US12223328B2
Examples of the present disclosure provide apparatuses and methods related to generating and executing a control flow. An example apparatus can include a first device configured to generate control flow instructions, and a second device including an array of memory cells, an execution unit to execute the control flow instructions, and a controller configured to control an execution of the control flow instructions on data stored in the array.
US12223324B2
A data processing system includes a vector data processing unit that includes a shared scheduler queue configured to store in a same queue, at least one entry that includes at least a mask type instruction and another entry that includes at least a vector type instruction. Shared pipeline control logic controls a vector data path or a mask data path, based a type of instruction picked from the same queue. In some examples, at least one mask type instruction and the at least one vector type instruction each include a source operand having a corresponding shared source register bit field that indexes into both a mask register file and a vector register file. The shared pipeline control logic uses a mask register file or a vector register file depending on whether bits of the shared source register bit field identify a mask source register or a vector source register.
US12223323B2
A method for executing vector iota (viota) operation is disclosed. The method includes fetching a viota instruction, decoding the viota instruction into multiple viota micro-operations (uops), computing a first element viota value of a respective viota uop, determining a respective last element viota value of the respective viota uop based on the first element viota value of the respective uop, and writing the respective last element viota value of the respective viota uop to an allocated physical register. Each viota uop of the multiple viota uops has multiple elements, and each element has a viota value corresponding to a sum of active mask bits of preceding elements of the viota uops. The multiple elements of each viota uop comprise at least a first element that has a starting bit position of a respective uop and a last element that has an ending bit position of the respective uop.
US12223309B2
Various methods, apparatuses/systems, and media for automatically upgrading an application are disclosed. A processor creates a dynamic machine learning (ML) model; trains the dynamic ML model and scans for SDK upgrade for the application against the dynamic ML model by implementing ML algorithm for predictions. The processor executes the SDK upgrade in response to detecting that the training of the dynamic ML model is completed to trigger the processor to perform the following automated processes: implement the ML algorithm against the trained dynamic ML model to generate predictive results data for deprecated reference corresponding to the application; evaluate the predictive results data to determine whether there is a match for the deprecated reference; and when it is determined that there is a match for the deprecated reference, automatically replace code and upgrade the application to newer version of the programming language specification.
US12223304B2
A system adaptation method and apparatus, an electronic device and a computer-readable storage medium. The method includes: acquiring a system list and a software list (S101), where the system list includes a target system that needs to be adapted, and the software list includes target software that needs to be adapted; configuring a software installation script corresponding to the target system, and pulling a container system mirror image corresponding to the target system (S102); running, according to the container system mirror image, a virtualized system environment corresponding to the target system (S103); and downloading the target software to a download directory in a container by using the software installation script (S104).
US12223303B2
Apparatuses, systems, and methods for verifying fingerprints associated with components to be installed on printed circuit boards (PCBs). In at least one embodiment, one or more processors determine whether a component fingerprint associated with a component to be installed on the PCB corresponds to an expected fingerprint, the component fingerprint based, at least in part, on a firmware version associated with the component.
US12223299B2
A method includes detecting, by a webhook controller, an inference serverless function invocation. The method further includes determining that the inference serverless function can be optimized. The method further includes generating an optimized version of the inference serverless function using a graph compiler, in response to the determining. The method further includes replacing, by a processing device of the webhook controller, a storage volume in an init container of the inference serverless function with a new storage volume comprising the optimized version of the inference serverless function.
US12223293B2
A random number generation method and random number generator using a ZnS scintillator. The random number generator includes: a radioisotope emission layer emitting an alpha particle or a beta particle that is emitted when an atomic nucleus decays; a polymer layer disposed under the radioisotope emission layer; an inorganic scintillator layer disposed between the radioisotope emission layer and the polymer layer and applied with an inorganic scintillator substance; and a wafer layer disposed under the polymer layer and including a photodiode detecting light produced from the inorganic scintillator layer.
US12223291B2
A matrix multiplication engine can include a plurality of processing elements configured to compute a matrix dot product as a summation of a sequence of vector-vector outer-products.
US12223285B2
A computer implemented method for the automated analysis or use of data is implemented by a voice assistant. The method comprises the steps of: (a) storing in a memory a structured, machine-readable representation of data that conforms to a machine-readable language (‘machine representation’); the machine representation including representations of user speech or text input to a human/machine interface; and (b) automatically processing the machine representations to analyse the user speech or text input.
US12223283B2
There is included a method and apparatus for sentiment analysis for multi-turn conversations comprising computer code for obtaining input dialogues; extracting sentiment expressions based on sentence embeddings corresponding to the input dialogues; generating polarity values based on the sentence embeddings corresponding to the input dialogues; and determining a target mention associated with at least one of the sentiment expressions based on the sentiment expressions and the sentence embeddings, wherein the determining of the target mention includes generating rich contextual representations based on the sentence embeddings and the sentiment expressions; and determining the target mention based on calculated boundaries, wherein the calculated boundaries are generated using the rich contextual representations.
US12223279B2
A method for generating a cross-lingual textual semantic model includes: acquiring a set of training data that includes pieces of monolingual non-parallel text and pieces of bilingual parallel text; determining a semantic vector of each piece of text in the set of training data by inputting each piece of text into an initial textual semantic model; determining a distance between semantic vectors of each two pieces of text in the set of training data based on the semantic vector of each piece of text in the set of training data; determining a gradient modification based on a parallel relationship between each two pieces of text in the set of training data and the distance between the semantic vectors of each two pieces of text in the set of training data; and acquiring a modified textual semantic model by modifying the initial textual semantic model based on the gradient modification.
US12223269B2
A method for training a language model comprises (a) receiving vectorized training data as input to a multitask pretraining problem; (b) generating modified vectorized training data based on the vectorized training data, according to an upstream data embedding; (c) emitting pretraining output based on the modified vectorized training data, according to a downstream data embedding equivalent to the upstream data embedding; and (d) adjusting the upstream data embedding and the downstream data embedding by computing, based on the pretraining output, a gradient of the upstream data embedding disentangled from a gradient of the downstream data embedding, thereby advancing the multitask pretraining problem toward a pretrained state.
US12223268B2
A method for event extraction according to the disclosure includes: processing an object text using a preset extraction model to determine event information of the object text; wherein the event information includes an event element, and an event type and a role corresponding to the event element; and the extraction model includes a classification layer and an output layer; the classification layer is configured to determine a token attribute of a token in the object text; the token attribute includes whether the token is a start token of the event element of any event type and any role, and whether the token is an end token of the event element of any event type and any role; and the output layer is configured to determine the event element according to the token attribute of the token, and determine the event type and the role corresponding to the event element.
US12223263B2
A system includes processing circuitry; and a memory connected to the processing circuitry, wherein the memory is configured to store executable instructions that, when executed by the processing circuitry, facilitate performance of operations, including receive a policy template identifier; receive network element selections; receive network element filter parameters; receive network event parameters; receive conjunctive operation parameters; receive action configuration parameters; and create a network policy template to monitor event messages and perform an action based on the action configuration parameters.
US12223261B2
An image processing apparatus includes at least one memory that stores instructions; and at least one processor that execute the instructions to perform: detecting text blocks in an input image; determining a registered document corresponding to the input image among a plurality of registered documents; determining the text block in the input image that corresponds to a processing target item, based on a partial layout defined in the determined registered document and including a first text block corresponding to the processing target item and at least one second text block present near the first text block; and obtaining a character string corresponding to the processing target item by performing character recognition processing on the determined text block.
US12223242B1
Systems and methods simulate changes to a User Interface (UI) of a software application. During a setup phase, elements of an original UI are extracted and copied in a mesh indicating their position. An event is received and determined to be of a type simulating a change to the copied UI element. Changes to the UI (e.g., field grouping/arrangement; field labeling; error message adjustment; others) are then simulated in a synchronous manner to allow for user inspection. Changes to corresponding development objects of the software application implicated by the simulation, may be derived and reported in an asynchronous manner. Some embodiments may automatically apply the determined changes to the corresponding development objects in the development system. Simulation implemented according to embodiments may accelerate the UI development process, by allowing various stakeholders to review proposed changes in a collaborative manner at the design gate (d-gate) or other UI review meeting stage.
US12223239B2
Simulating operating conditions for quantum computing devices is disclosed. In one example, a processor device of a staging computing device (i.e., a classical non-quantum computing device) receives an operating parameter from a quantum computing device, wherein the operating parameter represents an operating condition of the quantum computing device. The processor device also receives a quantum service definition that defines a quantum service. A quantum simulator of the processor device accesses the quantum service definition, simulates the operating condition of the quantum computing device based on the operating parameter, and then executes the quantum service under the simulated operating condition based on the quantum service definition.
US12223238B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for computer aided design of physical structures using generative design processes. A method includes obtaining one or more design criteria for a modeled object including at least one design constraint; calculating a series of target values for the at least one design constraint, from an initial target value to a final target value; iteratively modifying a generatively designed three dimensional shape of the modeled object in the design space, wherein the iteratively modifying comprises performing numerical simulation of the modeled object, computing shape change velocities for an implicit surface in a level-set representation of the three dimensional shape in accordance with respective ones of target values in the series of target values, starting from the initial target value and ending with the final target value, and updating the level-set representation using the shape change velocities.
US12223237B2
An experiment of processing a device is performed to acquire type 1 information and type 2 information indicating processing conditions, and type 3 information and type 4 information indicating results of the processing, derive a first relation between the type 1 information, the type 2 information, and the type 3 information, and a second relation between the type 1 information, the type 2 information, and the type 4 information, and generate and output a model that estimates the type 4 information indicating a result of the processing by using the first relation and the second relation with the type 2 information and the type 3 information that are measured during the processing as inputs.
US12223234B2
Apparatus for displaying information associated with a wireless location node via a user interface based upon electromagnetic radiation received from a radio target area. More specifically, the present invention relates to methods and systems for receiving electromagnetic radiation received from a radio target area, and presenting digital content in a user interactive interface.
US12223224B1
A data display system and method for new energy digital water purifier is disclosed. The data display system includes a data recording module and a lifetime calculation module. Herein the data recording module is configured to detect and record an initial electric energy generated by the generator when there is a water stream flowing through the new energy digital water purifier after the new energy digital water purifier has replaced a filter element. By calculating the electric energy generated by the generator to reflect the degree of obstruction of the filter element, and by recording generation duration of the generator as the usage duration of the filter element, the user is alerted to replace the filter element in time when the degree of obstruction of the filter element is high or the usage duration is too long.
US12223223B2
Examples described herein relate to a display engine. In some examples, at least one processor is to generate one or more planes of a frame and store the generated one or more planes of a frame into the at least one memory. In some examples, the at least one processor is to determine whether a plane in the frame is a candidate plane for compression. In some examples, for the candidate plane for compression, based on the candidate plane not being subject to compression, the at least one processor is to adjust a plane level of the candidate plane to subject the candidate plane to compression. In some examples, the plane level of the candidate plane to subject the candidate plane to compression is a bottom most level. In some examples, for the candidate plane for compression, based on the candidate plane not being subject to compression and the candidate plane including content that would be occluded by an upper level plane, the at least one processor is to retain a plane level of the candidate plane. In some examples, for the candidate plane for compression, based on the candidate plane not being subject to compression and the candidate plane including content that would not be occluded by an upper level plane, the at least one processor is to adjust the plane level of the candidate plane to a bottom most level.
US12223218B2
A method includes receiving, at a master agent, announcements from candidate consumer agents indicating the presence of the candidate consumer agents. Each announcement includes display parameters for a display of the corresponding candidate consumer agent. The method further includes receiving at the master agent content parameters from a producer agent, the content parameters defining characteristics of content to be provided by the consumer agent. A mosaic screen is configured based on the received announcements and the content parameters. This configuring of the mosaic screen includes selecting ones of the consumer agents for which an announcement was received and generating content distribution parameters based on the content parameters and the display parameters of the selected ones of the consumer agents. The generated content distribution parameters are provided to the consumer agent.
US12223216B2
A display apparatus and a display method thereof are provided. According to an exemplary embodiment, a display method of a display apparatus includes: displaying a plurality of display items corresponding to a plurality of content items comprising a first display item displayed in a first region and remaining display items; displaying the first display item using a first display scheme and displaying the remaining display items using a second display scheme; and in response to sensing a user interaction for moving the display items, changing the display scheme of the first display item while moving the first display item in a direction corresponding to the user interaction, displaying the first display item using the second display scheme and changing the display scheme of second display items of the removing to the first region among the rest display items to the first display scheme.
US12223210B2
A system includes a virtual computational storage emulation module configured to provide a virtual computational storage device. The system further includes a storage element, where the virtual computational storage emulation module is configured to store data associated with the virtual computational storage device at the storage element. The system further includes a compute element. The virtual computational storage emulation module is configured to send a compute request associated with the virtual computational storage device to the compute element.
US12223209B2
Memory devices and a memory controller that controls such memory devices. Multiple memory devices receive commands and addresses on a command/address (C/A) bus that is relayed point-to-point by each memory device. Data is received and sent from these devices to/from a memory controller in a point-to-point configuration by adjusting the width of each individual data bus coupled between the individual memory devices and the memory controller. Along with the C/A bus are clock signals that are regenerated by each memory device and relayed. The memory controller and memory devices may be packaged on a single substrate using package-on-package technology. Using package-on-package technology allows the relayed C/A signals to connect from memory device to memory device using wire bonding. Wirebond connections provide a short, high-performance signaling environment for the chip-to-chip relaying of the C/A signals and clocks from one memory device to the next in the daisy-chain.
US12223207B2
An memory component includes a memory bank and a command interface to receive a read-modify-write command, having an associated read address indicating a location in the memory bank and to either access read data from the location in the memory bank indicated by the read address after an adjustable delay period transpires from a time at which the read-modify-write command was received or to overlap multiple read-modify-write commands. The memory component further includes a data interface to receive write data associated with the read-modify-write command and an error correction circuit to merge the received write data with the read data to form a merged data and write the merged data to the location in the memory bank indicated by the read address.
US12223200B2
The objective of the present invention is to efficiently manage data required to verify the loading waiting time of a logistics contractor (truck driver), while ensuring the accuracy of the data. A metadata storage control unit 103 executes control to cause metadata relating to main data to be stored on a network N using blockchain technology or distributed ledger technology. A main data storage control unit 104 executes control to associate linking data linking metadata stored on the network N and the main data with the main data, and to store the same in a main data database 181 on a server 1.
US12223196B1
A technique for managing metadata changes in a storage system provides different aggregation policies for use with different metadata. The technique includes assigning metadata changes to respective aggregation policies and storing the assigned metadata changes in a set of data structures. The technique further includes destaging the metadata changes from the set of data structures separately for the different aggregation policies in accordance with settings specific to those aggregation policies.
US12223185B2
According to an embodiment, an electronic device includes: at least one processor and a memory configured to store instructions that can be executed by the processor, wherein the processor may be configured to: monitor information about the storage space of the memory and usage histories of a plurality of objects executed by the processor, determine a target object, of which the compile scheme is to be changed, among the plurality of objects based on at least one of the information and the usage histories; and increase the free storage space of the memory by changing the compile scheme of the target object.
US12223181B2
A storage device includes at least one nonvolatile memory device and a storage controller. The storage controller controls the at least one nonvolatile memory device based on a request from an external host. The storage controller adaptively adjusts an impedance of a transmission driver based on a change of an operating temperature of the storage device. The transmission driver transmits a transmission signal to the external host through a link. The storage device may increase an eye height of the transmission signal transmitted to the host through the link by decreasing impedance of the transmission driver as the operating temperature increases. Therefore, the storage device according to example embodiments may maintain reliability of the link even though the operating temperature of the storage device increases.
US12223178B2
According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a nonvolatile memory and a CPU. The CPU stores, to the nonvolatile memory, first data, and management data including information equivalent to a write command associated with the first data and designating a first LBA range, and performs a first transmission of the write command to a memory system. When writing of second data to a second LBA range including a third LBA range that is at least a portion of the first LBA range or deallocation of the second LBA range is requested before a second response to the write command is received, the CPU transmits, to the system, a command to cancel writing to at least the third LBA range from writing of the first data to the first LBA range in accordance with the write command.
US12223174B2
This document describes systems and techniques for modulating credit allocations in memory subsystems. The described systems and techniques can provide a feedback mechanism to a credit controller to improve the bandwidth at a memory interface. The memory controller monitors statistics associated with transaction requests served to one or more random access memories (RAMs) of the memory subsystem. The memory controller can then provide suggestions to the credit controller or to the one or more clients to modulate the number of credits allocated to one or more clients. In this way, the described systems and techniques can improve the efficiency of the memory controller in managing the transaction requests and the bandwidth at the memory interface.
US12223165B2
A system includes a multi-core shared memory controller (MSMC). The MSMC includes a snoop filter bank, a cache tag bank, and a memory bank. The cache tag bank is connected to both the snoop filter bank and the memory bank. The MSMC further includes a first coherent slave interface connected to a data path that is connected to the snoop filter bank. The MSMC further includes a second coherent slave interface connected to the data path that is connected to the snoop filter bank. The MSMC further includes an external memory master interface connected to the cache tag bank and the memory bank. The system further includes a first processor package connected to the first coherent slave interface and a second processor package connected to the second coherent slave interface. The system further includes an external memory device connected to the external memory master interface.
US12223163B2
An interaction method, an interaction apparatus, an electronic device, and a storage medium are provided. The interaction method includes: displaying a target object in a first display mode on a target object display interface, where in the first display mode, the target object display interface includes a first interactive control; receiving a display mode switching on the target object display interface; and in response to the display mode switching, displaying the target object in a second display mode on the target object display interface, where in the second display mode, the target object display interface includes a second interactive control different from the first interactive control.
US12223161B2
An information processing apparatus includes a detection unit configured to detect a position of a manipulation body on a display screen and a control unit configured to, if a first manipulation on the display screen in a locked state is detected, display, on the display screen, icons to be arranged based on a reference point indicating a position of the manipulation body when the first manipulation is completed, and if a second manipulation indicating a direction from the reference point is detected, start up an application corresponding to the icon specified by the second manipulation. An associated method and computer readable storage medium are also described.
US12223147B2
In printed wiring that is formed, on a surface of a base member. by a film of cured electrically conductive ink and that includes: a wavy line; a first wiring element located at one side of both sides sandwiching the wavy line in a width direction; and a second wiring element located at the other side of the both sides and adjacently to the wavy line; a surplus wavy line is provided which is another wavy line, which extends along the wavy line adjacently to the wavy line between the wavy line and the first wiring element, and which is connected to the wavy line to have the same potential.
US12223145B2
[Object] To provide a movement control apparatus that is capable of controlling the movement of a movable body using an intuitive operation, and the movable body. [Solving Means] A movement control apparatus according to the present technology includes a motion controller and an operation instructing section. The motion controller causes a movable body to perform motion. The operation instructing section gives an instruction to the motion controller on the basis of output of a sensor such that the movable body performs motion, the sensor detecting a distribution of pressure applied to a detection surface.
US12223140B2
Provided is a display device comprising a display panel, an input sensor including a first sensing area having a first sub-area and a second sub-area, and a first sensor controller configured to drive the first sensing area. Here, the input sensor includes first sensing electrodes disposed in the first sub-area to receive a first transmission signal from the first sensor controller, second sensing electrodes disposed in the first sub-area and intersected with the first sensing electrodes, third sensing electrodes disposed in the second sub-area to receive a second transmission signal having a phase inverted from that of the first transmission signal from the first sensor controller, and fourth sensing electrodes disposed in the second sub-area and intersected with the third sensing electrodes.
US12223132B2
According to an embodiment of the disclosure, a display device includes a sensor driver receiving firmware from an host in which the firmware is stored, the sensor driver including a second memory storing the firmware supplied from the host and initialized when a reset signal is supplied from the host, and a sensing unit for supplying a recovery signal corresponding to an abnormal state of the sensor driver to the host while sensing at least one of an internal voltage and a clock signal of the sensor driver.
US12223124B2
Methods and systems are described herein for detecting motion-induced errors received from inertial-type input devices and for generating accurate vehicle control commands that account for operator movement. These methods and systems may determine, using motion data from inertial sensors, whether the hand/arm of the operator is moving in the same motion as the body of the operator, and if both are moving in the same way, these systems and methods may determine that the motion is not intended to be a motion-induced command. However, if the hand/arm of the operator is moving in a different motion from the body of the operator, these methods and systems may determine that the operator intended the motion to be a motion-induced command to a vehicle.
US12223116B2
A gesture-based display interface control method and apparatus, a device and a storage medium, belonging to the technical field of intelligent devices. The method includes: acquiring a first gesture of a user, and determining whether the first gesture is kept for more than a preset time; if the first gesture is kept for more than the preset time, displaying a target virtual gesture point on the current display interface; and acquiring a second gesture of the user, and moving the target virtual gesture point on the current display interface according to the second gesture. According to the method, the virtual gesture point is displayed on the display interface, and the virtual gesture point is randomly moved on the display interface, so that any interactive control on the current display interface can be operated, and gesture control is more intelligent and comprehensive while improving the accuracy of gesture control.
US12223107B2
Provided is a system for controlling digital cinematic content based on emotional state of characters. A focus on one or more computer-controlled characters appearing in digital cinematic content is determined based on emotion indicators of a first user actively interacting with at least the one or more computer-controlled characters. A set of emotion indicators is inferred for each of the one or more computer-controlled characters based on one or more criteria and multifactor feedback loops are created. A story line of the digital cinematic content and behavioural characteristics of the one or more computer-controlled characters are controlled to achieve a target emotional arc of the first user based on the multifactor feedback loops.
US12223102B2
A remote work support system includes a wearable device worn by a site worker, a mobile terminal carried by the site worker separately from the wearable device, and a support operator terminal used by a support operator who remotely supports the site worker. The wearable device includes an image capturing unit, a voice input unit, and a voice output unit. The wearable device transmits an image. The wearable device transmits and receives voice. The mobile terminal includes a display unit to display a received image. The support operator terminal includes a voice input unit, a voice output unit, and a display unit. The support operator terminal transmits and receive voice to and from the wearable device. The support operator terminal receives an image from the wearable device. The support operator terminal transmits an image to the mobile terminal.
US12223100B2
A real time, on-the-fly data encryption system is operable to encrypt and decrypt data flow between a secure processor and an unsecure external memory system. Multiple memory segments are supported, each with its own separate encryption capability, or no encryption at all. Data integrity is ensured by hardware protection from code attempting to access data across memory segment boundaries. Protection is also provided against dictionary attacks by monitoring multiple access attempts to the same memory location.
US12223094B1
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for storing patient medical information on a local processing device, anonymizing a portion of that medical information and storing it on a second processing device, exposing that anonymized medical information to a third processing device coupled to the second processing device through a network, and restricting users of the third processing device to only accessing HIPAA compliant medical information. Alarms are included for indicating the improper transfer of HIPAA data.
US12223093B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for preserving patient privacy while transmitting health data from one geographic region to another geographic region for data analysis. One method includes receiving patient-specific health data including patient privacy information at a first region; removing the patient privacy information from the patient-specific health data to generate anonymous health data; storing the patient privacy information at the first region; and transmitting the anonymous health data to a second region for analysis.
US12223089B2
A method for data filtering that identifies a topic of interest for a user and individual sub-topics within the topic the user could be, or is, interested in. A three-dimensional map depicting a topic of interest containing markers for the sub-topics is created and used to specify a level of detail about the user's interest in the sub-topics that can be shared to or used by an external source.
US12223086B2
Blockchain-based workflow management for patient samples. In an embodiment, for each of a plurality of first devices, a request for a unique sample identifier is received from the first device, and, in response to the request, the unique sample identifier is generated and sent to the first device. Then, for each of a plurality of second devices and for each of a plurality of interactions, interaction information is received from the second device, a transaction is generated from the interaction information, and the transaction is recorded in an immutable ledger. The interaction information may comprise a unique sample identifier, a user identifier, a location, an event type, and a timestamp.
US12223079B2
A method comprises receiving in a governor device, from a plurality of data owner devices, metadata for one or more datasets maintained by the plurality of data owner devices, registering the metadata for the one or more datasets with the governor device, in response to a request from an aggregator, providing at least a portion of the metadata for the one or more datasets to the aggregator, receiving, from the aggregator, a compute plan to be implemented by the plurality of data owner devices, distributing at least a portion of the compute plan to the plurality of data owner devices, in response to receiving, from the plurality of data owner devices, a verification report and a certification for an enclave, binding the enclave to a host device, and providing the compute plan to the plurality of data owner devices.
US12223078B2
The invention discloses privacy protection query language PQL and system thereof, comprising PQL statement and system, the system comprises parsing module, query module and noise-injection module; the parsing module comprises lexical analyzer and syntactic analyzer; user inputs PQL statement according to predetermined semantic and syntactic rules, after parsing module receives the PQL statement, lexical analyzer performs error checks on the PQL statement, correct results are sent to syntactic analyzer; the syntactic analyzer performs grammatical and semantic checks on PQL statement, generates a mapping table and a parameter table with correct results; after receiving mapping table, the query module encapsulates the same into SQL statement, and verifies the encapsulated SQL statement; the noise-injection module obtains final query results of the query module, calculates noise injection sensitivity according to parameter table; the invention ensures the data privacy security and satisfies that the injected noise does not affect data availability.
US12223070B2
An aspect relates to generation of a secure token based on encrypted and/or hashed data associated with a user and/or an asset, and recording the secure token on a distributed database. An encrypted communication may be received from a user device, the communication comprising an instruction to remove security content from a third party database record, the security content stored in association with a first asset, the security content configured to inhibit recording of at least a first document type in association with the first asset. In response to the instruction, generating the security content and causing the security content to be recorded in association with the first asset.
US12223061B1
A non-transitory processor-readable medium stores code representing instructions to be executed by one or more processors, and the instructions include code to cause the one or more processors to (1) receive executable binary code and a specification that defines a constraint and (2) generate a predicate set. The code also causes the one or more processors to identify an argument of a function to be called by the executable binary code, the argument identified based on a map. A constrained predicate set is generated based on the predicate set and the machine-readable specification and, using solver software, the code causes the one or more processors to determine that the argument satisfies the constraint based on the constrained predicate set. A signal that indicates that the executable binary code is associated with a predetermined software action is generated in response to determining the argument satisfies the constraint.
US12223045B1
Versions of an application program are evaluated to protect a customer from a supply chain attack. The versions of the application program are executed in to identify behaviors exhibited by the versions of the application program, each of the behaviors including activities that perform computer operations. A behavior change is detected by identifying a behavior that is not common to the versions of the application program.
US12223043B2
An electronic apparatus and a security protection method are disclosed. The electronic apparatus includes a security protection apparatus and a first processor. Security isolation exists between the security protection apparatus and the first processor. The first processor is configured to operate when driven by software, and the software includes an operating system and/or an application. The security protection apparatus is configured to: perform security detection on the software, and when detecting that the software is tampered with, perform a security protection operation on the electronic apparatus. In this way, the electronic apparatus may be monitored in real time during an operating process of the electronic apparatus, to avoid theft or modification of important data such as key data and improve security.
US12223035B2
A method comprises generating, during a software build process conducted in a trusted build environment, a trusted log comprising a plurality of records of actions performed during the software build process and a plurality of identifiers of tools used to perform the actions, aggregating the plurality of records of actions and the plurality of identifiers into a build certificate file, generating a digital signature to be applied to the build certificate, and publishing the build certificate in association with one or more build artifacts generated by the software build process.
US12223033B2
Disclosed is a method of providing a security service. The method is configured to include the steps of receiving a link connectable to a web page from a device of a user, connecting to a web page corresponding to the link through a remote browser and determining a risk of the connected web page, rendering a screen of the web page to be processed in the remote browser according to the determined risk, and streaming and transmitting the rendered web page screen to provide substantially the same user experience (UX) as a browser installed in the device.
US12223032B2
The present application discloses a password protection method. Aiming at the current problem that, when a plurality of passwords are used, the plurality of passwords may be invalidated after one password is compromised, a password protection method is provided, which comprises: after password authentication is successful, determining, according to a password currently passing the authentication, a specified bit of password invalidation enable identifiers stored in a storage medium, wherein there is only one specified bit because there is only one authenticated password; setting the specified bit to be in an allowed state and other bits to be in a non-allowed state, wherein the password invalidation enable identifiers are in one-to-one correspondence with passwords according to bits, and only when one bit of the password invalidation enable identifiers is in the allowed state, an invalidation operation on the passwords is allowed; determining whether a password invalidation request is received; and if a password invalidation request is received, performing invalidation operation on the password corresponding to the specified bit.
US12223027B2
Centralized management of a Data Processing Unit (DPU) Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) through an integrated server remote access controller (iRAC) may include embedding a secure token in a communication from the iRAC to a BMC of a DPU, the secure token authorizing the iRAC to the DPU BMC and authorizing the DPU BMC to the iRAC. The secure token may include a first layer token authorizing the iRAC to the DPU and authorizing the DPU to the iRAC and a second layer token authorizing the DPU to the DPU BMC and authorizing the BMC to the DPU. Alternatively, the secure token may be generated by the iRAC generating an initial token authorizing the iRAC to the DPU and authorizing the DPU to the iRAC, the iRAC embedding the initial token in a request to the DPU for a resource of the DPU BMC and the DPU generating the secure token.
US12223015B2
A computer-implemented method includes receiving a document insight request that requests document insights for a corpus of documents. The document insight request includes the corpus of documents, a set of entities contained within each document of the corpus of documents, and document insight request parameters that includes a confidence value threshold. The method also includes generating the document insights for the corpus of documents based on the confidence value threshold. Here, the document insights include an accuracy target and a user review rate target. The method also includes transmitting the document insights to the user device causing a graphical user interface to display the document insights on the user device.
US12223011B1
Techniques for data manipulation using integer matrix multiplication using pipelining are disclosed. A first integer matrix with dimensions m×k and a second integer matrix with dimensions k×n are obtained for matrix multiplication within a processor. The first and second integer matrices employ a two's complement variable radix point data representation. The first and second integer matrices are distilled into (j×j) submatrices. A first variable radix point format and an initial value for an accumulator register are configured dynamically. A first variable radix point format is configured dynamically for the first integer matrix and a second variable radix point format is configured dynamically for the second integer matrix. Multiply-accumulate operations are executed in a pipelined fashion on the (j×j) submatrices of the first integer matrix and the second integer matrix, where a third variable radix point format is configured for the result.
US12223010B2
According to one implementation of the present disclosure, a method includes performing a spatial alignment of at least one of first or second data tiers of a circuit; and performing a computation based on the spatial alignment of the at least one of the first and second data tiers. According to another implementation of the present disclosure, a circuit includes: a compute circuitry; and at least first and second data tiers of two or more data tiers positioned at least partially overlapping one another. In an example, each of the at least first and second data tiers is coupled to the compute circuitry. In certain implementations, the positioning of the first and second data tiers at least partially overlapping one another corresponds to a spatial alignment.
US12223008B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for validating interactions with false rendered elements. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a rendering notification and a declaration of a rendered element defined in an active window on a client device, detecting interaction with the rendered element at the client device, determining whether the interaction occurred at a declared location of the rendered element within the active window, and processing the interaction including: in response to determining that the interaction occurred: capturing a screenshot of the active window on the client device; verifying a visual appearance of the rendered element in the screenshot with a declared appearance of the rendered element, and generating an interaction attestation, thereby validating the interaction. In response to determining that the interaction did not occur, refraining from generating the interaction attestation.
US12223007B2
Systems and methods for multi-directional visual browsing on an electronic device are described. In example embodiments, a primary result and a peripheral result are determined. A display layout based on attributes associated with the primary result and the peripheral result is generated. The display layout is then formatted into instructions, which will cause a device to render the display layout. The instructions are transmitted to the client device.
US12223001B2
The disclosed embodiments provide a system for processing data. During operation, the system determines activity features for candidates that match parameters of a search from a moderator of an opportunity, wherein the activity features include an amount of interaction between a candidate and additional moderators and a frequency of visits by the candidate to a platform used to conduct the interaction between the candidate and the additional moderators. Next, the system applies a machine learning model to the activity features to produce activeness scores representing levels of activity of the candidates with respect to the platform. The system then generates a ranking of the candidates according to the activeness scores. Finally, the system outputs at least a portion of the ranking as a set of search results of the search.
US12223000B2
The data shaping system comprises a computer implemented algorithm that uses modifiers (e.g., time available to study, educational attainment of the user, etc.) to shape data retrieved from one or more datasets for consumption by a user. A dataset may comprise text, images, video, audio, or a combination thereof. The data shaping system is configured to curate data, retrieved from selected datasets, using modifiers to shape (or assemble) an output document that is presented to the user for review. In this way, the user is provided with a curated subset of data, which is an assemblage of information about two or more topics of interest and how the two or more topics of interest are related, that has been tailored to their needs. In some implementations, the output document may be text, one or more images, audio, video, or a combination thereof.
