US12254701B2
A vehicle periphery monitoring device is configured to: specify positions of detection points of an obstacle with respect to a vehicle based on detection results of multiple periphery monitoring sensors equipped to the vehicle; update the positions of the detected detection points corresponding to a position change of the vehicle; storing the updated positions of the detection points in a memory that maintains stored information during a parked state of the vehicle; and estimate, at a start time of the vehicle from the parked state, a position of a detection point, which is located in a blind spot and is not detected by all of the multiple periphery monitoring sensors at the start time of the vehicle, using the positions of the detection points stored in the memory.
US12254697B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for monitoring events using a Virtual Inductive Loop system. In some implementations, image data is obtained from cameras. A region depicted in the obtained image data is identified, the region comprising lines spaced by a distance that satisfies a distance threshold. For each line included in the region: an object depicted crossing the line is determined whether to satisfy a height criteria indicating that the line is activated. In response to determining that an object depicted crossing the line satisfies the height criteria, an event is determined to have likely occurred using data indicating (i) which lines of the lines were activated and (ii) an order in which each of the lines were activated. In response to determining that an event likely occurred, actions are performed using at least some of the data.
US12254685B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for characterizing a gaze position of a user in a query image. One of the methods includes obtaining a query image of a user captured by a camera of a mobile device; obtaining device characteristics data specifying (ii) characteristics of the mobile device, (ii) characteristics of the camera of the mobile device, or (iii) both; and processing a neural network input comprising (i) one or more images derived from the query image and (ii) the device characteristics data using a gaze prediction neural network, wherein the gaze prediction neural network is configured to, at run time and after the gaze prediction neural network has been trained, process the neural network input to generate a neural network output that characterizes a gaze position of the user in the query image.
US12254682B2
A method of identifying and recognizing characters using a dual-stage neural network pipeline, the method including: receiving, by a computing device, image data; providing the image data to a first convolutional layer of a convolutional neural network (CNN); applying, using the CNN, pattern recognition to the image data to identify a region of the image data containing text; providing sub-image data comprising the identified region of the image data to a convolutional recurrent neural network (CRNN); and recognizing, using the CRNN, the characters within the sub-image data.
US12254677B2
A training data modification system (TDM) for machine learning and related methods. The system comprises a data modifier (DM) configured to perform a modification operation to modify medical training X-ray imagery of a patient. The modification operation causes image structures in the modified medical training imagery. The image structure is representative of a property of i) a medical procedure, ii) an image acquisition operation by an X-ray-based medical imaging apparatus (IA), iii) an anatomy of the patient.
US12254675B2
A computer-implemented method for training a machine learning system including: initializing parameters of the machine learning system and a metaparameter. Repeatedly carrying out the following as a loop: providing a batch of training data points and manipulating the provided training data points or a training method for optimizing the parameters of the machine learning system or a structure of the machine learning system based on the metaparameter. Ascertaining a cost function as a function of instantaneous parameters of the machine learning system and of the instantaneous metaparameters. Adapting the instantaneous parameters as a function of an ascertained first gradient, which has been ascertained with respect to the instantaneous parameters via the ascertained cost function for the training data points, and adapting the metaparameter as a function of a second gradient, which has been ascertained with respect to the metaparameter used in the preceding step via the ascertained cost function.
US12254673B1
The present disclosure relates to classifying and/or selecting images based on image segmentation. A classification system for classifying images includes one or more processors and at least one memory storing machine executable instructions. When the instructions are executed by the one or more processors, they cause the classification system to: access image segmentation scores for pixels of an image, and classify the entire image based on the image segmentation scores for the pixels of the image. The image segmentation scores for the pixels of the image are provided by an image segmentation system based on the image, and each of the image segmentation scores correspond to at least one pixel of the pixels of the image.
US12254669B1
The present disclosure describes a method comprising receiving a plurality of training images; executing a feature extraction machine learning model to generate a plurality of training embeddings for a plurality of training images each in an embedding space; training a content scoring machine learning model using the plurality of training embeddings to generate performance scores for content items based on embeddings in the embedding space; receiving a set of text; executing the feature extraction machine learning model using the set of text to generate a text embedding in the same embedding space as the training embeddings for the plurality of training images; generating, using the content scoring machine learning model, a text performance score for the set of text using the text embedding in the embedding space; and generating a record identifying the text performance score for the set of text.
US12254667B2
A multiple scenario-oriented item retrieval method and system. The method includes the steps of extracting, by Hashing learning, image features from an image training set to train a pre-built item retrieval model; when an image is in a scenario of hard samples, introducing an adaptive similarity matrix, optimizing the similarity matrix by an image transfer matrix, constructing an adaptive similarity matrix objective function in combination with an image category label; constructing a loss quantization objective function between the image and a Hash code according to the image transfer matrix; when the image is in a scenario of zero samples, introducing an asymmetric similarity matrix, constructing an objective function by taking the image category label as supervisory information in combination with equilibrium and decorrelation constraints of the Hash code; and training the item retrieval model based on the above objective function to obtain a retrieved result of a target item image.
US12254665B2
A system to detect LEDs and their states in an AR context is provided having a monitored device having a plurality of LEDs; a computer receives a picture of the monitored device and LEDs; the computer processes said picture to determine a plurality of feature points; a database is in data communication with said computer that stores a plurality of reference images with reference feature points and reference zones; the computer matches at least some of the plurality of feature points with at least some of the plurality of reference feature points to compute a homography matrix; the computer transforms the picture into a transformed picture using the homography matrix; the computer processes zones of the transformed picture based on the reference zones to determine the state of each of the plurality of LEDs by comparing a value of the picture in the zone with a reference value.
US12254651B2
A ride system includes one or more sensors and a controller. The controller receives, from the one or more sensors, position data indicative of the position of a body and/or face of guest on the ride. Using the position data, the one or more controllers, determine a face direction, face rotation, or both of the guest, independent of sensor observations of the face direction and rotation. One or more features of the ride are controlled based upon the determined face direction and/or face rotation.
US12254650B2
An object tracking system that includes a first sensor and a second sensor that are each configured to capture frames of at least a portion of a global plane for a space. The system is configured to identify a first pixel location for a marker within a first frame and to determine an (x,y) coordinate for the marker using a first homography. The system is further configured to identify a second pixel location for the marker in the second sensor using a second homography, to identify a third pixel location using a disparity mapping, and to determine a distance difference between the second pixel location and the third pixel location. The system is further configured to compare the distance difference to a difference threshold level and to recompute the first homography and/or the second homography in response to determining that the distance difference exceeds the difference threshold level.
US12254649B2
An optical flow odometer to determine the position of an object movable relatively to a surface is provided that includes a cluster of digital image sensors intended to be arranged on the movable object at respective reference positions and an electronic processing and control unit electrically connected with the digital image sensors and configured to: operate the digital image sensors in subsequent time instants during movement of the movable object so as to carry out a sequence of multiple digital image capture operations, in each of which the digital image sensors are operated to simultaneously capture respective digital images, and receive from the digital image sensors and process the digital images captured in the multiple digital image capture operations to compute either the positions of the individual digital image sensors or the position of the cluster of digital image sensors at one or more of the multiple digital image capture operations, and compute the position of the movable object at one or more multiple digital image capture operations based on either the positions of one or more individual digital image sensors or the position of the cluster of digital image sensors computed at one or more multiple digital image capture operations.
US12254635B2
An image distortion correction method and an apparatus, where the method includes: performing optical distortion correction on a collected source image to obtain a first corrected image, where the first corrected image includes a background region and a portrait in which stretching deformation occurs, and where the portrait in which stretching deformation occurs includes at least a first human body region in which stretching deformation occurs and a second human body region in which stretching deformation occurs; and performing algorithm constraint correction on the first human body region, the second human body region, and the background region to obtain a second corrected image, where constraint terms used for the algorithm constraint correction respectively constrain the first human body region, the second human body region, and the background region.
US12254629B1
A deep learning-based MRI examination and diagnosis system for displacement of a temporomandibular joint disc includes: an acquisition unit, configured to acquire a human head MRI image; a labeling unit, configured to obtain temporomandibular joint area images based on the human head MRI image, and label the temporomandibular joint area images to obtain a training set, the temporomandibular joint area images being classified into images in which a joint disc is in normal and abnormal positions in open and closed states; and a diagnosis unit, configured to construct a first temporomandibular joint disc displacement diagnosis model, and train a first jaw joint disc displacement classification model based on the training set to obtain a second temporomandibular joint disc displacement diagnosis model which is configured to classify and recognize temporomandibular joint area images to be diagnosed, and output a temporomandibular joint disc displacement examination and diagnosis result.
US12254627B2
Provided herein is technology relating to analysis of images and particularly, but not exclusively, to methods and systems for determining the area and/or volume of a region of interest using optical coherence tomography data. Some embodiments provide for determining the area and/or volume of a lesion in retinal tissue using three-dimensional optical coherence tomography data and a two-dimensional optical coherence tomography fundus image.
US12254624B2
The subject invention pertains to methods and systems for classifying leukocytes using artificial intelligence called AIRFIHA (artificial-intelligence enabled reagent-free imaging hematology analyzer) that can accurately classify subpopulations of leukocytes in a label-free manner. AIRFIHA can not only subtype lymphocytes into B and T cell but is capable of sorting different types of T cells subtypes. AIRFIHA is realized through training a two-step neural network using label-free images of separated leukocytes acquired from a custom-built quantitative phase microscope. Owing to its easy operation, low cost, and strong discerning capability of complex leukocyte subpopulations, AIRFIHA is clinically translatable and can also be deployed in resource-limited settings.
US12254622B2
Systems and methods are described for calculating an emission rate of a fugitive gas based on a gas density image of the fugitive gas. In an example, a computing device receives a gas density image of a fugitive gas from a camera. The computing device determines how to optimize the fugitive gas in the camera's field of view and instructions the camera to adjust its bearing and zoom accordingly. The camera captures one or more additional images of the fugitive gas, and the computing device stitches the images together where appropriate. The computing device then calculates the emission rate by delineating the fugitive gas in the image and determining a flux of the gas using one of various calculation methods.
US12254619B2
A method for performing a welding procedure includes determining conditions of the welding procedure using a virtual image of a structure on which the welding procedure is to be performed. The method further includes generating specifications for performing the welding procedure based on the conditions. The method further includes generating a virtual reference shape based on the conditions and the specifications, the virtual reference shape generated by modifying the virtual image. The method further includes comparing a resulting shape of the welding procedure with the virtual reference shape. The method further includes determining a quality of the welding procedure based on the comparison. The method further includes storing data pertaining to the welding procedure.
US12254617B2
A system and method for performing real-time quality inspection of objects is disclosed. The system and method include a transport to move objects being inspected, allowing the inspection to be performed in-line. At least one optical acquisition unit is provided that captured optical images of the objects being inspected. The captured optical images are matched to CAD models of objects, and the matched CAD model is extracted. A laser with an illumination light beam has a wavelength in the violet or ultraviolet range then conducts scans of the objects, which are formed into three-dimensional point clouds. The point clouds are compared to the extracted CAD models for each object, where CTF are compared to user input or CAD model information and the object is determined to be acceptable or defective based on the extent of deviation between the point cloud and the CAD model.
US12254600B2
A joint imaging system based on unmanned aerial vehicle platform and an image enhancement fusion method are provided. The system includes a flying unit as a load platform, a shutter control system for controlling the operation of a load camera, a posture control system for recording the movement track and POS data of the flying unit, an airborne image transmission system for communicating with ground equipment, and an onboard computing unit with an image processing module for receiving the output images and performing image processing and fusion.
US12254586B2
Examples of the present disclosure describe systems and methods for an auto-focus tool for multimodality image review. In aspects, an image review system may provide for the display of a set of medical images representing one or more imaging modalities. The system may also provide an auto-focus tool that may be used during the review of the set of medical images. After receiving an instruction to activate the auto-focus tool, the system may receive a selection of an ROI in at least one of the images in the set of medical images. The auto-focus tool may identify the location of the ROI within the image and use the identified ROI location to identify a corresponding area or ROI in the remaining set of medical images. The auto-focus tool may orient and display the remaining set of medical images such that the identified area or ROI is prominently displayed.
US12254584B2
Methods comprising generating, by a processor, a 3D model of an object; facilitating displaying, by the processor using the 3D model of the object, a 3D display of the object on an electronic device of a user; receiving, by the processor and from the electronic device of the user, a zoom selection on the 3D display of the object; in response to receiving the zoom selection, facilitating displaying, by the processor, a zoomed 3D display of the object on the electronic device of the user; receiving, by the processor and from the electronic device of the user, a zoom rotation selection of the object in the zoomed 3D display; and in response to receiving the zoom rotation selection, facilitating rotating, by the processor, the 3D display of the object in the zoomed 3D display on the electronic device of the user. Other embodiments are disclosed herein.
US12254583B2
Methods and systems are provided for dynamic interaction with an augmented reality environment. In some embodiments, the systems and methods are directed at dynamically interacting with machinery within the augmented reality environment via an augmented reality device. The method involves analyzing a site in which the machinery is to be operated to capture environment data; displaying on the augmented reality device an augmented reality representation of the machinery as an overlay of a portion of an augmented reality environment; receiving an interaction request for interacting with the augmented reality representation of the machinery; determining whether the interaction request can be completed in respect of the machinery within the site; and in response to determining that the interaction request can be completed, displaying the augmented reality representation of the machinery in accordance with the interaction request, otherwise, indicating that the interaction request cannot be completed within the site.
US12254579B2
Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that create a 3D video that includes determining first adjustments (e.g., first transforms) to video frames (e.g., one or more RGB images and depth images per frame) to align content in a coordinate system to remove the effects of capturing camera motion. Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that playback a 3D video and includes determining second adjustments (e.g., second transforms) to remove the effects of movement of a viewing electronic device relative to a viewing environment during playback of the 3D video. Some implementations distinguish static content and moving content of the video frames to playback only moving objects or facilitate concurrent playback of multiple spatially related 3D videos. The 3D video may include images, audio, or 3D video of a video-capture-device user.
US12254573B2
Visualizing three dimensional content is complicated by display platforms capable of more degrees of freedom to display the content than interface tools have to navigate that content. Disclosed are methods and systems for displaying select portions of the content and generating virtual camera positions with associated look angles for the select portions, such as planar geometries of a three dimensional building, thereby constraining the degrees of freedom for improved navigation through views of the content. Look angles can be associated with axes of the content and fields of view.
US12254570B2
The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media that generate three-dimensional hybrid mesh-volumetric representations for digital objects. For instance, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems generate a mesh for a digital object from a plurality of digital images that portray the digital object using a multi-view stereo model. Additionally, the disclosed systems determine a set of sample points for a thin volume around the mesh. Using a neural network, the disclosed systems further generate a three-dimensional hybrid mesh-volumetric representation for the digital object utilizing the set of sample points for the thin volume and the mesh.
US12254568B2
A system for georeferencing three-dimensional (3D) geometric data associated with a global positioning system (GPS)-denied environment. The system includes an apparatus couplable to a mobile platform and a computing system communicably couplable with the apparatus. The apparatus includes a processing circuit and a range sensor and/or a camera. The computing system includes a 3D generator module configured to generate a digital 3D model of the GPS-denied environment based on data acquired by the range sensor and/or the camera, a 3D survey control generator module configured to identify a survey control point within the GPS-denied environment and generate a 3D digital anchor within the 3D model of the GPS-denied environment, a georeferencing module configured to apply one or more non-rigid transformations to the 3D model of the GPS-denied environment, and a second processing circuit communicably couplable with the 3D generator module, the 3D survey control generator module and the georeferencing module.
US12254565B2
Embodiments include obtaining an input image depicting a body part of a person and processing the input image against a set of semantic landmarks representing landmarks of the body part; obtaining a mesh model for a set of images; generating, from the mesh model and the set of semantic landmarks, a body part mesh of the person, wherein the body part mesh is an approximation of a 3D model for the body part depicted in the input image; obtaining a target body part mesh data structure, distinct from the body part mesh; and generating a modified view image of the body part, modified to reflect differences between the target body part mesh data structure and the body part mesh while retaining at least some texture of the body part from the input image.
US12254558B2
A system for facilitating ray trace operations with shared traversal performs a pre-test operation that includes testing one or more volumes against an acceleration structure associated with a virtual environment to identify a set of candidate nodes of the acceleration structure. The virtual environment comprises one or more virtual objects defined by one or more object components. The system also performs a ray trace operation based upon the set of candidate nodes of the acceleration structure.
US12254548B1
A system configured to perform style-aware listener animation. By representing different listening styles (e.g., facial expressions) using an embedding space, a single model can be trained to generate unique facial animations for a number of distinct listeners. Thus, individual listening styles can be associated with a listener identifier, enabling the system to (i) animate a plurality of different listeners with unique nonverbal behavior and/or (ii) select a particular listener identifier or desired type of listener style with which to animate. This enables the model to be generalized to new listeners to generate additional listener facial responses without needing training data for each new listener. The model may process a listener representation style or listener identifier, along with input data corresponding to a speaker talking, to generate unique facial animation responsive to the speech.
US12254546B2
A method for authoring an animation is provided. The method includes the steps of: acquiring characteristic information on an appearance and a motion of a real-world object from an input video; determining a virtual object associated with the real-world object with reference to the characteristic information on the appearance of the real-world object, and determining a virtual motion associated with the real-world object with reference to the characteristic information on the motion of the real-world object; and generating an animation sequence on the basis of the virtual object and the virtual motion.
US12254543B2
The embodiments herein provide a system and method for personalized cartoon image generation. The method (100) comprises launching a keyboard interface (101), capturing a digital picture (102), face segmentation using neural network (103), normalization of segmented face (104), face cartoonification (105), which generates bobble head, facial landmark extraction (106), facial expression feature transfer (109) and customization of the generated plurality of cartoon images (110). Hence, the embodiments herein helps in creation of personalized plurality of cartoon images to make the user part of the conversations and the graphics or content shared look similar to the user input face and more aesthetically pleasing instead of using any reference stickers to convey the messages.
US12254527B2
A graphics processing unit (GPU) includes a plurality of programmable processing cores configured to process graphics primitives and corresponding data and a plurality of fixed-function hardware units. The plurality of processing cores and the plurality of fixed-function hardware units are configured to implement a configurable number of virtual pipelines to concurrently process different command flows. Each virtual pipeline includes a configurable number of fragments and an operational state of each virtual pipeline is specified by a different context. The configurable number of virtual pipelines can be modified from a first number to a second number that is different than the first number. An emulation of a fixed-function hardware unit can be instantiated on one or more of the graphics processing cores in response to detection of a bottleneck in a fixed-function hardware unit. One or more of the virtual pipelines can then be reconfigured to utilize the emulation instead of the fixed-function hardware unit.
US12254520B2
A power management system including a management apparatus configured to assign divided computation processing constituting at least a part of predetermined computation processing to a distributed computing device placed in a facility, wherein the management apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive a message including an information element indicating a type of a power source configured to identify electrical power allowed as electrical power to be used by the distributed computing device, and a controller configured to perform assignment processing to assign the divided computation processing to the distributed computing device based on the type of the power source.
US12254514B2
An apparatus, method, and non-transitory medium for betting on weather predictions are disclosed herein. A plurality of longitude and latitude coordinate pairs may be received from a remote device. The display device may render data representing a binary option based on whether a storm will make landfall within the certain radius. A request to purchase the binary option may be received. It may be determined whether the landfall location corresponds to a zip code associated with the given longitude latitude pair in the memory.
US12254512B2
An example operation may include one or more of receiving a loan application of a user, extracting a plurality of personal attributes about the user from the loan application, querying a machine learning model via an application programming interface (API) based on the plurality of attributes about the user to identify one or more rules for auto-adjudicating the loan application, determining whether or not to approve the loan application based on the one or more rules identified via the machine learning model, and transmitting notice of the determination to a device associated with the user.
US12254502B2
Systems as described herein may include detecting live browser information that a user navigates to a first website displayed in a first open browser tab and a second website displayed in a second open browser tab. A data sharing server may provide the live browser information to a machine learning model as input. Based on feedback from the machine learning model, one or more similar products displayed in the first website and the second website may be determined. The data sharing server may detect an update on the one or more similar products, and cause a user device to display an alert indicating the update on the similar products.
US12254500B2
Merchandise content is aggregated from numerous merchant sources and presented on computing devices of individual users. Users are able to purchase select individual merchandise items by performing a simplified action, such as a screen tap on a touchscreen device. When the user performs the action, a series of actions are performed programmatically and/or automatically on behalf of the user to initiate and complete the transaction for the selected merchandise item from the merchant source.
US12254484B2
A system and method for omnichannel text-based routing, transfer, and customer-to-enterprise communications. The system is a cloud-based network containing an interaction control server, a routing engine, an optimization engine, a media translation server, a mobile application, a business entity portal, mobile and compute devices for business enterprise and customer, and an enterprise database. Taken together or in part, said system optimizes customer interactions by delivering context aware text message, chat or email to customers; and when requested by customer, optimally routes with context, based upon a multitude of variables, to best available resource to handle the customer interaction. The system may be accessed through web browsers or purpose-built computer and mobile phone applications.
US12254483B1
A safe driving currency system may obtain telematics data indicative of a driver's operation of a vehicle, determine whether a driver is engaged in safe operation of a vehicle, and award safe driving currency (e.g., driving points) for operating the vehicle in a safe manner. The driver may also enter safe driving tournaments to obtain safe driving currency. The driver may then use the safe driving currency to obtain user-selectable electronic and/or real-world benefits. For instance, the driver may use the safe driving currency to purchase an item in a video game or a physical good or service from a vendor (e.g., hotels, gas stations, coffee shops, online stores, etc.). As the driver traverses a route, the driver may be notified of vendors along the route at which the driver may spend the driver's safe driving currency.
US12254478B2
A delivery date answering apparatus includes: an order quota calculation and disclosure unit for calculating surplus inventory of a product in a demand forecast channel, which is a sales channel where order quantities are forecasted, using the actual inventory and a sales plan of the demand forecast channel, and transfer the surplus inventory to an orderable quota for a non-demand forecast channel, which is a sales channel where order quantities are not forecasted, and set a predetermined disclosed quota for the orderable quota; and an actual order acquisition and delivery date answering unit for determining whether the quantity of an actual order acquired in the non-demand forecast channel is within a range of the disclosed quota. When the order is within the range, answer a date when the actual order is deliverable. When the order is not within the range, answer the order is undeliverable.
US12254476B1
This disclosure provides systems and methods for matching a customer with a service representative. A request for service can be received from a customer. A first service interaction can be initiated between the customer and a first service representative. A customer sentiment metric can be determined during the first service interaction. The customer sentiment metric can indicate a level of customer satisfaction during the first service interaction. A second service representative suitable for fulfilling the customer's request for service can be identified, based at least in part on the customer sentiment metric. A second service interaction can be initiated between the customer and the second service representative, responsive to the identification of the second service representative.
US12254466B1
Methods, systems and apparatus for dynamic multi-level detection of compromised transaction receivers are provided. The apparatus may include a sensor communication module (“SCM”) to monitor a transaction between a card and a card reader. The apparatus may include a terminal software module (“TSM”) configured to compare sensor data with data included in a threshold lookup table. Based on the comparison, the TSM may output a threshold status. The status may indicate a violation or confirmation. The apparatus may include a dynamic mutual cryptographic authenticator (“DMCA”). The DMCA may terminate the transaction in response to receipt of the threshold violation. The DMCA may initiate an encrypted challenge response communication module (“ECRCM”) in response to receipt of the threshold confirmation. The ECRCM may verify decryption and exchange of challenges between the card and the card reader. In response to confirming the decryption and exchange of the challenges, the transaction may be authenticated.
US12254463B1
A payer computing system includes a processing resource, a memory resource, and computer-executable instructions stored thereon and embodied in a customer-side application programming interface (API). The instructions, when executed by the processing resource, cause the payer computing system to receive an electronic payment request and, in response, generate a request (e.g., a first API message) to access a biller computing system using a previously generated payer electronic token. The request is transmitted to the biller computing system. The payer computing system receives (e.g., via a second API message) payment information provided by the biller computing system in response to the request to access. Based on payment information, the payer computing system generates a payment transaction and causes (e.g., via a third API message) the payment transaction to be initiated.
US12254453B2
A decentralized node may generate a network of decentralized nodes individually configured to store, receive, and transmit data based on rules associated with the decentralized nodes. A decentralized node may associate a decentralized identity of an entity with a select decentralized node of the decentralized nodes. A decentralized node may present a user interface including one or more access controls at a edge device, the access controls configuring rules to be applied to third-party access and modification of decentralized identity data associated within the decentralized identity of the entity and stored at the selected decentralized node. A decentralized node may identify the decentralized identity data accessible to the select decentralized node based on the rules. A decentralized node may store the decentralized identity data within the decentralized identity associated with the entity at the select decentralized node.
US12254450B2
An electronic receipt system according to example embodiments includes: a code issuance server configured to issue a code in response to a request from a mobile terminal and to transmit the code to the mobile terminal; a POS terminal configured to read the code displayed on a screen of the mobile terminal, to transmit the code to the code issuance server for inquiry, and when it is confirmed that the code is one that is issued by the code issuance server, to associate the code and electronic receipt information generated when performing transaction processing with each other; and an electronic receipt management server configured to save the code and the electronic receipt information that are associated with each other received from the POS terminal and when the mobile terminal transmits the code, to transmit the electronic receipt information that is associated with the code to the mobile terminal.
US12254449B2
Disclosed herein are methods and systems to generate and communicate interactive digital receipts. A payment-processing system (PPS) receives first data associated with a payment transaction between a payee and a payor. The PPS is associated with a database that includes a payee profile and a payor profile. The payee profile includes payee employment history, transaction history, and location tags associated with the transactions. The payment transaction is processed. Based on the payee and payor profiles, an interactive digital proof of transaction, including an indication of an availability of a resource or a vacancy, is generated and displayed on a device associated with the payee or the payor. A location of the vacancy indicated is based on the location tags. The PPS receives second data indicating a user interaction with an interactable element of the interactive digital proof of transaction corresponding to the indication of the availability.
US12254427B2
Systems and methods for automatically soliciting the purchase of a first or second machine-related resource in a forward market, wherein the first resource and the second resource are distinct instances of the same type of resource, are described. A sample system may include a fleet of machines, each having a resource requirement comprising at least two of: a compute resource, a spectrum resource, or a network bandwidth resource. The system may include an circuits to aggregate data corresponding to the machine-related resources from at least a behavioral data source, to determine a substitution cost of a second resource; to determine a machine-related resource acquisition value; and to automatically solicit a purchase, in a forward market, of one of the first resource or the second resource in response to the determined substitution cost of the second resource.
US12254426B2
A production line operation forecast method and a production line operation forecast system are provided. The production line operation forecast method includes the following steps: obtaining an online production line work-in-process map at a time point, generating candidate simulated dispatch decisions based on the online production line work-in-process map, and inferring production-line work-in-process map changes of the candidate simulated dispatch decisions at a next time point; inputting the production-line work-in-process map changes to a forecast model, such that the forecast model outputs simulated production line operation health indicators of the candidate simulated dispatch decisions at the next time point; and selecting one of the candidate simulated dispatch decisions as a scheduling dispatch decision.
US12254422B2
Systems and methods for embodiments of artificial intelligence systems for identity management are disclosed. Embodiments of the identity management systems disclosed herein may support the correlation of identities from authoritative source systems and accounts from non-authoritative source systems using artificial intelligence techniques.
US12254410B2
A method and system are disclosed for training a model that implements a machine-learning algorithm. The technique utilizes latent descriptor vectors to change a multiple-valued output problem into a single-valued output problem and includes the steps of receiving a set of training data, processing, by a model, the set of training data to generate a set of output vectors, and adjusting a set of model parameters and component values for at least one latent descriptor vector in the plurality of latent descriptor vectors based on the set of output vectors. The set of training data includes a plurality of input vectors and a plurality of desired output vectors, and each input vector in the plurality of input vectors is associated with a particular latent descriptor vector in a plurality of latent descriptor vectors. Each latent descriptor vector comprises a plurality of scalar values that are initialized prior to training the model.
US12254404B2
The present invention relates to the field of radiation therapy and methods, software and systems for image registration. According to the present invention, methods for image registration of images of a patient comprising are provided. The method may include receiving a set of image data from the patient; selecting one or more tracking regions in the set of image data, each tracking region including a tracking point or set of tracking points; receiving sets of image data captured at different times from the patient; identifying corresponding tracking regions in the sets of image data captured at different times; estimating a displacement field describing displacement vectors for a number of points in the sets of image data including the tracking regions, each displacement vector specifying a position of a region in reference to a previous position.
US12254393B2
An artificial intelligence (AI) platform to support selective replacement of one or more image layers of a container image build. A metadata file is subject to natural language processing and one or more corresponding vector representations are created and subject to evaluation by a set of artificial neural networks (ANNs). A first ANN assesses each vector representation with respect to compliance and operability, and the second ANN selectively assesses the vector representation(s) with respect to similarity with one or more compliant vector representations. In response to the assignment of the second score, at least one vector representation of the received metadata file is selectively replaced with at least one compliant vector representation. The metadata file is selectively provisioned with the selectively replaced vector representation(s).
US12254391B2
Systems and methods presented herein include guest activity detection devices configured to detect activity of guests of an amusement park, and to send data indicative of the detected activity; an artificial intelligence entity management system configured to analyze the data indicative of the activity of the guests, and to modify properties of guest-specific artificial intelligence entities based at least in part on the analyzed data indicative of the activity of the guests; and park features disposed within a physical environment of the amusement park and configured to be instructed by the guest-specific artificial intelligence entities to modify a guest experience for the guests of the amusement park in accordance with the properties of the guest-specific artificial intelligence entities.
US12254386B2
Logic may adjust communications between customers. Logic may cluster customers into a first group associated with a first subset of synonyms and a second group associated with a second subset of the synonyms. Logic may associate a first tag with the first group and with each of the synonyms of the first subset. Logic may associate a second tag with the second group and with each of the synonyms of the second subset. Logic may associate one or more models with pairs of the groups. A first pair may comprise the first group and the second group. The first model associated with the first pair may adjust words in communications between the first group and the second group, based on the synonyms associated with the first pair, by replacement of words in a communication between customers of the first subset and customers of the second subset.
US12254385B2
A method for multi-time scale reactive voltage control based on reinforcement learning in a power distribution network is provided, which relates to the field of power system operation and control. The method includes: constituting an optimization model for multi-time scale reactive voltage control in a power distribution network based on a reactive voltage control object of a slow discrete device and a reactive voltage control object of a fast continuous device in the power distribution network; constructing a hierarchical interaction training framework based on a two-layer Markov decision process based on the model; setting a slow agent for the slow discrete device and setting a fast agent for the fast continuous device; and deciding action values of the controlled devices by each agent based on measurement information inputted, so as to realize the multi-time scale reactive voltage control while the slow agent and the fast agent perform continuous online learning.
US12254376B2
A computer-implemented system and method for entity tracking and identification is provided. A tracker associated with an entity is tracked. Communication is continuously attempted between the tracker and a tracking device associated with an individual in custody of the entity. During one of the attempted communications, an absence of the tracker is determined by identifying a time of the attempted communication and applying a time threshold to the time for the attempted communication. The absence of the tracker is identified when no communication has been established with the tracking device within the time threshold. The entity is classified as missing when the absence of the tracker is determined.
US12254364B1
Programming fixtures are provided that program cards, such as payment cards, with data, such as personal data, using light transmitters and receivers. For example, an infrared transmitter may be provided to program personal data (e.g., a customer's credit card number) into a card wirelessly. In doing so, the card may be, for example, completely laminated such that there are no exposed electronic components on the exterior surface of the card and be programmed via light.
US12254360B2
This disclosure involves using data science notebooks to customize and apply a visitor stitching framework. An event management system provides an initial visitor stitching framework via a data science notebook, wherein the data science notebook is an interactive environment for managing algorithms and data. The event management system receives, from a resource provider system via the data science notebook, a modification to the initial visitor stitching framework. The event management system applies the modification to the initial visitor stitching framework to generate a custom visitor stitching framework. The event management system processes a dataset associated with the resource provider system and a user using the custom visitor stitching framework to generate a stitched dataset associated with the user.
