second fixture wire harness coupled to a second electrical connector mounted to a second joiner. The second joiner is attached to the second light fixture. The first joiner and the second joiner are configured to slide towards each other and include at least one set screw to apply axial force between adjoining light fixtures to make electrical connection and tighten a joint between the first light fixture and the second light fixture.
US12215843B2
A light fixture has an elongated track comprising an upper channel comprising a first wall having a first slot and a second wall having a second slot. The assembly has a support assembly comprising a base and a swivel arm rotatably attached to the base at a swivel. The base comprising a first flange received in the first slot and a second flange received in the second slot, said base extending across the upper channel. The swivel arm has a first end and a second end. The swivel is disposed at the first end and a cable connector is disposed at a second end of the swivel arm. The cable connector receives a cable therein.
US12215839B1
A flame apparatus of an electric candle includes: a PCBA board, including a flame portion having a first side face and a second side face disposed opposite to each other; a plurality of lamp beads, arranged on the first side face; a first color-toning layer, disposed on the first side face and configured to encapsulate the plurality of lamp beads; a second color-toning layer, having a substantially same color as the first color-toning layer and disposed on the second side face; and a lamp head cover, arranged around a periphery of the first color-toning layer and the second color-toning layer and including a first side wall and a second side wall, wherein the first color-toning layer is covered by the first side wall, the second color-toning layer is covered by the second side wall, and the first side wall has a thickness greater than the second side wall.
US12215830B2
A filling station for pressurized fluids has a storage container and a dispenser supplied thereby, comprising a high-pressure path and a low-pressure path. The storage container is partitioned into separate sections, which are each connected to the input of a high-pressure pump via a first switching valve and to the output of said high-pressure pump via a second switching valve. The first or second switching valves are connected on their pump sides to the low-pressure path of the dispenser via a third switching valve. The output of the high-pressure pump supplies a high-pressure reservoir via a fourth switching valve, which high-pressure reservoir is connected to the high-pressure path of the dispenser via a fifth switching valve.
US12215826B2
A cryogenic dewar may include an inner tank and an outer tank. The cryogenic dewar may further include a plurality of trunnion mounts. A first four of the trunnion mounts may be coupled between a front half of the inner tank and a front half of the outer tank. A second four of the trunnion mounts may be coupled between a rear half of the inner tank and a rear half of the outer tank. The trunnion mount may be further strengthen with a plurality of pie-shaped reinforcing pads welded to each other and to an outer surface of the inner tank.
US12215822B2
A bracket assembly includes a supporting bar, a cylindrical member configured to slidably receive the supporting bar, an annular cap configured to removably couple with the cylindrical member, an arm extending outwardly from the annular cap, a torque cartridge, and a clamping element configured to releasably hold a frame. The torque cartridge includes a first portion and a second portion rotatably coupled with the first portion. The first portion of the torque cartridge is received within the arm such that the second portion of the torque cartridge is rotatable relative to the first portion and to the arm. The clamping element is coupled with the second portion of the torque cartridge at an outer end of the arm such that the clamping element is rotatable relative to the arm and to the annular cap.
US12215810B2
An aseptic fluid coupling includes a main body, a front face, a termination that is at an opposite end of the main body in comparison to the front face, an alignment post extending from a portion of the front face, and an alignment guide defining internal space configured to slidably receive an alignment post of another aseptic fluid coupling when two of the aseptic fluid couplings are mated together.
US12215796B2
A tire inflation valve having anti-rotation features has an external valve seat, and includes a valve body, a valve stem extending through the length of the valve body, and anti-rotation features disposed interior to the valve body. The valve stem is configured to move relative to the valve body, such that a resilient seating surface disposed at a proximal end of the valve stem is displaced relative to a valve seat formed by an exterior surface of a proximal end of the valve body. The anti-rotation features may include a complementary slot and protrusion, a keyway and complementary protruding ridge, and/or complementary channels and lateral protrusions.
US12215785B1
A transmission shift fork comprising: an arch-shaped portion, where a pair of lobes are radially and inwardly projecting from an inner surface of the arch-shaped portion directing oil to a sleeve engagement region of a clutch.
US12215780B2
A system, method, and computer readable storage device are provided for providing a dynamic tachometer. Based on various signal inputs from a plurality of data sources, a tachometer may be dynamically modified to include visual information and assistance to the driver in relation to the vehicle's engine speed (i.e., revolution speed of the vehicle's crankshaft). The tachometer may include one or a combination of: dynamic shift point indicators, a target engine speed range indicator, an overspeed indicator, and a power take-off mode indicator.
US12215774B2
Methods and systems are provided for a lubricating apparatus for a gearbox. In one example, an apparatus may include a curved shroud enclosing a portion of a gear, a first side oil collector and a second side oil collector, an oil reservoir having a first end fluidly coupled to the first side oil collector and a second end fluidly coupled to the second side oil collector, and a metering orifice fluidly coupling the oil reservoir to the curved shroud. The oil reservoir further includes at least two U-turns between the first end and the second end, and walls of the oil reservoir having multiple cavities.
US12215768B2
In a strain wave gearing, both of a pulley for transmitting rotation in a direction orthogonal to a rotation central axis and an output shaft are arranged on an axial-direction first side relative to a cup-shaped externally toothed gear. The input shaft, which transmits input rotation from the pulley to the wave generator, functions as a support shaft for both the pulley and the wave generator and is supported at both ends by the first and second bearings. A mechanism for transmitting rotation from the pulley to the wave generator, and a mechanism for supporting the rotation-transmitting mechanism, can be made compact, and support strength can also be ensured.
US12215763B2
A drive train, including: a first electric motor; a second electric motor; and a transmission system including a first input shaft driveably connected to the first electric motor, a second input shaft driveably connected to the second electric motor, a first gear train including a first gear element rotatably mounted on the first input shaft and a second gear element rotatably mounted on the second input shaft, a second gear train including a third gear element rotatably mounted on the first input shaft and a fourth gear element rotatably mounted on the second input shaft, a gear selector assembly arranged to selectively lock either the first and third gear elements for rotation with the first input shaft or the second and fourth gear elements for rotation with the second input shaft.
US12215762B2
A ball nut and screw assembly includes a screw, and a nut received on the screw. A first raceway having a helical portion is defined between a convex groove of the screw and a concave groove of the nut. The first raceway has adjacent concave grooves to provide said helical portion. A first plurality of balls are in said first raceway, and a first radial outboard raceway is provided at a first end of the first raceway and a second radial outboard raceway provided at a second end of said first raceway. The first and second outboard radial raceways are formed between a concave groove formed in a first outboard component and the outermost, external surface of the screw that is in a position between said adjacent grooves of said screw and at least a first bearing ball is provided in said first radial outboard raceway.
US12215760B2
Systems are provided for a master drive unit. In one example, a system may include a master drive unit (MDU) comprising a hypoid pinion coupled to a hypoid gear, wherein the hypoid pinion comprises an end supported by a bearing arranged in a housing projection of a housing of the MDU.
US12215746B1
A ratchet type one-way clutch apparatus in which all pawl members are engageable with tooth portions stably, is provided. The one-way clutch 1 comprises an outer race 2, an inner race 3 and a first to nth pawl members 4a to 4c. A plurality of tooth portions 5 are formed on the outer circumferential surface of the inner race 3, and engageable with the first to nth pawl members 4a to 4c. A first to nth pawl member holding portions 12a to 12c are formed on the inner circumferential surface of the outer race 2 for holding the first to nth pawl members 4a to 4c. Biassing members 15a to 15c are held in the first to nth pawl member holding portions 12a to 12c for urging the first to nth pawl members 4a to 4c. The second to nth pawl member holding portions 12b, 12c are provided at positions deviated by arbitrary angles from positions where the inner circumferential surface of the outer race 2 is divided into n equal parts in the circumferential direction with reference to the position of the first pawl member holding portion 12a, viewed from a central axis O of the outer race 2.
US12215738B2
A three-point link having two control arms forming an acute angle and meet at a central joint. The central joint has a cylindrical dome extending perpendicular to a plane defined by the control arms. The central joint has a joint ball penetrated by the dome. To prevent separation of the central joint, it has a captive securing device which functions as a stop that extends perpendicular to an axial direction. The securing device is penetrated by the dome and is secured against axial withdrawal by an annular securing element. Viewed in axial direction, the annular securing element is arranged on a side of the captive securing device) remote of the joint ball and engages in a circumferential groove of the dome. The annular securing element is snugly surrounded in radial direction by the captive securing device to prevent a withdrawal of the annular securing element from the circumferential groove.
US12215737B2
A chassis component (1, 38, 40) has a joint inner portion (2) and a structural component (3), where the joint inner portion (2) is fitted and able to move in an articulated manner in a joint holder (4). A measuring device (5) is configured to determine a relative position of the joint inner portion (2) with respect to the structural component (3) and includes a first measuring element (6) and a second measuring element (7). The first measuring element (6) is on the structural component (3) and the second measuring element (7) is on the joint inner portion (2). In one example, the joint inner portion (2) extends out of the joint holder (4) and the second measuring element (7) is attached on a section (8) of the joint inner portion (2) which is outside the joint holder (4).
US12215730B2
A fastener assembly includes a threaded fastener having a threaded shaft and a head coupled to the threaded shaft, an engagement member having a central cavity and an outer profile having a plurality of notches cut therein to define an engagement feature that is engageable by a torquing member, a retention member configured to engage the engagement member and retain the head of the threaded fastener within the central cavity of the engagement member, and a lower base threaded on the threaded shaft and into abutment with the engagement member and/or the retention member.
US12215711B1
A vacuum motor assembly that includes a motor comprising a drive shaft; an impeller having a plurality of impeller blades spaced radially around a center portion of the impeller. An impeller cover that forms an air channel is spaced around the impeller and the impeller cover includes a front portion; a back portion engaged to the front portion; and a back support. The drive shaft of the motor passes through the drive shaft receiving hole of the back support and engages with the impeller. A front surface of the impeller defines a vertical plane and a first air channel interior distance from the front portion inner surface to the vertical plane within the airflow channel is greater than a second air channel interior distance measured from a back portion inner surface to the same vertical plane.
US12215708B2
The rotor comprises a plurality of rotor segments arranged axially adjacent to one another. A tie rod extends through the rotor segments. Opposed first and second locking members arranged at the axial ends of the tie rod lock the rotor segments to one another and to the tie rod. At least one intermediate support member is arranged in an intermediate position between the two axial ends of the tie rod and between the tie rod and one of the rotor segments.
US12215705B2
A turbocharger includes: a shaft; a rolling bearing including an inner ring mounted on the shaft and an outer ring arranged around the inner ring; a housing including a bearing hole accommodating the rolling bearing; a compressor impeller provided on the shaft at an outside the bearing hole; and an annular bearing retainer plate arranged between the bearing hole and the compressor impeller in the central axis direction of the shaft and including an end face facing a side face of the outer ring, the end face including an annular circumferential oil groove continuously extending along the entire circumferential direction of the shaft and a protrusion located inside the circumferential oil groove in a radial direction of the shaft and protruding in a central axis direction of the shaft.
US12215697B2
A well management system provides Internet-enabled monitoring, configuration, and control of a well system that may include a pump and a pressure tank. A controller is operatively coupled to the pump. The controller controls the pump based on pressure readings from a pressure sensor to maintain a configured pressure range within the system. The controller can communicate with a management system via a communications network. The management system is further in communication with one or more client devices, which may be associated with a homeowner, a service provider, a manufacturer, or the like. Via the management system, the client devices can receive information from the controller and send commands to the controller.
US12215694B2
Introduced is a flow path conversion pump comprising: an inlet pipe for guiding a flow of water, an impeller housing having an impeller built therein, and including a first housing outlet and a second housing outlet formed parallel to a tangential direction of rotation of the, a flow path switch forming an internal space, including a first switch inlet and a second switch inlet, which communicate with the first housing outlet and the second housing outlet, respectively, and including a first outlet and a second outlet, which communicate with the first switch inlet and the second switch inlet, respectively, a diaphragm disposed in the internal space of the flow path switch, separating the first switch inlet and the second switch inlet, and separating the first outlet and the second outlet and a motor connected to the impeller to transmit power.
US12215688B2
A casing for a fluid pump is provided. The casing includes a unitary, single-piece, elongated shell having opposite first and second open ends. A circumferential bead is formed in the shell. A sleeve is received in the first open end of the shell. The sleeve is disposed between the bead and the first open end. A heat sink cap is received in the first open end and engages the sleeve. The shell includes a crimp formed at the first open end. The crimp contacts the heat sink cap and retains the heat sink cap in the first open end. The shell includes a lip formed at the second open end. A motor section and at least a part of a pumping section of the pump are encapsulated within the shell between the lip and the crimp. A fluid pump and a method of encapsulating the fluid pump are also provided.
US12215682B2
The invention provides a rotor for a peristaltic pump, the rotor comprising a body for rotation about an axis, the body having a first side and a second side, the body supporting a plurality of spaced first rollers extending from the body on the first side, the first rollers positioned at a first common radius from the axis, the body further supporting a plurality of spaced second rollers extending from the body on the second side, the second rollers positioned at a second common radius from the axis. The invention extends to a peristaltic pumping unit comprising such a rotor assembled with a first stator and a second stator, the first stator having one or more compressible fluid channels arranged to be compressed by said first rollers and the second stator having one or more compressible fluid channels arranged to be compressed by said second rollers. The invention also concerns a stator for a peristaltic pump, having a body with a planar surface and two or more fluid channels, each fluid channel having a compressible arcuate portion on or in the planar surface of the stator, the arcuate portions arranged to be compressed by a plurality of rollers mounted on a rotor, the arcuate portions each connecting to further portions of the fluid channel extending in a direction away from the planar surface such that the fluid channels take a three dimensional path within the body of the stator.
