US12229721B2
A system and method for automatically generating and transmitting a digital components acquisition request includes obtaining a digital sourcing requisition that includes a digital itemization of a plurality of physical components required for completing a plurality of real-world tasks; retrieving, from a governing artifacts database, a governing digital artifact record based on a plurality of key-value attribute pairs selectively extracted from the digital sourcing requisition; assessing the digital itemization of the plurality of physical components of the digital sourcing requisition against a plurality of multi-attribute data tuples associated with the governing digital artifact record; automatically generating a digital components acquisition request based on one or more assemblies of items transitively associated with pairwise matches generated during the assessing; and automatically transmitting the digital components acquisition request for physically sourcing items from a remote source of items.
US12229719B1
The technology disclosed herein enables configuration and sharing of a coverage map which displays asset data. In various implementations, an asset owner provides access to select portions of asset data, such as vehicle performance data, to an end-user. The asset owner configures a coverage map to display the selected data according to the type of asset data to be displayed, the scope of the data to be displayed, and other map attributes. Once configured, a URL is generated which the fleet operator provides to the end-user.
US12229718B2
An out-of-stock detection system notifies store management that a product is out of stock. The system captures images of a shelf and determines the position product labels thereon. For each product label, a bounding box is generated based on the position of each product label on the shelf. The system then identifies a product for each product label based on information within each product label and, for each product label, stores a product identified for each bounding box. Accordingly, the system performs an out-of-stock detection process that includes capturing additional image data of the shelf periodically that includes each bounding box, providing a portion of the additional image data for each bounding box to a model trained to determine whether the bounding box contains products, sending a notification for a product determined to be out of stock to a store client device based on output from the model.
US12229717B2
Systems and methods for using machine learning to dynamically manage product catalogs are disclosed. According to certain aspects, a set of machine learning models may analyze a set of data identifying a product to create or update a data record associated with the product, where the set of machine learning models may include a brand assignment model, a category assignment model, and a tag assignment model. Further, an entity resolution model may refine the data record, which may be organized according to a set of hierarchical data for the product. Additionally, a product catalog may be updated to identify the product according to the set of hierarchical data for the product.
US12229710B2
A data logger for acquiring and recording sensor data associated with a transport container includes a first sensor, a memory for the storage of sensor data acquired by the first sensor, a radio-frequency module for wirelessly transmitting the sensor data, a battery, a second sensor for sensing a transport mode of the transport container, and an energy management circuitry that is connected with the second sensor and with the radio-frequency module. The energy management circuitry is configured to switch between a plurality of operation modes including a default operation mode in which the radio-frequency module sends sensor data according to a defined time pattern that is independent of a transport mode. The operation modes further include at least one transport operation mode in which the radio-frequency module sends sensor data according to a time pattern that is dependent on the transport mode sensed by the second sensor.
US12229705B2
A system and methods are described for retrieving, displaying, and/or analyzing law firm analytic data in response to natural language queries. The system, at an interface or bot, receives queries as plaintext messages requesting information about or maintained by a law firm. The system generates intent scores for the message for each of multiple intents and determines an intent for the message based on a highest generated score exceeding a threshold. The system extracts entities from the message, applies an algorithm to the determined intent and extracted entities, and identifies a data source from which to retrieve information. The system then retrieves and displays information from the identified data source.
US12229703B1
An intelligent analysis method for operational supervision of public transportation industry and a system thereof includes operation information collection, calculation of basic vehicle information and platform passenger flow information, current operation analysis of target vehicles, current data update and calibration of the target vehicles, automatic adjustment of dispatching operation plans for public transportation vehicles within operation areas, and real-time updates of real-time data of online vehicles within the operation areas. The present invention implements vehicle energy consumption monitoring and statistical analysis based on basic information and mileage information of public transportation vehicles, and performs intelligent dispatching and makes preferred planning in terms of road network congestion, charging station operations and site traffic for dispatching and subsequent operations of the entire transportation network based on energy consumption and the location of charging stations on public transport operation lines.
US12229698B2
A method for facilitating managing budgets for cloud accounts. The method comprises obtaining real-time account information associated with a cloud account of a cloud platform, analyzing the real-time account information using a machine learning model which is configured for detecting a pattern, a trend, and an anomaly corresponding to a utilization of a cloud resource by the cloud account, determining a value of a parameter associated with the utilization of the cloud resource by the cloud account, determining an action required to be implemented for the cloud account based on the determining of the value of the parameter, generating a cloud account controlling command for implementing the action based on the determining of the action, transmitting the cloud account controlling command to a cloud service provider device associated with a cloud service provider, and storing the real-time account information.
US12229693B2
Systems and methods for dynamic charger reservations are provided. In one embodiment, a method includes identifying an initial reservation for an electric vehicle to receive a charge from a charging entity at a first place at a first time. The method also includes calculating an estimated time of arrival and an arrival state of charge of at a reservation time. The method further includes detecting a grid event that changes the first cost for the charging entity. The method yet further includes generating a revised reservation for the electric vehicle. The method includes generating an initial compensation offer based on the estimated time of arrival and the arrival state of charge. The method also includes providing the revised reservation and the initial compensation offer to a user. The method further includes updating the initial reservation to the revised reservation in response to receiving a confirmation from the user.
US12229677B2
A method for detecting network anomalies includes receiving a control message from a cellular network and extracting one or more features from the control message. The method also includes predicting a potential label for the control message using a predictive model configured to receive the one or more extracted features from the control message as feature inputs. Here, the predictive model is trained on a set of training control messages where each training control message includes one or more corresponding features and an actual label. The method further includes determining that a probability of the potential label satisfies a confidence threshold. The method also includes analyzing the control message to determine whether the control message corresponds to a respective network performance issue. When the control message impacts network performance, the method includes communicating the network performance issue to a network entity responsible for the network performance issue.
US12229672B2
One example method includes gathering, by a domain adversarial neural network model deployed in an autonomous vehicle operating in a domain, a dataset that comprises unsegmented and unlabeled image data about the domain, sampling the dataset to create an adapted domain dataset, detaching a domain classifier from the domain adversarial neural network, using the domain classifier as a domain change detector model to predict a class of the unsegmented and unlabeled image data in the adapted domain dataset, and based on the class, either: determining that the domain is changed or is unknown; or, determining that the domain has not changed.
US12229643B2
A teaching data extending device includes: a relationship acquiring unit that obtains a relationship between a plurality of features included in each of a plurality of teaching data; a feature selecting unit that selects any one or more of the plurality of features based on the relationship; and a teaching data extending unit that generates, for one or more teaching data, new teaching data in which a value of the feature selected by the feature selecting unit is replaced with a value of the feature in another teaching data classified in a same class.
US12229635B2
Methods and apparatus for estimating the fidelity of quantum hardware. In one aspect, a method includes accessing a set of quantum gates; sampling a subset of quantum gates from the set of quantum gates, wherein the subset of quantum gates defines a quantum circuit; applying the quantum circuit to a quantum system and performing measurements on the quantum system to determine output information of the quantum system; calculating output information of the quantum system based on application of the quantum circuit to the quantum system; and estimating a fidelity of the quantum circuit based on the determined output information and the calculated output information of the quantum system.
US12229634B2
Systems and techniques that facilitate Stark shift cancellation are provided. In various embodiments, a system can comprise a control qubit that is coupled to a target qubit. In various cases, the control qubit can be driven by a first tone that entangles the control qubit with the target qubit. In various aspects, the control qubit can be further driven by a second tone simultaneously with the first tone. In various cases, the second tone can have an opposite detuning sign than the first tone. In various instances, the first tone can cause a Stark shift in an operational frequency of the control qubit, and the second tone can cancel the Stark shift.
US12229631B2
Methods and apparatuses for recognizing a two-dimensional code are disclosed. In an implementation, a method comprises: identifying, by an electronic device, a two-dimensional code, wherein the two-dimensional code comprises an image region in the center and a ring region surrounding the image region, wherein the ring region comprises a code region including a first code region and a second code region, a first spacing region, and a second spacing region, wherein the first spacing region and the second spacing region are arranged between the first code region and the second code region, determining values corresponding to a plurality of code elements in the code region, and recognizing, by the electronic device based on the values, first information corresponding to the two-dimensional code.
US12229629B2
A system is described to create customized unique identification (UID) codes combined with customized printable optical or NFC sensors and to combine these unique sensors and unique IDs with unique environmental events, traceability, unique data from cell phones (including geolocation) and person-specific unique indicators such as biomarkers to create completely unique, low cost and proprietary printable genomic and environmental blockchain sensor networks for the Internet of Things (IoT), counterfeit identification, healthcare, pharmaceutical applications and small payment transactions worldwide.
US12229627B1
A camera device for an optical imaging system, such as a scanner system for imaging machine-readable indicia may include at least one printed circuit board (PCB), an image sensor, and a first lens device. The PCB(s) may define a recessed area having a mounting surface therein. The image sensor may be disposed within the recessed area and may be coupled to the mounting surface of the PCB. The first lens device may be coupled to the PCB(s) and may extend into the recessed area. The first lens device may be disposed in optical alignment with the image sensor. A second lens device, which may be adjustable (e.g., adjustable focal length), may be disposed between the first lens device and image sensor. The second lens may be positioned in the recessed area and/or coupled to the first lens device.
US12229626B2
A method of reading machine-readable labels on sample receptacles. In the method, a sample rack is moved between a first position and a second position within a housing, where the sample rack supports a plurality of sample receptacles, and each sample receptacle has a machine-readable label. An absolute position of the sample rack is measured as the sample rack moves between the first and second positions. An image of the machine-readable label associated with each sample receptacle is acquired as the sample rack moves between the first and second positions. Finally, the acquired image of each machine-readable label is decoded.
US12229617B2
A textile RFID transponder (20) has a textile carrier substrate (19) with a flat thread structure (16). At least one electrically conductive antenna thread (17) is introduced into the flat thread structure (16) of the textile carrier substrate (19). An RFID chip module (15) with a chip-bound module antenna (11) is applied to a first side of the textile carrier substrate (19) so that the module antenna (11) is coupled inductively into a transponder antenna (18) formed by the at least one conductive antenna thread (17). At least one hot-melt adhesive yarn (12; 16a; 16b; 16c) is introduced into the flat thread structure (16) of the textile carrier substrate (19).
US12229609B1
One example method may include detecting a change in a light impulse via a light sensor embedded in a radio enabled label, activating a power source embedded in the radio enabled label, identifying identifier information to receive at the radio enabled label, and receiving a radio signal at the radio enabled label with the identifier information.
US12229605B2
An apparatus to facilitate disaggregated computing for a distributed confidential computing environment is disclosed. The apparatus includes one or more processors to facilitate receiving a manifest corresponding to graph nodes representing regions of memory of a remote client machine, the graph nodes corresponding to a command buffer and to associated data structures and kernels of the command buffer used to initialize a hardware accelerator and execute the kernels, and the manifest indicating a destination memory location of each of the graph nodes and dependencies of each of the graph nodes; identifying, based on the manifest, the command buffer and the associated data structures to copy to the host memory; identifying, based on the manifest, the kernels to copy to local memory of the hardware accelerator; and patching addresses in the command buffer copied to the host memory with updated addresses of corresponding locations in the host memory.
US12229597B2
An electronic device and a method for controlling the electronic device where a plurality of program areas corresponding to a host operating system and a plurality of virtual machines and a shared area corresponding to the host operating system and the plurality of virtual machines are allocated to a memory of the electronic device; and based on a request to install, in a second area among the plurality of program areas, a second application program corresponding to a first application program stored in a first area among the plurality of program areas, at least a part of data relating to the first application program is transferred from the first area to the shared area.
US12229590B2
A content channel generation device comprises a resource unit assignment circuit, for assigning scheduled station(s) as node(s) of a full binary tree according to a search algorithm; a node computing circuit, for determining first node connection information of the full binary tree, and to determine second node connection information of a smallest full binary tree according to a smallest binary tree algorithm and the first node connection information; a load balance circuit, for determining user field numbers corresponding to content channels according to a load balance function and the second node connection information; a user field generation circuit, for generating a traversal result of the smallest full binary tree according to a traversal algorithm and the second node connection information, and for generating user fields corresponding to the content channels according to the traversal result, to generate the content channels.
US12229580B2
Techniques are provided for deploying virtual machines to a virtualization management environment using an agent component to obtain remote virtual machine templates. One method comprises receiving, by an agent component executing in a virtualization management server, a request to deploy a virtual machine and a storage location of a template for the virtual machine; obtaining the template for the virtual machine from one or more of an orchestration engine and a remote data source identified by the storage location; and replicating the obtained template for the virtual machine to create the virtual machine. The request to deploy the virtual machine may also comprise deployment information used to configure the virtual machine. The agent component may monitor an execution of the created virtual machine and evaluate one or more policies provided by the orchestration engine with respect to security controls and/or network requirements associated with the created virtual machine.
US12229572B2
A computer program product, system, and computer implemented method for scalable specification and self-governance for autonomous databases, cluster databases, and multi-tenant databases in cloud and on-prem environments. The approach disclosed herein enables management of a consolidated databases using a template-based process that allows for the consolidated databases (CDBs) and pluggable databases (PBDs) to be reconfigured automatically. In some embodiments, the approach instantiates one or more monitoring modules and one or more CDB/PDB configuration managers. These elements can detect relevant changes in the conditions in which CDB instances and open PDBs operate and adjust the configurations thereof in response. The configurations are specified in and adjusted using one or more corresponding templates, where the template comprise a set of rules that may have various interdependencies and specify how to determine what value a particular configuration setting should be to automatically configuration and reconfigure CDB instances and open PDBs.
US12229566B2
Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to execute one or more application programming interfaces (APIs) to perform one or more operations for one or more accelerators within a heterogeneous processor. In at least one embodiment, one or more processors are to perform one or more instructions in response to one or more APIs to indicate one or more functions to be performed in response to one or more errors from one or more accelerators within a heterogeneous processor.
US12229550B2
In example embodiments, techniques are provided for decoupling user access to infrastructure models from proprietary software that maintains and updates the infrastructure models. A backend application may include an infrastructure modeling backend module that, among other functions, handles communication with an infrastructure modeling frontend module of a frontend application that provides user access to the infrastructure model, infrastructure modeling hub services that maintain repositories for the infrastructure model, and an infrastructure modeling native module that creates, performs operations upon, and updates local instances of a database that stores the infrastructure model. While the infrastructure modeling backend module may pass information obtained from the infrastructure modeling frontend module and infrastructure modeling hub services to the infrastructure modeling native module, it may be functionally separated from the software of the infrastructure modeling native module that understands how to maintain and update infrastructure models, including interacting with local instances of the database.
US12229547B2
A computing device obtains mini-program code of a to-be-classified mini-program. The computing device runs the mini-program code to obtain dynamic features of the to-be-classified mini-program during the running process. The device uses the dynamic features as inputs for a trained classifier model, to obtain classification information of the to-be-classified mini-program. The device stores the classification information of the to-be-classified mini-program.
US12229538B2
Embodiments provide an adaptive issue type identification platform for automatically determining an issue type in an enterprise-level software development issue-tracking application. Embodiments include receiving a request to generate an issue data object, causing initializing of the issue data object in a data store, causing display of an issue management capability selection interface, and receiving issue capability selection input in response to user engagement with the issue management capability selection interface. In response to receiving the issue capability selection input, the adaptive issue type identification platform fetches an operational capability set from a capability registry based on the issue capability selection input, causes the association of the operational capability set to the issue data object at the data store, determines an issue type identifier for the issue data object based on the operational capability set, and updates metadata associated with the issue data object to include the issue type identifier.
US12229532B2
Methods and systems are disclosed that automate and institutionalize many aspects of the process of creating software. Embodiments automate aspects of pricing, software creation, and delivery using a manufacturing-styled approach to development that reuses existing code and other existing software design features.
US12229528B2
Systems and techniques are provided for booting an electronic device. For example, a process can include initiating a boot procedure for the electronic device. The process can also include determining a hardware pseudo-random number generator (PRNG) is inoperable, obtaining a seed value from a read-only memory, based on the determination that the hardware PRNG is inoperable, initiating a software PRNG based on the seed value, obtaining a pseudo-random number from the software PRNG, and continuing the boot procedure using the obtained pseudo-random number.
US12229524B2
Methods and systems are described herein for efficiently labeling user utterances, which may encompass any communication received from a user within a conversational interaction, and identifying novel user intents for large amounts of data. A machine learning model may be used, which is trained on embeddings of utterance data, and which may employ methods like prototypical networks and hierarchical local binary classification for hierarchical multi-label multi-class classification.
US12229511B2
A method, computer system, and a computer program product for automatically generated question suggestions is provided. The present invention may include generating an intent-entity sequence representative of a current chat conversation with a user. The present invention may also include predicting, using a trained intent-entity prediction model, a next intent-entity sequence based on the generated intent-entity sequence representative of the current chat conversation. The present invention may further include converting the predicted next intent-entity sequence into at least one likely question suggestion to return back to the user.
US12229510B2
There are provided systems and methods for named entity recognition in chat dialogues for customer relationship management systems. A service provider, such as an electronic transaction processor for digital transactions, may provide live chat service channels for assistance through live agents and chatbot services. When interacting with these channels, a user may engage in a chat dialogue with live agents. This may include lines of texts corresponding to the exchanged messages and may include named entities for particular types or categories of words that refer to a particular object or thing. To identify these named entities, a natural language processor may utilize machine learning and other engines for named entity recognition in customer relationship management systems to highlight the named entities in live service chats. Agents of the systems may view content that identify the named entities and interact with the named entities to view descriptions.
US12229500B2
A method is provided. The method is executed by an autocomplete prediction engine implemented as a computer program within a computing environment. The autocomplete prediction engine executes automated communication mining on a communication. The method includes processing the communication to extract intents and entities related to each intent. The method includes providing the intents and the entities into forms using a language model to provide a conversational or natural language understanding of the communication.
US12229494B2
A web-based application constructor can be used to construct a web display. A specification, for constructing a web display to contain page components that display data from heterogeneous data sources, may be created. The page components may be associated with uniform resource locators. Data from heterogeneous data sources may be retrieved to produce the web display. Display and update of the page components may be controlled using the uniform resource locators. User-selectable options may allow annotation of the page components for a page with comments.
US12229489B2
Disclosed herein are related to performing layout verification of a layout design of an integrated circuit having a slanted layout component. In one aspect, a slanted layout component having a side slanted from a base axis by an offset angle is detected. In one aspect, a first location of a vertex of the slanted layout component according to the offset angle is transformed to obtain a second location of a rotated vertex of a rotated layout component. In one aspect, layout verification is performed on the rotated layout component with respect to the base axis.
US12229484B1
A method for timing path analysis using flow graphs. The method includes receiving timing data associated with an integrated circuit (IC) design. The timing data includes a plurality of timing paths. The method also includes generating a graphical representation of the plurality of timing paths. A timing path is represented as a flow ribbon across one or more components of the IC design. A display attribute of the flow ribbon is indicative of a metric of the timing path. The graphical representation is provided in a graphical user interface (GUI) to a user.
US12229483B2
A method (of manufacturing a semiconductor device) includes: migrating a circuit design from a first netlist corresponding with a first semiconductor process technology (SPT) to a second netlist corresponding with a second SPT, at least the second netlist being stored on a non-transitory computer-readable medium, the migrating including: generating first versions correspondingly of the first and second netlists; abstracting selected components in the first version of the second netlist and correspondingly in the first version of the second netlist to form corresponding second versions of the second and first netlists; performing a logic equivalence check (LEC) between the second versions of the first and second netlists, thereby identifying migration errors; and revising the second version of the second netlist to reduce the migration errors, thereby resulting in a third version of the second netlist.
US12229470B2
When a device is determined to be capable of being of being paired with each of a plurality of appliances, a one of the plurality of appliances is automatically selected for an attempted pairing with the device. The one of the plurality of appliances is selected using priority information that has been associated with each of the plurality of appliances. Once the one of the plurality of appliances has been selected; the device is caused to automatically attempt to pair with the selected one of the plurality of appliances.
US12229469B2
One embodiment provides a method, the method including: providing, via an execution module of a cable, an instruction to a system coupled to the cable to access and read out information of the system to the cable; generating, at the cable, a machine-readable label from the information of the system; and displaying, on a display operatively coupled to the cable, the machine-readable label, wherein the machine-readable label provides instructions to a device reading the machine-readable label to access a data storage location and log the information of the system into the data storage location.
US12229462B2
The present disclosure is directed to automatically curating a set of images according to a predetermined set of compliance rules and displaying those images. The machine learning and artificial intelligence technology can differentiate between images and identify features within images. The features may include a desired perspective, inconsistent backgrounds, low detail, blurriness, shadows, glare, reflections, unwanted information, unwanted elements, poles, trees, lack or focus, poor resolution, rain, snow, fumes, smoke, mud, unwanted banners, unwanted overlays, etc. The technology is trained to identify these features in the images and automatically tag the images with information relating to the features. A user selects a set of predetermined rules to be applied to the images. The technology then uses the tags to apply these selected rules to the images to modify the images and display the modified images in a predetermined sequence and arrangement.
US12229461B2
A display device with a novel structure, a display system with a novel structure, or operation methods of them is/are provided. The operation method of the display system including a first display device and a second display device includes the following steps: a first step of connecting the first display device and the second display device by wireless communication; a second step of transmitting first image data displayed on the first display device to the second display device; a third step of displaying, on the second display device, second image data obtained by processing at least part of the first image data; a fourth step of stopping display on the first display device; and a fifth step of processing the second image data in accordance with a manipulation with the second display device.
US12229454B2
A server system is communicable with an image forming apparatus and an information processing apparatus, and includes a first reception unit configured to receive image data generated by a first application, a transmission unit configured to transmit, to the information processing apparatus, information to activate a second application that enables a user to perform print setting used in printing of the image data received by the first reception unit, a second reception unit configured to receive the print setting performed in the second application, and a print control unit configured to cause the image forming apparatus to perform printing based on at least the image data received by the first reception unit and the print setting received by the second reception unit.
US12229449B2
The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods related to performing background operations in memory. A memory device can be configured to perform background operations while another memory device in a memory system and/or on a common memory module is busy performing commands received from a host coupled to the memory system and/or common memory module. An example apparatus can include a first memory device, wherein the first memory device can include an array of memory cells and a controller configured to perform a background operation on the first memory device in response to detecting a command from a host to a second memory device.
US12229446B2
One or more aspects of the present disclosure relate to performant destaging of write pending (WP) data to disk. In embodiments, an input/output (IO) workload is received at a storage array. Additionally, the IO workload can include an IO request with a random write request. Further, a write destage context for write-pending (WP) data corresponding to the random write request can be generated by a data services engine of the storage array. In addition, using the write destage context, a disk adapter (DA), at a backend of the storage array, is enabled to destage write-pending (WP) data without reading from a target write location of the random write request on a storage device on the storage array.
US12229430B2
Coordinated checkpoints among storage systems implementing checkpoint-based replication, including orchestrating one or more coordinated lightweight checkpoints for a source dataset stored across two or more source storage systems; and coordinating a replication of the one or more coordinated lightweight checkpoints from the two or more source storage systems to two or more target storage systems.
US12229429B2
Embodiments of the invention relate to methods and systems for efficiently performing one or more backups of assets stored on a shared storage. In one or more embodiments, the assets are sliced into a plurality of slices and the size of the slices is determined based on a maximum recommended number of connections that can be used and either a previous backups number of connections used, or the total number of connections currently used. The recommended number of connections to use is also calculated based on system telemetry. By changing the size of the slices, one or more embodiments of the invention may ensure that the backup is performed as efficiently as possible. This may result in better utilization of system and network resources as well as a better backup and recovery performance.
US12229428B2
Providing persistent storage to transient cloud computing services, including: creating a cloud computing instance, wherein the cloud computing instance is created on on-premises cloud infrastructure; and storing, in non-volatile storage in a storage system that is communicatively coupled to the on-premises cloud infrastructure, data associated with the cloud computing instance.
US12229417B2
It is hereby disclosed an apparatus for and a method of writing software objects into a rewritable nonvolatile memory of an electronic control unit of an internal combustion engine, wherein the method comprises: receiving an access request from a memory writing device, generating a seed code, transmitting the seed code to the memory writing device, generating a first key code on the basis of the seed code and a first identification code, generating a second key code on the basis of the seed code and a second identification code, receiving a reference key code from the memory writing device, comparing the reference key code with the first key code and/or with the second key code, and enabling the memory writing device to write software objects into the rewritable nonvolatile memory, if the reference key code corresponds to the first key code or to the second key code.
US12229412B2
A memory system includes a nonvolatile memory that includes a plurality of regions; a volatile memory; and a controller that is connected to the nonvolatile memory and the volatile memory. The controller is configured to store in the volatile memory a plurality of first counter values each indicating the number of times each of the plurality of regions has been accessed and a plurality of second counter values respectively corresponding to the plurality of first counter values, and write the first counter value of a first region of the plurality of regions to the nonvolatile memory in response to the second counter value of the first region being equal to or more than a threshold value.
US12229410B2
A solid state drive management solution is provided, and includes: detecting that a usage status of a first storage space of an SSD meets a preset condition, where the first storage space works in a first mode; and enabling, based on the detection result, the first storage space to work in a second mode to obtain a second storage space, where a quantity of bits that can be stored in a cell in the first storage space is greater than a quantity of bits that can be stored in a cell in the second storage space.
US12229408B2
A memory system includes a nonvolatile memory and a controller. The controller is configured to determine a first predicted read address as a subsequent read address following an input read address from which data is to be read, based on the input read address and a preset write sequence rule, determine a second predicted read address as the subsequent read address, based on the input read address and a read sequence history, select one of read addresses including the first and second predicted read addresses as a target read address, and read data from the target read address of the nonvolatile memory.
US12229395B2
A system and method for matching contexts of media files in which a first media data file is selected by use of a least distance algorithm for a number of parameters associated with at least one context input by a user to correlate with corresponding metadata associated with content of a second media data file in order to provide matched first and second media data files.
US12229392B2
According to various embodiments, an electronic device may include a flexible display; and a processor configured to: identify screen size information about the flexible display, control the flexible display to operate the flexible display in a first state of displaying an activated menu window and an activated content window, based on the screen size information indicating a first screen size of the flexible display, and control the flexible display to operate the flexible display in a second state of displaying the activated menu window and a plurality of activated content windows, based on the screen size information indicating a second screen size of the flexible display.
US12229388B2
A user terminal device and a controlling method thereof are provided. The user terminal device includes a display configured to be divided into a first area and a second area which is larger than the first area with reference to a folding line, a cover disposed on a rear side of the display, a detector configured to detect a user interaction on the display and the cover, and a controller configured to, in response to the display being folded along the folding line such that the first area and the second area face each other, control the detector to detect a user interaction through an exposure area, which is an exposed part of the second area, and the cover, and, in response to the display being folded such that the two parts of the cover face with each other with reference to the folding line, control the detector to detect a user interaction through the first area and the second area.
US12229385B2
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing a customer a central location to manage permissions provided to third-parties and devices to access and use customer information maintained by a financial institution are described. The central location serves as a central portal where a customer of the financial institution can manage all access to account information and personal information stored at the financial institution. Accordingly, the customer does not need to log into each individual third-party system or customer device to manage previously provided access to the customer information or to provision new access to the customer information. A user additionally is able to have user data and third-party accounts of the user deleted from devices, applications, and third-party systems via a central portal.
US12229384B2
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing a customer a central location to manage permissions provided to third-parties and devices to access and use customer information maintained by a financial institution are described. The central location serves as a central portal where a customer of the financial institution can manage all access to account information and personal information stored at the financial institution. Accordingly, the customer does not need to log into each individual third-party system or customer device to manage previously provided access to the customer information or to provision new access to the customer information. A user additionally is able to have user data and third-party accounts of the user deleted from devices, applications, and third-party systems via a central portal.
US12229382B2
The disclosed system generates a three dimensional virtual space that includes an object representation of at least a portion of a human body and a first three-dimensional cylindrical surface floating within the three-dimensional space, wherein the first three-dimensional cylindrical surface includes a two-dimensional data area for a presentation of data to a user viewing the first three-dimensional cylindrical surface in the three-dimensional space. A two-dimensional data representation of first physiological data is displayed on the two-dimensional data area. In response to receiving a user selection of a portion of the three-dimensional cylindrical surface, the system generates one or more additional surfaces floating within the three-dimensional space. A two-dimensional data representation of second physiological data associated with the first physiological data is displayed on a data area of the one or more additional surfaces.
US12229381B2
An entity-centric approach has been proposed to provide a consistent user experience in accessing a unified software applications suite effortlessly. Entities are connected with one another. The entities and the connectivity between them are reflected in all three functional layers of 3-tier client-server architecture. Every entity has a set of attributes and each attribute represents a data item or record of a particular type. The data items or records are represented in the form of card(s) as determined by contextualization and access control engines. The connection between two or more entities in the context of communication/interaction, collaboration and productivity, can be referred to as an activity. The activities of the entities can be represented in a timeline or swimlane mode. The timeline mode represents the recent activities between two entities as a vertical timeline chart, in reverse chronological order. The swimlane mode represents activities of multiple entities, in parallel. A timeline chart is dedicated to each entity in its corresponding lane. With a date-lock option in swimlane mode, the timeline chart in each lane is locked for a particular date or time period.
US12229378B1
Keyboard and trackpad configurations and related methods utilize data from one or more bending sensors to determine a force applied to the touch receiving surface. In one example, a method for determining a force applied to a touch receiving surface of a force-sensing trackpad in a keyboard includes using at least data from a bending sensor to determine that the keyboard is bending. At least on condition of determining that the keyboard is bending, the method includes adjusting a spring constant value to an adjusted spring constant value, and using the adjusted spring constant value to determine the force applied to the touch receiving surface.
US12229377B2
According to an aspect, a detection device includes: drive electrodes; detection electrodes; and dummy electrodes in a floating state. The drive electrodes include a first electrode extending in a first direction, and a second electrode disposed at a predetermined interval from the first electrode in a second direction intersecting the first direction. The detection electrodes include a third electrode extending in the second direction. The dummy electrodes include a fourth electrode disposed at a predetermined interval from the third electrode in the first direction. The first electrode includes a first extension part, a second extension part, and a first coupling part. The second electrode includes a third extension part, a fourth extension part, and a second coupling part. The third electrode includes a fifth extension part, a sixth extension part, and a third coupling part. The fourth electrode includes a seventh extension part, and an eighth extension part.
US12229374B2
A touch screen panel includes a plurality of pixels on a substrate, a sealing thin film on the substrate, and a plurality of sensing electrodes on the sealing thin film, each of the sensing electrodes having a mesh structure, the mesh structures of the sensing electrodes and the pixels overlapping different portions of the substrate.
US12229360B2
A display panel, including an active area and a peripheral area, which is located outside of the active area, wherein the active area comprises a base substrate, and a display structure layer and a touch structure layer sequentially arranged on the base substrate; the peripheral area includes an isolation dam, a first ground trace and a second ground trace arranged on the base substrate; and the first ground trace is located at a side of the isolation dam close to the active area, and the second ground trace is located at a side of the isolation dam away from the active area.