US12222993B1
A screen reader application traverses each node in a document object model (DOM) for the text stylization. Properties for foreground color, background color, font type, font size and font stylization are algorithmically reduced to an identifier. Each node in the DOM with the same identifier has the same text stylization. Unique and infrequent text stylizations by a webpage author signal a point of interest. The screen reader application locates and navigates to that node in the DOM on behalf or in response to the end user. Points of interest are further identified by a number of additional factors. A first includes percentage of text of having the text stylization versus total text in the DOM. A second includes excluding candidate point of interest nodes having more than 250 characters. Others include imposing minimum font sizes and text contrast ratios to qualify as a point of interest.
US12222991B2
In some examples, an anomaly database system is provided for processing metrics in telemetry data. An example anomaly database system comprises a continuous data management (CDM) node, the CDM node including a metrics library for sending out system metrics in a sparse manner and a statistics relay for receiving streaming metrics from nodes in a node cluster, the node cluster including the CDM node, the statistics relay pushing the received metrics to a metrics collector. A sparse consumers module pulls metrics, from the metrics collector, pushed to the metrics collector by the statistics relay.
US12222990B2
A FAQ maintenance support device 1 includes a question determining unit 12 to extract determined question items determined as question items of a customer, from contents of an inquiry from the customer and a response to the customer; a query log extracting unit 14 to extract search queries, which corresponds to the question items of the customer stored in a FAQ search system and have been determined such that all FAQ as search results for the search query are useless for the customer; and a maintenance question candidate extracting unit 15 to perform clustering with elements of question items of FAQ registered in the FAQ search system, the determined question items, and the search queries, and based on the clustering result, extract a candidate question item of FAQ to be maintained, and thereby, maintenance such as addition and deletion of FAQ can be performed easily.
US12222987B1
Provided are techniques for performing a search using a hypergraph. Entities are identified. A knowledge graph using the entities is generated, wherein nodes of the knowledge graph represent the entities and edges between the nodes represent pair-wise relationships, and wherein each of the edges carries an edge score that quantifies a degree of coherence between a pair of the entities. A hypergraph using the knowledge graph is generated, wherein nodes of the hypergraph represent the entities and hyperedges represent relationships between multiple entities, and wherein each of the hyperedges carries a hyperedge score that quantifies a degree of coherence between the multiple entities. A search request is received. A search result is generated using the hypergraph, wherein the search result comprises a set of coherently related entities. The search result is returned.
US12222985B2
In order to implement the foregoing object, an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure discloses a video retrieval method performed by a computing device. The video retrieval method may include: segmenting one or more video data into two or more unit video data; encoding, by one or more encoders comprised in a machine learning enabled key frame detection module, two or more unit video data; generating one or more key frame detection vectors for each of the two or more unit video data based on the result of the encoding; and generating feature vector of one or more retrieval video data based on a combination of one or more vectors among the key frame detection vectors.
US12222981B2
Systems and methods for teaching control button functionality to an occupant of a vehicle are disclosed herein. In an embodiment, a system for teaching control button functionality to an occupant of a vehicle includes a plurality of adjustable vehicle components, an audio device, a plurality of control buttons, and a controller. The audio device is configured to receive an audible trigger from the occupant. The plurality of control buttons are each configured to cause an adjustment of at least one adjustable vehicle component when actuated by the occupant. The controller is programmed to (i) disable the plurality of control buttons upon reception of the audible trigger by the audio device, and (ii) upon actuation of a control button of the plurality of control buttons, cause the audio device to output an audible message relating to the at least one adjustable vehicle component configured to be adjusted by the control button.
US12222969B2
A page-table size is reduced. A management device manages a data group by dividing the data group into pages. The management device includes a page-processing unit and a data-log-management unit. When update processing is first executed on an update target page in the current-generation, the page-processing unit secures a free space and updates the update target page on the secured free space. The page-processing unit adds, to a data log file of the current-generation, a CPUNDO log indicating a correspondence between a logical address and a physical address in the update target page. The data-log-management unit writes data at starting of the current-generation to a data storage device for the immediately previous operation page. The data-log-management unit adds, to the data log file of the current-generation, a CPREDO log indicating a correspondence between the logical address and the physical address in the immediately previous operation page.
US12222968B2
Computer implemented methods, systems, and computer program products include program code executing on a processor(s) that obtains text from a computing resources in a domain and segments it into sentences. The processor(s) identifies entities in each sentence. The processor(s) classifies each entity with a sentiment (a polarity). The processor(s) identifies, for each sentence, a given entity with a strongest sentiment. The processor(s) derives for each sentence, for each entity, emotions and classifies each emotion by assigning a polarity to each and scoring each. The processor(s) calculates, based on the (emotion) scores, a mean and a standard deviation from the mean. The processor(s) maps the given entity for each sentence to a strongest emotion for the given entity where the polarity of the strongest emotion is the same as the polarity of the strongest sentiment. The processor(s) determines if each strongest emotion is within the standard deviation from the mean.
US12222967B2
Systems and methods include a computer-implemented method for generating and using a graph/document structure to store reservoir simulation results. A graph is generated that represents reservoir simulation results of a reservoir simulation performed on a reservoir using a reservoir simulation model. The graph represents a full set of relational data and non-relational data included in the reservoir simulation results. The graph stores graph information and relational data in a graph/document structure. Objects of the reservoir, elements of the reservoir simulation results, and inputs of the reservoir simulation model are represented as vertices in the graph. Relationships between vertices are represented as edges in the graph. An edge is defined by a pair of vertices in the graph.
US12222965B2
A system includes a computing platform having processing hardware and a memory storing a software code. The processing hardware executes the software code to receive a dataset including at least some data samples having multiple metadata labels, and identify a partitioning constraint and a partitioning of the dataset into data subsets. The software code also executed obtains, for each metadata label, a desired distribution ratio based on the number of the data subsets and a total number of instances that each metadata label has been applied to the data samples, aggregates, using the partitioning constraint, the data samples into data sample groups, assigns, using the partitioning constraint and the desired distribution ratio for each of the metadata labels, each of the data sample groups to one of the data subsets, wherein each of the data subsets are unique, and trains, using one of the data subsets, a machine learning model.
US12222936B2
A method, performed by at least one processor, and an apparatus for augmenting multi-turn text-to-SQL datasets is provided. The method and computer program code include generating an SQL-to-text model to converse with a text-to-SQL model, pre-training the SQL-to-text model and the text-to-SQL model based on input training data, sampling an SQL query as a goal query of an interaction between the SQL-to-text model and the text-to-SQL model, generating the interaction based on the goal query, a current utterance, previous utterances in the interaction, an SQL query from a preceding turn of the interaction, and a serialized database, filtering interactions based on a similarity score between the last turn of the interaction and the goal query, and re-training the SQL-to-text model and the text-to-SQL model based on the input training data and the filtered interactions.
US12222923B2
Techniques for constructing transaction lock wait history showing blocker queries are described. A first transaction referencing a resource saved in a network-based data warehouse is received where the first transaction being blocked due to second transaction accessing the resource. A first telemetry event based on the first transaction being blocked is transmitted. After acquiring lock ownership of the resource by the first transaction, a second telemetry event based on acquiring lock ownership by the first transaction is transmitted.
US12222916B2
A coupling table search device 530 includes: input means 531 that receives an input of a coupling index from a coupling index storage unit 520; search plan generation means 532 that calculates, for each coupling index, the number of results that is the number of couplable record pairs estimated in a case where a record in a target column is found using the coupling index for each similarity function, and generates a search plan that defines a use order of the coupling index in descending order of the calculated number of results; and record search means 533 that searches for a record in the target column by using the coupling index in the order defined in the search plan, and specifies the external table in which records whose number is equal to or larger than a predetermined threshold have been found as a coupling table.
US12222905B2
Heterogeneous sets of cloud applications and storage can be bridged. Cloud services can be configured to include a Web Application Open Platform Interface (WOPI) abstractor, multiple WOPI servers corresponding to respective multiple WOPI clients of cloud applications that may be used to access files, and a cloud storage abstractor that functions as an intermediary between the multiple WOPI servers and multiple cloud storages in which the files may be stored. The cloud services allow a user to access a single webpage or other interface to obtain access to his or her files stored in the multiple cloud storages via any of the multiple cloud applications.
US12222903B1
Embodiments are directed to managing data in a file system. In response to a request from a client of a spoke file system to access file system items shared by a hub file system: determining a portion of the spoke file systems that may have an existing lock on the file system items; obtaining log entries from the portion of the spoke file systems such that the log entries are associated with commands that were executed in the portion of the spoke file systems; executing the commands in the hub file system to update the file system items in the hub file system; granting a lock on the file system items in the hub file system that enables the client to access the updated file system items from the spoke file systems.
US12222900B1
A system can maintain respective extended attributes for respective files in a file system, wherein the respective extended attributes comprise respective first-in-first-out (FIFO) queues of user identities that have been determined to have modified the respective files. The system can receive an indication to perform a delete operation on a first portion of the file system, wherein the indication is indicative of a first user identity for which files are to be preserved. The system can, in response to receiving the indication, evaluate the respective files, comprising in response to determining that the first user identity is omitted from a FIFO queue of the respective FIFO queues, delete a file of the respective files that corresponds to the FIFO queue; and in response to determining that the first user identity is identified in the FIFO queue, refrain from deleting the file.
US12222899B2
A system and a method are disclosed for automatic content upload and process. The system retrieves a set of files from a source location based on instructions received from a client device of a user. The system then classifies the set of files into a plurality of categories corresponding to a sequence of one or more services configured to process or store files. The system then generates a data structure storing key values, where the key values are derived based on respective processing of subsets of files. Responsive to receiving an input to execute logic relating to the set of files, the system determines that the input is associated with one or more of the key values, retrieves the one or more of the key values, and executing the logic using the one or more retrieved key values.
US12222898B1
An AI based system and method for processing and querying files. A method of processing files for an artificial intelligence (AI) querying service includes: hierarchically parsing the files into a set of hierarchically connected data chunks; generating metadata for each of the hierarchically connected data chunks, wherein the metadata includes hierarchical information; processing the hierarchically connected data chunks and metadata with an embedding model to generate vector embeddings that include the hierarchical information; generating textual summaries from the hierarchically connected data chunks; and storing the vector embeddings, textual summaries, and hierarchically connected data chunks for the AI querying service.
US12222891B2
Handshake controller and handshake control method for one or more charging protocols. For example, a handshake controller for one or more charging protocols includes: a port detection unit connected to a plurality of USB ports and configured to generate a detection signal; a port selection unit configured to receive the detection signal and connected to the plurality of USB ports; an interface unit connected to the port selection unit; and a digital handshake unit connected to the interface unit; wherein the port detection unit is further configured to: determine whether a single USB port of the plurality of USB ports is connected to a load device.
US12222890B2
A method of programming a fabric-coupled FPGA device includes instructing a communication fabric to establish a first logical partition segregating a first set of communication switch ports within the communication fabric that includes the management processor and a target device comprising a memory device configured to program a field-programmable gate array (FPGA). The method includes directing configuration data configured to program the FPGA to the target device over the first logical partition. The method includes instructing the communication fabric to remove the first logical partition in the communication fabric, wherein the configuration data remains stored at the target device after removal of the first logical partition. The method includes instructing the communication fabric to establish a second logical partition segregating a second set of communication switch ports within the communication fabric that includes a selected device and the target device that stores the configuration data.
US12222884B2
An apparatus for a microprocessor computer system and method for configuring the same where said microprocessor computer system comprises a processor core and at least one hardware buffer FIFO with memory-mapped head and tail that handles data movement among the processor cores, networks, raw data input and outputs, and memory. The method for configuring said microprocessor computer system comprises utilizing a FIFO auxiliary processor to process said data traversing said hardware FIFO; utilizing said hardware FIFOs to efficiently pipe data through functional blocks; and utilizing a FIFO controller to perform DMA operations that include non-unit-stride access patterns and transfers among processor cores, networks, raw data input and outputs, memory, and other memory-mapped hardware FIFOs.
US12222880B2
This application is directed to a stacked semiconductor device assembly including a plurality of identical stacked integrated circuit (IC) devices. Each IC device further includes a master interface, a channel master circuit, a slave interface, a channel slave circuit, a memory core, and a modal pad configured to receive a selection signal for the IC device to communicate data using one of its channel master circuit or its channel slave circuit. In some implementations, the IC devices include a first IC device and one or more second IC devices. In accordance with the selection signal, the first IC device is configured to communicate read/write data via the channel master circuit of the first IC device, and each of the one or more second IC devices is configured to communicate respective read/write data via the channel slave circuit of the respective second IC device.
US12222877B2
A NVMe™ or NVMe-over-fabrics enabled device with video codec functionality may be seen to overcome scalability problem of known hardware assisted video codec solutions. The device of aspects of the present application may or may not have storage media. A host computer communicates with the device through NVMe™ commands. The device may be in one of many SSD form factors, such as U.2 or AIC. The device may be provided as a component in NVMe-enabled computers or NVMe-over-fabrics-enabled systems.
US12222873B2
Embodiments described herein may include apparatus, systems, techniques, or processes that are directed to PCIe Address Translation Service (ATS) to allow devices to have a DevTLB that caches address translation (per page) information in conjunction with a Device ProcessInfoCache (DevPIC) that will store process specific information. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US12222868B2
A processor for building a homogeneous dual computing system is shown. The processor has a trusted core, a normal core, and a shared cache. The trusted core has an access right to an isolated storage space of a system memory. The normal core is homogeneous with the trusted core, and is prohibited from accessing the isolated storage space. In response to a cache flush instruction issued by the normal core, the trusted core initiates and executes a second cache write-back instruction that is different from the first cache write-back instruction. According to the second cache write-back instruction, isolated data associated with the isolated storage space and cached in the shared cache is written back to the isolated storage space before being flushed.
US12222867B2
A technology flushing a hierarchical cache structure based on a designated key identification code and a designated address. A processor includes a first core and a last level cache (LLC). The first core includes a decoder, a memory ordering buffer, and a first in-core cache module. In response to an Instruction Set Architecture (ISA) instruction that requests to flush a hierarchical cache structure according to a designated key identification code and a designated address, the decoder outputs at least one microinstruction. According to the at least one microinstruction, a flushing request with the designated key identification code and the designated address is provided to the first in-core cache module through the memory ordering buffer, and then the first in-core cache module provides the LLC with the flushing request, so that the LLC flushes its matching cache line which matches the designated key identification code and the designated address.
US12222866B2
A method of contention-free lookup including mapping a key of a cache lookup operation to determine an expected location of object data, walking a collision chain by determining whether a cache header signature matches a collision chain signature, when the cache header signature does not match, again walking the collision chain, when the cache header signature matches, determining whether a key in the cache header signature matches the key of the cache lookup operation, when the key does not match, reading a cache entry corresponding to the cache lookup operation, and repopulating the cache entry, when the key matches, acquiring an entry lock, and determining whether the key still matches after acquiring the entry lock, when the key still matches finding the object data in the expected location, and when the key no longer matches, releasing the entry lock, and again walking the collision chain.
US12222859B2
A method and system for high-speed caching of data writing, a device and a storage medium. The method includes: in response to receiving a data-writing operating instruction emitted by a host, creating a controlling page table and filling sequentially a plurality of control blocks into the controlling page table; submitting an entry pointer of a first instance of the control blocks to a work-queue scheduling engine, to execute tasks corresponding to the plurality of control blocks alternately in the work-queue scheduling engine; sending in advance a completion response to the host and notifying a firmware to perform subsequent processing and falling-into-disk of data; and in response to ending of execution of a task corresponding to a last one instance of the control blocks, releasing a used resource of the controlling page table.
US12222848B2
Various embodiments are generally directed to techniques for test automation portals for behavior-driven development. Some embodiments are particularly directed to a user interface portal and supporting systems that allow users of various capabilities to view available Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) tests, select one or more BDD tests, execute/schedule automated BDD tests, view execution results, and view execution history from one central location without the need for programming/developer skills.
US12222846B2
According to certain aspects of the disclosure, non-transitory computer readable media, systems and methods are disclosed for creating and executing test scenarios for automated testing of web pages. A computer system, for example, may perform operations including: recording one or more actions performed by a user on a web page, the one or more actions resulting in a web page element being displayed in the web browser application, recording an identifier of the web page element, in response to detecting a user input indicating a selection of the web page element, and recording a characteristic of the web page element; and generating, by the testing extension, a test scenario specifying a testable outcome resulting from the one or more actions, the testable outcome being an occurrence of an element having the identifier and the characteristic.
US12222845B2
An apparatus and a method relate to generating a test scenario for testing a web application. The disclosure includes executing a script that causes a transition of a screen to a reference screen of the web application. From the reference screen, the disclosure dynamically performs a screen transition analysis for subsequent screens that are transitioned from previous screens of the web application. The subsequent screens for the dynamically performing the screen transition analysis are within a boundary according to a predetermined number of hops from the reference screen. The screen transition analysis includes automatically generating a test scenario and input data for causing screen transitions in the web application. Based on the screen transitions, the screen transition analysis generates screen transition data diagram for testing the web application.
US12222843B2
Methods, system, and non-transitory processor-readable storage medium for bug fix system are provided herein. An example method includes executing at least one test on a system using an automated test tool. The bug fix system predicts at least one characteristic of a test related failure that occurred during the execution using test data produced by the automated test tool. The bug fix system predicts at least one source of the test related failure using the test data produced by the automated test tool.
US12222837B2
Provided are a method, system, and computer program product in which a computational device generates information on an application switch by a user from a first application in a first device to a second application in a second device. Additional information continues to be generated on application switches on the second device. A visualization of the information and the additional information is provided to the user to allow the user to return to a point at which the application switch to the second application in the second device took place from the first application in the first device.
US12222836B2
A method and system for rendering a stack trace visualization display has been developed. A first stack trace associated with execution of an application during a time period is received from a central processing unit profiler. A first stack trace visualization display is rendered including a plurality of stack frames stacked in accordance with an order of ancestry based on the first stack trace. Rendering at least one stack frame involves rendering at a first location of the first stack trace visualization display, a stack frame rectangle for the at least one stack frame in accordance with the order of ancestry and rendering at a second location of the first stack trace visualization display, stack frame specific text for the at least one stack frame. The second location overlays the first location. Rendering of the stack frame rectangle is independent of the rendering of the stack frame specific text.
US12222829B2
A memory module is disclosed. The memory module includes a substrate, and respective first, second and third memory devices. The first memory device is of a first type disposed on the substrate and has addressable storage locations. The second memory device is also of the first type, and includes storage cells dedicated to store failure address information associated with defective storage locations in the first memory device. The third memory device is of the first type and includes storage cells dedicated to substitute as storage locations for the defective storage locations.
US12222810B2
A method may include operating a first storage device and a second storage device as a redundant array configured to use parity information to recover information from a faulty storage device, operating the first storage device in a fault resilient mode with at least partial read capability based on a fault condition of the first storage device, and rebuilding information from the first storage device in a parity space of the second storage device. Rebuilding the information from the first storage device in the parity space of the second storage device may include copying the information from the first storage device to the parity space of the second storage device. The method may further include copying the rebuilt information from the parity space of the second storage device to a replacement storage device.
US12222801B2
A system for auto-detecting dynamic issue changes in a distributed network comprises a processor associated with a server. The processor detects an application issue at a network node receives a first set of data objects associated with the application issue occurring at the first timestamp. The processor receives a second set of data objects associated with the application issue occurring at the second timestamp. The processor determines a change between a first set of the data objects and a second set of data objects. The processor identifies an issue pattern represents an operation change of the application by a machine learning model. The processor processes the issue pattern with application information through a neural network to determine a series of executable operations associated with the application issue. The processor deploys the series of the executable operations to solve the application issue to prevent a failure operation of the application.
US12222799B2
A method for quickly testing an electrical connection used between two nodes. For example, the method can be used with an IEEE-1394-2008 Beta serial bus. The testing is used to determine if a disconnect signal is a permanent disconnect signal or a temporary disconnect signal. Also, the testing provides for a fast reconnect that attempts one or more times to determine a temporary disconnect, thus creating a range in microseconds to milliseconds in which to verify the temporary disconnect. Also, the number of attempts can be replaced by a certain time period.
US12222797B2
The disclosed method includes observing a utilization of a target sub-component of a functional unit of a processor using a control circuit coupled to the target sub-component. The method also includes detecting that the utilization is outside a desired utilization range and throttling one or more sub-components of the functional unit to reduce a power consumption of the functional unit. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US12222796B2
A control method, system and device for a power consumption upper limit of a server, and a readable storage medium, includes: determining, according to a server policy, a power consumption upper limit of a management engine (ME) to be a first expected upper limit; acquiring actual power consumption of a server; comparing the current actual power consumption with the first expected upper limit and a second expected upper limit; and if the current actual power consumption is greater than the first expected upper limit and does not exceed the second expected upper limit, lowering a current power consumption upper limit until the current actual power consumption is lowered such that same does not exceed the first expected upper limit.
US12222795B2
A method for setting a shipping mode of an electronic device. The method includes the following steps: receiving a shipping instruction sent by a host computer to enter the shipping mode; and sending a shipping-mode feedback instruction to the host computer, where the shipping-mode feedback instruction is a valid-response instruction for a successful entry into the shipping mode or an invalid-response instruction for a failed entry into the shipping mode. An electronic device and a computer readable storage medium are also provided in this application. The method for setting the shipping mode, the electronic device and the computer readable storage medium can accurately feed back whether the electronic device has successfully entered the shipping mode, to avoid a problem that the electronic device not really entering the shipping mode can leave the factory due to omission, improving users' experience.
US12222782B2
Described herein is an air handling unit for use in an integrated data center that provides for efficient cooling, wherein the air handling unit includes one or more uninterruptable cooling fans each with a weighted rotor for providing uninterrupted cooling during a power outage until back-up generators come on-line, and a method of using the same. The uninterruptable cooling fan rotors are configured to store sufficient energy as rotational kinetic energy. Furthermore, the uninterruptable cooling fans may also be configured for generation of electricity to power a control system associated therewith during a power outage until back-up generators come on-line.
US12222777B2
A mainboard mounting mechanism is provided for use with a chassis box, the chassis box defining an accommodating space, the mainboard mounting mechanism including: a tray; a positioning post, positioned in the mounting area; and a rod assembly, rotatably connected to the tray, wherein the rod assembly drives the tray to slide toward the positioning post so as for the mainboard to be at a disengagement position, and the rod assembly drives the tray to slide away from the positioning post for the mainboard to be at an engagement position.
US12222774B2
A portable electronic device is provided having a foldable housing, a flexible display, and a hinge structure. The hinge structure includes a hinge cover, a rotary shaft assembly substantially accommodated in the hinge cover under the flexible display, and including a first rotary shaft and a second rotary shaft substantially parallel to each other. The hinge structure also includes a first arm structure and a second arm structure rotatably coupled with the first rotary shaft and the second rotary shaft, respectively. The hinge structure further includes a guide member connected with the rotary shaft assembly and including a recessed area located substantially between the first rotary shaft and the second rotary shaft when viewed from above the flexible display. The recessed area is configured to accommodate at least part of a third display portion when the foldable housing is at least partially folded.
US12222773B2
A wire-passable hinge is mounted between a first casing body and a second casing body. The first casing body and the second casing body are electrically connected to each other by a conductive wire. The wire-passable hinge includes a rotary rod that has a wire passageway to allow passage of the conductive wire, and a bushing that is sleeved rotatably on the rotary rod. A first hinge casing is connected to the first casing body. The rotary rod extends into the first hinge casing. The first hinge casing further allows the conductive wire to pass therethrough. A second hinge casing is connected to the second casing body. The bushing is disposed within the second hinge casing. The second hinge casing further allows the conductive wire to pass therethrough.
US12222760B2
A charging system including a housing, an indicator located on the housing, a power supply, and a controller. The power supply is located within the housing. The power supply is configured to wirelessly charge an external device. The controller is configured to determine a charging efficiency of the external device, and control the indicator based on the charging efficiency.
US12222759B2
A finger-worn wearable ring device may include a ring-shaped housing, a printed circuit board, and a sensor module that includes one or more light-emitting components and one or more light-receiving components. The wearable ring device may further include a communication module configured to wirelessly communicate with an application executable on a user device.
US12222754B2
A portable electronic device including a first body, a second body, and a light module is provided. The second body is pivotally connected to the first body. The light module is adjacent to the second body and is disposed on the first body. The light module includes a frame, a light guide plate, a light source, a patterned light guide film, and a light-transmitting cover plate. The frame is disposed on the first body. The light guide plate is disposed in the frame and has a light incident surface and a light emitting surface. The light source is disposed in the frame as corresponding to the light incident surface of the light guide plate. The patterned light guide film is detachably disposed on the light guide plate and covers the light emitting surface. The light-transmitting cover plate is detachably disposed on the frame and covers the patterned light guide film.
US12222751B2
A display panel and a display device are provided in the present disclosure. The display panel includes a first display region and a second display region. The second display region includes a plurality of light-transmitting hole combination regions. At least one light-transmitting hole group is disposed at each light-transmitting hole combination region; each light-transmitting hole group includes a plurality of light-transmitting holes; a boundary line of each light-transmitting hole is a closed arc; and centers of all light-transmitting holes in each light-transmitting hole group are distributed along a ring shape. The second display region further includes a plurality of pixels and a plurality of pixel drive circuits. Pixel drive circuits used for driving pixels in the light-transmitting hole combination region are first pixel drive circuits, and at least a portion of the first pixel drive circuits is at a region outside the light-transmitting hole combination region.
US12222748B2
A clock generating circuit includes an input terminal, configured to receive a clock signal; an output terminal, configured to output an output signal; a gray counter circuit, coupled to the input terminal, and configured to divide the clock signal to produce a first output signal; and a shielding circuit, coupled to the input terminal, the gray counter circuit and the output terminal, and configured to shield a glitch in the first output signal to generate the output signal according to the clock signal.
US12222747B2
An example apparatus includes an input terminal; an output terminal; a delay circuit including an input terminal and an output terminal, the input terminal coupled of the delay circuit coupled to the input terminal; a comparator including a first input terminal, a second input terminal, and an output terminal, the first input terminal of the comparator coupled to a supply voltage terminal, the second input terminal of the comparator coupled to a reference voltage terminal; and a logic AND gate including a first input terminal, a second input terminal, a third input terminal, and an output terminal, the first input terminal of the logic AND gate coupled to the output terminal of the comparator, the second input terminal of the logic AND gate coupled to the output terminal of the delay circuit, the third input terminal of the logic AND gate coupled to the input terminal, and the output terminal of the logic AND gate coupled to the output terminal.
US12222746B2
The disclosure provides a microcontroller which has an internal timing device for generating an internal clock signal, at least one terminal contact for receiving an external clock signal, a clock changing device and a timer module, which is electrically conductively connected to the at least one terminal contact and to the internal timing device and, after the microcontroller has been switched on, is set up to determine a frequency of the external clock signal by means of the clock signal, and to determine at least one parameter by means of which the clock changing device can be set up to change the external clock signal into a useful clock signal with a predefined frequency.
US12222741B2
The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for extending solar photovoltaic system's strings size and stabilizing their DC-Bus voltage at any desired constant level up to the maximum level permitted by the local electric code (LEC), This will maximize the energy production of a multi module solar string power generation system, comprising; an Injection Circuit (IC), connected to a DC-Bus and to a primary substring of solar panels, wherein the IC is also connected to an extension substring with at least one solar panel. The IC lifts up and regulates the voltage of the connected primary substring and the extension substring to a desired stabilized constant level at the input of the solar inverter. The IC comprises: (i) a first MPPT mechanism, for finding the MPP of the primary substring; (ii) a second MPPT mechanism, for finding the MPP of the extension substring; (iii) a first DC/DC converter for converting some of the power from the extension substring, for lifting up and regulating the voltage level of the primary substring; and (iv) a second DC/DC converter, for lifting up and regulating the voltage level of the extension substring and for conducting the excess power from the extension substring to the solar inverter via the DC-Bus.
US12222737B2
An expansion material element (1) for a thermostatic mixing valve (2), having an expansion material (3) comprising at least one additive (4) from the group below: synthetic graphite, highly conductive graphite having a thermal conductivity of at least 350W/(m×K), boronnitride; a thermostatic mixing valve (2) having such an expansion material element (1); and a sanitary faucet (8) having such a thermostatic mixing valve (2).
US12222727B2
A robot control device is configured to include: a moving route acquiring unit to acquire a moving route of a robot from a first learning model by giving, to the first learning model, observation data indicating a position of an obstacle being present in a region where the robot moves and state data indicating a moving state of the robot at a movement start point at which the robot starts moving among moving states of the robot in the region where the robot moves; and a control value generating unit to generate a control value for the robot, the control value for allowing the robot to move along the moving route acquired by the moving route acquiring unit.
US12222726B2
The present invention relates to a method and apparatus that utilize production vehicles to develop new path planning features for Automated Driving Systems (ADSs) by using federated learning. To achieve this the “under-test” path planning module's output is evaluated in open-loop in order to produce a cost-function that is subsequently used to update or train a path planning model of the path planning module.
US12222723B2
A computer-implemented method when executed by data processing hardware causes the data processing hardware to perform operations. The operations include receiving a navigation route for a mobile robot. The navigation route includes a sequence of waypoints connected by edges. Each edge corresponds to movement instructions that navigate the mobile robot between waypoints of the sequence of waypoints. While the mobile robot is traveling along the navigation route, the operations include determining that the mobile robot is unable to execute a respective movement instruction for a respective edge of the navigation route due to an obstacle obstructing the respective edge, generating an alternative path to navigate the mobile robot to an untraveled waypoint in the sequence of waypoints, and resuming travel by the mobile robot along the navigation route. The alternative path avoids the obstacle.
US12222721B2
An autonomous work machine that works in a work area, comprising: a detection unit that detects a plurality of markers arranged to define the work area; a specifying unit that specifies marker information based on a detection result of the detection unit; a setting unit that sets a virtual line connecting the plurality of markers based on the marker information specified by the specifying unit; and a control unit that controls the autonomous work machine such that the autonomous work machine does not deviate to a region beyond the virtual line set by the setting unit.
US12222717B2
Sensor data is received from a sensor where the sensor data includes aircraft state information including an aircraft pitch angle and recovery device state information including which parachute canopies are operational and one or more properties associated with the operational parachute canopies. The parachute canopies are coupled aft of a center of mass. It is determined, based at least in part on the aircraft pitch angle, whether to generate a control signal associated with maneuvering the aircraft into a nose-up position. A recovery action is performed, including by selecting a parachute canopy to be deployed, from the operational parachute canopies and based at least in part on the one or more properties, and deploying the selected parachute canopy, where a load on the selected parachute canopy is reduced in the event the aircraft is in the nose-up position compared to the aircraft being in a nose-down position.
US12222714B2
A method of operating a vehicle in a transportation system includes: receiving data collected for each of a set of users based on interactions of the set of users with a user interface of the vehicle including at least one of a vehicle data system, a vision system, and a connected system; performing robotic process automation on the interactions; learning changes in driving style using an artificial intelligence system based on the robotic process automation; and undertaking an action within the vehicle on behalf of the user based on the learned changes in driving style.
US12222713B2
Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed. An example system to modify an industrial control system includes: at least one memory; programmable circuitry; and instructions to cause the programmable circuitry to: configure a device driver based on a first command, the first command to configure the device driver to initiate a device-specific communication protocol to collect input data from a publisher device coupled to the device driver; access a second command from a subscriber device, the second command to include a device identifier of the publisher device and to specify at least one of a communication mode, a device calibration configuration, or a fault detection configuration, the second command based on a product quality prediction, the product quality prediction generated using a spectral data model; and provide the second command to the device driver.
US12222707B2
A production schedule estimation method and a production schedule estimation system are provided. The production schedule estimation method includes the following steps. Current-day work-in-process data, machine group cycle time data of a machine group, and productivity data of the machine group are obtained. The current-day work-in-process data, the cycle time data of the machine group, and the productivity data of the machine group are inputted into a prediction model. Current-day cycle time data and a current-day move volume for each of multiple stations in the machine group are calculated through the prediction model. And, current-day move data is calculated according to the current-day cycle time data and the current-day move volume for each of the multiple stations in the machine group.
US12222698B2
The present invention concerns a method of detecting the making or breaking of contact of a sonotrode (4) which is caused to vibrate with a frequency f and a vibration amplitude A0 with a counterpart element (5). To provide a method with which contact-making or breaking of a sonotrode with a counterpart element can be particularly quickly and inexpensively detected it is proposed according to the invention that the method has the following steps: a) recording a time configuration of the vibration amplitude A0 (1) during a first measurement time interval ΔT, and b) determining from the time configuration of the vibration amplitude A0 (1) whether making or breaking of contact occurred within the measurement time interval ΔT.
US12222696B2
A controller for controlling a control object includes a communication interface, an instruction executor, and an access processor. The communication interface accesses a database device. The instruction executor executes a user program including an access instruction for accessing the database device, the user program being associated with control of the control object. The access processor generates an access request in response to execution of the access instruction and causes the communication interface to transmit the access request. The access processor extracts an access request satisfying a prescribed condition from an error list including access requests recorded when access to the database device fails and causes the communication interface to retransmit the access request extracted.
