US12236538B2
A student terminal is for viewing a class given in a virtual space that is immersive. The student terminal includes: a VR function section configured to display the virtual space according to virtual space information; and an input section for receiving a video capturing a desk of a student who views the class. The VR function section extracts, from the video, an area including a top plate of the desk corresponding to a desk object in the virtual space, and performs image composition for fitting a video capturing the area onto a top plate of the desk object.
US12236533B2
An immersive content presentation system and techniques that can detect and correct lighting artifacts caused by movements of one or more taking camera in a performance area consisting of multiple displays (e.g., LED or LCD displays). The techniques include capturing, with a camera, a plurality of images of a performer performing in a performance area at least partially surrounded by one or more displays presenting images of a virtual environment. Where the images of the virtual environment within a frustum of the camera are updated on the one or more displays based on movement of the camera, and images of the virtual environment outside of the frustum of the camera are not updated based on movement of the camera. The techniques further include generating content based on the plurality of captured images.
US12236526B1
Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that determines generates a three-dimensional (3D) model based on depth data and a segmentation mask. For example, an example process may include obtaining depth data including depth values for pixels of a first image, obtaining a segmentation mask associated with a second image, the segmentation mask identifying a portion of the second image associated with an object, and generating a 3D model based on the depth data and the mask.
US12236521B1
Systems and methods of the present disclosure can facilitate determining a three-dimensional surface representation of an object. In some embodiments, the system includes a computer, a calibration module, which is configured to determine a camera geometry of a set of cameras, and an imaging module, which is configured to capture spatial images using the cameras. The computer is configured to determine epipolar lines in the spatial images, transform the spatial images with a collineation transformation, determine second derivative spatial images with a second derivative filter, construct epipolar plane edge images based on zero crossings of second derivative epipolar planes image based on the epipolar lines, select edges and compute depth estimates, sequence the edges based on contours in a spatial edge image, filter the depth estimates, and create a three-dimensional surface representation based on the filtered depth estimates and the original spatial images.
US12236516B2
A ray tracing unit and method for processing a ray in a ray tracing system performs intersection testing for the ray by performing one or more intersection testing iterations. Each intersection testing iteration includes: (i) traversing an acceleration structure to identify the nearest intersection of the ray with a primitive that has not been identified as the nearest intersection in any previous intersection testing iterations for the ray; and (ii) if, based on a characteristic of the primitive, a traverse shader is to be executed in respect of the identified intersection: executing the traverse shader in respect of the identified intersection; and if the execution of the traverse shader determines that the ray does not intersect the primitive at the identified intersection, causing another intersection testing iteration to be performed. When the intersection testing for the ray is complete, an output shader is executed to process a result of the intersection testing for the ray.
US12236515B2
Three-dimensional data can be synchronized between a first electronic device and a second electronic device. A content creation application may be running on the first electronic device and may utilize a data file describing a three-dimensional content item. A two-dimensional representation of the content item may be displayed on the first electronic device. A user may request to preview the two-dimensional representation of the content item in three-dimensions. The first electronic device may initiate a data transfer with the second electronic device. The three-dimensional data of the data file may be transferred, via a communication link, from the content creation of the first electronic device to a three-dimensional graphic rendering application at the second electronic device. The three-dimensional graphic rendering application may generate a preview of the content item in three-dimensions based on the received three-dimensional data.
US12236514B2
A method for efficient dynamic video rendering is described for certain implementations. The method may include identifying a file for rendering a video comprising one or more static layers and one or more dynamic layers, detecting, based on analyzing one or more fields of the file for rendering a video, the one or more static layers and the one or more dynamic layers, wherein each dynamic layer comprises a comment that indicates a variable component, rendering the one or more static layers of the file, receiving, from a user device, a request for the video that includes user information, determining, based on the user information, variable definitions designated to be inserted into a dynamic layer, rendering the one or more dynamic layers using the variable definitions, and generating a composite video for playback from the rendered one or more static layers and the rendered one or more dynamic layers.
US12236512B2
The disclosed system establishes, by a first augmented reality (AR) device, a voice communication session between a plurality of users. The system displays, by the first AR device of a first user of the plurality of users, an avatar representing a second user of the plurality of users. The system receives, by the first AR device of a first user of the plurality of users, input from the first user that selects a display position for the avatar representing the second user within a real-world environment of the first user. The system animates the avatar representing the second user based on movement information received from a second AR device of the second user.
US12236508B2
A terminal apparatus includes a controller. The controller is configured to flip text included in an illustration drawn by a first user on a virtual screen in virtual space to be legible as seen from a virtual camera.
US12236507B2
An image editing support method includes deciding a target object as a first object at least partially overlapping a range to be filled with a blank in a first image in which at least one first object representing at least one of a character and a diagram is arranged out of the at least one first object when an operation of designating the range is performed using a pointer, and moving the target object to an outside of the range.
US12236504B2
A graphical user interface for display on a display screen of a user device is configured for display in a window occupying all or a portion of the display screen and has a first frame occupying a first frame region of the window. The first frame illustrates, adjacent to one another in a first dimension, graph visual elements each representing a respective graph data entry from a continuous subset among a sequence of graph data entries, each of the sequence having a defined placement and a quantitative value. The continuous subset is determined in response to selective zooming and/or scrolling of the first frame region by user interaction. The graph visual elements each have, in a second dimension, a linear extent or position determined according to the size of the first frame region in the second dimension, the quantitative value of the respective graph data entry, and dynamic scaling factor.
US12236500B2
A method for processing an electronic image including receiving, by a viewer, the electronic image and a FOV (field of view), wherein the FOV includes at least one coordinate, at least one dimension, and a magnification factor, loading, by the viewer, a plurality of tiles within the FOV, determining, by the viewer, a state of the plurality of tiles in a cache, and in response to determining that the state of the plurality of tiles in the cache is a fully loaded state, rendering, by the viewer, the plurality of tiles to a display.
US12236499B2
A system and method for processing a video stream captured during a clinical procedure. A method includes: receiving and forwarding a current frame to a display using a first processing thread; forwarding the current frame to a memory buffer; using a second processing thread to check for a new frame in the memory buffer; using the second processing thread to forward the new frame to a cloud service that detects lesions in image data; receiving a result from the cloud service; in response to the result being indicative of a new detected lesion in the new frame, performing object sizing using the second processing thread and forwarding new lesion information to the first processing thread; and graphically overlaying the new lesion information onto the current frame at the display manager.
US12236497B2
A text analytics system may predict whether a policy will be adopted. The system may include at least one processor configured to access information scraped from the Internet to identify text data associated with comments expressed by a plurality of individuals about a proposed policy. The at least one processor may be further configured to analyze the text data in order to determine a sentiment of each comment; apply an influence filter to each comment to determine an influence metric associated with each comment; weight each comment using the influence metric; determine based on an aggregate of the weighted comments, an indicator associated with adoption of the policy; and transmit the indicator to a system user.
US12236486B2
Systems and methods are disclosed herein that can detect use of a consumer electronics device and that can generate and offer insurance or protection plans that measure, account, and adjust for the use of the consumer electronics device and consumer tendencies while using the consumer electronics device.
US12236479B2
A system for determining attribution for an electronic credit application is disclosed. The system receives, via an Internet connection, an electronic credit application for a new credit account, the application includes customer identification information provided by the customer. The system also receives application location information related to the electronic credit application for the new credit account, the application location information obtained from an electronic device, which is not provided by the customer and replaces any application location information provided by the customer. The system additionally receives associate identification information related to the electronic credit application for the new credit account, and associate identification information obtained from sources other than the customer's keyed input. The system determines at least one attribution based on the received information.
US12236476B1
The present disclosure relates to a control method and a system for an electronic device providing an offline market-based virtual space shopping service, and particularly, the control method for an electronic device includes: setting, by the electronic device, a virtual location of a user according to a user input within a virtual space representing an offline marketplace; providing, by the electronic device, at least one virtual image matched with the virtual location of the user based on image data constituting the virtual space; and providing, by the electronic device, an image of at least one metahuman positioned within a predetermined distance from the virtual location of the user within the virtual space.
US12236470B2
A heuristic money laundering detection engine includes capabilities to collect an unstructured data set, such as a transaction record, and detect indications of money laundering activity. By detecting money laundering activity and feeding back indications of money laundering transactions, the heuristic algorithm may continue to learn and improve detection accuracy. Such indications may include correlations to sets of transaction activity among a number of financial accounts and past indications of money laundering activity. Indications of money laundering may allow generation of audit reports for reporting to regulatory authorities.
US12236465B2
A method and a system are described herein for preparing a custom cosmetic formulation. The system includes a controller in electronic communication with an order management system, wherein the order management system stores user-specific data including data related to a custom cosmetic formulation and components thereof, a plurality of valves for receiving pressurized fluid, the plurality of valves in electronic communication with the controller; a plurality of dispensers, each having a valve for metering fluid in predetermined quantities, and each having a dispensing head having a nozzle, each nozzle comprising a nozzle tip on a distal end thereof, wherein the nozzle tips are arranged so as to dispense a fluid into an inlet of a product receptacle, the dispensers in electronic communication with a data port; a measuring device in electronic communication with the controller, the measuring device capable of capturing data related to dispensed fluids from each of the plurality of dispensers and transmitting the data to the controller; a barcode scanner for reading order-specific instructions; a user interface for operator communication with the order management system and with the controller; a plurality of fluid conduits for introducing fluid to the dispensers; a fluid delivery apparatus for delivery of components of a custom cosmetic component to the dispensers; and a pressure source for pressurizing fluid in the fluid delivery apparatus for delivery of fluid from the fluid delivery apparatus to the plurality of dispensers.
US12236463B2
Systems, methods and computer-readable storage media including an interactive surface including a transparent touchscreen and an imaging system, and one or more processors configured to initiate a user session based on detecting a session trigger. The one or more processors are further configured to receive, from the imaging system, a plurality of digital images taken when a document is on or proximate the interactive surface and identify an obstruction obstructing part of the document. The one or more processors are further configured to create a master digital image based on two or more images, generate a graphical representation of information contained in the master digital image, and provide the graphical representation to the first user device.
US12236456B2
The system and method described herein may use various natural language models to deliver targeted advertisements and/or provide natural language processing based on advertisements. In one implementation, an advertisement associated with a product or service may be provided for presentation to a user. A natural language utterance of the user may be received. The natural language utterance may be interpreted based on the advertisement and, responsive to the existence of a pronoun in the natural language utterance, a determination of whether the pronoun refers to one or more of the product or service or a provider of the product or service may be effectuated.
US12236455B2
Provided is a communication device including: a first receiving unit configured to receive distribution information from a second moving object that is different from a first moving object on which the communication device is mounted; a storage unit configured to store the distribution information; a transmission unit configured to transmit the distribution information to a third moving object that is different from the first moving object; and a communication relay unit configured to relay a communication between an external terminal located outside the first moving object, and an external network, in which the distribution information includes a restriction condition for restricting the transmission of the distribution information, and when the transmission unit determines that the transmission of the distribution information to the third moving object is not restricted based on the restriction condition, the transmission unit transmits the distribution information to the third moving object.
US12236452B2
An advertisement multi-screen collaboration method and a device are provided, and relate to the field of electronic devices, to resolve a problem that a public-oriented device and a terminal of a user cannot implement cross-device multi-screen collaboration. When playing a first advertisement, an advertising device broadcasts a wireless signal that includes an identifier of the first advertisement and bearing information used to indicate a position and an orientation of the advertising device. A first terminal receives the wireless signal, and when determining that the first advertisement played by the advertising device is effectively exposed to a user of the first terminal, sends an effective exposure event to a server. The effective exposure event includes a unified identity corresponding to the user of the first terminal and the identifier of the first advertisement, so that the server updates a historical preference of the user corresponding to the unified identity. The first terminal adds the unified identity when requesting an advertisement resource from the server, so that the server returns an advertisement resource of a second advertisement having a same advertising campaign as the first advertisement to the first terminal based on the unified identity.
US12236451B2
A method and system, performed in a processor of a server computing device, of engaging a transitory sentiment community. The method comprises identifying, responsive to monitoring generation of the transitory sentiment community, a critical engagement juncture being reached, the transitory sentiment community including a collective of content consumers, the collective of content consumers providing a sentiment expressive usage associated with a subject of interest, the sentiment expressive usage characterized in accordance with a sentiment intensity rating, and initiating, responsive to the critical engagement juncture being reached, an engagement action directed to at least a subset of the collective of content consumers.
US12236449B2
A computer-implemented method for dynamic link redirection includes receiving a request to display online content to a user, determining a plurality of current content links in the online content, for each current content link among the plurality of current content links, performing operations including: obtaining current assessment parameters for the current content link, generating a current assessment for the current content link based on the current assessment parameters, obtaining a plurality of alternative content links based on the current content link, generating a plurality of alternative assessments for each alternative content link among the plurality of alternative content links based on respective alternative assessment parameters for the alternative content link, determining a selected content link among the plurality of alternative content links based on the current assessment and the plurality of alternative assessments, replacing the current content link in the online content with the selected content link, and displaying the online content to the user.
US12236447B2
A system may include a payment card that includes one or more chips that are operable to utilize information in a payment transaction to enact different functions. For example, a payment applet in a contact chip transaction (e.g., contact EMV transaction) or contactless chip transaction (e.g., contactless EMV transaction) may utilize information that flows through the chip (e.g., country, time, date, transaction amount, approval status) to trigger pre-stored messages or functions (e.g., switch to a payment option or account). Information may be introduced into the chip during a transaction as a result of manual input from the cardholder on the cardholder's phone or other device. Thus, transaction scripting (e.g., EMV scripting) may be utilized to let a card (e.g., static or powered) know that a function (e.g., change of account) is desired by a cardholder and the chip may, if not in the proper account, reset and restart the chip in a mode associated with the desired function (e.g., in the desired account).
US12236442B2
The subject matter disclosed herein provides methods for distributing notifications to a user. The method can include receiving data encapsulating notifications from a device connected to a network that provide information relating to the device's status. The device can provide a health related treatment. The method can associate each notification with one or more notification categories relating to a function performed by the device or a location of the device. A table of users having one or more subscriptions to these notification categories can be accessed. The subscriptions can be automatically assigned to users based on the users' role. A user can be identified from the table to distribute the one or more notifications to. The user can have a subscription that matches a notification category of the received notifications, and data comprising the notifications can be distributed to the user. Related apparatus, systems, techniques, and articles are also described.
US12236440B1
A compliance management system generates an enterprise data schema based on a compliance regulation. The system monitors interactions over a network with resources subject to the compliance regulation to generate interaction data sets. The system processes the interaction data sets against the enterprise data schema to categorize at least some of the interactions to trigger events associated with the categories, generate corresponding to the events, and track a compliance metric for each of the tasks generated. The system updates the enterprise data schema based on the compliance metric and the interaction data sets.
US12236439B2
A method of reducing a future amount of electronic fraud alerts includes receiving data detailing a financial transaction, inputting the data into a rules-based engine that generates an electronic fraud alert, transmitting the alert to a mobile device of a customer, and receiving from the mobile device customer feedback indicating that the alert was a false positive or otherwise erroneous. The method also includes inputting the data detailing the financial transaction into a machine learning program trained to (i) determine a reason why the false positive was generated, and (ii) then modify the rules-based engine to account for the reason why the false positive was generated, and to no longer generate electronic fraud alerts based upon (a) fact patterns similar to fact patterns of the financial transaction, or (b) data similar to the data detailing the financial transaction, to facilitate reducing an amount of future false positive fraud alerts.
US12236437B2
A system for identifying an article (1) and whether there is an ownership of the article, the system comprising at least one article comprising a first tagging device (4) embedded in the at least one article and a second tagging device (5) embedded in or attached to the at least one article, at least one reading device (2), a central data processing device (3) comprising a storage device with a central database (15) stored thereon and a first transmitting/receiving device (8), and a second transmitting/receiving device (9), where the central database (15) at least comprises a virtual ID (19), the at least one virtual ID (19) comprising an owner profile, a public key, an identification master (IDmaster) code (13) and an identification slave (IDslave) code (14) being centrally generated and information regarding the article, where the first tagging device (4) comprises a tagging device ID (17), the public key and the IDmaster code (13) and is locked in a read-only mode, where the second tagging device (5) comprises a tagging device ID (18) and the IDslave code (14) and is locked in a read-only mode, and where the IDmaster code (13) and the IDslave code (14) are paired and locked to one another thus linking the ownership of the at least one article to the IDmaster code (13) and the IDslave code (14). A corresponding method as well as a method for transferring ownership of an article (1) is also provided.
US12236436B2
A method for determining the authenticity of a component in an electronic device, the method comprising: receiving a seed by a component in the electronic device; storing the seed in a block of non-volatile memory in the component; calculating, by the component, the output of a cryptographic function with the input based on the seed and storing the output in the block of non-volatile memory; iteratively calculating, by the component, the outputs of the cryptographic function wherein for each iteration the input for the cryptographic function is based on the seed and all previous outputs, and for each iteration storing the output in the block of non-volatile memory; and determining the authenticity of the component based on a selected output of the cryptographic function F, the selected output being one of the outputs stored in the block of non-volatile memory.
US12236435B2
A method for registering one or more Greenfield devices via a virtual Internet of Things Universal Identifier (IoT UID) is provided. The method includes identifying one or more Brownfield devices, generating device property data based at least in part on the one or more Brownfield devices, and transmitting, to an IoT device registrar server, a registration request that includes the device property data. The method further includes interpreting one or more IoT UIDs generated in response to the transmitting of the registration request.
US12236428B2
A method of performing a fund transfer at an ATM includes receiving an active authentication transaction key at an ATM from a mobile financial transaction instrument via a wireless communication protocol, generating a PIN at the ATM, and storing the PIN in a machine readable storage medium. An authorization request message is transmitted to a financial institution identified by the active authentication transaction key. The authorization request message includes the PIN and at least a portion of the active authentication transaction key. The PIN is received from a user of the mobile financial transaction instrument, and the funds are dispensed in response to receiving the PIN.
US12236426B2
The present disclosure discloses a method and system for dynamically processing financial transactions. The method includes receiving a transaction request including at least one unique identifier field to transfer payment into an account associated with a payment instrument and authorizing the transaction request based on one or more predetermined rules. The payment instrument is used at an electronic device by a merchant for transfer of the payment from a merchant account. Thereafter, the method includes generating a direct fund transfer message based on the at least one unique identifier field upon authorization of the transaction request and transmitting the direct fund transfer message to an issuer associated with the merchant account for authentication of the direct fund transfer message. Lastly, the method includes transferring dynamically the payment from the merchant account to the account associated with the payment instrument when the direct fund transfer message is authenticated by the issuer.
US12236421B2
A block packaging method based on blockchain transaction is used in an electronic device. The electronic device controls each node in the blockchain to receive and store a blockchain transaction, and calculate a hash value of the each node according to the blockchain transaction, generate a package voting information according to the hash value of the each node, and send the package voting information to a voted node. The electronic device further controls the each node to record the number of votes as the voted nodes according to the package voting information to obtain the number of votes of the each node, take the node with the largest number of votes as a target node according to the number of votes, and pack the blockchain transaction into blocks and broadcast the blocks to all nodes in the blockchain.
US12236420B2
A card reader of a terminal is cryptographically verified upon initialization, power up, connection, or start of day processing of the terminal. A cryptographic and signed token is provided from and verified by an Encrypted Personal Identification Number (PIN) pad (EPP) of the terminal. Each time the reader initializes, the token is verified by the EPP and a new token is generated and provided to the reader for use during a next initialization cycle of the reader. If the reader lacks a token when the EPP has record that is should have the token, the reader is not authorized to perform card transactions for the terminal. If a token provided by the reader during an initialization cycle is not verified, the reader is not authorized to perform card transactions for the terminal.
US12236417B2
Systems, methods, and machine-executable data structures for the processing of data for the secure creation, administration, manipulation, processing, and storage of electronic data useful in the processing of electronic payment transactions. Aspects of such methods, systems, and data structures include providing at an electronic device, an output indicating that a dynamically-configured electronic token is in a transaction-ready state, where the dynamically-configured electronic token is associated with a plurality of loyalty accounts; in response to one or more signals providing information regarding a location of the electronic device, obtaining token data associated with a loyalty account of the plurality of loyalty accounts corresponding to the location of the electronic device; and via a data communication interface, route a token, generated from the token data, for processing at a transaction processing system.
US12236415B2
The electronic device may invoke a host application. The device may display a first host user interface on the display, the first host user interface including a first host user interface component associated with a child application. In response, the device may invoke, using the host application, the child application executed at the electronic device. The device may transmit, using the host application, a request for data associated with a child user interface component to the child application. The device may transmit, using the child application, the request for data associated with the child user interface component to a child application server, wherein the data associated with the child user interface component is inaccessible by the host application. The device may receive, using the child application, the data associated with the child user interface component from the child application server. The device may display the child user interface component.
US12236408B1
A mobile device includes a near-field communication (NFC) device, a network interface, an input/output device, and a processing circuit having a processor and a memory. The memory stores instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processing circuit to receive, via the input/output device, payment card information relating to a payment card of a customer and to transmit, via the network interface, the payment card information to a mobile wallet computing system. The instructions further cause the processing circuit to receive, via the network interface, an inactive payment token representing the payment card and to store the inactive payment token in a mobile wallet of the mobile device. The instructions further cause the processing circuit to establish, via the NFC device, an NFC session with an automated teller machine (ATM) and to update a status of the stored inactive payment token from inactive to active.
US12236407B2
A computing device, a computer program product, and a computer-implemented method for delivering enhanced financial services and, more particularly, for facilitating automation of recurring financial transactions. A user can have one or more financial transactions saved on command in order to have them executed at any point in time.
US12236405B1
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for real-time trickle payments are provided. A system includes a processing circuit configured to: receive a request from a consumer device to commission a service provided by a supplier; place a financial hold on funds allocated to a supplier financial account based on performance terms of a smart contract; detect initiation of performance of the requested service based on performance information from a mobile device associated with the supplier and correlating the performance information to the smart contract; increase a financial hold on funds allocated to a consumer financial account in a hold amount proportional to the monitored performance, and decrease the financial hold on the funds allocated to the supplier financial account in the hold amount proportional to the monitored performance; and, upon the completion of the requested service, release the funds on hold in the supplier financial account.
US12236403B2
A method for quality assurance management of cellular site comprising receiving a user selection of a selected cellular site of a plurality of cellular sites. Based on the user selection of the selected cellular site, the method include retrieving site parameters and selectively displaying the site parameters via a GUI. The method includes receiving photographs of the selected cellular site, the photographs captured by the user computing device. The method includes transmitting the photographs to the site database. The method includes providing site data fields for receiving cellular site data via the GUI, and receiving, via the one or more site data fields, user entries of cellular site data associated with the selected cellular site. The method includes transmitting the user entries of cellular site data to the site database.
US12236398B2
Systems and methods for an enterprise computing platform may include a server that may include a desktop-as-a-service module, a user behavior analytics module, a remote monitoring and management module, an analytics-as-a-service module, an insider threat prevention and monitoring module, and a project tracker module. The server or modules may provide remote desktop sessions in an efficient and convenient manner, may analyze user behavior and automatically execute corrective actions in response to rules violations, and may monitor and manage multiple computer systems and computing sessions as to their statuses, versions, authentication, or compliance.
US12236394B1
An embodiment for synchronization of physical delivery with a metaverse activity is provided. The embodiment may include receiving real-time and historical data relating to a metaverse activity. The embodiment may also include identifying a context of the metaverse activity. The embodiment may further include in response to determining at least one user requires physical delivery of one or more physical objects, identifying a time at which the at least one user requires the physical delivery of the one or more physical objects during the metaverse activity. The embodiment may also include causing at least one robotic device to onboard the one or more physical objects to be delivered in advance of the required time. The embodiment may further include deploying the at least one robotic device to deliver the onboarded one or more physical objects to a physical location of the at least one user at the required time.
US12236392B2
A communication protocol provides for a smartphone transmitting location information to a control circuit and the control circuit then determining whether the smartphone is within a predetermined distance of a particular facility, and, when true, determining whether a temporal flag is active for the smartphone. If true, the control circuit does not respond to the smartphone. When the smartphone is within the predetermined distance of the particular facility and that temporal flag is not active, however, the control circuit transmits an in-app alert to the smartphone to provide the user with an opportunity to indicate whether the user will now take a particular action, or not. When the smartphone transmits a not-now message to the control circuit, the latter sets the aforementioned temporal flag.
US12236388B2
A scanning device mounting apparatus includes a mounting component, which may be magnetic; a hose coupled to the mounting component at a first distal end of the hose; an adjusting component coupled to a second distal end of the hose; and a cradle coupled to the adjusting component. The cradle can hold a scanning device, and the scanning device mounting apparatus is configured to position the scanning device in a manner that allows the scanning device to scan the labels on items that are being moved under or near the scanning device, such as packages or other items that are being loaded onto a delivery vehicle.
US12236386B2
Methods and systems for estimating a time of arrival for a vehicle at a destination are disclosed. The system will access an adjacency graph comprising nodes and edges. Each node is associated with a unique location in a geographic area in which the vehicle is traveling. Each edge connects two of the nodes and is associated with an estimated travel time between the two connected nodes. The system will select, from the locations in adjacency graph, a first location that is near the vehicle and a second location that is near the destination. The location and destination are each associated with nodes in adjacency graph. The system will calculate a shortest path along the edges in the adjacency graph from the location and destination nodes, and it will calculate an estimated time of arrival for the vehicle as a function of the estimated travel times along the shortest path.
US12236369B2
A system for computational estimation sampling from non-trivial probability distributions. The system comprises a processor, operating in conjunction with computer memory. The processor is configured to conduct importance sampling using normalizing flows where a base distribution has a set of parameters that can be adjusted to account for heavy-tailed distributions.
US12236368B1
The probabilistic accumulation method is an independent and comprehensive approach for validating third party catastrophe models. The method starts with a standard technique, namely a limited scenario accumulation analysis, and extends the approach via a novel sampling methodology to evaluate the third part models against a significantly larger dataset. The sampling approach includes a technique for extending the fixed frequency and severity assumption used by the vendor catastrophe models. The result is more complete set of loss estimates against which to evaluate the vendor model output.
US12236360B2
A method, a computer system, and a computer program product for a shiftleft topology construction is provided. Embodiments of the present invention may include collecting datasets. Embodiments of the present invention may include extracting topological entities from the datasets. Embodiments of the present invention may include correlating a plurality of data from the topological entities. Embodiments of the present invention may include mapping the topological entities. Embodiments of the present invention may include marking entry points for a plurality of subgraphs of the topological entities. Embodiments of the present invention may include constructing a topology graph.
US12236355B2
Systems and methods for generating a machine-learning (ML) model for extracting information from one or more electronic documents, where the ML model can be used as a data object, which can be part of a database command or as part of a document information extraction process that is continuously running (e.g., document information extraction pipeline).
US12236353B2
Computer-implemented machines, systems and methods for providing insights about misalignment in a latent space of a machine learning model. A method includes initializing a second weight matrix of a second artificial neural network based on a first weight matrix from a first artificial neural network. The method further includes applying transfer learning between the first artificial neural network and the second artificial neural network. The method further includes comparing the first latent space with the second latent space. The method further includes determining, responsive to the comparing, a first score indicating alignment of the first latent space and the second latent space. The method further includes determining, and responsive to the first score satisfying a threshold, an appropriateness of the machine learning model.
US12236352B2
Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. The methods can include, for instance: generating a plurality of deep transfer learning networks. Further, the methods can include, for instance: encoding one or more transfer layers.
US12236348B2
Techniques and apparatuses are described for deep neural network (DNN) processing for a user equipment-coordination set (UECS). A network entity selects (910) an end-to-end (E2E) machine-learning (ML) configuration that forms an E2E DNN for processing UECS communications. The network entity directs (915) each device of multiple devices participating in an UECS to form, using at least a portion of the E2E ML configuration, a respective sub-DNN of the E2E DNN that transfers the UECS communications through the E2E communication, where the multiple devices include at least one base station, a coordinating user equipment (UE), and at least one additional UE. The network entity receives (940) feedback associated with the UECS communications and identifies (945) an adjustment to the E2E ML configuration. The network entity then directs at least some of the multiple devices participating in an UECS to update the respective sub-DNN of the E2E DNN based on the adjustment.
US12236344B2
Embodiments provide a system and method for performing collaborative learning of machine representations of a concept. During operation, the system can receive a user-specified object associated with a user's concept of interest. The system can compute a similarity score between a target feature vector associated with the user-specified object and a respective feature vector for a set of candidate objects. The system can determine, based on the similarity score, a first subset of candidate objects that satisfy a similarity threshold. The system can receive, via a GUI, a first user-feedback associated with a visual representation of the first subset of candidate objects. The first user-feedback can represent an elaboration of a current user's concept of interest. The system can then modify, based on the first user-feedback, the target feature vector and the similarity function, thereby providing an improved model for machine representations of a current user's concept of interest.
US12236334B2
A monetary risk prediction apparatus according to an embodiment includes: a predictive model recording unit that records a predictive model to predict time-series data showing a future asset amount of a user; and prediction means for receiving evaluation data that is time-series data including an asset amount and a numeric value showing a health condition of the user, inputting the evaluation data to the predictive model recorded on the predictive model recording unit, and outputting the time-series data showing the future asset amount of the user predicted by the predictive model according to the input.
US12236321B2
The present disclosure relates to chatbot systems, and more particularly, to batching techniques for handling unbalanced training data when training a model such that bias is removed from the trained machine learning model when performing inference. In an embodiment, a plurality of raw utterances is obtained. A bias eliminating distribution is determined and a subset of the plurality of raw utterances is batched according to the bias-reducing distribution. The resulting unbiased training data may be input into a prediction model for training the prediction model. The trained prediction model may be obtained and utilized to predict unbiased results from new inputs received by the trained prediction model.
US12236314B2
An aspect of the present disclosure provides a method of obtaining information from a two-dimensional optical pattern. An image is captured of the two-dimensional optical pattern, which includes plurality of optical quadrant having plurality of optical cell. Contours of the two-dimensional optical pattern are determined in the image determining locations in two dimensions of plurality of optical quadrant within the contours of the two-dimensional optical pattern. Further, the locations of optical cell placed around the optical quadrant are determined in two-dimensional geometric shape in the optical cell that are spliced apart from each other at predetermined locations in the optical cell with respect to the optical quadrant. The information content of the two-dimensional optical pattern is determined.
US12236313B2
A method is provided for remotely assuring the quality and transportation of offsite construction components. The method involves placing a code on the module, where the code contains identity information about the module. Then the code is scanned to obtain the identity information and to upload it to a blockchain data storage facility. Access is allowed to the identity information in the blockchain data storage facility to relevant parties for the purpose of remotely inspecting the module to verify its quality. Based on this verification the module may be delivered to a transportation facility for transport. During transport location information about the module is collected and uploading it to blockchain data storage facility. Second access is allowed to the location information stored in the blockchain data storage facility to allow relevant parties to remotely understand the transportation situation of the module.
US12236307B2
Provided is a display device. The display device includes a control component, and the control component is configured to control a display component to operate; and control, in response to receiving a first control instruction, at least one of a near-field communication component and the display component such that a signal-sending period of the near-field communication component falls within an image-holding period of the display component, wherein the near-field communication component is configured to send a signal during the signal-sending period.