US12215680B2
A portable, cryogenic fluid pump apparatus with associated instrumentation, conduit legs and accessories, are optimally configured on a modular supporting platform for plug and play installation at a filling station and on-site inspection and maintenance at the filling station. Each of the associated instrumentation, conduit legs and accessories are positioned onto a condensed footprint such that access to the platform is possible. The plug and play connection system allows for the rapid connection or disconnection of the various instrumentation, conduit legs and accessories on the modular supporting platform to a vaporizer and a source tank at a filling station. The connections or disconnections may be made safely, quickly and, easily in advance.
US12215678B2
A hydraulic machine including an improved sweep circuit, adapted to form a primary sweep stream circulating from an inlet orifice successfully in a proximal portion, in a middle portion and in a distal portion of the hydraulic machine, then in the middle portion and in the proximal portion up to an outlet orifice.
US12215675B2
A self-clamping cable guard for clamping power cables of a power cable bundle of a cable support arrangement in a wind turbine, whereby the self-clamping cable guard includes three recesses arranged about a central longitudinal axis of the self-clamping cable guard for positively clamping a power cable of the power cable bundle inside of each of the three recesses, and whereby the self-clamping cable guard includes three wear protection plates arranged about the central longitudinal axis, whereby each of the three recesses includes an open side for insertion of a respective power cable of the power cable bundle therein, each of the open sides of one of the three recesses being respectively limited by two of the three wear protection plates to protect the power cables clamped inside the recesses from wear. A cable support arrangement for a wind turbine and a wind turbine is also provided.
US12215671B2
A method of controlling a wind turbine includes the step of boosting the output power of the wind turbine above the nominal power of the wind turbine, according to a boost operational function representing a boost level for the wind turbine. The boost operational function is a crescent function of an operational variable at least between a first threshold value and a second threshold value of the operational variable.
US12215670B2
A method includes receiving, via one or more turbine-level controllers, an indication of at least one of a communication loss between the one or more turbine-level controllers and a farm-level controller, a detection of an absence of reactive power regulation by the farm-level controller, or a reactive power command of the farm-level controller being equal to or above a saturation threshold during transitioning between a baseline operational mode and reactive power mode, the reactive power mode being characterized in that only reactive power is generate. Upon receipt of the indication, the method includes adjusting a reactive power response of one or more reactive power regulators of the one or more turbine-level controllers so as to avoid an overshoot reactive power event or an undershoot reactive power event at the point of interconnection.
US12215654B2
A cascade element for a thrust reverser system of an engine, more particularly a jet engine, comprises a number of mutually adjacent deflecting vanes for deflecting an air flow, at least one of the deflecting vanes being twisted about its longitudinal axis at least along a twist longitudinal portion, and an engine having a cascade element of this type and to a method for producing a cascade element of this type, wherein additive manufacturing is carried out.
US12215647B1
A system and method for controlling diesel engine emissions include blending diesel with ethanol to provide reduced NOx emissions generated from a combustion reaction in an internal combustion engine. The system and method incorporate a feedback system that monitors the NOx levels in the exhaust system and adjusts the flow of ethanol and fuel automatically, thereby maintaining the overall efficiency and performance of the engine system while reducing operation costs and significantly lowering the NOx emissions generated from the combustion of the fuel blend in the engine.
US12215639B1
Operating an engine system includes calculating a crank angle timing term corresponding to an in-cylinder temperature sufficient for autoignition of a first fuel injected at a first injection location. Operating an engine system further includes calculating, based on the crank angle timing term, at least one of an injection amount or an injection duration, to increase the in-cylinder temperature sufficiently via burning of the first fuel to ignite a second fuel injected into a mixture of the first fuel and pressurized intake air. The first fuel may include a blend of dimethyl ether (DME), methanol (MeOH), and water. Based on expected progression of in-cylinder temperatures, and fuel injection amount and/or duration based thereon, desirable controllability of combustion phasing and/or other combustion properties may be realized.
US12215633B2
A turbomachine engine includes a core engine having one or more compressor sections, one or more turbine sections that includes a power turbine, and a combustion chamber in flow communication with the compressor sections and turbine sections. The turbomachine engine also includes a shaft coupled to the power turbine and characterized by a midshaft rating (MSR) between two hundred (ft/sec)1/2 and three hundred (ft/sec)1/2. In one aspect, the shaft has a redline speed between fifty and two hundred fifty feet per second (ft/sec). In another aspect, the shaft has a length L, an outer diameter D, and a ratio of L/D between twelve and thirty-seven.
US12215622B1
An aircraft propulsion system includes a compressor section where an inlet airflow is compressed, a combustor section where the compressed inlet airflow is mixed with fuel and ignited to generate an exhaust gas flow that is communicated through a core flow path, a turbine section through which the exhaust gas flow expands to generate a mechanical power output, the exhaust gas flow is split into at least a first exhaust gas flow and a second exhaust gas flow, and a condenser where water is extracted from the second exhaust gas flow, and a first heat exchanger where at least a portion of the extracted water is utilized for cooling a core flow along the core flow path.
US12215612B2
Systems and methods for a cab-mounted muffler assembly are provided. In one embodiment, a system includes a support structure configured to couple to an engine cab within an interior of the engine cab; and a muffler assembly configured to mount to the support structure within the interior and spaced apart from an engine by the support structure. The muffler assembly is mounted to the support structure vertically above the engine relative to a ground surface on which the engine cab is supported.
US12215607B1
An aircraft including at least one unducted turbine engine for the propulsion of the aircraft. The turbine engine comprising: a rotor and a stator comprising a plurality of stator blades extending radially with respect to the longitudinal axis, each stator blade being defined, in a plane transverse to the longitudinal axis, by an angular position; and at least one aerodynamic obstruction positioned close to the turbine engine. The stator of the turbine engine comprises stator blades having a first chord, referred to as conventional blades, and at least one stator blade having a second chord larger than the first chord, referred to as the elongate blade, said at least one elongate blade being positioned in an interference angular range defined opposite the aerodynamic obstacle, so as to increase the straightening of the airflow from the rotor in the interference angular range.
US12215606B2
A gas turbine engine includes a circumferential row of vanes arranged about a central engine axis. The vanes include respective internal cavities and vane outlet ports for conveying cooling air. A tangential onboard injector (TOBI) radially supports the vanes at an inner diameter of the circumferential row. The TOBI includes fore and aft annular walls and an outer diameter annular wall. The fore and aft annular walls and the outer diameter annular wall define an annular plenum. The outer diameter annular wall includes TOBI inlet ports that are connected, respectively, with the vane outlet ports to receive the cooling air from each of the vanes into the plenum. The TOBI includes axially-oriented nozzles for discharging the cooling air from the plenum in an aft direction.
US12215600B2
An airfoil for a gas turbine engine includes a blade body, a leading edge sheath, and an energy absorbing insert. The blade body has a pressure side and a suction side that each between a forward portion and a trailing edge. The leading edge sheath has a leading edge portion that is spaced apart from the forward portion, a first arm that engages the pressure side, and a second arm that engages the suction side. A cavity is defined between the leading edge portion, the first arm, the second arm, and the forward portion. The energy absorbing insert is disposed within the cavity and improves the impact resistance of the airfoil.
US12215593B1
A turbine shroud assembly includes a first shroud segment, a second shroud segment, and a seal assembly. The first shroud segment includes a first carrier segment arranged circumferentially at least partway around a central axis and a first blade track segment supported by the first carrier segment. The second shroud segment is arranged circumferentially adjacent the first shroud segment about the central axis. The seal assembly is configured to block gases from escaping the gas path radially between the first shroud segment and the second shroud segment.
US12215592B1
A preform for making a casing structure for turbine engines. The preform includes a plurality of reinforcing fiber tows arranged in a two-dimensional weave structure, a three-dimensional weave structure, or a braided structure. The plurality of reinforcing fiber tows include integrally woven or braided fiber tows having a diameter or a density greater than a respective diameter or density of other woven or braided fiber tows in the two-dimensional weave structure, the three-dimensional weave structure, or the braided structure. The integrally woven or braided fiber tows are located in an area of the preform that is bent to form an angled corner to thereby provide strength to a casing structure comprising the angled corner.
US12215583B2
A blanking plug for isolating the wellbore of a fluid-producing well during operation of an electric submersible pump is provided with a sand trap positioned at the upper end of the plug. The sand trap is in the form of a mesh basket and includes a particulate accumulation chamber and a filter in a wall of the chamber.
US12215577B2
A perforating gun used in oil and gas completions operations, the perforating gun including a ballistic interrupter actuable from a disarmed state or configuration, in which ballistic communication between a detonator and a detonation cord is impeded, to an armed state or configuration, in which ballistic communication between the detonator and the detonating cord is permitted. A gun string includes the perforating gun and one or more additional perforating guns substantially identical to the perforating gun.
US12215575B2
A method includes assembling a liner system by disposing a fiber optic cable circumferentially around an inner tube liner and locating an outer tube liner around the inner tube liner. The fiber optic cable is located between the inner tube liner and the outer tube liner. The method also includes spooling out the liner system, in a lay-flat state, into a conduit of a tubular structure positioned in the well, terminating spooling out the liner system when a select length of the liner system has been deployed in the conduit of the tubular structure, and securing the select length of the liner system deployed into the tubular structure at a surface above the well. The method further includes injecting a fluid into the inner tube liner of the liner system to radially expand the liner system to conform an outer circumferential surface of the outer tube liner to an inner circumferential surface of the tubular structure, protecting the inner circumferential surface of the tubular structure using the liner system, and measuring a property of the well using the fiber optic cable.
US12215556B2
A downhole system and a method of performing an operation downhole. The downhole system includes a string, a downhole tool, and a release device. A downhole tool is coupled to a string via the release device. The release device includes a shear member therein having a first shear axis that has a first shear resistance and a second shear axis having a second shear resistance less than the first shear resistance, wherein the first shear axis is aligned with a longitudinal axis of the string and the second shear axis is aligned with a circumferential axis of the string. The string is conveyed through a borehole to place the downhole tool at a selected location of the borehole. The downhole tool is secured within the borehole and the string is rotated to release the release device.
US12215551B2
An auger boring method may employ a pipe seal assembly to join together casing pipe sections. The pipe seal assembly may include a sleeve having two receptacles that are joined together at an internal annular flange. One receptacle may receive an end of a leading casing pipe section that includes an auger flight, and the other receptacle may receive an end of a trailing casing pipe section that includes an auger flight. The internal annular flange may serve as a stopper for axial inward displacement of the casing pipe sections. A sealing rings may be provided in each receptacle to seal against the inserted casing pipe sections. Lock screws may be provided to fix the casing pipe sections in the receptacles.
US12215545B2
A mounting element for mounting an architectural covering between two opposing mounting surfaces includes an elongate mounting member having a first end, a second end, and a guide surface. The mounting element also includes a telescopic extender arranged at one of the first end or the second end of the elongate mounting member, with the telescopic extending being operable between a retracted configuration and an extended configuration. The telescopic extender includes a slidable body to slide along the guide surface so as to lengthen the mounting element, and a locking member configured: i) to allow the slidable body to slide in the first translation direction, and ii) to prevent the slidable body from sliding in a second translation direction opposite the first translation direction. In addition, the telescopic extending includes a release mechanism configured to cooperate with the locking member.
US12215536B2
A mulling system for a plurality of fenestration units includes a first joining plate configured to attach to a first outer edge of a first fenestration unit. The first joining plate includes a first outer face. The mulling system also includes a second joining plate configured to attach to a second outer edge of a second fenestration unit. The second joining plate includes a second outer face. The second joining plate is configured to engage the first joining plate to join together the first fenestration unit and the second fenestration unit with the first outer face facing the second outer face. The mulling system additionally includes a deflectable seal member attached to the first joining plate and having a sealing surface that faces away from the first outer face. The sealing surface is configured to deflect and seal against the second outer face of the second joining plate.
US12215530B2
An assembly is provided for an aircraft. This aircraft assembly includes a latch, a balk element and a fitting. The latch is movable between an unlocked position and a locked position. The balk element is rotatable between a balked position and an un-balked position. The balk element is configured to block the latch from moving to the locked position when the balk element is in the balked position. The fitting includes a keeper. The fitting is movable between an open position and a closed position. The fitting is configured to push the balk element into the un-balked position as the fitting moves into the closed position. The latch is configured to move to the locked position and engage the keeper when the fitting is in the closed position.
US12215525B2
A locking device for preventing a cargo door from opening. The locking device includes an anchor fitting, a locking bolt and a key tool. The anchor fitting can be installed through the exterior wall of a cargo vehicle and has an elongated body and a hollow portion to receive the locking bolt. When fully inserted through the anchor fitting, the locking bolt is tightened by the key tool and extends through the anchor fitting to block the movement of the cargo door.
