US12260581B2
A distance calculation apparatus includes an in-vehicle detection unit configured to detect a situation around a subject vehicle, and a microprocessor and a memory connected to the microprocessor. The microprocessor is configured to perform recognizing an object on the basis of a detection data detected by the in-vehicle detection unit, extracting feature points included in the detection data, recognizing a representative position of a predetermined object on the basis of a distribution of feature points corresponding to the predetermined object among the feature points extracted in the extracting when the predetermined object is recognized in the recognizing, and calculating a distance from the subject vehicle to the predetermined object on the basis of the representative position recognized in the recognizing.
US12260571B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for generating fine depth maps for images of a scene based on semantic segmentation and segment-based refinement neural networks. An example method generally includes generating, through a segmentation neural network, a segmentation map based on an image of a scene. The segmentation map generally comprises a map segmenting the scene into a plurality of regions, and each region of the plurality of regions is generally associated with one of a plurality of categories. A first depth map of the scene is generated through a first depth neural network based on a depth measurement of the scene. A second depth map of the scene is generated through a depth refinement neural network based on the segmentation map and the first depth map. One or more actions are taken based on the second depth map of the scene.
US12260564B2
The invention provides a human body detection method, a human body detection device, and a computer readable storage medium. The method includes the following. A plurality of image frames related to a human body is obtained. A plurality of joint coordinates are detected in each image frame, and a plurality of specific image frames are accordingly found out. An image region height corresponding to the human body in each specific image frame is obtained. A first joint coordinate of a first joint in each specific image frame is obtained. A second joint coordinate of a second joint in each specific image frame is obtained. An actual length between the first joint and the second joint is estimated based on a height of the human body and the image region height, the first joint coordinate, and the second joint coordinate in each specific image frame.
US12260562B2
A method for tracking a trailer end in an image using a controller includes receiving an image from at least one camera, identifying a trailer end in the image and tracking a motion of the trailer end through the image for a period of time using a controller. A motion model is generated based on the motion of the trailer end through the image using the controller. The controller responds to the trailer end exiting the image by maintaining motion of the trailer end per the motion model for a delay time period and establishing an estimated trailer end position dictated by the motion model at the end of the delay time period in response to the time period elapsing and the trailer end not being visible using the controller.
US12260559B2
An image alteration system includes a memory and one or more processors. The processors receive input image data that depicts a background environment, and segment the input image data to locate objects depicted in the background environment. The processors identify a set of one or more of the objects to modify, and generate output image data that depicts a modified version of the background environment for display on a display device. The processors change an appearance of the one or more objects in the set as depicted in the output image data, relative to the appearance of the one or more objects as depicted in the input image data, without changing an appearance of one of more other objects located in the background environment. The input image data and the output image data represent video streams.
US12260552B2
A determination device includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire image information of a target image in which excrement is captured and a determination unit configured to determine a characteristic of the excrement in the target image, select a part of the excrement specified according to a time series of excretion, and confirm a representing characteristic for representing the excrement.
US12260548B2
An abnormality detection apparatus is provided. The abnormality detection apparatus includes a first generation part configured to generate pseudo-abnormal image data by synthesizing a substantially circular image at a random position of an image of normal image data obtained by photographing equipment that includes a liquid supply and supplies a liquid from the liquid supply without an abnormality, a second generation part configured to generate a determination model for determining whether the equipment is normal or abnormal by performing learning of the normal image data and the pseudo-abnormal image data, an acquisition part configured to acquire image data obtained by photographing the equipment, and a detection part configured detect an abnormality in the equipment from the image data acquired by the acquisition part using the determination model.
US12260542B2
A method for detecting a product for defects implemented in an electronic device includes detecting images of a product for defects by a first defect detection model in a preset period, and obtaining a detection result; when a ratio of the number of negative sample images is greater than a preset threshold, training an autoencoder model; obtaining historical positive sample images of the product, inputting the history positive sample images into the trained autoencoder model, and calculating a latent feature; inputting the latent feature of each history positive sample image into a decoding layer of the trained autoencoder model, and calculating newly added positive sample images; training the first defect detection model and obtain a second defect detection model; and inputting images of a product to be detected to the second defect detection model, and obtaining a detection result of the product.
US12260539B2
An apparatus and method of measuring pattern uniformity, and a method of manufacturing a mask by using the measurement method are provided. The measurement apparatus includes a light source configured to generate and output light, a stage configured to support a measurement target, an optical system configured to transfer the light, output from the light source, to the measurement target supported on the stage, and a first detector configured to detect light reflected and diffracted by the measurement target, or diffracted by passing through the measurement target, wherein the first detector is configured to detect a pupil image of a pupil plane and to measure pattern uniformity of an array area of the measurement target on the basis of intensity of at least one of zero-order light and 1st-order light of the pupil image.
US12260533B2
A method with image processing includes: setting an offset window for an offset pattern of a kernel offset and an offset parameter for an application intensity of the kernel offset; determining an output kernel by applying the kernel offset to an input kernel based on the offset window and the offset parameter; and adjusting contrast of a degraded image using the output kernel.
US12260525B2
An image processing method includes: according to position coordinates of any interpolation pixel in a target image, determining position coordinate of the interpolation pixel in an original image; calculating a two-dimensional image entropy of an (n×n) neighborhood of the interpolation pixel in the original image; when it is greater than or equal to a preset entropy threshold value, calculating a pixel value of the interpolation pixel based on all original pixels; when it is less than the preset entropy threshold, calculating gradient values in at least two edge directions within the threshold neighborhood and determining whether there is a strong-edge direction; if so, calculating the pixel value of the interpolation pixel based on a plurality of original pixels in the strong-edge direction; if not, calculating the pixel value of the interpolation pixel based on all the original pixels.
US12260520B2
In one aspect, a method, includes producing a centralness metric that is highest at a center of detail from a set of pixels and having a negative slope to neighboring pixels from a center pixel at the center of detail, calculating a delta signal for the set of pixels using the produced centralness metric and pixel values of the set of pixels, generating a squeezed pixel value for each of the pixel values of the set of pixels, and outputting the generated squeezed pixel values.