US12236306B2
A contactless information medium is provided with a spiral wiring on an IC chip. The IC chip has first and second electrodes, and the spiral wiring has first and second end portions electrically connected to the first and second electrodes, respectively. A first relay wiring is connected to the first electrode via a first connecting hole. The first end portion is connected to the first relay wiring via a third connecting hole formed on an inner peripheral side of the spiral wiring. The first relay wiring includes a rectangular region diagonally including the first connecting hole and the third connecting hole.
US12236303B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable data storage apparatus provide automated identification techniques that seamlessly and accurately bridge the differences between different identification systems to enable more useful and advanced product and service offerings, such as realtime tracking of shipment location and status.
US12236299B2
An apparatus for the presentation of a code (1), in particular code tape or code strip, with a carrier (2) and at least one code (1) assigned to the carrier (2), is, with regard to a safe installation of several carriers (2) relative to one another, designed and further developed with structurally simple means in such a way that the carrier (2) has a coupling device (3) for coupling the carrier (2) to a further carrier (2).
US12236296B2
A process for activating tracking labels of an item tracking system that uses a printer to activate labels as they are printed for use. Electronic tracking labels may have a removable portion that breaks an electrical circuit when removed; breaking the circuit activates the label. A printer with a label cutter may be used when labels are prepared for use, and the printer may be configured to cut off the removable portion of the label during label printing. This method automates label activation as part of the label preparation process. The printer may be programmed to position the boundary between the removable portion of the label and the rest of the label under the cutter, for example using knowledge of the label's layout. A printed, activated label output from the printer may be placed directly on an item to be tracked.
US12236291B2
Embodiments of systems and methods for managing an Information Handling System (IHS) using a workspace orchestration system are described. In an illustrative, non-limiting embodiment, an IHS may include computer-executable instructions to, communicate with an operating system (OS) of the IHS to register for receiving one or more event messages, and communicate with the workspace to receive one or more event message subscriptions associated with an application configured in the workspace. The instructions are configured to store the one or more event message subscriptions at a specified location such that, when an event message is received from the OS, and when one the received event message comprises one of the event message subscriptions associated with the application, send the event message to the workspace.
US12236289B2
A method and system for using a configuration-based framework for testing an application programming interface (API) are provided. The method includes receiving identification information about one or more APIs to be tested; defining, based on the first information, at least two API endpoints and one or more dependencies to be tested; retrieving an authentication model to be used for accessing the APIs; generating a testing plan based on the API endpoints, the dependencies, and the authentication model; executing a test of the APIs based on the testing plan; and displaying at least one result of the executed test on a graphical user interface (GUI).
US12236286B2
A system and method to automate an integration of one or more application program interfaces (APIs) are disclosed. The method includes receiving an API documentation associated with the one or more APIs and extracting one or more parameters from the received API documentation. Further, the method comprises generating one or more integration scripts and one or more templates and identifying one or more data mappings between one or more data formats associated with the one or more APIs. Further, the method includes implementing a data transformation logic for seamless data flow and compatibility between the one or more APIs. The method includes executing a set of test cases and a set of scenarios for identifying one or more issues in the one or more APIs.
US12236259B2
The subject technology performs a transaction locally at a computing node. The subject technology determines that the transaction has been completed. The subject technology determines a set of immutable attributes from the completed transaction. The subject technology generates an aggregate identifier based on the set of immutable attributes. The subject technology publishes the generated aggregate ID. The subject technology stores the published aggregate ID to an external storage location.
US12236256B2
The system provided in the present application includes a public key infrastructure builder, a container image identity builder, a signature list builder, a container image verifier, a signature list and user certificates loader, and a container program verifier. The method provided in the present application is capable of conveniently authorizing container images and software running in the container, and verifying the container images and programs in the container at the right time, so as to ensure that container images running on the container platform are trusted, and the software running in the container is also trusted, thereby improving the security of the container platform.
US12236248B1
A portion of a radio-based application (RBA) is executed at a first runtime environment (RTE) launched at a server. The first RTE includes a software program for processing messages between a pair of layers of the RBA. In response to determining that the portion of the RBA is to be executed at a second RTE, at least a subset of state information pertaining to the inter-layer messages is transferred to the second RTE without pausing the RBA. After the state information is transferred, the portion of the RBA is run at the second RTE.
US12236244B1
A multi-degree branch predictor is disclosed. A processing circuit includes an instruction fetch circuit configured to fetch branch instructions, and a branch prediction circuit having a plurality of prediction subcircuits. The prediction subcircuits are configured to store different amounts of branch history data with respect to other ones, and to receive an indication of a given branch instruction in a particular clock cycle. The prediction subcircuits implement a common branch prediction scheme to output, in different clock cycles, corresponding predictions for the given branch instruction using the different amounts of branch history data and cause, instruction fetches to be performed by the instruction fetch circuit. The prediction subcircuits are also configured to override, in subsequent clock cycles, instruction fetches caused by prediction subcircuits with comparatively less branch history data based on contrary predictions performed in subsequent clock cycles by prediction subcircuits with more branch history data.
US12236237B2
Processor cores using content object identifiers for routing and computation are disclosed. One method includes executing a complex computation using a set of processing cores. The method includes routing a set of content objects using a set of content object identifiers and executing a set of instructions. The set of instructions are defined using a set of operand identifiers. The operand identifiers represent content object identifiers in the set of content object identifiers. The content objects can be routed according to a named data networking (NDN) or content-centric networking (CCN) paradigm with the content object identifiers mentioned above serving as the names for the computation data being routed by the network.
US12236235B2
The subject application relates to a system and method for evaluating software development and includes selecting a plurality of parameters and calculating product achievement rate according to the parameters. In this method, the parameters include bug-fixed score and at least one of the following scores: SLO-enhancement score, on-time score and stability score. According to the subject application, it is possible to evaluate the project achievement in a more accurate way, and it could motivate the software engineers to make the software better and therefore the software development may be improved.
US12236224B2
Systems and methods for deploying software updates in heterogeneous workspace environments are described. The system for managing workspaces includes computer-executable instructions for obtaining multiple inventories corresponding to multiple workspaces of an IHS, wherein the inventories each include information associated with the applications deployed in its respective workspace. The instructions are further executed to, for each inventory, identify the workspace associated with the inventory, determine which of the applications are to be updated with new software, and deploy the determined new software to the identified workspace.
US12236221B2
Systems and methods for implementing a software provisioning agent residing in a trusted execution environment. An example method comprises: receiving, by a software provisioning agent residing in a trusted execution environment (TEE) of a host computer system, a software provisioning command initiated by a software provisioning controller, wherein the software provisioning command identifies a target software application; receiving a file associated with the target software application; and performing, using the file, a software provisioning operation with respect to the target software application.
US12236220B2
The technology disclosed relates to storing a dataflow graph with a plurality of compute nodes that transmit data along data connections, and controlling data transmission between compute nodes in the plurality of compute nodes along the data connections by using control connections to control writing of data.
US12236202B1
Systems and methods are described for a maintaining consistent and reliable outputs from artificial intelligence (“AI”) based search systems that use pipelines with a dataset, AI model, and prompt. An application can send a query through a pipeline and set the result as a baseline for future results. The application can periodically resend the query through the pipeline and compare the new results to the baseline. If the new results vary from the baseline above a predetermined threshold, then corrective measures can be taken. This can include notifying an administrator or querying the pipeline for how to change the prompt so that results are more similar to the baseline.
US12236196B2
Methods, electronic device, and non-transitory computer-readable storage mediums are provided for semantic parsing. The equipment may obtain a first recognition result of a target statement. The first recognition result may include a first intention recognition result and a first entity recognition result. The first entity recognition result may correspond to a plurality of vertical domains. The equipment may also determine one of the plurality of vertical domains corresponding to the first entity recognition result as a target vertical domain corresponding to the target statement according to the first intention recognition result. The equipment may further convert the first entity recognition result into a second entity recognition result in the target vertical domain. The equipment may also parse an intention of the target statement according to the second entity recognition result.
US12236173B2
The information processing apparatus (2000) of the example embodiment 1 includes an acquisition unit (2020), a modeling unit (2040), an output unit (2080). The acquisition unit (2020) acquires a plurality of trajectory data. The trajectory data represents a time-sequence of observed positions of an object. The modeling unit (2040) assigns one of groups for each trajectory data. The modeling unit (2040) generates a generative model for each group. The generative model represents trajectories assigned to the corresponding group by a common time-sequence of velocity transformations. The velocity transformation represents a transformation of velocity of the object from a previous time frame, and is represented using a set of motion primitives defined in common for all groups. The output unit (2060) outputs the generated generative models.
US12236172B2
A system and methods for the creation of domain-specific languages that are both domain-agnostic and language-agnostic for use in a multi-language abstract digital simulation model generation and execution, comprising an onboarding module that creates domain specific models from declarative languages, domain-specific language engine, that uses the declarative domain-specific models to create a domain specific language, a meta-model structuring and creation system, meta-model mapping table, remote server, simulation execution process, computer domain-specific language, and methods for user-creation and editing of meta-models, simulation models, and parametrization of simulation environments, actors, objects, and events in real-time using heuristic searching.
US12236170B2
A configurable application includes a domain model having one or more model entities. Representation entities provide representations of model entities and can include input definitions, output definitions, and structure definitions. Input definitions can define a grid having cells that can be bound, based on states, to various model entity attributes.
US12236158B2
Systems and methods for detecting detect termination status in an audio communication system, wherein termination status indicates whether exactly one termination circuit is part of the audio communication system, are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: accept an input voltage, by a voltage-controlled current source that includes and drives a resistive load; generate an AC voltage used as an input voltage for the current source; connect a first set of one or more filters to the output of the current source that generate a first analog output signal; connect a second set of one or more filters to the resistive load that generate a second analog output signal; determine a ratio of the first and second analog output signals and use it to determine the termination status.
US12236154B2
A mobile communication device is provided. The mobile communication includes a first touch display forming a portion of a first surface of the mobile communication device, a second touch display forming a portion of a second surface of the mobile communication device, and a processor configured to display in the first touch display a first screen corresponding to an application executed in a first folding state while a state of the device is the first folding state, identify the state of the mobile communication device changing to a second folding state, and display in the second touch display, based on the identification, a second screen corresponding to the application and an image partially overlapping the second screen, a touch input on the second touch display while the second screen and the image are displayed in the second touch display as overlapping is configured to not be processed as an input.
US12236143B2
An information processing apparatus that makes it possible to properly use the apparatus according to an actual installation location of the apparatus. A multifunction peripheral as the apparatus includes an installation location information controller configured to acquire installation location information of the multifunction peripheral that performs information processing, and a controller configured to determine whether or not to restrict at least part of functions of the multifunction peripheral based on a result of comparison performed by a controller of an authentication server, which configured to compare position information stored in advance and the installation location information acquired by the installation location information controller when a predetermined time elapses.
US12236137B2
A memory device comprises: N planes each including a plurality of memory cells, a signal generation block suitable for: selecting a control code corresponding to a selection signal from N control codes respectively corresponding to the N planes, and generating an operation control signal by decoding the selected control code, N operation performing blocks each suitable for performing a predefined operation on a corresponding plane of the N planes according to a value of the operation control signal, a signal transmission block suitable for transmitting the operation control signal to one of the N operation performing blocks through a path corresponding to the selection signal among N paths that connect the signal generation block to the respective N operation performing blocks, and a selection control block suitable for generating the selection signal in response to an input command, an input address and an input clock.
US12236133B2
A storage device includes a nonvolatile memory device and a storage controller. The storage controller accesses the nonvolatile memory device based on a request of an external host device. The storage controller sends a signal to the external host device, based a throughput of accessing the nonvolatile memory device being within a specific range.
US12236132B2
A memory management method, a memory storage device and a memory control circuit unit are disclosed. The method includes: sending a first operation command sequence to a rewritable non-volatile memory module to instruct a first memory module in the rewritable non-volatile memory module to perform a first operation; obtaining a first time threshold value corresponding to the first operation; updating a first counting value corresponding to the first memory module; and sending a first query command sequence to the rewritable non-volatile memory module to query a status of the first memory module, in response to that the first counting value reaches the first time threshold value.
US12236121B2
An illustrative method includes receiving, by a container storage interface (CSI) filter driver, a request provided by a source for a CSI driver associated with a storage system to perform a control plane operation with respect to the storage system, wherein the CSI filter driver and the CSI filter execute on a node of a cluster managed by a container orchestrator, and wherein the storage system is configured to store data associated with one or more containerized applications executing on the node; performing, by the CSI filter driver in response to receiving the request, an access control operation with respect the request; and allowing, by the CSI filter driver, the CSI driver to perform the control plane operation when the access control operation determines that the source is authorized to initiate the control plane operation.
US12236107B2
The present technology relates to an electronic device. A memory device according to an embodiment includes a memory cell string including first memory cells included in a first channel area, second memory cells included in a second channel area, and dummy memory cells connected between the first memory cells and the second memory cells, a peripheral circuit configured to perform a program operation of storing data in the first and second memory cells, and a program operation controller configured to control the peripheral circuit to apply a first pass voltage to a dummy word line connected to the dummy memory cells during the program operation, apply a second pass voltage less than the first pass voltage to the dummy word line, and then apply a program voltage to a selected word line among a plurality of word lines connected to the first and second memory cells.
US12236104B2
An operation method of a memory controller, which is configured to control a memory module including a plurality of memory devices and at least one error correction code (ECC) device, is provided. The method includes reading a data set including user data stored in the plurality of memory devices and ECC data stored in the at least one ECC device, based on a read command and a first address, and writing uncorrectable data in a memory area, which is included in each of the plurality of memory devices and the at least one ECC device and corresponds to the first address, when an error of the user data is not corrected based on the ECC data.
US12236102B2
Methods, apparatus, and processor-readable storage media for coordinating storage system events are provided herein. An example method includes generating a representation of a set of components associated with a storage system comprising information corresponding to at least one data mirror in the set and at least one path associated with the set; obtaining a request from a given component in the set to perform an action that affects one or more of: at least one data mirror and at least one path; determining, based at least in part on the generated representation, whether the action will reduce a redundancy of the storage system to below a threshold level of redundancy specified for the storage system; and providing, to the given component, a response based at least in part on a result of the determining, wherein a performance of the action is controlled based at least in part on the response.
US12236101B2
A memory system includes a memory module and a memory controller to control semiconductor memory devices in the memory module. Each of the semiconductor memory devices provides the memory controller with an address of at least a defective memory cell row unrepairable with a redundancy resource in a memory cell array as unrepairable address information. The memory controller allocates a portion of a normal cell regions of at least one of the semiconductor memory devices as a reserved region, and remaps first and second unrepairable addresses to first and second physical addresses of the reserved region in response to first and second host physical addresses from a host matching the first and second unrepairable addresses, respectively. The first physical address and the second physical address are consecutive.
US12236098B2
A memory includes: a request register configured to receive a first signal including a requester identifier using a first protocol from a host and configured to output a first priority corresponding to the requester identifier; a checker module configured to receive a second signal including a command and a request type from the host and using a second protocol that is different than the first protocol, where the checker module is configured to receive the first priority from the request register, and where the checker module is configured to determine a second priority of the command based on the first priority and the request type; a command generator configured to generate an internal command for memory operation based on the command; and a memory controller configured to schedule the internal command in a command queue based on the second priority.
US12236096B2
A method, computer program product, and computer system for receiving, by a computing device, a plurality of IO requests. A portion of the plurality of IO requests may be aggregated based upon a block size. The portion of the plurality of IO requests may be committed to persistent storage in a batch based upon, at least in part, aggregating the portion of the plurality of IO requests based upon the block size.
US12236092B2
Provided herein may be a memory system and a method of operating the same. A memory controller may include a latency monitoring component configured to generate information about a number of occurrences of over-latency exceeding a preset reference latency among latencies each indicating a time amount required from a time point at which first command is received from an external device to a time point at which a completion response to the first command is transmitted to the external device during a first period, and a completion response controller configured to determine a first target latency based on the information about the number of occurrences of over-latency, and provide, during a second period following the first period, the external device with a completion response to a second commands provided from the external device after the first target latency has elapsed.
US12236086B2
A local management console includes: a communication interface to connect to a baseboard management controller (BMC) of a chassis in a data storage rack; and a display that displays information associated with one or more data storage devices included in the chassis. The information includes at least one of configuration, control, debugging, or status data associated with at least one of the one or more storage devices. The local management console connects to the BMC through the communication interface, and responsive to receiving a first interaction associated with the display, performs at least one of a configuration, control, debugging, or status acquisition operation on at least one of the one or more data storage devices.
US12236077B2
An electronic device manufacturing system configured to receive, by a processor, input data reflecting a feature related to a manufacturing process of a substrate. The manufacturing system is further configured to train a machine-learning model based on the input data reflecting the feature. The manufacturing system is further configured to modify the machine-learning model in view of the virtual knob for the feature.
US12236076B2
Provided is a display system including a position indicating device and an information processing apparatus having a display screen and a sensor that detects a position indicated by the position indicating device. The position indicating device includes a casing, an interaction circuit disposed inside the casing, where the interaction circuit exchanges a signal with the sensor, and a securing member that secures the casing to the display screen. The information processing apparatus includes a position detection circuit that detects the position indicated by the position indicating device that is secured to the display screen through the securing member, based on the signal exchanged by the interaction circuit, and a control circuit that performs control to display a given display image on the display screen with the position indicated by the position indicating device and detected by the position detection circuit used as a reference.
US12236070B2
[Problem] To provide a system in which candidates for breakfast, lunch, and dinner can be visually attractively expressed, and when wanting to change lunch while adopting breakfast and dinner, only a candidate for lunch can be changed to the next candidate while being visually attractively expressed. [Solution] This dish menu proposal system, which displays a dish menu proposal on a screen which is a touch panel, has: a dish storage unit that stores a plurality of dishes and a plurality of dish images; a menu proposal unit that proposes two or more menus for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, respectively; a menu display unit that displays, on a breakfast display section, a lunch display section, and a dinner display section on the screen, menu images for the breakfast, lunch, and dinner; and a menu update display unit that when a slide input has been performed on any among the breakfast display section, the lunch display section, and the dinner display section, slides the slide-input menu image for the breakfast, lunch, or dinner on a second menu image pertaining to a second menu.
US12236067B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a wireless communication receiver, a touchscreen display, and at least one processor, wherein the at least one processor is configured to receive a plurality of messages including at least a first message and a second message, receive a first input including a predetermined gesture, based on the first input, display a notification list, wherein the notification list includes a first notification item including a first application icon corresponding to the first application, a first notification corresponding to the first message, and a first indicator for displaying a second notification corresponding to the second message, and a second notification item including a second application icon corresponding to a second application, a third notification, and a second indicator for displaying a fourth notification corresponding to the second application, receive a second input with respect to the first notification item, and, based on the second input, display the first notification corresponding to the first message, the second notification corresponding to the second message, and a first summary reduction indicator corresponding to the first application.
US12236062B2
Systems and methods for performing a task via a simple code. Combination of a marker and a simple code represents a task. In an aspect, after a code is received, possible objects are determined and presented. After a user selects a possible object, a task related to the object is performed. In another aspect, a task is performed when a voice input contains a code and a user gazes or gestures at a device.
US12236060B2
An interface display method and apparatus, and an electronic device are provided. The method includes: receiving, in a case that a first target interface is displayed, a first input; and displaying, in response to the first input, a second target interface. The first target interface and the second target interface are one of a first interface, a second interface, and a third interface, the first target interface is different from the second target interface, at least one image is displayed on the first interface, and the image corresponds to an application program previously used. The second interface is a main screen interface, and application icons of all application programs installed by the electronic device are displayed on the third interface.
US12236058B2
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to predictive screen recording. In examples, a user initiates screen recording, such that an initial recording region is recorded. During screen recording, one or more events, user inputs, and/or any of a variety of other features are processed to generate a predicted recording region, which is used to update the region for which screen recording output is generated accordingly. Thus, the recorded region of the screen may change dynamically, thereby reducing the amount of postprocessing, planning, and computing resources that would otherwise be associated with recording the screen of a computing device, among other examples.
US12236057B2
An electronic device includes: a speaker; a touch display; a processor operatively coupled to the speaker and the touch display. The processor is configured to execute an application; in response to the execution of the application, display a first screen corresponding to the application through the touch display; acquire an input to play back audio data of the application while the first screen is displayed; in response to the acquisition of the input, output audio corresponding to the audio data through the speaker; determine whether an object associated with the outputted audio exists; determine whether the object is displayed in the first screen based on the determination that the object associated with the outputted audio exists; and when the object is not displayed in the first screen, perform auto scroll so that the object is displayed through the first screen while the audio is output.
US12236046B2
A display device includes a light-emitting device, an encapsulation layer disposed on the light-emitting device, an insulating layer on the encapsulation layer; a plurality of first touch sensors on an upper surface of the insulating layer, and arranged in a first direction; a plurality of second touch sensors on the upper surface of the insulating layer, and arranged in a second direction intersecting the first direction, and a discharge pattern disposed between the encapsulation layer and the insulating layer, and overlapping an area between a first touch sensor of the plurality of first touch sensors and a second touch sensor of the plurality of second touch sensors, the plurality of first touch sensors and the plurality of second touch sensors are a mesh type and include a protruding outer portion.
US12236040B2
A response function control method is applied to an electronic device. The method includes obtaining information of a first position where pressure on the electronic device is applied and turning off a response function of a second area neighboring to a first area where the first location belongs.
US12236035B2
A force sensing device comprises a sensing array comprising a first conductive layer having a plurality of conductive rows and a second conductive layer having a plurality of conductive columns. The plurality of conductive rows and plurality of conductive columns are arranged to define a plurality of intersections. The force sensing device also comprises an electro-active layer overlaying the first conductive layer and comprising a pressure sensitive element at each intersection. A force concentrating structure is positioned at each intersection on the second conductive layer.
US12236034B2
A transparent display device is provided, which may reduce or minimize loss of light transmittance due to a touch sensor and a touch line, and may detect a defective touch sensor. The device includes a substrate provided with a plurality of transmissive areas and a non-transmissive area, a plurality of touch sensors respectively provided in the plurality of transmissive areas, including a touch sensor electrode, a plurality of pixels provided in the non-transmissive area, including a plurality of subpixels, a plurality of driving transistors respectively connected to the plurality of subpixels, a plurality of touch transistors respectively connected to the plurality of touch sensors, and a reference line applying a reference voltage to the plurality of driving transistors in accordance with a control signal or transferring a voltage of each of the plurality of touch sensors to an analog-to-digital converter through the plurality of touch transistors.
US12236028B2
A flexible circuit board has a first binding area and a bending area. The flexible circuit board includes a flexible substrate, a conductor layer, a first protective layer, and a plurality of first binding pins. The plurality of first binding pins is arranged in the first binding area on the flexible substrate. The orthographic projection on the flexible substrate of an edge line of each first binding pin is located within the edge of the flexible substrate, wherein the edge line is located at an end along the extension direction of the first binding pin. The conductor layer is arranged in the bending area on the flexible substrate. The conductor layer is connected with the first binding pins. The first protective layer is arranged on the side of the conductor layer away from the flexible substrate.
US12236026B2
A position indicator that is used with a position detection device including a position detection sensor, the position indicator including a first function module and a second function module. The first function module includes a core body that, in operation, is brought into contact with an input surface for position detection in the position detection sensor, and a position detection signal transmission circuit, in operation, that transmits a position detection signal to the position detection sensor. The second function module includes a first function circuit that, in operation, generates characteristic selection information corresponding to a characteristic of the core body or a characteristic of the input surface and transmits the characteristic selection information, or a second function circuit that, in operation, generates a stimulus corresponding to the characteristic selection information such that a user who is holding the position indicator audibly or tactilely perceives the stimulus.
US12236021B2
A pen-shaped position indicator is configured to capacitively couple with a sensor surface of a position detection apparatus. The indicator includes a pen-shaped body; a coil; a driving power production circuit configured to produce a DC voltage from an induced signal in the coil by a wireless interaction with a charging device; a signal production circuit connected to the driving power production circuit and configured to generate a signal based on the DC voltage to form a capacitive relationship between the pen-shaped body and the position detection apparatus; a first electrode; and a second electrode. The first and second electrodes are configured to form first and second capacitive relationships with the sensor surface, respectively, to generate detection signals in the sensor surface from which a first detection signal and a second detection signal distinguishable from each other are extracted and used to obtain angle information of the pen-shaped position indicator.
US12236019B2
A pointing method, applied to a pointing device comprising a processing circuit, comprising: (a) receiving input delta by the processing circuit, wherein the input delta indicates supposed movement of the pointing device; (b) adjusting the input delta to generate output delta by the processing circuit, wherein the input delta has a first magnitude and the output delta has a second magnitude, wherein the second magnitude is smaller than or equal to the first magnitude; and (c) output the output delta by the processing circuit.
US12236016B2
A coordinate reception unit receives time series spatial coordinates of an object to be detected. The spatial coordinates include a coordinate in a first direction, a coordinate in a second direction intersecting the first direction, and a coordinate in a third direction intersecting the first direction and the second direction. When a predetermined first condition related to a change in the coordinate in the first direction is satisfied at a first point of time and then a predetermined second condition related to a change in the coordinate in the first direction is satisfied at a second point of time, a function execution unit executes a process in electronic equipment that is a target of control, based on the coordinate in the second direction and the coordinate in the third direction at one or more points of time between the first point of time and the second point of time.
US12236011B2
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media are disclosed for selectively rendering augmented reality content based on predictions regarding a user's ability to visually process the augmented reality content. For instance, the disclosed systems can identify eye tracking information for a user at an initial time. Moreover, the disclosed systems can predict a change in an ability of the user to visually process an augmented reality element at a future time based on the eye tracking information. Additionally, the disclosed systems can selectively render the augmented reality element at the future time based on the predicted change in the ability of the user to visually process the augmented reality element.
US12236010B2
Provided is a wearable display device. The wearable display device includes a display panel, comprising a display region and a peripheral region surrounding the display region; a plurality of light-emitting elements, configured to emit light to be irradiated to eyes of a user; a lens assembly, disposed on a light-exiting side of the display panel, the lens assembly comprising a lens mount and a lens within the lens mount, a light transmittance of the lens mount being greater than a threshold; and a plurality of photoelectric sensor assemblies in the peripheral region.
US12236008B2
Methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer-readable media are provided for enabling collaboration between writers. In one implementation, the computer-readable medium includes instructions to cause a processor to receive, from an image sensor associated with a wearable extended reality appliance, image data representing a physical surface, the physical surface being a compilation of pages; receive, from a computing device associated with a virtual writer, annotation data representing first virtual markings associated with a first page of the compilation and second virtual markings associated with a second page of the compilation; analyze the image data to determine that the compilation is opened to the first page; and cause the wearable extended reality appliance to overlay the first virtual markings on the first page of the compilation and exclude overlaying the second virtual markings on the first page of the compilation.
US12236002B2
A general computing environment (GCE) determines request data comprising payload data and instruction data to use cryptographic functions in a secure computing environment (SCE). The SCE provides secure input and output devices, allowing secure presentation to a user and acquisition of user input. The SCE receives the request data and processes the payload data using the instructions in the instruction data to produce cryptographic output data. The request data may be determined using schemas that specify the formatting, grammar, and other attributes of data associated with a transaction that utilizes cryptographic functions. By using schemas and the request data, the SCE may support any protocol that uses the cryptographic functions supported by that SCE to compose cryptographic output. To enhance user comprehensibility and security, the SCE may securely replace some data with human readable text or images and present this as abstracted request data.
US12235994B2
Content management systems are implemented according to a multitenant architecture by which software and its supporting architecture serves multiple customers of a service. Each tenant may be given a share of the application's data, configuration, user management, and other aspects of the application. Each tenant's data is isolated and typically remains invisible to other tenants so that tenants do not share or see each other's data. Embodiments described herein provide mechanisms by which a tenant can delegate administrator rights to an external user such that the external user can grant other users access to the tenant's content while the tenant controls the level of access that is provided to the external users.
US12235991B2
Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system for hiding conversation elements. The system accesses a conversation interface of a messaging application on a web browser and presents the conversation interface in a window associated with the web browser. The conversation interface comprises a plurality of conversation elements. The system accesses a focus status of the window and, in response to determining that the focus status indicates that the window has lost focus, obscures a first subset of the plurality of conversation elements.
US12235990B2
Various examples are directed to systems and methods for obscuring private information in input data. A system may apply an encoder model to an input data unit to generate a latent space representation of the input data unit. The system may apply multi-dimensional noise to the latent space representation of the input data unit, the multi-dimensional noise having a first value in a first latent space dimension and a second value different than the first value in a second latent space dimension. The system may apply a decoder model to the latent space representation of the input data unit to generate an obscured data unit.
US12235981B2
A relative risk can be determined using an originating Internet Protocol (IP) address as an identifying factor for purposes of authenticating a user. The originating IP address can be used as an identifying factor for a particular user account to determine potentially fraudulent activity and reduce the risk of fraud. This additional identifying factor can be used as a part of an overall authentication platform to help screen fraud attempts and to authenticate valid and non-fraudulent users. Using certain aspects can distinguish whether originating IP addresses are public or private. Some examples can track and match originating IP addresses to user accounts and also can keep track of recently active sessions for each IP address.
US12235967B1
A modified measured boot approach is utilized for establishing a secure communication link between two devices. Each device may execute a respective boot process until the device reaches the stage responsible for establishing the communication link with the other device. Each device may exchange its respective self-signed certificate and extend its certificate chain with the self-signed certificate received from the other device. A secure link can be established using the public key of the other device as a based key for a key exchange protocol.
US12235963B2
A provenance information based trust evaluation method of a trust evaluation apparatus for selecting a cooperation object of a self-adaptive system includes transmitting a cooperation request signal to a communicable neighbor, receiving a response including provenance information from the neighbor, evaluating a final trust based on the provenance information included in the response of each cooperation candidate object by considering a neighbor which transmits the response as a cooperation candidate object, and selecting a cooperation object based on the final trust of each of the cooperation candidate object, and the final trust is calculated based on a provenance trust of each of the cooperation candidate objects and the influence of the cooperation pattern.
US12235956B2
Disclosed are techniques for identifying unique byte sequences for malware families. A method can include receiving a collection of malware signature samples, grouping the samples in the collection by malware family, and for each family: identifying unique byte sequences in the samples and a number of instances of the unique byte sequences across the samples, adding the identified unique byte sequences to a dictionary for the malware family, retrieving a dictionary of at least another malware family, comparing the unique byte sequences in the dictionary for the malware family with byte sequences in the dictionary of the another malware family, identifying a conflicting byte sequence based on (i) the comparison and (ii) determining that a number of instances of the conflicting byte sequence is more than a threshold number of instances, and removing the identified conflicting byte sequence from the dictionary for the malware family.
US12235946B1
Methods and systems described in this disclosure electronically notarize a document. The system can receive biometric information from a user, extract characteristics from the biometric information, and compare the characteristics of the biometric information with previously stored characteristics of the user's biometric information. When the characteristics of the biometric information match the previously stored characteristics to a threshold, the system can create an identity of the user using the characteristics of the biometric information. The system can send a document to the user for cryptographic signature and receive an indication that the document has been signed. The cryptographic signature can be generated with a digest of the document, the identity, and a cryptographic key associated with the user. The system can inspect the digest of the document, the cryptographic key, and the identity associated with the document to verify authenticity of the document and the identity of the user.
