US12228296B2
An outdoor unit electric cabinet, includes a box body, two supporting frames, an upper mounting plate, and a fixing plate, the two supporting frames are arranged on inner walls on the opposite sides of the box body; a mounting location is arranged on each supporting frame; the opposite sides of the upper mounting plate are mounted into the mounting location from an entrance of the mounting location; the upper mounting plate is flippable relative to the mounting location; the fixing plate is mounted on the entrance of the mounting location to seal the entrance of the mounting location, so as to prevent the upper mounting plate from sliding out from the mounting location.
US12228286B1
A combustion section of a turbine engine having a primary combustion chamber and a secondary combustion chamber. The primary combustion chamber is defined, at least in part, by a combustor liner and a dome wall. A primary fuel nozzle having an outlet is located at the dome wall, wherein the outlet of the primary fuel nozzle is fluidly coupled with the primary combustion chamber. At least one opening located in an outer liner axially aft of the dome wall fluidly couples the secondary combustion chamber and the primary combustion chamber. A set of secondary fuel nozzles are fluidly coupled with the secondary combustion chamber.
US12228279B2
The present disclosure is directed to a direct-light generator for sun-sky-imitating illumination devices configured for generating natural light similar to that from the sun and the sky The generator includes a first emitting surface and an array of light-emitting devices configured to generate from a primary light a direct light which exits the first emitting surface along a direct-light direction. The direct light exiting the first emitting surface has a luminance profile which has a narrow peak in the angular distribution around the direct-light direction and is uniform across the first emitting surface. Each light-emitting device includes a light emitter having an emitting surface and at least a pair of collimation lenses illuminated by the light emitter.
US12228277B2
A light source module includes a light source and a reflective element. The light source has a light emitting surface. The reflective element is disposed on a transmission path of an illumination light beam emitted from the light source. The illumination light beam reflected by the reflective element is irradiated on a target plane. The reflective element includes a first reflective surface and a second reflective surface. The first reflective surface is disposed towards the light emitting surface of the light source, and is a plane. The second reflective surface bendably extends from the first reflective surface.
US12228268B2
A lighting-junction-box-assembly-for-remodel (hereinafter, “assembly”) has a lighting-junction-box, leg-springs attached to the lighting-junction-box, and mounting-tabs attached to the lighting-junction-box. The leg-springs are used to (temporarily) hold (by friction) the assembly within a hole in an existing ceiling, sized to fit the assembly. While the leg-springs are (temporarily) holding the assembly within the hole in the existing ceiling, other/different holes within extension-portions of the mounting-tabs are used to secure the entire assembly to the existing ceiling, via mechanical fasteners passing through the extension-portion holes and into the existing ceiling. An existing ceiling may be retrofitted with this assembly to have a lighting-junction-box where desired/needed in that existing ceiling; and as such, this assembly is particularly useful in remodeling situations (applications); however, the assembly may also be used in new construction.
US12228267B2
An optical system includes a light source, a lens, and a light effect ring. The lens has first and second surfaces and receives a first light beam from the light source at the first surface and emits a second light beam from the second surface. The light effect ring includes a first plurality of light emitters emitting second light beams that obliquely illuminate the first surface of the lens and a second plurality of emitters that emit third light beams through the lens. The light effect ring may include a plurality of segments that move into and out of the first light beam, where each segment includes a first subset of the first plurality of light emitters and a second subset of the second plurality of emitters.
US12228266B1
A safety light device includes a body defining a central bore and having a generally annular shape, a pair of teeth configured to extend into the central bore in an extended position and retract into the body in a retracted position, a charging system configured to charge a battery, and a plurality of light-emitting diodes (LEDs) disposed on an outer portion of the body.
US12228265B1
An electrical connector strip is adapted for structural applications in theater, television and entertainment industries. The connector strip includes an elongated rigid enclosure defining a hollow continuous internal wireway receiving electrical wiring within an interior of the enclosure. At least one outlet pocket is formed in a side wall of the enclosure. A connector adapter plate is located in the outlet pocket and extends within the interior of the enclosure. At least one output connector is carried by the connector adapter plate, and resides within the interior of the enclosure with external access provided through the outlet pocket.
US12228256B2
The present disclosure relates to the technical field of lamps, and discloses a bubble lamp for decoration. The bubble lamp includes a bubble tube and a heating bulb which are used cooperatively; the bubble tube is a glass tube and is sealed; low-boiling-point liquid is further injected into the bubble tube; the heating bulb includes a lamp holder, a bulb shell, and a heating light source; the bulb shell is fixedly connected to the lamp holder; the heating light source is electrically connected to the lamp holder; the heating light source is electrified to generate heat and promotes the low-boiling-point liquid inside the bubble tube to be boiled and generate bubbles; the bubble lamp for decoration further includes a catalyst layer configured to assist the low-boiling-point liquid in generating the bubbles.
US12228253B2
Systems and methods for controlling the temperature and pressure of a cryogenic liquid methane storage unit are provided. The disclosed systems and methods generate methane gas from a reservoir of liquid methane stored within the methane storage unit, vent the methane gas through one or more outlet valves connected to the methane storage unit, and generate electric power using the vented methane gas. The generated electric power can then be used to initiating a cooling cycle, which reduces the temperature of said reservoir of liquid methane and reduces the pressure in said methane storage unit. Micro anaerobic digesters and methane storage units may be configured in a networked environment with a central controller that monitors remote units.
US12228250B2
A pressure vessel system has a pressure vessel for storing gaseous fuel, a fuel line, and a total-pressure sensor for measuring a total pressure of the fuel at a position within the fuel line. This makes it possible for various functions, such as the control of power reduction, for example, to be performed more accurately than if only static pressure were being used. The technology disclosed here also relates to an energy supply arrangement having such a pressure vessel system and having an energy converter, such as a fuel cell, for example.
US12228247B2
Hydrogen storage system for passive discharge of hydrogen gas without employing heater, comprising a plurality of hydrogen storage tanks each containing at least one metal hydride (MH) storage material, a hydrogen gas flow circuit connected to the storage tanks and a control system including pressure sensors (P) and temperature sensors (T) arranged for measuring the pressure and temperature in each storage tank, the gas flow circuit comprising valves (V, V1, . . . Vn) coupling said plurality of storage tanks to an inlet, respectively an outlet of the hydrogen storage system, whereby the inlet and outlet may be common or may be separate. At least a first material storage tank comprises a first metal hydride (MH1) of a first composition and at least a second material storage tank comprises a second metal hydride (MH2) of a second composition.
US12228233B2
Embodiments described and discussed herein generally relate to resonators for pressurized fluid systems, pressurized fluid systems containing resonators, and methods of reducing acoustic energy within pressurized fluid systems. In one or more embodiments, a resonator includes a first chamber containing an inlet and an outlet, a second chamber containing an inlet, an outlet, and a passageway, where the inlet of the second chamber is in fluid communication with the outlet of the first chamber, a third chamber containing an inlet and an outlet, where the inlet of the third chamber is in fluid communication with the outlet of the second chamber, and where the outlet of the third chamber is configured to be in fluid communication with a pressure relief device containing a safety valve, and a fourth chamber in fluid communication with the second chamber by the passageway.
US12228231B2
The present application relates to connectors with an indicator feature for providing visibility within a connector body. The connectors include a connector body made of either a transparent or opaque material to provide visibility inside the connector body. The connector body defines a zone of indication that provides visual indication of two positions of the conduit. A first position of the conduit includes a position wherein the conduit is inserted beyond a seal portion of the connector but not fully inserted to a predetermined depth. And, a second position of the conduit includes a position wherein the conduit is sealed and fully inserted within the connector body to the predetermined depth (e.g., the predetermined depth includes a depth where an end of the conduit engages a conduit stop of the connector body).
US12228229B1
Disclosed are devices that may include brackets and clamps for assembling mounting structures built from pipes and cross-braces. These mounting structures support solar panels. The devices may include a rail-pipe bracket that secures a rail to a pipe. The rail-pipe bracket may include openings for seating a pipe and include hooks for securing the rail. The devices may also include one or more pipe clamps that secure the pipes together. These pipe clamps are adjustable and may accommodate pipes of various sizes thanks to a multi-tier hinge structure.
US12228226B1
This application relates to a hygienic clamp with a non-contact sensor. The clamp may also include a first clamp arm, a second clamp arm, and a hinge to movably join the first clamp arm and the second clamp arm. The non-contact sensor can sense whether the clamp is closed by detecting the proximity of one arm of the clamp to its other arm, without requiring the two arms to contact one another. Since the non-contact sensor is not mechanical, no mechanical wear is produced. It is constructed to prevent build-up that can occur with other types of sensors in industries that use clamps in their applications.
US12228223B2
A piping comprising a pressure vault formed of at least one interlocked shaped wire, each turn of the wire having at least one stud and a groove adjacent the stud, the stud interlocking into a groove of an adjacent turn of a shaped wire. At least one additional gas circulation passage through the stud and/or in the bottom of the groove is defined, the passage allowing gas circulation between the inside and the outside of the vault in addition to clearance between the stud of one turn and the bottom of the groove of the adjacent turn, or in the absence of clearance between the stud of one turn and the bottom of the groove of the adjacent turn.
US12228222B2
A valve includes an orifice plate including at least one orifice surrounded by an orifice plate seal surface, a seal plate, and an actuator. The seal plate includes a seal boss having a seal boss surface that faces the orifice plate, and a pocket that overlays the at least one orifice. The pocket includes a recessed surface that is surrounded by the seal boss surface and is displaced from the seal boss surface along an axis. The actuator is configured to move the seal plate relative to the orifice plate along the axis to transition the valve between open and closed states. The seal boss surface engages the orifice plate seal surface, surrounds the at least one orifice, and blocks a flow of fluid through the at least one orifice when the valve is in the closed state.
US12228220B2
A method and system for controlling a fluid valve are described that avoid the effects of hysteresis. In hysteresis, the power signals associated with a valve position are different on the upstroke and downstroke. As a result, predicting the valve position can be difficult if you only know the current power signal. Instead of using upstrokes and downstrokes, a valve can momentarily be set to zero power, or a rest position when receiving a new command signal. This way the command signal is applied from a zero power or rest position, making the valve position more predictable and accurate.
US12228202B1
Vehicles, oil intake systems for vehicles, and methods for manufacturing oil intake systems for vehicles are provided. A method for manufacturing an oil intake system for a vehicle includes providing an oil reservoir having an internal volume with an internal shape including an oil reservoir bottom; determining a selected amount of oil received in the oil reservoir; selecting a maximum positive pitch angle of a first plane of an upper surface of the selected amount of oil in the oil reservoir; selecting a minimum negative pitch angle of a second plane of the upper surface of the selected amount of oil in the oil reservoir; determining a bottom plane at a selected positive distance above the oil reservoir bottom; determining a shape and a size of an oil pick-up tube and of an opening in the oil pick-up tube to locate the opening below the first plane at the maximum positive pitch angle and below the second plane at the minimum negative pitch angle, wherein the opening is defined by a peripheral edge of the oil pick-up tube, wherein the peripheral edge lies substantially within an opening plane, wherein the opening plane has a positive pitch angle of at least half of the maximum positive pitch angle; and fabricating the oil pick-up tube with the shape, the size, and the opening.
US12228187B2
To provide a friction material composition which provides a friction material having high friction coefficient during high speed and high temperature braking, high coefficient of static friction and excellent abrasion resistance at high temperature and causing little sticking due to rust, even when the composition includes no antimony element or no copper element, or includes less than 0.5% by mass of copper element if any, in other words even when having a composition environmentally less harmful or less harmful to the human body. More specifically the friction material composition includes a bonding material, an organic filler, an inorganic filler and a fiber substrate, wherein the friction material composition includes no copper element, or includes less than 0.5% by mass of copper element if any, includes no antimony element, includes 5% by mass or less of iron fiber, 1 to 5% by mass of zinc powder, 2.5 to 6% by mass of calcium hydroxide, 0.7 to 1.5% by mass of sodium carbonate and a silicone-containing phenolic resin.
US12228186B2
A wheel end assembly having a knuckle, a brake spider, and a drum brake assembly. The knuckle may have a first mounting boss that may extend from a spindle mounting surface. The drum brake assembly may be mounted to the brake spider. The drum brake assembly may include a brake pad assembly that may extend partially around a first mounting boss.
US12228183B2
A brake clip for a disc brake assembly having a brake pad received in an anchor bracket includes a shim configured to be received in the anchor bracket. The shim includes a base leg and opposing upper and lower legs extending from the base leg to define a receiving space. At least one of the upper and lower legs includes a retaining member extending in a first direction. A spring is provided in the receiving space for receiving the brake pad. The spring includes a base and a pair of projections extending from the base. At least one of the projections includes a retaining member that cooperates with the at least one retaining member on the shim to allow for a predetermined amount of relative movement between the shim and the spring in the first direction.
US12228176B2
Disconnect mechanisms, transmission systems incorporating the same, and methods associated therewith
Transmission systems, disconnect mechanisms, and methods of assembling disconnect mechanisms are envisioned. A disconnect mechanism is adapted to selectively decouple a driving device from a driven device. The disconnect mechanism includes a lever, an inner shaft, an outer shaft, and a housing. The inner shaft is coupled to the lever, the outer shaft is coupled to the inner shaft, and the housing at least partially houses the inner shaft and the outer shaft.
US12228173B2
A mold box containing a bearing assembly arranged between the guide surfaces of a guide rail pillar. The bearing assembly has a bearing element that contains a main body art capable of receiving the guide rail pillar. The bearing element also has a first bearing surface and a second bearing surface that can be arranged in a common plane, parallel to the planar guide surfaces and spaced apart in the direction of the longitudinal axis. The first and second bearing surfaces are separated by an intermediary surface portion that is retracted from the common plane. Cavities formed in the bearing element are located below each of the first and second bearing surfaces, such the bearing element is provided with a resilience relative to the main body part.
US12228167B2
A fastener having a cylindrical shank with a fastener head attached to the first shank end, the head having a tool slot for engaging a tool, the tool slot directed away from the first shank end and a lower head surface adjacent the shaft. The cylindrical shank has a head collar adjacent the head, a threaded collar having securing threads, the threaded collar disposed along a portion of the second shank end, a shank smooth portion disposed between head collar and the threaded collar and a grip washer disposed along the collar. The grip washer has a first washer side with a plurality of protrusions and a second washer side having a profile corresponding with the lower head surface, wherein the grip washer is rotatable about the collar and the lower head surface. The fastener includes a retractable frame rotatable about the shank smooth portion.
US12228161B2
A self-aligning mechanical fastener includes an active apparatus and a passive apparatus and is configured to have locked and unlocked states. The active apparatus includes a motor that drives a shaft in first direction to advance a plunger towards the passive apparatus to transition the fastener to the locked state. The plunger includes a tapered distal end that mechanically engages a locking body. The locking body is moved laterally by the tapered distal end to apply a force to a locking frame that is located in a slot defined in a housing of the passive apparatus. The force causes the mechanical fastener to be locked. To unlock the mechanical fastener, the motor drives the shaft in a second direction to retract the plunger away from the passive apparatus.
US12228159B2
A screw includes a head portion, an externally threaded shank extending from the head portion, the externally threaded shank having an external surface, and a flow-hole-forming tip disposed at a distal end portion of the externally threaded shank. The flow-hole-forming tip includes a radiused lower zone having an external surface tangent to the external surface of the externally threaded shank, a conical middle zone having an external surface tangent to the external surface of the radiused lower zone, the conical middle zone defining a vertex angle, and a radiused distal end zone having an external surface tangent to the external surface of the conical middle zone. The flow-hole-forming tip includes a width of the flow-hole-forming tip is greater than a length of the flow-hole-forming tip and/or the vertex angle is greater than or equal to 90 degrees.
US12228154B1
A piece of furniture includes a first joint member including a first slot formed in a first portion of the first furniture component, a second joint member, the second joint member including an opening and a threaded insert fastener disposed within the opening to receive a threaded fastener, and a connection member. The first joint member is attached to the second joint member using the connection member that is attached via the threaded fastener inserted into the threaded insert fastener of the second joint member.
US12228151B2
A method of controlling an actuator includes switching a primary solenoid valve to a first mode to fluidically connect a supply pressure source to a control chamber of a pilot valve. A fluid from the supply pressure source is directed through the primary solenoid valve to fill the control chamber of the pilot valve and put the pilot valve in a first position. The first position fluidically connects a second chamber of the actuator to a return pressure source. The actuator includes a cylinder between the first chamber and the second chamber and a rod attached to the cylinder. The fluid from the supply pressure source is directed into the first chamber of the actuator to move the cylinder and the rod in a first direction while the pilot valve is in the first position.
US12228147B2
A quick connect mounting assembly for a ceiling fan. The quick connect mounting assembly includes two releasably attachable mounts that are easily interconnected to mechanically couple elements of a ceiling fan. The quick connect mounting assembly can be used to mount at least two elements of the ceiling fan, including a ceiling fan switch housing to a ceiling fan motor assembly.
US12228130B2
A rotary compressor provided that may include a casing, a cylinder, a roller, and at least one vane slidably inserted into the roller, and the roller may have at least one bypass passage through which spaces on both sides of a contact point based on a rotational direction of the roller communicate with each other. Through the at least one bypass passage, residual refrigerant remaining in a compression space even after a discharge stroke may be bypassed to a suction chamber, thereby minimizing the refrigerant remaining in the compression space after the discharge stroke. Also, loss due to overcompression in a residual space may be suppressed or prevented while reducing suction loss due to the introduction of overcompressed high-pressure refrigerant by the bypassing the refrigerant in the residual space toward a suction side in advance.
US12228126B2
In a liquid supply device, the pump unit has a discharge port for discharging a fluid. The connecting portion is connected to the discharge port. The first and second pipe portions and branch off from the connecting portion. The first introduction unit is connected to the first pipe portion and introduces a first liquid into the first flow channel at a flow rate corresponding to a flow rate of the fluid flowing through the first pipe portion. The second introduction unit is connected to the second pipe portion and introduces a second liquid into the first flow channel at a flow rate corresponding to a flow rate of the fluid flowing through the second pipe portion. The stopping portion stops the flow of the fluid in the second pipe portion.
US12228124B2
An apparatus for compressing a fluid has a linear compression chamber with a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet. A displacement assembly is spaced from the linear compression chamber and is actuable to engage the linear compression chamber and displace a working fluid linearly in the linear compression chamber to decrease the volume of a fluid in the linear compression chamber.
US12228120B2
A linear compressor includes a cylinder, a piston axially reciprocating in the cylinder, a first muffler unit coupled to the piston, a back cover that is disposed at a rear of the piston and defines an opening at a radially central area, and a second muffler unit coupled to the opening. The first muffler unit includes an inner guide disposed in the piston and a first intake muffler disposed at a rear of the inner guide. The second muffler unit includes a second intake muffler that communicates with the first intake muffler and is coupled to the opening, a muffler body surrounding the second intake muffler, and a muffler cover disposed between the muffler body and the back cover.
US12228111B2
Provided is a method of constructing a geothermal heat exchanger comprised of a geothermal well(s) that maximizes heat transfer from sweet spots of geothermal energy of a geothermal reservoir to the geothermal well(s). The method involves dynamically identifying the sweet spots, and selecting a predetermined shape and/or increasing a dimension of the geothermal well(s) within the sweet spots to increase a surface area of contact between the geothermal well(s) and the sweet spots. The method further involves calculating a mathematical best fit line to minimize a distance between the geothermal well(s) and the sweet spots, and forming at least a part of the geothermal well(s) to, or to a proximity of, the sweet spots along the mathematical best fit line. Methods may include increasing an effective thermal radius of the geothermal well(s) by geothermal fracturing, geothermal acidizing, or geothermal multilateral wells, and embedding thermal energy storage (TES) materials therein.
US12228109B2
A method (1000, 2000, 3000) for operating a wind turbine (100-100d) is disclosed. The wind turbine includes a power conversion system (114, 118, 210, 234, 410, 420, 430) configured to provide electrical output power (P) to a grid (242), and an air-cooling system (450) configured, in a cooling mode, to cool an ambient air (28a) and provide the cooled ambient air as a cooling air (28c) to the power conversion system (114, 118, 210, 234, 410, 420, 430). The method (1000, 2000, 3000) includes operating (1100, 2100, 3100) the air-cooling system (450) in the cooling mode if at least one operating parameter (APD, RPD, TGB, TBS) of the power conversion system (114, 118, 210, 234, 410, 420, 430) is equal to or greater than a respective threshold (Th1_APD, Th1_RPD, Th1_TGB, Th1_TBS).
US12228108B2
Aspects of the present invention relate to a computer-implemented method for predicting energy production losses associated with high wind hysteresis control of a wind turbine generator. The method comprises: determining a distribution of wind speeds; determining a high wind hysteresis band that comprises wind speed values between an upper threshold and a lower threshold; and predicting energy production loss due to the high wind hysteresis control. The prediction includes: determining a high wind factor corresponding to a probability that the wind speeds in the hysteresis band occur when the generator is shut off by the high wind hysteresis control, determining, based on the distribution and power data, an energy value associated with the wind speeds falling within the hysteresis band over a predetermined time period; and determining the energy production loss by applying the high wind factor to the determined energy value.
US12228107B2
A method of correcting a pitch angle deviation of a blade of a wind turbine is provided. First blade load measurements measured when the wind turbine was operating in a first operational mode are provided, and used to determine calibration parameters. Second blade load measurements measured when the wind turbine was operating in a second operational mode are provided, and the calibration parameters applied to determine calibrated blade load measurements. A pitch angle deviation of at least one blade of the turbine is estimated based on an identified difference between the calibrated blade load measurements, and a pitch angle is adjusted to correct for the pitch angle deviation.
US12228106B2
A transport frame (100, 102) for a nacelle (14) includes a pair of lower nacelle mounts (128, 130) and a pair of upper nacelle mounts (204, 206). Each of the lower nacelle mounts (128, 130) includes a plurality attachment points for attaching to the nacelle (14) at a plurality of different widths. Each of the upper nacelle mounts (204, 206) includes a plurality of attachment points for attaching to the nacelle (14) at a plurality of different widths. The pair of lower nacelle mounts (128, 130) and the pair of upper nacelle mounts (204, 206) are adjustably positioned to allow the transport frame (100, 102) to attach to the nacelle (14) at a plurality of different heights. The ability of the transport frame (100, 102) to attach to the nacelle (14) at a plurality of different widths and heights allows the transport frame (100, 102) to be used on nacelles (14) having different sizes. Methods of using the transport frames (100, 102) are also disclosed.
US12228103B2
An internal combustion engine control device includes: a rotation speed calculating unit that calculates crank rotation speeds of an engine; an extreme timing calculating unit that calculates an extreme timing of the crank rotation speeds; and an average rotation speed calculating unit that calculates an average rotation speed of the crank rotation speeds; and a combustion state estimating unit that estimates a combustion state in the engine based on the extreme timing and the average rotation speed.
US12228097B2
Solid rocket motors or ramjets may be provided. Such devices may include a combustion chamber containing at least one fuel, a metal phase alloy film within the combustion chamber, where the metal phase alloy film coupled to the at least one fuel, and an activator operably coupled to the metal phase alloy film, the activator including an electrical activation system, a laser activation system, or an initiator activation system. This allows combined functional features on pulse motors to release inhibitors and ignite solid fuel/propellant. Fast reactions can be achieved by controlling the thickness of the alloys and using multiple layers to achieve the areal energy density. Foils can be rolled and inserted into the fuel/propellant bore. When rolled, it can easily follow the grain bore diameter changes with temperature and provide no additional mechanical loads to the grain.
US12228094B2
A system for energy conversion including a closed cycle engine containing a volume of working fluid is provided. The engine includes a double-ended piston assembly including a pair of pistons coupled to a connection member. An expansion chamber is separated from a compression chamber by the piston. The engine defines an outer end and an inner end relative to a lateral extension of the piston assembly. A heater body is positioned thermally proximal to the expansion chamber and thermally distal to the compression chamber, and the heater body is positioned at the outer end of the engine. A load device is operably coupled to the piston assembly at the inner end of the engine. The load device is positioned between the pair of pistons of the piston assembly.
US12228076B2
A combustor panel is disclosed herein. The combustor panel includes a top side, a bottom side opposite the top side, a feature coupled to the top side and extending orthogonally away from the top side, the feature defining a first space on the bottom side beneath the feature, a first plurality of cooling holes extending in a first direction from the top side to the bottom side, a second plurality of cooling holes extending in a second direction from the top side to the bottom side, the second direction being rotated about 1° to about 60° counter-clockwise from the first direction, and a third plurality of cooling holes extending in a third direction from the top side to the bottom side, the third direction being about rotated 1° to about 60° clockwise from the first direction.
US12228074B2
A fan module for an aircraft turbine engine includes a fan having variable pitch blades and an oil transfer device configured to provide a transfer of oil between a stator and a rotor. The oil transfer device includes a stator ring having internal oil ducts, a shaft inserted into the ring and having internal oil ducts, and an annular support of the ring configured to deform elastically to allow movements of the ring in the radial direction. A plain bearing is located between the ring and the shaft, and roller bearings are mounted between the ring and the shaft on either side of the plain bearing.
US12228071B1
An aircraft propulsion system includes a core engine including a compressor, combustor, and turbine section. An inlet airflow is compressed communicated to the combustor, mixed with fuel, and ignited to generate an exhaust gas flow that is expanded through the turbine section. A water recovery system includes a series of condensers that include a series of passages for water containing exhaust gas flow. The series of passages are defined circumferentially about the propulsor axis such that recovered water drains downward in a direction of gravity through the series of passages.
US12228067B2
A control system that uses an algorithm to control the fan speed in a cooling system for an engine is disclosed. The algorithm is adapted to maintain a cooling medium at a set temperature instead of an operating temperature range of the cooling medium. The algorithm is also adapted to maintain a cooling medium at a set temperature and to build a cooling safety margin in response to an engine output torque percentage that is below an output torque percentage setpoint.
US12228065B2
A motor for driving a liquid end of a pump system. The motor having an inner housing having an outer surface, a mechanical actuator disposed in the inner housing, and a water jacket surrounding at least a portion of the outer surface of the inner housing to define a volume between the inner housing and the water jacket. The volume being sized to circulate water within the water jacket so as to transfer heat from the inner housing to the water.
US12228062B1
A diesel emissions control system comprising a first DEF tank and a second DEF tank. A pump for pumping fluid from one or more of the first DEF tank and the second DEF tank. A connection line fluidly connecting the first DEF tank and the second DEF tank. A heating system preventing freezing of the DEF in the diesel emissions control system.
US12228060B2
A control system is arranged to control the heater system; wherein the control system is programmed to heat the exhaust after treatment system based on a setpoint value. The control system comprises a controller having an error input and an output; that outputs a heating power setpoint value that is adjusted by a feedback signal, said adjusted setpoint value provided in parallel to a branch including the heater system and a branch including a dynamic response system. The dynamic response system comprises a dynamic response part and a delay part. A first subtractor subtracts a measured heat output and an output of the dynamic response system; an adder adds an output of the dynamic response part and an output of the first subtractor. A second subtractor subtracts a heating power setpoint from the output of the adder to provide a control error signal for the error input of the controller.
US12228055B1
A sensor and housing assembly may include a sensor configured to detect a quantity of a gas in engine exhaust, and a housing including an inner upstream wall, a first inner side wall having a sensor opening for the sensor, an inner downstream wall opposite to the inner upstream wall, and a second inner side wall opposite to the first inner side wall, and having a housing inlet and a housing outlet that is opposite to the sensor opening in the first inner side wall. The sensor is positioned within the sensor opening on the first inner side wall, and a tip of the sensor protrudes through the housing outlet.
US12228042B1
A lubrication system for a turbine engine having a longitudinal centerline axis and one or more rotating components. The lubrication system includes a primary lubrication system that supplies lubricant to the one or more rotating components during normal operation of the turbine engine. The lubrication system also includes an auxiliary lubrication system. The auxiliary lubrication system includes an auxiliary reservoir and a lubricant dispersion device. The auxiliary reservoir stores the lubricant therein. The lubricant dispersion device rotates about the longitudinal centerline axis. The lubricant dispersion device collects the lubricant in the auxiliary reservoir and disperses the lubricant to the one or more rotating components as the lubricant dispersion device rotates.
US12228033B1
A gas turbine engine includes a compressor section, a combustor section and a turbine section for rotation on an axis. The turbine section includes at least one row of rotating turbine blades each having a radially outer tip. A blade outer air seal is positioned radially outwardly of the radially outer tip. The blade outer air seal has a central web positioned radially outwardly of the radially outer tip. The blade outer air seal has an upstream mount arm and a downstream mount arm receiving mount structure from a static structure. The static structure has sealing members engaging an upstream outer surface of the upstream mount arm at an upstream seal material and a downstream outer surface of the downstream mount arm at a downstream seal material. A method is also disclosed.
US12228031B2
Systems and methods of the present disclosure relate to determining a borehole holdup. A method comprises logging a well with a pulsed-neutron logging (PNL) tool; receiving, via the PNL tool, transient decay measurements, capture spectrum measurements, and inelastic spectrum measurements; extracting information from each of the capture spectrum measurements, the inelastic spectrum measurements, and the transient decay measurements; inputting all of the extracted information as a single input into artificial neural networks; and determining the borehole holdup with the artificial neural networks.
US12228028B2
Systems and methods for estimating reservoir productivity as a function of position in a subsurface volume of interest are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: obtain an initial depth uncertainty model; obtain training depth uncertainty parameter values from the non-transient storage medium; obtain corresponding training depth uncertainty values; generate a trained depth uncertainty model by training the initial depth uncertainty model using the training depth uncertainty parameter values and the corresponding training depth uncertainty values; and store the trained depth uncertainty model.
US12228025B2
A system for recovering natural gas liquid from a source, comprising: a heat exchanger for cooling wellstream fluid directed therethrough; a first separator for receiving the fluid from the heat exchanger for separating liquid and gas; in a first configuration, the gas from the first separator being directed to a turbo-expander for reducing the temperature and pressure of the gas to form a cold fluid; the cold fluid being directed to a second separator for separating liquid and gas; gas from the second separator being directed to the heat exchanger where it flows therethrough for cooling the wellstream fluid; wherein if the turbo-expander is not operating, the first configuration may be a changed to a second configuration to bypass the turbo-expander and direct the gas from the second separator to a Joule-Thomson valve to form the cold fluid.
US12228022B1
A method for controlling operations at a well site using carbon dioxide includes diverting a portion of carbon dioxide flowing through a main supply line into a slipstream line fluidly connected to the main supply line to create a carbon dioxide slipstream. The method further includes directing the carbon dioxide slipstream to one or more control modules at the well site, and operating equipment associated with an operation at the well site by flowing a portion of the carbon dioxide slipstream via the one or more control modules to the equipment. A related carbon injection system includes an injection tree, a carbon dioxide slipstream, a control module, and a slipstream line fluidly connected to a main supply line. The injection tree is configured to receive a flow of carbon dioxide via the main supply line for injection into a subterranean formation.