US12229358B2
A touch panel capable of performing display and sensing along a curved surface or a touch panel that maintains high detection sensitivity even when it is curved along a curved surface is provided. A flexible display panel is placed along a curved portion included in a surface of a support. A first film layer is attached along a surface of the display panel by a bonding layer. Second to n-th film layers (n is an integer of 2 or more) are sequentially attached along a surface of the first film layer by bonding layers. A flexible touch sensor is attached along a surface of the n-th film layer by a bonding layer.
US12229347B1
A motorized finger activator device for interaction with a touch-sensitive computing input device is disclosed. Use of the motorized finger activator device for interaction with a touch-sensitive computing input device will work for users who do not use computer mouse.
US12229331B2
A virtual reality or mixed reality system configured to preform object detection using a monocular camera. The system configured to make the user aware of the detected objects by showing edges or lines of the object within a virtual scene. Thus, the user the user is able to avoid injury or collision while immersed in the virtual scene. In some cases, the system may also detect and correct for drift in the six degree of freedom pose of the user using corrections based on the current motion of the users.
US12229323B2
Certain examples described herein relate to a co-processor that allows a processing unit to efficiently perform a cryptographic operation. The co-processor has an arithmetic unit that is configured to perform discrete binary arithmetic using bit sequences loaded from a memory. The co-processor may be configured for fast, low-power computation of certain functions that comprise low-level building blocks for the cryptographic operation. These functions may include Boolean logic and integer arithmetic. The co-processor has a set of control registers that are writable by the processing unit to control the co-processor. Addresses for one or more sources and destinations may be computed by the co-processor to allow for flexible operation. The co-processor may allow many advanced cryptographic operations to be rapidly computed, including those that are “post-quantum” secure.
US12229321B1
Methods, systems, and apparatuses for disguising or otherwise hiding big data access patterns and frequencies may include a replica being directly obtained from a key and a replica index, based on applying a pseudorandom permutation or pseudorandom function. Data object access frequencies may be quantized so that the ratios of quantized data object access frequencies are rational numbers of integers, which may allow for a uniform distribution of data object accesses. Fake accesses may be implemented by simulating an access schedule produced by a cryptographic primitive and by performing a greedy mapping between the real data object accesses and simulated data object accesses.
US12229318B2
A system, method, and computer-readable media for establishing a framework for managing application permissions in a group-based communication system. Upon receipt, from an application in a group-based communication system, of an attempt to access a target internet domain, an application manifest associated with the application is accessed. The manifest includes a list of approved internet domains previously approved by an administrator of the group-based communication system which the application may access. Following access of the manifest, it is determined whether the target internet domain is included in the list of approved internet domains. If the target internet domain is included in the list of approved internet domains, the application is allowed to access the target internet domain. If the target internet domain is not included in the list of one or more approved internet domains, access to the domain by the application is denied.
US12229310B2
The system has a unique identifier (2) stored in client's hardware (1). Via a transfer environment (3) using a higher layer protocol (4), the unique identifier (2) is coupled to a server (5), where, in an evaluation module (6), it is connected to a substitution and calculation module (7). A w polynomial system (8) stored in the persistent memory (9) of the server (5) is also connected to the substitution and calculation module (7), the output of which is a calculated key (10). At the same time, the client's hardware (1) stores a local key (11) which is via the transfer environment (3) using the higher layer protocol (4) connected to a key comparison module (12) to which the calculated key (10) is also connected. The key comparison module (12) is through its positive output (13) and negative output (14) connected via the transfer environment (3) using the higher layer protocol (4) to a response processing module (15) which is stored in the client's hardware (1). The system, at high security levels, provides the required response speed even for a large number of users and/or licenses without significantly increasing the space/memory requirements of computing resources.
US12229298B2
A method for managing a data protection module (DPM) includes: obtaining an alert generated by the DPM within a predetermined period of time; obtaining metadata associated with the DPM; analyzing the metadata to extract relevant data; analyzing the alert to extract second relevant data; making, based on the second relevant data, a determination that a tolerance level associated with the alert has been exceeded; sending, based on the determination, the alert, the relevant data, and the second relevant data to a vendor environment (VE) analyzer; in response to sending the alert, the relevant data, and the second relevant data, receiving a service request (SR) generated by the VE analyzer for the DPM; and providing the SR to the client to notify a user of the client about the SR using a graphical user interface (GUI) of the client.
US12229296B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide for generating and managing a digital ledger access system and its associated objects. An example method is configured for securing objects in a digital ledger of objects by identifying an object from amongst a plurality of objects in the digital ledger of objects and generating a quantum token for attachment with the object. The method includes deriving one or more classical public keys associated with the quantum token and determining an attempt to access the object. The method provides access to the object in response to a validation of the classical public key based on the quantum token, and the method precludes access to the object in response to an invalidation of the classical public key based on the quantum token.
US12229295B2
Customized policy decision point (PDP) services for policy-based access control systems can be generated according to some examples. In one example, a system can select an access control policy to apply to an access request received from a client that is attempting to access a computing resource. In response to selecting the access control policy, the system can select a code block from among a group of code blocks based on the access control policy. The system can then generate a customized PDP service by incorporating the code block into a PDP template, the customized PDP service being configured to execute the code block for applying the access control policy to the access request.
US12229294B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for processing event log data. An example event log processing method includes receiving an event log comprising a plurality of event records describing events that have occurred on each of one or more computer systems over a period of time; converting the event log into a graph, comprising: normalizing the plurality of event records, including anonymizing a unique identifier value in each event record and replacing a variable value in each event record with a predetermined value; representing each normalized event record as one or more nodes in the graph; and generating a plurality of event clusters, wherein each event cluster includes an aggregated group of nodes and is generated based on common attributes of and hierarchical relationships between the normalized event records represented by the nodes in the aggregated group.
US12229290B1
The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for verification of data contained in an unstructured data source, such as a supplier invoice. It is very difficult to obtain information from an unstructured data source, such as an invoice, using processing technology, without error. The apparatus and method are arranged to locate a predetermined data element in the invoice, using an optical character recognition application. The predetermined data element may be a company number, such as an ABN. The ABN can then be used to access databases to obtain further information relating to the supplier. For example, account details. The further information can be cross referenced against the unstructured data to confirm that the further information, such as account number is present in the unstructured data.
US12229289B2
A method of controlling access to a document file includes creating the document file, which is an executable file that presents content having at least one media type and is presentable to a user on an electronic device having a processor. A first unique global identifier is associated with the document file. A content storage device associated with a second unique global identifier is provided. The content storage device is coupled for communication with the processor of the electronic device. The document file is then provided to the user providing by storing the document file on the content storage device, but only if the first unique global identifier corresponds to the second unique global identifier in a predetermined manner.
US12229288B2
A method includes: receiving selection of a document; correlating sequences of words, in the document, with a set of language signals; generating a set of document tags representing the set of language signals; and retrieving a first data access policy: associated with a particular document tag in the set of document tags; and including a set of identities permitted to access a document associated with the particular document tag; receiving selection of a recipient account of the document; and in response to detecting the set of identities excluding the recipient account, restricting access to the document by the recipient account.
US12229284B2
Disclosed are various embodiments of a multiuser unified endpoint management (UEM) system. A device check-in can be received from a client device. The device check-in can include a device identifier that uniquely identifies the client device with respect to other client devices and a user identifier that uniquely identifies the user of the client device with respect to other users of the client device. In response, a device channel identifier associated with the device identifier and a user channel identifier associated with both the user identifier and the device identifier can be obtained. Then a first set of entitlements associated with the device channel identifier and a second set of entitlements associated with the user channel identifier can be selected. Both sets of entitlements can be provided to the client device in response to the device check-in.
US12229277B2
A system includes a memory and processor. The memory stores code segment vulnerability findings that were generated through static application security testing (SAST). For a first code segment, a first vulnerability finding has been classified as a real vulnerability, and a second vulnerability finding has been classified as a false positive by external review. The processor generates a code fingerprint for each code segment, which corresponds to an abstract syntax tree that has been augmented by data flow information and flattened. The processor determines that the fingerprint for the first code segment matches the fingerprint for a second code segment and that the vulnerability findings for the first code segment match those for the second. In response, the processor automatically classifies a matching first vulnerability finding for the second code segment as the real vulnerability, and a matching second vulnerability finding for the second code segment as the false positive.
US12229271B2
A control apparatus for a vehicle includes a processor, a storage, and a first determining unit. The processor is configured to control a control target mounted in the vehicle. The storage is configured to contain unauthorized entry data. The unauthorized entry data indicates a presence of an unauthorized entry into the vehicle. The first determining unit is configured to make a determination on a necessity of a secure boot process upon activation of the processor, on the basis of the unauthorized entry data.
US12229270B2
An apparatus to facilitate permissions at a computing system platform is disclosed. The apparatus includes a plurality of agents, each including a non-volatile memory storing firmware executed to perform a function associated with the agent and attestation hardware to detect an update at the computing system platform, generate a cryptographic key associated with each of the plurality of agents, perform an attestation with a relying party using the generated cryptographic keys and receive a tuple associated with each of the plurality of agents, wherein a tuple includes one or more permissions indicating platform resources an agent is permitted to access.
US12229268B2
The application relates to a method of attesting a state of a computing environment comprising a plurality of components and a plurality of dependency relationships between the plurality of components. The method comprising the steps of A) generating a directed acyclic graph comprising a plurality of nodes and a plurality of directed edges connecting the nodes, comprising and B) generating an attest of the state of the computing environment using the directed acyclic graph. Generating a directed acyclic graph comprises: A1) associating a node with each component; A2) associating a node with each dependency relationship and assigning the node with a hash value of data descriptive of said dependency relationship; A3) connecting, using directed edges—each node associated with a dependency relationship to a node(s) associated with a component(s) included in the respective dependency relationship; and A4) assigning each node with a hash value of all of its subnodes.
US12229262B2
One or more systems, devices, computer program products and/or computer-implemented methods of use provided herein relate to generating a security threat prediction. A system can comprise a memory that stores computer executable components, and a processor that executes the computer executable components stored in the memory. The computer executable components can comprise a prediction component that analyzes a public data graph model to generate a primary security threat determination, wherein the prediction component can further generate a secondary security threat prediction based on the primary security threat determination and on a proprietary data graph model, wherein the proprietary data graph model comprises proprietary security threat data from a source, and wherein the proprietary security threat data has been scrubbed of source-identifiers. An obtaining component can obtain an agreement from the source to share the proprietary security threat data with another source that has access to the proprietary data graph model.
US12229260B1
In some examples, an analyzer manager configured to select one of a program code analyzer, a static data analyzer, and an unused memory location analyzer for malware detection within memory of a system. The program code analyzer can be executed to evaluate instruction data for executing a computer program at a first set of memory locations within the memory for malware in response to being selected by the analyzer manager. The static data analyzer can be executed to evaluate static data for use by the computer program at a second set of memory locations within the memory for the malware in response to being selected by the analyzer manager. The unused memory location analyzer can be executed to evaluate null data indicative of unused memory locations at a third set of memory locations within the memory for the malware in response to being selected by the analyzer manager.
US12229259B2
A method and a system for detecting malicious files in non-isolated environment are provided. The method comprises, during a training phase: acquiring a plurality of executable files, analyzing a given executable file to obtain: (i) data associated with the given executable file; (ii) a control-flow graph associated with the given executable file, and (iii) a data-flow graph associated with the given executable file; determining, based on the data, parameters of the given executable file; generating, by the processor, based on the parameters, at least a first feature vector and a second feature vector; generating, by the processor, based on the control-flow graph, a third feature vector; generating, by the processor, based on the data-flow graph, a fourth feature vector; and training the each one of ensemble of classifiers based on a respective feature vector to determine if a given in-use executable file is one of malicious and non-malicious.
US12229258B2
A system for intelligent managing whitelists and blacklist provides options and/or suggestions to the administrators and/or information technology team to allow administration of whitelists and/or blacklists based upon history and rules. For example, if permission to run a certain program is requested by several people in a group or organization and the program is not believed to have a virus, then, the administrator if presented with an option to enable (e.g., add to the whitelist) that program for the entire group or organization.
US12229257B1
A system and method for preventing cloud identity misuse in a cloud computing environment is presented. The method includes: deploying a runtime sensor on a workload in a cloud computing environment; detecting an event in a cloud log, the event including an identifier of the workload; associating a runtime process detected by the runtime sensor on the workload with the event detected in the cloud log; generating an enriched event based on: the detected event, and an identifier of the associated runtime process; applying a policy on the enriched event; and initiating a mitigation action in the cloud computing environment based on a result of applying the policy on the enriched event.
US12229254B2
Machine learning fraud resiliency using perceptual descriptors is described. An example of a computer-readable storage medium includes instructions for accessing multiple examples in a training dataset for a classifier system; calculating one or more perceptual hashes for each of the examples; generating clusters of perceptual hashes for the multiple examples based on the calculation of the one or more perceptual hashes for each of the plurality of examples; obtaining an inference sample for classification by the classifier system; generating a first classification result for the inference sample utilizing a neural network classifier and generating a second classification result utilizing the generated clusters of perceptual hashes; comparing the first classification result with the second classification result; and, upon a determination that the first classification result does not match the second classification result, determining a suspicion of an adversarial attack.
US12229249B1
Protection of process memory against foreign code injection is described herein. A system includes at least one processor and at least one memory storing instructions thereon that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to perform operations. The operations include to dynamically virtualize a protected application in user space, wherein the virtualization comprises a virtualized memory management system and to monitor memory allocated to the virtualized protected application by the virtualized memory management system. The operations include to compare memory allocated by the virtualized memory management system with known allocations of virtual memory. Additionally, the applications include to designate the memory as being injected with foreign code in response to the virtualized memory management system detecting privileges not created by the virtualized memory management system.
US12229238B2
The present invention is a system for and method of enabling an initiating party to capture, store, and retrieve an image of at least one acknowledging party performing an acknowledgement requested by the initiating party where the acknowledging party(s) may be remotely located from the initiating party.
US12229233B2
The present disclosure relates to a device control method and system for identifying a target image and controlling an Internet of Things (IOT) device. The device control system can include: an information acquisition unit and a control unit communicating with the information acquisition unit. The information acquisition unit is configured to collect information of a user in a current environment and send the collected information of the user in the current environment to the control unit. The control unit is configured to analyze intent information of the user to use the device based on the collected information of the user in the current environment and control a corresponding device to perform a corresponding action based on the intent information of the user.
US12229224B2
A medical image processing method is provided to a data processing device. The method includes obtaining a medical image, obtaining a feature map and a medical image content recognition result that correspond to the medical image by using a medical image classification model, or obtaining the feature map and a lesion classification result that correspond to the medical image by using the medical classification model, the feature map including N channels, N being an integer greater than 1, generating a thermodynamic diagram corresponding to the medical image content recognition result or the lesion classification result according to the feature map and a weight parameter set, the weight parameter set including N weight parameters, the weight parameters having a correspondence with the channels, and generating an image recognition result corresponding to the medical image according to the thermodynamic diagram.
US12229216B2
A processor-implemented method for simultaneously tracking one or more objects includes receiving, via a dynamical system with a set of sensors, a first set of unlabeled measurements from one or more objects. Each of the measurements is a function of time. A set of candidate tracks is determined for the one or more objects. Probabilities of each of the first set of unlabeled measurements being assigned to each of the set of candidate tracks are computed. A track from the set of candidate tracks is determined for each of the one or more objects based on a joint probability distribution of track attributes and the probabilistic assignment of each of the first set of unlabeled measurements to each of the set of candidate tracks.
US12229215B2
The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatus for compute processing. For example, disclosed techniques facilitate improving performance of matrix multiplication in streaming processor. Aspects of the present disclosure can execute, with a load control unit, a first load instruction to load a set of input data of an input matrix from a first memory to a second memory. Aspects of the present disclosure can also execute, with the load control unit, a second load instruction to load a set of weight data of a weight matrix from the first memory to the second memory. Additionally, aspects of the present disclosure can perform, with an ALU component, a matrix multiplication operation using the set of input data and the set of weight data to generate an output matrix. Further, aspects of the present disclosure can store the output matrix at a general purpose register accessible to the ALU component.
US12229212B2
To increase convenience of a user interface, a search system (S) is a search system for a reservable or purchasable item. Search means (201) executes an item search based on a search condition input by a user. Viewing means (202) enables the user to view an item selected by the user from among search results obtained by the search means (201). Associating means (203) records in storage means (200) the viewed item and the search condition used in the search in association with each other. Display control means (204) controls, when an item is reserved or purchased by the user, display of the viewed item based on content information on reservation content or purchase content and based on the search condition associated with the viewed item.
US12229202B2
A recommender system and method to facilitate non-biasing search queries, social media feeds, and other platforms in which a user searches, scrolls, and engages with information and ideas so that a user can explore ideas outside of, or even contrary to, the ones with which they are aligned. Through a computer-implemented “curiosity halo” recommendation engine and method, users are made aware of the existence of other notions centered around or connected to a topic. The users could also engage to be directed to adjacent notions and “lines of flight” around the topic, thereby broadening their perspective and strengthening their ability to think “outside the box”—or bubble. By adjusting a threshold based on curiosity level and tolerance for divergent thinking, the boundaries of the curiosity halo are continually redrawn in real time so that users can dynamically uncover topics and ideas outside of their day-to-day experience.
US12229191B2
A system comprises an executable graph-based model. The executable graph-based model comprises a first overlay node. The first overlay node comprises processing logic that is operable to interact with one or more associated nodes of the executable graph-based model. Further, the executable graph-based model comprises a first node that has the first overlay node associated therewith. The system further comprises a processing unit configured to receive a first stimulus associated with the first overlay node and, in response to the first stimulus being received, cause execution of said processing logic of the first overlay node. Execution of said processing logic of the first overlay node is based on the first node.
US12229188B2
Various embodiments of the present invention provide methods, apparatus, systems, computing devices, computing entities, and/or the like for performing predictive data analysis using semi-structured input data. Certain embodiments of the present invention utilize systems, methods, and computer program products that perform predictive data analysis using semi-structured input data using at least one of techniques using inferred codified fields and temporally-arranged codified fields.
US12229171B2
Intelligent annotation of data models can be implemented. In one embodiment, the method can receive a data model including entities and relationships between the entities. An entity can include a set of attributes. The method can annotate the data model by defining a logical entity including one or more of the entities, validate the logical entity, and automatically generate a message structure corresponding to the logical entity. The message structure can include properties mapped to at least some of the attributes of entities contained in the logical entity. The properties can be defined in one or more database tables represented by the logical entity.
US12229168B2
Example solutions read compressed data from a file in persistent storage, directly into an in-memory store without decompression. Some examples transcode the compression scheme used by the file into the compression scheme used by the in-memory store whereas, in other examples, the in-memory store is compatible with the compression scheme used by the file. In some examples that use transcoding, radix clustering is used to speed up compression dictionary transcoding. The radix clustering minimizes cache misses, thereby increasing the efficiency of memory access. These approaches significantly improve cold start times when responding to queries.
US12229164B1
A system for processing multivariate, time-series data to classify portions of the data corresponding to an identified event or condition. Time periods of interest may be identified as search criteria for a variety of purposes. As an example, an event or condition may occur, whereby, precursors to the event or condition may be present in the time-series data, and thereby be a time period of interest as a predictor of future occurrences. As another example, the state of the system during normal operation may be identified. Based on the provided data, the processing system may output a prediction or a likelihood of a re-occurrence of the condition. One or more actions may be taken in response to the output of the system to prevent the occurrence of the condition or otherwise respond to the possibility of the occurrence of the condition.
US12229159B2
A computer-implemented method of providing proof that a data item of a blockchain transaction exists on a blockchain, wherein the method comprises: obtaining, from a requesting party, target data item of a target blockchain transaction; obtaining the target blockchain transaction; obtaining a target Merkle proof for the target blockchain transaction, wherein a corresponding target Merkle root is contained within a block of the blockchain, and wherein obtaining the target Merkle proof comprises calculating an index of a target transaction identifier of the target blockchain transaction within a leaf layer of a corresponding target Merkle tree; and outputting at least the target Merkle proof for use by the requesting party as proof that the target data item exists as part of the target blockchain transaction on the blockchain.
US12229153B2
Embodiments are generally directed to techniques for query-based binarized point decisions, such as with a system that can provide end-to-end decision making support. Some embodiments are particularly directed to a system that makes point decisions, with traceable reasoning, for queries while factoring in a variety of influences. In many embodiments, the traceable reasoning may refer to the generation and collection of metadata associated with various aspects of the decision making process. For example, the metadata may include, or be used to create, a decision lineage and/or reasoning summary that is generated for each point decision. Some embodiments may ensure various influences do not derail the query from the overall objective. In several such embodiments, the point decisioner may confirm or deny that a decision was made with aspect to a certain objective.
US12229144B2
A system includes a cluster, memory, and processors in communication with the memory. The cluster includes nodes and an application programming interface (API) server. The processor is configured to receive a request to determine a state of maintenance availability of the cluster. Each of the plurality of applications installed on the cluster are discoverable, and a deployment metadata associated with each of the plurality of applications is retrieved. The deployment metadata for each of the plurality of applications is parsed to retrieve one or more installation rules associated with each of the plurality of applications. The one or more installation rules associated with a first application of the plurality of applications is correlated with the one or more installation rules of the plurality of applications to determine a set of conflicts for the first application. Next, a state of maintenance availability is determined based on the set of conflicts.
US12229141B2
The disclosed system links an individual dataset to a database. The system receives a target individual dataset associated with a target individual and identifies candidate individual datasets that are potentially related to the target individual dataset. The system identifies a related individual dataset that has data bits that match some data bits in the target individual dataset. The system then identifies a parent node that is a common parent node to both the target individual dataset and the related individual dataset. The system retrieves a data tree that the parent node belongs to with the data tree containing information describing inter-relationships among datasets in the data tree. A node in the data tree is identified to assign the target individual dataset based on strings of matched data bits and number of the matched strings between the target individual dataset and the datasets in the data tree.
US12229136B2
In one embodiment, a process: monitors an access pattern of database objects on a user-connection basis; calculates a wait-time metric for database sessions for the objects; classifies a first number of often-used objects and a second number of not-recently-used objects; classifies the wait-time metric for the database sessions as a wait-time classification that is one of either: an acceptable wait-time metric, a warning-level wait-time metric, or a critical-level wait-time metric; and generates a graphical interface that indicates, for each user-connection pairing of the particular database, an associated wait-time metric and a graphical indication of an associated wait-time classification, as well as an associated first number of often-used objects and an associated second number of not-recently-used objects.
US12229130B2
Some embodiments provide a program that receives a first selection of a first set of attributes in a first data model, a second selection of a second set of attribute in a second data model, a third selection of a first dimension in the first data model, and a fourth selection of a second dimension in second data model. The program further receives a request for data for a visualization. The program also generates a blend definition based on the first set of attributes, the second set of attributes, the first dimension in the first data model, and the second dimension in the second data model. The program further generates a blended query model based on the blend definition. The program also executes a query based on the blended query model to generate a result set of data. The program provides a visualization that includes the result set of data.
US12229121B2
A method of enabling propagated deletion in a distributed database system comprises receiving a request to delete data in a distributed database system; causing a display of a relevant dataset and a switch between applying propagated deletion or not; receiving a first selection of a subset of records from the relevant dataset using one or more filter functions and a second selection of applying propagated deletion to the subset of records; and applying propagated deletion to the subset of records to generate a new dataset.
US12229120B1
A method for accessing a database that is stored in a storage system, the method includes: (a) receiving a request to obtain a database entity (DE) of a requested version line out of multiple version lines that differ from each other by one or more transactions; (b) obtaining, for each DE portion out of multiple DE portions of the DE, content of the DE portion as written during a transaction of the requested version line that was a last transaction of the requested version line that wrote the DE portion to the database; wherein the obtaining includes (i) using first metadata that is indicative of transactions of the requested version line, and (ii) using second metadata that is indicative of which transactions were involved in writing to a logical address range that is associated with the DE portion; and (d) sending a response to the request, wherein the response comprises, for each DE portion of the DE portions, the obtained content.
US12229114B2
Disclosed are various embodiments for data anomaly detection. A variable profile is generated for each variable in source data. Then, the variable profiles are provided to each of a plurality of machine learning models. Next, it is determined, with each of the plurality of machine learning models, whether each variable profile is anomalous. The determination, from each of the plurality of machine learning models, whether each variable profile is anomalous is provided to an ensemble model. The ensemble model then generates a final determination whether each variable profile is anomalous. The final determination is then reported to an analysis service.
US12229101B2
Key data is processed using a hash table data structure. Control data storage locations have a write-availability indicated by a first write-availability state indicating that the location is available to be written to, and a second write-availability state indicating that the location is not available to be written to. A temporary label value is stored in a selected control data storage location to render the selected location and a corresponding key data storage location inactive for read-out. The write-availability of the control data storage location is changed to the second write-availability state in association with the storage of the processed label value in the selected location. A read-out label value is obtained and the temporary label value stored in the selected control data storage location is over-written with the obtained read-out label value, to render the selected control data storage location and corresponding key data storage location active for read-out.
US12229092B2
Methods and systems for simplifying data collected from assets are provided. An example method involves receiving a simplified set of data at a server. The simplified set of data is generated by application of a dataset simplification algorithm on raw data obtained from a data source at an asset upon a determination that a recently obtained point in the raw data differed from a corresponding predicted point predicted by extrapolation based on previously saved points included in one or more previously generated simplified sets of data by an amount of extrapolation error that is limited by an upper bound that is fixed as the raw data is collected over time. The method further involves receiving a request for a status of the asset and extrapolating a status of the asset based on the simplified set of data in response to the request.
US12229089B2
An electronic device includes at least one processor configured to perform: receiving a selection operation from a user that selects one of a plurality of data types for a first data, the first data having a hierarchical structure, the plurality of data types being different from each other at least in terms of a way the first data is associated with a second data that is described at a different level in the hierarchical structure; and adapting the first data in accordance with the data type selected by the selection operation, and causing the adapted first data to be saved in a memory.
US12229085B2
A plurality of computing devices are communicatively coupled to each other via a network, and each of the plurality of computing devices is operably coupled to one or more of a plurality of storage devices. A plurality of failure resilient address spaces are distributed across the plurality of storage devices such that each of the plurality of failure resilient address spaces spans a plurality of the storage devices. The plurality of computing devices maintains metadata that maps each failure resilient address space to one of the plurality of computing devices. The metadata is grouped into buckets. Each bucket is stored in the backend of a computing device. Access to a storage device may be managed according to an availability of the storage device. Reads from and writes to a storage device may be redirected when, for example, the storage device is over-utilized or performing garbage collection.
US12229083B2
An indexer retrieves a set of messages generated by a given data source of a plurality of data sources from a data storage. The indexer also processes the set of messages to generate processed data for the given data source and stores the processed data in a cache. The processed data includes a data file with data from the given data source and an index file identifying a location of the data file. The indexer determines when the processed data for the given generation source reaches a threshold size. The indexer also stores the data file of the processed data in the data storage and updates the index file for the processed data to identify the data storage as the location of the data file.
US12229081B2
The described technology is generally directed an extension to the IFS domains architecture, referred to herein as filter domains. IFS domains allows tagging of files in a tree-like dataset. Thus, a domain can be defined at the root of the dataset such as the topmost directory under which all files reside. These domains are inherently hierarchical, path-based entities. Filter domains extends this organization to allow domains to be applied beyond hierarchical tree structures in order to also provide arbitrary grouping of file objects based on any suitable membership condition.
US12229074B2
Disclosed in the present application is a communication link update method. The method comprises: traversing registers in a target communication link, so as to determine a DownTrain register; setting a prohibition flag bit in the DownTrain register; reading configuration information of each register in the target communication link, so as to generate a configuration file; and updating each communication link by using the configuration file. By means of applying the technical solution provided in the present application, firstly, a DownTrain register is searched for in a target communication link, and then, a prohibition flag bit is set for the DownTrain register, such that in the case of partial Lane Down (shutdown) of the communication link, the entire link is shut down.
US12229072B2
Devices, methods, and systems are provided. In one example, a device is described to include a device interface that receives data from at least one data source; a data shuffle unit that collects the data received from the at least one data source, receives a descriptor that describes a data shuffle operation to perform on the data received from the at least one data source, performs the data shuffle operation on the collected data to produce shuffled data, and provides the shuffled data to at least one data target.
US12229067B2
A rack-mountable data storage system includes: a chassis including one or more switchboards; a midplane interfacing with the one or more switchboards; and one or more data storage devices removably coupled to the midplane using a connector. At least one data storage device of the one or more data storage devices include a logic device to interface with the midplane. The logic device provides a device-specific interface of a corresponding data storage device with the midplane. The at least one data storage device is configured using the logic device according to a first protocol based on a signal on a pin of the connector, and the at least one data storage device is reconfigurable according to a second protocol based on a change of the signal on the pin of the connector using the logic device.
US12229066B2
Techniques for building automated workflow sequences associated with a document review platform are provided. A method includes accessing trigger event data from a trigger event database and action data from an action database; presenting a user interface to create a workflow; adding a function block to the workflow by: detecting a selection of an add function block option; presenting a function block including at least one of (i) a user-selectable option to select a trigger event from a list of trigger events populated based on the trigger event data or (ii) a user-selectable option to select an action from a list of actions populated based on the action data; and presenting the function block including at least one of a selected trigger event or a selected action; detecting that the workflow is ready for deployment; translating the workflow into a logic-based representation of the workflow; and deploying the logic-based representation.
US12229053B1
A technique of managing locks in a transaction cache includes opening, in the transactional cache, a first transaction identifying a first plurality of pages to be accessed and a second transaction identifying a second plurality of pages to be accessed, where the first plurality of pages has at least one page in common with the second plurality of pages. The technique further includes selecting a target page that is highest in a predefined page ordering out of the at least one page in common. The second plurality of pages includes a lower-ordered page that is lower in the predefined page ordering than the target page. The technique further includes, while the first transaction is open, inserting a first lock request of the second transaction into a queue of the target page and preventing insertion of a second lock request of the second transaction into a queue of the lower-ordered page.
US12229051B2
Memory modules and associated devices and methods are provided using a memory copy function between a cache memory and a main memory that may be implemented in hardware. Address translation may additionally be provided.
US12229049B2
Managing data element caching is provided. Non-functional requirements of a system running an application are mapped to resource utilization and system performance metric values corresponding to each of a plurality of caching parameters for each of data elements corresponding to the application suitable for caching. A caching decision is generated for each of the data elements corresponding to the application suitable for caching by identifying certain ones of the data elements for the caching to improve at least one of performance and throughput of the system based on the mapping. A data element caching decision recommendation is generated for the application based on the caching decision. The data element caching decision recommendation corresponding to the application is output to a client device of a customer via a network.
US12229039B2
Computer-readable media, methods, and systems are disclosed for automatic generation of dynamic application trace logs associated with a running application. A log viewer presents application log entries associated with an application execution log having been generated in connection with a previous execution of the running application. The application execution log is analyzed to identify application execution log context descriptors. The application execution log context descriptors are extracted from the application execution log. The application execution log context descriptors are transmitted to the running application. Matching templates that match each of the one or more application execution log context descriptors are received from the running application. The tracing templates that have an associated context relevance score are received from the running application. Finally, the log viewer displays the tracing templates based on the associated context relevance score and starts a trace based on a selected tracing template.