US12235942B2
A system and method of authentication-based operation of a lock mechanism include detecting an authentication signal from an electronic authentication module, authenticating the authentication signal using a stored user profile, wherein the stored user profile is used for login authentication purposes and includes at least user data, and when the authentication signal is authenticated, activating an electromechanical mechanism to release a latch switch associated with a lock mechanism.
US12235941B2
A physiological patient monitoring system with a healthcare professional-facing interface is disclosed. The healthcare professional interface may only display by default the most critical non-confidential patient information. To access the full range of features in the system, clinicians can unlock the device. Once unlocked, clinicians can access all of a patient's treatment history, and all the data may be consolidated and presented intuitively.
US12235937B2
The invention relates to systems, methods, network devices, and machine-readable media for creating obfuscated computer-executable instructions to enhance security. The invention can receive a set of non-obfuscated executable instructions corresponding to a program, and using a functional encoding primitive comprising an encoding process, an opening process, and a decoding process, generate a set of obfuscated instructions which can then be provided to a relatively insecure environment.
US12235930B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus for training a graph neural network. An example method includes obtaining a complete graph; dividing the complete graph into a plurality of subgraphs; obtaining a training graph to participate in graph neural network training based on selecting at least one subgraph from the plurality of subgraphs; obtaining, based on the training graph, a node feature vector of each node in the training graph; obtaining a node fusion vector of each current node in the training graph; determining a loss function based on node labels and the node fusion vectors in the training graph; and iteratively training the graph neural network to update parameter values of the graph neural network based on optimizing the loss function.
US12235927B1
A process-in-memory architecture based on a resistive random access memory and a matrix decomposition acceleration algorithm, which is configured for transformer neural network acceleration. The present disclosure first optimizes a self-attention computing process, decomposes a weight matrix, and reduces computing and writing operands; and further reduces whole power consumption using a softmax computing array of a selection and comparison logic structure based on the resistive random access memory. The present disclosure proposes an optimized matrix multiplication computing based on Re-Transformer, and further eliminates data dependency and reduces computing delay in scaled dot-product attention by using matrix decomposition. Meanwhile, the present disclosure reduces power consumption by using hybrid softmax based on the resistive random access memory.
US12235923B2
The present disclosure is directed toward systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media for generating contextual hubs for organizing and presenting web-accessible content from third-party sources. In particular, the systems described herein can organize and manage within a contextual hub. For instance, the disclosed systems may perform actions on tabs based on analyzing usage signals associated with the tabs. Furthermore, the disclosed systems can organize contextually related content within contextual hubs. The disclosed systems may also facilitate collaboration between users within a contextual hub by synchronizing interactions with content within a contextual hub.
US12235920B1
In some implementations, a web instance may receive an indication of an event associated with a uniform resource locator (URL) that includes a slug. The web instance may determine, using an indicator encoded in the slug, that the URL is associated with an action that is included in a concurrency control group. The web instance may communicate with a remote database to determine whether the concurrency control group is locked. The web instance may selectively trigger execution of the action based on whether the concurrency control group is locked.
US12235902B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium for intelligently buffering queries from a mobile application. In one aspect, the method may include receiving, by an application programming interface executing on a mobile device, multiple queries, from different software widgets executing on a mobile application, for data from a database stored on the mobile device, determining, by the application programming interface, a level of priority for each query of the multiple queries, providing, by the application programming interface, each of the multiple queries for storage in a data buffer until processing resources of the mobile device are available to process one or more of the multiple queries, and processing each query of the multiple queries against the database stored on the mobile device based on the assigned level of priority.
US12235901B2
Various embodiments include systems and methods to implement a security platform providing cyberattack detection. The security platform may, with respect to a cloud compute environment, use audit log data that is associated with a particular domain of operational activity within the cloud compute environment. Based on multiple baseline profiles associated with the operational activity, the security platform may use a probabilistic graph to determine a behavioral anomaly. The security platform may, based on the behavioral anomaly, identify a cyberattack.
US12235900B2
A computer-implemented data structure for a singly linked list for data exchange between a write process and at least one read process. The data structure includes a first pointer data structure and a second pointer data structure, wherein the first pointer data structure points to the oldest element in the list, and the second pointer data structure points to the next writable element in the list. The data structure also includes a third pointer data structure, a fourth pointer data structure, and a fifth pointer data structure, wherein the third pointer data structure has a corresponding first counter, the fourth pointer data structure has a corresponding second counter, and the fifth pointer data structure has a corresponding counter.
US12235898B2
The present disclosure provides a technical solution of multi-modal chatting, which may provide response to user query by using multi-modal response in the interaction between chatbot and human beings, so that the expressing ways and the expressed content by the chatbot could be richer by using such response in a multi-modal way.
US12235893B2
Provided are an information suggestion system, an information suggestion method, a program, and a recording medium capable of suggesting information of interest to many users to a product provider related to the information from an image group of a plurality of users. In the information suggestion system, the information suggestion method, the program, and the recording medium, an image group acquisition unit acquires an image group of a plurality of users, and an image analysis unit detects an imaging location of each image and an object appearing in each image. An imaging number count unit counts an imaging number of same-type images which are captured at the same imaging location and in which the same object appears, and an imaging frequency calculation unit calculates an imaging frequency of the same-type images. An information suggestion unit suggests same-type image information related to the same imaging location and the same object of the same-type image of which the imaging number and the imaging frequency satisfy a predetermined condition to a product provider related to the same-type image information.
US12235891B2
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media implements related image search and image modification processes using various search engines and a consolidated graphical user interface. For instance, one or more embodiments involve receiving an input digital image and search input and further modifying the input digital image using the image search results retrieved in response to the search input. In some cases, the search input includes a multi-modal search input having multiple queries (e.g., an image query and a text query), and one or more embodiments involve retrieving the image search results utilizing a weighted combination of the queries. Some implementations involve generating an input embedding for the search input (e.g., the multi-modal search input) and retrieving the image search results using the input embedding.
US12235889B2
Implementations described herein relate to providing device messages in image compilations based on user content. A computer-implemented method includes determining that a playback mode is entered on a device to display one or more image compilations, each image compilation including images for successive display. Message criteria are obtained for device messages, each device message indicating a device function associated with images of the image compilations or of a user image library. A device message is selected based on associated message criteria. An image is identified in the user image library, the image being in the image compilations, depicts a type of image feature in the image compilations, and/or has characteristic(s) modifiable by the device function. The device message is displayed during image compilation playback and includes the identified image and a message control option. In response to user selection of the message control option, the device function is initiated.
US12235888B2
A system or process may generate a summarization of multimedia content by determining one or more salient moments therefrom. Multimedia content may be received and a plurality of frames and audio, visual, and metadata elements associated therewith are extracted from the multimedia content. A plurality of importance sub-scores may be generated for each frame of the multimedia content, each of the plurality of sub-scores being associated with a particular analytical modality. For each frame, the plurality of importance sub-scores associated therewith may be aggregated into an importance score. The frames may be ranked by importance and a plurality of top-ranked frames are identified and determined to satisfy an importance threshold. The plurality of top-ranked frames are sequentially arranged and merged into a plurality of moment candidates that are ranked for importance. A subset of top-ranked moment candidates are merged into a final summarization of the multimedia content.
US12235885B2
A computing server may receive master data, transaction data, and one or more existing process models of a domain. The computing server may aggregate, based on domain knowledge ontology of the domain, the master data and the transaction data to generate a fact table. For example, entries in the fact table may be identified as relevant to the target process model and include attributes and facts that are extracted from master data or transaction data. The computing server may convert the entries in the fact table into vectors. The computing server inputting vectors into one or more machine learning algorithms to generate one or more algorithm outputs. One or more algorithm outputs may correspond to one or more improved process models that are optimized compared to the existing process models. The computing server may provide the improved process model to the domain to replace one of the existing process models.
US12235884B2
Facilitating reduction of noise in non-standard printed circuit board assembly component descriptions using a zero-shot model to identify salient component class descriptions is presented herein. A system receives defined valid label designations(s) representing an accepted domain of component class descriptions; receives defined invalid label designations(s) representing a rejected domain of component class descriptions; and replaces non-alphanumeric characters of respective component descriptions with respective spaces to obtain revised component descriptions, removes, from the revised component descriptions, word(s) that include number(s) to obtain reduced component descriptions, expands, using a defined knowledge base comprising an online library of information, respective words of the reduced component descriptions to obtain respective expanded words representing natural-language expressions of the respective words, and based on the defined valid and invalid label designation(s) and the respective expanded words, selects, using a zero-shot model, words from the reduced component description for inclusion in a final reduced component description.
US12235883B2
The present application discloses a method of representing semantic definitions on a computing device. Semantic definition statements are composed using operators. The semantic definition statements include semantic concept statements using semantic concept operators and semantic context statements using semantic context operators. The semantic definition statements are saved in a metaset. The metaset is converted into a digital data structure and stored in a memory storage device of a computing device. The present application further discloses a method of semantically searching for a visual using a metaset.
US12235875B2
Described herein are techniques for improving transfer of metadata from a metadata database to a database stored in a data system, such as a data warehouse. The metadata may be written into the metadata database with a version stamp, which is monotonic increasing register value, and a partition identifier, which can be generated using attribute values of the metadata. A plurality of readers can scan the metadata database based on version stamp and partition identifier values to export the metadata to a cloud storage location. From the cloud storage location, the exported data can be auto ingested into the database, which includes a journal and snapshot table.
US12235872B2
The subject technology receives, by a distributed database, transactional queries against a key-value database comprising data managed by key-value pairs. The subject technology performs, using asynchronous threads of execution nodes of the distributed database, asynchronous transformation and compaction of key-value pairs of data that corresponds to the plurality of transactional queries. The subject technology performs, using asynchronous threads of execution nodes of the distributed database, asynchronous transformation and compaction of a set of secondary indexes that corresponds to the plurality of transactional queries. The subject technology processes, using transactional threads in the execution nodes, the plurality of transactional queries to generate results data, the asynchronous threads performing the asynchronous transformation and compaction while the transactional threads generate the results data.
US12235868B2
A method includes generating at a source account of a database system user, a replication group object (RGO). The RGO includes a manifest identifying one or more data object types and one or more databases. A replication of data objects of the one or more data object types is performed from the one or more databases to a target account of the database system user. The replication of the data objects is performed as a unit. The RGO is replicated as a failover group object (FGO) within the target account of the database system user. A network failure is detected at the source account of the database system user. The target account of the database system user is promoted as a new source account based on the detecting of the network failure.
US12235867B2
A replication progress tracking technique is configured to present progress tracking state relating to data replicated as a recovery point (RP) from a source site to one or more target and/or remote sites over a network in a multi-site data replication environment. The progress tracking state of the replicated RP, i.e., RP replication progress, is persistently stored as a progress tracking recording at the target site independent of the source site of the replication and presented (i.e., viewed) using a well-defined, published application programming interface that is publicly callable by one or more clients of the environment.
US12235863B2
A processor may initiate metadata discovery. The processor may identify an asset category and asset count. The processor may determine whether one or more assets can be imported. The processor may determine whether an import was successful. The processor may terminate the import.
US12235860B2
A data acquisition management system comprises a plurality of sensors, each for acquiring sensor data based on respective physical or logical conditions; a plurality of beacons for acquiring the sensor data transmitted from the sensors; a processing engine comprising a trigger data file for storing conditions under which each of a plurality of trigger alerts occurs, wherein each of the trigger alerts includes a unique identifier, respectively, respective one or more thresholds which when crossed initiates the trigger alerts, and pointers that directly or indirectly reference the unique identifiers of the sensors that provide the sensor data that is used to determine if any of the trigger alerts occurs; and a trigger alert transmitter for transmitting each trigger alert to a designated one of a plurality of end terminals.
US12235858B1
A method includes obtaining matches between target records in a target dataset and a reference records in a reference dataset, each match of the matches comprising a corresponding confidence level of the match, categorizing the target records into review level categories according to the corresponding confidence level, and presenting a graphical user interface (GUI). The GUI includes a first section for a first review level category showing a first subset of the target records assigned to the first review level category, the first subset comprising target records related, in the GUI, to at least one matching reference record. The GUI includes a second section for a second review level category, wherein the second section shows a second subset of the target records assigned to the second review level category, the second subset comprising target records related, in the GUI, to at least one matching reference record.
US12235857B2
A method and system for insight creation transparency. Explainable artificial intelligence, in recent years, has become synonymous with a framework through which users, relying on machine learning models for various applications, may come to trust the result(s) outputted by said models through better comprehension of the mechanisms leading to said result(s). Leveraging a vast database of metadata for a plethora of unstructured and structured data/information, embodiments disclosed herein derive, or infer, insights therefrom that best address any user-submitted queries. Embodiments disclosed herein, further, provide transparency information detailing, for example, which input(s) and which technique(s) and/or algorithm(s) were employed to arrive at the derived/inferred insights.
US12235853B1
A system receives a query from a user specifying a geographic location at which the user wishes to obtain data relating to travel experiences. The system obtains a first score associated with a first travel experience and a second score associated with a second travel experience, the first score being different than the second. A score is based on at least one quality indicator of the experience. The system defines a plurality of differently-located virtual boundaries around the travel location, each successive boundary indicating an area located at a greater distance from the travel location. The system then displays to the user a list of experiences, wherein the experiences are rank-ordered before presentation to the user. The rank ordering of experiences is dependent on both the virtual boundary into which the experience falls and the score associated with the experience.
US12235848B2
Methods and systems for performing a combinatorial optimization task are provided. The method includes: receiving a first set of data items and a second set of data items; dividing the second set of data items into a first subset and a second subset; generating, based on the first subset, a first set of subset sums, and storing the first set of subset sums as a list; generating, based on the second subset, a second set of subset sums, and storing the second set of subset sums as a hash-map in conjunction with a corresponding hash function; and detecting, based on the first set of data items, the list, and the hash-map, at least one match between a subset sum that corresponds to the second set of data items and a subset sum that corresponds to the first set of data items.
US12235842B2
The disclosure describes temporal optimization of data operations using distributed search and server management, including configuring one or more host groups, determining one or more stripes associated with one or more shards distributed among the one or more host groups, receiving a query to retrieve data, evaluating the query to identify a time characteristic associated with the data, identifying a location from which to retrieve the data, and rewriting the query to run on at least one of the one or more host groups at the location using a distributed search platform, the another query being targeted at a host group associated with the class.
US12235830B2
A method for verifying structured data includes receiving structured data, deconstructing the structured data into corresponding elements and obtaining standard structured data having corresponding standard elements. The method also includes comparing the elements of the structured data with the standard elements of the standard structured data to identify any element differences. For each element difference, the method includes comparing the element difference against a registry of element comparisons, determining whether the element difference is expected or unexpected based on a heuristic or at least one rule, and when the element difference is unexpected, generating a signal indicating the presence of an unexpected element in the structured data.
US12235826B2
Systems and methods for performing machine-driven analysis and determination of integrity due diligence risk associated with third-party entities and individuals associated with third-party entities are disclosed.
US12235824B2
A method includes executing an initial instance of a change log process for a distributed system, each instance of the change log process configured to store a transaction history of transactions executed on the distributed system. The method also includes receiving transaction requests for executing corresponding transactions on the distributed system and determining a change log load based on the received transaction requests. The method includes executing at least one subsequent instance of the change log process when the change log load satisfied a threshold load. When multiple instances of the change log process are executing, the method includes ceasing execution of the at least one subsequent instance of the change log process and merging the transaction history of the initial instance of the change log process and the transaction history of the at least one subsequent instance of the change log process.
US12235823B2
A processor-based method of making a file containing a secondary index recoverable during processing of the secondary index includes: capturing a current system time as a captured system time and writing the captured system time to control information; finding writes to the file containing the secondary index; also writing the writes to an audit trail; using the captured system time in control information for the secondary index as a start time for recovery; determining if there is a primary key value in the control information; using a primary key value in the control information to traverse to a data page continuing the primary key value; placing a read-lock on the data page; creating a corresponding secondary index entry; and releasing the read-lock.
US12235807B2
An illustrative method includes a storage management system receiving, from a containerized application, a storage operation request associated with a storage volume in a storage system, the storage system including a plurality of volume instances of the storage volume that correspond to a plurality of data management models, identifying, from the plurality of volume instances, one or more particular volume instances based on the storage operation request and a data management model of each volume instance in the plurality of volume instances, and directing the storage operation request to the one or more particular volume instances to be performed on the one or more particular volume instances.
US12235805B1
Techniques are provided for data replication using reinforcement learning to dynamically initiate the transfer of replication data. One method comprises obtaining a state for transferring replication data from a first storage system to a second storage system, wherein the state comprises an amount of replication data to be transferred to the second storage system; assigning a reward value to previously completed replication sessions based on whether a respective previously completed replication session satisfies a designated data recovery objective; determining a start time, using a reinforcement learning framework, for transferring the replication data to the second storage system, wherein the determining is based on the assigned reward values; and initiating the transfer of the replication data to the second storage system using the determined start time. The reward value for a given concurrent replication session may be based on respective replication data transfer times of multiple concurrent replication sessions.
US12235804B2
Provided is a method performed by at least one processor for sharing a page in a document. The method includes: receiving a request for sharing a page of a document and automatically performing a keyword check for the requested page; generating a token for a keyword, extracted from the requested page as a result of the keyword check, and performing a locking process for the requested page using the token; and determining a target page, among at least one requested page for sharing, and designating a sharing target with which the target page is to be shared, wherein the keyword is any one of one or more words registered in advance.
US12235800B2
Apparatuses, systems, and methods for using defrag levels to reduce data loss are provided herein. In a number of embodiments of the present disclosure, a method can include setting a first defrag level for a memory device, determining if a buffer is full while performing defrag operations on the memory device according to the first defrag level, setting a second defrag level for the memory device in response to determining the buffer is full while performing defrag operations according to the first defrag level.
US12235793B2
Programmable spatial array processing circuitry may be programmable to perform multiple different types of matrix decompositions. The programmable spatial array processing circuitry may include an array of processing elements. When programmed with a first instructions, the array performs a first type of matrix decomposition. When programmed with second instructions, the array performs a second type of matrix decomposition. Individual processing elements of the programmable spatial array processing circuitry may avoid having individual instruction memories. Instead, there may be an instruction memory that provides a portion of the first instructions or a portion of the second instructions sequentially to one processing element of a row of processing elements to sequentially propagate to other processing elements of the row of processing elements.
US12235790B2
The technology disclosed proposes using a combination of computationally cheap, less-accurate bag of words (BoW) model and computationally expensive, more-accurate long short-term memory (LSTM) model to perform natural processing tasks such as sentiment analysis. The use of cheap, less-accurate BoW model is referred to herein as “skimming”. The use of expensive, more-accurate LSTM model is referred to herein as “reading”. The technology disclosed presents a probability-based guider (PBG). PBG combines the use of BoW model and the LSTM model. PBG uses a probability thresholding strategy to determine, based on the results of the BoW model, whether to invoke the LSTM model for reliably classifying a sentence as positive or negative. The technology disclosed also presents a deep neural network-based decision network (DDN) that is trained to learn the relationship between the BoW model and the LSTM model and to invoke only one of the two models.
US12235789B2
An electronic device includes a first power input end, a second power input end, a detection circuit, and a power delivery controller. The first power input end is adapted for coupling to an alternating current adapter. The second power input end is adapted for coupling to a dual-role port device. The detection circuit is coupled to the first power input end and the second power input end. The power delivery controller is coupled to the detection circuit and configured to control the dual-role port device to switch from a source end to a sink end in response to the detection circuit detecting that the first power input end receives an adapter source voltage from the alternating current adapter and the second power input end bring to the dual-role port device.
US12235788B2
An information handling system includes a hardware processor, a memory device operatively coupled to a serial peripheral interface (SPI) chip and the hardware processor. The SPI chip interfaces the hardware processor executing plural stages of boot modules during a boot process of the information handling system with allocated, reserved portions of the memory device for each stage of boot module executed in pre-boot, boot, and runtime via a virtual memory interface generated by execution of an original equipment manufacturer (OEM)-defined agnostic memory allocation module. The hardware processor executes the OEM defined agnostic memory allocation firmware to redefine the virtual memory interface for each allocated reserved portion of the memory device at each of the plural stages of the boot modules that are executed from pre-boot, through boot, and to runtime to provide adjustments to allocated, reserved portions of memory for later stages of executed plural stages of the boot modules.
US12235783B2
Described apparatuses and methods facilitate bus training with multiple dice, such as multiple memory dice. A controller can communicate with multiple dice over a bus to perform bus training by sending a test pattern and receiving in return a feedback pattern indicative of the bits detected by the dice. Because suitable signal timing can differ between dice, even those using the same bus, the controller may attempt to train each die separately from the others. In some situations, however, individualized training may be infeasible. To accommodate such situations, logic associated with two or more dice can combine the bits as detected from the test pattern into a combined feedback pattern. A timing parameter that is jointly suitable for multiple dice can be determined, and the bus training may be concluded, responsive to the combined feedback pattern matching the test pattern. The multiple dice may be stacked or linked.
US12235778B2
An artificial neural network memory system includes at least one processor configured to generate a data access request corresponding to an artificial neural network operation; and at least one artificial neural network memory controller configured to sequentially record the data access request to generate an artificial neural network data locality pattern of the artificial neural network operation and generate an advance data access request which predicts a next data access request of the data access request generated by the at least one processor based on the artificial neural network data locality pattern.
US12235775B2
Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for using a transient cache list and prolonged cache list to manage tracks in cache based on a demotion hint with a track access request. A track is staged into the cache in response to a request for the track. A determination is made as to whether the request provides a demotion hint. The track is indicated in a transient cache list in response to determining that the request provides the demotion hint. The track is indicated in a prolonged cache list in response to determining that the request does not provide the demotion hint. The track is demoted from the cache in response to the request for the track comprising a read request, returning the track to the read request, and the track is indicated in the transient cache list.
US12235767B2
A memory interface for interfacing between a memory bus and a cache memory. A plurality of bus interfaces are configured to transfer data between the memory bus and the cache memory, and a plurality of snoop processors are configured to receive snoop requests from the memory bus. Each snoop processor is associated with a respective bus interface and each snoop processor is configured, on receiving a snoop request, to determine whether the snoop request relates to the bus interface associated with that snoop processor and to process the snoop request in dependence on that determination.
US12235764B2
Apparatus and methods include receiving signaling indicative of performance of an operation to update a plurality of data entries written to a memory device and having a same offset from an initial physical address corresponding to each of the plurality of data entries and performing the operation to write the update to the plurality of data entries written to the memory device and having the same offset from the initial physical address corresponding to each of the plurality of data entries responsive to receiving the signaling indicative of performance of the operation to update the plurality of data entries.
US12235763B2
The present disclosure provides a data processing method, a device, a computer apparatus and a storage medium, wherein the method includes: in response to a target disk receiving at least one write request within a preset time period, determining a size threshold value for classifying a data update type according to a size of write data respectively indicated by each write request; determining a data update type corresponding to each write request according to a size of each write request and the size threshold value; dividing write data of the write request to obtain a data block according to a preset data block size, and caching the data block in a cache region of the target disk corresponding to the data update type, the target disk has multiple types of cache regions configured therein, different cache regions are configured to support caching of data with different update frequencies.
US12235725B2
The present application discloses a multi-time programmable electronic fuse apparatus, including: a one-time programmable cell module, a parsing module and a multi-time programmable cell module. The one-time programmable cell module is configured to store one-time programmable data, the multi-time programmable cell module includes a storage cell array capable of reading and writing data multiple times and is configured to store multi-time programming data. The parsing module is configured to read the one-time programming data transmitted from the one-time programmable cell module, to write the parsed initialization data into the multi-time programmable cell module upon reading the initialization data; to parse the fix data to obtain a fix location and a fix value upon reading the fix data, and to replace data stored in the corresponding fix location in the storage cell array with the fix value.
US12235717B2
A communication system and an operation method thereof are provided. A transmitting device transmits a data unit to a receiving device through a data channel of a communication interface. The transmitting device calculates an original verification information unit of the data unit and synchronously transmits the original verification information unit to the receiving device through a verification information channel of the communication interface based on a transmission timing of the data unit in the data channel. After receiving a current data unit and before receiving a next data unit, the receiving device verifies whether the current data unit received from the data channel has errors in real time based on a current original verification information unit corresponding to the current data unit.
US12235712B2
Bandwidth for information transfers between devices is dynamically changed to accommodate transitions between power modes employed in a system. The bandwidth is changed by selectively enabling and disabling individual control links and data links that carry the information. During a highest bandwidth mode for the system, all of the data and control links are enabled to provide maximum information throughout. During one or more lower bandwidth modes for the system, at least one data link and/or at least one control link is disabled to reduce the power consumption of the devices. At least one data link and at least one control link remain enabled during each low bandwidth mode. For these links, the same signaling rate is used for both bandwidth modes to reduce latency that would otherwise be caused by changing signaling rates. Also, calibration information is generated for disabled links so that these links may be quickly brought back into service.
US12235709B2
Systems and methods for cognitive thermal and power management of Information Handling Systems (IHSs) are described. In an illustrative, non-limiting embodiment, an IHS may include a processor and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory having program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution by the processor, cause the IHS to: receive temperature information from a plurality of Power Supply Unit (PSU) thermal zones within an enclosure of the IHS, identify, based at least in part upon the temperature information, that a first PSU thermal zone is cooler than a second PSU thermal zone, or that the second PSU thermal zone is hotter than the first PSU thermal zone, and, in response to the identification, set a first PSU located in the first PSU thermal zone to active mode and set a second PSU in the second PSU thermal zone to standby.
US12235705B2
High-speed data communication devices, e.g., repeaters, interfacing between a host and a peripheral operate such that high-speed components except for a host-side squelch detector are set or maintained in a deactivated state during an idle period of a micro frame. In an example, a start of a micro frame is detected on a data bus during a first time period. In a second time period after the first time period, the high-speed communication device determines whether at least one data packet is contained in the micro frame. When it is determined during the second time period that no data packet is contained in the micro frame, active components, except a squelch detector, are controlled to be inactive during a third time period after the second time period.
US12235697B2
Disclosed is a modular energy system that comprises a first module, comprising a first panel, and a first connector attached to the first panel. A portion of the first connector extends past a first edge of the first panel. The modular energy system further comprises a second module, comprising a second panel, and a second connector attached to the second panel. The second connector is aligned with a second edge of the second panel, and the second connector defines a cavity. The second module is coupled to the first module, wherein the portion of the first connector that extends past the first edge of the first panel is positioned within the cavity defined by the second connector.
US12235694B2
An information handling system may calculate multiple temperature changes within the information handling system. Each of the temperature changes is across a different bank of components of the information handling system. The system may calculate multiple inlet temperatures, each of which is associated with a different component of the information handling system. The inlet temperatures are utilized in determining whether cooling requirements for the system configuration are met. Based on the temperature changes and the inlet velocities, the system may determine whether the cooling requirements are met. In response to the cooling requirements for the system configuration not being met, the system may decrease a current cooling fan speed for the information handling system. In response to the cooling requirements for the system configuration being met, the system may store the current cooling fan speed.
US12235689B2
A cable arrangement mechanism is provided, which is disposed inside the housing of an electronic device. The cable arrangement mechanism includes a first tube, a second tube, and a plurality of first resilient elements. The first tube includes a first base, a first extension connected to the first base and extending from a first inner surface, and a first extrusion connected to the first base and extending from a first outer surface. The second tube includes a second base, a second extension connected to the second base and extending from a second inner surface, and a second extrusion connected to the second base and extending from a second outer surface. The first resilient elements respectively connect the first extrusion and the second extrusion to the housing, so that the first tube and the second tube are rotatably connected to the housing.
US12235681B2
An elastic member according to an embodiment is an elastic member including a first region and a second region, wherein the elastic member has surface roughness having a longitudinal direction, the first region is defined as a folding region, the second region is defined as an unfolding region, a first pattern part having a long direction and a short direction is formed in the first region of the elastic member, and the long direction of the first pattern part is different from the longitudinal direction of the surface roughness.
US12235677B2
Disclosed are devices which include flexible display sheets or other flexible elements, whereas by physically manipulating said flexible display sheets or elements, interaction with said device may be facilitated. Flexibility features may be employed to provide methods of interaction which include manipulating flexible section. Some of said methods of interaction are disclosed. Further disclosed are units which can connect to flexible display sheets, for interacting with said flexible display sheets.
US12235676B2
A support device. The support device includes a seat for contacting a bearing surface when the support device is placed on the bearing surface and a support body having a first end and a second opposite end for supporting an output device, the first end being connected to the seat, the second end being connected to the output device, the connected output device facing a first direction. The support body includes a first receiving space, and the first receiving space is configured to accommodate at least a part of a processing device. The support body includes at least one opening facing a second direction, at least a part of an interaction part of the processing device to be placed in the first receiving space is exposed through the opening, and the second direction is different from an opposite direction of the first direction.
US12235674B2
Method for time synchronization in a network between at least one master and at least one slave, which is an interrupt-capable network component and uses a timer, which accesses a slave time to generate at least one interrupt recurring at a predefined cycle duration, at a respective trigger point in time that is synchronized with the slave time. When a synchronization message arrives, a time offset between the master time and the slave time is determined in the slave, and a time fraction is determined from the time offset, which corresponds to an integer multiple of the predefined cycle duration of the at least one interrupt. An interrupt offset is then determined from the time fraction and the time offset. At least one time jump is carried out by a synchronization unit in the slave to correct the time offset.
US12235668B2
A method, apparatus, system and computer program is provided for controlling an electric power system, including implementation of a voltage control and conservation (VCC) system used to optimally control the independent voltage and capacitor banks using a linear optimization methodology to minimize the losses in the EEDCS and the EUS. An energy validation process system (EVP) is provided which is used to document the savings of the VCC and an EPP is used to optimize improvements to the EEDCS for continuously improving the energy losses in the EEDS. The EVP system measures the improvement in the EEDS a result of operating the VCC system in the “ON” state determining the level of energy conservation achieved by the VCC system. In addition the VCC system monitors pattern recognition events and compares them to the report-by-exception data to detect HVL events. If one is detected the VCC optimizes the capacity of the EEDS to respond to the HVL events by centering the piecewise linear solution maximizing the ability of the EDDS to absorb the HVL event. The VCC stabilizer function integrates voltage data from AMI meters and assess the state of the grid and initiates appropriate voltage control actions to hedge against predictable voltage risks.
US12235665B2
A semiconductor circuit includes: a first transistor connected between a first node configured to input an input voltage and a second node configured to output an output voltage; a cascode connection circuit including a plurality of second transistors connected in a cascode configuration between the first node and a third node set at a first voltage; a first capacitor connected between the second node and a fourth node of a first one of the plurality of second transistors; and a second capacitor connected between the first node and the fourth node, wherein a fifth node of the first second transistor is connected to a gate of the first transistor.
US12235663B2
A flow rate control apparatus with improved reliability is provided. The flow rate control apparatus comprises a flow rate measuring unit for measuring a flow rate of chemical solution in a chemical solution supply line, a flow rate control unit for comparing a preset target flow rate profile and an applied flow rate profile, and controlling the flow rate of the chemical solution so that the applied flow rate profile matches the target flow rate profile, and a processor for switching the flow rate control unit to a first mode in response to a signal for the flow rate of the chemical solution measured by the flow rate measuring unit being less than a preset level, wherein, in the first mode, the applied flow rate profile includes a profile of a flow rate estimation model simulated using a flow rate of chemical solution measured by the flow rate measuring unit.