US12228017B2
A containment unit for containing fluid leaks in an ambient liquid. The containment unit comprises a weighted base for being disposed around the fluid leak. The weighted base is positioned on top of one or more suction piles. Further, the containment unit comprises a curtain unit coupled to the weighted base. The curtain unit comprises a helical spring and facilitates containing the fluid leak in the ambient fluid. The containment unit further comprises a flotation unit coupled to the curtain unit. The containment unit also comprises thrust roller bearings to allow rotation of the curtain unit with respect to the weighted base and the flotation unit. The invention further discloses a containment system comprising multiple containment units as needed depending on the depth of ambient liquid and as a surface flotation unit comprising pumps, sensors and skimming units to allow for the fluid leaked to be transferred to a vessel.
US12228011B2
A convertible valve assembly has an upper and lower plunger valve connected to one another so that they reciprocate together. A retainer assembly holds the valves in a bi-directional configuration, allowing fluid flow in both directions through the valves. The retainer assembly then releases the valves to a unidirectional configuration upon application of a downhole hydraulic pressure, so that fluid can flow only one direction through the valve assembly.
US12228006B1
A system performs rig-less well intervention at wellbore. The system includes a wellhead provided at a wellbore and a flow regulation device that selectively admits a flow of formation fluid between the wellhead and the blowout preventer. The system further includes a shifting tool mechanism configured to latch on and engage the flow regulation device to selectively control the flow of formation fluid between the wellhead and the blowout preventer. A related method includes connecting a rig-less well intervention unit to a blowout preventer and connecting the blowout preventer to a Christmas tree. The blowout preventer comprises a shifting tool mechanism and the Christmas tree comprises a flow regulation device. The method further includes lowering the shifting tool mechanism to a predetermined depth, engaging the shifting tool mechanism with the flow regulation device and activating the shifting tool mechanism to actuate the flow regulation device to an open position.
US12228004B2
A wellhead assembly with an external test port for testing a primary seal at an interface of a wellhead and a base. The assembly includes unique architecture with a secondary seal provided adjacent the primary. In this manner, testing of the primary seal from an external location may proceed without concern over a false indication of primary seal failure. That is, for circumstances where a more interior side of the seal fails under pressure testing even though an outer face of the seal might remain in sealing engagement, the secondary seal would ensure that the outer sealing engagement is detected. As a result, a practical manner of testing the wellhead seal from an external location without the need of plugging the wellbore is provided.
US12228003B2
A pulsating hammer tool providing longer, stronger and frequent shock waves is disclosed. Selective closure of a poppet valve and interruptions of fluid flow through sliding valve assemblies and a flow regulator valve, generates shock waves and induces opening of the poppet valve. Shock waves generated by the sliding valve assemblies and the flow regulator valve combine with those generated by opening/closing of the poppet valve resulting in waves with increased amplitude. Shape, dimensions and orientations of flow paths through flow regulator valve are chosen to impart desired frequency and magnitude to generated shock waves. Similarly, the frequency of shock waves generated by the valve assemblies can be controlled by varying lengths of the valve mid-sections and/or wash pipes, or by adjusting fluid pressure or the number and size of vents.
US12228000B2
An evaporative cooler for cooling drilling fluid includes a flow pipe having an inner surface in contact with drilling fluid and an outer surface in contact with an evaporative medium. The flow pipe has a serpentine configuration within a transportation frame. A system for cooling a drilling fluid includes a mud circulation system connecting the drilling fluid between a well and a surface where an evaporative cooler is coupled to the mud circulation system and has a serpentine flow pipe in a transportation frame. A method includes pumping heated drilling fluid from a wellbore to an evaporative cooling system, with an evaporative cooler to cool the heated drilling fluid, and sending the cooled drilling fluid back to the wellbore. Another method includes using an intermediate cooler, wherein the intermediate cooler comprises a heat exchanger and an intermediate fluid.
US12227999B2
Disclosed are a method for manufacturing a dissolvable slip and a dissolvable slip manufactured by same. The manufacturing method sequentially comprises the following steps: (1) mixing an adhesive with solid particles and dissolvable particles; (2) coating the mixture prepared in step (1) on the surface of a slip body; and (3) curing the mixture coated in step (2). The dissolvable slip manufactured according to the manufacturing method not only has a stronger anchoring force with a wellbore inner wall, but also can adjust the dissolution rate of the slip after the completion of fracturing to enable the slip to degrade within a preset time. Further, the dissolvable slip has a better abrasion resistance, is suitable for various temperature conditions, and can still work normally in a concentrated acid or a concentrated alkali environment.
US12227998B1
A compensator system includes an expandable frame assembly configured to compensate for motion of a floating platform or vessel in relation to a seafloor below. The expandable frame assembly includes a retainer for supporting a tubular member and a tubular string below. When the expandable frame assembly is in a first position, a first tool assembly, such as a coiled tubing assembly, may be connected to the tubular string. Thereafter, the first tool assembly may be disconnected from the tubular string. The expandable frame assembly may then be moved into a second position, and a second tool assembly may then be connected to the tubular string.
US12227997B2
The invention provides a downhole borehole traction apparatus (10) and method of use. The apparatus comprises a body comprising a borehole engaging section wherein the borehole engaging section comprises an outer surface comprising at least one thread. The at least one thread comprises a crest surface (32), a leading surface (30), and a trailing surface (28) having a curvilinear shape. The at least one thread has a low pressure generation means comprising one or more formations.
US12227993B1
A tool caddy system for ladders is provided including a rung attachment member coupled to one or more rungs of a ladder. A support arm connected to the rung attachment member includes a mating interface for engagement with a supply holder. The supply holder includes a corresponding mating interface for interchangeable attachment to the support arm. The rung attachment member may include one or more hooks or alternatively one or more interchangeable rung couplers such as spring clips or elastic clamps. The support arm may include holes corresponding to various positions for joining the support arm in relation to the rung attachment member through insertion of an attachment pin. The mating interface between the support arm and supply holder may include a female slot and a corresponding male connector in which an attachment pin is inserted. The female slot may be any shape such as circular or T-shaped.
US12227991B2
A laminated body includes a glass substrate; and a laminated film installed on a surface of the glass substrate. The laminated film includes, from a side of the glass substrate, a first layer containing silicon nitride; a second layer containing silicon; and a third layer containing silicon nitride. A transmittance of visible light incident from the side of the glass substrate is greater than or equal to 10%. A surface resistance value measured from a side of the laminated film is greater than 200 Ω/sq.
US12227990B2
A flanged interlocking molding is provided for use in toilet partitions or other partitions, and which eliminates the sight lines along each edge of the partition door. The flanged interlocking molding, formed of a single piece of material can be arranged on a component of the partition, such as a door and/or a pilaster. The flanged interlocking molding comprises a body portion; a first arm extending from a first edge of the body portion; a flange comprising include parallel layers of the metallic material including a first layer extending in a first direction away from the body portion, and a second layer extending from the first layer in a direction opposite the first direction; and a second arm extending from the second layer of the, the second arm including an edge arranged parallel to an edge of the first arm with a gap formed therebetween.
US12227989B2
The present disclosure relates to an energy storage cabin. The energy storage cabin includes a cabin body and a cabin door. The cabin body has an opening and a first accommodation space. The cabin door is disposed at the opening of the cabin body in an openable and closable manner. The cabin door includes an inner door panel, an outer door panel, and a connecting member. The inner door panel is located at an inner side of the outer door panel in a stacking manner. A thermal insulation layer is provided between the inner door panel and the outer door panel. The connecting member penetrates the inner door panel to connect the inner door panel with the outer door panel. A heat insulation pad is sandwiched between the inner door panel and the outer door panel at a position where the connecting member penetrates the inner door panel.
US12227980B2
A spindle drive for an adjustment element of a motor vehicle, including a tubular drive housing having a first housing pipe, a spindle/spindle nut transmission configured to produce linear drive movements, a first drive connection and a second drive connection configured to discharge the drive movements, the first drive connection forms with one of the transmission components a first drive train component and the second drive connection forms with the other of the transmission components a second drive train component. A housing cover axially closing the drive housing and arranged in an axially secure manner relative to the first drive connection. The first housing pipe arranged in an axially secure manner relative to the first drive connection. A housing collar in a first coupling portion of the spindle drive connected to the first housing pipe and in a second coupling portion coupled to the housing cover.
US12227979B2
An exemplary method involves operating a door operator coupled to a door. The door operator includes a motor operable to move the door in at least one direction and a controller operable to control the motor. The method generally involves a calibration procedure including: with the door at a first position and the door having an initial speed, initiating, by the controller, measurement of a time duration; in response to the door reaching a target speed different from the initial speed, ceasing, by the controller, measurement of the time duration; and determining, by the controller, a maximum speed based on the time duration. The method further includes performing at least one operation based upon the maximum speed.
US12227978B2
A method and a system for contactless obstacle detection for a motor vehicle having a front side door and a rear side door, using a single primary obstacle sensor provided on the motor vehicle, preferably in the form of a ToF sensor, which is configured to monitor an opening region of the front side door, and, at least as long as the front side door is closed, also to monitor an opening region of the rear side door, the method comprising the following step, which is carried out repeatedly: determining a current maximum allowed opening angle for the rear side door based on an output of a monitoring of the opening region of the rear side door by the primary obstacle sensor and taking into account a current opening state of the front side door.
US12227971B2
The present invention is to provide an anti-theft connector for equipment that can be used for different sized security slots with a single device, wherein the anti-theft connector is to be fixed to security slots of equipment, and comprises insertion pieces 20, 20 that have insertion pawls 21, 21 protruding and engageable with the security slots and base portions 22, 22, an angle adjusting means 30 adapted to enter between the base portions and to adjust the relative opening angles of the insertion pieces at least by a first opening angle and a second opening angle, and a locking means 40 for holding and locking the angle adjusting means.
US12227964B2
A method of designing a modular cooling tower cell which may utilize mechanicals from a preexisting cell and assembling the modular cell within a cooling field in-situ using a series of custom modules. After collecting a data set from a preexisting cooling tower cell and removing the preexisting tower, a build specification is generated, including calculating a cut list for vertical and horizontal members which will form the basis of the plurality of modules forming the cell. The members are fabricated and include a plurality of connection points which allow for sizing adjustments without affecting the connection points. The modules are then constructed using the data set from the preexisting tower to form a plurality of modules comprising a cell matrix based on the data set from the preexisting cooling tower cell.
US12227962B1
An apparatus and system for assisting in assembling, aligning, and leveling the wall panels of an inground swimming pool, the apparatus comprising an adjustment member having an externally threaded shaft section, an internally threaded fastener which is rigidly attached in a hole in a bottom flange of a wall panel, and a cleat member which is adjustably connected under the bottom flange such that the wall panel can be supported on the cleat member, whereby the wall panel can be raised or lowered as needed during assembly, alignment, and leveling of the pool wall by rotatably adjusting the position of the adjustment member, whereby the tensile strength of the threaded shaft is less than that of the threaded aperture in the cleat member such that an area of the threads on the threaded shaft section spaced from the end of the shaft section are intentionally fractured or damaged, preventing prevent the cleat member becoming disengaged from the panel.
US12227956B1
A pole stabilizer is configured to be set into the ground with the installation of a new pole or retrofitted to existing leaning poles. The stabilizer includes a center body that is fitted to the pole to provide support, and is adapted to be inserted into the ground around the pole. The stabilizer in certain embodiments has wings that extend outwardly to engage the ground around the perimeter of the pole, far enough from the pole to engage ground that was not disturbed when the pole was set. The wings may have serrated lower edges to ease insertion of the stabilizer into the ground.
US12227949B2
The invention refers to a drainage system (100), in particular a roof drainage system, comprising an outlet member (10) and a flow restrictor (20), whereby the flow restrictor (20) is situated above the outlet member (10). The flow restrictor (20) comprises a contact portion (22) and the outlet member (10) comprises a flange portion (12), whereby a first sealing member (30) is arranged on and/or along the flange portion (12) of the outlet member (10) and a second sealing member (40) is arranged at the contact portion (22) of the flow restrictor (20).
US12227948B2
This disclosure relates to a louvered patio cover. The louvered patio cover may comprise a frame with support beams, louvered panels, support beam couplers, an actuator, a gutter, and/or other components. The support beams may have angled ends. The louvered panels may be rotatably coupled to the support beams. A support beam coupler may comprise first and second receivers. The first receiver may be configured to receive an angled end of a first support beam, and the second receiver may be configured to receive an angled end of a second support beam. The angled ends of the first and second support beams may face, meet, and/or abut each other when received by the first and second receivers. The actuator may be configured to rotate the louvered panels. A gutter may comprise a lighting channel configured to hold a light source for lighting an area under the louvered patio cover.
US12227941B2
A folding dividing screen structure has at least two screen panels, a plurality of sealing covers, at least one connecting member with a respective vertical through channel on opposite sides of the connecting member, and at least two vertical strips. Each screen panel is secured in an outer frame, the connecting member pivotally connected with the two screen panels via the two vertical strips.
US12227935B2
An improved anchor bolt apparatus that includes a rotating blade at one end and may also include a removable viewing box on the opposite end that are adapted to allow a J-Bolt to be replaced from the outside of a building without the need of cutting drywall or any exterior siding. Furthermore, the removable box may be used to allow an engineer to view and certify the proper tightening of the anchor bolt securing the vertical walls and framework of the building to its foundation.
US12227932B2
A ligature mitigation drain apparatus and method is disclosed which comprises an outer ring, an inner ring, and a termination ring. The outer ring surrounds the inner ring, and the inner ring surrounds the termination ring. The outer ring further comprises at least two extensions extending toward and touching the inside ring and the inner ring further comprises at least two extensions extending toward and touching the termination ring.
US12227927B2
A faucet trim assembly includes faucet body subassembly and a base subassembly removably coupled to the faucet body subassembly. The faucet body subassembly includes a spout, an escutcheon coupled to the spout, and a handle coupled to the escutcheon. The spout includes a first internal passageway. The base subassembly includes a valve cartridge that is removably coupled to the base subassembly. The valve cartridge is configured to control a flow of water through the spout. The base subassembly is configured to removably couple to a sink deck independently from the faucet body subassembly.
US12227925B2
A method and system for remote estimation of hydrant water pressure at a hydrant located at an end of a branch pipe being branched of a main pipe, the method including detecting a valve open-close status of a stop valve arranged in the branch pipe and transmitting the valve open-close status wirelessly to an external data system, detecting a hydrant open-close status of the hydrant and transmitting the hydrant open-close status wirelessly to an external data system, detecting a branch water pressure of water in the branch pipe and transmitting the branch water pressure wirelessly to the external data system, and estimating the hydrant water pressure at the hydrant based on the valve open-close status, the hydrant open-close status and the branch water pressure.
US12227924B2
An apparatus, system, and method for the extraction of water molecules from the air includes a combination of electrical mechanisms and materials engineering. With the help of hydrophobic and hydrophilic materials on an array of thermally conductive and electrically insulated materials, the extraction of water from the air is significantly increased. A combination of hydrophobic and hydrophilic materials and an electric field gradient moves the water molecules towards the collection system thus speeding up the water formation process. This also inhibits the re evaporation of the water droplets.
US12227919B2
Disclosed are a hydraulic control system for boom floating of an excavator and a control method thereof. In the hydraulic circuit, a main pump supplies oil to the boom cylinder through a boom reversing valve, and two working ports of the boom reversing valve are connected to a rod cavity and a rodless cavity of the boom cylinder respectively. A rod cavity floating valve and a rodless cavity floating valve are connected to an oil circuit between the rod cavity of the boom cylinder and the boom reversing valve and an oil circuit between the rodless cavity of the boom cylinder and the boom reversing valve respectively. A pilot oil pump and a handle pilot valve are arranged on the pilot oil circuit, an oil inlet of the handle pilot valve is connected to the pilot oil pump.
US12227918B2
A dipper of a work machine includes a body having a plurality of walls, a rear door, a bowl and a liner. The bowl may have a lattice framework. The liner may be formed from a plurality of plates, with each plate having a top surface that contacts material present in the dipper, and a bottom surface opposite the top surface. Each plate may be welded to the lattice frame from the bottom surface of the plate.
US12227912B1
A pile-net flexible cable barrier structure includes a first V-shaped pile, a second V-shaped pile, a left tension pile, a right tension pile, a first flexible cable net disposed between the left tension pile and the first V-shaped pile, a second flexible cable net disposed between the first V-shaped pile and the second V-shaped pile, and a third flexible cable net disposed between the second V-shaped pile and the right tension pile. A second pile body of the first V-shaped pile are disposed parallel to a third pile body of the second V-shaped pile, openings of the first V-shaped pile and the second V-shaped pile face a same side, the left tension pile are disposed parallel to the first pile body of the first V-shaped pile, and the right tension pile are disposed parallel to the fourth pile body of the second V-shaped pile.
US12227909B2
A wind-resistant suspension bridge includes a bridge tower, a bridge body, a main rope, a suspension rope and a guardrail. The suspension bridge further includes a wind-resistant rope, one end of which is connected to the bridge tower and the other end of which is connected to the main rope. The wind-resistant rope, the main rope and the bridge tower form a substantially triangle. The contact point between the bridge tower and the main rope, the connection point between the wind-resistant rope and the main rope, and the connection point between the wind-resistant rope and the bridge tower form the three vertices of the substantially triangle.
US12227902B2
The present invention relates to an electrically conductive paper structure and a method for its production, as well as the use of the electrically conductive paper structure, for example as a heating element.
US12227897B2
Silk performance apparel and methods of preparing the same are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, silk performance apparel includes textiles, fabrics, consumer products, and other materials that are coated with aqueous solutions of pure silk fibroin-based protein fragments. In some embodiments, coated apparel products exhibit surprisingly improved moisture management properties and increased resistance to microbial growth.
US12227894B2
A clothing processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may include a cabinet having a receiving space formed therein, in which clothing is received, a holder configured to be located in the receiving space to hold a clothing supporter configured to support the clothing, a steamer configured to spray steam toward the clothing while moving inside the receiving space in the vertical direction, an elevating motor configured to provide an elevating power of the steamer, a spreader configured to move in a left and right direction to move into a body of the clothing and apply a mechanical force so as to spread the body of the clothing, and a spreader moving motor configured to move the spreader in the left and right direction.
US12227892B2
The present disclosure relates to a washing machine including a cabinet including a front panel in which a laundry inlet is formed, a door coupled to the front panel to open and close the laundry inlet, a door-lock disposed on a rear of the front panel and coupleable with the door to maintain the door in a closed state, a cover member mounted on a rear surface of the front panel to cover the door-lock, and a sealing member sealing a gap between the cover member and the rear surface of the front panel.
US12227888B2
An automated system that can be used for prosthetic heart valve manufacturing or suturing procedures. The system can include a first automated fixture that includes an articulating arm and a target device holder. The system can also include one or more additional automated fixtures, which can be configured as one or more suturing arms that include another articulating arm and a needle holder. The first automated fixture can be configured to rotate a target device held by the holder to allow the one or more additional automated fixtures to perform operations such as form sutures on the target device without intervention of a human operator. The system can include a display system configured to display status information of a suturing procedure.
US12227884B2
Disclosed is a breathable fabric. In the disclosed breathable fabric, a first one side warp and a second one side warp are arranged above a first one side weft, a second one side weft, and a third one side weft and arranged below a first other side weft, a second other side weft, and a third other side weft, and a third one side warp is arranged below the third one side weft, the first other side weft, and the second other side weft and is arranged above the first one side weft, the second one side weft, and the third other side weft.
US12227882B2
A carder includes a machine frame, a controller, and a drum provided with a clothing on an outer surface thereof. Working elements are disposed relative to the outer surface of the drum. The drum includes two stub axles or a continuous axial along a longitudinal axis thereof, the continuous axle having a first end and an opposite second end and each of the stub axles having an outer end face. An acceleration sensor that measures structure-borne sound is mounted on the end face of at least one of the stub axles or on the first end of the continuous axle.
US12227880B2
The present invention discloses a centrifugal spinning apparatus, including a frame, a spinning device, a feeding device for providing a spinning solution to the spinning device, and a collection device for collecting centrifugal spinning fibers ejected by the spinning device. The collection device is horizontally disposed below the spinning device, to enable the centrifugal spinning fibers ejected by the spinning device to be attached to a surface of the collection device. A planar receiving-type centrifugal spinning automatic production device using the centrifugal spinning apparatus breaks through existing centrifugal spinning based on ring collection and centrifugal spinning technologies based on electrostatic collection, resolves a preparation problem of continuous filament of the centrifugal spinning, and achieves mass production of the centrifugal spinning. The whole production process is completed automatically without manual intervention.
US12227874B2
Methods for determining suitability of Czochralski growth conditions to produce silicon substrates for epitaxy. The methods involve evaluating substrates sliced from ingots grown under different growth conditions (e.g., impurity profiles) by imaging the wafer by infrared depolarization. An infrared depolarization parameter is generated for each epitaxial wafer. The parameters may be compared to determine which growth conditions are well-suited to produce substrates for epitaxial and/or post-epi heat treatments.
US12227868B2
One embodiment of the present disclosure provides an electrolytic copper foil includes a copper layer and has a width direction weight deviation of 5% or less calculated according to Equation 1 below, a tensile strength of 25 kgf/mm2 to 62 kgf/mm2, and a valley depth-to-thickness (VDT) of 3.5 to 66.9 calculated according to Equation 2 below. width direction weight deviation (%)=(standard deviation of weight/arithmetic mean of weight)×100, and [Equation 1] VDT=[thickness of electrolytic copper foil]/[maximum valley depth of roughness profile(Rv)]. [Equation 2]
US12227867B2
A plating apparatus includes a workpiece holder, a plating bath, and a clamp ring. The plating bath is underneath the workpiece holder. The clamp ring is connected to the workpiece holder. The clamp ring includes channels communicating an inner surface of the clamp ring and an outer surface of the clamp ring.
US12227866B2
The present disclosure is related to systems and methods for electrochemical process. The system may include a first electrode, a second electrode, an electric field distribution simulation optimizer, an electric field distribution controller, and a signal controller. The first electrode and the second electrode may form an electric field to change a substance on the second electrode. A morphology of the second electrode may be uneven. The first electrode may include an electrically conducting plate. A morphology of the electrically conducting plate may be in conformity with the morphology of the second electrode. A protruding portion of the electrically conducting plate may correspond to a recessing portion of the second electrode. A recessing portion of the electrically conducting plate may correspond to a protruding portion of the second electrode. The electric field distribution controller may be electrically connected to the signal controller and the electric field distribution simulation optimizer, respectively. The signal controller may be electrically connected to the electrically conducting plate. The signal controller may be configured to apply a processing signal to the electrically conducting plate.
US12227859B2
An electrolytic method of loading hydrogen into a cathode includes placing the cathode and an anode in an electrochemical reaction vessel filled with a solvent, mixing a DC component and an AC component to produce an electrolytic current, and applying an electrolytic current to the cathode. The DC component includes cycling between: a first voltage applied to the cathode for a first period of time, a second voltage applied to the cathode for a second period of time, wherein the second voltage is higher than the first voltage, and wherein the second period of time is shorter than the first period of time. The peak sum of the voltages supplied by the DC component and AC component is higher than the dissociation voltage of the solvent. The AC component is selected based on a local minimum of a Nyquist plot to minimize energy loss while maintaining hydrogen transport.
US12227851B2
A high-strength surface-coated steel sheet includes a base steel sheet having a composition by mass of C: 0.01 to 0.20%, Si: 0.01 to 0.50%, Mn: 0.10 to 2.50%, P: 0.005 to 0.050%, B: 0.0005 to 0.010%, Ti: 0.01 to 0.20%, Nb: 0 to 0.10%, Mo: 0 to 0.50%, Cr: 0 to 0.50%, Al: 0.01 to 0.10%, and the balance of Fe and inevitable impurities; and a Zn—Al—Mg-based coating layer disposed on a surface of the base steel sheet, The steel sheet has a diffusible hydrogen concentration in the base steel sheet of 0.30 ppm or less and having a time until occurrence of red rust of 7000 hours or more as measured by a salt spray test. The high-strength hot-dip Zn—Al—Mg-based-plated steel sheet has a significantly lowered in-steel concentration of hydrogen which has entered the steel in a plating line and exhibits excellent corrosion resistance.
US12227849B2
Described herein is a stator water cooling (SWC) system in an electrical power generator with improved resistance to copper fouling, more specifically, to a component of the SWC system, such as a strainer, having an anti-fouling metallic material on the surface of the component. Also described herein is a method of reducing copper fouling in a SWC system that comprises applying an anti-fouling metallic material to the surface of a SWC system component.
US12227843B2
There is provided a film forming method for forming a tungsten film, comprising: preparing a substrate; and forming a tungsten film on the substrate. A chlorine-containing tungsten film whose film stress is adjusted by chlorine concentration in the film is formed as at least a part of the tungsten film.
US12227842B2
Vapor accumulator reservoirs for semiconductor processing operations, such as atomic layer deposition operations, are provided. Such vapor accumulator reservoirs may include a perimeter plenum volume filled with an inert gas, which may reduce or prevent the leakage of external contaminants into a process gas. In some implementations, the reservoir may be constructed from corrosion-resistant materials to reduce internal contaminants into the process gas.
US12227840B2
A method is provided and includes: determining a temperature distribution pattern across a substrate or a support plate of a substrate support; determining, based on the temperature distribution pattern, a number of masks to apply to a top surface of the support plate, where the number of masks is greater than or equal to two; and determining patterns of the masks based on the temperature distribution pattern; and applying the masks over the top surface. The method further includes: performing a first machining process to remove a portion of the support plate unprotected by the masks to form first mesas and first recessed areas between the first mesas; removing a first mask from the support plate; performing a second machining process to form second recessed areas and at least one of second mesas or a first seal band area; and removing a second mask from the support plate.
US12227839B2
A sealing article includes a body and a coating layer disposed on at least one surface of the body. The body comprises a polymeric elastomer such as perfluoroelastomer or fluoroelastomer. The coating layer comprises at least one metal. The sealing article may be a seal, a gasket, an O-ring, a T-ring or any other suitable product. The sealing article is resistant to ultra-violet (UV) light and plasma, and may be used for sealing a semiconductor processing chamber.
US12227830B2
Provided is an yttrium ingot from which an yttrium sputtering target that produces a reduced number of particles can be obtained, and an yttrium sputtering target that has high plasma resistance and a low resistance that enables realization of a high film deposition rate can be obtained. An yttrium ingot, wherein the yttrium ingot has a fluorine atom content of less than or equal to 10 wt %; in an instance where the yttrium ingot constitutes a target, a sputtering surface of the target has a surface roughness of 10 nm or greater and 2 μm or less; in the yttrium ingot, the number of pores having a diameter of greater than or equal to 100 μm is fewer than or equal to 0.1/cm2; and the yttrium ingot has a relative density of greater than or equal to 96%.
US12227827B2
Metal substrates comprising a colored coating and/or a protective coating disposed on at least a surface of the substrate. The colored coating can include a metal oxide coating integrally bonded to the terminal and produced by heat tinting or a titanium nitride containing material. The protective coating is derived from a material comprising one or more of aluminum oxide, silicon oxide, a superhydrophobic material, wherein the protective coating has a Scratch Resistance of at least about F, as determined by ASTM D336. Methods of making and using the coated metal substrates are also disclosed.
US12227802B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to nucleotide molecules with a 3′ AOM blocking group. Also provided herein are methods to prepare such nucleotide molecules, and the uses of fully functionalized nucleotides containing the 3′-OH blocking group for sequencing applications.
US12227799B2
Provided herein are methods and compositions for improved sequencing techniques using, for example, polymeric particles and/or three-dimensional structures.
US12227795B2
The present disclosure provides, in some aspects, nucleic acid-based molecular tools that enable the recording of molecular structure and soluble signals as well as the programmed assembly of molecular structures.
US12227794B2
A method of assigning parent-of-origin to a haplotype, a sub-haplotype or an allele associated with a haplotype. Chromosome-length haplotypes of a genome are generated and a differential methylation status of at least one imprinted differentially methylated region (iDMR) associated with each one of the autosomal chromosomes is determined. The differential methylation status of the at least one iDMR is used to assign parent-of-origin for each one of the chromosome-length haplotypes.
US12227793B2
Methods of uniquely labeling or barcoding molecules within a cell, a plurality of cells, and/or a tissue are provided. Kits for uniquely labeling or barcoding molecules within a cell, a plurality of cells, and/or a tissue are also provided. The molecules to be labeled may include, but are not limited to, RNAs, cDNAs, DNAs, proteins, peptides, and/or antigens.
US12227788B2
Disclosed herein are glyco-decoy acceptor compositions that sidetrack or inhibit the activity of biosynthetic enzymes participating in synthesis of ligands binding at selectin, galectin and siglecs receptors; methods of their preparation and uses in drug discovery and in treatments of diseases.
US12227773B2
The present invention features novel, diverse, hybrid and engineered recombinase enzymes, and the utility of such proteins with associated recombination factors for carrying out DNA amplification assays. The present invention also features different recombinase ‘systems’ having distinct biochemical activities in DNA amplification assays, and differing requirements for loading factors, single-stranded DNA binding proteins (SSBs), and the quantity of crowding agent employed.
US12227769B2
The current disclosure relates to methods, compositions and kits for detecting modified adenosine in a target RNA molecule. Aspects relate to a method for detecting modified adenosine in a target ribonucleic acid (RNA) comprising contacting the target RNA with an adenosine deaminase enzyme (adenosine deaminase, RNA-specific) to generate a target RNA with deaminated adenosines and sequencing the target RNA with deaminated adenosines; wherein the modified adenosine is detected when the nucleotide sequence includes adenosine within a m6A motif.
US12227766B2
A method of producing cell derived particles is disclosed. The method comprising isolating cell-derived particles from a biological sample comprising cells modified to present CD24 so as to obtain a preparation of the cell-derived particles substantially devoid of intact cells. Cell derived particles, a culture medium and a cell culture are also disclosed.
US12227755B2
The invention relates to an infectious arenavirus particle that is engineered to contain a genome with the ability to amplify and express its genetic information in infected cells but unable to produce further infectious progeny particles in normal, not genetically engineered cells. One or more of the four arenavirus open reading frames glycoprotein (GP), nucleoprotein (NP), matrix protein Z and RNA-dependent RNA polymerase L are removed or mutated to prevent replication in normal cells but still allowing gene expression in arenavirus vector-infected cells, and foreign genes coding for an antigen or other protein of interest or nucleic acids modulating host gene expression are expressed under control of the arenavirus promoters, internal ribosome entry sites or under control of regulatory elements that can be read by the viral RNA-dependent RNA polymerase, cellular RNA polymerase I, RNA polymerase II or RNA polymerase III. The modified arenaviruses are useful as vaccines and therapeutic agents for a variety of diseases.