US12222694B2
A system for sharing plant device configuration data collected by handheld communicators during monitoring and servicing activities. Plant device configuration data is assigned relational identifiers such as equipment identifiers that provide additional information relevant to the configuration data for a plant device. Additional plant process identifiers may also be assigned to distinguish configuration profiles for various equipment sets. The relational data may be used to retrieve the configuration profiles for application in various efforts to replicate configurations across plants.
US12222692B2
The present disclosure is directed to energy management equipment configured to manage energy efficiently in a grid in a simple, economic, maintenance-free manner that can be easily used in residential and industrial applications. In addition, an energy system is proposed in a grid for home or industrial use that comprises a source of energy consumption, a main energy grid, an intermittent energy source, a secondary source of energy generation and an energy storage device. Finally, a method is proposed to manage energy by means of an optimization model that is executed in the equipment and energy management system of the present disclosure.
US12222691B2
A system and method for controlling an automated process based on a time series of count data. The approach includes characterizing an observed time series of counts by modeling the underlying dynamics that give rise to the observed data, including evaluating the time series with a driver estimation process, wherein the driver estimation process identifies a model by an iterative process that includes: providing a probability model; and utilizing a combined MCMC and EM algorithm to determine a set of model parameters for the time series; outputting an estimated sequence of driver values based on the identified model; outputting a series of statistically plausible future counts, and controlling the automated process based on the estimated sequence of driver values.
US12222682B2
The invention relates to watches. According to the invention, the watch comprises a case with a removable cover and a clock mechanism installed in the case, including a setting/winding mechanism. The watch is equipped with a combination lock used to block the setting/winding mechanism and block removing the cover from the case to prevent unauthorized use of the watch. The invention allows increasing the safety of using the watch due to the combination lock installed therein to block the setting/winding mechanism and block removing the cover from the case to prevent unauthorized use of the watch.
US12222681B2
A display mechanism for a watch and a watch including the display mechanism, which includes a display for displaying information, a first and second mobile elements and a support, so that when the first mobile element moves with a first primary speed, the second mobile element moves into a first position so as to cover the display and when the first mobile element moves with a first secondary speed, the second mobile element moves into a second position so as to expose the display. Thus, the display can be exposed which allows to maximize the display surface when information is present on the display.
US12222678B2
A magnetic carrier includes a magnetic core and a coating resin that covers a surface of the magnetic core. The coating resin includes a resin A and a resin B. A content of the resin A is 1 to 50% by mass, and a content of the resin B is 50 to 99% by mass, with respect to the coating resin. The resin A has a particular unit Y1 and a particular unit Y2, and the resin B contains 0.1% by mass or less of the particular unit Y2. When a mass of the resin A is represented by X, a mass of the unit Y1 is represented by Ma, and a mass of the unit Y2 is represented by Mb, 0.90≤(Ma+Mb)/X≤1.00 and 1.00≤Ma/Mb≤30.0 are satisfied, and also 0≤|SPa−SPb|≤2.0 is satisfied.
US12222677B2
A fine particle of a silicon polymer having a siloxane group and a silanol group, wherein a moisture adsorption amount of the fine particle at a temperature of 30° C. and a humidity of 80% RH is from 1.0 mg/g to 22.0 mg/g, an amount of the silanol group of the fine particle measured by a titration method using KOH is from 0.012 mmol/g to 0.120 mmol/g, and a number average particle diameter of primary particle of the fine particle is from 0.05 μm to 0.30 μm.
US12222676B2
A preparing method of an electrostatic charge image developing toner includes: aggregating binder resin particles in a dispersion containing the binder resin particles to form aggregated particles; and coalescing the aggregated particles by heating a dispersion containing the aggregated particles to form toner particles, in which the aggregating includes adding a divalent or higher valent metal salt compound to the dispersion containing the binder resin particles, and the preparing method satisfies the following Requirement (1), Requirement (1): a ratio M/S of a total metal ion amount M (mol) generated from the divalent or higher valent metal salt compound to a total surface area S (m2) of the binder resin particles at a start of the aggregating is 1.5×1010 or more and 2.5×1013 or less.
US12222672B2
An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus main body, a drawer unit, and a transfer device including a belt. The drawer unit includes a first cartridge, a support member to which the first cartridge is detachably attached, and a first photosensitive drum disposed on the support member or the first cartridge. The drawer unit is moved to a first inner position inside the apparatus main body and to a first outer position outside the apparatus main body. The transfer device is moved to a second inner position inside the apparatus main body and to a second outer position outside the apparatus main body. The belt contacts the first photosensitive drum with the transfer device at the second inner position. The transfer device is moved from the second inner to the second outer position when the drawer unit is moved from the first inner to the first outer position.
US12222661B2
A developing apparatus includes a developer bearing member; and a regulating member configured to come in contact with the developer bearing member, and regulate the thickness of the layer of the developer. The contact surface of the regulating member with the developer bearing member satisfies 3≤Rz<20 (μm), 30≤Sm≤100 (μm), and Vmp≥0.05 ml/m2 where Rz represents a maximum height roughness, and Sm represents an average interval of unevenness, and Vmp represents a volume in an initial state of a protruding peak part in parameters in a three-dimensional surface roughness defined in ISO 25178.
US12222658B2
A stage apparatus includes a surface plate as well as a guide shaft fixedly secured to the surface plate, a drive member moving along the guide shaft, and a hydrostatic fluid bearing that forms fluid films in the gap portion between the guide shaft and the drive member. The apparatus further includes: a positional deviation detection section—for detecting a relative positional deviation which occurs between the guide shaft and the drive member and which affects the thickness dimensions of the fluid films; and a state decision section for making a decision on the condition of the apparatus itself based on the positional deviation detected by the detection section and outputting information responsive to the decision.
US12222655B2
A stop, such as a numerical aperture stop, obscuration stop or false-light stop, for a lithography apparatus, includes a light-transmissive aperture and a stop element, in which or at which the aperture is provided. The stop element is opaque and fluid-permeable outside the aperture.
US12222646B2
A polypeptide, a photoresist composition including the polypeptide, and a method of forming patterns by using the photoresist composition.
US12222644B2
The method relates to a method of forming an enhanced unexposed photoresist layer from an unexposed photoresist layer on a substrate by increasing the sensitivity of the unexposed photoresist to exposure radiation. The method comprises: providing the substrate with the unexposed photoresist layer in a reaction chamber; providing a first precursor comprising a portion of a photosensitizer sensitive to exposure radiation in the reaction chamber; and, infiltrating the unexposed photoresist layer on the substrate with the first precursor.
US12222641B2
The present disclosure provides a method for optimizing mask parameters, and the method includes: acquiring a test pattern, light source parameters, and initial mask parameters, the initial mask parameters including a mask thickness and an initial mask sidewall angle; generating multiple sets of candidate mask parameters according to the initial mask sidewall angle in the initial mask parameters; the multiple sets of candidate mask parameters including different mask sidewall angles and the same mask thickness; obtaining an imaging contrast of each set of candidate mask parameters based on the test pattern and the light source parameters; and selecting an optimal mask sidewall angle from the multiple sets of candidate mask parameters according to the imaging contrasts. By generating multiple sets of candidate mask parameters including different mask sidewall angles and the same mask thickness, and simulating these sets of candidate mask parameters respectively, the imaging contrast of each set of candidate mask parameters is obtained, so that the optimal mask sidewall angle is found according to the imaging contrasts. Therefore, by optimizing the mask parameters of the multi-layer film lens structure, the imaging contrast can also be significantly improved, and the imaging resolution can be improved.
US12222627B2
An optical modulator includes a Mach-Zehnder interferometer including (i) a first optical waveguide including a first semiconductor junction diode, and (ii) a second optical waveguide including a second semiconductor junction diode. A semiconductor region connects the first and second semiconductor junction diodes such that a distance between the first and second optical waveguides is less than 2.0 μm for at least a portion of a longitudinal direction of the optical modulator. In another aspect, a method of modulating an optical signal includes splitting input light into first and second optical transmission paths; modulating a phase difference between light in the first optical transmission path and light in the second optical transmission path without applying a bias voltage through an impedance less than 100 ohm between the first and second optical transmission paths; and combining light that is output from the first and second optical transmission paths.
US12222613B2
The present application provides a manufacturing method of a display panel and the display panel. The manufacturing method of the display panel includes following steps: providing a display panel main body, the display panel main body including at least one metal pad located in an outer pin joint area, and a side of the at least one metal pad being exposed to an outside; forming a protective member covering the at least one metal pad on a side of the display panel main body; patterning the protective member to expose the at least one metal pad; forming a conductive layer on an exposed surface of the at least one metal pad; and forming a chip on film on a surface of the conductive layer away from the at least one metal pad.
US12222609B2
A display panel including a plurality of sub-pixel units disposed on a first base substrate is provided, wherein a size of an opening region of a first sub-pixel unit along a first direction is greater than that of a second sub-pixel unit; wherein at least one of the sub-pixel units includes a first electrode provided with at least one slit extending along the first direction, and an orthographic projection of the slit on the first base substrate is located within a range of an orthographic projection of the opening region of the sub-pixel unit on the first base substrate; and wherein a size of the slit in the first sub-pixel unit along a second direction intersecting the first direction is smaller than that in the second sub-pixel unit. A display device is further provided.
US12222608B2
There is provided are a light adjustment panel, an overlapped screen panel, and a method of manufacturing a light adjustment panel. The light adjustment panel includes a common electrode layer, a control electrode layer, a light adjustment liquid crystal layer, arranged in stack, and auxiliary electrodes. The control electrode layer includes control electrodes arranged in an array, and there is a gap between adjacent control electrodes. The orthographic projection of the gap on the common electrode layer at least partially overlaps with the orthographic projections of the auxiliary electrodes on the common electrode layer.
US12222607B2
The disclosure provides a liquid crystal display panel and a display apparatus. The liquid crystal display panel of the disclosure includes: first and second substrates assembled to form a cell, a plurality of main spacers therebetween, and an auxiliary spacer around at least a portion of the main spacers. Height of the auxiliary spacer is greater than or equal to that of the main spacer. The display panel further includes: pillows on side of the first substrate close to the second substrate and each abutting against a corresponding main spacer. An orthographic projection of the main spacer on the first substrate falls within an orthographic projection of the pillow on the first substrate, and an orthographic projection of the auxiliary spacer on the first substrate does not overlap with the orthographic projection of the pillow on the first substrate.
US12222601B2
A display apparatus includes: a liquid crystal panel; and a backlight unit configured to provide light to the liquid crystal panel, wherein the backlight unit includes: a substrate; a light emitting diode provided on the substrate; a quantum dot cover covering the light emitting diode and configured to convert a wavelength of light emitted from the light emitting diode; a refractive cover covering the quantum dot cover, wherein a surface of the refractive cover has a recessed portion that is recessed toward the quantum dot cover and a reflector provided in the recessed portion to be positioned above the quantum dot cover, and wherein a diameter of a lower surface of the reflector is smaller than a diameter of an upper surface of the reflector.
US12222590B2
A lithium niobate waveguide having weak phase drift includes a lithium niobate layer, a metal electrode, and a substrate layer. The lithium niobate layer includes a lithium niobate central ridge and lithium niobate extension surfaces extending towards two sides of the lithium niobate central ridge. A metal oxide layer is arranged on the upper surface of the lithium niobate central ridge. The substrate layer is located on the lower surface of the lithium niobate layer and is made of silicon, silicon dioxide, a multilayer material made of silicon and silicon dioxide or a multilayer material made of silicon dioxide, metal, and silicon, so as to further realize the purpose of inhibiting phase drift. Compared with other doped structures or other structures, the structure is simple in manufacturing method, and moreover, a very good phase drift suppression effect is achieved.
US12222584B2
A wearable device is disclosed according to one embodiment. The wearable device can include an eyewear body, onboard electronic components, a thermal coupling and a heat transfer device. The eyewear body can be configured for wearing by a user to hold one or more optical elements mounted on the eyewear body within a field of view of the user. The onboard electronic components can be carried by the eyewear body at a first portion of the eyewear body and can comprise a heat source that generates heat during electrically powered operation thereof. The thermal coupling can be thermally coupled to the heat transfer device at a second portion of the eyewear body. The elongate heat transfer device can be disposed within the eyewear body and can be thermally coupled to the heat source and the thermal coupling. The heat transfer device can extend lengthwise between the heat source and the thermal coupling to transfer heat from the heat source to the thermal coupling.
US12222582B2
The disclosure provides an optical imaging lens assembly, which sequentially includes from an object side to an image side along an optical axis: a first lens; a second lens with a negative refractive power; a third lens, an image-side surface thereof is a convex surface; a fourth lens with a negative refractive power, an object-side surface thereof is a concave surface, and an image-side surface thereof is a concave surface; a fifth lens; and a sixth lens; wherein TTL is an on-axis distance from an object-side surface of the first lens to an imaging surface, ImgH is a half of a diagonal length of an effective pixel region on the imaging surface, and TTL and ImgH satisfy: TTL/ImgH≤1.35; an effective focal length f3 of the third lens and an effective focal length f of an optical imaging lens assembly satisfy: 2.5≤f3/f≤4.0.
US12222579B2
An optical element driving mechanism is provided. The optical element driving mechanism includes a first movable portion, a fixed portion, a first driving assembly, and a first guiding assembly. The first movable portion is used for connecting to a first optical element driving mechanism. The first optical element driving mechanism has a main axis that extends in a first direction. The first movable portion is movable relative to the fixed portion. The first driving assembly is used for driving the first movable portion to move relative to the fixed portion. The first guiding assembly is used for guiding the movement of the fixed portion relative to the fixed portion.
US12222571B2
A cassette adapter for the installation of a cassette in a patch panel of a data rack including a base configured to accept the cassette, a front frame connected to a distal end of the base, at least one latch connected to the base, and a mounting portion configured to mount the cassette adapter to the panel. The cassette adapter being configured to retain the cassette within the cassette adapter and connect the cassette to the patch panel in a removable fashion.
US12222561B2
A multifiber connector for passing pre-connectorized fiber optic cable through microduct includes an engagement portion that is configured to hold a ferrule that is configured to terminate a fiber optic cable and a receiving portion that is configured to receive the engagement portion. The engagement portion includes a base portion having a length in a longitudinal direction of the engagement portion and an outer periphery portion that extends in a direction transverse to the longitudinal direction of the engagement portion. The receiving portion is configured to receive the engagement portion and is shaped to minimize an outer periphery portion of the receiving portion in the transverse direction such that a plurality of fiber optic cables that are pre-connectorized with the connector are configured to pass through a micro-duct that is configured to be installed in a duct having a diameter of at least 25 mm.
US12222560B2
A connectorized fiber optic cabling assembly includes a loose tube fiber optic cable and a connector assembly. The cable has a termination end and includes an optical fiber bundle including a plurality of optical fibers, at least one strength member, and a jacket surrounding the optical fiber bundle and the strength member. The connector assembly includes a rigid portion and defines a fiber passage. The connector assembly is mounted on the termination end of the cable such that the optical fiber bundle extends through at least a portion of the fiber passage. The plurality of optical fibers undergo a transition from a ribbonized configuration to a loose, non-ribbonized configuration in the rigid portion of the connector assembly.
US12222558B2
An optical connector cleaning tool includes a cleaning portion pressed against a coupling end face of an optical connector, a container storing a cleaning liquid, and an atomizer spraying the cleaning liquid to the cleaning portion.
US12222557B2
A fiber optic ferrule has a main body having a front end, a rear end, and a top surface and a bottom surface joined together by opposing side surfaces and has a longitudinal axis. There are a plurality of optical fiber support structures disposed between the front end and rear end and configured to receive a plurality of optical fibers. The fiber optic ferrule has an end face at the front end of the fiber optic ferrule through which an optical beam passes. There are also a front facing refractive surface and a rear facing refractive surface, the rear facing refractive surface being closer to the end face than the front facing refractive surface, both being at an angle to the front facing refractive surface.
US12222556B2
The present invention relates to a method of re-connecting a first optical fiber (12) with a second optical fiber (34), the first fiber (12) and the second fiber (34) each having a plurality of outer cores, comprising: (a) positioning a first end section of the first fiber (12) and a second end section of the second fiber (34) in proximity so as to be aligned with one another along a longitudinal axis of the first and second end sections in a current connection position including a current connection orientation, in which a current relative rotational angle between the first and second end sections about the longitudinal axis is not known with respect to a relative rotational angle between the first and second end sections in a registered connection orientation determined with respect to a coordinate system during a previous connection of the first fiber (12) with the second fiber (34); (b) optically interrogating the outer cores of the first and second fibers (12, 34) through the current connection position to receive optical signals from the outer cores; (c) modifying, from the optical interrogation of the outer cores, the registered connection orientation such that the first and second fibers in the current connection orientation including the current relative rotational angle between the first and second end sections about the longitudinal axis are correctly registered with respect to the coordinate system.
US12222553B2
Provided are a light guide element in which incidence light can be emitted with high use efficiency and a wide FOV can be obtained for use in AR glasses, and an image display device and a sensing apparatus that include the light guide element. The light guide element includes a light guide plate and first to third diffraction elements, in which the first diffraction element diffracts incidence light in two or more different directions to be incident into the light guide plate, the second diffraction element includes a plurality of diffraction elements that diffract the light to the third diffraction element, the third diffraction element emits the light from the light guide plate, and at least one of the first diffraction element or the third diffraction element has a liquid crystal alignment pattern in which a direction of an optical axis derived from the liquid crystal compound changes while continuously rotating in at least one in-plane direction.
US12222550B2
A light scattering patch device and preparation method thereof is disclosed. The light scattering patch device is composed of a patch, an air gap, and a tapered optical fiber; the patch is a transparent patch; a refractive index of the patch is greater than a refractive index of a biological tissue; a tip, a tapered transition zone and a partial unstretched zone of the tapered optical fiber are embedded in the patch, and the air gap is formed between the tip and the tapered transition zone of the tapered optical fiber and the patch. The method of preparing the light scattering patch device comprises: first preparing the tapered optical fiber, then performing hydrophobic modification on the surface of the tapered optical fiber; placing the tapered optical fiber in an uncured polymer and curing the uncured polymer, and pulling the unstretched part; connecting the unstretched part of the tapered optical fiber.
US12222548B2
First and second waveguide structures are coupled to a waveguide coupling structure, the first waveguide structure comprising a first guiding core structure formed on a first cladding structure, and a second cladding structure formed on the first guiding core structure. The first and second waveguide structures have respective guiding ridges. The second waveguide structure comprises a second guiding core structure formed on a third cladding structure, and a fourth cladding structure formed on the second guiding core structure. The waveguide coupling structure comprises a transition structure, a multimode interference structure between the transition structure and the second waveguide structure, and an electrode over at least a portion of the guiding ridge within the second cladding structure and over at least a portion of the transition structure.
US12222547B2
A coating removal device removing a coating of an optical fiber along an axial direction of the optical fiber includes a heating portion including a cutting blade making a cut in the coating of the optical fiber, and a heater heating a part of the coating that is closer to a tip thereof than the cutting blade; a main body portion including a control board electrically connected with the heater; a holding portion holding the optical fiber, the holding portion being provided on the opposite side to the heater with the cutting blade being located between the holding portion and the heater; and a slide mechanism allowing the holding portion to slidably move with respect to the heating portion such that the holding portion is distanced away from the heating portion in the axial direction. The main body portion, the heating portion and the holding portion are located in this order in the axial direction, and the heating portion includes a vibration notification portion giving information to an operator by vibrating.
US12222541B2
An optical fiber bundle structure includes: plural optical fiber core wires; a crossing preventing member; and a grasping member. Further, the crossing preventing member has slits and the widths of the slits positioned at the respective sides are each equal to or larger than a difference between: a length of one side of a polygon circumscribing the plural optical fiber core wires at a hindmost end portion of the slits at the trailing end; and a length of one side of a polygon circumscribing the plural optical fiber core wires at the leading end.
US12222540B2
A light-emitting device includes an optical waveguide package, a light-emitting element in an element mount, and a lid covering the element mount. The optical waveguide package includes a substrate including a first surface, a cladding on the first surface and including a second surface facing the first surface, a third surface opposite to the second surface, and the element mount with an opening in the third surface, and a core in the cladding. The cladding includes a first portion having the core inside, and a second portion facing the first portion across the element mount. The first portion includes a plurality of first protrusions in an area of the third surface corresponding to the first portion. The second portion includes a plurality of second protrusions in an area of the third surface corresponding to the second portion.
US12222539B1
A light guide spacer is provided for maintaining sufficient spacing between a diffuser and a light emitting surface of a light guide. The light guide spacer maintaining spacing between the diffuser and the light guide has the exemplary benefit of providing more uniform light emission from the light emitting surface and protecting the light emitting surface (e.g., from physical damage, cleaning solutions, etc.). The light guide spacer may span the length of the light guide and diffuser, maintaining spacing along a length of the light guide, providing mounting of the diffuser and light guide, and maintaining a position of the diffuser, such that it protects the light emitting surface of the light guide.
US12222536B1
The present disclosure is related to a touchpad structure, which includes a cover plate, a backlight unit, a touch circuit layer, a first optical modulation layer, and a second optical modulation layer. The first optical modulation layer is disposed between the cover plate and the backlight unit, and having a first reflectivity. The second optical modulation layer is disposed between the first optical modulation layer and the touch circuit layer. The second optical modulation layer has a second reflectivity and a first penetration rate, wherein the second reflectivity is the same as the first reflectivity, or the first reflectivity is the same as the first penetration rate. The touchpad structure can present a uniform color spectrum via the second optical modulation layer and the first optical modulation layer.
US12222522B2
A folded module includes a housing, a carrier disposed in the housing and rotatable with respect to the housing about a first axis perpendicular to an optical axis, a rotation holder disposed on the carrier and rotatable with respect to the carrier about a second axis both perpendicular to the optical axis and the first axis, a reflective member disposed on the rotation holder to change a path of incident light, and a first auxiliary member coupled to the carrier to surround a portion of the rotation holder. The first auxiliary member includes a damping member protruding in a direction parallel to the first axis.
US12222520B2
A method for controlling a laser pointer projection of a pet companion robot device to interact with a pet includes the steps of: determining a focal length 1 of the camera; determining a height difference Δy between the at least one laser pointer steering motors of the laser pointer and the camera; determining a horizontal viewing angle α of the camera, a corresponding horizontal viewing range is (−α/2, α/2); determining a vertical viewing angle β of the camera, a corresponding vertical viewing range is (−β/2, β/2); determining whether the touch screen of the wireless remote-control device is touched; when the touch screen of the wireless remote-control device is touched, determining the corresponding coordinates (i, j); calculating an angular difference Δθ between the camera and the at least one laser pointer steering motors; and calculating a horizontal steering motor rotation angle θx; calculating a vertical steering motor rotation angle θy.
US12222517B2
A laser system includes a laser source generating a laser beam having ultra-short pulses; a laser delivery assembly optically receiving the laser beam and comprising: a beam splitter configured to split the laser beam between a first beam delivery path and a second beam delivery path; and at least one focusing lens optically coupled to the beam splitter and configured to focus the laser beam from each of the first beam delivery path and the second beam delivery path to a focal point on a predefined plane; wherein the first beam delivery path intersects the predefined plane at a first angle, the second beam delivery path intersects the predefined plane at a second angle, and a first pulse from the first beam delivery path and a second pulse from the second beam delivery path are coincident at the focal point.
US12222513B2
Aspects of the present invention relate to methods and systems for the see through computer display systems. In embodiments, the systems and methods use curved display panels to generate image light.
US12222510B2
An HMD includes an image display unit configured to display objects in a display region (VR) overlapping with outside scenery; a storage unit configured to store a process flow data to be used for selecting the objects to be displayed in the display region (VR); and a control unit configured to select any of the objects to be displayed in the display region (VR), based on the selection information, and to control display positions of the objects in a depth direction of the display region (VR) so that a display position of a selected object is different from a display position of another object to be displayed in the display region (VR).
US12222508B2
Disclosed herein is an optical assembly for generating a color image using white light as source. The optical assembly includes a broadband white light source array, a color filter assembly configured to allow selectively filtering therethrough light in each of three additive primary colors, and a control unit. The control unit is configured to actuate light sources in the light source array according to three intensity maps. Each of the intensity maps corresponds to one of the three additive primary colors. The control unit is further configured to synchronize operations of the light source array and the color filter arrangement such that, when light sources in the light source array are actuated according to one of the three intensity maps, the color filter arrangement filters therethrough light at the additive primary color to which the intensity map corresponds.
US12222502B2
An optical system, a display apparatus, and smart glasses are provided. The optical system includes a transflective element, a reflective element and a plurality of microstructures. The transflective element is configured to reflect collimated incident light to the reflective element. The reflective element is configured to reflect the collimated incident light back to a light incident surface of the transflective element, so as to adjust an angle at which the collimated incident light exits. The transflective element is further configured to transmit the reflected-back collimated incident light to a target region. The plurality of microstructures are configured to adjust angles at which ambient stray light incident on surfaces thereof exits, and to scatter the ambient stray light out of the target region.
US12222494B2
An optical assembly and a luminaire with extreme cutoff beam control optics. The optical assembly includes a base, at least one lens, at least one light emitting diode (LED) positioned to emit light into the lens, and a curved reflector disposed adjacent to the LED. The reflector can be characterized by a first angle between a plane of the base and a first line joining a distal end of the lens furthest laterally from a first end of the reflector and a second end of the reflector located over the lens, and a second angle between the plane of the base and a second line joining a point on the lens located at the optical axis of the LED and the second end of the reflector. The first angle can be between 60° and 90°, and the second angle can be between 70° and 130°.
US12222491B2
An optical device includes first and second planar substrates having respective first and second faces and including first and second diffractive structure disposed respectively on the first and second faces. First and second planar electrodes are disposed respectively on the first and second faces. A mount holds the second planar substrate parallel to the first planar substrate, with the second face adjacent to the first face and with the first and second planar electrodes in mutual proximity, while permitting the second planar substrate to move transversely relative to the first planar substrate. A control circuit is coupled to apply an electrical potential between the first and second planar electrodes with a voltage sufficient to shift the second diffractive structure transversely relative to the first diffractive structure.
US12222487B2
Disclosed are apparatus and methods for securely holding a substrate in a repeatable and predictable manner regardless of substrate inconsistencies or deformities. In particular, described are apparatus and methods for consistently, repeatedly, predictably and securely holding a microscope slide on or within an imaging device. The apparatus may include a holder having securing blocks for securely holding a microscope slide that can be adjusted to account for warpage or deformations that may occur in the microscope slide.
US12222478B2
An optical system (LS) has a lens (L11) that satisfies the following conditional expressions. −0.010
US12222471B2
The present invention discloses a camera optical lens including, from an object side to an image side in sequence, a first lens having a positive refractive power, a second lens having a negative refractive power, a third lens having a negative refractive power, a fourth lens having a positive refractive power, and a fifth lens having a refractive power. The camera optical lens satisfies the following conditions: 8.00≤f, 0.90≤f/TTL, 0.40≤f1/f≤0.85, −1.10≤f3/f4≤−0.40, and 0.30≤d2/d4≤2.00. The camera optical lens has large aperture, long focal length and small distortion.
US12222467B2
An optical imaging lens includes a first lens element to a fourth lens element, and each lens element has an object-side surface and an image-side surface. The first lens element has negative refracting power, an optical axis region of the object-side surface of the first lens element is convex, the third lens element has negative refracting power, and an optical axis region of the image-side surface of the fourth lens element is convex. Lens elements included by the optical imaging lens are only the four lens elements described above, and the optical imaging lens satisfies the relationship of Tmax+Tmin≤700.000 μm, Tmax is a maximum thickness of the four lens elements from the first lens element to the fourth lens element along the optical axis, Tmin is a minimum thickness of the four lens elements from the first lens element to the fourth lens element along the optical axis.
US12222459B2
Airborne LiDAR bathymetry systems and methods of use are provided. The airborne LiDAR bathymetry system can collect topographic data and bathymetric data at high altitudes. The airborne LiDAR bathymetry system has a receiver system, a detector system, and a laser transmission system.
US12222458B2
An orientation-position determining device is provided which is used for a sensor installed in a vehicle. The orientation-position determining device includes an imaging unit and an orientation-position detector. The imaging unit works to obtain a ranging image and an ambient light image from the sensor. The ranging image represents a distance to a target lying in a light emission region to which light is emitted from the sensor. The ambient light image represents an intensity of ambient light and has a resolution higher than that of the ranging image. The orientation-position detector works to use the ranging image and the ambient light image to detect an orientation and/or a position of the sensor.
US12222456B2
Embodiments of the disclosure provide an optical sensing system, a method for controlling a receiver gain in the optical sensing system, and a receiver in the optical sensing system. The exemplary optical sensing system includes a transmitter configured to emit light beams at a plurality of vertical detection angles to scan an object. The optical sensing system further includes a receiver having a detector configured to detect the light beams returned by the object. The optical sensing system also includes a controller configured to dynamically vary a gain of the detector for detecting the light beams of the respective vertical detection angles.
US12222455B2
A time-of-flight apparatus has: a light source for emitting light to a scene; a light detector for detecting light from the scene; and a control, the control being configured to: acquire a frame of detected light from the light detector, wherein the frame corresponds to a predetermined time interval, and drive the light source for emitting light during the acquisition of the frame, wherein the light energy accumulated within the frame has a predetermined value, and wherein the frame is divided into active light time intervals during which light is emitted to the scene.
US12222453B2
The invention concerns a TOF vision camera and proposes an electronic control circuit comprising a modulation circuit MOD for modulating the carrier clock signal, applying a camera-specific pulse position modulation function k(t) in order to output a modulation clock signal fe which is applied in the camera as a camera light source modulation signal S-LED, in order to control the emission of a series of light pulses SE and in order to synchronously control the N capture phases ST0, ST1, ST2, ST3 of the matrix image sensor CI of the camera. This modulation clock signal fe is such that the clock pulses fe have a constant pulse duration Tp, fixed by the carrier frequency fp, where Tp=½fp, and with a variable time interval Toff between two successive pulses, modulated by said modulation function k(t), said time interval being at least equal to the pulse duration, defining a modulation clock cycle ratio fe that is variable but less than or equal to 50%.
US12222447B1
A light detection and ranging (LIDAR) system for a vehicle can include: a light source configured to output a beam; a photonics integrated circuit (PIC) including a semiconductor die, the semiconductor die comprising a substrate having two or more semiconductor devices formed on the substrate, the two or more semiconductor devices configured to receive the beam from the light source and modify the beam and at least one photonics die coupled to the semiconductor die, the at least one photonics die comprising at least a transmitter configured to receive the beam from the semiconductor die; and one or more optics configured to receive the beam from the transmitter and emit the beam towards an object in an environment of the vehicle.
US12222436B2
A radar method comprising transmitting and receiving signals simultaneously or overlapping in time by spatially separated transceiver units. Comparison signals are formed from transmitted and received signals by respective transceiver units. A phase correction is formed for each of a plurality of sample values, to generate a measure of phase difference per sample value between the comparison signals. A measure of phase difference is used to improve accuracy of distance or velocity measurements between the transceiver units. A radar system includes transceiver units and an evaluation unit configured to perform the method.
US12222432B2
A system includes a plurality of wireless transmitters and a processor configured to: receive, from a mobile device, signal strengths of signals from the wireless transmitters as detected by the mobile device. The processor is also configured to determine a location of the mobile device in a vehicle, based on a distance from the mobile device to each of the wireless transmitters, as indicated by the received signal strengths and store the location of the mobile device as an occupant location.
US12222431B2
A method and apparatus for processing location information and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are disclosed. The method may include: transmitting, by a location management function (LMF) server, location request information to a serving cell of a terminal device, the location request information at least comprising sounding reference signal (SRS) configuration recommendation information; receiving, by the LMF server, location response information transmitted by the serving cell, the location response information at least comprising SRS configuration determination information; and transmitting, by the LMF server, measurement request information to a transmission receive point (TRP), the measurement request information comprising the SRS configuration determination information.
US12222422B2
Techniques are disclosed for post-processing mapping data in a movable object environment. A method for post-processing mapping data can include obtaining a plurality of scans, each scan comprising georeferenced mapping data and corresponding payload pose data obtained from a payload supported by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), generating a plurality of local maps based on matching portions of the plurality of scans using the georeferenced mapping data, generating a pose graph based on identifying a plurality of correspondence points among the plurality of local maps, and optimizing the pose graph by minimizing an error distance between each pair of correspondence points to obtain optimized transforms for two scans among the plurality of the scans.
US12222419B2
A reconfigurable ground penetrating radar (GPR) device, an autonomous GPR system and method of acquiring radar data about a medium. The GPR device includes a radar antenna with a first polarization, a processor unit connected to said antenna, a casing around the antenna and the processor unit, a wheel assembly including a holder, a wheel and a wheel rotation sensor. The wheel rotation sensor is connected to the processor unit and an axis of the wheel is pivotal relative to the first polarization.
US12222411B2
A method of setting an RF operating frequency of an MRI system (1) uses a first reference frequency signal, obtained from a geo-satellite positioning system, as a stable long term frequency reference. A second frequency source (24) is calibrated using the first frequency reference signal and the second frequency reference source (24) is then used as the master clock for the MRI system (1), for setting the RF operating frequency.