US12254359B2
Methods, systems, and computer program products for data processing utilizing an asynchronous communication repository. Instructions are received at a first event publisher to publish a first dataset. The instructions include a directive to retrieve a second dataset published by a second event publisher, a directive to determine a first metadata structure including attributes describing the first dataset, and a directive to send the first metadata structure to an asynchronous communication repository for storage. A second metadata structure describing the second dataset is received at the first event publisher from the asynchronous communication repository using an asynchronous communication protocol. The second dataset is retrieved at the first event publisher from the second event publisher. The first dataset is generated based on the second dataset. The first metadata structure is determined based on the first dataset. The first metadata structure is sent from the first event publisher to the asynchronous communication repository.
US12254356B2
Techniques for implementing an infrastructure orchestration service are described. A configuration file for a deployment to a first execution target and a second execution target can be received. A first safety plan can be generated for the first execution target that comprises a first list of resources and operations associated with deployment at the first execution target. Approval of the first safety plan can be received. A second safety plan can be generated for the second execution target that comprises a second list of resources and operations associated with deployment at the second execution target. A determination can be made whether the second safety plan is a subset of the first safety plan. If the determination is that the second safety plan is a subset of the first safety plan, the second safety plan can automatically be approved and transmitted to the second execution target for deployment.
US12254350B2
Data from data sources may be processed at an edge device. The edge device may generate a local processing result, filter the data, and/or prioritize the data. Accordingly, data is transmitted from the edge device to the data platform, where it may be processed further. For example, a local processing result may be processed at the data platform, such that processing is performed without all of the data source data. In examples, at least a part of such data may remain at an edge device. The edge device may maintain a manifest of data stored by the edge device. The data platform may generate an aggregated manifest using manifests from associated edge devices, such that it may be determined where data is stored. As a result, the data platform may redirect requests to an associated edge device when it is determined that requested data is remote from the data platform.
US12254347B2
A scalable cloud-based data processing and computing platform to support a large volume data pipeline.
US12254346B1
A response initiation time target based at least in part on a service level agreement is assigned to a task requested from a network-accessible service. A deadline parameter of a thread identified to perform sub-tasks of the task at a service logic implementation node is set based on the target. The thread is scheduled for execution using an operating system thread scheduling algorithm which selects threads for execution based on their deadline parameters. After a first sub-task of thread is completed, a response is sent to the requester of the task.
US12254344B2
A Mainframe batch system have various type of source components and each component has its own purpose and functionality within the environment. Existing refactoring are still dependent on manual skills and competency. A method and system for automated refactoring of mainframe based batch systems to cloud native environment is provided. The present disclosure proposes an intelligent automation model that comprehends every aspect of the existing Mainframe batch system, all its inherent source elements along with its dependencies. With this holistic understanding of all the elements of the Mainframe batch system, the system converts the information within them into a proprietary conceptual model. This model has all the information about the source elements is converted into the target architecture which is cloud native. The combination of the model with the externalizable command based templates (EBCT) aligns the conversion to any target technology feasible.
US12254339B2
Technology related to application deployment across network devices including smart network interface cards. In one example, a method includes distributing an application across a plurality of locally connected computing subdomains. The subdomains can include a mixture of general and special purpose computing subdomains, such as for example, a main computer and an associated smart network interface devices or systems, such as for example a smart network interface card (NIC). The subdomains can each run hypervisors that are bridged to allow a single virtual machine to operate across the subdomains. The application can include multiple portions. For example, an application can be split by different functionalities. The application portions can be tagged to indicate which subdomain they are to be executed within. If the chosen subdomain has available the requisite resources, the application can be detached and distributed to the chosen subdomain.
US12254337B2
Techniques for expanded trusted domains are disclosed. In the illustrative embodiment, a trusted domain can be established that includes hardware components from a processor as well as an off-load device. The off-load device may provide compute resources for the trusted domain. The trusted domain can be expanded and contracted on-demand, allowing for a flexible approach to creating and using trusted domains.
US12254335B2
A storage device is disclosed. The storage device may include at least one controller for a virtual machine (VM) that is on a source host. Storage in the storage device may store data for the VM. A second storage may store a storage state for the VM. A storage device controller may process at least one read request received from the controller for the VM using the first storage and at least one write request received from the controller for the VM using the first storage. A VM migration state monitor and capture module may assist in the migration of the VM from the source host to a destination host.
US12254334B2
A system may include a memory and a processor in communication with the memory. The processor may be configured to perform operations. The operations may include receiving data and generating a contextual execution dependency graph with said data. The operations may include producing agents with said data and calculating an agent sequence for said agents based at least in part on said contextual execution dependency graph. The operations may include executing an automation script using said agent sequence and said contextual execution dependency graph.
US12254330B2
An electronic device displays a first screen is provided. The electronic device includes a list of one or more second applications in a display based on a first application, the second applications being different from the first application. The electronic device displays, in response to a first input of selecting one application of the one or more second applications based on the list, a second screen based on execution of the selected application in the display. The electronic device identifies information indicating at least one application switchable from the second screen within the first application, in response to a second input executing a third application based on the second screen. The electronic device identifies whether to switch from the second screen to a third screen based on execution of the third application to initiate the execution of the third application.
US12254328B2
A computer-implemented method for a service framework to develop application services, including: providing at least one module of a module stack to a client; determining if the provided module has been modified by the client; determining dependency data, at least including information on the dependency of further modules of the module stack from the provided module; and providing the dependency data of the other modules of the module stack from the provided module.
US12254325B2
To support appropriate selection of a configuration of a cloud system. A computer system includes a processor 111, a storage apparatus 112 and an input/output apparatus 141, the storage apparatus 112 stores at least configuration condition information 132 indicating evaluation values for system configurations that can be constructed on cloud, the input/output apparatus 141 accepts a configuration request indicating a condition for a system configuration to be constructed on the cloud, the processor 111 obtains an evaluation value corresponding to the configuration request, compares the evaluation value corresponding to the configuration request with the evaluation values of the configuration condition information and determines a candidate for a system configuration to be proposed on the basis of a result of the comparison, and the input/output apparatus 141 outputs the candidate for the system configuration to be proposed.
US12254324B2
Methods, systems, and apparatuses for configuring a device for a specific task or set of tasks thereby allowing the device to be used for more than one task or set of tasks while also enabling fine-grain control over how the device may be used. A device's file system can operate with a particular file system based on the task(s) that the device will perform. Further, the device can physically configure itself based on the task(s) that the device will perform.
US12254320B2
Disclosed are a method and system for processing an instruction timeout, a device and a storage medium. The method includes: in response to a timeout of an original instruction sent by a host end reaching a first threshold value, sending an abort instruction, and detecting whether the abort instruction times out; in response to the abort instruction timing out and the timeout of the original instruction reaching a second threshold value, sending a reset instruction to reset a target end; in response to the reset instruction timing out and the timeout of the original instruction reaching a maximum threshold value, removing the target end, and determining whether the original instruction is blocked at the target end; and in response to the original instruction not being blocked at the target end, returning an instruction error prompt to the host end.
US12254318B2
A system determines an original instruction with a first logical register (LR) mapped to a first physical register (PR). The system determines a current instruction with a current LR. A prior instruction is associated with a second LR mapped to a second PR. The system allocates the current LR to a third PR. Responsive to determining that the current and prior instructions are executed in different iterations, the system marks the second PR as not eligible for early release. Responsive to determining that the current LR is previously mapped to the first PR, the allocation comprises a redefinition of the first LR. Responsive to determining that the first PR is eligible for early release and that the current and original instructions are executed in the same or consecutive iterations, the system releases the first PR based upon the redefinition and not the prior instruction completing or the current instruction committing.
US12254310B2
Systems and methods for providing vehicle software deployment plans that include one or more fallback deployment plans are disclosed. In some embodiments, a vehicle software deployment system determines a deployment plan for deploying one or more software applications one or more electronic control units (ECUs) of a vehicle. Additionally, for one or more failure scenarios, the vehicle software deployment system determines one or more respective fallback deployment plans, such as a deployment plan that assumes one of the ECUs of the vehicle has failed. A deployment plan bundle is provided to the vehicle, comprising a primary deployment plan as well as the one or more fallback deployment plans. In the event that one of the failure scenarios takes place with respect to the vehicle, a deployment agent of the vehicle automatically deploys one of the fallback deployment plans that was provided with the deployment bundle.
US12254309B2
A specific on-board device, that is any one of a plurality of on-board devices, is configured to acquire the versions of software included in other on-board devices when the power source of a vehicle is turned on. The specific on-board device determines whether or not the versions of the software of all the on-board devices that constitute a vehicle control system are consistent, by comparing the version of the software of the specific on-board device and the versions of the software acquired from the other on-board devices with first consistency information prestored.
US12254303B2
In one or more embodiments, one or more systems, one or more methods, and/or one or more processes may: attain, via a network, a subscription with an intermediary of another datacenter; provide, via the network, a request for a software product to the other datacenter; open a network communication connection with the intermediary; receive a message associated with the software product from the intermediary; close the network communication connection; receive an image associated with the software product from the other datacenter; instantiate the image as an instantiated image; determine if a first repository of the first datacenter stores a package associated with the software product; if so, retrieve the package from the first repository; if not, receive the package from a second repository of the other datacenter via the network; and install, by the instantiated image, the software product from the package on a target information handling system.
US12254302B2
Techniques are provided for identifying a binary object using a signature of the input items used to create the binary object. One method comprises obtaining one or more input items; generating a signature of the one or more input items; transforming the one or more input items to generate a binary object; associating the signature with the binary object; and providing the binary object with the associated signature to a repository, wherein the signature is processed to evaluate the one or more input items used to create the binary object. The signature can be compared to an additional signature of one or more additional input items to determine whether transform the one or more additional input items to generate an additional binary object. The signature can be included in, for example, metadata embedded in the binary object, file properties associated with the binary object and/or a file name or tag of the binary object.
US12254299B2
Disclosed herein are techniques for automatically reconfiguring code based on function and subfunction analysis. Techniques include determining, by parsing a code structure representing a plurality of functions, that at least one first function has a threshold degree of complexity; identifying, in response to the determination, a plurality of subfunctions based on the at least one first function, the plurality of subfunctions having a commonality with the at least one first function; and forming a second function by reconfiguring the first function to call at least one of the identified plurality of subfunctions.
US12254295B2
In variants, the AI/ML development system can include one or more applications, wherein each application can include: one or more components and one or more state storages. Each application can optionally include one or more event loops, one or more shared storages, and/or one or more time schedulers.
US12254287B1
A random data generation system having a transceiver and a processor is disclosed. The transceiver receives user defined attributes via a user interface of a user device. The user defined attributes include configuration information and workload information associated with a workload model. The configuration information includes information associated with an external system. The workload information includes information associated with a random data to be transmitted to the external system, and a first frequency at which the random data is to be transmitted during peak time duration and a second frequency at which the random data is to be transmitted during non-peak time duration. The processor may render the user interface, and obtain the user defined attributes. The processor may generate the random data, and transmit the random data to the external system based on the user defined attributes.
US12254279B1
A dynamic conversation interface system includes a plurality of instances of a large language model (LLM) engine, each instance being configured according to a respective set of system directives. An agent manager engine instantiates and configures the instances of the LLM engine such that a first LLM engine instance is configured according to a first set of system directives, and a second LLM engine instance is configured according to a second set of system directives that is different from the first set. The first LLM engine instance has a different functional specialization from the second LLM engine instance, and the two instances engage in a same conversation session with a user to perform different specializations within that conversation session.
US12254278B2
A computer implemented method for the automated analysis or use of data is implemented by a voice assistant. The method comprises the steps of: (a) storing in a memory a structured, machine-readable representation of data that conforms to a machine-readable language (‘machine representation’); the machine representation including representations of user speech or text input to a human/machine interface; and (b) automatically processing the machine representations to analyse the user speech or text input.
US12254275B1
Systems and methods are disclosed for processing forms to automatically adjudicate religious exemptions. The method includes receiving an input from a user to data fields of forms associated with a religious exemption request, wherein the input is in a first data format and includes location information, religious information, employment information, or demographic information associated with the user. Exemption-relevant features are determined from the input. A data object including the exemption-relevant features is generated. The exemption-relevant features are transformed into corresponding embeddings in a second data format, wherein the embeddings represent semantic relations between the exemption-relevant features. The authenticity of the data object is determined based on the embeddings using a classification model that has been trained using a plurality of embeddings representative of a plurality of exemption-relevant features. A notification is transmitted indicating an approval or a disapproval of the religious exemption request.
US12254270B2
A method for processing text data includes analyzing the text data to identify a plurality of keywords. The method also includes determining whether each of the plurality of keywords already exists in one or more databases. When a keyword in the plurality of keywords is not found in the one or more databases, the method includes tagging the keyword with a plurality of characters for storage. The plurality of characters includes at least a first character to indicate a start of the tagging, a second character to indicate a corresponding database for storing the keyword, and a third character to indicate an end of the tagging. The method also includes storing the tagged keyword in the corresponding database.
US12254267B2
The present invention is an apparatus for creating an index for conducting a search on a database based on a resource including a text sentence. The apparatus comprises: a dictionary that includes a plurality of phrases associated with each other for each specific concept; an input interface unit that receives an input of the resource; a text processing unit that performs processing for extracting a plurality of words, as tokens, from the text sentence in the received resource; a directed graph generation unit that generates a directed graph representing a connection relationship between the extracted plurality of tokens in accordance with the text sentence; a directed graph search unit that conducts a search on the directed graph based on a search-target-phrase and that, if the search-target-phrase is found in the dictionary, locates a location in the directed graph where the search-target-phrase appeared; and an index creation unit that creates an index indicating association with the resource based on the plurality of tokens in the directed graph.
US12254261B2
A method includes designing a plurality of cells for a semiconductor device, wherein designing the plurality of cells comprises reserving a routing track of a plurality of routing tracks within each of the plurality of cells, wherein each of the plurality of cells comprises signal lines, and the reserved routing track is free of the signal lines. The method includes placing a first cell and a second cell of the plurality of cells in a layout of the semiconductor device. The method includes determining whether any power rails overlap with any of the plurality of routing tracks other than the reserved routing track in the second cell. The method includes adjusting a distance between the first cell and the second cell in response to a determination that at least one power rail overlaps with at least one routing track other than the reserved routing track.
US12254252B2
A method may include obtaining, from various sensors, acquired sensor data regarding various multiphase flows in a multiphase flow meter that are sampled at a predetermined sampling frequency. The acquired sensor data may describe various transient signals that correspond to various gas droplets. The method may further include generating, based on the acquired sensor data, a flow model for the multiphase flow meter. The method may further include updating the flow model to produce a first updated flow model using simulated flow data. The method may further include updating the first updated flow model to produce a second updated flow model using simulated sensor data. The second updated flow model may be used to determine one or more flow rates within a multiphase flow.
US12254251B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to the export and translation of space models. A computing platform may receive data indicating a request to export a space model to a design tool, and the space model may be defined in a plurality of data formats. In response to receiving the data indicating the request to export the space model to the design tool, the computing platform may generate drawing files based on the space model by: 1) selecting, based on the design tool, a data format, 2) extracting format-specific data from the space model, where the format-specific data is defined in the data format, and 3) generating the drawing files using the format-specific data extracted from the space model, where the drawing files are generated according to the data format. The computing platform may send the drawing files generated based on the space model.
US12254235B2
The present disclosure provides a remote sensing system. The remote sensing system includes an article of personal protective equipment (PPE) including a display panel configured to be viewed by a wearer of the article of PPE. The remote sensing system further includes a plurality of sensors disposed remotely from the article of PPE. Each of the sensors is configured to generate a respective signal. The remote sensing system further includes a processor communicably coupled to the plurality of sensors and the display panel of the article of PPE. The processor is configured to receive the respective signals from the plurality of sensors. The processor is further configured to select at least one signal from the respective signals. The processor then determines at least one critical message corresponding to the at least one signal.
US12254233B2
In aspects of remote assistance via video conferencing, a manager device establishes a connection to a video conferencing call and sends a device control request that requests control of a managed device also on the video conferencing call. The manager device displays a screen view of the managed device on a display of the manager device based on a device control response from the managed device approving the device control request. The manager device detects a touch input at the display of the manager device and sends, to the managed device, position information of the touch input relative to a coordinate of the display of the manager device and/or relative to a coordinate of the display of the managed device. The manager device receives feedback that confirms the position information of the touch input is implemented as a touch event at the managed device.
US12254232B2
An electronic device, method, and computer program product support sharing of a cross-view by a first communication device in a communication session with a second communication device. First semantic inputs by a first participant are communicated to the second communication device for presenting to a second participant. Second semantic inputs by the second participant are communicated to the first communication device for presenting to the first participant. The first communication device presents first visual content selected by the first participant. The second communication device presents second visual content presented by the second participant. In response to determining that the semantic input(s) are associated with the visual content, the first communication device communicates a duplicate copy of the first visual content to the second communication device. The first communication device receives a duplicate copy of the second visual content from the second communication device, as a cross view to enhance discussion.
US12254227B2
When a plugin call button is pressed via a print menu of an application linked to a business chat service, information of a print plugin is acquired, the print plugin is selected based on the information, and when a print operation is accepted, printing of a file displayed by the application is instructed to the selected print plugin. The print plugin transmits a print job to a print service in response to the print instruction.
US12254224B2
Disclosed is a document processing system with one-key printing, which includes a printing device, a scanning device, an interface module and a processing device. The scanning device is provided for inputting a scanning image. The interface module is provided for inputting commands or outputting information. The processing device is electrically connected to the printing device, the scanning device and the interface module respectively. The processing device performs a printing process based on the scanning image to make the printing device perform printing and generate prompt information through the interface module. When the processing device determines that it receives a one-key execution command input by the interface module, the processing device performs the printing process again based on the scanning image to make the printing device perform printing again without repeatedly inputting images and repeatedly manipulating settings, thereby improving the convenience and efficiency of use.
US12254219B2
A technique for signal deskew at the non-volatile memory side. The non-volatile memory includes a plurality of dies and a signal timing adjustment circuit. The dies are grouped into storage zones. A controller is coupled to the non-volatile memory through a plurality of data lines. Through the data lines, the controller issues a plurality of commands to provide zone delay parameters to the non-volatile memory to drive the signal timing adjustment circuit at the non-volatile memory side to separately adjust data-line timing of the different storage zones.
US12254215B2
A memory device and a management method thereof are provided. The memory device includes a controller and at least one memory channel. The memory channel includes at least one memory chip. The at least one memory chip is commonly coupled to the controller through an interrupt signal wire. The at least one memory chip generates at least one local interrupt signal and performs a logic operation on the at least one local interrupt signal to generate a common interrupt signal. The interrupt signal wire is configured to transmit the common interrupt signal to the controller.
US12254213B2
Described apparatuses and methods relate to a write request buffer for a memory system that may support a nondeterministic protocol. A host device and connected memory device may include a controller with a read queue and a write queue. A controller includes a write request buffer to buffer write addresses and write data associated with write requests directed to the memory device. The write request buffer can include a write address buffer that stores unique write addresses and a write data buffer that stores most-recent write data associated with the unique write addresses. Incoming read requests are compared with the write requests stored in the write request buffer. If a match is found, the write request buffer can service the requested data without forwarding the read request downstream to backend memory. Accordingly, the write request buffer can improve the latency and bandwidth in accessing a memory device over an interconnect.
US12254202B2
The present invention provides a control method of a flash memory controller, wherein the flash memory controller is configured to access a flash memory module, the flash memory module comprises a plurality of blocks, and the control method comprising: receiving a settling command from a host device; in response to the settling command, configuring at least one portion of the flash memory module as a zoned namespace, wherein the zoned namespace logically comprises a plurality of zones; generating parameter information according to a configuration of the zoned namespace; and transmitting the parameter information to the host device, for the host device uses the parameter information to set the zone.
US12254185B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus for management of operations in a memory system are described. An example system includes a memory device and a memory controller. The memory device includes a first buffer, a second buffer, and a third buffer including a plurality of data buffers. The memory device receives a first portion of first data of a first request from the memory controller, and stores the first portion of the first data in the first buffer or a first data buffer of the third buffer. The memory controller sends a second request to the memory device. The memory device, in response to the second request, moves the first portion of the first data from the first buffer or the first data buffer to the second buffer. The memory device performs an operation in response to the second request without using the second buffer.
US12254181B2
Aspects of the disclosure are directed to a memory system that can include a controller and a memory coupled thereto, each memory cell of the memory is configured to store m-bit information, and the controller includes at least one of an exclusive OR circuit, an inverter and an access circuit. The controller is configured to receive n groups of logic page data, and generate, at different values of m and n, at least one group of logic page data selectively by at least one of the exclusive OR circuit, the inverter and the access circuit. The controller is further configured to transmit the m groups of logic page data to the memory to generate 2n different data states in the memory.
US12254175B2
Embodiments of this application relate to the field of electronic devices, and disclose a display method and an electronic device. A specific solution is as follows: An electronic device displays a first interface on a display, where the first interface is an interface of a first application in the electronic device; when a second application in the electronic device meets a preset condition, the electronic device displays a first control on the first interface, where the first control includes an identifier of the first application and an identifier of the second application; the electronic device receives a first operation performed by a user on the first control; and in response to the first operation, the electronic device displays a second interface on the display, where the second interface includes the interface of the first application and an interface of the second application.
US12254171B2
A method is performed by an electronic device with a display and a touch-sensitive surface. The method includes: displaying a progress icon that indicates a current position within a first piece of content, displaying a multi-purpose content navigation icon; while providing the first piece of content: detecting a first contact at a first location that corresponds to the multi-purpose content navigation icon; while continuing to detect the contact at the first location, moving the current position within the first piece of content at a predefined scrubbing rate; and, in response to detecting movement of the contact that includes a first component of movement in a direction that corresponds to movement on the display parallel to the first predefined direction, moving the current position within the first piece of content at a variable scrubbing rate that varies monotonically as the first component of movement increases.
US12254167B2
Example embodiments provide systems and methods for managing intelligent content queuing from a secondary device for content delivery to a primary device. A content queuing system on the secondary device generates and displays a playlist interface on the secondary device. A selection of a content item to be added to a playlist is received. The content queuing system determines that addition of the content item causes a live content item to overlap with an on-demand content item on the playlist. As a result, the content queuing system creates at least two segments for the on-demand content item. The live content item is positioned between the first and a second segment on the playlist. The first segment is scheduled to end at a start time of the live content item and the second segment is scheduled to begin at an ending time of the live content item.
US12254166B2
A controller is configured to control an image displayed on a touch-operable display. The controller includes a processor that executes a program to control the image to display a first object and a second object such that at least a part of the second object is displayed as overlapping the first object. The processor detects a start trigger indicating that a user has started scrolling to the left or right on the display, and increases a relative position between a first object and a second object at a prescribed acceleration with a passage of time from detection of the start trigger. The processor detects a stop trigger indicating that the user has stopped scrolling, and reduces the relative position between the first object and the second object at a prescribed deceleration with a passage of time from detection of the detected stop trigger.
US12254165B2
Aspects of the present disclosure describe systems and methods that enable a user of a computing device (e.g., a smartphone, tablet, etc.) to interact with a wearable device worn by the user. In one embodiment, the computing device provides a touchscreen-based graphical user interface (GUI). The GUI displays a three-quarter view of a plurality of icons arranged in a ring, where each of the icons is associated with a respective health/fitness parameter (e.g., heart rate, blood oxygen saturation, etc.). The GUI enables the user to interact with the wearable device through the computing device, via swiping gestures, presses of icons, and press-and-holds of the icons.
US12254162B2
Provided are a touch sensing unit and a display device including the same. The touch sensing unit includes a substrate including glass or a polymer resin, and a sensor electrode layer including sensor electrodes and sensor lines disposed on the substrate and a sensor insulating film configured to cover the sensor electrodes and the sensor lines. The sensor electrodes emit an electromagnetic wave according to transmission signals of the sensor lines. The sensor electrodes transmit reception signals to the sensor lines according to the electromagnetic wave received from the outside. The electromagnetic wave has a frequency of 10 GHz to 100 GHz.
US12254161B2
A touch panel device includes a first conductive film having first and second regions, at least a part of the first conductive film between the first and the second regions being removed, a second conductive film laminated on the first conductive film across a gap, first and second terminals that output signals, a first electrode electrically connected to the first terminal, and a second electrode facing the first electrode across the first region. A switch may electrically connect the first conductive film to the second conductive film, in the second region.
US12254160B2
A touch structure, a display panel and an electronic device. The touch structure includes: a plurality of touch sub-electrodes spaced apart from each other and a dummy electrode; the dummy electrode is embedded into at least one touch sub-electrode among the plurality of touch sub-electrodes, and is spaced apart from the touch sub-electrode where the dummy electrode is located, so as to be insulated from each other; the at least one touch sub-electrode includes a strip-shaped channel and a main body portion surrounding the dummy electrode and the channel, the strip-shaped channel penetrates through the dummy electrode, and two ends of the strip-shaped channel in an extension direction thereof are both connected to the main body portion.
US12254159B2
A touch structure, a touch display panel, and a display device are provided, which relate to the field of touch technology. The touch structure includes first touch electrodes and second touch electrodes. The first touch electrode includes first electrode blocks and transfer bridges. The second touch electrode includes second electrode blocks. The first and second touch electrodes are mesh structures. Grid lines of the first and second electrode blocks are channel lines, and the channel lines forming boundaries of the first electrode block are first boundary channel lines. Grid lines of the transfer bridge are transfer lines. The transfer bridge includes an opening part and a bridge part connected to the opening part. The opening part is connected to the first electrode block through a via hole. Some transfer lines are boundary transfer lines. The boundary transfer lines are overlapped with some first boundary channel lines.
US12254151B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a touch sensor, a processor, and a memory. The processor may determine a touch input from a user as at least one of a force-touch input or a long-touch input, based on received touch data, determine whether a result of determining the touch data matches an intention of the user, store data that does not match the intention of the user as a result of determination among the touch data in the memory, and determine a type of an artificial intelligence (AI)-based pre-learning model to be used in the electronic device, based on touch input accuracy and the data that does not match the intention of the user.
US12254144B2
The present application discloses a touch display panel and a display device. In the touch display panel, a driver chip includes a plurality of first output terminals and a plurality of second output terminals; the first output terminals output display signals during a display stage, and the second output terminals are connected to touch traces in a one-to-one correspondence. Each of detecting lines is connected to an end of a corresponding one of the touch traces close to the driver chip, and a plurality of the detecting lines extend from two sides of the driver chip along a direction of the driver chip away from touch electrodes.
US12254142B2
An input device can include a housing defining an internal volume and a lower portion, the lower portion defining an aperture, an input sensor disposed in the internal volume, and a haptic assembly disposed in the internal volume. The haptic assembly can include an actuator and a foot coupled to the actuator and aligned with the aperture. The actuator can be configured to selectively extend the foot through the aperture to vary a sliding resistance of the input device on a support surface.
US12254135B2
Simulation of a physical interface utilizing touch tracking, force sensing, and haptic feedback is presented herein. A system tracks, via a touch sensing device of a tactile sensor of the system, a movement of a finger across the tactile sensor; in response to a location of the movement being determined to correspond to an interactive surface of the tactile sensor, the system generates, at the location, a first haptic feedback representing a defined type of simulated physical interface; based on the defined type of simulated physical interface, the system detects a force that has been applied to the tactile sensor; and in response to the force being determined to satisfy a defined force condition representing that an action is to be initiated, the system generates, via the interactive surface, a second haptic feedback representing that the action has been initiated by the system.
US12254134B2
A method for generating feedback in a multimedia entertainment system, the method comprising: obtaining an output stream to be output by the multimedia entertainment system; performing feature analysis to identify a feature in the output stream; determining a feedback based on the identified feature; controlling a main audiovisual display to output the output stream; and controlling a peripheral device to output the determined feedback.
US12254132B2
Method for generating haptic feedback responses based on gestures starts with processor causing communication interface for communication session to be displayed on first user interface and on a second user interface. Processor detects a predetermined gesture by a first user of the first client device on the first user interface. In response to detecting the predetermined gesture by the first user, processor causes the first user interface and the second user interface to generate a haptic feedback response based on the predetermined gesture. Other embodiments are described herein.
US12254123B2
According to certain embodiments, a method comprises performing a posture assessment at a trust anchor in order to determine whether a hardware component is authorized to run on a product. Performing the posture assessment comprises determining a random value (K), encrypting the random value (K) using a long-term key associated with the hardware component in order to yield an encrypted value, communicating the encrypted value to the hardware component, and receiving, from the hardware component, a message encrypted using the random value (K). The message comprises an identifier associated with the hardware component. Performing the posture assessment further comprises determining whether the hardware component is authorized to run on the product based at least in part on the identifier associated with the hardware component. The method further comprises performing an action that depends on whether the hardware component is authorized to run on the product.
US12254121B2
A data processing method includes: acquiring a first intersection set, acquiring a second intersection set, calculating an intersection between the first intersection set and the second intersection set to obtain an intersection result set that includes an intersecting portion of the first intersection data and the second intersection data, and obfuscating the intersection result set to obtain an obfuscation set that includes obfuscated data based on data in the second intersection set and an intersection data set based on the intersection result set.
US12254113B2
In one embodiment, a refrigerator appliance is provided. The refrigerator appliance can include a cabinet defining a chilled chamber, a controller configured to operate one or more components of the refrigerator appliance, and a camera assembly operable to monitor the chilled chamber. The camera assembly can include a camera module having a camera that is operable to capture data associated with the chilled chamber. The controller and the camera module can each be configured to respectively perform one or more operations of an authentication process to verify identity of the controller and the camera module. The camera module can be configured to operate the camera to capture the data associated with the chilled chamber and/or to transmit a redacted version of the data associated with the chilled chamber to the controller based at least in part on verification of the identity of the controller and the camera module.
US12254112B2
A method of cryptographically secured decentralized testing includes receiving, by a computing device and from a secure test apparatus, an output of a cryptographic function of a secret test result identifier, authenticating the output, and recording, in a data repository, an indication of a test result as a function of the output.
US12254078B2
The disclosure herein describes using a password reset agent to automatically change the password of a computing device. A password reset agent is executed at a root level of the computing device, wherein the password reset agent is associated with a public key. A data source is polled by the password reset agent for a private key associated with the public key. Based on finding the private key on the data source, a reset password is determined and based on determining the reset password, the password reset agent changes a current password of the computing device to the determined reset password. The password reset agent runs in the background on the computing device, enabling the agent to change the password, even when the computing device is locked or otherwise inaccessible. The described password reset agent can also be used on virtual machines.
US12254076B2
A control system includes plural units. The plural units include a master unit connected to a bus and a slave unit connected to the bus, the slave unit communicating with the master unit via the bus. The master unit includes a nonvolatile memory that stores first security information as information to be concealed, and the slave unit includes a volatile memory. The slave unit receives the first security information from the master unit at a predetermined timing and stores the first security information in the volatile memory.
US12254075B2
An electronic device includes an authentication unit and a control unit. The authentication unit performs an authentication communication with an external device for determining whether or not the external device is a predetermined device. The control unit requests a second power that is greater than a first power from the external device, in a case where the external device is determined to be the predetermined device and the external device is determined to be a no-additional-cable-required type of power supply device.
US12254074B2
Methods and systems for managing operation of data processing systems are disclosed. To manage operation of the data processing systems, the data processing systems may present unified communication and management systems. The unified communication and management systems may be used to manage the operation of any number of management controller embedded devices hosted by the data processing systems. The unified communication and management systems may be implemented using access to the management controller embedded devices.
US12254069B2
The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computer program products for identifying and consenting to permissions for workflow and code execution. Aspects of the invention can be used to automatically scan a workflow or code definition to identify (potentially all) the actions/triggers a workflow or program intends to perform on behalf of a user. The user is shown the actions/triggers the workflow or program intends to perform (e.g., at a user interface) before consent to perform the actions/triggers is granted. As such, a user is aware of intended actions/triggers of a workflow or program before granting consent. Further, since actions/triggers are identified from the workflow or code definition (and not formulated by an author), permission requests better align with permissions that workflow or program functionality actually uses during execution.