US12235657B2
A system for producing a control signal of an electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft includes a flight controller configured to obtain a requested aircraft force, generate an optimal command mix, wherein the optimal command mix includes a plurality of commands to a plurality of actuators as a function of the requested aircraft force, wherein generating further comprises receiving an ideal actuator model includes at least a performance parameter, producing a model datum as a function of the ideal actuator model, and generating the optimal command mix as a function of the request aircraft force and the model datum, and produce a control signal as a function of the optimal command mix.
US12235648B2
A transport management system includes: a reception section that receives p transport task information pieces indicating transport tasks, each of which has a point of origin and a point of destination; a linkage section that generates q (q
US12235647B2
The present invention relates to the field of intelligent warehousing, and discloses a navigation method, a moving carrier, and a navigation system. The navigation method is applied to the moving carrier capable of traveling in a preset space including a roadway formed by at least two rows of shelving units opposite to each other. The navigation method includes: acquiring deviated position information of the moving carrier in a non-traveling direction relative to the shelving units in the roadway, and navigating the moving carrier according to the deviated position information. The moving carrier is prevented from hitting the shelving units, and, besides, can be reliably navigated in the roadway.
US12235646B2
A vehicle for assisting a docking operation for a marine vessel. The vehicle includes a position sensor operable to detect a position of the marine vessel. A first controller is communicatively coupled with the position sensor. The first controller is operable to receive a first instruction from a second controller corresponding to the marine vessel to monitor the position sensor. The first controller is further operable to receive positional data corresponding to the position of the marine vessel relative to a dock. The first controller is further operable to communicate the positional data to the second controller to assist with the docking operation.
US12235635B2
An exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure discloses a method of setting a model threshold value for detecting an anomaly of a facility monitoring system, the method including: acquiring sensor data output from each sensor; extracting a feature value for the sensor data of each sensor; acquiring output data by inputting input data including the extracted feature value to a trained neural network model; and comparing the input data and the output data and setting a threshold value for detecting an anomaly based on a calculated comparison result value.
US12235634B2
Examples described herein relate to a system and method for managing the security of an edge enclosure. The edge enclosure is deployed in a mobile environment and travels between a base location and a task location to perform a task. The task is defined and configured at a chassis manager by a management device. A server in the edge enclosure processes data associated with the task. The chassis manager detects a loss of communication between the chassis manager and the management device. The chassis manager performs a security action based on task status. The task status is either ongoing or completed. The security action performed at the edge enclosure protects the data present in the server from tampering. The management device transmits alerts to the customers of the edge enclosure after the task is completed.
US12235626B2
An electronic device is disclosed. According to an embodiment of this disclosure, an electronic device may include a communication circuit receiving data from at least one external device or to transmit data to the at least one external device, a driving unit, a camera, a memory, a display, and a processor. The memory may store instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to obtain an image of an object through the camera, identify a type of the object, based on the image of the object, obtain customer data including movement information of the object and a head direction of the object through the camera based on the type of the object, determine a movement of the electronic device based on the customer data, and control the driving unit to move the electronic device depending on the determined movement of the electronic device.
US12235617B2
A building system including one or more memory devices having instructions stored thereon, that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to generate a user interface comprising a 2-dimensional (2D) model of a building and a 3-dimensional (3D) model of the building. The instructions further cause the one or more processors to receive a first user input indicating a selection of a first object. The instructions further cause the one or more processors to determine a physical space or equipment represented by the first object and one or more events associated with the physical space or equipment. The instructions further cause the one or more processors to receive a second user input indicating creation of an incident based on the one or more events and to initiate an automated response process in response to the creation of the incident.
US12235615B2
A static auto-tuning system and method for controlling operation of a motor in a system. A speed reference signal is generated resulting in a speed response of the motor. Closed-loop feedback magnifies the rotating friction effect to an observable level. Inertia and rotating friction coefficient values of the system are estimated based on the speed frequency response and a virtual damping coefficient. A fixed low frequency speed signal may result in a first frequency response function for determining virtual damping, and a variable frequency excitation signal may result in a second frequency response function for determining the inertia and rotating friction characteristics. Closed-loop gains are determined based on these characteristics. The excitation signal may be sampled and a peak value in each interval may be identified and stored to produce an envelope of peak values for determining the gain response. Operation of the motor is controlled using the determined gains.
US12235606B2
A process cartridge includes a photosensitive member, a toner, and a developing roller, a surface layer of the photosensitive member has a Martens hardness of 245 to 300 N/mm2, the developing roller has a single-layered surface layer containing a substrate and a binder resin; when an elastic modulus of the binder resin in a first region is E1, and an elastic modulus of the binder resin in a second region is E2, E1≥200 MPa and 10 MPa≤E2≤150 MPa are satisfied; the elastic modulus in the second region continuously decreases from that in the first region; the toner comprises a toner particle and an external additive A; the external additive A is a silica particle having a major diameter of 40 to 400 nm; and a coverage of the external additive A with respect to surface of the toner particle is 5.0% or more.
US12235604B2
An image forming apparatus includes a body having an opening, a door on the body, a unit detachably attached to the body from the opening, a cover inside the door, a spring, and a lock. The door covers the opening at a first closed position. The unit is disposed at a mounting position inside the body. The cover is rotatable between a second closed position and an opening position in an opening direction. At the second closed position, the cover covers the unit at the mounting position. At the opening position, the cover forms an angle of 90 degrees or more with the body. The spring applies a force to the cover in the opening direction. The lock locks the cover at the second closed position. The cover displaced from the second closed position in the opening direction restricts a movement of the door to the first closed position.
US12235603B2
Presented is an image forming apparatus that includes a plurality of photoconductors, a sensor, a first memory, and a processor. The photoconductors include first and second photoconductors on which a toner image is formed in response to an image being formed. The sensor detects a physical amount that changes in response to a deterioration state of the first photoconductor. The first memory collects and stores a history of the physical amount and usage status information relating to a usage status of the first photoconductor. The processor performs a prediction of a lifespan of the second photoconductor and determination of a failure of the second photoconductor based on the history of the physical amount and the usage status information of the first photoconductor, and usage status information relating to a usage status of the second photoconductor.
US12235602B2
A fixing belt having an endless shape includes a base layer having an endless shape, an elastic layer on an outer peripheral surface of the base layer, and a surface layer on an outer peripheral surface of the elastic layer, the elastic layer containing a rubber and fillers dispersed in the rubber, the fillers containing heat conductive fillers, an entire thickness of the elastic layer is from 100 μm to 3,000 μm, a content ratio of the fillers with respect to the entirety of the elastic layer being 35% by volume or more, a content ratio of the fillers in a region A being less than 35% by volume with respect to the region A, and the entirety of the elastic layer having a thermal conductivity of 0.4 W/(m·K) or more in a thickness direction thereof.
US12235593B2
A system and method for dynamically controlling a temperature of a thermostatic reticle. A thermostatic reticle assembly that includes a reticle, temperature sensors located in proximity to the reticle, and one or more heating elements. A thermostat component that is in communication with the temperature sensors and the heating element monitors the current temperature of the reticle relative to a steady-state temperature. In response to the current temperature of the reticle being lower than the steady-state temperature, the heating elements are activated to preheat the reticle to the steady-state temperature.
US12235588B2
An overlay metrology system may include illumination optics to split illumination from an illumination source into primary and secondary illumination and direct the primary illumination to a sample including an overlay target with gratings in two or more layers and an objective lens to collect positive and negative diffraction from the constituent gratings. The system may further include collection optics to overlap the auxiliary illumination with at least some of the collected diffraction lobes to generate time-varying interference signals. The system may further include a controller to generate overlay measurements based on the time-varying interference signals.
US12235582B2
A developer tool described herein includes a dispenser that includes a greater quantity of nozzles in a central portion relative to a perimeter portion such that the developer tool is capable of more effectively removing material from a photoresist layer near a center of a substrate (which tends to be thicker near the center of the substrate relative to the edge or perimeter of the substrate). In this way, the developer tool may reduce the amount of photoresist residue or scum remaining on the substrate near the center of the substrate after a development operation, which may enable defect removal and/or prevention, may increase semiconductor processing yield, and/or may increase semiconductor processing quality.
US12235579B2
A method for producing an actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive resin composition of an embodiment of the present invention is a method for producing an actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive resin composition including at least a resin having a polarity that increases due to decomposition by the action of an acid, a compound that generates an acid upon irradiation with actinic rays or radiation, and a solvent, in which the compound that generates an acid upon irradiation with actinic rays or radiation includes one or more compounds selected from the group consisting of a compound (I) to (III) below, and the actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive resin composition is produced by mixing a first solution including the resin having a polarity that increases by the action of an acid and a first solvent with the one or more compounds selected from the group consisting of the compound (I) to (III).
US12235569B1
A cell phone is attached to a pole not normally used to take photos so that it can be used as a selfie stick. The phone holder is attached to a ski or hiking pole with a pivot and split ring clamp. The phone holder nestles around the pole when skiing or hiking so as not to interfere with that activity. The phone holder is rotated into an open position to attach a phone allowing its use as a selfie stick.
US12235565B2
A microwave-to-optical photon transducer is provided for generating coupling between a microwave signal (Sin2) and an optical signal (Spi_in1, Spi_out1). The transducer comprises: a first input port; a second input port; a first output port for outputting the optical signal (Spi_out1) and one or more optical sideband signals (Sout1, Sout11, Sout12); a first waveguide disposed between the first input port and the first output port to allow the optical signal (Spi_in1) and the one or more optical sideband signals (Sout1, Sout11, Sout12) to propagate in the first waveguide; a second waveguide connected to the second input port, and extending in the transducer adjacent to the first waveguide to allow the microwave signal (Sin2) to propagate in the second waveguide; a phase-matching arrangement to cause at least the optical signal (Spi_in1) and the microwave signal (Sin2) to be phase-matched or quasi-phase-matched.
US12235549B1
A spatial light modulator and a holographic 3D display device are provided. The spatial light modulator includes a first liquid crystal panel configured to adjust a phase of first light; a second liquid crystal panel configured to adjust an amplitude of the first light, located on one side of the first liquid crystal panel; a quarter-wave plate located on a side of the second liquid crystal panel away from the first liquid crystal panel; and a polarizer located on a side of the quarter-wave plate away from the first liquid crystal panel. A difference between a refractive index of second liquid crystal molecules along a direction of the liquid crystal optical axis and a refractive index perpendicular to the direction of the liquid crystal optical axis is Δn, a thickness of the second liquid crystal layer is d, a wavelength of the first light is λ1, and 0.5λ1≤Δn×d≤0.75λ1.
US12235538B2
A color conversion panel includes a substrate. A first color conversion layer, a second color conversion layer, and a transmission layer are provided on the substrate. A first scatterer layer is provided between the first color conversion layer and the second color conversion layer. A second scatterer layer is provided between the second color conversion layer and the transmission layer. A light filter layer is provided between the first scatterer layer and the first color conversion layer, between the first scatterer layer and the second color conversion layer, between the second scatterer layer and the second color conversion layer, and between the second scatterer layer and the transmission layer.
US12235526B2
Phase-change metasurface waveguide mode converters and photonic computing systems including a phase-change metasurface waveguide mode converter are described. In an embodiment, the phase-change metasurface waveguide mode converter include a plurality of phase-change antennas comprising a phase-change material and protruding from a surface, wherein each phase-change antenna of the plurality of phase-change antennas is configured to scatter an optical waveguide mode and cause a phase shift of light travelling through an optical waveguide optically coupled thereto. In an embodiment, the phase-change metasurface waveguide mode converter includes the plurality of phase-change antennas configured to alternate between a crystalline phase and an amorphous phase.
US12235523B2
Provided are a device and method for correcting the vision of a user and performing calibration. A method, performed by an augmented reality device, of performing gaze tracking sensor calibration based on a gaze of a user includes outputting at least one first character in a preset size through a waveguide of the augmented reality device, obtaining at least one first input for the at least one first character, obtaining at least one piece of first gaze information detected through a gaze tracking sensor of the augmented reality device at a time point at which the at least one first input is obtained, comparing the at least one first character with the at least one first input, and determining a first refractive power to be a refractive power of the varifocal lens of the augmented reality device, based on a result of the comparing.
US12235510B2
An optical element driving mechanism is provided. The optical element driving mechanism includes a movable portion, a fixed portion, a first driving assembly, and a circuit assembly. The movable portion is used for connecting to an optical element. The movable portion is movable relative to the fixed portion. The first driving assembly is used for driving the movable portion to move relative to the fixed portion. The circuit assembly is used for connecting to an external circuit, and is affixed on the fixed portion.
US12235504B2
A telecommunications assembly includes a chassis defining an interior region and a tray assembly disposed in the interior region. The tray assembly includes a tray and a cable spool assembly. The cable spool assembly is engaged to a base panel of the tray. The cable spool assembly is adapted to rotate relative to the tray. The cable spool assembly includes a hub, a flange engaged to the hub and an adapter module. The flange defines a termination area. The adapter module is engaged to the termination module of the flange. The adapter module is adapted to slide relative to the flange in a direction that is generally parallel to the flange between an extended position and a retracted position.
US12235501B2
Disclosed herein are cable sealing devices having features for enhancing effective sealing, volume compensation, seal pressurization, cable size range-taking, cable installation and insert installation. Also disclosed herein is an enclosure including at least one cable sealing device.
US12235500B2
Devices, arrangements and methods for routing and connecting optical fibers at fiber organizers of telecommunications closures. The organizers include pivotal tray arrangements for improved versatility and quantity of fiber routing configurations within a telecommunications closure of a given size.
US12235491B2
A diagnostic voltage or current path can be used for each MEMS actuator control channel to detect and diagnose faults in the actuator control signal path. Multiple measurement points provide additional capabilities of isolating faults among multiple subassemblies or components in the control signal path. The diagnostic voltage or current path uses ADC(s) and multiplexers to monitor multiple control channels and/or multiple measurement points in each control channel. Digitized voltages, or currents in the case of magnetic actuators, read from the diagnostic ADC are compared to expected values to detect and isolate faults.
US12235488B2
A backlight module and a display apparatus are provided. The backlight module includes a backplane including a bottom wall and a side wall connected to define an accommodating portion; a light guide plate in the accommodating portion; an optical film on a side of the light guide plate away from the bottom wall; and a plastic frame including a retaining wall and a bearing portion, the retaining wall is arranged side by side with the side wall on a side of the side wall away from the light guide plate; the bearing portion is connected to the retaining wall on a side of the side wall and the optical film away from the bottom wall; the bearing portion includes a first surface away from the side wall and opposite to the retaining wall; at least a portion of the first surface protrudes towards a side close to the retaining wall.
US12235486B2
Provided are a light guide plate, an area light source device, a display device, and manufacturing method for the light guide plate such that the occurrence of uneven luminance is suppressed. The light guide plate is characterized in that the light guide plate has a light entrance surface through which light enters, a light exit surface intersecting with the light entrance surface and through which light is output, and an opposite surface facing the light entrance surface, wherein the light entering through the light entrance surface is guided to the opposite surface side and output from the light exit surface, and the refractive index Nx in a direction perpendicular to the light entrance surface is higher than the refractive index Ny in a direction parallel to the light exit surface and parallel to the light entrance surface.
US12235471B2
There is provided an optical body, a lighting device, and an image display device that are novel and improved, and can increase a homogeneous light distribution property. The optical body is provided in which a composite structure of main structural bodies is deployed continuously within a plane of a base material, in which phase distributions of the main structural bodies within the plane of the base material are equivalent to amplitude distributions each obtained by subjecting a pupil function of a two-dimensional optical aperture to Fourier transform, and a peak ratio value is less than or equal to 2.5.
US12235470B2
A lens driving device according to an embodiment comprises: a bobbin wherein at least one lens is installed inside thereof and a first coil is installed on the outer circumferential surface thereof; a first magnet arranged around the bobbin so as to be opposite to the first coil; a housing for supporting the first magnet; upper and lower elastic members coupled with the bobbin and the housing; a first sensor for sensing displacement of the bobbin in the first direction; a second magnet arranged so as to be opposite to the first sensor; a base arranged to be spaced apart from the housing by a certain distance; a second coil arranged so as to be opposite to the first magnet; a circuit board whereon the second coil is installed; a plurality of support members for supporting the housing so as to be movable in the second and third directions which are orthogonal to the first direction with respect to the base and for connecting at least one of the upper and lower elastic members to the circuit board; and a second sensor for sensing displacement of the housing in the second or third direction with respect to the base.
US12235465B2
A projection system includes a first optical system and a second optical system disposed on an enlargement side of the first optical system. The first optical system includes a first lens group having positive power, a second lens group disposed on the enlargement side of the first lens group and having negative power, and an optical path deflector disposed between the first lens group and the second lens group. The second optical system includes a reflection member having a concave reflection surface. The second lens group includes three aspherical lenses. Conditional Expression (1) below is satisfied, 0.25<|F|×FNO/Ymax<0.5 (1) where F represents the focal length of the entirety of the projection system, FNO represents the F number of the projection system, and Ymax represents a maximum image height in a reduction-side conjugate plane.
US12235464B2
An optically-transparent device (100) is disclosed which comprises a main part (10) of dielectric material having a refractive index n2, said device being configured for forming a field intensity distribution in a near zone of said device from electromagnetic waves incidentally illuminating said device, when said device is embedded into a dielectric material having a refractive index n1 lower than said refractive index n2. Said device (100) further comprises at least one insert (11) of dielectric material having a refractive index n3 higher than said refractive index n2, said at least one insert being at least partly inserted into said main part, said refractive index n1 being different from said refractive index n3, and wherein Formula (I) with W2 being a half width of said insert and Formula (II), Formula (III) with W1 being a half width of said main part and Formula (IV), with λ being the wavelength of the electromagnetic wave propagating in the dielectric material having refractive index n1.
US12235462B2
An optical arrangement converts a laser beam into a line-type beam having a line-type beam cross-section that extends along a line direction with a non-vanishing intensity. The arrangement has: reshaping optics having: an input aperture through which the laser beam is radiated in; and an elongate output aperture, the reshaping optics being configured such that the laser beam radiated in is converted into a beam packet with beam segments that emerge through the output aperture; homogenization optics, which contribute to the conversion of the beam packet into the line-type output beam, and by which different beam segments are mixed and superposed along the line direction; and redirection optics configured to redirect the laser beam such that an incidence position/direction of laser beam on the input aperture is changed in dependence on time.
US12235459B1
A head-mountable device can provide adjustable size and shape for storage, transport, and/or charging. A head-mountable device can provide a bistable adjustment mechanism, such as a bistable hinge, that biases a component of the head-mountable device to either of two configurations. Such adjustability can be provided by a light seal module of the head-mountable device and can facilitate collapse of a head securement element, such as arms for engaging the head of the user.
US12235449B2
An optical display system, a control method, and a display device, relates to the field of display technology. The optical display system comprises a display screen a first light splitting unit disposed at a display side of the display screen; a first imaging unit comprising a light splitting film disposed at a light-incident surface of the first imaging unit; a second light splitting unit disposed at a light emission side of the first imaging unit; a phase modulation unit disposed at least in a light path from the first imaging unit to the second light splitting unit; wherein, the first-type polarized light transmitted from the first light splitting unit is transmitted from a light emission side of the second light splitting unit, after being turned back multiple times between the first imaging unit and the second light splitting unit.
US12235444B2
In a linked display system in which wireless communication connection between a first information device and a second information device has been established, when the first information device transmits text data to the second information device in a state of displaying content containing the text data and image data, the second information device displays the text data while the first information device stops displaying the text data and enlarges and displays the image data.
US12235434B2
Disclosed are a method of acquiring an image using a light-emitting element array and an apparatus therefor. The method of acquiring an image using a light-emitting element array includes reconstructing a first image from some images among source images, detecting a partial region containing a detection target object from the first image, acquiring partial-region images corresponding to the partial region from each of the source images, and reconstructing a second image from the partial-region images using the FPMP.
US12235433B2
A solid immersion lens unit includes a solid immersion lens and a holder for swingably holding the solid immersion lens. The solid immersion lens includes a first lens portion formed of a first material, and a second lens portion formed of a second material having a refractive index smaller than a refractive index of the first material and coupled to the first lens portion. The first lens portion includes a contact surface for contacting with an observation object and a convex first spherical surface. The second lens portion includes a concave second spherical surface facing the first spherical surface and a convex third spherical surface to be disposed to face an objective lens. The holder has a contact portion configured to be contactable with the third spherical surface.
US12235422B2
A zoom optical system (ZL) comprises, in order from an object, a first lens group (G1) having a positive refractive power, a second lens group (G2) having a negative refractive power, a third lens group (G3) having a positive refractive power, a fourth lens group (G4) having a positive refractive power and a succeeding lens group (GR). In the zoom optical system, upon zooming, distances between adjacent lens groups change, and the succeeding lens group (GR) includes a plurality of focusing lens groups that have positive refractive powers and move upon focusing.
US12235405B1
Disclosed is a nanosecond neutron analysis and associated particle imaging system (NNA/API) and gamma ray detector arrangement (arrangement) that uses associative element detection of titanium, iron and oxygen to determine concentrations of ilmenite or other minerals in extra-terrestrial bodies associated with He-3. The arrangement is used with a mobile carrier for mapping out concentrations of likely He-3 regions on the extra-terrestrial body.
US12235402B2
A method includes receiving seismic data including signals collected using a receiver, separating a downgoing wavefield from an upgoing wavefield in the signals, generating a modified downgoing wavefield by removing direct arrivals from the downgoing wavefield, estimating a first-order multiple reflection signal at least partially by deconvolving the modified downgoing wavefield and the downgoing wavefield, and generating a seismic image based at least in part on the estimated first-order multiple reflection signals.
US12235398B2
A system for detecting radiation includes a first array of neutron radiation detection devices, each radiation detection device including a charge storage region and a radiation reactive material; a first set of decoders to address the neutron radiation detection devices of the first array and to provide first signals indicative of the a state of the neutron radiation detection devices; a second array of gamma radiation detection devices, each gamma radiation detection device including a charge storage region in proximity to a high-z material; a second set of decoders to address the gamma radiation detection devices of the second array and to provide second signals indicative of a state of the gamma radiation detection devices; and a controller in communication with the first set of decoders and the second set of decoders and to receive the first and second signals.
US12235384B2
A method for the use in a radar system is described herein. In accordance with one implementation, the method includes providing a local oscillator signal to a transmit channel of a radar chip. The transmit channel generates an RF output signal based on the local oscillator signal. An internal RF test signal is generated by applying the local oscillator signal to the transmit channel. First and second phase values are determined for a first and a second value of an influence parameter of the radar chip based on internal measurements of the first and second phase values. Third and fourth phase values are determined for the first and second values of the influence parameter, respectively, based on the RF output signal. A calibration parameter is calculated based on the first, second, third, and fourth phase values and is used to estimate a phase of the RF output signal.
US12235382B2
The present invention relates to a method of effectively removing various vibration noises using microwave Doppler radar, and an apparatus therefor. The method comprises the steps of: (a) generating and transmitting an oscillation frequency to a dynamic target, and receiving a signal reflected from the dynamic target and various signals generated around the dynamic target; (b) generating a Doppler IF signal from each of n received signals; (c) converting each Doppler IF signal into digital data; (d) configuring digital signals into a data set, and converting the data set into a frequency component symbol set; (e) calculating a value by adding index symbols and dividing by n reception antennas; and (f) classifying deviation between spectrum components of a commonly-generated periodic signal and an uncommon aperiodic signal, and obtaining only a periodic signal through filtering. The present invention can improve accuracy of sensing a biometric signal.
US12235381B2
A system comprises a first phased array radar assembly configured to be attached to a vehicle. The first phased array radar assembly includes a first plurality of antennas arranged in an array and attached to a circuit board. The system also includes one or more circuits attached to the circuit board. Each of the one or more circuits includes transmitter circuitry communicatively coupled to a subset of the first plurality of antennas and receiver circuitry communicatively coupled to the subset of the first plurality of antennas.
US12235380B2
A distributed radar system, apparatus, architecture, and method is provided for coherently combining physically distributed radars to jointly produce target scene information in a coherent fashion without sharing a common local oscillator (LO) reference by configuring a first (slave) radar to apply fast and slow time processing steps to target returns generated from a second (master) radar, to compute an estimated frequency offset and an estimated phase offset between the first and second radars based on information derived from the fast and slow time processing steps, and to apply the estimated frequency offset and estimated phase offset to generate a bi-static virtual array aperture at the first radar that is coherent in frequency and phase with a mono-static virtual array aperture generated at the second radar, thereby achieving better sensitivity, finer angular resolution, and low false detection rate.
US12235360B2
A laser arrangement for time-of-flight measurements includes an optical filter adjacent to a laser. The laser and optical filter each have a substrate and an active layer arranged between a first and second mirror. The laser emits laser light in a first direction through its first mirror. The optical filter receives the laser light reflected from an object through its first mirror. The laser's and the optical filter's first mirrors have an equal reflectivity. The laser's and the optical filter's second mirrors have an equal reflectivity, or the reflectivity of the optical filter's second mirror is reduced with respect to that of the laser. The optical filter filters the received light such that laser light reflected from the object and received from the first direction passes the optical filter.
US12235352B2
The present invention concerns a method for performing SAR acquisitions, which comprises performing, in a time division fashion, SAR acquisitions of areas of a swath of earth's surface by means of a SAR system carried by an air or space platform; wherein performing SAR acquisitions in a time division fashion includes contemporaneously acquiring, in each pulse repetition interval, a plurality of areas of the swath that are separated in azimuth; and wherein the areas acquired in T successive pulse repetition intervals form an azimuth-continuous portion of said swath, T being an integer greater than one.
US12235344B2
The present invention provides a radar target detection method based on estimation before detection (EBD), which comprises: obtaining pre-detect targets (PDTs) based on conventional pulse-Doppler processing and pre-detection; estimating ranges and speeds of PDTs, i.e., performing parameter EBD; establishing a dimension-reduction observation model of a received signal based on PDTs and parameter thereof; reconstructing a target vector in the dimension-reduction observation model based on a sparse recovery algorithm; and designing a generalized likelihood ratio detector based on the reconstruction result for target detection. The method of the present invention can significantly reduce the radar signal processing loss, and the target detector used in the method has the constant false alarm rate (CFAR) property, so that the weak target detection performance can be greatly improved.
US12235337B2
An MRI system receive coil arrangement 3 for use with a main MRI scanner arrangement, the receive coil arrangement 3 including support structure and at least one receives coil 7 carried on the support structure 40. The support structure 40 includes a receive coil housing portion 43 which defines a channel portion 43a which houses at least a portion of the at least one receive coil 7. The channel having a mouth 43b for allowing the introduction of said at least a portion of the at least one receive coil 7 through the mouth 43b and into the channel 43a and a closing portion 45 moveable between a first position in which the mouth 43b of the channel portion is open for allowing introduction of the at least a portion of the at least one receive coil 7 into the channel portion 43a and a second, closing, position in which the mouth 43b of the channel is blocked by the closing portion 45.
US12235332B2
A magnetic sensor system includes a magnetic sensor device and a signal processing circuit. The magnetic sensor device generates first to third detection signals corresponding to components in three directions a field generated by a magnetic field generator that is able to change its relative position with respect to the magnetic sensor device. The signal processing circuit includes first and second processors. The second processor generates sphere information and transmits it to the first processor. When coordinates representing a set of values of the first to third detection signals in an orthogonal coordinate system are taken as a measurement point, the sphere information includes data on center coordinates of a virtual sphere having a spherical surface approximating a distribution of a plurality of measurement points. The first processor detects a change in offsets of the first to third detection signals by using the sphere information transmitted from the second processor.
US12235328B1
A modular network test device can test optical fiber networks or other types of networks. The test device includes a base module to perform network tests and interfaces to connect to removably connectable modules that can perform other network tests and supply additional battery power to the test device. The base module can control charging and discharging of a base module battery and an external battery of a removably connectable module connected to the base module. The base module can determine power requirements of the base module and a removably connectable module to perform network tests, and control power supplied by the base module battery and the external battery to the test device based on the power requirements.
US12235323B2
An estimation system includes a power storage device and one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to execute a charge process of controlling a charge device so as to charge the power storage device, and an estimation process of estimating a full charge capacity of the power storage device. The one or more processors are configured to execute the charge process with an upper limit state of charge of the power storage device set to a value that is more than a first upper limit state of charge when a predetermined condition is met, the first upper limit state of charge being the upper limit state of charge at the time when the predetermined condition is not met.
US12235317B2
An example test system includes a test instrument configured to test a device under test (DUT). The test instrument is configured to interact with the DUT using first commands having a first syntax. The test system also includes one or more processing devices configured (i) to receive a definitions file, where the definitions file includes information defining a second syntax that is used by a third party to communicate with the DUT, (ii) to receive second commands having the second syntax, (iii) to convert the second commands into the first commands having the first syntax based on the definitions file, and (iv) to send the first commands to the test instrument to enable the test instrument to interact with the DUT.
US12235315B2
The presented systems and methods enable efficient and effective exchange of test support components. There are a variety of different test support components (e.g., active thermal interposer (ATI) device, exchange kit, etc.) that are configured to support various testing functions. In one embodiment, an automated test equipment (ATE) system comprises: a support component configured to enable support functions associated with testing of a device under test (DUT); a support component head configured to selectively couple with the support component; and an exchange socket configured to hold the support component for a portion of selectively coupling the support component and the support component head.
US12235312B2
A method is provided for checking the plausibility of insulation monitoring of a high-voltage system (100) of an electric vehicle during the charging of a traction battery of the electric vehicle. The electrical insulation of the high-voltage system (100) is monitored by an insulation monitoring device (101), and a check is carried out cyclically to determine whether a further insulation monitoring device is active on a high-voltage bus of the high-voltage system (100).
US12235300B1
A method for power event notification includes (a) receiving, from a plurality of sensors at different respective locations within an area served by an electric power grid, a respective data set from each sensor, each data set including metadata associated with its respective sensor and electric power data generated by its respective sensor, (b) identifying, from at least one of the data sets, occurrence of an electric power event in the electric power grid, and (c) generating a notification of the electric power event.
US12235291B2
An isolated differential current shunt measurement probe for a test and measurement system having an isolation barrier between an input side and output side of the probe. The input side is configured to receive a voltage signal across a current shunt connected to a device under test and transmit the voltage signal across the isolation barrier. The output side is configured to receive the voltage signal across the isolation barrier and output the voltage signal to a test and measurement instrument.
US12235290B2
In one example, a method comprises: receiving a voltage from a power converter, and generating a comparison result representing a comparison between the voltage and a voltage threshold. The method further comprises providing one of a first current reference or a second current reference to the power converter responsive to the comparison result, in which the first and second current references represent different current levels.
US12235286B2
The present disclosure relates to a shield box for testing a mobile telecommunication terminal in which an increase in temperature in a shield box is prevented in performing various tests on a mobile telecommunication terminal having multiple antennas in an Over The Air (OTA) method to perform a stable test. The shield box for testing a communication terminal of the present disclosure includes a shield box main body made of metal, having a jig entrance formed on the front side, and equipped with a vent which a plurality of vent holes of 1 to 10 mm in size are formed on the upper and rear sides, respectively; a test jig assembly installed to be able to enter and exit through the jig entrance while mounting a PCB for non-contact wireless connection in which a plurality of non-contact wireless connection parts that are wirelessly connected to a mobile telecommunication terminal and transmit and receive signals are arranged; and a ventilation fan mounted on the upper vent or the rear vent.