US12229030B2
A storage device is disclosed. A first storage media may store data. The first storage media may be of a first storage type and may be organized into at least two blocks. A second storage media may also store data. The second storage media may be of a second storage type different from the first type, and may also be organized into at least two blocks. A controller may manage reading data from and writing data to the first storage media and the second storage media. Metadata storage may store device-based log data for errors in the storage device. The drive-based log data may include a first log data for the first storage media and a second log data for the second storage media. An identification circuit may identify a suspect block in the at least two blocks in the first storage media and the second storage media, responsive to the device-based log data.
US12229029B2
An apparatus and a method for testing a multi-channel high-speed low-latency interconnect interface (HLII) for a silicon interposer are provided. The apparatus includes: a standard test port configured to exchange a test instruction; an asynchronous bypass port configured to directly access an input/output (I/O) port of a channel of a physical layer of the interconnection interface; a built-in self-test (BIST) engine configured to implement inter-level loopback testing and data verification; a redundant data channel configured to repair a damaged data channel; and a delay chain testing circuit configured to test a function and linearity of a delay chain. The apparatus embeds test and repair logic into the physical layer and a link layer, achieving internal test control without any external controller. In this way, a sample can be tested and quickly screened to ensure its performance.
US12229025B2
A data storage method includes deploying a data storage service system including two nodes on a wheeled mobile device, where the wheeled mobile device is an intelligent vehicle, an autonomous vehicle, or a connected vehicle; running a first process on a first node; running a second process on a second node, where the first node is a primary node and the second node is a secondary node; invoking, by the first node, a first database engine using the first process to write data to a first storage module on the first node when the first node receives a data write request; and enabling by the first node, in a blocking mode, the second node to invoke a second database engine using the second process to perform a same data write operation on a second storage module on the second node.
US12229020B2
Acquiring a snapshot of a logical volume involves generating snapshot-related catalog information including at least a location for storing actual data in the snapshot and a reference destination for identifying another snapshot in parent-child relation to the snapshot, and storing the actual data in the snapshot to the physical storage device and/or to the cloud service. In a case where at least one of a plurality of snapshots is to be designated and restored, catalog information is referenced to identify the storage location of the actual data and acquire the actual data stored in the physical storage device and the actual data not stored in the physical storage device from the cloud service.
US12229019B2
Embodiments are described for a method and system of applying data protection software mechanisms to network devices to auto-discover the networking equipment, save changes from memory (TCAM) to local storage, backup changes to protection storage, provide auditing and tracking history of changes, and provide the ability to deploy test/development copies of changes using software defined networking techniques. Embodiments include an efficient visual mapping aspect provided through a GUI to display the topography and backup/protection configuration of network devices in a system.
US12229015B2
Methods for creating a live copy of a data object from a production system for use by third party applications include receiving at least one request for a copy of production data from an application; creating a live backup copy; creating a flash copy of the live backup copy, and a flash copy bitmap; creating a modified version of the live backup copy by changing a subset of data in the live backup copy; recording the changed subset of data using the flash copy bitmap; mounting, the modified version of the live backup copy to the application; and transforming the modified version of the live backup copy back to the live backup copy when unmounting the modified version of the live backup copy of the production data from the application by applying changes associated with the flash copy bitmap to the live backup copy.
US12229008B2
A data storage device includes a memory device and a controller coupled to the memory device. The controller is configured to operate under at least a first device protocol and a second device protocol, where the first and second device protocols have different endurance and protection requirements. When data is programmed to the memory device using the first device protocol, but is read from the memory device using the second device protocol, the differing endurance and protection requirements may cause issues in reading the data. In order to alleviate the issues, during idle time of the second device protocol, the controller may program the data using the endurance and protection requirements of the second device protocol to a different portion of the memory device so that the data may be read using either or both device protocols with the appropriate recovery information.
US12229003B2
A memory device, such as a MRAM device, includes a plurality of memory macros, where each includes an array of memory cells and a first ECC circuit configured to detect data errors in the respective memory macro. A second ECC circuit that is remote from the plurality of memory macros is communicatively coupled to each of the plurality of memory macros. The second ECC circuit is configured to receive the detected data errors from the first ECC circuits of the plurality of memory macros and correct the data errors.
US12229001B2
An integrity check device includes a register array processing circuitry which generates a current cyclic redundancy check (CRC) parity value by sequentially performing a CRC calculation on a plurality of safety sensitive data, stores a reference CRC parity value, outputs a check result signal indicating whether an error occurs by activating a first path and by comparing the current CRC parity value with the reference CRC parity value when the plurality of safety sensitive data are maintained and when an operation of updating the reference CRC parity value is unnecessary, and updates the reference CRC parity value to the current CRC parity value by activating a second path when at least one of the plurality of safety sensitive data is intentionally changed and when the operation of updating the reference CRC parity value is necessary.
US12228997B2
Apparatuses and methods of operating a flexible and optimized power management unit (PMU) for multiple power supply scenarios are described. One integrated circuit includes a first terminal to couple to an unregulated power supply, a second terminal to couple to a regulated power supply, a first regulator, and a second regulator. The first regulator outputs a first supply voltage in a first configuration, and the second regulator outputs a second supply voltage in a second configuration. The first and second regulators do not operate concurrently.
US12228994B2
A system and method are described herein for estimating power usage of various components of a CPU and controlling voltage regulators based on the estimated power usage. The power estimates may be based on digital power meter readings at each component, on voltage information from a voltage regulator, and on other power information. This power information is transmitted over a mesh interconnect disposed throughout the CPU such that power estimation can be accurately calculated and used to control voltage regulators without being limited by external bus speeds. More of the power management processes and components may be disposed on the CPU and connected to the mesh interconnect. These power management processes include various calibrations, adjustments, and limits so as efficiently manage and use the more rapidly processed power estimations.
US12228974B2
An electronic device includes a supporting film, a flexible substrate, an integrated circuit unit, and a sensing structure. A least a portion of the flexible substrate and the integrated circuit unit respectively correspond to opposite sides of the supporting film. The sensing structure is electrically connected to the integrated circuit unit.
US12228966B2
An apparatus, comprising: a foldable touch display; a motor adapted to control a mechanism for switching the foldable touch display between an unfolded state and a folded state in a rolling motion; and a controller adapted to: detect a user input, calculate a velocity vector of the user input, and control the motor for switching the foldable touch display between the unfolded state and the folded state according to the calculated velocity vector of the user input.
US12228961B2
The disclosed embodiments relate to a memory system that generates a multiplied timing signal from a reference timing signal. During operation, the system receives a reference timing signal. Next, the system produces a multiplied timing signal from the reference timing signal by generating a burst comprising multiple timing events for each timing event in the reference timing signal, wherein consecutive timing events in each burst of timing events are separated by a bit time. Then, as the reference clock frequency changes, the interval between bursts of timing events changes while the bit time remains substantially constant.
US12228956B2
A cascode bias circuit biases a gate of a cascode transistor in a cascode current mirror. The cascode bias circuit includes a first transistor configured to conduct a first current and includes a second transistor configured to conduct a second current. The first and second transistors couple to a third transistor configured to conduct a sum of the first current and the second current. A gate of the first transistor couples to a gate of the cascode transistor to bias the cascode transistor.
US12228955B2
A system-on-chip according to an embodiment includes a core including a header switch circuit configured to transmit a power supply voltage applied to a first power rail as a supply voltage to a second power rail and a logic circuit configured to operate based on the supply voltage from the second power rail, and a low-dropout (LDO) regulator configured to regulate a magnitude of first current output to the second power rail based on a change in the supply voltage, wherein the LDO regulator is further configured to control on/off of a plurality of first header switches included in the header switch circuit based on an amount of the change in the supply voltage.
US12228954B2
A system includes a voltage regulator having an output voltage and a power management system, coupled to the voltage regulator. The power management system operable to determine whether the output voltage is within an active range, set the active range to a first range during a first time, or during a first mode, and set the active range to a second range for a second time, or during a second mode.
US12228951B2
A vacuum exhaust system is provided which can reduce a size of a pump or a valve, and can thin the pipe diameter, and can perform highly efficient exhaust making the best use of exhaust characteristics of the pump from high vacuum to the large flow region. The process gas used in a vacuum chamber passes through a regulating valve, and reaches a first branch pipe. The passage on the side indicated with A in the drawing of the first branch pipe is connected with an inlet port of a second pump. On the other hand, the passage indicated with B in the drawing of the first branch pipe is provided with a bypass valve. Then, the downstream of an outlet port of the second pump and the downstream of the bypass valve are connected with a first pump via a second branch pipe. In the low and medium vacuum regions (at the time of large flow rate exhaust), the bypass valve is opened. At this time, the gas is exhausted through both the passage A including the second pump therethrough and a passage B. Then, when exhaust under medium and high vacuum conditions lower than that is performed, the bypass valve is closed, thereby performing exhaust through the passage A. As a result of this, the pipe of the passage B can be thinned.
US12228945B2
A method for controlling movement of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) includes controlling one or more propulsion units of the UVA to cause the UAV to operate according to a first set of altitude restrictions; assessing, with aid of the one or more processors and based on one or more criteria, whether to control the UAV to operate according to a second set of altitude restrictions; and controlling the one or more propulsion units to cause the UAV to operate according to the second set of altitude restrictions in response to the one or more criteria being fulfilled according to an assessing result. The first set of altitude restrictions constrain an altitude of the UAV relative to a first reference altitude. The second set of altitude restrictions constrain the altitude of the UAV relative to a second reference altitude.
US12228938B2
Method, apparatuses, and computer program products provide for configuration of failsafe behavior for autonomous navigation. In particular, an active failsafe home is repeatedly established from a plurality of failsafe homes, and an autonomous vehicle is configured to travel to the active failsafe home when a communication fault occurs. An example method includes determining a location of the autonomous vehicle and determining whether a particular failsafe home of a plurality of failsafe homes associated with the autonomous vehicle satisfies a pre-determined visibility condition with respect to the location of the autonomous vehicle and one or more constraint areas. The method further includes, in accordance with a determination that the particular failsafe home satisfies the pre-determined visibility condition, establishing the particular failsafe home as an active failsafe home for the autonomous vehicle. The method further includes causing transmission of an indication of the active failsafe home to the autonomous vehicle.
US12228928B1
A method and apparatus are provided for optimizing one or more object detection parameters used by an autonomous vehicle to detect objects in images. The autonomous vehicle may capture the images using one or more sensors. The autonomous vehicle may then determine object labels and their corresponding object label parameters for the detected objects. The captured images and the object label parameters may be communicated to an object identification server. The object identification server may request that one or more reviewers identify objects in the captured images. The object identification server may then compare the identification of objects by reviewers with the identification of objects by the autonomous vehicle. Depending on the results of the comparison, the object identification server may recommend or perform the optimization of one or more of the object detection parameters.
US12228924B2
A system may receive social data from a plurality of social data sources. A system may process the social data using semantic analysis to detect keywords in the social data indicative of a group transportation need. A system may identify a plurality of individuals who share a group transportation need. A system may predict the group transportation need using a neural network trained to predict transportation needs based on the detected keywords. A system may provide a transportation recommendation based on the prediction.
US12228903B2
A system comprises a plurality of electronic devices and a server. Each of the plurality of electronic devices is configured to report a working status parameter to the server. The server is configured to receive working slams parameters from the plurality of electronic devices, determine a first electronic device being faulty from the plurality of electronic devices based on working status parameters sent by the plurality of electronic devices, and send an indication to a control device corresponding to the first electronic device. The server is further configured to receive a response from the control device indicating a request for maintenance of the first electronic device in response to a user's selection on the control device.
US12228894B2
A smart window control device controls transmittance of a smart window provided as a window of a space where a temperature is controlled by an air conditioning system in accordance with a set temperature. The smart window control device includes a processor, and a memory storing program instructions that cause the processor to obtain a predicted value of external environment information about outside of the space in an interval between a first time and a second time, the second time being when a predetermined time period has elapsed from the first time, calculate transition of the temperature of the space in the interval based on the predicted value of the external environment information in the interval, and control the transmittance of the smart window so that the temperature of the space in the interval transitions based on the calculated transition of the temperature.
US12228891B2
Method and environment controller for inferring via a neural network one or more commands for controlling an appliance. A predictive model generated by a neural network training engine is stored by the environment controller. The environment controller receives at least one environmental characteristic value (for example, at least one of a current temperature, current humidity level, current carbon dioxide level, and current room occupancy). The environment controller receives at least one set point (for example, at least one of a target temperature, target humidity level, and target carbon dioxide level). The environment controller executes a neural network inference engine, which uses the predictive model for inferring the one or more commands for controlling the appliance based on the at least one environmental characteristic value and the at least one set point. The environment controller transmits the one or more commands to the controlled appliance.
US12228882B2
A toner comprising: a toner particle comprising a binder resin and a hydrocarbon wax; and inorganic fine particles, wherein the inorganic fine particles include silica fine particles surface-treated with specific polydimethylsiloxanes, a total amount of trimethylsilanol in the silica fine particles is from 1.0 ppm to 5.0 ppm, where a standard value of an amount of ions of an ester group is measured by time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry, one or more peaks of the standard value are present within a range of 100 nm from the surface of the toner particle, and the maximum value A(d max) among the peaks of the standard value and the standard value A(0) on the surface of the toner particle satisfy the following relationships: 1.05≤A(d max)/A(0)≤5.00, A(0)≥0.010.
US12228878B2
A drum cartridge includes: a drum frame to which a developing cartridge including a storage medium having an electrical contact surface is detachably attachable; a photosensitive drum; a transfer roller; and a conveying roller. The drum is rotatable about a first axis extending in a first direction and positioned at one end portion of the frame in a second direction. The transfer roller is rotatable about a second axis extending in the first direction and in contact with the drum. The conveying roller is rotatable about a third axis extending in the first direction and separated from the transfer roller in the second direction. A first opening of the frame is positioned between the transfer roller and the conveying roller in the second direction. The electrical contact surface is exposed to an outside through the first opening in a case where the developing cartridge is attached to the frame.
US12228833B2
A liquid crystal display device includes a substrate, first through third thin-film transistors (“TFTs”) disposed on the substrate, and first and second sub-pixel electrodes disposed above the first through third TFTs. The second and third TFTs share a single output terminal as their output terminals, the first sub-pixel electrode is electrically connected to an output terminal of the first TFT, and the second sub-pixel electrode is electrically connected to the single output terminal of the second and third TFTs.
US12228832B2
Provided is a display panel, including: a substrate, a plurality of sub-pixels, a plurality of data lines, and a black matrix; wherein each the sub-pixel is divided into at least two domains along a column direction of the array; and the data line deviates from the column direction of the array and bends toward the row direction of the array to form a corner, wherein a distance between an outer edge of an orthographic projection of the black matrix covering the corner onto the substrate and an outer edge of an orthographic projection of the corner onto the substrate is greater than a distance between an edge of an orthographic projection of the black matrix covering rest of the data line onto the substrate and a corresponding edge of an orthographic projection of the data line covered by the black matrix onto the substrate.
US12228815B2
According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first substrate including a plurality of pixels, a second substrate opposed comprising a plurality of color filters and a light-shielding layer, and a liquid crystal layer. The plurality of pixels include a plurality of first pixels arranged in an oblique direction and a plurality of second pixels adjacent to each of the plurality of first pixels. The plurality of color filters include a first color filter extending in the oblique direction to overlap with the plurality of first pixels and a second color filter extending in the oblique direction to overlap with the plurality of second pixels. The light-shielding layer extends to overlap with a boundary portion between the first and second color filters.
US12228792B2
The disclosure provides an optical imaging lens group, which sequentially includes from an object side to an image side along an optical axis: a first lens with a negative refractive power; a second lens with a refractive power; a third lens with a refractive power, an image-side surface thereof is a concave surface; a fourth lens with a negative refractive power; a fifth lens with a refractive power; and a sixth lens with a refractive power. Semi-FOV is a half of a maximum field of view of the optical imaging lens group, and Semi-FOV satisfies 45°
US12228790B2
One embodiment of the present invention provides an image processing method, the method comprising: acquiring a plurality of viewpoint images; generating a contrast distribution from the plurality of viewpoint images; and generating an output image by performing image processing in accordance with the contrast distribution with respect to an image based on the plurality of viewpoint images.
US12228780B2
A hinge structure for pivotally mounting a first telecommunications element to a second telecommunications element includes a hinge pin provided on the first element and a hinge pin receiver provided on the second element. The hinge pin defines a notch separating the pin into two pin halves. The hinge pin receiver defines two sets of opposing surfaces, the two sets separated by a divider, the divider configured to be accommodated by the notch when the hinge pin is inserted into the hinge pin receiver, wherein each opposing surface set defines a slot for receiving each pin half.
US12228768B2
Methods of fabricating optical devices with high refractive index materials are disclosed. The method includes forming a first oxide layer on a substrate and forming a patterned template layer with first and second trenches on the first oxide layer. A material of the patterned template layer has a first refractive index. The method further includes forming a first portion of a waveguide and a first portion of an optical coupler within the first and second trenches, respectively, forming a second portion of the waveguide and a second portion of the optical coupler on a top surface of the patterned template layer, and depositing a cladding layer on the second portions of the waveguide and optical coupler. The waveguide and the optical coupler include materials with a second refractive index that is greater than the first refractive index.
US12228767B2
An integrated optical component, including a transparent pad arranged on the upper face of the basic optical component, the transparent pad including a plane mirror at its upper face, and the basic optical component including a convergent mirror at its upper face, the plane and convergent mirrors being arranged such that the light beam is propagated between the internal light gate and the external light gate by passing through the transparent pad by reflection on the plane mirror and by reflection on the convergent mirror.
US12228762B2
A light emitting display has a light emitting area of a film-based lightguide frontlight positioned between a cover lens and a reflective spatial light modulator (SLM), the cover lens extends past a lateral edge of the reflective SLM and a housing positioned below the cover lens in a thickness direction of the film and along one or more lateral edges of the reflective SLM and positioned in an edge region. The edge region is defined as the region between the lower surface of the cover lens and a lower surface of the reflective SLM, and between the lateral edge of the reflective SLM and a distance from the lateral edge of the reflective SLM in a first direction in a plane orthogonal to the thickness direction equal to the distance the cover lens extends past the lateral edge in the first direction.
US12228760B2
A trim for a vehicle and a glass assembly are provided. The trim includes a trim body, a flexible light emitter, and a light-transmitting member. The trim body has an inner surface and an outer surface opposite to the inner surface, and the flexible light emitter is attached to the inner surface. The trim body defines multiple light-transmitting through holes, and the multiple light-transmitting through holes extend through the inner surface and the outer surface and form a light-emitting region on the outer surface of the trim body. The light-transmitting member is located between the trim body and the flexible light emitter and is configured to generate a light effect in the light-emitting region. The flexible light emitter is configured to generate light that exits through the light-transmitting member and the multiple light-transmitting through holes.
US12228745B2
The present disclosure provides a display in application of a vehicle. The display includes two display devices, in which at least one of the two display devices includes a display panel and a light controller. The display panel includes a plurality of signal lines respectively extending along a first direction. The light controller is disposed adjacent to the display panel and includes a plurality of patterns respectively extending along a second direction, in which the second direction is different from the first direction. The display devices are arranged along the first direction.
US12228744B2
A method for generating stereoscopic light-field data is provided. The method includes the following steps: obtaining three-dimensional image data; performing a multi-view generation process to convert the three-dimensional image data into multi-view data; and performing a light-field conversion process to convert the multi-view data into a stereoscopic light-field pair.
US12228741B2
A compact augmented reality (AR) display system is described herein. The AR display system includes an eyeglass frame and a pair of near-eye pupil forming catadioptric optical engines mounted to the eyeglass frame. The pair of near-eye pupil forming catadioptric optical engines are mounted to the eyeglass frame and spaced along the longitudinal axis. Each of the near-eye pupil forming catadioptric optical engines includes an image generator forming a 2D image, an optical imaging assembly, and an optical image relay assembly, which includes the image generator and the lenses or other optics to present the image correctly to the user. The pair of near-eye pupil forming catadioptric optical engines enable viewing the 2D image binocularly in 3D.
US12228740B2
A method, system, apparatus, and/or device that may include a first optic located a first distance from an optical receiver, the first optic being adapted to: receive environment content from a location in front of the first optic relative to the optical receiver; and alter a focal vergence of the environment content. The method, system, apparatus, and/or device may include a display located a second distance from the optical receiver, the display being is adapted to: receive the environment content from the first optic; and deliver the environment content and display content to a second optic. The method, system, apparatus, and/or device may include the second optic located a third distance from the optical receiver, the second optic being is adapted to: receive the environment content and the display content from the display; alter the focal vergence of the environment content; and alter a focal vergence of the display content.
US12228737B2
An eyeglass lens for an optical imaging element for producing a virtual image of an initial image includes a main body and at least one complementary element mounted on the main body. The main body has a material with a first index of refraction n1. A viscous or solid intermediate layer is arranged between the complementary element and the main body at least in the region where the complementary element overlaps with a reflection section of the main body. The material of the viscous or solid intermediate layer has a second index of refraction n2 that satisfies the condition n2
US12228728B2
One example implementation of a mirror system comprises a carrier, and a first chip package arranged on a surface of the carrier and comprising a first MEMS mirror. Furthermore, the mirror system comprises a second chip package arranged on the surface of the carrier and comprising a second MEMS mirror. The mirror system furthermore comprises a reflective element arranged over the surface of the carrier and above the first chip package and the second chip package in such a way that a radiation that is incident in the mirror system and is reflected by the first MEMS mirror in the direction of the reflective element is reflected by the reflective element in the direction of the second MEMS mirror.
US12228725B2
A support facility for a binocular has a base, the base including a tripod connection facility, a flexible strap having a first strap end connected to the base, and an opposed second strap end, a tensioner connected to the base and to the second strap end, the flexible strap, the base, and the tensioner defining an opening configured to receive a first barrel of the binocular, and the flexible strap including a length adjustment facility adjustable over a range of length adjustment positions. The length adjustment facility may be configured to provide a selected strap length based on the diameter of the first barrel. The tensioner may be configured to operate between a released position in which the length adjustment facility is removable from or movable along the flexible strap and an engaged position in which the support facility is engaged to the first barrel.
US12228715B2
An optical system includes at least one first display module, at least one second display module, and a first optical element. The first optical element includes a first light incident surface, a second light incident surface, and a viewing surface. The first light incident surface is configured to transmit imaging light emitted from the at least one first display module into the first optical element and refract it onto the second light incident surface. The second light incident surface is configured to transmit imaging light emitted from the at least one second display module into the first optical element and refract it onto the viewing surface, and reflect the imaging light transmitted into the first optical element through the first light incident surface onto the viewing surface. The viewing surface is configured to transmit the imaging light emitted from all display modules to a human eye.
US12228711B2
The application discloses a lens and its button adjustment structure. The button adjustment structure includes a connecting seat, a guidepost, a base and an elastic member. The connecting seat is fixedly connected to the lens or may be part of the lens. The connecting seat includes a first gear structure. The guidepost is fixed on a fixed member on one side of the connecting seat. The base is movably sleeved on the guidepost along an axial direction of the guidepost. The base includes a second gear structure. The elastic member is sleeved on an outer periphery of the guidepost and is located between the base and the fixed member. An elastic force of the elastic member drives the second gear structure on the base to engage the first gear structure of the connecting seat.
US12228705B2
An optical imaging system sequentially includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens and a fifth lens from an object side to an image side along an optical axis. The first lens has positive refractive power, with an object-side surface being convex at the optical axis; the second lens has refractive power, with an image-side surface being convex at the optical axis; the third lens has refractive power; the fourth lens has positive refractive power, with an image-side surface being convex at the optical axis; the fifth lens has negative refractive power, with an object-side surface being convex at the optical axis and an image-side surface being concave at the optical axis; a diaphragm is arranged between the object side of the optical imaging system and the fifth lens.
US12228702B2
There is provided an imaging lens with excellent optical characteristics which satisfies demand of a low profile and a low F-number. An imaging lens comprises in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens with positive refractive power, a second lens with positive refractive power, a third lens with negative refractive power, a fourth lens, a fifth lens with positive refractive power, a sixth lens with positive or negative refractive power, and a seventh lens with negative refractive power, wherein said first lens is formed in a meniscus shape having an object-side surface being convex in a paraxial region, said second lens has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region, said sixth lens has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region, and said seventh lens has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region, and predetermined conditional expressions are satisfied.
US12228697B2
The present disclosure describes various embodiments of systems, apparatuses, and methods for large-scale processing of weather-related data. For one such system, the system comprises a database of weather-related data providing from at least one weather monitoring station and at least one processor for coordinating a data processing job for processing a set of input weather-related data from the database. Accordingly, the input data comprises sensor data from the at least one weather monitoring station positioned on an open shoreline during a hydrodynamic event, weather model data for the hydrodynamic event, and at least one of air-craft reconnaissance data or satellite reconnaissance data regarding the hydrodynamic event, wherein the at least one processor is configured to assimilate the input data and generate, using machine learning, an improved weather prediction model for the hydrodynamic event. Other systems, apparatuses, and methods are also provided.
US12228692B2
A cloud-based, time-limited, confidentiality-rated data management system for survey ancillary data associated with acquisition of seismic data during at least one seismic survey. The system includes a database module configured to store in a first region the survey ancillary data, a data application configured to interact with the database module and upload or download the survey ancillary data, a time module configured to count a lifetime associated with the survey ancillary data, and an erase module configured to erase the survey ancillary data from the database module at the end of the lifetime counted by the time module. The lifetime of the survey ancillary data is shorter than a duration of the seismic survey.
US12228687B2
The present invention is directed to a transducer module including a two-piece protective assembly offering mechanical protection for one or more transducer elements (i.e., transmitter(s) and/or receiver(s)) provided within. The two-piece protective assembly comprises an internal rigid housing including a cavity formed by a set of walls or projections extending from a rear portion thereof. The cavity is shaped and/or sized to receive the one or more transducer elements within. The two-piece protective assembly further includes a cover overmolded and coupled to the rigid housing and sealing the one or more transducer elements within the cavity of the housing.
US12228686B2
A computer-implemented method including: triggering, with at least one processor, an acoustic wave generator to generate a predefined acoustic wave directed toward a 3-dimensional (3D) layout associated with an entity from plurality of entities, wherein each of the plurality of entities is registered with a corresponding 3D layout embedded with a predefined number of 3D geometric figures; in response to receiving a modified acoustic wave from the 3D layout, comparing, with at least one processor, the modified acoustic wave with a plurality of calibrated acoustic waves associated with the plurality of entities to determine identification details comprising a match between the modified acoustic wave and a calibrated acoustic wave from the plurality of calibrated acoustic waves; and based on the identification details, identifying, with at least one processor, the entity related to the calibrated acoustic wave. A system and medium are also disclosed.
US12228683B1
A method for operating a light detection and ranging (LIDAR) device is provided. The method includes driving, by an LLC resonant power converter, a wireless power signal at a primary winding of a transformer disposed on a first platform. The method includes transmitting the wireless power signal across a gap separating the first platform and a second platform. The second platform is configured to rotate relative to the first platform. The method includes receiving the wireless power signal at a secondary winding of the transformer. The secondary winding is disposed on the second platform. The method includes operating, by the LLC resonant power converter at a unity gain operating point and in an open loop mode without feedback control, a device mounted on the second platform based on the secondary winding receiving the wireless power signal.
US12228682B2
A system including an optical scanner to transmit an optical beam towards an object. The system includes a first optical element to receive a returned reflection having a lag angle; and direct the returned reflection to generate a first directed beam. The system includes a beam directing unit to receive the first directed beam; and direct, based on a first array voltage, the first directed beam to generate a second directed beam at a first location on a different optical element. The beam directing unit to direct, based on a second array voltage, the second steered beam from the first location on the different optical element to a second location on the different optical element to compensate for the lag angle.
US12228674B1
The present disclosure is directed to a radar mount system and methods of using same. The system includes a base plug for attachment to a watercraft, where the attachment includes the formation of a waterproof seal between the base plug and the watercraft. The system further includes an exterior plate that receives the base plug and serves as an attachment location for a radar system. When the base plug is received within the exterior plate, a locking system is configured to hold the exterior plate, with its attached radar system, in position on the mounted base plug. When a user removes locking nuts of the locking system, the locking system is configured to be removed from the base plug and the exterior plate, allowing the exterior plate with attached radar system to be removed from the watercraft without damaging the waterproof seal between the base plug and the watercraft.
US12228661B2
A tracking device broadcasts beacon signals that are separated in time by broadcast intervals. The tracking device determines the broadcast intervals based on a behavior model. The behavior model specifies one or more conditions, such as times of day within a 24-hour day, and associates a usage probability with each condition. A higher usage probability causes the tracking device to broadcast beacon signals at shorter broadcast intervals. A mobile device in communication with the tracking device can reconfigure the behavior model, either by modifying portions of the behavior model or by replacing the behavior model with a different behavior model. This allows the behavior model to adapt to different circumstances, such as different usage patterns during weekdays, weekends, and vacations.
US12228659B2
A method and apparatus for measuring the angle of arrival AOA of Wi-Fi packets, using a switched beam antenna SBA is described. Wide antenna beams, quadrants, are selected in turn and a burst of packets is transmitted on each quadrant. The quadrant with the highest average signals strength is selected. Then the narrow antenna beams that make up that selected quadrant are selected, in sequence, and the average signal strength for each narrow beam is recorded. The narrow beam with the highest average signal strength is returned as the AOA. Based upon which narrow beam recorded the highest signal strength, the next sequence of antenna beams is selected. When the SBA is mounted on a mobile platform, the parameters of the transmission bursts are chosen such that the angular error due to cornering of the platform is negligible.
US12228658B2
A method of determining performance of GNSS prediction data includes receiving the GNSS prediction data at a server, the GNSS prediction data being associated with a unique identifier, determining performance metrics of the prediction data at a current time and saving the performance metrics of the prediction data in association with the unique identifier, and in response to receipt of a request from an electronic device, sending one or both of the performance metrics of the prediction data associated with the unique identifier and corrections for correcting the prediction data to the electronic device for use by the electronic device.
US12228653B2
An example system includes an infrared emitter to output infrared light towards a target, where the infrared light reflects from the target to produce reflected infrared light, and a detector to receive the reflected infrared light and to provide a signal based on the reflected infrared light. The system also includes a lighting system that includes a light emitter to output visible light, a mirror configured (i) to allow the visible light to pass through the mirror and to reflect the reflected infrared light onto the detector, or (ii) to allow the reflected infrared light to pass through the mirror and onto the detector and to reflect the visible light, and one or more optical elements configured to affect the visible light and the reflected infrared light.
US12228650B2
In one embodiment, a light source is configured to emit an optical signal. The light source includes a seed laser diode configured to produce a seed optical signal and a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) configured to amplify the seed optical signal to produce the emitted optical signal. The light source also includes an optical isolator disposed between the seed laser diode and the SOA, where the optical isolator is configured to (i) transmit the seed optical signal to the SOA and (ii) reduce an amount of light that propagates from the SOA toward the seed laser diode.