US12222407B2
A withstand voltage of a connector-coupled cable is checked by the device equipped with a pair of electrode boxes, and a control block configured to apply a start signal to a test instrument, which outputs a preset high voltage, according to an electrical state detected in each electrode box in which a housing whose a part of a front side is open; a conductive electrode plate mounted on an inner front side of the housing in such a way that it is rotatable around its top end, and a switch unit, mounted inside the housing with a predetermined gap from the electrode plate, to detect whether the electrode plate is rotated due to push on a lower part of the electrode plate are installed, wherein the electrical state is an electrical state between both terminals of the detection unit, and the preset high voltage is applied between both electrode plates.
US12222406B2
Poor opening is detected with certainty and reliability with respect to a ground line of an integrated circuit device regardless of the connection state of a load and the operating state of a drive circuit. In an integrated circuit device 10, a drive circuit 30 switches between conduction and interruption of a load current using switch elements 40 and 45. The ground line 31 is grounded via the GND terminal 32 to the common ground provided outside the integrated circuit device 10 and is connected to the drive circuit 30. The ground line 21 is grounded to the common ground via the GND terminal 22 and is connected to the control circuit 20. The diagnostic current supply circuit 90 supplies a predetermined diagnostic current to the ground line 31. The rectifying elements 61 and 62 are connected between the ground line 21 and the ground line 31. The diagnostic circuit 70 measures the potential difference between the ground line 31 and the ground line 21 and compares the potential difference with the predetermined comparison voltage 73 to diagnose the grounding state of the ground line 31.
US12222404B2
A current load circuit for testing a power supply circuit includes a control circuit and a load generation circuit. The control circuit is configured to generate a reset signal according to a clock signal. The load generation circuit is coupled to the control circuit and has several load configurations. The load generation circuit is configured to provide one of the load configurations as a current load of the load generation circuit according to the clock signal and the reset signal and receive a portion of the supply current provided by the power supply circuit according to the current load to generate an indication signal for indicating a performance of the power supply circuit.
US12222397B2
Embodiments of this application disclose an arc detection method for performing protection in an energy storage system, and a related apparatus, to improve accuracy of arc detection in an energy storage system, promptly take an arc extinguishing measure, and reduce a probability of causing a safety hazard. The method in the embodiments of this application includes: A control apparatus obtains an electrical signal at an electrical connection point in an energy storage system. The control apparatus determines a frequency domain amplitude based on a frequency domain characteristic of the electrical signal. When the frequency domain amplitude is greater than a preset amplitude, the control apparatus controls the energy storage system to perform an arc extinguishing and protection operation on the electrical connection point.
US12222389B2
A test board for testing a memory signal includes a first surface and a second surface. The first surface of the test board comprises a raised region and a non-raised region. The raised region is provided with a first connection area connectable to a main board, and a level at which the raised is located is higher than a level at which the non raised region is located by a preset value. The second surface of the test board includes a test area and a second connection area connectable to a memory chip. The test board is provided with a first connection harness for connecting the test area to the first connection area and a second connection harness for connecting the test area to the second connection area, to enable the memory signal of the memory chip to be tested based on the test area.
US12222387B2
A semiconductor inspection device includes: a measuring device that supplies power to a semiconductor device and measures the electrical characteristics; an optical scanning device that scans the semiconductor device with light intensity-modulated with a plurality of frequencies; a lock-in amplifier that acquires a characteristic signal indicating the electrical characteristics of the plurality of frequency components; and an inspection device that calculates a frequency at which the characteristic signal reflecting the electrical characteristics of a first layer and the characteristic signal reflecting the electrical characteristics of a second layer have a predetermined phase difference, corrects a phase component of the characteristic signal at an arbitrary scanning position with a phase component at the scanning position reflecting the electrical characteristics of the first layer as a reference, and outputs an in-phase component and a quadrature component at the arbitrary scanning position at the calculated frequency.
US12222384B2
The present disclosure relates to circuits for detecting a line short circuit and/or a line interruption in a differentially operated line network, comprising at least one control circuit configured to control at least one common-mode signal of the differentially operated line network vis-à-vis a predefined common-mode signal variable and to indicate a line short circuit and/or a line interruption in the differentially operated line network if at least one control or controlled variable of the control circuit exceeds a predefined threshold value.
US12222367B2
A contact pin for a test socket is provided in the test socket for testing the electrical characteristics of a semiconductor device. The contact pin includes an elastic part elastically deformable in the longitudinal direction of the contact pin; a first contact part which includes a first support part extending from one end of the elastic part and a first contact tip connected to an end of the first support part; and a second contact part which includes a second support part extending from the other end of the elastic part and a second contact tip connected to an end of the second support part, where the elastic part and the second contact part are bent in at least one direction with respect to the first contact part.
US12222363B2
A method and a system for impact detection in a stationary vehicle are provided. The method includes putting a telematics device into a sleep mode and performing a first micro wakeup. In response to determining that a first value read from a sensor during the micro wakeup is greater than a noise threshold, increasing a frequency of the micro wakeups and a sampling rate of the sensor. The method also includes reading a second value from the sensor during a second wakeup, performing a regular wakeup, and sending the first and second values during the regular wakeup.
US12222361B2
A method for dispensing a liquid sample by means of a dispensing apparatus in which it is determined whether a particle condition is satisfied, wherein the determination comprises checking whether at least one target particle present in a liquid of the liquid sample is contained in a monitoring region of the dispensing apparatus, wherein the monitoring region comprises a discharge region and a buffer region, wherein the buffer region is a region from which the at least one target particle is movable into the discharge region during a time delay between the determination of whether the particle condition is satisfied and an output operation of the dispensing apparatus. The method is characterised in that it is determined that the particle condition is satisfied when the at least one target particle is arranged in the buffer region and no target particle is arranged in the discharge region, and that the liquid sample is dispensed onto a target particle carrier if the particle condition is satisfied.
US12222354B2
Methods are provided for detecting insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) variant(s) in a sample. Methods provided herein are further directed to using the detected ion or ions to determine the presence of IGF1 variant(s) in the sample.
US12222350B1
Systems and methods for detection of biological agents are generally described. Certain embodiments relate to circuits comprising a first semiconductor nanosensor and a second semiconductor nanosensor in electrical communication with the first semiconductor nanosensor. The circuit can be configured to output a differential electrical property between the first semiconductor nanosensor and the second semiconductor nanosensor when exposed to a sample comprising an analyte. In certain instances, the first semiconductor nanosensor is functionalized with a detector species, and the second semiconductor nanosensor is not functionalized with the detector species. In some cases, the first semiconductor nanosensor is functionalized with a detector species, and the second semiconductor nanosensor is associated with a gate.
US12222349B2
Compositions, methods, and systems for analyzing the protein corona are described herein, as well as its application in the discovery of advanced diagnostic tools as well as therapeutic targets.
US12222347B2
Compositions of retroviruses and methods of using the same for gene delivery are disclosed, wherein the retroviruses comprise a viral envelope protein comprising at least one mutation that diminishes its native function, a non-viral membrane-bound protein comprising a membrane-bound domain and an extracellular targeting domain.
US12222344B2
A method for utilizing a lubricating oil composition in which the content of a metal-based cleaning agent (X) having a base value of 100 mgKOH/g or less is 630 mass ppm or less in terms of metal atoms, and the content of sulfated ash is 1.5 mass % or less. The method includes measuring at least one physical property value among the capacitance and the dielectric constant of the lubricating oil composition while using the lubricating oil composition, and evaluating the progress of degradation of the lubricating oil composition.
US12222342B1
The present invention relates to systems and methods for determining fluid quality. The system includes a sensing device. The sensing device includes an outer housing and an inner housing inserted within the outer housing. The sensing device includes a plurality of sensors configured to detect one or more parameters related to a fluid stored in a receptacle and ambient parameters of the receptacle. The sensing device further includes a control circuitry configured to generate sensory data based on the parameters related to the fluid and the ambient parameters of the receptacle. Further, the system includes a central control module. The central control module predicts, by one or more Artificial Intelligence (AI) models, the fluid quality of the fluid stored in the receptacle based on the sensory data. The AI models predict the fluid quality of the fluid based on mapping the sensory data with the set of predefined fluid quality profiles.
US12222340B2
A preparative liquid chromatograph for separating and extracting components in a sample, the preparative liquid chromatograph including a separation channel (2) through which a mobile phase flows, an injector (6) that injects the sample into the mobile phase, a separation column (8) for separating components in the sample injected into the mobile phase, the separation column (8) being provided downstream of the injector (6) on the separation channel (2), a detector (10) for detecting peaks of the components separated by the separation column (8), a fraction collector (12) configured to collect an eluate from the separation column (8) into a plurality of collection containers (20:22) at a downstream of the detector (10) while fractionating the eluate, and a controller (14) for controlling operation of the fraction collector (12), wherein the fraction collector (12) is provided with peak collection containers (20) and waste liquid collection containers (22), each peak collection container (20) is used for collecting a peak portion including a collection target peak detected by the detector (10) in the eluate, and each waste liquid collection container (22) is used for collecting a waste liquid portion not including the collection target peak in the eluate, and the controller (14) is configured to collect the peak portion including the collection target peak detected by the detector (10) in the eluate in the peak collection container (20), and to collect at least a part of the waste liquid portion in the waste liquid collection container (22).
US12222339B2
A clamp assembly includes a rail extending along the length and configured to receive a first fluidic assembly, and a carriage movably attachable to the rail such that the carriage moves along the rail, the carriage configured to receive a second fluidic assembly, the carriage including an actuator and a stop mechanism. The stop mechanism is configured to selectively prevent and allow movement of the carriage relative to the rail. The stop mechanism is configured to be independently operable from the actuator assembly, and the actuator is configured: to move a chromatography column received by the clamp assembly relative to the rail to create a first fluid tight seal between the chromatography column and the first fluidic assembly, and move the second fluidic assembly relative to the carriage body to create a second fluid tight seal between the second fluidic assembly and the chromatography column.
US12222331B1
Provided are a system and a method for impact testing and monitoring of a high-energy flexible net. The system includes a vertical impact testing unit, a slope impact testing unit, an impact simulation unit, and an impact monitoring unit. The vertical impact testing unit includes a vertically positioned gravity wall. The slope impact testing unit includes a wall slope positioned perpendicularly to a second side of the gravity wall. A first side of the gravity wall and a slope surface of the wall slope are securely provided with a flexible net, respectively. The impact simulation unit includes an impact assembly and a lifting assembly. The impact monitoring unit is configured to monitor a deformation result and an internal force change result of the flexible net.
US12222328B2
A testing apparatus includes a support unit that supports a lower surface side of a test piece, a pressing unit having an indenter that presses the test piece supported by the support unit, a drive unit that raises and lowers the pressing unit, a load measurement instrument that measures a load generated when the indenter presses the test piece supported by the support unit, and a controller that controls raising and lowering of the pressing unit. The controller is configured to be capable of stopping movement of the indenter when a measurement value of the load measurement instrument has turned from a rise to a fall after the indenter has started pressing of the test piece.
US12222326B2
A material testing machine, including a machine body, a first fixing element, a second fixing element and a detection assembly; the first and the second fixing elements are mounted to the machine body, the first fixing element is configured to mount a first testing element, and the second fixing element is configured to mount a second testing element; in a first state, the first and the second testing elements are in sliding contact; in a second state, the first fixing element drives the first testing element to collide with the second testing element; the detection assembly is configured to detect a target parameter, and in the first state, the target parameter includes a friction force and/or, a friction sound between the first and the second testing elements; and in the second state, the target parameter includes a collision force received by the first or the second testing element.
US12222323B2
A device (1) including an ultrasonic measuring unit (7) that sends an ultrasonic signal (S1) into a structure (2) and measures the amplitude of the ultrasonic signal (S2) reflected by the structure (2), a processing unit for determining the thickness of the interposition mastic (3) from the measurements of the ultrasonic measuring unit (7) and with the aid of a propagation model of the interposition mastic (3) which provides a thickness value of the interposition mastic (3) depending on the propagation time of the ultrasonic signal in the interposition mastic (3) as well as auxiliary data, and a processing unit for deducing a conformity or a lack of conformity of said interposition mastic (3) and the presence of cuttings from the thickness of the interposition mastic (3), the device (1) carrying out a conformity checking that is accurate, fast and reliable without having to disassemble the structure (2).
US12222317B2
An IC structure includes a biologically sensitive field-effect transistor (BioBET) in a semiconductor substrate, and a dielectric layer over a backside surface of the semiconductor substrate. The dielectric layer has a sensing well extending through the dielectric layer to a channel region of the BioFET. The IC structure further includes a biosensing film, a plurality of fluid channel walls, and a first heater. The biosensing film lines the sensing well in the dielectric layer. The fluid channel walls are over the biosensing film and define a fluid containment region over the sensing well of the dielectric layer. The first heater is in the semiconductor substrate. The first heater has at least a portion overlapping with the fluid containment region.
US12222308B2
A method of forming a sensor, such as a glass electrochemical sensor, is described. In some examples, the method may include forming a plurality of apertures in a glass substrate; forming a sensor body comprising the glass substrate and at least one glass sensor component, wherein one or more apertures of the glass substrate are aligned with the at least one glass sensor component to form an outer contact aperture; filling the outer contact aperture in the sensor body with a first conducting material to form an outer contact through glass via (TGV); and forming an electrode on the glass substrate adjacent at least one of the apertures of the plurality of apertures.
US12222307B2
A polymer material is contained in a sensing film of a sensor element having a quartz plate, an electrode made of a metal film provided on the quartz plate, and a sensing film provided on the electrode, and has a structural unit that contains one or more ethylene unsaturated bonds and is originated from a compound containing one or more functional groups reactive to a gas.
US12222305B1
Disclosed are an electrical impedance monitoring device, system and method for locomotion behaviors of C. elegans. A microfluidic channel layer and a gas channel layer form a double-layer structure by bonding, and the double-layer structure is tightly fixed to a circuit board with nylon screws. An electrode array configured as a concentric circle structure is arranged on the circuit board and used for realizing EIT monitoring of C. elegans. The microfluidic channel layer comprises a culture and monitoring chamber and a C. elegans transition channel and used for long-term culture and cyclic monitoring of C. elegans. The gas channel layer comprises a gas inlet and a gas channel and used for applying a gas pressure to squeeze an upper wall of the microfluidic channel layer to form a membrane valve to close the microfluidic channel layer.
US12222300B2
A radiographic inspection apparatus acquires a first image and a second image; receives an input of selection of a region of interest in the first image or the second image; specifies respective first pixel values of a plurality of first pixels and respective second pixel values of a plurality of second pixels corresponding to the plurality of first pixels, and calculates a thickness correction function by approximating a relationship between the first pixel values and the second pixel values; calculates a plurality of representative data each of which is a combination of a first representative value and a second representative value on the basis of the respective first pixel values of the plurality of first pixels and the respective second pixel values of the plurality of second pixels; and calculates an evaluation coefficient based on a correlation between the thickness correction function and the plurality of calculated representative data.
US12222297B2
Methods of inspecting a material include moving the material and identifying a defect location of a defect. Methods include moving a camera along a second travel path in a second travel direction such that a field of view (FOV) of the camera moves relative to the material along the second travel path to match the defect location. Methods include passing the defect through the field of view (FOV) as the material moves and capturing images of the defect with the camera as the material moves and the defect moves through the FOV. The images include a first image of a first major surface, a second image of a second major surface, and a third image of an intermediate portion of the material between the first major surface and the second major surface. Methods include reviewing the plurality of images to characterize the defect.
US12222295B2
An optical sorter includes a first light source disposed on a first side, a second light source disposed on a second side, an optical sensor configured to detect light during a plurality of scan periods including a first scan period and a second scan period, a determination part configured to determine a foreign object and/or a defective product, and a light source control part. The light source control part is configured to control the first light source and the second light source during the first scan period so as to turn on the first light source and/or the second light source in a first lighting pattern, which is a lighting pattern arbitrarily selected from a lighting pattern in which the first light source and the second light source are at least partially on, a lighting pattern in which only one of the first light source and the second light source is at least partially on, and a lighting pattern in which only the other of the first light source and the second light source is at least partially on, and is also configured to control the first light source and the second light source during the second scan period so as to turn on the first light source and/or the second light source in a second lighting pattern, which is a lighting pattern selected arbitrarily except for the first lighting pattern.
US12222285B2
A handheld object assessment system includes a laser array, a detector array configured to detect reflection of laser emissions, and a control system having a memory and a processor. The control system to: initiate laser emissions at multiple different wavelengths directed towards an object being assessed, detect an amount of the laser emissions at the multiple different wavelengths that were reflected from the object being assessed, determine an amount of laser emissions that were absorbed into the object being assessed at the multiple different wavelengths, determine one or more parameters regarding the object being assessed by comparing the amount of laser emissions that were absorbed and the amount of laser emissions that were reflected, and notify a user of the handheld object assessment system of the one or more parameters of the object being assessed that were determined.
US12222284B2
The present invention provides a method for measuring a content of a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon in a carbon black, comprising the following steps: extracting a carbon black to be measured using an organic solvent to obtain a sample to be tested; testing the sample to be tested by ultraviolet-visible spectrometer to obtain an absorbance; and using the absorbance and a calibration curve to obtain a content of a polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon in the sample to be tested, wherein the calibration curve shows relationship between the absorbance of the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon and the content of the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon. The measurement method of the present invention benefits reduction of detection time.
US12222273B2
A rock testing system includes a rock sample having organic matter provided on a stand in a testing device and a photothermal laser that emits a selected wavelength corresponding to an absorption peak of the organic matter. Methods for testing the rock sample include irradiating the rock sample with the photothermal laser to selectively heat the organic matter and monitoring porosity of the rock sample as the organic matter is heated.
US12222272B2
Methods and systems are provided for a particulate matter sensor. In one example, the particulate matter sensor may include a light source, a waveguide aligned with the light source to receive incident light from the light source, and a photodetector positioned to receive light the incident light from the waveguide. The incident light may be reflected off a reflective surface of the waveguide more than one time to generate a plurality of evanescent waves. The plurality of evanescent waves may interact with particulate matter in exhaust gas, causing the incident light to be attenuated.
US12222271B2
A droplet detection system includes a sensing channel, such as a microfluidic channel, configured to receive a flow of fluid that may contain one or more liquid droplets dispersed in the fluid. The cross-sectional area of the sensing channel maybe configured to allow droplets of a predetermined size to flow through the channel one at a time. A light source, a light aperture, and a light detector are positioned outside the sensing channel, which use light in a selected frequency band that has a substantially different absorbance for the liquid compared to the fluid. Liquid droplets may be detected and characterized using a signal from the light detector.
US12222267B2
The approach presented here relates to an analysis device (100) for analyzing a viscosity of a fluid (217). The analysis device (100) comprises a detection device (110) and a provisioning device (115). The detection device (110) is formed to determine the viscosity of the fluid (217) using at least one Doppler parameter of a Doppler spectrum of the fluid (217). The provisioning device (115) is formed to provide or transmit a viscosity signal that represents the viscosity determined by the detection device (110).
US12222266B2
A seed slicer device (100), which has: a first plate (102) provided with first holes (104); a second plate (106) provided with second holes (108), adapted to fit over the first plate; a sliding plate (110) slidably coupled to a top portion of the second plate, operable to cover the second holes; a third plate (112) provided with a third holes (114), adapted to fit over the second plate; and a cutting assembly (116) coupled to the third plate and adapted to slide over the third holes to provide a slicing action; the seeds are received by the third holes such that at least a first part of the seeds extend beyond the third holes, and, upon actuation of the cutting assembly, the seeds are cut by the cutting means to divide the seeds into corresponding first parts and second parts.
US12222260B1
A vehicle health monitoring system monitors the health of components for ground vehicles and accounts for the impact of changing engine RPM, a multi ratio gearbox, and the variable ratio encountered in vehicles having a differential. The vehicle health monitoring system may incorporate regime recognition that determines the vehicle state, e.g., the engine RPM, transmission gear ratio, whether its accelerating (or turning), so that a decision can be made whether the vehicle is in an appropriate regime for data acquisition for a monitored vehicle of the component, and if so, what type of configuration to use for analyzing the component for determining a condition indicator for that component. The configuration describes the ratio from a given tachometer to a shaft under analysis, and which, if any, gears/bearings are associated with the shaft.
US12222259B1
Provided is a rolling bearing fault diagnosis method based on FFT coding and L-CNN, including: obtaining original bearing fault vibration data, extracting intrinsic mode components of different frequency bands in the original bearing fault vibration data, calculating a permutation entropy value corresponding to each of the intrinsic mode components, and performing wavelet threshold denoising according to the permutation entropy value to obtain a denoised reconstructed time domain signal; performing fast Fourier transform to the denoised reconstructed time domain signal to obtain a frequency domain signal and a phase angle corresponding to the time domain signal, reconstructing the frequency domain signal according to a preset rule, retaining frequency domain data of features of the phase angle, and drawing FFT-x heat maps of different fault type data according to an amplitude range; and constructing an model L-CNN, and inputting coded data into the L-CNN model, and obtaining fault diagnosis results.
US12222250B2
Methods and apparatus to control heating based on monitoring feedback of temperature sensors are disclosed. An example heating apparatus includes: a heater configured to apply heat energy to an object; and control circuitry configured to: control the heater based on a target temperature to which the object is to be heated; in response to determining that a first measured temperature sample associated with a first temperature sensor is greater than a first reference temperature, updating a first temperature range and the first reference temperature based on the first measured temperature sample; and in response to determining that a second measured temperature sample associated with the first temperature sensor is not within the first temperature range, reduce the priority of the first temperature sensor for control of applying the heat energy to the object.
US12222247B2
A wireless rechargeable temperature probe for food, the probe having an elongate body, a proximal end portion and a distal end portion, the distal end portion having a temperature sensor therein and including a probe tip and a food-embedded portion, wherein the distal end portion includes two electrical-charging contacts electrically-isolated from one another, the electrical-charging contacts both being embedded within the food during use in order to prevent difficult cleaning.
US12222243B2
A modulator according to the embodiment is a modulator provided between a diffraction grating and an image sensor. The modulator receives a light ray directed to the image sensor from the diffraction grating, and changes a travel direction of the light ray emitted toward the image sensor so as to bend a recording direction of a diffraction image for each wavelength of the light ray on a light receiving surface of the image sensor.
US12222224B2
The disclosure generally relates to devices and techniques for operating an electronic apparatus that controls a sensor, the devices and techniques including acquiring first sensing data through the sensor, identifying a data variation based on the first sensing data and sensing data for a first time point and a second time point acquired in advance based on a sampling period of the sensor, identifying target data among a plurality of predetermined meaningful data based on the identified data variation and determining a time point at which the target data is to be acquired, and controlling the sampling period based on the determined time point.
US12222221B2
A multi-sensor device is disclosed, for monitoring in real time a flowing fluid substance, the device comprises a main body structure having at least one fluid port and fluid passage for receiving a stream of the fluid substance and flowing it through the fluid passage, and one or more openings for establishing fluid communication with the fluid passage, a sensing foil/film having one or more sensor elements, wherein each portion of the sensing foil/film having at least one of the sensor elements is in fluid communication with at least one of the openings, to thereby enable the sensing element to measure at least one property of condition of the fluid and generate sensor data/signals indicative thereof. The main body structure and the sensing assembly attached to it constitute an integrated component configured as an insertable and removable/exchangeable element of the device.
US12222219B2
This application discloses a calibration method for navigation of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium and a UAV implementing the same. The calibration method includes: collecting, during a flight of the UAV, reference data during two measurements of a reference vector performed by a vector sensor; acquiring a zero-point offset M0 of the vector sensor according to the reference data; acquiring original data Rk of any vector measured by the vector sensor; acquiring valid data Vk according to the zero-point offset M0 and the original data Rk; and control headings and postures of the UAV according to the valid data Vk. With the calibration method in this application, the valid data Vk is defined as a vector data acquired after a zero-point error of the original data Rk is eliminated, which is more closely approximated to an actual value of a to-be-measured vector.
US12222218B2
Techniques are disclosed for collaborative map construction using multiple vehicles. Such a system may include a ground vehicle including a first computing device and a first scanning sensor, and an aerial vehicle including a second computing device and a second scanning sensor. The ground vehicle can obtain a first real-time map based on first scanning data using the first scanning sensor, and transmit a first real-time map and position information to the aerial vehicle. The aerial vehicle can receive the first real-time map and the position information from the first computing device, obtain a second real-time map based on second scanning data collected using the second scanning sensor, and obtain a third real-time map based on the first real-time map and the second real-time map.
US12222208B2
An embodiment is an autonomous driving system in a heterogeneous SD map and precise map environment, which can provide an autonomous driving service using a heterogeneous SD map having properties that do not match those of a precise map. The autonomous driving system in a heterogeneous SD map and HD map environment includes a service platform and an autonomous vehicle, and the operation and operation method of the system depend on whether a user can input TBT in addition to a start point and a destination.
US12222203B2
Provided is a fully decoupled MEMS gyroscope, including an anchor point unit, a sensing unit elastically connected to the anchor point unit, and a driving unit configured to drive the sensing unit to move. The anchor point unit includes a center anchor point subunit located at a center of a rectangle and four side anchor points. The driving unit includes four driving members located on four sides of the rectangle. The sensing unit includes two X mass blocks symmetrically arranged in two avoiding intervals, two Y mass blocks symmetrically arranged in the other two avoiding intervals, four Z mass blocks respectively located at an outer side of each driving member, and four Z detection decoupling members respectively located at an outer side of each Z mass block. The X mass blocks and the Y mass blocks are respectively connected to each side anchor point.
US12222200B2
The present disclosure discloses a light-transmittance device and a use method, and belongs to the technical field of manufacturing of rotary equipment. The light-transmittance device includes cylinder sections, a two-column vertical lathe, and a vertical lathe platform; T-shaped supporting fixtures are arranged inside the cylinder sections; light-transmittance tools are arranged at center positions of the cylinder sections; two ends of the cylinder sections are provided with rolling ring base plates which are paired and mounted with the cylinder sections; a roller frame is arranged on a lower side of each group of cylinder section; furthermore, the rolling frames are slidably connected with a rigid rail; a theodolite is arranged on one side close to the cylinder sections; and a triangular bracket and a light-transmittance platform are arranged on a lower side of a shell of the theodolite.
US12222196B2
A measurement system and associated techniques can reduce the time for obtaining 3D data about a target object by measurement. The measurement system includes a 3D sensor installable on a robot to obtain, by measurement, 3D data indicating 3D coordinates of surface points on a surface of a target object, a displacement detector that detects a displacement of a joint of the robot, a drive that drives the joint of the robot, a sensor controller that controls the 3D sensor to obtain 3D data about the target object by measurement at one or more measurement points, an integrator that performs 3D integration of 3D data about the target object obtained by measurement before a first operation performed by the robot on the target object and 3D data about the target object obtained by measurement at the one or more measurement points after the first operation performed by the robot on the target object, and a robot controller that outputs, to the drive, a drive command for controlling a second operation performed by the robot based on 3D coordinates of the surface points on the surface of the target object indicated by 3D data obtained through the 3D integration.
US12222191B2
A device that causes a weapon to fire upon a target when the weapon is enabled by an operator, and when the weapon point of impact passes through a target or in a proximity thereto and when the target satisfies certain criteria as determined by one or more sensors/designations. This invention represents a significant paradigm shift. Some prior art (large scale) weapons automatically acquire/track/prioritize/target/fire upon targets without operator intervention (i.e. Phalanx). Most prior art weapons, especially but not limited to small arms, are manually aimed, and fire immediately upon an input (trigger pull, or equivalent) from the operator. The current invention is a novel approach which triggers the release of a round, multi-round burst, rocket, missile, or other projectile(s) when enabled by the operator, and when the target passes through the point of impact (or desired/computed proximity thereto), relieving the operator of the split second judgment in timing the release and/or cessation of such fire. The results intended include a reduction in off-target rounds fired, increased hit rate, conservation of ammunition, more effective targeting for non-motion-stabilized weapons (in particular small/medium arms), and the introduction of a backup mode for nominally motion-stabilized weapons which may allow effective operations when primary stabilization systems fail or are overwhelmed by dynamics. This invention is applicable (in embodiments of varying complexity) to weapons ranging from handheld pistols to the main (artillery) gun of a tank, a ship, or the cannon aboard an aircraft.
US12222188B2
A handguard assembly for a firearm includes a body member having a first end, a second end, and an inner volume. The inner volume receives a barrel of the firearm. The first member is fixedly coupled with the body member at the first end. The handguard assembly also includes multiple elongated members that extend through the inner volume of the body member and fixedly couple with the first member at the first end of the body member. The elongated members extend through the second end of the body member and couple with a receiver of the firearm.
US12222186B2
A firearm stock is disclosed with an adjustable cheek riser, which includes an elevation mechanism and a cheek plate attached to a rising mechanism. In this manner, the cheek plate is adjustable in the vertical direction to provide fine adjustment to the height of the cheek plate with respect to the firearm stock. Aspects of the firearm stock include an adjustable stock that can provide adjustability for various firearms with regard to stock position and cheek plate position.
US12222185B1
In a firearm gun grip, the rigid front force of the gun grip is replaced with a sliding grip panel, which inserts into a conjugate panel recess in the gun grip. The panel recess contains multiple coiled compression springs, which extend between the interior forward end of the grip panel and the rear surface of the panel recess. The compression of the springs, under the inward constrictive force of a shooter's hand on the gun grip, produces an opposing outward expansive force, which changes in response to the degree of insertion of the grip panel into the panel recess, thereby serving to stabilize the gun grip and improve aiming accuracy.
US12222181B1
A ready-to-load ammunition container is disclosed, including a housing comprising a first sidewall, a second sidewall, a top, and a bottom each defining an interior of the housing. The interior retains a plurality of rounds of ammunition. A first wing is integrally molded to the first sidewall and a second wing is integrally molded to the second sidewall. The first wing and the second wing are each positioned at a bottom portion of the housing to define an opening to allow the plurality of rounds to pass therethrough. The first wing and the second wing are configured to releasably engage with a magazine of a firearm during the reloading process. A push bar is connected to a sliding member to forcibly push the plurality of rounds through the opening.
US12222179B2
A machine gun (e.g., a minigun) is provided with a modular delinker. The front of the delinker (i.e., nose) can be removed from the main body of the delinker without tools. The paddle wheel in the main body includes a front paddle wheel and a rear paddle wheel. The front paddle wheel is removable from the main body with the nose, and the rear paddle wheel remains within the main body on a driven shaft of the delinker when the nose is removed from the main body. Thus, some components of the delinker are accessible and serviceable without tools, and the nose and front paddle wheel may be swapped out without tools out to alter a compatible ammunition cartridge type of the delinker. A jam can be cleared and damaged front and/or rear paddle wheels can be replaced in the field to return a gun to service.
US12222176B2
An improved design for a suppressor which suppresses sound from a gun report as well as reduces heat transference therefrom.
US12222174B2
A heat transfer plate includes a heat transfer area provided with a heat transfer pattern having elongate alternately arranged heat transfer ridges and valleys, a respective top portion of the ridges extending in a top plane and a respective bottom portion of the valleys extending in a bottom plane. The heat transfer ridges include ridge contact areas within which the ridges are arranged to abut an adjacent first heat transfer plate. Within at least half of the heat transfer area, the top portions of the ridges have a first width w1, and the bottom portions of the valleys have a second width w2, w1≠w2. The top portion of a number of first heat transfer ridges of the heat transfer ridges, within a respective first ridge contact area of the ridge contact areas, has a third width w3, wherein, if w1>w2 then w3
US12222171B2
A drive system for driving a fan in a wet cooling tower, wherein the fan has a fan hub and fan blades attached to the fan hub. The drive system has a high-torque, low speed permanent magnet motor having a motor casing, a stator and a rotatable shaft, wherein the rotatable shaft is configured for connection to the fan hub. The drive system includes a variable frequency drive device to generate electrical signals that effect rotation of the rotatable shaft of the motor in order to rotate the fan.
US12222168B2
Drawn polymer fibers have internal channels running, at least partially, through the length of the fibers. These fibers may be configured to for use as thermal isolators that can thermally isolate material at the central core of the fiber from the outside environment. In such instances, the channels may be used as insulating channels and/or a heating or cooling fluid can be pumped through the channels to maintain the temperature of the material at the inner core. As another application, the fibers may be used as recuperative, regenerative, parallel-flow, counter-flow, cross-flow or condenser/evaporator heat exchangers. In this case, the channels may be used to direct fluid flow. The fiber may allow for the exchange of heat between fluids in the channels.
US12222166B2
A heat-transfer member (1) is used in a cooling system in which an alcohol serves as a coolant. The heat-transfer member (1) has: a heat-receiving surface (11) configured such that it can receive heat from a heat-generating body; and a heat-dissipating surface (12) configured such that it can dissipate, to the coolant, the heat received at the heat-receiving surface (11). The heat-dissipating surface (12) has a plurality of pores (121) whose average pore diameter is 5 nm or more and 1,000 nm or less. A cooling system can be configured by causing the coolant to contact the heat-dissipating surface (12) of the heat-transfer member (1).