US12227753B2
Provided are compositions and methods that include a CasY transactivating noncoding RNA (trancRNA) (referred to herein as a “CasY trancRNA”), nucleic acids encoding the CasY trancRNA, and/or a modified host cell comprising the CasY trancRNA (and/or a nucleic acid encoding the same). Subject compositions and methods can also include one or more of: (a) a “CasY” protein (also referred to as a CasY polypeptide, a Cas12d protein, and a Cas12d polypeptide), a nucleic acid encoding the CasY protein, and/or a modified host cell comprising the CasY protein (and/or a nucleic acid encoding the same); and (b) a CasY guide RNA (also referred to herein as a “Cas12d guide RNA”) that binds to and provides sequence specificity to the CasY protein, a nucleic acid encoding the CasY guide RNA, and/or a modified host cell comprising the CasY guide RNA (and/or a nucleic acid encoding the same).
US12227748B1
A lipid-binding drug for binding to a membrane-based or membrane lipid comprises at least one aptamer having a sequence selected from the group consisting of GGCGGCAAAAAAAAAA (SEQ ID NO: 1), GGCGGCAAAAAAAAAAA (SEQ ID NO: 2), GGCGGCAAAAAAAAAAAA (SEQ ID NO: 3), GGCGGCAAAAAAAAAAAAA (SEQ ID NO: 4), GGCGGCGGGGGGGGGG (SEQ ID NO: 5), GGCGGCGGGGGGGGGGG (SEQ ID NO: 6), GGCGGCGGGGGGGGGGG (SEQ ID NO: 7), GGCGGCGGGGGGGGGGG (SEQ ID NO: 8), CAAAAGGAGCAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA (SEQ ID NO: 9) CAAAAGGAGCAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA (SEQ ID NO: 10), CAAAAGGAGCAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA (SEQ ID NO: 11), CAAAAGGAGCAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA (SEQ ID NO: 12), CAAAAGGAGCGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG (SEQ ID NO: 13), CAAAAGGAGCGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG (SEQ ID NO: 14), CAAAAGGAGCGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG (SEQ ID NO: 15), and CAAAAGGAGCGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG (SEQ ID NO: 16).
US12227746B2
Provided are compounds, methods, and pharmaceutical compositions for reducing the amount or activity of SCN2A RNA in a cell or subject, and in certain instances reducing the amount of SCN2A protein in a cell or subject. Such compounds, methods, and pharmaceutical compositions are useful to ameliorate at least one symptom or hallmark of a disease or disorder associated with a voltage-gated sodium channel protein, such as, for example, a Developmental and Epileptic Encephalopathy, an intellectual disability, or an autism spectrum disorder. Such symptoms and hallmarks include, but are not limited to seizures, hypotonia, sensory integration disorders, motor development delays and dysfunctions, intellectual and cognitive dysfunctions, movement and balance dysfunctions, visual dysfunctions, delayed language and speech, gastrointestinal disorders, neurodevelopmental delays, sleep problems, and sudden unexpected death in epilepsy.
US12227741B2
The invention provides methods of performing multi-parameter analysis of single cells. Specifically, the present invention is based, in part, on leveraging a separation of reaction volume scales to conduct high-throughput single cell multi-parameter measurements and library preparation on the same single cell using double emulsion micro-droplets and sorting using flow cytometry.
US12227734B2
A bioprocessing system for protein manufacturing from human blood is provided that is compact, integrated and suited for on-demand production and delivery of therapeutic proteins to patients. The parent's own blood can be used as the source of cell extracts for the production of the therapeutic proteins.
US12227726B2
Described herein are apparati and methods for growing cells in a manner that mimics the native three-dimensional environment. Cell cultures grown in the apparatus can be screened for inhibition by specific chemotherapeutics or other drugs.
US12227722B2
An electrolyte enhanced spirit is disclosed. The electrolyte enhanced spirit comprises a spirit and at least two electrolyte salts at a concentration of at least 0.02% w/v. The spirit in some embodiments includes vodka, rum, bourbon, whiskey, gin and distilled liquors. The electrolyte salts include NaCl, NaHCO3, KCl, KHCO3, K3PO4. The electrolyte enhanced spirit has a pH of 9.3 to 9.7, preferably 9.5. The electrolyte enhanced spirit may also include an additive to control the pH. The additive for controlling the pH of the spirit is selected from at least one of citric acid, an amino acid, ascorbic acid, folic acid, malic acid, phosphoric acid, phosphorous acid, carbonic acid, fumaric acid, tartaric acid, tannic acid, benzoic acid, lactic acid, and acetic acid.
US12227720B2
Consumer product compositions, such as fabric care compositions, that include first and second populations of encapsulates, where at least one of the populations is characterized by a relatively high core:shell weight ratio. Methods related to the use and making of such compositions.
US12227715B2
Provided is a lubricating oil composition including a lubricating oil additive and a lubricating oil, the lubricating oil additive having nanodiamonds, of which a surface is hydrophobically modified by a surface treatment, dispersed in a base oil. The lubricating oil composition retains dispersibility over a long period of time and thus can ensure storage stability. Machines to which the lubricating oil composition is applied may have improved abrasion resistance as well as improved fuel consumption and reduced noise, and high thermal conductivity of the lubricating oil composition may also increase cooling efficiency and the service life of machines.
US12227714B2
The present invention relates to the use of a lubricating composition for lubricating gear, wherein the lubricating composition comprises: at least a base oil; and at least a Molybdenum or Tungsten chalcogenide nanoobject having an object size ranging from 0.1 to 500 nm and from 1 to 99% by weight of molecules of formula (I) with respect to the total weight of the nanoobject A-X-B (I).
US12227712B2
A refrigerating machine oil containing: a lubricating base oil; and a polymer additive, wherein a carbon residue of 10% residual oil is 0.05% by mass or more.
US12227700B2
The present disclosure generally relates to the utilization of a fine mineral matter in the process of upgrading the liquid products obtained by thermolysis or pyrolysis of solid plastic waste or biomass or from cracking, coking or visbreaking of petroleum feedstocks. More particularly, the present disclosure is directed to a process of stabilization of the free-radical intermediates formed during thermal or catalytic cracking of hydrocarbon feedstocks including plastic waste and on a process of catalytic in-situ heavy oil upgrading. The fine mineral matter may be derived from natural sources or from synthetic sources.
US12227696B2
The present invention pertains to the field of oilfield stimulation technologies for oil and gas field development, in particular to an instant soluble temperature and salt resistant polyacrylamide and the preparation method and application thereof, and the polyacrylamide is modified by adding rigid temperature and salt resistant monomer containing benzene ring and cationic fluorinated hydrophobic monomer on the basis of acrylamide monomer and sodium acrylate monomer, and then polymerized to obtain instant soluble temperature and salt resistant polyacrylamide. The temperature and salt resistant monomer containing benzene ring can improve the thermal stability and temperature and salt resistance of polyacrylamide, while the long-chain cationic fluorinated hydrophobic monomer can enhance the hydrophobicity of polymer. The comprehensive properties of polymer is improved by appropriate intermolecular association.
US12227693B2
Barite (barium sulfate) scale may be problematic in subterranean formations, wellbores, pipelines, and other locations and may be difficult to remove in many instances. Aqueous fluid compositions effective for removing barite scale may comprise a concentrated mineral acid, a first salt comprising an iodide anion, and a second salt comprising an anion that forms an aqueous-soluble barium salt. One suitable aqueous fluid composition may comprise concentrated hydroiodic acid, an alkali metal iodide, and an alkali metal hypophosphite salt. The aqueous fluid compositions may be used in combination with a second treatment phase comprising a fluid composition comprising at least one acid gas capturing agent. The at least one acid gas capturing agent may comprise a first component reactive toward hydrogen sulfide and an optional second component reactive toward carbon dioxide.
US12227681B2
The present disclosure relates to laminated armor materials for enhanced ballistic protection. In particular, the present disclosure relates to laminated armor materials comprising first and second armor materials and a laminated adhesive layer comprising nanomaterial fillers.
US12227674B2
A polishing composition having silica-based abrasive grains and a polishing method. A polishing composition having silica particles, wherein on the basis of a colloidal silica dispersion of the silica particles, the dispersion has an Rsp of 0.15 to 0.7 as measured using pulse NMR, and the colloidal silica particles have a shape coefficient SF1 of 1.20 to 1.80, wherein Rsp is calculated based on equation (1): Rsp=(Rav−Rb)/(Rb) (1) (wherein Rsp is an index that indicates water affinity; Rav is an inverse of a relaxation time of the colloidal silica dispersion; and Rb is an inverse of a relaxation time of a blank aqueous solution obtained by removing the silica particles from the colloidal silica dispersion), and the shape coefficient SF1 is calculated based on equation (2): SF1=(area of a circle whose diameter is a maximum diameter of the particle)/(projected area) (2).
US12227668B2
The tendency of a bare metal surface to oxidize (e.g., flash-rust) may be alleviated by contacting the bare metal surface with an aqueous mixture of at least one preformed reaction product obtained by reaction of at least one catechol compound, such as dopamine or a salt thereof, with at least one co-reactant compound functionalized with one or more functional groups reactive with the at least one catechol compound, such as (meth)acryl, primary amino, secondary amino, thiol and/or hydroxyl groups, with polyethyleneimine being an example of a suitable co-reactant compound. Such a rinsing procedure does not interfere with subsequent conversion coating of the metal surface.
US12227667B2
This fluorine-containing curable composition comprises a curable component (A) that provides a cured product under the effect of heat or moisture, and a surface-modifying component (B) that contains a perfluoropolyether compound (b1) having a prescribed structure. The perfluoropolyether compound (b1) in the surface-modifying component (B) is present at 0.005-50 mass parts per 100 mass parts of the curable component (A) excluding volatile components. The fluorine-containing curable composition can be cured by heat or moisture, can be coated on the surface of an article even not containing a fluorine-containing solvent, and can provide the cured product surface with excellent surface characteristics.
US12227666B2
Described herein is a 2K clearcoat composition including, Component I including a). at least one resin having carboxylic acid groups with acid value of 50 to 400 mg KOH/g; b). at least one resin having hydroxyl functional groups with a hydroxyl value of 10 to 800 mg KOH/g; c). at least one catalyst; and d). at least one solvent, and Component II including e). at least one epoxy-functional alkoxysilane and/or its oligomer and/or its polymer; and f). at least one crosslinker reactive to hydroxyl groups. Also described herein are a substrate coated with the dried and cured 2K clearcoat composition and an automotive including the substrate.
US12227663B2
The invention provides a flame retardant material comprising a substrate, an optionally corona-treated coating on the substrate, the coating comprising a polyolefin composition comprising a) an ethylene based plastomer with a density in the range of 0.857 to 0.915 g/cm3 and an MFR2 in the range 0.5-30 g/10 min; b) a propylene based plastomer with a density in the range of 0.860 to 0.910 g/cm3 and an MFR2 in the range 0.01-30 g/10 min; and c) a flame retardant, a primer layer on top of the coating and a lacquer topcoat.
US12227661B2
Methods for processing deposited metal nanowire inks with metal ions are used to form fused metal nanostructured networks. The metal nanowire inks include a hydrophilic polymer binder, such as a cellulose based binder. The metal nanowire inks can be deposited onto a substrate surface and dried to drive the fusing process. Transparent conductive films can be formed with desirable properties.
US12227660B2
Provided is an ink including water, an organic solvent, resin particles, and a thickener. The thickener comprises polymer particles having a carboxylic acid structure. A proportion of the thickener in the ink is 0.05% by mass or more. Change in viscosity of the ink between before and after storage of the ink at 70° C. for 1 week is 20% or less. The change in viscosity is expressed by Formula (1): Change in viscosity (%)=[(a−b)/b]×100 . . . Formula (1), where a represents a viscosity (mPa·s) at 25° C. of the ink when the ink is prepared, and b represents a viscosity (mPa·s) at 25° C. of the ink after the ink is stored at 70° C. for 1 week.
US12227659B2
The present disclosure describes multi-fluid kits for three-dimensional printing, materials kits for three-dimensional printing, and methods of making three-dimensional printed articles. In one example, a multi-fluid kit for three-dimensional printing can include a fusing agent and a pore-promoting agent. The fusing agent can include water and a radiation absorber. The radiation absorber can absorb radiation energy and convert the radiation energy to heat. The pore-promoting agent can include water and a water-soluble pore-promoting compound. The pore-promoting compound can chemically react at an elevated temperature to generate a gas.
US12227654B2
This invention is directed to an effect pigment dispersion comprising a PVD-aluminum pigment, a leafing additive and an oil suitable for cosmetic skin care or color cosmetic applications, wherein a) the amount of the PVD-aluminum pigment is in a range of 8 to 30 wt.-%, b) the amount of the oil is in a range of 70 to 90 wt.-%, each based on the total weight of the effect pigment dispersion and c) the leafing additive is partly adsorbed on the surface of the PVD-aluminum pigment and partly an excess additive dissolved in the oil, wherein the amount of excess leafing additive is in a range of 0 to 25 wt.-%, based on the weight of PVD aluminum pigment. Further cosmetic skin care of color cosmetic formulations containing this effect pigment dispersion are described.
US12227650B2
A method of preparing a silicone-acrylate hybrid composition is provided. The method comprises irradiating an acrylate composition in the presence of: (i) a silicone article, and/or (ii) a silicone composition; to polymerize the acrylate composition and give the silicone-acrylate hybrid composition. The acrylate composition comprises an acrylate compound and an initiator.
US12227649B2
The present invention provides an addition-curable self-adhesive silicone rubber composition and a silicone rubber cured product. An addition-curable self-adhesive silicone rubber composition which contains: a predetermined amount of (A) an alkenyl group-containing organopolysiloxane which has at least two alkenyl groups that are bonded to silicon atoms in each molecule; a predetermined amount of (B-1) an organosilicon compound having 1-100 silicon atoms, which has at least one phenylene skeleton in each molecule, while having at least one hydrogen atom that is bonded to a silicon atom; a predetermined amount of (B-2) an organohydrogen polysiloxane which contains at least two hydrogen atoms that are bonded to silicon atoms in each molecule, and which does not contain an aromatic group; a predetermined amount of (C) a platinum-based catalyst; a predetermined amount of (D) a benzotriazole derivative; and a predetermined amount of (E) an acetylene alcohol compound or a compound which is obtained by modifying an alcoholic hydroxyl group of the acetylene alcohol compound with a silane or a siloxane.
US12227642B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a gel material including a solvophilic polymer having a μm-scale porous structure. A polymer gel in which solvophilic polymer units are cross-linked with each other, wherein the polymer gel contains a solvent and has a three-dimensional network structure having two regions: a first region in which the polymer units are densely present and a second region in which the polymer units are sparsely present, and a mesh size composed of the first region is from 1 to 500 μm.
US12227641B2
A blown film of soil biodegradable aliphatic polyesters produced primarily from diacid and diol monomers. The diacid monomers may be of any type including succinic acid, adipic acid, and hexanedioic acid. The diol monomer may be of any type including ethylene glycol, propanediol, butanediol, and hexanediol. Commercial aliphatic polyesters produced from diacid and diol monomers include polybutylene succinate (PBS), polybutylene adipate succinate (PBAS), and polybutylene adipate (PBA). Comonomers may also be added. Such comonomers include chemicals with a single carboxylic acid, hydroxy, or amine moiety, which act as chain terminators, chemicals with three or more carboxylic acid, epoxy, and/or hydroxy moieties which, act as branching agents.
US12227635B2
Stabilizer compositions having a stabilizing amount of at least one co-active agent; an ultraviolet light absorber chosen from orthohydroxyphenyl triazine compounds and/or benzoxazinone compounds; and a hindered amine light stabilizer, are provided herein, along with masterbatch concentrates containing same, and processes for using same for stabilizing polymeric organic materials to protect against light and thermal degradation due to exposure to UV irradiation.
US12227630B2
Provided is a method of producing a porous body of a water-insoluble polymer, the method being excellent in terms of simplicity. The method of producing a porous body of a water-insoluble polymer disclosed here includes the steps of: preparing a solution in which a water-insoluble polymer is dissolved in a mixed solvent containing a good solvent for the water-insoluble polymer and a poor solvent for the water-insoluble polymer; and removing the mixed solvent from the solution by vaporization. The poor solvent has a boiling point higher than a boiling point of the good solvent. A porous body is obtained by removing the mixed solvent by vaporization to form pores.
US12227626B2
Anion-exchange membranes are useful for electro-membrane processes such as electrodialysis (water desalination, separation of inorganics from organic molecules, separation of specific inorganic ion, etc.), in-situ ion-exchange and ion substitution, electro-deionization for producing ultrapure water, polymer electrolyte membrane for alkaline fuel cell and electrolysis applications. The present invention discloses an acid and base resistant fluorinated hydrocarbon based anion-exchange membrane and its method of preparation thereof. In the first step co-polymerization is carried out between N-isopropylacrylamide and 1-vinylimidazole. In the second step, obtained inter-polymer of isopropylacrylamide-co-vinylimidazole co-polymer is mixed with poly(vinylidene fluoride-co-hexafluoropropylene) (PVDF-co-HFP) (IA-co-VI/PVDF-co-HFP), which is used for casting membrane film of desired thickness. The obtained casted membrane thin film is quaternized in methyl iodide solution.
US12227625B2
Composite material units (CMU) of the structure (SE1-ML-LinkerL-Ligand2-SE2), are provided, wherein ML is a Mechanical Ligand, LinkerL is a chemical bond or entity that covalently links ML and Ligand2, Ligand2 is a chemical entity that is covalently linked to the structural entity SE2, or forms a mechanical bond with the structural entity SE2, and SE1 and SE2 are structural entities.
US12227620B2
Disclosed is a polyamic acid having Formula I In Formula I: Ra represents one or more different tetracarboxylic acid component residues; Rb represents one or more different aromatic diamine residues or aromatic diisocyanate residues; and 5-100 mol % of Rb has Formula II In Formula II: R1 through R6 are the same or different and are haloalkyl or haloalkoxy; R7 is the same or different at each occurrence and is deuterium, halogen, cyano, hydroxyl, alkyl, deuterated alkyl, heteroalkyl, alkoxy, heteroalkoxy, haloalkyl, haloalkoxy, silyl, siloxy, hydrocarbon aryl, substituted hydrocarbon aryl, heteroaryl, substituted heteroaryl, vinyl, or allyl; n is an integer from 0-10; x1 and x4 are the same or different and are an integer from 0-3; x2 and x3 are the same or different and are an integer from 0-2; and * indicates a point of attachment.
US12227613B2
A method, includes: reacting at least one donor group with at least one protected acceptor group to form a plurality of protecting group-containing OSC polymers; removing the protecting group from the plurality of protecting group-containing OSC polymers to form H-bonding sites; and fusing the H-bonding sites of a first OSC polymer backbone with H-bonding sites of a second OSC polymer backbone to form π-π interactions between conjugated OSC polymers.
US12227611B2
Provided is a composition capable of forming a cured product having excellent adhesion to a substrate, hardness, scratch resistance, and chemical resistance. The composition of the present disclosure includes a polyol compound (A) and an isocyanate compound (B), the polyol compound (A) containing a compound (a1) having a number average molecular weight calibrated with polystyrene standards of less than 800 and being represented by Formula (1), where R1 to R3 are a group represented by Formula (1a); and the isocyanate compound (B) containing a compound (b) represented by Formula (2), where L1 to L3 are a hydrogen atom, an NCO group, or an alkyl group having from 1 to 10 carbon atom(s) and having a group represented by Formula (2′).
US12227603B2
A member to be compressed for an electrochemical device obtained by crosslinking a crosslinkable composition containing a fluorine-containing elastomer containing a unit based on at least one crosslinkable group-containing monomer selected from the group consisting of a crosslinkable group-containing monomer (1) represented by the general formula (1): CX12═CF—Rf1—X2 wherein each X1 independently represents H or F, and Rf1 represents a fluorinated alkylene group or a fluorinated oxyalkylene group, and X2 represents I or Br; and a crosslinkable group-containing monomer (2) represented by the general formula (2): CX32═CX3—Z1—CX3═CX32 wherein each X3 independently represents H, F, an alkyl group or a fluorinated alkyl group, and Z1 represents an alkylene group, a fluorinated alkylene group, a cycloalkylene group, a fluorinated cycloalkylene group, an oxyalkylene group or a fluorinated oxyalkylene group.
US12227600B2
The present disclosure provides a polyisoprene wherein: a vinyl bond content of the polyisoprene is 30 mol % or higher; and a ratio of the weight-average absolute molecular weight (Mw′) determined by GPC-MALS with respect to the weight-average molecular weight (Mw) in terms of polystyrene determined by GPC, i.e., Mw′/Mw, is 0.850 or less. A rubber composition containing the polyisoprene is excellent in the fuel-saving performance and grip performance on a wet road surface, as compared with a rubber composition containing the conventional polyisoprene.
US12227599B2
A preparation method of PVA fiber comprises the following steps: preparing a spinning dope; PVAc is used as a raw material, and dissolved with addition of methanol before filtration, and then the spinning dope is obtained; spinning; the spinning dope is injected into a spinneret, and the ejected fibers are brought into a direct current electrolytic cell, and undergo a series of reactions of alcoholysis, electrolytic catalytic alcoholysis, and the levering of the alcohol; and the solution formulation in the electrolytic coagulation bath comprises alkali, alcohol and water; acid bath; through stretching, drying, washing with water, crimping with hot water and packaging, a finished polyvinyl alcohol fiber product is formed. The mirabilite is not needed in the coagulation bath, and PVA is obtained by the alcoholysis of PVAc in an electrolytic cell, and the produced PVA fibers present high purity and few impurities.
US12227597B2
The present invention relates to a process for preparing stabilized buckwheat starches comprising a specific heat treatment. The present invention also relates to stabilized buckwheat starches obtainable by said process, as well as the use of said stabilized buckwheat starches for the preparation of a food product.
US12227591B2
Described herein are high affinity antigen binding constructs, e.g., antibodies, directed to the ECD2 domain of HER2. The antigen-binding constructs comprise at least one antigen-binding polypeptide construct that binds to ECD2 of HER2 (HER2 ECD2) with increased affinity compared to a wild-type 2C4 antibody. Such antigen-binding polypeptide constructs comprise one or more amino acid modifications in the framework region and/or CDRs compared to the amino acid sequence of a wild-type 2C4 antibody that increase affinity of the antigen-binding polypeptide construct for ECD2 by 2-fold or greater. The antigen-binding constructs can inhibit the growth of HER2-expressing breast cancer cells and gastric cancer cells. Antigen-binding constructs in biparatopic format are internalized in HER2-expressing cells.
US12227590B2
Disclosed are Synovial Sarcoma X breakpoint 2 binding molecules and methods for their use in the detection and treatment of cancer.
US12227584B2
This invention relates generally to molecules that specifically engage OX40, a member of the TNF receptor superfamily (TNFRSF). More specifically this invention relates to multivalent and multispecific molecules that bind at least OX40.
US12227583B2
The present invention provides an anti-ox40 antibody, an antigen-binding fragment thereof, and the pharmaceutical use. Further, the present application provides a chimeric antibody and a humanized antibody, the chimeric antibody and the humanized antibody comprising a CDR region from the anti-OX40 antibody and the antigen-binding fragment thereof, and also provides a pharmaceutical composition comprising the anti-OX40 antibody and the antigen-binding fragment thereof, and the use thereof as a drug for treating cancers.
US12227566B2
The present invention relates to a monoclonal antibody or a fragment thereof that recognizes and binds specifically to the extracellular domain of endothelin receptor type A as an antigen. The monoclonal antibody of the present invention is suitable for use in a therapeutic agent for hypertension or cancer associated with endothelin receptor type A.
US12227560B2
The present invention concerns antibodies and antigen-binding fragments of antibodies which specifically bind to and neutralize Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) and which are engineered to develop therapeutics in order to treat CHIKV disease or prevent CHIKV infection. The invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising antibodies of the invention and the use of the antibodies for the prevention and treatment of CHIKV disease.
US12227558B2
Described herein are Notch-modulating peptides (including monomers and multimers) capable of increasing or decreasing an immune response in a subject, compositions comprising the peptides, and methods of use thereof.
US12227554B2
Disclosed are methods of selectively expanding a number of T cells. The methods may comprise: modifying human T cells to express a TCR, wherein the TCR comprises a murine constant region; producing a population of cells comprising a number of human T cells expressing the TCR and a number of human T cells not expressing the TCR; and culturing the population of cells in the presence of (i) irradiated feeder cells, (ii) one or more cytokines, and (iii) an antibody, or an antigen-binding portion thereof, wherein the antibody has antigenic specificity for the murine constant region of the TCR, so as to selectively expand the number of T cells expressing the TCR over the number of T cells not expressing the TCR. Also disclosed are related populations of cells, pharmaceutical compositions, and methods of treating or preventing cancer.
US12227550B2
The present invention relates to a modified cytokine of the TNF superfamily, with reduced activity to its receptor, wherein said modified cytokine is specifically delivered to target cells. Preferably, said modified cytokine is a single chain variant of the TNF superfamily, even more preferably, one or more of the chains can-y one or more mutations, resulting in a low affinity to the receptor, wherein said mutant cytokine is specifically delivered to target cells. The targeting is realized by fusion of the modified cytokine of the TNF superfamily to a targeting moiety, preferably an antibody or antibody-like molecule. The invention relates further to the use of such targeted modified cytokine of the TNF superfamily to treat diseases.
US12227547B2
The present disclosure provides AcrIIA7 polypeptides, nucleic acids encoding the AcrIIA7 polypeptides, and kits comprising the AcrIIA7 polypeptides and/or nucleic acids encoding the ACRIIA7 polypeptides. The present disclosure provides methods of inhibiting an activity of a Cas9 polypeptide.
US12227542B2
Provided are a method for producing a peptide compound including a step of using a compound represented by Formula (1); a protective group-forming reagent including the compound; and the compound. At least one of R1 to R8 or Y2 has RA, RA represents an aliphatic hydrocarbon group or an organic group having an aliphatic hydrocarbon group, and the number of carbon atoms in at least one aliphatic hydrocarbon group is 12 or more. However, RA does not have a silyl group and a hydrocarbon group having a silyloxy structure.
US12227527B2
The present invention relates to an improved process for the preparation of 2,2′,2″-(10-((2R,3S)-1,3,4-trihydroxy butan-2-yl)-1,4,7,10-tetraazacyclododecane-1,4,7-triyl) triacetic acid, gadolinium (III) with iron metal content less than 5 ppm and free gadolinium content less than 10 ppm, which is represented by the formula (1). The present invention further relates to an improved process for the preparation of calcium complex of 10-(2,3-Dihydroxy-1-(hydroxymethyl)propyl)-1,4,7,10-tetraazacyclo decane-1,4,7-triacetic acid known as Calcobutrol (1a) and its sodium salt of formula (1b) with purity greater than 98.0%.
US12227525B2
Provided are compounds of formula Ir(L1)x(L2)y(L3)z where L1 has L1 forms a 5-membered chelate ring with Ir; and L2 and L3 can be the same or different and have
US12227523B2
Provided is a luminescence device including a first electrode, a hole transport region disposed on the first electrode, an emission layer disposed on the hole transport region, an electron transport region disposed on the emission layer, and a second electrode disposed on the electron transport region, wherein the hole transport region may include a polycyclic compound represented by Formula 1, thereby exhibiting a long service life and high efficiency.
US12227521B2
The disclosures herein relate to novel compounds of Formula (1a): and salts thereof, wherein W, Z, L, R1 and R2 are defined herein, and their use in treating, preventing, ameliorating, controlling or reducing the risk of disorders associated with CGRP receptors.
US12227519B2
A scaled process of preparing maytansinol, FORMULA II, is provided by reacting a compound of Formula I, wherein R is selected from the group consisting essentially of alkyl, branched alkyl, aryl, alkenyl, alkynyl, as well as substituted variations thereof, with at least one organometallic reagent to produce the compound of Formula II; and, isolating the compound of Formula II.
US12227518B2
The present invention relates to novel crystalline polymorphs of sodium (4R,12aS)-9-{[(2,4-difluorophenyl) methyl]carbamoyl}-4-methyl-6,8-dioxo-3,4,6,8,12,12a-hexahydro-2H-pyrido[1′,2′:4,5] pyrazino[2,1-b] [1,3] oxazin-7-olate represented by the following structural formula-1a and process for their preparation. The present invention further relates to novel solvated forms of sodium (4R,12aS)-9-{[(2,4-difluoro phenyl) methyl] carbamoyl}-4-methyl-6,8-dioxo-3,4,6,8,12,12a-hexahydro-2H-pyrido[1′,2′:4,5] pyrazino[2,1-b][1,3] oxazin-7-olate compound of formula-1a and process for their preparation.
US12227513B2
Salts and crystalline forms of (R)-4-((2-(1-(2-fluoro-6-(trifluoromethyl)benzyl)-2,4-dioxo-1′-((5-(trifluoromethyl)furan-2-yl)methyl)-1H-spiro[furo[3,4-d]pyrimidine-5,4′-piperidine]-3(2H,4H,7H)-yl)-1-phenylethyl)amino)butanoic acid (formula (1)) show excellent physicochemical properties including, for example, hygroscopicity, related substances, chemical stability. The salts and crystalline forms are useful and suitable for pharmaceutical uses such as the preparation of a pharmaceutical composition containing the same as an active ingredient.
US12227510B2
Provided are crystalline forms of acid addition salts of N-(3-(2-(4-(4-methylpiperazin-1-yl)phenylamino)furo[3,2-d]pyrimidin-4-yloxy)phenyl)acrylamide, and a pharmaceutical composition including the same. The crystalline forms may be easily used in preparing the pharmaceutical composition including the same as an active ingredient.
US12227502B2
The present invention relates to substituted pyrrolopyridinones and substituted pyrazolopyridinones which are inhibitors of BET proteins such as BRD2, BRD3, BRD4, and BRD-t and are useful in the treatment of diseases such as cancer.
US12227501B2
The present invention relates to compounds of formula (I) processes for their production and their use as pharmaceuticals. The compounds are inhibitors of Casein kinase 1 alpha and/or delta (CSNK1α and/or β) useful for the treatment of proliferative disorders.
US12227499B2
Disclosed are fused imidazole derivatives, preparation methods therefor and medical uses thereof. Specifically, the present disclosure relates to a fused imidazole derivative as shown in general formula (IM), a preparation method therefor, a pharmaceutical composition containing the derivative, and the use of same as a therapeutic agent, in particular the use thereof as a GLP-1 receptor agonist, and the use thereof in the preparation of drugs for the treatment and/or prevention of diabetes.
US12227483B1
Methods of improving athletic performance in a human, increasing the bioabsorption of the compound in a human, or of increasing the vasodilative characteristics in a human comprise administering to the human compositions and supplement formulations comprising a compound selected from the group consisting of Carnitine, Taurine, and derivative forms thereof; and a Nitrate are disclosed.
US12227480B1
Novel 1-(2-(substituted phenyl)-2-oxoethyl)-4-methylpyridin-1-ium bromide derivatives compounds, a method of synthesizing said compounds, a pharmaceutical composition comprising said compounds and a suitable carrier, and a method of using the compounds. The 1-(2-(substituted phenyl)-2-oxoethyl)-4-methylpyridin-1-ium bromide derivatives compounds, are useful as anti-tubercular agents.
US12227474B2
The disclosure relates to methods of producing and recovering levulinic acid.