US12228648B2
A light detection and ranging (LIDAR) system include one or more LIDAR pixels including a transmit optical antenna, a receive optical antenna, a first receiver, and a second receiver. The transmit optical antenna is configured to emit a transmit beam. The receive optical antenna is configured to detect (i) a first polarization orientation of a returning beam and (ii) a second polarization orientation of the returning beam.
US12228638B2
An electronic device includes a transmission antenna that transmits a transmission wave, a reception antenna that receives a reflected wave that is the transmission wave having been reflected, and a control unit that detects an object that reflects the transmission wave, based on a transmission signal transmitted as the transmission wave and a reception signal received as the reflected wave. The control unit performs control to detect, as a target, an object having a motion characteristic of a motion of an arm of a person, among objects located around the electronic device.
US12228632B2
Embodiments described herein address these and other issues by providing radio frequency (RF) sensing to determine the status of a driver or other occupant of the vehicle. RF sensing may be provided by existing radios of a vehicle, such a Wi-Fi transceiver, and may therefore provide RF sensing functionality to a vehicle with little added cost. RF sensing can be leveraged to implement safety features such as detecting an unattended child or pet in a vehicle, detecting driver alertness, and the like.
US12228625B2
A system (SYS) and related method for supporting MR imaging. The system (SYS) comprises a logic (CL) to receive a measurement from RF sensors (SS1-8) arrangeable outside a bore (BR) of an MR imaging apparatus (IA). The logic processes the measurement to establish i) whether there is at least one surface RF coil present that is not electrically coupled to circuitry (SPC) of the MR imaging apparatus (IA) and/or ii) to localize at least one surface RF coil on or at a patient table (PT) of the MR imaging apparatus.
US12228624B1
A method to hyperpolarize a spin ensemble includes resonantly coupling the spin ensemble to a cold cavity that is at a temperature below a spin temperature of the spin ensemble, coupling the cold cavity to a squeezing cavity that is detuned from the cold cavity, the squeezing cavity squeezing the cold cavity such that coupling of the cold cavity to the spin ensemble increases to a sufficient strength to enable a spontaneous emission process to exceed a spin thermal relaxation process of the spin ensemble, and coupling the squeezing cavity to a broadband squeezing cavity having a same squeezing parameter as the squeezing cavity and being phase-matched with the squeezing cavity for suppressing or canceling squeezed noise or heat generated by the squeezing cavity.
US12228621B2
A magnetic sensor includes at least one sensor main body; a detection circuit provided on the at least one sensor main body, the detection circuit including a magnetic detection element; and a plurality of sensor terminals provided on the at least one sensor main body. The plurality of sensor terminals include a plurality of signal terminals and a plurality of power supply terminals. The plurality of signal terminals are all disposed on a side of one end of the at least one sensor main body. The plurality of power supply terminals include at least one first terminal disposed on the side of the one end of the at least one sensor main body, and a plurality of second terminals disposed on a side of another end of the at least one sensor main body.
US12228611B2
A test and measurement instrument including a user interface configured to receive instructions to perform a signal path calibration for a user-specific setting from a user; a memory configured to store signal path calibration data; and one or more processors that can determine an actual signal path hardware setting for the user-specific setting, determine an adjustment to adjust the actual signal path hardware setting to the user-specific setting, adjust the actual signal path hardware setting by the adjustment to accurately represent the user-specific setting, and store the user-specific setting and the adjusted signal path hardware setting in the signal path calibration data.
US12228606B2
A battery pack simulation device includes an input unit that receives voltage values, current values, temperature, and initial impedance values, an output value generation unit that generates an output value based on the input voltage value, current value, temperature, and initial impedance value, an output unit that transmits the generated output value to the battery management unit, and a monitoring unit that monitors the operation of the battery management unit.
US12228604B2
A method for monitoring an ideal diode comprises controlling a source-gate voltage of a MOSFET of the ideal diode such that the ideal diode can be changed between an off and an on state with a first target value for a source-drain voltage. To detect error states, the source-drain voltage and the source-gate voltage are measured. A check is carried out to determine whether the source-drain voltage reaches the first target value within predefined error limits in the on state. A test mode is carried out, in which a second target value, smaller than the first target value, is set for the source-drain voltage. A check is carried out to determine whether the source-gate voltage reaches an upper threshold value when the test mode is being carried out. An error signal is output when the first target value and/or the upper threshold value is/are not reached.
US12228601B2
The disclosure discloses a single-ended fault positioning method and system for a HVDC power transmission line based on a hybrid deep network. The method comprises the following: collecting rectification side bus output voltage and current signals of a HVDC power transmission system under different fault types, fault distances and transition resistances as an original data set; eliminating electromagnetic coupling of the bipolar direct-current line by using phase-mode transformation, extracting IMF components of fault voltage and current signals under different fault scenes by using variational mode decomposition, and calculating TEO of the IMF components to obtain a fault data set after feature engineering; normalizing the fault data set, and dividing the fault data set into a training set and a test set; and successively inputting the training set and the test set into a hybrid network of a convolutional neural network and a long short-term memory network for training and testing.
US12228600B2
A method and system are presented for determining properties of an electromagnetic waveform. The method comprises: providing measured parametric EM field data indicative of measured vector components of electric and magnetic fields of an EM waveform measured in at least one instance of time: providing reference data indicative of a plurality of reference data sets, each data set comprising: a reference steering vector parameters indicative of a certain respective direction of arrival (DO A), and a corresponding parametric EM field reference data including reference vector components of an electric and magnetic field pertaining to a wavefront propagating with the DO A of the corresponding reference steering vector parameters; determining a matching score between the measured parametric EM field data and the parametric EM field reference data of one or more of the reference data sets; and in case the matching score of a certain reference data set complies with a certain threshold condition, determining that said measured parametric EM field data corresponds to said EM waveform having a single EM wavefront thereby enabling to discriminate between measured EM waveforms having a single wavefront and measured EM waveforms having multiple wavefronts.
US12228597B2
In a management system, a management apparatus includes a detector configured to detect an operating status of a piece of electric equipment installed in a house, and a transmitter configured to transmit, to a first management server, operation information of the operating status detected by the detector. The first management server includes a receiver configured to receive the operation information from the management apparatus, and a calculator configured to calculate a responsivity index based on operation information of a piece of specific electric equipment among a plurality of the pieces of electric equipment, the responsivity index indicating a possibility that a user of the piece of electric equipment is capable of responding to an external request.
US12228592B2
A sensor and a method of measuring an electrical characteristic of a conductor is provided. The sensor includes a first and second housings slidably coupled to move from a first to a second position. A first set of magnetic field sensors are coupled to the first housing. Each of the first magnetic field sensors having a different sensing axis and output a first signal in response to power flowing through the conductor. A second set of magnetic field sensors are coupled to the second housing. Each of the second magnetic field sensors having a different sensing axis and output a second signal in response to power flowing through the conductor. A circuit is coupled to receive signals from the first and second magnetic field sensors. The circuit is configured to generate a low energy signal in response to receiving the first and second signals.
US12228589B2
Imaging of complex, non-stationary three dimensional (3D) flow velocities is achieved by encoding depth into color. A flow volume 22 is illuminated with a continuum 40 of light planes 42 whereby each depth corresponds to a respective light plane 14 having a specific wavelength of light. A diffractive component 46 in the camera 24 optics, which records the trajectories of illuminated particles 20 within the flow volume 22, ensures that all light planes 42 are in focus simultaneously. The setup permits a user to track 3D trajectories of particles 20 within the flow volume 22 by combining two dimensional (2D) spatial and one dimensional (1D) color information. For reconstruction, an image formation model for recovering stationary 3D particle positions is provided. 3D velocity estimation is achieved with a variant of a 3D optical flow approach that accounts for both physical constraints as well as the color (rainbow) image formation model.
US12228584B2
Multi-stage sample-recovery systems, including automated 2-stage and 3-stage sample-recovery systems, are provided. Such systems enable the rapid screening and recovery of samples, including viable cell-based samples, from high-throughput screening systems, including systems utilizing large-scale arrays of microcapillaries. In specific screening systems, each microcapillary comprises a solution containing a variant protein, an immobilized target molecule, and a reporter element. Immobilized target molecules may include any molecule of interest, including proteins, nucleic acids, carbohydrates, and other biomolecules. The association of a variant protein with a molecular target is assessed by measuring a signal from the reporter element. The contents of microcapillaries identified in the assays as containing variant proteins of interest can be identified and recovered using the multi-stage systems disclosed herein.
US12228580B2
Methods of assigning a COVID pathological type for a subject suffering from COVID-19 are provided. Aspects of the methods include assigning a COVID pathological type for the subject based on a determined quantitative, multiplex cytokine/chemokine panel in a test sample from the subject. Also provided are methods of treating a subject (e.g., a long hauler subject) for chronic COVID-19. Aspects of such methods include administering to the long hauler subject a CCR5/CCL5 interaction inhibitor to treat the long hauler subject. Also provided are compositions for use in practicing the methods. The methods and compositions find use in a variety of applications, including patient stratification, treatment and therapy determination and therapy response assessment.
US12228575B2
The present invention relates to a biomarker composition for predicting the prognosis of cancer malignancy induced by exposure to microplastics and use thereof, and more particularly, it was confirmed that the expression level of CD44, E-cadherin, N-cadherin, PD-L1, NPAS2, NR1D1, DNMT1, SLC7A2, PCDH7 and CLDN7 was changed in cancer cell lines and animal models treated with polystyrene microspheres which are the one type of microplastic for 4 weeks, and malignancy was induced due to an increase in proliferation, migration and invasion of cancer cells by the change in the expression level of the gene, and 5-year overall survival rates in gastric cancer patients decreased and thus the genes may be provided as a biomarker composition for predicting the prognosis of cancer malignancies by exposure to microplastics.
US12228572B2
Biomarker of HIV or SIV infected cells and its application are provided. The marker is PLK (polo-like kinase). By inhibiting the activity of a PLK protein or clearing the same, the purpose of releasing viruses without activating a repository is achieved, such that the viruses can be detected in a physiological state and can also be recognized and cleared by an immune system or a drug in vivo. Enhancing the activity of the PLK protein directly inhibits the release of viruses in an HIV and/or SIV-infected cell. The present invention provides a new target for diagnosis and antiviral therapy of HIV and/or SIV infection, provides medication basis and guarantee for the early rapid detection and extremely early treatment of virus infection, and has important clinical value.
US12228571B2
The invention relates to an in vitro quantative cell-based assay that uses a primary mouse cell model system permissive to viral vector infection and a quantitative high content image-based system for determining potency of a transgene-expressing viral vector drug product for lot disposition.
US12228564B2
An apparatus used in analyzing spent dialysate includes at least a first surface configured to accommodate a dialysate drain bag in a first predetermined position, and at least a second surface configured to accommodate a dialysate analysis device in a second predetermined position, such that when the dialysate drain bag is in the first predetermined position and the dialysate analysis device is in the second predetermined position, a light sensor of the dialysate analysis device is positioned to sense light passing through the dialysate drain bag.
US12228562B2
The present disclosure discloses a method for assessing soil health of cultivated land, which adopts “three sets of dual index assessment systems”, that is an index system for current soil function and a healthy soil function required by crops, an index system for current soil nutrition and healthy soil nutrition required by crops, and an index system for current crop output of cultivated land and a crop output expected by cultivated land users or owners. The method solves the shortcomings of the existing assessment systems that the existing soil health assessment index system has no hierarchy and applicability. This method includes using deviating degree of ratio R e.g., the index current value C/index health value E of measured dual index from 1 as well as it is simple, and the assessment result may directly determine the indicators or factors that can be used for guiding soil improvement and conservation.
US12228561B2
A method for inferring energy content of a flow fluid in a gaseous state is disclosed. The method is carried out by a computer system (200) having a processor (210) and memory (220), the memory (220) having an inference module (204), the method comprising inferring, by the inference module (204), the inferred energy content of the flow fluid in the gaseous state from an inferential relationship between the inferred energy content of the flow fluid in the gaseous state with at least one measurement taken of the flow fluid in the liquid state.
US12228553B2
The present disclosure provides methods of analyzing and/or purifying inorganic nanoparticles that may be functionalized with one or more dye group. Analyzing and/or purifying the inorganic nanoparticles includes utilizing liquid chromatography, such as, for example, high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). Methods of the present disclosure may be used to determine the location of one or more dye groups on and/or in the inorganic nanoparticles. The present disclosure also provides methods of making inorganic nanoparticles and compositions of inorganic nanoparticles.
US12228550B2
Robotic systems for ultrasonic surface inspection using shaped elements are described. An example system may have an inspection robot structured to move in a direction of travel on an inspection surface. The inspection robot may include: a payload having a first ultrasonic (UT) phased array and a second UT phased array, a rastering device operatively coupled to the payload, and structured to execute reciprocating motion of the payload, and a means for inspecting a weld affected region of the inspection surface on three (3) axes of inspection.
US12228546B2
In one implementation, a mobility-based ion separation system includes a first ion channel extending between a first end and a second end, and configured to receive an ion packet. The separation system includes a controller configured to apply a first voltage signal and a second voltage signal to a first plurality of electrodes adjacent to the first ion channel. The first plurality of electrodes are configured to generate, based on receipt of the first voltage signal, a first traveling drive potential that travels at a first speed along a first direction, the first direction extending from the first end to the second end. The first plurality of electrodes are configured to generate, based on receipt of the second voltage signal, a second DC potential decreasing along a second direction, the second direction extending from the second end to the first end.
US12228545B2
A diagnostic and prognostic method and system for sequentially analyzing in a biological fluid or tissue extract the presence of an antigenic infectious agent, infectious organism or its toxic product; an antibody response to the antigenic infectious agent, infectious organism or its toxic product; one or more biomarkers formed during infection in response to a communicable disease; and one or more biomarkers to assess the severity of the disease and to monitor the effectiveness of drug therapy or vaccination.
US12228544B2
The present disclosure provides electrophoretic systems, methods and compositions for spatial analysis, which can serve to magnify or demagnify spatial resolution of analytes of interest that are captured using electrophoresis. Some implementations can use a diverging or converging electric field in an electrophoretic capture system. Such a divergent or convergent electric field, as opposed to a parallel electric field, can be generated by, for example, utilizing different sizes of electrodes associated with or imbedded in substrates. Also provided herein are electrophoretic systems, methods and compositions for spatial analysis, which can serve to selectively migrate one or more analytes from a region of interest in the biological sample for capture using electrophoresis.
US12228536B2
A radio frequency signaling system includes a curable coating composition configured to be cured to form a cured coating and a sensor received in the curable coating composition. The sensor includes circuitry forming an inductor-capacitor circuit. The circuitry has a maximum outer diameter of 10 μm-2.0 mm. The circuitry is configured to generate an electromagnetic field in response to an external radio frequency signal. A container configured to be monitored by a radio frequency signaling system is also provided. The container includes: a container body having an outer surface and an inner surface; a cured coating on the inner surface and/or the outer surface of the container body; and a sensor positioned in the cured coating configured to detect absorption of a fluid contained in the container body by the cured coating.
US12228533B2
A process for producing a sensor component for detecting an analyte; a sensor component producible by the process; a process for detecting an analyte; and a device comprising the sensor component. The process comprises electrochemically growing a plurality of conducting polymer molecules from a monomer electrolyte solution to provide a percolation network. The plurality of conducting polymer molecules are grown on the surface of an insulating substrate to connect a first electrode to a second electrode and are capable of displaying a change in an electrical property in response to interaction with an analyte A plurality of conductive nodes may be disposed on a surface of the insulating substrate. A potentiostatic method or a galvanostatic method may be employed to grow the plurality of conducting polymers. Chronoamperometry may be employed to electrochemically grow the plurality of conducting polymers. Cyclic voltammetry is not employed to grow the plurality of conducting polymers.
US12228521B2
Systems and methods here may be used for capturing and analyzing reflectance images of facets on a gemstone under particular lighting and camera setups to automatically generate a clarity grade and/or surface polish grade for the gemstone.
US12228520B2
A general purpose sensor architecture integrating a surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) substrate, a diffractive laser beam delivery substrate and a diffractive infrared detection substrate is provided that can be used to implement a low-cost, compact lab-on-a-chip biosensor that can meet the needs of large-scale infectious disease testing. The sensor architecture can also be used in any other application in which molecules present in the liquid, gaseous or solid phases need to be characterized reliably, cost-effectively and with minimal intervention by highly skilled personnel.
US12228504B2
A material evaluating device for an agricultural work machine comprising: a light source for illuminating one or more constituent materials to be examined; a spectrometer for providing a spectral signal related to the wavelength-specific intensity of light reflected by the constituent materials; and an evaluation device configured to determine the content of one or more constituent materials using the spectral signal of the spectrometer and a calibration data, wherein a property signal relating to a property of the one or more constituent materials is supplied to the evaluation device and the evaluation device is configured, using the property signal, to determine the content of the one or more constituent materials.
US12228502B2
Device for improving an optical detecting smoke apparatus and implementing thereof. Apparatus and methods for detecting the presence of smoke in a small, long-lasting smoke detector are (disclosed. Specifically, the present disclosure shows how to build one or more optimized blocking members in a smoke detector to augment signal to noise ratio. This is performed while keeping the reflections from the housing structure to a very low value while satisfying all the other peripheral needs of fast response to smoke and preventing ambient light. This allows very small measurements of light scattering of the smoke particles to be reliable in a device resistant to the negative effects of dust. In particular, geometrical optical elements, e.g., cap and optical defection elements, are disclosed.
US12228482B2
A device is described that overlays a first fluid, such as blood or a cellular suspension onto a base material, such as a density gradient. In some embodiments, the fluid layering device includes a cylindrical reservoir, a fluid barrier, a coupling extension, a plunger, and an exhaust vent. The fluid layering device can be coupled through its coupling extension to an open end of a container, such as a conical centrifuge tube, including the density gradient. Once attached, the plunger may be lowered to a position above the surface of the density gradient. A first fluid may flow from the reservoir into the conical tube across the plunger, so that a suitable overlay is formed without substantially disturbing a surface of the density gradient.
US12228480B2
Systems and methods use electric fields to separate bioanalytes from a substrate comprising a biological sample. Biological material, especially blood samples, are sometimes dried onto absorbent substrates. By applying an electric field across the substrate, or a portion thereof, bioanalytes from the sample are attracted to a conductor having a positive or negative charge, depending on the charges carried by the bioanalytes. The electric field can be created using two conductors in circuit with a power source, and the substrate may be positioned between the conductors.
US12228479B2
A gas collection device is installed in a toilet including a toilet seat and a toilet bowl. The gas collection device includes a flow path connected to a predetermined tank, and an introduction portion that introduces a sample gas into the flow path. The introduction portion is located between the toilet seat and the toilet bowl, or located inside or above the toilet seat. The introduction portion does not protrude toward an inside of the toilet bowl from a rim portion of the toilet bowl when located between the toilet seat and the rim portion. The introduction portion does not protrude toward the inside of the toilet bowl from the toilet seat when located inside or above the toilet seat.
US12228475B2
In feature value extraction processing step, feature values are extracted from time-series vibroacoustic data in equipment in operation. In machine learning diagnosis step, accumulated are feature values corresponding to normal equipment-operation-state and general measurement data on equipment. Probability distribution model related to correlation between general measurement data and feature values corresponding to normal equipment-operation-state and constructed through machine learning is fed with general-measurement data and feature values extracted in feature value extraction processing step to calculate degree of anomaly based on probability distribution model. In anomalous location estimation step, precalculated damaged-case dataset of degrees of anomaly is compared with actual-measurement dataset of degrees of anomaly calculated from general-measurement data in equipment to obtain degree of similarity for each location in the equipment and output the locations, in order ranked by degrees of similarity for each location in equipment, as locations having high likelihoods of being damaged.
US12228469B2
A capacitive pressure sensor includes a first electrode and a second electrode disposed on a surface of a folded flexible substrate. The first and second electrodes face each other and are separated from each other by a dielectric layer. The sensor can operate by generating an electrical signal related to a change in capacitance between the first and second electrodes. The change in capacitance results from a change in thickness of the dielectric layer due to an external pressure. The electrical signal can be transmitted from the capacitive pressure sensor to an external device.
US12228467B2
A seat belt sensor assembly comprises a force sensor coupled to a seat belt webbing. The seat belt sensor assembly utilizes force readings from the force sensor indicating a force level above or below a predetermined threshold to determine if an action needs to be taken to control a vehicle system. Such vehicle systems could include, but are not limited to, an autonomous driving control system, an occupant health system, and a motorized seat belt retractor system. Controlling the vehicle systems could include, but is not limited to, sending audio, visual, and/or haptic warnings to vehicle occupants, including, in one embodiment, that the occupant's respiration rate is indicative of a dangerous health condition. The seat belt sensor assembly may be used in combination with a camera-based occupant monitoring system. In one embodiment, the occupant monitoring system can be used to selectively activate/deactivate discrete activation zones of the force sensor.
US12228465B2
A method for traceability calibration of calibration device of rock chiseling specific power tester includes static calibration and dynamic calibration. Static calibration includes: placing impact indicator sensor of calibration device on static calibration stage; installing standard weight holder on adapter head of impact indicator sensor; adding a standard weight to standard weight holder several times; and calculating static coefficient k. Dynamic calibration includes: placing impact indicator sensor on dynamic calibration stage; resetting dynamic calibration coefficients a and b of calibration device; recording standard impact energy W0 of dynamic standard hammer and measured indication value W of impact indicator sensor to obtain standard deviation S=W−W0; and calculating dynamic coefficients a and b. Rock chiseling specific power magnitude is effectively traced to equal mass standard of standard weights. A new traceability method and system for specific power magnitude is constructed.
US12228455B2
The invention relates to a flame monitor (2, 2′, 2″, 2′″) for monitoring at least one sub-region (18) of a combustion chamber (1) for the presence of a flame (4), comprising: a flame sensor (16) for sensing a physical variable of a flame (4), in particular an intensity of electromagnetic radiation, and for generating an associated electrical sensor signal (26), a dual-channel analyser circuit (28, 28′, 28″), connected downstream from the flame sensor (16), for determining whether the sensor signal (26) generated by the flame sensor (16) corresponds to a flame (4) and for outputting a safety-oriented output signal (EXTS1) indicating the presence or absence of a flame (4), wherein the dual-channel analyser circuit (28, 28′, 28″) comprises: a first channel (28-1) configured to process the sensor signal (26), said channel comprising a first analogue-digital converter (32) in an analogue circuit (30), a first microcontroller (36) belonging to a digital diagnostic comparator unit (34, 34′, 34″, 34′″), for analysing a first signal obtained from the first analogue-digital converter (32), and a first relay (40) in a relay circuit (42, 42″), which relay (40) is controlled by the first microcontroller (36), and a second channel (28-2) configured to process the sensor signal (26), said channel comprising a second analogue-digital converter (44) in the analogue circuit (30), a second microcontroller (46) belonging to the digital diagnostic comparator unit (34, 34′, 34″, 34′″), for analysing a second signal obtained from the second analogue-digital converter (44), and a second relay (50) in the relay circuit (42, 42″), which relay (50) is controlled by the second microcontroller (46), wherein the diagnostic comparator unit (34, 34′, 34″, 34′″) is configured to compare a first result of analysis from the first microcontroller (36) and a second result of analysis from the second microcontroller (46) and to influence the output signal (EXTS1), depending on the result of the comparison, characterised in that the diagnostic comparator unit (34, 34′, 34″, 34′″) is configured to compare a signal (D1, D2; FB1, FB2) obtained from one of the two channels (28-1, 28-2) with an associated expected value, with the aid of both the first microcontroller (36) and the second microcontroller (46), and optionally to initiate a fail-operational mode of the analyser circuit (28, 28′, 28″) depending on the result of the comparison.
US12228451B2
An absorption spectrometer with self-referencing calibration takes two measurements along a first and second path having different distances through a sample while largely preserving all other aspects of the optical path and system constant. Comparing these two measurements allows extraction of the spectrum largely free from instrument-specific artifacts.
US12228449B2
Light mapping devices and systems for use in indoor or vertical farming are disclosed herein. In particular, a light detection device is provided that includes a plurality of light sensors configured for detecting light emitted from one or more light sources at distinct positions across a grow plane. The light detection device will also include a microcontroller and one or more signal routing circuit boards, or junctions, for making electrical connections between the light sensors and the microcontroller in a multiplex architecture to enable the microcontroller to cycle through and read the Lux values from each of the light sensors with sub-second frequency and in real-time. The light detection device may also be part of a light mapping system that converts the Lux values to PPFD and generates a heatmap of PPFD intensity at distinct locations across the grow plane. Also provided herein are methods of using the light detector device and/or the light mapping system to determine the PPFD distribution across a grow plane in 2-dimensions or 3-dimensions in order to adjust the lights and/or position of growing plants, if necessary, to ensure that each plant in the grow bed receives sufficient light for optimal growth.
US12228448B2
An optical detector module can be used to implement proximity sensing function by detecting ambient light outside of the optical detector module in accordance with a first detection threshold. An optical detector module can be further used to implement other active functions such as material detection (e.g., skin) or depth-sensing by emitting one or more optical signals (e.g., light pulses at a specific wavelength) and detecting the reflected optical signals relative to a second and/or third detection threshold. The disclosure provides technical solutions for actively monitoring detection threshold(s) of an optical detector module to achieve better power management. In some embodiments, such solutions are useful for photodetectors having a wide sensing bandwidth, such as a photodetector formed in germanium or a photodetector comprising an absorption region comprising germanium.
US12228447B2
A system for reporting one or more events of interest in a structure, including an apparatus configured to be securely adhered to a surface of the structure, the apparatus having a flexible portion which conforms to a shape of the surface of the structure. The flexible portion containing a sensor to measure mechanical strain in the surface of the structure, and conductive traces to connect the sensor to electronics. The electronics to capture and buffer a signal output by the sensor, and a computational element to analyze the captured signal into a polynomial representing an event of interest. The system further including a wireless communication element to transmit the event of interest.
US12228444B2
The present disclosure relates to a radar level gauge having a tank feed through structure with an elongated transmission member, wherein an inner surface of a dielectric sleeve is in abutment with, and encloses, a radially extending protrusion of the transmission member such as to conform with the shape of the radially extending protrusion. The present disclosure also relates to a method of manufacturing such a tank feed through structure.
US12228440B2
A meter electronics (20) for determining a vapor pressure using a vapor pressure meter factor is provided. The meter electronics (20) comprises a processing system (200) communicatively coupled to a meter assembly (10). The processing system (200) is configured to provide a drive signal to the meter assembly (10) having a fluid, measure a drive gain of the drive signal provided to the meter assembly (10), and determine the vapor pressure of the fluid based on a previously determined relationship between the drive gain and a reference gas-liquid ratio.
US12228435B2
In one embodiment, a method for delivering a gas at a predetermined rate includes providing a gas flow control apparatus comprising a gas flow path extending from a gas inlet to a gas outlet, a proportional valve coupled to the gas flow path, an on/off valve coupled to the gas flow path, a volume being defined between the proportional valve and the on/off valve, and a flow restrictor having a flow impedance located downstream of the proportional valve. The volume is pressurized with the gas to a target set point by opening the proportional valve while the on/off valve is in an off state. Finally, the on/off valve is moved to the on state, delivering gas to the gas outlet.
US12228430B1
Variable reluctance (VR) resolvers applicable to even or odd speed are provided. In an N-phase VR resolver, 2N coil-poles are evenly distributed around the stator, N being odd integer greater than or equal to three. Primary coils are wound with the same number of turns, but their winding polarities alternate across the coil-poles. The number of turns and winding polarities for sine and cosine signal sensing coils are determined by sine and cosine synthesis coefficients of N-phase zero-force transform. The coil turns ratios between sine and cosine signal sensing coils relative to the primary coil are dictated by absolute values of the coefficients, while the winding polarities are determined by signs of the coefficients. In odd-speed VR resolvers, winding polarities of pair of sensing coils symmetrically located 180 degrees apart must be identical, whereas in even-speed VR resolvers, these winding polarities must be opposite.
US12228423B2
A method for generating a map display for vehicles. The method includes receiving vehicle sensor data; ascertaining poses of the vehicles based on the vehicle sensor data; generating subsets of the plurality of poses by combining poses of drives that have been carried out on an identical subsection of the route, a course of the respective subsection of the route being described by the vehicle sensor data assigned to the poses of every subset; generating sub-segments of the map display based on the subsets of the poses, for each subset a sub-segment being generated, and a course of the traffic lane within a sub-segment corresponding to one of the subsets being ascertained based on the poses of a subset; interpreting the sub-segments as nodes of a graph display of the map display and connecting sub-segments via edges of the graph display.
US12228421B2
A server includes a feature point position estimation section that estimates positions of feature points of a plurality of respective input maps if a position correction section has failed in position correction for an input map, an accumulated data generation section that accumulates the positions of the feature points of the plurality of respective input maps to generate accumulated data, a convergence determination section that determines whether the positions of the feature points have converged based on the accumulated data, a difference data generation section that generates, if it is determined that the positions of the feature points have converged, difference data from the positions of the feature points that have converged, and a difference data reflection section that reflects the difference data in the reference map to update the reference map.
US12228418B1
Generating local- and global-walkable paths for route guidance. At least one example is a computer-implemented method of generating comprehensive maps for route guidance, the method comprising: receiving, by a processor, a floorplan delineating walkable and non-walkable areas; performing, by the processor, spatial analysis regarding the walkable areas to find a path graph for the walkable areas, the path graph comprises a plurality of segments defined by vertices, and the plurality of segments defining local-walkable paths; and removing, by a processor, segments that intersect non-walkable areas to generate a set of global-walkable paths from the path graph.
US12228415B2
A vehicle system is configured to determine an expected battery range of a vehicle for a route to a destination, receive status information associated with environmental conditions along the route, determine a change from the expected battery range based on the status information, and facilitate modification of an operating characteristic of one or more electrical components of a vehicle system to compensate for the change.
US12228404B2
A dynamically balanced 3-axis gyroscope architecture is provided. Various embodiments described herein can facilitate providing linear and angular momentum balanced 3-axis gyroscope architectures for better offset stability, vibration rejection, and lower part-to-part coupling.
US12228403B2
Method for measuring an angular velocity and/or position comprising: (a) receiving first and second detection signals regarding a vibration from primary and secondary resonance modes of a resonator; (b) implementing at least four control loops using first, second, third and fourth regulators, respectively; and (c) estimating said angular velocity and/or position, as a function of regulator outputs. The first regulator aims at minimizing the difference between the in-phase component of the first detection signal and the product, by a first coefficient C1 that is a function of the azimuthal angle θ in the orthogonal modal base of primary and secondary modes, of a setpoint vibration amplitude of the resonator. The third regulator aims at minimizing the difference between the in-phase component of the second detection signal and the product, by a second coefficient C2 that is a function of θ and the setpoint vibration amplitude. Also, associated gyroscope sensors.