US12254067B2
Techniques for collecting, synchronizing, and displaying various types of data relating to a road segment enable, via one or more local or remote processors, servers, transceivers, and/or sensors, (i) enhanced and contextualized analysis of vehicle events by way of synchronizing different data types, relating to a monitored road segment, collected via various different types of data sources; (ii) enhanced and contextualized analysis of filed insurance claims pertaining to a vehicle incident at a road segment; (iii) advantageous machine learning techniques for predicting a level of risk assumed for a given vehicle event or a given road segment; (iv) techniques for accounting for region-specific driver profiles when controlling autonomous vehicles; and/or (v) improved techniques for providing a GUI to display collected data in a meaningful and contextualized manner.
US12254063B2
Embodiments are provided that include generating, by an inter-modal predictor, predicted second-mode information for a first text-based record based on first-mode information of the first text-based record. Embodiments also include generating a first value by evaluating a first loss function that is based on a first difference between the second-mode information of the first text-based record as predicted and as observed; updating the inter-modal predictor based on the first value; generating, by the updated inter-modal predictor, predicted second-mode information for a second text-based record in the database based on first-mode information of the second text-based record; generating a second value by evaluating a second loss function that is based on a second difference between the second-mode information of the second text-based record as predicted and as observed; and training an operational model based on the second value.
US12254051B2
A method for a crawl algorithm includes obtaining a plurality of web pages for a web crawler to crawl. The method also includes determining an available bandwidth for the web crawler. The method includes, for each respective web page of the plurality of web pages, determining a respective crawl value for the respective web page based on the available bandwidth and determining that the respective crawl value of the respective web page satisfies a threshold value. The method includes, in response to determining that the respective crawl value of the respective web page satisfies the threshold value, updating the respective web page in a cache memory.
US12254050B2
A computer system for origin detection for webpage cookies loads a webpage. Loading the webpage causes a browser to store one or more cookies. The computer system creates a first cookie snapshot of the one or more cookies and a first initiator snapshot of one or more initiators for each cookie. The computer system then generates, from the first cookie snapshot and the first initiator snapshot, an initiator directed acyclic graph. Further, the computer system displays information, from the initiator directed acyclic graph, on a link between a particular cookie and a particular initiator.
US12254030B1
In an illustrative embodiment, an automated system determines similarities between properties at a location using customized features sets. The system can generate feature sets for properties from property attribute data received from external and internal sources. The system can transform one or more elements of attribute data of combined internal and external data into customized property attributes that enhance property attribute comparisons. The combined attribute data can be applied to a machine learning algorithm that identifies a portion of the combined attribute data for using in property similarity calculations. Using the identified features, the system can calculate similarity scores identifying an amount of similarity between properties at the location and a property identified in a comparable property query, which can be output to an external device.
US12254029B1
A method comprises storing a database comprising sets of data each corresponding to a different digital document uploaded to the one or more processors and corresponding to a category tag assigned to the digital document corresponding to the set of data; receiving a natural language query; parsing the natural language query to generate one or more parsed tags; updating a second query form on the user interface with the one or more parsed tags; retrieving, using one or more generative language models, a subset of the sets of data based on each set of data of the subset corresponding to at least one assigned category tag of the one or more parsed tags; querying, using the one or more generative language models, the retrieved subset of the sets of data based on the natural language query to retrieve response data; and presenting a visual representation of the response data.
US12254027B1
The illustrative embodiments provide a consensus protocol with a priority-based leadership election approach. Each server or node in the cluster has an associated priority based on the capabilities and capacities of the servers. The leadership election is divided into two phases: a term increase phase and an election voting phase. A candidate sends a message to peers in the cluster to determine whether all peers agree to allow the candidate to increase the term number. If there is no opposition, then the candidate increases the term number and then proceeds to the election voting phase. Each peer determines whether the candidate requesting the term increase has a log that is up to date. If the log of the candidate is equally as advanced as the peer's log, then the peer approves or opposes the term increase based on a priority comparison.
US12254022B1
A system performs continuous delivery of a data pipeline on a cloud platform. The system receives a specification of the data pipeline that is split into smaller specifications of data pipeline units. The system identifies a target cloud platform and generates a deployment package for each data pipeline unit for the target cloud platform. The system creates a connection with the target cloud platform and uses the connection to provision computing infrastructure on the target cloud platform for the data pipeline unit according to the system configuration of the data pipeline unit. The data pipeline may be implemented as a data mesh that is a directed acyclic graph of nodes, each node representing a data pipeline unit. Different portions of the data mesh may be modified independent of each other. Partial results stored in different portions of the data mesh may be recomputed starting from different points in time.
US12254020B2
Various examples are directed to systems and methods for installing a plugin to a cloud-implemented database management application. A shared container file system may be initiated at a cloud environment. A plugin container image may be accessed, where the plugin container image comprises plugin payload data describing a first plugin to the database management application and a copy executable. A plugin container may be started at the cloud environment, where the plugin container is based at least in part on the plugin container image. The plugin container may be mounted to the shared container file system. The copy executable may be executed to copy the plugin payload data to the shared container file system. The first plugin may be installed to a database management application instance executing at the cloud environment.
US12254006B2
Routines are used to connect bot queries entered via a bot interface and database queries executed on a database. Each routine is associated with routine configurations, including (a) query attributes associated with bot queries that trigger the routine, (2) a database query executed or to be executed for the routine, and/or (3) display settings for displaying information returned from the database query in a bot response. Each routine is configured to generate an output structured data object (SDO) indicating information returned from the database query and the display settings applicable to the information. The output SDOs from the various routines are transmitted to the bot application via a single API endpoint. The routine configurations are entered by a design user through one or more design user interfaces rendered by an integrative configuration application module.
US12254000B2
A digital distributed ledger-based system provides for receiving, via a first application, a first data transmission record representative of a transmission of a file by the first application, and for receiving, via a second application, a first data receipt record representative of a receipt of the file by the second application. The digital distributed ledger-based system also provides for storing the first data transmission record and the first data receipt record in the digital distributed ledger. The digital distributed ledger immutably stores the first data transmission record and the first data receipt word record. The digital distributed ledger-based system additionally provides for determining that the transmission of the file has occurred correctly by retrieving the first data transmission record and the first data receipt record from the digital distributed ledger and by comparing the first data transmission record to the first data receipt record.
US12253994B2
The described technology relates to systems and techniques for accessing a database by dynamically choosing an index from a plurality of indexes that includes at least one learned index and at least one non-learned index. The availability of learned and non-learned indexes for accessing the same database provides for flexibility in accessing the database, and the dynamic selection between learned indexes and non-learned indexes provide for choosing the index based on the underlying data in the database and the characteristics of the query. Certain example embodiments provide a learned model that accepts a set of features associated with the query as input, and outputs a set of evaluated weights for respective features, which are then processed according to a set of rules to predict the most efficient index to be used.
US12253988B1
The disclosed method and system focus on the analysis and validation of text. The analysis discerns if the text originates from artificial intelligence (AI) mechanisms. The text is then segmented, with each segment undergoing a comparative analysis against indexed content in search engine databases to derive a plagiarism score. The factual statements within the text are isolated and matched with pre-existing data in factual text repositories and the search engine database to ascertain factual accuracy. Furthermore, the system evaluates the readability of the text, while linguistic evaluations, encompassing both grammar and spelling, provide a linguistic correctness score, ensuring the credibility of the text.
US12253986B1
Methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products for building records from false positive matches are disclosed. A master record is identified that incorrectly groups a plurality of source records in a database, where the plurality of source records contain demographic information for multiple people. In the database, a first record, a second record, and exclusion data are created, where the first and second records contain demographic information for each person and the exclusion data indicates that the first record should not be linked to the second record. A matching criteria is applied to each record of a collection of source records that includes the first and second records and the plurality of source records to identify a set of connections. The first record and the second record are built based at least on the set of connections and stored in the database.
US12253983B2
Arrangements for database schema creation and control are provided. In some aspects, a user may request creation or modification of a database schema. In response to receiving the request, one or more interactive user interfaces may be generated. The one or more interactive user interfaces may enable a user to select one or more selectable options for presenting data, establishing relationships between data, data sources, and the like. The schema, including a schema configuration including the presentational aspects and relationships, may be stored. A user may request to view data and the stored database schema may be retrieved. The schema may be transmitted to a configuration engine that may retrieve the requested data from one or more non-relational database sources. One or more user interfaces may be dynamically generated based on the schema configuration and may include the retrieved data.
US12253978B2
In some implementations, a redundancy system may receive, from a log storage, a plurality of log files that were generated by a plurality of monitoring programs. The redundancy system may apply a machine learning model to the plurality of log files to detect one or more redundancies. The redundancy system may determine at least one monitoring program, in the plurality of monitoring programs, that is a candidate for removal based on the one or more redundancies. The redundancy system may transmit, to a ticket system, a command to open a ticket associated with the at least one monitoring program.
US12253977B2
A system for performing continuous transaction log backups with minimal resource usage of the client computing devices that are processing the transactions is disclosed. The system detects at least one input/output (I/O) activity at a client computing device. The I/O activity can be associated with at least one database operation performed via the client computing device. The system then executes one or more native commands to backup transactions log data associated with the detected I/O activity to a virtualized location. Backing-up the transactions log data comprises dynamically identifying a mount path location corresponding to the virtualized location, and transferring the transactions log data to the dynamically identified mount path using the one or more native commands. The system can then perform data processing operations (for example, data chunking and deduplicating) on the transactions log data after it is received at the dynamically identified mount path location.
US12253976B1
The present application discloses a batch-type image distribution method based on an IPFS, which includes: obtaining a list of cluster nodes needed to download images; calculating a caching ratio of an image layer of images to be distributed of each node, comparing the caching ratio of each node with a threshold of a preset node, and obtaining a complete image from an image repository; adding the node with the complete image to a list of source nodes, and adding remaining nodes needed to download images to a list of demand nodes, and constructing an IPFS network, and exporting and sharing the image; calculating target demand nodes using an optimization algorithm, and inputting the target demand nodes into the IPFS network for image download, and importing the downloaded image into a container and starting the container.
US12253975B2
A client application sends an application programming interface call to an interface of a content management system. The call specifies one or more content item search criteria. Sending the call causes the content management system to perform a lookup in a content item index to identify at least one content item that satisfies the one or more content item search criteria. Based on sending the call, the client application receives from the content management system a suggestion to attach the at least one content item to a text being displayed by at the computing system.
US12253973B1
Smart information retrieval is provided via artificial intelligence. Content stored in documents in a database is accessed and contextual chunks of individual ones of the documents are identified, wherein the contextual chunks include portions of content stored in the individual ones of the documents. Embeddings associated with the contextual chunks are generated and stored in a vector database. A plurality of relationships are defined among at least some of the contextual chunks and generates relational embeddings using the plurality of identified relationships. The relational embeddings are stored in a database. A query is received for information associated with at least some of the content and an embedding representing the query is generated. The embedding representing the query is transmitted to at least one large language model, and a response including at least some of the contextual chunks is received. The response is transmitted to a device associated with the query.
US12253960B2
The invention provides method and system for improving efficiency of protecting multi-content process. The system may cooperate with a memory, and may comprise one or more hardware IPs (intellectual properties) for content processing, one of the one or more IPs may be associated with multiple access identities. The memory may comprise multiple different ranges, each range may register an access of one of the multiple access identities as a permissible access. The method may comprise: selecting one of the access identities for processing a first content, and using the selected access identity when said IP accesses the memory during processing of the first content; selecting a different one of the access identities for processing a second content, and using the selected different access identity when said IP accesses the memory during processing of the second content.
US12253958B2
This disclosure is directed to a system for address mapping and translation protection. In one embodiment, processing circuitry may include a virtual machine manager (VMM) to control specific guest linear address (GLA) translations. Control may be implemented in a performance sensitive and secure manner, and may be capable of improving performance for critical linear address page walks over legacy operation by removing some or all of the cost of page walking extended page tables (EPTs) for critical mappings. Alone or in combination with the above, certain portions of a page table structure may be selectively made immutable by a VMM or early boot process using a sub-page policy (SPP). For example, SPP may enable non-volatile kernel and/or user space code and data virtual-to-physical memory mappings to be made immutable (e.g., non-writable) while allowing for modifications to non-protected portions of the OS paging structures and particularly the user space.
US12253956B2
A hybrid scheme is provided for performing translation lookaside buffer (TLB) shootdowns in a computer system whose processing cores support both inter-processor interrupt (IPI) and broadcast TLB invalidate (TLBI) shootdown mechanisms. In one set of embodiments, this hybrid scheme dynamically determines, for each instance where a TLB shootdown is needed, whether to use the IPI mechanism or the broadcast TLBI mechanism to optimize shootdown performance (or otherwise make the TLB shootdown operation functional/practical).
US12253950B2
A processing apparatus, a method and a system for executing data processing on a plurality of channels are disclosed. The processing apparatus for executing data processing on a plurality of channels includes: a channel information acquiring circuit, configured to acquire channel information of the plurality of channels; a storing circuit, including a plurality of storage regions corresponding to the plurality of channels, in which the storage regions are configured to store data information for the plurality of channels; a data reading control circuit, configured to read target data information corresponding to the channel information from a target storage region among the plurality of storage regions of the storing circuit, according to the channel information; and a cache circuit, configured to pre-store the target data information read from the target storage region of the storing circuit, by the data reading control circuit, to wait for use in the data processing.
US12253946B2
Embodiments include methods to manage caches in a network device. In one embodiment, a method is performed by a network device and the method comprises determining a first cache of the network device is overloaded, where the first cache is within a cache hierarchy including a plurality of caches, each cache including a set of forwarding table entries for the network device to forward packets of traffic flows, and where one cache lower in the cache hierarchy is to be checked earlier in flow lookup than one higher in the cache hierarchy. The method further comprises upon determining that the first cache is overloaded, disabling the first cache from the flow lookup, where the flow lookup skips the first cache and is performed at a second cache higher in the cache hierarchy and disabling the first cache from forwarding table entry insertion when the forwarding table entry insertion is performed in one or more caches of the plurality of caches.
US12253943B2
Apparatus and methods are described, including memory devices and systems. Memory devices, systems and methods may include a buffer interface to translate high speed data interactions on a host interface side into slower, wider data interactions on a DRAM interface side. The slower, and wider DRAM interface may be configured to substantially match the capacity of the narrower, higher speed host interface. In some cases, the buffer interface may be configured to provide multiple sub-channel interfaces each coupled to one or more regions within the memory structure and configured to facilitate data recovery in the event of a failure of some portion of the memory structure. Selected memory devices, systems and methods may include an individual DRAM die, or one or more stacks of DRAM dies coupled to a buffer die.
US12253941B2
A method for extending data lifetime for reference in deduplication is provided. The method includes determining that a quantity of user data has at least a threshold amount of data that is re-created in a storage system. The method includes protecting at least portions of the quantity of user data from erasure by garbage collection in the storage system during a predetermined time interval, wherein the protected at least portions are available for data deduplication of further user data in the storage system during the predetermined time interval.
US12253940B2
A data storage device and method for host-determined proactive block clearance are provided. In one embodiment, a data storage device is provided comprising a memory and a controller. The controller is configured to receive a command from a host that specifies a parameter of an upcoming burst mode; and in response to receiving the command, proactively perform a garbage collection operation according to the parameter to create available storage space in the memory to store data from the host during the upcoming burst mode. Other embodiments are possible, and each of the embodiments can be used alone or together in combination.
US12253932B1
Technical solutions are directed to creation and deployment of multi-stage test problems. A processor can provide, to a client, a first data structure for a first stage of a multi-stage test problem including a description for generation of a client solution for the first stage and a test case to evaluate the client solution. The processor can receive, from the client, a client data structure comprising the client solution including a client computer code generated at the client for the first stage. The processor can determine, by evaluating the client solution using an input value and an output value of the test case, that the output of the client solution satisfies a validity condition of the output value. The processor can provide, to the client, based on satisfying the validity condition, a second data structures for a second stage of the multi-stage test problem.
US12253930B2
An embodiment includes initiating a first cycle of a process using a first number of threads that operate in parallel to collectively execute the process and collect performance data. The embodiment aggregates the performance data and computes a first idle duration based at least in part on the aggregated performance data. The embodiment projects a thread-count recommendation based at least in part on a mathematical model that includes the first number of threads as an input number of threads, the first idle and cycle durations as input idle and cycle durations, respectively, and a second number of threads as an output variable representative of an output number of threads, where the output number of threads is determined as a function of the input idle duration. The embodiment initiates a second cycle of the process using the second number of threads output as a projection by the mathematical model.
US12253925B2
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for autonomous functional testing of a processor are described. In one example, a processor includes a plurality of processor cores that are each coupled to a respective power management agent circuit; a cache shared by the plurality of processor cores; and a control register, that when set, causes: a save of a state of a first processor core of the plurality of processor cores to storage, a transfer of control of the first processor core to a power management agent circuit of the first processor core, isolation of the first processor core from the other of the plurality of processor cores by the power management agent circuit, performance of one or more functional tests from the cache on the first processor core caused by the power management agent circuit to generate a test result, removal of the isolation of the first processor core from the other of the plurality of processor cores by the power management agent circuit, and a transfer of the control by the power management agent circuit back to the first processor core.
US12253922B2
A plurality of storage nodes within a single chassis is provided. The plurality of storage nodes is configured to communicate together as a storage cluster. The plurality of storage nodes has a non-volatile solid-state storage for user data storage. The plurality of storage nodes is configured to distribute the user data and metadata associated with the user data throughout the plurality of storage nodes, with erasure coding of the user data. The plurality of storage nodes is configured to recover from failure of two of the plurality of storage nodes by applying the erasure coding to the user data from a remainder of the plurality of storage nodes. The plurality of storage nodes is configured to detect an error and engage in an error recovery via one of a processor of one of the plurality of storage nodes, a processor of the non-volatile solid state storage, or the flash memory.
US12253918B2
A method for operating a hardware platform for the inference calculation of a layered neural network. In the method: a first portion of input data which are required for the inference calculation of a first layer of the neural network and redundancy information relating to the input data are read in from an external working memory into an internal working memory of the computing unit; the integrity of the input data is checked based on the redundancy information; in response to the input data here being identified as error-free, the computing unit carries out at least part of the first-layer inference calculation for the input data to obtain a work result; redundancy information for the work result is determined, based which the integrity of the work result can be verified; the work result and the redundancy information are written to the external working memory.
US12253917B2
A method of continuous data protection (CDP) is provided. The method includes sending, by a splitter, block I/O write data from a computing system to a primary volume and to a CDP appliance. The method further includes, recording, by a file system tracker communicatively coupled with the splitter, a log of meta data operations made to files in a file system of the primary volume and sending the log to the CDP appliance. The method further includes, recording, by the CDP appliance, the block I/O write data in a journal and a secondary volume, and recording the log of meta data operations made to files in the file system of the primary volume in a continuous catalog.
US12253915B2
Techniques discussed herein manage backups of a service cell (SC). Each SC may include a data plane that is isolated from other SCs and comprises a distributed computing cluster (a cluster). A manifest that specifies one or more backup policies may be used to generate a full backup or a partial backup of a data set stored by the cluster. In accordance with the manifest, a signal may be sent to nodes of the cluster. In response, the nodes may transmit locally-stored data (e.g., data segments) to specified locations at a remote storage. The system may maintain a mapping of which segments correspond to data that was stored in the cluster at a time corresponding to a full or partial backup.
US12253909B2
Disclosed is a method for feedback of a program, which is performed by a computing device including at least one processor, which include: matching respective functions included in a first program received from an external device with respective functions included in a prestored correct answer program corresponding to the first program; identifying error functions different from the respective functions included in the correct answer program among the respective functions included in the first program; generating at least one repair template including at least one reference function extracted based on a calling-context for a function of a specific function in order to repair the error function among the prestored functions; generating a first edit script for repairing the error function to at least one reference function based on a first repair template among one or more repair templates; and transmitting a signal including the first edit script to the external device.
US12253902B2
A power consumption control device applied to an electronic device includes an image signal processor (ISP), a storage device, a processing circuit, and a control circuit. The ISP is arranged to receive an image signal captured by a camera of the electronic device, and process the image signal to generate a processed image signal. The storage device is arranged to store at least one predetermined image class. The processing circuit is arranged to analyze the processed image signal to detect whether the processed image signal belongs to the at least one predetermined image class to generate a control signal. The control circuit is arranged to switch a mode of the electronic device to a first mode or a second mode according to the control signal, wherein power consumption and performance of the electronic device in the first mode are lower than that in the second mode.
US12253889B1
A mobile phone and tablet personal computer protective casing with a stand, including a protective casing, a bottom support, a surface support, a supporting plate, a supporting groove, a connecting component, a switch hole and a switch part; the protective casing being provided with a through hole, the bottom support and the surface support; the supporting groove being formed in the surface support; the supporting plate being connected in the supporting groove; the switch hole being formed in the surface support and internally provided with the switch part; the switch part including a pressing member and a spring; and the pressing member being pressed to make the spring telescopic to drive the limitation of the limiting edge, thereby controlling the telescoping of the supporting plate. The problem that the supporting plate and other parts are easily damaged due to non-mechanized telescopic reset of the supporting plate is solved.
US12253881B2
A foldable display device includes a display module including a first non-folding area, a second non-folding area, and a folding area between the first non-folding area and the second non-folding area, a support member disposed below the display module and including a first support layer overlapping the first non-folding area, a second support layer overlapping the second non-folding area, and a pattern layer overlapping the folding area, surrounding the first support layer and the second support layer, and including a conductive metal material, and a digitizer disposed below the support member.
US12253877B2
In an embodiment, a processor may include a mesh network and a clock regulation circuit. The mesh network may include multiple mesh stops to operate based on a mesh clock signal. Each mesh stop may include a bandwidth counter to transmit a bandwidth count in response to a pulse of a synchronization signal. The clock regulation circuit may be to: receive a plurality of bandwidth counts from the plurality of mesh stops; aggregate the plurality of bandwidth counts to obtain an aggregated bandwidth value; determine a cycle stealing value based at least on a comparison of the aggregated bandwidth value to at least one threshold value; and gate the mesh clock signal based on the determined cycle stealing value. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US12253871B2
Described embodiments include a circuit for dampening overshoot in a voltage regulator. The circuit includes a first and second offset voltage circuits, each having an input coupled to an input voltage terminal. A first comparator has a first comparator input coupled to the first offset output, and a second comparator input coupled to a reference voltage terminal. A second comparator has a third comparator input coupled to an output of the second offset circuit, and a fourth comparator input coupled to a voltage regulator output. An OR gate has first and second logic inputs and a logic output. The first and second logic inputs are coupled to the outputs of the first and second comparators, respectively. A turn-off circuit has a turn-off input coupled to the logic output, and is configured to provide a turn-off signal at a turn-off output to stop current flow from the voltage regulator output.
US12253868B2
Disclosed herein is a technique of configuring flexible photovoltaic tracker systems with high damping and low angle stow positions. Under dynamic environmental loads implementing a high amount of damping (e.g., greater than 25% of critical damping, greater than 50% of critical damping) or a very high amount of damping (e.g., 100% or greater of critical damping, infinite damping) enables the flexible tracker system to prevent problematic aeroelastic behaviors while positioned in a low stow angle. The disclosed technique is further applied to a prototyping process during wind tunnel testing.
US12253866B2
The present invention relates to a method for detecting overheating of an electrical heating device comprising a plurality of resistive elements configured to be supplied electrically using a control signal by pulse width modulation according to a setpoint, comprising the following steps: —detecting the setpoint, —detecting the duty cycle (PWM_system; PWM_subsystem), —defining a threshold value for detecting the duty cycle according to the setpoint, or a value of at least one parameter for monitoring an incidence of overheating, —comparing the detected duty cycle value with the detection threshold value, and —detecting an incidence of overheating when the detected duty cycle value reaches the detection threshold value. The invention also relates to a corresponding control unit.
US12253857B2
A robotic system coordinates collision-free self-storage of a robot. The robotic system initiates and performs a controlled collapse of the robot into a pre-defined compact geometry that permits self-storage in a confined, compact area when not in use. The system also coordinates collision-free self-deployments of the robot into a deployed geometry suitable for performing autonomous tasks outside of the compact storage area. The system includes a collapsible robot configured to extend and retract at least one robotic arm to perform tasks above a worksurface, a powered docking station positioned below the worksurface and including a power source interface to electrically couple the collapsible robot to a power source, and control circuitry for coordinating movements of the collapsible robot—such as collision-free self-collapse, collision-free self-deployments, and collision-free ingress and egress of the robot into and out of the compact storage area.
US12253852B2
An autonomous cleaning robot includes a drive system to support the autonomous cleaning robot above a floor surface, an image capture device positioned on the autonomous cleaning robot to capture imagery of a portion of the floor surface forward of the autonomous cleaning robot, and a controller operably connected to the drive system and the image capture device. The drive system is operable to maneuver the autonomous cleaning robot about the floor surface. The controller is configured to execute instructions to perform operations including initiating, based on a user-selected sensitivity and the imagery captured by the image capture device, an avoidance behavior to avoid an obstacle on the portion of the floor surface.
US12253848B2
The present invention provides a machine abnormality marking and abnormality prediction system connected with a factory host and including a parameter streaming unit connected with the machines, an abnormality reporting unit, a prediction analysis unit, and a neural network classifier. The parameter streaming unit and the abnormal reporting unit collect data of each machine in the factory, and the collected data are compared and analyzed with historical records by the prediction analysis unit. The generated parameter values can be continuously compared with the collected data to predict the state of each machine in the factory, and provide an early warning of possible abnormality or need of maintenance, so that the personnel in the factory can arrange production line maintenance or capacity adjustment in advance or adjust the machine of the factory production line, to avoid occasional shutdown and reduce factory losses.
US12253838B2
An information processing device includes: a machine learning model selection part configured to select a machine learning model appropriate for a data set used for learning of the machine learning model; a calculation part configured to perform an optimization calculation by using the selected machine learning model to calculate process conditions that can achieve a target process result, predicted values of a process result corresponding to each of the process conditions, and reliability of the predicted values; a process condition selection part configured to select, among the process conditions that can achieve the target process result, one or more process conditions according to the predicted values of the process result and the reliability of the predicted values; and a display controller configured to display the selected process conditions, the predicted values of the process result corresponding to each of the selected process conditions, and the reliability of the predicted values.
US12253834B2
There is provided an information processing device determining necessity/non-necessity of adjustment of conditions for inspecting molding defects of a molded composition on a substrate the information processing device including: an image acquiring unit configured to acquire an image of the molded composition; an inspection unit configured to perform inspection of the molding defects from the image using a machine learning model; an information acquiring unit configured to acquire information relating to a molding defect of the composition on a reference substrate; and a determination unit configured to compare an inspection result acquired by inspecting the molding defects on the reference substrate using the inspection unit with the information relating to a molding defect of the composition that is acquired by the information acquiring unit and determine necessity/non-necessity of the adjustment of the conditions of the inspection based on a result of the comparison.
US12253832B2
An electronic device according to various embodiments of the present invention may comprise: a camera module; a communication module for communicating with a second electronic device; and a processor for photographing a first screen displayed on a display of the second electronic device and an external background of the second electronic device by using the camera module, and acquiring a second screen for the second electronic device by using the first screen and the external background.
US12253824B2
A toner comprising a toner particle and a silica particle on a surface of the toner particle, wherein an area formed by a polyester resin and an area formed by a styrene-acrylic resin are present on the surface of the toner particle; the silica particle has the number-average particle diameter of 15 to 60 nm; the silica particle has the average pore diameter of 5.0 to 20.0 nm; and the silica particle has the total pore volume of 0.20 to 1.50 cm3/g.
US12253819B2
A printing device determines that a consumable item newly installed within a printing device has previously been used, based on a remaining life of the consumable item. In response to determining that the consumable item has previously been used, the printing device resets the remaining life of the consumable item.
US12253817B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit configured to form an image on a sheet, a reversing unit configured to convey a sheet conveyed from the image forming unit in a first direction, stop the conveyance, and then convey the sheet in a second direction, which is opposite to the first direction, an image detection unit disposed to detect at least a portion of the image on the sheet stopped by the reversing unit, and a control unit configured to control the reversing unit and the image detection unit. The control unit is configured to detect the image on the sheet by the image detection unit while the sheet conveyance is stopped by the reversing unit.
US12253814B2
A fixing device includes first and second rotation members, a heater holder having a protrusion, and a heater having a heating element and a substrate having a longitudinal direction and a thickness direction. The protrusion is disposed at a position, which is outside a nip portion and on a downstream side in a conveyance direction of a recording material, and comes into contact with the first rotation member. The protrusion protrudes in the thickness direction toward the second rotation member without crossing a nip tangent line that passes through a contact surface between the first rotation member and the second rotation member and extends parallel to the contact surface, and a length in the longitudinal direction of the protrusion is shorter than a length in the longitudinal direction of the recording material of a maximum size which is able to be conveyed.
US12253810B2
An image forming including: a photoconductor; an exposure unit including a substrate provided with a plurality of light emitting portions configured to emit light to expose the photoconductor, and a first duct configured to guide an airflow that cools the substrate from one side to another side in a longitudinal direction of the substrate along the substrate; an IC mounted on the substrate; a fan configured to generate an airflow that cools the substrate; and a second duct configured to communicate with the first duct through a first opening portion, and guide the airflow generated by the fan, the first opening portion is located on the one side with respect to the center of the substrate in the longitudinal direction of the substrate, and the IC is located between the center of the substrate in the longitudinal direction and the first opening portion.
US12253804B2
The present disclosure provides a method of forming a photoresist pattern and a projection exposure apparatus. The forming method includes: providing a photoresist layer, and disposing the photoresist layer under a projection objective, wherein a light refracting plate is located between the photoresist layer and the projection objective; and performing an exposure processing on the photoresist layer through the projection objective and the light refracting plate, and forming an exposure image in the photoresist layer, wherein the light refracting plate is configured to reduce a wavelength of optical waves entering the photoresist layer.
US12253798B2
Reticle containers include a rotating latch including a spring. The spring provides force bringing the segments of the reticle container towards one another such that a reticle in the container is clamped between the container segments. The rotating latch can include a head as part of an assembly on one of a cover or a baseplate of the reticle container, with a slot configured to accommodate the head provided on the other of the cover or baseplate. The head can be disposed at an end of a shaft, with the shaft connected to a base, which is contacted by spring providing force such that the contact of the head with the other of the cover or baseplate provides clamping force to a reticle stored between the cover and baseplate.
US12253797B2
The present disclosure provides an apparatus for a semiconductor lithography process. The apparatus includes a mask defining a circuit pattern to be transferred. The apparatus further includes a pellicle including a pattern formed in a first surface, wherein the pellicle is attached to the mask at the first surface. The apparatus also includes an adhesive material layer disposed between the mask and the first surface. The pattern may include a plurality of capillaries. Each capillary of the plurality of capillaries may have a dimension in a plane of the first surface between about 1 μm and about 500 μm. Each capillary of the plurality of capillaries may have a ratio of depth to width greater than or equal to about 100. The adhesive material layer may include an adhesive having a glass transition temperature (Tg) greater than room temperature.
US12253793B2
An image capture device is disclosed that includes a body and a door assembly that is configured for removable connection to the body. The door assembly includes a door body; a locking mechanism that is slidable in relation to the door body between a locked position and an unlocked position; and at least one biasing member that is configured for engagement (contact) with the door body and the locking mechanism to automatically move the locking mechanism into the locked position upon closure of the door assembly.
US12253789B2
A webcam module, including a front casing, a rear casing, a support base, a lens, a blocking cover, and a lever, is provided. The front casing has a lens hole. The rear casing is disposed at the front casing and forms an accommodating space. The support base is rotatably disposed in the accommodating space. The lens is disposed on a front side surface of the support base facing the front casing. The blocking cover is slidably sleeved around the support base and faces the front casing. The lever is connected to the blocking cover and protrudes above the front casing and the rear casing. The lever is adapted to drive the blocking cover to slide along the support base. The lever is adapted to drive the blocking cover and the support base to rotate relative to the front casing with an axis as the center.
US12253784B2
A driving method for driving a display comprising an electrophoretic material having at least one type of colored pigment particle, the method includes applying at least one pulse pair to reset the at least one type of colored pigment particle, applying a separation pulse, and applying a second pulse pair to reset the at least one type of colored pigment particle.