US12260517B2
Disclosed is an optical system using image restoration, including a light source, a pinhole, a testing platform, an image sensor and an image processing device. The pinhole is disposed on a light transmission path of the light source. The testing platform is disposed on the light transmission path of the light source and the pinhole is located between the light source and the testing platform. The testing platform is used to place a testing sample. The image sensor is disposed below the testing platform, and used to sense the testing sample so as to output an optical diffraction signal. The image processing device is electrically connected to the image sensor and used to perform signal processing and optical signal recognition on the optical diffraction signal of the testing sample so as to obtain a clear image of the testing sample.
US12260516B2
The present disclosure relates to an image processing method for correcting colors in an input image representing a scene, the image processing method including: processing the input image with a machine learning model, wherein the machine learning model is previously trained to detect a predefined number N>1 of sources of light illuminating the scene and to generate N estimated illuminant images associated respectively to the N sources of light, wherein each estimated illuminant image includes an estimated color of the light emitted by the respective source of light and an estimated contribution image; generating a total illuminant image by using the N estimated illuminant images; and generating an output image by correcting the colors in the input image based on the total illuminant image.
US12260509B2
A system receives image data associated with an item, where the image data comprising a view of the item from two or more angles; determines physical attributes of the item; generates a base model of the item; samples the base model to generate one or more sampled models, each of the one or more sampled models comprising a subset of the geometric data, the subset of the geometric data determined based on one or more device characteristics of one or more user devices that interface with the system; receives device characteristics of a user device associated with a request from the user device for the item; selects, based on the received device characteristics, a sampled model of the item; and transmits a data object comprising the selected sampled model to the user device to cause the user device to generate a three-dimensional rendering of the item.
US12260508B2
Systems, methods, client devices, and non-transitory computer-readable media are disclosed for displaying a context-aware avatar overlay editor within an active extended-reality environment to modify an avatar without suspending or navigating away from the extended-reality environment. For example, the disclosed systems can provide an integrated avatar overlay editor within an application corresponding to the extended-reality environment. Furthermore, the disclosed systems can utilize the integrated avatar overlay editor to provide, for display as an overlay user interface in the extended-reality environment, a context-aware avatar overlay editor. In addition, the disclosed systems can utilize a contextual recommendation engine to provide avatar modifications within the context-aware avatar overlay editor that are relevant to the active extended-reality environment. Indeed, the disclosed systems can receive selections within the context-aware avatar overlay editor and can modify an appearance of the avatar on-the-fly without suspending or leaving the extended-reality environment.
US12260505B2
Provided is a method for providing augmented content, wherein whether a user terminal is located in a preset unit space is determined on the basis of the location of the user terminal, and if the user terminal is determined to be located in the unit space, an image captured by a camera is displayed through an augmented reality (AR) view by being augmented with content associated with the unit space.
US12260501B2
This specification describes systems and methods for refining point cloud data. Methods can include receiving point cloud data for a physical space, iteratively selecting points along an x, y, and z dimension, clustering the selected points into 2D histograms, determining a slope value for each 2D histogram, and removing, based on the slope value exceeding a predetermined value, points from the point cloud data. Methods can also include iteratively voxelizing each 2D histogram into predetermined mesh sizes, summating points in each voxelized 2D histogram, removing, based on determining the summation is below a predetermined sum value, points from the point cloud data, keeping, based on determining that a number of points in each voxelized 2D histogram exceeds a threshold value, a center point, selecting, for each histogram, a point, identifying, nearest neighbors in the point cloud data, removing the identified nearest neighbors from the data, and returning remaining points.
US12260500B2
Some embodiments provide a mapping application that has a novel way of displaying traffic congestion along roads in the map. The mapping application in some embodiments defines a traffic congestion representation to run parallel to its corresponding road portion when the map is viewed at a particular zoom level, and defines a traffic congestion representation to be placed over its corresponding mad portion when the map is viewed at another zoom level. The mapping application in some embodiments differentiates the appearance of the traffic congestion representation that signifies heavy traffic congestion from the appearance of the traffic congestion representation that signifies moderate traffic congestion. In some of these embodiments, the mapping application does not generate a traffic congestion representation for areas along a road that are not congested.
US12260485B2
A method of generating a style image is described. The method includes receiving an input image of a subject. The method further includes encoding the input image using a first encoder of a generative adversarial network (GAN) to obtain a first latent code. The method further includes decoding the first latent code using a first decoder of the GAN to obtain a normalized style image of the subject, wherein the GAN is trained using a loss function according to semantic regions of the input image and the normalized style image.
US12260473B2
Methods and systems for generation and use of an accelerated tomographic reconstruction preconditioner (ATRP) for accelerated iterative tomographic reconstruction are disclosed. An example method for generating an ATRP for accelerated iterative tomographic reconstruction includes accessing data for a tomography investigation of a sample and determining a trajectory of the tomography investigation of a sample. At least one toy model sample depicting a feature characteristic of the sample are accessed and at least one candidate preconditioner is selected. A first performance of each of the at least one candidate preconditioner on the one or more toy samples is determined, where the candidate preconditioners are then updated to create updated candidate preconditioners. A second performance of each of the updated candidate preconditioners on the one or more toy samples is determined determining. An ATRP is then generated based on at least the first performance and the second performance.
US12260468B2
Systems and methods herein describe receiving a target location from a computing device, using a machine learning model: determining a first access point and a second access point associated with the target location, causing presentation of the first access point as a first selectable user interface element and the second access point as a second selectable user interface within a graphical user interface on the computing device, receiving a first selection of the first selectable user interface element from the computing device; and in response to receiving the first selection, and initiating a trip request based on the refined map coordinates of the first access point.
US12260465B2
The present invention is a real estate marketplace incorporating computerized systems and methods. The marketplace may incorporate a platform and/or application (app) operable to provide a user with one or more functions for a real estate process. The marketplace may be integrated with blockchain whereby secured blockchain-based ledger structures are generated to facilitate a secured and traceable real estate process. Users of the marketplace may include buyers, sellers, agents and/or other service providers. Each type of user will experience a different flow of options and steps in accordance with the activities of said user in a real estate process. Agents and other service providers compete to provide services to buyers and seller users in a real estate process. The choice of agent and other service providers, the services to be provided, and the fees for such services relating to the real estate process are all driven by the buyer and seller users.