US12228401B2
A survey system is provided which includes a surveying instrument capable of performing distance and angle measurements of a target attached to a pole, a controller as a glove-shaped wearable device to be worn on a hand of a worker, and configured to transmit commands to the surveying instrument from an input unit for inputting commands, and an eyewear device capable of performing display superimposed on a landscape. Measurement points are displayed by being synchronized with and superimposed on a landscape of a survey site on the eyewear device, and by inputting a command by a worker from the glove-shaped controller that the worker wears into the surveying instrument while the worker grips the pole, distance and angle measurements of the target are made. Unnecessary turning of gaze and hand movements are omitted, and a survey work can be efficiently performed by the worker alone.
US12228398B2
A non-contact angular motion measuring device includes a mirror configured to move or rotate about a pivot axis. The device also includes a curved target, circularly symmetric around an axis normal to the mirror. The device further includes at least one pair of sensors configured to emit fields towards the curved target rather than the mirror.
US12228391B2
A rotary pressure filter, comprising a filter drum and a housing. A sensor is attached to the housing and emits light through a light-permeable section of the housing in the direction of a filter cake. The sensor receives light reflected from the filter cake through the light-permeable section of the housing. A processing unit compares properties of the emitted light with those of the received light and determines an absolute thickness of the filter cake and/or a change in the thickness of the filter cake over a pre-determined time. The invention further relates to a corresponding method.
US12228389B2
An underwater organism imaging aid system according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes, at least one memory configured to store instructions, and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to: detect an underwater organism from an image acquired by a camera, determine a positional relationship between the underwater organism detected and the camera, and output auxiliary information for moving the camera in such a way that a side face of the underwater organism and an imaging face of the camera face each other based on the positional relationship.
US12228375B2
A multi-accessory mount assembly for use with a firearm, and methods for coupling the assembly to the firearm are provided. The assembly may include a proximal portion having a lower surface configured to be removably coupled to the firearm and an upper surface configured to be removably coupled to a sub mount. The sub mount may be configured to be removably coupled to a first firearm accessory, e.g., an optic scope, a red dot sight, a reflex sight, a night vision monocular or scope, or a magnifier. The assembly further may include a distal portion extending distally from the proximal portion via a neck portion, such that the distal portion is elevated higher than the proximal portion. An upper surface of the distal portion may be configured to be removably coupled to a second firearm accessory, e.g., an infrared laser or a night vision monocular or scope.
US12228373B2
The present invention discloses a canting indicating rifle scope. An eyepiece assembly is located on one end of a body tube, and an objective bell extends from the opposite end. Lenses are positioned within the scope and permit visual acuity and magnification adjustments. A reticle is located between a focus lens and an ocular lens. A level is located between the reticle and the ocular lens. A canting turret extends from a parallax turret on the body tube and contains a circuit board, a battery power source, and an accelerometer. The circuit board is electrically connected to the electronic accelerometer and to a level LED positioned to illuminate the level. The circuit board is electrically connected to a reticle LED to illuminate the reticle. An activation switch on the exterior of the turret controls the mode of illumination of the reticle and level.
US12228371B2
A projectile launcher device and associated optical beam generating system includes a body having at least two sockets, each socket carrying a projectile. A power source is capable of expelling each projectile from the launcher into a projectile plane. An optical beam generating system is capable of generating a beam array. The beam array includes at least two distinct pattern beams that divergently extend from the launcher at a non-zero angle relative to one another, and a void region formed between the at least two pattern beams, the void region being devoid of any portion of the optical beam.
US12228370B1
An apparatus that can be added to a conventional firearm magazine which safely stores an ammunition cartridge for loading into a break action type firearm. The loader is slidably, removably, or fixedly attached to a magazine so that the magazine can be released from the frame of the firearm and used as a grip for loading the round of ammunition into the chamber of a tip-up barrel, or any break action firearm. The loader stores an ammunition cartridge in the correct orientation for quickly loading the cartridge into the chamber of a tip-up pistol barrel, or any break-action firearm barrel.
US12228368B1
A band holster for quick draw include a band body, a handgun pouch connected to the band body for holding a handgun, and a clasp means which is capable of being operated between a closed state for retaining the handgun at the handgun pouch and an open state for allowing the handgun to be retrieved from the handgun pouch by a single drawing operation of a single hand.
US12228365B2
The present disclosure relates a buttstock accessory port system, comprising a body, a recoil pad, and an insert. The body includes a bridge and a cavity. The recoil pad attaches to the body and incudes an opening. The insert is insertable through the recoil pad opening and insertable into the cavity of the body.
US12228359B2
Embodiments described herein relate to suppressors for reducing or eliminating sound, flash, and/or heat generated by firearms while discharging projectiles. The suppressor includes a unitary structure containing a cone shaped nozzle disposed at one end of a body. The body has a plurality of baffles surrounding a central bore, a breech end opposite a faceplate, and a plurality of cooling channels spanning a length of the body. Each cooling channel has a first opening at the breech end and a second opening at the faceplate. The unitary structure further contains an outer ring spanning from the breech end to at least the faceplate, a longitudinal wall spanning from the breech end to the faceplate, and a plurality of radially oriented walls extending between the longitudinal wall and the outer ring. The plurality of cooling channels is disposed between the longitudinal wall, the outer ring, and the radially oriented walls.
US12228355B2
A solid matrix tube heat exchanger includes an assembly of solid matrix modules each formed from a thermally conductive material and having opposed first and second planar faces, each solid matrix module including a plurality of spaced-apart tubes arranged in an identical pattern and extending between the first and second faces in an axial direction, the solid matrix modules positioned such that corresponding ones of the tubes in all of the solid matrix modules are axially aligned with each other. The corresponding ones of the tubes in adjacent ones of the solid matrix modules coupled to one another by nipples extending past the end of each tube, the nipples mechanically bonded to inner walls of the corresponding ones of the tubes.
US12228353B2
Embodiments described herein relate a tunable heat transfer system. The tunable heat transfer system includes a controller, a first body, and a second body. The first body is communicatively coupled to the controller. The second body is communicatively coupled to the controller and spaced apart from the first body. The second body has a plurality of semimetal layers and a dielectric portion positioned between each of the plurality of semimetal layers. Each of the dielectric portions has a thickness to define a gap between each the plurality of semimetal layers in an expanded state and permitting each of the plurality of semimetal layers to abut each other in a contracted state. The controller is configured to change a near-field radiative heat transfer between the first body and the second body by changing the thickness of each of the dielectric portions between the expanded state and the contracted state.
US12228352B2
A fill sheet and a fill pack manufactured from a plurality of fill sheets for cooling a cooling medium in a cooling tower, each fill sheet having a plurality of flutes extending diagonally from top to bottom of the fill sheet, the diagonal orientation of the flutes resulting from a plurality of alternating longer diagonal flute segments and shorter vertical flute segments, each of the plurality of flutes having the microstructure comprising a plurality of alternating rounded mounds and rounded depressions extending between flat ridge edges and flat valley edges of said flutes.
US12228351B2
A heat exchanger includes tubes arranged in one direction, and a corrugated fin provided between the tubes. The corrugated fin includes joints joined to the tubes, and fin bodies that connect the joints which are located next to each other along the wave shape. The fin body includes a cut-raised portion that has a shape in which a part of the fin body is cut and raised for promotion of heat transfer. The cut-raised portion includes a cut-raised end on at least one end of the cut-raised portion in the one direction. The cut-raised end has recesses and projections on its surface that increase hydrophilicity of the surface of the cut-raised end.
US12228350B2
A heat exchanger includes: flat heat exchange tubes each having an elongated cross section and planar outer surfaces that face each other, and each including a fluid flow passage; and corrugated fins each formed in the shape of waves and provided between associated adjacent ones of the heat exchange tubes. The corrugated fins each having ridge portions that correspond to ridges of the waves and that are joined to the associated heat exchange tubes, the corrugated fin having fins that are located between the ridge portions and are arranged in a height direction. The fins include drain slits each of which allows drainage of water on an associated one of the fins, and end portions of the drain slits of adjacent ones of the fins in a horizontal direction are located at different positions in the drain slits, the adjacent fins being adjacent to each other in the height direction.
US12228345B2
A heat exchanger includes three flow paths, a first flow path, a second flow path, and a third flow path, which turn spirally in the space formed between an inner cylinder and an outer cylinder are provided. These flow paths are defined by an inner heat transfer body and an outer heat transfer body, and heat exchange is performed through the heat transfer bodies. The heat transfer bodies turn spirally, have a screw shape in an axial cross-sectional view, and are assembled into a screw shape. The flow path area of the first flow path is varied by changing the shapes of a male thread and a female thread, and the second flow path and the third flow path are formed in a spiral shape, allowing for exchange of heat through the heat transfer bodies.
US12228332B2
A home appliance includes a cabinet having a space, a door configured to open and close the space and including a light source, an illuminance sensor provided in the cabinet or the door and configured to detect illuminance, a user detection sensor provided in the cabinet or the door and configured to detect user proximity, and a controller configured to control the light source based on information detected by the user detection sensor, wherein, when a user is detected to approach the home appliance within a reference distance by the user detection sensor, the controller controls the light source of the door to be changed from a first state to a second state, and the reference distance is changeable based on one or more of an illuminance and current time detected by the illuminance sensor.
US12228327B2
A method for thawing of a transport transporting bulk material includes providing water vapor, introducing water vapor into a thawing chamber. The transport transporting bulk material and to be thawed is at least partially located in the thawing chamber. Air loaded with the water vapor and having a preset dew point temperature TT is generated in the thawing chamber, and the dew point temperature TT is adapted to the transport transporting bulk material.
US12228324B2
A method for managing the production of an artificial snowmaking plant having a plurality of snowmaking apparatuses arranged along a ski slope, comprising the operating steps of: comparing historical forecast values (VSP) of a parameter with respective one or more historical values of the realistically measured weather parameter (VSR1,2,3) at said one or more snowmaking apparatuses arranged in said predefined geographical area; determining future forecast values (VFP) of said parameter as a function of a historical difference value (D1,2,3) determined at one or more apparatuses so as to determine one or more realistic future forecast parameter values (VFR1,2,3) at each snowmaking apparatus on which the historical difference value (D1,2,3) has been determined.
US12228320B2
An air conditioning apparatus with a refrigerant circuit includes a connecting portion to which a first electric wire and a second electric wire are connected. The first and second electric wires are connected to corresponding first and second devices of a plurality of safety devices. The plurality of safety devices includes at least two types of a refrigerant detector, an alarm device, an isolation valve, and a ventilation device. A circuit configuration portion forms an interlock circuit with the first electric wire and the second electric wire connected to the connecting portion. A first member enables formation of a first circuit including at least part of the circuit configuration portion and not including both the first electric wire and the second electric wire. A controller prohibits an operation of the air conditioning apparatus when no current flows through either the interlock circuit or the first circuit.
US12228314B1
A cascading thermoelectric heat pump employs a stack of cold plates with a series of thermoelectric coolers sandwiched between each adjacent pair of cold plates, allowing for noise-free cooling and heating of a 67° F. water supply, capable of delivering water chilled to about 44° F. and water heated to about 90° F.
US12228313B2
A method for controlling a three-way valve that diverts return refrigerant from a first compressor to a second compressor or a third compressor, the second and third compressor in parallel includes obtaining a temperature of the return refrigerant indicating a degree of superheat of the return refrigerant. The method also includes determining if the three-way valve should be transitioned into a first position, transitioned into a second position, or maintained in a current one of the first position or the second position. The method also includes transitioning the three-way valve into the first position or the second position, or maintaining the three-way valve in the first position or the second position. In the first position, the first compressor provides the return refrigerant to the second compressor through the three-way valve and in the second position, the first compressor provides the return refrigerant to the third compressor through the three-way valve.
US12228311B2
This disclosure is related to devices, systems, and techniques for outputting an alarm signal in response to detecting a leak in a water heater device. For example, a water heater device includes a leak sensor, an intermittent pilot light, and a circuit. The circuit includes processing circuitry configured to receive, from the leak sensor, an electrical signal including information indicative of a leak in the water heater device, activate, based on the electrical signal including information indicative of the leak, an alarm device, where the alarm device is powered for at least a period of time by a power source, where the power source is configured to receive energy from a thermoelectric device, and maintain an amount of energy stored by the power source so that the amount of energy is sufficient for the power source to supply energy to the alarm device.
US12228307B2
An adjustable vent cover includes a base having a perimeter surface surrounding a central opening. A cover is connected to the base via one or more hinges. The cover includes an interior volume accessible via a slot disposed on a forward-facing edge of the cover. The cover is biased toward a closed position that closes off the opening of the base. A register or vent is operably connected to the base. The cover is configured to move to an open position via forced air from the vent, and to return to the closed position when the airflow ceases. The cover may be transparent and include a decorative card that can be inserted into the slot. The cover may further include a scent card with a diffusive scent material. The lower side of the cover may include louvers such that airflow passes over the scent card.
US12228306B2
Air diffusion terminal apparatus (1) for wall or ceiling (33), fluidly connectable to an air ventilation system (3), comprising: a frame (4) comprising a framework (8,9) and a through-hole (35), the framework (8,9) being configured to be installed and housed in a cavity of the wall/ceiling (33); a cartridge (5) configured to be insertable in the frame (4) according to a first direction (F) parallel to a longitudinal axis (L) of the through-hole (35) so to fill the through-hole (35) of the frame (4); said cartridge (5) comprising a plurality of housings (6) for receiving respective modules (7), said modules (7) comprising at least an air diffusion module in turn comprising deflecting blades (7A,7B,7C) or a plate (7D) provided with holes (7E) or nozzles (7F).
US12228294B2
The purpose of the present invention is to provide a hot water supplying apparatus that enables a user to conveniently execute a hot water control function in a location where a faucet is located, and a method for controlling the same. The hot water supplying apparatus for achieving said purpose comprises: a flow rate detection unit for detecting a flow rate change of water supplied by turning a faucet on/off and outputting a flow rate signal; and a control unit for, when the flow rate detection unit detects a flow rate change in a specific pattern, controlling a preset hot water control function to be executed according to the flow rate change pattern.
US12228289B2
A latching structure for a cooking device and a cooking device having the same are provided. The cooking device has a casing and a door body. The latching structure has a flipping member, a first restoring member, a restricting member and a second restoring member. The first restoring member provides the flipping member with a first restoring force for allowing the flipping member to rotate towards a non-triggered position. The restricting member is movably disposed on the casing between a first position and a second position. The second restoring member is configured to provide the restricting member with a second restoring force for allowing the restricting member to move towards the first position. The latching structure is configured, such that a restoring speed at which the flipping member rotates towards the non-triggered position is greater than a restoring speed at which the restricting member moves towards the first position.
US12228287B1
A rotating detonation combustor (RDC) and an associated system is disclosed herein. The RDC can be operably coupled with a vehicle to provide additional power capability over the primary motive power source. The RDC can be operated on demand to provide power to a turbine connected to an electrical power generator in some forms. The RDC can be used in stationary systems as well as moving vehicle systems.
US12228282B2
An engine can utilize a combustor to combust fuel to drive the engine. A fuel nozzle assembly can supply fuel to the combustor for combustion or ignition of the fuel. The fuel nozzle assembly can include a swirler and a fuel nozzle to supply a mixture of fuel and air for combustion. The fuel nozzle can include both a primary and secondary fuel passage, and an additional air passage to provide for greater flame control, fuel provision, or local fuel and air mixing prior to combustion.
US12228278B2
A luminaire includes an elongated body, a plurality of light sources arranged between opposing ends of the body, mounting plates provided at the opposing ends, and an electrical outlet configured to receive power. The mounting plates include a threaded portion configured to receive a threaded connector for supporting the luminaire from a mounting surface. A lighting modifier might be provided to alter the lighting output.
US12228276B2
An emergency lighting device may include a housing container, wherein the housing container includes: a body defining a cavity, and a structural assembly, wherein the structural assembly is configured to be adjustably rotatable along a first translatable axis and independently rotatable along a second translatable axis extending transversely to the first translatable axis. An emergency lighting device may include a lighting assembly, wherein the lighting assembly includes at least one light source, wherein the at least one light source is mounted to the structural assembly, and the at least one light source is configured to illuminate an asymmetrical beam of light. An emergency lighting device may include an electrical circuit, wherein the electrical circuit is disposed in the cavity of the housing container. An emergency lighting device may include the electrical circuit is configured to electrically power to illuminate the at least one light source.
US12228272B2
The present disclosure relates to lamp unit, lamp system and method for mounting the lamp system. The lamp unit includes: a lamp panel having a cavity formed by a light-emitting surface and a back surface, is provided with light-emitting elements and a plurality of electrical contact points that are electrically connected to the light-emitting elements, and a plurality of openings to expose the electrical contact points; and a mounting unit configured to be detachably mounted on a back surface center portion of the back surface and used for mounting the lamp unit on a predetermined position, and the mounting unit is provided with a plurality of connection positions for forming an electrical connection with another lamp unit. By means of the above manner, the operation of mounting a connector on the lamp unit is easier.
US12228262B2
The lighting device disclosed at an embodiment includes a substrate; a plurality of light sources arranged on the substrate; a resin layer scaling the plurality of light sources; a reflective member disposed between the resin layer and the substrate; and an antenna pattern disposed in a first region between the reflective member and the substrate.
US12228261B2
A vehicle light is disclosed. The vehicle light includes a first optical device and a second optical device. The first optical device and a light source are sealed in a housing. The second optical device is removably attached to the housing. The first optical device transmits the light rays from the light source into an intermediate pattern. The second optical device transmits the intermediate pattern to a target pattern. The second optical device may be switched to obtain a different target beam pattern or a different color.
US12228260B2
A high-beam optical element includes a light incident part, a light guide part and a light emitting part sequentially arranged from back to front. The light incident part includes a high-beam incident part and an auxiliary lighting structure. The auxiliary lighting structure is configured to receive auxiliary lighting and transmit it to the light guide part after at least one reflection and then project it from the light emitting part as a low-beam III. The high-beam optical element is part of a high-beam illumination unit in a vehicle.
US12228254B2
A light bulb apparatus includes a glass housing, a sleeve housing, a light source plate, a sleeve connector wrapping and an Edison cap. The glass housing defines a tubular part and a trumpet part. The sleeve housing includes a neck part and a protruding part. The neck part is enclosed by the tubular part of the glass housing. The protruding part is exposed outside tubular part. The light source plate is fixed to the sleeve housing. The sleeve connector wraps an exterior surface of the protruding part. The Edison cap is attached to the sleeve connector.
US12228244B2
A mechanical apparatus levelling mechanism has a base (10), an adjusting screw rod (20), an adjusting plate (30) and a support plate (40). The adjusting screw rod penetrates into the adjusting plate in an axial direction and is connected to the base. The adjusting plate is located on the base; the support plate is mounted at a top end of the adjusting screw rod and is located above the adjusting plate; and the adjusting plate rotates to drive the adjusting screw rod to rotate, such that the support plate is adjusted vertically. This simplifies the operation procedure, improving the assembly accuracy and improving the working efficiency. The method is simple to operate. These adjusting mechanisms are convenient to move and simple to adjust, are time-saving and labour-saving, and have adjustment dimensions that can be quantified. Moreover, the installation is simple, and the adjusting mechanisms themselves can be reused.
US12228243B1
A method of assembling a mobile electric power generation system comprises providing a generator trailer having an electric generator, a gas turbine trailer having a gas turbine, an exhaust trailer having an exhaust silencer, and an air filter and ventilation trailer having an air inlet device. Each of the trailers further comprise a trailer alignment system. The method includes arranging the gas turbine trailer at a work site such that the generator trailer and the gas turbine trailer are in an end-to-end configuration. The method includes operably coupling each of the exhaust trailer and the air filter and ventilation trailer to the gas turbine trailer, and correcting a position of the at least one of the generator trailer, the gas turbine trailer, the exhaust trailer, and the air filter and ventilation trailer using the trailer alignment system thereof.
US12228240B2
A magnetic attraction assembly for the plant monitoring device is configured to detachably mount a plant monitoring device on an outer side of a tent and includes: a first connection member and a second connection member. The first connection member is arranged on an inner side surface of the tent or is integrated inside the tent. The second connection member is arranged on an outer side surface of the tent. One side surface of the second connection member is fixed to the plant monitoring device, at least one of the first connection member and the second connection member is a magnetic member, and the other side surface of the second connection member is attracted to the first connection member.
US12228238B2
A supporting device for a portable processing and/or telecommunication apparatus or an accessory having a first portion adapted to be supported by a supporting structure and a second portion having magnetic elements for retaining the portable processing and/or telecommunication apparatus or accessory is provided. The first and second portions are joined together in pivotable manner through a hinge allowing rotation of one of the first and second portions with respect to the other. The supporting device is adapted to assume a first configuration of minimum size in which the second portion is superimposed on the first portion, and at least a second configuration of use in which the second portion is rotated at a selectable angle with respect to the first portion, the first and second portions being hinged so that the supporting device opens like a book from the configuration of minimum size to a selected configuration of use.
US12228237B2
A lifting device is provided. The lifting device includes a stationary member, a lifting member, positioning bases, reels, and springs. The lifting member is slidably coupled to the stationary member. The lifting member is fixed to a back portion of the display. The positioning bases are disposed on the stationary member and the lifting member. The reels are pivoted on the positioning bases. The springs are wound around the reels and connected to the other of the stationary member and the lifting member relative to the positioning bases. When the display or the lifting member is subjected to an applied force toward a sliding direction, the lifting member slides toward the sliding direction relative to the stationary member. The springs stretched by the lifting member generate an elastic force, so that the lifting member and the display no longer subjected to a force stay at a height position after sliding.
US12228232B2
A multi-manifold connector is provided. The multi-manifold connector includes a base, a hot water connector, and a cold water connector, where the hot water connector and the cold water connector are arranged on the base; the hot water connector is provided with a water inlet; the cold water connector is provided with a water outlet; a bottom of the base is provided with multiple first water pipes and multiple second water pipes; the multiple first water pipes run through the base and are communicated with the hot water connector; and the multiple second water pipes run through the base and are communicated with the cold water connector.
US12228228B2
A rotary joint including a stator and a rotor, each having at least one fluid channel, and a fluid transfer interface between the stator and the rotor, via which a fluid flows from the fluid channel in the stator into the fluid channel in the rotor, the fluid transfer interface being sealed off with respect to the surrounding environment by a mechanical seal, which comprises an abrasive sliding ring, and the sliding ring bears in an axial direction in an elastically biased manner against at least one mating ring and forms a seal face therewith. An axial displacement detection device is provided, which is designed to detect, in the event of wear on the sliding ring, an associated axial displacement of the stator and/or rotor. The axial displacement detection device comprises a rotary encoder on the rotor and a sensor that detects a position of the rotary encoder.
US12228224B1
A seal component includes a cylindrical wall, a frustoconical wall extending inwardly from the cylindrical wall, and a seal plate enclosing the frustoconical wall. The seal plate includes a first removable panel and a second removable panel, the second removable panel disposed within an area of the first removable panel. A seal component includes a circumferential ridge circumscribing the second removable panel, the circumferential ridge integrally formed with the seal plate and removably coupled with at least the second removable panel. Additionally, the seal plate includes circumferential grooves and scoring lines that provide a cutting guide to facilitate cutting and removing at least one of the first and second removable panels.
US12228216B2
Apparatuses, systems, and methods are disclosed for a valve. An apparatus includes a valve that includes an actuator and a first magnetic material. The apparatus includes a container that includes an inlet and a float assembly. The actuator is actuated to one of open the valve at a first position and close the valve at a second position responsive to a magnetic force between a second magnetic material and a first magnetic material based on a position of the float assembly within the container.
US12228212B2
A water control valve may include a valve shell, and a control base is installed therein. A sliding block, a driving valve disc, and a fixed valve disc are sequentially stacked below the control base in the valve shell. A valve base is coupled at lower end of the valve shell to block and keep the fixed valve disc, the driving valve disc, the sliding block, and the control base in the valve shell. The valve base comprises an upper base and a lower base, and a water separator is formed therebetween. Both of the upper base and the lower base have the inner spaces to accommodate a temperature limiting member therein. The temperature limiting member has a first cap, a support sleeve, a temperature sensor, a water stop jacket, and a spring, and a balance valve is positioned between the lower base and water separator.
US12228211B2
A directional control valve including air connections for exhaust air, feed air, outside air and waste air; two respective functional connections of a heating path and a cooling path; a switching element that is configured to connect each of the air connections with exactly one of the functional connections so that the exhaust air is fed back through the heating path as the feed air in a heating position, and the exhaust air fed back through the cooling path as the intake air in a cooling position, and the outside air is fed through the heating path in a winter ventilation position as the feed air, and the outside air is fed through the cooling path in a summer ventilation position as the feed air.
US12228209B2
A self-aligning power transmission belt, which may be used in conjunction with a corresponding sprocket, and systems incorporating the self-aligning power transmission belt are described. The self-aligning belt includes a tooth configuration that can eliminate tracking error in belt applications. In some configurations, the self-aligning belt includes two or more rows of teeth, with the teeth in one row being offset from the teeth in a second row.
US12228208B2
A transmission device includes a shaft and two idler gears having gear toothings arranged coaxially with respect to an axis of rotation of the shaft and axially next to each other on the shaft. A switch element is fixed against rotation and arranged axially shiftably in relation to a first idler gear. With regard to the axis of rotation of the shaft, the switch element extends axially from between the two gear toothings up to a side of the first idler gear facing away from the second idler gear. The first idler gear has a passage through which the switch element passes in the axial direction. The switch element has a first switch toothing arranged axially between the idler gears and a second switch toothing arranged on the side of the first idler gear facing away from the second idler gear. The first switch toothing is connected to the second switch toothing in a manner fixed against rotation.
US12228204B2
A flexible mechanism-based anti-backlash device for a planetary gear train, a gearbox, and a robot joint are provided. The anti-backlash device includes an integrated flexible planet carrier, an adjusting screw and a spring, the integrated flexible planet carrier is provided with a moving platform, the moving platform is provided with a spring hole, and the spring is sleeved outside the screw and is installed in the spring hole; when the threaded connection depth of the adjusting screw and the integrated flexible planet carrier reaches or exceeds a set depth, the adjusting screw can extrude the spring to make the moving platform generate elastic movement along a radial direction of the integrated flexible planet carrier, and the radial elastic movement is transformed into circumferential elastic rotation of a planet carrier bearing hole around the center of the planet carrier through an elastic connector.
US12228200B2
Gearbox (1) having a tooth carrier (40) for receiving teeth (7) of a gear ring that are disposed about a rotation axis (5) of the gearbox, wherein the teeth (7) are disposed in the tooth carrier (11) so as to be displaceable and guided in the radial direction, a cam disk (20) which is rotatable about the rotation axis (5) and for driving the teeth (7) in the radial direction has a cam curvature that is variable over the circumference, wherein bearing segments (24) which are mounted so as to slide on the cam disk (20) are disposed between the teeth (7) and the cam disk (20), and wherein the bearing segments (24) have a contact region which has a concave curvature and is disposed so as to be centric on a running surface that faces the cam disk (20), wherein the concave curvature is larger than the smallest cam curvature of the cam disk, and smaller than the largest cam curvature of the cam disk.
US12228198B1
An electric drive system for a motor vehicle includes a first electric machine with a first rotor, a second electric machine with a second rotor, and a reduced coupling gearing, which has a first planetary gear set, a second planetary gear set, a first input shaft, a second input shaft, a first output shaft, and a second output shaft. The first input shaft introduces first torques emanating from the first electric machine into the reduced coupling gearing. The second input shaft introduces second torques emanating from the second electric machine into the reduced coupling gearing. The first output shaft diverts third torques from the reduced coupling gearing. The second output shaft diverts fourth torques from the reduced coupling gearing.
US12228192B2
A transmission unit for a drivetrain of an agricultural towing vehicle includes a first clutch, a second clutch, a first input shaft, a second input shaft, and an output shaft, wherein the first clutch is connected to the first input shaft and the second clutch is connected to the second input shaft. The transmission includes a plurality of gear sets, wherein a second gear set has the fixed wheel on the first input shaft and the shift wheel on the output shaft, and a third gear set has the fixed wheel on the second input shaft and the shift wheel on the output shaft. The shift wheels of the second and third gear sets can be selectively coupled to a shift element such that at least one winding path gear ratio stage can be formed via the second and the third gear set.
US12228180B2
A pulsation damper for damping pressure medium vibrations in a hydraulic system, has a membrane within a bore of a housing, which membrane is exposed to the pressure medium on its one side and faces a gas-filled cavity inside the housing on its other side, the bore of which is closed by means of a plug. The membrane, in conjunction with the plug and a hollow-cylindrical support body, forms an independently handleable, functionally pre-testable assembly, for which purpose the membrane is substantially cup-shaped, and the support body extends into it.
US12228179B2
For controlling electromechanically actuatable brakes of servo type construction, it is necessary to detect the forces acting on the abutment of the brake shoes. The abutment is therefore formed from a massive material which deforms under load, wherein measurement devices are provided which detect this deformation. The shape of the abutment is selected in such a way that the abutment has measurement gaps, the size of which changes when the abutment is loaded. The size of the measurement gaps can be sensed by means of Hall sensors or AMR sensors, for example.
US12228178B2
A vehicle includes a drive source, driving wheels driven by a driving force output from the drive source, and a clutch disposed between the drive source and the driving wheels. The clutch is switchable to an arbitrary fastening position between a connection state enabling transmission of the driving force between the drive source and the driving wheels, and a disconnection state disconnecting the transmission. A clutch actuator applies a fastening load to the clutch and provides a torque transmission capacity corresponding to the fastening load to the clutch. A controller controls operation of the drive source and operation of the clutch actuator. The controller includes a clutch temperature estimation circuit estimating the temperature of the clutch, and a driving force adjustment circuit performing driving force adjustment control to adjust the driving force transmitted to the downstream side of the clutch based on the estimated temperature of the clutch.
US12228177B2
Drivelines have double conical bearing joints incorporated therein. The double conical bearing joints provide the drivelines with multiple degrees of freedom and allow the driveline to bear load in any direction. The conical bearing joints of the driveline include polycrystalline diamond bearing surfaces.
US12228170B1
A coupling apparatus that is configured to provide a movable connection between at least two support members wherein the coupling apparatus can be deployed as part of devices in a plurality of applications. The present invention includes a housing wherein the housing is oval in shape having a first end and a second end. The opposing sides of the housing are formed with openings wherein the openings are substantially the size of the opposing sides. A top wall and bottom wall are present in the housing having apertures formed in the center thereof. Disposed within the interior volume of the housing is a spherical member. The spherical member is movable between a plurality of fixed positions through manipulation of the housing, specifically applying an inward force to the ends of the housing. Support elements are present on the housing and spherical member that are operable to couple to a device.
US12228164B2
A strong connection that ensures alignment between components and which is capable of being used for high-pressure applications. The connection is held together with one or more pins that are positioned tangentially along the interfacing plane of the components and which pins are positioned such that they are placed in sheer along a significant portion of their length instead of merely across their diameter. The pins can be held in place with one or more structures, which can include threaded fasteners, to prevent the pins from being inadvertently removed.
US12228158B2
Various embodiments described herein provide a fastener system having straight walled driving surfaces that provides a reliable stick fit feature, while also improving stability of engagement between the system components. A feature of the new system is to allow stick fit engagement of existing standard straight walled drivers in the new system.