US12227450B2
The invention pertains to a method for stabilizing stucco wherein a fresh stucco is provided; water is added to the fresh stucco to obtain moistened stucco, and the moistened stucco is maintained at a temperature of at least 30° C. for a time interval of at least 30 minutes to obtain a stabilized stucco. The process allows inter alia for an easy adjustment of the activity of the stabilized stucco, which is useful to e.g. adjust setting time of a corresponding stucco slurry. The invention further pertains to a method for producing gypsum plasterboards, wherein a stabilized stucco obtained with the above method is used.
US12227447B2
A coating film-attached glass comprising a glass substrate, and a coating film provided on at least a part of a surface of the glass substrate, in which a region from the surface of the glass substrate on the coating film side to a predetermined depth is a modified layer, and the modified layer has a microcrystalline structure at least in part.
US12227438B2
The disclosure refers to a method, reaction chamber and system for treatment of liquids in continuous flow including the steps of receiving a liquid for treatment in a reaction chamber; converting q flow of liquid for treatment in a biphasic liquid-gas flow; directing the biphasic flow to a central section of the reaction chamber, where an electric field is applied; ionizing the gaseous fraction of the biphasic flow that passes through said central section; sustaining an ionization regime generating non-thermal plasma throughout the central section of the reaction chamber; leading the biphasic flow under the ionization regime to a discharge section of the reaction chamber, where the electric field is applied, generating the deionization of the gaseous fraction and causing the biphasic flow to reduce its velocity, which results in the condensation of biphasic flow; and removing a flow of treated liquid from said discharge section.
US12227437B1
A water treatment system comprising a filtration system and a reverse osmosis treatment system, incorporates a system cleansing process the uses feedwater to flush the system and further conveys reverse osmosis treated water through the system conduits by allowing the reverse osmosis treated water to settle at a low pressure system operation, and further by flushing the reverse osmosis treated water at high pressure. The system may incorporate CIP components, as well as a hydraulic turbocharger for recovering energy and boosting pressure alongside a pump system.
US12227436B2
A method for cleaning up oil spills using multi-layered carbon fiber-based absorbents is disclosed. The method for cleaning up oil spills requires an oil-contaminated area including a quantity of oil, a first storage vessel, an oil extraction machine, a heating element, and a multi-layered carbon fiber absorbent. The multi-layered modified carbon fiber absorbent is distributed to the oil-contaminated area, where the multi-layered modified carbon fiber absorbent is configured to extract the quantity of oil from the oil-contaminated area while maintaining hydrophobic. The quantity of oil is extracted and separated from the multi-layered modified carbon fiber absorbent using the oil extraction machine. The extracted quantity of oil is collected into the first storage vessel. The extract quantity of oil is then transferred over to a second storage vessel for later refinement.
US12227435B2
An annular filter includes a first annulus wall and a second annulas wall being impermeable to fluid (liquid and gas), a first circular wall and a second circular wall mounted between the first annulas wall and second annulas wall wherein the first and second circular wall are permeable to fluid (liquid and gas), at least one dividing wall mounted between the first and second circular wall to divide an internal volume defined between the first and second annulas wall and the first and second circular wall into channels, bisecting walls between the first and second circular walls to change a direction of fluid flow from a first direction to a second direction first and second channels, turbulator walls mounted channel, wherein the turbulator walls cause turbulent fluid flow in the channels, and a filter media positioned in at least one of the channels.
US12227434B2
The embodiments disclose a method including bottling alcoholic beverages with selected ingredients including alcohol neutral spirits, alcohol and whisky, beer, wine, ingredients to add flavors and nutritional additive ingredients to benefit the health of an alcoholic beverage drinker, wherein a selection of alcohols includes vodka, tequila, gin, rum, brandy and other alcoholic spirits, wherein a selection of ingredients to add flavors includes flavorings including fruit flavorings, an artificial sweetener, and natural sweetener, wherein a selection of nutritional additive ingredients includes vitamins, minerals, fulvic acid, humic acid, ulmic acid and a purified and sanitized black water with humic acid and fulvic acid molecules in a mixed solution, and wherein bottling includes a bottling electronic monitoring, at least one control network, at least one bottling quality control process and a bottling labeling and packaging process and devices.
US12227427B2
Synthesizing lithium lanthanum zirconate includes combining a reagent composition with a salt composition to yield a molten salt reaction medium, wherein the reagent composition comprises a lithium component, a lanthanum component, and zirconium component having a lithium:lanthanum:zirconium molar ratio of about 7:3:2; heating the molten salt reaction medium to yield a reaction product; and washing the reaction product to yield a crystalline powder comprising lithium lanthanum zirconate.
US12227424B2
Provided is a method for drying a wet-gel blanket which can have an excellent heat insulation performance by minimizing shrinkage of a gel network structure that occurs during drying, and has excellent drying efficiency versus time, and a method for producing an aerogel blanket using same.
US12227419B2
The present disclosure provides a method for preparing patterned graphene, and the method includes using a silicon carbide base as a solid-state carbon source, decomposing the silicon carbide under the action of high temperature and catalyst, to directly grow graphene on an insulating substrate. Through a first patterned trench and a second patterned trench in an accommodating passage, the pattern of the formed graphene can be directly controlled. Therefore, the present disclosure can accurately locate the position of the patterned graphene on the insulating substrate, it does not require transferring the graphene one more time, thereby avoiding contaminating the graphene and damaging its structure, and there is no need for photo-lithography, ion etching and other processes to treat the graphene in order to obtain patterned graphene, which further avoids damages to the graphene.
US12227409B2
An inertial sensor such as a MEMS accelerometer or gyroscope has a proof mass that is driven by a self-test signal, with the response of the proof mass to the self-test signal being used to determine whether the sensor is within specification. The self-test signal is provided as a non-periodic self-test pattern that does not correlate with noise such as environmental vibrations that are also experienced by the proof mass during the self-test procedure. The sense output signal corresponding to the proof mass is correlated with the non-periodic self-test signal, such that an output correlation value corresponds only to the proof mass response to the applied self-test signal.
US12227406B2
A fluid material dispensing apparatus include: a first nozzle; a second nozzle; a pump, arranged to operably extract a fluid material from the material container and to operably push the fluid material to flow toward the first nozzle; a material-temperature adjustment device, coupled with the first nozzle; a water-temperature adjustment device, coupled between a water input port and the second nozzle; and a control circuit for controlling the material-temperature adjustment device to adjust a temperature of the fluid material to produce and output a temperature-adjusted material to the first nozzle; wherein the control circuit also controls the water-temperature adjustment device to adjust a temperature of water transmitted from the water input port to produce and output a temperature-adjusted water to the second nozzle.
US12227405B2
A material dispensing device includes: a target nozzle for dispensing a target material to a target container; a pump arranged to operably extract the target material from the material container and to operably push the target material to flow toward the target nozzle; a material drainage port; a flow direction switch device, coupled with the target nozzle and the material drainage port, and arranged to operably receive the target material; and a control circuit. When the material dispensing device needs to output the target material to the target container, if the control circuit determines that a temperature of the target material inside the material dispensing device reaches a predetermined temperature, the control circuit controls the flow direction switch device to guide the target material to flow toward the target nozzle, so as to dispense the target material into the target container through the target nozzle.
US12227404B2
Container of a bag-in-container type, wherein a neck region of the container is provided with at least one opening extending substantially radially there through, into a space between the outer container and an inner container adjacent thereto, wherein the neck region is provided with coupling elements, preferably at opposite sides of the at least one opening, seen in circumferential direction, for coupling of a connecting device to the container for introducing a pressure fluid through the at least one opening into a space between the inner and outer container.
US12227399B2
A method comprising: detecting the start of resonance when the chain hoist moves a load, determining a new speed for the rotation of the chain wheel of the chain hoist to avoid resonance, and controlling the chain hoist to use the new speed.
US12227391B2
A vibration damping device for reducing vibration of an elevator rope includes a displacement amplifier arranged around a region from a first portion of the elevator rope drawn and a second portion of the elevator rope drawn from an opposite side of one or more sheaves in parallel with the first portion. The displacement amplifier is configured to amplify a displacement of each of the first portion and the second portion of the elevator rope. The device also includes a limiting member that controls displacement amplification performed by the displacement amplifier such that the displacement of the first portion or the second portion amplified by the displacement amplifier does not become greater than a first displacement, which is a displacement of the elevator rope by which the elevator rope is not allowed to return to an equilibrium position of the vibration.
US12227390B2
An elevator guide having a base attached to an elevator component, a guide riding along a portion of a rail and a spring biasing the guide in contact with the rail. The guide includes one or more of the following: (i) a guide support member operably associated with the guide for movably supporting the guide so that the guide can move toward and away from a corresponding surface of the rail member wherein the guide support member has a plurality of spring engagement sections configured to vary a system effective spring rate; (ii) a roller including a non-metallic rim molded about a bearing; (iii) two independently adjustable stops and, (iv) an opening adjustment member mounted about a notch in the base to vary the distance between the base and the rail. The opening adjustment member has a width and/or depth greater than a width and/or depth of the notch.
US12227376B2
An article withdrawing system for withdrawing articles held in a packing box, the upper surface of which is opened. A first stage holds the packing box carried with the opened upper surface and reverses the packing box so that the articles held in the packing box falls down. A second stage supports and holds the falling-down articles. The first stage includes a support unit supporting and moving the packing box upward and downward, a box holding frame in which the support unit is mounted, a linear movement frame to which the box holding frame is rotatably coupled, a main frame in which the linear movement frame is coupled and supported to be linearly moved and is located and supported on the ground, and a first rotation driving mechanism disposed in the linear movement frame and for rotating and driving the box holding frame.
US12227374B2
A method for operating a robotic system includes determining a discretized object model representative of a target object; determining a discretized platform model representative of a task location; determining height measures based on real-time sensor data representative of the task location; and dynamically deriving a placement location based on (1) overlapping the discretized object model and the discretized platform model for stacking objects at the task location and (2) calculating a placement score associated with the overlapping based on the height measures.
US12227372B2
A system includes a pump configured to transfer a granular material out of a hopper into a transfer pipe. The pump includes an upstream portion having an upstream helical flight and a downstream portion having a downstream helical flight. The downstream portion includes a tailpiece. An outer diameter of the downstream helical flight is less than an outer diameter of the upstream helical flight, a gap between the outer diameter of the downstream helical flight and an auger housing is greater than a gap between the outer diameter of the upstream helical flight and the auger housing, a thickness of the downstream helical flight is less than a thickness of the upstream helical flight, a surface of the downstream portion has a lesser coefficient of friction than a surface of the upstream portion, or a combination thereof.
US12227367B2
A food processing machine (10) and a method of cutting slices or portions from a food product (60, 70, 72, 74) in a food processing machine are described. The food processing machine comprises a cutter (30) to cut portions from a food product and a sensing apparatus (43, 45) configured to sense a profile of the food product. The machine is arranged to control sensing and cutting feed rates independently.
US12227366B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus for a conveyor assembly. The conveyor assembly includes a conveyor, at least one stationary track positioned parallel to the conveyor, a process dolly configured to operatively couple to the at least one stationary track, and a syncing apparatus configured to couple to the process dolly and operatively couple to the conveyor. The syncing apparatus is configured to lock the process dolly in place along the conveyor such that the process dolly moves together with the conveyor with respect to the at least one stationary track.
US12227362B1
This invention provides framework for supporting a plurality of conveyor idlers, mounted on central risers and end risers, and a method for constructing the same. A center section comprises, an upper component having a downwardly oriented channel with a sidewalls. It includes a first pair of central riser tabs folded upwardly from the top surface. The center section also comprises a lower component having an upwardly oriented channel with sidewalls. It includes a second pair of central riser tabs folded upwardly from the top surface. The upper component is sized and arranged to nest within the lower component and the first pair of central riser tabs overlap on the second pair of central riser tabs. A pair of end risers are mounted at each opposing ends of the center section, formed from sheet metal, and affixed to the opposing ends of the center section.
US12227360B2
System and method for monitoring atmospheric conditions in an automated storage and retrieval system
A measuring system for monitoring atmospheric conditions in an automated storage and retrieval system including a framework structure. The framework structure forms a three-dimensional storage grid structure for storing storage containers for storing items. The grid structure forms vertical storage columns each having a horizontal area defined by the size of an access opening of the vertical storage columns. A rail system is arranged on the framework structure defining the circumference of each access opening on top of each storage column. The rail system provides available routes for container handling vehicles handling and transferring the storage containers to and from the storage columns. The at least one container handling vehicle has at least one rechargeable power source. A container handling platform has a first set of grippers for handling the storage containers. The measuring system includes at least one box-shaped measuring unit of the same size and features as a storage container. The box-shaped measuring unit includes measuring equipment for measuring at least one atmospheric condition within the grid structure, a transmitter for transmitting measurement data to a computer system, at least one rechargeable power source, and a data recorder for recording the measurement data. The box-shaped measuring unit includes at least one piece of measuring equipment on all sides of the box-shaped measuring unit.
US12227357B2
The embodiments of the present disclosure relate to an order picking method and device, and a storage medium. The method includes: acquiring at least one piece of order information; acquiring information of at least one storage bin in a circulation box, wherein a plurality of storage bins are arranged in the circulation box; associating the at least one piece of order information with the information of the at least one storage bin, wherein the at least one piece of order information is in one-to-one correspondence with the information of the at least one storage bin; acquiring position information of all commodities, corresponding to the at least one piece of order information, in a commodity warehouse; determining an order picking path according to commodity information and the position information; and moving the circulation box in the commodity warehouse according to the order picking path for completing commodity picking.
US12227355B2
A method for controlling movement of a robot on a plurality of tracks laid out on a frame structure forming a grid includes detecting a current speed and an angular position for one wheel in a pair of wheels of the robot; tracking a current position of the robot relative to at least a portion of the frame structure; and setting a driving sequence for the pair of wheels, based on a position information of the robot.
US12227354B2
A warehouse storage and retrieval system for fishing rod blanks includes a framework structure comprising a plurality of front horizontal supports, and a plurality of rear horizontal supports. The system also includes a plurality of individual storage receptacles supported between the plurality of front horizontal supports and the rear horizontal supports in a horizontal orientation, where each receptacle has an open end proximate the plurality of front horizontal supports and an opposing closed end proximate the plurality of rear horizontal supports. The system includes a plurality of fishing rod blanks within the plurality of individual storage receptacles, and each fishing rod blank having an identifying tag storing data. In addition, the system includes a database storing a spatial location of each of the fishing rod blanks corresponding to a respective individual storage receptacle within the framework structure.
US12227352B2
The present disclosure is directed to a single-serve beverage pod having an additive enclosure and methods of making and using the same. The additive enclosure may serve to hold an additive that, when brewing a single-serve beverage, combines with a beverage precursor to yield a beverage infused with the additive. The present disclosure has recognized the difficulty in introducing a precise amount of desired additive in beverages, as well as the possibility of the additive being absorbed by or adversely affecting the beverage precursor, and provides a solution to making and using a single-serve beverage pod with a precise amount of desired additive.
US12227350B2
A ventilated container for produce includes a bottom, sidewalls extending upwardly from the bottom, and a rim having a flattened top surface. The sidewalls include at least one ventilation opening located proximate the rim of the container thereby permitting the rim of the container to be generally flat and uninterrupted. The location of ventilation opening(s) proximate the rim of the container allows the flow of rising ethylene gas within the container to exit near the top of the container improving ventilation within the container. A plastic film can be applied over the top of the container and is adhered to the container with an adhesive to form a secure and rigid seal between the film and the container. The flattened surface of the rim improves the adherence between a film and the container to enclose and seal the container, aids the rigidity of the container, and lessens the likelihood of the edges of the rim being bent or folded when pressure is exerted to protect produce provided within the container. Moreover, an aperture on the bottom of the container provides drainage of liquid from the container and allow air to flow.
US12227340B2
A container having a canister can be configured to retain a volume of liquid. The canister can be sealed by a lid structure, and the lid structure can have a spout opening. The spout opening may be sealed by a removably-coupled cap. Further, the cap may have a magnetic top surface configured to magnetically couple to a recess on the top surface of the lid for temporary storage of the cap when manually removed from the spout opening.
US12227337B2
A closure cap for closing the pouring opening of a container, has a cylindrical threaded part with an open edge and an inner thread to interact with an outer thread of a container neck of the container, a security ring held on a protrusion on the container neck, a plurality of security webs releasably connecting the security ring to the open edge, a first holding strip with a first end rigidly connected to an open edge of the threaded part and a second end rigidly connected to the security ring, and a second holding strip with a third end rigidly connected to an open edge of the threaded part and a fourth end rigidly connected to the security ring. The second end on the circular path of the security ring is in a substantially diametrically opposed manner to the fourth end before the threaded part is opened for the first time.
US12227335B2
A paper-based composite container for an off-gassing product includes a paperboard can body having a substantially gas-impervious liner attached to an inner surface thereof, and a pair of substantially paper-based end closures attached to the opposite ends of the can body, each end closure defining a generally cylindrical sealing panel in contact with an inner surface of the can body. Heat-sealable materials are disposed on opposing surfaces of the sealing panel and can body. The sealing panels of the end closures are attached to the can body by heat seals. The heat seal for at least one of the end closures is discontinuous such that at least one vent channel extends through the heat seal to establish fluid communication between an interior of the container and the environment outside the container. The at least one vent channel is operable to vent excess gas pressure from the interior of the container.
US12227333B2
A illusion container assembly and method for hiding at least one object using a false bottom includes a box having a bottom wall and a perimeter edge. A perimeter wall is coupled to the perimeter edge and extends upwardly from the bottom wall. A top edge of the perimeter wall defines an opening into an interior space of the box. A lid is removably mounted to the opening of the box, thus the lid removably encloses the interior space of the box. A panel is removably positioned within the interior space of the box to enclose a hidden space from the bottom wall to the panel. A support is removably positioned within the hidden space and facilitates spacing the panel from the bottom wall.
US12227332B2
A razor wire barrier or container is disclosed. In some embodiments, the razor wire container includes a plurality of walls defining an interior area for securing object(s) therein. The razor wire container may further include panels or razor wire along a frame defined by the plurality of walls, and a component receptacle extending along the frame. The razor wire container may include a movable access component to provide access to the object(s). The component receptacle is operable to receive a component of a machine for moving the frame. In some embodiments, the component receptacle is a hollow member operable to receive a forklift prong. In some embodiments, the section of razor wire includes one or more panels of razor wire.
US12227331B1
A crate has an arrangement of fastening holes for mounting crate components, as well as various mounts and accessories to the outer and inner surface of the crate. The fastening holes are blind holes that do not breach, penetrate or pass-through panels defining the crate so that the crate remains watertight or sealed or leakproof. The fastening holes may be arranged to provide points of intersection for rules or guides that define a grid to aid in mounting components, mounts and accessories at desired locations. Outer fastening holes are provided in a repeating pattern and superimposed on inner fastening holes. The fastening holes provide for ease of customization without the need for drilling.
US12227330B2
A basket assembly is provided. The basket assembly includes a molded basket body having opposed side walls with minimal draft angles. The basket body defines a front opening for receiving fluid and items, an interior area of receiving and holding the items, and a plurality of perforations for allowing the fluid to escape the interior area while retaining the items within the interior area. The perforations are placed, oriented, sized, and configured to maximize fluid flow and item retention while the basket assembly is positioned in flowing fluid of a washing machine wash tank. Support pins retain the basket assembly at the top of the wash tank and handles extending therebetween facilitate removal of the basket assembly from the wash tank.
US12227328B2
The present disclosure relates to a strap-segment-cutting system for locating and removing strap segments from an object, such as a metal coil.
US12227313B2
A satellite includes a first radiator panel with first heat-generating components attached to its surface and a second radiator panel with second heat-generating components attached to its surface. One or more actuators are configured to deploy the first and second radiator panels from a compact configuration in which the first and second radiator panels are overlapping to a deployed configuration in which the first and second radiator panels are non-overlapping.
US12227310B2
An example system for extraterrestrial deployment of a flexible membrane surface includes a flexible membrane having a periphery and an interior. The flexible membrane is rolled about a roll axis into a cylindrical geometric shape in an undeployed state. A payload base has extendable radial booms, wherein the distal end of each extendable radial boom is attached to the periphery of the flexible membrane and the interior of the flexible membrane is free of attachment to the extendable radial booms. The payload base and the extendable radial booms are positioned to one side of the flexible membrane along the roll axis. The extendable radial booms are configured to extend orthogonally to the roll axis from the payload base to unroll the flexible membrane about the roll axis to form the flexible membrane surface in a deployed state, wherein the roll axis is substantially orthogonal to the flexible membrane surface.
US12227305B2
The present invention relates to self-propelled airside dollies (100), and particularly but not exclusively to airside baggage dollies and airside cargo dollies, and autonomous airside dollies. The self-propelled airside dolly comprises a cargo portion (104) configured to hold baggage or cargo, a drive system (108) for driving the self-propelled airside dolly (100), a controller (114) configured to control the drive system (108) in response to control signals and a processor (116) configured to provide the control signals to the controller (114).
US12227292B1
Systems and apparatus are provided for a high-power microwave sensor using an unmanned aerial vehicle. The unmanned aerial vehicle may include a central body, at least one electric motor, and a barometric pressure feedthrough. The central body may include a first enclosure housing a plurality of low voltage components, a voltage feedthrough connector, and a second enclosure housing a plurality of high voltage components. The low voltage components may include a first signal processing system, a first radio transceiver, a flight controller, a second signal processing system, a second radio transceiver, and a navigation system. The high voltage components may include a plurality of electronic speed controllers, a power distribution module, an input power interface, and a plurality of high power filters. The components of each enclosure may be segregated such that the high voltage components do not create electromagnetic interference with the low voltage components.
US12227291B2
An aircraft includes a closed wing, a fuselage at least partially disposed within a perimeter of the closed wing, and one or more spokes coupling the closed wing to the fuselage. A source of electric power is disposed within or attached to the closed wing, fuselage or one or more spokes. A plurality of electric motors are disposed within or attached to the one or more spokes in a distributed configuration. Each electric motor is connected to the source of electric power. A propeller is operably connected to each of the electric motors and proximate to a leading edge of the one or more spokes. One or more processors are communicably coupled to the plurality of electric motors. A longitudinal axis of the fuselage is substantially vertical in vertical takeoff and landing and stationary flight, and substantially in a direction of a forward flight in a forward flight mode.
US12227289B2
A rotorcraft provided with a rotary wing and a skid landing gear, the landing gear being provided with a first skid and a second skid and with a first cross-member and a second cross-member. The first cross-member is connected to an airframe of the rotorcraft only by two fastenings. The second cross-member is only carried during flight by two supports fastened to the airframe and traversed by the second cross-member. Each support comprises a hole delimited by a stop surface, the second cross-member always being separated from each stop surface by a clearance. A median supporting member is arranged transversely between the two supports and above the second cross-member.
US12227283B2
A propulsion system suitable for use in aircrafts (for example propeller plane) is provided. The propulsion system includes at least one propeller hub, which is mountable to at least a portion of the aircraft and includes at least one rotatable propeller blade thereon, propeller blade which is foldable, at least one fuel nozzle which is provided on the propeller hub and used to spray fuel into the section where the propeller blades are folded.
US12227269B2
An apparatus, including: a main body (302) including at least one passage (320A, 320B) configured to pass a first cord section and an adjacent second cord section therethrough; and at least one cord lock (322A, 322B). When neither the first cord section nor the second cord section is disposed in the at least one cord lock, the main body is free to move along the first cord section and the second cord section which are disposed in the at least one passage. When the first cord section and the second cord section are disposed in the at least one cord lock the main body is not free to move along the first cord section and the second cord section. The first cord section and the second cord section can be selective moved into an out of the at least one cord lock.
US12227266B1
A boat accessory system and method for attaching accessories to boats.
US12227263B2
A wireless control system for a bicycle may include a base part attachable to a bicycle and a movable part. The control system may also include an electric motor disposed on the electromechanical component and a control unit disposed on the electromechanical component for operating the electric motor to operate the electromechanical component, the control unit including a wireless receiver. The control system includes a wake sensor connected to the control unit, the wake sensor configured to communicate a wake signal to the control unit.
US12227261B2
Implementations set forth herein relate to generating a pre-call analysis for one or more users that are receiving and/or initializing a call with one or more other users, and/or prioritizing pre-call content according to whether security-related value was gleaned from provisioning certain pre-call content. One or more machine learning models can be employed for determining the pre-call content to be cached and/or presented prior to a user accepting a call from another user. Feedback provided before, during, and/or after the call can be used as a basis from which to prioritize certain content and/or sources of content when generating pre-call content for a subsequent call. Other information, such as contextual data (e.g., calendar entries, available peripheral devices, location, etc.) corresponding to the previous call and/or the subsequent call, can also be used as a basis from which to provide a pre-call analysis.
US12227259B2
An operating device comprises a base and an operating member. The base includes a base body and a cover. The cover includes an upper outer surface, a first lateral outer surface, a second lateral outer surface, a first shoulder, and a second shoulder. The first shoulder is provided between the upper outer surface and the first lateral outer surface. The first shoulder includes a first curved surface connecting the upper outer surface and the first lateral outer surface. The second shoulder is provided between the upper outer surface and the second lateral outer surface. The second shoulder includes a second curved surface connecting the upper outer surface and the second lateral outer surface. The first curved surface is gentler than the second curved surface as viewed in a longitudinal direction.
US12227256B2
The bag for motorcycles comprises at least one closing element (2) for closing the bag (1) and a plate (3) that includes at least one housing (4) for housing said at least one closing element (2), and at least one stop element (5) that is movable between a releasing position and a retaining position, so that in the releasing position the at least one closing element (2) can be removed from the at least one housing (4) and in the retaining position the at least one closing element (2) is prevented to be removed from the at least one housing (4). It permits to provide a bag for motorcycles that provides an enhanced security, permitting to fix the bag to the motorcycle in a secure way and also closing the bag for prevent or reduce the risk of an unauthorized access to the bag.
US12227253B2
A two-wheeled vehicle includes a frame, a plurality of ground-engaging members for supporting the frame, and an engine supported by the frame and operably coupled to the ground-engaging members. Additionally, the two-wheel vehicle includes a down tube extending downwardly from a front end of the frame. A front fairing is supported on the down tube.
US12227248B2
A method is disclosed for protecting the components of a steer-by-wire steering system, where the steer-by-wire steering system comprises a self-locking spindle drive in which the spindle is displaced linearly by driving a positionally fixed spindle nut in rotation. As a function of the speed of the vehicle, the linear displacement of the spindle relative to the spindle nut is summed continuously with respect to time until a first threshold value has been reached. A control unit, a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, and a steer-by-wire system are also disclosed.
US12227245B2
Object-shifting mechanisms, control systems for object-shifting mechanisms, and methods of manufacturing, assembling, and using the same. The object-shifting mechanism can include a base, a frame, at least one pickup device, at least one actuator, and a control system that is used to control operation of different components of the object-shifting mechanism and/or associated systems. In addition, methods of using a object-shifting mechanism to engage, shift, position, and release a component during an assembly and installation process are also disclosed. In addition, methods of manufacturing, configuring, and integrating object-shifting including in different manufacturing operations are also disclosed.
US12227242B2
Vehicles and systems for modular power source storage. A vehicle may include a power source detachable from the vehicle. The power source may supply power to the vehicle and a remote device. The vehicle may further include a cargo bed that stores the power source. The cargo bed or a portion of the cargo bed may be removable from rest of the vehicle along with the power source.
US12227239B2
A steering control device is configured to control steering of a vehicle by a steering actuator. The steering control includes a trajectory following control unit and an angle following control unit. The trajectory following control unit is configured to adjust a target angle of a steering angle given to a tire of the vehicle by a trajectory following control that causes a state quantity containing a position of the vehicle to follow a target trajectory. The angle following control unit is configured to adjust an instruction value that is given to the steering actuator and corresponds to an actual angle of the steering angle by an angle following control that causes the actual angle to follow the target angle. The trajectory following control unit is configured to forcibly set the target angle to be a fixed angle in a stop control period.
US12227233B2
A steering control method for a redundant steering system. The method includes: receiving, by a first steering controller and a second steering controller, a first command signal and a second command signal, respectively; and synchronizing control outputs of the first steering controller and the second steering controller in a way that at least one of the first steering controller and the second steering controller compensates a control timing according to the first command signal and the second command signal so that the control outputs are synchronized.
US12227230B2
A recreational vehicle includes an exterior side having an elongated strip extending from near the front of the vehicle towards the rear of the vehicle. A utility hook-up compartment in the exterior side includes a compartment door manually opened and closed to uncover and cover utility hook-up compartment, accessing the hook-up compartment upon manually opening the door and preventing access and concealing the hook-up compartment upon manually closing the door. The strip has first and second portions with exterior surfaces that provide a visual camouflage effect, hiding within the unitized strip itself the hook-up compartment door upon closure thereof and alignment of both portions. Door closure brings the first and second portions into alignment along a common longitudinal reference line to form an integrated unit.
US12227223B2
A braking mechanism and a child stroller, where the braking mechanism includes a pedal part and a housing part connected to the pedal part, the housing part has two side walls and a middle wall sandwiched between the two side walls, a locking end is arranged on an outer side of each of the side walls, and a sliding groove is arranged on an inner surface of the middle wall, where the braking mechanism is further provided with an elastic piece part, the elastic piece part is provided with a highest point, and the braking mechanism is prevented from a false locking through a cooperation of the sliding groove and the highest point. The braking mechanism according to the disclosure has a function of preventing false locking, which can avoid a false locking phenomenon of the child stroller and improve the safety of the child stroller in use.
US12227214B2
A cart for supporting pallets weighing over 2000 lbs and even over 3000 pounds and transporting those pallets on rails is provided. The carts are formed by releasably attaching a minimal number of pieces, such as by bolting the parts together. By making the parts substantially identical and making the parts as symmetric mirror images, a single part can have multiple uses, such as on both the left and right sides or both the front and back. For example, a rear cross beam can have the same dimensions as a middle cross beam and/or a front cross beam. A left side beam can be identical to a right side beam. A right side bracket for connecting beams and/or mounting wheels can be identical to a left side bracket and a front bracket can be identical to a rear bracket.
US12227209B1
Techniques for accurately predicting and avoiding collisions with objects detected in an environment of a vehicle are discussed herein. A vehicle safety system can implement one or more models to output data indicating an intersection probability between the object and a portion of the vehicle in the future. The model may employ a blur filter to modify a representation of an object usable to determine the intersection probability. A vehicle can be controlled in an environment based at least in part on the intersection probability.
US12227203B2
A method includes obtaining a pre-defined roadmodel 2-dimensional (2D) manifold in 6D space, wherein the roadmodel 2D manifold in 6D space is pre-defined by transforming objects in a roadmodel from 3D space into 6D space, obtaining a current position of the vehicle and a target position of the vehicle on the horizontal plane; obtaining a piece of the roadmodel 2D manifold covering the current position and the target position; flattening the piece of the roadmodel represented by the piece of the roadmodel 2D manifold onto the horizontal plane while maintaining a distance between any two points from 3D space to the horizontal plane; and planning a trajectory for the vehicle from the current position to the target position in the flattened roadmodel on the horizontal plane.