US12260454B2
The disclosure relates to non-blocking messaging in an electronic trading venue (ETV) in which a matching engine sends groups of price-compatible contra-orders to a credit engine. Doing so may improve the ETV's efficacy and performance by eliminating the need for multiple roundtrips of messages in the case of a failed credit check, and/or by allowing the ETV to more faithfully implement its matching rules. Upon sending an order to the credit engine the matching engine marks it as ‘uncertain’ to indicate that additional requests received on it (e.g., cancels) must also be forwarded to the credit engine. When all pending requests on an order have been acknowledged by the credit engine the matching engine unmarks it as such. In addition to credit checking the credit engine may also perform computations related to advanced order types (e.g., icebergs) indicating the output of such in its acknowledgements to the matching engine.
US12260444B2
An information processing apparatus (10): sets a plurality of styles that each indicate a moving-image composition of a moving image which relates to a predetermined item and in which a plurality of pieces of image content corresponding to the predetermined item are used; acquires an attribute of a target user; estimates the most-suitable style for the target user among the plurality of styles based on the plurality of pieces of image content and the attribute of the target user; and provides a moving image that is in accordance with the estimated style to the user.
US12260441B1
The present invention is directed to a visual cable builder, and accompanying systems, methods, and computer programs. Specifically, a plurality of selectable characteristics of a cable component are displayed to a user. A user selection is received of various selectable characteristic(s) of a cable component. Respective display element(s) associated with the user selection of the selectable characteristic(s) are retrieved. The display element(s) are displayed to the user as part of a configured communications cable. In some embodiments, a part number May also be displayed, the part number being generated based on the selected characteristic(s) of the configured communications cable. An alias part number may also be inputted by the user, which may then be associated with the configured communications cable.
US12260440B1
A health data management method using non-fungible tokens may include receiving, via one processor, digital health data and encrypting or obscuring personal identifying information of the digital health data. The method may then involve using the digital health data with encrypted or obscured personal identifying information to generate a non-fungible token and providing the non-fungible tokens in a marketplace. The method may also involve accepting an offer from a purchaser for the non-fungible token via the marketplace and providing unobscured digital health data or an encryption key to the purchaser of the non-fungible token.
US12260433B2
Systems and methods for automatically generating remarketing lists based on client sessions are provided. The system can include a visitor management module to identify client sessions established at a website. The visitor management module can determine node pairs including destination nodes and referrer nodes. The system can include a graph construction module to construct a graph including the node pairs and edges between the node pairs representing click-through rates. The system can include a graph clustering module to assign information resources to a first group based on one of i) a number of edges between the nodes and a conversion node or ii) click-through rates of node pairs including. The system includes a remarketing list generation module to assign the first group of information resources to a remarketing list. The remarketing list generation module can assign client identifiers that accessed the first group of information resources to the remarketing list.
US12260431B2
Systems and related methods of providing seamless transactions, including payments and promotion redemptions, are discussed herein. Some embodiments may provide for a system including a communication beacon and one or more servers. The communication beacon may be configured to communicate with consumer devices via a direct wireless connection when the consumer devices are within a wireless direct communicable range of the communication beacon. The one or more servers may be configured to associate the communication with a merchant and receive consumer presence data from the communication beacon such that consumer presence at the merchant may be determined. In response, the one or more servers may be configured to perform a seamless transaction on behalf the consumer that allows the consumer to provide payments or redeem promotions, among other things, simply by self-identifying with the merchant while carrying the consumer device.
US12260423B2
Method, system, device, and non-transitory computer-readable medium for data management. In some examples, a computer-implemented method includes: collecting a plurality of personal data sets continually; collecting a plurality of sensor data sets continually via one or more sensing modules, and generating and continually updating an operator profile, determining and continually updating one or more telematics interferences; generating and continually updating a data profile; and receiving one or more access policies associated with the data profile; and listing and continually updating the data profile onto a telematics marketplace according to the one or more access policies such that only marketplace consumers having one or more consumer classifications satisfying the one or more access polices can access the data profile.
US12260416B2
Methods for automating a submission of a compliance filing from an organization to a regulatory authority. Methods may include enhancing compatibility of a document submitted by an entity to an organization with the latter's database to facilitate automated submission of a compliance document. Methods may include receiving a populated document in a first format from the entity, using a processor to digitize the document into a digital format, such as bytes, and further into a second format, where the first format may not be compatible with the database and the second format may be compatible with the database. Methods may include updating the database with data from the document. Methods may include using the processor to run a statistical model to determine an appropriate compliance filing relating to change in information about the entity, to populate the compliance filing, and to submit the completed compliance filing with the regulatory authority.
US12260415B2
Methods and systems are presented for auditing user feedback data corresponding to user communications received via at least one interface of a service provider. The user feedback data includes a first set of feedback categories associated with a first classification of the user communications. A first feature representation of the communications is generated from the user feedback data. The first feature representation includes a first set of textual data features extracted from the communications. A second feature representation is generated from the first feature representation using a first machine learning model. The second feature representation includes a second set of textual data features including semantic equivalents of the first set of features. A second machine learning model is trained with the second feature representation. A second classification of the user communications according to a second set of feedback categories is generated using the trained second machine learning model.
US12260414B1
A user may provide a financial card to an automated teller machine (ATM) or point of sale (POS) terminal and may be authenticated by providing a gesture and/or an image selection via a mobile device to the ATM or the POS. The gesture and/or image selection may be provided using a touchscreen of the mobile device. The gesture and/or image provided by the user via the mobile device may be compared to a stored gesture and/or image provided by the user during an earlier registration of the financial card. If there is a match between the gesture and/or image provided by the user via the mobile device and the previously stored gesture and/or image, then the user is authenticated and may access an account associated with the financial card.
US12260413B2
Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for expedited data transfer utilizing a secondary data log. The present invention may be configured to analyze a primary data log and determine a user having a high volume of data transactions within a defined timeframe. The present invention may be further configured to maintain a secondary data log for a predetermined time period and, upon conclusion of the predetermined time period, sum the data transactions from the secondary data log and record the sum on the primary data log. The present invention may be further configured to determine a pre-authorized credit for the user to be recorded on the secondary data log during the predetermined time period.
US12260408B1
Techniques described herein enable wireless payment reader to transition between lower-power and higher-power states while still performing cryptographic operations for securing payment data without undue latency caused by the transition between sleep and awake power states. For instance, a wireless payment reader may store information associated with cryptographic operations performed by the wireless payment reader in persistent memory of the wireless payment reader so that this information may be retained when the wireless payment reader enters a low-power, sleep state. Thus, when the wireless payment reader awakens from the low-power state, the wireless payment reader may read the cryptographic information from the local persistent memory rather than needing to request this information from a payment service.