US12228155B2
A sealing plug comprises the combination of a stem and sleeve, in which the stem is designed to have an external taper such that, on installation of the plug by a setting tool, sleeve material flows into a gap between the sleeve and taper to assist with locking the sleeve and stem together. Furthermore, the tool nose piece has a conical taper designed to cause sleeve material to flow, initially on installation, radially outward to effect locking of the plug into a blind hole into which it is being installed.
US12228152B2
The present disclosure provides a pilot proportional control valve apparatus, an automatic calibration method, engineering machinery and a storage medium, and relates to the technical field of engineering machinery, wherein the pilot proportional control valve apparatus including a hydraulic system and a controller; the hydraulic system including: a plurality of proportional pressure reducing valves, a calibration reversing valve, and a pressure sensor; the calibration reversing valve including a plurality of reversing units, an output end of each proportional pressure reducing valve being respectively connected with an input end of one corresponding reversing unit; the pressure sensor being arranged in a detection oil path; the controller performing calibration processing on the proportional pressure reducing valve according to a pilot oil detection pressure and an output pressure value of the proportional pressure reducing valve.
US12228148B2
A fan with increased heat-removing ability and reduced noise in operation includes a hub, a baffle, a first blade layer, and a second blade layer. The first blade layer includes a plurality of first blades, and the second blade layer includes a plurality of second blades. An orthogonal projection of each of the plurality of first blades on the baffle is located between orthogonal projections of adjacent two of the plurality of second blades on the baffle. A length of the plurality of first blades is greater or less than a length of the plurality of second blades to avoid any resonance. An electronic device including the fan is also disclosed.
US12228141B2
A multi-blade centrifugal air-sending device includes a fan including a back plate having a disk shape, a plurality of blades arranged at a peripheral portion of the back plate in a circumferential direction, and a rim having an annular shape and coupling the plurality of blades to each other, the plurality of blades being connected at respective first end portions on one side to the back plate, the rim being provided at respective second end portions of the plurality of blades on a side opposite to the one side where the respective first end portions are present; and a scroll casing having a spiral shape and including a facing side wall where an air inlet is provided and a peripheral wall, the scroll casing housing the fan such that the side wall faces the respective second end portions of the plurality of blades, the scroll casing being configured such that air is introduced through the air inlet and blown out to the outer peripheral side.
US12228139B2
The present disclosure provides a two-stage cavitation generator for organic wastewater treatment, including a shrouded impeller, a stator, and a rotor. The shrouded impeller includes a front cover plate, blades, and a rear cover plate. Several blades are evenly distributed between the front cover plate and the rear cover plate. A working surface of the blade is an arc surface, and a back of the blade protrudes locally, so that a flow channel between the back of the blade and a working surface of its adjacent blade is narrowed locally, forming a throat structure. An outlet of the shrouded impeller is provided with the stator and the rotor, and the stator is located at an outer edge of the front cover plate and fixed on an inner wall of a volute. The rotor is mounted on the rear cover plate.
US12228138B2
A fish-friendly centrifugal pump having an impeller. The impeller includes a base that is concentric relative to a rotational axis of the impeller and an impeller body formed as at least one oblique cone having an eccentric apex and a smooth outer surface. The at least one oblique cone extends from the base.
US12228135B2
Hydrocarbon-type refrigerants tend to dissolve in refrigerating machine oils, which may result in a decrease in the viscosity of the refrigerating machine oils and cause excessive wear of the sliding portions inside the compressors. An air conditioning apparatus includes a refrigerant circuit in which a compressor, an outdoor heat exchanger, an expansion valve, and an indoor heat exchanger are sequentially connected and a refrigerant is circulated. The compressor includes a sliding portion including a first bearing metal or an Oldham ring. At least one of two members slidable with each other in the sliding portion is formed of aluminum or aluminum alloy. The refrigerant circulating through the refrigerant circuit is a hydrocarbon-type refrigerant. A refrigerating machine oil used in the compressor has a refrigerant solubility of 30% or less at a pressure of 1.9 MPa and at a temperature of 60° C.
US12228113B2
An SMA actuator assembly (1a) for driving or rotating a movable part (20) in a predetermined direction or sense by a plurality of repeated incremental steps is provided. The SMA actuator assembly comprises the movable part; a first engagement portion (31) for engaging the movable part; two SMA wires (41, 42) arranged to move the first engagement portion such that the first engagement portion repeatedly, for each of said incremental steps, is configured to do the following: engage with the movable part from a starting position, exert a force or torque on the movable part in the predetermined direction and disengage from the movable part and return to the starting position. The exertion of the force or torque on the movable part and the engaging or disengaging with the movable part are caused by contraction or relaxation of the two SMA wires.
US12228104B2
The present inventive concept provides for a method of harnessing artesian aquifer power. The method includes obtaining weather data and artesian aquifer data for a geolocation. Weather features and artesian aquifer features are extracted from the obtained weather data and artesian aquifer data, respectively. Compression and decompression events are predicted for water in an artesian well at the geolocation by mapping the weather features and the artesian aquifer features. A plurality of piezoelectric springs connected to the artesian well are modulated to maximize artesian aquifer energy harnessed based on the predicted compression and decompression events.
US12228098B2
A system is provided for compressing gaseous fuel for injection into an engine. The system includes a turbine positioned in the exhaust passage of an engine and a compressor positioned in a gaseous fuel line upstream of the engine, where the compressor is coupled to the turbine.
US12228096B1
A propulsion unit includes a gas turbine engine and an exhaust nozzle coupled to an aft end of the gas turbine engine. The exhaust nozzle is configured to interact with exhaust gases exiting the gas turbine engine in an aft direction. The exhaust nozzle includes an outer nozzle case and an inner plug that cooperate to define an exhaust flow path therebetween. The exhaust nozzle is configured to manipulate the exhaust gases to provide different thrust capabilities for the gas turbine engine.
US12228095B2
The disclosure concerns a waste heat recovery system that is configured to operate as a prime mover in emergency case, when the heat source is down. The waste heat recovery system comprises, in addition to a heater configured to circulate a working fluid in heat exchange relationship with a heating fluid from the heat source to heat the working fluid, an independent auxiliary heat source configured to provide an additional heating fluid in heat exchange relationship with the working fluid, to heat the working fluid. The system is provided with a secondary heater, which is configured to circulate the working fluid in heat exchange relationship with the additional heating fluid from the independent auxiliary heat source and which can be used to replace the heater or in combination with the heater.
US12228092B2
A lean-burn gasoline engine (110), comprising an air intake port having an air intake port inlet, an air intake port outlet, and an air channel (45) connecting the air intake port inlet to the air intake port outlet, a combustion chamber (50) having a combustion chamber inlet being connected to the air intake port outlet, the combustion chamber inlet having a throat where the air intake port outlet meets the combustion chamber inlet, a movable valve (51) comprising a valve head top surface (62) that faces the air intake port and a valve stem (63), the movable valve (51) being arranged to move between a closed state for closing off the combustion chamber inlet and an opened state wherein intake air can flow from the air intake port into the combustion chamber (50), a valve guide opening (69) in a wall of the air channel opposite the top surface (62) of the movable valve (51), and a valve guide passage (66) extending into the wall and away from the valve guide opening (69), the valve guide passage (66) housing a valve guide (65) arranged to guide the valve stem (63) and permit movement of the movable valve (51) between the closed state and an opened state. The valve guide (65) has a first end proximate the movable valve being positioned within the valve guide passage (66) such that airflow through the air channel (45) is not impeded by the valve guide (65).
US12228087B2
A system for controlling an electronic throttle body includes an engine speed setting device having a first terminal coupled to a source for a reference voltage, a second terminal coupled to a first end of a conductor and means for varying a level of resistance between the first and second terminals. The level of resistance is indicative of a desired engine speed. The second terminal outputs an analog engine speed signal indicative of the desired engine speed on the conductor. An electronic control module includes an engine speed signal processing circuit including a resistor coupled between a node located between the first and second ends of the conductor and one of a voltage supply and a voltage return. A controller coupled to the second end of the conductor is configured to generate a control signal for the electronic throttle body responsive to the engine speed signal.
US12228086B1
Even if the fuel pressure to a torch for igniting an air-fuel mixture in a gas turbine engine is set to an ideal value, the actual fuel pressure supplied to the torch may differ due to modifications, drift, changes in ambient temperature or pressure, fuel composition, and/or the like. This may result in failure of the gas turbine engine to ignite. Accordingly, disclosed embodiments introduce a torch active pressure control (TAPC) system into the flow path of fuel to the torch. The TAPC system is controlled to modulate the fuel pressure of the fuel supplied to the torch, according to a modulation profile. The modulation profile may traverse a range of fuel pressures in each of one or a plurality of sinusoidal, V-shaped, stepped, or other-shaped cycles, to increase the probability that the ideal fuel pressure, and therefore, flame height, is achieved, thereby increasing the likelihood of a successful lightoff.
US12228082B2
A shaft assembly having: a first shaft with an inner facing surface having: an inner facing spline extending between spline ends; an inner facing projection, adjacent to one of the spline ends, extending to an inner facing projection surface; and an inner facing projection seat, adjacent to another of the spline ends; and a second shaft having an outer facing surface having: an outer facing spline extending between spline ends; an outer facing projection, adjacent to one of the spline ends of the outer facing spline, extending to an outer projection surface; and an outer facing projection seat, adjacent to another of the ends of the outer facing spline; the first shaft at least partially surrounds the second shaft; the inner facing projection surface is disposed against the outer facing projection seat; and the outer facing projection surface disposed against the inner facing projection seat.
US12228077B2
Disclosed is a fuel system for a gas turbine engine. The system comprises a fuel pump for fluid communication with a fuel reservoir; a driving turbine for driving the fuel pump; and a source of compressed air flow to drive the driving turbine. The source of compressed air may be the engine core, a dedicated fuel system compressor or the compressor of a cabin blower system.
US12228066B2
An engine includes: an engine block including a cylinder block and a head block, a cool liquid cooler that cools a first cool liquid that cools the engine block, a lubricant oil cooler that cools a lubricant oil using the first cool liquid or a second cool liquid, an exhaust manifold mounted to the engine block, a turbocharger driven by exhaust gas from the exhaust manifold, an exhaust communication pipe that communicates the exhaust manifold with the turbocharger, and a cool liquid flow channel through which a cool liquid discharged from the engine block flows in an order of the exhaust communication pipe and the exhaust manifold. The cool liquid cooler and the lubricant oil cooler are so placed as to be arranged side by side on one end side in a crankshaft direction.
US12228054B2
A device for receiving, storing and releasing thermal energy, the device comprising a thermally insulated enclosure defining a cavity; at least one thermal energy storage material disposed within said cavity; at least one energy source configured for charging said thermal energy storage material with thermal energy; and a thermal energy converter configured for receiving thermal energy from said thermal energy storage material; wherein said thermally insulated enclosure comprises an inner wall, an outer wall and a substantially gas-tight interior void delimited by the inner wall and the outer wall, and wherein the outer wall comprises at least one flow regulator in fluid communication with the interior void and configured to supply and remove working fluids to and from the inner void.
US12228052B2
An integrally bladed rotor for an aircraft engine includes a hub and a circumferential array of blades extending from the hub. Each blade has an airfoil extending from a gaspath side of a platform provided at a periphery of the hub. The platform has a radial thickness T. An edge of the airfoil is disposed at an axial distance L1 from an adjacent axial edge of the platform. A projection extends radially inwardly from an interior side of the platform opposite to the gaspath side. The projection has an axial thickness t, a radial height h from the interior side of the platform, and an axial distance L2 from the adjacent axial edge of the platform. T is a radial thickness of the platform at an axial location of the projection, and 0 . 2 ≤ T t ≤ 5 ; 1 ≤ h t ≤ 10 ; and 0 ≤ L 2 L 1 ≤ 1 0 .
US12228050B2
A steam turbine according to the present invention comprises: a shaft which rotates about the rotation axis thereof; a plurality of moving blades which extend in the radial direction from the outer peripheral surface of the shaft and which are arranged along the circumferential direction; a casing main body which covers the shaft and the moving blades from the outer peripheral side; a plurality of stationary blades which are arranged on the inner circumferential surface of the casing main body; and a substance supply unit which supplies, to the surfaces of the moving blades and/or the surfaces of the stationary blades, a film forming substance that is hydrophobic, wherein the substance supply unit has a storage unit, a supply passage which is formed inside the casing and through which the film forming substance flows, and discharge units which are formed inside the moving blades and/or the stationary blades and which guide the film forming substance to the surfaces.
US12228048B2
A turbine engine includes a compressor section, a combustion section, and a turbine section, and an airfoil with an outer wall defining a pressure side and a suction side and extending between a leading edge and a trailing edge to define a mean camber line. A first thickness is defined between the pressure side and the suction side at a first location along the mean camber line.
US12228043B1
A compression tool for a seal assembly of a gas turbine engine includes a cover configured to be installed to a seal assembly. The seal assembly includes a seal carrier, a seal element installed to the seal carrier, the seal element configured as a ring, and one or more biasing elements configured to axially bias a position of the seal element. The cover includes a cover body, and a cover flange including a flange groove configured to cover the seal element of the seal assembly.
US12228029B2
A system comprising a tubing encased conductor (TEC), a transformer inductively coupled to the TEC, and a wireless downhole device coupled to the transformer. The wireless downhole device may include a transceiver configured to receive and/or transmit, from the transformer, a digital signal encoded in a variable current in the TEC. The digital signal may correspond to a command. In some aspects, the wireless downhole device may be powered via the transformer, a battery, or a turbine.
US12228024B2
An embodiment of a manifold of a hydraulic fracturing system includes a flow cross junction including an inlet flow bore. In addition, the manifold includes a coupling adapter including an external shoulder and a connection device. The connection device is to connect to an output of a pump of the hydraulic fracturing system, and the coupling adapter is removably inserted within the inlet flow bore such that the connection device is positioned outside of the inlet flow bore. Further, the manifold includes a retainer ring connected to the flow cross junction and compressed against the external shoulder.
US12228020B2
Devices, systems, and methods are disclosed concerning gas lift gas recovery. A gas lift gas recovery system can include an inlet separator system, charge system, and sump system for facilitating recovery of gas lift gas. The inlet separator system can be configured to receive production fluid for separation of liquids therefrom to recover gas lift gas. The charge system can include a high pressure (HP) leg for holding an HP portion of fluid and a low pressure (LP) leg for holding an LP portion of fluid. The sump system can be configured for holding liquids from at least one of the inlet separator system and the charge system.
US12228018B2
A method and apparatus for containing one or more shaped charges in a single plane, arrayed about the center axis of a gun body, and detonated from a single initiator in a shaped charge cluster assembly, having one or more detonator circuits located within a recess within the shaped charge cluster assembly electrically coupled to the single initiator located at the center of the arrayed shaped charges.
US12227995B2
In some embodiments, an apparatus may comprise a slimline connector to connect a motor lead extension (MLE) to an electric motor of an electric submersible pump (ESP) to be positioned in a wellbore, the electric motor having a rotational axis. The slimline connector may comprise multiple power ports positioned circumferentially around an axis of the slimline connector, wherein the axis of the slimline connector is parallel with the rotational axis of the electric motor, and wherein each port of the multiple power ports is associated with a different electrical phase.
US12227986B2
A door closing impact absorber includes a main bracket, a rotation bracket rotatably connected to the main bracket, and a main bracket torsion elasticity portion coupling the main bracket and the rotation bracket to elastically support a relative rotation of the main bracket and the rotation bracket.
US12227983B2
An automatic vehicle-door activating sensing system and a method therefor are provided. The system includes: a distance sensing antenna module and an activating antenna module for generating signals; a processor generates a first distance information, a second distance information, and a activating information according to the signals. When the first distance information is less than a distance threshold and a waveform of the activating information changes, the processor generates and transmits a ready-to-activate signal to an in-vehicle system. When the second distance information is greater than the distance threshold, the processor generates and transmits a vehicle door activating signal to the in-vehicle system. The in-vehicle system can activate the vehicle door after receiving the signals in sequence. With one radar, the invention can automatically activate the vehicle door based on a user's position and kicking behavior, thereby preventing misoperation caused by detection.
US12227982B2
An egress entrance system (1) comprising a swing door member (10) having a door leaf (12), an initiate device (13) for initiating a panic opening, and an automatic door operator (30) is provided. The automatic door operator (30) has a motor (34) capable of causing movement of the door member (10), a controller (31) for controlling operation of the motor (34), and the automatic door operator (30) being operable in a testing mode (60) and an operational mode, wherein the controller (31) is configured, in the testing mode (60), to automatically determine at least one test parameter; and causing an action in response to the determined test parameter.
US12227974B2
A vehicle door system for limiting an opening angle. The system includes a track connected to the door, a clamp unit connected to and movable in relation to the track, and a blocking member connected to a vehicle body structure. The track extends through the blocking member. In a first state, the clamp unit is moveable in relation to the track and, in a second state, the clamp unit is prevented from moving in relation to the track. In the first state when the door is opened the clamp unit moves along the track. When the door, in the open position, is at a predetermined angle, the clamp unit is at a locked position in relation to the track preventing further opening of the vehicle door through interaction between the clamp unit and the blocking member.
US12227972B2
An angle-detecting door handle assembly comprises: a handle member; a four-bar link configured to move the handle member between at least retracted and presented positions relative to a door surface; a motor configured to actuate the four-bar link; a rotary sensor configured to detect an angle of the four-bar link throughout actuation and generate a signal corresponding to the detected angle; and a controller configured to control the motor based on the signal from the rotary sensor.
US12227958B2
A fence guard including: an elongated channel-shaped body member having a planar and horizontal bottom, at least two planer sidewalls extending upwardly from edges of the horizontal bottom and forming an open top, where an open longitudinal channel is defined by the horizontal bottom and the planar sidewalls; the planar sidewalls are outwardly angled in a direction extending from the horizontal bottom to the open top; and a plurality of longitudinally spaced openings along the planar sidewalls aligned respective of one another and formed to engage with each other via a connection member; where the connection member secures the planar sidewalls to one another.
US12227957B2
The invention herein relates to a headstone support. The headstone support has a base and a socket. The headstone socket is configured to receive the headstone in a tight fit so as to reduce movement and/or shifting of the headstone. The headstone socket can have at least four corners. The corners are connected by sidewalls. The sidewalls may be complete sidewalls or partial sidewalls. The base of the headstone support has flanges that extend outward from the sidewalls. The base is configured to disperse the weight of the headstone. The base may attach directly to or rest on a vault or may be placed on compacted ground. The headstone support may have openings configured for drainage. The openings may be positioned inside the socket. Alternatively, the openings may be positioned on the sidewalls.
US12227952B2
The present invention relates to a novel one-piece bathroom rug or floor covering designed to accommodate the floor area near fixtures in a bathroom. The bathroom rug features a toilet rug portion for covering surface area in front of a toilet bowl, a shower rug portion for covering surface area in front of the shower or tub and a sink basin rug portion for covering surface area below and in front of a sink. The toilet rug portion includes a cut-out contoured to a toilet base and adapted to receive therein the toilet base. The bathroom rug is a multi-layered structure and absorbs water, increases comfort and safety, and improves the overall aesthetic of a bathroom.
US12227951B1
The present disclosure provides embodiments of a kit for supplying reinforced porcelain panel products for use in shower enclosures. In an embodiment, a kit includes a container and one or more reinforced porcelain panel products positioned to be associated with a container. Each of the reinforced porcelain panel products includes a) a porcelain slab having a top surface with a first surface area, and b) a structural core board including a foam-core material and having a second surface area greater than the first surface area of the porcelain slab. The structural core board is positioned in abutting contact with the porcelain slab with adhesive material therebetween. The structural core board extends beyond outer peripheries of the porcelain slab to be visible and to enhance protection from cracking when the reinforced porcelain panel product is handled and is further to be attached to a mounting surface when installed.
US12227933B2
A mobile office structure and comprises a base frame set including multiple first base frames and multiple second base frames. Multiple wheel sets are connected to the underside of each of the second base frames. A top frame set includes multiple first top frames and multiple second top frames. Multiple upright frames are located at four corners of a combination of the base frame sets and the top frame sets. Multiple separators are respectively connected between any two of the upright frames. Multiple linings are assembled between any of the two upright frames, and each lining is located corresponding to the inside of each of the separators. Multiple outer plates are assembled between any of the two upright frames, and each outer plate is located relative to the outside of each of the separators. A door plate assembly is installed between the base frame set and the top frame set.
US12227931B2
Systems, processes, apparatus, and articles of manufacture that may be configured, designed, manufactured, transported, installed or operated to subsequently provide water distribution between or within areas of an infiltration field are provided. The water distribution within an infiltration field may be via a distribution conduit positioned in direct contact with a water egress portion of an infiltration field. The water egress portion of the infiltration field may be positioned at the bottom or along the sides of an infiltration field galley, at the bottom or along the sides of a channel, whether in a module or other application, at the bottom or along the sides of an infiltration baffle matrix, and/or at the bottom or along the sides of other water egress areas of an infiltration field.
US12227920B2
Both a control for limiting operation of a machine body and a control for raising engine speed are achieved when an obstacle is detected. To this end, a machine controller performs operation limiting control by conducting a control for reducing the speed of the engine when the machine body does not require engine speed increase control and an obstacle is sensed by obstacle sensors, and the machine controller performs supply flow rate reduction control for reducing the flow rates of the hydraulic fluid supplied to hydraulic actuators from a hydraulic pump when the machine body requires the engine speed increase control and an obstacle is sensed by the obstacle sensors.
US12227916B2
A quick coupler and methods of coupling and decoupling a quick coupler and work tool are disclosed. The quick coupler includes a frame, cylinder, primary blocking member, secondary blocking member, biasing member, and controller. The method of coupling includes activating an AUTOMATIC LOCKING state, automatically locking a second tool pin within a hook, a first tool pin entering a notch, and activating a LOCKED state. The method of decoupling includes activating the AUTOMATIC LOCKING state, resting the work tool on a surface, activating an UNLOCKED state, and separating the quick coupler and work tool. Advantageously, the quick coupler can automatically lock the second tool pin without actuation of the cylinder.
US12227915B2
A carbon fiber structure that achieves the strength and durability of steel tower alternatives at 90% less weight and a lower total installed cost. The mass production process provides affordable carbon fiber telecommunication towers that are engineered for peak strength to weight performance. The composite non-corrosive, non-rusting towers are easy to install and transport to remote locations and have lower maintenance than alternatives. The tapered monopole series provides a wide array of tower options that are all engineered for unparalleled strength to weight characteristics. The carbon fiber structures provide an aesthetical, lightweight, minimum base width, that are transportation friendly with sections that can be nested inside themselves to optimize.
US12227914B2
The invention relates to a method for providing an underground barrier for a water flow. The method includes the steps of drilling in soil a number of parallel vertical holes; inserting pipe strings into the drilled holes, where each pipe string has a pipe string wall with a plurality of openings arranged distributed along the length of the pipe string; introducing injector means in each of the pipe strings; positioning the injector means at a plurality of discrete depths in the respective pipe string and aligned at each depth with at least one of the openings in the pipe string wall; and injecting at each discrete depth a sealing compound, such as sodium silicate, through the at least one aligned opening into the soil.
US12227913B2
The mobile foundation for tower cranes and fast-erecting cranes comprises at least two floor elements made from metal, which may be releasably connected to one another, in particular screwed to one another, wherein the floor elements have anchoring devices for a crane tower. Transportable, reusable ballast weights may be supported on at least one support surface of the foundation. There is provided a passage element having uprights and/or side walls, wherein the uprights or side walls, respectively, have a height of at least 2.1 m, preferably of at least 2.3 m, wherein the passage element may be releasably connected to the floor elements, in particular screwed thereto.
US12227905B2
A method of creating an artificial turf infill comprising providing olive pit fragments from an oil extraction process employing compressing the olives for extracting the olive oil, and tumbling the olive pit fragments to smoothen sharp edges of the olive pit fragments to produce rounded olive pit fragments.
US12227903B2
A sweeping device works on a track formed of rails and sleepers. The sweeping device has a brush shaft formed from a plurality of shaft portions configured as hollow shafts, and resilient sweeping elements protruding radially from the brush shaft. The sweeping device can be attached via at least one adjustable vertical drive to a vehicle that can travel on rails. It is provided that at least one axis of rotation of a shaft portion is adjustable via a control shaft with control elements acting externally on the shaft portion.
US12227899B2
A method for producing a printed textile item, the method including applying a treatment liquid containing an aggregating agent to a fabric using an inkjet method, applying a white ink having a charge density of at least 30 μeq/g, using a step of using an inkjet method and a wet-on-wet method, to the fabric to which the treatment liquid has been applied, applying a color ink for which the Young's modulus of the dried coating film is not more than 3.0 MPa, using an inkjet method and a wet-on-wet method, to the fabric to which the white ink has been applied.
US12227898B2
A compound of formula wherein V, W, X and Y represent N or CH, at least one of V, W, X and Y being N and at least two of V, W, X and Y being CH; R1, R2 and R3 are each independently of the other hydrogen, C1-C8 alkyl, C1-C8 alkoxy, nitro, cyano, trifluoromethyl, halogen or hydroxy; and the compound provides good lightfastness properties to textile fibre materials, in particular PES fibre materials.
US12227895B2
A composition for odor reduction and bacterial control on a textile material is provided. The composition has a GRAS antimicrobial/preservative additive. The composition may contain an essential oil. The GRAS antimicrobial/preservative additive can be a minimum risk pesticide. The composition may have a carrier. A method of using the composition and an article treated with the composition are also provided.
US12227891B2
A washing machine including a plurality of washers may include a fixing bracket coupled to a front of a first housing in which a first tub is disposed and a front of a second housing in which a second tub is disposed, to prevent the first housing and the second housing from being separated from each other.
US12227869B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide molds made by additive manufacturing coupled with electrodeposition. Such methods comprise subjected a workpiece to one or more deposition process(es), such as electrodeposition, that provide a coating that possesses desirable chemical, physical, and/or mechanical properties. In some embodiments, the methods further comprise forming at least one workpiece for the mold by, for example, an additive manufacturing process such as three-dimensional printing (3D printing). Additionally, the present disclosure provides methods for the use of a mold for molding polymerizable, settable, thermoplastic, or thermoset materials.
US12227865B2
A plating apparatus for electroplating a wafer includes a housing defining a plating chamber for housing a plating solution. A voltage source of the apparatus has a first terminal having a first polarity and a second terminal having a second polarity different than the first polarity. The first terminal is electrically coupled to the wafer. An anode is within the plating chamber, and the second terminal is electrically coupled to the anode. A membrane support is within the plating chamber and over the anode. The membrane support defines apertures, wherein in a first zone of the membrane support a first aperture-area to surface-area ratio is a first ratio, and in a second zone of the membrane support a second aperture-area to surface-area ratio is a second ratio, different than the first ratio.
US12227858B2
The present disclosure relates to a polybenzimidazole-based electrolyte membrane for alkaline water electrolysis, which includes a polybenzimidazole-based polymer, wherein the polybenzimidazole-based polymer is a biaxially oriented film. The polybenzimidazole-based electrolyte membrane for alkaline water electrolysis can reduce the concentration of an alkaline solution by improving the crystallinity of a polybenzimidazole-based polymer to increase the resistance against base, significantly improving the long-term stability of alkaline water electrolysis using a polybenzimidazole-based electrolyte membrane through the improved resistance against base, and by increasing the operation temperature to enhance the catalyst activity.
US12227853B2
Disclosed herein are embodiments of iron-based alloys. The alloys can be powders used as a feedstock for plasma or thermal spray processes. In some embodiments, the alloys can have low or no chromium, provided improvements from an environmental and worker health perspective. In some embodiments, the powder can have a generally large particle size.
US12227852B2
A rustproofed metal member of a metal member having a predetermined shape, a zinc composite film formed on a surface of the metal member, and a coating film formed by applying and drying a coating paint on the zinc composite film. The coating paint includes a coating base containing an organic solvent and a resin material dissolved in the organic solvent, and an extender pigment and an antirust pigment dispersed and retained in the coating base. The antirust pigment includes aluminum flakes having been subjected to no leafing process.
US12227848B2
A substrate processing apparatus includes: a rotation support table capable of supporting and rotating a substrate; a chemical liquid nozzle that is arranged above an outer edge portion of the substrate that is supported by the rotation support table, and through which a chemical liquid is applied to the outer edge portion; and a solidified film forming unit that is arranged at least either on an upper side or on a lower side of the outer edge portion of the substrate that is supported by the rotation support table, and on a downstream side, in a direction of rotation of the substrate, of a position where the chemical liquid nozzle is arranged, and solidifies the chemical liquid applied to the outer edge portion, to form a solidified film that forms a part of an annular film.
US12227846B2
A system for monitoring thin film deposition is described. The system includes a quartz crystal and a synthesizer to generate a modulated signal. The modulated signal is to be grounded through the quartz crystal. The system also includes a phase detector to determine a phase of the modulated signal from the quartz crystal in order to monitor thin film deposition. A modulation index can be selected so that, at resonance, high frequency of the signal matches the crystal frequency.
US12227834B2
Synthesis methods for performed by chemical vapor deposition are improved, particularly for diamond synthesis. The time required for depositing diamond layers is reduced by compressing the plasma near the deposition substrate to increase the chances of collision between active species.
US12227825B2
Exemplary alloys may be particularly suited for additive manufacturing applications, and may comprise iron and one or more of: chromium (Cr), nickel (Ni), carbon (C), and copper (Cu). Exemplary alloys may have a majority microstructure that is martensite.
US12227823B2
A metal plate used for manufacturing a deposition mask has a thickness of equal to or less than 30 μm. An average cross-sectional area of the crystals grains on a cross section of the metal plate is from 0.5 μm2 to 50 μm2. The average cross-sectional area of crystal grains is calculated by analyzing measurement results obtained by an EBSD method, the measuring results being analyzed by an area method under conditions where a portion with a difference in crystal orientation of 5 degrees or more is recognized as a crystal grain boundary.
US12227822B2
A hot-dip coated steel substrate coated with a layer of Sn directly topped by a zinc or an aluminum based coating is provided, the steel substrate having the following chemical composition in weight percent: 0.10≤C≤0.4%, 1.2≤Mn≤6.0%, 0.3≤Si≤2.5%, Al<2.0%, and on a purely optional basis, one or more elements such as P<0.1%, Nb ≤0.5%, B≤ 0.005%, Cr≤1.0%, Mo≤0.50%, Ni≤1.0%, Ti≤0.5%, the remainder of the composition making up of iron and inevitable impurities resulting from the elaboration, the steel substrate further having between 0.0001 and 0.01% by weight of Sn in the region extending from the steel substrate surface up to 10 μm.
US12227812B2
Disclosed are compositions, methods, and kits that can be used to Epstein-Ban virus (EBV) in a sample undergoing testing. Nucleic acids of EBV can be isolated, amplified and detected with specificity by real-time PCR, and without interference from non-EBV organisms. In some embodiments, nucleic acids used for amplification are isolated from human blood, or blood products. Nucleic acid isolation, amplification and detection steps can all be carried out using an automated instrument.