US12235284B2
Proposed is an air velocity sensor (meter) for measuring the flow velocity of a fluid, particularly, the air velocity of gas. More specifically, proposed is a technical field related to an air velocity sensor which measures air velocity or temperature through the heat transfer of a fluid by using a hot wire, that is, a heating element, of a small cross-section, and which expands the surface areas of a temperature sensor, the heating element, and a soldering part in order to further improve the accuracy of a hot wire flow velocity sensor having higher accuracy, even with respect to a low flow velocity, than a general mechanical anemometer, so as to minimize resistance, and thus can easily measure very low flow rates by inducing a quick change in a current to quickly respond to minute changes in resistance and sensitively operate, that is, by improving reaction speed.
US12235265B2
The present invention relates to an immunochromatography test method of measuring a sugar chain antigen, which provides an immunochromatographic test piece and a specimen adding device capable of specifically measuring a sugar chain antigen, and an immunochromatography method using the same; wherein after mixing a specimen with a nitrite solution, a step of allowing tartaric acid to come into contact with the mixture, and extracting a sugar chain antigen contained in the specimen is carried out in a filtration step.
US12235262B1
Provided herein are methods identifying protein-protein interactions in a single cell context. In some cases, the methods may be used to measure the abundance of protein-protein interactions in a single cell context. In some cases, the methods may be used to map relationships (e.g., spatial relationships) between proteins in a single cell context. Generally, the methods employ the use of proximity probes coupled with splint oligonucleotides to link information about the relationship of proteins within a single cell context, which may then be read in a downstream process (e.g., a sequencing reaction).
US12235261B2
The present invention provides a method for measuring a cellular uptake amount of a molecule, comprising (i) adding the molecule to an organ-derived cell population to perform incubation, (ii) sorting the organ-derived cell population based on the expression levels of CD31 and CD45, and (iii) after steps (i) and (ii), measuring the amount of the molecule incorporated into the cell population sorted in the step (ii), wherein the molecule is incorporated into cells via a cell surface receptor.
US12235258B2
A method includes conveying a wellbore fluid into a container of a wellsite system, the container having a float angle hydrometer housed therein and the float angle hydrometer including a buoyant structure, and a measuring component housed within or attached to the buoyant structure. The method further includes determining one or more fluid properties of the wellbore fluid with the float angle hydrometer based on an inclination of the buoyant structure within the wellbore fluid, the one or more fluid properties including at least one of density, specific gravity, or fluid level.
US12235247B1
Erosion test rigs are provided for propelling dust and/or particles at high velocity and providing variable temperature ranges, as well as methods of using and fabricating the same. The erosion test rig can propel dust and/or particles at a velocity of up to 400 meters per second (m/s) and generate wide temperature ranges (e.g., from −196° C. to 200° C.) to simulate the harsh erosive conditions of planetary environments (e.g., Mars and Luna).
US12235246B2
Provided is a measuring device for measuring the hardness of a rotor blade groove. This measuring device comprises: a hardness meter for measuring hardness; an actuator that presses the hardness meter to an object to be measured; a camera for capturing an image of a measurement range in the object to be measured by the hardness meter; a movement mechanism for moving the hardness meter and the camera to a desired position within the measurement range; and a fixing member for fixing the movement mechanism to the object to be measured.
US12235243B2
A cover unit includes: a body to which an ultrasound generator adapted to generate ultrasound is coupled; first slits disposed at a lower portion of the body in the form of multiple rings having different radii and spaced apart from each other, the first slits having a first width; second slits depressed from an upper surface of the body to communicate with the first slits and having a second width smaller than the first width; third slits depressed from the upper surface of the body and each disposed between adjacent second slits, the third slits having a third width smaller than the first width; a bottom formed under the first slits; a first sidewall formed between adjacent first slits; and a second sidewall formed between the second slit and the third slit.
US12235239B2
A system for analyzing a sample includes a source configured to generate ions from constituent components of the sample; a mobility separator configured to separate ions received from the source based on the mobility in a gas; a ion storage array configured to store ions from the mobility separator as a plurality of mobility fractions; a mass filter configured to select ions within a mass-to-charge window; a mass analyzer configured to determine the mass-to-charge ratio of the ions; and a controller. The controller is configured to identify an ion mobility fraction and a mass-to-charge window to select for a charge state or ion class; utilize the mass filter to select ions from the ion storage array within the mass-to-charge window corresponding to a charge state or ion class; and analyze the selected ions with the mass analyzer.
US12235234B2
Ion sensing device includes a field-effect transistor including a bottom gate and a top gate, a reference electrode, and a driver circuit configured to measure concentration of ions in a sample solution into which the reference electrode and the top gate are immersed. The driver circuit includes a constant current source configured to supply a drain of the field-effect transistor with a constant current, and a voltage follower configured to receive a potential of the drain. The driver circuit is configured to supply the reference electrode with a constant reference potential, apply a constant voltage across an output of the voltage follower and the bottom gate, and output an output potential of the voltage follower.
US12235231B2
The present invention discloses a laser heating single-sensor fast scanning calorimeter, which comprises an FSC sample chamber, a chip sensor positioned in the FSC sample chamber and used for loading a sample, a laser heater for heating the sample, an infrared camera for shooting a sample image, a communication terminal and a control electronic element, wherein a perspective window serving as a light path channel is arranged in a center of the FSC sample chamber, and the laser heater and the infrared camera are positioned at the top of the perspective window; the infrared camera is connected with the communication terminal; one end of the control electronic element is connected with the communication terminal, and the other end of the control electronic element is connected with the laser heater and the chip sensor.
US12235217B2
A method for analyzing a sample includes introducing the sample into a vessel including a cation-exchange resin, where the cation-exchange resin has a high affinity to one or more interferent species in the sample, directing the sample through the cation-exchange resin to thereby capture one or more interference species in the cation-exchange resin to purify the sample, and releasing the purified sample from the vessel. Additionally, a method for analyzing a sample includes receiving an image depicting a diagnostic test region and a color reference chart, converting a test region image portion of the image to an analytical color space, determining first and second coordinate values characterizing the test region image portion in the analytical color space, and providing a quantitative measurement of an analyte of interest in the sample based on the first and/or second coordinate values and a predictive formula based on the color reference chart.
US12235211B1
This invention provides a UV spectroscopy apparatus and method for controlled drug waste diversion detection. The spectroscopy apparatus employs sample cells which have optimized optical path length such that the measured maximum absorbance of the drug is less than the detection limit of the system. Hence the full unsaturated absorption spectrum of the drug is revealed in the UV wavelength region from 230 nm (or even down to 195 nm) to 400 nm. This full spectrum analysis improves the specificity for drug identification and the accuracy for drug concentration verification. The spectral library of the apparatus comprises the spectra of common controlled drugs, excipients, as well as typical diluents, which enables the identification of controlled drugs from different manufacturers and/or diluted with different types of diluents.
US12235210B2
A light emitting apparatus has light emitting units. The light emitting units can be respectively provided with current densities, so that the light emitted by each of the light emitting unit has a light intensity, wherein the current densities are different from each other, or partial of the current densities are different from each other. A number of the light emitting units can be larger than or equal to four, all of the four lighting frequencies of the four light emitting units are different from each other, or partial of the four lighting frequencies of the four light emitting units are identical to each other, and the light emitting apparatus and the object under test rotate relative to each other. A light emitting method, a spectrum detection method and a lighting correction method are also illustrated for increasing SNR, correcting the light intensity or the spectrum signal.
US12235209B2
A method and device for measuring the profile of the surface of a flat object of unknown materials, including an interferometry measuring system, ellipsometry measuring system, beam splitter for splitting a light beam of a light source into an interferometry light beam and an ellipsometry light beam, and an analysis unit designed to ascertain the profile height in the measured region on the object surface from an analysis beam analyzed in a detector unit of the interferometry measuring system and a sensor beam received in an ellipsometry sensor. The interferometry measuring system includes a beam divider, reference mirror, and the detector unit, and the ellipsometry measuring system includes a polarizer for polarizing an ellipsometry light beam and transmitting same onto the measuring region on the object surface as well as the ellipsometry sensor, which includes a polarization filter in order to determine the polarization state of a received sensor beam.
US12235207B2
A multipass cell (300) comprising: a first reflector arrangement (305A, 305B); and a second reflector arrangement (307), the first (305A, 305B) and second (307) reflector arrangements defining an optical cavity (315) therebetween and the cell; wherein the first reflector arrangement (305A, 305B) is configured such that light incident on the first reflector arrangement (305A, 305B) is at least partially retroreflected towards the second reflector arrangement (307), wherein the second reflector (307) arrangement comprises a concave surface that is reflective, wherein at least one of the first (305A, 305B) and second (307) reflector arrangements comprises an aperture (306) for allowing light to enter and/or exit the optical cavity (315).
US12235200B2
A particle testing apparatus, being configured for investigating particles in a fluid medium, includes a waveguide device having a hollow optical waveguide with an input end and an output end, an irradiation device including a laser source being arranged for optically trapping at least one particle at the input end of the optical waveguide and propelling the particle through the optical waveguide toward the output end thereof, and a measuring device being arranged for sensing the at least one particle in the optical waveguide, wherein the measuring device is arranged for measuring an optical transmission of the optical waveguide. Furthermore, a particle testing apparatus is described.
US12235191B2
A flight imaging system and a method suitable where an unmanned flying object equipped with a visible camera and millimeter-wave radar is used, and a structure imaged by the visible camera and millimeter-wave radar mounted on the unmanned flying object are provided. A drone constituting the flight imaging system is equipped with a visible camera and a millimeter-wave radar. A processor of the drone performs control of the visible camera to capture a visible image of a surface layer of the structure, and control the millimeter-wave radar to transmit a millimeter wave toward the structure and receive a reflected wave of the millimeter wave from the structure, in a case of imaging the structure. During flight of the drone, the altitude of the drone is measured by an altitude meter mounted on the drone, altitude information indicating the measured altitude is acquired, and is used, in flying the drone.
US12235187B2
A transportable vehicle enclosure for inspecting vehicles is formed as a mono-block suitable for loading onto a transporter and unloading from a transporter. The enclosure includes side, front, rear, ceiling and floor portions, at least one of the portions being configured to allow vehicular assess whereby, in use, a vehicle maybe placed within the enclosure. The enclosure further includes a plurality of cameras integrated into or on a plurality of proportions for imaging each side of the vehicle when a vehicle is located in the enclosure.
US12235183B2
The present invention relates to a motor braking performance testing device, comprising: a motor positioning mechanism, a linkage mechanism, a power supply, a speed detection module, a timing module, a standard data storage module, a data comparison module, a test result output module, and a control module. The power supply, the speed detection module, the timing module, the standard data storage module, the data comparison module and the test result output module are all electrically connected to the control module. The present invention has the advantages that the device can test the braking performance of high-speed motors such as motors of lawn mowers, and make test results more accurate.
US12235172B2
The application describes devices, systems and methods related to an implantable device that is a stent or a heart valve. The implantable device includes a pressure sensor. The implantable device is for being introduced into a subject and for being wirelessly read out by an outside reading system. The pressure sensor comprises a casing with a diffusion blocking layer for maintaining a predetermined pressure within the casing and a magneto-mechanical oscillator with a magnetic object providing a permanent magnetic moment. The magneto-mechanical oscillator transduces an external magnetic or electromagnetic excitation field into a mechanical oscillation of the magnetic object, wherein at least a part of the casing is flexible for allowing to transduce external pressure changes into changes of the mechanical oscillation of the magnetic object.
US12235170B2
A fluid sensor includes a support structure having a top main surface region; a thermal emitter on the top main surface region of the support structure; a thermal radiation detector on the top main surface region of the support structure; and a waveguide structure having a first and a second waveguide section on the top main surface region of the support structure. The first waveguide section guides a first portion of the thermal radiation to the thermal radiation detector and the second waveguide section guides a second portion of the thermal radiation to the thermal radiation detector. The waveguide structure enables an interaction of an evanescence field of the guided first and/or second portion of the thermal radiation with a surrounding fluid.
US12235169B2
A temperature-sensing circuit is provided, which includes: a search-control circuit, a voltage-reference circuit, a CTAT (complementary to absolute temperature) circuit, a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) circuit, a comparison circuit, and an SAR (successive approximation register) circuit. The search-control circuit generates a reference-voltage selection signal according to a plurality of control signals. The voltage-reference circuit selects a first reference voltage from a plurality of candidate reference voltages according to the reference-voltage selection signal, and provides a second reference voltage. The CTAT circuit converts the second reference voltage into a first comparison voltage. The DAC circuit converts the first reference voltage into a second comparison voltage. The comparison circuit compares the first comparison voltage and the second comparison voltage to generate a comparison-result signal. The SAR control circuit outputs each bit of a temperature-segment signal of an operating temperature according to the comparison-result signal. The control signals include the temperature-segment signal.
US12235163B2
This application is directed to a home monitoring and control system including a doorbell installed at a door of a home. The doorbell has a button configured to, upon being pressed, wirelessly initiate a first communication to indicate presence of a person at the door. The doorbell also has a camera configured to capture video data within a field of view, and a processor configured to cause a communication component to enable the first communication and wirelessly stream via a remote server the video data captured by the camera to a monitoring device associated with an occupant of the home.
US12235156B2
An optical sensing device is provided. The optical sensing device includes an optical sensing element and a detection circuit. The optical sensing element senses an incident photon and generates a sensing signal. The detection circuit detects a pulse width of the sensing signal, and generates a reset signal when the pulse width is larger than a threshold value. Thereby, the optical sensing device is reset according to the reset signal and a dynamic range of the optical sensing device under strong ambient light will be further improved.
US12235151B2
A machine vision camera combined to one of the first storage carrier and the second storage carrier for detecting an offloading event. A sensor for measuring the weight of the material offloaded from the first storage carrier to the second storage carrier. A scale controller in communication with the machine vision camera and the sensor. The scale controller enters a tear mode in response to the beginning of offloading event and records and stores the weight of material offloaded from the first storage carrier to the second storage carrier as measured by the sensor.
US12235142B2
A measurement device is provided. The measurement device comprises a display configured to display a measurement trace, an analyzing unit configured to analyze a subset of measurement data represented by the measurement trace on the basis of at least one target measurement parameter, and a post-processing unit configured to search for the at least one target measurement parameter.
US12235140B2
An apparatus for digitizing an optical signal comprises: an optical detector to detect an optical signal and to generate an electric signal corresponding to the optical signal; an envelope curve detector to determine the amplitude of the electric signal or a modified electric signal resulting from the electric signal, and to supply an amplitude signal corresponding to the amplitude; an analog to digital converter to digitize the amplitude signal and to supply a corresponding digitized amplitude signal; and a variable voltage source to calibrate the envelope curve detector.
US12235117B2
A system for a water generation apparatus of a vehicle includes a sensing device that detects an environmental condition of a geographical area associated with the vehicle. A display device is configured to present a depiction of the geographical area. A controller is in communication with the sensing device and the display device. The controller is configured to determine at least one water generation estimate for the water generation apparatus based on the environmental condition and the geographical area. The controller is further configured to generate a modified representation of the geographical area based on the at least one water generation estimate and the depiction of the geographical area. The controller is further configured to communicate an instruction to present the modified representation at the display device.
US12235111B2
An advanced map matching algorithm is disclosed, which embeds the road topology inherently in a set of path candidates. Road connectivity is maintained even in special situations such as U-turns, reverse driving, and tunnels. Careful path candidate management is designed to reduce the candidate count while preserving well-matching candidates. Paths are treated and evaluated independently using multiple criteria, which makes the algorithm reliable and robust in different scenarios.
US12235110B2
In embodiments, given a surface that has domains on it and a first location, a second location is generated in the surface. The second location belongs in the same domains as the first location, and does not belong in the same domains as the second location. An advantage can be that, in embodiments, the second location can be used in lieu of the first location. A use case can be where it is desired to protect the privacy of location data of an entity, such as its address.
US12235109B2
A declination of an object, an orientation of the object and/or a position of the object can be determined using a gyroscope. In this regard, the gyroscope can be mounted to the object. The gyroscope can be pivoted. An undetermined pivoting of the object about an axis with the gyroscope can be measured. A component of a rotation of Earth acting on the gyroscope can be determined using the undetermined pivoting and the pivoting angular velocity (wcarousel). At least one parameter set can be determined. The pivoting angular velocity (wcarousel) of the gyroscope about the swivel axis with a second sensor can be determined.
US12235108B2
Systems and methods are provided for vehicle navigation. In one implementation, a navigation system for a host vehicle may include at least one processor programmed to receive from a camera onboard the host vehicle at least one captured image representative of an environment of the vehicle; detect a pedestrian represented in the at least one captured image; analyze the at least one captured image to determine an indicator of angular rotation and an indicator of pitch angle associated with a head of the pedestrian represented in the at least one captured image; and cause at least one navigational action by the host vehicle based on the indicator of angular rotation and the indicator of pitch angle associated with the head of a pedestrian.
US12235098B2
A method for determining a reasonable sampling interval with three-dimensional (3D) laser scanning includes: collecting rock joints; acquiring point cloud data of the rock joints with 3D laser scanning; performing preprocessing on acquired point cloud data; conducting indoor mechanical tests to determine rock mechanics parameters; calculating, with preprocessed point cloud data of the rock joints, joint roughness coefficients (JRCs) under different intervals obtained from statistical roughness parameters; fitting different relational curves according to a scatter plot between the different intervals and the JRCs to obtain a fitting equation; reversely calculating a JRC of the rock joint sample with the rock mechanics parameters to obtain a reversely calculated JRC; and substituting, according to a relational equation between the different intervals and the JRCs, the reversely calculated JRC into the fitting equation to determine a reasonable sampling interval for roughness evaluation.
US12235095B2
To sense the shape of a multicore optical fiber sensor, light reflected in a center and two or more helixed outer cores of the optical fiber sensor is measured, and phases associated with strain in the center and helixed outer cores is tracked along the length of the fiber sensor. Further, a wobble signal indicative of a variation in the spin rate of the fiber sensor is determined. Based on the tracked phases and the wobble signal, the fiber shape is computed.
US12235075B1
A firearm accessory device removably attachable to a firearm. The accessary device including a laser targeting finger stop assembly for coupling to a handguard, forestock, barrel or accessory rail of a firearm. The finger stop device may include a light source, such as a laser module, and a power source housed within the device. In embodiments, the device may further include one or more activation devices operably and electrically connected to the illumination device and positioned at one or more access openings forwardly and/or rearwardly oriented in a body portion of the device.
US12235073B2
An adjustment mechanism, comprising a left adjustment screw, a stop block threadedly connected to the left adjustment screw, and a right adjustment screw, also comprised are a sliding block a side surface of the front end of which is provided with a transverse sliding groove, a transverse mounting block having an LED chip module mounting base, and a wedge-shaped block; a limiting pin and a spiral reset spring sleeved on the limiting pin are provided at the end part of the right end of the transverse mounting block; the right adjustment screw is threadedly connected to a vertical side surface of the wedge-shaped block, a mounting groove for mounting the LED chip module mounting base is provided at the top part of the transverse sliding block, and a front end extending surface of the mounting groove communicates with the transverse sliding groove.
US12235071B2
Systems and methods for adjusting a weight, center of gravity, and balance point of a firearm are disclosed. The systems and methods include a handguard, a weight configured to be attached to the handguard, and a firearm accessory configured to be adjustably secured about the weight.
US12235067B1
A magazine for loading projectiles into a launch assembly by gravity feed. The magazine has a plurality blades radially extending from a central axis and defining a like plurality of compartments in an axially rotatable ring. The ring rests upon a stationary deck plate having a hole for gravity feed of the projectile into the launch assembly below. Projectiles having different fight characteristics are deposited into the compartments at a safe location, supported by the deck plate and the launch assembly with an associated device are transported to a hostile environment. A first projectile is launched by the launch assembly in a longitudinal direction. The launch assembly is retracted, automatically indexing the rotatable ring and dropping the next projectile through the hole and into the launch assembly for subsequent launch.
US12235061B1
A smart store communication interface (SSCI) squib of a countermeasure expendable. SSCI squib also includes a first electrical network. SSCI squib also includes a second electrical network that is isolated from the first electrical network. SSCI squib includes a fire pin contact that operably engages with the first electrical network and the second electrical network. The SSCI squib is configured to one of ignite a propellant loaded inside of a housing of the SSCI squib and communicate with a processor of the countermeasure expendable in response to receiving at least one electrical signal at the fire pin contact.
US12235045B2
The disclosure describes equipment for magnetic annealing of a substrate, the equipment including: an anneal chamber configured to heat and cool a substrate held at a soak location along a first direction in the anneal chamber, the anneal chamber including: a heater, a cooler, and a substrate lifter including a substrate holder, where the substrate holder is configured to support a substrate oriented such that the first direction is perpendicular to a major surface of the substrate; and a magnet assembly configured to establish a homogeneous zone in the anneal chamber, the soak location being within the homogeneous zone, the homogeneous zone including a region of magnetic field.
US12235031B2
Systems and methods for modeling of chiller efficiency and determination of efficiency-based staging
Multi-compressor chiller systems can be efficiently operated by determining real time efficiency curves for the compressors currently in operation, along with any compressors that may be added to address demand, and using these efficiency curves to determine changes to compressor operation to improve efficiency in meeting chiller demand. The efficiency curves can be parabolic curves. The data used to determine the efficiency curves can be obtained through operation at a variety of lift points and a variety of load points within those lift points. The efficiency curves can be solved to find intersections where there may be staging points for adding or subtracting compressors from operation to efficiently meet demand. This operation can be automated through a controller of a control system for the multi-compressor chiller system.
US12235029B2
An air-conditioning system includes an outdoor unit, a plurality of indoor units, and one or more refrigerant leak sensors. The outdoor unit is configured to exchange heat between outdoor air and refrigerant in a refrigerant circuit in which the refrigerant is circulated. The plurality of indoor units are each configured to exchange heat between the refrigerant and air inside a room in the refrigerant circuit and to perform air-conditioning inside the room. The one or more refrigerant leak sensors are each configured to detect a leak of the refrigerant from the refrigerant circuit. The one or more refrigerant leak sensors are each arranged separately from the outdoor unit and the plurality of indoor units.
US12235023B2
A method for controlling a refrigerator according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: if an ultra-low temperature compartment mode is turned on, performing control such that one of low voltage, middle voltage, high voltage, and reverse voltage is applied to the thermoelectric module according to the operation mode of the refrigerator; and if the temperature of the ultra-low temperature compartment is determined to be in a satisfactory temperature range, applying low voltage to the thermoelectric module by the control unit.
US12235004B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for air flow optimization. In certain embodiments, the technology is a system comprising sensors, injectors, actuators, and a system processor. In order to optimize the air flow, the system processor directs the injectors to expel aerosol particles into an environment, such that the aerosol particles can be measured by the one or more sensors. Flow intensity map generation is then used to map the aerosol particles and air flow is changed to optimize aerosol particle concentration using the actuators.
US12235000B2
A heat source unit for a heat pump having a refrigerant circuit, the heat source unit having: an outer casing including a bottom plate; and a compressor assembly accommodated in the outer casing, the compressor assembly including a compressor of the refrigerant circuit of the heat pump including a compressor housing, a support plate supporting the compressor, the support plate being mounted via dampers to the bottom plate, and a compressor casing enclosing the compressor and the compressor housing. A damping mechanism is arranged between the compressor and the support plate, and the compressor casing is fixed to the support plate out of contact with the compressor housing.
US12234999B2
A window mounted air conditioning unit is disclosed. The A/C includes an indoor unit, an outdoor unit, and a bridge. The indoor unit and outdoor unit are operatively connected by a line set (electrical wiring, refrigerant piping, condensate drainage piping, communication wiring, etc.) that is flexible and extensible and that resides in the bridge. The bridge is extendable from a first position to a second position to accommodate window openings of varying thicknesses. The A/C appliance is mounted to a separate mounting bracket that is itself extendable for varying width openings. The outdoor unit is pivotally connected to the bridge so that the outdoor unit can assume a first orientation during installation through a window opening, and a second orientation after passing through the window opening.
US12234988B1
A fuel nozzle for a gas turbine engine combustor includes a fuel nozzle assembly including an inflow tube disposed along and a nozzle axis, the inflow tube defining an inner air passage and a liquid swirler concentrically disposed about the inflow tube, the liquid swirler including a liquid swirler inner wall having a liquid swirler inner wall end portion angled radially outward from the nozzle axis, a liquid swirler outer wall having a liquid swirler outer wall end portion angled radially outward from the nozzle axis, and an annular liquid passage defined therebetween. The fuel nozzle assembly further includes a radial air swirler (RAS) concentrically disposed about the liquid swirler outer wall, the RAS including an RAS inner wall having an RAS inner wall end portion angled radially inward toward the nozzle axis, an RAS outer wall having an end cap at a downstream-most position, and an annular gas passage defined therebetween. The end cap includes a radiused inner surface and a contoured outer surface, and the radiused inner surface is parallel to the RAS inner wall end portion.
US12234984B2
A multi-color LED illumination device and specifically a lens comprising a cylindrical opening extending into the lens from a light entry region at which one or more LEDs are configured. A concave spherical surface extends across the entirety of the light exit region of the lens, and a TIR outer surface shaped as a CPC extends between the light entry region and the light exit region. There are various diffusion surfaces placed on the sidewall surface of the cylindrical opening, as well as its upper planar surface and, depending on whether glare control is not needed, the exit surface of the lens. Lunes can also be configured on the sidewall surfaces of the cylindrical opening and if lessening glare is needed, also on the TIR outer reflective surface. The combination of lunes, diffusion elements, and the overall configuration of the lens provides improved color mixing and output brightness.
US12234979B2
A backlight module and a display device. The backlight module includes a backplane (1), a lamp board (2), a thermally conductive connecting layer (3), and a heat dissipation assembly (4), the backplane (1) has a first surface and a second surface, which are opposite each other; the lamp board (2) is arranged on the first surface of the backplane (1); the thermally conductive connecting layer (3) is arranged between the lamp board (2) and the backplane (1), and the thermally conductive connecting layer (3) is connected to the lamp board (2); the heat dissipation assembly (4) is arranged on the second surface of the backplane (1), and the heat dissipation assembly (4) passes through the backplane (1) and is then connected to the thermally conductive connecting layer (3).
US12234965B1
Signal lamp for a vehicle configured to create an illumination pattern. It includes an illuminant configured to emit parallel light, a first optical element configured to receive light from the illuminant, and a second optical element configured to receive light from the first optical element. The light entry surface of the first optical element has a plurality of concave cylinder diverging lenses (CDLs), wherein the light exit surface of the second optical element has a plurality of convex cylinder converging lenses (CCLs). The CDLs are oriented on the light entry surface such that their cylinder axes are rotated by a first angle around a main axis, wherein the CCLs are oriented on the light exit surface such that their cylinder axes are rotated by a second angle around the main axis. The first and second angles are such that in a frontal view towards the light exit surface of the second optical element the CDLs overlap with the CCLs in order to form a lattice.
US12234953B2
A device for measuring a conduit arranged in a submerged or subterraneous environment and surrounded by an insulator layer. The device includes a first electrode; a mounting unit to be arranged on a surface of the conduit to create an enclosure against the surface, the enclosure containing the first electrode and configured to form a dielectric between the first electrode and the environment. A second electrode is configured to be arranged at a distance of the surface and at a distance of the first electrode and is intended to be in contact with the environment. A measurement instrument is configured to determine a value which is representative of an impedance between the first electrode and the second electrode.
US12234943B2
A support stand for supporting a volumetric modular unit above the ground is disclosed. The support stand includes a top portion with a top surface for contacting and supporting an underside of the modular unit above the ground. A bottom portion with a bottom surface supports the top portion at an elevation above the ground against the underside of the modular unit. An elevating portion has a top side connected to the top portion, a bottom side connected to the bottom portion, and an elevating span between the top side and the bottom side. A pad is connected to the bottom portion. The pad has a bottom surface for contacting and supporting the bottom portion against the ground, an inner pad perimeter and an outer pad perimeter. The top surface is parallel with the bottom surface. The underside and weight of the modular unit is supported on the top surface.
US12234940B2
Disclosed is an in-situ detection robot for loess geological information, including a housing, an active tensioning system, an auxiliary tensioning system, a control system, a drive system, and a detection system. The active tensioning system is configured to provide the robot with a tensioning force in an aperture direction of a loess hole for the robot to travel in the loess hole. The auxiliary tensioning system is configured to provide the robot with a pre-tensioning force for the robot to travel in the loess hole. The control system is configured to control a movement mode of the robot according to different travelling environments of the robot in the loess hole. The driving system is configured to provide the robot with a travelling power in the loess hole. The detection system is configured to detect related parameters of the loess geological information. The robot according to the present disclosure has a simple structure, can adapt to an aperture change of 100-150 mm, can effectively solve the problem in which the crawler pipe robot has a large radial size, has strong obstacle crossing ability and trafficability performance, and is applicable to the detection of geological information in the loess hole, which fills the existing technical gap.
US12234933B2
An ice chest (10) with beverage lines (18) in a cold plate (12) is provided in which the inlets and outlets of the cold plate beverage lines are coupled to fittings (16) that accommodate coupling to a wide range of beverage tubing sizes. Also provided are the cold plate (12) and fittings (16).
US12234930B2
The invention relates to a multipart pipe joint (10) having a centre piece (16) on which joint parts (18, 20) are received which are pivotable relative thereto and which are rotationally fixed to the centre piece (16) at articulation points (22, 24). The articulation points (22, 24) of the joint parts (18, 20) on the centre piece (16) also represent articulation points (22, 24) for transmission elements (42) which extend axially along an inner wall (34) of the centre piece (16). The articulation points (22, 24) forming articulation axes are arranged in an axial offset (25) to each other. Furthermore, the invention relates to the use of the multipart pipe joint (10) in an aircraft.
US12234928B2
An apparatus for locking a sealing member of a valve in a piping system or an enclosed system comprises: (a) a locking mechanism housing having a upper end, a lower end opposed to the upper end, and a body between the upper end and the lower end; (b) at least a locking mechanism opening formed on the body; (c) at least a locking mechanism disposed in the locking mechanism opening; (d) a valve housing bleeder opening, wherein the valve further comprises a valve housing and a sealing member; wherein the locking mechanism housing, the at least a locking mechanism opening, at least a locking mechanism, and the sealing member is disposed inside the valve housing; wherein a first pressure exists in the upper end of the locking mechanism housing; and wherein a second pressure exists in the lower end of the locking mechanism housing.
US12234925B2
A sensing arrangement for a relief valve having a valve body can include a valve body engagement member and a first sensor. The valve body engagement member can be secured to the valve body proximate to a valve seat of the relief valve. The first sensor can be in communication with the valve seat via the valve body engagement member. The first sensor can be configured to detect a valve event via detection of localized pressure changes at the valve seat.
US12234923B2
A stator unit includes a main circuit board parallel to an up-and-down direction, a sub circuit board at a right angle to the main circuit board, a magnetic sensor on the sub circuit board, and a housing including a sub circuit board space that is located adjacent to an inner space of the stator unit in which a can is disposed. The sub circuit board includes a first end connected to the main circuit board via a circuit board terminal and a second end located near the inner space in the sub circuit board space. The magnetic sensor is located closer to the inner space than the circuit board terminal is.