US12215521B2
An anti-theft merchandise hook that includes a top wire connected to a housing portion at a first end of the top wire, and to a mounting portion, used to mount the anti-theft merchandise hook to a stationary surface, at a second end of the top wire opposite the first end. A bottom wire is attached to the mounting portion and extends from the mounting portion toward the housing portion. The bottom wire is configured to hold retail merchandise. A moveable hanger is at least partially disposed within the housing portion. The hanger is configured to move linearly between a closed position in which the hanger abuts the bottom wire, and an open position in which the hanger is spaced some distance from the bottom wire.
US12215518B2
A pool cleaner water surface diverter 7 that will break the pool water surface 1 before the pool cleaner 4 reaches the surface, or at least before the suction of the cleaner 4 is able to suck in air. A rim 12 extends beyond a physical envelope of the cleaner, such as being wider than is the cleaner. Ideally the diverter has neutral or near neutral buoyancy in the pool water. A central hub on a pool hose 5 allows rotation of the diverter relative to the hose. compartments/containers may contain a substantially buoyancy neutral fluid or material in water e.g. PVA foam.
US12215516B2
A curtain assembly includes a curtain fabric, a upper supporting shaft, a lower supporting shaft, and a connecting cord. The connecting cord sequentially extends from a third supporting end portion along a corresponding side edge portion of the curtain fabric and repetitively pass through a first coupling hole of the upper supporting shaft to form a handle loop. The connecting cord passing through the first coupling hole further extends along a top edge portion of the curtain fabric and pass through a second coupling hole of the upper supporting shaft. The connecting cord passing through the second coupling hole further extends along a corresponding side edge portion of the curtain fabric to affixed on the lower supporting shaft. The curtain assembly is selectively operated between a shading position and a retracted position.
US12215515B2
A multi-purpose shelter includes a covering fabric, a first rod member, a plurality of loop straps, a plurality of cords and at least a weight member. The covering fabric has a plurality of side edges, and a first pocket extending along a transverse direction thereof. The first rod member has a forward end, a backward end, and a main portion extending between the forward end and the backward end. The main portion passes through the first pocket of the covering fabric, and is folded to form a curved contour between the forward end and the backward end to be erected on a support surface. Each cord connects the covering fabric to a support surface in a stretched manner. The weight member is detachably attached on one of the forward end and the backward end of the first rod member for providing a secure support to the multi-purpose shelter.
US12215506B2
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.
US12215503B2
A system including a first roofing material installed on the roof deck; a second roofing material installed on the roof deck, adjacent to the first roofing material, where the second roofing material includes: a first layer comprising silicone; and a first substrate, where the first layer partially covers a surface of the first substrate, thereby to provide at least a first area of the surface of the first substrate not covered by the first layer, where the first roofing material overlaps at least a portion of the first area; and a flashing material including silicone, where the flashing material covers a portion of each of: the first roofing material, the first layer of the second roofing material, and the first area of the second roofing material.
US12215494B2
Systems and methods for use in automatic alignment of prefabricated building modules. Mating alignment structures on a new module and one more placed modules or mounted pilots interact as the new module is lowered to align edges of the new module relative to the placed components. Different alignment structure types are used to provide different degrees of positional alignment for different edges of a module during installation. When two edges of a module are simultaneously constrained, a horizontal position of one edge is constrained to a greater degree than the second edge. Alignment structures also can be configured so the degree of position constraint on a particular edge varies and to change which module edges are constrained as a module is lowered into position. The system and methods are suitable for use with prefabricated building modules having preinstalled interlocking façade panels.
US12215490B2
The present application discloses electronic plumbing fixture fittings, such as electronic faucets, with a shaped and limited sensor detection zone. Exemplary embodiments include devices with a plurality of overlapping sensors and devices with a single time-of-flight (TOF) sensor capable of detecting the presence or absence of an object whether or not water is flowing out of a discharge outlet in the in a TOF detection zone.
US12215482B2
Methods and systems for operating implements of a vehicle are described. Operation of the implements may be adjusted in response to input to a human/machine interface, such as a joystick. In one example, one or more implement requests are scaled according to a human/machine allowance factor, where the human/machine allowance factor is based on an implements power limit and an implements requested power.
US12215480B2
An impact hammer for breaking a working surface, the hammer including a drive mechanism and a housing with an inner containment surface and a reciprocating hammer weight. A reciprocation cycle of the hammer weight includes an upstroke and a down-stroke, the hammer weight respectively moving upwards and downwards. On the down-stroke the hammer weight impacts a striker pin with a driven end and a working surface impact end. A vacuum chamber in the housing is formed by the containment surface, upper vacuum sealing coupled to the hammer weight and lower vacuum sealing. The hammer weight is driven toward the striker pin by the pressure differential between atmosphere and the vacuum chamber formed on the upstroke. A down-stroke vent permits fluid egress from the vacuum chamber on the down-stroke.
US12215478B2
There is provided ram block arrangement for a piling hammer (100a), comprising: a ram block (104) comprising a frame arrangement (106) for enclosing one or more ram weights therein, wherein the ram block (104) is configured movable by an electric machine (108).
US12215465B2
A rail junction assembly (10) comprises a fixed rail portion (12) and a movable switch rail portion (14). The fixed rail portion (12) having a transfer region (26) which can be engaged by the switch rail portion (14) to effect transfer of a rail vehicle between the fixed and switch rail portions (12, 14). The switch rail portion (14) has an end region (28) movable into engagement with the transfer region (26) of the fixed rail portion (12). The transfer region (26) of the fixed rail portion (12) comprises an embedded rail portion embedded within an embedment (16).
US12215459B2
There is provided a method for separation of fibers in for instance recycled textile, starting with a mixture comprising cellulose fibers and non-cellulose fibers and then reducing the cellulose chain length of the cellulose fibers so that the limiting viscosity number determined according to ISO 5351 is in the interval 200-900 ml/g, mechanically breaking agglomerates of fibers into smaller pieces, adjusting the concentration of fibers to 0.1-4 wt %, and subjecting the mixture to flotation to remove the non-cellulose fibers. Non-cellulosic fibers such as synthetic fibers can be removed very specifically without or essentially without removing cellulose fibers in the mixture. This gives a very high degree of removal and simultaneously the yield is kept high because no or only few cellulose fibers are removed.
US12215456B2
A clothing treatment device having a cabinet having a first lateral panel and a second lateral panel, an upper panel and a lower panel which connect the first lateral panel and the second lateral panel, a first rear panel, and a second rear panel positioned below the first rear panel; a first base having a front panel which is fixed to the first lateral panel; a first chamber which is fixed to the front panel; a second base having a front frame which is positioned between the front panel and the second rear panel; a second chamber; a mounting body which is provided inside the second chamber; a supply unit which is provided on the mounting body; and an insulating unit formed by means of a foam plastic injected to a foam space formed between the cabinet, the first base, the first chamber and the second base.
US12215455B2
A washing machine including a body including a front frame; a tub provided inside the body; a dispenser to supply water to the tub; a diaphragm provided between the tub and the front frame, the diaphragm including a through hole formed on one side; a nozzle to spray the water toward an inside of the tub; and a supply hose formed to surround the nozzle while a portion of the nozzle is inside the through hole of the diaphragm, wherein a first side of the supply hose is formed to be coupled with the dispenser, and a second side of the supply hose is formed to extend toward an inside of the diaphragm through the through hole.
US12215437B2
Gradient single-crystal positive electrode material, and preparation method therefor and use thereof
The present disclosure discloses a gradient single-crystal positive electrode material, which has a chemical formula of LiNixCoyA1-x-yO2@mLiaZbOc, wherein 0
US12215435B2
The electrochemical cell is an electrochemical cell which electrochemically synthesizes at least one carbonyl compound selected from the group consisting of organic carbonates and organic oxalates from carbon monoxide, and has an electrolyte solution containing a redox species and a catalyst, and an electrode.
US12215422B2
A shower head structure and a plasma processing apparatus are provided. The shower head structure includes a plate body with a first zone and a second zone on a first surface. A plurality of first through holes are in the first zone, each of the first through holes having a diameter uniform with others of the first through holes. A plurality of second through holes are in the second zone. The first zone is in connection with the second zone, and the diameter of each of the first through holes is greater than a diameter of each of the second through holes. A plasma processing apparatus includes the shower head structure is also provided.
US12215416B2
Methods for depositing a molybdenum nitride film on a surface of a substrate are disclosed. The methods may include: providing a substrate into a reaction chamber; and depositing a molybdenum nitride film directly on the surface of the substrate by performing one or more unit deposition cycles of cyclical deposition process, wherein a unit deposition cycle may include, contacting the substrate with a first vapor phase reactant comprising a molybdenum halide precursor, and contacting the substrate with a second vapor phase reactant comprising a nitrogen precursor. Semiconductor device structures including a molybdenum nitride film are also disclosed.
US12215410B2
A grain oriented electrical steel sheet includes a base steel sheet, an oxide layer, and a tension-insulation coating. When the iron oxide layer is analyzed by a fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, an absorbance A650 at 650 cm−1 and an absorbance A1250 at 1250 cm−1 satisfy 0.2≤A650/A1250≤5.0. Moreover, a magnetic flux density B8 in a rolling direction of the grain oriented electrical steel sheet is 1.90 T or more.
US12215408B2
In alternative embodiments, provided are processes and continuous ion exchange/continuous ion chromatography (CIX/CIC) systems for the separation of rare earth elements and non-rare earth elements, including metals, into individual high purity elements.
US12215388B2
The present invention concerns materials and methods for identifying and classifying pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) precursors or intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm (IPMN) using messenger RNAs, microRNAs, long non-coding RNAs, radiomic features, radiologic measures of abdominal/visceral obesity, and combinations thereof, as diagnostic markers for integration with clinical management and interventions for personalized care.
US12215382B2
Described herein are MARC variants that associate with a risk of liver diseases or a symptom(s) thereof, such as cirrhosis, or protection against such liver diseases or symptom(s) thereof. Also described herein are compositions and formulations that can be capable of modulating MARC in a subject and/or treatment of a liver disease or a symptom thereof.
US12215381B2
The present invention relates to a fluorescent reporter capable of labeling nucleic acids including DNA and exhibiting luminescent properties at an excited energy level, and various uses thereof.
US12215366B2
Disclosed herein are CRISPR/Cas9-based gene activation systems that include a fusion protein of a Cas9 protein and a protein having histone acetyltransferase activity, and methods of using said systems.
US12215364B2
Compositions and methods are provided for genome modification of a target sequence in the genome of a cell, using a novel Cas endonuclease. The methods and compositions employ a guide polynucleotide/endonuclease system to provide an effective system for modifying or altering target sequences within the genome of a cell or organism. Also provided are novel effectors and endonuclease systems and elements comprising such systems, such as guide polynucleotide/endonuclease systems comprising an endonuclease. Compositions and methods are also provided for guide polynucleotide/endonuclease systems comprising at least one endonuclease, optionally covalently or non-covalently linked to, or assembled with, at least one additional protein subunit, and for compositions and methods for direct delivery of endonucleases as ribonucleotide proteins.
US12215362B2
The present invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition for prevention and treatment of heart failure. Specifically, the present invention relates to a gene construct comprising a polynucleotide coding for SERCA2a protein or a fragment thereof and a polynucleotide coding for CCN5 protein or a fragment thereof, and a pharmaceutical composition comprising the same construct as an effective ingredient for preventing or treating heart failure. A pharmaceutical composition for prevention and treatment of heart failure according to the present invention is used in a method for co-expression of SERCA2a protein and CCN5 protein. Designed to exert a synergistic therapeutic effect through SERCA2a protein's function of preventing the loss of cardiomyocytes and increasing the activity of cardiomyocytes and CCN5 protein's function of suppressing the fibrosis of heart cells and tissues, the pharmaceutical composition can be useful for preventing or treating heart failure, which is a complex disorder induced by various etiological factors.
US12215356B2
The invention provides methods of preparing a sample of viable diseased cells obtained from a human subject for clinical testing, wherein the methods inhibit anoikis and/or anoikis in the cells while maintaining the physiological functions and genomic composition of the cells when they were in vivo. In the methods of the invention, primary cells are cultured in media comprising at least one anoikis inhibitor, preferably at least one inhibitor of an intrinsic anoikis pathway and at least one inhibitor of an extrinsic anoikis pathway, under anti-anoikis atmospheric conditions, such as greater than 2% and less than 20% oxygen. Method combining multiple culturing conditions, including surface attachment under conditions that inhibit anoikis, are also provided. Compositions and kits for use in the methods of the invention are also provided.
US12215348B2
Provided herein are methods and compositions for generating engineered cells, such as cells expressing a recombinant receptor, including methods involving stimulation and/or engineering of an input composition having a defined ratio of naïve-like CD4+ T cells to naïve-like CD8+ T cells. In particular, the methods can be used to engineer T cells with genetically engineered receptors, such as genetically engineered antigen receptors such as engineered (recombinant) TCRs and chimeric antigen receptors (CARs), or other recombinant chimeric receptors. Features of the methods include producing a more consistent and/or predictable T cell product and/or a product with lower toxicity compared with other methods.
US12215334B2
The present invention provides donor polynucleotides formed by linking the two ends of a genomic fragment containing a cleavable site by a polynucleotide carrying a positive selection marker gene and a negative selection marker gene. Use of the donor polynucleotide makes it possible to modify only a target gene with avoiding the possibility of introducing mutations to sequences, called “off-target”, which are other than the target sequence, by introducing cleavage in a homologous site of the donor polynucleotide without introducing cleavage in a target gene locus.