US12253779B2
A liquid crystal display panel and a driving method thereof are provided. In the liquid crystal display panel provided by embodiments of the present application, a first pixel electrode is configured for an image display in a main pixel region, and a second pixel electrode is configured for driving impurity ions in the liquid crystal layer to gather on a position of the first substrate and/or the second substrate corresponding to an auxiliary pixel region. The liquid crystal display panel is not affected by a bias electric field generated by an accumulation of the impurity ions which affects the image display, and has a display effect that is relatively better.
US12253762B2
A first liquid crystal cell of a plurality of liquid crystal cells of an optical element includes a first alignment film covering first and second transparent electrodes on a first substrate, a second alignment film covering third and fourth transparent electrodes on a second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer between the first substrate and the second substrate. The first liquid crystal cell includes the first and second transparent electrodes extending in a first direction, the third and fourth transparent electrodes extending in a second direction, the first alignment film aligning liquid crystal molecules in the liquid crystal layer in the second direction when no voltages are applied to the first and second transparent electrodes, and the second alignment film aligning liquid crystal molecules in the liquid crystal layer in the second direction when no voltages are applied to the third and fourth transparent electrodes.
US12253761B2
A liquid crystal display panel includes an array substrate, a color filter substrate, and liquid crystal molecules. The array substrate includes a first alignment layer, and the color filter substrate includes a second alignment layer opposite to the first alignment layer. The liquid crystal display panel has a first region and a second region. In a film thickness direction, a sum of a thickness of the first alignment layer and a thickness of the second alignment layer in the first region is greater than a sum of a thickness of the first alignment layer and a thickness of the second alignment layer in the second region.
US12253752B2
The present application discloses a display panel, a method of manufacturing the same, and an electronic device. The display panel includes an array substrate, a light blocking matrix, and a backlight module, wherein the array substrate, the light blocking matrix, and the backlight module are stacked in sequence, and the light blocking matrix includes light shielding columns in a grid-like arrangement.
US12253742B2
A focusing control device includes: a sensor that has a plurality of pairs of signal detection units each including a first signal detection unit that receives one of a pair of beams passed through different parts of an imaging optical system including a focus lens and detects a signal depending on an intensity of received light and a second signal detection unit that receives other one of the pair of beams and detects a signal depending on an intensity of received light, in which a plurality of lines each including a portion of the plurality of pairs that are arranged in one direction are arranged in a direction orthogonal to the one direction; a first correlation operation unit as defined herein; a second correlation operation unit as defined herein; a selection unit as defined herein; and a lens driving section as defined herein.
US12253732B2
The present disclosure relates to a fiber optic assembly having a splice tray that increases spatial efficiency within the fiber optic assembly and within the splice tray. The splice tray may be inserted and/or removed from a terminal without utilization of tools. Additionally, the splice tray may be configured to enable one handed insertion or removal, which may be advantageous, such as in small terminals or confined spaces. The splice tray also provides an efficient routing pattern of optical fibers to enable larger diameter optical fibers to be routed within the splice tray and the terminal.
US12253729B2
A structure including a photonic integrated circuit die, an electric integrated circuit die, a semiconductor dam, and an insulating encapsulant is provided. The photonic integrated circuit die includes an optical input/output portion and a groove located in proximity of the optical input/output portion, wherein the groove is adapted for lateral insertion of at least one optical fiber. The electric integrated circuit die is disposed over and electrically connected to the photonic integrated circuit die. The semiconductor dam is disposed over the photonic integrated circuit die. The insulating encapsulant is disposed over the photonic integrated circuit die and laterally encapsulates the electric integrated circuit die and the semiconductor dam.
US12253725B2
This present disclosure seals the light propagation path in an optical interconnection element from external contaminants. The optical interconnection element includes a reflective surface, which can also be sealed from external contaminants Additional novel concepts include all enclosed sealed regions of the optical interconnection element being fluidly connected and making the final seal of the optical interconnection element with a thin plate, which can bend reducing the pressure differential between the ambient environment and the sealed internal volume of the optical interconnection element.
US12253724B2
Embodiments disclosed herein include optical packages. In an embodiment, an optical package comprises a package substrate, a compute die over the package substrate, and an optics die over the package substrate. In an embodiment, the optics die comprises grating couplers. In an embodiment, an optical connector for optically coupling optical fibers to the grating couplers is provided. In an embodiment, the optical connector comprises a fiber array unit (FAU), where the FAU has a turn. In an embodiment, the optical connector further comprises a fiber shuffler, where the fiber shuffler comprises a first V-groove with a first depth and a second V-groove with a second depth that is greater than the first depth. In an embodiment, the optical connector further comprises a ferrule.
US12253723B2
An optical system can include a optical receiver comprising an optical waveguide, an optical lid adjacent the waveguide, and a reflective surface proximate an output of the optical waveguide to direct light from the waveguide towards an output of the optical lid. The optical system can also include a photodetector (PD) die comprising a substrate, a concave mirror, and a photodetector. The concave mirror is formed on a first side of the substrate and the photodetector is disposed on a second side of the substrate, the first side opposite the second side, wherein the photodetector is disposed on the second side of the PD die offset from the optical axis of the optical element.
US12253718B2
Mid-infrared-transparent optical fiber products with enhanced resistance to OH diffusion are disclosed, which may be used fiber laser oscillator and amplifiers systems. In one embodiment, an optical fiber product may include optical fiber configured for propagation of mid-infrared radiation toward a light-radiating endface of or coupled to the optical fiber, and a diffusion barrier disposed on the light-radiating endface and configured for allowing the mid-infrared radiation emanating from the light-radiating endface to pass therethrough and for preventing OH diffusion therethrough toward the light-radiating endface. In another embodiment, an optical fiber product may include an optical fiber for propagation of mid-infrared radiation and an endcap coupled to the optical fiber for receiving therefrom the mid-infrared radiation and radiating out the mid-infrared radiation, the endcap being made of an endcap material that has no or a low amount of fluoride and that is less permeable to OH diffusion than the fiber-optic material.
US12253716B1
In one aspect, the disclosure relates to an apparatus including a photonic integrated circuit (PIC) including an optical network including V optical output channels and U optical input ports, wherein a selectable subset of the U optical input ports can be connected to L lasers, wherein L is less than or equal to U, and wherein the PIC is operable to output light on some or all of the V optical output channels in response to different number of active lasers connected to the U optical input ports.
US12253715B2
An optical light package includes an optical output lens, an optical filter located thereunder and between the output lens and LEDS, a tray of LEDs arrayed on a stage mounted on a linear comb based MEMS device that is distributed in such a way that the stage is movable, and a driver that controls movement of the stage.
US12253703B2
The present application relates to an optical laminate or a reddening-resistant layer. The present application can provide an optical laminate that does not cause a so-called reddening phenomenon even when driven or maintained under extremely harsh conditions (e.g., very high temperature conditions), or a reddening-resistant layer applied thereto.
US12253700B2
Provided is a display apparatus including a circuit substrate, a light-emitting layer, a polarizing layer, a quarter waveplate, and a bandpass polarizing reflective layer. The light-emitting layer includes a plurality of first light-emitting structures. The first light-emitting structures have a first peak emission wavelength. The polarizing layer is located on a side of the light-emitting layer away from the circuit substrate. The quarter waveplate is disposed between the polarizing layer and the light-emitting layer and overlaps the light-emitting layer and the polarizing layer. The bandpass polarizing reflective layer is disposed between the quarter waveplate and the light-emitting layer and includes a first bandpass polarizing reflective pattern overlapping the first light-emitting structures. A reflectance of the bandpass polarizing reflective pattern for light with a wavelength in a first wavelength range is greater than 20%. The first wavelength range is the peak emission wavelength ±10 nm.
US12253694B2
The optical system includes a projector, a deflector, a polarizer, a first grating coupler structure, and a second grating coupler structure. The projector emits three beams having different wavelengths. The deflector is disposed below the projector and is configured to change incident angles of the three beams and to focus the three beams at the same region of the first grating coupler structure. The first grating coupler structure is below the deflector and is configured to couple the three beams into a light-guide lens such that the three beams travel the same optical path within the light-guide lens. The light-guide lens is connected to the first grating coupler structure and is configured to transmit the three beams. The polarizer is disposed between the projector and the deflector and is configured to filter out transverse electric (TE) modes or transverse magnetic (TM) modes of the three beams.
US12253687B2
The invention concerns a diffractive waveguide element for a personal display device, the element comprising a waveguide body (21), and at least two grating regions (23, 24) arranged on the waveguide body (21), at least some of the grating regions adapted to expand the exit pupil of the element. According to the invention, the grating regions (23, 24) are positioned with respect to each other so that and are provided with gratings having different grating vectors so that the grating regions (23, 24) interact to combine the functions of exit pupil expansion and outcoupling on at least some parts of the element. The invention allows for efficient use of waveguide area.
US12253681B2
A surgical navigation system includes a first tracking unit, a second tracking unit and a processing unit. The first tracking unit captures a first infrared image of a position identification unit that includes a reference target fixed on a patient and an instrument target disposed on a surgical instrument. The second tracking unit captures a second infrared image of the position identification unit. The processing unit performs image recognition on the first and second infrared images with respect to the position identification unit, and uses, based on a result of the image recognition, a pathological image and one of the first and second infrared images to generate an augmented reality image. When both the first and second images have both the reference target and the instrument target, one of the first image and the second image with a higher accuracy is used to generate the augmented reality image.
US12253680B2
A display system can include a head-mounted display configured to project light to an eye of a user to display augmented reality image content to the user. The display system can include one or more user sensors configured to sense the user and can include one or more environmental sensors configured to sense surroundings of the user. The display system can also include processing electronics in communication with the display, the one or more user sensors, and the one or more environmental sensors. The processing electronics can be configured to sense a situation involving user focus, determine user intent for the situation, and alter user perception of a real or virtual object within the vision field of the user based at least in part on the user intent and/or sensed situation involving user focus. The processing electronics can be configured to at least one of enhance or de-emphasize the user perception of the real or virtual object within the vision field of the user.
US12253671B2
A display device includes a housing having a first end capable of connecting to a night vision device and a second end capable of connecting to an eyepiece, a camera configured to receive an image from the night vision device, a decoder configured to convert the image from the night vision device from an analogue signal into digital signal, and a display to display the converted image, so that the converted image can be viewed though the eyepiece.
US12253667B2
Microelectromechanical systems based spatial light modulators (SLMs), and display systems and methods for operating the same are described. Generally, the SLM includes a linear array of a number of electrostatically deflectable ribbons suspended over a surface of a substrate. Each ribbon includes a split-ribbon portion with a plurality of diffractors, each diffractor including a first light reflective surface on a linear portion of the split-ribbon portion and an opening through which a second light reflective surface affixed to the substrate is exposed. The first light reflective surface and the second light reflective surface have equal areas, and when one or more of the ribbons is deflected towards the surface of the substrate a coherent light reflected from the first light reflective surface is brought into constructive or destructive interference with light reflected from the second light reflective surface. The display system can include a projector or a head mounted unit.
US12253660B2
Provided are transaction cards including an infinity mirror. In some approaches, a transaction card may include a body comprising a first reflective layer and a second reflective layer, and a light source between the first reflective layer and the second reflective layer.
US12253654B2
An optical imaging lens assembly includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element and a sixth lens element. The first lens element has positive refractive power. The second lens element has positive refractive power. The third lens element has negative refractive power. The fourth lens element has an object-side surface and an image-side surface being aspheric. The fifth lens element has an object-side surface and an image-side surface being aspheric. The sixth lens element has an object-side surface and an image-side surface being aspheric, wherein at least one of the object-side surface and the image-side surface of the sixth lens element includes at least one inflection point.
US12253651B2
The present disclosure relates to an anti-reflective film comprising: a hard coating layer; and a low refractive index layer, wherein a particle-mixed layer containing both hollow inorganic nanoparticles and solid inorganic nanoparticles and having a thickness of 1.5 nm to 22 nm exists in the low refractive index layer, and wherein the anti-reflective film has an absolute value of b* value in a CIE Lab color space of 4 or less, and a polarizing plate, a display device, and an organic light emitting diode display device comprising the anti-reflective film.
US12253637B2
Provided is a scintillator panel including: a support; a scintillator layer provided on the support, the scintillator layer being composed of a columnar crystal; and a protective film covering at least the scintillator layer. The scintillator layer contains cesium iodide as a base material and cerium as an activator.
US12253626B2
Disclosed are an indoor non-contact human activity recognition method and system. The method comprises: collecting an indoor reflected signal by using an antenna array; filtering the reflected signal to obtain a noise-removed reflection signal; and inputting the noise-removed reflected signal to a pre-trained human activity recognition model, and determining a human activity category, the human activity recognition model being a pre-trained CNN network model based on a transfer learning algorithm. The recognition method and system have the advantages that: the antenna array is configured for collecting human actions to carry out activity recognition indoors, which can be applied to home-based care scenes; original data is denoised, so that most of high-frequency noises can be removed, and a phase change of the signal is reserved; a CNN structure is adopted for training so as to reduce a complexity of the system location-free sensing.
US12253618B2
An information processing apparatus includes: a processor configured to acquire position information of a communication device; and a storage configured to store first map information and second map information. The processor is further configured to, in a case in which the processor acquires position information a predetermined number of times of at least two or more, in a first partial area of plurality of first partial areas, determine that the communication device exists in the first partial area. The processor is further configured to, in a case in which the processor acquires position information a predetermined number of times of at least two or more, in a second partial area of plurality of second partial areas, determine that the communication device exists in the second partial area.
US12253617B1
Systems and methods are described for determining a peripheral's location based on observations from a plurality of centrals. A central may periodically transmit its location and observations of peripherals to a backend. The backend may match the location of the central with one or more observations of a peripheral to estimate a location of the peripheral. The backend may receive observations of the same peripheral from a plurality of centrals. The backend may aggregate estimated locations to triangulate a more precise location of the peripheral.
US12253614B2
A method and devices are disclosed, for tracking a radio beacon at a mobile device, using short range RF signals, emitted by the beacon and detected at the mobile device, typically indoor, requiring no GNSS service. According to the disclosed method, the beacon is configured to broadcast short bursts, at a carefully structured difference in time of emission (DTOE), while at the tracking device, the difference in time of arrival (DTOA) of said signals is measured, and along with the DTOE, used to accurately determine the location of and direction to the beacon relatively to the tracking device. According to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, said short range RF signals are associated with Bluetooth advertising, configured to broadcast in 1-way, requiring no pairing and no connection from the tracking device, and practically not requiring a receiver at the beacon, therefor saving battery energy.
US12253611B2
The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for ephemeris signaling in wireless networks.
US12253610B2
A network measurement device includes a display control unit that displays location information stored in a location information table and a setting control unit that sets the location information selected from the displayed location information as positioning start location information of a moving destination, and has a configuration of, after setting the positioning start location information, executing positioning at the moving destination based on reception signal information from a GNSS and measuring a time synchronization error between reference time information acquired from the GNSS and reference time information under test used by an apparatus in a location of the moving destination by comparing the reference time information and the reference time information under test.
US12253609B2
A GNSS receiver includes at least two antennas, a satellite direction acquisition module, an estimation module, and a determination module. A satellite direction acquisition module acquires the direction when viewing the satellite corresponding to the GNSS signal received by the antenna based on the satellite orbit information. The estimation module estimates the arrival direction of the GNSS signal on the basis of the difference in timing when the GNSS signal is received by the plurality of antennas. The determination module compares the direction in which the satellite is viewed from the antenna with the arrival direction estimated by the estimation module to determine whether the GNSS signal received by the antenna is a direct GNSS signal based on a direct wave from the satellite or an NLOS GNSS signal.
US12253602B2
A method of tracking an object using a LiDAR sensor includes clustering LiDAR data that includes a plurality of points for an object detected by the LiDAR sensor, generating information on a plurality of segment boxes for each channel using a result of the clustering, and selecting, among the segment boxes, an associated segment box at a current time for a target object that is being tracked. The selecting includes calculating a correlation index between a current representative point and each of a tracking representative point and a previous representative point of each of the segment boxes at the current time, selecting candidate segment boxes for the associated segment box using the correlation index, and selecting the associated segment box at the current time.
US12253601B2
A three-dimensional survey apparatus includes a collimating ranging unit, a scanner unit, and a control calculation portion. The control calculation portion executes control to acquire, based on a survey result of the collimating ranging unit, three-dimensional data related to a characteristic portion of the measurement object which is present between a plurality of pieces of three-dimensional data that are included in point cloud data having been acquired by the scanner unit and of which the three-dimensional data has not been acquired by the scanner unit, and to add the three-dimensional data related to the characteristic portion of the measurement object having been acquired based on a survey result of the collimating ranging unit to the point cloud data having been acquired by the scanner unit.
US12253594B2
This document describes an object tracker that performs stable velocity initialization for radar tracks, using multiple hypotheses, including when only sparse radar point clouds are available. With just a single point per scan, the tracker creates multiple hypotheses for the direction and speed of an object. A least square function can be applied to each hypothesis to derive each respective initial velocity, which are tracked using a Kalman Filter during a hypotheses tracking period. When hypotheses are initialized and tracked on each hypothesis tracking period, their track error scores are computed. Based on their track error scores, the hypotheses that have low evidence are discarded during the hypotheses tracking period. When the hypotheses tracking period ends, a hypothesis with high evidence initializes the track's velocity. Parallel hypothesis evaluation enables the tracker to initialize a velocity quickly and accurately by merely selecting the best hypothesis, which may enable safer driving.
US12253571B2
Various embodiments include a method for ascertaining the residual value of a used battery. The method may include: feeding the battery to a test station; bringing it to a test temperature; stabilizing the temperature within less than 2 K; measuring a load cycles using a high-precision coulometry apparatus; carrying out measurement until fulfilment of a termination criterion; ascertaining a first and a second value for a discharging capacity using two different calculation rules, wherein calibration is handled differently in the two calculation rules; carrying out an optimization process; determining a residual value of the battery; and determining whether the used battery is to be employed for use in a static energy storage device.
US12253564B2
An electronic device includes a functional circuit, a test mode circuit, and a verification circuit. The verification circuit generates and outputs the test waveform signals into the test mode circuit based on a clock signal provided from the test mode circuit, receives test result waveform signals from the test mode circuit when at least one test operation corresponding to the test pattern signal is performed, and compares the test result waveform signals with target result waveform signals to generate and output a failure result signal into the test mode circuit; the failure result signal is used to indicate whether at least one test bit failure occurs.
US12253562B2
In an embodiment a processing system includes a reset circuit configured to receive a reset-request signal and one or more further reset-request signals, wherein the one or more further reset-request signals are provided by a processing core, one or more further circuits and/or a terminal of the processing system and to generate a combined reset-request signal by combining the reset-request signal and the one or more further reset-request signals, and a hardware test circuit including for each of the one or more further reset-request signals, a respective first combinational circuit configured to selectively assert the respective further reset-request signal, a second combinational logic circuit configured to selectively mask the combined reset-request signal, and a control circuit configured to repeat operations during a diagnostic phase.
US12253554B2
A signal processing circuit for a measurement instrument is described. The signal processing circuit includes an analysis circuit, a measurement input, and at least two parallel measurement channels. The parallel measurement channels are configured to process the input signal, thereby generating first and second complex-valued measurement signals. The analysis circuit is configured to determine first and second error quantities associated with the first and second complex-valued measurement signals, respectively. The analysis circuit is configured to determine a complex-valued average signal corresponding to a combined average of the first and second complex-valued measurement signals. The analysis circuit is configured to determine a combined error quantity based on the complex-valued average signal. The analysis circuit is configured to determine a comparison quantity based on the combined error quantity as well as based on the first error quantity and/or the second error quantity.
US12253552B2
An apparatus detects an E3 phase and E1 and E2 phases of an electromagnetic pulse (EMP). A pulse detector detects E1 and E2. A sustained level detector connects to a mains utility power supply line to detect E3. A delay timer holds an indication of a detected E1 or E2 for a predetermined time limit of about 10 minutes. A latch holds an indication that an EMP has occurred when an E3 occurs following an E1 or E2 within the predetermined time limit. An alarm indicates an EMP. A mechanical actuator disconnects the mains utility power supply line from utility power when an EMP is so indicated. The mechanical actuator can be mounted to a panel front face of a circuit breaker box in a configuration to push open a switch surface of a circuit breaker switch lever.
US12253539B2
A method of examining a sample in an atomic force microscope including at least one probe, each probe including at least one cantilever and at least one tip includes carrying out a negative setpoint setting procedure, wherein the negative setpoint SCD is set as a negative real number, an approaching procedure including: above at least one point of the sample, performing an approach including reducing the tip-to-sample distance and recording cantilever deflection as a function of the tip-to-sample distance, while applying the standard sign convention with cantilever deflection considered negative for attractive forces and positive for repulsive forces, until at least one of critical criteria is achieved, and pausing or stopping of the approach after performing the approaching procedures.
US12253533B2
A calibration method is provided including identifying the imaging area on each light panel with respect to each imaging device. A center position of the imaging area of each light panel for each imaging device is determined. An optimal optical center of the imaging apparatus using the center position of the imaging area of each imaging device is determined. A tube calibration tool is installed in a carrier on a track, and the carrier is moved on the track so that a center of the tube calibration tool is located at a closest location to the optimal optical center of the imaging apparatus. The center of the tube calibration tool is used to determine a center of a region of interest (ROI) for backlight calibration. Methods for health checking the calibration and apparatus used to carry out the calibration are provided as well as other aspects.
US12253532B2
A method for determining an amount of teriflunomide in a sample by mass spectrometry includes adding an internal standard to the sample, subjecting the sample to solid phase extraction, purifying the sample by high turbulence liquid chromatography, ionizing the sample to produce one or more teriflunomide ions detectable by mass spectrometry, determining the amount of the one or more teriflunomide ions by mass spectrometry, and using the amount of the one or more ions determined to further determine the amount of teriflunomide in the sample.
US12253517B2
The present invention relates to a test element for the detection of an analyte comprising an enzyme, wherein the enzyme is incorporated in a nanocapsule.
US12253512B1
Apparatus and methods for identification of microbial presence are described, wherein the apparatus includes at least a nanopore, at least a nanopore reader, and a control unit, wherein each of the at least a nanopore reader comprises a plurality of flow cells, at least one of which is configured to accept a sample, and at least a detector connected to the plurality of flow cells and configured to detect a signal as a function of at least a translocated microbe from the sample, wherein the control unit is communicatively connected to the at least a detector and configured to receive the detected signal, correlate its intensity with at least an attribute of the detected signal, and determine at least an identity of the at least a translocated microbe as a function of the correlation.
US12253510B2
An in-ground wireless moisture sensor may include one or more ultrasonic sensors in communication with a processor and a wireless communications module. The sensor may be powered by a power source, such as one or more rechargeable batteries as well as a solar panel in the cover of the sensor. Ultrasonic sensors may allow for wireless sensing of in-ground soil moisture levels at a distance farther than traditional sensors and therefore may give more accurate measurements. Methods for use and installation of the in-ground sensor, including a selectively removable cover, are described.
US12253508B2
A method for characterizing organic matter in a geological rock formation includes performing a Raman spectroscopy measurement on a rock sample to acquire a Raman spectrum of the rock sample. The method includes analyzing the Raman spectrum of the rock sample to determine data characterizing at least one Raman spectral feature corresponding to the rock sample, inputting the data characterizing the at least one Raman spectral feature corresponding to the rock sample into a computation model that determines a value of a property of organic matter in the rock sample, and storing or outputting or displaying the value of the property of organic matter in the rock sample. In embodiments, the property of organic material in the rock sample can be a property of kerogen in the rock sample, or a property of asphaltenes or bitumen in the rock sample.
US12253502B2
Disclosed is a method for calibrating a sensor to be calibrated by means of a reference sensor, the sensor to be calibrated being configured to determine a chemical signal based on a conversion function for converting an electrical signal, the reference sensor being configured to determine a reference signal, the method having: ⋅ measuring, during a reference time period, a first chemical signal (S1P1) and a first reference signal (S2P1) and, during a test period, a second chemical signal (S1P2) and a second reference signal (S2P2), ⋅ determining regression functions (gP1, gP2) defined as follows: S2P1=gP1(S1P1) and S2P2=gP2(S2P2), ⋅ calculating a difference between the regression functions (gP1, gP2) and ⋅ when the difference is greater than a reference difference, determining an optimized conversion function.
US12253499B2
The invention relates to cartridges for thin layer chromatography (TLC) which hermetically seal the TLC mobile phase during loading, performance of the TLC process, and analysis of the chromatogram. It further relates to associated methods of use—for example for detecting or quantifying an analyte in a sample. It further relates to processes for assembling the cartridge, to associated equipment adapted for use with them, and kits of parts.
US12253497B2
A unitary distribution plate of a Gas chromatograph (GC) module having a plurality of valve bores disposed on a bottom surface of the unitary distribution plate and a least one sensor cell and at least one column port machined into the top surface of the unitary distribution plate. The valve bores and sensor cells are connected by fluid pathways within a thickness of the distribution plate. The pathways include a combination of planar, longitudinal, diagonal, and radial fluid pathways relative to the top surface of the distribution plate. The fluid channels are formed by diffusion bonding or more generally laminating multiple plates into the unitary distribution plate.
US12253494B2
An information processing apparatus includes: a first acquisition unit that acquires odor data obtained by measuring the odor of an object; a second acquisition unit that acquires an acquisition condition for the odor data; and an identification unit that identifies the object from the odor data and the acquisition condition acquired by the first and second acquisition units on the basis of a learned model obtained by performing learning on the odor data of the object and the acquisition condition, and on the object corresponding to the odor data. The acquisition condition can be text data that indicates the category of the odor and is inputted by a user who has measured the odor.
US12253482B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a novel method for determining the structure of a target substance contained in a multicomponent sample. The present invention provides a method of determining the structure of a target substance contained in a mixture of two or more substances, wherein the method includes the steps of: isolating the target substance from the mixture by means of supercritical fluid chromatography, soaking the isolated target substance into a crystalline sponge to produce a sample for crystallography, and performing a crystallographic analysis on the sample for crystallography. A volatile solvent can be used as a mobile phase in the supercritical fluid chromatography.
US12253476B2
Methods and systems for RF pulse monitoring and RF pulsing parameter optimization at a manufacturing system are provided. Sensor data is received from one or more sensors that indicates an RF pulse waveform detected within the processing chamber. One or more RF signal characteristics are identified in the detected RF pulse waveform. Each identified RF signal characteristic corresponds to at least one RF signal pulse of the RF signal pulsing within the processing chamber. A determination is made, based on the identified one or more RF signal characteristics, whether the detected RF pulse waveform corresponds to the target RF pulse waveform. An indication of whether the detected RF pulse waveform corresponds to the target RF pulse waveform is provided to a client device.
US12253471B2
A system for taking high-resolution photographs from a vehicle-mounted camera, forming orthomosaics from video and/or multiple high-resolution photographs, and using artificial intelligence to detect and classify pavement flaws and defects in the imagery. Detection also includes the ability to capture quantifiable metrics for the defects and/or a region of interest. Three-dimensional imagery is produced from the same images as the orthomosaics. Surface and terrain map products made from the same source images capture additional details such as depth and volume. The highlighted orthomosaics and three-dimensional imagery can then be used as a basis to determine the pavement surface condition and subsequently support maintenance orders and manage pavement repairs. Further, metadata such as latitude, longitude, and altitude geo-location coordinates and sampling time can also be transferred to the output products to create a digital time history and enable analysis for preventative maintenance planning. Alternatively-sourced imagery may also be analyzed.
US12253468B2
Disclosed herein are methods of detecting a target nucleic acid sequence, determining the localization of the target nucleic acid sequence, and/or quantifying the number of target 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.
US12253463B2
In some implementations, a method for authenticating and classifying a set of materials comprises: determining a set of characteristics of light spectra reflected or transmitted by a set of materials when the set of materials is illuminated by a plurality of light wavelengths; constructing one or more classifiers configured to classify each material of the set of materials based on the set of characteristics of the light spectra; using the classifiers, mapping each of the light spectra onto an area of an image sensor; based on the mapping, generating a holographic optical element that has a plurality of regions, that receives input light reflected or transmitted through a new material, and that filters the input light to a filtered light by each characteristic light spectra, and mapping the filtered light onto the area of the image sensor.
US12253462B2
A system and method for determining impurities in a beverage grade gas such as CO2 or N2 relies on FTIR gas analysis for measuring non-sulfur impurities as well as SO2. CO2% also can be determined. A multiplexer selects a sample gas from multiple gas samples. Conversion of reduced sulphur present in some impurities to SO2 is conducted in an oxidizing furnace. Climate control and measurements of oxygen gas impurities also can be provided.
US12253459B2
A system for monitoring a composition includes: an electromagnetic source that emits a beam; one or more evanescent field sensing element inside a tubular structure, arranged in series along a flow direction of the composition, and configured to be in direct contact with the composition; a waveguide that directs at least a portion of the beam to the evanescent field sensing element as an incident beam; and a detector configured to obtain a spectral distribution of the fingerprint beam. The evanescent field sensing element provides partial or total internal reflection of the incident beam at an interface between the evanescent field sensing element and the composition, and the incident beam interacts with the composition to form a fingerprint beam.
US12253449B2
Provided are a physical property measurement method, a physical property measurement device, and a probe that can simply measure physical properties of a surface layer portion of an object. A physical property measurement method includes a step of bringing a probe into contact with a surface layer portion of a liquid or gel-like object and maintaining a contact state, a step of measuring a height of the object rising along the probe in contact with the object, and a step of calculating viscous properties or elastic properties of the surface layer portion of the object using the measured height of the object rising along the probe.
US12253444B2
A flow device, method, and system are provided for determining the fluid particle composition. An example flow device includes a fluid sensor configured to monitor at least one particle characteristic of fluid flowing through the fluid sensor. The example flow device also includes at least one processor configured to, upon determining the at least one particle characteristic satisfies a particle criteria, generate a control signal for an external device. The example flow device also includes a fluid composition sensor configured to be powered based on the control signal and further configured to capture data relating to the fluid particle composition. The example flow device is also configured to generate one or more particle profiles of at least one component of the fluid based on the data captured by the fluid composition sensor.
US12253440B2
A fluid sampling device including an inlet configured to receive a portion of a non-homogeneous fluid flowing through a conduit, a first double block bleed valve coupled to the inlet, a first flexible hose coupled to the first double block bleed valve by a first quick acting and leakage free coupling, a collection drum coupled to the first flexible hose by a first control valve, and a container coupled to the connection drum by a manual valve, wherein the device is configured to collect a fluid sample in the container. The device also includes a pressure controller to control pressure within the collection drum, and a level indicator to indicate a level of fluid in the collection drum.
US12253437B1
A water detection system for a fluid storage system includes a housing configured to be disposed in fluid communication with a fluid storage vessel, a water-activated battery disposed within the housing and configured to produce an electrical voltage upon contact with water, and an electronic circuit disposed within the housing and configured to detect water above a threshold within the fluid storage vessel based at least in part on the electrical voltage.
US12253425B2
A force sensor includes a resin substrate, an array substrate, a sensor layer, a common electrode, and a protective film that are sequentially stacked. The array substrate includes a stretchable base material stacked on the resin substrate, and an array layer stacked on the resin substrate with the stretchable base material interposed between the array layer and the resin substrate, and the stretchable base material includes a plurality of first extension parts extending in a first direction parallel to the resin substrate and arranged in a second direction parallel to the resin substrate and intersecting the first direction, a plurality of second extension parts extending in the second direction and arranged in the first direction, and a plurality of body parts provided at parts where the first extension parts intersect the second extension parts.
US12253417B2
The present invention provides a multi-wavelength spectral thermometry based on mobile narrow-band window and optimization and belongs to the field of thermal radiation temperature detection. A continuous spectrum of a thermal radiation object is collected by a spectrometer; the spectrum of the thermal radiation object is denoised, windowed and standardized; the whole detection wavelength range is traversed within an appropriate narrow-band window; through comparison with windowed and standardized black-body radiation spectra at different temperatures in a corresponding spectral window, the temperature and emissivity distribution of the thermal radiation object is calculated with high accuracy without depending on emissivity model estimation, and high universality and noise resistance are achieved.
US12253407B2
A sign detection device includes: a plurality of sensors disposed at a plurality of positions on a detection target object and configured to measure physical quantities at each position; a data acquisition unit for acquiring time-series fluctuation data of the physical quantities from the plurality of sensors; a calculation unit for calculating, from the time-series fluctuation data, a parameter indicating a correlation between the physical quantities at arbitrary two positions among the plurality of positions; and a detection unit for detecting a sign of sudden change in vibration of the detection object based on the parameter.