US12222165B2
An apparatus for transferring heat from a heat source to air while the apparatus is connected to the heat source is provided. The apparatus has a heat sink comprising a heat sink base and a plurality of primary fins connected to the heat sink base. The apparatus includes a heat sink front. The heat sink base is configured to be thermally coupled to the heat source. Each primary fin of the plurality of primary fins has one or more conduits. The heat sink base includes a first chamber. The first chamber and the conduits together form a common space sealed off from the air surrounding the apparatus. The first chamber and the conduits together enclose a heat-carrying fluid in the common space formed by the first chamber and the conduits. A network access node for a wireless communication system is provided. The network access node comprises the above-described apparatus.
US12222163B2
A cooler for cooling bulk material, such as cement clinker, for example, may include an aeration floor through which cooling gas can flow. The aeration floor may be configured to receive bulk material and to transport the bulk material in a conveying direction. The aeration floor comprises a plurality of conveying beams that are mounted so as to be movable in the conveying direction and counter to the conveying direction. A seal is mounted between two adjacent conveying beams, and the seal has at least two sealing elements mounted so as to be movable relative to one another. The sealing elements each have a sealing profile, which interact with one another such that a sealing gap is formed between them. The sealing gap has a double or multiple U-profile.
US12222152B2
A refrigerator includes a cabinet, an evaporator, a freezer compartment grille assembly, a refrigerating compartment grille assembly, a refrigerating compartment door, and a cold air duct for door cooling. Particularly, the cold air duct for door cooling is located to be as apart as possible from a hot line or an outer casing so as to reduce heat loss and power consumption due to the heat loss.
US12222148B2
The present invention relates to a refrigerator. An ice maker of the refrigerator according to this embodiment includes: an upper tray which is made of an elastic material and in which a plurality of hemispherical upper chamber are defined; and a lower tray which is made of an elastic material and in which a plurality of lower chambers, which rotate to be in close contact with the upper tray so as to provide spherical ice chambers, are defined.
US12222147B2
A trans-critical thermodynamic system includes an expansion device and a separator. The expansion device receives a supercritical fluid containing solutes. The expansion device is operable to expand the supercritical fluid to produce a sub-critical gas by reducing a temperature and/or a pressure of the supercritical fluid. The separator removes the solutes from the sub-critical gas.
US12222137B2
Thermal energy storage systems and methods that include near-black body concentrated sunlight receivers disposed in thermal storage media for storing sunlight and extracting thermal energy for multiple end-use applications. The concentrated sunlight receivers are characterized by absorption of sunlight of at least 95%. The thermal energy storage systems are modular and transportable and can be scaled-up in capacity. Solar concentrators may be integrated with the thermal energy storage systems.
US12222134B2
An air filtration apparatus includes a motor, a fan blade, an air filter, a housing, a filter cleaning assembly, and a control panel. A stator of the motor is concentrically mounted within the housing, and the fan blade is concentrically mounted to a rotor of the motor so that the air can be moved via the fan blade. The air filter is externally mounted to a rear panel of the housing to purify incoming air. The filter cleaning assembly is integrated to the air filter and is in fluid communication with the air filter so that the air filter can be cleaned when necessary. The control panel being electrically connected to the motor and the filter cleaning assembly to continuously operates the air filtration apparatus.
US12222126B2
A method for controlling indoor climate in a portion (102) of a building (100) is presented. The method comprises: identifying (S402), based on a wireless communication based positioning function, electronic devices (204a, 204b, 204c) present in the portion (102) of the building (100); for each identified electronic device, determining whether the identified electronic device is associated with a user; determining (S406) an estimated total amount of heat dissipation present in the portion (102) of the building (100) based on an amount of heat dissipation associated with the respective user to which the respective identified electronic device is associated; and controlling (S408) indoor climate in the portion (102) of the building (100) based on the estimated total amount of heat dissipation present in the portion (102) of the building (100). Also, a server (106) and a system for performing the controlling are presented.
US12222124B2
A heating, ventilation, or air conditioning system (HVAC) design and operational tool includes one or more processors and memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations including obtaining a dynamic temperature model and a dynamic infectious quanta model for one or more building zones, determining an infection probability, and performing a plurality of simulations for a plurality of different equipment configurations using the dynamic temperature model, the dynamic infectious quanta model, and the infection probability to generate results. The operations include generating, using the results of the plurality of simulations, at least one of design including one or more recommended design parameters data or operational data including one or more recommended operational parameters for the HVAC system and initiating an automated action using at least one of the design data or the operational data.
US12222120B2
A thermostat for a building zone includes at least one of a model predictive controller and an equipment controller. The model predictive controller is configured to obtain a cost function that accounts for a cost of operating HVAC equipment during each of a plurality of time steps, use a predictive model to predict a temperature of the building zone during each of the plurality of time steps, and generate temperature setpoints for the building zone for each of the plurality of time steps by optimizing the cost function subject to a constraint on the predicted temperature. The equipment controller is configured to receive the temperature setpoints generated by the model predictive controller and drive the temperature of the building zone toward the temperature setpoints during each of the plurality of time steps by operating the HVAC equipment to provide heating or cooling to the building zone.
US12222114B2
An air conditioner unit may include a housing, an outdoor heat exchanger assembly, an indoor heat exchanger assembly, a compressor, a sterilization light assembly, and a flow sensor. The housing may define an indoor portion and an outdoor portion. The housing may further define an exhaust outlet downstream from the indoor portion to exhaust air therefrom. The sterilization light assembly may be disposed within the indoor portion to transmit an ultraviolet light emission thereto. The flow sensor may be disposed within the indoor portion upstream from the exhaust outlet. The flow sensor may be operably coupled to the sterilization light assembly and configured to activation of sterilization light assembly in response to detecting a predetermined airflow within the indoor portion.
US12222113B2
A mobile air conditioner includes a housing, an electric control box mounted at the housing, and a wire control assembly mounted at the housing. The wire control assembly includes an adapter mounted at the housing and connected to the electric control box, and a wire controller connected to the adapter.
US12222108B2
A door for an oven comprising: a hinge assembly providing an axis of rotation for the door; a glass panel, the glass panel comprising (i) a first primary surface providing an exterior surface of the door that is open to an external environment and (ii) a length parallel to the axis of rotation, and a filler panel disposed (i) at least partially below the glass panel and (ii) at least partially between the axis of rotation and a plane that the first primary surface of the glass panel forms, the filler panel comprising a length parallel to the axis of rotation, and the length of the filler panel differs from the length of the glass panel by less than 5%.
US12222105B2
A combustor includes a plurality of fuel nozzles installed so as to be extended in a direction of a nozzle axis and configured to inject fuel toward one side in the direction of the nozzle axis, a pipe plate having a plurality of air holes formed therein so as to be extended in the direction of the nozzle axis, in which the air hole has an inner diameter larger than a tip end portion of the fuel nozzle and the tip end portions are respectively inserted into the air holes, and a step surface formed at a position of the tip end portion closer to the other side in the direction of the nozzle axis than a tip end surface of the tip end portion so as to be expanded in a radial direction with respect to the nozzle axis from a tip end outer peripheral surface.
US12222100B2
A daylight LED light, a daylight LED light apparatus, and a daylight LED floodlight apparatus are provided. A daylight LED light according to an embodiment of the present inventive concept comprises: a plurality of first LED light sources having a color temperature of 5000 to 6500 K when emitting light, by applying RGB phosphors on purple light-emitting LED chips; a plurality of second LED light sources having a color temperature of 2500 to 3000 K when emitting light, by applying RGB phosphors on purple light-emitting chips; and a plurality of third LED light sources formed from red light-emitting LED chips. The number of first LED light sources is greater than the number of third LED light sources, and the number of third LED light sources is greater than the number of second LED light sources.
US12222099B2
A lighted architectural-structure covering is disclosed. In one example of an embodiment, an architectural-structure covering includes a light source arranged and configured to illuminate at least a portion of the architectural-structure covering. The architectural-structure covering may include first and second coverings. The light source is arranged and configured to direct light onto the second covering, which is arranged and configured to reflect, redistribute, etc. the received light toward the interior space of the room in which the architectural-structure covering is located. Thus arranged, the architectural-structure covering may be used to create, for example, diffused-lighting effects.
US12222097B2
The invention provides a lighting system (1000), wherein the lighting system (1000) comprises np system sections (100), wherein nF≥2, wherein each system section (100) comprises a light source array section (110), a collimator section (120), and a Koehler integrator section (130), wherein: for each of the system sections (100) applies: the light source array section (110) comprises a plurality of section light sources (10) configured to provide light source light (11); the Koehler integrator section (120) comprises a section entrance face (131) and a section exit face (136), wherein the section entrance face comprises a plurality of section entrance lenslets (132) shaped according to an section entrance surface pattern (31), and wherein the section exit face (136) comprises a plurality of section exit lenslets (137) shaped according to a section exit surface pattern (36), and wherein the section entrance face (131) is configured in a light receiving relationship with the plurality of section light sources (10) via the collimator section (120); each of the plurality of section light sources (10) have a light emitting surface (15), wherein the light emitting surface (15) has a first axis of elongation A1 and an aspect ratio RS, wherein RS>1; each first axis of elongation A1 has an angle αA1 to an averaged first direction of the axes of elongation A1, wherein α1≤5°; the section entrance surface pattern (31) comprises a section entrance tessellation (33) of an entrance lenslet shape, wherein the entrance lenslet shape has a rotational symmetry of order nA, wherein nA≥2, wherein the entrance lenslet shape has an entrance aspect ratio R1 and wherein R1≤RS; the section exit surface pattern (36) comprises a section exit tessellation (37) of an exit lenslet shape, wherein the exit lenslet shape approximates the light emitting surface (15), wherein the exit lenslet shape has an exit aspect ratio R2, wherein R2 is selected from the range of 0.8*RS−1.2*RS; and at least two system sections (100) of the system sections (100) are rotated relative to another for 360°/nA/k+(360/nA)*nI, wherein m is anon-negative integer, and wherein k is selected from the range of 2-12.
US12222089B2
A light emitting module is provided to comprise: a light source unit including at least one light-emitting element; a lens unit arranged on the light source unit and including a first fastening hole; a substrate having an upper and lower surfaces and including a second fastening hole, the light source unit arranged on the upper surface; and a fastening unit arranged inside of the first fastening hole and the second fastening hole, wherein the first fastening hole and the second fastening hole are arranged to correspond to each other. The substrate has a height in a vertical direction from the upper surface to the lower surface, and a height of a region of the substrate where the fastening portion is disposed and a height of a region of the substrate where the fastening portion is not disposed are same as the height of the substrate.
US12222071B2
A compressed gas storage unit (1) for mobile applications, in particular for storing hydrogen on board a vehicle, including at least one metal storage housing (2) which delimits a storage volume (3) that can be filled with compressed gas, as well as at least one temperature-and/or pressure-sensitive overload valve (4) arranged on the storage housing (2). The storage housing (2) or the compressed gas storage unit (1) is surrounded by a heat protection shield (5) at least in regions, preferably releasing the at least one overload valve (4).
US12222064B2
A hanger is provided for use with a post. The hanger includes a body. The body of the hanger includes an aperture disposed in the body. A first retaining tab is disposed at a first end of the aperture while a second retaining tab is disposed at a second end of the aperture.
US12222063B2
A stand assembly and method of converting a stand assembly from a moveable configuration to a stationary configuration is provided. The stand assembly includes a plurality of wheel assemblies slidably engaged with a plurality of respective trivets, each wheel assembly being moveable between a stowed configuration and a deployed configuration, thereby moving each trivet between a deployed configuration and a stowed configuration, respectively. When in their respective deployed configurations, a distal end of each trivet is engaged with the floor, thereby causing the stand assembly to be in the stationary configuration. When in their respective stowed configurations, the distal end of each trivet is positioned between two wheels of the wheel assembly such that the wheel assembly prevents the trivet from engaging with objects on the floor, thereby minimizing adjustments required to obtain desired ground clearance.
US12222060B2
The torque enhancing apparatus including a first socket and a second socket coupled to the first socket, including an extendable moment arm. The torque enhancing apparatus includes a ball pivotably and captively held between the first socket and the second socket. The torque enhancing apparatus may include one or more extendable moment arms. The extendable moment arm or arms are configured such that they provide a mechanical advantage for moving the first socket and the second socket relative to one another. The torque enhancing apparatus may include a first socket, a second socket coupled to the first socket including four extendable moment arms. The torque enhancing apparatus including a ball pivotably held between the first socket and the second socket.
US12222059B2
The present disclosure provides an isolation tool for isolating a section of pipe or a vessel and methods for isolating a section of a pipe or a vessel. In particular, the present disclosure provides a double isolation and bleed (DIB) isolation tool, for use in line-stopping operations and methods of line isolation employing the isolation tool.
US12222056B2
A fluid connection assembly, including a connector body, including a first end, a second end, a first through-bore, a first radially outward facing surface including at least one aperture extending from the first radially outward facing surface to the first through-bore, and at least one engaging element arranged in the at least one aperture, and a collar connected to the connector body, the collar including a radially inward facing surface engaged with the first radially outward facing surface and including at least one pocket extending radially outward therefrom, and a second radially outward facing surface.
US12222053B2
The disclosure relates to a profile clamp for connecting two tubular bodies wherein: the profile clamp has a clamp band having a profile cross-section that is open on the radially inner side; the clamp band, at at least one end, has a first transition portion and an adjoining, radially protruding clamping portion; and the clamping element can be clamped in the circumferential direction in order to tighten the profile clamp. A width of a base of the profile cross-section evenly increases from the end of the first transition portion facing away from the clamping element to the clamping element.
US12222047B2
A rotary valve comprises a stator member with a stator face, the stator member having at least two stator channels for conducting a fluid and opening into the stator face; a rotor member with a rotor face facing and in contact with the stator face, the rotor member having a rotor channel in the rotor face, wherein the rotor member is rotatable with respect to the stator member about a rotation axis, such that in a conducting position, the rotor channel interconnects the at least two stator channels to be in fluid communication; and a rotary encoder assembly adapted for determining a rotary position of the rotor member, the rotary encoder assembly comprising an encoder member and an encoder module, which is adapted to sense a rotary position of the encoder member. The encoder member is rigidly connected to the rotor member and surrounds the rotor member.
US12222044B2
An electromagnetic valve unit held so as to be sandwiched between a receiving portion of a housing portion of control equipment and a pressing member includes a shoulder portion to be opposed to the receiving portion of the housing portion and an annular elastic member provided with a protruded portion to be inserted into a recessed portion formed at the shoulder portion. The annular elastic member is further provided with an annular deformation portion that is deformable in the axial direction so as not to press the protruded portion in the axial direction.
US12222042B2
An air valve assembly and an inflatable cushion, which comprises an air storage bag, a first check valve and a second check valve. In specific application, the air valve assembly can be integrally installed on the inflatable cushion, and users can rapidly inflate inflatable products by repeatedly pressing the air storage bag. By arranging the first check valve and the second check valve, the inflatable product can be quickly inflated, and at the same time, the air of the inflatable product can be prevented from leaking to the outside during the inflation process, thus improving the air tightness of the inflatable product.
US12222037B2
The piston ring assembly having a first and a second endless sealing ring and an elastic ring carrier, the first and the second sealing ring extending in a circumferential direction (U) and each having an outer circumferential surface, the first sealing ring having a first center point (M1) with respect to its outer circumferential surface and the second sealing ring having a second center point (M2) with respect to its outer circumferential surface, the first and second sealing rings each having a longitudinal axis (L) running perpendicular to the circumferential direction (U), wherein the ring carrier runs in the circumferential direction (U), and wherein the ring carrier and the first and second sealing rings are designed to be mutually adapted in such a way that the first and second sealing rings are arranged one after the other in the ring carrier in the direction of the longitudinal axis (L), and in that their first and second centers (M1, M2) are arranged at a distance from one another radially with respect to the longitudinal axis (L), the sealing rings being pressed in opposite directions against the inner wall of a cylinder when the piston ring assembly is used in accordance with the invention.
US12222036B2
A sealing arrangement for an enclosure is provided. The sealing arrangement can include an offset and an open hem. The open hem can have an inner perimeter that defines an opening of the enclosure and an outer perimeter with radiused corners configured to receive a continuous gasket to seal the enclosure.
US12222034B1
A shift control method for a vehicle powertrain includes determining, by a controller, whether a transmission is shifting and determining the type of shifting when the transmission is shifting, selecting a predetermined control matrix depending on whether the transmission is shifting and the type of shifting, calculating a necessary torque of a control target shift element on the basis of the selected control matrix, calculating a control hydraulic pressure for implementing the necessary torque of the control target shift element, and controlling the control target shift element by using the calculated control hydraulic pressure, and the control matrix is calculated by using relationship formulas of angular velocities, angular accelerations, moments of inertia, and torques of powertrain components and using a boundary condition according to a state of the transmission.
US12222028B2
In a strain wave gearing, a thrust force applied on an externally toothed gear during an increased-speed operation causes the externally toothed gear to move along an axis in a first direction, and the output-side end surface thereof is pressed, by a prescribed force, against a friction surface of a friction plate integrated with a rotating shaft part of a strain wave generator. Torque transmission efficiency can be reduced only during increased-speed operation, by means of a friction loss occurring between the externally toothed gear and the friction plate. When large load torque is applied from an output shaft which is an output-side member during reduced-speed operation, retention torque of the strain wave generator which is an input-side member during speed-reduction operation can be reduced.
US12222022B1
A transmission device (1) includes a gearbox (10), a motor set (20) and a braking set (30). The gearbox (10) includes a housing (11) and a transmission set (12) arranged in the housing (11), and the housing (11) includes a socket (111). The motor set (20) includes a motor body (21) and a rotating shaft (22) disposed protrusively from the front side of the motor body (21). The rotating shaft (22) is inserted in the socket (111) and connected to the transmission set (12). The braking set (30) is installed on the rotating shaft (22) and positioned in the socket (111), and the braking set (30) applies braking force on the rotating shaft (22). Therefore, the effect of saving space at the end of the motor is achieved.
US12222021B2
A powertrain of a vehicle comprising an electric motor (16) having a drive shaft (11) wherein the drive shaft is oriented preferably perpendicular to the common axis (Aw) of the wheels (18) which the powertrain is intended to drive (i.e. rotate). The drive shaft of the electric motor is mechanically connected to the axles (20, 22) of the wheels, which are aligned with the common axis, via a transmission (10) having at least one pair of mating gears (12, 14), preferably with one of the pair of mating gears being an offset pinion (14), and with the reduction ratio of the transmission being in the range of about 6 to about 15 with the pinion having 2 to 6 teeth.
US12222007B2
A bearing unit for a marble cutting machine has a radially outer ring, rotatable with respect to an axis of rotation (X) and is provided with a radially outer flange portion. Additionally, the bearing unit is provided with a stationary radially inner ring with a through hole in which the ratio between a dimension of an internal diameter (D) of the through hole and a dimension of the axial thickness (T) of the radially inner ring is between about 6.7 and about 11.1. A row of rolling bodies is interposed between the radially outer ring and the radially inner ring. A sealing shield is made of composite material and interposed between the radially inner ring and the radially outer ring, rotatable with respect to the rotation axis (X) and steadily anchored to the radially outer ring. The shield is provided with a sensor molded in it.
US12222001B2
Methods of manufacturing a radial sliding bearing may include coupling superhard contact elements to support rings where each superhard contact element includes a superhard contact surface and forming at least some of the superhard contact surfaces to comprise an arcute or a planar surface.
US12222000B2
A sliding linear motion guide device that is to be provided between a supporting body and a movable body is provided with: a rail (300) having a first guiding surface (302) and second guiding surfaces (304, 306) which are inclined; a carriage (200) having a receiving recess for receiving at least part of the rail and having a first sliding surface (204) facing the first guiding surface of the rail and second sliding surfaces (206, 208) facing the respective second guiding surfaces; and sliding members (10) each of which is a thin plate attached to one of the sliding surfaces. The sliding members each have a lubricant pocket (14) which is a recess surrounded by a land part (12).
US12221999B2
A turbo fluid machine includes a rotating member having a bearing-contact surface; an operating part configured to rotate together with the rotating member to compress and discharge a fluid; a housing accommodating the rotating member and the operating part; and a foil bearing having a bearing surface that faces the bearing-contact surface and supporting the rotating member such that the rotating member is rotatable relative to the housing. At least one of the bearing-contact surface or the bearing surface has thereon a coating layer. The coating layer comprises polyamide-imide serving as a binder resin and molybdenum disulfide serving as a solid lubricant. A mass ratio of molybdenum disulfide to polyamide-imide is 0.42 or more.
US12221998B2
A hinge is connectable with two housing shells for permitting relative opening and closing of the housing shells, and includes a fixed seat, at least two rotating units, two lateral support plates and a center support plate. The rotating units are disposed at two sides of a centerline of the fixed seat and are connectable with the housing shells. The rotating units are shiftable between an open state and a closed state. Each rotating unit includes a linking member arcuately slidable on the fixed seat. The lateral support plates are mounted on the linking members, and have central notches. The center support plate is movably disposed on the fixed seat and is moved with the rotating units. In the open state, the center support plate is disposed in the central notches. In the closed state, the center support plate abuts against the fixed seat.
US12221996B2
A fastener system including a nut body and a helical thread insert. The nut body having an internally threaded bore containing a plurality of bore threads, and at least one bore obstruction. The helical thread insert formed to create a plurality of internal HTI threads and a plurality of external HTI threads, with the helical thread insert received in the internally threaded bore and not occupying all of the plurality of bore threads, and having its movement limited by the bore obstruction. The helical thread insert having threads with both circular end profiles and a non-circular end profile. The non-circular end profile including at least three straight segments, and located between circular threads.
US12221994B2
An object of the present invention is to provide an anti-loosening device that exhibits its anti-loosening effect by means of an eccentric fit between a protrusion 12 of a nut 10 and a recess 22 in a nut 20, wherein the inclination of the nut 20 relative to the nut 10 when they have been tightened is minimized. The outer peripheral surface of the protrusion 12 and the inner peripheral surface of the recess 22 are constructed in such a manner that, with the nuts screwed to a threaded shaft S and an eccentric fit established between the protrusion 12 of the nut 10 and the recess 22 in the nut 20, the tapered outer peripheral surface portion 12a of the protrusion 12 interferes with the tapered inner peripheral surface portion 22a of the recess 22 along part of the circumference while a gap is formed between the distal-end outer peripheral surface portion 12b of the protrusion 12 and the closer-to-bottom inner peripheral surface portion 22b of the recess 22 along the entire circumference.
US12221990B2
A fastener assembly includes a pin and a body. The pin includes a shaft that inserts into a central passage of the body. The body includes a flange and first and second arms that attach to a nose at a distal end. Each of the first and second arms includes an exterior flex point, an interior flex point, and a proximal end. The first arm is configured to move about a first proximal hinge portion. The second arm is configured to move about a second proximal hinge portion. A first brace extends from a first arm, a second brace extends from a second arm, and the first and second braces create an overlap area between the first arm and the second arm.
US12221987B2
An integrated multi-connection hydraulic group for connecting the hydraulic circuit on-board an operating machine to a plurality of hydraulic, electrical, and/or pneumatic lines for the connection of corresponding lines of a user includes a block or manifold having connection elements for connecting the block to the circuit of the machine, and a plurality of fast female couplings housed in the block that face outwardly from a plate-shaped surface of the block and connect with a corresponding number of male couplings of the user. A plurality of hydraulic elements is provided within the block or manifold for adjusting the flow that feeds the lines and is in fluid connection with the fast female couplings via respective channels defined inside the block.
US12221980B2
A gas turbine engine includes a fan having a plurality of fan blades, a turbomachine operably coupled to the fan for driving the fan, the turbomachine including a compressor section, a combustion section, and a turbine section in serial flow order and together defining a core air flowpath, a nacelle surrounding and at least partially enclosing the fan, the nacelle defining a longitudinal axis, and an inlet pre-swirl feature located upstream of the plurality of fan blades, the inlet pre-swirl feature attached to or integrated into the nacelle, wherein the inlet pre-swirl feature is transitionable between a first angle with respect to the longitudinal axis of the nacelle and a second angle with respect to the longitudinal axis of the nacelle.
US12221973B2
Disclosed are self-aspirating and gas-liquid dispersing impellers, belonging to the technical field of impellers. The self-aspirating and gas-liquid dispersing impellers include an stirring shaft, a hub, a disc and blades; the hub is coaxially sleeved on the stirring shaft, the disc is connected to the hub, a plurality of blades which extend in the radial direction are arranged on the circumferential side face of the disc, and a gas inlet channel is formed in the disc; each of the plurality of blades includes an upper curved surface and a lower curved surface, and a rotary cavity is embedded between the upper curved surface and the corresponding lower curved surface; and one side of the rotary cavity is a liquid facing surface. The impeller of the disclosure has the dual functions of radial gas-liquid dispersing and axial fluid mixing, effectively promotes microscopic mass transfer and macroscopic fluid delivery between gas and liquid phases.
US12221969B2
An air pump is delineated for an inflatable product that can be selectively connected thereto. The inflatable product includes a shell located on a side wall. The shell includes an internal chamber for selective placement of the air pump and an air valve for selective communication with the air pump. When the air pump is located in the internal chamber it can be moved to switch between a first position and a second position. The air pump includes an air inlet and an air outlet such that the air inlet is in communication with the air valve in the first position to deflate the inflatable product and the air outlet is in communication with the air valve in the second position to inflate the inflatable product. The air pump can also be used externally via manual connection between the air inlet or the air outlet and other inflatable products.
US12221958B2
A power end assembly includes a crankshaft section, a crosshead section, and a connector section coupled together by one, two, or more sets of stay rods. The power end may include one or more support plates that are coupled to the crankshaft section and/or crosshead section. The crosshead section includes a plurality of individual crosshead frames. The connector section may include a plurality of individual connector plates or may be a unitary connector plate. The power end is configured to be coupled to a fluid end assembly by coupling the fluid end assembly to the connector plates.
US12221955B2
A connecting structure, an exhaust silencer, a silencer and a compressor are provided. The connecting structure has a connecting housing and an exhaust pipe assembly. The connecting housing has a silencing chamber and a sealing portion. One end of the exhaust pipe assembly passes through the sealing portion and extends into the silencing chamber. Another end of the exhaust pipe assembly is arranged outside the connecting housing. Thus, the silencing chamber is in communication with an outside space of the connecting housing through the exhaust pipe assembly.
US12221950B2
Disclosed is a blade apparatus for wind power generation, which includes: a blade body, one end thereof being provided with a blade-root connecting portion; and a blade root assembly, including a plurality of blade root segments arranged in a circumferential direction of the blade body to form a body of revolution, each blade root segment being detachably connected to a corresponding portion of the blade-root connecting portion. The blade root assembly with a plurality of blade root segments is adopted, so that the dimension of a single blade root segment is greatly reduced, thus effectively reducing the difficulties in manufacture and transportation. Meanwhile, the overall dimension of the blade root assembly can be further increased to match with a larger blade body, which is beneficial to further improve the swept area of blade and generated output of wind power generation device.
US12221949B2
A Kaplan-type turbine includes a stator part and a rotor part; the stator part having a conduit, configured to convey a water flow towards an impeller having a rotation axis, and a stator of an electric generator, while the rotor part includes: an impeller having in turn: an ogive with at least three blades with variable angular setup with respect to an inclination axis substantially orthogonal to the rotation axis; a rotation shaft bearing the impeller; adjustments for adjusting the setup of the blades, defined inside the ogive and the rotation shaft; a rotor of the electric generator, fixed to the rotation shaft. The adjustments for adjusting the setup of the blade include for each blade: a load-bearing disc, from which one blade develops, which load-bearing disc is constrained to rotate on the ogive around the inclination axis; a lever, fixed to the load-bearing disc and developing radially inside the ogive; a manoeuvring rod, pivoted to the lever and to a drive slider.
US12221948B2
The present invention relates to a power generation apparatus. A power generation apparatus including according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a main chamber provided with a main space for the accommodation of water, and configured to accommodate water sucked through a suction pipe on the bottom surface thereof; a support part; an auxiliary chamber configured to receive water from the main chamber or to supply water to the main chamber; a pressure pump configured to generate pressure and thus discharge air in the main space out of the main chamber through a discharge pipe provided on the ceiling surface of the main chamber; a spout part configured to spout water, sucked by the pressure pump and accommodated in the main space, out of the main chamber; and a power generation part configured to generate electric power using the pressure of water spouted by the spout part.
US12221946B2
The invention relates to a method for operating an internal combustion engine, in which the internal combustion engine has at least one first combustion chamber, in which combustion processes take place during fired operation of the first combustion chamber, at least one second combustion chamber, in which combustion processes take place during a fired operation of the second combustion chamber, a first knock sensor assigned to the first combustion chamber, by means of which irregular combustions in the first combustion chamber can be detected, and a second knock sensor assigned to the second combustion chamber, by means of which irregular combustions in the second combustion chamber can be detected. The internal combustion engine is operated in a first operating state in which channel switching is carried out. A switch is made from the first operating state to a second operating state in which channel switching does not take place.
US12221941B2
A thrust reverser for an aircraft propulsion unit, including a movable system with cascade vanes and an actuator allowing moving a movable system between an advanced direct thrust position and a backward thrust reversal position, the system also including an inter-cascade structure for limiting buckling of the actuator, forming a channel crossed by the actuator and delimited by a cylindrical internal surface extending along a first closed directrix curve, the fixed portion of the actuator including an end equipped with an external ring for limiting buckling of the actuator, the ring having a cylindrical external surface extending along a second closed directrix curve, the first and second closed directrix curves preferably having the same shapes and being concentric while being spaced apart from one another with the same spacing.
US12221939B2
A device for rotatable mounting of a camshaft of an internal combustion engine. The device includes a first bearing body with a receiver for rotatable mounting of the camshaft. The device has a cylinder head or a fixing frame for fixing the first bearing body. The device has a first fixing means which fixes the first bearing body to the cylinder head or fixing frame. The first fixing means is the sole fixing means which fixes the first bearing body to the cylinder head or fixing frame.
US12221916B2
A hydraulic operating device for a cooling fan of a utility vehicle includes a hydraulic motor and a fan assembly, which can be driven by the hydraulic motor for generating a cooling air stream. A hydraulic supply is adjustable in terms of its delivery volume in accordance with pressure feedback for providing pressurized hydraulic liquid. A control valve for setting, in a manner dependent on a control signal that represents a cooling demand, a volume flow that passes through the hydraulic motor, with a sensor line that is branched off in a supply line between the control valve and the hydraulic motor leading to a pressure control inlet of the hydraulic supply.
US12221915B2
An air supply to an internal combustion engine, which includes at least one cylinder and a heater. A first air duct is provided for supplying air to the at least one cylinder of the internal combustion engine for operating the internal combustion engine and a second air duct is provided for supplying air to a heater for heating an exhaust system of the internal combustion engine. The first and second air ducts are connected by a third air duct to an air filter, for providing filtered ambient air to the internal combustion engine. The first and second air ducts in each case have at least one control element for controlling the amount of air flowing through. The second and third air ducts in each case have a mass flow sensor for measuring a mass of the air flowing through the relevant air duct. Methods and devices for diagnosing the air supply are also described.
US12221912B2
A straddled vehicle, including: an engine, which includes a combustion chamber; a three-way catalyst, which is configured to purify exhaust gas exhausted from the combustion chamber; an upstream oxygen sensor, which is provided upstream of the three-way catalyst in a flow direction of the exhaust gas, and is configured to detect an oxygen concentration in the exhaust gas; a downstream oxygen sensor, which is provided downstream of the three-way catalyst in the flow direction of the exhaust gas, and is configured to detect the oxygen concentration in the exhaust gas; and a controller, which includes a processor, and a non-transitory storage medium containing program instructions, execution of which by the processor causes the controller to execute a detachment determination process of determining whether the three-way catalyst is detached at least based on a signal input as a signal of the downstream oxygen sensor.
US12221902B2
A connecting structure (10) for load transfer, in particular in a gas turbine (1), including a strut (20) and at least one wall element (30) is provided. The strut (20) at one end is integrally joined to the wall element (30), and the strut (20) and the wall element (30) are enclosed by a fillet (40), at least in areas, and integrally joined to same. An elastic deformation of the involved elements of the structure during the load transfer and/or load absorption is improved in that a root section (50) that is formed by a ridge (56) and that extends from the strut (20) to the wall element (30) is situated on the fillet (40).
US12221898B2
A turbomachinery apparatus (10) includes: a turbine (22), including: a turbine component (36) defining at least one arcuate flowpath surface (40); an array of axial-flow turbine airfoils (46) extending from the flowpath surface, the turbine airfoils defining spaces therebetween; and a plurality of splitter airfoils (146) extending from the at least one flowpath surface, in the spaces between the turbine airfoils, each splitter airfoil having opposed pressure and suction sides extending between a leading edge and a trailing edge, wherein the splitter airfoils have a thickness ratio which is less than a thickness ratio of the turbine airfoils.
US12221895B1
A turbine engine assembly includes a first case structure with a first flange and a second case structure that includes a second flange. The second flange is configured for securement to the first flange at a connection interface. At least one steam conduit is in thermal communication with the connection interface and configured to receive a portion of a flow of steam to heat the connection interface. Heating the connection interface provides for control of a thermal gradient generated by a difference in temperature in temperatures on either side of the connection interface.