US12227196B2
The present application discloses a vehicle control and task processing method and apparatus, a computing device and a system. The vehicle control method comprises: acquiring a driving control task to be executed and target parameters associated with the driving control task; and executing a corresponding algorithm based on the target parameters to enable a driving control system to complete the driving control task. Through the above-mentioned technical solution, accurate vehicle parameters are acquired according to the driving control task, thereby improving the reliability of driving control.
US12227190B2
A grip force sensing and shape-changing steering wheel configured to serve as an intuitive means of communication between a human driver and automatic driving system or driver assist system.
US12227189B2
A method for controlling a vehicle travelling along a route is provided. The method includes obtaining a first value of a balance parameter, indicative of a balance between a cost for operating the vehicle along at least a part of the route, and a time of arrival at a position along the route, establishing, in dependence on the first balance parameter value, a plurality of desired position and time correlations for the travel of the vehicle along at least a part of the route, when the vehicle travels along the route, determining a progress deviation comprising a deviation, for a point in time, of an actual position of the vehicle from a desired position according to the desired position and time correlations, or a deviation, for a position of the vehicle, of an actual point in time from a desired point in time according to the desired position and time correlations, when the vehicle travels along the route, obtaining a second balance parameter value, different from the first balance parameter value, the second balance parameter value being dependent on the progress deviation, and controlling the vehicle in dependence on the second balance parameter value.
US12227188B2
Systems and methods to automatically detect and respond to driving on a deformable surface are provided. A system can determine, for a first time interval, a difference between an expected acceleration of a vehicle and an actual acceleration of the vehicle measured via one or more sensors of the vehicle. The system can detect, for the first time interval, a condition for the vehicle to increase a first slip target set for the vehicle. The system can increase the first slip target set for the vehicle to a second slip target responsive to the difference greater than or equal to a threshold and the detection of the condition.
US12227183B2
A traveling control apparatus includes at least one processor. The at least one processor is configured to function as a driving assistance controller. The driving assistance controller is configured to delay a change in a lateral position of a preceding vehicle traveling ahead of the vehicle to obtain a delay lateral position of the preceding vehicle, and provide steering control that causes the vehicle to track the preceding vehicle on a basis of the delayed lateral position of the preceding vehicle.
US12227181B2
A controller causes a signal to be received by a main control module (MCM) in a controller area network of a vehicle when the vehicle is determined to be speeding or when a set speed of a cruise control would result in speeding. The signal indicates to the MCM that a driver of the vehicle is braking. The signal is caused to be received by the MCM when the vehicle is determined to be speeding regardless of whether the driver of the vehicle is actually braking, whereby cruise control that is engaged is disengaged by the MCM. Such controller is utilized in conjunction with ADA systems, especially ISA systems, for enabling such systems to properly function without specific regard to the particular manufacturer and model of the cruise control module that may be used in a given vehicle.
US12227177B2
There are included an own vehicle position sensor which detects the position of an own vehicle; a reference path acquisition unit which acquires a reference path on which the own vehicle travels; a reference path determination unit which determines whether or not the own vehicle is traveling on the reference path; a temporary vehicle path calculation unit which, when it is determined by the reference path determination unit that the own vehicle is not traveling on the reference path, calculates a temporary vehicle path from at least two points, a travel start point of the own vehicle and an end point of the reference path; and a vehicle path setting unit which sets either the temporary vehicle path calculated by the temporary vehicle path calculation unit or the reference path on which it is determined by the reference path determination unit that the own vehicle is traveling as the vehicle path of the own vehicle.
US12227175B2
An autonomous vehicle (AV) is described herein. The AV is configured to identify an occluded region where a portion of a field of view of a sensor is occluded by an object. The AV is further configured to hypothesize that an object exists in the occluded region and is moving in the occluded region. The AV is still further configured to perform a driving maneuver based upon the hypothesized object existing in the occluded region.
US12227172B2
A monitoring area setting apparatus is mountable to an own vehicle and sets a monitoring area that indicates an area for monitoring objects in a vicinity of the own vehicle. The monitoring area setting apparatus acquires (i) at least either of a vehicle-width movement amount that indicates an amount of movement in a vehicle-width direction of the own vehicle and an inclination amount that indicates a degree of inclination of the own vehicle relative to an extending direction of a road on which the own vehicle is traveling, and (ii) information that the own vehicle has changed traffic lanes. The monitoring area setting apparatus sets the monitoring area taking into consideration at least either of the vehicle-width movement amount and the inclination amount in response to the own vehicle changing traffic lanes.
US12227155B2
A brake device for a vehicle includes a fluid supply portion that supplies a fluid to a wheel cylinder utilizing the fluid in a reservoir and is configured such that a piston presses brake pads against a disc rotor to apply a braking force to a wheel. The brake device includes: a fluid level sensor configured to measure a value of a fluid level in the reservoir and a controller including one or more processors and configured to: estimate a wear amount of the brake pads based on a result of measurement by the fluid level sensor; estimate a heat generation amount of the brake pads based on the result of measurement; and determine whether a fluid leakage is occurring based on i) an amount of change in the fluid level that is based on the result of the measurement, ii) the wear amount, and iii) the heat generation amount.
US12227152B2
A brake caliper has a fixed seat. The fixed seat has a first brake lining and a second brake lining. The fixed seat further has a first piston and a second piston that can be pushed by hydraulic oil. A movable seat is slidably disposed on the fixed seat. The movable seat has a link portion that can link the first brake lining and a drive unit that can push the second piston mechanically. The first piston and the second piston can be pushed hydraulically to drive the first brake lining and the second brake lining for braking. The drive unit pushes the second piston to drive the second brake lining, and pushes the movable seat to drive the first brake lining for braking.
US12227150B2
A target alignment system for calibrating a safety sensor mounted on a vehicle with front and rear wheels by locating an optimum target position upon a horizontal surface for accurate calibration of the sensor. The target alignment system comprises a plurality of visual guide projectors and a pair of target assemblies which project a visible guide line perimeter around the vehicle, the perimeter including parallel longitudinal lines on either side of the vehicle, a lateral alignment guide line crossing the longitudinal lines in front of the vehicle, and a center guide line colinear with the vehicle center line. The front and rear wheels of the vehicle are longitudinally aligned causing the vehicle thrust line to match the vehicle center line. One of the visual guide projectors projects a transverse line across the center guide line, creating an intersection point which marks the optimum target position.
US12227140B2
An apparatus for helping to protect an occupant of a vehicle includes a curtain airbag inflatable from a stored condition adjacent a roof of the vehicle to a deployed condition in which the curtain airbag is positioned between a side structure of the vehicle and the vehicle occupant. The apparatus also includes a tether for anchoring the curtain airbag to the vehicle structure. The tether includes a length of woven fabric material having longitudinal slits spaced from each other along the length of the tether. The tether is doubled over onto itself to position the slits overlying each other and to form a loop at the terminal end of the tether. A fastener extends through the aligned slits and being configured to connect the tether directly to the sheet metal of the vehicle.
US12227122B2
A recreational vehicle has a front cap with integrated accent illumination. The front cap has a finished outer surface that extends uninterrupted across lighting regions with surfaces having special relationships to each other. The accent illumination is created by the surfaces in the lighting region and a translucent diffuser that is secured and sealed around its perimeter to form an enclosed volume. The lighting region has a valley that holds a luminaire that is surrounded by an adhesive landing surface. The adhesive landing surface is located between a lighting landing surface and an outside perimeter surface.
US12227119B2
A storage vehicle for a mobility includes a seat provided inside the storage vehicle and spaced from a floor of the storage vehicle upward to form a separation space below the seat; a storage slot formed in the separation space below the seat, opened to an external side of the storage vehicle through a portion of a sidewall of the storage vehicle, and configured to store the mobility therein; a door provided in the opening portion of the storage slot; and an opening/closing portion provided on a side of the door and configured to operate the door upward or downward to open or close an opening portion of the storage slot.
US12227114B2
A sliding device that slidably supports a seat body of a vehicle seat is provided. The sliding device includes: a fixed rail; a movable rail; a locking member displaceable between a locking position and an unlocking position, a sliding movement of the movable rail being restricted in the locking position, and restriction of the sliding movement being released in the unlocking position; a retention spring configured to apply to the locking member a retaining force to retain the locking member in the locking position; a release lever configured to displace the locking member to the unlocking position; a return spring configured to apply to the release lever an elastic force to return the release lever to its initial position; and a restrictor configured to restrict a displacement of the release lever.
US12227110B2
A rail-guided vehicle system connecting between vertically-spaced floors includes a descending rail to enable a travel vehicle to move downward. The descending rail has a helical structure and includes a rail in a first section where energy is generated when a brake included in the travel vehicle works and a rail in a second section where energy that has been generated when a travel vehicle traveled in the first section is consumed.
US12227103B1
A vehicle provides an indication of status of an energy source that provides power for the vehicle. The vehicle includes an indicator, positioned on the vehicle at a location determined to be among a plurality of locations to most likely be intact during and after an accident. The indicator provides a predetermined indication that identifies status of an energy source that provides power for the vehicle. The indicator may provide a visual or acoustical indication or may provide a wireless message. The indication may provide an indication of one or more of make/model of the vehicle, battery charge level, type, danger condition, danger condition reoccurrence, danger condition suppression technique and a warning to not approach the vehicle.
US12227100B2
A battery consumption amount from when an electric vehicle departs a base charging location to when the electric moving body has returned to the base charging location is set as a consumption amount of one day, and an estimated consumption amount of one day is calculated based on the consumption amounts of the past n days. A value obtained by adding the estimated consumption amount and a margin to a lower limit remaining capacity determined in advance by a user is set as a charging recommendation threshold value. When the remaining capacity of the battery drops below the charging recommendation threshold value, a notification prompting charging of the battery is transmitted to an on-board HMI of the electric moving body or a terminal of the user.
US12227093B2
A wireless charging system for a vehicle and a method of operating is provided. The system includes a vehicle having a floor pan disposed opposite a ground surface. At least one battery is provided that is configured to provide energy to the vehicle. At least one power receiving coil is electrically coupled to the at least one battery and arranged within a housing adjacent the floor pan opposite the ground surface.
US12227092B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for coordinating and executing bidirectional energy transfer events between electrified vehicles and one or more participating electrified recreational vehicles. Energy may be transferred from an electrified vehicle to one or more electrified recreational vehicles, from the one or more electrified recreational vehicles to the electrified vehicle, or both during bidirectional energy transfer events. The proposed systems and methods may further be configured to provide various charging configurations between the electrified vehicle and the one or more electrified recreational vehicles.
US12227084B2
A vehicle includes a traveling motor, a traveling battery that drives at least one wheel, a low-voltage electric component, at least one processor, and a storage medium. The traveling battery includes battery modules each including battery cells and supplies electric power to the traveling motor. The low-voltage electric component operates at a voltage lower than an output voltage of the traveling battery. The storage medium stores a program to be executed by the processor. The program includes at least one command that causes the processor to perform a state-of-health (SOH) calculation process of calculating the SOH of the battery modules, and a selection process of selecting a low-voltage power feeder module from the battery modules based on the SOH calculated in the SOH calculation process. The low-voltage power feeder module corresponds to one of the battery modules to be used to supply electric power to the low-voltage electric component.
US12227083B2
A circuit breaker for an electric load includes first and second terminals; a number of first separable contacts each electrically connected between one of the first terminals and one of the second terminals; a first mechanism to open, close or trip open the first contacts; a number of second separable contacts each electrically connected in series with a corresponding one of the first contacts; a second mechanism to open or close the second contacts; a processor to cause the second mechanism to open or close the second contacts, annunciate through one of the second terminals a power circuit electrical parameter for the electric load, receive from a number of the second terminals a confirmation from or on behalf of the electric load to cause the second mechanism to close the second contacts, and determine a fault state operatively associated with current flowing through the second contacts.
US12227081B2
An electric vehicle control method includes: basic torque distribution processing of determining a basic torque command value for each drive motor based on a total required driving force for the electric vehicle and driving force distribution for each of the drive systems; vibration damping processing of obtaining a corrected torque command value by performing correction for reducing vibration of a driving force transmission system on each basic torque command value; and driving force control processing of controlling a driving force generated by each drive motor based on the corrected torque command value. The vibration damping processing includes estimating whether each of the drive systems is in a dead zone section individually, and adjusting a correction amount for the basic torque command value of the drive system in the dead zone section according to the driving force distribution.
US12227078B2
The disclosure relates to a work machine, comprising a primary energy source for feeding electric energy into a link, a gear for performing a task of the work machine, at least one electric drive connected to the link in order to operate the gear of the work machine, a holding brake for fixing or releasing the gear, and an energy store which is connected to the link in order to provide electric energy demanded from the link upon actuation of a gear and/or to absorb electric energy fed into the link. According to the disclosure, during an emergency lowering of the gear, the at least one electric drive to convert the kinetic energy into electric energy and to feed it into the link. In the event of an unavailability or failure, the primary energy source is configured to absorb the energy fed into the link by the electric drive.
US12227066B2
A fuel tank includes an internal component having a head portion, a neck portion, and a shoulder portion, in which the internal component is fixed on a tank main body by shaping a parison to the head portion, the neck portion and the shoulder portion during molding of the tank main body. Here, in the fuel tank, the head portion has a rotation-stopping shape. The rotation-stopping shape is preferably an elliptical shape or an oval shape. Further, the rotation-stopping shape is preferably a broad bean shape.
US12227064B2
A battery housing for an electric vehicle includes a cover, a body, and a seal. The body is secured to the cover and includes a first edge section and a second edge section secured to and overlapping the first edge section. The seal is engaged with the cover and includes a channel receiving the first and second edge sections of the body. The first and second edge sections of the body are engaged with the seal within the channel.
US12227060B2
A weather strip for a vehicle door includes a flow channel extending along at least a portion of the weather strip. A discharge portion is in fluid communication with the flow channel and is structured to enable a liquid to flow therealong from the flow channel to a location outside the flow channel. An end wall extends from a first side of the flow channel and is positioned to direct a liquid impinging on the end wall from the flow channel toward the discharge portion.
US12227051B2
A sensor arrangement for an air suspension system of a vehicle has a change-over valve for each air spring of a vehicle axle or of multiple, adjacent tandem axles, and has a shutoff valve for the air spring of each vehicle wheel of the axle or for each of the air springs on each side of the tandem axles. The respective changeover valve and the shutoff valves are structurally combined in a valve block arranged at a distance from the air springs. For measuring the pressure in each of the bellows of the air springs, pressure sensors are arranged in or on the valve block. Each of the pressure sensors is connected at the output of the shutoff valve associated with the sensor to the connection line of the bellows of the associated air spring or of the bellows of the associated air springs.
US12227047B2
An accumulator for a vehicle suspension damper, which includes an outer shell with an open end that connects to an accumulator port on the damper and a distal end, opposite the open end, which includes an end wall that extends radially inward to a gas charging port. A bellows assembly, which includes an annular bellows wall extending between proximal and distal plates, is positioned inside the outer shell to define a pressurized gas chamber inside the accumulator that is arranged in fluid communication with the gas charging port. The gas charging port includes a stem that extends inwardly from the end wall of the outer shell and the distal plate of the bellows assembly has an inner diameter that is received on the stem. The inner diameter of the distal plate is coupled to the stem of the gas charging port by a fixation component.
US12227042B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for determining the yaw angle of a trailer with respect to the longitudinal axis of a towing vehicle based on at least one feature included in multiple captured images by providing multiple algorithms for calculating at least one angle estimation.
US12227041B2
A system for powered trailer weight distribution having a hitch mount with a spring bar, and a trailer with a spring bar mount disposed on the trailer and having an initial position relative to the trailer, wherein the spring bar mount is configured to receive and engage the spring bar, and a weight distribution actuator configured and arranged to adjust a position of the spring bar mount relative to the spring bar while engaged with the spring bar, wherein the weight distribution actuator is connected to a power source that provides power to the weight distribution actuator, facilitating the adjustment of the position of the spring bar mount.
US12227039B2
Disclosed herein are system and method embodiments for monitoring tire conditions. For example, the system includes a sensor that is configured to: receive light that is reflected off of at least one object within a field of view (FOV) that is adjacent to a vehicle as reflected light, and provide tire data indicative of a distance between the sensor and a surface of a tire of the vehicle extending into the FOV based on the reflected light. A controller is configured to generate a message in response to a moment of a probability distribution of the tire data being less than a threshold, or tire data indicative of a rate of change of shadow length exceeding a threshold shadow length, and to provide the message to at least one of a user interface, a vehicle system, and an external computing device.
US12227032B2
A pneumatic tire can suppress uneven wear of the tire and improve the performance on snow. A plurality of inner side circumferential grooves (11a, 11b, 11c) arrayed between a pair of outermost side circumferential grooves (11d, 11d) have a groove width that is smaller than that of the outermost side circumferential grooves (11d) to such a degree allowing land portions on the opposite sides thereof to come into contact with each other upon grounding. A plurality of recessed portions (S) of a shape cut in a radial direction from a tread face are formed along the tire circumferential direction on opposing block wall faces (14Af, 14Bf) of blocks (14A, 14B) on the opposite sides of at least one (11b) of the inner side circumferential grooves.
US12227031B2
A tire includes a first middle land portion having circumferentially extending first and second longitudinal edges. The first middle land portion is provided with middle lateral grooves. At least one of the middle lateral grooves includes a first groove portion extending in the tire axial direction from the first longitudinal edge, and a second groove portion extending in the tire axial direction from the second longitudinal edge. The first groove portion and the second groove portion are offset in the tire circumferential direction to form a pair of circumferential groove edges between a pair of groove edges of the first groove portion and a pair of groove edges of the second groove portion. A maximum groove depth of the first groove portion is different from a maximum groove depth of the second groove portion.
US12227030B2
A pneumatic tire includes a pair of sidewalls, a pair of bead portions, and a circumferential tread having a plurality of circumferential ribs and a plurality of circumferential grooves. A reinforcing layer is disposed in at least one of the plurality of circumferential ribs. No part of the reinforcing layer extends directly below a bottom surface of any of the plurality of circumferential grooves. The reinforcing layer has a consistent gauge along its entire lateral width. A top surface of the reinforcing layer is located radially higher than the bottom surface of each of the plurality of circumferential grooves.
US12227022B2
A secure instrument and associated systems and methods of authentication, the secure instrument including a polymer substrate having a first surface and a second surface; an inner layer disposed on or over the first surface of the polymer substrate, the inner layer being a conductive, absorbing, or upconverting layer and including one or more gaps therein; and an opacity layer disposed on or over the inner layer disposed on or over the first surface of the polymer substrate.
US12227018B2
A dye-deposited base body manufacturing apparatus manufactures a dye-deposited base body. The dye-deposited base body is used in a dyeing step of dyeing a resin body. A dye to be transferred to the resin body is deposited to a base body. The dye-deposited base body manufacturing apparatus is provided with a printing device, a conveyance device, and a base body movement device. The printing device prints a dye for dyeing the resin body on the base body. The conveyance device conveys a dyeing tray on which the dye-deposited resin body on which the dye is printed by the printing device is placed. The base body movement device moves the dye-deposited base body from a printing position by the printing device to a side of the conveyance device.
US12227015B2
A technique capable of correcting the inclination of a light in the height direction to suppress deterioration in the printing quality is to be provided. Regarding a detecting unit capable of detecting a placed nail portion by use of a light whose distance in a predetermined direction is maintained to a predetermined distance, a correction value for correcting the deviation of the nail portion from a position corresponding to the predetermined distance in the predetermined direction, which is caused by the inclination of the light, is obtained. Further, based on a result of the detection by the detecting unit and the correction value, a condition for printing performed by a printing unit on the nail portion is adjusted for printing.
US12227009B2
A printer for printing plate-like print media includes a printing unit having at least one print head for printing print media according to the inkjet printing. The printing unit is movable in and against a conveying direction. A cleaning unit is provided for cleaning the print unit and includes a cleaning device for suctioning ink out of the print head in a suctioning direction. The cleaning unit further includes a drive device for moving the cleaning device in different operating positions. A cleaning device for such a printer and a method for maintaining the printer are also provided.
US12227003B2
A liquid discharge apparatus includes a liquid discharge head, a supply path that supplies a liquid from a liquid supply source to the liquid discharge head, a pump configured to suck and exhaust air, an air suction path in communication with an air suction side of the pump, an air exhaust path in communication with an air exhaust side of the pump, a first storage portion having a portion formed of a flexible wall that is flexible, a first air chamber provided on a side opposite to the first storage portion across the flexible wall and having at least a portion facing the flexible wall and configured to be displaced, and a first switching portion configured to switch a path coupled to the first air chamber between the air suction path and the air exhaust path.
US12227000B2
A printer for printing plate-like media, in particular for printing marker cards with markers for marking electrical appliances includes a housing and at least one input station for the marker cards to be printed The printer further includes a printing station with a printing device and an output station for printed marker cards. The output station has a magazining device which has one or more guide devices so that the output station, with the magazining device, can be drawn from a position pushed into the housing into a position outside the housing and can be pushed back into the housing of the printer, Each guide device also has its own stacking unit which is pivotably mounted.
US12226999B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image former and a flattener. The image former forms an image on a recording medium. The flattener is disposed upstream of the image former in a conveying direction of the recording medium, and flattens the recording medium before the image former forms the image on the recording medium.
US12226992B2
A multilayer strip intended to be wound on a form, includes pre-impregnated fiber layers superimposed along a stacking direction, each layer extending widthwise along a transverse direction perpendicular to the stacking direction between a first and a second edge, wherein on at least a portion of the multilayer strip the first edges of the pre-impregnated fiber layers are aligned with each other in the stacking direction, and each second edge is recessed relative to the second edge of the underlying layer in the transverse direction.
US12226991B2
A vinyl fabric includes a polymeric film supported on a substrate. The polymeric film is provided from a composition that includes one or more chlorinated resins (particularly PVC), at least one polymeric plasticizer, large amounts of TiO2, and at least one antioxidant. The combination of the plasticizer, titania and antioxidant provides the film, and in turn the fabric, with improved resistance to discoloration, particularly pink staining as results from the presence of chromophores produced by Streptoverticillium reticulum.
US12226990B2
A wipe structure of stitch bonded construction incorporating at least one inner layer of cellulose tissue disposed in sandwiched relation between a first discontinuous cover layer of spunbonded polypropylene fleece and a second discontinuous cover layer of spunbonded polypropylene fleece such that the inner layer, the first discontinuous cover layer and the second discontinuous cover layer form a stacked composite and a plurality of stitching yarns extending in stitched relation through the stacked composite.
US12226984B2
A composite material may be used as a building material to provide desirable visible aesthetics, such as in a roof or facade. The composite material may include two or more materials, wherein a first material provides desirable qualities for appearance and a second material provides desirable qualities for strength or other characteristics desirable of a building material. Each of the first material and the second material may be transparent, such that the composite material is also transparent. The first material may be Ethylene tetrafluoroethylene (ETFE) and the second material may be Polyethylene terephthalate (PET).
US12226983B2
Methods of making multilayer systems comprising a sealant layer by extruding a coreactive sealant composition are disclosed. The methods can be used to fabricate multilayer systems in which individual layers have different cured properties. Individual layers can also have an inhomogeneous concentration of one or more constituents within a layer. The multilayer systems can be made using three-dimensional printing that facilitate the use of a wide range of coreactive compositions.
US12226975B2
A bag making apparatus and a bag making method make bags. The bag has a first panel part and a first flap part formed by folding a first sheet part, and a second panel part and a second flap part formed by folding a second sheet part. The first and second panel parts face each other. The first and second flap parts are interposed between the first and second panel parts and face each other. An open edge is formed by folded edges of the first and second sheet parts. The bag further comprises adhesive located between the open edge and the engagement tool, interposed between the first and second flap parts and extending across the widths of the first and second sheet parts to peelably adhere the first and second flap parts to each other. Alternatively, the second sheet part may only consists of the second panel part.
US12226963B2
A vacuum insulation panel application device and method are provided. The device comprises a conveying platform for conveying a refrigerator housing, a foaming material spray gun head, a vacuum insulation panel placer and a press-fitter for pasting a vacuum insulation panel onto the refrigerator housing, wherein the foaming material spray gun head, the vacuum insulation panel placer and the press-fitter are sequentially arranged in the moving direction of the conveying platform; the spray gun head is fixedly arranged beside the conveying platform; and the press-fitter is provided with rollers for rolling the vacuum insulation panel.
US12226961B2
A preform charge is formed by forming an assemblage of preforms, wherein preforms in the assemblage are bonded to a neighboring preform such that the preform charge effectively becomes a single unit. The preform charge can then be added to a mold to fabricate a part via compression molding.
US12226957B2
Systems and method for producing a small-scale mixer are provided. In some implementations, a method for includes obtaining dimensions of an at-scale mixer. The method also includes determining first dimensions of the small-scale mixer based on respective dimensions of the at-scale mixer. The method further includes determining second dimensions of the small-scale mixer independent of the dimensions of the at-scale mixer. Additionally, the method includes generating the small-scale mixer using the first dimensions and the second dimensions using a three-dimensional printer.
US12226956B2
Methods and apparatuses for additive manufacturing are described. A method for additive manufacturing may include exposing a layer of material on a build surface to one or more projections of laser energy including at least one line laser having a substantially linear shape. The intensity of the line laser may be modulated so as to cause fusion of the layer of material according to a desired pattern as the one or more projections of laser energy are scanned across the build surface.
US12226946B2
A device for treating hollow bodies, comprising at least a nozzle and a circuit for setting a pressurized airflow in circulation, having a valve and a first pressure sensor measuring a first pressure; a control distributor of said valve; a line connecting said distributor to said valve; a control unit with a time measurement component; wherein said device comprises a second pressure sensor situated along said line, measuring a second pressure, and wherein said control unit comprises means that are able to determine a differential between the measurement of the first pressure and the measurement of the second pressure as a function of time. The invention also relates to a corresponding treatment method.
US12226944B2
Systems and methods for altering the typical rotary Blow-Fill-Seal (BFS) machine manufacturing process to implement a staged or phased vacuum application to the BFS molds.
US12226937B2
A mold release film, including a mold release layer formed by curing a mold release layer composition containing a curable silicone having a fluorine substituent, a curable silicone having no fluorine substituent, and a curing catalyst, on at least one surface of a substrate film. In a concentration distribution of fluorine atoms in a thickness direction within the mold release layer, fluorine atoms are unevenly distributed on a surface of the mold release layer, and a fluorine atom concentration on one side of the mold release layer is 39.0 atom concentration % or more.
US12226936B2
A substrate processing apparatus that can radiate light on a composition in an optimum radiation amount based on acquired spectral sensitivity characteristics can be provided. A substrate processing apparatus configured to perform pattern formation processing on a composition on a substrate includes a first radiation unit configured to radiate first light onto the substrate, a dispenser configured to apply the composition to a first position inside the substrate processing apparatus, a template holding unit configured to hold a template to be brought in contact with the composition on the substrate, and a controller configured to control a radiation amount of the first light to be radiated by the first radiation unit based on spectral sensitivity characteristics of the composition that are measured in advance.
US12226929B2
The invention relates to a component made from a material consisting predominantly of renewable raw materials, the component having at least one hole with a longitudinal axis (A) and the material being locally compressed in the region peripherally adjoining the hole. According to the method, at least one pin, which comprises a substantially cylindrical shaft and a tip having a reducing diameter in the direction of the component, penetrates into the material, thus creating a hole in the component, and displaces the wood material radially and/or axially, so that the material in the region surrounding the hole is compressed. The tool used for carrying out the method is designed in the form of at least one pin having a cylindrical or polygonal shaft and a tip reducing in diameter in the direction of the component.
US12226925B2
A spacer, blade core, assembly and methods for blade and blade core assemblies, including gang blade heads, include openings in blade cores for receiving spacers. A spacer and its opening can be the same shape or different shapes, and spacers can be interconnected or disconnected from each other. A spacer can be in contact or engaged with two blades, three blades, or more.
US12226924B2
A hand-held, rotary fabric cutter includes a handle having a blade end and a grip end opposite the blade end configured to be held by a user to support the cutter during use of the cutter to cut a piece of fabric, a rotary blade, and a blade retention system. The rotary blade is configured to be coupled to the blade end of the handle to rotate about an axis. The blade retention system is configured to selectively couple the rotary blade to the handle.
US12226922B2
A handle. The handle can include a main body and a pivoting head having a substantially trapezoidal prism shape and pivotally coupled with the main body about a pivot axis. The pivoting head can have a first end including a first limit member and a second end including a second limit member, and each of the first and second limit members can include first and second surfaces, the first surface limiting movement of the pivoting head to a first position and the second surface limiting movement of the pivoting head to a second position. A pivot spring can interact with the main body to bias the pivoting head into the first position.
US12226917B2
Robotic picking devices and methods for performing a picking operation. The disclosed methods may involve executing an imagery analysis procedure to identify a feature of interest of an item, wherein the feature of interest may affect a picking device's ability to perform a picking operation, and generating a grasping plan executable by the picking device, wherein the grasping plan accommodates the feature of interest so that the picking device is able to perform the picking operation.
US12226915B2
A belt conveyor calibration method includes transporting a marker by a belt of a belt conveyor, imaging the marker by a first camera, detecting the marker passing through one section of a plurality of sections formed by division of a first imaging area of the first camera from a captured image of the first camera, moving a second camera by a robot and tracking and imaging the detected marker by the second camera, and calculating and storing a correction value as a difference between a position of the marker estimated from a transportation amount of the belt and a position of the marker detected from an image of the marker tracked and imaged.
US12226908B2
The present disclosure relates to a control device, a control method, and a program capable of supporting an object with a more appropriate supporting force. The control device includes a supporting force control unit that controls a supporting force for supporting an object on the basis of information regarding a shape of a contact portion in contact with the object and information regarding a shear force of the contact portion. The information regarding the shear force includes, for example, information regarding a shear displacement of the contact portion. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, a control device, a control method, an electronic device, a robot, a support system, a gripping system, a program, and the like.
US12226899B2
A strap connector, a robotic arm and a robot are provided. The strap connector includes a core, a strap and a pulley. The core includes a belly portion and a neck portion fixed to the belly portion. The neck portion has a width tapering in a direction away from the belly portion. The pulley defines a core chamber in which the core is received, the core chamber is accessible through an opening. The strap is connected to the core and extending out of the core chamber through the opening. The core chamber has two inner side walls opposing each other and extending from the opening. The neck portion is disposed closer to the opening than the belly portion. The two inner walls of the core chamber clamp the neck portion and the strap when the strap is tensioned.
US12226896B2
A robot apparatus is configured to extend a first end effector into a first process chamber and extend a second end effector into a second process chamber. The first process chamber and the second process chamber are separated by a first pitch. The robot apparatus is further configured to retract the first end effector and the second end effector into a rectangular mainframe while maintaining a distance between the substrates bounded by the first pitch throughout a retraction process, and fold the first end effector and the second end effector inward within a sweep diameter defined by a width of the rectangular mainframe.