US12215330B2
A series of independent human-induced non-transgenic mutations found at one or more of the Lpx genes of wheat; wheat plants having these mutations in one or more of their Lpx genes; and a method of creating and finding similar and/or additional mutations of Lpx by screening pooled and/or individual wheat plants. The wheat plants disclosed herein exhibit decreased lipoxygenase activity without having the inclusion of foreign nucleic acids in their genomes. Additionally, products produced from the wheat plants disclosed herein display increased oxidative stability and increased shelf life without having the inclusion of foreign nucleic acids in their genomes.
US12215318B2
The invention provides for systems, methods, and compositions for targeting nucleic acids. In particular, the invention provides non-naturally occurring or engineered DNA or RNA-targeting systems comprising a novel DNA or RNA-targeting CRISPR effector protein and at least one targeting nucleic acid component like a guide RNA.
US12215315B2
Provided are: a method for modifying a target nucleic acid in the genome of a cell using a novel PAM sequence; and a cell in which a target nucleic acid in the genome is modified thereby. Accordingly, genome editing can be performed by targeting a position that could not be previously targeted as a target for genome editing, and thus the range of applications of genome editing can be expanded.
US12215303B2
A beverage maker includes a fermentation module, a gas discharge channel connected to the fermentation module, a gas discharge valve connected to the gas discharge channel, a storage tank connected to the gas discharge value and provided with a space capable of accommodating gas therein, an actuator configured to inject gas collected in the space of the storage tank to the fermentation module through the gas discharge channel, a gas pressure sensor connected before the gas discharge valve in a gas flow direction in the gas discharge channel, and a controller configured to control the gas discharge valve and the actuator based on a pressure value of the gas pressure sensor.
US12215302B1
The present disclosure relates generally to fabric softener compositions and processes for treating fabric using the same. The fabric softener compositions described herein include a smectite clay; a non-polymeric amine component selected from the group consisting of primary amines, secondary amines and tertiary amines; a water-soluble metal halide or sulfate; and optionally, an oil selected from the group consisting of a mineral oil and a vegetable oil.
US12215300B2
The present invention relates to a composition for cleaning surfaces and/or for detecting organic substances in a solution or on a surface, comprising a) at least one salt of the permanganic acid, ferric acid and/or chromic acid, b) at least one organic phosphonate and c) at least one persulphate, wherein the at least one organic phosphonate has a general formula (I) wherein R1 is an organic moiety, X1 is OH or OM1 and X2 is OH or OM2, wherein M1 and M2 represent an alkali metal ion or ammonium ion, wherein the organic moiety R1 is a mono-substituted or multiple-substituted or unsubstituted C1-C12 alkyl moiety, C3-C10 cycloalkyl moiety or C6-C14 aryl moiety, wherein the organic moiety may be attached to 1 to 3 further phosphonate groups of the general formula (I).
US12215297B2
Disclosed is a method of imparting a customized aroma of coffee and creamer to an environment. The method includes placing coffee-scented wax melts and creamer-scented wax melts on a surface and heating the surface to a temperature sufficient to melt the coffee-scented wax melts and the creamer-scented wax melt and to impart a desired customized aroma of coffee and creamer to an environment.
US12215284B2
A treatment process for preparing a remediated liquid from a contaminated liquid originally containing more than 5 ppm hydrogen sulfide (H2S) and substantially without formation of precipitate, includes steps of steps of adding an aqueous solution containing at least one hydroxide compound at a collective concentration of 35-55 wt % to the contaminated liquid to achieve a concentration of 125-5000 ppm of the hydroxide compounds in the contaminated liquid, adding a fulvic acid and/or a humic acid to the contaminated liquid to achieve a concentration of 0.01-10 ppm of the acid(s) in the contaminated liquid, and dispersing the aqueous solution and the at least one organic acid in the contaminated liquid and allowing the aqueous solution and the at least one organic acid to react with the contaminated liquid for a period of time until a concentration of hydrogen sulfide in the contaminated liquid is reduced to ≤5 ppm.
US12215283B2
Recycle content pyoil is cracked in a cracker furnace to make olefins and the coil outlet temperature of the r-pyoil fed coils can be lowered by adding r-pyoil to the cracker feedstock, or alternatively, the coil outlet temperature of the r-pyoil fed tubes can rise if the mass flow rates of the combined cracker stream containing r-pyoil are kept the same or lowered. Further, increasing the hydrocarbon mass flow rate by addition of r-pyoil can be achieved to also increase the output of ethylene and propylene in the cracker effluent. The cracker furnace can accept ethane and/or propane feedstocks in vapor form along with a liquid and/or vapor feed of r-pyoil.
US12215282B2
A process including preheating a hydrocarbon feed in a first preheat zone of a convection section, recovering a preheated hydrocarbon stream; heating the preheated hydrocarbon stream in a secondary transferline exchanger, recovering a heated hydrocarbon stream; feeding the heated hydrocarbon stream to a second preheat zone of the convection section to vaporize a portion of heated hydrocarbon stream, recovering a cracking feedstream; cracking hydrocarbons in the cracking feedstream in one or more coils in a radiant section, recovering a cracked hydrocarbon product; and cooling the cracked hydrocarbon product in the secondary transferline exchanger in indirect heat exchange with the preheated hydrocarbon stream, recovering a cooled hydrocarbon product stream.
US12215278B2
The present invention provides methods of increasing oil production, hydraulic fracturing, and carbon sequestration in subterranean formations. Surface treatment compositions used in these methods are also disclosed. The methods comprise: (1) injecting into the well the surface treatment composition with or without a pretreatment; (2) allowing one or more components of the surface treatment composition to chemically bond to a surface of the subterranean formation; and (3) removing oil from the well or from one or more production wells that are in fluid communication with the well. The surface treatment composition comprises (a) a fluid comprising a hydrocarbon liquid, a supercritical fluid, and/or a liquefied gas; and (b) a surface modifying component. The component (b) comprises (i) an organometallic compound and (ii) an organosilane having halogen substituents. In carbon sequestration, the fluid (a) contains carbon dioxide.
US12215269B1
A chiral azobenzene dopant with helical twisting power has a structure represented by the following formula (I): wherein Z and Z′ are independently selected from the group consisting of naphthalene and phenanthrene; when Z or Z′ is naphthalene, the naphthalene optionally has R3 at the 6 position and R4 at the 6′ position; when Z or Z′ is phenanthrene, the phenanthrene optionally has R3 at the 7 position and R4 at the 7′ position; R1, R2, R3, and R4 are independently selected from the group consisting of an alkyl group having 1 to 20 carbons, an alkoxy group having 1 to 20 carbons, an aryl group having 6 to 20 carbons, and an aryloxy group having 6 to 20 carbons; and on any R1, R2, R3, and R4, on any CH2 a CH3 is optionally attached by replacing a hydrogen on a CH2.
US12215246B2
The present invention relates to compositions containing at least one reactive binder, at least one curing agent and/or accelerator, at least one thermally activatable blowing agent and at least one light-weight filler, wherein at least one expanded particle of at least one glass-rich volcanic rock with a closed outer shell is contained as a light-weight filler. The invention also relates to a method for stiffening and/or reinforcing components with thin-walled structures with a corresponding composition as well as to correspondingly produced components.
US12215242B2
The present invention provides a UV-Vis radiation curable security ink for producing a security feature for securing value documents, wherein said security feature exhibits a blue color upon viewing in transmitted light and a metallic yellow color upon viewing in incident light. The UV-Vis radiation curable security ink comprises a cationically curable or a hybrid curable ink vehicle, and silver nanoplatelets bearing a surface stabilizing agent of general formula (I) wherein the residue RA is a C2-C4alkyl group substituted with a hydroxy group; the residue RB is selected from a C1-C4alkyl group, and a C2-C4alkyl group substituted with a hydroxy group; and Cat+ is an ammonium cation of general formula +NH2RCRD, wherein the residue RC is a C2-C4alkyl group substituted with a hydroxy group; and the residue RD is selected from a C1-C4alkyl group, and a C2-C4alkyl group substituted with a hydroxy group.
US12215241B2
A printing ink jet ink composition of the present disclosure is an ink composition which includes an acidic dye; a water-soluble organic solvent; a lactam compound; and water, the acidic dye includes at least one selected from the group consisting of C.I. Acid Black 172 and C.I. Acid Black 52:1, a content of the acidic dye with respect to a total mass of the ink composition is 10 percent by mass or more, the water-soluble organic solvent includes a glycol ether compound having a standard boiling point of 195° C. to 290° C., the lactam compound includes at least one selected from the group consisting of 1-(2-hydroxyethyl)-2-pyrrolidone and ε-caprolactam, and a mass ratio of the lactam compound to the glycol ether compound is 3.5 to 20.
US12215229B2
Lubricity of a lip seal material using hydrogenated nitrile rubber is improved. A rubber-like elastic lip seal which is fixed to a housing and slides with a shaft that rotates relatively with the housing, wherein the lip seal includes a rubber-like elastic body containing hydrogenated nitrile rubber, EPDM or fluoro rubber, a reinforcing filler material, and a non-reinforcing filler material having an aspect ratio in a range of 1 or more and 30 or less, and the lip seal contains 1 part by weight or more and 150 parts by weight or less of the reinforcing filler material and 5 parts by weight or more and 90 parts by weight or less the non-reinforcing filler material per 100 parts by weight of the rubber-like elastic body.
US12215226B2
Provided is: a curing reactive silicone composition having sufficient toughness and pressure sensitive adhesive strength to temporarily secure various substrate even in an uncured state, having heat meltability and excellent moldability of a sheet or the like, and that can be quickly cured by high energy irradiation to achieve high adhesive strength; a method of manufacturing a sheet thereof a cured product thereof that can achieve high adhesive strength by crimping; and applications thereof. The curing reactive silicone composition comprises: (A) an MQ resin; (B) a chain organopolysiloxane having at least two groups containing an aliphatic unsaturated carbon-carbon bond, and a degree of siloxane polymerization within a range of 80 to 3000; (C) an organohydrogenpolysiloxane; and (D) a hydrosilylation reaction catalyst activated by a high energy beam. The amount of component (A) is more than 55 mass % and less than 90 mass % of the sum of components (A) to (C).
US12215222B2
Thermoplastic compositions include: a) from about 5 wt % to about 30 wt % of a thermoplastic polymer component including polycarbonate, polyethylene terephthalate or a combination thereof; b) from about 10 wt % to about 55 wt % of a poly butylene terephthalate component; c) from about 0.1 wt % to about 10 wt % of a polyester elastomer component; d) from 0 wt % to about 10 wt % of an acrylic impact modifier component; e) from 0 wt % to about 10 wt % of an ethylene/alkyl acrylate/glycidyl methacrylate terpolymer compatibilizer component; and f) from about 30 wt % to about 70 wt % of a ceramic fiber component. Articles formed from the thermoplastic compositions and methods of forming the articles are also described.
US12215217B2
A composition for an acoustic member includes a non-diene butyl rubber, and a liquid polymer having a molecular weight of 1,000 to 120,000. A difference in an SP value between the liquid polymer and the butyl rubber is within ±0.5.
US12215213B2
Described herein is a method of using glass fibers having a tensile strength according to DIN ISO 527-5 of 86.0 to 92.0 GPa, a tensile elastic modulus according to DIN ISO 527-5 of 2600 to 3200 MPa and a softening point according to DIN ISO 7884-1 of 900° C. to 950° C., the method including using the glass fibers to increase an impact strength and/or breaking elongation of molded articles made of molding materials including thermoplastic polyamides and elastomers.
US12215201B2
A method for producing a resin particle dispersion includes: preparing a phase-inverted emulsion by phase inversion emulsification of a resin using an organic solvent and an aqueous medium; and removing the organic solvent from the phase-inverted emulsion contained in a distillation tank by reduced pressure distillation. During the reduced pressure distillation, the rate of pressure reduction in an environment in which the pressure inside the distillation tank is equal to or higher than vapor pressure and equal to or lower than (the vapor pressure+5 kPa) when the concentration of the organic solvent in the phase-inverted emulsion is in the range of 30% by mass or less to 1% by mass or more is from 0.01 kPa/min to 0.5 kPa/min inclusive until the pressure inside the distillation tank reaches a preset reduced pressure for the reduced pressure distillation.
US12215198B2
A branched organosilicon compound is provided having the general formula: (R1)3—X—[SiR20]n—SiR2R3. In the formula: each R is independently a substituted or unsubstituted hydrocarbyl group; each R1 is selected from R and —OSi(R4)3, with the proviso that at least one R1 is —OSi(R4)3; each R4 is selected from R, —OSi(R5)3, and —[OSiR2]mOSiR3; each R5 is selected from R, —OSi(R6)3, and —[OSiR2]mOSiR3; each R6 is selected from R and —[OSiR2]mOSiR3; with the proviso that at least one of R4, R5 and R6 is —[OSiR2]mOSiR3; 0≤m≤100; X is a divalent linking group; 1≤n≤10; and R3 has the general -D-Op—(CqH2qO)r—R8. In R3, D is a divalent hydrocarbon linking group, subscript p is 0 or 1, subscript q is independently selected from 2 to 4 in each moiety indicated by subscript r, subscript r is from 1 to 500, and R8 is selected from substituted or unsubstituted hydrocarbyl groups and H.
US12215195B1
The invention relates to cross-linkable thermoplastics, processes of making such cross-linkable thermoplastics and products comprising such cross-linkable thermoplastics. Such cross-linkable thermoplastics provide articles made by the additive manufacturing (AM) process with increased strength, the desired in use temperature stability and the desired thermo-oxidative stability.