US12221892B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed. A shroud assembly of a gas turbine engine includes: a first shroud arm having a first end and a second end, the first end to couple to an outer wall and the second end to couple to a first shroud pad, and a second shroud arm having a first end and a second end, the first end to couple to the outer wall and the second end to couple to a second shroud pad, at least one of the first shroud pad or the second shroud pad to move radially outward toward the outer wall in response to a rotor blade contacting the at least one of the first shroud pad or the second shroud pad.
US12221874B2
The last sentence of the abstract has been deleted because it refers to purported merits of the invention. The abstract should not refer to purported merits or speculative applications of the invention and should not compare the invention with the prior art, therefore the abstract has been amended to delete the last sentence by Examiner's amendment.
US12221871B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure include a system for reducing an operating expense and a steam oil ratio (SOR) of at least one of an enhanced oil recovery system and a gas recovery system. The system can include a boiler configured to produce steam. The system can further include a super-heater in fluid communication with the boiler, the super-heater configured to generate a plurality of super-heat levels in a plurality of sections of the at least one of the enhanced oil recovery system and the gas recovery system downstream of the super-heater, wherein the plurality of super-heat levels are implemented per each one of the plurality of downstream sections of the at least one of the enhanced oil recovery system and gas recovery system to reduce the SOR.
US12221868B2
An electric submersible pump (ESP) assembly. The ESP assembly comprises an electric motor; a seal section coupled to the electric motor; a fluid intake coupled to an uphole end of the seal section, wherein the fluid intake defines a plurality of inlet ports; a gas separator comprising a plurality of gas phase discharge ports, and at least one liquid phase discharge port, wherein the gas separator is located uphole of the fluid intake; a centrifugal pump comprising a fluid inlet at a downhole end, wherein the at least one liquid phase discharge port of the gas separator is fluidically coupled to the fluid inlet of the centrifugal pump; and an inverted shroud assembly, wherein a downhole end of the inverted shroud assembly is coupled to an outside of the gas separator downhole of the gas phase discharge ports of the gas separator and uphole of the fluid intake.
US12221867B2
A system for oil and gas production includes a drilling, pipeline, or power quality device, a sensor, and a storage device. The storage device has instructions stored thereon that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations. The operations include receiving first data from the sensor. The operations include determining whether the device is experiencing an event condition based on the first data The operations include generating one or more potential corrective actions responsive to a determination that the device is experiencing the event condition. The operations include calculating a reward value for each of the one or more potential corrective actions. The operations include identifying a first corrective action of the one or more potential corrective actions with a largest or most positive reward value The operations include controlling the device according to the first corrective action.
US12221852B1
A variety of methods and apparatus are disclosed, including, in one embodiment, a downhole tool for use in a borehole, comprising: a mandrel; and a sealing element disposed about the mandrel, wherein the sealing element comprises bulk metallic glass (BMG).
US12221851B1
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to wellbore plugs, and specifically to pump down wiper plug assemblies used for conducting casing integrity pressure tests and completing wellbores. A plug assembly comprises one or more of a mandrel, a wiper, a plug member, a ring member, and dissolvable member. The dissolvable member, and the plug member and the ring member are configured to temporarily close fluid flow through an inner bore of the mandrel. The entire or only a portion of the outer surface of the dissolvable member comprises a protective coating.
US12221841B2
An apparatus includes a shaker screen onto which downhole materials and fluid from a borehole are to be placed, the downhole materials a product of a downhole operation and a shaker to vibrate the shaker screen to separate the downhole materials from the fluid. The apparatus includes a radar to emit an electromagnetic wave onto the downhole materials on at least one of the shaker screen and a transit and detect a reflection of the electromagnetic wave reflected off at least a portion of the downhole materials and a device to determine a velocity of the downhole materials advancing along at least one of the shaker screen toward a discharge end of the shaker screen and the transit.
US12221840B2
An end effector for gripping and spinning a pipe includes a head portion including a first connection interface for connecting the end effector to a robotic arm. In addition, the end effector includes a pair of jaws rotatably connected to the head portion between an open position and a gripping position. Further, the end effector includes a spinner for spinning a pipe held by the pair of jaws in the gripping position around a spinning axis generally corresponding to a longitudinal centre axis of the pipe. The first connection interface has a normal which is substantially parallel to the spinning axis. There is also disclosed a robot including an end effector as well a robot assembly and a drilling installation including such as robot.
US12221838B1
Milling rod guide (MRG) systems for oil wells include one or more relatively short rods with hardened milling heads (couplings) and sacrificial anode material located centrally on the body rod body between the milling heads. When driven in a reciprocating motion inside conventional or hardened tubing, the interfaces between the MRGs and the tubing repeatedly crush, grind, and tumble grit into smaller particles. At some smaller size, the solids can then be lifted out of the well with the production. The sacrificial anode section provides cathodic protection of metal surfaces when corrosion inhibitor films are removed. Channels within the anode allow solids to pass through the MRG for further milling or to be produced. MRGs distribute and reduce the radial and shear stresses at the interfaces of the of the rod string and the tubing in vertical, deviated, inclined, or horizontal sections of the pumping system, thereby mitigating wear.
US12221835B1
A drill string reaming tool for reaming a wellbore while drilling as part of the bottom hole assembly on a drill string comprises a reaming sleeve having teeth or cutters thereon. In some embodiments, the reaming sleeve rotates around the longitudinal axis of the tool unpowered. In some embodiments, the rotation of the reaming sleeve is powered by a turbine driven by mud flowing through the drill string.
US12221831B2
A high performance door, preferably a high speed door opens and closes an opening (11), preferably in a wall (12). The door includes a flexible curtain (13) that is wound and unwound on a shaft to open and close the opening (11). The door includes a rigid bottom beam (15) attached on the lower end of said curtain (13). The risk that the bottom beam may contact an object the environment surrounding the door upon opening is reduced by the shape of the rigid bottom beam (15). The rigid bottom beam is shaped to have at least one flush side (20) that is flush with the curtain and another side that is almost flush with the curtain (13).
US12221824B1
A removeable window control device in the nature of a vent stop including a housing having a peripheral flange defining an opening, at least one channel, and a pair of opposingly oriented sockets, a bolt including at least one leg, wherein the leg further includes a protuberance and a tab, a cover including a lateral side of substantially similar shape and size of a lateral side of the housing, wherein the cover further includes a pair of opposingly oriented pegs and at least one channel, and a resilient member engaging a conduit defined in the bolt and a back side of the housing to urge the bolt along the channels formed in the housing and cover towards the opening defined by the peripheral flange of the housing. The vent stop is preferably inserted into a frame of a window.
US12221818B1
A security sliding barrier with a sliding panel, a fixed panel, a latch channel, a lock, a strike plate, and an interlock assembly. The sliding panel is positioned between the latch channel and the fixed panel. The latch channel mounts to the frame distal to the fixed panel and the lock is mounted on the sliding panel and extends toward the latch channel. The strike plate is attached to the latch channel and has a receiver aligned with the lock that receives the lock when the security sliding barrier moves to a closed position, locking the first side of the sliding panel to the latch channel. The interlock assembly has a fixed interlock on the fixed panel and a sliding interlock on the sliding panel that engage when the security sliding barrier is in the closed position, locking the second side of the sliding panel to the fixed panel.
US12221816B2
A vehicle latch testing assembly includes a base, a latch assembly fixed to the base, a striker assembly configured to engage the latch assembly, and a strain gauge connected to the striker assembly. An operating member is connected to the strain gauge and pivotally connected to the base. The operating member is configured to move between a first position and a second position to apply a first force to the latch assembly.
US12221812B2
A drawer interlocking guide rail with locking function, including guide rail assemblies including an inner rail, an outer rail and a middle rail and an interlocking device including an interlocking base, an interlocking slider and a rotating arm; the interlocking base is slidably mounted on the outer rail from an outside; the interlocking slider is nested on the interlocking base and have special-shaped hole passing through the rotating arm; the interlocking base is provided with a chute portion, the inner rail is provided with a toggle block; the end of the inner rail is provided with a tail clamping portion; the end of the outer rail is provided with a silencer locking stopper for fitting to the tail clamping portion when the drawer is closed, two sides of the outer rail are respectively installed with interlocking linkage assemblies driven by the interlocking slider to move up and down.
US12221810B2
A securing assembly for locking a first section with a second section of an equipment cabinet against hinging movement. The first section can hingedly support a door of the cabinet. The securing assembly can include a knob, with a pocket, and a latch can be coupled to the knob to be rotated by the knob as the securing assembly is rotated between a free orientation and an engaged orientation. In the free orientation, the latch can be disengaged from the second section to permit the first section to hingedly open away from the second section. In the engaged orientation, the latch can be engaged with the second section to lock the first and second sections together and the pocket of the knob can be receive an arm of a lock on the door to lock the door to the first section and lock the securing assembly in the engaged orientation.
US12221809B2
An auto-open door lock apparatus including a main body cover having a space therein, and a motor installed inside the main body cover to provide a driving force. The auto-open door lock apparatus further includes at least: a locker which is coupled to or separates from a hook that is introduced from the outside through rotation; a locker shaft having one end connected to the locker, and formed in the center of rotation of the locker; a clutch gear connected to the other end of the locker shaft to induce rotation of the locker; a locker spring connected to one side of the locker to provide a rotational restoring force to the locker; a rack slide which provides a rotational force of the motor to the locker through the clutch gear; and a pinion gear which transmits the rotational force of the motor to the rack slide.
US12221806B2
An unmanned retail device, an automatic vending system, and a settlement method after powering off and then powering on. The unmanned retail device includes a cabinet body, and a door body; an electric mortise lock configured to lock the door body and enable the door be latching when power failure occurs; a door opening/closing detection device configured to detect opening/closing of the door body; and a main control board electrically connected to the electric mortise lock and the door opening/closing detection device respectively and configured to control, when it is re-powered after power failure, the door opening/closing detection device to detect the opening/closing of the door body. The unmanned retail device is capable of resetting the electric mortise lock when it is re-powered after power failure in a power supply system, ensuring that the door body can be re-closed, and finishing shopping settlement of a last user.
US12221804B2
A swimming pool with an adjustable shading angle is provided. The swimming pool includes a swimming pool body and an awning, the awning is arranged on the swimming pool body; and the opening of the swimming pool body faces upward and is provided with a water chamber. The awning includes a piece of tarpaulin, a bracket and a fixing rope, and the piece of tarpaulin is installed above the swimming pool body through the bracket. One end of the fixing rope is connected to the piece of tarpaulin, and the other end is detachable and connected to the swimming pool body; the swimming pool body is provided with a plurality of bases in different positions, the shading angle of the piece of tarpaulin is changed by connecting the fixing rope to different bases.
US12221797B2
A fiber-reinforced polymer anchoring system for a structural element includes a fiber-reinforced polymer member configured to provide external tensile reinforcement to the structural element; an anchoring device coupled with the fiber-reinforced polymer member and the structural element; wherein the anchoring device includes a metallic layer, a fiber-reinforced polymer layer, and a fastener for securing the anchoring device on the fiber-reinforced polymer member and the structural element.
US12221796B2
The present disclosure provides a boom, a boom assembly and a work machine. The work machine comprises a boom support structure and the boom assembly connected to the boom support structure, wherein the boom assembly comprises a plurality of first booms hinged to one another, at least one of the first boom is the boom, the boom has a box-type structure and comprises a body comprising a first body portion and a second body portion, the first body portion and the second body portion overlapping each other to enclose and form the box-type structure. The boom can be designed to have a light weight, and a split-type design facilitates simplifying a mold, improving the versatility of a mold, alleviating the inconsistent of thermal deformation of the boom, and facilitating later maintenance.
US12221791B2
Embodiments of the represent disclosure provides a multi-purpose screed device suitable to provide draining and/or ventilation at various locations of exterior walls in a building. The multi-purpose screed device is compatible with exterior walls with a rain screen disposed outside a weather-resistant barrier layer. The multi-purpose screed device may use a foundation weep screed, overhang soffit screed, and soffit ventilation.
US12221786B2
A stirrup module includes an outer stirrup set, an upper-opening stirrup set having an upper opening and provided in an opening of the outer stirrup of the outer stirrup set, and a lower-opening stirrup set having a lower opening and provided in the opening of the outer stirrup of the outer stirrup set. Wherein the upper opening and the opening of the outer stirrup are oriented in the same direction, the lower opening and the upper opening are in opposite directions to each other. Wherein the upper-opening stirrup set has a first bottom of stirrup opposite to the upper opening, and the first bottom of stirrup corresponds to the position of the lower opening; the lower-opening stirrup set has a second bottom rib opposite to the lower opening, and the second bottom rib corresponds to the position of the upper opening.
US12221779B2
A flushing switch device with automatic pressing stroke detection is provided, which is applied to the flushing switches of a toilet. The flushing switch device with automatic pressing stroke detection includes a capacitive sensor, an actuator, and a protector. The capacitive sensor senses a user's hand movements to generate a sensing signal. The actuator includes a driver and a pressing mechanism; the driver drives the pressing mechanism to press one of the flushing switches. The protector includes a detector and a controller; the detector detects a load variation during an operation of the actuator to generate a detection signal; the controller receives the sensing signal and correspondingly generates a control signal to control the actuator according to the sensing signal and the detection signal.
US12221774B2
An operation record analysis system for a construction machine is provided which can efficiently extract work contents that may possibly make a factor of decrease in the operation rate from within operation information recorded at the time of operation of a construction machine. The operation record analysis system for a construction machine includes an object sensor that senses an object existing around a machine body. A controller calculates the position of the object on the basis of the information from the object sensor, decides, on the basis of the information from a machine body position sensor and a machine body posture sensor, and the position of the object, whether or not the machine body and the object are close to each other, and adds a result of the decision to the operation information.
US12221770B2
A construction machine with a hydraulic system has a hydraulic control, which comprises a joystick, a hydraulic pressure source, and two hydraulic drives. Main control valves are controlled by a joystick. The construction machine comprises multiple components, and a hydraulic drive is assigned for moving these components. The hydraulic control comprises an electrically-actuatable priority proportional valve in the hydraulic connection of a drive. The priority valve is electrically connected to the electronic control unit and generates additional hydraulic resistance. The hydraulic control comprises sensors, on the components, for detection of the positions thereof. The detected sensor values are transferred to the control unit. At least one trajectory is stored in the control unit. A control mode can be activated, in which each priority valve is controlled using the current sensor values upon actuation of the joystick so that the stored trajectory is run by control of the drives.
US12221766B2
A work vehicle and energy storage device include a ballast providing ballast weight to the horizontal end of the work vehicle, a stator of an electric machine having a vertically extending axis, and a rotor of the electric machine fixed for rotation with the ballast.
US12221757B2
A watertight structure in a flap gate 1 provided with a weight-balance supported door 2 to open an opening 200 of a floodgate 100 in a state in which no external force other than gravity is applied, wherein the structure has: a gap opening-closing member 72 that oscillates in the water flow direction and opens and closes a gap C, wherein the gap C is provided between the lower edge 23 of the door 2 and the bottom face 300 of the floodgate 100 in a state in which the door 2 is blocking the floodgate 100; and an opening operation assist means 73 for operating the gap opening-closing member 72 so as to be in an open state by lifting same toward the outer water side.
US12221749B2
The invention relates to a roller for producing a fibrous web, in particular a paper web including a rotationally symmetrical base body which is rotatable about a longitudinal axis and has a shell surface on which there are arranged at least two elastically deformable and/or deflectable ring-shaped lamellas which extend away from the shell surface in the radial direction and which surround the base body in the circumferential direction, wherein the lamellas are arranged at least in sections at an angle relative to a center plane of the roller aligned perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the roller, thus forming an angle of inclination.
US12221741B2
A laundry treating apparatus includes a detergent storage unit retractable or extendable into or from a cabinet through a front opening. The detergent storage unit includes: a detergent storage frame retractable or extendable into or from the cabinet through the opening, where the detergent storage frame has detergent containing walls protruding upward from a bottom face thereof, where a detergent containing region is defined by the detergent containing walls; a detergent reservoir installed detachably on the detergent storage frame and surrounding at least a portion of the detergent containing region, where first detergent is stored in the detergent reservoir; and a detergent cup installed detachably in the detergent containing region. The detergent storage frame has a detergent container formed in a portion of the detergent containing region except for the detergent cup, second detergent is stored in the detergent container, and third detergent is stored in the detergent cup.
US12221733B2
A system for treatment of thread includes a weft thread printer having an intake positioned to receive a weft thread from a source, as well as an encoder that is configured to detect a length of the weft thread as the weft thread moves through the weft thread printer along a travel path. The system also includes a printhead positioned to apply coatings of a plurality of colors to the weft thread and yield a treated weft thread, as well as an outlet positioned to pass the treated weft thread to a loom.
US12221732B2
A liquid application unit includes a supply member, a liquid application device, and an application controller. The supply member includes a cylindrical or columnar winding core around which a linear medium is wound. The liquid application device applies liquid to the linear medium unwound and fed from the supply member. The application controller adjusts a liquid application length of the liquid applied by the liquid application unit to the linear medium in a feed direction of the linear medium. The application controller adjusts the liquid application length in the feed direction of the linear medium in accordance with a winding thickness of a remaining amount of the linear medium from an outer peripheral surface of the winding core.
US12221729B2
The object of the invention is a method of manufacturing a three-dimensionally shaped floor paneling, luggage compartment paneling or load floor paneling for motor vehicles, the carpet surface of which has a needled structure on the visible side, as well as the panellings themselves.
US12221728B2
An example method of manufacturing a knitted fabric that includes a non-knitted structure occurs in accordance with a programmed knit sequence for a multi-dimensional knitting machine. The method includes, providing a non-knitted structure to the multi-dimensional knitting machine at a point in time when a fabric structure has a first knit portion, wherein the first knit portion is formed based on a first type of knit pattern. The method also includes, after the providing of the non-knitted structure, following the programmed knit sequence to automatically adjust the multi-dimensional knitting machine to use a second type of knit pattern, distinct from a first type of knit pattern, to accommodate the non-knitted structure within a second knit portion that is adjacent to the first knit portion within the fabric structure.
US12221724B2
A recycled polyester filament and preparation method therefor are disclosed. In the process of preparing a fiber from a recycled polyester according to the FDY process, the ring-blowing is used for cooling, and the distribution of spinneret holes on the spinneret is controlled to meet certain conditions, then the recycled polyester filament is obtained by relaxation heat treatment after a fully drawn yarn is produced. The spinneret holes are C-shaped spinneret holes and circular spinneret holes, the cross-section of the C-shaped spinneret hole is composed of an outer arc, an inner arc, and two line segments, and two endpoints of the outer arc are A and B respectively; wherein the certain conditions include: all the spinneret holes are distributed in concentric circles, and the C-shaped spinneret holes are located on the outermost circle, rotating at different angles and randomly distributed.
US12221717B2
A method for creating a chrome-plated surface having a matte finish that typically includes: controlling a resistance of a current bridge circuit; depositing a first chromium layer on a substrate positioned in a chromium bath, wherein the first chromium layer is deposited by supplying current from a power source that is electrically connected to the substrate and to anodes positioned in the chromium bath; etching the first chromium layer by engaging a current bridge that closes the current bridge circuit; depositing a first intermediate chromium layer, wherein the first intermediate chromium layer is deposited by supplying current from the power source; etching the first intermediate chromium layer, wherein the first intermediate chromium layer is etched by engaging the current bridge; and depositing a final chromium layer, wherein the final chromium layer is deposited by supplying current from the power source.
US12221702B2
Provided is a surface treatment solution composition comprising: 30 to 51 wt % of a trivalent chromium compound comprising chromium phosphate (A) and chromium nitrate (B) and having a content ratio of A/(A+B) that satisfies 0.3 to 0.6; 5 to 15 wt % of silane coupling agent; 0.2 to 3 wt % of vanadium-based anti-corrosive rust inhibitor; 3 to 12 wt % of colloidal silica; 0.5 to 5 wt % of polysiloxane copolymer; and 14 to 61.3 wt % of water, a hot dip galvanized steel sheet surface-treated using same, and a manufacturing method thereof. The hot dip galvanized steel sheet treated with the surface treatment solution composition containing trivalent chromium has an excellent corrosion resistance, blackening resistance, pipe-forming oil reactivity, and alkali resistance.
US12221699B2
The problem of the present invention is to provide a plating stack (a stack of plating films) for applying on surface of conductor circuits or the like, the plating stack can maintain high bond strength when solder is bonded on that and can be produced stably. In the method for producing a plating stack of the present invention, a plating layer A mainly composed of a second metal is deposited on an object to be plated S mainly composed of a first metal by a substitution reaction, then a plating layer B mainly composed of palladium is deposited on the plating layer A, and then a plating layer C mainly composed of nickel is deposited on the plating layer B by a redox reaction. The first metal is, for example, copper. The second metal is, for example, gold, platinum or silver.
US12221681B2
Provided are a steel plate for high temperature applications having excellent strength at a high temperature and a method for manufacturing same. The steel plate for high temperature applications having excellent post-weld heat treatment resistance, according to the present invention, comprises by weight percent: C:0.05-0.25%; Mn:0.1-1.0%; Si:0.1-0.8%; Cr:1-3%; Cu:0.05-0.3%; Mo:0.5-1.5%; Ni:0.05-0.5%; Al:0.005-0.1%; and at least one of Ir:0.005-0.10% and Rh:0.005-0.10%, the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities.
US12221679B1
Disclosed are an antimicrobial high-entropy alloy FeCoNiCrCe and a preparation method thereof, falling within the technical field of high-entropy alloys. The high-entropy alloy in the present disclosure has an expression: FeCoNiCrCex, 0.1≤x≤0.5, and a proportion of each element is a molar ratio. In the present disclosure, the microstructure and mechanical and antimicrobial performances of high-entropy alloy FeCoNiCrCex are improved by adjusting a content of Ce.
US12221673B1
Disclosed are an aluminum nitride-reinforced aluminum matrix composite (AMC) and a preparation method thereof, relating to the technical field of metal matrix composites (MMCs). The aluminum nitride-reinforced AMC includes the following components: Si, Mg, Nb, Zr, Mo, Zn, Ta, Mn, Cu, Co, In, B, Ge, Ir, a rare earth element, Sn, nano-titanium carbide, nano-chromium nitride, an aluminum nitride nanofiber, nano-aluminum nitride, Al, meso-tetramethyl-tetra-(p-aminophenyl) calix[4] pyrrole, sodium silicate, and 1,3,5-triglycidyl-S-triazinetrione.
US12221667B2
A hot-stamping formed body includes a steel sheet having a predetermined chemical composition and a film disposed on the steel sheet. In the film, in GDS measurement in a region from a surface to a depth position of 100 μm from the surface, Zntotal as a cumulative amount of Zn is 10.0 g/m2 or more and less than 40.0 g/m2, in GDS measurement in a region from the surface to a peak position of Al, a sum of Zna as a cumulative amount of Zn and a cumulative amount of Mn is 20.0 g/m2 or less and a sum of a cumulative amount of Al, a cumulative amount of Si, and a cumulative amount of Cr is 60 mg/m2 or more and 240 mg/m2 or less, Zntotal−Zna is 3.0 g/m2 or more and 30.0 g/m2 or less, and an arithmetic average roughness Ra is less than 1.50 μm.
US12221660B2
Provided is a method for producing a rail, with which the sweep in the height direction of a rail before straightening can be suppressed when producing standard rails specified in JIS E 1101. The method includes subjecting a bloom having a chemical composition containing, in mass %, C: 0.60% or more and 0.85% or less, Si: 0.10% or more and 1.00% or less, and Mn: 0.10% or more and 1.30% or less, with the balance being Fe and inevitable impurities, to hot rolling to obtain a rail, subjecting the rail to accelerated cooling under conditions where a cooling start temperature T1 of rail head is 750° C. or higher and 850° C. or lower, a cooling stop temperature T2 of rail head is higher than 700° C., and T1−T2 is 20° C. or more, and then allowing the rail to be naturally cooled.
US12221649B2
A compound is represented by the following general formula (I): The compound or a salt thereof provides a fluorescent probe for detecting carboxypeptidase activity In the formula, R1 represents an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms or an alkoxy group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms; T represents an amino acid residue or a residue of an amino acid derivative; S represents a C-terminal amino acid residue. represents a fluorophore, and the fluorophore is a fluorophore in which an absorption/fluorescence wavelength greatly changes or a quenched state changes to a fluorescent state by elimination of the —P(═O)(—R1)-T-S moiety.
US12221642B2
The present disclosure provides host cells for reliable, high yield recombinant protein production, including unstable proteins. The present host cell (e.g., a bacterial cell) is deficient in at least one protease (or a subunit of a protease) such as Clp or ClpP. The host cell may also contain an expression vector that encodes a protein or polypeptide for overexpression.
US12221639B2
The present invention provides a novel allulose epimerase variant in which an amino acid residue present at a specific position of an amino acid sequence of wild-type D-allulose 3-epimerase derived from Flavonifractor plautii is substituted with another amino acid residue, and various uses thereof. The novel allulose epimerase variant according to the present invention has a higher conversion activity of fructose to allulose than that of the wild-type D-allulose 3-epimerase derived from Flavonifractor plautii or a D-allulose epimerase variant W29K/G216S/M234I, and has excellent thermal stability especially under high temperature conditions of 60° C. or higher, thereby preventing contamination during an industrial-scale enzymatic conversion reaction for the mass production of allulose, shortening the production time, and reducing the production costs.
US12221626B2
The present invention relates to peptides, proteins, nucleic acids and cells for use in immunotherapeutic methods. In particular, the present invention relates to the immunotherapy of cancer. The present invention furthermore relates to tumor-associated T-cell peptide epitopes, alone or in combination with other tumor-associated peptides that can for example serve as active pharmaceutical ingredients of vaccine compositions that stimulate anti-tumor immune responses, or to stimulate T cells ex vivo and transfer into patients. Peptides bound to molecules of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), or peptides as such, can also be targets of antibodies, soluble T-cell receptors, and other binding molecules.
US12221621B2
Provided herein is a see-through transparent, stable, safe and (bio)degradable hydrogel-based particulate support medium, made of calcium alginate particles. The calcium alginate particles, or hybrid hydrogel particles, are characterized by a substantially homogeneous average particle size that ranges from 0.1 micrometer to 5 micrometer.
US12221619B2
The specification describes a composition comprising an improved eukaryotic cell culture medium, which can be used for the production of a protein of interest. TaXULne can be added to the serum-free media or chemically-defined media to increase the production of a protein of interest. Methods for recombinantly expressing high levels of protein using the media compositions are included.
US12221609B2
The present invention relates to compositions and methods for activating expression from the paternally-inherited allele of UBE3A in human Angelman's Syndrome neurons using viral vector delivery of short hairpin RNAs, ribozymes, and/or microRNAs.
US12221607B2
The present invention relates, in general to, compounds, compositions and methods useful for modulating gene expression of multiple target nucleic acids by a single chemical entity.
US12221605B2
The present invention relates to method for producing and purifying RNA comprising the steps of providing DNA encoding the RNA; transcription of the DNA into RNA; and conditioning and/or purifying of the solution comprising transcribed RNA by one or more steps of tangential flow filtration (TFF).
US12221602B2
In an aspect, there is provided a computer-implemented method for approximating product production in a bioreactor. The method comprises: providing a bioreactor containing live cells in a substrate, the bioreactor for cultivating, over a time period, a product derived from or of the cells during a manufacturing process; providing two or more sensors for measuring respective two or more different physical attributes of the substrate during the time period; receiving, at a processor, sensor data from the two or more sensors; and determining via the processor, based on a predetermined or recursive algorithm that correlates the sensor data and the product production by independent consideration of the sensor data of the two or more different physical attributes or by multivariate consideration of the sensor data of the two or more different physical attributes, an approximate amount of the product.
US12221600B2
Systems and methods for automated cell culturing are disclosed. In some embodiments, one or more cell culture vessels are fluidly connected with one or more multiport valves and one or more fluid pumps. The fluid pumps may pump various fluids into and out of the cell culture vessels as necessary to support cell growth, routed by the one or more multiport valves. In some embodiments, one or more components may be removable from other components so that some components may be prepared and sterilized independently prior to usage.
US12221596B2
A method for manufacturing a skin chip according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure may include: a step of forming first and second PDMS layers disposed on both surfaces of a porous membrane and each having a microfluidic channel through which a culture medium is transferred to both surfaces of the porous membrane; a step of forming first and second MEA substrate layers disposed on the outer surfaces of the first and second PDMS layers, respectively, and having metal electrodes for measurement of TEER arranged at positions corresponding to the channels; and a step of forming first and second PMMA layers disposed on the outer surfaces of the first and second MEA substrate layers, respectively. In the method for manufacturing a skin chip according to in an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, the porous membrane may be made of a polycarbonate having pores of a predetermined size.
US12221594B2
The present invention relates to an aqueous composition for removing soils from a surface to be cleaned, formed from water, a detergent mixture and a rinse aid, wherein the detergent mixture comprises a peroxidation catalyst and wherein the rinse aid comprises an oxygen source. Such a composition may provide a more effective cleaning behaviour. The present invention further relates to a method for removing soil from a surface to be cleaned comprising applying to the surface to be cleaned a composition according to the invention.
US12221583B2
Assemblies and methods to enhance hydrotreating and fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) processes associated with a refining operation, during the processes, may include supplying a hydrocarbon feedstock to a cat feed hydrotreater (CFH) processing unit to produce CFH unit materials. The assemblies and methods also may include conditioning material samples, and analyzing the samples via one or more spectroscopic analyzers. The assemblies and methods further may include prescriptively controlling, via one or more FCC process controllers, based at least in part on the material properties, a FCC processing assembly, so that the prescriptively controlling results in causing the processes to produce CFH materials, intermediate materials, the unit materials, and/or the downstream materials having properties within selected ranges of target properties, thereby to cause the processes to achieve material outputs that more accurately and responsively converge on one or more of the target properties.
US12221573B2
A light emitting device includes a first electrode, a hole transporting layer in contact with the first electrode, a second electrode, an electron transporting layer in contact with the second electrode; and an emissive layer between the hole transporting layer and the electron transporting layer. The emissive layer includes a metal-assisted delayed fluorescent (MADF) emitter, a fluorescent emitter, and a host, and the MADF emitter harvests electrogenerated excitons and transfers energy to the fluorescent emitter.
US12221568B2
A pressure-sensitive adhesive tape (10) has a base material (11), and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer (20) provided on the surface (11A) of the base material (11) and containing cells (21) in the inside thereof, wherein the cells (21) include first cells (21A) contacting with the surface (11A) of the base material (11) and second cells (21B) disposed at positions away from the surface (11A) of the base material (11). Thereby, even when the cells (21) are made to be much contained in the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer (20) and the amount of a pressure-sensitive adhesive is made small, a high pressure-sensitive adhesive performance of the pressure-sensitive adhesive tape (10) is retained.
US12221563B2
A multi-part curable composition includes an A part including a polyoxyalkylene polymer (A) having a reactive silicon group, a (meth)acrylic ester polymer (B) having a reactive silicon group, an epoxy resin curing agent (D) having a tertiary amine moiety, an alicyclic structure-containing amine (E1), and a B part including an epoxy resin (C). Each of the reactive silicon groups of the polymer (A) and polymer (B) are represented by —SiR5cX3-c. R5 is a substituted or unsubstituted hydrocarbon group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, X is a hydroxy group or a hydrolyzable group, and c is 0 or 1. A multi-part curable composition includes an A part including the polymer (A), polymer (B), and an epoxy resin curing agent (D) having a tertiary amine moiety, and a B part including an epoxy resin (C), where either or both of the A and B parts include an amino alcohol compound (E2).
US12221562B2
[Problem] To provide a thermally expandable adhesive sheet which is tack-free in the state prior to use and exhibits high workability using a different means than that of related art. [Solution] The present invention provides a thermally expandable adhesive sheet (1) including: a substrate (3); two thermally expandable adhesive layers (5) each provided on either side of the substrate; and two adhesive permeable layers (7) each provided on a surface of the two adhesive layers, the adhesive permeable layers being permeable to the adhesive at the time of the thermal expansion of the adhesive. By heating the adhesive sheet, it is possible to expand the adhesive sheet while simultaneously allowing the adhesive to emerge on the outermost surface of the adhesive sheet.
US12221556B2
Hard-mask forming composition, method for manufacturing electronic component, and compound and resin
A hard-mask forming composition that forms a hard mask that is used in lithography, the hard-mask forming composition including at least one of a compound represented by General Formula (sc-1) and a resin having a partial structure represented by General Formula (sc-p1). In the general formula, R11 and R12 are organic groups having 1 to 40 carbon atoms or hydrogen atoms; R13 and R14 are aromatic hydrocarbon groups having 6 to 30 carbon atoms which may have a substituent; R13 and R14 may be bonded to each other to form a structure having an aromatic heterocyclic ring, and the hydrogen atom of the phenylene group in the formula may be substituted with a substituent
US12221551B2
This disclosure relates to an ink composition (e.g., a continuous inkjet ink composition) that can be free of volatile organic compounds as defined by the US EPA. This disclosure also relates to a continuous printing process using such a composition.