US12226893B2
A gripping assembly includes a gripping mechanism for engaging an object and an adhesive assembly coupled to the gripping mechanism. The adhesive assembly includes an adhesive sheet and an engagement mechanism operable between an active state and an inactive state. The engagement mechanism deforms the adhesive sheet to contact the object when operated in the active state.
US12226888B2
In certain embodiments, inventive apparatus may feature, inter alia, parameter measurement componentry configured to generate parameter measurements of a reference building component (e.g., many real-time measurements along, e.g., the SE wall bottom plate); comparison componentry configured to compare real-time parameter measurements with such digital construction action location information to generate comparison information; and sense-able construction action location indicator generation componentry that generates sense-able construction action location indicator(s) based on the comparison information based on the comparison information.
US12226879B2
A pipe fitting tool configured to loosen a first section of pipe with respect to a second section of pipe. The pipe fitting tool includes a motor, a reciprocating member that reciprocates in response to activation of the motor, a holdback assembly configured to clamp and hold the second section of pipe, and a loosening mechanism configured to clamp and rotate the first section of pipe with respect to the second section of pipe in response to a first linear motion of the reciprocating member, and to release the first section of pipe in response to a second linear motion of the reciprocating member, the second linear motion being in a direction opposite the first linear motion.
US12226874B2
A glass substrate includes: a first major surface; a second major surface that is opposite to the first major surface; an end surface interposed between the first major surface and the second major surface; a first boundary surface that is interposed between the first major surface and the end surface and connected to the end surface; and a second boundary surface that is connected to the first major surface and the first boundary surface. The second boundary surface is a convex curved surface, and the second boundary surface has a radius of curvature R2 of 0.1 mm or larger and 2.0 mm or smaller.
US12226871B2
Disclosed herein is a fixture for a workpiece, a system and a method for performing a machining operation using the fixture. The fixture may include a frame, a plurality of holders, an actuator and a bracket. Each holder may be configured to receive and secure a workpiece. Each holder may be rotationally coupled to the frame. The actuator may be operatively coupled to the plurality of holders to drive rotation of the holders with respect to the frame. The bracket may allow for mounting the frame to a manipulator configured to move the fixture. The method may include the steps of loading a workpiece to the holder of the fixture, moving and/or rotating the workpiece by the actuator to perform one or more ancillary operations on the workpiece, and moving/and or rotating the workpiece by the actuator to grind the workpiece against a grinding surface.
US12226869B2
A switch housing body has a base and a sidewall having an axis and extending from the base to a rim and having a pair of axial slots. A switch cap has: a cap body having a top web; and a sidewall extending from the top web to a rim and having a pair of holes. A shaft passes through the pair of axial slots and pair of holes. A spring biases the cap axially away from the housing from a compressed condition to an extended condition. A cap electrical contact and a housing electrical contact have an electrically closed condition at the compressed condition.
US12226865B2
In a device for manipulating workpiece pallets, with two parallel pivot arms, each of which can each be fitted with a pallet carrier, each of which is swivelled by a motor and a swivel gear about a substantially horizontal swivel axis, with each pallet carrier on the swivel arm being able to be turned parallel to the other pallet carrier by a motor and a gear about a swivel axis in parallel to the turning axis. In said device, the motors are electric motors, the gear is a combined beveled planetary gear and the swivel arms via a line shaft are mutually coupled for torsional strength.
US12226864B2
An apparatus for supporting a workpiece has a frame and a supporting field consisting of end faces of a plurality of supporting pins which are guided parallel to one another in their main extension directions in the frame and which can each be pushed in against a restoring force with respect to the frame. Further, the apparatus has a detection device including a light barrier in order to detect relative positions of at least some of the supporting pins with respect to the frame. A light source and a light sensor of the light barrier are facing one another across the main extension directions of the supporting pins. The light source is divided into a plurality of sub-sources along one side of the supporting field, and the light sensor is divided into a plurality of sub-sensors along another side situated opposite the aforementioned side of the supporting field.
US12226863B2
A system for locating a workpiece-holder frame and workpiece in a workpiece processing station. The system includes stationary support structures arranged on two sides of a working area in the workpiece processing station. The stationary support structures include vertically movable support members configured to engage and lift the workpiece-holder frame from a carriage and position the workpiece in a predetermined X, Y and Z coordinate position for processing of the workpiece. The stationary support structures lower and disengage the workpiece-holder frame which is removed from the working area for further processing of the workpiece.
US12226861B1
A constant rake planar cutting edge fluted drill bit and a method of manufacturing the same. The drill bit includes a planar cutting face formed at the tip end of the bit by a motion of a rotating machining wheel respective to a stationary blank in a first step. Once the cutting face is formed, the blank is rotated and translated in a direction parallel to an elongated axis, during which the rotating machining wheel creates a flute. Upon completion of the first flute, the bit is rotated accordingly and the processes are repeated to create each subsequent planar cutting face and respective flute. The process can also be completed in a slightly modified version of a reverse process, fabricating a flute prior to formation of the planar cutting face of the bit.
US12226856B2
A solder material (30) for bonding a metal layer (20) to a ceramic layer (10), in particular for forming a metal-ceramic substrate as a carrier for electrical components, comprising: a base material and an active metal, wherein the solder material (30) is a foil comprising the base material in a first layer (31) and the active metal in a second layer (32), and wherein the foil has a total thickness (GD) which is less than 50 μm, preferably less than 25 μm and particularly preferably less than 15 μm.
US12226854B2
A mask member for a deposition mask is provided. The deposition mask has a resin film in which a pattern of opening portions is formed. The mask member includes a resin film and a reflective film. The reflective film is on a surface of the resin film. The reflective film is adapted to reflect light having wavelengths of laser light.
US12226853B2
Provided is a surface treatment method of a metallic material having a protective layer formed thereon. A surface of the protective layer is scanned while irradiating the surface and the surface is scanned while moving an irradiation spot along the surface, in a state in which a side layer of the protective layer along the metallic material remains covering the metallic material, and a side layer of the protective layer opposite to the metallic material side is removed by irradiation with the laser beam.
US12226851B2
A combined optical system for determining temperature of the surface of an object or material and its distance with respect to a predetermined reference point associated with the system includes an optical radiation source emitting optical probe radiation at a predetermined wavelength or in a predetermined wavelength range, a source control unit controlling switching of the source from an operative condition, in which it emits optical probe radiation, to an inoperative condition, in which it does not emit optical probe radiation, optical detectors acquiring scattered optical radiation and thermally emitted optical radiation from the surface of the object or material, and a processing unit determining the distance of the surface of the object/material based on scattered optical probe radiation when the source is operative, and the local temperature of the surface of the object/material on the basis of thermally emitted optical radiation when the source is inoperative.
US12226841B2
A reciprocating cutting tool reduces dispersion of dust. The reciprocating cutting tool includes a reciprocation converter drivable by a motor, a rod-like slider connected to the reciprocation converter to be reciprocable, a blade holder at the front end of the slider to hold a blade, a power transmission housing housing the reciprocation converter and allowing the slider to protrude from its front end, a cover outward from the power transmission housing, and a fan rotatable together with a rotor in the motor. A first passage of cooling air from the fan is defined between the power transmission housing and the cover. The first passage branches into a second passage toward the blade holder and a third passage not toward the blade holder.
US12226839B2
Fastening an object onto a lathe, such that the location of the centre of rotation of the object may be adjusted relative to the centre of the lathe axis, wherein the centre of rotation of the object relative to the centre of the lathe may be displaced steplessly and biaxially, according to a predetermined calculation, without removing the object from the chuck.
US12226837B2
The present invention provides a novel groove cutter with chip breaker, including: a cutter body; a cutter head arranged at the end part of the cutter body, a cutting edge being arranged at a bordering position of the cutter head; and a chip breaker arranged on the cutter head, wherein the chip breaker comprises a breaker bottom and a breaker wall, the breaker bottom being connected to the cutting edge, the breaker wall being arranged on one side of the breaker bottom away from the cutting edge, the breaker bottom being non-coplanar with the breaker wall, an intersecting line of the breaker bottom and the breaker wall including multiple connecting sections, and one curved transition section being arranged between two adjacent connecting sections. By means of the technical solutions provided in the present application, the problem that breaking chips in a groove machining process is difficult in the prior art can be solved.
US12226831B2
A method of direct printing or writing of a metallic material involves depositing, with a printing device or writing device, an ink comprising of at least undercooled liquid metallic particles dispersed in a carrier fluid. The ink is deposited on any substrate surface to deposit the undercooled liquid metal particles thereon as one or more layers that can form a desired pattern or layered structure.
US12226830B2
A composite magnetic material comprises spherical soft magnetic metal powder incorporated in the composite magnetic material in a dispersed manner, a flame retardant incorporated in the composite magnetic material in a dispersed manner; and a binder configured to bind the soft magnetic metal powder and the flame retardant. The composite magnetic material is formed and processed into a sheet shape. The composite magnetic material has a volume occupancy of the soft magnetic metal powder of 45 vol % or more and 68 vol % or less.
US12226829B2
The invention is a process for manufacturing a nano aluminum/alumina metal matrix composite and composition produced therefrom. The process is characterized by providing an aluminum powder having a natural oxide formation layer and an aluminum oxide content between about 0.1 and about 4.5 wt. % and a specific surface area of from about 0.3 and about 5 m2/g, hot working the aluminum powder, and forming a superfine grained matrix aluminum alloy. Simultaneously there is formed in situ a substantially uniform distribution of nano particles of alumina. The alloy has a substantially linear property/temperature profile, such that physical properties such as strength are substantially maintained even at temperatures of 250° C. and above.
US12226821B2
A method or process may be provided that includes forming a first sinterable equipment part using a first manufacturing method, and forming a second equipment part using a second manufacturing method. The sinterable first equipment part may then be heated while securing the first equipment part to the second equipment part to form a monolithic equipment part.
US12226814B2
A method for controlling a cooling device which is set up to control temperature of a rolling stock such as a metal strip, which runs through a cooling device along a conveying direction of a rolling train. The cooling device is arranged upstream of the rolling train. The method includes determining total enthalpy of a system formed by the rolling stock; determining a measure for the formation of scale, which includes a scale factor that depends on chemical composition and surface temperature of the rolling stock, and a heat transfer coefficient of the scale; calculating a temperature distribution and/or average temperature in the rolling stock based on a temperature calculation model, in which the determined total enthalpy and the measure for the formation of scale are included; and setting a cooling capacity of the cooling device taking into account the calculated temperature distribution and/or average temperature in the rolling stock.
US12226809B2
A cleaning basket (120) for cleaning a breathing apparatus (112) is proposed. The cleaning basket (120) comprises at least one basket rack (140). Furthermore, the cleaning basket (120) comprises at least one mask holder (122) for holding at least one protective breathing mask (114) in the cleaning basket (120). Furthermore, the cleaning basket (120) comprises at least one suction element (156) which has at least one suction opening (160) and is configured to extend into the protective breathing mask (114) held by the mask holder (122). The suction element (156) is configured to be charged with negative pressure and to suck cleaning fluid out of at least one interior space (148) of the protective breathing mask (114) into the suction opening (160). Furthermore, a cleaning system (110) with the cleaning basket (120) and a cleaning device (118), and a method for cleaning the breathing apparatus (112) are proposed.
US12226806B2
Provided is a cleaning sheet including a cleaning layer that may be suitably used for a transfer member to be transferred in a substrate processing apparatus, the cleaning sheet being capable of effectively suppressing an adsorption error. A direction from an end portion of a surface of the cleaning layer toward a center thereof when viewed from a normal direction with respect to the surface is defined as a center direction, a region occupied by a width of 10 mm from the end portion toward the center direction in the surface is defined as an end portion region, and a maximum thickness L of the cleaning layer in the normal direction in the end portion region and an average thickness T of the cleaning layer in the normal direction in a region of the cleaning layer excluding the end portion region have a relationship of L−T≤5 μm.
US12226804B2
A support for transporting containers in a microwave inspection device, including a supporting body which can be moved along a feed path and at least two receiving seats connected to the top of the supporting body to be moved along said feed path, wherein said supporting body has two or more supporting portions (S1, S2) which are at least partly separated from each other by one or more openings and each carrying at least one respective receiving seat, said supporting portions (S1, S2) being connected or integral with each other in a lower region of the supporting body.
US12226798B2
Control console for a powered surgical tool that includes a transformer with a secondary winding across which the tool drive signal is present. Also internal to the transformer is a matched current source that consists of a leakage control winding and a capacitor. The current sourced by the matched current at least partially cancels out leakage current that may be present.
US12226791B2
A nozzle assembly includes a mixing channel and an aerator. The mixing channel has upstream and downstream ends defining a flow direction through the mixing channel and includes a housing wall and a mixer. The housing wall defines a flow passage and includes an inlet portion and a tip orifice. The inlet portion disposed at the upstream end and configured to receive a first material and a second material. The tip orifice is disposed at the downstream end and is configured to emit a plural component material from the mixing channel. The mixer is disposed within the mixing channel and is configured to mix the first material and the second material into the plural component material. The aerator is configured to flow nucleation air to a location downstream of an upstream end of the mixer and into a flow of the plural component material.
US12226756B2
The present disclosure relates to a catalyst system and a method for its preparation. The catalyst system of the present disclosure comprises a support, a promoter component impregnated in the support, and an active metal component comprising nickel, cobalt, and molybdenum impregnated in the support. In the active metal component the molar mass of molybdenum is greater than the combined molar mass of cobalt and nickel. The catalyst system of the present disclosure is used for upgrading crude bio oil.
US12226753B2
An ammoxidation catalyst includes a metal oxide represented by Chemical Formula 1 supported on a silica carrier, wherein the catalyst has pores having a diameter of 5 to 200 nm, a pore volume of 0.1 to 3.0 cm3/g, and a BET surface area of 50 m2/g to 1,000 m2/g: Mo12BiaFebAcBdCeOx Chemical Formula 1 wherein in Chemical Formula 1, A is one or more elements of Ni, Mn, Co, Zn, Mg, Ca, and Ba, B is one or more elements of Li, Na, K, Rb, and Cs, C is one or more elements of Cr, W, B, Al, Ca, and V, and a to e, and x are respectively fractions of each atom or atomic group, wherein a is 0.1 to 5, b is 0.1 to 5, c is 0.1 to 10, d is 0.1 to 2, e is 0 to 10, and x is 24 to 48.
US12226749B2
A fluid-bed granulator system with adjustable cooling includes a fluid-bed granulator. A first cooler is externally connected to the fluid-bed granulator or forms an internal part of the fluid-bed granulator. A product screen is connected to the first cooler and the fluid-bed granulator. The product screen includes an exit for final on-size product particles, an exit for oversized particles, and an exit for undersized particles. The exit for the undersized particles is connected to the fluid-bed granulator and the exit for the oversized particles is connected to the fluid-bed granulator via one or more crushers. A recycle cooler is located and connected between the fluid-bed granulator and the exit for undersized particles and/or the recycle cooler is located between the fluid-bed granulator and the exit for the oversized particles. The recycle cooler is connected to the fluid-bed granulator via one or more recycle inlets.
US12226743B2
A method of mixing a fluid includes at least partially unfolding a collapsible bag bounding a compartment, the collapsible bag containing in the compartment at least a portion of an elongated drive line or drive shaft and an impeller secured to the drive line or drive shaft, the impeller including a plurality of impeller blades that are pivotable relative to the drive line or drive shaft, at least one of the plurality of impeller blades being in a collapsed position. A fluid is delivered into the compartment of the collapsible bag. The drive line or drive shaft is then rotated so as to rotate the impeller within the compartment and mix the fluid therein, the at least one of the plurality of impeller blades pivoting from the collapsed position to an expanded position as the impeller is rotated within the compartment.
US12226735B1
Disclosed is a gas separation arrangement for separating and containing various types of gas from a collection chamber based on their different atomic masses. The chamber is connected to an ion diverter via a valve that when open permits the various types of gas to migrate from the collection chamber to an ionizer where the gas is ionized. The ionized gas is accelerated through an ion accelerator and dispensed into an ion deflector. The ion deflector comprises a magnetic field within a channel defined by a pair of split-pole magnets. The trajectory of the ions is based on the mass of the ions, which separates the ions. Multiple collectors are positioned at different locations on an exit side of the ion deflector to receive the different ions traveling along their respective trajectories.
US12226734B2
A filter medium is provided with a layer (A) provided with non-impregnated active carbon, a layer (B) with a solid carrier material that is impregnated with a permanganate salt, and a layer (C) with alkaline impregnated active carbon. The layer (B) and the layer (C) are arranged such that a gas flowing through the filter medium flows through the layer (B) before flowing through the layer (C). The layer (A) is arranged such that the gas flowing through the filter medium flows through the layer (A) before flowing through the layer (B) or the gas flowing through the filter medium flows through the layer (A) after flowing through the layer (C).
US12226733B2
Systems and methods are provided that obtain the same or better level of performance by using lower operating flow rates, pressures and/or optimized flow distributions within the system. This extends the life of system components and lower energy consumption. In one embodiment, gas separation (or sieve) beds that are used to separate gaseous components are provided that have lower flow and pressure requirements compared to conventional beds. The sieve beds include, for example, a diffuser having low solid area in cross-section and maximum open area for flow while providing adequate mechanical properties to contain sieve material and support filter media. In another embodiment, systems and methods are provided having an indicator when a component has been serviced or repaired. This provides an indication whether the component has been tampered with in any manner. This allows the manufacturer to determine if the component was serviced, repaired, or tampered with outside the manufacturer's domain.
US12226728B2
A detoxification device for removing pathogens from air within an environment. The detoxification device may include a filtration media for catching and retaining particles larger than about 0.3 micrometers (μm) with an efficiency of at least 99%. The detoxification device may also include a heating element having a metallic foam. The heating element may be heated upon application of an electrical current to the heating element. The heating element may, upon being heated, heat the filtration media to a target temperature that is effective to kill a pathogen.
US12226721B2
A water filter buoy assembly includes a float, a frame for holding a filter, and at least one arm connecting the float to the frame.
US12226718B2
The invention relates to a fabric layer, in particular a protective fabric and/or backing fabric, for a corrugated or pleated flat material of a filter element, wherein the flat material comprises a plurality of pleats (17) or corrugations running parallel to one another, which form successive pleat or corrugation peaks (18) and pleat or corrugation troughs (19), which are connected to one another by a pleat flank, wherein a fluid can flow through the flat material, wherein the fabric layer comprises a first fabric region, in particular a first fabric strip (10), and at least one second fabric region, in particular a second fabric strip (11), the threads whereof, in particular weft threads (32), merge into one another, wherein the first fabric region, in particular the first fabric strip (10), comprises a first type of weave and the second fabric region, in particular the second fabric strip (11), a second type of weave, which differs from the first type of weave.
US12226715B2
Degassers, degassing systems, and methods of using degassers to remove gas molecules entrapped or dissolved in a processing liquid. The degasser has a vacuum chamber with one or more walls; one or multiple inlets and one or multiple outlets through which the liquid is respectively passed into and out of the vacuum chamber, the inlet(s) and the outlet(s) penetrating the one or more walls; one or multiple separators located inside the vacuum chamber and being pervious to the gas molecules but impervious to the liquid; at least one vacuum for applying through a vacuum port a pressure differential across the separator(s) to cause the gas molecules to leave the liquid and to permeate through the separator(s) thereby removing the entrapped or dissolved gas from the liquid; and optionally one or multiple feed lines in fluid communication with the inlet(s) and two or more than two separators.
US12226705B2
A program recorded on a computer-readable recording medium causes a processor of a game apparatus to function as a game controller that executes a video game and generates video information indicative of a video of the video game; and an acquirer that acquires message information that is output from a terminal apparatus configured to display a distributed video that is based on the video information, the message information including a message related to at least one of the distributed video or the video game. The game controller incorporates the message included in the message information into the video of the video game, based on progress status information indicative of a progress status of the video game.
US12226703B2
An NFT system operates by receiving an application launch request for a game application having a game non-fungible token (NFT) associated therewith; generating, via the game application and in response to the application launch request, launch metadata; sending the launch metadata to an NFT wallet, the NFT wallet containing a private key associated with the game NFT; receiving, from the NFT wallet, a launch response that is generated based on the private key; generating, via the game application and based on the launch response, an ownership check; sending the ownership check to a blockchain system that stores the game NFT; receiving, from the blockchain system, an ownership validation response; and enabling, via the game application, play of the game when the ownership validation response indicates ownership of the game NFT is verified.
US12226702B2
Systems and methods for obtaining metrics relating to an extended reality experience and using the obtained metrics to perform remedial actions, such as managing user motion sickness, determining user performance relating to a designed game difficulty, and performing home automation are disclosed. The methods include determining a starting and ending checkpoint in an extended reality experience. Data from a plurality of users as they navigate between the determined checkpoints is obtained and used to determine a metric, such as a median, average, or other representative data. The current user's navigation through the same checkpoints is monitored and compared with the metric. The results from the comparison are used to enhance extended reality experience, which includes customizing the experience for motion sickness, game difficulty level, and home automation.
US12226696B2
A method of providing an enhanced gaming experience includes steps of sensing environmental audio with at least one microphone of an earpiece, combining a game sound with the environmental audio to provide a composite audio signal, and transducing the composite audio signal at the earpiece. The game sound may be positioned within a three-dimensional audio environment. The composite audio signal may be transduced to provide a three-dimensional audio experience.
US12226692B2
A online gaming system may provide for a videographer mode in online gaming. The online gaming system may initiate an instance of an online game for players playing the online game in a player mode, establish connections to respective game clients of the players and to a videographer client of a computing device of a videographer, the videographer being a user participating in the online game in a videographer mode differing from the player mode, the videographer mode including capturing gameplay at least one of the players. Then, the online game system may receive player input data from at least one of the players, update a game state of the instance based on the player input data, and output respective game client data to the respective game clients and videographer client data the videographer client.
US12226689B2
A method and apparatus for game streaming are provided. The streaming method according to one embodiment includes generating a first image including a part of a plurality of screen elements constituting a game play image and a second image including a remaining part of the plurality of screen elements, determining an image quality of each of the first image and the second image such that the image quality of the first image is higher than or equal to the image quality of the second image, encoding each of the first image and the second image based on the determined image quality of each of the first image and the second image, and streaming the encoded first image and the encoded second image to a client device.
US12226688B2
A hand operated game controller for controlling a game console. Multiple push buttons are arranged on the surface of the game controller. The push buttons are placed in an arrangement that approximately matches the natural position of the fingers of the user's hands. As the user presses the buttons, control signals are sent from the buttons to the game console via wiring.
US12226687B2
A behavior of a character arranged in a virtual space is produced. The behavior of the character is produced in a first part, based on data including motion data obtained by a capture of a motion of a performer who plays the character, and the behavior of the character is produced in a second part, based on data depending on an input from the performer, the input obtained in a mode different from the capture. The character viewed from a predetermined point of view in the virtual space is capable of being displayed on a predetermined display unit.
US12226685B2
A device for exercise or entertainment. The device comprises body that is generally a ring with a cavity. The cavity may hold one or more spherical object, such as metal or plastic balls, within. An exterior portion of the device is clear or translucent, allowing the balls to be observed. A person engages in exercise by wearing the device on an arm or leg and moving the limb causing the balls within the device to move around the cavity of the device. The device may include an opening to allow a person to add or remove balls from the interior of the device.
US12226684B2
A training apparatus is disclosed that comprises an obstacle member defining a pass-under area for a sports player to pass a sport-projectile through when in use. The training apparatus comprises a first sensor that is configured to detect the sport-projectile passing through the pass-under area, and a controller that is configured to determine a pass-through direction of the sport-projectile that passes through the pass-under area based on data received from the first sensor. The training apparatus also comprises a lighting fixture indicating an instructed pass-through direction for the sports player to pass the sport-projectile through the pass-under area. A system for training a sports player is described that comprises a plurality of training apparatuses that are remotely configurable to define a training drill for a sports player and to collect training data from execution of the training drill. A method for training a sports player is also disclosed.
US12226680B2
An interactive sports training system, including a basketball hoop on a basketball platform, a metal structure connected to the basketball hoop, a main post connected to the basketball hoop and the metal structure, a plurality of back structure bars connected to the main post, a plurality of foldable ground construction bars connected to the main post, a plurality of side nets positioned to form a triangular structure with the main posts and the plurality of foldable ground construction bars connected to the main post, a football post located in a football platform, and a plurality of metal bars. The plurality of metal bars provide connection of the plurality of side nets with a telescopic net carrier structure.
US12226679B2
A golf club head including a striking face, a periphery portion surrounding and extending rearwards from the striking face, a damping element including a front surface and a rear surface, the rear surface of the damping element opposite the front surface of the damping element, wherein the striking face comprises a first portion having a substantially constant thickness, wherein the front surface of the damping element comprises a geometric center, wherein the golf club head includes additional damping structures and materials to achieve desired acoustic characteristics.
US12226676B2
The present invention provides a golf ball comprising a core of one or more layers and a cover of one or more layers which encases the core, wherein at least one layer of the cover is formed of the resin composition comprising (a′) a polyester resin and (b) an amine-containing polymer having a branched structure. In the golf ball of the present invention, the adhesion property between the core and each cover layer adjacent to the core can be improved and the excellent durability can be obtained.
US12226674B2
A foot force detection system includes variable capacitors, drive sense circuits, a processing module, and a power unit. A drive sense circuit supplies a reference signal to the variable capacitor. It then generates a sensed signal regarding a characteristic of the variable capacitor based on the reference signal. It then converts the sensed signal into a digital signal. The processing module generates a digital impedance value for the variable capacitor based on the digital signal and writes the digital impedance value in memory. The power unit include a battery and a power harvesting circuit, where the battery and/or the power harvesting circuit provide power for the foot force detection system.
US12226671B2
A pedal assembly for electromechanical exercise or rehabilitation of a user is disclosed and can include pedals to engage appendages of a user. A spindle supports each pedal and has a spindle axis. A pedal arm assembly is located between the spindle and an axle. The pedal arm assembly is radially offset from the spindle axis to define a range of adjustability for the pedal relative to the axle. The pedal arm assembly can include an electrically-actuated coupling assembly to adjust the position of the pedal in response to a control signal, and regulate motion of the user engaged with the pedals.
US12226662B2
A refuse vehicle includes a chassis supporting a plurality of wheels, a vehicle body supported by the chassis and defining a receptacle for storing refuse therein, a lifting system coupled to the vehicle body and movable relative to the receptacle, wherein the lifting system is configured to lift a refuse container and empty refuse in the refuse container into the receptacle, at least one sensor configured to detect a thermal event in or near the refuse container, wherein the lifting system is configured to stop lifting the refuse container in response to the thermal event being detected.
US12226658B2
The invention is to provide a radiation therapy system capable of widening a radiation irradiation range to a patient without increasing a burden on a structure. The radiation therapy system includes: a radiation source; a rotation mechanism that supports the radiation source and rotates the radiation source around an isocenter; a couch that places a therapy target site of a patient at the isocenter; a head swing mechanism that is disposed between the radiation source and the rotation mechanism and that swings an irradiation axis of a radiation emitted from the radiation source by swinging the radiation source; and a control unit that controls the radiation source, the rotation mechanism, and the head swing mechanism. The control unit holds the head swing mechanism in a state where the irradiation axis of the radiation of the radiation source is shifted from the isocenter in a predetermined direction by a predetermined amount, and rotates the radiation source by the rotation mechanism while emitting the radiation from the radiation source while maintaining the state of the head swing mechanism.
US12226653B2
Interstitial brachytherapy is a cancer treatment in which radioactive material is placed directly in the target tissue of the affected site using an afterloader. The accuracy of this placement is monitored in real time using a urinary catheter that locates the radioactive material according to the radiation levels measured by sensors in the walls of the urinary catheter. A scintillator that is embedded in the walls of the urinary catheter produces light when irradiated by the radioactive material. This light is proportional to the level of radiation at each location. The light produced by each scintillator is carried through optical fibers and then converted to an electrical signal that is proportional to the light and the radiation level at each location. The radioactive material is located according to the plurality of electrical signals. This location can be used as quality control feedback to the afterloader.
US12226652B2
A phototherapy treatment apparatus and methods are provided. In particular, the present disclosure provides a phototherapy treatment apparatus configured to diffusely transmit light emitted from a light source to a patient.
US12226635B2
An automated neuromodulation system which uses patient feedback during a training phase in combination with machine learning to automatically provide optimal nerve stimulation parameters based on the patient's needs without patient input. The automated neuromodulation system generally includes a lead which is implanted in a patient for treatment of a wide range of conditions, such as chronic pain. The patient is provided with a remote control through which the patient may provide either positive or negative feedback relating to how the patient is responding to electrical stimulation in different situations. A control unit monitors feedback from the patient as well as information and data from the time of feedback, such as the patient's position, orientation, speed of movement, or other considerations. Using machine learning, the control unit may process the feedback and data to formulate an optimized neuromodulation protocol and criteria which may be automatically applied to the patient.
US12226633B2
A production environment enables the creation of media content featuring an instructor conducting a workout session, as well as the creation of command data for controlling output from a fitness apparatus. An instructor conducts a workout session while using a recording device to generate media data. Meanwhile, a computing device executes a client application to generate command data for controlling aspects of output provided by a fitness apparatus. The media data and the command data generated by the instructor can be transmitted to user computing devices over a network for consumption by users. The media data and the command data may be transmitted as a live stream while the instructor is conducting the workout session, or to be accessed on-demand by users at a later time.
US12226629B2
In one embodiment, a system for stimulating the dorsal root ganglion of a patient comprises an elongate flexible implantable stimulation lead adapted to apply the stimulation pulses to the dorsal root ganglion of the patient, wherein the distal end comprises at least one electrode. A first segment and a second segment of the anchor are configured to transition between a collapsed configuration and deployed configuration. A central channel in the first segment and the second segment allows the anchor to be advanced along the stimulation lead from a proximal end toward the distal end while in the collapsed configuration. The central channel of each segment grips onto the stimulation lead in the deployed configuration so that the segment does not move from a deployed position on the stimulation lead. The first segment and the second segment may be deployed on opposite sides of foraminal ligament to anchor the stimulation lead.
US12226628B2
A method of manufacturing an implantable lead including a cuff is disclosed. The method includes partially curing a first silicone electrode cover, embedding electrodes within the first silicone electrode cover, partially curing a second silicone electrode cover, placing the first silicone electrode in a face-to-face relationship with the second silicone electrode cover to form an assembly, forming the assembly into a desired shape against a shim, placing an assembly within a canister to control an outer expansion, and curing the assembly.
US12226627B2
In one aspect, a neuromodulation device is described herein. In some embodiments, a neuromodulation device comprises a chamber operable to receive a nerve, at least one electrode disposed in the chamber, and a channel defined by two walls. In some embodiments, the channel of the device is in fluid communication with an interior of the chamber and an external surface of the device. In another aspect, methods of neuromodulation are described herein. In some embodiments, methods described herein can use one or more neuromodulation devices described herein.