US12253406B2
A gravimetric measuring device includes a weighing chamber with a vertical weighing chamber wall, which is formed as a support structure (14) with cover modules (28) detachably fixed thereto on the weighing chamber side, each cover module (28) having, on its weighing chamber side, a module front wall (30) covering the support structure (14) at least partially. The cover modules (28) have locking cantilevers (38) directed towards the support structure such that the locking cantilevers (38) are provided with vertically directed through-openings (40) which are aligned with corresponding through-openings (20, 22) of the support structure (14). The cover modules (28) are locked to the support structure (14) with locking rods (42) which pass through the mutually aligned through-openings (40; 20, 22) of the cover modules (28) and the support structure (14).
US12253403B2
A sensor arrangement is provided for level measurement or point level measurement of a product or pressure measurement in a container, the sensor arrangement including: a sensor configure to transmit and receive a measurement signal and to calculate measurement data; and a display device, which is provided separately from the sensor, configured to be mounted on or in the container, and includes a receiver configured to wirelessly receive the measurement data of the sensor, and a signal indicator configured to display the measurement data of the sensor. A method is also provided for fill level measurement or limit level measurement of a filling material or pressure measurement in a container.
US12253402B2
A liquid level sensor 1 comprises a sleeve 2 disposed so as to extend in the vertical direction, a float 3 configured so as to move along said sleeve according to fluctuation of liquid level, a resistor string 4, a plurality of grounding means 5 disposed inside the sleeve 2 and a liquid level signal output means 6 to take out an electric signal detected between a positive electrode side end part 4a and a junction part grounded by the grounding means 5 as a liquid level signal that is a signal corresponding to the liquid level, and further comprises a warning signal output means 7 to output a warning signal when the float 3 is located within a predetermined distance from a warning position that is a predetermined position within a movable range of the float 3. Thereby, a compact and reliable liquid level sensor is realized.
US12253399B2
Multiphase flowmeters and related methods are disclosed herein. An example apparatus includes a flowmeter and a fluid conduit to provide a flow path for a fluid relative to the flowmeter. The example apparatus includes a sensor coupled to the fluid conduit to generate data indicative of at least one of a presence, an absence, or a mass flow rate of solids in the fluid during flow of the fluid through the fluid conduit. The example apparatus includes a processor. The sensor is to be communicatively coupled to the processor. The processor is to selectively determine flow rates for one or more phases of the fluid based on data generated by the flowmeter and a first algorithmic mode or a second algorithmic mode selected based on the sensor data.
US12253396B2
The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, a fluid flow conditioning apparatus that includes a linear fluid conduit configured to define a linear fluid flow path, a fluid inlet defining an inlet fluid flow path that is non-parallel to the linear fluid flow path, a first fluid flow conditioner having a first conditioner configured to receive fluid flow along the inlet fluid flow path, condition fluid flow, and redirect conditioned fluid flow away from the inlet fluid flow path along the linear fluid flow path along the major axis, a second fluid flow conditioner configured to receive fluid flow from the linear fluid flow path along the major axis, redirect fluid flow away from the linear fluid flow path along an outlet fluid flow path that is non-parallel to the linear fluid flow path, and condition fluid flow, and a fluid outlet.
US12253391B2
A dynamic capacitive sensor configuration is disclosed which imposes minimal force and resistance to motion on the moving electrode. Moving electrodes avoid adverse effects of large bias voltages such as pull-in instability, despite arbitrary levels of compliance. This configuration facilitates incorporation of highly compliant and thin electrode materials that present the least possible resistance to motion. This type of material is particularly useful for sensing sound. A large bias voltage can be applied without influencing its motion, e.g., 400 V. The electrical sensitivity to sound is high, e.g., approximately 0.5 volts/pascal, two orders of magnitude greater than typical acoustic sensors.
US12253385B2
A system and method for landing an electric aircraft is provided. The system includes a controller, wherein the controller is communicatively connected to the sensor, wherein the controller is configured to, receive a plurality of measured flight data, determine a descent confirmation as a function of the plurality of measured flight data, generate a descent instruction set as a function of the descent confirmation and the plurality of measured flight data, wherein generating the descent instruction set further includes generating a transition instruction set, and transmit the descent instruction set to a plurality of flight components, wherein each flight component of the plurality of flight components are coupled to the electric aircraft.
US12253384B2
A vehicle management system for managing access of an application on a vehicle to a wireless network external to the vehicle. The system may include a network usage controller configured for determining a data usage status for the application to be one of allowed and blocked and a network access manager configured for storing a route for the application to access a server of the wireless network when the data usage status is allowed and for erasing or disabling the route when the data usage status is blocked.
US12253379B2
A method for depicting location attributes in a map environment. The method includes receiving a request for parameters about a first type of location. The method includes determining a first set of directional arrows, where each directional arrow is associated with a location and has a first set of properties based on the parameters about the first type of location. The method further includes determining a selection of a first directional arrow, which is associated with a first location, from the first set of directional arrows. Modifications to the first set of directional arrows are made based on the selection of the first directional arrow.
US12253362B2
An indoor positioning method includes judging whether a positioning terminal enters a coverage range of a virtual beacon. If yes, judging whether a distance between the positioning terminal and the virtual beacon gradually decreases to obtain a judgement result, according to the judgement result, adjusting the step size of a PDR positioning algorithm. When the distance gradually decreases, the step size of the PDR positioning algorithm is decreased, and when the distance gradually increases, the step size of the PDR positioning algorithm is increased. The positioning terminal is then positioned by a PDR positioning algorithm with the step size adjusted to obtain a positioning result. If not, the positioning terminal is positioned by a PDR positioning algorithm with the step size not adjusted to obtain a positioning result. According to the present invention positioning can be more accurate by adaptively adjusting the step size in the PDR positioning algorithm.
US12253361B2
Systems and methods include tracking a current location of an unmanned device on a local map, receiving image data from an imaging sensor associated with the unmanned device, detecting a first remote device and outputting associated first detected object information, determining a first location of the detected first remote device on the local map, receiving first location information associated with a first remote coordinate system of the first remote device, the first location information corresponding to a location of the first remote device when the image data was captured, and determining a transformation between the local map and the first remote coordinate system. The local map may be aligned to a plurality of remote coordinate systems through triangulation based at least in part on location detections of a plurality of corresponding remote devices. The remote devices may generate a beacon or light that is detected by the system.
US12253358B2
The present invention provides an apparatus adapted to survey a predetermined characteristic within a body of fluid adjacent an axis that transects the body of fluid, the apparatus comprising: a survey member interposed between first and second position defining arrangements; and at least one instrumentality associated with the survey member, each instrumentality adapted to survey the predetermined characteristic of the body of fluid adjacent the axis, wherein a survey of the predetermined characteristic is conducted over a predetermined time period. The present invention provides a method of surveying a predetermined characteristic within a body of fluid adjacent an axis that transects the body of fluid, the method comprising the steps of: deploying into a body of fluid at least one apparatus according to the first aspect of the invention; and obtaining survey data of the predetermined characteristic from one or more of the instrumentalities over the predetermined time period. The present invention also provides methods of determining whether a potentially suitable site is a suitable site for operative location of a fluid-based electricity generator, and other related methods.
US12253357B2
An optical source is configured to simultaneously generate a set of four time-correlated photons comprising a first pair of photons and a second pair of photons. An interferometer is configured to receive a photon from the first pair of photons and configured to receive another photon from the first pair of photons. A first and a second detector configured to generate an electrical signal in response to measurements of an output of the interferometer. A third detector is configured to generate an electrical signal in response to measurement of a photon from the second pair of photons. A fourth detector is configured to generate an electrical signal in response to measurement of another photon from the second pair of photons. A processor is configured to determine a coincidence of the generated electrical signals in response to measurements of the second pair of photons, thereby identifying the set of four time-correlated photons and heralding an interferometric measurement from the generated electrical signals of the first and second detectors.
US12253354B2
A method for obtaining three-dimension measurements for an object utilizing a population of radio-frequency identification (RFID) chips in a medium includes placing the object into a container with the population of RFID chips in the medium. The method also includes capturing a plurality of coordinates for the population of RFID chips in the medium, where a set of coordinates from the plurality of coordinates correspond to each RFID chip from the population of RFID chips. The method includes plotting the plurality of coordinates for the population of RFID chips in the medium, wherein a plot of the plurality of coordinates provides a three-dimensional image of the object.
US12253346B2
Provided herein are systems and methods for pairing a remote controller unit and a control unit, using a smart safety pin. More specifically, but not exclusively, disclosed are detonation control systems and methods, which include a detonation controller unit, a safety pin configured to engage with a safety pin holder of the detonation unit, and a remote controller unit configured to receive the safety pin, wherein, only when the safety pin is removed from the detonation controller unit and engaged with a remote controller unit, the remote controller unit is paired with the detonation controller unit and capable of communicating therewith.
US12253340B1
A penetrating bullet, for use in an ammunition cartridge, has a jacket defining an internal volume and forming a closed base end opposite a nose end. A penetrator shaft is enclosed within the jacket and extends from the internal surface of the closed base end toward the nose end. Substantially filling the remainder of the internal volume is a core. The core is formed of two distinct regions, with a first stable region formed proximate the closed base end and extending to an intermediate location about the penetrator shaft. Forward from the stable region is a thermal region. The thermal region extends from the intermediate location to the nose end. The thermal region will ignite upon impact with a target to soften or otherwise weaken the target, allowing the penetrator shaft to more effectively penetrate deeper into the target medium.
US12253335B2
This application is a continuation in part comprising two versions of two different kinds of display and display device mounts. comprising two versions of a multi positional and multi image displaying, tactical and non tactical camera and display device mounts, as well as two versions of a multi positional and multi image displaying, tactical and non tactical displays with a camera, mountable on the various mounting rails on firearms with the ability to maintain, both the perfect lineal and biaxial lineal alignment of the lens of the digital sensor with the target reticle of sights and scopes on a firearm as well as a visual of video targeting and surveilling images acquired through and around other target viewing devices on a firearm and do so, from any position the user would have to position himself in relation to the firearm.
US12253331B2
A device for supporting scopes, such as telescopes, holographic, laser, red-dot aiming systems, etc., for rifles equipped with rib, is described. The device comprises a body, on which the scope can be fastened, and a plurality of claws slidably mounted on the body. The claws are movable to be opened and closed in response to the displacements imparted by the user to corresponding thrust elements, through a special adjusting grub screw. The body has a longitudinal axis which is aligned with the optical axis of the scope mounted thereon each time. The displacements of the thrust elements take place along the longitudinal axis, while the displacements of the claws take place toward and away from the longitudinal axis, in a direction orthogonal thereto. The device is self-centring, meaning that the claws are closed on the rifle rib, so that the latter is always aligned precisely on the longitudinal axis.
US12253330B2
The present invention is a fitted rifle sling with quick release apparatus and method of use wherein this rifle sling can be snuggly fitted to the sides of a rifle for stowage of the sling during use of the rifle and quickly released for use as a sling over the shoulder or for attachment to a webbing or body gear wearing system. The present invention offers a rifle sling wherein all of the components and elements can be complaint with military specifications and/or pouch attachment ladder system compliant construction.
US12253328B2
A projectile launcher includes a frame and a projectile moves within a horizontal projectile plane and along the projectile axis. The projectile is fired from a front end of the frame. The projectile launcher includes a first power group at a first frame side. The first power group includes a plurality of first power group drawstring pulleys. At least one of the plurality of first power group drawstring pulleys is attached to the frame. The projectile launcher further includes a second power group at a second frame side. The second power group includes a plurality of second power group drawstring pulleys. At least one of the plurality of second power group drawstring pulleys is attached to the frame. The drawstring is configured to be routed at least partially around the first and second power group drawstring pulleys.
US12253325B2
An ammunition loading tray is configured to hold one or more ammunition cartridges in a loading position. The ammunition loading tray includes one or more loading compartments; and each loading compartment is configured to hold a corresponding one of the one or more ammunition cartridges in a loading position. Each loading compartment includes a magazine receiving portion configured to support an ammunition magazine from below and allow for less lateral movement of the ammunition magazine in a first direction than lateral movement of the ammunition magazine in a second direction that is perpendicular to the first direction. An ammunition cartridge receiving portion is located within the magazine receiving portion. The ammunition cartridge receiving portion is configured to support the ammunition cartridge from below and limit lateral movement of the ammunition cartridge in the first direction while allowing lateral movement of the ammunition cartridge in the second direction. A perimeter of the magazine receiving portion is larger than a perimeter of the ammunition cartridge receiving portion.
US12253323B2
A heat protective device includes a sheet having a first edge opposite a second edge. The sheet is comprised of a plurality of intertwined links that are movable with respect to each other. A strip is positioned between the first edge of the sheet and the second edge of the sheet. A fastener couples the first edge of the sheet and the second edge of the sheet to the strip to form a tubular shape. The fastener is configured to adjust a diameter of the tubular shape to releasably fix the heat protective device about an object. A method for manufacturing a heat protective device is also disclosed.
US12253319B2
Provided herein are extractors, bolt assemblies, firearms, and related methods, devices, and assemblies. A firearm extractor includes a first end, a second end opposite the first end, an axis defined between the first end and the second end, and a pivot portion between the first end and the second end. The extractor may include a notch defined at the inner side of the extractor at an axial location between the pivot portion and the first end that, in operation, engages a cartridge casing having a diameter greater than a casing of a 5.56 NATO cartridge or other platform-standard cartridge. A thickness of the extractor in at least one location defined at the axial location of the notch disposed radially inward of one or more lugs of a barrel or a barrel extension during cycling of the bolt may be greater than 0.019 inches.
US12253318B1
Disclosed is a cannon including: a barrel having a chamber in which a shell and a propelling charge are mounted; a breech ring connected to the rear of the barrel, and having a shell inlet communicating with the chamber; a recoil buffer disposed on an outer circumferential surface of the barrel, and guiding recoiling and returning motions of the barrel; a breechblock connected to the breech ring, and moving relative to the breech ring between a closed position closing the shell inlet and an open position opening the shell inlet; a laser ignition device including a laser portion disposed in the breechblock and emitting a laser to ignite the propelling charge, and a breech window covering the laser portion and allowing the laser to be transmitted into the chamber; and a breech window cleaning device cleaning the breech window.
US12253309B2
The present invention relates to a rotary kiln for burning carbonate-containing material, in particular limestone or dolomite, including a rotary tube with an inlet end for the feeding of the material to be burned and an outlet end for the discharging of the burned material, the rotary tube having an inlet zone at its inlet end and an outlet zone at its outlet end wherein a preheating zone and a combustion zone are arranged between the inlet zone and outlet zone, the rotary kiln being characterized according to the invention in that in the inlet zone of the rotary tube at least one projection is provided, the at least one projection having at least one sliding surface inclined to the longitudinal axis of the rotary tube for conveying the material to be burned from the inlet zone into the preheating zone. The present invention further relates to a method for burning carbonate-containing material, in particular limestone or dolomite.
US12253301B2
A refrigerator utilizes a quick fill dispenser that incorporates a fluid storage receptacle that is easily removable for cleaning and/or dispensing independently of the refrigerator.
US12253294B2
A refrigerator, comprising a refrigerator body and a door body. The front side of the refrigerator body is open to define a first chamber. The door body comprises a main door and a secondary door, wherein the main door is used for opening or closing the first chamber and defining a second chamber; and the secondary door is used for opening or closing the second chamber. A rear wall of the main door is of a hollow structure to define an air duct, and a plurality of air diffusion micro-holes in communication with the second chamber and the air duct are backwards formed in a front surface of the rear wall. In addition, the refrigerator is configured such that cold air created by the refrigerator is introduced through the air duct, and the cold air enters the second chamber through the plurality of air diffusion micro-holes.
US12253293B1
An improved ice dispenser having a serving chamber that feeds ice to dispensing tray which has a dispensing opening on a lower surface of the dispensing tray to feed ice to the end user. The dispensing tray is configured to slide from a closed position that keeps ice within the dispensing tube, to a fill position that allows ice from the dispensing tube to fill the serving chamber, and further to an open position that dispenses ice from the serving chamber. The transfer opening has a protruding edge on an interior face thereof, the protruding edge being configured to break up ice within the dispensing tube when the dispensing tray is slid from the fill position to the open position.
US12253290B2
An ice making assembly for a refrigerator appliance includes a resilient mold defining a mold cavity and a heat exchanger in thermal communication with the resilient mold to freeze water and form one or more ice cubes therein. The ice making assembly also includes a lifter mechanism positioned below the resilient mold for selectively deforming the mold and raising the ice cubes formed therein. A resilient seal is sealingly engaged with the lifter mechanism and the heat exchanger, whereby an air-tight seal is formed between the lifter mechanism and the resilient seal and between the heat exchanger and the resilient seal.
US12253287B2
An integrated receiver drier and economizer (RDE) includes a tank having a hollow interior receiving a first flow of a refrigerant therein, the first flow of the refrigerant including a liquid phase of the refrigerant accumulating within a liquid containing portion of the hollow interior of the tank. An economizer receiving a second flow of the refrigerant through an interior thereof is at least partially submerged in the liquid containing portion of the tank. The economizer forms a heat exchanging structure configured to exchange heat between the first flow of the refrigerant passing over an exterior of the economizer and the second flow of the refrigerant passing through the interior of the economizer. A desiccant is disposed in the liquid containing portion of the tank downstream of the economizer with respect to the first flow of the refrigerant through the hollow interior of the tank.
US12253275B2
A control method for an air conditioning system includes acquiring a gas concentration of indoor carbon dioxide, determining an operation state of a fresh air mode according to the gas concentration, acquiring an indoor humidity of an indoor environment and an outdoor humidity, determining an operation state of a dehumidification mode according to the indoor humidity and the outdoor humidity, and controlling the air conditioning system to operate according to at least one of the operation state of the fresh air mode or the operation state of the dehumidification mode.
US12253269B1
A building heating system, including for heating water, such as tap water and/or utility water, of a building water system. The embodiments also relate to a kit of part to realize such a building heating system. The embodiments further relate to a method for controlling the building heating system.
US12253264B2
A modular oven provides an outer cabinet receiving independently removable modules for steam cooking and having a self-contained water source and drain receptacle for plumbing-less installation, each module controlled by a common controller.
US12253258B2
A steam treatment appliance includes a steam generation facility, a water tank for providing liquid for the steam generation facility, a first pump for pumping liquid out of the water tank and to the steam generation facility, an accommodating container, a second pump for pumping liquid out of the steam generation facility and to the accommodating container, and a third pump for pumping liquid out of the accommodating container and into the water tank.
US12253256B2
A control interface (10) for controlling a system, comprising a module comprising: a carrier (32) having a top surface and an opposite bottom surface; an elongate window formed in, or adjacent, the carrier; an elongate array of light sources (36) on the bottom surface of the carrier; a reflector arrangement (40) for reflecting light from the array of light sources towards the window (38) to escape from the top surface, such that a light path is formed between each light source and the window (38), with a portion of the light paths being parallel to the carrier (32), wherein the light sources are adapted to be turned on in response to a control signal; wherein the module further comprises: a user interface surface (20), comprising a track area (22) for receiving touch input from a user, wherein the window is formed beneath the track area; and a touch sensor circuit (34) beneath the track area (22), wherein the touch sensitive circuit (34) comprises a touch sensor region on the top surface of the carrier (32); and a controller (70) adapted to control the light sources in dependence on a detected location of a touch input.
US12253247B2
Proposed is a home appliance that includes a reception space configured to receive objects therein; a heater configured to heat the reception space; a door configured to open/close an open surface of the reception space, the door having a viewing window provided at the door; a lamp configured to illuminate an inside of the reception space; a sensor assembly configured to output a knock-on signal based on detecting a user's knock; and a controller configured to turn on/off the lamp based on the knock-on signal output by the sensor assembly, wherein based on a present state of the home appliance corresponding to at least any one of a plurality of preset exceptional situations, the controller is configured to not turn on/off the lamp regardless of the knock-on signal being output.
US12253246B2
A lens, a vehicle lamp, and a corresponding vehicle, the lens including a lens portion with a touch area and an antenna portion including a flange portion, the antenna portion being electrically conductive and at least partially opposite to the touch area. When the touch area of the lens provided with the antenna portion is touched, the capacitance of a capacitor formed by the antenna portion will change.
US12253244B2
A light fixture, including: a printed circuit board (PCB) extending in a first direction, the PCB includes bends along one or more sides extending in the first direction for rigidity; the PCB configured to transfer thermal heat directly to ambient air; and one or more groups of light emitting diodes (LEDs) operatively coupled to a component-side of the PCB and between the bends.
US12253242B1
Provided is a track system to support light fixtures comprising: a track having a length of less than 100 feet; an electrical conductor running along the track; two ends, each end placed at one end of the track, and configured to be attached to a support to suspend the track; wherein the track is configured for attachment of light fixtures and delivery of electricity to the light fixture though a connection with the electrical conductor.
US12253240B2
A portable lighting device having multiple mounting features providing multiple mounting configurations allowing for hands-free lighting in various situations and locations. The portable lighting device comprises a housing with (i) a front bezel configured to receive a primary optic; (ii) a central support having a securement means and a peripheral segment configured to receive an extent of a cap of a bottle; and, (iii) a rear body having a multi-positional assembly, a coupling means residing within the multi-positional assembly, and a mounting means. The lighting device also includes an illumination assembly having a light source configured to emit light beyond the housing to illuminate a surrounding area, and a power source disposed within the housing and operably coupled to the illumination assembly. The multi-positional assembly is movable between a retracted position and a deployed position that improve the utility of the portable lighting device.
US12253232B1
This illuminating device (2) is adapted for vehicle exteriors and comprises a reflecting device (6) comprising n chambers (10) aligned along a main axis of the reflecting device (6), with n being an integer superior or equal to 2, each chamber (10) comprising a reflecting surface (14), —a support (16), m light sources, with m being an integer strictly inferior to n, arranged on the support (16) and configured to illuminate the reflecting device (6), each light source being associated with one different chamber (10), and n-m decorative pieces (24) arranged on the support (16), each decorative piece (24) being associated with one different chamber (10) such that each chamber (10) is associated with either a light source or a decorative piece (24).
US12253229B2
The invention relates to a lighting device for vehicles comprising a plurality of light sources, with a lens arranged in front of the light sources in the main emission direction and with an optical element assembly arranged between the light sources and the lens, wherein the optical element assembly is configured as an intermediate lens, which comprises a plurality of prisms on a light entry side facing the light sources for collecting the light emitted by the light sources and which, on a light exit side facing away from the light sources, has a plurality of elevations for scattering the light emerging from the intermediate lens, and the lens is configured as a scattering lens, which has a scattering structure and/or consists of a volume-scattering material on a light entry side facing the intermediate lens and/or on a light exit side facing away from the intermediate lens.
US12253227B2
A decorative lamp string includes a lamp string and a wool supporting strip. The lamp string is provided with a plurality of lamps, and a wire is arranged between two adjacent lamps. The lamp string is connected to the wool supporting strip. The wool supporting strip includes a supporting portion and a lint portion. The lint portion is arranged around the supporting portion. At least part of the lamp string is embedded in the lint portion. The present disclosure further provides a method for manufacturing a decorative lamp string. By the arrangement of the above structure, the lamp string is connected to the wool supporting strip so that the product is more stable in structure and is easier to be shaped, making it convenient for a user to prepare various shapes with the lamp string.
US12253225B1
A simulated flame lamp includes a dispersion lamp shade, a support having a mounting platform, a first illuminant, a second illuminant and a control IC. The first illuminant is configured to emit light toward a side wall of the dispersion lamp shade, and the second illuminant is located above the first illuminant and configured to emit light toward the side wall of the dispersion lamp shade. The first illuminant is always on when energized, and the light of the first illuminant is projected to a lower section of the side wall of the dispersion lamp shade; the control IC is configured to control the second illuminant to emit light at intervals so that the light of the second illuminant is projected to an upper section of the side wall of the dispersion lamp shade. The simulated flame lamp has simple structure, low cost and good simulation effect.
US12253217B2
A casing for gas including a first channel section through which gas flows and a second channel section intersecting with the first channel section, the first channel section having an intersecting part that intersects with the second channel section, the intersecting part being formed to have a rounded quadrangular cross section and having a flat part, the second channel section intersecting with the first channel section to open at the flat part.
US12253212B2
A support structure for manufacturing a pressure vessel, the support structure configured to be carried on a supporting substrate, the support structure comprising a first segment support structure nestable within, and moveable relative to, a second segment support structure, wherein the first segment support structure is configured to be raised and lowered relative to the second segment support structure to thereby raise and lower the first segment relative to the substrate, and the first segment support structure is configured to move between a nested position within the second segment support structure to a position spaced apart from the second segment support structure across a surface of the substrate.
US12253207B2
The present invention discloses a shock-absorbing and magnetic quick release system, which relates to the technical field of electronic product accessories. The system comprises a magnetic quick release mechanism and a shock-absorbing mechanism. The magnetic quick release mechanism comprises a fixing seat and a quick release plate, and the opposite surfaces of the fixing seat and quick release plate are embedded with magnets for attracting each other. The fixing seat has an internal slot. The quick release plate can be separated from the fixing seat by gripping quick release buttons to drive buckles out of locking holes to achieve a quick release. When installing the quick release plate, the magnetic function can directly drive the locking holes to lock the buckles, so the installation is quicker. The shock-absorbing mechanism can help to buffer the vibration transmitted by the magnetic quick release mechanism, reducing potential damages to smart devices. The shock-absorbing mechanism and magnetic quick release mechanism can be used together or separately or respectively in conjunction with a smart device fixing mechanism. With a multi-scenario holder universal ball, they can be connected to supporting holders for use in different scenarios based on users' requirements.
US12253205B1
Thermal transfer line assemblies as well as methods for manufacturing thermal transfer line assemblies, and methods for transferring thermal energy are provided. In at least one embodiment a thermal transfer line assembly is provided that can include: a vacuum housing; a suspension support housing within the vacuum housing; a thermal conduit within the suspension support housing; in at least one cross section, a continuous outer void between the vacuum housing and the suspension support housing, an inner void between the suspension support housing and the thermal conduit; and a suspension system within the inner void and coupled to the suspension support housing but mechanically disconnected from the thermal conduit.
US12253195B2
A pipe coupling has two segments with action surfaces in facing relationship. Attachment elements on each segment, in the form of lugs, accommodate adjustable fasteners which draw the segments together when tightened. Support surfaces on the lugs engage one another to visually indicate that a proper installation of the coupling has been achieved.
US12253172B2
An electrically isolating gasket is disclosed wherein a coating layer is disposed on at least one conductive surface, and in some embodiments, on all surfaces or at least all of the conductive surfaces. The electrically isolating gasket includes a core gasket component, a ring seal component, and a non-conductive inner seal component. The coating layer can be, for example, polyimide, polyamide, ceramic, and aluminum oxide.
US12253166B2
An earth working machine (10), encompassing a drive motor (42) and a working apparatus (22) drivable by the drive motor (42) so as to move rotationally, the drive motor (42) being connected to the working apparatus (22), for transfer of a torque, with interposition of a shiftable transmission (50; 150) comprising at least two gearing stages having different torque transfer ratios, is characterized in that by means of a first gearing stage of the shiftable transmission (50), an input shaft (48), coupled on the input side to the drive motor (42), of the shiftable transmission (50) is connectable in torque-transferring fashion directly to an output shaft (52), coupled on the output side to the working apparatus (22), of the shiftable transmission (50) so as to rotate together at the same rotation speed; and by means of a second gearing stage of the shiftable transmission (50), the input shaft (48) is connectable in torque-transferring fashion, with interposition of a transmission assemblage (64), to the output shaft (52) so as to rotate together at different rotation speeds.
US12253163B1
A method allowing the determination of the optimal gear shift engine speeds for a self-propelled vehicle equipped with a multi-gear transmission.
US12253161B2
In a method for controlling an operation of a sphere type shifting apparatus, and according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, it is possible to prevent a sphere mechanism from being separated from a rotation completion location upon rotation operation of the sphere mechanism including a shifting unit provided on a hemispherical one side thereof and a design unit provided on a hemispherical other side thereof, preventing occurrence of clearance of the sphere mechanism, and to terminate an operation of a motor as necessary when the sphere mechanism cannot reach the rotation completion location due to sticking thereof or foreign substances stuck thereto upon rotation operation of the sphere mechanism, preventing damage to parts.
US12253141B2
A V-ribbed belt includes a plurality of V-shaped ribs, each of the plurality of V-shaped ribs includes a V-shaped rib body formed from a rubber composition and a rib-side reinforcing fabric covering a surface of the V-shaped rib body, the rib-side reinforcing fabric is a woven fabric containing a first fiber and a second fiber, and in the woven fabric, at least either the first fiber or the second fiber is inclined relative to a longitudinal direction and a width direction of the belt.
US12253140B2
A temperature compensating valve assembly is provided that includes a bimetallic spring that deforms from a closed position to an open position in response to temperature, and a single-piece valve body having an aperture therethrough and having an open end for receiving the bimetallic spring. The single-piece valve body includes integral retainers for retaining the bimetallic spring in the open end in a location such that the aperture is blocked by the bimetallic spring when in the closed position and is not blocked by the bimetallic spring when in the open position.
US12253139B2
A vehicle damper assembly is disclosed. The damper includes a reservoir, a cylinder having an inner diameter (ID) and fluidly coupled with the reservoir and a rod and a piston. The piston coupled to the rod and configured to divide the cylinder into a compression side and a rebound side. The damper further includes an active base valve to provide independent flow control for a reservoir flow path between the cylinder and the reservoir. The damper also includes an active main valve to provide independent flow control for a piston flow path fluidly coupling the compression side with the rebound side.
US12253117B1
An oil redirector duct arrangement for a clutch assembly. The oil redirector directs transmission fluid from a radially inner fluid inlet to a radially outer region including clutch plates of a clutch pack. This increases oil flow to the clutch pack to provide proper functioning and durability of the clutch over a wider range of conditions than assemblies that do not include such oil redirector duct configuration. The oil redirector can be implemented in existing transmission assemblies without a change in size or form factor.
US12253114B2
A planetary gear has: a first planetary gear annular surface formed at one axial end of the planetary gear and a second planetary gear annular surface formed at another axial end of the planetary gear. A sun gear has a sun gear annular surface that is opposed to the first planetary gear annular surface. A second ring gear has an output-side annular surface that is opposed to the second planetary gear annular surface. A relative movement of a carrier subassembly relative to a housing in an axial direction is limited when the first planetary gear annular surface abuts against the sun gear annular surface or when the second planetary gear annular surface abuts against the output-side annular surface.
US12253100B2
An amplifier is configured for use in a control valve. These configurations provide a pneumatic signal to an actuator that regulates flow through the device. The amplifier may include a variable orifice, or bleed valve, that moves in response to changes in actuating media around steady state. This bleed valve prevents bleed of actuating media at steady state. This feature reduces energy consumption or emissions from the control valve.
US12253094B2
An impeller of a pump device includes a vane wheel fixed to a flange portion of a rotor member. The vane wheel includes a plurality of vane portions protruding from a disc portion opposed to the flange portion in an axial direction. At a tip end of each vane portion, a rib that is inserted into a fixing groove provided in the flange portion is provided. A gap in the axial direction is provided between a tip end of an inner peripheral portion including an end portion on an inner side in a radial direction of the rib and a bottom surface of the fixing groove, and a welded portion welded to the fixing groove is provided at a tip end on another side in the axial direction of an outer peripheral portion including an end portion on an outer side in the radial direction of the rib.
US12253091B2
A hinge assembly includes a rotation shaft, a first connection member provided at the rotation shaft, a second connection member provided at the rotation shaft, located at one side of the first connection member along an axial direction of the rotation shaft, and configured to rotate around the rotation shaft, and an adjustment member connected to the rotation shaft and configured to press the second connection member along the axial direction of the rotation shaft.
US12253090B2
A fan includes a rotor; a stator; a first bearing assembly disposed at a radial outer side of an end of the rotor; and an impeller including an impeller body, where the impeller body is provided with a receiving cavity for receiving the first bearing assembly; and one end of the first bearing assembly is disposed in the receiving cavity, and the rotor, the first bearing assembly and the impeller body are disposed coaxially.