US12221540B2
The present disclosure provides a lamp structure including a shell made of a thermal plastic material with improved heat conductivity. In some embodiments, the thermal plastic material includes a thermal conductive filler comprising nylon, calcium carbonate, metal power, glass fiber, and paraffin wax.
US12221531B2
The present invention relates to a blend containing at least two different polyolefins which is characterized in that it contains as a further constituent an amorphous poly-alpha-olefin which is based on the monomers ethene, propene and 1-butene and has a viscosity at 190° C. of 200 mPa*s to 200,000 mPa*s, wherein it contains polyethylene and polypropylene as at least two different polyolefins and wherein the polyethylene has a melt flow index [MFI 2.16 kg@190° C.] determined according to the method ISO 1133 reported in the description of less than 10 g/10 min, preferably of 0.01 to 2 g/10 min, and the polypropylene has a melt flow index [MFI 2.16 kg@230° C.] determined according to the method reported in the description of less than 50 g/10 min, preferably of 0.01 to 25 g/10 min, to a process for producing such blends and to the use thereof.
US12221526B2
The present invention relates to a method for preparing a spherical or angular powder filler, comprising providing a spherical or angular siloxane comprising T units; performing a heat treatment on the spherical or angular siloxane, the heat treatment temperature between 250° C. and the temperature of oxidative decomposition of organic groups, so that silicon hydroxyl groups in the spherical or angular siloxane are condensed to obtain a condensed siloxane; and adding a treatment agent to treat the condensed siloxane to promote the condensation of silicon hydroxyl groups in the condensed siloxane to give a spherical or angular powder filler, the treatment agent comprising a silane coupling agent and/or disilazane, and the quotient of the molecular weight of at least a portion of the silane coupling agent and/or the disilazane divided by its specific gravity at 25° C. being less than or equal to 210. The present invention also provides a spherical or angular powder filler obtained therefrom. The present invention further provides use of above spherical or angular powder filler. The filler provided by the present invention has low permittivity, low permittivity loss, without conductive impurities, without coarse oversize particles, and low radioactivity.
US12221525B1
Exotherm suppressant compositions are described that include a resin, such as a thermoset or thermoplastic resin, and at least one cyclic urea compound. Such compositions have no free formaldehyde, contain no antimony and are halogen free, for example. As described, such compositions can be used as binders, for example, to bind organic, inorganic fibers, and/or minerals. Also described are binder-containing fiberglass products that include glass fibers and a binder. The binder-containing fiberglass products have reduced formaldehyde emissions.
US12221514B2
A process for purifying a polyether polyol including treating the polyether polyol with a mixture of: (i) a sulfonic acid catalyst, wherein the catalyst includes a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group of at least 6 carbon atoms, and (ii) water to reduce residual levels of acetal linkages present in the polyether polyol; a purified polyether polyol prepared using the above treatment process; and a polyurethane product prepared by reacting the above purified polyether polyol and an isocyanate.
US12221511B2
The present disclosure relates to a curing composition comprising: a) a condensation product of at least one carboxylic acid having 20-60 carbon atoms and at least two carboxyl groups and/or at least one ester derived from a carboxylic acid having 20-60 carbon atoms and at least two carboxyl groups; and at least one polyoxyalkyleneamine, wherein the polyoxyalkyleneamine includes: I) at least two oxyalkylene moieties; and II) at least two primary amino groups; and b) at least one amine having at least one amino group. Also provided are an adhesive composition comprising the curing composition, usage of the adhesive, a turbine blade for wind energy comprising the adhesive composition, and a method for manufacturing the curing composition.
US12221505B2
Provided is a curable resin composition with which a cured object with low water absorbency and good impact resistance and heat resistance can be formed and which is preferably usable in three-dimensional shaping. The curable resin composition contains: a polyfunctional urethane (meth)acrylate (A); a hydrophilic monofunctional radical-polymerizable compound (B); a hydrophobic monofunctional radical-polymerizable compound (C); rubber particles (D); and a radical polymerization initiator (E), and the content of the rubber particles (D) is 8 parts by mass or more and 50 parts by mass or less with respect to 100 parts by mass of radical-polymerizable compounds.
US12221500B2
A process for preparing an ethylene polymer in a suspension polymerization including the steps of separating the formed suspension of ethylene polymer particles in a solid-liquid separator into wet ethylene polymer particles and mother liquor, drying the wet ethylene polymer particles by a gas stream and forming a gas stream carrying a hydrocarbon load, and thereafter separating the hydrocarbon load from the gas stream and thereby forming a liquid hydrocarbon recover stream, transferring a part of the mother liquor into a work-up section including an evaporator for producing a wax-depleted portion of the mother liquor and a diluent distillation unit for producing isolated diluent from the wax-depleted portion of the mother liquor, wherein a first part of the hydrocarbon recover stream is transferred to the diluent distillation unit without passing the evaporator for producing the wax-depleted portion of the mother liquor.
US12221492B2
An Fc-binding polypeptide of improved alkali stability, comprising a mutant of an Fc-binding domain of Staphylococcus Protein A (SpA), as defined by SEQ ID NO: 1, SEQ ID NO: 2, SEQ ID NO:3, SEQ ID NO: 4, SEQ ID NO: 5, SEQ ID NO:6, SEQ ID NO:7, SEQ ID NO:8, SEQ ID NO 26 or SEQ ID NO 27, wherein at least the alanine residue at the position corresponding to position 42 in SEQ ID NO:4-7 has been mutated to arginine and/or wherein at least the aspartic acid residue at the position corresponding to position 37 in SEQ ID NO:4-7 has been mutated to glutamic acid.
US12221487B2
Nucleic acids encoding CX3CR1-binding polypeptides comprising immunoglobulin single variable domains
The present invention relates to CX3CR1-binding polypeptides, in particular polypeptides comprising specific immunoglobulin domains. The invention also relates to nucleic acids encoding such polypeptides; to methods for preparing such polypeptides; to host cells expressing or capable of expressing such polypeptides; to compositions comprising such polypeptides; and to uses of such polypeptides or such compositions, in particular for prophylactic, therapeutic and diagnostic purposes.
US12221472B2
This disclosure provides isolated or recombinant polypeptides that are useful to vaccinate individuals suffering from chronic/recurrent biofilm disease or as a therapeutic for those with an existing infection. The individual's immune system will then naturally generate antibodies which prevent or clear these bacteria from the host by interfering with the construction and or maintenance of a functional protective biofilm. Alternatively, antibodies to the polypeptides can be administered to treat or prevent infection. Bacteria that cannot form functional biofilms are more readily cleared by the remainder of the host's immune system and/or traditional antibiotics.
US12221468B2
The present invention relates to peptides, proteins, nucleic acids and cells for use in immunotherapeutic methods. In particular, the present invention relates to the immunotherapy of cancer. The present invention furthermore relates to tumor-associated T-cell peptide epitopes, alone or in combination with other tumor-associated peptides that can for example serve as active pharmaceutical ingredients of vaccine compositions that stimulate anti-tumor immune responses, or to stimulate T cells ex vivo and transfer into patients. Peptides bound to molecules of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), or peptides as such, can also be targets of antibodies, soluble T-cell receptors, and other binding molecules.
US12221467B2
The present invention relates to peptides, proteins, nucleic acids and cells for use in immunotherapeutic methods. In particular, the present invention relates to the immunotherapy of cancer. The present invention furthermore relates to tumor-associated T-cell peptide epitopes, alone or in combination with other tumor-associated peptides that can for example serve as active pharmaceutical ingredients of vaccine compositions that stimulate anti-tumor immune responses, or to stimulate T cells ex vivo and transfer into patients. Peptides bound to molecules of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), or peptides as such, can also be targets of antibodies, soluble T-cell receptors, and other binding molecules.
US12221465B2
Described herein are compositions and methods for signaling and antigen-presenting bifunctional receptors (SABRs) comprising one or more antigen presenting domains; and one or more signal transduction domains, wherein the one or more antigen presenting domains comprise a binding fragment of a major histocompatibility complex (MHC) molecule. Various immunological functions of the SABRs are also described.
US12221464B2
The present disclosure relates to a class of engineered polypeptides having a binding affinity for interleukin-17A (IL-17A), and provides an IL-17A binding polypeptide comprising the sequence EX2DX4AX6X7EIX10X11LPNL X16X17X18QX20X21AFIX25X26LX28X29. Also disclosed is the use of such an interleukin-17A binding polypeptide as a diagnostic, prognostic and/or therapeutic agent.
US12221463B2
A method of treating a skin wound in a subject by administering at least one inhibitor of C-C chemokine receptor type-3 (CCR3) and/or at least one inhibitor of a CCR3 ligand, thereby causing increased activity of keratinocytes adjacent the skin wound, wherein epithelialization of the skin wound is promoted, and wherein the increased activity of keratinocytes is at least one of (1) increased proliferation of the keratinocytes and (2) increased migration of the keratinocytes adjacent the skin wound. The skin wound may be a chronic wound or an acute wound for example. The inhibitor may be, for example, an antibody or antibody fragment, a small molecule, or an siRNA able to inhibit expression of CCR3.
US12221455B2
Provided are organometallic compounds including a ligand LA of Formula I: Also provided are formulations including these organometallic compounds. Further provided are OLEDs and related consumer products that utilize these organometallic compounds.
US12221452B2
The invention provides synthetic methods for the preparation of cantharidin and analogs thereof. In one aspect, the invention provides an improved Diels-Alder cycloaddition to generate a key intermediate en route to cantharidin and analogs thereof. In certain embodiments, the new Diels-Alder reaction involves reacting Compound (2) in the presence of furan, and in the absence of acid or increased pressure, in an aprotic polar solvent with slight warming, to yield Compound (1) in favorable yield and exo-endo ratio. In another aspect, the invention also provides a new Diels-Alder reaction between compounds of Formula (III) and furan to yield compounds of Formula (IV), which can then be transformed into cantharidin or analogs thereof. In yet another aspect, the invention describes a new palladium-mediated carbonylation providing another key intermediate en route to cantharidin and analogs thereof. In addition to synthetic methods, present invention also provides compounds (i.e., intermediates) useful in the synthesis of cantharidin and analogs thereof. Compounds provided herein may have biological activity, and therefore may be used in the treatment of diseases or conditions (e.g., infectious diseases and skin conditions).
US12221444B2
Compounds, specifically hepatitis B virus and/or hepatitis D virus inhibitors, more specifically compounds that inhibit HBe antigen and HBs antigen in a subject, for the treatment of viral infections, and methods of preparing and using such compounds.
US12221438B2
The present invention relates to an improved process for the preparation of trazodone. In particular, the present invention relates to a continuous process for the preparation of trazodone. More in particular, the present invention relates to a new method for the preparation of trazodone, said method comprising at least one step consisting of a continuous process performed in a flow reactor.
US12221433B2
The aryl sulfonamide compounds of this invention have powerful and cell-type specific Bcl inhibitory activity. Selected compounds in this class promote apoptosis in senescent cells, and are being developed for treating senescent-related conditions. Selected compounds in this class promote apoptosis in cancer cells, and can be developed as chemotherapeutic agents.
US12221431B2
A compound represented by formula (I) or an N-oxide compound thereof is provided with excellent control efficacies against harmful arthropods, wherein A1 represents a nitrogen atom or a CR4; R4 represents a hydrogen atom, a OR27, a NR27R28, a cyano group, a nitro group, or a halogen atom; hereinafter referred to as “Het”, represents Het-1, Het-2, Het-3, or Het-4: wherein #1 represents the binding position of Het and T, and #2 represents the binding position of Het and T represents T-1, T-2, T-3, T-4, T-5, T-6, or T-7: R1 represents a C1-C10 chain hydrocarbon group having one or more halogen atoms or the like; and R2 represents a C1-C6 alkyl group optionally having one or more halogen atoms or the like.
US12221415B2
A method for preparing 2,3-dichloro-5-trifluoromethylpyridine, comprising at a temperature of 100˜150° C. and a pressure of 0.5˜5.0 MP, in presence of at least one catalyst selected from supported metal chloride, supported zeolite molecular sieve and supported heteropolyacid, 2-chloro-5-trifluoromethylpyridine reacts with chlorine gas to obtain 2,3-dichloro-5-trifluoromethylpyridine. The preparing method provided by the present invention has advantages such as high selectivity of desired product, high utilization rate of chlorine gas, moderate process condition, simple operation and less three wastes. The present invention also discloses a preparing method for preparing 2-chloro-5-trifluoromethylpyridine, which is capable of reducing unit consumption, reducing separation cost, and improving safety compared to the prior art.
US12221411B2
The invention relates to processes for preparing carbaprostacyclin analogues and intermediates prepared from the processes. The invention also relates to cyclopentenone intermediates in racemic or optically active form.
US12221393B2
An article includes a ceramic-based substrate and a barrier layer on the ceramic-based substrate. The barrier layer includes a matrix phase and gettering particles in the matrix phase. The gettering particles with an aspect ratio greater than one are aligned such that a maximum dimension of the gettering particles extends along an axis that is generally parallel to the substrate. The barrier layer includes a dispersion of diffusive particles in the matrix phase. A composite material and a method of applying a barrier layer to a substrate are also disclosed.
US12221387B2
An abradable coating includes a tubular cell structure, wherein the the tubular cell structure includes a fibrous reinforcement of discontinuous short fibers which is densified by a ceramic matrix.
US12221378B2
The present invention relates to a glass for a pharmaceutical container that is excellent in ultraviolet shielding ability, and is also excellent in chemical durability. The glass for a pharmaceutical container of the present invention includes as a glass composition, in terms of mass %, 67% to 81% of SiO2, more than 4% to 7% of Al2O3, 7% to 14% of B2O3, 3% to 12% of Na2O+K2O, 0% to 1.8% of CaO+BaO, 0.5% to less than 2% of Fe2O3, and 1% to 5% of TiO2, and satisfies a relationship of CaO/BaO≤0.5.
US12221368B2
Provided are a polyhedral spherical denitrifying packing and a use method thereof. An outer surface of the polyhedral spherical denitrifying packing is composed of a plurality of conical pieces, and each of the conical pieces has a vacancy. The method for using the packing above includes: placing the polyhedral spherical denitrifying packing in packing area; adding inoculation sludge into the packing area, and forming biofilm; feeding raw sewage into the packing area through a water inlet of the denitrification reactor, subjecting the sewage to denitrification reaction when flowing through the packing area with the biofilm; refeeding a part of sewage discharged from the packing area into the packing area through the water inlet of the denitrification reactor via a circulating tube; making the other part of the sewage discharged from the packing area flow into clarification area, and discharging through a water outlet of the denitrification reactor.
US12221359B2
A water purifier including a raw water flow path, a first valve provided in a water purification path, a second valve provided in a wash water flow path, a purified water valve provided in a purified water supply tube, a flow sensor provided in a cooking water supply tube and sensing a flow amount of liquid flowing in the cooking water supply tube, a drainage valve provided in a drainage flow path branched from the cooking water supply tube and a controller for draining the liquid remaining in the cooking water supply tube, when a flow amount value sensed by the flow sensor for a preset period of time is less than or equal to a certain value, by controlling opening/closing of the purified water valve, the first valve, the second valve, and the drainage valve.
US12221337B2
The present disclosure provides a structure and method of fabricating the structure. The structure comprises a cavity enclosed by a first substrate and a second substrate opposite to the first substrate. Further, the structure includes a feature in the cavity and the feature is protruded from a surface of the first substrate. In addition, the structure includes a dielectric layer over the feature, wherein the dielectric layer includes a first surface in contact with the feature and a second surface opposite to the first surface is positioned toward the cavity.
US12221332B2
An apparatus for operating the fork holder supports of forks of a manually or automatically driven forklift, including a first frame slidable within a vertical upright of said forklift. The first frame comprises connection means for a second frame, which supports the connection means, configured for allowing a rotation of the second frame with respect to the first frame, and first actuator means for rotating the second frame with respect to the first frame. The connection means include guiding means and sliding means, or a cam element, which allow a substantially vertical arrangement of the first actuator means within the apparatus; in addition, the first actuator means include at least one linear electric actuator of commercial type, or a trapezoidal screw actuator, or a worm screw actuator with recirculating ball nut.
US12221331B2
A method and apparatus for forklift pickup, a computer device, and a storage medium are provided in the disclosure. The method includes the following. Observational data of a truck parking area is obtained by observing the truck parking area. Point cloud data of at least one truck is obtained in the observational data, and point cloud data of each of the at least one carrier is obtained in the point cloud data of the at least one truck. A relative pose of each of at least one carrier is determined based on the point cloud data of each of the at least one carrier. A pickup priority is determined based on the point cloud data of each of the at least one carrier. A forklift is controlled to perform pickup according to the relative pose of each of the at least one carrier and the pickup priority.
US12221323B2
A structure for frame pieces of a pneumatic vacuum elevator is disclosed. The structure includes at least two horizontal arc pieces 30 and at least two vertical pieces 40 including a first arc end and a second arc end. Each of the first arc end and the second arc end include an angled cut profile. Each of the first arc end and the second arc end are adapted to receive a first coupling piece 100 at the angled cut profile. The first coupling piece 100 includes at least two holes 110. The at least two holes 110 are adapted to mechanically couple the at least two horizontal arc pieces 30 with the respective at least two vertical pieces 40 using a screw-fixing mechanism, upon receiving the respective at least two vertical pieces 40 at the angled cut profile. The at least two holes 110 are positioned at a first predefined position on the first coupling piece 100.
US12221319B2
This disclosure is directed to an automatic sheet feeding device having a flipping mechanism which is used for a sheet. The automatic sheet feeding device has a sheet outputting tray, a sheet outputting channel, the flipping mechanism and a switching guide mechanism. The sheet outputting channel is disposed corresponding to the sheet outputting tray. The flipping mechanism is arranged between the sheet outputting channel and the sheet outputting tray. The switching guide mechanism is arranged between the sheet outputting channel and the flipping mechanism, and the switching guide mechanism is used for guiding the sheet to be conveyed to the sheet outputting tray from the sheet outputting channel or conveyed to the sheet outputting tray from the flipping mechanism. Therefore, an efficiency of duplex scanning of the automatic sheet feeding device may be improved.
US12221318B1
An apparatus, method, and system for power unwinding and winding of coiled duct rodding on a duct rodder or other coiled conduit. A unit can be mounted to a duct rodder stand or other coiled conduit stand. The unit includes a rotatable axle having a drive wheel at one end and an opposite end that is adapted for releasable connection to the chuck of a battery powered portable drill or driver. When connected to the drill or driver, the drive wheel can be rotated in opposite directions by the detachable battery powered drill or tool. An optional pinching wheel on the unit can be adjusted relative the drive wheel to provide adjustable pinching pressure on duct rod or other conduit to facilitate movement of duct rodding or other conduit in response to drive wheel rotation. In one example, the drive wheel and pinch wheel are on a frame that can be removably clamped to a stand that supports a cage or reel of coiled duct rodding or other conduit.
US12221315B2
A spool configured to support a roll of material. The spool comprises an arbor, a first flange, and a second flange. The first flange includes a first plurality of flange panels that are rotatably connected to respective arbor panels of the arbor at a first arbor edge of the arbor. The second flange is connected to a second arbor edge of the arbor. The first flange is configured to transition between a retention configuration and an open configuration. In the retention configuration, the roll of material is substantially prevented from removal from the arbor along an arbor axis by the first and second flanges. In the open configuration, the roll of material is removable from the arbor and receivable on the arbor in the arbor direction.
US12221313B2
An interlocked pay off reel comprises square or rectangular endplates that can be interlocked together to build a wall or skid of reels, and which allows the cable to be unspooled or paid out easily using a simple assembly. The pay off reel comprises two round flanges configured to hold respective ends of a cable spool. The flanges can be snapped to respective two square endplates, which elevate the spool and act as a stable base. The engagement mechanism between the flanges and the endplates permits the spool and flanges to rotate during pay off and applies frictional braking to prevent the spool from back spinning and freewheeling. Handles are built into the endplates so that the reel can be handled and moved easily. Interlock mechanisms on multiple sides and surfaces of the endplates permit the endplates to be locked to other endplates in all directions, allowing stacks of reels to be assembled.
US12221311B2
A stacking unit includes a processing tray, an alignment section, a transport section, and a moving section. The processing tray has a placement area in which one or more paper sheets are placed. The alignment section aligns leading edges of the paper sheets. The transport section transports the paper sheets to the alignment section. The moving section moves the paper sheets in ±X directions. The alignment section includes: a first alignment surface having a first friction coefficient; and a second alignment surface having a second friction coefficient. The second alignment surface is positioned upstream of the first alignment surface in a +A direction and closer to a center of the placement area in the ±X directions than the first alignment surface is.
US12221310B2
A sheet ejection device includes an ejection roller pair, a stacking tray, a protrusion member and a movement mechanism. The protrusion member is supported to be able to reciprocate between a protrusion position and a retraction position in a predetermined movement direction. The movement mechanism includes: a rotation shaft; a holding member; and a rack and pinion mechanism which includes a pinion gear and a rack gear. In at least a part of the rack gear in the movement direction, a narrow width region is provided which includes a narrow width gear and a cutout portion. In the narrow width region, the pinion gear is slidable between a meshing position and a release position, and in a state where the pinion gear has slid to the release position, the protrusion member can be relatively moved with respect to the pinion gear in the movement direction.
US12221306B2
A document conveying device according to the present disclosure includes a sheet feeding tray, a discharge tray, a feeding roller, a first lifting mechanism, a conveying mechanism, a support member and a second mechanism. On the sheet feeding tray, a document is stacked. The discharge tray is provided below the sheet feeding tray. The feeding roller feeds the document on the sheet feeding tray. The first lifting mechanism supports both end portions of the sheet feeding tray in a width direction intersecting a conveying direction of the document, and lifts and lowers the sheet feeding tray such that an upper surface of the document comes in contact with the feeding roller. The support member supports the sheet feeding feed tray on an upstream side of the first lifting mechanism in the conveying direction. The second lifting mechanism lifts and lowers the support member in synchronization with the sheet feeding tray.
US12221299B1
A system includes a base configured to be positioned on a ground. The base includes a funnel configured to be positioned under a knife gate. The base also includes a first conveyor positioned under the funnel. The funnel is configured to direct a material from the knife gate onto a middle portion of the first conveyor. The system also includes a derrick having a first end that is coupled to the base. The derrick includes a second conveyor configured to receive the material from the first conveyor and to convey the material upward when the system is in an unfolded state. The derrick also includes a drum motor positioned proximate to an end of the derrick and configured to provide power to the second conveyor. The system also includes a first arm having a first end that is coupled to the end of the derrick.
US12221298B2
A pneumatic transport system for histological samples includes a transport tube within which a carrier containing samples is transported. A station for loading/unloading the samples into/from the carrier is arranged at one tube end. When the carrier is arriving at the station, a blower of the system is deactivated and the carrier is braked, allowing stopping within the station against a stop member. Thereafter, a motor imparts, via the stop member, rotation to said carrier until a carrier door is at an angular position substantially corresponding to an angular position of a station door. Thereafter, the carrier is stopped and the doors are opened by an actuator, this enabling activation of an operating cycle of loading/unloading of the samples. Upon completion, the doors are closed, a carrier locking device is deactivated and the blower is activated, allowing departure of the carrier from the station and its transport within the tube.
US12221294B2
A transport system includes: a mover on which a workpiece is mounted and which is movable in a first direction; a stator that has a plurality of coils arranged in the first direction and applies force to the mover by using the plurality of coils, the force transporting the mover in the first direction while floating the mover in a second direction crossing the first direction; a control unit that acquires a position and an attitude of the mover moving in the first direction while floating in the second direction and controls the current applied to the plurality of coils to control operation of the mover based on the acquired position and attitude; and a positioning part that limits the movement of the mover, wherein the positioning part includes a first positioning part that limits the movement of the mover in a direction of external force applied to the workpiece.
US12221290B2
A method includes: obtaining, from a sensor disposed on a transporter, a set of beacon identifiers and proximity indicators, the beacon identifiers emitted by respective beacons mounted proximate to a boundary separating an exterior of a container from an interior of the container; determining whether the set of beacon identifiers and proximity indicators indicates a transition of the transporter across the boundary; when the determination is affirmative, detecting, based on the set of beacon identifiers and proximity indicators, a direction of travel of the transporter relative to the boundary; and generating a transition event including an identifier of the transporter, an identifier of the container, and the direction of travel.
US12221286B2
An article transport feeder is equipped with an article transporter removably attachable to a vibratory head of a vibration mechanism. The article transport feeder is also equipped with a fastening unit having an operation lever. The fastening unit rotates the operation lever to retainably engage the article transporter with the vibratory head by fastening. The article transport feeder is further equipped with a movable coupling member having a spindle elastically deformable. The movable coupling member is coupleable to the fastening unit and allowed to move along with the rotation of the operation lever. The spindle is elastically deformable by moving the movable coupling member along with the rotation of the operation lever of the fastening unit to elastically retain the engagement of the article transporter with the vibratory head.
US12221281B2
Disclosed are systems and methods for optimizing a pick rate based on an optimized arrangement of products in a tote and an optimizing pick path. The arrangement of the products in the tote are based on one or more parameters of the tote and one or more attributes of each of the products. Parameters of the tote include a pack density and maximum weight capacity. Attributes of the products include a volume, fragility, weight, hazard, and orientation. The arrangement of the products in the tote dictate the path a picker takes to collect the products. Products collected at a first instant in time are placed at the bottom of the tote while products collected at a later instant in time are placed closer to the top of the tote. The analytics server transmits instructions for arranging the products in the tote such that a picker optimally orients the products.
US12221279B1
A dumpster includes a sensor module including a first sensor module detecting an impact or vibration applied to the dumpster, a second sensor module detecting an inclination of the dumpster, and a third sensor module detecting a loading amount of waste loaded in the dumpster, and a dumpster hole that is provided on both sides of the dumpster and to which an end of a front loader provided on the waste collection vehicle is docked in a collection work by the waste collection vehicle.
US12221276B2
A drainage apparatus for draining viscous liquids from containers includes a collection tote and a rack. The rack includes at least one horizontal support bar with a plurality of tabs extending from the horizontal support bar. The plurality of tabs are configured at an acute angle relative to the horizontal support bar to optimize the draining of viscous fluids from a plurality of containers that are placed on the rack. The drainage apparatus is beneficial for draining fluids such as lubricants and coolants from containers so that the fluids can be repurposed and the containers can be recycled.
US12221271B2
A beverage container for a nitrogenated beverage comprises at least two restricted outlet apertures (11, 12) configured to, when pouring therefrom into a secondary vessel, form jets of beverage that impinge downstream. Impingement initiates nucleation of dissolved nitrogen gas in the beverage and, as such, when poured into the vessel a creamy head of fine nitrogen/mixed gas bubbles can be formed. The restricted outlet apertures can be formed in a plate (10) over an openable mouth of the beverage container, or directly upon the container. Preferably a vent (14) or some other feature is included to increase the velocity of the jets.
US12221265B2
A holding tool is configured to be used together with a container and a lid for the container to sandwich the container and the lid. The holding tool includes a base on which the container is placed, and a cover configured to cover the lid. The base and the cover each have an opening at a central portion and are configured to engage with each other to press and sandwich the container and the lid upward and downward.
US12221257B1
A bottle pressure seal with environmental data logging that is coupled to a bottle and that seals the atmospheric pressure outside of the bottle so that the internal pressure of the bottle and cork are maintained at whatever pressure they came into equilibrium with regardless of the external pressure outside of device and bottle. In the event of air travel, where the pressure can be on the order of 2500 to 3500 meters, the internal pressure of the bottle and the pressure on the cork remains at the initial pressure at the time that the device was placed on the bottle.
US12221256B2
Systems and methods for preserving oxidizable substances such as liquids or foodstuffs are disclosed. These systems incorporate a sealing device and an oxygen scavenging chemical or agent coupleable to the system. The oxygen scavenging agent can remove the oxygen from the headspace of a container such as a bottle of wine without reducing the pressure in the headspace to the extent that the flavor of the wine is adversely affected.
US12221249B2
A gas cylinder lifting extension for industrial gas cylinder transportation. The gas cylinder lifting extension containing a first end with a cylindrical cavity and a second flat end with two perpendicular, rectangular channels through it to allow for secured lifting with a forklift.
US12221248B2
Exemplary embodiments of a composite pallet with augmented compression support may comprise a pallet pulp body, a multiplicity of support foot sheathes, and a support bottom plate. The pallet pulp body may be comprised of pulp and may have an upper faceplate and a plurality of support feet disposed oppositely of the upper faceplate. A foot cavity may be defined within each support foot. Each of the support foot sheaths may envelope at least a portion of a corresponding support foot. The support bottom plate may be affixed to two or more of the support foot sheaths. A plurality of arcuate stiffener grooves may be disposed in the upper faceplate. One or more of the foot cavities may have a compression column disposed therein. Each compression column may comprise one or more column layers, a compression column block, or a combination thereof. The column layers may be nested.
US12221246B2
A tray having: an annular sidewall having upper and lower annular peripheral edges, an upper annular peripheral rim which is integral with the upper annular peripheral edge, and a base having an annular peripheral edge which is integral with the lower annular peripheral edge of the sidewall, wherein the rim, the sidewall and the base are composed of a thermoplastic polymer and the sidewall and the base define a central concavity for packaging a product, wherein the base has a lattice structure of elongate foam ribs interconnected by foam junctions, wherein each foam rib has opposite ends, and each end is integrally connected to either the annular peripheral edge of the base or one of the foam junctions, wherein each foam rib and each foam junction has opposed upper and lower unfoamed solid skins of the thermoplastic polymer on opposite sides of a central cellular foam core of the thermoplastic polymer.
US12221240B2
A vacuum packaging method and device are provided. The method comprises acquiring size information of a package and selecting a suction constant b; controlling a door to seal the vacuum chamber after the package is disposed into a vacuum chamber; actuating a vacuum pump set and starting timing, and respectively recording time nodes t1 and t2 when a pressure detected inside the vacuum chamber is lowered to a first preset pressure P1 and a second preset pressure P2; calculating time difference Δt by a formula Δt=t2−t1 based on t1 and t2; obtaining total suction time T or suction-stopping pressure P based on Δt and b; continuously performing suction by the vacuum pump set, and controlling the vacuum pump set to stop suction once a suction time reaches T or the pressure inside the vacuum chamber is lowered to P; controlling a heater to finish heat-sealing.
US12221234B2
A satellite constellation forming system forms a satellite constellation (20) including two orbital planes each having a different normal direction and in each of which the same number of satellites fly. A satellite constellation forming unit gradually changes an orbital altitude of at least one orbital plane of the two orbital planes from a state in which satellite passage timings of satellites flying in the two orbital planes do not coincide with each other at an intersection neighborhood point (Pc) between the two orbital planes in each of the two orbital planes, while maintaining the state in which the satellite passage timings do not coincide with each other.
US12221231B2
A method, apparatus, system, and computer program product for inspecting an aircraft. A computer system receives captured data associated with a flight path flown by an unmanned aircraft system to acquire the captured data for the aircraft. The computer system compares the captured data with reference data for the aircraft to form a comparison. The computer system determines whether the captured data is within a set of tolerances for valid captured data using a result of the comparison. Prior to detecting anomalies for the aircraft using the captured data, the computer system determines a set of corrective actions in response to the captured data being outside of the set of tolerances for the valid captured data in which the set of corrective actions is performed.
US12221229B2
A system includes a robotic arm of a robotic device, an imaging device coupled to the robotic arm, and a processor configured to control movement of the robotic arm to move the imaging device along a preprogrammed measurement path of a transparency while prompting the imaging device to record images of localized portions of the transparency. The processor is configured to determine one or more localized transparency characteristics based on an analysis of the images of the localized portions.
US12221218B2
An engine vibration isolation subframe for aircraft includes a forward frame and a forward beam connected to the forward frame. The forward beam includes a first end configured to connect to a first engine and a second end configured to connect to a second engine. An aft frame is disposed aft of the forward frame and includes a first aft beam connected to the aft frame and the first engine and a second aft beam connected to the aft frame and the second engine, where the second aft beam is disposed substantially opposite the first aft beam. At least one forward isolator assembly is connected to the forward frame and at least one aft isolator assembly is connected to the aft frame.
US12221216B2
An architecture for supplying air to a high-pressure compressor of an auxiliary gas generator from a pressurized cabin of an aircraft, comprising: a load compressor rotationally driven by a common rotation shaft providing a mechanical coupling between the high-pressure compressor and a high-pressure turbine of the auxiliary gas generator and supplied by an outside air intake; a first regulation valve assembled at the outlet of the load compressor to control all or part of the air flow delivered by the load compressor; a second regulation valve assembled at the outlet of the pressurized cabin to control the air flow drawn from inside the pressurized cabin; a mixer receiving the outputs of the first and second regulation valves to add the air drawn from inside the pressurized cabin to all or part of the air delivered by the load compressor.