US12215189B2
A bisphenol composition including 95% or more by mass of a bisphenol, wherein a bisphenol represented by the following general formula (II) in the bisphenol composition constitutes 150 mass ppm or more, and the bisphenol composition has a methanol dissolution color (Hazen color number) of 2 or less, In formula (II), X denotes a single bond, —CR11R12—, —O—, —CO—, —S—, —SO—, or —SO2—, R11 and R12 independently denote a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, and R11 and R12 may be bonded to each other to form a ring. A method for producing a polycarbonate resin using the bisphenol composition is also described.
US12215183B2
Disclosed herein are expanded thermoplastic polyurethane beads polymerized from an isocyanate, an isocyanate-reactive compound having a molecular weight between 500 and 10 000 g/mol and a chain extender, wherein customary adjuvants may be additionally present, and the thermoplastic polyurethane has a hard phase fraction ranging from 0.1 to 0.95 and the hard phase fraction is defined by: Hard phase fraction = ∑ x = 1 k ( ( m KVx M KV x ) · M Iso + m KVx ) m ges where MKVx represents a molar mass of chain extender x in g/mol, mKVx represents a mass of chain extender x in g, MIxo represents a molar mass of isocyanate in g/mol, mges represents a total mass of all starting materials without adjuvants, and k represents a number of chain extenders. Also disclosed herein are processes for producing expanded thermoplastic polyurethanes and processes for producing molded parts therefrom.
US12215182B2
Provided are a urethane prepolymer from which is obtained an adhesive which has excellent moisture permeability and which attains both low adhesion to skin and high adhesion to a base material, an adhesive, a skin patch material, an adhesive tape, a wearable device, and a wearable device kit. The urethane prepolymer is a hydroxyl-group-terminated urethane prepolymer obtained by reacting an oxyalkylene polymer A having an average number of hydroxyl groups per molecule of 2.1 to 3, an oxyalkylene polymer B in which the number of hydroxyl groups per molecule is 1, and a diisocyanate compound, the number-average molecular weight of the oxyalkylene polymer B being 5000 or greater, and the content of ethylene oxide units in the hydroxyl-group-terminated urethane prepolymer being more than 10 mass %.
US12215179B2
A conjugated diene-based polymer of the present invention has a branch number (Bn) measured by viscosity detector-equipped GPC-light scattering measurement of 8 or more, has a change (ΔT) of an oxidation onset temperature caused through application of a thermal load of 11.9° C. or less, and contains an aromatic vinyl compound monomer unit.
US12215178B2
Hollow particles which comprise a shell containing a resin and a hollow portion surrounded by the shell, wherein a void ratio is 50% or more; wherein a volume average particle diameter is 1.0 μm or more; wherein the shell contains, as the resin, a polymer in which 70 parts by mass to 100 parts by mass of a crosslinkable monomer unit is contained in 100 parts by mass of all monomer units; wherein a thermal expansion coefficient at 80° C. to 200° C. is 10.0×10−5/° C. or less; and wherein, in a hollow particle immersion test in which a mixture obtained by adding 0.1 mg of the hollow particles to 4 mL of acetone and shaking them for 10 minutes at a shaking rate of 100 rpm, is left to stand for 48 hours in an environment at 25° C., less than 10% by mass of the hollow particles submerge in the acetone.
US12215170B2
Antibodies and antigen-binding fragments thereof that bind type II transmembrane serine protease 6 (TMPRSS6) on the surface of a cell and increase hepcidin expression, and methods for treating disorders of iron metabolism using anti TMPRSS6 antibodies and fragments, are provided.
US12215169B2
The present disclosure provides antibodies that bind complement C1s protein; and nucleic acid molecules that encode such antibodies. In some embodiments, such anti-complement C1s antibodies inhibit proteolytic activity of C1s. The present disclosure also provides compositions comprising such antibodies, and methods to produce and use such antibodies, nucleic acid molecules, and compositions.
US12215163B2
Provided herein are antibodies that specifically bind to CD25. Also provided herein are methods of making the antibodies described, and methods of use thereof. For example, the CD25 antibodies may be used therapeutically to treat cancer or autoimmune diseases, and in certain aspects: disrupt the trimerization of the beta, gamma, and alpha (CD25) chains of the IL-2 receptor, bind to a different epitope than to which Daclizumab or Baciliximab bind, exhibit a higher affinity of binding to CD25 at a pH lower than 7.4, when compared to the affinity of binding to CD25 at a pH of 7.4, and/or exhibit a higher affinity of binding to CD25 at a pH of about 6.5.
US12215162B2
Provided herein are T cells expressing a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) targeted to B cell activating factor receptor (BAFF-R). The CAR targeted to BAFF-R (BAFF-R CAR) described herein includes a domain that binds BAFF-R. Methods of making and using the BAFF-R CAR are also provided.
US12215158B2
Relapsed/refractory T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) has a dismal outcome, and no effective targeted immunotherapies for T-ALL exist. The extension of chimeric antigen receptor T-cells (CARTs) to T-ALL remains challenging because the shared expression of target antigens between CARTs and T-ALL blasts leads to CARTs fratricide. CD 1a is exclusively expressed in cortical T-ALLs, a major subset of T-ALL. The expression of CD 1a is restricted to cortical thymocytes and neither CD34+ progenitors nor T-cells express CD 1a during ontogeny, confining the risk of on-target/off-tumor toxicity. The present invention provides CARs comprising a CD 1a-targeting moiety which may be transduced or transformed into T cells. The resultant CARTs are suitable for the treatment of cortical T-ALLs.
US12215153B1
The present disclosure relates to the technical field of chemoimmunology, and in particular to an anti-receptor expressed on lymphoid tissues (RELT) recombinant monoclonal antibody and a preparation method and use thereof. The anti-RELT recombinant monoclonal antibody includes a heavy chain variable region and a light chain variable region, where the amino acid sequence of the heavy chain variable region is set forth in SEQ ID NO: 4; the amino acid sequence of the light chain variable region is set forth in SEQ ID NO: 5; and the anti-RELT recombinant monoclonal antibody has a biological activity of neutralizing a function of RELT. In addition, because the anti-RELT recombinant monoclonal antibody has the biological activity of neutralizing the function of RELT, the anti-RELT recombinant monoclonal antibody can specifically recognize and detect the expression of RELT in different tissues and cells.
US12215147B2
Provided are methods, systems, and kits for selecting a patient for treatment with a therapeutic agent based on a presence of a genotype associated with a positive therapeutic response to the therapeutic agent. The therapeutic agent, in some embodiments, is an inhibitor of TL1A activity or expression, such as for example, an anti-TL1A antibody.
US12215141B2
Anti-RSV antibodies with neutralizing potency against RSV subtype A and RSV subtype B are provided, as well as nucleic acid sequences encoding such antibodies, methods for their identification, isolation, generation, and methods for their preparation and use are provided.
US12215140B2
The present invention provides a method of stabilizing a protein. The method includes a step of causing a protein contained in a specimen derived from a living body to coexist with an arylboronic acid. The protein contained in the specimen derived from the living body is at least one type selected from the group consisting of hemoglobin, haptoglobin, and a hemoglobin-haptoglobin complex. According to the present invention, it is possible to stabilize a protein such as a blood protein contained in the specimen derived from a living body. The present invention further provides a stabilizing solution for stabilizing a protein contained in a specimen derived from a living body and a method and a kit for detecting a protein contained in a specimen derived from a living body.
US12215135B2
The present invention relates to a peptide compound of PDL2 selected from a peptide fragment, a functional homologue, and a functional analogue, as well as to a nucleic acid, such as DNA or RNA, encoding the peptide compound, a vector, such as a virus vector, and a host cell, such as mammalian cell, comprising the vector. The peptide compound, nucleic acid, vector and host cell of the present invention are in particular, useful for the treatment or prevention of a cancer characterized by expression of PDL2.
US12215132B2
Exemplary methods, compositions and uses thereof can be provided for preventing, reducing and/or treating loss of muscle function. In particular, e.g., it is possible to administer to a subject a pharmaceutical composition comprising a therapeutically effective amount of an agent that enhances Interleukin-6 (IL) release during exercise, and optionally a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier or excipient.
US12215130B2
The present application provides fusion proteins that comprise a cytokine fused to an albumin binding moiety. The fusion proteins may further comprise an antigen binding moiety such as a therapeutic antibody. The present application also provides methods of making and using the fusion proteins. The present application also provides methods of treatment comprises administering a fusion protein comprising a cytokine fused to a half-life extending domain and a second agent.
US12215129B2
In one aspect, the invention relates to cyclopeptides and methods of using the disclosed cyclopeptides to treat bacterial infections due to, for example, Gram-negative pathogens. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present invention.
US12215124B2
Disclosed herein, inter alia, are compounds, compositions, and methods of use thereof in the sequencing a nucleic acid.
US12215120B1
The present disclosure is directed to novel glycoside derivatives of terpenes, particularly derivatives of terpene alcohols, and methods of making them, compositions comprising them, and methods for using them.
US12215119B2
The invention relates to obtaining lignin preparations of desirable molecular size and properties. It describes a method of de-polymerizing lignin of high molecular weight into low molecular weight lignin. More in particular, the invention provides a method for producing lignin with a low molecular weight wherein high molecular weight lignin is contacted with an alkaline laccase at alkaline pH in a reaction vessel and wherein the lignin with a molecular weight below 2 kDa is selectively removed from the reaction vessel during the reaction.
US12215114B2
Processes for producing diazaspiro lactam compounds and intermediates useful in the processes.
US12215104B2
The present invention provides non-peptide compounds that mimic the streptococcal SspB Adherence Region (BAR) and function as inhibitors of P. gingivalis adherence to streptococci. The invention also provides methods of making and using the inhibitors.
US12215101B2
The present invention is directed to pro drugs of 2-methyl-N-((5-methyl-1,3,4-thiadiazol-2-yl)methyl)-6-(((1S,2S)-2-(5-methylpyridin-2-yl)cyclopropyl)methoxy)pyrimidin-4-amine which are useful as therapeutic agents for the treatment of central nervous system disorders associated with phosphodiesterase 10 (PDE10). The present invention also relates to the use of such compounds for treating neurological and psychiatric disorders, such as schizophrenia, psychosis or Huntington's disease, and those associated with striatal hypofunction or basal ganglia dysfunction.
US12215095B2
The present invention relates to new compounds that are useful in the prevention or treatment of respiratory diseases, such as asthma, acute and chronic inflammatory conditions, and fibrotic diseases or conditions in which fibrosis contributes to the pathology of the condition. The invention also relates to the preparation of the compounds, and to compositions including the compounds. The present invention also relates to the use of the compounds, as well as compositions including the compounds, in treating or preventing respiratory diseases, acute and chronic inflammatory conditions, and fibrotic diseases or conditions in which fibrosis contributes to the pathology of the condition.
US12215094B2
Solid forms comprising 2-methyl-1-[(4-[6-(trifluoromethyl)pyridin-2-yl]-6-{[2-(trifluoromethyl)pyridin-4-yl] amino-1,3,5-triazin-2-yl)amino]propan-2-ol, compositions comprising the solid forms, methods of making the solid forms and methods of using the solid forms are disclosed.
US12215088B2
A method for stabilization of collagen matrices and of condensation of natural and synthetic polymers that uses 2-halo-4,6-dialkoxy-1,3,5-triazines in the presence of one or more amines as activating agents for reactions of crosslinking, condensation, grafting, and curing of collagen matrices, cellulose, modified celluloses, polysaccharides, acid unsaturated polymers, and chiral and non-chiral amines, etc. Forming an integral part of the present invention is also the method for production on an industrial scale of 2-halo-4,6-dialkoxy-1,3,5-triazines.
US12215087B2
The present disclosure relates to compounds that act as inhibitors of NLRP3 inflammasomes; pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds; and methods of treating disorders associated with inflammation and inflammaging, including hearing loss and other diseases associated with aging.
US12215080B2
The present disclosure provides conjugate structures and hydrazinyl-pyrrolo compound structures used to produce these conjugates. The disclosure also encompasses methods of production of such conjugates, as well as methods of using the same.
US12215078B2
The invention relates to chemically reactive and/or biologically active compounds, reagents and compositions thereof. More particularly, the invention provides novel reagents that are useful in chemical synthesis, functionalization, delivery, probing and/or analytical measurements of small molecule drugs, proteins, antibodies and other biomolecules. The invention provides novel biologically active agents useful as diagnostics or therapeutics, and related composition and methods of uses thereof.
US12215077B2
Methods of depolymerizing lignin and products obtained therefrom. The methods include reacting lignin in a liquid solvent comprising an oxidation catalyst with the solvent being in contact with O2 gas. The solvent can include aprotic polar solvents. The oxidation catalyst can include heterogeneous catalysts. The methods can be used in the oxidative catalytic fractionation of raw biomass to generate soluble aromatic monomers and a solid carbohydrate residue. Depolymerized lignin products include phenolic and benzoquinone monomers, such as p-hydroxybenzoic acid, vanillin, syringaldehyde, vanillic acid, and/or syringic acid.
US12215076B2
The invention relates to a method for producing limonene comprising or consisting of the following steps: (a) providing beta-pinene or a beta-pinene containing starting material: (b) admixing the starting material with a catalytically effective amount of a MWW-type zeolite: (C) heating the reaction mixture to a temperature in the range of between 60 and 100° C.; and optionally (d) separating the limonene or a limonene-enriched fraction from the sump.