US12253077B2
A tightening device for applying a preload to a fastening element, wherein the fastening element is suitable for fastening a diaphragm pump head part to a drive system for impressing movement on a diaphragm of the diaphragm pump head part in a device for conveying fluid. The tightening device has a support with support surface for supporting a bearing surface of the fastening element, wherein the support has a threaded bore through which a screw element penetrates. The screw element has a contact surface at its front end, wherein the contact surface of the screw element and the support surface of the support face opposite directions, and the distance between the contact surface of the screw element and the support surface of the support can be changed by screwing in or unscrewing the screw element.
US12253075B2
Systems/methods for real-time monitoring and control of a well site provide an event monitor and detector for progressing cavity pump (PCP) operations at the well site. The event monitor and detector uses machine learning (ML) based anomaly detection to detect operations that fall outside normal PCP operating space. The event monitor and detector then computes novelty scores for the anomalies and checks whether the novelty scores exceed a threshold novelty score. If the number of novelties detected within a given detection window exceeds a minimum threshold count, then the event monitor and detector flags an “event” and automatically responds accordingly. The event monitor and detector also provides an explanation with the alerts that quantifies the extent to which various PCP parameters contributed to the event. The event monitor and detector further performs drift detection to determine whether an event may be due to operator-initiated adjustments to PCP parameters.
US12253072B2
A pump head of a diaphragm booster pump, a diaphragm booster pump, a water treatment device and a method of operating a pump head. The pump head includes: a piston chamber, including a booster chamber arranged on an inner wall of the piston chamber; and a diaphragm, the booster chamber formed through enclosing the diaphragm, and the booster chamber radially expanding or compressing. The movement of two eccentric wheels with a phase difference of 180° in an eccentric assembly drives balance wheels of a balance wheel assembly to move oppositely. During rotation of the eccentric assembly, eccentric forces counteract each other, and the moment keeps balanced. The balance wheel assembly includes big small balance wheels, which are a first small balance wheel, the big balance wheel and a second small balance wheel in sequence, and the eccentric assembly drives the balance wheel assembly to swing eccentrically through a bearing.
US12253071B2
A drive system for a pump includes a housing and a fluid displacer and a reciprocator configured to mechanically displace the fluid displacer through respective suction strokes. The housing and fluid displacer define an internal pressure chamber configured to be filled with a working fluid having a charge pressure. The internal pressure chamber is configured such that the working fluid exerts the charge pressure on the fluid displacer during both the suction stroke and a pressure stroke of the fluid displacer.
US12253062B2
An apparatus for extracting power includes a track and an airfoil coupled to the track. The track includes first and second elongate sections, where the first elongate section is positioned above the second elongate section. The airfoil is moveable in opposite directions when alternately coupled to the first elongate section and second elongate section.
US12253061B2
The invention relates to a drive system for interior wind turbines, consisting of a rotatable tower (5) with a rotor mounted at hub height, the generator (16) being located at the foot of the tower (5) on a drive/generator platform (13) and the rotor torque being transferred from above downwards to the generator (16). Particular requirements are placed on such a drive system as the height of the interior wind turbine increases. A steel-wire-cable-reinforced flat belt (18) is used as a transfer element, the ends of which are joined in a particular way to form an endless belt the pretensioning of which is regulated dependent on the properties of the wind, and automatic monitoring is provided which executes an immediate controlled shut-down of the drive system if damage occurs.
US12253052B2
An injector sleeve for an injector for introducing a gaseous fuel into a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine includes an intake in which the injector is at least partially receivable. A lateral surface on an external periphery has a longitudinal region around which a coolant flowing through a cooling chamber of the internal combustion engine is flowable. A sealing region connected to the longitudinal region seals the combustion chamber from the cooling chamber. A cap is arrangeable in the combustion chamber and the cap has a flow opening where gaseous fuel flowing out of the injector is directly flowable through the cap for shaping a jet of the gaseous fuel.
US12253048B2
An assembly for a turbomachine with a longitudinal axis having an exhaust cone with an outer annular wall for the flow of a primary airflow and an annular box arranged radially inside the outer annular wall, an exhaust casing arranged upstream of and connected to the exhaust cone. One end of the outer annular wall or one end of the annular box may be free to move relative to and have no mechanical connection with the exhaust cone or the exhaust casing.
US12253047B2
An internal combustion engine includes a cylinder defining a combustion chamber enclosed by a cylinder wall, a piston that is arranged inside the combustion chamber and moveable in a reciprocating motion away from and towards a crankshaft, and at least one first scraper ring defining an oil scraper ring that is arranged between the piston and the cylinder wall and configured to scrape oil off from the cylinder wall when the piston moves towards the crankshaft. The internal combustion engine further includes at least one second scraper ring defining a condensation fluid scraper ring that is arranged between the piston and the cylinder wall and configured to scrape a condensation fluid off from the cylinder wall when the piston moves away from the crankshaft.
US12253046B2
An internal combustion engine for gaseous fuel includes a cylinder and a piston for reciprocal movement in the cylinder along a reciprocal axis, whereby a combustion chamber is at least partially delimited by the cylinder and the piston. The piston includes a piston crown facing the combustion chamber, a piston crown projection of the piston crown in a direction parallel to the reciprocal axis and onto a piston crown plane extending transversally to the reciprocal axis having a piston crown center point, the piston crown comprising a piston bowl surface defining a piston bowl and a piston rim portion enclosing the piston bowl surface. A piston bowl opening is the intersection between the piston rim portion and the piston bowl surface. The piston bowl opening has an opening center of gravity in the piston crown plane. The opening center of gravity is offset from the piston crown center point.
US12253044B2
Control apparatus of motor generator, and power generation apparatus and moving body comprising same
A control apparatus for a motor generator that is connected to an internal combustion engine. The control apparatus estimates an estimated torque pulsation that is an estimation value of torque pulsation of the internal combustion engine. The control apparatus controls the motor generator to reduce generated power and suppress decrease in a rotation speed of the internal combustion engine, when a negative torque that obstructs rotation of the internal combustion engine is generated in the estimated torque pulsation of the internal combustion engine.
US12253041B1
Operating an engine system includes cold starting an engine, closing spill valves to pressurize fuel in a plurality of plunger cavities, opening injection valves in some of a plurality of fuel injectors to inject fuel into firing cylinders in an engine cycle, and opening spill valves in some of the plurality of fuel injectors while injection valves therein remain closed to bleed fuel to a lower pressure space in the engine cycle. The pressurization of fuel in the fuel injectors remaining closed parasitically loads the engine to increase a fuel burned amount hastening warm up and limiting misfire. Related apparatus and control logic is also disclosed.
US12253040B2
A vehicle controller includes processing circuitry configured to execute a counter updating process, first and second starting processes, and a resetting process. The resetting process includes resetting the crank counter when a crank counter has a value outside of a range corresponding to a tooth-missing portion in a case in which a magnitude of a difference obtained by subtracting a value of a pre-update crank counter from the value of the crank counter that was increased by receiving the pulse signal in the counter updating process is greater than a first threshold value corresponding to a specified angle. The resetting process further includes resetting the crank counter when the crank counter has a value within the range corresponding to the tooth-missing portion in a case in which the magnitude of the difference is greater than a second threshold value that is greater than the first threshold value.
US12253034B2
A gas turbine includes a compressor for producing compressed air, a combustor for burning fuel with the compressed air, and a turbine driven by combustion gas generated by burning the fuel in the combustor, and is switchable between a normal operation mode which is an operation mode where a motor generator is driven by the turbine and a reverse power operation mode where the motor generator provides rotational power to the gas turbine. A fuel control device includes: a first valve for regulating pressure of fuel supplied to the combustor within a range of a first lower limit value and a first upper limit value; and a second valve for regulating pressure of the fuel supplied to the combustor within a flow rate range of a second lower limit value larger than the first lower limit value and a second upper limit value larger than the first upper limit value.
US12253029B2
A system includes a main pump having a main pump shaft configured to connect to a gear box for driving the main pump with rotational power from the gear box in a run mode, and for driving the gear box with rotational power from the main pump in a start mode. The system includes a first fuel line with an inlet configured to connect to connected in fluid communication with a fuel source. The first fuel line includes a first branch in fluid communication with the main pump, and a second branch. A start pump is connected in fluid communication with the second branch of the first fuel line. A second fuel line connects the start pump in fluid communication with a pump management valve (PMV). A third fuel line connects the main pump in fluid communication with the pump management valve.
US12253018B2
A turbocharger has compressor arrangement configured to compress the fresh air of an internal combustion engine. The turbocharger has at least one compressor housing (with a fresh air inlet) and a fresh air outlet. At least one compressor impeller is arranged in the compressor housing, and with at least one exhaust gas turbine for driving the compressor arrangement, with at least one turbine housing with an exhaust gas inlet and an exhaust gas outlet. At least one turbine wheel is arranged in the turbine housing. A heated catalytic converter is configured to at least partially convert supplied fuel with fresh air and/or exhaust gas. The heated catalytic converter includes a catalytic converter housing with a gas inlet and a gas outlet and a fuel inlet. The catalytic converter housing and the compressor housing and/or the turbine housing are in thermal contact on at least one part surface.
US12253006B2
A composite blade assembly for a turbine engine. The composite blade assembly having a core, a first skin and a second skin. The core having a composite structure. The first skin having at least one composite ply. The second skin having at least one composite ply. The first skin having a first radius. The second skin having a second radius.
US12253005B2
An airfoil structure including an airfoil and a spring and damper system. The airfoil including a longitudinal axis. The spring and damper system is connected to the airfoil to rotate the airfoil about the longitudinal axis to change airfoil pitch in response to a load applied to the airfoil.
US12252988B2
A system for excavating a rock face using microwaves. The system may include a microwave generator, an articulable robotic arm with a plurality of rotatably connected rigid waveguide segments, an applicator attached to a distal end of the robotic arm, and a robotic control system. The system produces microwaves with the microwave generator and moves the robotic arm such that the applicator moves along the rock face as the microwaves exit the applicator to precondition the rock face for excavation. Various patterns of microwave treatment, and controls based on sensor feedback, may be implemented.
US12252985B2
A method can include receiving Stoneley wave data acquired by a sonic tool disposed in a borehole in a formation; performing an inversion using the Stoneley wave data to generate formation and borehole information; and identifying an interval along the borehole for performance of a downhole acquisition operation by a downhole tool using a machine learning model and the formation and borehole information as input to the machine learning model.
US12252984B2
A method is disclosed for receiving, from a downhole system, data at a transmitter module of an intra-bottom hole assembly (BHA), wherein the transmitter module comprises a magnetic transmission antenna; transmitting, via a wireless short-range communication using the magnetic transmission antenna, the data to a receiver module of the intra-BHA, wherein the transmitter module and the receiver module form an intra-BHA network using the wireless short-range communication; receiving, via the wireless short-range communication, the data at the receiver module; transmitting the data to a measurement while drilling (MWD) tool; receiving, at the MWD tool, the data; and transmitting, via a type of telemetry, the data from the MWD tool to a surface processor.
US12252982B1
A method of conducting a pressure test on a piping and manifold system can include isolating a wellhead from fluid flow into a well to form a closed test system, operating at least one and less than all of the plurality of pumping units to pump fluid into and pressurize the closed test system to a first predetermined pressure, upon reaching the first predetermined pressure, halting pumping of fluid by the at least one of the plurality of pumping units, continuing pumping of fluid into the closed test system with at least one pressure test pump to pressurize the manifold and piping to a final predetermined pressure, and upon reaching the final predetermined pressure, halting pumping of the fluid by the at least one pressure test pump.
US12252975B2
A system and method that include receiving sensor data during drilling of a portion of a borehole in a geologic environment. The system and method also include selecting a drilling mode from a plurality of drilling modes based at least on a portion of the sensor data. The system and method additionally include simulating drilling of the borehole using the selected drilling mode and generating a state of the borehole in the geologic environment based on the simulated drilling of the borehole. The system and method further include generating a reward using the state of the borehole and a planned borehole trajectory and using the reward through deep reinforcement learning to maximize future rewards for drilling actions.
US12252970B2
A method of producing hydrogen and sequestering carbon or sulfur includes generating a fluid including at least one of water, steam, hydrogen sulfide, carbon dioxide and heat as a byproduct of a surface facility and injecting the fluid into a subsurface formation. The subsurface formation can include a porous rock, in various forms of porosity such as intragranular, intergranular, fracture porosity. The method can further include heating the fluid to stimulate an exothermic reaction of the fluid with components of the subsurface rock formation and produce a hydrogen reaction product and one or more of sulfur minerals from the hydrogen sulfide or carbon minerals from the carbon dioxide. The fluid can be heated to between about 25° C. and about 500° C. The method can also include extracting the hydrogen produced from the reaction of the fluid with the subsurface rock formation and mineralizing at least one of the sulfur or carbon in the porous rock.
US12252968B1
A system includes a control system disposed on a well surface and a pipe component disposed in a wellbore to form an annulus that is in fluid communication with a reservoir. The system includes a valve in fluid communication with the annulus. The system includes a recorder configured to detect data of the annulus. The system includes a fluid conduit configured to flow annular fluid from one or more annuli disposed in the wellbore. The fluid conduit is in fluid communication with the annulus, the valve, and a relief tank. The system includes a communication cable coupled to the control system, the valve, and the recorder. The recorder is configured to transmit the data to the control system.
US12252958B2
Provided is a clutch assembly, a SSSV, and a method for operating an SSSV. The clutch assembly, in one aspect, includes an output coupler housing, an input shaft, and an electromagnet coupled to the input shaft. In at least one aspect, the electromagnet is configured to magnetize the output coupler housing when the electromagnet is energized. The clutch assembly, in one aspect, further includes one or more grooves located in an inner surface of a central opening in the output coupler housing and one or more engagement members located in the outer surface of the input shaft.
US12252946B2
A selective anchor assembly for a downhole completion comprising an anchor sub and a seal assembly with at least one seal unit. The anchor sub comprises at least one button slip within a corresponding piston port that is fluidically coupled to an inner passage of the anchor. The selective anchor is configured to slidingly and sealingly engage a polish bore of a downhole completion. The selective anchor is configured to anchor to a shroud coupled to the polish bore in response to pressure applied to the inner passage of the anchor sub.
US12252944B1
Disclosed is a fluid-driven dual-mode circulation tool which is suitable for high-temperature applications, and which is operable to switch between a flow-through mode and an annular-flow mode. Switching modes is accomplished by interrupting (or reducing) and then reinstating the flow of pressurized fluid through it. In the flow-through mode, pressurized fluid flows out of the tool into the bottom hole assembly. In the annular-flow mode, the tool diverts fluid through internal paths that access the annulus of the wellbore or casing through one or more apertures on the sidewall of the tool.
US12252933B1
A reduced visibility window screen has four frame portions joined together using four corner connectors. A plunger assembly received within each side of the bottom frame portion includes: a compression spring; holder member, and plunger housing. The holder member includes: a body with a first protrusion that engages a compression spring that also contacts a first surface within an opening of the plunger housing, and a second protrusion that is received through a slot in a second surface within the opening of the plunger housing. The second surface is slanted, and the second side of the body is slanted and slides against the slanted surface. The spring biases both the body of the holder member to slide against the slanted surface, and the plunger assembly with respect to the bottom frame portion. An adhesive bonds the mesh to the frame in a two-step ultraviolet LED curing process.
US12252932B2
A lockable corner bracket includes a lockable encapsulated axle pulley which houses one end of a length of cord, with the free end secured to a side bracket. A cord locking mechanism is used to lock the encapsulated axle pulley and prevent unwinding of the cord, or loss of tension, during transport and installation to facilitate do-it-yourself installation. The axle pulley is further configured with a central slot to allow frontal insertion of a roller tube. The corner bracket may be used with a manual roller screen including roller tubes fitted with spring assist systems to facilitate winding and unwinding of the screen, or with roller tubes fitted with a tubular motor to drive rotation of the roller tube.
US12252931B1
A keeper apparatus engaged to the lower free end swinging corner portion of a gate, not to either of the upper and lower corner portions having the axis on which the gate swings, and not to the upper free end swinging corner portion where the gate has a main latch. The keeper apparatus joins the shortened ends of a horizontal gate support member and a vertical gate support member where, prior to engaging the keeper apparatus on the shortened ends, such intentionally manufactured shortened ends are free and spaced from each other.
US12252922B2
Drive system for opening and closing a motor-vehicle door, and motor vehicle having the drive system
A drive system for a motor vehicle door is provided including an electric motor and a hinge for fastening the motor vehicle door. The hinge includes a door leaf, a body leaf for attachment to the body and a hinge pin arranged coaxially to the hinge axis, and rotatably mounted on the body leaf. The electric motor includes a stator and a rotor arranged coaxially with the hinge axis in the stator and mounted rotatably about the hinge axis relative to the stator. The hinge pin is disposed in sections within the rotor, the rotor being coupled to the hinge pin in a gearless manner to transmit rotation. The drive system includes a tolerance ring arranged between the rotor and the hinge pin for transmitting the rotation from the rotor to the hinge pin, wherein the tolerance ring is coupled frictionally to the hinge pin or to the rotor.
US12252921B2
Method of operating a lid of a robotic vehicle. The lid is operable by a motor between an opened and a closed positions. When the lid is between the opened position and a first intermediary position, a first electric current having a first value is provided to the motor for exerting a first force on the lid. When the lid is between the first intermediary position and a second intermediary position, a second electric current, having a second value whose sign is opposite to a sign of the first value, is provided to the motor for exerting a second force on the lid. The second force is applied in an opposite direction of the first force. When the lid is between the second intermediary position and the closed position, a third electric current having a third value having a same sign than the first value is provided to the motor.
US12252919B2
Door operator systems are described herein that include the use of an adaptor. It should be understood that the adaptor may be utilized in order to operatively couple separate door operator assemblies together in a double door operator system. The adaptor may include control components (e.g., switches, buttons, toggles, levers, or the like) that are used to turn the door operator system on and off. While the adaptor may be used to operatively couple two separate door operator assemblies together to form a double door operator system, the adaptor may also be used within a single door operator system. Furthermore, with respect to double door operator systems, the system may also utilize a back plate assembly comprising two or more separate back plates (e.g., two or more back plate portions).
US12252913B2
Aspects of the present invention are directed to a door securement device for securing a door to a door frame having a front door frame wall, the door having a first fastener attached thereto and the frame having a second fastener attached thereto. The door securement device can include a top wall, a first side wall extending substantially perpendicularly outwardly from the top wall, a second side wall extending substantially perpendicularly outwardly from the top wall, and substantially perpendicularly from the first side wall. The door securement device can also include a first slot defined in the first side wall and a second slot defined in the second side wall. The first and second slot portions can be sized and shaped to retain respective heads of the first and second fasteners. The first side wall can be sized and shaped to be positioned adjacent to one of a surface of the door and the front door frame wall, and the second side wall can be sized and shaped to be positioned adjacent to the other of the a surface of the door and surface of the front door frame wall.
US12252907B2
A door control device has a processor configured to determine whether or not an emergency situation has occurred in a vehicle, based on operation by a user on an operating unit that is to be operated to open a door of the vehicle, and to decide to open the door when it has been determined by the first assessment unit that the emergency situation has occurred.
US12252900B2
A hardware assembly is provided with a threaded handle for a drawer or door. A threaded rod is provided for threaded engagement with the threaded handle, with a length to extend through the drawer or door. A threaded fastener is sized for threaded engagement with the threaded rod to engage the drawer or door spaced apart from the handle to fasten the handle to the drawer or door. At least one weakened region is formed in the threaded rod to permit separation of an unused portion of the rod from an installed portion of the rod.
US12252899B2
A structure, system, and method utilize horizontal hole cavities on the moon for constructing dwellings, shopping areas, factories, industrial and power plants, government offices, towns, and for unmanned robot devices where cosmic rays and ultraviolet are not directly incident. The horizontal hole cavities are also utilized to store trash such as all waste materials on the earth including waste or trash, hazardous materials, and radioactive waste as well as all waste materials on the moon including such things as waste or trash, hazardous materials, and radioactive waste. The radioactive waste includes spent fuel, radioactive soil, radioactive liquid, and radioactive material produced by nuclear power plants during normal and accident conditions. The vertical hole cavities are utilized for building elevators and stairs, and pipes supplying oxygen produced by photosynthesis devices on the moon's surface and carbon dioxide produced by humans in the cavity are used as conduits.
US12252897B1
A portable water pump used in pool includes an engine, a filtering mesh, and a lighting assembly. The lighting assembly and the engine are both arranged in the filtering mesh. The lighting assembly is electrically connected to the engine. The lighting assembly includes a support and a light source main body, which further includes a lamp body and a housing. The support is arranged on the filtering mesh. When the engine is turned on, the lighting assembly can emit light. Therefore, even if a user uses the portable water pump used in pool at night, the situation inside a pool and the situation of the portable water pump used in pool can also be observed. The material of the housing is transparent polyvinyl chloride so that the housing is waterproof and able to protect the lamp body. It is convenient to assemble the housing on the support, which also makes the light source main body become more attractive.
US12252894B2
A modular columbarium for storing funerary urns, comprising a plurality of individual containers able to be coupled together in a matrix arrangement, preferably in rows and columns. Said individual containers are each made up of a part made from injection-mouldable plastic material defined by a base and side walls, such that it defines an inner space provided to house at least one funerary urn, wherein each container includes removable closing means provided to close off the inner space from the outside, wherein the closing means include at least one inner door which isolates the inner space from the outside environment, the inner door having releasable locking means and a male-female coupling system for the joining thereof to the individual container.
US12252886B2
A floating modular stair system includes a wall mounting plate that is attachable to a vertical wall, and a base mounting plate that is anchorable to a horizontal floor. A monostringer beam is attachable to the wall mounting plate and to the base mounting plate. The monostringer beam includes an integrated hook attachment for variable angle adjustment and attachment to the wall mounting plate. Stair tread brackets are attachable to the monostringer beam for equal spacing of stair treads after installation of the monostringer beam to the wall mounting plate and to the base mounting plate. Each of the stair tread brackets are also designed for individual variable angle adjustment and leveling after attachment to the monostringer beam, and the stair tread brackets are rotatable through an adjustable anchor point about a fixed pivot anchor point to level the stair treads of the floating modular stair system.
US12252885B2
A surface-reinforced bitumen roofing membrane includes at least two layers, namely 1) a bitumen compound layer, and 2) a fiber mat, and can optionally include a) an optional bleed blocker layer that is located between the bitumen compound layer and the fiber mat, b) an optional liquid applied coating that partially or fully encapsulates the fiber mat, c) an optional release liner that is releasably positioned on the bottom surface of the bitumen roofing membrane, and/or d) an optional release film that is releasably positioned on the fiber mat surface.
US12252880B2
An intermodal container includes a base, a roof, walls extending between the base and the roof, at least one of the walls having a corrugated surface. An insulation for the intermodal container includes a plurality of insulation units, each of the insulation units having a corrugated surface complementary to the corrugated surface of the intermodal container. Frist one of the insulating units has insulating material having a cross-section with a first face and an opposite second face, the first face including a longitudinally extending planar first central section and first and second longitudinally extending planar slanted sections on opposite sides of the first central section. The first and second slanted sections extend obliquely from the first central section toward the second face. A segmented support element is embedded in the insulation unit.
US12252878B2
A modular configurable multi-purpose system is provided. The system comprises at least one unit that has at least one room. The units are configured into at least one section, and arranged end to end or as called for in the application. A support section, having at least one support unit, may be provided for providing space for working, storage and other services for those working in the system. The system may be configured in numerous combinations to adapt to the immediate needs of the situation, and installed indoors and in the external environment. A method of operation of the system is provided.
US12252868B2
A shovel includes a lower traveling body including a pair of crawlers; an upper turning body; an image capturing device; an obtaining device that obtains information related to a situation around the shovel; a detecting part that detects a predetermined object around the shovel; and a display device that displays a peripheral image representing the situation around the shovel. A detection area of the detecting part includes the entirety of an area appearing in the peripheral image displayed on the display device. Areas located in a moving direction of the crawlers, in a state in which the orientation of the upper turning body does not coincide with the moving direction of the crawlers, are included in one or both of a detectable area in which the predetermined object is detectable by the detecting part and a displayable area that is displayable on the display device as the peripheral image.
US12252867B1
Disclosed in the present application are a method and apparatus for controlling a wheel loader, and a wheel loader and a storage medium, wherein an original trigger condition for KickDown is preset in the wheel loader. The method for controlling a wheel loader comprises: acquiring a way for releasing KickDown of a wheel loader; determining the current state of the wheel loader on the basis of the way for releasing KickDown; and when the current state of the wheel loader is working state, adjusting an original trigger condition to a first trigger condition, wherein the first trigger condition is easier to trigger than the original trigger condition.
US12252865B2
A working machine includes: a machine body; a frame member; a cover member; and a hinge with which the cover member is swingably supported on the frame member, a connector plate attached to the hinge, the hinge includes: a movable arm which is supported on the frame member such that the movable arm is swingable up and down; a mounting plate which is fixed on a swinging end of the movable arm; the mounting plate has a hole for insertion of a mounting bolt, the hole being an elongated hole including: a mounting area through which the mounting bolt is passed to attach the connector plate to the mounting plate; and a guiding area which extends from the mounting area to guide the mounting bolt therethrough, and the guiding area extends upward from the mounting area when the movable arm is in an upward swung position.
US12252862B2
A compaction wheel assembly includes a shaft, a plurality of compaction wheels along the shaft, and at least one bushing assembly. The bushing assembly includes first and second split bushings axially spaced-apart to form a space therebetween, the upper and lower bushing housings removably secured together with the first and second split bushings therebetween to clamp the first and second split bushings about the shaft, and at least one first shim located between the bushing housings at a front side of the shaft and at least one second shim located between the bushing housings at a rear side of the shaft to space the upper and lower bushing housings and upper and lower halves of the first and second split bushings. At least one of the first and second shims includes a slot configured for feeding grease to the space between the first and second split bushings.
US12252858B2
A subsea foundation comprises at least one mudmat having a top panel and a skirt depending from the top panel to be embedded into seabed soil. At least one auxiliary plate is supported by the mudmat, the plate being deployable downwardly like a guillotine blade from a raised, retracted position in which the plate is held above a lower edge of the skirt into a lowered, deployed position in which the plate extends beneath the lower edge of the skirt to be embedded further into the seabed soil. The foundation may be used to restrict movement of an elongate subsea element, such as a pipeline, relative to the seabed.
US12252857B2
A construction method for removing mud in a jacket steel pipe pile includes: erecting a piling auxiliary platform, and performing underwater steel pipe pile sinking; measuring an elevation of a mud surface in the underwater steel pipe pile, and calculating a height from the mud surface in the pile to a pile top and a needed mud removing depth according to the measurement result; installing mud removing equipment on the steel pipe pile; starting the mud removing equipment to carry out mud removing operation, and in a case that the mud removing depth is reached, pausing the mud removing equipment, and cleaning an inner wall of the steel pipe pile; and in a case that the mud removing operation is not reach the related elevation, repeating the mud removing operation till the mud removing operation reaches a standard.
US12252854B2
A system is disclosed including but not limited to a jack up processor in data communication with each for dynamically balancing loads in real time on a plurality of legs supporting a jack up rig platform having a plurality of gear box motors on the plurality of legs. A processor reads data from sensors on gear box motors on the legs and selects a stored torque profile from a computer readable medium based on the load data from the sensors; and sends the torque profile to the plurality of gearboxes. A computer readable medium and neural network are disclosed for dynamically balancing loads on the plurality of legs in real time.
US12252842B2
An energy dissipating fiber and fabric for protective textile application, which can absorb energy during shocking, stretching and vibration. The disclosed fiber/fabric can include a polymer matrix, a shear-thickening material and a reinforcing filler.
US12252820B2
Knit fabrics having ceramic strands, thermal protective members formed therefrom and to their methods of construction are disclosed. Methods for fabricating thermal protection using multiple materials which may be concurrently knit are also disclosed. This unique capability to knit high temperature ceramic fibers concurrently with a load-relieving process aid, such as an inorganic or organic material (e.g., metal alloy or polymer), both small diameter wires within the knit as well as large diameter wires which provide structural support and allow for the creation of near net-shape preforms at production level speed. Additionally, ceramic insulation can also be integrated concurrently to provide increased thermal protection.
US12252817B2
Provided is an airflow disturbance type carbon fiber spreading device. The device includes an unwinding module, an unwinding tension control module, an airflow disturbance spreading module, a winding tension stabilizing module, a deviation correction module and a winding module which are sequentially arranged along a feeding direction. The spreading mechanism includes an airflow disturbance spreading module, the airflow disturbance spreading module includes two airflow disturbance spreading assemblies, each airflow disturbance spreading assembly includes a centrifugal fan, the centrifugal fan communicates with the bottom of an airflow duct, and three spreading guide shafts are arranged side by side on the top of the airflow duct. A tension adjusting assembly is provided between the airflow disturbance spreading assemblies. A seventh spreading guide shaft (13) is located at the upper port of an airflow duct I (25) and is connected to a slider module II (34).
US12252814B2
The improved multifilament structure is a low denier, heat treated multifilament structure that provides for advantageous mechanical properties, including fray resistance, low shrinkage, high tensile strength and low elongation.
US12252811B2
A method of site-selective growth of a nanocrystal from an anisotropic seed can include immersing an anisotropic seed functionalized with a ligand in a growth solution having a nanocrystal precursor, a complexing agent, and a reducing agent to form a growth solution, wherein an amount of the reducing agent and/or any amount of the complexing agent is selected to define a supersaturation of the growth solution that is sufficient for overcoming an energy barrier of one or more selected regions of the functionalized seed to selectively growth the nanocrystal at the one or more selected regions.
US12252808B2
In a silicon carbide single crystal wafer, a dislocation density contained therein is 3500 dislocations/cm2 or less, and a difference of the dislocation density among a wafer central part, a wafer peripheral part and a wafer intermediate part is less than 50% of an average value thereof.
US12252807B2
A process for obtaining a nitride (N) layer preferably obtained from at least one of gallium (Ga), indium (In) and aluminium (Al), may include: on a stack including a substrate and at least the following layers successively disposed from the substrate: a creep layer having a glass transition temperature, Tglass transition, and a crystalline layer, forming pads by etching the stack so that each pad includes at least a creep segment formed by at least a portion of the creep layer, and a crystalline segment formed by the crystalline layer; and growing by epitaxy a crystallite on each of the pads and continuing the epitaxial growth of the crystallites so as to form the nitride layer. The epitaxial growth may be carried out at a temperature Tepitaxy, such that Tepitaxy≥k1×Tglass transition, with k1 being 0.8.
US12252802B2
A surface-treated steel sheet of the present disclosure includes a steel sheet, and an alloy layer containing Ni and Co on a surface of the steel sheet. A surface roughness Ra1 of the surface of the alloy layer over a sampling length of 5.0 mm in the width direction of the steel sheet is 2.0 μm or less. Ra2 that denotes the arithmetic mean height of a roughness curve of the surface of the alloy layer over a sampling length of 10 μm in the width direction of the steel sheet is 20 nm or less, and RSm that denotes the mean length of roughness curve elements over the sampling length of 10 μm in the width direction of the steel sheet is 700 nm or more, Ra2 and RSm being measured using an atomic force microscope.
US12252801B2
An electrochemical-deposition apparatus includes an electrode array, a photoconductor, an electrically conductive layer, an electromagnetic-radiation emitter, an electric-power source, and a controller. The controller is configured to direct electric power to be supplied from the electric-power source to the electrically conductive layer and direct the electromagnetic-radiation emitter to generate electromagnetic radiation. When the electric power is supplied to the electrically conductive layer and when the electromagnetic radiation is generated, the photoconductor is illuminated at a first radiation level and a first level of electric current is enabled through the photoconductor and the at least one deposition electrode. When the electric power is supplied to the electrically conductive layer and when the electromagnetic radiation is generated, the photoconductor is illuminated at a second radiation level and a second level of electric current is enabled through the photoconductor and the at least one deposition electrode.