US12221215B2
A vertical seat blocking/divider device includes a seat back connector and a seat cushion connector. The vertical seat blocking/divider device is disposed on the center of an aircraft seat to block occupancy of the aircraft seat and establish a barrier between neighboring seats. In a further aspect, the vertical seat blocking/divider device includes a spring element to apply a force to the fabric of the seat blocking/divider device. In a further aspect, the vertical seat blocking/divider device may include armrest connectors on opposing surfaces so that the vertical seat blocking/divider device can be disposed between occupied seats to create a barrier between passengers.
US12221214B1
A drone-based payload management system includes at least one drone and a drone controller, the drone(s) having first and second payload bays configured to store first and second payloads, respectively. The drone controller may be coupled with the payload bays and may comprise at least one processor and at least one computer readable memory. The memory(ies) may store software instructions executable by the processor(s) to perform operations including obtaining a location of the drone(s) while the drone(s) is deployed, determining a ground attribute value of a ground surface associated with the location, deriving, based on the ground attribute value, a payload ratio of a first amount of the first payload relative to a second amount of the second payload, and causing the first and second payload bays to release the first amount of the first payload and the second amount of the second payload respectively according to the payload ratio.
US12221213B2
An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is disclosed that includes a retractable payload delivery system. The payload delivery system can lower a payload to the ground using a delivery device that secures the payload during descent and releases the payload upon reaching the ground. The location of the delivery device can be determined as it is lowered to the ground using image tracking. The UAV can include an imaging system that captures image data of the suspended delivery device and identifies image coordinates of the delivery device, and the image coordinates can then be mapped to a location. The UAV may also be configured to account for any deviations from a planned path of descent in real time to effect accurate delivery locations of released payloads.
US12221211B2
A method includes capturing, by a sensor on an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), an image of a delivery location. The method further includes determining, based on the image of the delivery location, a segmentation image. The segmentation image segments the delivery location into a plurality of pixel areas with corresponding semantic classifications. The method also includes determining, based on the segmentation image, a distance-to-obstacle image of a delivery zone at the delivery location. The distance-to-obstacle image comprises a plurality of pixels, each pixel representing a distance in the segmentation image from a nearest pixel area with a semantic classification indicative of an obstacle in the delivery location. Additionally, the method includes selecting, based on the distance-to-obstacle image, a delivery point in the delivery zone. The method also includes positioning the UAV above the delivery point in the delivery zone for delivery of a payload.
US12221207B2
A back-to-back spherical bearing assembly for a rotary system of a rotary aircraft includes a spherical bearing member having an interior cavity and a spherical bearing surface defining a bearing focal point, a first elastomeric and a second elastomeric bonded to the spherical bearing surface on opposite sides of the bearing focal point, an inboard attachment bonded to the first elastomeric and configured to be secured to a rotor hub of the rotary system, and an outboard attachment bonded to the second elastomeric and configured to be secured to a rotor blade of the rotary system.
US12221202B2
A system for an unmanned aerial vehicle can include an altitude control system 320, which further includes a compressor assembly 400, a valve assembly 500, and an electronics control assembly 600. The compressor assembly may include a compressor housing 410 that includes a compressor inlet 402, an outlet 202, and a cavity 414 extending therethrough and joining the inlet to the outlet. A diffuser 408 may be coupled to the compressor housing. A motor housing 407 may be disposed within the central cavity at the inlet of the compressor housing, and a compressor motor 406 may be disposed within the motor housing. An impeller 412 disposed within the compressor housing may be coupled to a driveshaft 444 for rotation therewith. The valve assembly may be coupled to an opening 416 of the compressor inlet. The valve head 502 may be configured to move into and away from the inlet opening so as to change a size of the circumferential area of the inlet opening.
US12221200B2
A marine vessel maneuvering system includes a controller configured or programmed to, when an operator is operated to move a marine vessel forward, perform a forward acceleration assist control to perform a control to generate a forward propulsive force in a propulsion generator of a marine propulsion unit that is not used when the operator is operated to move the marine vessel diagonally forward among three or more marine propulsion units.
US12221199B1
When a joystick is positioned within a first dead zone including a neutral position, a controller pauses a shifting action and steering of a propulsion device regardless of a tilt operation and a twist operation of the joystick. When the joystick is positioned within a second dead zone located rearward of the first dead zone, the controller pauses the shifting action of the propulsion device regardless of the tilt operation of the joystick and controls the steering of the propulsion device in accordance with the twist operation of the joystick.
US12221198B2
A hybrid propulsion system for a marine vessel is described. The hybrid propulsion system includes a shaft coupled to a propeller, a planetary gear system configured to operate in a first configuration and a second configuration, and a motor-generator. The motor-generator is configured to selectively rotate with and provide torque to the shaft through the planetary gear system in the first configuration and to rotate independently from the shaft in the second configuration. The shaft extends from the propeller through the planetary gear system and the motor-generator to a torque producing device for the marine vessel.
US12221194B2
A solar boat for easy collection of spilled oil and garbage of the present disclosure includes a cabin unit, a boat body consisting of a pair of ship bottoms having a structure that is symmetrical left and right and spaced apart below the cabin unit, a solar panel unit provided above the cabin unit and configured to convert solar energy into electrical energy, a collection and transfer unit provided between the pair of ship bottoms, driven by the electric energy supplied from the solar panel unit, and configured to collect spilled oil and garbage into the inside of the boat body, a garbage storage unit, and a spilled oil storage unit, wherein the collection and transfer unit comprises a rotating conveyor belt, and an oil adsorption member and a collection member that are attached to and detached from the conveyor belt, and the solar boat for easy collection of spilled oil and garbage of the present disclosure has an effect of having excellent work efficiency by simultaneously including an oil adsorption member and a collection member that are attached to and detached from a conveyor belt and simultaneously proceeding with collection of spilled oil and collection of garbage on the water, and an effect of being able to separate the spilled oil from the oil adsorption member, the collection member, and the garbage and easily move the spilled oil to the spilled oil storage unit by including a steam spray nozzle configured to spray hot steam at the end of the conveyor belt.
US12221192B1
A buoy, and systems and methods for rescuing people isolated on large bodies of water are disclosed. The buoy includes a remotely activatable device that is activatable when a signal is received from a remote source. The activatable device may be a signaling device, or an assistance device that is deployable by the buoy to assist in rescuing a person. A marine communication system formed by a number of spaced apart rescue buoys is also provided. A message or key other information can be transmitted to every buoy in the network via communication with just one buoy. The methods for rescuing people isolated on large bodies of water involve providing the network of communication buoys that can receive communications from the isolated person's personal communication device, and then transmit a signal to remotely activate an activatable device in a buoy to assist in the rescue of the person.
US12221186B2
A straddled vehicle, including a vehicle frame structure, a drive unit including a drive motor that receives electric power and outputs driving power, a driving wheel that receives the driving power, and an electric power generation unit. The electric power generation unit includes an electric power generation engine configured to output engine power, and an electric power generator that is fixed to the electric power generation engine and is electrically connected to an electric power transfer medium having flexibility. The electric power generator is configured to convert the engine power into the electric power, and supply the electric power to the drive motor via the electric power transfer medium. The straddled vehicle is series-hybridized by the drive unit and the electric power generation unit. The electric power generation engine is swingably supported, independently of the drive unit, by the vehicle frame structure, such that the engine power is not mechanically supplied to the driving wheel.
US12221183B2
A trailer and interchangeable modules for transporting objects on public and private roadways are provided.
US12221176B2
An electric power steering device includes a motor, a motor controller, first and second power source circuits, a power source switching circuit, and a voltage detector. The power source switching circuit is configured to switch between a first state in which the motor controller receives electric power from the first power source circuit but is cut off from the second power source circuit, and a second state in which the motor controller receives electric power from the second power source circuit but is cut off from the first power source circuit. The voltage detector is configured to detect the voltage of the first power source circuit. The power source switching circuit is configured to select the second state in a case where the voltage of the first power source circuit is less than or equal to a predetermined value, and select the first state in cases other than the case.
US12221175B2
An apparatus for compensating for a stick-slip of a Motor Driven Power Steering (MDPS) system may include: a column torque detection unit to detect column torque applied to a steering shaft as a driver operates a steering wheel; a vehicle speed sensor to detect vehicle speed; a steering angular velocity detection unit to detect a steering angular velocity of a steering wheel; a condition determination unit to determine whether at least one of the column torque, the vehicle speed and the steering angular velocity satisfies a preset compensation condition; a stick-slip compensation controller to output a compensation current for compensating the stick-slip using at least one of the steering angular velocity, the column torque and the vehicle speed; and a compensation unit to compensate for an output of an MDPS controller by applying the compensation current to the output of the MDPS controller.
US12221174B2
A method for piloting a motor of a power steering system of a vehicle, the power steering system having at least one steering wheel and one rack, the motor being piloted by a closed-loop proportional-derivative regulator (Rθ) receiving as input an angular position (θm) of the motor and a setpoint angle (θc), the regulator (Rθ) determining a setpoint motor torque (Cc). The method includes the steps of determining a stiffness compensation, and modifying the angular position (θm) of the motor.
US12221161B2
A long structural member that, in a transverse section of one part or all of the long structural member in a longitudinal direction, includes the following configuration. A top plate part, a first flange part, and a second flange part are flat. A first side plate part, a first upper corner part, and a first lower corner part constitute a first thick-wall part. A thickness of the first thick-wall part is greater than a thickness of the top plate part and is greater than a thickness of the first flange part. A second side plate part, a second upper corner part, and a second lower corner part constitute a second thick-wall part. A thickness of the second thick-wall part is greater than the thickness of the top plate part and is greater than a thickness of the second flange part.
US12221137B2
A large-scale power generation method using electric locomotive-driven generators includes the following steps: step 1: setting up a circular railway, and running at least 10 electric locomotives on the circular railway; step 2: providing one or two 20 MW or 30 MW generators in each carriage; step 3: providing a multi-stage double-gear accelerated transmission device on a wheel axle, and driving a generator rotor to reach a rated speed for electricity production; and step 4: grid-connecting electricity produced by the generators, and allowing a small part of the produced electricity to pass through a shunt circuit to become a driving force for the continuous operation of the electric locomotives. And therefor the electromechanical interaction is formed.
US12221134B1
Techniques for generating a prediction about a vehicle environment and for controlling the vehicle based on the prediction are described herein. In some cases, a prediction about a vehicle environment can be determined based on at least one of contextual data associated with the vehicle environment, object state data associated with an object (e.g., another vehicle) in the vehicle environment, or image data associated with the object.
US12221130B2
A system for motion planning for a vehicle generates a rule with an associated condition criterion portion and a result portion. For each potential driving action of a set of potential driving actions of a vehicle, the system determines whether the potential driving action contradicts the result portion of the rule. A driving action mask is generated that includes a corresponding mask parameter. If the potential driving action contradicts the result portion of the rule, then the corresponding mask parameter acts to decrease a probability of selection of that potential driving action in a motion planning decision. The condition criterion portion is evaluated to determine whether the mask is applicable and if the mask is applicable, the driving action mask is used to determine a motion planning decision for the vehicle. A rule expiration criterion may also be evaluated to determine whether a rule is expired.
US12221127B2
A VP carries out vehicle control in accordance with an instruction from an ADK. A vehicle control interface interfaces between the VP and the ADK. The vehicle control interface receives from the ADK, a power supply mode request which is an instruction for controlling a power supply mode of the VP. The power supply mode includes a sleep mode in which a vehicle is in a Ready OFF state, a driving mode in which the vehicle is in a Ready ON state, and a wake mode in which the vehicle control interface is on.
US12221111B2
When a power status of a vehicle makes transition regardless of control by an autonomous driving system while the autonomous driving system is controlling a power mode of a vehicle platform, the autonomous driving system is notified that transition was caused by a driver input. A VP is configured such that an ADS is mountable thereon. The VP includes a base vehicle and a VCIB. The VCIB interfaces between the base vehicle and the ADS. Then, the VCIB provides a signal that indicates a driver input onto a start/stop button for switching between on and off of the base vehicle to the ADS.
US12221106B2
A system for controlling a smart mobility by risk level includes: an information collection unit to collect position and speed information of the smart mobility and camera sensing information including a front traffic sign or object; a front detection unit to detect a front obstacle or inclination using the camera sensing information and to output a detection result; a control unit to change a warning to a user and/or a method of controlling the smart mobility by risk level based on the information collected by the information collection unit and the detection result; and a warning unit to warn the user by changing a method by risk level under the control of the control unit.
US12221103B2
A vehicle control device of the embodiment includes a recognizer that recognizes a surrounding situation of a host vehicle; and a driving controller that controls one or both of steering or acceleration/deceleration of the host vehicle to cause the host vehicle to travel, wherein the driving controller causes the host vehicle to travel in any of a plurality of driving modes including a first driving mode in which the host vehicle travels so that the speed of the host vehicle reaches a target speed, and the driving controller restricts the execution of at least the first driving mode when a specific object is recognized in a traveling direction of the host vehicle based on map information or a recognition result from the recognizer during the execution of the first driving mode.
US12221097B2
A vehicle control system (500) controls a vehicle whereon a plurality of ECUs (30) and a vehicle integrated control device (10) to control the plurality of ECUs (30) are mounted. The vehicle integrated control device (10) includes a control target value operation unit to calculate a control target value to control the plurality of ECUs (30). Further, the vehicle integrated control device (10) includes a prediction control value operation unit to estimate a state of the vehicle in the future, and to calculate a prediction control value to control the plurality of ECUs (30). The vehicle integrated control device (10) includes an instruction signal generation unit to generate an instruction signal including an operation instruction and a prediction control instruction. Each of the plurality of ECUs (30) includes an actuator control unit to control an actuator (50) based on the prediction control instruction.
US12221096B2
System, methods, and computer-readable media for configuring an autonomous vehicle based on safety scores determined by a safety score prediction algorithm, and an associated training technique, to output a safety score for a predicted and/or actual path. The safety score is a value indicating a likelihood of risky events per distance. The safety score prediction algorithm is trained with historical human driving datasets associated with paths (predicted or actual) taken by one or more AVs during human driving.
US12221094B2
A torque vectoring control device and a method therefor may include a torque vectoring electric device (TVED) that adjusts a ratio of torques distributed to a left wheel and a right wheel using a torque of a torque vectoring control motor (TVCM), and a controller that determines the torque of the TVCM to reduce a difference between speeds of the left wheel and the right wheel when a wheel slip occurs while a vehicle is moving straight, and determines the torque of the TVCM according to handling information of a driver when the vehicle is turning.
US12221089B2
The present disclosure relates to a master cylinder and an electronic brake system having the same. The master cylinder includes a cylinder block having a bore of a multi-stage form in a longitudinal direction therein, a first master chamber and a second master chamber sequentially arranged in series in the bore, a first master piston provided to move in connection with an operation of a brake pedal and to pressurize the first master chamber, a second master piston provided to be displaceable by a displacement of the first master piston or a hydraulic pressure in the first master chamber and to pressurize the second master chamber, and a pedal simulator interposed between the first master piston and the second master piston to provide a reaction force to the brake pedal, wherein a cross-sectional area of the first master piston is provided to be relatively larger than a cross-sectional area of the second master piston.
US12221086B2
In the power supply system, DC/DC converter may perform a first operation of converting a voltage of the output node into a charging voltage and supplying the charging voltage to the sub power supply, and a second operation of converting a voltage of the sub power supply into an output voltage and supplying the output voltage to the output node. The load is connected to the output node via a power supply line, and includes a voltage detection unit that detects a voltage output from the power supply line. Control unit (control unit and the control unit) is to conduct the first switch, by causing DC/DC converter to execute the first operation, to charge the sub power supply, after charging the sub power supply, switching the first switch to non-conductive, DC/DC converter to execute the second operation, detects an abnormality based on the voltage detected by the voltage detection unit.
US12221083B2
A reduction motor for a parking brake mechanical actuator of a drum brake comprising an electric motor and a reduction gearbox, in which the electric motor comprises an output shaft extending along a first axis, the reduction gearbox comprises an output shaft extending along a second axis, and in which the reduction motor also comprises at least one angle gear between the electric motor and the reduction gearbox or at the output of the reduction gearbox, the angle gear comprising a crown gear-pair comprising a pinion and a crown gear, the pinion being engaged with the output shaft of the electric motor and meshing with the crown gear which is a part of the reduction gearbox.
US12221080B2
A multi-stage brushless car wash system is disclosed. The multi-stage brushless car wash system includes an electrical separation system stage, a first wash stage, and a second wash stage that are independently controlled to wash an exterior of a vehicle. The electrical separation system stage generates an electrical potential on a surface of the vehicle. The electrical potential is greater than a zeta potential of road film thereby aiding in the removal of road film in the multi-stage brushless car wash system. The electrical separation system stage applies a plurality of different electrically charged chemical solutions onto the vehicle to generate the electrical potential. The chemical solutions may include at least one of an alkaline based solution or an acid based solution.
US12221075B2
A sensor device includes at least one sensor unit, which is configured to detect a detection area; at least one through element, wherein the at least one sensor unit is configured to detect the detection area through the at least one through element; at least one temperature sensor on or in at least one through element, the at least one temperature sensor being configured to detect a temperature of the at least one through element; at least one heating unit, which is configured to heat the at least one through element; and a controller, which is connected to the at least one temperature sensor and the at least one heating unit and which is configured to control the at least one heating unit based on the temperature detected by the at least one temperature sensor.
US12221058B1
A buckle apparatus for a seat of a vehicle and associated system and method. The buckle apparatus includes a locking mechanism and a retention mechanism arranged within a casing. The locking mechanism is configured to operably engage with a latch coupled to a seat belt webbing of the vehicle such that, in a locked mode, the latch is secured within an insertion slot defined in the casing. In an unlocked mode, locking mechanism is configured such that the latch is removable from the insertion slot of the casing. The retention mechanism is operable with the latch such that, in a retention mode, the retention mechanism is configured to cause the latch to be retained within the insertion slot of the casing when a withdrawal force applied to the latch is less than a predetermined value.
US12221049B2
A pet guard apparatus to be applied to a vehicle includes a pet guard body and a first air-bag device. The pet guard body is attachable to a vehicle compartment of the vehicle in which a pet is to be placed in such a manner that the pet guard body extends in a vertical direction in the vehicle compartment to partition the vehicle compartment into a front portion and a rear portion. The first air-bag device is attached to the pet guard body. The first air-bag device includes a pet air-bag and a pet air-bag inflator. The pet air-bag is configured to be deployed behind the pet guard body. The pet air-bag inflator is configured to be operated to deploy the pet air-bag upon contact of the vehicle.
US12221048B2
A panel member is provided in front of a seat of a vehicle at a height such that knees of an occupant who moves forward from the seat come into contact with therewith. The panel member includes a cover member defining a surface thereof and a reinforcement member attached to a back side of the cover member over an entire region thereof. The reinforcement member includes an outer part, a central part, and an inner part in a vehicle width direction. The outer part is provided with a first grid-shaped rib unit. The inner part is provided with a second grid-shaped rib unit that expands in the vehicle width direction more easily than the first grid-shaped rib unit. The central part is provided with no rib unit, and is provided with a coupling member coupling the first and second rib units.
US12221047B2
A panel member is provided in front of a seat in a vehicle cabin of a vehicle at a height such that knees of an occupant who moves forward from the seat come into contact with the panel member. The panel member includes a cover member and a reinforcement member. The cover member defines a surface of the panel member. The reinforcement member is provided behind the cover member. The reinforcement member includes an upper part in an up-down direction of the vehicle and a lower part other than the upper part. The upper part is provided with a grid-shaped rib unit extending over an overall width of the reinforcement member in a vehicle width direction of the vehicle. The lower part is provided with a grid-shaped rib unit in a region excluding a central part of the reinforcement member in the vehicle width direction.
US12221032B2
An engine-type industrial vehicle includes a power transmission; a main controller; an object detector configured to detect a position of an object; a predicted trajectory calculator configured to derive a predicted trajectory followed by a vehicle body; and a vehicle-speed upper-limit setter configured to impose a vehicle speed limitation on the vehicle body by setting a vehicle-speed upper-limit value when the detected object is positioned on the predicted trajectory and a traveling direction of the vehicle body is a direction toward the object. The main controller is configured to prevent a vehicle speed of the vehicle body from exceeding the vehicle-speed upper-limit value by performing at least one of a control so that a force acts in a direction in which movement of the vehicle body is prevented or a control so that a driving force to the driving wheel is cut off.
US12221027B2
A car trash can includes a fitting part fitted into a gap between a front seat and a center console and provided with a recessed part on one side surface or both side surfaces. A mounting bracket protrudes a predetermined length from one side surface of the fitting part and has a plurality of holding parts. A trash storage box has an adjustable mounting height by selectively fixing a holding provided on the rear surface of the trash storage box to one of the plurality of holding parts. An article storage part may be provided on the upper portion of the fitting part. An elastic part may be installed on one or two of the recessed parts to be elastically pressed when inserting the car trash can between a seat and a center console and firmly fit the car trash can between the seat and the center console.
US12221023B2
The present invention relates to an alignment jig for aligning leather sheet and a Velcro structure before sewing to couple the leather sheet and the Velcro structure which form a vehicle seat cover. The guide part having the accommodation groove into which the Velcro structure can be inserted and fixed is formed on the lower plate of the alignment jig, and the penetration part is formed in the upper plate thereof. Accordingly, after the Velcro structure is inserted and fixed into the accommodation groove of the guide part, when the leather sheet is placed thereon and the upper plate is closed, the leather sheet and the Velcro structure are aligned automatically, and then, when sewing is performed through the penetration part of the upper plate, the Velcro structure can be accurately aligned and coupled on a predetermined curved path of the leather sheet.
US12221019B2
Proposed is a vehicle recliner including a mobile flange including a support part located in the center of a placement space and configured to protrude upwards from a lower surface thereof, the support part being formed in a multi-step structure having a different outer diameter for each step, a cam having a corresponding step formed thereon, the corresponding step corresponding to the multi-step structure of the support part, and a gear plate eccentrically pressed by the cam so that an external gear thereof meshes with an internal gear of the mobile flange.
US12221014B2
A child seat includes a tensioning mechanism that selectively applies tension to a seat belt to secure the child seat to a car seat. The child seat includes a base that defines a receiving region. The tensioning mechanism includes a bottom arm pivotably attached to the base within the receiving region and a top arm pivotably attached to the bottom arm. The tensioning mechanism is adjustable between a first configuration and a second configuration relative to the base. In both the first configuration and the second configuration, the tensioning mechanism defines a tortuous, nonlinear belt pathway. In the first configuration, the tensioning mechanism receives a portion of the seat belt, and in the second configuration, the tensioning mechanism applies tension to the portion of the seat belt.
US12221008B2
A system for state determination of a battery module configured for use in an electric vehicle. The system including a battery module including at least a battery cell, a sensor including a proximity sensor configured to detect a status datum corresponding to the battery module, a processor configured to receive the status datum from the sensor, generate a charge datum as a function of the status datum corresponding to the battery module, generate a health datum as a function of the status datum corresponding to the battery module, transmit the charge datum and the health datum, and a display configured to receive the charge datum and the health datum corresponding to the battery cell, and display the charge datum and the health datum corresponding to the battery cell.
US12221002B2
A charging system includes three charging stands, an exhaust heat pipe provided underground, and a heat utilization device that utilizes exhaust heat. The charging stand has an opening and an exhaust heat port. The exhaust heat port is connected to an exhaust heat pipe. Cooling air taken in through the opening exchanges heat with a power supply circuit of the charging stand, and is then discharged from the exhaust heat port into the exhaust heat pipe. The temperature of the cooling air discharged into the exhaust heat pipe is raised by heat exchange with the power supply circuit. The cooling air flows through the exhaust heat pipe and is supplied to a heat utilization device.
US12221000B2
A vehicle charging system comprises at least one controller and at least one arm, each arm having a first end coupled to an actuator and a second end comprising a charging interface. The actuator is configured to articulate the arm into a charging position. The charging interface comprises at least one charging contact coupled to a power source and configured to engage and deliver power to a vehicle charging interface to charge at least one battery of a vehicle. The charging system can include a plurality of arms, each configured to charge a different vehicle. A method of charging one or more vehicles using the charging system is also provided.
US12220990B2
A control apparatus is mountable to a vehicle including an electric motor, a lock mechanism, and an actuator apparatus. The control apparatus controls the electric motor and a shift-by-wire system provided in the vehicle. The shift-by-wire system performs switching to shift ranges of the vehicle including a shift range and a non-parking range other than the parking range. The control apparatus drives the actuator apparatus to release the lock on the power transmission mechanism by the lock mechanism based on the shift range of the shift-by-wire system being switched from the parking range to the non-parking range. The control apparatus performs torque correction control in which an output torque of the electric motor is corrected such that a load acting on the lock mechanism from the power transmission mechanism is reduced based on the shift range of the shift-by-wire system being switched from the parking range to the non-parking range.
US12220971B2
Proposed is a thermal management system for a vehicle, the thermal management system including an accumulator at which vapor-liquid separation of a refrigerant is performed, a compressor configured to compress a refrigerant, an inner condenser at which heat exchange is performed between a refrigerant and heating air, an outer condenser at which heat exchange is performed between a refrigerant and external air, a first expansion valve configured to expand a refrigerant, an evaporator at which heat exchange is performed between a refrigerant and heating air, a refrigerant recirculation line diverging from a refrigerant line between the compressor and the inner condenser, connected to the accumulator, and provided to selectively recirculate a refrigerant compressed by the compressor to the accumulator, and a discharge valve installed in the refrigerant recirculation line and provided to be able to selectively discharge a refrigerant, which has passed through the refrigerant recirculation line, into the accumulator.
US12220960B2
A method for adapting a transfer function of an active suspension of a vehicle comprises the vehicle driving along a section of road for which a surface profile is stored in a control unit of the vehicle. The active suspension is activated according to a predetermined transfer function for adaptation to the surface profile by means of adjustment values in order to compensate for unevenness of the surface profile. A shock absorber sensor system and/or a tire sensor system of the vehicle is used to record vertical accelerations while driving along the section of road and transfer them to the control unit. The invention provides that the adjustment values and the vertical accelerations are transferred by the vehicle to an external central computer.
US12220950B2
A tire mounting apparatus includes a rim positioning mechanism, a wheel support mechanism and a mounting frame that are disposed on a base in sequence, and a tire pressing mechanism disposed on the mounting frame. The rim positioning mechanism is configured to position a hub of a rim. The wheel support mechanism is configured to support a side peripheral edge of a wheel. The tire pressing mechanism is configured to press a side peripheral edge of a tire for pressing a bead of the tire into the rim. The operation is simple and labor-saving. The tire mounting efficiency can be improved and the labor intensity can be reduced.
US12220947B2
A tire includes a pair of sidewall portions. An outer surface of at least one of the sidewall portions includes at least one concave mark recessed from a reference surface. The or each concave mark includes a bottom surface and an inner wall surface. The bottom surface includes a peripheral region and a main region. The peripheral region includes a shadow region and a non-shadow region. The shadow region and the non-shadow region are each formed with an uneven surface provided with minute protuberances. A width of the uneven surface of the non-shadow region measured in a direction perpendicular to a contour of the or each concave mark is smaller than a width of the uneven surface of the shadow region measured in a direction perpendicular to the contour.
US12220940B2
A turf wheel having a wheel rim having an inner and outer surface, and an annular tread portion; a plurality of projections extending radially outward from the outer surface of the wheel rim, wherein each projection provides a stem, a ground contacting pad, and a ground engaging lug; and a hub. A wheel cleaning system having a frame provided by a wheeled apparatus; at least one turf wheel mounted to the frame; a turf wheel scraper assembly, the turf wheel scraper assembly providing a turf wheel scraper and an attachment mechanism, where the attachment mechanism is adapted to be mounted to the frame, and couples the turf wheel scraper to the frame.
US12220937B2
A writing ball capable of suppressing wear of a ball seat of a ballpoint pen tip and obtaining stable ink outflow, a writing ball that is a sphere, the sphere comprising, at least: a first hard component containing a first metal; a second hard component containing a second metal; and a binding component, the writing ball comprising: a first outer surface from which the first hard component is exposed, the first outer surface being an outermost surface of the sphere; and a recess including, as a bottom surface, a second outer surface from which the second hard component is exposed, the second outer surface being recessed inward from the first outer surface, wherein the first outer surface includes a smooth surface.
US12220936B2
A method of making a book or booklet cover including placing a first face of a sheet-like information carrier on a first side of a metal sheet that extends beyond one edge of the sheet-like information carrier. The method including bending a portion of the metal sheet along an edge thereof, for the portion to elastically press on the sheet-like information carrier. A book or booklet cover including a metal sheet supporting a sheet-like information carrier, which sheet-like information carrier has a first face and an opposite second face, with the second face on a first side of the metal sheet, the metal sheet-having a portion extending beyond at least one edge of the sheet-like information carrier, where the portion of the metal sheet has a rounded bend along an edge thereof, the portion elastically pressing against the sheet-like information carrier.
US12220927B2
An embodiment of the present invention is a thermal head including: a heat dissipation plate having a first surface of a substantially rectangular shape in a plane view, and a second surface that is on an opposite side to the first surface; a board attached to the heat dissipation plat in such a manner as to extend from the first surface to the second surface, via a first end part interposed between the first surface and the second surface; a heating part having a plurality of heating elements, the heating part being disposed on the board over the first surface; and surface-mount devices mounted on the board over the second surface.
US12220924B2
A liquid ejection apparatus includes a housing provided at least with an upper surface and side surfaces, and a liquid tank that is arranged in the housing and is refillable with a liquid from outside. A display unit that indicates a remaining liquid amount in the liquid tank is arranged at least at one of joining portions each joining the upper surface to one of the side surfaces.
US12220922B2
A liquid storage body includes: a bag part being flexible and configured to store a liquid therein; a liquid outlet part attached to a first end portion of the bag part and configured to discharge to a liquid jetting apparatus stored the liquid in the bag part; and a channel part disposed inside the bag part and configured to let the liquid flow to the liquid outlet part, in which both ends of the channel part are connected to the liquid outlet part, a first area of the channel part is located near a second end portion of the bag part located farthest from the first end portion, and the channel part has a liquid inlet portion through which to take the liquid inside the bag part into the channel part.
US12220919B2
A liquid ejecting head includes: a nozzle plate including a first-nozzle; first and second pressure chambers arranged side by side in a first-direction; third and fourth pressure chambers arranged side by side in the first-direction; a first-communication-flow-path extending along the nozzle plate, coupled to the first-nozzle, and communicating with the first to fourth pressure chambers; a first-common-liquid-chamber communicating with the first and second pressure chambers; and a second-common-liquid-chamber communicating with the third and fourth pressure chambers. The first and second pressure chambers and the third and fourth pressure chambers are shifted in a second-direction orthogonal to the first-direction. When a width of the first communication flow path in the first-direction at a position overlapping the first-nozzle is defined as a first-width, and a width of the first-pressure-chamber in the first-direction is defined as a pressure chamber width, the first-width is equal to or greater than the pressure chamber width.
US12220914B2
A liquid discharge head includes an actuator substrate including a pressure chamber communicating with a nozzle from which a liquid is to be discharged and a pressure generator to apply pressure to the liquid in the pressure chamber, a frame bonded to the actuator substrate and having a through hole filled with a resin, and a temperature detector inserted into the through hole and attached to the actuator substrate with the resin to detect a temperature of the actuator substrate. The through hole has a first face facing the actuator substrate and a second face opposite to the first face and facing an opening of the frame. The resin in the through hole includes an uncured portion uncured and facing the first face and a cured portion cured and facing the second face. The uncured portion contacts the actuator substrate and is between the cured portion and the actuator substrate.
US12220911B2
A printing apparatus producing method includes causing a printing apparatus before adjustment to print a multiple circle pattern and an adjustment pattern in predetermined relative positions on a medium, scanning the printed medium and generating a scan image, detecting the adjustment pattern based on a detection position of the multiple circle pattern detected from the scan image and the relative positions, calculating adjustment parameters based on a detection result of the adjustment pattern, and storing the adjustment parameters in a nonvolatile memory of the printing apparatus before adjustment to produce an adjusted printing apparatus.
US12220906B2
A printer includes: a conveyor conveying a sheet in a conveying direction; a first supporting part positioned on an upstream side in the conveying direction with respect to the conveyor, and having a first supporting surface; a side guide making contact with at least one of both ends, in a width direction of the sheet, in the first supporting surface, the width direction being orthogonal to the conveying direction and parallel to the first supporting surface; a suction-attraction force generator generating a suction-attraction force in an area, in the first supporting surface, which is adjacent to the side guide and in which the sheet passes; a second supporting part positioned on a downstream side in the conveying direction with respect to the conveyor, and having a second supporting surface; and a recording part recording an image on the sheet supported by the second supporting surface.
US12220902B2
A window transfer method and a window manufacturing method using a window transfer method are provided. A window transfer method includes preparing a stage, transferring the stage over a loading part on which a window layer is loaded, transferring the stage to be adjacent to an upper surface of the window layer and to allow a plurality of protrusion parts attached to side surfaces of the stage to press a slip sheet layer arranged under the window layer and exposed outside the window layer, and suctioning the window layer to a lower surface of the stage to separate the window layer from the slip sheet layer.