US12226622B2
A medical device delivery system including a delivery sheath that includes an internal lumen, and a plurality of delivery arms contained within the internal lumen of the delivery sheath and extending along a longitudinal axis of the internal lumen of the delivery sheath, wherein distal ends of the delivery arms include fasteners configured to engage with a basal structure of a medical device and a apical structure of the medical device, wherein the delivery arms are attached to delivery arm controls that are configured to advance the delivery arms and the medical device attached thereto out from a distal end of the delivery sheath, and removable release wires or release lines configured to engage with the fasteners to hold the basal structure and the apical structure in place at the fasteners. Also disclosed are methods of delivering a medical device to a subject including inserting a distal end of the medical device delivery system through an incision in the skin of subject, and deploying a medical device engaged with the delivery arms of the medical delivery system to within the body of the subject.
US12226620B2
A safety device for a medicament container includes a first sheath having a first ledge and a second ledge, a second sheath telescopically arranged with the first sheath and releasably coupled to the first ledge, and a finger flange having at least one resilient clip adapted to engage the second ledge first sheath.
US12226615B2
A method and a device for needleless injection of liquid into a substrate, in particular of a liquid pharmaceutical or cosmetic preparation into a biological tissue, which makes it possible in a particularly advantageous manner to reliably inject a particularly fine liquid jet into the substrate without a significant increase in the static pressure in the liquid during the injection process. According to the invention, this is achieved by first accelerating the liquid received in a liquid container together with the latter to an initial velocity before the movement of the liquid container is stopped again, while simultaneously ejecting the liquid from the liquid container through an outlet nozzle under at least partial retention of its movement. Preferably, the ejected liquid jet is set in rotation about its jet axis before it impinges on the substrate, so that the jet receives a helical movement and thus practically drills into the substrate without splashing away laterally.
US12226612B2
Exemplary embodiments may address the problem of missing blood glucose concentration readings from a glucose monitor that transmits blood glucose concentration readings over a wireless connection due to problems with the wireless connection. In the exemplary embodiments, an automated insulin delivery (AID) device uses an estimate in place of a missing blood glucose concentration reading in determining a predicted future blood glucose concentration reading for a user. Thus, the AID device is able to operate normally in generating insulin delivery settings despite not receiving a current blood glucose concentration reading for a current cycle. There is no need to suspend delivery of insulin to the user due to the missing blood glucose concentration reading.
US12226610B2
In some embodiments provided herein are methods of administering an adductor canal block in a patient, wherein the methods include: (a) selecting an entry point of an injection needle in a leg of the patient; (b) inserting the injection needle into the leg of the patient at the entry point; (c) identifying a first nerve in the leg of the patient; (d) administering to the first nerve saline and a pharmaceutical composition; (e) identifying a second nerve in the leg of the patient; (f) administering to the second nerve saline and the pharmaceutical composition; wherein the first nerve and second nerve are selected from the group consisting of the nerve to vastus medialis (NVM) and the saphenous nerve, and wherein the first nerve is not the second nerve, and wherein the pharmaceutical composition comprises multivesicular liposomes.
US12226609B2
An implantable medical device configured to monitor fluid in proximity to an implantable medical device for an inadvertent introduction of infusate into a pocket of tissue surrounding the implantable medical device during a refill procedure, the implantable medical device including a refillable infusate delivery system, the refillable infusate delivery system including a reservoir in fluid communication with an access port, and a conductivity sensor configured to monitor fluid in proximity to the conductivity sensor for an introduction of infusate into a pocket of tissue surrounding the implantable medical device, wherein the conductivity sensor comprises a pair of electrodes positioned on an external surface of the implantable medical device.
US12226607B2
The invention is a theranostic delivery system or radiopharmaceutical drugs delivery system with movable workstation having handles. The workstation of theranostic delivery system or radiopharmaceutical drugs delivery system also has an on-board shielded disposal system for waste collection, which is operated by foot actuated system for locked and unlocked modes during the device journey. The theranostic delivery system or radiopharmaceutical drugs delivery system comprises a status light system that illuminates the working area to enable distance monitoring. Further, the delivery system includes a disposable secondary containment system that protects the core workstation from contamination, a configurable dose transporter and a disposable sealed fluid cartridge to withdraw custom volume from the vial or syringe. The delivery system includes a theranostic informatics management system, which contains a computer screen as a graphical user interface with a retractable rotating arm to receive the various patient infusion parameters.
US12226604B2
Methods are provided for delivering a treatment therapy to treat an organ diagnosed with a disease state. The methods include delivering a first therapeutic agent into systemic circulation at a first flow rate, and delivering a second therapeutic agent directly into a vessel feeding the organ at a higher second flow rate than the first flow rate in a manner that prevents the second treatment agent from circulating systemically.
US12226588B2
Disclosed herein is a catheter defining a first lumen and a second lumen. A proximal portion of the catheter can be configured to separate along a longitudinal axis to allow a proximal portion of the first lumen to be trimmed to a different length than a proximal portion of the second lumen. The catheter can include a septum disposed laterally between the first lumen and the second lumen configured to facilitate separation of the first lumen from the second lumen. The septum can include grooves, perforations, and can be formed of different materials to facilitate separation. Further the septum can include a wire configured to facilitate separation of the first lumen from the second lumen. Separation and/or trimming of the lumens positions the subcutaneous access ports in a spaced apart relationship to differentiate between infusion and aspiration lumens of the catheter.
US12226584B2
A respiratory pressure therapy (RPT) device is disclosed for treatment of respiratory-related disorders. The RPT device includes a pressure generator, a pneumatic block, a chassis and a device outlet for delivering a supply of flow of gas to a patient interface. The RPT device also comprises an integrated humidifier including a water reservoir. An RPT device is also disclosed that includes a wireless data communication interface integrated with the housing and configured to connect to another device or a network.
US12226572B2
Therapy gas delivery systems that provide run-time-to-empty information to a user of the system and methods for administering therapeutic gas to a patient. The therapeutic gas delivery system may include a gas pressure sensor attachable to a therapeutic gas source that communicates therapeutic gas pressure data to a therapeutic gas delivery system controller, a gas temperature sensor positioned to measure gas temperature in the therapeutic gas source that communicates therapeutic gas temperature data to the therapeutic gas delivery system controller, at least one flow controller that communicates therapeutic gas flow rate data to the therapeutic gas delivery system controller, at least one flow sensor that communicates flow rate data to the therapeutic gas delivery system controller, and at least one display that communicates run-time-to-empty to a user of the therapeutic gas delivery system. The therapeutic gas delivery system controller of the system includes a processor that executes an algorithm to calculate the run-time-to-empty from the data received from the gas pressure sensor, temperature sensor, flow controller and flow sensor, and directs the result to the display.
US12226564B1
A method and system for performing transseptal extracorporeal membrane oxygenation is disclosed. The method may include puncturing a septum between the right atrium and the left atrium and advancing a catheter system through the puncture and into the aorta. A first portion of the catheter system can remove blood from the patient, in some examples near the inferior vena cava. A second portion can return oxygenated blood to the patient, through the transseptal puncture and into the aorta.
US12226554B2
An aircraft includes an interior and an environmental system configured to circulate air through the interior. The aircraft also includes at least one disinfectant dispenser configured to dispense a disinfectant in the air circulated through the interior.
US12226553B2
There is provided an aroma providing device which includes an aromatic holding structure that is detachable and has a plurality of holding spaces in which aromatics are respectively held. The aroma providing device further includes a blower device that supplies air to pass through the holding spaces, a plurality of air supply paths through which the air is introduced into the respective holding spaces, an opening/closing mechanism that includes a member that is deformed by a physical stimulus or a chemical stimulus and switches whether to allow the air to pass through or not for each of the holding spaces and a control unit that controls the opening/closing mechanism.
US12226547B2
A bioscaffold structure is provided, the bioscaffold comprising a plurality of connected unit cells, each unit cell comprising a plurality of filaments composed of an extracellular material containing Collagen I and Collagen III, wherein each of the plurality of unit cells includes at least one opening connected to an internal volume.
US12226546B2
Described herein are compositions comprising at least two diblock copolypeptides, wherein each copolypeptide has an ionic segment with the opposite charge from the other. The copolypeptides form β-sheet structured hydrogel assemblies via polyion complexation when mixed in aqueous media. As a result of their unique physical properties, the hydrogels are useful as cell suspension or cell culture media, in drug or cell delivery systems, in scaffolds for tissue repair, or as 3d-printable media.
US12226543B2
The disclosure relates to pH sensitive color indicators which indicate the efficacy of a cleaning composition for antimicrobial activity by exhibiting a color change. In particular, the pH sensitive color indicators comprise a pH sensitive dye and a substrate, wherein the dye is bound to the substrate. In an aspect of the disclosure, the dye can be chemically bound, physically bound, coated on a substrate, or painted on a substrate.
US12226542B2
Apparatus and method for detecting improper positioning of removable component of sterilizing system
A sterilization system includes a sterilization chamber, a processor, and a sterilization module. The sterilization module includes a frame assembly, an extraction assembly, and a carriage assembly. The extraction assembly is configured to extract a sterilant fluid from a cartridge and transfer the sterilant fluid to the sterilization chamber. The carriage assembly includes a motor, a carriage body, and a translating flag. The carriage body is configured to receive the cartridge. The translating flag is configured to move from a first position to a second position relative to the carriage body in response to the carriage body receiving the cartridge. The sensor is configured to detect movement of the translating flag from the first position to the second position.
US12226537B2
The present application relates to a method for disinfection of a temperature control device for human body temperature control during extracorporeal circulation which temperature control is conducted by use of a heat exchanger and a temperature control liquid circulating through the heat exchanger and the temperature control device. According to the present application, the temperature control device is connected to a temperature control liquid supply and, during operation of the temperature control device for human body temperature control, a disinfectant is selectively added to the temperature control liquid supply upstream of the temperature control device.
US12226526B2
Disclosed herein are pharmaceutical compositions in the form of a suspension for oral delivery. Some embodiments provide a pharmaceutical composition in the form of a suspension for oral delivery comprising an active pharmaceutical ingredient; water; a suspending agent; a buffering agent; and one or more of a wetting agent and a binder/filler. In some embodiments, the active pharmaceutical ingredient is selected from quetiapine, sildenafil, tadalafil, cinacalcet, ticagrelor, mycophenolate, aprepitant, zonisamide, and primidone.
US12226515B2
Method for colouring hair comprising pretreating the hair with at least one primer composition before treating the hair with a polymeric hair colouring system.
US12226510B2
Disclosed are stable, non-irritating, retinoid containing formulations and delivery systems for topical application to the skin. The disclosed topical formulations and delivery systems provide controlled release of the retinoid to the skin for the treatment of amenable skin conditions as well as for improvement of aesthetic skin properties. Also provided are methods for the formulation, manufacture and use of the disclosed retinoid containing formulations and delivery systems.
US12226499B2
The present disclosure provides tooth whitening oral care compositions comprising potassium peroxymonosulfate having improved stability, and methods of using the same.
US12226491B2
The present invention provides, in some embodiments, methods, compositions, systems, and kits comprising nano-satellite complexes comprising: a core nanoparticle complex comprising a biocompatible coating surrounding a nanoparticle core; 3-25 satellite particles attached to, or absorbed to, said biocompatible coating; a plurality of antigenic peptides conjugated to, or absorbed to, said satellite particles; and at least one additional property. In other embodiments, provided herein are nano-satellite complexes comprising: a core nanoparticle complex comprising a biocompatible coating surrounding a nanoparticle core; a plurality of satellite particles attached to, or absorbed to, said biocompatible coating; a plurality of antigenic peptides conjugated to, or absorbed to, said satellite particles; and a plurality of LIGHT (TNFSF14) peptides conjugated to, or absorbed to, said satellite particles. In some embodiments, administration of the nanosatellite complexes to a subject with cancer achieves long-term cancer remission (e.g., when combined with an immune checkpoint inhibitor, such as αPD1).
US12226490B2
The present disclosure relates to antibodies and antibody conjugates, for instance antibody drug conjugates, with binding specificity for receptor tyrosine kinase orphan receptor 1 (ROR1) and its isoforms and homologs, and compositions comprising the antibodies or antibody conjugates, including pharmaceutical compositions. Also provided are methods of producing the antibodies and antibody conjugates and compositions thereof as well as methods of using the antibodies and antibody conjugates and compositions thereof, such as in therapeutic and diagnostic methods.
US12226489B2
The present disclosure relates to chemical moieties which, when bonded to pharmacophores, cause the pharmacophores to undergo first pass metabolism. By undergoing first pass metabolism, a pharmacophore may be made less bioavailable. Such compounds and related pharmaceutical compositions may be used for targeted treatment of diabetic and non-diabetic gastrointestinal disorders, with minimal systemic circulation beyond the gastrointestinal tract.
US12226484B2
The present specification discloses pharmaceutical composition disclosed herein comprises one or more therapeutic compounds, one or more glycerolipids, and one or more digestion enhancers. The disclosed glycerolipids comprise one or more hard fats and one or more liquid fats. The disclosed digestion enhancers comprise one or more bile acids, one or more phospholipids, one or more free C14-24 fatty acids, one or more free C14-24 fatty acid surfactants, or any combination thereof. The present specification also discloses methods and procedures to formulate the disclosed one or more therapeutic compounds into the disclosed pharmaceutical compositions.
US12226472B2
A type O foot-and-mouth disease virus-like particle antigen is provided, wherein the type O foot-and-mouth disease virus-like particle antigen is type O CATHAY topotype foot-and-mouth disease virus-like particle antigen, and the type O CATHAY topotype foot-and-mouth disease virus-like particle antigen is assembled by VP0, VP3 and VP1 antigen proteins of type O CATHAY topotype foot-and-mouth disease virus. The type O foot-and-mouth disease virus-like particle antigen has good immunogenicity. The prepared vaccine can produce complete protection against the O-type foot-and-mouth disease virus on the 14th day after immunization. The antibody titer produced is higher than that of the commercial inactivated vaccine, and the duration of immune protection can be maintained for at least 133 days. The prepared vaccine composition, preparation method and use thereof are also provided.
US12226462B2
The present invention discloses modified forms of plasmin with advantageous properties. As compared to their natural unmodified form, these variants exhibit significantly modulated kinetics in terms of delayed inhibition characteristics in the presence of specific inhibitors, such as α2-antiplasmin (α2-AP). These include PEG-conjugated thiol derivatives of truncated plasmin with potential clinical applications in various regimens of thrombolytic therapies.
US12226461B2
The invention relates to the field of antibacterial polypeptides, specifically to the field of antibacterial polypeptides having lytic activity for Staphylococcus. The invention relates to a novel chimeric endolysin polypeptide specifically targeting a Staphylococcus cell. The invention further relates to the use of said chimeric endolysin polypeptide as a disinfectant, as an antimicrobial cosmetic, for detection, such as in a diagnostic application and for medical use, such as for treating an individual suffering from a condition associated with a Staphylococcus infection.
US12226455B2
Human relaxin-2 as active ingredient in a pharmaceutical composition for treating a subject suffering from cachexia syndrome or cardiac wasting or suspected of being at risk of suffering from cardiac wasting or cardiac decompensation is described. Also described are methods of diagnosis of cachexia and cardiac wasting and patients suspected of being at risk of suffering from cardiac decompensation. Further described is a patch pump for sc. or iv infusion of relaxin or human relaxin-2.
US12226448B2
The present disclosure relates to improved oral immunotherapy methods for treating peanut allergy. In certain embodiments, the disclosure provides methods for continuing an oral immunotherapy for the treatment of a peanut allergy after missing a scheduled oral administration of one or more consecutive doses of a pharmaceutical composition comprising peanut protein.
US12226446B2
The present invention relates to a method of treating, preventing, or lessening postoperative cognitive dysfunction (POCD) in a subject in need thereof, the method comprising the step of administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of a compound of Formula I or a stereoisomer, a tautomer, an N-oxide, a solvate, a metabolite, a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or a prodrug thereof,
US12226431B2
The invention provides the use of a formulation containing cyclodextrine, quercetin and zinc, at appropriate concentrations to mitigate infections by enveloped viruses like SARS-COV-2, influenza and HIV/AIDS, when administered via pulmonary and dermal route. While the different forms of cyclodextrin prevent the entry of coated virus into host cells by extracting and sequestering cholesterol molecules at the virus coat and at the host cell plasma membrane, the natural plant-based ionophore quercetin in the formulation, enables cellular entry of zinc, inhibiting viral replication by altering polymerase activity in the host cell. Hence cyclodextrine, and quercetin plus zinc, either in combination or in tandem order of administration, serves both as prophylactic and therapeutic.
US12226427B2
Methods of reactivating transcription of a fragile X mental retardation 1 (FMR1) gene and treating FMR1-associated diseases are provided. Compositions and kits for doing same are also provided.
US12226419B2
This invention relates to pharmaceutical formulations for topical skin application comprising (R)-3-cyclopentyl-3-[4-(7H-pyrrolo[2,3-d]pyrimidin-4-yl)-1H-pyrazol-1-yl]propanenitrile, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and use in the treatment of skin disorders.
US12226416B2
This document provides methods and materials for improving arteriovenous fistula (AVF) maturation and/or maintaining AVF functionality. For example, methods and materials for using one or more senolytic agents to improve AVF maturation, to maintain AVF functionality, and/or to maintain the patency of an AVF are provided. Methods and materials for using one or more senolytic agents to maintain functionality and/or patency of a venous graft (e.g., a venous graft that bypasses an occluded artery) also are provided.
US12226410B2
Disclosed are methods and compositions for enhancing cellular clearance of pathological molecules. Particularly disclosed are methods and compositions enhancing cellular clearance of pathological molecules via activating the cellular protein ykt6. The disclosed methods and compositions may be utilized in order to treat a subject having or at risk for developing a proteinopathy or other cellular storage disorder.
US12226398B2
Provided are methods of regulating proliferation and/or differentiation of keratinocytes and immune cells, more specifically to methods of treating pathologies characterized by hyperproliferative keratinocytes or inflammatory skin diseases by administration of FABP4-inhibitor.
US12226397B2
An orally administrable composition for treating or reducing damage to connective tissue or for treating or reducing inflammatory symptoms associated with damage to connective tissue includes a synergistic combination of: (i) avocado/soybean unsaponifiables; and (ii) lipoic acid, or a salt or derivative thereof. Methods for treating or reducing damage to connective tissue, for treating or reducing inflammatory symptoms associated with damage to connective tissue, or for reducing levels of one or more inflammatory mediators in connective tissue include administering the orally administrable composition to an avian or mammalian subject.
US12226394B2
The current invention concerns an innovative treatment for mitochondrial disorders and diseases or conditions associated with mitochondrial dysfunction. In particular, effective and safe dosages of compounds suitable for the treatment of mitochondrial disorders have been established, providing for new treatment regimens and patient populations.
US12226392B2
The present disclosure targets West Nile virus, Respiratory Syncytial Virus, and other disease-causing microbes, including viruses, bacteria, fungi, and parasites. It does this using agents and methods with little toxicity compared to existing therapies.
US12226375B1
This invention relates to the use of agomelatine (or a prodrug or salt thereof) in the treatment of major depressive disorder or bipolar disorder, including the selection of patients who would most benefit from agomelatine.
US12226373B2
The present technology relates to a method of treating one or more behavioral symptoms of Fragile X Syndrome in a subject by transdermally administering an effective amount of cannabidiol (CBD) to the subject wherein one or more behavioral symptoms of Fragile X Syndrome are treated in the subject.
US12226360B1
A massage tool, including an egg-shaped body and a plurality of protuberances. The body has a first end portion and a second end portion, wherein a diameter of the first end portion is greater than a diameter of the second end portion, the body includes of a uniform, solid material, and the body has a rigidity. The protuberances extend radially from the body, wherein each protuberance has a first end portion and a second end portion. The first end portion of each protuberance is integral with the body and the second end portion of each protuberance extends radially from the body. The protuberances are arranged in a pattern around the body and include the uniform, solid material. Moreover, each protuberance has a rigidity, wherein the rigidity of each protuberance is less than the rigidity of the body.
US12226354B2
A surgical positioning system includes a platform assembly and an alignment post coupled to the platform assembly. The platform assembly has first and second members and an elevation assembly. The first member is supported on a surgical operating table. The second member is arranged over the first member and supports thereon a first portion of a patient undergoing surgery. The elevation assembly moves the second member with respect to the first member so as to change an elevation of the first portion of the patient. In some embodiments, a positioning member is coupled to the alignment post. The positioning member is inflatable between a deflated state and an inflated state in order to displace part of the patient thereon vertically and laterally. In some embodiments, the surgical positioning system can be used to position the anatomy of a patient during a hip replacement surgery.
US12226346B2
The invention relates to a planning device for generating control data for a treatment apparatus, which by means of a laser device generates at least one cut surface in the cornea, and to a treatment apparatus having such a planning device. The invention further relates to a method for generating control data for a treatment apparatus, which by means of a laser device generates at least one cut surface in the cornea, and to a corresponding method for eye surgery. The planning device is thereby provided with calculating means for defining the corneal incision surfaces, wherein the calculation means determines the corneal incisions such that after inserting an implant into the cornea, existing refractive errors are counteracted.
US12226344B2
A surgical instrument (40, 40A) for performing a goniotomy procedure includes a hand grip (44, 44A) having an elongated configuration with proximal and distal ends. The instrument (40, 40A) includes a tip (52, 52A) connected to the distal end (48, 48A) of the hand grip (44, 44A) which has a cutting means for creating a trabecular cleavage plane resulting in a remaining trabecular leaflet directly below Schwalbe's line in an eye to enhance drainage of aqueous humor from the eye. In one form, the cutting means includes a pair of sloping, arcuate cutting surfaces (70, 70A) that join to define an arcuate cutting edge (74, 74A).
US12226341B2
A system (100) includes a first assembly (110A) and a second assembly (110B). The first assembly (110A) includes a body (120) forming a first interior volume, a plunger (130) comprising a first distal end disposed within the first interior volume, a wire comprising a first distal end secured to the first distal end of the plunger (130), and a plunger clip (140) configured to interface with the plunger (130) and the body (120) to prevent actuation of the plunger (130). The second assembly (110B) includes a cowl (150) forming a second interior volume, a needle comprising a hub and a shaft, and a cowl cap disposed partially within the hub to secure the implant in the shaft. A first distal end of the shaft is connected to the hub. The hub is disposed within the second interior volume. The shaft is configured to receive an implant.
US12226338B2
A fecal management device, and methods for applying a fecal management device to a patient, are described herein. In some embodiments, the fecal management device comprises a sheath having a first end and a second end, a first connector at the first end of the sheath, said first connector comprising a substrate that includes a first adhesive and a second adhesive, the second adhesive disposed relatively outwardly with respect to the first adhesive, the substrate having a multi-lobed contour with two opposing concave regions, a sheath port located at the second end of the sheath, the sheath port configured to removably mate with a collection bag port, and a collection bag, wherein the collection bag includes the collection bag port.
US12226333B2
An orthopedic support and/or treatment system including a brace, sleeve, and/or insert, comprising a power subsystem; a sensor subsystem; an adjustment mechanism; a software subsystem; a communication subsystem; and a telemedicine subsystem. The orthopedic treatment system includes and communicates over a network to a remote controlling device. The remote control device can be a computer, a mobile device, or any other controller. The sensor subsystem communicates to the remote control device, which in turn can be used to control the adjustment mechanism to adjust a tension or compression of the brace or sleeve.
US12226329B2
An improved medical device reduces the loss of longitudinal length during expansion of a stent-graft from a compressed state to an expanded state. For example, the stent-graft is placed over a cover that provides resistance to expansion of the balloon during inflation, which reduces longitudinal compressing forces exerted on the stent-graft.
US12226323B2
A floating clamp for surgical procedures includes a clamp body and a spring mechanism to allow in/out movement of a portal tube, while maintaining the tube's position in A/P and C/C. The clamp body includes a base portion and an arm pivotally coupled to the base portion such that a distal end of the arm pivots towards and away from a distal end of the base portion. The spring mechanism includes a coil spring and a piston disposed through the coil spring. The spring mechanism can be coupled to the clamp body adjacent to a proximal end thereof.
US12226315B2
Systems and methods for designing patient-specific medical devices are described herein. In some embodiments, a method includes obtaining patient data that includes image data and kinematic data of a patient's spine. A virtual model of the patient's spine is generated and can be manipulated until a target anatomical configuration is achieved. A patient-specific implant can then be designed based at least in part on the target anatomical configuration and the kinematics such that, when the patient-specific implant is implanted in the patient, the patient-specific implant provides the target anatomical correction while maintaining or improving the kinematics of the patient's spine.
US12226313B2
A prosthetic aortic valve device, delivery system, interventional system, and related method are disclosed. The device includes an inner frame having relative compressed and expanded configurations; leaflets connected to the inner frame and cooperating with each other to control opening and closing of the blood flow passage; and a positioning mechanism arranged in a circumferential direction of the inner frame, the positioning mechanism including a fixed end connected to the inner frame and a free end extending towards the inflow end, the positioning mechanism being configured to be switchable among a loaded configuration, a transition configuration, and a released configuration.
US12226307B2
A system of toggle type suture anchors is disclosed. The plurality of suture anchors is connected in series by a plurality of independently cinchable working suture loops with one working suture loop connecting each pair of anchors in series to form a chain. Each of the suture anchors as connected by working suture loops allows tensioning of the working suture between itself and the prior anchor implanted in the serial string. Further, each anchor includes a loop type locking mechanism to lock the cinchable working suture loop subsequent to tensioning so that the loop remains fixed in size during cyclic loading during joint use. This creates an independently tensioned suture stitch between each implanted suture anchor and the just previously implanted anchor. In total the system as implanted creates a high density, continuous array of anchor-to-anchor stitches for robust securement of soft tissue to bone.
US12226293B2
A fluid management layer having an integrated, carded, nonwoven is described. The fluid management layer has a basis weight of between about 115 grams per square meter (gsm) and about 200 gsm; a plurality of absorbent fibers; a plurality of stiffening fibers; and a plurality of resilient fibers. The absorbent fibers make up from about 20 percent to about 60 percent by weight of the fluid management layer. The stiffening fibers have a dtex of between 4 and 10, and the resilient fibers have a dtex of between 3 and 12.
US12226291B2
A material web having a film layer and a nonwoven layer, along with methods of making the material web, are described. The material web has a plurality of micro-deformations and a plurality of macro-deformations, each of the macro-deformations having a distal end, wherein a first portion of macro-deformations has an open or partially open distal end and wherein a second portion of macro-deformations has distal ends which are configured differently than the distal ends of the first portion, and wherein the material web forms a portion of the topsheet.
US12226290B2
Disclosed herein are several embodiments of a negative pressure appliance and methods of using the same in the treatment of wounds. Some embodiments are directed to improved fluidic connectors or suction adapters for connecting to a wound site, having an air leak channel separated from a suction channel.
US12226289B2
Illustrative embodiments of a dressing for treating a tissue site may include a fluid transport layer, an offloading layer, and a liquid deflector. The offloading layer may be in fluid communication with the fluid transport layer, and the offloading layer may include a force offloading region and a target region. The liquid deflector may be positioned between the fluid transport layer and the offloading layer. The liquid deflector may be configured to deflect a liquid from the tissue site into contact with the target region of the offloading layer. The target region may be configured to expand for offloading forces at the tissue site. Other dressings, systems, and methods are disclosed.
US12226288B2
A hemorrhage control device for puncture wounds. In one or more embodiments, a plurality of individual liquid-expandable articles release stored mechanical energy and mechanically expand into expanded articles upon contact with a liquid associated with the wound. In one or more embodiments, a kit includes a plurality of liquid-expandable articles separable into a plurality of different wounds.
US12226284B2
A mold includes a first section, a second section, and a weakened region that joins the first section to the second section. The weakened region is breakable, deflectable, or deformable in response to a first threshold force to enable the first section to be removed from a shell independently of the second section after the shell is formed over the mold. The first threshold force is less than a second threshold force that would damage or permanently deform the shell. The first section is a first mold of at least a portion of one or more first teeth of a dental arch and the second section is a second mold of at least a portion of one or more second teeth of the dental arch.
US12226283B2
Methods for accommodating dental implants in treatment planning. Methods may include generating a treatment plan to treat a dentition using a series of dental appliances, where a position of a digital implant in a digital dental model is identified. At least one dental appliance of the series of dental appliances may be created, where the at least one dental appliance may be shaped to implement at least one stage of the treatment plan and include an offset portion that is shaped to provide a space between the offset portion and an actual implant to avoid impingement of the at least one dental appliance on the actual implant and allows for osseointegration of the actual implant.
US12226267B2
A marker deployment system and method of operation are provided. The system includes a handle extending radially from and longitudinally along a main axis. A driver tube is coupled to and extends from the handle along the main axis from a proximal tube end to a distal tube end and defines a tube bore extending axially therethrough. The distal tube end is configured to support a bone marker. An inner rod extends axially through the driver tube to a distal rod end that includes a retention fastener configured to engage and selectively secure the bone marker at the distal tube end. A knob is operably coupled to the inner rod and is rotatable about a knob axis of rotation extending along the main axis to secure or release the bone marker. At least a portion of the handle extends axially beyond the knob to define the proximal handle end.
US12226266B2
A detection system and method uses an implantable magnetic marker comprising at least one piece of a large Barkhausen jump material (LBJ). The marker is deployed to mark a tissue site in the body for subsequent surgery, and the magnetic detection system includes a handheld probe to excite the marker below the switching field for bistable switching of the marker causing a harmonic response to be generated in a sub-bistable mode that allows the marker to be detected and localised. The marker implanted may also be shorter than the critical length required to initiate bistable switching of the LBJ material.
US12226254B2
Medical device systems including an elongate medical device having a proximal end including one or more sensor connectors, a distal end including one or more sensors or emitters communicatively coupled to the one or more sensor connectors, and a quick-release drive connector including one or more sensor connector attachments configured to detachably couple to the one or more sensor connectors. The one or more sensor connector attachments can be configured to drive the one or more sensors or emitters of the elongate medical device.
US12226253B2
The invention provides a method of monitoring blood flow in a vertebrate animal subject. Unfocussed plane-wave ultrasound pulses are transmitted into the subject, along a transmission axis, from a single-element ultrasound transducer (2) fastened to the subject (5). Reflections of the ultrasound pulses are received, generating a succession of pulse-Doppler response signals over time. Each pulse-Doppler response signal is processed to determine a first respective spatial-maximum velocity value for blood flowing towards the single transducer element (2), and a second respective spatial-maximum velocity value for blood flowing away. Heartbeats are identified from said spatial-maximum velocity values and a quality metric is assigned to each identified heartbeat. A subset of the spatial-maximum velocity values is identified for which the assigned quality metric exceeds a threshold level. The values from the subset are monitored, and, when a set of values from the subset satisfies a predetermined alert criterion an audible or visual alert is signalled.
US12226245B2
A spectral X-ray imaging system (100) includes an X-ray source (110) and an X-ray detector (120) that are mounted to a support structure (150). The support structure (150) is configured to rotate the X-ray source (110) and the X-ray detector (120) around two or more orthogonal axes (A-A′, B-B′). One or more processors (130) are configured to cause the system (100) to perform operations that include: generating a spectral image based on the spectral image data; and identifying, in the spectral image, a position of a first fiducial marker (180i) comprising a first material, based on a first X-ray absorption k-edge energy value (190i) of the first material.