US12252800B2
A container such as a barrel or drum is provided for processing of solid material or parts with a liquid. The container is designed with grooves leading to holes or slots in the side that draw liquid into the container due to the rotation of the container when it is immersed in a tank of liquid. The holes or slots have a small dimension in the direction of rotation to minimize the probability of solid material coming out of the container. The fluid flow caused by the rotation serves to increase the rate of solution replacement inside the container as well as to keep the solid material from falling out through the holes or slots. The container disclosed is useful in processes in the plating, etching, leaching, and surface finishing industries.
US12252798B2
The method for controlling an organic hydride generation system includes controlling potentials in an anode electrode and a cathode electrode such that a potential change in an electrode having a higher deterioration rate among the anode electrode and the cathode electrode included in an electrolytic bath is smaller than a potential change in an electrode having a lower deterioration rate.
US12252793B2
An abradable powder composition is includes a metal component, a lubricant component, and a polymer component. A portion of the metal component is wrapped in the lubricant component to achieve high lubricity and abradability. The abradable powder composition can be used to form an abradable seal coating provided for use in a turbo machinery having a housing and a wheel having multiple blades. The housing houses the wheel which rotates therein. The seal coating is formed on the inner walls of housing adjacent where the wheel blades pass during their rotation. When the wheel is rotated such that, the blades contact the seal coating, it is abraded to form a close fit gap. The abradable seal coating preferably does not produce significant wear of the blade tips or transfer abradable material significantly to the blade tips upon being abraded.
US12252788B2
The present invention relates to a method for forming a thin film, and more particularly, to a method for forming a thin film comprising steps of: i) adsorbing a growth inhibitor for forming a thin film on a surface of a substrate; and ii) adsorbing a metal film precursor, metal oxide film precursor, metal nitride film precursor or silicon nitride film precursor on a surface of a substrate on which the growth inhibitor is adsorbed, wherein the growth inhibitor for forming a thin film is represented by Chemical Formula 1 below, and the metal is at least one selected from a group consisting of tungsten, cobalt, chrome, aluminum, hafnium, vanadium, niobium, germanium, lanthanide, actinoids, gallium, tantalum, zirconium, ruthenium, copper, titanium, nickel, iridium and molybdenum. AnBmXo [Chemical Formula 1] wherein A is carbon or silicon, B is hydrogen or a C1-C3 alkyl, X is a halogen, n is an integer of 1 to 15, o is an integer of 1 or more, and m is 0 to 2n+1. According to the present invention, it is possible to suppress side reactions to appropriately lower a thin film growth rate and remove process byproducts in the thin film, thereby preventing corrosion or deterioration and greatly improving step coverage and thickness uniformity of a thin film, even when the thin film is formed on a substrate having a complex structure.
US12252785B2
A method of cleaning an epitaxial reaction chamber in-situ is disclosed. The method may include a pre-coating step, a high temperature baking step, and a gas etching step. The method is able to remove residue buildup within the reaction chamber, which may be made of quartz.
US12252777B2
A physical vapor deposition (PVD) system is provided. The PVD system includes a PVD chamber defining a PVD volume within which a target material of a target is deposited onto a wafer. The PVD system includes the target in the PVD chamber. The target is configured to overlie the wafer. An edge of the target extends from a first surface of the target to a second surface of the target, opposite the first surface of the target. A first portion of the edge of the target has a first surface roughness. The first portion of the edge of the target extends at most about 6 millimeters from the first surface of the target to a second portion of the edge of the target. The second portion of the edge of the target has a second surface roughness less than the first surface roughness.
US12252775B2
There have been cases where transistors formed using oxide semiconductors are inferior in reliability to transistors formed using amorphous silicon. Thus, in the present invention, a semiconductor device including a highly reliable transistor formed using an oxide semiconductor is manufactured. An oxide semiconductor film is deposited by a sputtering method, using a sputtering target including an oxide semiconductor having crystallinity, and in which the direction of the c-axis of a crystal is parallel to a normal vector of the top surface of the oxide semiconductor. The target is formed by mixing raw materials so that its composition ratio can obtain a crystal structure.
US12252772B2
New methods of making cold formed, extruded aluminum lithium alloys, and unrecrystallized products made therefrom are disclosed. A method may include one or more of heating an unrecrystallized extruded aluminum-lithium product to a treatment temperature, cooling the unrecrystallized extruded aluminum-lithium product from the treatment temperature to a post-treatment temperature, and cold forming the unrecrystallized extruded aluminum-lithium product into a second product form. Due to the unique processing conditions of the method, the second product form may wholly or partially retain the unrecrystallized microstructure.
US12252766B2
A composite material of the present disclosure contains a plurality of diamond particles, copper, and at least one first element selected from the group consisting of silicon, chromium, cobalt, nickel, molybdenum, titanium, vanadium, niobium, tantalum tungsten and aluminum, wherein the content rate of the first element based on the total mass of the copper and the first element is 50 ppm or higher and 2,000 ppm or lower.
US12252764B2
The present disclosure relates to a composite-strengthened heat-resistant and wear-resistant aluminum alloy and a preparation method thereof, and belongs to the field of preparation of high-performance metal materials. In the composite-strengthened heat-resistant and wear-resistant aluminum alloy of the present disclosure, an Al—Si—Cu—Mg alloy is adopted as a matrix, and microalloying elements for improving the heat resistance and a heat-resistant high-entropy alloy (HEA) for improving the wear resistance are added to allow composite strengthening. The preparation method mainly includes the following steps sequentially: smelting and alloying, blowing and refining, blow-compounding, die-casting molding, solution treatment, water quenching, and cryogenic and aging composite heat treatment.
US12252763B2
The present disclosure provides a ZA4 alloy and a preparation method and use thereof, and relates to the technical field of pure zirconium materials. In the present disclosure, the ZA4 alloy includes the following components by mass fraction: 0.2% to 0.6% of Fe, 0.1% to 0.3% of O, 0.5% to 4% of Hf, and Zr as a balance. The Fe and O with a trace amount make a grain size of the ZA4 alloy significantly refined during smelting and cooling, and inhibit growth of a grains during thermal deformation and heat treatment. The Hf is a neutral element, and shows an obvious solid solution strengthening effect in an a phase. The ZA4 alloy obtained by strictly controlling a content of each element has higher strength and plasticity. The preparation method has simple operations and a low production cost, and is suitable for industrial production.
US12252762B2
To provide a titanium alloy with superior corrosion resistance. The titanium alloy, having α- and β-phases, containing: by mass %, Fe: 0.010 to 0.300%, Ru: 0.010 to 0.150%, Cr: 0 to 0.10%, Ni: 0 to 0.30%, Mo: 0 to 0.10%, Pt: 0 to 0.10%, Pd: 0 to 0.20%, Ir: 0 to 0.10%, Os: 0 to 0.10%, Rh: 0 to 0.10%, one type or two or more types of La, Ce, and Nd: 0 to 0.10% in total, one type or two or more types of Cu, Mn, Sn, and Zr: 0 to 0.20% in total, C: 0.10% or less, N: 0.05% or less, O: 0.20% or less, H: 0.100% or less, with the balance made up of Ti and impurities, wherein an average A-value in Expression (1), which represents a composition ratio of elements contained in β-phase crystal grains, is in a range of 0.550 to 2.000, is used.
US12252756B2
Provided herein is a high-strength seamless steel pipe, and a method for manufacturing same. A high-strength seamless steel pipe of the present invention has a steel microstructure with a prior austenite grain size of 11.0 or more in terms of a grain size number in compliance with ASTM E112, and has a yield strength of 862 MPa or more and 965 MPa or less.
US12252755B2
A process for manufacturing a flat steel product having a prealloyed corrosion-resistant coating, comprises providing a coated flat steel product comprising a steel substrate having, at least on one side of the steel substrate, and an aluminum-based corrosion-resistant coating. The coated flat steel product is heat-treated, comprising the following substeps: Heating the coated flat steel product in a furnace at a furnace temperature T of between 950° C. and 1150° C. with a furnace dwell time tV of between 40 seconds and 150 seconds, the furnace temperature being chosen such that the heating rate of the coated flat steel product in the temperature range from 500° C. to 700° C. is more than 10 K/s. The coated flat steel product is held at a temperature above Ac3 for a hold time of between 20 seconds and 60 seconds.
US12252743B2
The identification of mutations that are present in a small fraction of DNA templates is essential for progress in several areas of biomedical research. Though massively parallel sequencing instruments are in principle well-suited to this task, the error rates in such instruments are generally too high to allow confident identification of rare variants. We here describe an approach that can substantially increase the sensitivity of massively parallel sequencing instruments for this purpose. One example of this approach, called “Safe-SeqS” for (Safe-Sequencing System) includes (i) assignment of a unique identifier (UID) to each template molecule; (ii) amplification of each uniquely tagged template molecule to create UID-families; and (iii) redundant sequencing of the amplification products. PCR fragments with the same UID are truly mutant (“super-mutants”) if ≥95% of them contain the identical mutation. We illustrate the utility of this approach for determining the fidelity of a polymerase, the accuracy of oligonucleotides synthesized in vitro, and the prevalence of mutations in the nuclear and mitochondrial genomes of normal cells.
US12252737B2
Methods of uniquely labeling or barcoding molecules within a cell, a plurality of cells, and/or a tissue are provided. Kits for uniquely labeling or barcoding molecules within a cell, a plurality of cells, and/or a tissue are also provided. The molecules to be labeled may include, but are not limited to, RNAs, cDNAs, DNAs, proteins, peptides, and/or antigens.
US12252736B2
Methods of uniquely labeling or barcoding molecules within a cell, a plurality of cells, and/or a tissue are provided. Kits for uniquely labeling or barcoding molecules within a cell, a plurality of cells, and/or a tissue are also provided. The molecules to be labeled may include, but are not limited to, RNAs, cDNAs, DNAs, proteins, peptides, and/or antigens.
US12252726B2
The present invention relates to a process for simultaneous production of citric acid and cellulolytic enzymes. The batch process comprising (i) adding slurry of a pre-treated lignocellulosic biomass or cellulose in a fermentation media; (ii) inoculating 10% (v/v) active liquid seed culture of Penicillium funiculosum MRJ-16 in the fermentation media of step (i); (iii) subjecting the culture of step (ii) to fermentation in an aerated fermenter at a temperature of 28-33° C. for a duration of 96 hours; and (iv) collecting enzyme broth after fermentation of step (iii) to obtain citric acid and cellulolytic enzymes. The batch and fed-batch process of the present invention results in high titer production of citric acid and cellulolytic enzymes in a single step and using single microbial strain.
US12252720B2
The present invention relates to variants of a parent alpha-amylase. The present invention also relates to polynucleotides encoding the variants and to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides, and methods of using the variant enzymes.
US12252715B2
The disclosure provides, in various embodiments, fusion proteins comprising a DNA-binding domain, a DNMT3A-binding domain, and a H3K4me0; and polynucleotides and vectors encoding one or more of the fusion proteins. The disclosure also provides, in various embodiments, gene-delivery systems, cells, compositions (e.g., pharmaceutical compositions) and kits comprising one or more of the fusion proteins polynucleotides, or vectors; methods of epigenetically modifying a genomic locus in a cell; and methods of treating a subject (e.g., a human) in need thereof.
US12252714B2
The disclosure provides biocatalysts that halogenate complex chemical compounds in specific and predictable ways. Also disclosed are halogenated complex organic compounds. The disclosure further provides methods for the halogenation of complex chemical compounds and methods of inhibiting the contraction of smooth muscle in mammals.
US12252706B2
Compositions and methods for binding to a target sequence of interest are provided. The compositions find use in cleaving or modifying a target sequence of interest, visualization of a target sequence of interest, and modifying the expression of a sequence of interest. Compositions comprise RNA-guided nuclease (RGN) polypeptides, CRISPR RNAs, trans-activating CRISPR RNAs, guide RNAs, and nucleic acid molecules encoding the same. Vectors and host cells comprising the nucleic acid molecules are also provided. Further provided are RGN systems for binding a target sequence of interest, wherein the RGN system comprises an RNA-guided nuclease polypeptide and one or more guide RNAs.
US12252705B2
Described herein are systems, methods, and compositions capable of targeting nucleic acids. Describe in certain exemplary embodiments herein are a class of small Cas proteins (Type II-D Cas proteins) and systems thereof. Also described in certain exemplary embodiments herein are methods of modifying target sequences using the class of small Cas proteins (Type II-D Cas proteins) and systems thereof described herein.
US12252703B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to a nucleic acid comprising a heterologous nucleic acid insert flanked by interrupted self-complementary sequences, wherein one self-complementary sequence is interrupted by a cross-arm sequence forming two opposing, lengthwise-symmetric stem-loops, and wherein the other of the self-complementary sequences is interrupted by a truncated cross-arm sequence. Methods of delivering the nucleic acid to a cell are also provided.
US12252700B2
An objective of the present invention is to provide an improved negative-strand RNA viral vector and a use thereof, the negative-strand RNA viral vector exhibiting transient high expression of genes loaded in the vector and enabling the rapid removal of the vector after said expression. It was discovered that by adding a micro-RNA target sequence to the NP, P, or L gene of a negative-strand RNA viral vector, it is possible to control the expression of the vector depending on the micro-RNA expressed by the introduction cell. In particular, when a micro-RNA target sequence was added to the NP or P gene, the expression of the vector decreased depending on the micro-RNA, and the removal of the vector was promoted, while the effect was reversed when a micro-RNA target sequence was added to the L gene. The vector can be applied in cell therapy and regenerative medicine and can be used as a therapeutic vector that targets cancer.
US12252684B2
Bioreactor systems and controlled operation of bioreactor systems are disclosed herein. The bioreactor systems can include at least one bioreactor chamber, at least one reservoir, a plurality of sensors, and a fluid circuit. The operational methods disclosed herein are directed towards growing cells or tissue while measuring various parameters, and a controlled operation of the various parameters during the operation of the bioreactor systems. The controlled operation of the parameters includes, for example, cell concentration; a rate of flow; a volume; a pH; a temperature; a level of oxygen; a level of carbon dioxide; a level of bicarbonate ion; nutrient compound; and any combination thereof.
US12252680B2
A bioreactor having a filter unit and a method for treating a cell broth. The filter unit has a supply channel (2), a first filter medium (4), a retentate channel (1), a second filter medium (5) and a permeate channel (3), arranged so that the first filter medium delimits the supply channel and the retentate channel from one another; and the second filter medium delimits the retentate channel and the permeate channel from one another. The supply channel is connected to an inlet for a supply medium; the retentate channel is connected to an inlet for a cell broth and to an outlet for the cell broth; the permeate channel is connected to an outlet for a permeate; and the interior of the bioreactor is connected to the inlet for the cell broth and to the outlet for the cell broth.
US12252678B2
The present disclosure provides systems and methods for bioprocessing. The systems and methods can be implemented using a chip (solid support comprising a bioprocessing chamber). The bioprocessing chamber can be fluidically connected to a feeding input channel. The chip can permit a fluid to flow from the feeding input channel through the bioprocessing chamber for cell seeding, perfusion, and/or expansion. The bioprocessing chamber can be in fluidic communication with a collection output. The cells can be harvested from the bioprocessing chamber through the collection output.
US12252676B2
A cell culture system includes a culture bag made of a flexible packaging material and having a plurality of ports, a medium container that stores a medium to be transferred to the culture bag, and a control part that controls the supply of the medium, tubular members are connected to the respective ports to circularly connect the culture bag and the medium container through the tubular members, the tubular member connected to a first port of the plurality of ports is provided with first supply unit (e.g., pump), and the tubular member connected to a second port of the plurality of ports is provided with second supply unit (e.g., pump), and the control part controls the operation of at least the first supply unit or the second supply unit to circulate the medium in the culture bag and the medium container.
US12252665B2
Aqueous liquid hand dishwashing detergent formulation, is provided including water; an anionic surfactant; and a suds enhancing additive, wherein the suds enhancing additive is a polyacrylic acid homopolymer having a molecular weight of 1,000 to 7,500 Daltons.
US12252661B2
A method for the preparation of homo- and copolymers of alkyl (meth)acrylates having a low residual monomer content involves preparing a reaction mixture containing monomers, charging the reaction mixture, heating the reaction mixture, adding an additional monomer after initial monomer conversion, and optional further processing of the reaction mixture. The homo- and copolymers of alkyl (meth)acrylates obtained by this method as useful in lubricant applications.
US12252660B2
A release agent and method of use for preventing the adhesion of materials to equipment in various industries including construction, mining, and asphalt. The release agent can include oil, surfactant, and in increased level of free fatty acids that can combine with alkali and/or alkaline earth metals in the materials to form a metal/fatty acid salt that prevents adhesion and material build up.
US12252658B2
Described herein are durable coatings, i.e. for medical devices, and methods of forming the coatings.
US12252643B2
A liquid crystal composition as a material used for elements for controlling electromagnetic wave signals in a frequency range of 1 GHz to 10 THz, and an element containing this composition are provided. In the liquid crystal composition, a characteristic balance is excellent, and at least one of characteristics of a wide temperature range of a nematic phase, a large refractive index anisotropy in a frequency region used for control, and a small dielectric loss tangent (tan δ) is satisfied. A liquid crystal composition containing at least one compound selected from compounds represented by Formula (1) is provided: wherein R1 is an alkyl having 1 to 12 carbon atoms; ring A1 is 1,4-phenylene; L11, L13, L14, L16, Y11, and Y12 are each hydrogen; L12 is fluorine; and L15 is methyl.
US12252641B2
The present disclosure belongs to the technical field of nanomaterial synthesis, and in particular, to a preparation method for a core-shell structure quantum dot. The preparation method provided by the present disclosure includes the following steps: in a protective gas atmosphere, mixing a cadmium source, an organic ligand, and an organic solvent with a first selenium source for a nucleation reaction to obtain an organic solution of a CdSe quantum dot core; and mixing the organic solution of the CdSe quantum dot core, a zinc source and an inorganic anion source for shell coating to obtain the core-shell structure quantum dot, where the inorganic anion source includes a second selenium source.
US12252638B2
The present invention relates to an adhesive film comprising an adhesive layer; a photothermal conversion layer containing a light absorber and a thermally decomposable resin; and an adhesive base film layer disposed between the adhesive layer and the photothermal conversion layer, wherein the adhesive base film layer contains a multifunctional epoxy resin, a binder resin, a curing agent, and a curing catalyst. The adhesive film according to the present invention may be able to simplify a processing process of a substrate, and prevent damage to the substrate and circuits or elements formed on the substrate.
US12252635B2
Provided are an adhesive composition having enhanced reliability at edge portions of a display apparatus and the display apparatus, the display apparatus including a display panel displaying an image to the outside, a cover window arranged on the display panel, and an adhesive layer interposed between the display panel and the cover window, the adhesive layer including an adhesive composition including (meth)acrylate having an alicyclic group, a low-temperature glass transition (meth)acrylic monomer, (meth)acrylate having a hydroxyl group, a high-temperature glass transition (meth)acrylic monomer, and a reactive diluent monomer, in which a maximum value of stress of the adhesive composition, with the stress changing over time when a strain of 25% is applied at 60° C. to the adhesive layer, is from about 30000 Pa to about 40000 Pa.
US12252634B2
Disclosed are a polyurethane for use in a polishing layer, and a polishing layer and a polishing pad using the same, the polyurethane including a terminal group represented by the following formula (I): R—(OX)n— (I) wherein R represents a monovalent hydrocarbon group having 1 to 30 carbon atoms that may be substituted with a heteroatom or may be interrupted by a heteroatom, X represents an alkylene group having 2 to 4 carbon atoms, 90 to 100% of the alkylene group being an ethylene group, and n represents a number from 8 to 120.
US12252622B2
An aqueous dispersion of resin particles comprising a dispersing group covalently bonded to the resin and at least one repeating unit of formula I, II and/or III and which is obtainable by contacting a compound A comprising at least 2 functional groups selected from the group of functional groups —X—C(═O)—CHR1-C(═O)—R2, —X—C(═O)—C≡C—R2; or —X—C(═O)—CR1═CR2-NR11R12, with a compound B comprising at least two —NH2, —NH3+ or —N═C═O, wherein X, R1, R2, R3, R11 and R12 have the same meaning as that defined in the claims and wherein compound A and/or B comprise a dispersing group. The invention also includes a method of producing the aqueous dispersion and further relates to an aqueous inkjet ink comprising the resin particles.
US12252621B2
Provided is an ink set for security image recording comprising an infrared-absorbing ink jet ink which contains a polymerizable compound and an infrared absorbing dye and in which a maximum value of an absorbance in a wavelength range of 750 nm to 1,000 nm is larger than a maximum value of an absorbance in a wavelength range of 400 nm to 750 nm, and color ink jet inks which each contain a polymerizable compound and a colored colorant and satisfy a ratio of a maximum value of an absorbance of each of the color ink jet inks in a wavelength range of 750 nm to 1,000 nm to the maximum value of the absorbance of the infrared-absorbing ink jet ink in a wavelength range of 750 nm to 1,000 nm of 0.10 or less. Also provided are applications of the ink set.
US12252619B2
In various aspects, a polymer resin is provided for vat or ultraviolet-assisted direct ink writing (UV-DIW) photopolymerization. The resin can include a polyamic acid salt formed from the addition of a photocrosslinkable amine to a polyamic acid. The resin can include a photoinitiator suitable for initiating crosslinking of the photocrosslinkable amine when exposed to a light source of a suitable wavelength and intensity. The polyamic acid can be formed, for instance, by the addition of a diamine to a suitable dianhydride. Methods of additive manufacturing using the resins are also provided.
US12252613B1
A packaging film and a preparation method thereof, and a filter chip packaging method are provided. The raw materials of the packaging film include: 20-24 parts by mass of silicon dioxide, 24-26 parts by mass of aliphatic polyurethane acrylate, 12-15 parts by mass of phenoxy resin, 5-13 parts by mass of flexible liquid epoxy resin, 10 parts by mass of bisphenol F epoxy resin, 17-19 parts by mass of curing agent, 2-5 parts by mass of photoinitiator, and 0.4-0.8 parts by mass of accelerant, where the curing agent is compounded by bisphenol F-based benzoxazine curing agent and dicyandiamide curing agent according to the mass ratio of 10:(7-9). The packaging film has excellent flexibility and adhesion, a low moisture absorption rate, and high heat resistance and is especially suitable for the packaging of filter chips.
US12252610B2
Disclosed is a blended polyester thin film, comprising a copolyester and a homopolyester. The thin film is composed of upper, middle, and lower layers. Each of the three layers is a homogeneous mixture of the copolyester and the homopolyester. The copolyester comprises 800-2000 ppm by mass of SiO2 added by means of in-situ polymerization. A dihydric alcohol component in the copolyester comprises ethylene glycol, 1,4-cyclohexanedimethanol, and 1,4-butanediol. The melting point of the copolyester is between 200-240° C. The blended polyester film of the present invention has excellent processability, excellent chemical resistance, such as acid and alkali resistance, and excellent uniformity. A film-coated metal plate prepared from the blended polyester thin film can meet performance requirements of metal containers for food and beverage packaging with complex molding processing and high corrosion resistance.
US12252607B2
The invention describes a method for the manufacture of a plasticized polyvinyl alcohol polymer mixture including the steps of: introducing into a mixing reactor a polyvinyl alcohol polymer comprising homopolymeric polyvinyl alcohol or a blend thereof having a degree of hydrolysis in the range of 93% to less than 98% or more; where the plasticizer comprises two or more compounds selected from the group consisting of diglycerol, triglycerol, xylose, D-mannitol, triacetin, dipentaerythritol, 1,4-butanediol, 3,3-dimethyl-1,2-butanediol, and caprolactam; reacting the water, the plasticizer and the polyvinyl alcohol polymer in the reaction zone to form the plasticized polymer; and allowing the plasticized polyvinyl alcohol polymer to pass from the primary outlet.
US12252593B2
The present invention relates to an improved process for preparing an aqueous dispersion of lignin and the use of said suspension in the preparation of a resin.
US12252589B2
The present invention relates to novel degradable branched-block copolymers, comprising a star-shaped copolymer central core or a linear copolymer central core, functionalized with photoreactive groups chosen among aryl-azide, (meth)acrylate or thiol groups. The present invention also relates to the use of these degradable branched-block copolymers as photo-crosslinkers to provide degradable photo-crosslinked elastomers as biomaterials suitable for medical and tissue engineering applications. A method for preparing a degradable photo-crosslinked polymer, preferably a degradable photo-crosslinked elastomer, starting from the branched-block copolymer of the invention via a shaping process and an irradiation step is also provided.
US12252580B2
The disclosure relates to epoxy-based compositions comprising a decarboxylated rosin acid (DCR) component, suitable as an efficient plasticizer. It further improves hardness, elasticity, UV exposure viability properties of the paint and coating compositions. The DCR increases the bio-based renewable material content of a coating formulation and provide solutions for phthalate-free products. The DCR has a density of 0.9 to 1.0 g/cm3, a flash point of 135 to 175° C., an acid value of <50 mg KOH/g, measured according to ASTM D465, and a viscosity of 15 to 60 cSt at 40° C., measured according to ASTM D-445.
US12252578B2
A polyurethane foam composition comprising: (a) an isocyanate compound; (b) one or more isocyanate reactive compounds at least one of the isocyanate reactive compounds comprises an aromatic polyester polyol compound comprising an imide moiety wherein the aromatic polyester polyol is the reaction product of: (i) a cyclic anhydride compound; (ii) a phthalic acid based compound, (iii) a primary amine compound, (iv) an aliphatic diol compound; (v) optionally, a high functionality, low molecular weight polyether polyol compound; (vi) optionally, a hydrophobic compound; and wherein the weight ratio of Component (i) to Component (ii) is from 1:24 to 24:1; and wherein the aromatic polyester polyol is liquid at 25° C. and comprises a hydroxy value ranging from about 30 to about 600; and (c) a blowing agent.
US12252554B2
Disclosed are analogs of elamipretide (MTP-131). The compounds are useful for the treatment and prevention of ischemia-reperfusion injury (e.g., cardiac ischemia-reperfusion injury) or myocardial infarction.
US12252551B2
Disclosed herein are method and/or kit for rendering a diagnosis on whether a subject is suffering from peripheral neuropathy pain. The method comprises detecting the presence of advillin in a biological sample by forming an immune complex between advillin and a monoclonal antibody specifically binds thereto. Also disclosed herein is a method of treating a subject suffering from peripheral neuropathy pain.
US12252536B2
The present invention discloses caninized antibodies with specific properties. The present invention also discloses caninized murine antibodies against canine PD-1 that have a high binding affinity for canine PD-1. The invention further discloses the use of the caninized antibodies of the present invention in the treatment of cancer in dogs.
US12252522B2
Disclosed are compositions comprising myokines and their methods of preparation and use. The disclosed myokine compositions and methods may comprise myokines having a molecular weight of greater than about 10 kDa such as myostatin and metrnl. The disclosed myokine compositions and methods may be utilized for treating and/or preventing cell proliferative and metabolic diseases and disorders. In particular, the disclosed myokine compositions and methods may be utilized for treating and/or preventing cell proliferative and metabolic diseases and disorders, such as cancer, and metabolic diseases and disorders, such as diabetes, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, and heart disease.
US12252521B2
The present disclosure relates to the field of G protein coupled receptor (GPCR) structural biology and signaling. In particular, the present disclosure relates to binding domains directed against and/or specifically binding to GPCR:G protein complexes. Also provided are nucleic acid sequences encoding such binding domains and cells expressing or capable of expressing such binding domains. The binding domains of the present disclosure can be used as universal tools for the structural and functional characterization of G-protein coupled receptors in complex with downstream heterotrimeric G proteins and bound to various natural or synthetic ligands, for investigating the dynamic features of G protein activation, as well as for screening and drug discovery efforts that make use of GPCR:G protein complexes.
US12252518B2
Disclosed herein are methods for preventing or treating non-arteritic anterior ischemic optic neuropathy in a subject by administering to the subject a nucleic acid molecule comprising a nucleic acid sequence encoding OCT4, a nucleic acid sequence encoding SOX2, and a nucleic acid sequence encoding KLF4.
US12252516B2
The present disclosure provides genetically modified microorganisms (e.g., bacteria or yeast) with enhanced mucin-binding and/or cell-adhesion properties. For example, the present disclosure provides bacteria exhibiting increased in vitro binding to Caco-2 cells, and increased in vitro binding to mucins. Such microorganisms (e.g., bacteria) can be used, e.g., to deliver bioactive polypeptides to the gastrointestinal tract of a mammalian subject. Modifying the microorganism in the described manner allows for the modulation of gastrointestinal retention and transit times for the microorganism (e.g., bacterium). Exemplary microorganisms (e.g., lactic acid bacteria, such as Lactococcus lactis) contain an exogenous nucleic acid encoding a fusion protein containing a cell-adherence polypeptide, such as CmbA, and a mucin-binding polypeptide, such as a trefoil factor (TFF), e.g., human TFF3. The current disclosure further provides method for making and using the described microorganisms (e.g., bacteria).
US12252501B2
Disclosed is a method of preparing glufosinate, and specifically a method of preparing glufosinate represented by formula (I) or its salt or enantiomer, or a mixture of its enantiomers in any ratio, comprising a step of hydrolyzing a compound of formula (III) to generate a compound of formula (I). Due to a distinctive reaction mechanism adopted in the method of the present disclosure, a halogenated hydrocarbon by-product in the Michaelis-Arbuzov reaction can be avoided and thus the destructive impact of the halogenated hydrocarbon by-product on ozone in the aerosphere can be prevented. Accordingly, the equipment and engineering investments required for the separation, purification, and collection of the foregoing by-product are eliminated, and the potential environmental and safety hazards brought by the foregoing by-product are also avoided.
US12252498B2
A compound represented by the structure of Formula (I), or a salt thereof suitable for use as a buffer in an electrochromic device is disclosed.
US12252488B2
The present invention provides compounds, compositions thereof, and methods of using the same for the inhibition of HPK1, and the treatment of HPK1-mediated disorders.
US12252482B2
The present disclosure relates to compounds of formula (I) and pharmaceutical compositions and their use in reducing Widely Interspaced Zinc Finger Motifs (WIZ) expression levels, or inducing fetal hemoglobin (HbF) expression, and in the treatment of inherited blood disorders (e.g., hemoglobinopathies, e.g., beta-hemoglobinopathies), such as sickle cell disease and beta-thalassemia.
US12252480B2
Disclosed herein is the compound (R)-1-(4-(6-(2-(4-(3,3-difluorocyclobutoxy)-6-methylpyridin-2-yl)acetamido) pyridazin-3-yl)-2-fluorobutyl)-N-methyl-1H-1,2,3-triazole-4-carboxamide, and salt forms and polymorphs thereof demonstrating improved exposure after oral dosing. Methods of inhibition GLS1 activity in a human or animal subject are also provided.
US12252474B2
Provided is an ultraviolet absorber with a high molar extinction coefficient that is particularly superior in heat resistance, odor suppression at the time of thermal decomposition and long-wavelength absorption, as compared to a conventional ultraviolet absorber. The ultraviolet absorber is an ultraviolet absorber comprising a 2-phenylbenzotriazole derivative having a bonding group represented by the following formula (I) or (II): wherein X represents a nitrogen atom, an oxygen atom or a residue obtained by eliminating a hydrogen atom from an amide group; l represents an integer of 0 or 1; Y1 represents a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic hydrocarbon group; m is 1 when X is a nitrogen atom or a residue obtained by eliminating a hydrogen atom from an amide group, or 0 when X is an oxygen atom; Y2 represents a hydrogen atom, a substituted or unsubstituted aliphatic hydrocarbon group, or a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic hydrocarbon group, wherein Y3 forms a substituted or unsubstituted hetero ring together with a nitrogen atom N.
US12252472B1
Provided herein are novel barbituric acid derivatives, their synthesis and use thereof in blocking leukocyte transmigration. The novel barbituric acid derivatives are useful for the treatment of disorders associated with leukocyte transmigration, such as for example inflammatory diseases and disorders, autoimmune diseases and disorders, and cancers.
US12252471B2
The present invention is directed to novel compounds of Formula (I), or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, solvate or hydrate thereof. Pharmaceutical compositions comprising a compound of Formula (I), or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, solvate or hydrate thereof, are also described. The invention is also directed to use of the compounds of Formula (I) for treating a condition in a mammal associated with AhR imbalance, such as an inflammatory disease or disorder.