US12234922B2
A closure member is configured for use in a valve. These configurations may have a coating or conformal layer that may cover most, if not all, of the underlying material. This layer may include pre-propagated cracks that form due to thermal cycling prior to use in service. These pre-propagated cracks act as stress relief to accommodate for possible thermal stress that occurs due to different rates of thermal expansion between the underlying closure member and the coating. In one implementation, the layer may include a crack profile, which is engineered to direct formation of the pre-propagated cracks as well as to arrest crack development to a certain depth to maintain at least some integral layer of material over the underlying plug 118. This feature can extend service life of the plug, particularly in highly-erosive process fluids, like particle-entrained fluids commonly found in hydrocracking or refining operations.
US12234909B2
A hydro-mechanical series and parallel transmission device and a control method thereof are provided. The device includes an input shaft assembly, a hydraulic transmission assembly, a planetary gear transmission assembly, an intermediate gear transmission assembly, and an output shaft assembly. Switching among a hydraulic transmission mode, a mechanical transmission mode, and a hydro-mechanical composite transmission mode is implemented through combination and engagement/disengagement of clutches and brakes. The hydro-mechanical series transmission is used to expand the speed regulation range of the hydraulic transmission and is combined with the hydraulic transmission to meet the requirements on precision and the speed regulation range. The requirements of low-power and high-power operations are met through combination of the hydro-mechanical series and parallel transmissions. Multiple transmission modes are formed to adapt to the working conditions of startup, operation, and transfer.
US12234905B2
A power transmission device includes: a case including a first oil reservoir configured to be able to store oil, a second oil reservoir configured to be able to store the oil, and a partition wall configured to separate the first oil reservoir and the second oil reservoir; the oil sealed in the case; a rotating member configured to be able to be in contact with the oil in the first oil reservoir; and an oil supplying unit configured to be able to supply the oil in the second oil reservoir to the first oil reservoir. The oil supplying unit is configured to be able to adjust an amount of the oil in the second oil reservoir supplied to the first oil reservoir.
US12234895B2
A dual-clutch gearbox which can switch output shafts of two gearboxes, includes a box body in which a rotating shaft configured to receive torque from a drive motor is provided. Two gears, which are both in slip fit on the rotating shaft and respectively in linkage with the output shaft of one gearbox, are coaxially sleeved on the rotating shaft. A motion bar is fitted to and provided on the rotating shaft, a linkage piece in coaxial linkage with the rotating shaft is fixed at one end of the motion bar, and a driver is in linkage with the other end of the motion bar, so that the motion bar can move in its own axial direction under the action of the driver and allow the linkage of the linkage piece with one of the two gears.
US12234890B2
The present invention relates to a drive and/or adjustment device for driving and/or adjusting a rotatable assembly, for example a large rolling bearing ring of a wind turbine or a slewing gear of a construction machine or of a hoist, comprising an output element for rotationally driving and/or adjusting the rotatable assembly, a transmission which is connected upstream of the output element and has at least one torque-transmitting gear, and an overload safety mechanism for the rotatable assembly. The overload safety mechanism is provided on the gear, which is divided and has two gear parts that are torque-transmittingly interconnected via spur toothing and held axially in spur toothing engagement by an axial securing means which yields at a predetermined axial loading between the gear parts.
US12234889B2
Drive unit for adjusting an adjustable element between at least a first position and a second position, comprising a drive train having an input shaft and an output shaft, wherein the drive train is split into at least a first drive path and a second drive path, wherein at least one drive element in the drive train comprises an evoloid toothing.
US12234888B2
A V-ribbed belt having an elastic main body constructed from at least one rubber mixture including an outer ply as a belt backing and a substructure having a ribbed force-transmitting side. To improve friction and optimize service life the V-ribbed belt has a coating made of a knitted fabric on its force-transmitting side, in which the average basis weight of the textile before vulcanization is between 140 and 190 g/m2.
US12234883B1
A rope restraining and selective release device is provided that may be incorporated with a carabiner or other device for selective interconnection to an anchor. The device employs a selectively rotatable cam lever with a plurality of teeth and gripping geometry that cooperates with the corresponding geometry in a rope cradle to restrain a rope. Tension in the rope will allow it to pass through the device in one direction, but tension in the opposite direction will prevent rope movement through the device.
US12234880B2
The present disclosure provides a one-way air inlet valve for a cushioning airbag device and the cushioning airbag device. The one-way air inlet valve includes an air outlet member being in air communication with the at least one airbag; an air inlet member clamped into the air outlet member and being in air communication with the air outlet member; and a block movably arranged between the air outlet member and the air inlet member, the block comprising an engagement surface. Wherein the one-way air inlet performs one-way intake by a movement of the block, and when the block moves to the one of the air outlet member and the air inlet member, the engagement surface of the block tightly abuts against an inner surface of the one of the air outlet member and the air inlet member.
US12234867B2
The present disclosure relates to a flexure mechanism that includes a plurality of thin material structures, each thin material structure including a weak-link portion and a separable constraint portion. The separable constraint portion is linked to the weak-link portion and configured to stabilize the weak-link portion. Additionally, the plurality of thin material structures are stacked and secured together to form a laminar structure.
US12234863B2
A method of determining the center of loading of a rolling element includes providing a rolling element body and at least three load sensors. The sensors are each positioned within a bore of the rolling element body at a separate distance from a reference position. Load measurements are taken with each one of the sensors at various positions about the circumference of the bearing and the center of loading is calculated at each one of the positions to determine the variation in axial loading about the bearing circumference.
US12234862B2
A rolling-element bearing for a device lubricated with a fluid includes first and second bearing rings defining an interior therebetween in which rolling elements support the first ring for rotation relative to the second ring. A pumping device is located at the interior for pumping the fluid into and/or out of the interior when an element of the rolling-element bearing rotates and the rolling-element bearing is at least partially submerged in the fluid. The pumping device may be a ring having vanes that is attached to the first bearing ring or to a cage of the bearing.
US12234856B2
A fastening system includes a first fastening element attachable to a structure and which has a base portion for plugging through a structural opening, a second fastening element, and a plastically deformable funnel element. The funnel element has a funnel-like basic shape with a funnel opening. The second fastening element can be introduced through the funnel opening into a receiving opening of the base portion and fastened therein and has a collar which faces away from the receiving opening and which is larger than the funnel opening. The funnel element is designed to be deformed from the funnel-like basic shape into a flat, disk-like final shape by the collar of the second fastening element during the fastening of the second fastening element.
US12234854B2
A foreign material exclusion plug is disclosed. The foreign material plug includes a cylindrical body, a slot, and a breakaway tab. The cylindrical body includes an externally-threaded cylindrical structure. The slot is formed in the cylindrical body extending into the cylindrical body from a top surface of the cylindrical body. The breakaway tab is connected to the cylindrical body and extends outwards from the top surface.
US12234853B1
A method of feeding a fastener in a machine for installation onto a workpiece, the method includes a) feeding a fastener into a block having channel with a stop against which the fastener abuts in a fastener loading position, the channel is at least partially covered by a flexible retainer plate that captures the fastener within the channel, b) moving the block relative to a pin to engage the fastener with the pin, the pin has a longitudinal pin axis, c) forcing the fastener into the retainer plate in a direction of the longitudinal pin axis to deflect the retainer plate away from the channel and disengage the fastener from the stop, d) retracting the block relative to the pin to support the fastener on the pin clear of the block, and e) securing the fastener to the workpiece.
US12234848B2
Injection mortar for anchoring a fastener containing a chemical composition that can cure in a curing process, and means for initiating the curing process characterized in that the chemical composition cures when irradiated with electromagnetic radiation, the means for initiating the curing process is formed by a radiation source for electromagnetic radiation, and the radiation source is placed within the anchoring zone.
US12234845B1
An electric powertrain for a machine includes an electric power source. The powertrain further includes an implement pump for powering a work implement and an implement pump electric motor. An electric traction motor is operably coupled to a traction device. An electronic controller stores a plurality of rimpull torque curves. The electronic controller is configured to determine if the electric power source is in a power limited condition and upon determining that the electric power source is in a power limited condition act to derate a rimpull torque of the traction device from a first rimpull torque curve of the plurality of rimpull torque curves to a lower second rimpull torque curve of the plurality of rimpull torque curves, wherein the selection of the second rimpull torque curve is based on a power usage by the implement pump electric motor.
US12234843B2
A system and method for controlling flow of air into an air compressor of an air compressor system includes a proportional solenoid valve configured to control flow of supply air into the air compressor in proportional response to sensed air pressure generated by the air compressor system.
US12234839B2
A ceiling fan having a motor assembly that can be secured to a structure, for example, by a downrod and a hanger bracket assembly. A light kit can optionally be carried by the motor assembly. The motor assembly can include a housing to which can be integrated or attached to a blade hub. Blades for the ceiling fan can be mounted to the blade hub.
US12234833B2
A ceiling fan assembly having a motor housing with at least one blade iron. At least one blade extending from a root to a tip, and having a set of multiple, spaced, through openings at the root. A snap-fit connector securing the at least one blade to the blade iron and comprising a first element and a second element, spaced from the first element to define an insertion path for the root of the blade.
US12234832B2
An impeller wheel, in particular for a centrifugal pump, has in at least one side view perpendicular to a rotary axis an outer contour that is spaced apart radially from the rotary axis, the outer contour comprising a first contour line which is inclined relative to the rotary axis by a first angle, and comprising a second contour line which directly follows the first contour line and is inclined relative to the rotary axis by a second angle, the second angle being by at least 0.05° and maximally 2° smaller than the first angle.
US12234813B2
A pair of waveform rotors and/or disks for use in a disk-pack turbine used, for example, in systems and methods in at least one embodiment for separating fluids including liquids and gases into subcomponents by passing the fluid into an expansion chamber and then through at least a portion of a waveform pattern present between at least two rotors and/or disks. The rotors and/or disks having waveform patterns on at least one side.
US12234808B2
A method for operating and maintaining a wind farm comprising a plurality of wind turbines includes determining an odometer for one or more components of at least one of the pluralities of wind turbines in the wind farm, the odometer representing operational usage of the component(s). The method also includes tracking the operational usage for the component(s) using the odometer and a usage threshold. Further, the method includes predicting an expected time frame for one or more preventative maintenance actions based on a comparison of the tracked operational usage and the usage threshold. Moreover, the method includes triggering scheduling of the one or more preventative maintenance actions when the prediction indicates that the tracked operational usage will exceed the usage threshold. In addition, the method includes shutting down the wind turbine or idling the wind turbine once the one or more preventative maintenance actions are scheduled.
US12234797B2
A computer-controlled energy storage system optimizes the process of energy storage and electricity re-generation. In an energy storage and release cycle, the gas is compressed and released in a pressure range that is optimized in terms of energy storage and release (e.g., round trip) efficiency. In some embodiments, the gas is not pressurized to an unneeded high-pressure level (e.g., 100 atm) and also does not release to an exhaust pressure level (e.g., 0 atm).
US12234796B2
A power distribution management method includes receiving accelerator pedal opening information sent by a hybrid vehicle; on the basis of the accelerator pedal opening information, respectively compiling statistics on a first opening change rate when the accelerator pedal opening is in a starting interval and when the accelerator pedal opening is increased and a second opening change rate when the accelerator pedal opening is in an overtaking interval and when the accelerator pedal opening is increased, the starting interval corresponding to a first preset range of the accelerator pedal opening, and the overtaking interval corresponding to a second preset range of the accelerator pedal opening; calculating a driver feature coefficient on the basis of the first opening change rate and the second opening change rate; and sending the driver feature coefficient to the hybrid vehicle.
US12234791B2
An exemplary gas turbine engine includes a fan section including a fan rotor and at least one fan blade. A fan pressure ratio across the at least one fan blade is less than 1.45, noninclusive of the pressure across any fan exit guide vane system. The engine further includes a low-pressure compressor having a low-pressure compressor rotor that rotates together with the fan rotor at a common speed in operation, and a geared architecture that drives the low-pressure compressor rotor and the fan rotor. The geared architecture has a gear reduction ratio of greater than 2.5. The engine further includes a high-pressure compressor having a pressure ratio greater than 20, a low-pressure turbine having a pressure ratio greater than 5, and a bypass ratio greater than 10.
US12234790B2
An air inlet of an aircraft propulsion unit comprising thrust reversal means configured to modify a bypass air flow circulating from upstream to downstream in a bypass duct into a reverse air flow circulating from downstream to upstream. The air inlet comprising an interior wall defining openings and, in each opening, a mobile member that comprises a covering wall and a deflecting wall and is mounted so as to pivot between a covering position, in which the covering wall obstructs the opening so as to guide the bypass air flow and promote a thrust phase, and a deflecting position, in which the deflecting wall obstructs the opening so as to separate the reverse air flow and promote a thrust reversal phase.
US12234782B1
A dual fuel engine system includes an engine, and a fuel system including a pressurized fuel reservoir, a first fuel pump, and a plurality of second fuel pumps each having an actuating fluid inlet fluidly connected to at least one of the first fuel pump or the pressurized fuel reservoir. The plurality of second fuel pumps may intensify or de-intensify a pressure of a second fuel relative to a pressure of the first fuel used to actuate the second fuel pumps so as to obtain an increased flow rate of the second fuel. Related apparatus and methodology is also disclosed.
US12234768B2
A gas turbine engine includes a turbine for driving a shaft to in turn drive a rotor. A combustor receives compressed air, and combusts the compressed air. The shaft is supported by at least one bearing. An oil delivery system is associated with the at least one bearing including an oil scoop rotating with the at least one shaft and a stationary oil jet provided with a source of lubricant. A mixed fluid chamber is within the shaft. The mixed fluid chamber is connected to an air exit. There further is an oil chamber radially outward of the mixed fluid chamber. The oil chamber is connected to the at least one bearing.
US12234766B2
An entryway system includes a divided volute turbocharger having variable turbine geometry (VTG). The turbocharger includes a turbine housing, first and second volutes separated by a wall having a first and second tongue, and a turbine housing outlet. The system also includes a turbine wheel disposed in the turbine housing and a vane ring disposed in the turbine housing between the turbine wheel and the volutes. The system includes design modifications of one or more of the VTG components and/or locations of such components to manipulate the aerodynamic forces and/or subsequent mechanical loads in the VTG mechanism of the entryway system to mitigate VTG component wear during normal usage.
US12234764B2
A car having two front wheels; two rear drive wheels; a supercharged internal combustion engine which is provided with a plurality of cylinders with which respective pistons slide and a drive shaft connected to the pistons; a compressor configured to compress air suited to be sucked by the supercharged internal combustion engine; a transmission which is interposed between the internal combustion engine and the rear drive wheels and has: a drum which is brought into rotation by the drive shaft, at least one clutch contained in the drum to receive the motion from the drum, and a primary shaft connected to the clutch; and an actuating system which connects the drum of the transmission to the first compressor so as to receive the motion from the drum of the transmission to cause the rotation of the first compressor.
US12234757B1
Systems and methods for heating a vehicle via a fuel operated heater are presented. In one example, the fuel operated heater heats a catalyst in an exhaust system of an internal combustion engine to reduce engine emissions. In another example, the fuel operated heater heats a particulate filter to purge soot from the particulate filter.
US12234755B2
A casted unitary metallic oil filter adaptor that has an entirely internal lubricant flow path and threads for connecting associated components directly to the casted adaptor.
US12234751B2
An energy storage system (TES) converts variable renewable electricity (VRE) to continuous heat at over 1000° C. Intermittent electrical energy heats a solid medium. Heat from the solid medium is delivered continuously on demand. Heat delivery via flowing gas establishes a thermocline which maintains high outlet temperature throughout discharge. The delivered heat which may be used for processes including power generation and cogeneration. In one application, the energy storage system provides higher-temperature heat to a steam cracking furnace system for converting a hydrocarbon feedstock into cracked gas, thereby increasing the efficiency of the temperature control.
US12234735B1
A gas turbine engine includes a turbine section that has a seal system disposed in interfaces between adjacent blade outer air seals. The seal system includes a first seal and at least one second seal that partially overlaps the first seal, the at least one second seal is configured to bias the first seal into a sealing position.
US12234734B2
An additive manufactured rotor for a seal assembly is provided. The rotor surrounds a central axis and extends along the central axis from a first axial end to an opposite second axial end. The rotor is rotatable about an axis of rotation that is co-axial with the central axis. The rotor can include an outer ring and an inner ring that is connected to the outer ring by a radial web. The outer ring has a rotor face for providing a sealing surface at the first axial end. The outer ring can define a first annular cavity and the inner ring can define a second annular cavity that is radially separated from the first annular cavity. The radial web can define a fluid channel for providing fluid communication between the first annular cavity of the outer ring and the second annular cavity of the inner ring.
US12234721B2
A method for configuring telemetry transmission includes receiving a transmitted telemetry signal at the earth's surface. The received signal is selected and processed to compute a measured power spectral density (PSD). A theoretical PSD is computed of the transmitted signal at the known carrier frequency and processed in combination with the measured PSD to compute an attenuation factor of the transmitted signal at a plurality of frequencies.
US12234717B2
An apparatus includes a pressure sensor for measuring a pressure in a wellbore of a formation, a processor communicably coupled with the pressure sensor, and a machine-readable medium. The machine-readable medium has program code executable by the processor to cause the apparatus to obtain a set of measurements with the pressure sensor, determine an effective wellbore compressibility coefficient based on the set of measurements, and determine an effective wellbore diameter based on an initial wellbore diameter and the effective wellbore compressibility coefficient.
US12234713B2
Methods and compositions for skid-mounted separator assemblies are provided. In some embodiments, the compositions comprise at least one mobile skid, wherein the at least one mobile skid has a first frame and a second frame, and wherein the first frame is hingedly coupled to the second frame. In some embodiments, at least one separator is mounted upon the at least one mobile skid.
US12234712B2
This disclosure generally relates to power generation methods and systems based on gas turbine engines, and particularly to mobile and adaptive power generation systems and methods based on gas turbine engine for supplying mechanical and/or electrical power for fracturing operations at an oil wellsite. Various systems, platforms, components, devices, and methods are provided for flexibly and adaptively configure one of more gas turbines, hydraulic pumps, and electric generators to support both fracturing and electric demands at a well site. The disclosed implementations enable and facilitate a mobile, adaptive, and reconfigurable power system to provide both mechanical and electric power for hydraulic fracturing operation.
US12234711B2
A hard pipe connecting device and manifold system are disclosed that solve technical problems of existing fracturing pipelines, such as poor safety performance, too many connecting parts, inconvenient and ineffective connection between the parts, complicated installation structure, and difficulty to adjust the distance and the angle. In order to solve the technical problems, the hard pipe connecting device includes at least one non-concentric connecting pipe joint, which includes a pipe body and first flanges at opposite ends of the pipe body. The two first flanges are parallel to each other with a distance difference h, where h>0.
US12234709B2
An apparatus to be positioned in a wellbore formed in a subsurface formation. The apparatus comprises a flow control device to restrict a fluid flowing from the subsurface formation and into a tubular string positioned in the wellbore. The apparatus comprises a magnetic assembly positioned proximate the flow control device.
US12234698B2
An expandable, retrievable plug includes a base, a plurality of arm bars pivotably attached to the base and movable between stowed and extended configurations, and a set of expandable blades operatively coupled to and angularly interposing each pair of angularly adjacent arm bars such that, as the plurality of arm bars move to the extended configuration, each set of expandable blades transitions from a stacked state to a fanned state. An inflatable element is attached to the base and is engageable with the plurality of arm bars, and an expandable seal is mounted to the plurality of arm bars and each set of expandable blades. Selectively inflating the inflatable element transitions the plurality of arm bars from the stowed configuration to the extended configuration, which transitions each set of expandable blades from the stacked state to the fanned state, and simultaneously radially expands the expandable seal.
US12234696B1
An untethered device includes a tool and a ballast weight. The ballast weight includes an attachment plate that is securable to the tool, a dissolvable ballast, and attachment elements that secure the dissolvable ballast to the attachment plate. At least one of the attachment elements is dissolvable to release the dissolvable ballast from the attachment plate.
US12234695B2
Providing electric power distribution for fracturing operations comprising receiving, at a transport, electric power from a mobile source of electricity at a first voltage level and supplying, from the transport, the electric power to a fracturing pump transport at the first voltage level using only a first, single cable connection. The first voltage level falls within a range of 1,000 V to 35 kilovolts. The transport also supplies electric power to a second transport at the first voltage level using only a second, single cable connection.
US12234694B2
A multifunction manipulator includes a carriage; an articulated arm; a robotic apparatus; and a manipulation head. The robotic apparatus moves the manipulation head with at least three degrees of freedom. The manipulator moves the manipulation head with at least five degrees of freedom. The carriage includes a sliding block; a pulley-type hoisting device having a winch; an emergency braking system to prevent the carriage from moving due to malfunction of the hoisting system and to slide the carriage vertically. The articulated arm has a monolithic body constrained at a first end to the carriage, and at a second end to a first end of the robotic apparatus. The manipulation head connects to a second end of the robotic apparatus. The articulated arm includes first and second actuators. The articulated arm and robotic apparatus have electric actuators controlled independently by a control system of the manipulator.
US12234693B2
One embodiment of a drill rod spacer mover is disclosed. In one embodiment, the drill rod spacer mover comprises a plurality of spacer members each movable to a first position, and a drive transfer arrangement configured operable for receiving drive for moving a body. The body is configured for interacting with a spacer member while moving so as to move same to its first position. The drill rod spacer mover comprises a detent member configured operable for supporting a respective spacer member in its first position when the body moves to interact with another spacer member. More than one drill rod spacer movers can be arranged to form a drill rod spacer mover arrangement for operable use with a drill rod storage assembly.
US12234692B2
The present disclosure provides automated equipment for drilling and workover operations of oil field, and an oil field workover operation device, an integrated hydraulic clamp, a buckling apparatus and a string automated operating apparatus, and a derrick floor pipe handling manipulator for use in the automated equipment. The automated equipment comprises a workover rig, a derrick floor, an elevator, a monkey-board string automatic placement apparatus, a slip, an oil field workover operation device, a power clamp, and a derrick floor pipe handling manipulator, and the workover rig, the derrick floor, the elevator, the monkey-board string automatic placement apparatus, the slip, the oil field workover operation device, the power clamp, and the derrick floor pipe handling manipulator cooperate with each other to realize a lifting operation and a lowering operation of a string at a wellhead. The workover rig has a derrick, the workover rig is arranged along a front-rear direction of the automated equipment, and the derrick is disposed at a rear end portion of the workover rig and aligned with the wellhead. The derrick floor is placed on the ground and disposed at the wellhead, and the derrick floor is disposed adjacent to the derrick. The oil field workover operation device is positioned on one side of the wellhead in a left-right direction of the automated equipment, and the oil field workover operation device is disposed on the derrick floor in a manner of being movable between a raised position where the oil field workover operation device extends out above the derrick floor and a retreated position where the oil field workover operation device retreats below the derrick floor. The automated equipment in the present disclosure significantly improves operation efficiency of the drilling and workover operations, greatly reduces manual operation strength, and improves safety factor.
US12234690B2
An experimental apparatus for rock-breaking through vibration impact, including a confining pressure loading assembly, a drill bit, a drill rod, a drilling fluid circulation assembly, a rotary impact assembly and an axial impact assembly. The confining pressure loading assembly is configured to apply pressures to a core sample located in a core cavity in three directions perpendicular to each other. The drill bit is capable of inserting into the core cavity to drill the core sample. The drilling fluid circulation assembly includes a drilling fluid inlet, a drilling fluid outlet and a mud pump connected therebetween. The rotary impact assembly includes a hydraulic rotary motor and a hydraulic swing motor connected to the drill rod, respectively. The axial impact assembly includes a first hydraulic cylinder, and a servo linear actuator connected to the first hydraulic cylinder and the drill rod.
US12234688B1
A foldaway stepping stool apparatus includes a backplate attachable to a cabinet and a stepping stool mountable onto the backplate. The stepping stool is configurable into deployed and folded configurations. The stepping stool includes a platform, a pivotable front leg, a pivotable rear leg, a latch, and a bracket coupling the latch and the front leg. The latch operates to lock the stepping stool in the deployed configuration and to secure and free the bracket, enabling movement of the stepping stool between the deployed and folded configurations. The backplate includes a track for removably receiving the stepping stool. The track enables the stepping stool to slide in and out thereof to attach and detach, respectively, for use at the cabinet or away from the cabinet. The track further enables the stepping stool to slide therethrough to contact a floor to support the cabinet while the apparatus is mounted thereon.
US12234683B2
A door and a home appliance having the same. The home appliance includes a main body including a chamber and a door configured to open or close the chamber, wherein the door includes a front panel, a plurality of flanges formed from the front panel in a bent shape, an incision portion between the plurality of flanges, a fixing member coupled to the plurality of flanges to prevent the door from being deformed, and a cover member configured to cover the incision portion and the fixing member. The cover member includes a corner cover portion and a rear cover portion.
US12234680B2
A vehicle includes a camera to recognize at least one sign installed on a road and a controller to determine a type of the at least one sign, in a case in which the at least one sign corresponds to a road freezing sign based on referring to a memory, determine whether a temperature sensed by a temperature sensor installed outside the vehicle is a freezing danger temperature, and in a case in which the temperature sensed by the temperature sensor corresponds to the freezing danger temperature, determine whether a drive mode of the vehicle is set to a winter mode. The controller displays a winter mode automatic switching notification message through an instrument panel and to transmit a command for switching to the winter mode to a drive mode controller in a case in which the drive mode of the vehicle is not set to the winter mode.
US12234675B2
A safety door assembly for a hoist window of a structure includes a sliding door arranged to reveal or conceal the hoist window; and a barrier assembly which is closed to inhibit access to an area in front of the hoist window or opened to permit access to the area in front of the hoist window; and wherein the barrier assembly is adapted to prevent the sliding door from revealing the hoist window when the barrier assembly is open; and the sliding door is adapted to prevent opening of the closed barrier assembly when the sliding door reveals the hoist window.
US12234667B1
A locking system that has an opening in a door adapted and arranged for receiving a lock bolt and a lock fixed in a wall for actuating a lock bolt adapting and arranged for being received by the opening in the door when the door is closed. Alternatively, the locking system is mounted on the exterior of the detention cell door and the adjacent exterior cell wall. The locking system further comprises a blocking strip protruding from a doorjamb, the strip coupled to the door jamb, the strip coupled to the door jamb and positioned adjacent the lock bolt for blocking access to the lock bolt between the door and the doorjamb. The locking system further comprises a system for monitoring and reporting the status of a detention cell door, the lock bolt, and the roller bolt.
US12234646B2
A building truss including a structural floor element, a vertical support on each side of the structural floor element, rafters spanning the vertical supports, a structural horizontal tie which interconnects the rafters, and a roof peak on the horizontal tie. A building is constructed by erecting multiple trusses parallel to each other in sequence in a longitudinal direction spanning one gable end to the opposed gable end. Each building truss defines the full room and roof spaces and provides the required structural strength. Each truss defines a 2D envelope; the floor element spanning in the horizontal direction, vertical supports for the vertical direction, and a roof assembly joining the two vertical supports. Each truss is unitary and constructing the multiple trusses parallel to each other provides a 3D structural building envelope.
US12234644B2
Deployable structures, methods and apparatus for deployment of deployable structures, and associated manufacturing methods. Such deployable structures suitably comprise components for space structures, such supports for solar arrays, antennas or other similar systems. The deployable structure comprises a lattice element arrangeable in a stowed configuration and a deployed configuration. The lattice element comprises a pre-stressed strip arranged in a clockwise helix, a pre-stressed strip arranged in an anticlockwise helix, and a plurality of fasteners for rotatably coupling the strips to one another at a plurality of positions distributed along the length of the strips. The fasteners are provided at unequal spacings along the length of the strips such that on deployment the lattice element bends to a curved deployed configuration.
US12234639B2
The composite ceiling can have a shell made of a polymer-based material and defining a plurality of internal compartments, having a flat and smooth under surface spaced apart from a flooring and facing the flooring, and an upper surface opposite the under surface, a first layer of rebars having a first plurality of rebars spaced apart from one another along the depth of the shell, the first layer of rebars being separated from upper surface by spacers, a second layer of rebars having a second plurality of rebars spaced apart from one another along the width of the shell, the second layer of rebars being above the first layer of rebars, and a horizontally extending concrete slab extending over the shell and surrounding the rebars.
US12234638B2
Various implementations described herein are directed to a formwork system. In one implementation, the formwork system includes aluminum extrusions and aluminum castings. The aluminum castings and the aluminum extrusions can be assembled by being pressed and riveted together.
US12234635B2
A method and device for holding a subsurface layer of an elevated flooring portion of a floor structure at a distance from a subfloor in a vicinity of an opening in the flooring portion during a process of drying the floor structure. According to the invention there is provided at least one rod having a substantially perpendicularly angled end. The rod is inserted below the subsurface layer through the opening and the angled end of the rod is attached to an edge of a surface layer in the opening of the flooring portion in a manner that the rod supports the subsurface layer at said distance from the subfloor when the flooring portion is elevated.
US12234627B2
A stereo camera constructed to generate video data and distance data is attached to a construction work machine. A location of a work tool attached to the construction machine is computed from sensor signals and the distance data are analyzed for an indication of an object located at the work tool. A video overlay is rendered including an object indicator that visually emphasizes an object image of the object at the spatial location of the work tool. A composite image of the rendered video data and the video overlay is displayed on a monitor.
US12234623B2
A tilt structure to be provided allows the tilt of a console to be changed through simple motion and has a simple configuration. A control member 30 is coupled to a second frame 25 at a first coupling position P1 and is coupled to a first frame 20 at a second coupling position P2 provided below the first coupling position P1. Controlling the control member 30 makes the height of the first coupling position P1 adjustable. The tilt of the second frame 25 is changed in response to the height of the first coupling position P1.
US12234622B1
The present invention relates to a heavy equipment or machinery attachment apparatus. More particularly, the present invention relates to a heavy equipment or machinery attachment apparatus that includes a broom, fixed rake tongues, and spring-loaded tongues, whereby tilting of the apparatus (and not detachment from a piece of heavy equipment or machinery) engages the broom or the rake component for use.
US12234610B2
Method for preparing green slow-release preservative paper used for fruit and vegetable preservation
The present disclosure discloses a method for preparing a green slow-release preservative paper used for fruit and vegetable preservation. The method includes: step 1, preparing a core paper loaded with biological preservative; step 2, preparing a base membrane loaded with fruit and vegetable respiration inhibitor; and step 3, heating and pressing the core paper loaded with biological preservative and the base membrane loaded with fruit and vegetable respiration inhibitor to obtain the green slow-release preservative paper. The present disclosure uses a biological preservative as a main material and an absorbent paper or a non-woven fabric as an auxiliary material to prepare the green slow-release preservative paper used for fruit and vegetable preservation through a layer-by-layer film covering method.
US12234605B2
The invention relates to a method to produce a linerboard exhibiting a high bending resistance and a high compression strength, which in turn provides high resistance to interflute buckling and sagging in a thereof formed corrugated board. This is achieved by the inventive combination of an optimized fiber refining level of the furnish in each layer of the linerboard, the separate formation of the top layer and the use of a multi-layer headbox to form the two-layered ply. In addition, the linerboard made according to the invention provides good printing properties in a thereof produced corrugated board, especially in flexographic printing, without the fluting structure being negatively affected.