US12260407B1
A method for authenticating the identity of a user who is attempting to access a website or conduct a transaction is described. The method involves receiving two geographical locations, and associated time stamps, of a mobile phone associated with the user, one of the locations being the location of the transaction or access attempt. The method determines whether the speed required to travel between the two geographical locations in the elapsed time is within acceptable limits. A confidence score, derived in part from this calculation, is taken into account when deciding whether to allow or deny the access or the transaction.
US12260406B2
Systems, methods and data structures for the processing of data for the secure creation, administration, manipulation, processing, and storage of electronic data useful in the processing of electronic payment transactions and other secure data processes. Aspects of such systems include trusted platforms by which networked communication devices and merchant systems may registered as trusted entities. Information associated with particular payment means, such as accounts or payment tokens, can be stored on device(s) secure data sets known as virtual or electronic wallets, or in the form of secure payment tokens. Among other improvements, the invention enables the use of multiple payment accounts to fund purchases and other electronic transactions.
US12260396B2
A method includes receiving a request to process, against an electronic wallet, a portion of a transaction, an electronic wallet optionally comprising a sub-wallet, the transaction processed against the wallet and/or sub-wallet. The method further includes identifying one or more electronic value tokens in the e-wallet and/or sub-wallet that, when used together, will cover the portion of the transaction. The method further includes applying the electronic value tokens to the portion of the transaction.
US12260386B2
Described herein are systems and methods for validating products that are added to a shopping cart. A shopping cart that can include product validation hardware and a controller, the product validation hardware including motion sensors positioned at least along a top perimeter of the shopping cart and at least one weight sensor positioned inside the shopping cart. The shopping cart can receive, from one or more of the motion sensors, motion data when the product is detected to be entering a top horizontal plane of the shopping cart, receive, from the at least one weight sensor, weight change data that is collected in real-time as the product settles inside the shopping cart, and correlate the weight change data with the motion data to generate a weight signature over time for the product. The weight signature can be used to validate the product that is added to the shopping cart.
US12260380B2
Systems and methods for processing a financial transaction are provided. In a method conducted at an issuing server computer associated with a first entity, a transaction request message is transmitted to an acquiring server computer associated with a second entity. The transaction request message is in respect of a push transaction in which funds from the first entity are transferred to the second entity and includes a first set of data elements. In response to transmitting the transaction request message, a transaction response message and a second set of data elements are received. The second set of data elements are associated with the first set of data elements and the financial transaction is processed using information contained in the first set of data elements and the second set of data elements.
US12260376B2
A computerized system is provided for generating a visual presentation for visually organizing one or more activities of a user, including consumers & vendors. The systems are directed to teaming up, calendaring, social networking, planning, E-COMMERCE for users, including vendors, consumers and enterprises.
US12260365B2
A system for determining estimated alimentary element transfer time, the system comprising a computing device adapted to receive a plurality of alimentary elements and a plurality of destinations, determine an estimated transfer time, wherein determining includes retrieving a plurality of locations of a plurality of transfer apparatuses wherein the plurality of locations are associated with a plurality of transfer paths, generate a plurality of transfer times, determine an estimated transfer time as a function of the plurality of transfer times, generate an accuracy measure based on the estimated transfer time, wherein generating includes computing a plurality of transfer time variations, generate an accuracy measure based on a plurality of statistical parameters, and provide an estimated transfer time, wherein providing includes receiving a new alimentary element request, retrieving an estimated transfer time, retrieving the accuracy measure, and provide an estimated transfer time accuracy message.
US12260358B1
This disclosure describes a transportation matching system that manages the allocation of transportation providers by training and utilizing multiple machine-learning models to identify, allocate, and serve specific transportation providers with customized opportunities to relocate the transportation providers between geocoded areas in a geocoded region. For instance, the transportation matching system trains and utilizes an incremental provider model, a provider allocation model, and personalized provider behavioral models as well as a customized provider interface generator to satisfy anticipated transportation requests and improve transportation matching within a geocoded region.
US12260356B2
Various embodiments of the present invention provide methods, apparatus, systems, computing devices, computing entities, and/or the like for performing optimized equipment allocation. Certain embodiments of the present invention utilize systems, methods, and computer program products that perform optimized equipment allocation using at least one of equipment evaluation scoring machine learning models, equipment optimized allocation machine learning models, and equipment history events.
US12260354B2
Methods, non-transitory computer readable media, and reservation management devices are disclosed that obtain workspace parameter(s) from a client device after authenticating a user of the client device. User geolocations are determined for the authenticated user and registered user(s) identified by the authenticated user. Workspaces are filtered based on a correlation of the user geolocations and workspace geolocations for the workspaces to identify a subset of the workspaces. The workspaces are determined to satisfy the workspace parameter(s) based on workspace data for the workspaces. A selection of one of the subset of the workspaces is received from the authenticated user. Availability data for the one of the subset of the workspaces is updated based on a time window input by the authenticated user. A digital calendar invitation is then generated and provided to the client device and/or other client device(s) associated with one or more of the registered user(s).
US12260348B2
Techniques for improved searching and querying in computer-based reasoning systems are discussed and include receiving multiple new multidimensional data element to store in a computer-based reasoning data model; determining a feature bucket for each feature of each data element and storing a reference identifier in the feature bucket(s). A query on the computer-based reasoning system includes input data element (e.g., an actual data element, or a set of restrictions on features). For each feature in the input data element, feature buckets are determined, candidate results are determined based on whether cases have related feature buckets, and the results are determined based at least in part on the candidate results. In some embodiments, control of controllable systems may be caused based on the results.
US12260341B2
Methods and apparatus for quantum assisted optimization. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining a set of initial input states, applying one or more of (i) dynamical thermal fluctuations and (ii) cluster update algorithms to the set of input states and subsequent input states when the states evolve within the classical information processors, applying dynamical quantum fluctuations to the set of input states and subsequent states when the states evolve within the quantum systems and repeating the application steps until a desirable output state is obtained.