US12252468B2
A method for purifying a waste N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone (NMP) mixed solution according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes using a base. The base according to an embodiment may be NaBH4. N-methylsuccinimide and γ-butyrolactone are simultaneously removed, and high-purity NMP can be recovered by applying a base to the waste NMP mixed solution.
US12252467B2
This invention provides compounds of Formulae (IA), (IB), (IC), (ID), (IE), (IF), (IG), (IH), (IJ), (IK), (IL), (II), (III), (IIIA), and (IIIB); pharmaceutically acceptable salts and solvates thereof; and compositions thereof. This invention further provides methods for treating a disease, including but not limited to, liver disease or an abnormal liver condition; cancer (such as hepatocellular carcinoma or cholangiocarcinoma); a malignant or benign tumor of the lung, liver, gall bladder, bile duct or digestive tract; an intra- or extra-hepatic bile duct disease; a disorder of lipoprotein; a lipid-and-metabolic disorder; cirrhosis; fibrosis; a disorder of glucose metabolism; a cardiovascular or related vascular disorder; a disease resulting from steatosis, fibrosis, or cirrhosis; a disease associated with increased inflammation (such as hepatic inflammation or pulmonary inflammation); hepatocyte ballooning; a peroxisome proliferator activated receptor-associated disorder; an ATP citrate lyase disorder; an acetyl-coenzyme A carboxylase disorder; obesity; pancreatitis; or renal disease.
US12252459B2
Provided are a new class of hydrazone amide derivatives and the use thereof in the preparation of anti-osteoporosis drugs, wherein the structural formula of the hydrazone amide derivative is as shown in formula (I), and same are a new class of compounds with an anti-osteoporosis effect.
US12252451B2
A transport system can include a first chamber having a body that is configured to fully enclose a biodegradable container placed within the first chamber, the biodegradable container having food waste therein, and the biodegradable container being sealed from the ambient environment, and a disinfection system being configured to disinfect an object placed within the body. The transport system can include a second chamber having a composting system, the composting system being configured to begin to compost an object placed within the second chamber, and an enclosure that houses the first chamber and the second chamber. The first chamber, and the second chamber can be configured to be placed within a cargo space of a vehicle.
US12252449B2
A dry granular ceramic tile from a wet slurry spraying process and a preparation method thereof, comprises: applying an overglaze on a green body, applying a pattern by ink-jet printing, applying a dry granular glaze by bell-shaped spraying, and sintering to obtain ceramic tiles. The dry granular glaze contains: by mass percentage, dry granular frit A: 15%, dry granular frit B: 12% to 15%, dry granular frit C: 13% to 17%. The softening temperature of the dry granular frit A is 1135° C. to 1175° C., 980° C. to 1050° C. for the dry granular frit B, and 1020° C. to 1127° C. for the dry granular frit C. The dry granular frits used in the present invention adopts a combination of dry granular frits with three different melting points, and using such a matching method, it is convenient for the effective adjustment of the brick shape and the firing temperature during production.
US12252448B1
In the present disclosure, an engineered stone is provided. The engineered stone includes a first full-body stone pattern, a second full-body stone pattern and a printed stone pattern. The first full-body stone pattern includes a first stone formulation. The second full-body stone pattern includes a second stone formulation, and the second stone formulation is different from the first stone formulation, wherein the first full-body stone pattern and the second full-body stone pattern are located on a front surface, a plurality of side surfaces and a back surface opposite to the front surface of the engineered stone. The printed stone pattern is located on the front surface of the engineered stone, and the printed stone pattern is overlapped with the first full-body stone pattern and the second full-body stone pattern.
US12252445B1
An electrical system that includes a power source, a load, and an electrical connection operable to conduct electricity between the power source and the load, the electrical connection including an outer casing comprising a non-conducting material, and a material disposed within the outer casing, wherein the material is electrically conductive, the material including a boron-containing material and metal oxide nanoparticles, wherein the electrical connection includes a wire or cable.
US12252441B2
A cementitious composition including recycled superabsorbent polymer (RSAP) and a cementitious material. The RSAP has a purity level of at least 85 percent by weight of the RSAP. Also provided is a cementitious composition where the RSAP has substantially low levels of one or more residual drug entities. Also provided is a method for the construction of a self-sealing cement sheath, the method comprising: supplying a self-sealing slurry of a cementitious composition including cementitious material, an aqueous fluid, and RSAP into an underground geological formation, and allowing the self-sealing slurry of the cementitious composition to cure, thereby forming the self-sealing cement sheath. The RSAP is capable of swelling in the presence of fluid to seal any cracks formed in the self-sealing slurry during curing.
US12252435B2
Glass ceramics having SiO2 as main crystal phase and precursors thereof are described which are characterized by very good mechanical and optical properties and in particular can be used as restoration material in dentistry.
US12252432B2
An apparatus for drying and/or consolidating an at least partially porous optical fibre preform.
US12252425B2
The present invention entails dual centrifuges configured to remove suspended solids, silica, and other precipitants from evaporator brine prior to the brine being disposed of via deep well injection. First, the evaporator brine is directed through a highly efficient first centrifuge configured to remove essentially all suspended solids, including very small suspended solids that typically cannot be retained in a filter or other dewatering devices. The centrate from the first centrifuge, depleted in suspended solids, silica and other precipitants, can be disposed of via deep well injection. The first centrifuge also produces a slurry that is directed to a separate centrifuge that produces a second centrate and waste wet cake. The second centrate is recycled and mixed with the evaporator brine and the mixture is directed to the first centrifuge.
US12252422B2
Process for treating sludge includes a first segment in which a batch of sludge and lime are mixed with the addition of supplement heat to achieve an elevated processing temperature and a second segment in which the mixer is maintained at a lower temperature to dry the interior of the mixing device after processing the batch.
US12252421B2
Provided is a wastewater treatment method including measuring a chemical oxygen demand (COD) of wastewater containing organic matter in real time, calculating the amount of ozone associated with a concentration of the organic matter using the measured COD value, and controlling a production of ozone of an ozone generator based on the calculated amount of ozone. The present invention provides a wastewater treatment method and system for adjusting the production of ozone used as an oxidizing agent for decomposing organic matter in wastewater in association with a load of organic matter in wastewater to be oxidized.
US12252416B2
A separator assembly for separating fat, oil, and grease from effluent includes a container for receiving and holding effluent water containing oil, grease and solid waste to be removed from the effluent water and a communications module having a processor, memory and transmitter at the facility site to communicate over cellular or WiFi signals with a remote station. The separator may include a skimmer to skim F.O.G. from the effluent water held in the container or be of a grease trap mode collecting F.O.G. for subsequent removal.
US12252404B2
Processing algae includes liquefying algae to yield a mixture including biocrude oil, biochar, and an aqueous component, and treating the biochar to yield a nutrient composition including ammoniacal nitrogen and phosphate.
US12252402B2
Apparatus for plasma synthesis of graphitic products including graphene, comprising: a plasma nozzle coupled to a reaction chamber; means for supplying a process gas to the plasma nozzle, the process gas comprising a carbon-containing species; and means for supplying radio frequency radiation to the process gas within the plasma nozzle, so as to produce a plasma within the nozzle in use, and thereby cause cracking of the carbon-containing species; wherein the plasma nozzle is arranged such that an afterglow of the plasma extends into the reaction chamber, the cracked carbon-containing species also passes into the reaction chamber, and the cracked carbon-containing species recombines within the afterglow, so as to form graphitic products including graphene. A method of plasma-synthesising graphitic products including graphene is also provided.
US12252400B1
The present application belongs to the field of lithium battery technology, particularly relating to a preparation method for lithium iron phosphate cathode material and lithium battery. The method comprises: adding lithium source, iron source, phosphorus source, first carbon source, dopant, and dispersant into a solvent according to a preset ratio for mixing and grinding treatment to obtain the first mixture; Drying the first mixture and performing the first sintering in an inert gas atmosphere to obtain the lithium iron phosphate precursor; Adding borohydride, deionized water, second carbon source, and dispersant to the lithium iron phosphate precursor for pretreatment to obtain the lithium iron phosphate precursor mixture; After mixing, grinding, and drying the lithium iron phosphate precursor mixture, performing a second sintering in an inert gas atmosphere to obtain a coated doped type lithium iron phosphate cathode material.
US12252392B2
A device for reducing contact between a wall of a structure and a headboard of a bed frame. The device may include an elongated body comprising a cushioning material, and an attachment system for releasably securing the elongated body to the wall of the structure in an elevated position relative to a floor of the structure and between the wall and the headboard of the bed frame. In this arrangement. the elongated body may function as a physical barrier between the wall and the headboard.
US12252389B2
A method for operating a water dispenser, the water dispenser having a water supply, a carbon dioxide supply, an outlet for pouring water into a container placed below the outlet, a controller and a user interface, the method including the following steps, which are executed in response to an activation of the water dispenser via the user interface: determining a nominal value of a water volume (V) that is to be filled into the container determining a nominal value of a waiting period (WP) by means of the controller determining nominal values of a first partial volume (V1) and a second partial volume (V2) by means of the controller (V1+V2=V), in particular by determining a volume ratio (R) with R=V1/V for dividing the water volume (V) into the partial volumes (V1, V2) pouring the first partial volume (V1) through the outlet waiting through the waiting period (WP) pouring the second partial volume (V2) through the outlet.
US12252385B1
A ratcheting tool for oil filters and caps including a wrench assembly and a socket assembly. The wrench assembly includes a wrench. The wrench has a movable head. The movable head rotates up and down with respect to said wrench. The movable head has an interchangeable drive. The drive is an oil pan drain plug or a square socket drive. The wrench is a ratcheting wrench. The socket assembly includes a socket. An uppermost end of said socket is connected to said drive. A reservoir cap is engaged to the socket. The reservoir cap is rotated and removed from the reservoir through rotating the socket. The socket is rotated when the wrench is rotated. The drive can be attached to predetermined reservoir caps to remove them.
US12252373B2
A medium conveying apparatus includes a conveyance roller to convey a medium, an imaging device to image the medium, a DC motor to drive the conveyance roller, a processor to detect that a front end of the medium reaches between the conveyance roller and the imaging device, set a current limit value of the DC motor to a first limit value until the front end of the medium reaches between the conveyance roller and the imaging device, and change the current limit value to a second limit value larger than the first limit value after the front end of the medium has reached between the conveyance roller and the imaging device, and drive the conveyance roller by rotating the DC motor based on the second limit value when the imaging device performs imaging.
US12252362B2
A sheet supply device includes a cassette, a housing, a first roller, and a first rib. The cassette is capable of accommodating a sheet. The housing movably supports the cassette in a first direction. The first roller is supported by the housing. The first roller is rotatable about a rotation axis parallel to a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. The first roller includes a pair of flanges spaced apart from each other in the second direction. The first rib protrudes downward from the cassette. The first rib has a lower end surface in contact with the first roller between the pair of flanges. The first rib extends in the first direction. The first rib has a first width of a first portion in the second direction wider than a second width of a second portion in the second direction. The first portion is disposed between the pair of flanges in a state where the cassette is accommodated in the housing. The second portion is disposed between the pair of flanges in a state where the cassette is pulled out from the housing.
US12252354B2
A method for removing a piece good from a conveying means of a sorting system, includes the steps generating image data by means of a camera arranged on a conveyor line; by means of a controller, detecting a piece good not placed completely in the cell area on the conveying means on the basis of the image data generated; generating a blowoff command for a blowoff device arranged on the conveyor line, wherein the blowoff command is generated while considering a time of the generation of the image data, a conveying speed of the conveying means, and an arrangement of the camera, the conveyor line and the blowoff device relative to one another; and by means of the blowoff device, blowing off the piece good not placed completely in the cell area on the conveying means on the basis of the blowoff command.
US12252352B2
A baggage conveying system and method for space-optimized filling of a baggage carousel of the system with baggage items is provided, because reclaiming of baggage is delayed if baggage carousels at airports have no more capacity. The method includes transporting an item of baggage lying in a flat, stable transport position on a first conveying line of the system; standing up the item of baggage from the transport position into an upright position, the item of baggage taking up less contact area on the system in the upright position than the transport position; placing the item of baggage onto an empty place of the baggage carousel; moving the item of baggage in the upright position on the previously empty place, which is now filled, using the baggage carousel. The capacity of the baggage carousel is drastically increased while the space required by the baggage carousel remains the same.
US12252348B2
A separation device for supplying and separating workpieces has a workpiece store, a first separation disc having first separation chambers, and a supply disc having workpiece guides, wherein the first separation disc is arranged such that it can be adjusted between a receiving position and a supply position relative to the supply disc, wherein in the supply position the first separation chambers are arranged flush with the workpiece guides, and wherein the first separation chambers are designed to supply workpieces arranged in the first separation chambers to the respective workpiece guides.
US12252343B1
Systems and methods are disclosed for automated self-calibration and maintenance for container shuttles. An example system for automated repairs may include a track, a shuttle coupled to a permanent magnet, the shuttle configured to move along the track, and an electromagnet disposed along the track, where the shuttle is propelled via interaction between the electromagnet and the permanent magnet. The system may include a maintenance area accessible via the track, and a set of robotic manipulators disposed about the maintenance area, the set of robotic manipulators configured to perform automated maintenance actions on the shuttle. The system may include a first controller configured to determine that the shuttle is in need of maintenance, and automatically direct the shuttle to the maintenance area.
US12252340B2
An object processing system is disclosed that includes a plurality of track sections, and a plurality of remotely actuatable carriers for controlled movement along at least portions of the plurality of track sections, each of the actuatable carriers being instructed at any time to move a limited number of track section only.
US12252336B2
A baffle for a flexible liquid transport tank, having a base portion connected to an interior surface of the liquid transport tank, a single panel shaped to substantially cover the internal cross-sectional area defined by the liquid transport tank, and a link mechanism to interconnect the single panel to the base portion.
US12252333B2
The present invention comprises: a main body part having a plurality of printed surfaces that are partitioned so as to be exposed to the front; a chocolate part which has a plurality of accommodation regions that are partitioned so as to correspond to the printed surfaces, and which is formed so that the same designs as the designs of the printed surfaces are exposed to the front when placed inside the accommodation regions; and a support part which is provided at the rear of the main body part and which enables the main body part to be selectively supported.
US12252324B2
The invention comprises an ovenable packaging structure having an integral one-way valve. The laminate structure comprises an outer layer having a cut line which defines a flap that is separable from the outer layer, wherein the outer layer is adhered to an inner layer having a cut line which is offset from the outer cut line and defines a portion that is separable from the inner layer along the inner cut line and defines an opening into the packaging structure. The adhesive between the layers comprises, in an embodiment, a channel of pressure sensitive adhesive which surrounds both the outer cut line and the inner cut line, wherein the channel of pressure sensitive adhesive defines the perimeter of at least one adhesive-free valve chamber within said channel. The valve chamber comprises at least a portion of the outer cut line and the inner cut line.
US12252323B2
A compartment for storing an energy source in a vehicle having a protective outer structure and an inner structure. The protective outer structure is maintained in position relative to the vehicle during normal operation of the vehicle. The inner structure, which holds the energy source, is positioned in the outer structure. The inner structure is maintained in position relative to the outer structure and relative to the vehicle during normal operation of the vehicle. During an impact to the vehicle, the inner structure is configured to move independent of the outer structure.
US12252320B2
A package of one or more absorbent articles is disclosed. The package has a package material including natural fibers. The package has a plurality of panels, including a consumer-facing panel, and wherein the package is sealed such that the one or more absorbent articles are completely enclosed therein. The package material has a basis weight of between 50 gsm to 120 gsm, between 60 gsm to 105 gsm or between 70 gsm to 90 gsm, as determined via ISO 536 as modified herein. The package material is recyclable.
US12252316B2
A bucket lid designed with the purpose of making available to users a built-in stick in a certain space integrated in the lid itself. The stick is subsequently used in the homogenization of the product stored inside the bucket. The stick is preferably made of polymeric material and can be telescopic to reach the bottom of the bucket during mixing, optionally including a radially inserted ring that facilitates its removal from the central recess and the semi-circular pressure fittings existing in the lid.
US12252314B2
Valve, comprising a base element and a snap ring or snap fingers extending there from, positioned around an opening through the base element, wherein within the snap ring or between the snap fingers a valve housing is provided, having at least one inlet opening and a spring loaded valve body, biased towards the base element and closing off the opening, wherein the valve body is operable through the opening for opening a fluid connection between the inlet opening or openings and the opening in the base element.
US12252303B2
A tamper-evident security device to be used in conjunction with a slidable closure on a carrier bag comprises a bottom component (positioned within the bag itself) and a top component attached to a front panel of the carrier bag so to be located over the bottom component. The top and bottom components are fixed together in an immovable form, and the top component includes a recess for supporting the slider mechanism of the slidable fastener. A lid component is coupled to the top component via a hinge element, wherein upon closure of the lid component over the top component, the slider mechanism of the fastener is fully enclosed. A provided frangible seal (included to indicate possible attempts to tamper with the closure) is attached to the security device, with an end portion of the top component including a cover tab to hold the frangible seal in place as the carrier bag is handled during transport.
US12252302B1
The present utility model pertains to the field of folding, and particularly relates to a cloth bag frame for folding to squeeze out bar bends, comprising a cloth cover, borders, a first connecting member, a connecting plate, and a cover plate. Two foldable borders are mounted on the cloth cover. The first connecting member is mounted on the right side of a left border. The connecting plate is sleeved on the first connecting member. The connecting plate and the first connecting member are in movable connection through a circular hole at a bottom portion. The cover plate for isolation from the outside world is mounted on the borders. As the present utility model additionally has the borders, the first connecting member, the connecting plate, and the cover plate, it can be folded when not in use, so that the occupied space is greatly reduced. Whether it is stored or transported, the limited space can be used more effectively. The special connection design on the left border makes it more flexible to assemble and disassemble the frame, and can better adapt to cloth covers in different sizes and shapes. The foldable design makes it more convenient and faster to unfold and fold the frame during use, thereby improving the work efficiency.
US12252299B2
To prevent a reduction in a bending strength and a buckling strength of a container bag for fluid in which a spout is mounted on an upper end of a trunk section formed of a sheet material. Cells 9 are formed between two films of the sheet material 2 by bonding the films together along bonding lines 8, and inflated with fluid. The cells 9 positioned within a width of the spout in a width direction of the trunk section 5 extends downwardly from a site at which the spout 6 is clamped by the layers of the sheet material 2. A lower end of the spout 6 is situated lower than upper ends of the cells 9.
US12252295B2
A pallet includes a plurality of supports which define a base of a pallet and a plurality of deck rings that are interlocked with the plurality of supports and define a surface of the pallet on which goods in need of transport can be stacked, wherein each support and each deck ring of the pallet is a paper core or a section of a paper core. The supports of the pallet are spaced as to define a base of the pallet and one or more channels for receiving a fork of a lifting device. The supports of the pallet also support the deck rings of the pallet in an elevated position above a ground surface when the supports of the pallet are resting on the ground surface. A method for constructing a pallet is also disclosed.
US12252293B2
An adhesive label application system is disclosed. The adhesive label application system may detect that a label has been received within an adhesive application zone of a robotic device. The adhesive label application system may remove, via a first mechanism, a portion of the label from the adhesive application zone. The adhesive label application system may convey, via a second mechanism, an adhesive, of an adhesive-carrying tape, to the adhesive application zone. The adhesive label application system may position, via the first mechanism, the portion of the label within the adhesive application zone after the adhesive is positioned within the adhesive application zone. The adhesive label application system may press, via a third mechanism, the portion of the label to the adhesive to apply the adhesive to the label. The adhesive label application system may configure the label to be adhered to a receiving surface via the adhesive.
US12252292B2
Systems and methods for applying labels to food products include pulling a label on two part backing along a pathway comprising one or more rollers to a stripping point in a first direction, the two part backing comprising a first strip and a second strip. The two part backing is removed from the label by pulling the label from the first strip and the second strip at the stripping point using suction by either a pair of stacked v-shaped first and second plates or by angled nose rollers.
US12252291B2
An inner membrane removing device includes a heating membrane removing mechanism and a membrane suction mechanism located at a downstream of the heating membrane removing mechanism. The heating membrane removing mechanism includes a heating frame, a membrane pressing component, a membrane welding component configured to fusion weld a nest box inner membrane to a nest box inner lining paper, a first lifting component configured to enable the heating frame and the membrane welding component to be in contact with the nest box inner membrane and a second lifting component configured to enable the membrane pressing component to press against the nest box inner membrane. The membrane pressing component and the membrane welding component are located on an inside of the heating frame. An inner membrane removing method is also provided.
US12252287B2
A packing machine having a cleaning apparatus and a cleaning apparatus for cleaning a working section when filling bulk materials into containers, including a blowing strip having a first nozzle device and a second nozzle device through which an air stream can be guided temporarily in each case. In this case, the first and the second nozzle devices each have a fixed blowing-out direction, wherein the blowing-out directions of the first nozzle device and of the second nozzle device differ from one another. Furthermore, a control device is provided which is suitable and configured to control the first nozzle device and the second nozzle device at least temporarily in a temporally staggered manner. In a method for cleaning a working section using such a cleaning apparatus, the control device controls the first nozzle device and the second nozzle device in a temporally staggered manner.
US12252285B2
A sandwich packaging system comprising a handler tool assembly. The handler tool assembly having a support assembly. The handler tool assembly further has a receiving assembly. The receiving assembly has a receiving base. The handler tool assembly further has a claw assembly. The claw assembly has a plurality of handler claws. The handler tool assembly drops in a vertical direction and clamps a product by the plurality of handler claws.
US12252284B2
A tofu packaging apparatus includes: a pack covering device configured to cover each of a plurality cakes of tofu with a pack that is in a reversed state, the plurality of cakes of tofu being arranged at predetermined intervals in a front, rear, left, and right on a conveyance surface of a transfer conveyor; and an inversion device disposed on a downstream side of the pack covering device, the inversion device being configured to invert the tofu upside down while the tofu is covered with the pack. The pack covering device includes a tip end grip portion configured to grip the pack in the reversed state and cover the tofu halfway with the pack. The inversion device is configured to invert the tofu covered with the pack in the reversed state to store the tofu in the pack.
US12252282B2
A process for packaging a product including the steps of providing a cleaning wipe that includes nonwoven strips and moving the cleaning wipe in a direction aligned with the longitudinal axis of the cleaning wipe. A gas is moved from positions on opposite sides of the longitudinal axis and beyond the longitudinal edges of the cleaning wipe to bend the free ends of the nonwoven strips out of plane relative to the fixed ends of the strips.
US12252279B1
The present disclosure provides a drone system for surveying an area and transmitting collected video data to a headpiece display worn by a user operating a remote control for the drone. The drone itself includes a main drone coupled to a detachable relay drone which can disengage and be deployed therefrom mid-air in response to a detection of a loss of signal or signal quality below a predetermined threshold between the main drone and either the headpiece or the remote control. The main drone and relay drone then are programmed to fly in tandem to maintain the best signal strength until the relay drone is no longer needed at which point they can re-engage.
US12252274B2
Aspects presented herein may enable a positioning device or entity to perform PR measurement error detection and classification based on SV geometry via ML. In one aspect, a UE or a location server determines for each SV of a set of SVs at least a geometric orientation with respect to the UE. The UE or the location server determines, based on an ML classifier and the determined geometric orientation with respect to the UE for each SV of at least a subset of the set of SVs, a relative PR weight for each SV of the set of SVs. The UE or the location server estimates a position of the UE based on PR measurements of each SV of the set of SVs and the relative PR weight for each SV of the set of SVs.
US12252272B2
An aircraft floor grid transport system for assembling an aircraft fuselage barrel and method of calibrating the transport system are disclosed. The transport system includes a rectangular beam, a stabilizer device to be associated with referential positioning devices of an assembly platform and a plurality of fixing devices to be fixed to the floor grid, each of the fixing devices having a vertically adjustable length. The transport system makes it possible to handle the floor grid without deforming it in order to assemble a fuselage barrel.
US12252270B2
A GPU output from a ground power unit (GPU) can be converted to power suitable for starting a jet engine of an aircraft by an auto-transformer rectifier unit (ATRU) of the aircraft. Multiple ATRUs, each connected to a corresponding GPU, may output multiple ATRU outputs, and combining these multiple ATRU outputs can generate a combined power, which can satisfy the power requirements for starting a jet engine when they exceed what can be supplied by a single GPU. The combining is possible when the outputs of the ATRUs are synchronized, which can require generating and sharing a sync signal between the ATRUs that is synchronous with an ATRU designated as the master (i.e., reference) for the other ATRUs.
US12252268B2
In some embodiments, a computer-implemented method of controlling autonomous movement of a mobile object in an aircraft operating area is provided. An autonomous control computing system receives an image from a digital camera positioned to view at least a portion of the mobile object. The autonomous control computing system provides the image to a machine learning model to detect within the image one or more self objects and one or more intruder objects. The one or more self objects are affixed to the mobile object. The autonomous control computing system predicts future locations for the self objects based on a navigation path for the mobile object. In response to detecting an overlap between the future locations for the self objects and the intruder objects, the autonomous control computing system alters the navigation path to prevent a collision between the self objects and the intruder objects.
US12252267B2
A cargo restraint system may comprise an inner shaft and a first outer tube coaxially configured to rotate about an axis and a first restraint located about the first outer tube and configured to rotate about the axis. A second outer tube coupled to the inner shaft configured to rotate about the axis and a second restraint located about the second outer tube and configured to rotate about the axis. The first restraint and the second restraint may include a head configured to rotate about the axis and a plunger configured to translate between an engaged state and a disengaged state.
US12252265B2
A vehicle includes a main body and a gas generator producing a gas stream. At least one fore conduit and tail conduit are fluidly coupled to the generator. First and second fore ejectors are fluidly coupled to the at least one fore conduit. At least one tail ejector is fluidly coupled to the at least one tail conduit. The fore ejectors respectively include an outlet structure out of which gas from the at least one fore conduit flows. The at least one tail ejector includes an outlet structure out of which gas from the at least one tail conduit flows. First and second primary airfoil elements have leading edges respectively located directly downstream of the first and second fore ejectors. At least one secondary airfoil element has a leading edge located directly downstream of the outlet structure of the at least one tail ejector.
US12252264B2
A method of controlling a hybrid-electric aircraft powerplant includes running a first control loop for command of a thermal engine based on error between total response commanded for a hybrid-electric powerplant and total response from the hybrid-electric powerplant. A second control loop runs in parallel with the first control loop for commanding the thermal engine based on error between maximum thermal engine output and total response commanded. A third control loop runs in parallel with the first and second control loops for commanding engine/propeller speed, wherein the third control loop outputs a speed control enable or disable status. A fourth control loop runs in parallel with the first, second, and third control loops for commanding the electric motor with non-zero demand when the second control loop is above control to add response from the electric motor to response from the thermal engine to achieve the response commanded.
US12252262B2
Provided in this disclosure is a high voltage distribution system of an electric aircraft. The system includes a power source mechanically connected to an electric aircraft, where the power source is configured to supply power to the electric aircraft. The system also includes a flight component mechanically connected to the electric aircraft. The system also includes a distribution component configured to control the providing of power to and from the power source and the flight component as needed during recharging and/or operation of the electric aircraft.
US12252255B2
A triply periodic minimal surface (TPMS) is described. The TPMS is adjustable and tunable depending on desired breathability, vibration performance, weight reduction, pressure distribution, and the like. The TPMS may be used in a cushion of a passenger seat. The cushion may be used for one or more locations of the passenger seat, including a head rest cushion, a back rest cushion, a seat pan cushion, and the like. the TPMS may include a cylindrical gyroid. Each of the cushions may include multiple of the cylindrical gyroids.
US12252254B2
A seat bottom assembly, movable between stowed and deployed configurations, includes a seat pan plate having a front side, a rear side, a left side, a right side, a top surface, and a bottom surface. The seat pan plate is configured to move between stowed and deployed positions. The assembly also includes a pair of beam braces configured to engage a seat frame of a seat; a pair of front links operationally connecting the beam braces and the seat pan plate; and a pair of rear links operationally connecting the beam braces and the seat pan plate. Each of the front links is disposed on an opposite side of the seat pan plate from the other front link; and each of the rear links is disposed on an opposite side of the seat pan plate from the other rear link. The assembly also includes a seat cushion having a first top portion, a second top portion, and a bottom portion. The bottom portion of the seat cushion is generally disposed on the top surface of the seat pan plate. The bottom portion of the seat cushion and the seat pan plate are equally inclined when the seat pan plate is in the stowed and deployed positions. The second top portion is generally horizontal when the seat bottom assembly is in the deployed configuration, and negatively inclined relative to horizontal when the seat bottom assembly is in the stowed configuration.
US12252242B2
A helicopter rotor blade control pitch link for transmitting movement of a rotating swashplate to a rotor blade pitch horn includes a spring module. The spring module includes at least one elastic member configured to generate link compliance when a force is transferred through the pitch link from the rotating swashplate to the rotor blade pitch horn. A plurality of such rotor blade control pitch links is used in a helicopter rotor blade control system having a swashplate assembly operatively connected to each of a rotor shaft and a rotor having a plurality of rotor blades with respective rotor pitch horns. Each rotor blade pitch link is configured to control a pitch of one rotor blade via the corresponding rotor blade pitch horn.
US12252236B2
A system for piloting an aircraft includes a throttle, a flight parameter sensor system, and an engine calculator controlling thrust parameters of an engine of the aircraft. The piloting system includes a flight control unit connected to the engine calculator, the sensors and the throttle. The flight control unit generates a thrust control vector from a flight control law and sends a digital signal including the generated thrust control vector to the engine calculator. The engine calculator controlling said thrust parameters of the engine depending on the generated thrust control vector received.
US12252234B2
The invention relates to an aircraft control column, the control column comprising a first shaft and a control lever configured to rotate the first shaft about a first axis through a first angular range [α1; α3] via a mechanical joint having a primary reduction ratio, the control column comprising a braking device configured to brake the first shaft via a first transmission device having a secondary reduction ratio, the secondary reduction ratio being maximum for an angular position, the secondary reduction ratio increasing over the range [α1; α4] and then decreasing over the range [α4; α3] so as to obtain an overall reduction ratio that has a limited amplitude of variation over the first angular range [α1; α3].
US12252213B1
A pedal assembly for a pedal operated device, including: a pedal configured to receive an appendage of a user; a telescoping pedal arm; a plurality of telescoping portions; and a pedal arm retention portion that provides a predetermined resistance to the relative movement of two adjacent ones of the telescoping portions. The pedal arm retention portion has a first recess formed in one of the telescoping portions, a second recess formed in one of the telescoping portions, an engagement portion that is configured to be received in the first recess and the second recess, and a resilient portion that urges the engagement portion into one of the recesses. The plurality of telescoping portions permit the length of the pedal arm to be adjusted, and the pedal arm retention portion is configured such that the predetermined resistance is overcome by moving the pedal in the longitudinal direction.
US12252204B2
A saddle-ride vehicle is a saddle-ride vehicle in which a radiator is disposed in front of a down tube hanging down from a head pipe, the saddle-ride vehicle including: a radiator shroud provided at the radiator, the radiator being supported only by the radiator shroud, the radiator being supported by a vehicle body via the radiator shroud.
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Systems and techniques for determining a sideslip vector for a vehicle that may have a direction that is different from that of a heading vector for the vehicle. The sideslip vector in a current vehicle state and sideslip vectors in predicted vehicles states may be used to determine paths for a vehicle through an environment and trajectories for controlling the vehicle through the environment. The sideslip vector may be based on a vehicle position that is the center point of the wheelbase of the vehicle and may include lateral velocity, facilitating the control of four-wheel steered vehicle while maintaining the ability to control two-wheel steered vehicles.
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One general aspect includes a tethered temperature sensor for use within a vehicle track. The tethered temperature sensor includes one or more sensors for measuring temperature located in a high strain and high temperature region of the vehicle track. The sensor also includes circuitry configured to control and/or monitor the one or more sensors and located in a low strain and low temperature region of the vehicle track. The sensor also includes a housing to contain the circuitry. The sensor also includes an encapsulating material that fills an interior of the housing.
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Proposed is a steering column apparatus including a housing having a hollow shape, an input shaft rotatably mounted in the housing, and a lower bushing interposed between the housing and the input shaft, the lower bushing being elastically deformable when coming into contact with the housing.