US12234603B2
Residual lignin recovered from biological conversion processes and pulp and paper industry wastes can be converted to water-soluble products by alkaline oxidation under oxygen pressure at high solids loading within the temperature range 130-180° C. No problems associated with repolymerization reactions are encountered at solids loading between 10-30% where the initial molar ratio of hydroxide base to lignin residual is at last 0.4, possibly because of enhanced reactivity in the oxidation reaction of aromatic groups in self-associate structures. The water-soluble oxidation products can be fractionated to recover a low molecular weight fraction in which pH can be adjusted using CO2 without forming precipitates. Sodium carbonate byproduct can be recovered from the pH adjusted reaction mixture using acetone precipitation. The low molecular weight fraction of the pH adjusted oxidation products can be used as feed for anaerobic digestion to biomethane.
US12234594B2
A laundry appliance includes a cabinet frame that defines a receiving aperture. A tub is disposed within the cabinet frame. A suspension support includes an engagement portion. The engagement portion includes an ejection surface sloping in a first direction and an assembling surface sloping in a second opposing direction to a retaining notch. A suspension rod extends between the tub and the suspension support and has a hook for selectively engaging the assembling surface in an installed position and selectively engaging the ejection surface in a misaligned position.
US12234590B2
A washing machine appliance includes a wash basket that is rotatably mounted within a wash tub and that defines a wash chamber for receiving a load of clothes. A dispensing assembly selectively dispenses wash fluid through a discharge nozzle into the wash tub and a camera assembly is used to monitor the wash fluid and diagnose issues related to the detergent quantity. Specifically, a controller of the washing machine appliance uses the camera assembly to obtain one or more images of the load of clothes as fresh water is dispensed to determine whether detergent was added manually. The controller further determines whether a smart dispense feature is activated or deactivated and implements a responsive action in response to determining that either 1) detergent is present and the smart dispense feature is activated or 2) detergent is not present and the smart dispense feature is deactivated.
US12234587B2
A tufting machine for selectively forming tufts of yarns, including different color or type yarns, for forming patterned tufted articles such as carpets. A series of needles are reciprocated into and out of a backing material being fed through the tufting machine and are engaged by a series of gauge parts so as to pick-up loops of yarns from the needles. The gauge parts will be selectively controlled by activators to extend or retract the gauge parts to positions or elevations sufficient to pick-up or not pick-up loops of yarns from the needles. The feeding of the yarns to the needles further will be controlled to back-rob yarns not picked-up by the gauge parts, while the backing feed will be controlled to enable formation of tufts at an increased rate over the pattern stitch rate for the pattern of the tufted article being formed.
US12234582B2
A multi-color jacquard double-sided fabric has a technical front and a technical back, and is formed by knitting at least four yarns. The at least four yarns are divided into a plurality of color-developing sets, each of the sets includes two of the at least four yarns. The multi-color jacquard double-sided fabric includes jacquard segments located on the technical front and formed by one of the color-developing sets, and color development of each of the jacquard segments is presented by at least one of the following: 1) at least one standard front plating formed by two of the four yarns included in one of the color-developing sets; 2) at least one interchanged front plating formed by two of the four yarns included in one of the color-developing sets. The technical back of the multi-color jacquard double-sided fabric is formed by knitting the at least four yarns.
US12234581B2
A fabric weaving method and apparatus is disclosed. The method includes forming a fabric where the warp ends of the fabric are made of multifilament polyester yarns and the weft picks are made of cotton or regenerated cellulose fiber or linen fiber or a combination thereof. The woven textile fabric has 50-160 EPI of multifilament polyester yarns of denier within a range of 75 D-200 D with 7-250 filaments in each polyester yarn, and one or more yarns per dent is setup in the reed apparatus of the warp of the loom apparatus. Further, the woven textile fabric includes of 50-91 picks per inch of cotton or regenerated cellulose fibre or linen fiber or a combination thereof and of 20-50 count (NE). Furthermore, the total cover factor of the woven textile fabric is 10-38, and the warp cover factor is 8-19 and the weft cover factor is 10-19.
US12234577B2
The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing precursor yarn comprising lignin, which may be further processed into intermediate carbon fibers and finally also carbon fibers. It also relates to carbon fibers and uses of said fibers. Said method involves applying a water-free spin finish.
US12234575B1
Devices and methods for nanofiber-based membrane fabrication are provided. Portable (e.g., handheld) electrostatic spinning or electrospinning devices can be used for nanofiber-based membrane fabrication (e.g., wound care films or membranes, such as cannabidiol (CBD)-loaded films or membranes) and can be wearable and/or ultralow power. The device can include a needleless spinneret having solution supplied thereto and all powered by a low voltage battery.
US12234567B2
The present disclosure generally relates to the field of chemical sciences and negative emission technology. The disclosure further relates to a process for converting carbon dioxide into methanol by employing quantum imprinted nanomaterials (containing nanozymes) via electrochemical reduction. The disclosure furthermore relates to an electrochemical cell which has the capability of converting carbon dioxide to methanol, wherein the electrochemical cell comprises an anode comprising Zn quantum material and a cathode comprising nano quartz coated with nanozyme(s) incorporated printed polymer with selective 3D imprinted memory for carbon dioxide electrochemical reduction.
US12234566B2
A method of preparing an ionomer of an ion exchange membrane with a recombination catalyst to prevent gas crossover of species, such as hydrogen and/or oxygen, to anodic and cathodic cell compartments of an electrochemical cell. An ionomer of an ion exchange membrane is prepared with a recombination catalyst. The ionomer is a proton or anion exchange polymer and the recombination catalyst, selected from the precious metals group, is provided in ionic form in a liquid metal salt solution. The ion exchange membrane is immersed into the liquid metal salt solution to exchange ionic ionomer ports with the ionic form of the recombination catalyst. The membrane is then assembled in the electrochemical cell and the ionic form of the recombination catalyst is at least partly reduced to metallic form by forcing hydrogen to permeate through the ionomer of the ion exchange membrane.
US12234560B2
Discussed is a deposition mask including a metal plate. The metal plate includes an alloy of nickel (Ni) and iron (Fe) having a plurality of through-holes. Each of the through-holes includes a first surface hole, a second surface hole opposite to the first surface hole, and a connecting part through which the first surface hole and the second surface hole communicate with each other. The metal plate includes a first outer portion, a second outer portion opposite to the first outer portion and a central portion between the first outer portion and the second outer portion. Nickel contents of the first outer portion and the second outer portion are greater than that of the central portion.
US12234556B2
Provided is a low-cost cold rolled steel sheet for zirconium-based chemical conversion treatment that contains Si and Mn and has excellent zirconium-based chemical convertibility even when a relatively large amount of Si-based oxide and Si—Mn-based oxide exists on the steel sheet surface. A cold rolled steel sheet for zirconium-based chemical conversion treatment comprises a chemical composition containing, in mass %, C: 0.05% to 0.30%, Si: 0.01% to 1.4%, Mn: 0.14% to 3.2%, P: 0.10% or less, and S: 0.01% or less, with a balance consisting of Fe and inevitable impurities, wherein a Si/Mn mass ratio in steel is 0.10 to 0.7, and a surface coating ratio of steel sheet surface layer oxides having Si content of 10 mass % or more is 40% or less.
US12234549B2
Methods for in situ seasoning of process chamber components, such as electrodes are described. In an embodiment, the method includes depositing a silicon oxide film over the process chamber component and converting the silicon oxide film to a silicon-carbon-containing film. The silicon-carbon-containing film forms a protective film over the process chamber components and is resistant to plasma processing and/or dry etch cleaning. The coatings has high density, good emissivity control, and reduces risk of device property drift.
US12234541B2
Disclosed are a polymer composite material and a preparation method thereof. The polymer composite material includes a polymer base layer and a metal thin film layer provided on a surface of the polymer base layer. The metal thin film layer is made of amorphous alloy. The surface of the polymer base layer is provided with a metal thin film with an amorphous structure. In this way, the arrangement of the metal thin film with amorphous structure can not only improve the mechanical properties, wear resistance and corrosion resistance of the polymer substrate material, but also can greatly improve the toughness of the polymer substrate material, to simultaneously improve the strength and toughness of the polymer material.
US12234534B2
Provided are: a sintered magnet having an improved maximum energy product while maintaining the magnetic coercivity of the magnet; and a production method for such a sintered magnet. The sintered magnet (10a) according to the present invention comprises particles (6) each including: a main phase (2) in which the main component is a compound containing a rare-earth element and iron; and a diffusion layer (1) provided on the surface of the main phase (2). The diffusion layers (1) are characterized by: containing, as a main component, a compound resulting from a solid-solution of carbon and/or nitrogen in said compound of the main phase (2); and having a concentration gradient of carbon and/or nitrogen from the surfaces of the particles (6) toward the interior thereof.
US12234533B2
A bonding structure includes: a plurality of carbon nanotubes; a first bonded member; and a first metal sintered compact bonding first end portions of the plurality of carbon nanotubes and the first bonded member, wherein the first metal sintered compact enters spaces between the first end portions of the plurality of carbon nanotubes, and bonds to the plurality of carbon nanotubes while covering side faces and end faces of the first end portions of the plurality of carbon nanotubes.
US12234529B2
A method of extracting lithium from a lithium-bearing material including: (i) mixing the lithium-bearing material, gypsum, a sulfur-containing material, and a calcium-containing material and forming a feed mixture having a moisture content of at least 20 wt %; (ii) drying the feed mixture to form a dried mixture having a moisture content of less than 20 wt %; (iii) roasting the dried mixture and forming a roasted mixture including a water-soluble lithium compound; and (iv) leaching lithium from the water-soluble lithium compound and forming a lithium-containing leachate by mixing the aqueous solution and the water-soluble lithium compound.
US12234525B2
The disclosure is intended to provide a martensitic stainless steel seamless pipe for oil country tubular goods having high strength and excellent sulfide stress corrosion cracking resistance and a method for manufacturing thereof. The martensitic stainless steel seamless pipe for oil country tubular goods has a composition that contains, in mass %, C: 0.0100% or more, Si: 0.5% or less, Mn: 0.25 to 0.50%, P: 0.030% or less, S: 0.005% or less, Ni: 4.6 to 8.0%, Cr: 10.0 to 14.0%, Mo: 1.0 to 2.7%, Al: 0.1% or less, V: 0.005 to 0.2%, N: 0.1% or less, Ti: 0.06 to 0.25%, Cu: 0.01 to 1.0%, and Co: 0.01 to 1.0%, in which C, Mn, Cr, Cu, Ni, Mo, W, Nb, N, and Ti satisfy predetermined relations, and the balance is Fe and incidental impurities. The martensitic stainless steel seamless pipe has a yield stress of 758 MPa or more.
US12234514B2
A method and system for determining one or more sources of a cell free deoxyribonucleic acid (cfDNA) test sample from a test subject. The cfDNA test sample contains a plurality of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) molecules with numerous CpG sites that may be methylated or unmethylated. A trained deconvolution model comprises a plurality of methylation parameters, including a methylation level at each CpG site for each source, and a function relating a sample vector as input and a source of origin prediction as output. The method generates a test sample vector comprising a site methylation metric relating to DNA molecules from the test sample that are methylated at that CpG site. The method inputs the test sample vector into the trained deconvolution model to generate a source of origin prediction indicating a predicted DNA molecule contribution of each source.
US12234511B2
Disclosed herein are methods and systems for detection and discrimination of optical signals from a densely packed substrate. These have broad applications for biomolecule detection near or below the diffraction limit of optical systems, including in improving the efficiency and accuracy of polynucleotide sequencing applications.
US12234506B2
Disclosed herein are methods of detecting a target viral nucleic acid sequence, determining the localization of the target viral nucleic acid sequence, and/or quantifying the number of target viral nucleic acid sequences in a cell. This method may be used on small target nucleic acid sequences, and may be referred to as Nano-FISH or viral Nano-FISH.
US12234504B1
The subject invention provides a novel fluorescence-based, T5 exonuclease-amplified DNA cleavage assay for gyrase poisoning inhibitor discovery. According to the assay, multiple gyrase molecules can simultaneously bind to a plasmid DNA molecule to form multiple gyrase-DNA cleavage complexes on the same plasmid. These gyrase-DNA cleavage complexes, greatly stabilized by a gyrase poisoning inhibitor, and can be trapped by a detergent such as sarkosyl. Digestion of gyrase by proteinase K results in the production of small DNA fragments, which can be digested by T5 exonuclease. This fluorescence-based DNA cleavage HTS assay is also suitable for screening large compound libraries to identify inhibitors against DNA topoisomerases, including human DNA topoisomerase IIα.
US12234480B2
Therapeutic methods involving modulating inflammasome activation of myeloid-derived suppressor cells
In one aspect, a method of treating a subject having or at risk of having graft-versus-host disease (GvHD) generally includes administering to the subject a plurality of myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSCs) effective to ameliorate at least one symptom or clinical sign of graft-versus-host disease compared to a suitable control subject. In another aspect, a method of treating a tumor in a subject generally includes administering to the subject an anti-tumor therapy and co-administering to the subject an inflammasome inciting agent in an amount effective to increase inflammasome activation of MDSCs sufficiently to reduce suppressor function of the MDSCs.
US12234478B2
The present invention relates to a method for the preparation of autologous human primary hair follicles in 3D cultures, comprising the isolation of primary fetal follicles; isolation of the patient's hair follicle cells; isolation of skin cells of the patient's scalp; extraction of growth factors from fetal follicle cells; the fibrin gel creation that contains growth factors of fetal follicles; sandwich cultivation of patient's hair follicle cells and skin of the patients scalp on or into fibrin gel that contains growth factors of fetal follicles; separation from fibrin gel the patients primary hair follicles, which can be used to treat baldness as an autologous graft.
US12234476B2
The invention provides improved gene therapy methods and compositions.
US12234475B2
Described herein are compositions comprising a recombinant retroviral vector for delivering a therapeutic comprising a nucleic acid construct comprising a polynucleotide sequence encoding an interleukin or a subunit thereof. Also described herein are methods of using the composition comprising a recombinant retroviral vector described herein for delivering a therapeutic comprising a nucleic acid construct comprising a polynucleotide sequence encoding an interleukin or a subunit thereof to a subject.
US12234462B2
An interferometric system is provided that includes detects, authenticates and quantifies analytes such as taggants. Methods of using such systems as part of an authentication and material tracking processes are also provided.
US12234458B2
A composition according to an embodiment of the present invention includes nucleic acid molecules which are capable of effectively inhibiting the expression level of connective tissue growth factor (CTGF) and collagen by RNA interference (RNAi), thereby preventing or treating a variety of fibroproliferative diseases due to overexpression of CTGF or collagen.
US12234455B2
The present invention relates to an oligonucleotide comprising one of the following sequence: (TTAGGG) SEQ ID No. 1, (TAGGGT) SEQ ID No. 2, (AGGGTT) SEQ ID No. 3, (GGGTTA) SEQ ID No. 4, (GGTTAG) SEQ ID No. 5 or (GTTAGG) SEQ ID No. 6 or a complementary sequence thereof or a fragment or a variant or a mixture thereof for use in the treatment and/or prevention of a disease characterized by alternative lengthening of telomeres or a non-cancer condition associated with telomere dysfunction and relative pharmaceutical compositions and to relative pharmaceutical composition and method.
US12234454B2
The invention provides for systems, methods, and compositions for targeting nucleic acids. In particular, the invention provides non-naturally occurring or engineered DNA or RNA-targeting systems comprising a novel DNA or RNA-targeting CRISPR effector protein and at least one targeting nucleic acid component like a guide RNA.
US12234450B2
Methods for generating synthetic genomes, for example synthetic genomes having desired properties or viable genomes of reduced size, are disclosed. Also disclosed are synthetic genomes produced by the methods disclosed herein and synthetic cells containing the synthetic genomes disclosed herein.
US12234449B2
CRISPR/CAS-related compositions and methods for treatment of Leber's Congenital Amaurosis 10 (LCA10) are disclosed.
US12234446B2
The present invention provides, among other things, methods of purifying messenger RNA (mRNA) including the steps of subjecting an impure preparation comprising in vitro synthesized rnRNA to a denaturing condition, and purifying the rnRNA from the impure preparation from step (a) by tangential flow filtration, wherein the mRNA purified from step (b) is substantially free of prematurely aborted RNA sequences and/or enzyme reagents used in in vitro synthesis.
US12234445B2
The present disclosure provides methanotrophic bacteria that are modified to produce less glycogen, and methods of using the modified methanotrophic bacteria to produce a desired product, such as protein(s) or metabolite(s).
US12234443B2
Apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for cell recovery or cell separation. A cell separation system has at least a first container having a first filter for separating a first removal target from a suspension comprising cells and a removal target including at least the first removal target and a second removal target; a cell separation apparatus; a first flow path connecting the first container and the cell separation apparatus; and a first pump interposed in the first flow path for transferring the suspension from the first container to the cell separation apparatus by decompression suction, for example.
US12234442B2
An intelligent bacteria collection system includes a bottle opening module and a peristaltic pump module opposite to each other, wherein a guide rail is arranged between the bottle opening module and the peristaltic pump module, and a tray module is placed on the guide rail; a manipulator module and the peristaltic pump module are fixed on an infusion operation platform; a control infusion module is placed on the tray module, which can be moved to and fixed on the infusion operation platform by the manipulator module. The present invention replaces the conventional artificial bacteria collection process, makes the bacteria collection process more rapid, reduces the possible secondary pollution in the manual detection operation process, improves the accuracy of the bacteria collection detection, and improves the work efficiency. The present invention provides high degree of automation, wherein no manual operation is required in the bacteria collection process.
US12234439B2
A filter assembly for separating microcarriers from a fluid medium includes a collapsible container bounding a sterile compartment adapted to hold a fluid. An inlet port is attached to the container through which fluid flows into the compartment. An outlet port is attached to the container through which fluid flows out of the compartment. A filter is disposed within the compartment, the filter dividing the compartment into an inlet chamber that is fluidly coupled with the inlet port and an outlet chamber that is fluidly coupled with the outlet port, the filter allowing a medium to pass therethrough but preventing microcarriers disposed in the medium from passing therethrough.
US12234435B2
This disclosure relates to a method and a system for processing grapes. An example system includes a simulated moving bed (SMB) device configured to receive a feed stream and an eluent stream as inputs and provide an extract stream and a raffinate stream as outputs. The feed stream includes a grape juice, the extract stream includes a high-sugar grape juice, and the raffinate stream includes a low-sugar grape juice. The system also includes fermentation equipment configured to produce a low-alcohol wine from the low-sugar grape juice.
US12234427B2
The present invention relates to a process for preparing a solid free-flowing particulate laundry detergent composition, wherein the process includes the steps of: (a) forming a mixture by contacting: (i) molten fatty acid; (ii) liquid alkaline ingredient, and (iii) non-ionic surfactant, to obtain a mixture, wherein the mixture includes: (i) partially neutralized fatty acid component; (ii) non-ionic surfactant; and (iii) water, wherein the molar ratio of fatty acid to liquid alkaline ingredient contacted together in step (a) is above 1:1; (b) contacting the mixture obtained in step (a) to a detergent powder to form a solid free-flowing particulate laundry detergent composition, wherein in step (b) the mixture is contacted to the detergent powder by spraying the mixture at a temperature of greater than 50° C. onto the detergent powder, wherein the detergent powder includes a detergent ingredient.
US12234418B2
A system and method for separating a hydrocarbon feed stream by flashing the feed stream under vacuum to form a remaining flashed vapor comprising atmospheric hydrocarbons, vacuum distillable hydrocarbons and a non-volatile liquid; condensing the flashed vapor to a liquid using a two-stage condenser and heat recovery system; and recycling a portion of the condensed liquid to be flashed under vacuum. Separation is accomplished by combining atmospheric and vacuum separation in one column. The non-volatile liquid recovered from the vacuum vessel may comprise asphalt. This process also injects steam generated within the process into the vacuum vessel which is condensed in a two-stage condenser system to augment vacuum and aid in separation. The feed stream may comprise diluted bitumen which may be removed using a feed preparation vessel.
US12234406B2
A method of imparting hydrophobicity and/or oleophobicity to a surface of a subterranean formation penetrated by a well during production of hydrocarbons from the well consists of pumping a surface modifying wettability agent into the well, the surface modifying wettability agent having an anchor, one or more hydrophobic and/or oleophobic functional groups attached to the anchor and one or more alkoxy groups as blocking moieties which increase stability of the agent in the presence of water by slowing down hydrolysis at the formation surface.
US12234400B2
An etchant composition for etching a silicon germanium film includes, based on a total weight of the etchant composition, about 5 wt % to about 14 wt % of an oxidant, about 0.01 wt % to about 5 wt % of a fluorine compound, about 0.01 wt % to about 5 wt % of an amine compound, about 0.01 wt % to about 1 wt % of an alcohol compound having a hydrophilic head and a hydrophobic tail, about 60 wt % to about 90 wt % of an organic solvent, and a balance of water. A method of manufacturing an integrated circuit device includes: forming, on a substrate, a structure in which a plurality of silicon films and a plurality of silicon germanium films are alternately stacked; and selectively removing the plurality of silicon germanium films by using the etchant composition.
US12234390B2
Dual-cure compositions for use in high temperature adhesive applications, and particularly for temporarily adhesively attaching one substrate to another substrate, are provided. These dual-cure adhesives are silicone-based compositions that can be B-staged by exposure UV radiation to provide initial green strength, followed by a C-stage cure to give adhesives that can survive high temperature processes above 200° C., especially above 300° C., yet easy to debond afterwards to allow separation of the top and bottom substrates.
US12234383B2
Shallow Trench Isolation (STI) chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) polishing compositions, methods and systems of use therefore are provided. The CMP polishing composition comprises abrasives of ceria coated inorganic oxide particles, such as ceria-coated silica; and dual chemical additives for providing the tunable oxide film removal rates and tunable SiN film removal rates; low oxide trench dishing, and high oxide: SiN selectivity. Dual chemical additives comprise at least one silicone-containing compound comprising at least one of (1) ethylene oxide and propylene oxide (EO-PO) group, and at least one of substituted ethylene diamine group on the same molecule; and (2) at least one non-ionic organic molecule having at least two, preferably at least four hydroxyl functional groups.
US12234370B2
An epoxy composition is provided that includes a polyepoxy aniline, a rheology modifier, a filler, and a polyamine hardener comprising a cyclic hydrocarbon-containing polyamine. When cured, the epoxy composition provides an advantageous chemical resistance at high temperatures and pressures. Additionally, the cured epoxy compositions have good adhesion to substrates and resist blistering.
US12234367B2
An inkjet printing process and an ink set for forming an image on a substrate by applying a plurality of inkjet inks of the ink set on the substrate. The plurality of inkjet inks include at least a first ink and a second ink, each ink comprising: a pigment and a block copolymer dispersant for dispersing the pigment. The block copolymer dispersant includes a first block and a second block where the second block is formed using at least one monomer M2, which monomer M2 is selected from the group consisting of a methacrylate and an acrylate, and where the monomer M2 is an anchoring monomer for anchoring to the pigment.
US12234362B2
A reflective granular composition including a reflective pigment material including a majority of kaolin clay and a hardening additive including a sodium salt or another salt. A method for making a reflective granular composition includes the steps of mixing together a reflective pigment material including a majority of kaolin clay and a hardening additive including a sodium salt or another salt to form a particulate mixture, forming a slurry from the particulate mixture by adding to the particulate mixture water and a binder material, granulating the slurry, drying the granulated slurry, and kilning the dried, granulated slurry to form the reflective granular composition. Methods of analyzing the strength of a reflective granular composition are also disclosed.
US12234357B2
Copolymer blends comprising a first copolymer and a second copolymer, wherein the first and second copolymers each independently comprise units of A and B as defined herein.
US12234354B2
Polyalkyl(meth)acrylate based polymers which include straight chained C18-24 alkyl(meth)acrylates and have an average carbon number of 7.0 to 7.5 and a weight-average molecular weight of 300,000 g/mol or greater are a useful component for a lubricant composition. Furthermore, lubricant compositions containing such polymers show improved high temperature-high shear performance, especially in engine oil (EO) compositions.
US12234345B2
The invention provides a flame retardant-stabilizer combination for thermoplastic polymers, comprising as component A 20% to 99.7% by weight of phosphinic salt of the formula (I), (I), in which R1 and R2 are each ethyl, M is Al and m is 3; as component B 0.2% to 16% by weight of aluminium salts of ethylbutylphosphinic acid, of dibutylphosphinic acid, of ethylhexylphosphinic acid, of butylhexylphosphinic acid and/or of dihexylphosphinic acid; as component C 0.1% to 80% by weight of a salt of phosphorous acid having the general formula (II) [HP(═O)O2]2−Mm+(II) in which M is Zn and m is 2; as component D 0% to 80% by weight of a salt of phosphorous acid having the general formula (III) [HP(═O)O2]2−3 Mm+2 (III) in which M is Al and m is 3; as component E 0% to 30% by weight of a nitrogen-containing synergist and/or of a phosphorus-containing and/or nitrogen-containing flame retardant; as component F 0% to 10% by weight of an inorganic synergist selected from zinc borate, zinc stannate, boehmite and/or hydrotalcite; as component G 0% to 3% by weight of an organic phosphonite and/or a mixture of an organic phosphonite and an organic phosphite and as component H 0% to 3% by weight of an ester and/or salt of long-chain aliphatic carboxylic acids (fatty acids) typically having chain lengths of C14 to C40, where the sum total of the components is always 100% by weight.
US12234341B2
Described herein are conductive rubber compositions including a rubber component and one or more electrically conductive carbon compounds. In another aspect, the conductive rubber compositions can be prepared by first adding the one or more conductive carbon components into the polymer phase, thereby creating a filler network in the continuous polymer phase in the finished product. In a further aspect, the conductive carbon component can be or include one or more of the following: carbon black, a short carbon fiber, graphite powder, or graphene powder. Following mixing, the conductive rubber compositions can optionally be vulcanized. The conductive rubber compositions have good mechanical properties and electrical resistivity and can be processed using existing equipment.
US12234339B2
Porous conductive resin is produced by: mixing a hydrogen bond donor compound and a hydrogen bond acceptor compound to produce deep eutectic liquid (DEL); adding conductive materials to the DEL to produce gel; adding resin that is insoluble in the DEL to the gel to produce ink made of the gel dispersed in the resin; forming the produced ink into a formed object having a desired shape; curing the resin in the formed object; and evaporating the DEL in the formed object including the cured resin.
US12234338B2
A process for producing foam particles composed of thermoplastic elastomers having polyamide segments, comprising the steps: (a) production of a suspension of pellets of the thermoplastic elastomer in a suspension medium, (b) addition of a blowing agent, (c) impregnation of the pellets with the blowing agent by heating of the suspension in a pressure vessel to an impregnation temperature IMT at an impregnation pressure IMP, depressurization of the suspension by emptying of the pressure vessel via a depressurization device and work-up of the foam particles obtained, and also foam particles obtainable by the process.
US12234336B2
The present invention provides a binder that is for inorganic fibers and that is characterized by containing (A) 100 parts by mass of a polyvinyl alcohol resin having a degree of polymerization of 100-3500, (B) 1-50 parts by mass of colloidal silica having an average particle size of 100 nm or less, and (C) 3 parts by mass or more of an ammonia-modified copolymer containing maleic anhydride. By using the binder for inorganic fibers according to the present invention, an inorganic fiber mat having resiliency comparable to that of phenolic resins can be fabricated, and the amount of volatile organic compounds released from the inorganic fiber mat is very small.
US12234335B2
A gas permeable polytetrafluoroethylene stretched film is prepared by bending powder of a modified polytetrafluoroethylene resin and powder of a modified fluoropolymer resin and stretching the powder of the modified polytetrafluoroethylene resin and the powder of the modified fluoropolymer resin. The modified polytetrafluoroethylene resin is copolymerised by mixing a tetrafluoroethylene monomer and a modified monomer. The modified monomer is prepared by reaction of hydroxyethyl acrylate, perfluoroalkylethyl acrylate and isocyanate ethylacrylate. The crystallinity in the system is greatly reduced through the multi-branched structure of the modified polytetrafluoroethylene polymer, and at the same time, the strenching strength of the gas permeable polytetrafluoroethylene stretched film is greatly improved through adding the modified fluoropolymer powder. In this manner, the polytetrafluoroethylene stretched film has strong permeability and waterproofness, thereby having stronger safety. The polytetrafluoroethylene stretched film can be used for the protection of precision instruments such as electronics.
US12234334B2
The present invention relates to self-supported elastomeric film made from a composition comprising polymer latex particles bearing ethylenically unsaturated groups pending from the polymeric backbone of the latex particles wherein the ethylenic unsaturation is separated from the polymeric backbone by at least 3 chemical bonds, to an article comprising the self-supported elastomeric film and to a method for making a self-supported elastomeric film from a composition comprising said polymer latex particles.
US12234332B2
Provided are: a nucleating agent for a polyolefin resin having an excellent β crystal-forming effect; a nucleating agent composition for a polyolefin resin containing the nucleating agent; a polyolefin resin masterbatch; a polyolefin resin composition; a molded article of the composition; a film of the composition; a method of producing a porous film; and a package. The nucleating agent contains a compound represented by Formula (1) below wherein M represents a monovalent to trivalent metal atom having a specific gravity of 4.0 or less, or the like; a represents 1 or 2; b represents 1 or 3; x represents an integer of 1 to 3; ax=2b is satisfied; and Z represents a group represented by Formula (2) or (3) below wherein * represents a position at which each group is linked with Z of Formula (1); Y represents a direct bond or an alkylene group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms; and R1 to R10 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, a hydroxy group, a halogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms, or the like.
US12234331B2
There is provided an epoxy resin composition containing an epoxy resin, a solid basic compound, and a polythiol. By preparing a mixture 1 by kneading the epoxy resin with the solid basic compound, and then kneading the polythiol therewith, the dissolution of the solid basic compound into the polythiol is rate-limited to ensure the pot life, and due to a catalyst action by the dissolution of the solid basic compound at a time of heating, heat curability in a short time is realized.
US12234312B2
To produce an olefin-based polymer having a minor amount of decrease in bulk density due to heat. A solid catalyst component for olefin polymerization containing a titanium atom, a magnesium atom, a halogen atom, and an internal electron donor, and having an envelope E1 calculated by the following Formula (1) in a range of 0.810 to 0.920. E1=LE1/LS1 (1) (In Formula, LE1 is a convex hull perimeter of the solid catalyst component for olefin polymerization obtained from an image of the solid catalyst component for olefin polymerization captured with a scanning electron microscope, and LS1 is an actual perimeter of the solid catalyst component for olefin polymerization obtained from the image of the solid catalyst component for olefin polymerization captured with the scanning electron microscope.)
US12234311B2
The invention relates to block copolymer comprising i) A first block wherein at least 65 mol-% of the repeating units of the first block are repeating units of the formula (I)—[CH2—CH2—O]—, ii) A second block wherein at least 90 mol-% of the repeating units of the second block are repeating units of at least one of formulae (II) or (III), wherein the groups R1, R2, and R3 independent of each occurrence are selected from hydrocarbyl groups having 1 to 40 carbon atoms, which are optionally substituted by ether or hydroxyl groups, and wherein the groups R1 and R2 are optionally linked to each other such that a nitrogen heterocyclic structure is present, iii) A third block which is different from the first block and the second block and which is more hydrophobic than the first block.