US12215072B2
A method for the synthesis of methanol, wherein a carbonaceous energy source flow is supplied to a synthesis gas reactor arrangement for obtaining a synthesis gas flow having hydrogen and carbon oxides, wherein the synthesis gas flow is supplied to a thermal recovery apparatus for recovering heat from the synthesis gas flow and then to a synthesis gas compressor for pressure increase. The synthesis gas flow is supplied at least in part to a first reactor stage of a methanol reactor arrangement for partial conversion to methanol, a residual gas flow having unreacted carbon oxides being obtained from the methanol reactor arrangement, which residual gas flow is supplied to a recycling compressor for increasing its pressure, the pressure-increased gas flow being supplied to the methanol reactor arrangement for partial conversion to methanol, a recovery flow from an unreacted residual gas being supplied to the first reactor stage of a hydrogen recovery arrangement to obtain a H-recycling flow. The
US12215069B2
In one aspect, compounds modulating sirtuin activity are described herein. Sirtuin modulation by compounds described herein includes sirtuin activation and sirtuin inhibition. Modulation of sirtuin activity includes sirtuin activation and/or sirtuin inhibition. In some embodiments, a sirtuin modulating compound and/or salt thereof is of Formula I described herein.
US12215064B2
The present invention relates to compounds of general formula (I), wherein —X is selected from a group consisting of H; C1 to C6, alkyl; halogen (F, Cl, Br or I); Y is selected from a group consisting of nitrogen; N-oxide; Z1, Z2, Zm, wherein m is 1 or 2, are independently selected from the group consisting of —CH2—CH2— and —CH2—CH2—CH2; A, Am, wherein m is 1 or 2, are independently selected from H; —CH2COOH; —CH2C(O)NH2; —CH2P(O)(OH)2, and n is 1 or 2; R1, R2, R3 are independently H; C1 to C6, alkyl; C1 to C6 alkyloxy; C6 to C10 aryloxy; benzyloxy; C1 to C6 alkylthio; C6, to C10 arylthio; F; Cl; Br; I; OH; SH; NH2; C1 to C6, alkylamino; di(C1 to C6, alkyl)amino; C1 to C6 acylamino; di(C1 to C6 acyl) amino; C6 to C10 arylamino; di(C6 to C10 aryl)amino; CN; OH; nitro; COORn, C(O)NHRn, C(O)N(Rn)2, wherein Rn is independently H or C1 to C10 alkyl or C6, to C10 aryl; and/or neighboring two of R1, R2, R3 together with neighboring two carbon atoms of the aromatic cycle form a six-membered ring, optionally substituted with one or more substituents independently selected from the group consisting of OH, SH, CF3, F, Cl, Br, I, C1 to C6, alkyl, C1to C6, alkyloxy, C1 to C6 alkylthio, NH2, C1 to C6 alkylamino, di(C1 to C6 alkyl)amino, NO2, COOH, COORn, C(O)NHRn, C(O)N(Rn)2, wherein Rn is WO 2020/244686 A1 independently H or C1 to C10 alkyl or C6 to C10 aryl; with the proviso that when n is 2 and all of Z1, Z2, Zm are —CH2—CH2—, then A is not —CH2COOH; for chromatographic separation of rare earth elements and/or s-, p- and d-block metals, as well as to the method of the separation of rare earth elements.
US12215057B2
Provided is an additive for concrete in which viscosity of a cement composition is low and fluidity is high at an initial stage of casting even when the additive is added, and long-term strength of concrete or the like improves by the addition. A cement additive comprising a water-absorbent resin, wherein the water-absorbent resin is formed by polymerizing a monomer mixture containing no less than 50 mol % of a nonionic non-crosslinkable monomer and no less than 0.1 mol % of a nonionic crosslinkable monomer, and a content of an anionic monomer in the monomer mixture is no more than 20 mol %.
US12215049B2
A cover plate structure for a glass fiber tank furnace forehearth includes chest wall bricks at two sides of the forehearth, cover plate bricks each spanning between a top end of at least one of the chest wall bricks at one of the two sides of the forehearth and a top end of at least one of the chest wall bricks at another one of the two sides of the forehearth, a thermal insulation layer covering outer surfaces of the cover plate bricks and the chest wall bricks, and a gap-covering brick fixed between the cover plate bricks and the thermal insulation layer and covering a gap between adjacent ones of the cover plate bricks.
US12215036B2
A process of making a silica-alumina composition having improved properties is provided. The process includes (a) mixing an aqueous solution of a silicon compound and an aqueous solution of an aluminum compound and an acid, while maintaining a pH of the mixed solution in a range of 1 to 3, and obtaining an acidified silica-alumina sol; (b) adding an aqueous solution of a base precipitating agent to the acidified silica-alumina sol to a final pH in a range of 5 to 8, and co-precipitating a silica-alumina slurry, wherein the base precipitating agent is selected from ammonium carbonate, ammonium bicarbonate, and any combination thereof; (c) optionally, hydrothermally aging the silica-alumina slurry to form a hydrothermally aged silica-alumina slurry; and (d) recovering a precipitate solid from the silica-alumina slurry or the hydrothermally aged silica-alumina slurry, wherein the precipitate solid comprises the silica-alumina composition.
US12215032B2
A far infrared (FIR)-emitting composition includes a first polymer component and a silicon dioxide composite particle which is prepared by subjecting a tetraalkoxysilane and a compound represented by Formula (A) to hydrolysis and condensation polymerization: Y—Si(ORa)3 (A), wherein each Ra independently represents a C1-4 alkyl group or a C1-4 alkanoyl group, Y represents X—R1—, a non-substituted C1-18 linear alkyl group or a non-substituted C3-18 branched alkyl group, and X and R1 are defined as set forth in the Specification and Claims. A FIR-emitting fiber including the FIR-emitting composition is also disclosed.
US12215029B2
A graphite purification system contains a vessel adapted to contain graphite particles, including an inductive coil for heating said vessel; and a cooling system for cooling said graphite purification system, whereby the cooling system is adapted to also cool the graphite particles. The purification system may be a continuous or batch system, and, the vessel may be at least partially formed from graphite. A process for purifying graphite particles is also presented and includes providing a vessel formed at least partially from graphite; loading graphite particles into the vessel; inductively heating at least a portion of the vessel, and thereby heating the graphite particles in physical contact with the vessel; and cooling the vessel and the graphite particles.
US12215028B2
A complex Si—C cathode base units includes a first order Si—C nanoparticle including a plurality of graphene pieces, and a plurality of complex monomers formed by nanometer scale silicide, and first high molecular material. The first high molecular material is used as viscosity for combining the plurality of graphene pieces and the plurality of complex monomers, a plurality of buffer spaces are formed between the plurality of graphene pieces, the complex monomers and the first high molecular material. A second high molecular material layer enclosing the first order SiC nanoparticle, the second high molecular material layer is calcined in a calcination process, so that the carbohydrate therein is carbonized. A plurality of nanometer carbon tubes tightly encloses the second high molecular material layer so that the first order Si—C nanoparticle is difficult to expand. The nanometer carbon tubes have lengths between 15˜25 μm and are arranged as an array.
US12215027B2
A nanocarbon separation method includes: preparing a nanocarbon dispersion liquid in which nanocarbons and a non-ionic surfactant are dispersed in a solvent; injecting the nanocarbon dispersion liquid into a separation tank; applying a direct current voltage to a first electrode provided at an upper part of the interior of the separation tank and a second electrode provided at a lower part of the interior of the separation tank and generating a pH gradient in the nanocarbon dispersion liquid inside the separation tank, and separating metallic nanocarbons and semiconductor nanocarbons included in the nanocarbon dispersion liquid.
US12215026B2
The invention includes a gas processing system for transforming a hydrocarbon-containing inflow gas into outflow gas products, where the system includes a gas delivery subsystem, a plasma reaction chamber, and a microwave subsystem, with the gas delivery subsystem in fluid communication with the plasma reaction chamber, so that the gas delivery subsystem directs the hydrocarbon-containing inflow gas into the plasma reaction chamber, and the microwave subsystem directs microwave energy into the plasma reaction chamber to energize the hydrocarbon-containing inflow gas, thereby forming a plasma in the plasma reaction chamber, which plasma effects the transformation of a hydrocarbon in the hydrocarbon-containing inflow gas into the outflow gas products, which comprise acetylene and hydrogen. The invention also includes methods for the use of the gas processing system.
US12215012B2
A forklift includes a vehicle body, a fork that mounts a pallet, and a sensor provided in an insertion portion of the fork. The forklift inserts the insertion portion into an insertion opening, while moving the fork. When the sensor detects a proximity state, in which the insertion portion has approached a facing surface to such an extent that a distance between the insertion portion and the facing surface is less than or equal to a specified value, the forklift executes a stopping process that stops movement of the fork. The forklift executes an avoidance process that tilts and vertically moves, after the stopping process, the fork to separate the insertion portion away from the facing surface such that a position of the insertion portion with respect to an entrance of the insertion opening does not change in an up-down direction of the vehicle body.
US12215009B1
Autonomous mobile robots having vertical height extension systems for augmented visibility may include a drive mechanism, a lift mechanism, and a vertical height extension including an extension mechanism and a vertical indicator. The vertical height extension may be actively or passively actuated between lowered and raised positions. In addition, the vertical height extension may include a breakaway feature to prevent raising or cause lowering of the vertical indicator in the presence of a payload above the robot. Further, the vertical height extension may include various actuators, emitters, or elements to communicate various attributes of the robot to human associates in proximity, thereby promoting safe, collaborative operations.
US12215005B2
A support for a trolley, having a running surface that is formed on the support for the trolley, an upper chord, a lower chord and braces that connect said chords together, wherein the braces are designed to be flat, and each brace has a main surface that faces away from the support longitudinally between the upper chord and the lower chord. Two of the braces form a brace pair in each case and are arranged next to one another as viewed in the direction of the longitudinal axis of the support, preferably on the outside of opposite longitudinal sides of the support. To provide such a support, the flat braces are releasably secured to the upper chord and/or to the lower chord. The invention also relates to an overhead transport device having such a support and a trolley that can be moved along the support on the running surface.
US12214991B2
A foil transfer device includes a foil transfer film cartridge, a housing, a display, a detector, and a controller. The foil transfer film cartridge includes a supply reel on which a foil film is wound. The housing allows the foil transfer film cartridge to be removably installed therein. The display is provided on the housing to display information. The detector detects foil film information in a state where the foil transfer film cartridge is installed in the housing. The foil film information includes at least one item selected from a group comprising a color of the foil, a width of the foil film, and a widthwise position of the foil film in a direction of the width of the foil film. The controller causes the foil film information detected by the detector to be shown on the display.
US12214983B2
A sheet stacking device includes a sheet stacker, a pair of sheet restrictors, and a stacking adaptor. The sheet stacker has a first sheet stacking face on which a bundle of sheets is stacked. The sheet stacker includes a leading end support to support a leading end of the bundle of sheets in a feeding direction by a second sheet stacking face and a pair of cutouts disposed upstream from the leading end support. The pair of sheet restrictors slide in the pair of cutouts in a width direction orthogonal to the feeding direction to regulate a position of the bundle of sheets. The stacking adaptor is detachably attached to the sheet stacker to cover the pair of cutouts. The stacking adaptor has a third sheet stacking face to support a portion of the bundle of sheets disposed at the pair of cutouts.
US12214982B2
A medium discharge unit that discharges a medium subjected to recording by a recording unit, a placement unit at which the medium discharged by the medium discharge unit is placed, the placement unit being inclined with a downstream side in a discharge direction in which the medium is discharged being positioned, in a vertical direction, above an upstream side in the discharge direction, an air blowing unit that blows air from above toward the medium discharged from the medium discharge unit, and a control unit that controls the air blowing unit are included. The control unit can attenuate air blowing by the air blowing unit, based on information of an interval between a preceding medium and a following medium that are to be discharged from a discharge position of the medium discharge unit to the placement unit, when the preceding medium is discharged from the discharge position.
US12214980B2
A document conveying apparatus is provided with a document tray and a discharge tray disposed below the document tray. The document tray includes an upper tray member, a lower tray member, a movable tray member, and a driving portion configured to move the upper tray member and the movable tray member integrally to a raised position and a lowered position. The movable tray member is configured to be moved in a width direction between a first position and a second position in which the movable tray member is retracted into below the upper tray member. The document tray includes a shutter configured to cover a gap created between the upper tray member and the lower tray member. The gap is created by the upper tray member and the movable tray member being moved to the raised position and the movable tray member being moved to the second position.
US12214979B2
The device includes a first portion which has a leading edge and a trailing edge, the trailing edge is disposed further from the driveway than the leading edge. The embodiment also includes a second portion which has a leading edge and a trailing edge, the leading edge of the second portion is removably attached to the trailing edge of the first portion and the leading edge of the second portion is disposed further from the driveway than the trailing edge of the second portion. The device also includes an extension portion and opposing side portions, the opposing side portions extend the length of and contact the second portion and extension portion. The opposing side portions include at least one light which is controlled by a sensor adjacent to a door.