US12260326B2
Aspects described herein may relate to methods, systems, and apparatuses for labeling data in connection with synthetic data generation. The data labeling may begin with a manual process where a user provides labels for data. Based on the labels provided by the user, modified data may be generated and may include one or more encodings associated with the labels provided by the user. A machine-learning model may be trained to predict labels based on the modified data samples. Accuracy of the model may be determined based on comparing the predicted labels to further labels provided by the user and/or by allowing the user to indicate whether predicted labels are correct or incorrect. Once the model is determined to be accurate, the predicted labels may be used as a basis for generating synthetic data.
US12260324B2
A neuromorphic weight cell (NWC) including a resistor ladder including a plurality of resistors connected in series, and a plurality of shunting nonvolatile memory (NVM) elements, each of the shunting NVM elements being coupled in parallel to a corresponding one of the resistors.
US12260320B2
A method is disclosed to dynamically design acceleration units of neural networks. The method comprises steps of generating plural circuit description files through a neural network model; reading a model weight of the neural network model to determine a model data format of the neural network model; selecting one circuit description file from the plural circuit description files according to the model data format, so that the chip is reconfigured according to the selected circuit description file to form an acceleration unit adapted to the model data format. The acceleration unit is suitable for running a data segmentation algorithm, which may accelerate the inference process of the neural network model. Through this method the chip may be dynamically reconfigured into an efficient acceleration unit for the different model data format, thereby speeding up the inference process of the neural network model.
US12260315B2
A device, a method and a storage medium for accelerating activation function in relation to data processing by artificial neural network provides a register for storing a storage table, a matching unit including a plurality of comparators, a logic unit, and a selection unit. The comparators compare an input variable of the activation function with the variable intervals of the activation function to obtain a comparison output result, the logic unit performs a logical operation according to the comparison output result to obtain a logic output result and determines a variable interval to be calculated according to the logic output. The selection unit queries the storage table according to the variable interval to be calculated and obtains parameters of fitted quadratic function. A calculation unit performs calculations on the input variable according to the parameters.
US12260314B2
For machine-based prediction of visitation, a machine-learned network embeds the visitation and metadata information. Since the trace data used to show access may be sparse, another machine-learned network completes the route data. Another machine-learned network recommends effectiveness of content based on routes, the graph, metadata, and/or other information. The recommendation is based on training using counterfactual and/or other causal modeling.
US12260305B2
In one aspect, an example methodology implementing the disclosed techniques includes, by a disk controller of a plurality of disks of a data storage system, collecting usage telemetry from the plurality of disks and initiating determination of one or more candidate time slots for performing a battery learn cycle using a machine learning model. The machine learning model is trained using the usage telemetry from the plurality of disks. The method also includes, by the disk controller, presenting one or more of the one or more candidate time slots for performing a battery learn cycle.
US12260298B2
A first set of qubits is allocated to an error correcting process, the error correcting process is configured to utilize the first set of qubits to correct errors identified in a second set of qubits being used by a quantum process. Error correcting information is received from the error correcting process. A quantity of qubits in the first set of qubits is altered based on the error correcting information. Information that identifies an alteration of the quantity of qubits in the first set of qubits is communicated to the error correcting process.
US12260295B2
Enabling callback-based qubit manipulation is disclosed herein. In one example, a quantum computing device comprises a system memory and a processor device communicatively coupled to the system memory. The processor device is to receive a callback request from a requestor, wherein the callback request includes an identifier of a quantum service including a source qubit and an identifier of a callback event. The processor device is further to, responsive to receiving the callback request, allocate a target qubit corresponding to the source qubit of the quantum service and initiate execution of the quantum service. Upon determining that the callback event has occurred as a result of the execution of the quantum service, the processor device is to read an attribute of the source qubit and write the attribute to the target qubit.
US12260289B2
The aerosol-generating article for use with an aerosol-generating device, the aerosol-generating article comprises an aerosol-forming substrate, and a surface area comprising a three dimensional code. The invention also relates to an aerosol-generating system comprising an aerosol-generating device and an aerosol-generating article.
US12260281B2
The disclosure relates to the technical field of information reading devices, and provides a reading head protection apparatus and an information reading device. The reading head protection apparatus includes: a protective jacket including a reading head connection end and a chip connection end connected to the reading head connection end, the reading head connection end being configured to connect to a reading head, and the chip connection end being configured to connect to a chip carrier, wherein a first mounting cavity is arranged in the reading head connection end, a second mounting cavity is arranged in the chip connection end, and the second mounting cavity is communicated with the first mounting cavity. The technical solutions of the present application can achieve stable and reliable adhesion between the reading head and the chip, so as to improve the efficiency of the reading head in reading the stored information in the chip.
US12260275B2
Disclosed is an NFC device without a power button. The NFC device includes a battery that outputs a battery voltage, an internal system that includes a voltage receiving terminal for receiving the battery voltage and a reset signal receiving terminal for receiving a reset signal, and maintains a reset state in response to the reset signal having a first state, and an NFC tag circuit that generates the reset signal having the first state, and generates the reset signal having a second state in response to only a system power on command included in a system power on NFC signal transmitted from an external near field communication (NFC) device, in which the internal system releases the reset state in response to the reset signal having the second state, and then, generates a reset release holding signal using the battery voltage, and transmits the generated reset release holding signal to the NFC tag circuit, and the NFC tag circuit generates the reset signal maintaining the second state according to the reset release holding signal.
US12260274B2
A method for attaching a number of unique identification codes (13) from a set of unique identification codes (13) to a number of objects, wherein the unique identification codes (13) differ from one another, wherein the unique identification codes (13) form a predefined code sequence which defines a first unique identification code (13) and a last unique identification code (13), wherein the method contains the following steps: attaching the number of unique identification codes (13) from the set of unique identification codes (13) to the number of objects, with the result that one unique identification code (13) is attached to each object (5); optically detecting a unique identification code (13) from the set of unique identification codes (13) with the aid of a detection unit (17) and detecting an item of additional information; inferring the attached unique identification codes (13) on the basis of the optically detected unique identification code (13) and the detected item of additional information.
US12260271B2
Connectivity between a radio-based application pipeline processing server and a control plane of a provider network is verified. Based on requests received at the control plane, a first isolated request handler, a second isolated request handler and an offloading manager are launched at the server. The offloading manager causes a first network function for which a request is received from the first request handler to be executed at a first network function accelerator of the server, and a second network function for which a request is received from the second request handler to be executed at a second network function accelerator of the server.