US12234308B2
The invention relates to a polyethylene which contains a total amount of vinyl groups which is B vinyl groups per 1000 carbon atoms, and B1≤B, wherein B1 is 0.30; and has a complex viscosity (η*) at 0.05 rad/sec, which is X Pas, and X1≤X≤X2, wherein X1 is 10000 and X2 is 30000; and has a complex viscosity (η*) at 300 rad/sec, which is Y Pas, and Y1≤Y≤Y2, wherein Y1 is 5 and Y2 is 350, both complex viscosities (η*) are determined according to method ISO 6721-1 on stabilised samples of the polyethylene, a polymer composition, an article being e.g. a cable, e.g. a power cable, and processes for producing a polyethylene, a polymer composition and an article, and an article; useful in different end applications, such as wire and cable (W&C) applications.
US12234304B2
This invention relates to processes for forming hydrogen mediated saline hydride initiated anionic polystyrene distributions via novel polymerization conditions. This invention also relates to novel hydrocarbon soluble super active saline hydride catalyst and reagent compositions useful in conducting the hydrogen mediated saline hydride initiated polymerizations of this invention. This invention also relates to novel low molecular weight polystyrene polymer composition formed exclusively from styrene and molecular hydrogen as the monomers.
US12234303B2
The present invention is directed to the use of a quaternized derivative of polyisobutylene as stabiliser in inverse emulsions like inverse emulsions used for a reverse-phase emulsion polymerisation process, e.g. for the polymerisation of acrylamide and ethylenically unsaturated cationic monomers. Such emulsions are e.g. used as flocculant for waste water treatment. The present invention is further directed to inverse emulsions comprising a quaternized derivative of polyisobutylene. The inverse emulsions have sufficiently low viscosity and sufficiently high shear stability. The present invention is further directed to an inverse emulsion polymerisation process, wherein the inverse emulsion comprises a quaternized derivative of polyisobutylene.
US12234302B2
Disclosed is a method of preparing N-alkylated chitosan derivatives by treating chitosan with an acid and subsequently reacting the chitosan with an alkylating agent in the presence of a base. Also provided are novel N-alkylated chitosan derivatives.
US12234296B2
The invention provides anti-βS globin antibodies or antigen binding fragments thereof.
US12234294B2
The present disclosure features a pharmaceutical formulation containing an anti-CD40 antibody, KPL-404.
US12234293B2
Disclosed herein is a method of treating cancer, such as multiple myeloma, involving the combination of an anti-BCMA antigen binding protein (e.g., an anti-BCMA antibody) and a proteasome inhibitor (e.g. bortezomib). The combinations can also include an anti-inflammatory compound (e.g. dexamethasone).
US12234279B2
There is provided inter alia a construct suitable for oral administration comprising a first polypeptide and a second polypeptide connected by a labile peptide linker, wherein the labile peptide linker is labile to one or more proteases present in the intestinal tract and wherein the first and second polypeptides are substantially resistant to said one or more proteases.
US12234278B2
The present invention relates to methods and agents for preventing the establishment of HIV-1 latent reservoirs or for reducing the size of the reservoirs. Specifically, the disclosure provides methods and agents for preventing the establishment of HIV-1 latent reservoirs or for reducing the size of the reservoirs, the methods comprising administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of an isolated anti-HIV antibody, and administering to the subject two or more viral transcription inducers in effective amounts to induce transcription of an HIV provirus in the cells. Further provided are antibodies and viral transcription inducers used in the methods.
US12234277B2
The present application provides a method for characterizing and/or determining viral clearance capacity of hydrophobic interaction chromatography (HIC) including experimental design for multivariate analysis of viral clearance of HIC. The method provides understanding of the mechanism of the viral clearance using HIC by running a D-Optimal design of experiment including evaluations of multiple factors, such as pH, buffer concentration, column loading concentration, flow rate of column, or hydrophobic strength of the HIC column.
US12234273B2
A programmable receptor complex expressed by an immunocyte, wherein the programmable receptor complex includes a plurality of native or endogenously expressed receptor subunits, wherein the native or endogenously expressed receptor subunits have been engineered or modified to include FcγRI receptor components, biotin-binding components, or both, and wherein the FcγRI receptor components and biotin-binding components are operative to bind to target detector molecules that bind to or otherwise interact with predetermined targets.
US12234272B2
Described are pharmaceutical compositions comprising recombinant human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) and optionally follicle stimulating hormone (FSH), wherein the recombinant hCG in the composition comprises α2,3- and α2,6-sialylation and comprises mono-(1S), di-(2S), tri-(3S) and tetra-(4S) sialylated glycan structures. The recombinant hCG may be obtained by expression in a human cell line, such as the PER.C6 cell line, optionally wherein the cell line is modified using α2,3-sialyltransferase.
US12234266B2
The present invention relates to a method for producing CRM197 recombinant protein in cells. The method comprises culturing a cell comprising an expression plasmid with a polynucleotide and inducing expression of the CRM197 protein.
US12234257B2
Provided are astersaponin I, which is a novel triterpene saponin derivative isolated and identified from a Aster koraiensis Nakai (Korean starwort) extract, and a use thereof for preventing or treating a neurodegenerative disorder.
US12234255B2
Provided herein are methods of glycosylation in the formation of disaccharides, trisaccharides, and oligosaccharides using fluoroglycosides, silyl ether glycosides and a triaryl borane catalyst.
US12234251B2
Provided are multi-NBN host compounds. The compound has the structure of Formula I: Also provided are formulations comprising these multi-NBN host compounds. Further provided are OLEDs and related consumer products that utilize these multi-NBN host compounds.
US12234249B2
Provided are a compound comprising a ligand LA of Formula I that are useful as emitters in organic light emitting devices.
US12234245B2
The present disclosure relates to novel sulfonimidamide compounds and related compounds and their use in treating a disorder responsive to modulation of cytokines such as IL-1β and IL-18, modulation of NLRP3 or inhibition of the activation of NLRP3 or related components of the inflammatory process.
US12234241B2
Provided is an imidazotriazine thiobenzamide derivative of formula (I), A preparation method for the imidazotriazine thiobenzamide derivative, and a use of the imidazotriazine thiobenzamide derivative or an isomer, a pharmaceutically-acceptable salt, or a prodrug thereof in the preparation of drugs for the treatment of cancer are also provided.
US12234239B2
The present disclosure provides crystalline forms of 2-(3-(4-(7H-pyrrolo[2,3-d]pyrimidin-4-yl)-1H-pyrazol-1-yl)-1-(cyclopropylsulfonyl)azetidin-3-yl)acetonitrile, pharmaceutical compositions comprising the crystalline forms, methods of using the crystalline forms, and processes for making the crystalline forms.
US12234238B2
The present disclosure relates generally to the field of antimicrobial compounds and to methods of making and using them. These compounds are useful for treating, preventing, reducing the risk of, and delaying the onset of microbial infections in humans and animals. In some embodiments, the present disclosure provides a compound of Formula (I): or a tautomer thereof or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt of the compound or tautomer.
US12234234B2
The invention discloses a method for synthesizing 1,7-naphthyridine derivatives, which relates to the technical field of synthesizing pharmaceutical intermediates and organic chemical intermediates, wherein the method includes: (1) 2-chloro-3-amino-pyridine being used as Compound I as a starting material, and protecting an amino group to prepare Compound II; (2) the Compound II reacting with an aldehydation reagent under alkaline conditions to obtain Compound III; (3) cyclizing the Compound III with acrylate compounds under the action of Lewis acid to prepare compound IV.
US12234232B2
Provided are a JAK kinase inhibitor, preparation and use thereof. In particular, provided is a compound of Formula I, wherein each group is as described in the specification. The compound has an excellent JAK inhibitory activity, and therefore can be used to prepare pharmaceutical compositions for the treatment of cancer and other diseases related to JAK activity.
US12234218B2
The present invention relates to novel heterocyclic compounds. The invention is also directed to compounds which are modulators of the metabotropic glutamate receptors (mGluR), preferably of the metabotropic glutamate receptor subtype 7 (“mGluR7”). The present invention also relates to pharmaceutical composition comprising such compounds and their use for the treatment or prevention of disorders associated with glutamate dysfunction or in which metabotropic glutamate receptor, preferably mGluR7 subtype of metabotropic glutamate receptors, is involved.
US12234217B2
A method is disclosed for preparing compounds of Formula 1 by combining compounds of Formulae 2 and 3 and a sulfonyl chloride in a continuous process.
US12234213B2
Described herein are methods for the continuous preparation of 1,2-di(furan-2-yl)ethane-1,2-diol from furan-2-carbaldehyde. The methods can proceed chemically or electrochemically. In certain examples, the methods further comprise the application of a static mixer. The present methods produce 1,2-di(furan-2-yl)ethane-1,2-diol in greater yield, purity, chemoselectivity, and stereoselectivity than traditional batch methods.
US12234211B2
Compounds of formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and/or solvates racemic mixtures, enantiomers, diasteromers, and tautomers thereof, wherein A, R1, R2, R3, R3′, R4, R4′, R5, R6, R7, R8, m, and n are as defined in the detailed description.
US12234206B2
The present invention relates to bi- and tricyclic compounds of the general formula (I) (I) wherein the dashed lines independently of each other represent a single or a double bond, X represents a group of the formulae X1 to X3 wherein the asterisk denotes the point of attachment to the rest of the molecule, R1a and R1b, independently of each other, are selected from hydrogen or methyl, or R1a together with R1b form a methylene or ethylene group, R2, R3a, R3b, R4, R5a and R5b, independently of each other, are selected from hydrogen or methyl, R6 is selected from hydrogen, methyl or ethyl, and R7 is methyl or ethyl, to a method of preparing said compounds, to the use of a bi- or tricyclic compounds or of mixtures of two or more bi- and tricyclic compounds or of a stereoisomer thereof or of a mixture of two or more stereoisomers thereof as aroma chemicals; to the use of a bi- or tricyclic compound for modifying the scent character of a fragranced composition; to an aroma chemical composition containing a bi- or tricyclic compound or a mixture of two or more bi- and tricyclic compounds or of a stereoisomer thereof or of a mixture of two or more stereoisomers thereof; and to a method of preparing a fragranced composition or for modifying the scent character of a fragranced composition, comprising incorporating a bi- or tricyclic compound or a mixture of two or more bi- and tricyclic compounds or of a stereoisomer thereof or of a mixture of two or more stereoisomers thereof into said composition.
US12234201B2
Provided is a method of making ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) comprising the steps: (a) providing a reaction mixture (a) comprising ethylenediamine (EDA) and glycolonitrile (GN), wherein reaction mixture (a) comprises 0% to 0.1% by weight, based on the weight of reaction mixture (a), of any base having pKa of the conjugate acid (PKaH) of 13 or higher; (b) causing or allowing reaction mixture (a) to react to form a dinitrile (DN) compound; (c) bringing the DN into contact with aqueous solution of a base having pKaH of 11 or higher, and causing or allowing the resulting mixture to react to form a diacid compound (DA); (d) causing or allowing the DA to react, either sequentially or simultaneously, with additional GN to form products (Pd); (e) causing or allowing products (Pd) to react with a base having pKaH of 11 or higher, to form EDTA. Also provided is a composition comprising a diacid/dinitrile compound (DADN) wherein each —R has the structure:
US12234195B2
The present invention provides for biochar coated particles and a method for coating the particles with biochar.
US12234192B2
The disclosed technology generally relates dielectric materials and methods of forming the same, and more particularly to a combination of co-fireable dielectric materials that can be attached to each other without the use of adhesives. In an aspect, a composite article comprises a magnetic portion comprising a nickel zinc ferrite. The composite article additionally comprises a non-magnetic portion contacting the magnetic portion, the non-magnetic portion comprising a spinel-structured oxide comprising Mg2-xAl2xTi1-xO4 and having a dielectric constant between about 7 and 14, wherein 0
US12234174B2
The present disclosure provides an improved production method for optical elements. In this case, it is desirable to achieve high contour accuracy and/or surface quality for optical elements or lenses or headlight lens. In addition, it is desirable to reduce the costs of a production process for objective lenses and/or headlights, microprojectors or vehicle headlights.
US12234167B1
Mechano-chemical wastewater treatment equipment to treat wastewater containing heavy metals to form drainage. An intermediate sewage tank has a sewage inlet and a sewage outlet, and stores wastewater to be treated and sewage formed during the treatment process. At least one mechano-chemical reactor conducts the mechano-chemical reaction between the wastewater and zero-valent iron nanoparticles through a ball milling treatment. A separator to separate a slurry produced by the reactor into solids and liquids. The separator has a slurry inlet, a liquid outlet, and a sludge outlet. The reactor is a ball milling device having a reactor shell with a reaction chamber internally formed, a feeding inlet for the slurry to enter the reaction chamber and a discharge outlet for the slurry to flow out of the reaction chamber. A rotor is set inside the reaction chamber and a driving mechanism rotates the rotor.
US12234150B1
A method for photothermal synthesis gas production. The method comprises feeding methane and carbon dioxide into a photothermal reactor, the photothermal reactor comprising a catalyst. The catalyst comprises a metal organic framework (MOF) derived nanocomposite oxide catalyst, the MOF derived nanocomposite oxide catalyst being grown on titanium dioxide (TiO2) quantum dots.
US12234144B2
A method for sealing cavities using membranes, the method including a) forming cavities arranged in a matrix, of a depth p, a characteristic dimension a, and spaced apart by a spacing b; and b) forming membranes, sealing the cavities, by transferring a sealing film. The method further includes a step a1), executed before step b), of forming a first contour on the front face and/or on the sealing face, the first contour comprising a first trench having a width L and a first depth p1, the formation of the first contour being executed such that after step b) the cavities are circumscribed by the first contour, said first contour being at a distance G from the cavities between one-fifth of b and five b.
US12234137B2
Robots for lifting objects are disclosed. In one embodiment, a robot includes a rail system, a body structure coupled to the rail system, a first arm coupled to a first side of the body structure, one or more first arm actuators providing the first arm with multiple degrees of freedom, a second arm coupled to a second side of the body structure, one or more second arm actuators providing the second arm with multiple degrees of freedom, and a lift actuator operable to move the body structure along the rail system. The one or more first arm actuators and the one or more second arm actuators are operable to wrap the first arm and the second arm around an object and hold the object against the body structure. The lift actuator is operable to move the body structure such that the object is lifted on the rail system.
US12234128B2
Systems and methods for vacuum extraction for material sorting applications are provided. In one embodiments, a vacuum object sorting system comprises: a vacuum extraction assembly that includes at least one vacuum extractor device having an inlet and an outlet, wherein the at least one vacuum extractor device is configured to convert a controlled compressed air stream into a channeled vacuum airflow entering the inlet and exiting the outlet; and an object recognition device coupled to sorting control logic and electronics, wherein the controlled compressed air stream is controlled in response to a signal generated by the object recognition device; wherein the at least one vacuum extractor device is configured to capture a target object identified by the sorting control logic and electronics utilizing the channeled vacuum airflow, and further utilizing the channeled vacuum airflow, to pass the target object through the inlet and outlet to a deposit location.
US12234126B2
A connection device and a connection method for detection of a tension member for an elevator. The connection device includes a plurality of electrical connection terminals and is configured to be detachably connected to an end portion of a tension member for an elevator. The tension member is configured for suspending an elevator car and/or a counterweight and has a covering layer and a load-bearing portion including a plurality of separate load-bearing core wires and covered by the covering layer. The respective one ends of the plurality of electrical connection terminals are electrically connected correspondingly to the load-bearing core wires located at the end portion and exposed outwardly and respective other ends are used for outward electrical connection, after the connection device is connected to the end portion.
US12234122B2
Authorization management and authorization requesting for an elevator service request, and belongs to the field of elevator management technologies. An authorization management apparatus for an elevator service request according to the present invention comprises: a receiving unit configured to receive authorization request information from one or more personal mobile terminals, wherein the authorization request information comprises an elevator identifier of a corresponding elevator of an elevator system acquired by a corresponding personal mobile terminal and a terminal identifier of the personal mobile terminal mapped to the elevator identifier; and an authorization management unit configured to determine, at least according to a mapping relationship between the elevator identifier and the terminal identifier in the authorization request information, whether the authorization request information from the corresponding personal mobile terminal is allowed to be authorized.
US12234115B2
A paper feeding apparatus includes: a paper feeder configured to feed out the uppermost paper included in a paper bundle; a blower configured to blow gas to a lateral side of the paper bundle; and a processor configured to reduce an amount of the gas blown to the lateral side when a predetermined specific condition is satisfied.
US12234112B2
A tape attachment apparatus includes a tape supply unit configured to provide a tape to be attached to a tip of an electrode roll, a tape attachment unit configured to attach the tape provided by the tape supply unit to the electrode roll, and a frame configured to allow the tape attachment unit to be mounted to the frame. A tape attachment process to prevent unwinding of the electrode roll is automatically performed.
US12234109B2
The invention relates to a basket lifting-stacking machine, for lifting baskets by means of a rack-and-pinion lifting system driven by a single-phase self-braking motor so that the customer can lift the basket to the height that best suits their own height, with automatic movement of the basket towards the basket-stacking module, by means of conveyor belts and an electromagnet driven by a linear actuator, and automatic basket stacking with a platform that adapts its height to the number of baskets stacked by means of a scissor lift system driven by a linear actuator with a potentiometer.
US12234106B1
A substrate transfer apparatus transfers a substrate in a vacuum chamber. The substrate transfer apparatus includes an elevating robot, a travel robot and a transfer robot. The elevating robot includes an elevating plate through which through-holes are formed, and hollow elevating shafts, wherein each central axis of the hollow elevating shafts corresponds to each center of the through-holes, wherein the elevating robot is sealably coupled with a vacuum chamber through-hole. The travel robot includes a travel arm platform through which coupling holes are formed, wherein each of the hollow elevating shafts is inserted into each lower space of each of the coupling holes, a first travel arm part including a (1_1)-st and a (1_2)-nd travel link arms, second travel arm parts including a (2_1)-st and a (2_2)-nd travel link arms, and a transfer robot coupling part coupled with the (1_2)-nd and the (2_2)-nd travel link arms.
US12234102B2
A rubber plug supply apparatus 10 according to the present invention includes a supply device 20, a sensor 32, an orientation correction device 40, and an accommodation assistance device 107. The supply device 20 includes an accommodation portion 21 accommodating a rubber plug 5 and a discharge port 22b, from which the rubber plug 5 is discharged. The sensor 32 detects the orientation of the rubber plug 5 supplied by the supply device 20. The orientation correction device 40 includes an accommodation hole 51 accommodating the rubber plug 5, and changes the orientation of the rubber plug 5 to a predetermined orientation in the case where the orientation of the rubber plug 5 detected by the sensor 32 is different from the predetermined orientation. The accommodation assistance device 107 moves one of, or both of, the accommodation hole 51 and the discharge port 22b to move the position of the accommodation hole 51 with respect to the discharge port 22b at least between a first position P1 directly facing the discharge port 22b and a second position P2 shifted from the first position P1 and facing a part of the discharge port 22b.
US12234098B2
A conveying system for longitudinally transporting elongate items, including a circulating traction belt and a supporting structure for the circulating traction belt, wherein a plurality of supports are connected by means of at least one traction element to form the circulating traction belt, wherein each of the supports comprises an indentation for supporting the elongate item. Each of the supports is fastened at at least two spaced-apart fastening points to the at least one traction element and the circulating traction belt is mounted, at least in a conveying region of the conveying system, by rollers so as to be movable with respect to the supporting structure.
US12234090B1
A metal detector is used with a receptacle to receive refuse. The metal detector includes a body defining an opening, a controller, and a coil wound around the opening. The controller detects changes to a magnetic field generated by the coil when an object comprised of a metallic material that is located proximate the coil interacts with the magnetic field and induces a voltage within the coil. A capacitive sensor is mounted to the body and communicates with the controller. The controller is configured to detect the object located within the opening based on a proximity signal produced by the capacitive sensor when the object interacts with an electrical field of the capacitive sensor. When the controller determines that the object is comprised of a metallic material and disposed within the opening based on the induced voltage and the proximity signal, the metal detector correspondingly produces an alarm.
US12234077B2
A panel tray includes: a main body part including outer walls extending in a first direction and a second direction intersecting the first direction and defining a space on a lower surface thereof, a plurality of slots disposed respectively at corners where one sidewall of the outer walls extending in the first direction and another sidewall of the outer walls extending in the second direction meet each other, where the slots include a plurality of guide parts. Each of the guide parts includes a first guide part extending in the first direction, and a second guide part intersecting the first guide part and extending in the second direction, and each of the slots includes an alignment mark defined on an upper surface of one of the first guide part and the second guide part.
US12234064B2
The present disclosure relates to a sealing device (1) for sealing a receptacle, the sealing device comprising: —a base (3) comprising a discharge conduit (8), —a valve (4) mounted on the base, the valve comprising a discharge pipe (10) at least partially protruding in the discharge conduit of the base and an end mounted on an upstream end of the discharge pipe, —wherein the end of the discharge pipe is configured to, at least in one mode of the sealing device, cooperate with the discharge conduit to thereby seal the discharge conduit of the sealing device, —wherein the base is configured to be mounted on a receptacle, —the base and the valve are integrally connected at a portion of the sealing device remote from the discharge conduit.
US12234061B2
A container closure including a retaining ring which extends around a reference axis of the container closure, a cap part and a hinge which connects the retaining ring to the cap part. The cap part has an end plate, an enclosing circumferential wall and a grip projection which extends radially outward from the circumferential wall, axially with a distance to the end plate. A deformable region of the circumferential wall extends diametrically opposite the hinge, between the end plate and the grip projection, and has a latching projection directed radially inward, a lower wall section which lies between the latching projection and the grip projection and an upper wall section which lies between the latching projection and the end plate.
US12234057B2
A collapsible container includes a base and a plurality of walls pivotable between an upright position and a collapsed position on the base. A first wall includes an opening therethrough. A first door selectively covers the opening through the first wall. In one embodiment, the first door is slidable between an open, retracted position away from the opening and a closed position covering the opening.
US12234055B2
A pallet includes a deck having center portion and two outer portions spaced outward on either side of the center portion. A plurality of keg supports extend from each outer portion to the center portion. Each keg support has a concave upper surface. A large opening is defined between each adjacent pair of keg supports. Outer middle recesses are formed on each outer portion adjacent each large opening. Center middle recesses are formed on the center portion adjacent each large opening. A plurality of column portions protrude from the deck. The pallet accommodates both straight kegs and belly kegs at the same height. The pallet may be formed in two identical halves.
US12234051B1
A label applicator apparatus for applying an adhesive-backed label to a container is disclosed herein. The label is applied accurately at a desired height and positioned to be perfectly horizontal. The apparatus comprises a cradle comprising a headboard, a footboard, and two adjustable parallel rails forming a carriage for the container. The apparatus also includes an adjustable horizontal label stop that has a curved flange curving across the adjustable carriage and an adjustable bottle stop that can slide forwards and backwards. The adjustable bottle stop is positioned to apply the label to the container at a desired height, the container is placed on the carriage, the adjustable horizontal label stop is closed over the container, and the label is applied by aligning the label horizontally such that it touches the label stop at two contact points.
US12234047B2
A unit for control or management of products, including rolls of paper material, includes a plant including an operating line including at least one upstream section including a log saw for cutting rolls off elongate logs, a packaging section for primary packaging, including a packing section where the rolls are packed, and a bagging section where the packs are placed in bags and/or a palletizing section where the packs or bags are placed on pallets. A conveying section transports products between one section of the plant and another, in particular between the upstream section and the packaging section and/or between one packaging section and another downstream. A process controller controls the functioning of the plant sections. The unit includes a device for eliminating a defective product or roll.
US12234043B2
A method for rendezvous with an orbiting object comprising: launching a tug and a servicer into a client orbit; separating the servicer from the tug; and docking the servicer with a client. A system for rendezvous with an orbiting object comprising: a first spacecraft comprising a tug capable of towing a second spacecraft, wherein the second spacecraft is a servicer configured to dock with a tumbling client orbiting object.
US12234035B2
A system, method and apparatus are proposed to assist in assembling the frame, attaching the skin, and performing other tasks in manufacturing an airship and constructing other structures that are otherwise challenging, inefficient, or unsuitable for humans to perform, and/or that traditionally require significant investments in capital intensive manufacturing facilities. Several embodiments are proposed in which these and other recurring manufacturing tasks can be performed safely and efficiently with the assistance of autonomous, semi-autonomous, and/or human-directed robots, acting independently and in robot swarms.
US12234026B2
An aircraft flap malfunction detection and landing assist system and method includes supplying flap status data, from a flap status data source, that indicates at least aircraft flap configuration and operability, supplying aircraft state data, from an aircraft state data source, that indicates at least aircraft weight, aircraft speed, and aircraft position, supplying weather data, from a weather data source, that indicates current weather at a landing runway, processing, in a processing system the flap status data to determine if at least one flap is inoperable and, upon determining that the at least one flap is inoperable, processing the flap status data, the aircraft state data, and the weather data to selectively generate, and command a display device to render, at least one of forward slip landing parameters or side slip landing parameters.
US12234025B2
A cryogenic fluid pressure vessel for an aircraft, having: a first wall layer, which contains carbon fiber-reinforced plastic, having an inner contact surface for the contact with a pressurized cryogenic fluid to be accommodated inside the cryogenic fluid pressure vessel; a second wall layer, which is arranged on an outer surface of the first wall layer and has a thermal barrier; a closable inlet/outlet opening for cryogenic fluid, which extends through the first and the second wall layer; and a structural insert integrated in the first and the second wall layer, which has a fastening connecting piece located on the outside of the cryogenic fluid pressure vessel for mechanically coupling the cryogenic fluid pressure vessel with external structures; wherein the cryogenic fluid pressure vessel forms an essentially cylindrical main body. Furthermore, the present invention provides an aircraft having such a cryogenic fluid pressure vessel.
US12234019B2
A cabin blower system, for an aircraft, comprising: a cabin blower compressor, for compressing air for delivery to a cabin of an aircraft, comprising a compressor drive shaft running on a contactless bearing system; and a transmission comprising an input and an output, the input being arranged to receive power from an engine of the aircraft and the output being arranged to mechanically drive the cabin blower compressor, wherein the output of the transmission is mechanically coupled with the compressor drive shaft via a flexible drive coupling.
US12234011B2
This invention is an aircraft of the type known as a “Convertiplane” which can conduct vertical flight operations in the manner of a rotor-wing aircraft and conduct cruise flight operations in the manner of a fixed-wing aircraft. This aircraft has rotor blades mounted on each wingtip and tilting propulsors mounted at the tips of the horizontal stabilizers on the aircraft tail. The wingtip mounted rotor blades and vertically oriented tail propulsors provide thrust for vertical takeoff. To transition to cruise flight, at sufficient airspeed, the wingtip rotors are stopped and moved from the rotor-wing position to a “V” configuration extending out from the wingtips to function as ailerons, while the tail mounted propulsors are tilted forward from a vertical to a horizontal orientation to provide thrust for forward flight.
US12234009B2
A rotary wing aircraft that extends along a roll axis between a nose region and an aft region, comprising: at least one first single-blade rotor and at least one second single-blade rotor which are spaced apart from each other along the roll axis; at least one first electric machine and at least one second electric machine which are at least configured to drive in motor mode the at least one first single-blade rotor and the at least one second single-blade rotor for generating lift in hover condition of the rotary wing aircraft; at least one propulsion device that is at least configured to generate forward thrust in forward flight condition of the rotary wing aircraft; and a fixed-wing arrangement that is at least configured to provide lift in the forward flight condition.
US12233992B2
A seat made of drop stitch material has a back panel, a bottom panel, and a support panel, where the back and bottom panels are adjustably and detachably connected to each other at a substantially orthogonal orientation, and the support portion tilts or reclines the seat into a recumbent position which is advantageous for paddling while sitting on the upper surface of a watercraft.
US12233990B1
A device is presented that can be used as both a pad eye and as a fairlead independently and simultaneously while providing separation between the two modes of use. The device provides the option for multiple attachment points and multiple fairlead passages and reduces the need of requiring both a pad eye and additional hardware such as a pulley in applications such as the implementing of a jib sheet “in-hauler” system on a sailing vessel. Additionally, the device is configured in a symmetric manner so as to allow the device to be optionally joined and mated to a second but inverted such device allowing for the assembly of two such devices into a single combined unit. Such a combined configuration has the benefit of allowing for pad eye and fairlead functions to take place in a suspended location instead of being constrained to only a fixed surface.
US12233987B2
A human-powered vehicle control system includes a transmission device and a transmission operation device configured to operate the transmission device. The transmission operation device includes transmission operation controller circuitry configured to transmit a first command to an assist operation device of a human-powered vehicle through wireless communication. The transmission device includes first communicator circuitry, an actuator, and transmission controller circuitry. The first communicator circuitry is configured to receive a first shift command transmitted from the assist operation device in a case where the assist operation device receives the first command. The actuator is configured to perform a shifting action. The transmission controller circuitry is configured to control the actuator so that the actuator performs the shifting action in response to the first shift command.
US12233977B2
A bottle structure for a bicycle handlebar, includes a bottle body having an integrally-formed bottle and bottle coupling structure. The bottle coupling structure is directly connected to the bicycle handlebar, and is dissociable from the bicycle handlebar. The integrated bottle structure may include additional features such as a straw structure or other devices.
US12233972B2
A control device for a vehicle includes a plurality of control circuits configured to control a control object by starting in response to powering-on of a vehicle and to perform power latch control for continuing to be supplied with electric power in a predetermined period in response to powering-off of the vehicle. Each of the control circuits is configured to perform starting after all of the control circuits have recognized the powering-on of the vehicle in a case where the vehicle is powered on while the power latch control is being performed after the vehicle has been powered off.
US12233961B2
A steering column may include a steering shaft that is mounted so as to be rotatable about its longitudinal axis relative to a steering column housing and a revolution limiter to limit rotation of the steering shaft. The revolution limiter has a winding core that is connected fixedly to the steering shaft for conjoint rotation therewith. A strap element may be attached to both the winding core and the steering column housing. The strap element may be elongate, may be deformable flexibly transversely with respect to its longitudinal extent, and may have a strap section that can be wound on the winding core in a winding direction around the longitudinal axis. To decrease complexity and to facilitate compactness, the winding direction of the strap section is reversible.
US12233957B2
A vehicle with an improved front aerodynamic characteristic includes a front exterior member disposed on a front surface of a vehicle body of the vehicle. The front exterior member includes a front inlet port, a funnel member, and a specially processed surface. The front inlet port is formed in the front exterior member. The front inlet port is configured to draw in an airflow in front of the front exterior member. The funnel member is formed around the front inlet port. The specially processed surface is formed on an inner surface of the funnel member, and has recesses that are arrayed.
US12233947B2
A vehicle body rear portion includes a floor tunnel, a unit protection cover, and a rear floor panel. The floor tunnel is arranged at a middle in a vehicle width direction of a front floor panel. The unit protection cover covers an upper portion of a protection target unit which is arranged at a rearward position of the floor tunnel. The rear floor panel is arranged at a rearward position of the protection target unit. The unit protection cover and the rear floor panel include a reinforcement structure portion that extends in a vehicle body rearward direction from a tunnel ridge line at right and left upper portions of the floor tunnel.