US12227808B2
Methods and compositions are provided for diagnosing lung cancer in a mammalian subject by use of 7 or more selected genes, e.g., a gene expression profile, from the blood of the subject which is characteristic of disease. The gene expression profile includes 7 or more genes of Table I, Table II, Table III, Table IV or Table IX herein.
US12227806B2
The invention relates generally to an allele on human chromosome 9 associated with increased risk for coronary heart disease and the use or detection of such an allele in determining whether a human has an increased risk for coronary heart disease. In one aspect, the invention relates to methods for detecting a predisposition or propensity or susceptibility for coronary heart disease in a human, comprising detecting the presence of an allele on human chromosome 9 that is associated with an increased risk for coronary heart disease in a human. Disclosed are methods and compositions for determining whether a person carries an allele associated with increased risk for coronary atherosclerosis by determining whether the person has an RA-CHR9 allele, such as by determining whether the person has an RA-CHR9 allele-associated single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP). The invention also relates to kits for detecting the presence of an allele on chromosome 9 associated with an increased risk for coronary heart disease.
US12227801B2
The present disclosure provides a method and systems for processing or analyzing a nucleic acid molecule. A method for processing or analyzing a double-stranded nucleic molecule may comprise providing the double-stranded nucleic acid molecule and a double-stranded adapter. The double-stranded adapter may comprise a nicking site within a sense strand or an anti-sense strand of the double-stranded adapter. The double-stranded adapter may then be coupled to the double-stranded nucleic acid molecule, and the double-stranded nucleic acid molecule coupled to the double-stranded adapter may be circularized to generate a circularized double-stranded nucleic acid molecule.
US12227800B2
The invention relates to mutant forms of CsgG. The invention also relates to analyte detection and characterisation using CsgG.
US12227797B2
Provided herein, among other things, is method for analyzing a planar biological sample. In some embodiments, the method may comprise: contacting an oligonucleotide or a conjugate comprising the same with a planar biological sample under conditions by which the oligonucleotide or conjugate specifically binds to sites in or on the sample; performing one or more steps to release and/or extend the oligonucleotide in situ, to produce a reporter probe; transferring the reporter probe from the sample to a planar support that does not comprise an array of oligonucleotides, in a way that preserves the spatial relationship of the reporter probe in the sample; and detecting the reporter probe on the support.
US12227796B2
The present application provides methods for detecting a target nucleic acid molecule in a sample comprising contacting said sample with a ligatable probe comprising one or more parts and allowing said probe to hybridise to the target nucleic acid molecule, ligating any probe which has hybridised to the target nucleic acid molecule, amplifying the ligated probe, and detecting the amplification product, thereby to detect the target nucleic acid molecule, wherein said probes comprise at least one ribonucleotide at or near to a ligation site and/or wherein the probe or a probe part comprises an additional sequence 5′ to a target-specific binding site which is not hybridised to the target nucleic acid molecule upon hybridisation of the probe to the target nucleic acid molecule and forms a 5′ flap containing one or more nucleotides at its 3′ end that is cleaved prior to ligation, and methods of synthesising a DNA molecule with Phi29 DNA polymerase using a template nucleic acid molecule comprising at least one ribonucleotide. Probes for use in the detection methods are provided.
US12227789B2
Provided herein are structures and methods for isolating cellular components from at least one region of interest in a planar tissue section. Structures and methods as described can allow for isolation and tagging of tissue regions.
US12227786B2
In various embodiments, the present disclosure provides testers for detecting a bacterial infection and methods of production and uses thereof.
US12227782B2
Provided is an inexpensive and efficient microbiological method for producing a protein. The method for producing a protein comprises culturing a microorganism in the presence of glycosylamine.
US12227778B2
The invention relates to an in vitro cell-free expression system incorporating a novel inorganic polyphosphate-based energy regeneration system. In certain embodiments, the invention includes a cell-free expression system where the cellular energy source, ATP, is regenerated from inorganic polyphosphate using a dual enzyme system. In this embodiment, this dual enzyme system may include thermostable Adenosyl Kinase, and/or Polyphosphate Kinase enzymes.
US12227775B2
Described herein are genetically engineered template-independent DNA polymerases, specifically terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferases, and methods of using these polymerases to control DNA synthesis by adding a single nucleotide (mononucleotide) at a time to the 3′ end of a growing single-stranded DNA polynucleotide.
US12227771B2
Expression systems for the expression of an α9α10 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) are described. Also described are methods of using the expression systems to identify agonists, antagonists, or allosteric modulators of an α9α10 nAChR.
US12227768B2
The present invention relates in part to methods for producing tissue-specific cells from patient samples, and to tissue-specific cells produced using these methods. Methods for reprogramming cells using RNA are disclosed. Therapeutics comprising cells produced using these methods are also disclosed.
US12227765B2
Disclosed herein are compositions and methods related to differentiation of stem cells into pancreatic endocrine cells. In some aspects, the methods provided herein relate to generation of pancreatic β cell, α cell, δ cells, and EC cells in vitro. In some aspects, the disclosure provides pharmaceutical compositions including the cells generated according to the methods disclosed herein, as well as methods of treatment making use thereof.
US12227760B2
Disclosed is a wet granulated cell culture medium and a preparation method therefor and, more specifically, to a wet granulated cell culture medium which supports the growth of mammalian cells and/or insect cells and/or plant cells and bacteria, and a preparation method therefor.
US12227757B2
The present invention relates in part to nucleic acids encoding proteins, nucleic acids containing non-canonical nucleotides, therapeutics comprising nucleic acids, methods, kits, and devices for inducing cells to express proteins, methods, kits, and devices for transfecting, gene editing, and reprogramming cells, and cells, organisms, and therapeutics produced using these methods, kits, and devices. Methods for inducing cells to express proteins and for reprogramming and gene-editing cells using RNA are disclosed. Methods for producing cells from patient samples, cells produced using these methods, and therapeutics comprising cells produced using these methods are also disclosed.
US12227756B2
The present invention relates to an engineered regulatory T cell (Treg) comprising a T cell receptor (TCR) which is capable of specifically binding to a myelin basic protein (MBP) peptide or variant or fragment thereof when the peptide is presented by a major histocompatibility complex (MHC) molecule. The present invention further relates to methods for providing an engineered Treg and to methods and uses of said engineered Treg and vectors and kits of vectors encoding said Treg.
US12227752B1
The present invention relates to the use of MtNAC33 gene and a protein encoded thereby in the cultivation of high-biomass and drought-tolerant alfalfa, belonging to the technical field of plant genetic engineering. The plant protein encoded by MtNAC33 gene has the amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 2, and MtNAC33 gene has the nucleotide sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 1. In the present invention, the drought tolerance of Arabidopsis thaliana and alfalfa can be significantly improved by regulating the expression level of MtNAC33 in alfalfa. The phenotypes of delayed flowering, increased leaf-to-stem ratio and more biomass in alfalfa were also developed, which has an important effect for genetic improvement of stress resistance and biomass of forage grass and other crops.
US12227747B2
The present invention relates to a composition for treating and preventing degenerative brain diseases comprising a complex of vitamin C and an aptamer binding to the vitamin C as an active ingredient, and the composition of the present invention has improved and therapeutic effects in a Parkinson's disease experimental model and so the composition of the present invention can be used as medicines and health functional foods for patients with degenerative brain diseases including Parkinson's disease.
US12227744B2
The invention relates to a double-stranded ribonucleic acid (dsRNA) targeting a transthyretin (TTR) gene, and methods of using the dsRNA to inhibit expression of TTR.
US12227742B2
The present inventions generally relate to site-specific delivery of nucleic acid modifiers and includes novel DNA-binding proteins and effectors that can be rapidly programmed to make site-specific DNA modifications. The present inventions also provide a synthetic all-in-one genome editor (SAGE) systems comprising designer DNA sequence readers and a set of small molecules that induce double-strand breaks, enhance cellular permeability, inhibit NHEJ and activate HDR, as well as methods of using and delivering such systems.
US12227740B2
The present disclosure provides improved genome editing compositions and methods for editing a CBLB gene. The disclosure further provides genome edited cells for the prevention, treatment, or amelioration of at least one symptom of, a cancer, an infectious disease, an autoimmune disease, an inflammatory disease, or an immunodeficiency.
US12227732B2
The present set of embodiments relate to a bioproduction system, method, and apparatus for creating a scalable bioreactor system. Specifically, the present set of embodiments enable the determination of bioreaction performance characteristics of a commercial scale by matching operational parameters between a small test scale bioreaction to that of a commercial scale bioreaction. The system and methods do not rely on simply making bioreactor apparatuses across scales the same dimensionally which would not account for differences in fluid dynamic properties between very small to very large volumes, but requires tuning of a variety of systems (mixing assembly, sparger system, and headspace airflow system) in conjunction with one another to achieve predictive outcomes.
US12227730B2
A sampling system includes a graduated sampling chamber configured for fluid connection to a sample source, a pump device configured for fluid connection with the sampling chamber, and a sterile air filter intermediate the pump device and the sampling chamber, wherein the pump device is selectively actuatable to draw a volume of fluid from the sample source into the sampling chamber.
US12227729B2
Described herein are methods and systems for cell processing or, more specifically, for introducing various payloads into cells. These methods and systems use a mechanoporation approach in which cells are rapidly compressed and then released to relax while absorbing the payload. More specifically, these methods and systems enable high-throughput mechanoporation with various clogging mitigation features. A cell processing apparatus comprises a shell with an inner shell cylindrical surface, a core with an outer core cylindrical surface, and ridges, supported on and protruding away from one of the inner shell cylindrical surface and the outer core cylindrical surface. The core is disposed inside the shell. The outer core cylindrical surface is concentric with the inner shell cylindrical surface. Each of the ridges forms a ridge gap with the other one of the inner shell cylindrical surface and the outer core cylindrical surface.
US12227727B2
The present invention provides for a method and apparatus for inserting and using dermal interstitial sensors in, for example, an analyte monitoring system, and for injecting active pharmaceutical ingredients, a bio-artificial organ device, and detection of a protein biomarker.
US12227725B2
A cell culturing method and device that uses a cell culture bag (1) that includes a bag body (2) configured from an upper surface film (21) and a lower surface film (22) having a sealed periphery, and a port (3) attached to the bag body (2), and a plurality of recesses (4) being formed in the lower surface film (22). The method including: a closing-off step for closing off the plurality of recesses (4) using the upper surface film (21) by discharging a culture medium (S) contained in the bag body (2) through the port (3); and a releasing step for releasing, in some or all of the plurality of closed-off recesses (4), cells or cell aggregates adhering to the inner surfaces of the recesses (4).
US12227723B2
A variable diameter bioreactor vessel is provided that includes a first vessel section having a first diameter configured to hold a liquid media and biologic material, and a second vessel section having a second diameter that is greater than the first diameter such that the liquid media can be increased from a first volume to a second volume within the vessel.
US12227721B2
A composition includes a compound having structural formula (I): Rf—S—Rh (I) wherein (i) Rf is a partially fluorinated or perfluorinated group having 2 to 6 carbon atoms and optionally comprises one or more catenated heteroatoms, and (ii) Rh is a non-fluorinated hydrocarbon group having 1-3 carbon atoms and optionally comprises one or more catenated heteroatoms. The composition further includes an organic lubricant contaminant.
US12227718B2
Surfactants capable of releasing and/or dissolving polymers to form water-soluble or water-dispersible polymer solutions are disclosed. In addition, polymer compositions containing a water-in-oil emulsion comprising the surfactant are provided and can be used, for example, in methods of dissolving a polymer. Also disclosed are detergent compositions and methods of cleaning articles and/or membranes using the surfactants herein. These surfactants and polymer compositions can be used in various industries including for water clarification, papermaking, sewage and industrial water treatment, drilling mud stabilizers, and enhanced oil recovery.
US12227694B2
This invention relates to compositions and methods of microbial enhanced oil recovery using biochemical-producing microbes. In specific embodiments, the methods of the subject invention comprise applying a biosurfactant-producing bacteria and/or a growth by-product thereof to an oil-producing site. In preferred embodiments, the bacteria is a strain of Bacillus in spore form. In some embodiments, the methods further comprise applying the bacteria with a yeast fermentation product, an alkaline compound, a polymer, a non-biological surfactant, and/or one or more chelating agents. Advantageously, the subject invention can be useful for stimulating the flow of oil from a well, as well as dissolving scale present in an oil-bearing formation.
US12227692B1
A composition includes a colloidal solution which includes a solvent, a plurality of nanoparticles dispersed in the solvent, an activator dissolved in the colloidal solution, and a plurality of gel particles suspended in the colloidal solution. A method for water shutoff includes injecting a composition into a fracture near a water zone in a formation, wherein the composition includes a colloidal solution which includes a solvent, a plurality of nanoparticles dispersed in the solvent, an activator dissolved in the solvent, and a plurality of gel particles suspended in the colloidal solution.
US12227691B2
A variety of methods and systems are disclosed, including, in one embodiment, a method for emulsion breaking including: applying a trigger to an oilfield emulsion to facilitate breaking of the oilfield emulsion, wherein the oilfield emulsion includes an oleaginous phase, a non-oleaginous phase, and a breakable emulsifier, wherein the trigger breaks the breakable emulsifier into non-emulsifying byproducts; and separating at least a portion of the oleaginous phase from the non-oleaginous phase.
US12227690B2
Wellbore fluids may contain an aqueous base fluid comprising a monovalent brine, a modified starch, and a metal oxide. Methods of using wellbore fluids may include drilling a subterranean well while circulating a wellbore fluid into the subterranean well, wherein the wellbore fluid contains an aqueous base fluid comprising a monovalent brine, a modified starch, and a metal oxide.
US12227683B2
A method of producing a connected body, containing: disposing an adhesive film between a first electronic member having a first electronic electrode and a second electronic member having a second electrode; and pressure-bonding the second electronic member to the first electronic member via the adhesive film so that the second electrode is electrically connected to the first electrode; wherein the first electronic member has an indented surface, the first electrode is provided in a depressed portion of the indented surface, the second electrode has a substantially flat surface having an area larger than an area of the first electrode, the adhesive film contains: first conductive particles that are dendritic conductive particles; and second conductive particles containing a non-conductive core and a conductive layer provided on the core, and the second conductive particles have an average particle diameter of not less than a depth of the depressed portion.
US12227678B2
A laminate debonding method includes producing a laminate by joining a first substrate formed of a semiconductor-forming substrate to a second substrate formed of a support substrate which allows passage of infrared laser light, by the mediation of a first adhesive layer provided on the first substrate and a second adhesive layer provided on the second substrate, wherein the first adhesive layer is obtained by curing an adhesive (A) containing a component which is cured through hydrosilylation, and the second adhesive layer is obtained by use of an adhesive (B) formed of a polymer adhesive having an aromatic ring in at least one of a main chain and a side chain and which allows passage of infrared laser light; and irradiating the laminate with infrared laser light from a second substrate side for debonding the second substrate at the interface between the first and second adhesive layers.
US12227658B2
An ink composition includes an acrylic resin including a polymerization product of a first monomer having a hydroxyl group, a second monomer having an epoxy group, a third monomer having an acrylate group, and a fourth monomer having a substituted or unsubstituted phenyl group, a first curing agent having an isocyanate group, and a second curing agent having an amine group. Durability and abrasion resistance of a window may be improved.
US12227628B2
A curable composite laminate having an interlaminar region formed between adjacent layers of reinforcement fibers. The interlaminar region contains soluble polyimide particles that are dissolvable in the one or more thermoset resins at a curing temperature of the curable matrix resin, and insoluble thermoplastic particles that remain as discrete particles in the interlaminar region at the same curing temperature. Such curable composite laminate is capable of high resistance to the propagation of delamination upon curing.
US12227615B2
Techniques regarding post polymerization modifications to polycarbonate polymers via a flow reactor are provided. For example, one or more embodiments described herein can comprise a cyclic carbonate monomer that can be employed to facilitate polymerization of one or more polycarbonate platforms susceptible to post polymerization modification. For instance, one or more embodiments can regard a cyclic carbonate molecular backbone covalently bonded to an aryl halide functional group via in accordance with a chemical structure selected from the group consisting of: In the chemical structures, “R1” can be selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen atom and a functional group comprising a first alkyl group; “L” can represent a linkage group, comprising: a second alkyl group and an end group having at least one member selected from the group consisting of an oxygen atom and a nitrogen atom; and “A” can represent the aryl halide functional group.
US12227605B2
The present invention is related to a high melt strength polypropylene (HMS-PP) comprising units derivable from at least one polyunsaturated fatty acid, a process for preparing said high melt strength polypropylene (HMS-PP), as well as an article comprising said high melt strength polypropylene (HMS-PP).
US12227604B2
A carrier which may have excellent pressure resistance, and even when a protein ligand is not immobilized thereon, a high dynamic binding capacity to a target substance, and a high performance of separating a target substance from a biological sample. Such a carrier may include a polymer having a crosslinked structure containing a divalent group of formula (1): wherein R1 to R4 are independently a single bond or divalent hydrocarbon group, R5 and R6 are independently H or a hydrocarbon group, X is a thio group, sulfinyl group, sulfonyl group, oxy group, >N(—R31), >Si(—R32)2, >P(—R33), >P(═O)(—R34), >B(—R35), or >C(—R36)2 (R31 to R36 independently being H or hydrocarbon group), and * is a bond, provided that when both R1 and R3 or both R2 and R4 are a divalent hydrocarbon group, respectively, R1 and R3 or R2 and R4 may form a ring together with an adjacent carbon atom.
US12227592B2
The present invention relates to a monoclonal antibody which specifically binds to an EGF2 domain of colon cancer secreted protein-2 (CCSP-2), or an antigen-binding fragment thereof. The monoclonal antibody or the antigen-binding fragment thereof of the present invention specifically binds to the EGF2 domain of CCSP-2, and thus has significantly increased affinity compared with existing peptides specifically binding to CCSP-2 and further increased specificity compared with existing antibodies to CCSP-2. Therefore, in future, accurate diagnosis can be achieved by specific detection of CCSP-2 in the protein level.
US12227587B2
The present disclosure provides, among other things, two different formats of humanized antibodies against human complement component 5a receptor I. The disclosure also provides a method of treating a subject having dysfunctions of C5a/C5aR1 axis pathway, including but not limited to ANCA-associated vasculitis, comprising administering to the subject in need thereof an effective amount of antibody or a nucleic encoding an antibodies binding to C5aR1 described herein, and wherein administering results in a decrease in symptoms associated with C5a/C5aR1 associated dysfunction in the subject.
US12227576B2
This disclosure provides a method for treating a subject afflicted with tumor, which method comprises administering to the subject an antibody or an antigen-binding portion thereof that specifically binds to a Programmed Death-1 (PD-1) receptor and inhibits PD-1 activity. In some embodiments, the tumor is derived from a non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). In some embodiments, the tumor expresses Programmed Death Ligand 1. In some embodiments, the subject carries a wild-type STK11 gene.
US12227572B2
The invention relates to a monoclonal humanized antibody or antigen-binding fragment thereof that specifically bind to the TRBV9 family of the human T cell receptor. The invention also relates to a nucleic acid encoding said antibody or antigen-binding fragment thereof, an expression vector, a method for preparing said antibody, and use of said antibody in treatment of diseases or disorders associated with the human T cell receptor family. The invention is directed to generation of antibodies that can be used for treating, in particular AS, celiac disease and malignant blood diseases, the pathogenesis of which involves the TRBV9 family TCRs.
US12227564B2
The invention provides antibodies, and antigen-binding fragments thereof, that specifically bind to GDF15, as well as methods and uses for the antibodies.
US12227561B2
The present disclosure generally relates to compositions and methods for treating a disease or condition associated with insufficient opening of Cx43 hemichannels in osteocytes, preferably for treating cancer, cancer metastasis, osteosarcoma, osteoporosis, or osteopenia.
US12227556B2
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.
US12227555B2
The present invention includes compositions and methods for a modified immune cell or precursor cell thereof comprising an inducible expression system. Also provided are gene edited modified immune cells suitable for T cell therapy. Methods of treatment using modified immune cells of the present invention are also provided.
US12227548B2
The present invention is based, in part, on the identification of an IRE1α-XBP1-cMyc axis in NK cell immunity. The present invention provides compositions and methods for treating conditions that would benefit from modulating (e.g., upregulating or downregulating) an immune response using an agent that modulates the IRE1α-XBP1 pathway, or a composition comprising modified NK cells.
US12227545B2
The present invention discloses a Acinetobacter baumannii immunogenic protein and its composition and application. This invention provides a protein, comprising 39 amino acids of the N-terminal α-helix part of the Ata protein transport functional domain of Acinetobacter baumannii and an adjuvant protein; amino acid sequence of said 39 amino acids of the N-terminal α-helix part of the Ata protein transport functional domain of Acinetobacter baumannii is shown as the 127th-165th amino acid residues of SEQ ID NO:2. In present invention the 39 amino acids of the N-terminal α-helix part of surface protein Ata (Acinetobacter trimeric autotransporter) of Acinetobacter baumannii, was took to fuse with CTB, and express in BL21. The protein was purified by a nickel column, and used to intraperitoneally immunize mouses by 2.5 μg/mouse. Its immunogenicity and immunoprotection was verified through the animal experiments, which proves it has a good effect of anti-infection of Acinetobacter baumannii.
US12227543B2
Methods are described for predicting ancestral sequences for viruses or portions thereof. Also described are predicted ancestral sequences for adeno-associated virus (AAV) capsid polypeptides. The disclosure also provides methods of gene transfer and methods of vaccinating subjects by administering a target antigen operably linked to the AAV capsid polypeptides.
US12227538B2
Provided herein are compounds that are glucocorticoid receptor agonists useful for the treatment of autoimmune and inflammatory diseases, processes for preparing these compounds, and pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds.
US12227534B2
The invention relates to a method for preparing nicotinamide mononucleotide by using nicotinamide as a raw material, which comprises: in acetonitrile, dichloromethane, 1,2-dichloroethane or liquid sulfur dioxide as a solvent, allowing nicotinamide and tetraacetyl ribose to react as catalyzed by trimethylsilyl trifluoromethanesulfonate or tin tetrachloride, adjusting a pH value thereof to 3-5, adding a sodium methoxide solution thereto to react at −15° C. to 5° C., adjusting a pH value thereof to 3-5, and subjecting the reaction mixture to microfiltration and nanofiltration using a membrane concentrator, thereby obtain a nicotinamide ribose solution; allowing the nicotinamide ribose solution to react as catalyzed by nicotinamide ribokinase in the presence of Mg ions, ATP and a buffer, thereby obtaining nicotinamide mononucleotide. The method of the invention omits the step of refining nicotinamide ribose, and thus has simpler process, lower cost and less time consumption, and has the advantages of faster reaction speed and lower enzyme consumption compared with the enzyme catalytic process directly using refined nicotinamide ribose solid.
US12227532B2
The invention relates to crystalline forms of 4-((R)-2-{[6-((S)-3-methoxy-pyrrolidin-1-yl)-2-phenyl-pyrimidine-4-carbonyl]-amino}-3-phosphono-propionyl)-piperazine-1-carboxylic acid butyl ester hydrochloride, processes for the preparation thereof, pharmaceutical compositions comprising said crystalline forms, pharmaceutical compositions prepared from such crystalline forms and their use as a medicament, especially as a P2Y12 receptor antagonist.
US12227531B2
There is provided herein a silylated organo-modified compound which comprises: at least one moiety having the formula (A): wherein the subscript a is 1 or 2, each D is independently NH or O, each of X, Y and Z are independently an unsubstituted or substituted C or N, the dashed lines between X, Y, and Z indicate an optional double bond between either X and Y or Y and Z, with the proviso that when any of X, Y, or Z is a substituted N atom, such substituted N atom does not participate in a double bond, and each Q is independently O or S; and, at least two moieties having the formula (B):
US12227520B2
Compounds for use in treating or preventing human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection are disclosed. The compounds have the following formula (I): including stereoisomers and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein R1, R2, L, W1, W2, X, Y, and Z are as defined herein. Methods associated with the preparation and use of such compounds, as well as pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds, are also disclosed.
US12227517B2
A compound useful as an active ingredient of a pharmaceutical composition for treatment of cancer related to activation of immune cells or cancer having resistance to anti-PD-1 antibody/anti-PD-L1 antibody therapy is provided. The present inventors have conducted studies on a compound useful as an active ingredient of a pharmaceutical composition for treatment of cancer related to activation of immune cells or cancer having resistance to anti-PD-1 antibody/anti-PD-L1 antibody therapy, and found that a pyridazinyl-thiazolecarboxamide compound has DGK ξ (DGKzeta) inhibitory effect, leading to completion of the present invention. The pyridazinyl-thiazolecarboxamide compound of the present invention has DGK ξ inhibitory effect, and can be used as a therapeutic agent for treatment of cancer related to activation of immune cells or cancer having resistance to anti-PD-1 antibody/anti-PD-L1 antibody therapy.
US12227515B2
The disclosure provides compounds that inhibit protein tyrosine phosphatase, such as protein tyrosine phosphatase 4 A3 (PTP4A3). The disclosure also provides pharmaceutical compositions, uses, and methods of using the compounds, such as in the treatment of cancers.
US12227505B2
Processes and apparatuses for soluble compound recovery using supercritical fluid (SCF) are disclosed. An example process involves solvent extraction of a soluble compound using a SCF from a solid or liquid substrate including, but not limited to, microalgae, plant matter, and polymers. The apparatus comprises SCF, an extraction vessel, a pressure exchanger, a separate soluble compound, and solid or liquid compound separators.
US12227489B2
Described herein are HSD17B13 inhibitors and pharmaceutical compositions comprising said inhibitors. The subject compounds and compositions are useful for the treatment of liver disease, metabolic disease, or cardiovascular disease, such as NAFLD or NASH, or drug induced liver injury (DILI).
US12227488B2
Disclosed are compounds and pharmaceutically acceptable salts and stereoisomers thereof that may cause degradation of various proteins e.g., IKZF2 (Helios). Also disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions containing same, and methods of making and using the compounds to treat diseases and disorders characterized or mediated by aberrant protein activity.
US12227477B2
The present invention relates to a method for preparing a single isomer of 1-(1-(2-benzylphenoxy)propan-2-yl)-2-methylpiperidine in high purity.
US12227475B2
The invention provides aza-heterocyclyl carboxamide and related compounds, pharmaceutical compositions, and their use in the treatment of medical conditions, such as bacterial infections, and in inhibiting LpxC activity.
US12227473B2
A process for the production of glycolaldehyde by thermolytic fragmentation of a carbohydrate feedstock including mono- and/or di-saccharide(s) and a system suitable for performing the process. The process and the system are suitable for industrial application, and the process may be performed in a continuous process. The salt-depleted carbohydrate feedstock may include one or more impurities selected from the group of arsenic, lead, sulfate, sulfur dioxide, and 5-(hydroxymethyl)furfural.
US12227471B2
A polyalkylene glycol-based compound may have formula (1): wherein R1 is a monovalent aromatic hydrocarbon group having 6 to 42 ring carbon atoms; R2 is a monovalent aromatic hydrocarbon group having 6 to 42 carbon atoms or a hydrogen atom; R3 is a divalent hydrocarbon group having 2 to 4 carbon atoms; and m is a number in a range of from 1 to 40.
US12227468B2
The invention relates to a process for the co-production of methyl mercaptan and of dimethyl disulfide, comprising the following successive steps: a) reaction of at least one carbon oxide in the presence of hydrogen sulfide (H2S) and hydrogen to form a stream (M) comprising methyl mercaptan, water, and possibly unreacted hydrogen sulfide, b) purification of the stream (M) to obtain a stream (N) enriched in methyl mercaptan and a stream containing the uncondensable compounds (Muncond), c) optional recycling of the stream of uncondensable compounds (Muncond) obtained from step b) into step a), d) recovery of a first portion of the stream (N) including methyl mercaptan purified in step b), e) oxidation with sulfur of the second portion of the stream (N) of methyl mercaptan, to form a stream (O) comprising dimethyl disulfide, hydrogen sulfide, and possibly unreacted methyl mercaptan, f) purification of the stream (O) to separate, on the one hand, the enriched dimethyl disulfide and, on the other hand, the hydrogen sulfide and possibly the methyl mercaptan that has not reacted in step e), g) recycling of the hydrogen sulfide and possibly of the methyl mercaptan isolated in step f) into the stream (M) obtained from step a), h) recovery of the dimethyl disulfide isolated in step f).
US12227467B2
A process for bio-1,3-butanediol purification from a fermentation broth includes the steps of: (a) subjecting the fermentation broth to separation, (b) subjecting the product obtained in step (a) to treatment with ion-exchange resins, (c) subjecting the product obtained in step (b) to a first evaporation, (d) subjecting the product obtained in step (c) to a second evaporation; and (e) subjecting the product obtained in step (d) to a third evaporation, obtaining purified bio-1,3-butanediol. The purified bio-1,3-butanediol can be used to produce bio-1,3-butadiene. Bio-1,3-butadiene can be used as a monomer or as an intermediate to produce elastomers and (co)polymers.
US12227466B2
A method of performing an oxidative coupling of methane (OCM) reaction to produce C2+ compounds using a low temperature gas mixture feed is provided. The method includes introducing a gas mixture feed containing methane, oxygen, hydrogen, and carbon monoxide at a temperature of less than or equal to 300° C. to an inlet of an OCM reactor, which contains a combustion catalyst and an OCM catalyst. At least a portion of the gas mixture feed is combusted using the combustion catalyst to generate a heated gas mixture having a temperature of at least 450° C. The heated gas mixture contacts the OCM catalyst to initiate an OCM reaction and produce an OCM effluent that includes C2+ compounds. A system for performing an OCM reaction using a low temperature feedstock gas mixture is also provided.
US12227463B2
A method of applying a coating to a substrate includes forming a slurry by mixing elemental precursors of gettering particles, diffusive particles, matrix material, and a carrier fluid; applying the slurry to a substrate; and sintering the slurry to form a composite material. The sintering causes the elemental precursors to react with one another to form gettering particles. An article is also disclosed.
US12227461B2
Improved formulations of an interface material are described. These formulations may, in at least some cases, match and/or accommodate dimensional changes in the part and/or support structure throughout thermal processing (e.g., debind and sintering, or sintering only). Furthermore, these formulations may also maintain the property of resisting bonding between the interface and the part and/or support structure while also maintaining a physical separation between the part and support structure. In some cases, an improved interface material may accommodate strain associated with the shrinkage of a part (and optionally support structure) during sintering while also minimally impacting the ability of the part (and optionally support structure) to shrink or otherwise change in dimension. In some cases, the interface material may include one or more fugitive phases that are removed during thermal processing (e.g., through pyrolysis of the fugitive phase(s)).
US12227460B1
The present invention discloses a low carbon ultra-high performance engineered geopolymer composite and its preparation method and application, which belongs to the technical field of building materials, an activator used therein is a NaOH—Na2SiO3 activator as a basic activator, and Na2CO3 is used as a supplementary activator to form a low carbon composite activator. The preparation method comprises the following steps: (1) after mixing uniformly the cementitious material powder, barium chloride, and defoaming agent, adding successively quartz sand, activator, water reducer, nano calcium carbonate and PE fiber and stirring uniformly to obtain a slurry; (2) pouring and forming the obtained slurry and maintaining, then obtaining the low carbon ultra-high performance engineered geopolymer composite. The composite provided by the present invention has high performance of low carbon, ultra-high compressive strength, ultra-high tensile ductility and long setting time, which provides a new idea for the preparation of building materials.