US12260259B2
Operations of a method include receiving a configuration request requesting configuration management of a base configuration package that describes infrastructure of an application. The operations include determining, for the base configuration package, a plurality of package functions. Each package function of the plurality of package functions extends functionality of the base configuration package. The operations include determining, for the base configuration package and the plurality of package functions, a change-proposal function. The change-proposal function proposes one or more of the plurality of package functions to extend the functionality of the base configuration package. The operations include transmitting, to a user device, the change-proposal function and receiving, from the user device, approval of the change-proposal function. In response to receiving approval of the change-proposal function, the operations include configuring the base configuration package using the one or more of the plurality of package functions proposed by the change-proposal function.
US12260256B2
The application provides a solution for resource scheduling. A method comprises: monitoring the status of online nodes in an online node cluster; in response to the status of the online nodes meeting a hybrid-deployment triggering condition, determining a lending node from the online node cluster; sending a first instruction to the online transaction controller to indicate the online transaction controller to schedule a current online transaction on the lending node to other online node than the lending node in the online node cluster for processing; and in response to the current online transaction on the lending node being scheduled to the other online node, changing a first status tag value of the lending node to a second status tag value, the second status tag value indicating that the lending node is to be scheduled by an offline transaction controller to process offline transactions.
US12260254B2
This disclosure is directed to systems and methods for determining target allocation parameters for initiating targeted communications in complex computing networks, which may be associated with the allocation of allocatables in execution events over a period of time. The systems and methods may include receiving a desired allocation; determining a first available allocation at a first time; generating allocation information for a second period comprising the first time; determining a second available allocation at a second time; determining a remaining available allocation, based on the allocation information and the second available allocation; and determining one or more target allocation parameters for initiating a targeted communication to a computing device after the second time.
US12260248B2
A multi-thread systolic array includes a plurality of processing elements, each including a processor. Each of the processing elements is configured to: receive a plurality of first inputs from a respective first input source; receive a plurality of second inputs from a respective second input source; the plurality of first inputs and the plurality of second inputs being arranged as a plurality of pairs corresponding to a plurality of threads; schedule, for each operation cycle of the processor, a certain thread of the plurality of threads; and execute a computation operation for the certain thread.
US12260247B2
A system and method for 1) storing, in data stores, data associated with tenants in separated regions, each region corresponding to a tenant; 2) receiving a request from a first tenant to share data associated with the first tenant with other tenants; 3) storing, based on the request, access control data identifying data associated with the first tenant that is subject to sharing with the other tenants; 4) accessing model building data from the tenanted database system, the model building data defined at least in part by the access control data, wherein the model building data is associated with the first tenant and the other tenants; 5) creating a model based on the data associated with the first tenant and, if applicable, other data associated with the other tenants; and 6) providing access to the model to one or more other tenants.
US12260244B2
A device for managing communication via interfaces in a virtualized system in which a plurality of virtual machines shares a hardware platform which is virtualized with the aid of a hypervisor, and interfaces assigned to the hardware platform access to the interfaces taking place with the aid of a gateway implemented in hardware. A method for operating the device is also described.
US12260232B1
Systems and methods for customizing a graphical user interface with user-associated display settings
A method for adapting a shared organization device for different users of a plurality of users includes: identifying a first user of the plurality of users associated with the shared organization device that is interacting with the shared organization device based on a first user input; determining one or more user-associated display settings for the first user based on a physical ability and a cognitive ability of the first user; displaying an interactive user interface of the shared organization device based on the one or more user-associated display settings for the first user, comprising: displaying one or more interactive affordances at a first location of the touch screen display based on the physical ability of the first user, and displaying one or more symbolic representations of one or more tasks assigned to the first user based on the cognitive ability of the first user.
US12260227B2
Multiple binary images stored in the firmware of an electronic device are written to the device's configuration tables during booting of the device, where one of the binary images is a manager binary. During booting, the manager binary is saved to the file system of the operating system such that it automatically executes upon completion of booting. The manager binary then deploys the other binary images.
US12260225B2
A system for providing system level sleep state power savings includes a plurality of memory channels and corresponding plurality of memories coupled to respective memory channels. The system includes one or more processors operative to receive information indicating that a system level sleep state is to be entered and in response to receiving the system level sleep indication, moves data stored in at least a first of the plurality of memories to at least a second of the plurality of memories. In some implementations, in response to moving the data to the second memory, the processor causes power management logic to shut off power to: at least the first memory, to a corresponding first physical layer device operatively coupled to the first memory and to a first memory controller operatively coupled to the first memory and place the second memory in a self-refresh mode of operation.
US12260216B2
The present disclosure discloses a conflict detection method for Internet of Things (IoT) device scheduling, relating to the technical field of the IoT, and specific steps include: acquiring data of a device model; converting a device scheduling instruction into a conditional instruction according to the data of the device model; determining a scheduling conflict rule according to device scheduling conflicts in historical data; detecting whether the conditional instruction is in a conflict state based on the scheduling conflict rule; if the conditional instruction is in a conflict state, performing a first conflict resolution, or if the conditional instruction is in a non-conflict state or after a conflict is resolved, performing a second detection; converting, in the second detection, the conditional instruction into an SMT formula, inputting the SMT formula into an SMT solver for detection, and determining whether the conditional instruction is in a conflict state; and if the conditional instruction is in a conflict state, performing second conflict resolution, or if the conditional instruction is in a non-conflict state or after a conflict is resolved, executing the conditional instruction. The present disclosure ensures consistency between different services of the IoT, and a rule-based method and an SMT solver-based method are adopted to perform conflict detection.
US12260213B2
Embodiments detailed herein relate to matrix operations. In particular, support for matrix (tile) addition, subtraction, and multiplication is described. For example, circuitry to support instructions for element-by-element matrix (tile) addition, subtraction, and multiplication are detailed. In some embodiments, for matrix (tile) addition, decode circuitry is to decode an instruction having fields for an opcode, a first source matrix operand identifier, a second source matrix operand identifier, and a destination matrix operand identifier; and execution circuitry is to execute the decoded instruction to, for each data element position of the identified first source matrix operand: add a first data value at that data element position to a second data value at a corresponding data element position of the identified second source matrix operand, and store a result of the addition into a corresponding data element position of the identified destination matrix operand.