US12214967B2
An apparatus for creating a stockpile of bulk material a conveyor having a feed end and a distribution end; a stabilizer at the feed end of the conveyor; and a support at the distribution end of the conveyor; wherein the support includes a primary hydraulic cylinder having a base portion connected to the support and an end portion which extends and retracts longitudinally to alter the angle between the conveyor and the ground; and a secondary hydraulic cylinder having one end connected to the support and the other end connected to the primary hydraulic cylinder, where the secondary hydraulic cylinder extends and retracts in a lateral direction, thus pivoting the primary hydraulic cylinder against the support. This design is simpler and less expensive than a conveyor with an undercarriage and makes for a smaller staging area as room for the undercarriage is unnecessary.
US12214964B2
Curvilinear conveyor chain suitable for running along a guide comprising at least one curved section
A link of a curvilinear conveyor chain suitable for running along a guide includes a plate body having a first surface forming a plane for resting and supporting products to be transported, a second surface substantially flat and defining at least one plane for resting and sliding on at least one respective support surface of a raceway of straight sections of the guide, an articulation portion extending below the first surface and substantially in the middle of the plate body, and at least one pair of housings transverse to the travel direction of the chain and each adapted to accommodate a respective articulation pin of the link with similar links. The link has at least one substantially flat reaction surface with at least one section extending above the second surface of the plate body interpenetrating it.
US12214962B2
Apparatuses, methods and systems comprising integrated motorized conveyor rollers are provided. The example integrated motorized conveyor roller comprises: a housing; a motor assembly and a drive assembly at least partially disposed within the housing that are configured to cause rotation of at least a portion of the integrated motorized conveyor roller; at least one sensing element operatively coupled to the integrated motorized conveyor roller; and a controller component in electronic communication with the at least one sensing element, the motor assembly and the drive assembly, wherein the controller component is configured to obtain operational data via the at least one sensing element.
US12214957B2
A tank, such as a fermentation tank, includes a scraper blade assembly slideably coupled to a bottom surface of the tank. The scraper blade assembly includes a blade arranged to displace solids deposited on the bottom surface of the tank out through an aperture arranged flush with the bottom surface of the tank.
US12214956B1
A container may include a cargo bay for holding items; a lid able to slide between a closed position to an open position relative to the cargo bay; a check strap operatively connected to the lid and able to move vertically in a first direction toward the lid as the lid slides from the closed position to the open position, and to move vertically in a second direction opposite the first direction as the lid slides from the open position to the closed position; and arms operatively attached to rollers and to one or more tension devices, wherein when the check strap moves vertically in the first direction, the check strap separates the rollers and causes the arms to pull the one or more tension devices, and wherein when the check strap moves vertically in the second direction, the one or more tension devices cause second rotation of the arms.
US12214955B2
In a capsule containing a substance constituted by a mass of loose, solid particles, for the preparation of a potable beverage by extracting and/or dissolving the substance by means of supplying a fluid under pressure into the capsule, a screen, permeable to water and impermeable to a predominant portion of particles of the substance is positioned between the substance and the bottom. The screen is attached to the capsule body in such a manner that the screen releases from the capsule body during brewing. A beverage brewing system comprising such a capsule and a method of use of such a capsule are described as well.
US12214954B1
A cord or rope storage bag for preventing knots is disclosed herein. The cord or rope storage bag includes a bag body portion, the bag body portion defining an interior compartment configured to store a cord or rope therein; a first cord or rope end retention device, the first cord or rope end retention device configured to be coupled to a first end of the cord or rope; and a second cord or rope end retention device, the second cord or rope end retention device configured to be coupled to a second end of the cord or rope. An attachment of the first and second ends of the cord or rope to the respective first and second cord or rope end retention devices is configured to prevent a formation of knots in the cord or rope being stored in the interior compartment of the cord or rope storage bag.
US12214953B2
Thermal storage containers for storing or transporting thermally sensitive materials are provided. The containers make use of a thermally insulating liner composed of one or more perforated corrugated cardboard layers sealed within a sealing film. The thermally insulating liners possess excellent thermal insulation properties and may be fully recyclable.
US12214949B2
A closure for a spout of a flexible thin-walled packaging is provided. The closure has a base body having an irreversibly yielding guarantee wall, a cap assembly having a cap and a guarantee tab, at least one breakable bridge, and a flexible hinge that joins the base body to the cap assembly. The at least one breakable bridge, in an intact closed configuration, is integral and joins the guarantee tab to the guarantee wall.
US12214945B2
A closure device for a container having a neck including an annular flange, the closure device comprising: a cap body; a tamper evident (TE) band positioned below the annular flange when assembled in the container; a first hinge and a second hinge defined on the cap body; a leash connected to the TE band, the first hinge and the second hinge; the leash allowing for the cap body to be separated from the TE band during opening, but to remain connected thereto via the leash; a tongue protruding from the cap body between the first and second hinges; when the cap body is actuated from a closed configuration relative to the neck to a fully open position: the leash is configured to retain the cap body to the TE band; an interaction of the tongue and the neck is configured to retain the cap body in the fully open position.
US12214941B2
A container includes a polygonal section comprising lateral walls surrounding an interior space. An upper wall forms a top bound on the interior space. A lower wall forms a bottom bound on the interior space. An alignment tab straddles a respective one of the upper fold lines. The alignment tab also has an intermediate fold line between the first and second ends of the alignment tab that is closer to the first end than to the second end, such that the alignment tab projects upward from the upper wall and separates two vertical, inward facing alignment edges at an upper end of the adjacent one of the lateral walls. A retention tab extends downward from the adjacent one of the lateral walls and is configured to engage two vertical, inward facing alignment edges of a similar container for alignment in a stack.
US12214940B2
The invention refers to a capillary insert (100) or cap that comprises a cone (110) in its upper part that ends in a skirt (120) forming a single piece, which leaves evidence if something in the insert (100) has changed or has been altered improperly. The capillary insert or cap of the present invention prevents its reuse and tampering through one or more breaking zones (130) located along the insert.
US12214934B2
A cosmetic product container may include a cap body having first and second ends and defining a cap cavity, a cap liner operably coupled with the cap body and being movable along a length thereof, a resilient member operably coupled with one of the cap body or the cap liner, and a coupling protrusion operably coupled with the other of the cap line or the cap body. In response to moving the cap body relative to the cap liner in a first direction, the resilient member slidably engages the coupling protrusion and moves to an energized position. Continued movement of the cap body relative to the cap liner causes the resilient member to urge the cap body in the first direction.
US12214930B2
A stackable liquid vessel may be able to receive, store, and dispense various liquids or fluids, such as beverages, cooking oil or vinegar, motor oil, and/or other appropriate materials or substances. Each stackable liquid vessel may be able to at least partially couple to at least one other stackable liquid vessel. An arrangement of stackable liquid vessels may utilize perforated slipsheets to reduce material usage when packing, shipping, storing, and/or displaying multiple stackable liquid vessels (e.g., a pallet of stackable vessels).
US12214926B2
A labeling machine, which includes a conveyor of containers to be labeled along an advancement path and at least one labeling unit arranged along the advancement path and provided with a respective transfer drum that can move in rotation about its own axis, with respect to a supporting base, and which is adapted to receive, in adhesion to its lateral surface, from a feeder unit, labels to be applied to the containers, at a feeding station, and to transfer the labels received at the feeding station to respective containers that arrive from the conveyor at a transfer station which is angularly spaced apart from the feeding station about the axis of the transfer drum; at least one portion of a sector of the lateral surface of the transfer drum is rotatably movable, with respect to the remaining part of the transfer drum.
US12214925B2
A machine for forming a container from a blank of sheet material includes a frame and an identification tag applicator mounted to the frame. The blank includes a first surface that forms an interior surface of the container and a second surface that forms an exterior surface of the container. The identification tag applicator is configured to apply an identification tag to the first surface of the blank. The machine also includes a mandrel assembly mounted to the frame and located operationally downstream from the identification tag applicator. The mandrel assembly includes a mandrel having an external shape complimentary to an internal shape of at least a portion of the container. The machine also includes a lift assembly configured to lift the blank having the identification tag adhered thereto towards the mandrel and wrap the blank about the mandrel.
US12214914B2
A method of wrapping a palletized load includes providing an apparatus with a first wrapping system and a second wrapping system, banding a top edge and bottom edge of stretch film from each of the first wrapping system and the second wrapping system, overlapping the stretch film from the first wrapping system with the stretch film from the second wrapping system to create a composite stretch film, and wrapping the composite stretch film around the palletized load. The edges of the stretch film may be banded by passing the stretch film through a set of adjustment arms. The composite stretch film may have a plurality of sections, where each section is separated from adjacent section by a banded border, a first section and third section each has one layer of stretch film, and a second section between the first section and third section has two layers of stretch film.
US12214908B2
By taking launch detection information of a flying object as a starting point, a ground system repeats process of referring to a model database that has stored therein a plurality of flying path models, analyzing flying object surveillance information measured by a subsequent surveillance satellite, excluding a nonconforming flying path model, analyzing flying object surveillance information measured by a next subsequent surveillance satellite, and excluding a nonconforming flying path model. The ground system determines a flying path model not excluded to be left as a provisional flying path prediction model. Based on flying object surveillance information measured by a plurality of subsequent surveillance satellites subsequent to the surveillance satellite, the ground system corrects a deviation amount from the provisional flying path model to predict a flying path to an impact of the flying object.
US12214896B2
An electrical supply system (10) with first and second electrical sourced (S1, S2), coupled together to electrically supply electrical loads (Z1, Z2, Z3 . . . Zn) of an aircraft. The first electrical source (S1) is mechanically coupled to a primary energy source (12), to which at least one other energy consumer (16) is coupled. A controller (30) controls the first and second electrical sources (S1, S2) so that the power drawn by the first electrical source from the primary energy source (12) corresponds to a difference between an instantaneous nominal power capable of being delivered by the primary energy source and an instantaneous power drawn by the energy consumer (16), and an electrical power delivered by the second electrical source is a sum of an electrical power delivered by the first and second electrical sources which corresponds to an instantaneous electrical consumption of the electrical loads.
US12214895B2
An unmanned aerial vehicle (“UAV”) system for energy transport includes a UAV having an energy tank configured to transport energy, a processor, and a memory. The memory includes instructions which, when executed by the processor, may cause the system to receive a first location for collecting or releasing the energy, determine an energy level of the energy tank, and transport the energy by the UAV to or from the first location based on the determined energy level.
US12214894B1
A motor gearbox assembly for an aircraft may comprise a layshaft configured to transmit torque from a rotor to a main power output shaft. The motor gearbox assembly may comprise a gearbox housing, a stator mounted inside the gearbox housing, a rotor rotatably mounted inside the stator on a main power output shaft and a layshaft rotatably mounted in the gearbox housing outside of the stator. The motor gearbox assembly may comprise a first ear reduction between the rotor and the layshaft, and a second gear reduction between the layshaft and the main power output shaft.
US12214888B2
An air cycle machine for an environmental control system for an aircraft includes at least one turbine configured to receive and extract work from a first medium and a third medium. A compressor is configured to compress a second medium and a shaft mechanically couples the at least one turbine and the compressor. A mixing point is located downstream of at least one turbine. A mixture of the first medium and the third medium generated at the mixing point is provided to another component of the environmental control system.
US12214886B2
A system includes one or more distribution nozzles associated with a seat within an internal space, and a return air grill associated with the seat. Airflow is directed from the one or more distribution nozzles toward and into the return air grill. A method includes associating one or more distribution nozzles with a seat within an internal space, associating a return air grill with the seat, and directing airflow from the one or more distribution nozzles toward and into the return air grill.
US12214885B2
An aircraft passenger suite (200) and method are provided. The aircraft passenger suite comprises a console (150) and a table (130) movably mounted to the console, the table being moveable along a table path between a first position and a second position. A controller (210) controls electro-mechanical movement of the table along the table path. The controller comprises an initiation input for receiving an instruction to initiate electro-mechanical movement of the table. The suite comprises sensing equipment for sensing if any obstacle is present on the table path and providing, to the controller, an indication of whether or not any obstacle is present on the table path. The controller is configured to prevent electro-mechanical movement of the table along the table path if the controller receives an indication that an obstacle is present on the table path.
US12214884B2
Expandable lavatory and cabin configuration including dedicated seating area and expandable lavatory
An expandable lavatory and an aircraft cabin configuration including the same. First, second and third walls form the lavatory interior and the third wall is repositionable to expand the lavatory interior footprint to accommodate a wheelchair. The third wall carries a door deployable when the third wall is in the expanded configuration such that the wheelchair can access the lavatory interior via an exit pathway. A first door positioned in the second wall provides access to the lavatory interior via a longitudinal aisle. In some embodiments, a wheelchair securement area is positioned longitudinally aligned with the second door, when the second door is deployed, such that wheelchair access to the lavatory is provided through second door when the lavatory is in the expanded configuration.
US12214881B2
Secondary barriers for aircraft are disclosed. An example secondary barrier includes a plurality of tracks to mount to a first monument in a cabin of an aircraft and a plurality of rods, where respective ones of the rods slidably engage respective ones of the tracks. The secondary barrier includes a panel coupled to respective ends of the rods. The rods to move relative to the tracks between a stowed position and a deployed position. The panel in the deployed position is to interface with a second monument in the cabin opposite the first monument. The rods are to extend between the first monument and the second monument when the secondary barrier is in the deployed position.