US12227457B2
The invention relates to an admixture for a cementitious material suitable to influence the rheological properties of the cementitious material. The admixture includes a compound having a backbone chain provided with at least one first functionality and at least one second functionality. The at least one first functionality is adapted to adsorb to the cement particles of the cementitious material. The at least one second functionality is adapted to respond to an external trigger signal of an electric field, a magnetic field or an electromagnetic field, thereby influencing the rheological properties of the cementitious material. The rheological properties are influenced by influencing the interaction of the at least one first functionality with the cement particles and/or by influencing the interparticle interaction between the cement particles. The invention further relates to a cementitious material including such admixture. Furthermore, the invention relates to a method and a system to control or influence the rheological properties of a cementitious material.
US12227455B2
Roofing granules comprising agglomerated inorganic material, and building materials, such as shingles, that include such roofing granules. By fabricating roofing granules from agglomerating inorganic material, in combination with a binder composition having a wetting agent, it is possible to increase the yield of the fabricated roofing granules and tailor the particle size distribution so as to provide optimal shingle surface coverage, thus reducing shingle weight and usage of raw materials. Additionally, the use of agglomeration permits the utilization of by-products from conventional granule production processes.
US12227449B2
An ion exchangeable glass having a high degree of resistance to damage caused by abrasion, scratching, indentation, and the like. The glass comprises alumina, B2O3, and alkali metal oxides, and contains boron cations having three-fold coordination. The glass, when ion exchanged, has a Vickers crack initiation threshold of at least 10 kilogram force (kgf).
US12227444B2
A description is given of a coloured, transparent, lithium aluminium silicate glass-ceramic and also of the use thereof, said glass-ceramic possessing a light transmission Y of 2.5% to 10% and a spectral transmission τ(at 465 nm) of more than 1.0%.
US12227442B2
Water treatment systems including electrically-driven and pressure-driven separation apparatus configured to produce a first treated water suitable for use as irrigation water and a second treated water suitable for use as potable water from one of brackish water and saline water and methods of operation of same.
US12227440B2
Disclosed are methods of treating wastewater using a membrane bioreactor and achieving a target phosphorus concentration for the membrane permeate stream. These methods include the steps of dosing a wastewater stream with a rare earth clarifying agent and passing the dosed wastewater stream through the membrane to obtain a membrane permeate stream with a permeate concentration that is less than the phosphorus concentration of the influent stream. This permeate concentration also can be equal to or less than a target phosphorus concentration. In the methods as disclosed herein, the rare earth clarifying agent can be chloride salts of one or more rare earth elements and in certain embodiments, the rare earth clarifying agent can be CeCl3 and LaCl3.
US12227433B2
In the examples provided herein, a system includes an electrochemical sensor having two electrodes inserted in a fluid to be tested, where an alternative current (AC) voltage is applied across the two electrodes; an electrochemical sensor having two electrodes inserted in a fluid to be tested, wherein an alternative current (AC) voltage across the two electrodes; and a frequency response analyzer to analyze the measured the electrical response across multiple frequencies. The system also includes a memory to store a baseline of the electrical response across multiple frequencies, and a processor to determine from the stored baseline and the measured electrical response whether the electrical response is outside a predetermined range.
US12227428B2
A nanocrystal-sized cerium-zirconium-aluminum mixed oxide material includes at least 20% by mass zirconium oxide; between 5% to 55% by mass cerium oxide; between 5% to 60% by mass aluminum oxide; and a total of 25% or less by mass of at least one oxide of a rare earth metal selected from the group of lanthanum, neodymium, praseodymium, or yttrium. The nanocrystal-sized cerium-zirconium-aluminum mixed oxide exhibits hierarchically ordered aggregates having a dso particle size less than 1.5 μm, and retains at least 80% of surface area and pore volume after ageing at temperature higher than 1000° C. for at least 6 hours. The nanocrystal-sized cerium-zirconium-aluminum mixed oxide material is prepared using a co-precipitation method followed by milling the dried and calcined oxide material. The nanocrystal-sized cerium-zirconium-aluminum mixed oxide material forms a particulate filter that may be used in an exhaust system arising from a gas or diesel engine.
US12227421B2
Disclosed are a graphite sheet formed from a polyimide film having a molecular orientation ratio of at least about 1.25, and a method for producing the same.
US12227418B2
An object of the present disclosure is to provide a method of recycling carbon fibers that allows efficiently obtaining carbon fibers suitable for reuse. An embodiment is the method of recycling carbon fibers that includes: preparing a carbon fiber reinforced plastic molded product containing a carbon fiber reinforced plastic containing a carbon fiber and a resin; performing a process of at least one of a heating process or an ultraviolet irradiation process on the carbon fiber reinforced plastic molded product; and removing the resin after the process from the carbon fiber by injecting a first liquid to at least the carbon fiber of the carbon fiber reinforced plastic molded product after the process.
US12227417B2
The disclosure provides for methods of oxidizing carbide anions, or negative ions, from salt like carbides at low temperatures below about 600° C. In another aspect, the disclosure provides for reactions with intermediate transition metal carbides. In yet another aspect, the disclosure provides for a system of reactions where salt-like carbide anions and intermediate carbide anions are oxidized to produce pure carbon of various allotropes.
US12227415B2
A system and method for making syngas using carbonaceous feedstock, including organic material and/or polymeric material such as ground tire, wood, coal, and the like.
US12227413B2
Disclosed is a method for preparing a composite loaded with nano-magnesium hydride, including: adding a cationic surfactant into an aqueous dispersion of a two-dimensional transition metal carbide such that a nanosheet of the two-dimensional transition metal carbide wrinkles, to avoid re-stacking, and then washing and drying; placing a dried product into a sealed container, vacuuming the sealed container, heating to a high temperature, and holding at the high temperature for a period of time; filling the sealed container with high-pressure hydrogen and holding for a period of time to obtain a heated product; adding the heated product and dibutyl magnesium into an organic solvent, conducting ultrasonic dispersion, then heating under stirring at a hydrogen pressure of 3 MPa to 6 MPa and a temperature of 180° C. to 220° C. for 12 h to 48 h, and centrifuging and drying to obtain the composite loaded with nano-magnesium hydride.
US12227412B2
In some aspects and embodiments, the present application provides a wide range of porous 1-D polymeric graphitic carbon-nitride materials that are atomically doped with binary metals in different morphologies. In some embodiments, the graphitic carbon-nitride materials can be prepared with high mass production from inexpensive and natural abundant precursors. In some embodiments, the materials were used successfully for the oxidation of CO to CO2 under ambient reaction temperature in addition to the reduction of CO2 into hydrocarbons. In some embodiments, the materials can be used for practical and large-scale gas conversion for household or industrial applications.
US12227410B2
The present disclosure provides a semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a first device and a second device disposed adjacent to the first device; a conductive pillar disposed adjacent to the first device or the second device; a molding surrounding the first device, the second device and the conductive pillar; and a redistribution layer (RDL) over the first device, the second device, the molding and the conductive pillar, wherein the RDL electrically connects the first device to the second device and includes an opening penetrating the RDL and exposing a sensing area over the first device.
US12227408B2
A nozzle for dispensing fluid including a nozzle body having a fluid path therein through which fluid is configured to flow in a downstream direction. The nozzle further includes a valve having a valve body positioned in the fluid path and movable between a closed position wherein the valve body sealingly engages a valve seat to generally block fluid from flowing therethrough, and an open position wherein the valve body is spaced away from the valve seat to generally allow fluid to flow therethrough. At least part of a surface of the valve body positioned upstream of the valve seat is configured to be fluidly isolated from a pressure of fluid in the fluid path upstream of the valve seat when the valve is in the closed position.
US12227400B2
An automation system uses cameras (134) and sensors (136) to identify a set of vehicle wheels within a lift area (118), then virtualizes the position and orientation of the vehicle relative to the lift posts (122, 130). Lift arms (124, 132) extending from the lift posts are moved to a first position that places a profile camera near the predicted position of lift points, and image analysis is used to positively identify the lift points. The lift arms are then moved to a second position that places an adapter camera below the identified lift points, and image analysis is used to confirm safe positioning below the lift point. Captured images and feedback from image analysis are used to improve and refine the system's ability to identify wheels, profile view lift points, and plan view lift points. The system may be integrated with lift arms allowing for automated rotation, extension, and elevation of lift adapters.
US12227397B2
In some implementations, a counterweight assembly, for a lifting machine, includes a plurality of counterweight slabs, including first and second outer counterweight slabs and one or more inner counterweight slabs sandwiched between inner lateral surfaces of the first and second outer counterweight slabs, wherein an outer lateral surface of each outer counterweight slab includes one or more recesses having one or more respective reflective decals disposed therein.
US12227389B2
A linear operator for a sliding door includes a body; a first wheel rotatably attached to the body at a first position on the body; an arm movably attached to the body, translatable in a direction parallel or substantially parallel to a longitudinal axis of the body, and fixable to the body at a desired translation position; a second wheel rotatably attached to the arm at a second position on the arm; and a conveyor extending between the first wheel and the second wheel, movable about the first wheel and the second wheel, and operable for attachment to a door, wherein when the arm is at a desired translation position, a distance between the first position and the second position corresponds to a desired movement distance of the door when the door is attached to the conveyor.
US12227388B2
An elevator apparatus which includes a car; a hoisting rope having an expansion and contraction amount which varies depending on a height of the car; and a counterweight which on an opposite side of the car via the hoisting rope. The hoisting rope is wound around a hoisting machine, and the car is elevated when the hoisting rope is wound by the hoisting machine. In a control device of the elevator apparatus, a speed-command corrector corrects a base speed command, which is generated by a re-leveling operation controller, based on a current height of the car.
US12227386B2
A replaceable stack sheet replaceably provided in a medium integration/separation device to guide integration of a medium according to an embodiment includes a body which is coupled to a rotary shaft and in which a plurality of support shafts are spaced apart from each other in a circumferential direction, and a plurality of sheet pieces having ends rotatably coupled to the plurality of support shafts.
US12227384B2
A rope edge protector for protecting a rope as it passes over an edge during rope access and rope rescue is described. The rope edge protector has a body with a curved channel portion on an outer surface thereof that is configured to receive at least one rope along a length of the channel portion. The body has a first underside surface that is configured for placement on a first face of the edge and a second underside surface forming a dihedral angle with the first underside surface and that is configured for placement on a second face of the edge. An attachment mechanism having a strap may connect the body to a second body and may have a cam for tensioning the strap between the bodies to secure the bodies to opposing edges.
US12227383B2
A sheet processing apparatus includes a tray, a first binder, a second binder, a feeder, and circuitry. The tray receives and stores a sheet bundle. The first binder presses the sheet bundle to bind the sheet bundle. The second binder penetrates the sheet bundle with a needle to bind the sheet bundle. The feeder feeds the sheet bundle in a first direction, and moves the sheet bundle in a second direction. The circuitry causes the feeder to move the sheet bundle on the tray in the second direction, moves the first binder from a binding position to a home position different from the binding position, and moves the second binder to the binding position in the width direction to bind the sheet bundle by the second binder after the sheet bundle is moved in the second direction and the first binder is moved to the home position.
US12227381B2
An apparatus for diverting and/or folding articles includes an infeed conveyor, an outfeed conveyor, and a diverter. The diverter is a non-contact, fluid emitting diverter, configured to emit a fluid jet to exhibit the diverting force on the impact zone of the article at a side of the article facing away from the outfeed entry. An angle of the average direction of the diverting force of the fluid jet with the outfeed path at the outfeed entry is in the range of 5° to 85°.
US12227379B2
Provided is an adhesive film production apparatus for producing an adhesive film having an adhesive layer on a base material layer, the adhesive film production apparatus including: a feeding roller that continuously feeds a raw film of the adhesive film; a cutting part that cuts the raw film of the adhesive film into a plurality of adhesive films having predetermined widths; and a plurality of winding cores that wind each of the plurality of adhesive films, wherein each of the plurality of winding cores has a width larger than a width of the adhesive film as an object of winding.
US12227369B2
A nut transporting device includes: an outer cylinder, multiple attracting members that are arrayed in a spiral shape about a center axis extending in an axial direction of the outer cylinder, on an inner surface side of the outer cylinder and that form a magnetic field on an outer surface side of the outer cylinder to attract a weld nut to an outer surface of the outer cylinder; a rotary drive unit configured to rotatably move the attracting members about the center axis; and a restriction guide that restricts rotational movement of the weld nut to move the weld nut axially along the outer surface of the outer cylinder.
US12227351B1
An apparatus has a cartridge utilized to contain a volume of construction material. A piston is inserted into the cartridge under operable control by at least one plunger assembly. A forming device is removably mounted to the cartridge opposite to the piston. A loading assembly is engaged to the cartridge to sequentially insert the volume of construction material and the piston into the cartridge. At least one sensor package is oriented towards the cartridge to capture at least one condition datum from the volume of construction material. A unitary controller receives and processes the condition datum to supply control signals to the plunger assembly and the loading assembly based on historical condition data.
US12227342B2
A system and method for reinforcing a sidewall of a carrier with an insert is disclosed. The insert includes a plate having a front face and a rear face opposite the front face, the plate defining an opening extending between the front face and the rear face. An oblique tab extends from the front face in a first direction, and a flange extends from the plate in a second direction.
US12227338B2
A container is disclosed that has a base and a lid that is rotatable about a hinge from a closed configuration to an open configuration. The lid may be secured to the base with a latch assembly. A latch assembly may have a locked position and an unlocked position.
US12227324B2
A feed unit for articles includes: a first feeding device; a second feeding device for individually picking up the articles from the first feeding device at a removal location at a predetermined time interval; and a synchronization device for receiving the articles from the first feeding device and to moving the articles into the removal location. A control system is also provided, to adjust the speed of the synchronization device in such a manner that each article reaches the removal location at the predetermined time interval in order to be picked up by the second feeding device.
US12227317B2
Various embodiments of a variable geometry quadrotor with a compliant frame are disclosed, which adapts to tight spaces and obstacles by way of passive rotation of its arms.
US12227316B2
A payload suspension system is described herein. A payload suspension system may comprise a suspended payload container within an internal cavity defined by the payload suspension system. The suspended payload container may be suspended by one or more tensile members. The one or more tensile members may be coupled with respective tension adjustment mechanisms configured to adjust a tension of the tensile members. The tension may be adjusted based on a transition to and from a low- or micro-gravity state, in order to provide an increased or decreased movement/rotational ability for the payload container. The low- or micro-gravity state may be produced due to an aircraft performing a parabolic maneuver.
US12227315B2
Technology is disclosed herein for preventing or at least significantly reducing shock to spacecraft such as satellites when releasing a hold-down rod assembly that clamps the spacecraft to, for example, a launch vehicle adaptor. The hold-down rod assembly has tension rods that may be pre-loaded at considerable tension in order to hold down a stack of spacecraft in a launch configuration. In an embodiment, pneumatic actuators are used to slowly release the tension in the tension rods. Therefore, shock to the spacecraft is prevented or at least significantly reduced.
US12227312B2
Thermal control of powered systems on-board a flight vehicle is achieved by leveraging the latent heat storage capacity of Phase Change Materials (PCMs) to maintain the operating temperature at or slightly above the melting temperature of the PCM.
US12227311B2
An apparatus comprised of positionally directable masses attached to a binding component that includes a coupling device for payload to reduce gravitational deviation of the apparatus' trajectory by alternatingly accelerating and retracting physically bound component masses in equal and opposite directions to the extents of their bindings, initially and optimally perpendicular to the gravitational field and perpendicular to the apparatus trajectory by using in built transduction componentry located within the masses or the binding componentry or both that utilises electromagnetic forces, forces generated by chemical reactions, or other applied or responsive motive force to positionally direct the bound directable masses.
US12227309B2
There is provided a method for detecting flying object launching using a surveillance system and a communication system and transmitting flying object information to a coping system in quasi-real time. A plurality of satellite constellation business apparatuses (430) which manage individual satellite constellations, each having eight or more communication satellites (200) on one orbital plane (90), are present. All of the individual satellite constellations form a satellite constellation (610) which is a unified satellite constellation with eight or more orbital planes. Communication satellites (200) on a same orbital plane each form cross-links with communication satellites ahead and behind. Communication satellites on adjacent orbital planes each form cross-links with communication satellites in left and right adjacent orbits. The plurality of satellite constellation business apparatuses (430) construct a total of N orbital planes (90) and form a mesh communication network in collaboration.
US12227307B2
A data processing system for generating predictive maintenance models is disclosed, including one or more processors, a memory, and a plurality of instructions stored in the memory. The instructions are executable to receive a historical dataset relating to each of a plurality of systems, including maintenance data and operational data. The instructions are further executable to display one or more algorithm templates and one or more data features calculated from the operational data, in a graphical user interface. The instructions are further executable to receive a selection of an algorithm template, a data feature, and a value of a parameter associated with the algorithm template, and to train and evaluate the selected algorithm template on the selected data feature according to the received value. The instructions are further executable to display a result of a metric of the evaluation, and generate a predictive maintenance model using the selected algorithm template.
US12227306B2
An unmanned aerial vehicle according to certain embodiments generally includes a chassis, a power supply mounted to the chassis, a control system operable to receive power from the power supply, at least one rotor operable to generate lift under control of the control system, and a winch mounted to the chassis. The winch includes a reel and a motor. The reel has a line wound thereon, the line having a free end. The reel includes a circumferential channel in which a wound portion of the line is wound onto the reel. The circumferential channel includes an inner portion, an outer portion, and a passage connecting the inner portion and the outer portion. The motor is operable to rotate the reel under control of the control system to thereby cause the line to wind onto and off of the reel, thereby causing the free end of the line to raise and lower.
US12227302B2
An autonomous impact detection device includes at least one impact detector; at least one wireless transmission device configured to transmit the information collected by the impact detector; at least one energy storage device configured to supply the impact detector and the wireless transmission device with energy; at least one Seebeck module configured to supply the storage device with energy when a temperature gradient is applied thereto; the wireless transmission device being configured to supply the storage device with energy when the temperature gradient to which the Seebeck module is exposed is not sufficient.
US12227297B2
A fluid ice protection system for an aircraft includes a plenum back wall and a fluid delivery network. The plenum back wall is affixed to an interior surface of an inlet cowl of a nacelle of the aircraft to define a plenum between the interior surface and a front surface of the plenum back wall. The nacelle surrounds a rotor assembly of an aircraft propulsion system. The inlet cowl defines a plurality of perforations through a thickness of the inlet cowl. The perforations are fluidly connected to the plenum. The fluid delivery network is coupled to the plenum back wall and configured to supply an anti-ice liquid into the plenum for the anti-ice liquid to penetrate through the perforations onto an exterior surface of the inlet cowl along a leading edge section of the inlet cowl.
US12227296B2
A louvre system controls a flow of cooling air to a heat-generating element mounting inside a wing of an aircraft. The louvre system includes a louvre operably connected to the wing and structured to be rotatable to control airflow through an air intake of the wing into an interior of the wing. A louvre actuation mechanism is operably connected to the louvre and configured to control rotation of the louvre. A memory is communicably coupled to a processor and stores a louvre control module configured to autonomously control operation of the louvre actuation mechanism to control rotation of the louvre responsive to a temperature of a heat-generating element mounted in the wing interior.
US12227295B2
A seat leg assembly for a passenger seat, the seat leg assembly including: a seat leg member comprising a unitarily formed fitting member; and a plurality of stud members coupleable to the fitting member, wherein each of the plurality of stud members is formed of a material having an ultimate strength of at least 75 KSI.
US12227293B2
Described is an adjustable friction slider assembly having a rail member and a carriage assembly moveably coupled to the rail member, the carriage assembly having a bracket member and a plurality of roller elements moveably coupled to the rail member and coupled to the bracket member using a plurality of attachment members, the plurality of roller elements comprising at least one adjustable roller element coupled to the bracket member using a moveable attachment member, wherein moving the moveable attachment member adjusts a friction between the plurality of roller elements and the rail member.
US12227287B2
A retractable landing gear for an aircraft. The landing gear comprises a rocker arm hinged to a structure of the aircraft and carrying at least one wheel that is able to move between a deployed position and a retracted position, a shock-absorber hinged to the structure, a connecting rod connecting the rocker arm and the shock-absorber, a strut provided with two connecting links that are hinged to each other and respectively hinged to shock-absorber and connected to an actuator fastened to the structure. The connecting rod is out of alignment with the shock-absorber when a force applied to the shock-absorber is less than a predetermined force, and the landing gear comprises a locking device provided with an elastic return member and a stop device for locking the strut when the wheel is in the deployed position, and then for securing the wheel in the deployed position.
US12227276B1
An inflatable deployable mast fairing assembly is provided with a rigid foundation, a hydrodynamic fairing and at least one soft actuator. The hydrodynamic fairing is shaped to close an aperture formed between a deployable hardware system and a sail bay opening. A first soft actuator connects to the rigid foundation at one end and to the hydrodynamic fairing at another. Fluid pressurization elongates a first soft actuator coaxial to the deployable hardware system to fittedly position the fairing in the aperture with a void in the fairing to receive the hardware system. If the rigid foundation is sail-mounted, a second soft actuator connects to the sail-mounted foundation opposite the first soft actuator and to a counter flange mechanically connected to the hydrodynamic fairing. A second pressurization elongates the second soft actuator coaxial to the deployable hardware system to retract the hydrodynamic fairing from the aperture.
US12227265B2
A surface/submersible water-craft, comprising: a hull, means for submerged propulsion provided in or on the hull, means for surface propulsion provided in or on the hull, floodable-on-submerging crew accommodation provided in the hull and a canopy arranged for closing the floodable crew accommodation for protecting the crew from water flow past the craft, the canopy being openable for crew exit from the craft whilst submerged at a destination.
US12227264B2
A bicycle rear derailleur includes a base member including a mounting portion configured to be attached to a bicycle frame, the mounting portion having a mounting opening through which a central axis of a hub axle passes in a mounting state of the bicycle rear derailleur. The mounting portion includes a single joint or is free of any joint. Also included is a movable member movably coupled relative to the base member and a linkage structure operatively connecting the movable member to the base member. Also included is at least one of a motor, a first wireless communication unit, and an electrical connector. The at least one of the motor, the first wireless communication unit, and the electrical connector are disposed on at least one of the base member, the movable member, and the linkage structure.
US12227258B2
A foldable personal such as a tricycle which can be convertible into a stroller, is configured for accommodating a child therein and for preventing, when desired, the child from being able to steer the vehicle, vehicle having an operational state and a storage state, in which it can take an extremely compact form. The vehicle has a longitudinal axis lying in its vertical plane of symmetry and having a horizontal reference plane perpendicular to the plane of symmetry, and it takes its compact form in the storage state both in the direction along its longitudinal axis and in the directions perpendicular to this axis both along the plane of symmetry and perpendicular to the plane of symmetry.
US12227257B2
Various electric balance vehicles are described. In some embodiments, the vehicle has first and second pedal housings to support a respective foot of a user. The first and second pedal housings can be rotatable relative to each other. The vehicle can have first and second wheel assemblies. An axle can extend substantially between the wheel assemblies. In some embodiments, one pedal housing rotates relative to the axle and one housing is rotationally fixed relative to the housing. The vehicle can balance and provide locomotion to the user.
US12227255B2
Provided is a closure device for connecting two assemblies to one another. The closure device includes a first closure part which has a locking piece with a first locking section and a first magnetic element, a second closure part which has a second locking section and a second magnetic element, and an arresting mechanism which is arranged on the second closure part and which has an arresting element and an actuating mechanism operatively connected to the arresting element. The arresting element can be brought into operative connection with the locking piece in the closed position, in order to lock the positively locked engagement between the first locking section and the second locking section. The actuating mechanism may be actuated in order to adjust the arresting element relative to the locking receptacle so that the first locking section and the second locking section are releasable from one another.
US12227252B2
A louver member, configured to be installed on a side cowl so as to cover an air discharge port of a straddle-type vehicle, is provided. The louver member includes a frame body including a first frame along a first side edge of the air discharge port and a second frame along a second side edge of the air discharge port opposite to the first side edge, a first arm portion crossing the air discharge port from the first frame to the second frame, and a second arm portion branching from the first arm portion and extending to the second frame.
US12227250B1
A bicycle rack is disclosed. The rack includes (a) a support member having a first portion configured to be mounted on a wall and a second portion, disposed at an angle relative to the first portion, configured to support the pedal of a bicycle; and (b) a cover member pivotably mounted on the first portion of the support member, the cover member being configured to move between an open position in which the support member is uncovered and a closed position in which the support member is covered.
US12227243B2
A multifunction garden cart, that can carry builders sack, where the cart is comprised of U-shaped chassis built of side rods connected by front rod. The U-shaped chassis is connected to two wheels attached at the center of the side rods. Various types of handles can be connected to the front rod, so it can be moves by a person or attached to a towing vehicle. Two rods pivotally attached to the side rods, can be secured vertically to the plane of the U-shaped chassis. A closed square top frame for use as builders sack support, is removably, pivotally attached at the top of the vertical rods.
US12227238B2
A track roller assembly for a work machine includes a track roller frame with drive and idler wheels and an endless track disposed about the wheels. Mid-rollers are located between the drive and idler wheels. Each mid-roller has a shaft mounted on a bogie frame and a pair of mid-roller hubs having roller wheels attached thereon mounted on the shaft, with one mid-roller hub and wheel on either side of the bogie frame. Each mid-roller hub has a guide facing the guide blocks. The track roller assembly has an alignment sensing mechanism to detect misalignment of the track. An adjustment mechanism is configured to adjust the alignment of the track in relation to the drive and idler wheels. A controller receives input from the sensor when the sensor paddle is moved to the misaligned position and causes the adjustment mechanism to adjust the alignment of the endless track belt.
US12227237B2
A track assembly for a vehicle includes: a frame; a plurality of track-contacting wheels; an endless track disposed around the track-contacting wheels; a rotation limiting device for limiting rotation of the track assembly relative to a vehicle frame; a connection bracket for connecting the rotation limiting device to the frame; and a bushing assembly slidably connecting a device connecting end of the connection bracket to an elongate support of the rotation limiting device. The bushing assembly includes an inner bushing slidably mounted to the elongate support, an outer bushing affixed to the device connecting end, and a resilient element connected between the bushings. The resilient element is resiliently deformable such that: the inner bushing is rotatable relative to the outer bushing such that an inner bushing axis can be angled relative to an outer bushing axis; and the inner bushing is axially movable relative to the outer bushing.
US12227236B2
A tie down apparatus that may be utilized for securing an item, such as a safety chain, wherein the tie down apparatus may be used with a hitch mounting system. In one embodiment, the tie down apparatus may include a receiving member, a tie down member, and a locking member. The receiving member may include an opening located there through. The tie down member may include at least one aperture, wherein the locking member may extend therethrough. The locking member may selectively engage the receiving member. The locking member may include a head that engages with a safety chain member positioned on the tie down apparatus to prevent disengagement between the locking member and the receiving member.
US12227235B2
A method includes receiving motor velocity data, and, in response to a determination that the motor velocity data indicates that a velocity of a motor is below a threshold velocity: calculating a thermal metric corresponding to a phase imbalance of the motor; identifying at least one thermal mitigation parameter based on the thermal metric; generating at least one thermal management motor position command based on the at least one thermal mitigation parameter; and selectively controlling the motor according to the thermal management motor position command.
US12227228B2
An embodiment front vehicle body structure of a vehicle body is provided. The vehicle body includes an under body and an upper body coupled to the under body, and the front vehicle body structure includes side sills respectively disposed at two opposite sides of the upper body based on a vehicle width direction and wheel arch members respectively connected directly to front ends of the side sills in a forward/rearward direction of the vehicle body and coupled to a front part of the under body.
US12227227B2
A modular vehicle assembly platform is disclosed. In some embodiments, the platform may comprise a cast bulkhead, a cast cowl, one or more cast front strut towers, a front subframe, a cross-car beam, one or more door rings, a structural central floor comprising a battery, a cast structural rear floor, a cast upper rear section (or d-ring), and a rear motor cradle. The platform may allow for the use of common parts and structure across different vehicle types.
US12227210B1
Disengagement of an autonomous driving mode based on vehicle operating conditions, including: receiving, from a steering torque sensor, torque sensor data indicating an amount of torque applied to a steering system of an autonomous vehicle; determining a predicted torque based on one or more motion attributes of the steering system of the autonomous vehicle; determining an estimated operator-provided torque as a differential between the predicted torque and the amount of torque; selecting a threshold from a plurality of thresholds, wherein each threshold of the plurality of thresholds corresponds to a different possible operating condition of the autonomous vehicle; and disengaging an autonomous driving mode of the autonomous vehicle based on the differential exceeding the threshold.
US12227205B2
A system includes an autonomous vehicle (AV) configured to travel along a road and a control device communicatively coupled to the AV. The control device determines that the AV should move from a current lane of the road to an adjacent lane of the road. The control device determines two or more candidate windows into which the AV may move in the adjacent lane. Each candidate window corresponds to a space in the adjacent lane between two vehicles traveling in the adjacent lane. The control device determines that the AV should move into a first candidate window, and, in response to this determination, causes the AV to begin moving along a trajectory leading to the first candidate window (e.g., by accelerating or decelerating).
US12227200B2
A driver assistance device includes a one or more processors. The one or more processors is configured to determine whether a pedal misapplication determination condition is satisfied, and output, when the one or more processors determines that the pedal misapplication determination condition is satisfied, at least one of a warning display and warning audio directly instructing a driver to release the pedal that is depressed at a point in time of outputting.
US12227198B2
An example operation includes one or more of: detecting that a plurality of wireless devices are located in a vehicle; pairing a wireless device of the plurality of wireless devices and a head unit of the vehicle, when the wireless device is receiving or transmitting audio; and transmitting the audio through the head unit of the vehicle.
US12227193B2
The driver assistance system comprises a detector, a navigator, a stimulator, and a voice interactor. The detector detects wakefulness reduction of a driver or absent-minded driving by the driver. The navigator navigates a vehicle based on map information. The stimulator continuously or intermittently applies stimulation to the driver. The voice interactor interacts with the driver by voice. The navigator searches for a resting facility on a route from the map information in response to a detection of the wakefulness reduction or the absent-minded driving. The voice interactor executes a first interaction of proposing navigation to the resting facility by the navigator in response to the detection of the wakefulness reduction or the absent-minded driving, and executes a second interaction of proposing application of stimulation by the stimulator after an execution of the first interaction and during a period until the vehicle arrives at the resting facility.
US12227167B2
A method of controlling a vehicle drivetrain by an electric motor, in order to synchronize the speed of an internal combustion engine and the speed of gears in the drivetrain, wherein if a speed synchronization error esync(t) is controlled to remain within a prespecified region for a specific period of time, the synchronization is finished, and a gear may be engaged.