US12260210B2
Disclosed embodiments relate to perform operations for receiving and integrating a delta file in a vehicle. Operations may include receiving, at an Electronic Control Unit (ECU) in the vehicle, a delta file, the delta file comprising a plurality of deltas corresponding to a software update for software on the ECU and startup code for executing the delta file in the ECU; executing the delta file, based on the startup code, in the ECU; and updating memory addresses in the ECU to correspond to the plurality of deltas from the delta file.
US12260207B2
The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for monitoring release pipelines. The methods and systems calculate health metrics of release pipelines using telemetry data from the release pipelines. The methods and systems determine whether the release pipelines are healthy based on the health metrics. The methods and systems automatically trigger one or more actions in response to determining that the release pipelines are unhealthy and continue to monitor the release pipelines in response to determining that the release pipelines are healthy.
US12260203B2
Methods and systems are presented for providing a container orchestration framework for facilitating development and deployment of software applications across different operating environments within an enterprise system. Upon receiving a service request for processing a set of data is received, the container orchestration framework determines one or more machines that store the set of data. Instead of processing the set of data remotely, the container orchestration framework deploys a container that encapsulates an application on the one or more machines. Each application instance running on the one or more machines are executed to process a corresponding subset of data stored on the machine locally. The container orchestration framework obtains the output data from executing the applications on each of the one or more machines, and present the output data as a response to the service request.
US12260194B2
A build of a software solution that is cooperatively performed is automated. A broadcasting computing entity broadcasts a request to perform each of the functional operations in the selected set. Each of a plurality of listening computing entities connected to the network receives the request and determines capability of performing each of the functional operations in the selected set. After determining itself capable, a capable one of the plurality of listening computing entities transmits a response to the request indicating such capability, and then performs each of the functional operations in the selected set, thereby generating and transmitting to the broadcasting computing entity the output of the selected set of functional operations. The broadcasting computing entity then performs an action using the output of the functional operation received.
US12260180B1
Systems and methods for performing non-statistical text analysis are provided. Essentially unconstrained natural language text may be segmented into individual terms, which are assigned a semantic category with the aid of a category lexicon and category association table. Categorized terms may be grouped into expressions if they commonly refer to a concept. Terms, as well as information about their categories and groupings into expressions, may be organized into information blocks, which each may contain a discrete piece of information about a text. Information blocks may be used to populate a database about the text. Information blocks may be queried to answer a question, be compared to identify inconsistencies in the text, be used to identify functions to execute from a user's command, or how to respond to a user during a dialog.
US12260175B2
A method and system for automating a process of downloading and analyzing messages from conversation rooms and chat rooms to determine topics, entities, context, and actionable items are provided. The method includes downloading a set of messages that have been communicated over a communication channel; analyzing each respective message in order to determine at least one respective topic that relates to each respective message; determining, based on a result of the analysis, metrics that relate to the set of messages; and storing historical data that relates to the downloaded set of messages and each of the metrics. The analysis may be performed by executing an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm that is based on a Natural Language Processing (NLP) model and is trained by using the historical data.
US12260167B2
A system and method for the preparation of electronic publications or “ePubs” that provide a rich multimedia experience to readers using any of a variety of user devices, without requiring those individuals wishing to prepare such ePubs to install proprietary client applications on the computing device used to prepare the ePubs, and without the need to download a large portion or all of the ePub to enable viewing on an electronic device of an end-user.
US12260162B2
A method and apparatus for printing an electric circuit directly on a target surface having a three-dimensional shape are provided. In this method, a 3D printing apparatus that can be attached to a target surface is used. In this printing method, two-dimensional information about the shape of the electric circuit to be printed and information about the three-dimensional shape of the target surface are input. Two-dimensional information about the shape of the electric circuit to be printed is adjusted based on the information about the three-dimensional shape of the target surface to generate three-dimensional information about the electric circuit to be printed. Based on this, a tool path for controlling the 3D printing apparatus is generated. An electric circuit can be directly fabricated on a target surface having a three-dimensional shape by the method and apparatus. In addition, an electronic device having a three-dimensional electric circuit manufactured by the present method can be applied in various ways.
US12260161B2
A method for establishing a variation model related to circuit characteristics for performing circuit simulation includes: performing first, second, third, and fourth Monte Carlo simulation operations according to a first netlist file and predetermined process model data to generate a first, a second, a third, and a fourth performance simulation results, respectively, where the first netlist file is arranged to indicate a basic circuit in a circuit system; and execute a performance simulation results expansion procedure according to the first, the second, the third, and the fourth performance simulation results to generate a plurality of performance simulation results to establish the variation model, for performing the circuit simulation to generate at least one circuit simulation result according to one or more performance simulation results among the plurality of performance simulation results, where the number of the plurality of performance simulation results is greater than four.
US12260113B1
A packaged quantum memory device is described. The packaged quantum memory device comprises both quantum memories and quantum memory control devices within an outer package, such that the unit may be shipped, installed, and operated without opening the outer package to tune and/or operate the quantum memories. Optical and electrical control signals may be received from, or provided to, the internal components of the packaged quantum memory device via electrical and/or optical ports located on an outer package layer, and routed to the quantum memories via respective quantum memory control devices. Various electrical, optical, mechanical, and/or spin-related properties of the quantum memories may be tuned using the quantum memory control devices, as well as the local temperature and gas environments around the quantum memories. The packaged quantum memory device may be installed within a cryogenic cooling device, as a unit, and operated via the electrical and optical ports.
US12260106B2
Tiering snapshots across different storage tiers, including: creating a snapshot of a dataset, wherein the snapshot includes user data and metadata; offloading the snapshot of the dataset to a first storage level storage system; and migrating, in accordance with a lifecycle policy and via one or more copy offload operations, the snapshot from the first storage level storage system to a second storage level storage system.
US12260102B2
A distributed storage method includes offline merging, by a first thread service of a distributed storage system, M small files in a file system; generating, by the first thread service, M pieces of metadata in the offline merging process; loading, by a second thread service of the distributed storage system, the M pieces of metadata into a metadata set; searching, by the second thread service, the metadata set for metadata of a first small file when the second thread service receives a first instruction; and performing, by the second thread service, the operation corresponding to the first instruction when the second thread service finds the metadata of the first small file in the metadata set.