US12226242B2
A safety apparatus is provided for use in a procedure comprising at least first and second devices, wherein the first device and second device are for use in a medical procedure. The apparatus includes a disabling mechanism that is adapted to releasably retain and thereby prevent use of the said second device until release by a release procedure using the first device. A method is provided of carrying out a procedure comprising the steps of using the first device, applying the first device to a disabling mechanism to release the second device, and using the second device.
US12226239B2
A software library for providing a uniform framework for various applications or third-party applications access to sensor data. The system further includes a sensor control module and a remote management module. The sensor control module includes logic for communicating with the sensors and receiving sensor data and to communicate that sensor data to the remote management module or various applications. The sensor control module may include a user interface that may display a banner containing numerous components. The content of the banner may differ depending on the host application. The system may further include a host application that incorporates the banner.
US12226231B2
An electronic device, according to various example embodiments of the disclosure, may comprise: a display; a processor operatively connected to the display; a cover facing the display and comprising a light transmitting material; a flexible printed circuit board having a first side facing the cover, and a second side corresponding to the opposite side of the first side; a wireless charging coil disposed to surround the flexible printed circuit board; a first bio-signal sensing unit comprising bio-signal sensing circuitry including a light-emitting unit including light-emitting circuitry and a light-receiving unit including light-receiving circuitry mounted on the first side of the flexible printed circuit board; a second bio-signal sensing unit including an internal electrode formed inside the cover, which is a portion facing the flexible printed circuit board, and an external electrode electrically connected to the internal electrode and formed outside the cover; a contact having one end mounted on the first side of the flexible printed circuit board and extending to the cover such that the opposite end thereof is connected to the internal electrode of the second bio-signal sensing unit; and a signal processing unit mounted on the second side of the flexible printed circuit board comprising circuitry configured to process a first bio-signal sensed by the first bio-signal sensing unit and a second bio-signal sensed by the second bio-signal sensing unit.
US12226215B2
The invention provides a composition for a conductive polymeric material suitable for the production of electrodes for recording electrophysiological signals, such as electrocardiogram (EGG), electromyogram (EMG), electroencephalogram (EEG), etc., and signals related to the impedance variation of the body or skin, both deriving from active and passive measures (for example, breathing, electrodermal response, etc.). For this purpose a formulation containing FEDOT and ionic liquids has been developed. The formulation according to the invention can be used generically in the context of detecting bioelectric signals and can be applied on wearable items, in particular in fabric, such as for example garments of different shapes, so as to be in direct contact with the areas of the body subject to detection. The artifacts include diving artefacts, such as watertight suits, and for water sports and submarine surveys, artifacts used in the medical and health sector such as plasters, elastic support bands and adhesive support bands and textile articles, including special fabrics such as bioceramics.
US12226209B2
Independent component analysis may be performed on a plurality of detected electronic signals to separate signals within the detected electronic signals that are contributed by different sources. Each of the plurality of detected electronic signals may be received from a separate detector and may correspond to a detected optical signal emanating from a pregnant mammal's abdomen and a fetus contained therein. The detected optical signals may correspond to light that is projected into the pregnant mammal's abdomen from a light source. The separated signals may be analyzed to determine a separated signal that corresponds to light incident upon the fetus, which may be analyzed to determine a fetal hemoglobin oxygen saturation level of the fetus. An indication of the fetal hemoglobin oxygen saturation level may then be provided to the user.
US12226203B2
Provided herein are systems and methods for estimating contact pressure of a human lying on a surface including one or more imaging devices having imaging sensors oriented toward the surface, a processor and memory, including a trained model for estimating human contact pressure trained with a dataset including a plurality of human lying poses including images generated from at least one of a plurality of imaging modalities including at least one of a red-green-blue modality, a long wavelength infrared modality, a depth modality, or a pressure map modality, wherein the processor can receive one or more images from the imaging devices of the human lying on the surface and a source of one or more physical parameters of the human to determine a pressure map of the human based on the one or more images and the one or more physical parameters.
US12226190B2
An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for monitoring the motion, breathing, heart rate of humans in a convenient and low-cost fashion, and for deriving and displaying useful measurements of cardiorespiratory performance from the measured signals. The motion, breathing, and heart rate signals are obtained through a processing applied to a raw signal obtained in a non-contact fashion, typically using a radio-frequency sensor. Processing into separate cardiac and respiratory components is described. The heart rate can be determined by using either spectral or time-domain processing. The respiratory rate can be calculated using spectral analysis. The sensor, processing, and display can be incorporated in a single device which can be worn or held close to the body while exercising, or alternately placed in a fixed piece of exercise equipment at some distance form the body, and may also be integrated with other sensors, such as position locators.
US12226187B2
An optical measurement system includes a light source configured to emit a first light pulse and a second light pulse toward a target, a detector, and a processing unit. The first light pulse has a first wavelength and the second light pulse has a second wavelength different from the first wavelength. The processing unit is configured to determine a plurality of temporal distributions of photons included in the first light pulse and the second light pulse and detected by the detector after the photons are scattered by the target, and determine, based on the plurality of temporal distributions and a source-detector distance estimation model, a distance between the light source and the detector.
US12226184B2
A method for detecting biometric parameters includes the steps of performing a bone graft procedure on at least one vertebra of a spine, providing at least one biometric sensor at the at least one vertebra, the sensor measuring at least one parameter selected from the group consisting of pressure, tension, shear, relative position, and vascular flow in an adjacent surrounding, and measuring the at least one biometric parameter at the vertebra with the sensor.
US12226183B2
The present disclosure relates to the field of medicine and discloses a medical therapeutic device for monitoring and treating medical condition of patients. The device comprises an input unit, a plurality of sensors, a control unit, a waveform generator unit, and a coupling means. The input unit receives at least one input from a user. The sensors monitor a plurality of predetermined parameters associated with the health of a patient generate detection signals based on the monitored parameters. The control unit selects a program based on the input and the detection signals. The waveform generator unit generates a therapeutic signal of pre-determined values of at least one of voltage, current, and frequency based on the selected program for facilitating treatment of medical condition corresponding to the selected program.
US12226180B2
A catheter-based procedure system comprises: a robotic drive body; a support arm supporting the robotic drive body; a first drive module configured to move along a longitudinal axis of the robotic drive body; a second drive module configured to move along the longitudinal axis of the robotic drive body, the second drive module being separate from the first drive module; and a sterile barrier. The sterile barrier includes: a first portion covering a portion of the support arm and a portion of the robotic drive body; a second portion that is removably coupled to the robotic drive body, the second portion being more rigid than the first portion; a resilient third portion extending from the second portion, the resilient third portion having a first free edge arranged along the longitudinal axis and the first free edge being adjacent the first drive module.
US12226177B2
An instrument drive unit for use in a robotic surgical system includes a carriage configured to be coupled to a robotic arm, a hub rotationally coupled to the carriage and configured to be non-rotatably coupled to an electromechanical surgical instrument, a plurality of motors, a plurality of motor gears, a plurality of drive shafts, and a plurality of drive gears. Each motor gear is operably coupled to a corresponding motor, and each drive gear is fixed to a corresponding drive shaft. The drive shafts are rotationally supported in the hub and configured for interfacing with a corresponding driven member of the electromechanical surgical instrument. Each motor gear is configured to rotate a corresponding drive gear in response to an activation of a respective motor to actuate a function of the electromechanical surgical instrument.
US12226176B2
Disclosed herein are systems and techniques for compensating for insertion of an instrument into a working channel of another instrument in a surgical system. According to one embodiment, a method of compensation includes: detecting insertion of an insertable instrument into a working channel of a flexible instrument; detecting, based on a data signal from at least one sensor, a position change of a distal portion of the flexible instrument from an initial position: generating a control signal based on the detected position change; and adjusting a tensioning of a pull wire based on the control signal to return the distal portion to the initial position.
US12226163B2
A method for determining one or more of selection, positioning or placement of a surgical implant, the method includes: predicting function of an impaired anatomical structure in an unimpaired condition; predicting post-operative function of the structure for one or more implants; selecting one or more of the implant, the implant position, or the implant location to improve the predicted post-operative function.
US12226156B2
Methods, systems, and devices are provided for measuring eye refraction without a lens, and more particularly, for measuring eye refraction with a mobile device application. An exemplary method includes measuring a distance between a patient and a mobile device, presenting to the patient one or more visual targets sized and shaped to represent perfect vision such as by using Vernier targets or grating targets, instructing the patient to indicate whether the patient can accurately read the visual targets and, if not, to move closer to the mobile device until the patient can accurately read the visual targets, calculating a vision prescription for the patient based on the visual targets and a final distance between the patient and the mobile device, and displaying the vision prescription for the patient.
US12226154B2
The present disclosure provides an adaptive optics system including at least one active pixel sensor array that detects light and sends a signal to a processor. The adaptive optics system also includes a wavefront correction system including at least one wavefront control structure and the processor, and that executes instructions on the processor to produce a digital image in which at least one wavefront distortion in the light detected by the active pixel sensor array is partially or fully corrected. The disclosure also provides methods of using the adaptive optics system.
US12226147B2
A device for treating tissue includes a catheter including an elongated body extending from a proximal end to a distal end and including a lumen extending therethrough, a distal tip connected to the distal end of the elongated body and including a first electrode and a second electrode extending thereabout, the first electrode extending to a distal opening of the lumen and a first needle extending longitudinally from a proximal end to a distal end, the first needle slidably received within the lumen of the catheter to be moved between a retracted bipolar configuration, in which the distal end of the needle is proximal the distal opening of the catheter, and an extended monopolar configuration, in which the distal end of the first needle extends distally past the distal opening of the catheter so that the first needle contacts the first electrode and is configured to cut tissue.
US12226140B2
A device, system, and method for performing a variety of treatment procedures safely with a single treatment device. For example, a system is provided that includes a treatment device with a highly conformable balloon that is inflated at a constant pressure and that remains “soft” during use, which enhances balloon-tissue contact, treatment efficacy, and patient safety. In one embodiment, a system for ablating tissue comprises: a treatment device including a highly conformable balloon; a control unit including a fluid supply reservoir in fluid communication with the highly conformable balloon, the control unit being configured to deliver fluid from the fluid supply reservoir to the highly conformable balloon such that the highly conformable balloon is maintained at a balloon pressure of between 0.2 psig and 3.0 psig.
US12226139B2
Systems and methods for a medical device configured to provide cooling to a tissue region are provided. The medical device may be configured to noninvasively cool the tissue region to a predetermined operating temperature via a two-phase heat transfer process. In some aspects, the medical device can be configured to be in communication with a vacuum to provide a suction to the medical device. In some aspects, the medical device can be adapted to a medical device to noninvasively cool the tissue region near a fractional treatment area.
US12226133B2
Assemblies and methods for fixation of bone or bone fragments using an orthopedic plate, a modular peg, and a compression screw. The modular peg is screwed into one of the apertures of the orthopedic plate. The modular peg may include an aperture having screw threads designed to receive the threads of the compression screw and serve as an anchor for the compression screw. By rotating the compression screw in relation to the modular peg, the compression screw may advance through the aperture of the modular peg, drawing the head of the screw toward the modular peg, and compressing the bone or bone fragments.
US12226131B2
A spine fixation tool and system for use with rods and screws. The system includes a rod holder/inserter having a rod guide member and a swivel arm pivotably connected to the guide member. The swivel arm is configured to secure and retain the rod therein, and move relative to the rod guide member to position the rod in screws within a patient's vertebrae during spinal surgery. The system further includes an inner stylet that retains the rod and an outer sheath configured to engage the inner stylet. The system is used to insert a rod through screws placed in a patient's vertebrae. With swivel arm secured on top of heads of the screws. A surgeon uses spinal navigation system to help position the rod. The system enables minimally invasive spinal fixation surgery with smaller and fewer skin incisions.
US12226130B2
An implantable spacer for placement between adjacent spinous processes in a spinal motion segment is provided. The spacer includes a body defining a longitudinal axis and passageway. A first arm and a second arm are connected to the body. Each arm has a pair of extensions and a saddle defining a U-shaped configuration for seating a spinous process therein. Each arm has a proximal earning surface and is capable of rotation with respect to the body. An actuator assembly is disposed inside the passageway and connected to the body. When advanced, a threaded shaft of the actuator assembly contacts the earning surfaces of arms to rotate them from an undeployed configuration to a deployed configuration. In the deployed configuration, the distracted adjacent spinous processes are seated in the U-shaped portion of the arms.
US12226129B2
A compression fastener may include a shaft and a helical thread disposed about the shaft. The shaft may include a proximal end, a distal end, a proximal shaft portion, and a distal shaft portion. The helical thread may include at least one concave undercut surface and a plurality of pitches that may include at least one first pitch along the proximal shaft portion and at least one second pitch along the distal shaft portion. The at least one concave undercut surface may be angled towards one of the proximal end and the distal end of the shaft, and the at least one first pitch and the at least one second pitch may not be equal to each other.
US12226115B2
An end effector assembly of a tissue-resecting device includes an outer shaft defining a window, a drive wire extending through the outer shaft, and a distal cutting tip disposed within the outer shaft. The drive wire includes a cylindrical body and a distal end portion defining a semi-cylindrical configuration including a semi-cylindrical bottom surface and a planar top surface having a semi-cylindrical cut-out defined therein. The distal cutting tip at least partially overlaps the window and has a semi-cylindrical lumen defined by a semi-cylindrical bottom surface and an open top. The distal end portion of the drive wire is at least partially received and within the semi-cylindrical lumen with the semi-cylindrical surfaces substantially mating. The drive wire is configured to drive rotation or oscillation of the distal cutting tip relative to the outer shaft.
US12226113B2
A surgery system that includes a multiple-degree freedom slave arm, which is able to be mounted with a surgical instrument and includes a plurality of joints and a plurality of motors corresponding the respective joints of the plurality of joints; a first input device configured to operate the multiple-degree freedom slave arm; a second input device configured to operate the multiple-degree freedom slave arm and different from the first input device; and a controller configured to control the multiple-degree freedom slave arm so that the multiple-degree freedom slave arm is operated by one of the first input device and the second input device.
US12226108B2
A gap gauge is disclosed for facilitating an arthroplasty procedure on a first bone and a second bone of a patient. The gap gauge may include a first plate positionable in contact with the first bone, a second plate positionable in contact with the second bone. The second plate may be displaced from the first plate by a displacement. The gap gauge may further include a separator connected to the first plate and the second plate, a separation indicator coupled to the separator and configured to indicate the displacement, and a balance indicator connected to at least one of the first plate and the second plate. The balance indicator may indicate a balance status between the first plate and the second plate. The separator can be actuated to adjust the displacement.
US12226104B2
The application provides a valve clamping system. The valve clamping system includes a pushing device and a valve clip with coatings. The valve clip includes a push rod, the coatings, and a proximal clamping plate, and a distal clamping plate. The proximal clamping plate and the distal clamping plate extend radially outwardly relative to the push rod. The distal clamping plate is connected to the push rod. The proximal clamping plate is arranged between the push rod and the distal clamping plate. A valve holding space is formed between the proximal clamping plate and the distal clamping plate. The push rod is capable of driving the distal clamping plate to be expanded radially. The proximal clamping plate is capable of expanding toward the distal clamping plate by an elastic strain of the proximal clamping plate and is configured to clamp a valve tissue received in the valve holding space.
US12226101B2
Force modulating tissue bridges, and associated applicators, kits and methods are provided. A force modulating tissue bridge can be a medical article for at least partially covering a wound and/or scar tissue. The medical article can include an elastic arch extending over an area, and a medial strut connected to the arch and extending into the area over which the central section extends.
US12226097B2
A suturing device includes a body configured to be inserted into a surgical site of a patient. A suture retainer is positioned within the body and configured to receive a suture so that an end of the suture extends from the body and is accessible within the surgical site of the patient.
US12226096B2
An apparatus is provided for use with a tissue anchor and an anchor driver. The apparatus includes a housing, shaped to define a channel. The channel includes (i) an anchor-storage zone, and (ii) a proximal opening configured to provide access for the anchor driver to the anchor-storage zone. The channel is configured to enable sliding of the tissue anchor therewithin to be stored in the anchor-storage zone. The apparatus also includes a retaining member, shaped to define a cradle for cradling and holding the tissue anchor in the anchor-storage zone. The retaining member includes a pillar pivotable with respect to the cradle, and configured to support the tissue anchor at the cradle. Other embodiments are also described.
US12226093B2
A tissue anchor system is provided that includes a first tissue anchor, a second tissue anchor that is separate and distinct from the first tissue anchor, and one or more tethers, which are configured to couple the first tissue anchor to the second tissue anchor. When the first tissue anchor is unconstrained, a head thereof is coaxial with an axis of a shaft thereof, and a tissue-coupling element thereof extends from a distal end of the shaft, is generally orthogonal to the axis, and is shaped such that if the tissue-coupling element were to be projected onto a plane that is perpendicular to the axis, at least 80% of an area of a projection of the tissue-coupling element on the plane would fall within a first angle of 180 degrees in the plane having a vertex at the axis. Other embodiments are also described.
US12226087B2
A retractor for use in surgical operations comprises a pair of blade assemblies. In operation, the blade assemblies are initially in a closed position to assume a low profile, inserted into a relatively small incision, and stretched apart from each other, thereby stretching the skin about the incision to form an aperture longer than the incision. The retractor is adapted to rotate a first blade about a first axis and a second blade about a second axis. The retractor is adapted to move the pair of blade assemblies apart along a third axis. The retractor is adapted to pivot the first blade about a fourth axis and the second blade about a fifth axis. In some embodiments, a method of performing an operation, e.g. a spinal operation, on a patient using the disclosed retractor is provided.
US12226082B2
A medical system can include a light source configured to generate excitation light; and a processor including a memory, the processor: controlling energy supplied to an energy device, the light source generating the excitation light to generate fluorescence from the living body tissue heat treated by the energy device; generating a fluorescence image based on an image pickup signal obtained by imaging the living body tissue; and generating a control signal that restricts energy supply to the energy device and output the control signal to the energy control apparatus when a pixel value of at least one pixel in the fluorescence image exceeds a first threshold value.
US12226079B2
A scope system includes a processor and a scope device. The scope device includes a handle configured to remain outside of the body and an elongated shaft extending from the handle to a distal tip and including a working channel extending therethrough. The working channel is open at the distal tip of the shaft. The shaft is inserted through a bodily lumen to a target surgical site. The shaft includes at least one sensor transmitting to the processor sensor data relating to the target surgical site.
US12226074B2
A method for imaging involves scanning an anatomical object within a patient and capturing reflected IR light with a plurality of cameras that are separate from the scanner. The IR images captured by the IR cameras are associated together to create an integrated image based on parallax between the IR cameras and the scanner. The integrated image is associated with a separate or optical light image of the anatomical object to generate an intra-operative 3D image that can be created in real-time. Systems for effectuating such imaging may include multiple surgical instruments supporting various cameras positioned to capture different fields of view and to increase parallax.
US12226071B2
An image transfer arrangement (1) for the wireless transfer of image information items between a transmitter (4) and a receiver (8), wherein at least two communication channels (11) which are physically independent of one another are formed between the transmitter (4) and the receiver (8) and enable impairment and interference-free communication.
US12226069B2
A signal processing device includes a first internal module 61 that executes hardware processing, and second internal modules that execute software processing. The first internal module outputs an image signal, division position information indicating division positions, at which a frame of the image signal is divided by a predetermined amount of data, and a timing signal, to the second internal modules, and generates, based on the image signal that has been subjected to the software processing and input from the second internal modules, a video signal for display. Based on the timing signal and the division position information, the second internal modules sequentially execute image processing by the software processing on the image signal per the predetermined amount of data, and sequentially output the image signal per the predetermined amount of data that has been subjected to the image processing, to the first internal module.
US12226048B2
A device for roasting or spit-roasting food, including a container or barrel and a set of elements to support a meat on a rod, placed inside the barrel, in the center, resting on a tray that catches juices and fat, due to hot air directly exposed to the food, coming from the flame of a burner on which the tray rests. A deflecting cone is located underneath the tray, which has a double function: to collect excess fluids coming from the food being cooked, which overflow from the tray, or which leak due to breakage thereof, and as a diffusor of hot gases entering the container through an orifice in its base, towards inner walls of the barrel, promoting their circulation. Designed for domestic use, using a burner of a conventional gas stove, so that no smoke is generated during the cooking process.
US12226040B2
An oven includes a cooking chamber, a cabinet at least partially surrounding the cooking chamber, and a water reservoir having a reservoir inlet and a reservoir outlet. The oven further includes a water fill assembly including an opening, a water-receiving cavity and a fill outlet from the water-receiving cavity, the water fill assembly defining a fluid flow path in from the opening and out through the fill outlet, a check valve in fluid communication with the fill outlet downstream of the fluid flow path defined by the water fill assembly, the check valve configured in a closed state under a force of gravity on at least a portion thereof and opening by a flow force of fluid out of the fill outlet and through the check valve, and a conduit connecting the check valve with the water reservoir inlet downstream of the fill outlet.
US12226036B2
The technology includes a control wire clamp for securing a control member, such as a control wire, in place. The default state of the control wire clamp may be a clamped state. The control wire clamp may be placed in an unclamped state by applying force to a clamp handle.
US12226027B2
The present disclosure relates to a unit chair. The unit chair includes a link unit for adjusting a posture of a headrest, wherein the link unit includes: a first link member fixed to a backrest portion of the unit chair; a second link member having one end portion hinged to the first link member by a first hinge pin; and a first ratchet member formed on one surface of at least one of the first link member and the second link member and constraining motion of the second link member so that the second link member is rotatable only in one direction based on a central axis line of the first hinge pin, wherein the first ratchet member includes a first ratchet base portion including a plurality of saw teeth formed on one surface, arranged in a ring shape based on the central axis line of the first hinge pin, uplifted in a direction toward the central axis line, and inclined only in one direction, and having an opposite surface fixed to the first link member; and a first ratchet rotating portion including a plurality of saw teeth formed on one surface and at least partially engaged with at least some of the saw teeth of the first ratchet base portion and having an opposite surface fixed to the second link member.
US12226024B2
A chair is provided. The chair includes a seat having an adjustable seat height; a central column extending from the seat; a central hub having a central opening that receives the central column; a plurality of plate legs with inner and outer leg ends, each of the plurality of plate legs being spaced around the central hub and extending radially outward from the central hub and including a frame; and, a plurality of wheel assemblies, whereby each one respective wheel assembly is coupled to a respective one plate leg of the plurality plate legs. Each of plurality of plate legs includes a bracket extending substantially horizontally outward and away from the frame and defines a hole. Each wheel assembly includes a portion configured to align with each hole of each bracket of each of the plurality of plate legs to couple each wheel assembly to each respective plate leg.
US12226020B2
The inflatable bed includes a top wall, an outer peripheral sheet, a bottom wall and an inner peripheral sheet, the top and bottom walls are arranged oppositely and fixed to the outer peripheral sheet; the inner peripheral sheet is provided with a plurality of through holes arranged at intervals in a circumferential direction of the inner peripheral sheet; the inner peripheral sheet has a first annular edge and a second annular edge that are arranged oppositely, the first annular edge is fixed to the top wall, the second annular edge is fixed to the bottom wall, both areas enclosed by the first and second annular edges are smaller than the area enclosed by the outer peripheral sheet; the inner peripheral sheet is fixedly connected with the outer peripheral sheet to form an annular connecting portion, which is located between the first annular edge and the second annular edge.
US12226014B2
A slide rail assembly includes a first rail, a second rail, a slide-facilitating device, and a retaining member. The second rail is movably mounted in a channel of, and is longitudinally displaceable with respect to, the first rail. The slide-facilitating device is movably mounted between the rails and includes an engaging feature. The retaining member is provided on the first rail and includes an elastic portion with a predetermined feature. The first rail includes a limiting feature for preventing deformation of the elastic portion. When the second rail is moved out of the channel after displacement in an opening direction with respect to the first rail, the slide-facilitating device is at a predetermined position, with the engaging feature engaged with the predetermined feature.
US12226011B2
A revolving shelf system including a drive track extending along at least one inner surface of a side wall of a cabinet. A shelf member has at least one end connected to the drive track, and a drive member is received within and along the drive track. The drive member is in engagement with the shelf member and is configured to drive the shelf member along the drive track. A stabilizing connection is formed between the shelf member and at least one inner surface of the cabinet. The stabilizing connection is configured to maintain the shelf member in a fixed orientation relative to the inner surface of the cabinet throughout movement of the shelf member along the drive track.
US12226010B2
An oral care implement comprises a head and a handle, the head being repeatedly attachable to and detachable from the handle. The head is made from a non-magnetic and/or non-ferromagnetic material, while the handle is at least partially made from a magnetic and/or ferromagnetic material.
US12226008B2
A manual toothbrush comprises a disposable head and a reusable handle. The head is structured and configured to be repeatedly attached to and detached from the handle. The head comprises a material having a density from about 0.5 g/cm3 to about 1.2 g/cm3, while the handle comprises a material having a density from about 2.1 g/cm3 to about 3.1 g/cm3. The handle has a proximal end and a distal end opposite to the proximal end, the proximal end being adjacent to the head when the head is attached to the handle. The handle comprises a concave portion configured to define a thumb rest adjacent to the proximal end.
US12226004B2
Various wearable communications pouches (“WCP”) having modular and static antenna elements of reduced visual signature are provided. The WCP demountably couples to the shoulder straps of articles, garments, and baggage items. The WCP includes a front panel and shoulder strap(s) pivotably coupled to opposite sides of a back panel. The back panel includes a communications hub that has antenna ports that are each conductively coupled to an antenna element or antenna attachment site. Each antenna attachment site receives a demountable antenna element. The antenna element and demountable antenna element include a conductive composition that includes a polymer and graphene sheets present as a percolated network therein. The back panel includes a fastener positioned proximate to the hub that receives and secures a portable radio. The front panel, back panel, and shoulder strap each include a RF shielding material to shield the user from RF radiation that emanates from the WCP.
US12226002B1
A Hair-Styling Tool Holding Device is an elastic sleeve for an arm having a plurality of barbershop tool retaining means disposed about the exterior surface of the sleeve. The sleeve may have an open first end and an open second end and is configured for disposal on an arm of a hairdresser. The device may also have a first elastic portion which is disposed on a perimeter of the open first end of the sleeve, a second elastic portion which is disposed on a perimeter of the open second end of the sleeve, a plurality of first and second attachment portions which are configured to hold and organize a plurality of hairdressing tools.
US12225993B2
A suitcase having a base and a lid where the lid may be rotatable about a hinge from a closed configuration to an open configuration and may be secured, via one or more latching assemblies is disclosed. The lid may comprise an upper shell, and the base may comprise a lower shell. The upper shell and the lower shell may be seamlessly formed to create a water resistant and/or waterproof suitcase. The suitcase may have an extendable trolley handle assembly that is externally attached to the base of the suitcase using a plurality of mounting clips. The trolley handle assembly may comprise a pair of extrusion assemblies that are connected to the base of the suitcase and connected to each other by a grip. The suitcase may also have a removably secured interior liner. The interior liner may include a plurality of grommets and a plurality of fastener portions to releasably attach to the suitcase.
US12225990B2
Telescoping and/or folding pole, in particular for hiking, having a first tubular portion (1) and a second tubular portion (2). The first tubular portion (1) is arranged partially inside the second tubular portion (2) and can be axially displaced therein, the first tubular portion (1) has a radial opening (3) and a radially movable and resiliently loaded securing element (4) which extends through the radial opening (3) and on which the second tubular portion (2) is positioned such that an axial pushing-together of the first tubular portion (1) and the second tubular portion (2) is impeded is provided. The securing element (4) has a recess (5) with which the second tubular portion (2) cooperates such that radial movements of the securing element (4) relative to the second tubular portion (2) are prevented.
US12225989B1
An outdoor Roman umbrella with an umbrella opening and closing structure includes an umbrella post and an umbrella body, where the umbrella post is provided with a slider assembly that moves up and down along the umbrella post, the slider assembly is hinged and matched with a cantilever, and the other end of the cantilever is configured to be matched with the umbrella body. The outdoor Roman umbrella further includes a diagonal draw bar assembly, where when the diagonal draw bar assembly is in a straight-bar state, the diagonal draw bar assembly and the cantilever are matched in a crossed manner, and with the slider assembly moving upward, the diagonal draw bar assembly and the cantilever are deformed in a crossed manner and the umbrella body is driven to be opened.
US12225985B2
A male-type molded hook-and-loop fastener-equipped sheet includes a male-type molded hook-and-loop fastener and a non-foam resin sheet integrated on the back surface of the male-type molded hook-and-loop fastener. The male-type molded hook-and-loop fastener includes a resin-made base plate and a plurality of male-type engaging elements made of the same resin, rising from the surface of the base plate and arranged in a row. The male-type engaging elements are bent in the direction of the row direction of the male-type engaging elements from the middle thereof, where the tip end portion approaches the base plate. The non-foam resin sheet is directly laminated and integrated on the back surface of the male-type molded hook-and-loop fastener. The resin constituting the non-foam resin sheet is a resin mainly composed of an elastomer resin of the same type as the resin constituting the male-type molded hook-and-loop fastener, though with a lower hardness.
US12225979B2
A method includes determining, by a processing module of a foot force detection system, an athletic mode. The method further includes, when the athletic mode is active, determining, by the processing module, an athletic burst mode. The method further includes determining, by the processing module, a sampling rate for the foot force detection system based on the athletic burst mode for sampling foot force data.
US12225978B2
The present invention relates to an upper for a shoe, comprising: a medial padding located in a medial portion of a heel area of the upper, wherein the medial padding comprises a first shape; a lateral padding located in a lateral portion of the heel area of the upper, wherein the lateral padding comprises a second shape; wherein the first shape differs from the second shape, wherein the lateral padding is arranged closer to a sole of the shoe than the medial padding, and wherein the lateral padding is arranged closer to a rear of the shoe upper than the medial padding.
US12225975B2
An article of footwear includes an upper, a sole structure attached to the upper and defining a ground-contacting surface, a first receiver disposed on one of a medial side of the upper and a lateral side of the upper and extending over a junction between the upper and the sole structure, and a clip attached to the first receiver and extending around a heel region of the upper.
US12225974B2
An insole includes a heel cup portion supporting a heel, in which the heel cup portion has an outer height higher than an inner height.
US12225966B2
A cloud-based computer system for diagnosis of conditions to counteract adverse anatomical or medical effects of unnatural supination of subtalar joints by elevated shoe heels. The system includes smartphones or other mobile computer devices located proximate to a center of gravity of users during locomotion, sensor(s) located in a sole or removable sole insert of footwear of the users; sensor(s) located in the smartphones or mobile computer devices; a connection between the sensors and the smartphones or mobile computer devices to provide data between the sensors and the smartphones or mobile computer devices; and a connection between the smartphones or mobile computer devices and the cloud-based computer system to provide data between the smartphones or mobile computer devices and the cloud-based computer system. The sensors located in the soles or removable sole inserts of the footwear and the smartphones or mobile computer devices include a gyroscope and an accelerometer.