US12214878B2
A lift nacelle may comprise an airflow generator; a sidewall system coupled to the airflow generator and spanning in a first direction, wherein the sidewall system defines a nacelle interior space, wherein the airflow generator defines one of a forward boundary or an aft boundary of the nacelle interior space; and a lift body disposed in the nacelle interior space and spanning substantially perpendicular to the first direction and substantially perpendicular to an upward lift direction. The airflow generator may be configured to accelerate airflow in an aft direction into the nacelle interior space through the forward boundary of the nacelle interior space. The airflow may contact and/or interact with the lift body creating lift in response.
US12214872B2
A rotor blade configured to be installed on a rotary-wing aircraft includes a main blade body including an inboard end configured to be coupled to a rotor blade hub and an outboard end. The rotor blade includes a blade tip removably coupled to the outboard end of the main blade body, the blade tip including an inner cavity. The rotor blade further includes a tip block including an inboard portion coupled to the outboard end of the main blade body and a cantilevered portion extending beyond the outboard end of the rotor blade and into the inner cavity of the blade tip.
US12214871B2
The present disclosure provides a deployment mechanism for arms of a drone. This mechanism is particularly of relevance to a drone that is housed in a container and is configured to be launched therefrom, and therefore is required to have an efficient deployment mechanism for its arms to be deployed immediately after the launch. The deployment mechanism is biased to its deployed state and is retained in its non-deployed state by external forces, such as the normal forces that are applied by the walls of the container on the arms while the drone is housed within the container. After the launch from the container, the above-mentioned forces are no longer applied to the arms of the drone and the deployment mechanism, causing a transition of the arms from their non-deployed state to their deployed state, in which they are in a position suitable for flying, i.e. activation of the rotors mounted on the arms.
US12214867B2
An aircraft brake control system for controlling anti-skid braking of at least first and second wheels in a wheel set of an aircraft is disclosed. The system includes a control assembly having wheel speed inputs including an input of an indication of the wheel speed of the first wheel, and an input of an indication of the wheel speed of the second wheel, a wheel speed comparator for determining which of the wheel speeds indicated is a lowest wheel speed, and an output for indicating a wheel speed other than the lowest wheel speed. An aircraft landing gear, an aircraft, and methods of braking an aircraft are also disclosed.
US12214863B2
A riblet structure includes a plurality of wave-shaped riblets on a surface thereof, in which each of the riblets has a smaller peak height as an angle formed between a ridge line and a fluid flow direction becomes larger, a width between peak bases in a direction orthogonal to the fluid flow direction becomes smaller as the angle becomes larger, and an angle formed between a slope of a peak of the riblet and the surface at the peak base or a curvature at the peak base is identical at any position in a cross-sectional shape in the direction orthogonal to the fluid direction.
US12214861B2
An aircraft rudder pedal frame includes a base, a support framework and connection interfaces. Each connection interface is able to connect another part of the rudder pedal to the frame. The support framework connects each connection interface to the base. The support framework includes framework elements arranged in a lattice, at least one of the framework elements extending from each connection interface.
US12214859B1
An electrically operated window shade system includes a frame that is mounted on the outer side of the inner wall of an aircraft cabin. A cassette is mounted in the frame and includes one or more motors and drive systems and one or two shade elements that are moved between raised and lowered positions under electric control. A user can operate the electric controls to adjust the amount of light coming through the window, as desired.
US12214857B2
An aircraft is described and includes a fuselage; wings attached to the fuselage; and a torque box within the fuselage, the torque box including a side panel, the side panel comprising a composite laminate material including a plurality of stiffening beads integrated therewith.
US12214851B1
An apparatus is for supporting a marine drive on a marine vessel. The apparatus has a transom bracket comprising a swivel cylinder and a steering bracket configured to couple the marine drive to the transom bracket, the steering bracket comprising a steering arm and a swivel tube seated in the swivel cylinder, wherein steering of the steering arm relative to the transom bracket rotates the swivel tube in the swivel cylinder and thereby steers the marine drive. A copilot device is configured to frictionally restrain rotation of the swivel tube in the swivel cylinder by applying diametrically opposing pushing and pulling forces on the swivel tube.
US12214837B2
A bicycle storage unit has a support base with parallel, horizontal first and second base frame bars spaced apart from each other; and vertical, parallel support posts extending perpendicularly from the base bottom frame bars, for suspending bicycles in a double row along the length of the unit. Adjacent support posts in a first and second set of support posts are spaced apart on the first and second side, respectively, to allow at least part of a bicycle to be passed therebetween for suspending from one of the support posts in the second and first set, respectively. One of the first set of support posts is positioned on the first base frame bar at a first post location that is across the space between the first side and the second side from a second post location on the second base frame bar between adjacent support posts in the second set.
US12214835B2
A modular vehicle is generally presented where the modular vehicle is generally configured to be rearranged into different driving, passenger, and storage configurations using a plurality of different modules that interface with a powered chassis. The vehicle may include a plurality of modules arranged on the powered chassis. The modules may vary in size and shape and may be configured to interface with the chassis. The powered chassis is designed to include all power and drivetrain components as well as the wheel connections and wheels, all within a generally flat platform that is intended to support the vehicle modules.
US12214832B2
An ADS performs processing including setting an initial value of a wheel steer angle command when an autonomous state has been set to an autonomous mode, obtaining a limitation of a rate, setting a wheel steer angle limitation as the wheel steer angle command when magnitude of the initial value is larger than the wheel steer angle limitation, and transmitting the wheel steer angle command.
US12214829B2
A current detection device includes a current detection unit configured to detect current flowing through a switching element of a lower-side arm; a correction value calculation unit configured to calculate an offset correction value, based on a detection value of the current detected by the current detection unit in a period during which the switching element off during PWM control, and to hold and update the calculated offset correction value; and a correction unit configured to correct, by the offset correction value held by the correction value calculation unit, the detection value of the current detected by the current detection unit in a period during which the switching element is on. The correction value calculation unit is configured to not update the offset correction value in a case where a duty ratio of the PWM control is equal to or less than a duty ratio lower limit value.
US12214818B2
Known vehicles, e.g. used for the sport of golf, which are configured combined for riding along and to be pushed with motorized support, exclusively comprise a steerable, rigid frame, causing the vehicle when positioned on the side of a slope to tilt parallel to the slope plane, consequently resulting in a disadvantageous, safety-relevant tilting moment. For improved driving safety, it should be possible to tilt the vehicle sideways. The vehicle according to the invention can be used in at least two operating modes. In the ride-along mode, at least a second and/or third vehicle component can be moved by the operator or an automatic, thus causing the vehicle to tilt sideways. This enables a carving effect and the tilt compensation as well as a straight-ahead drive at least in side slopes and inclines. In the push mode, the male/female user walks behind or beside the vehicle, and at least two vehicle components and/or parts thereof are located in a position, relative to each other, different as compared to the position in the ride-along mode. The versatile embodiment variations make it possible to use it as a golf vehicle, as well as a recreational-/, shopping-/, transport-/, industrial-/, construction site vehicle, and as a vehicle for the transport of senior and handicapped persons, for exploration and military purposes, for mowing, as an agricultural vehicle, as gardening appliance and as a child carrier.
US12214814B2
The invention relates to a method for monitoring the physical state of a longitudinal element (IO) of a railway-type rail, the method having a step of detecting mechanical waves moving along the longitudinal element (IO), in particular due to the passing of a train, by means of an array of mechanical wave sensors placed along and in contact with the longitudinal element, the array having at least one first pair (A) of sensors each positioned at one end of a first portion (IOa) of the longitudinal element (IO), and a step of processing the signals emitted by the sensors in the array of sensors, the processing step having the determination of at least one first interfered signal determined from signals provided by the sensors in the first pair (A) of sensors over a first predetermined period of time.
US12214813B2
The present disclosure generally relates to automated detection of railroad track features. Images of a railroad track are captured and analyzed to identify track features such as anchors, spikes, rail ties, tie plates, and joints. Various image processing techniques are utilized to accurately distinguish between track features and other objects in the captured images. Track features identified in the images are assigned identifiers and locations and stored in a database so that a status and/or condition of the track features may be monitored for maintenance purposes.
US12214806B2
An autonomous robotic vehicle is capable of detecting, identifying, and locating the source of gas leaks such as methane. Because of the number of operating components within the vehicle, it may also be considered a robotic system. The robotic vehicle can be remotely operated or can move autonomously within a jobsite. The vehicle selectively deploys a source detection device that precisely locates the source of a leak. The vehicle relays data to stakeholders and remains powered that enables operation of the vehicle over an extended period. Monitoring and control of the vehicle is enabled through a software interface viewable to a user on a mobile communications device or personal computer.
US12214797B2
A vehicle information providing system is realized, which is capable of providing appropriate vehicle information depending on a used driving energy source. The kind of fuel used when refueling a vehicle is identified based on image information from a camera provided in a service station, and/or payment information for the refueling. The magnitude of the environmental burden caused by the identified fuel is specified so as to change, according thereto, a background color of an instrument panel of the vehicle. Also, a turn-on/turn-off state and a lighting color of an eco-lamp provided on a rear surface of the vehicle is changed. Thus, the appropriate vehicle information is provided in consideration of differences in the environmental burden depending on the used fuel even when the vehicle model is the same.
US12214783B2
An autonomous driving system mounted on a vehicle determines a target path based on necessary information and performs vehicle travel control such that the vehicle follows the target path. A first coordinate system is a vehicle coordinate system at a first timing when the necessary information is acquired. A second coordinate system is a vehicle coordinate system at a second timing later than the first timing. The autonomous driving system calculates, based on the necessary information acquired at the first timing, a first target path defined in the first coordinate system. Then, the autonomous driving system corrects the first target path to a second target path defined in the second coordinate system by performing coordinate transformation from the first coordinate system to the second coordinate system. The autonomous driving system uses the second target path as the target path to perform the vehicle travel control.
US12214779B2
An example operation includes one or more of determining one or more objects in a transport that may become airborne and altering a portion of the transport to minimize the one or more objects from becoming airborne during a collision.
US12214775B2
A vehicle having a road surface recognition apparatus, may perform obtaining, by a controller, sound data for a sound detected by a sound detector while driving; obtaining, by the controller, driving data for driving information detected by a driving information detector; recognizing, by the controller, a type of road surface based on the obtained sound data and the obtained driving data; and controlling, by the controller, a traction control system based on information related to the recognized type of the road surface.
US12214773B2
A vehicle control device for a vehicle includes an engine; and a power converter, so that the vehicle travels by selectively executing one of a first traveling mode, a second traveling mode, and a third traveling mode in which the vehicle travels by a torque of both the engine and the rotation electric machine. Further, in a case where an air pressure around the vehicle and a system voltage are in a predetermined area of a preset map indicating a relationship between the air pressure and the system voltage, the vehicle control device is configured to reduce a switching speed of a switching element of the power converter to be lower than a normal speed, and cause the engine to operate, limit a torque of the rotation electric machine, and execute the third traveling mode.
US12214771B2
The disclosure provides an engine control method, system, and vehicle, and the vehicle comprises a battery and an engine, wherein the method includes: obtaining a current maximum discharge power value of the battery, and a current maximum external characteristic power value of the vehicle; obtaining a current opening value and a current opening change rate of an accelerator pedal of the vehicle; determining a driving intention based on the current opening value and the current opening change rate; and controlling start and stop of the engine according to the driving intention, the current maximum discharge power value, and the current maximum external characteristic power value of the vehicle. Since the driving intention is determined by the current opening value and the current opening change rate in advance, and based on the determined driving intention, in combination with the current maximum discharge power value of the battery and the current maximum external characteristic power value of the vehicle, the power response is carried out in advance so as to ensure that a larger power request can be satisfied at the next moment, thus avoiding the case where the engine is unnecessarily started or is not started in time.
US12214769B2
A method for heat coordination is provided. The method includes operating a propulsion system that generates heat as wasted power, operating a device utilizing the heat generated by the propulsion system, and operating a heat transfer system configured for transferring the heat generated by the propulsion system from the propulsion system to the device. The method further includes, within a computerized processor, determining a minimum useful waste thermal power to operate the device, monitoring a desired output torque for the propulsion system, and utilizing a cost-based determination to determine a propulsion system operating point based upon the desired output torque and the minimum useful waste thermal power to operate the device. The method further includes utilizing the propulsion system operating point to control the propulsion system.
US12214760B2
A pneumatic brake for a vehicle is provided. The pneumatic brake includes a housing and a single diaphragm within the housing that divides the housing into front and rear variable-volume chambers. A push rod is disposed in the front chamber and extends outwardly from the housing. A parking spring is disposed in the rear chamber and urges the diaphragm and push rod towards the front chamber. A valve body extends through the rear chamber and includes an elongated stem disposed in a telescoping relationship with the push rod. In resting and activation modes, brake pressure is applied by the parking spring to the top plate to activate a brake function. In a deactivation mode, pneumatic pressure is supplied to the front chamber to compress the parking spring and disengage the brake. A brake system including the pneumatic brake and an ABS is also provided.
US12214752B2
An article dryer system removably couples to an exterior of a vehicle. The article dryer system includes (I) a receptacle assembly including (A) a bottom portion, (B) a top portion spaced from the bottom portion, (C) a first side portion extending between the bottom portion and the top portion, and (D) a second side portion extending between the bottom portion and the top portion, the second side portion spaced from the first side portion. The bottom portion, the top portion, the first side portion, and the second side portion partially bound an interior area having an inlet opening and outlet opening. The article dryer system also includes (II) at least one coupler for coupling to the exterior of the vehicle with the coupler coupled to the receptacle assembly. Other aspects are described in the claims, drawings, and text forming a part of the present disclosure.