US12260101B2
Apparatuses and methods for read source determination are provided. One example apparatus can include a controller configured to determine a source for read requests and to direct read requests for a first portion of data to a first block of single level memory cells in response to an amount of a second portion of data written to a second block of single level memory cells being less than a threshold amount, and direct read requests for the first portion of data to a first block of quad level memory cells in response to the amount of the second portion of data written to the second block of single level memory cells being at least the threshold amount.
US12260100B2
A data storage device includes a memory device and a memory controller. In response to a write command received from a host device, the memory controller performs a write operation to write predetermined data into the memory device. In the write operation, the memory controller selects one from multiple superblocks as a first target superblock of the write operation and sequentially writes the portions of the predetermined data into the pages of the first target superblock in a cyclic manner among memory dies according to an order of plane indices. Each memory die includes at least a first plane and a second plane. In the write operation corresponding to the predetermined data, corresponding write operations performed on a first page on the first plane of all memory dies are earlier than corresponding write operations performed on a first page on the second plane of all memory dies.
US12260096B2
The present disclosure provides a three-dimensional NAND memory device, comprising a NAND string including a memory cell to be inhibited to program, a word line driver, and a controller configured to control the word line driver to perform a programming operation on the memory cell controlled by a selected word line of a plurality of word lines including a first unselected word line adjacent to the selected word line, a first plurality of unselected word lines adjacent to the first unselected word line, and a second plurality of unselected word lines adjacent to the first plurality of unselected word lines. The programming operation includes applying a programming voltage signal to the selected word line; applying a first pass voltage to the first plurality of unselected word lines; and applying a second pass voltage to the second plurality of unselected word lines, the first pass voltage is different from the second pass voltage.
US12260082B2
A method of storing data in a memory of a server, comprising the following steps: partitioning the memory into separate partitions; receiving content and storing said content in one of said partitions; a number, called the number of replications, is associated with each partition; distinct numbers of replications being associated with distinct partitions; a number of replications n of said received content having been defined for said content, selecting a partition with which said defined number n of replications has been associated, storing said content comprising the storing of n replications of said content in said selected partition.
US12260077B1
Systems and methods are described herein for novel uses and/or improvements for customizing user interfaces for neurodiversity categories using machine learning models. In particular, one or more neurodiversity categories corresponding to a user are identified based on inputting user interaction data into a machine learning model. Based on the output of the machine learning model of one or more neurodiversity categories, user interface parameters are determined for those neurodiversity categories and a customized user interface is generated based on the user interface parameters. One or more applications with which the user interacts are then updated using the customized user interface.
US12260064B2
An example method involves providing an interface that simultaneously displays an indication of a respective volume corresponding to each of at least two zone players and displays a respective selectable icon corresponding to each of the at least two zone players. Each respective selectable icon indicates whether the corresponding zone player has been selected for a group, and at least one of the respective selectable icons indicates that a respective zone player has been selected for the group. The interface further displays an indication of a group volume associated with the at least one selected zone player. The method further includes receiving a command to change at least one of a respective volume of one or more of the at least one selected zone player or the group volume, and transmitting an indication of the received command to one or more of the at least one selected zone player.
US12260054B2
A touch substrate and a display panel are provided by this disclosure. The touch substrate includes a plurality of touch units, each touch unit has a first electrode and a second electrode. The first electrode includes a first trunk electrode and a plurality of first branch electrodes. The first trunk electrode is parallel to a first direction. The first branch electrodes are disposed on two sides of the first trunk electrode. The first branch electrodes extend outwardly with the first trunk electrode as a center to form a radial structure. The second electrode includes a second trunk electrode and a plurality of second branch electrodes. The second trunk electrode is parallel to a second direction. The second branch electrodes are disposed on two sides of the second trunk electrode. The first branch electrodes and the second branch electrodes are alternately disposed to form an occlusal structure.
US12260048B2
The display device includes a display panel. The display driving method includes: detecting noise from the display panel to obtain an in-panel noise value; sending target uplink information to an active stylus pen based on the in-panel noise value, and receiving target downlink information returned by the active stylus pen under a target pen voltage based on the target uplink information; and the target downlink information including position information; determining a coordinate distance value between position coordinates based on coordinate information of the position coordinates of the position information; and reporting contact information of the active stylus pen generated on the display panel at a target report rate based on the coordinate distance value.
US12260030B1
A stylus and a touch device are provided. The stylus includes a tip portion and a transmission electrode. The transmission electrode is disposed on the tip portion. The transmission electrode transmits a downlink signal to the touch device. The touch device includes a touch panel and a touch processing circuit. The touch processing circuit is coupled to the touch panel. The touch processing circuit receives the downlink signal from the stylus through the touch panel. The downlink signal includes a plurality of different frequencies.
US12260029B2
Systems and methods are provided for interactively highlighting a region as pixel data on a screen and automatically retrieving context data associated with content of the highlighted region for contextual notetaking. The highlighted region includes at least a part of one or more windows and one or more applications associated with the one or more windows. The disclosed technology determines a context associated with content of the highlighted region and automatically retrieves context data that are contextually relevant to the content. Notes data are generated based on an aggregate of the highlighted content, window-specific context data, application-specific context data, and user-specific context data. A notetaking application retrieves stored the notes data from a notes database and displays the notes data for recall and for use. The contextual notetaking enables the user reducing a burden of performing manual operations for notetaking and utilizing notes that are enriched relevant data by context.
US12260026B2
A user interface may be communicatively coupled with a fluid-moving pump and may include at least two interactive regions for receiving user input to control the fluid-moving pump. The user interface may be attached to the fluid-moving pump using a mounting cover and an attachment bracket that can allow attachment or positioning of the user interface relative to the fluid-moving pump via a turn motion or other suitable methods. In other examples, the user interface can be mounted on a wall or other surface.
US12260025B2
An information processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a hold determination unit. The hold determination unit determines, in a case where a rate of decrease of a distance between a first hold-side object and a second hold-side object that set a virtual object as a pinch-and-hold target becomes smaller than a predetermined threshold value, that the virtual object has been held by the first hold-side object and the second hold-side object. Accordingly, a high-quality virtual experience can be achieved.
US12260021B1
In aspects of providing user feedback via a rollable screen device, a mobile device has a housing and a screen moveable relative to the housing such that the mobile device has a compact form factor and an expanded form factor. The mobile device includes one or more sensors positioned relative to the screen for detecting user input including one or more forces applied to an expanded portion of the screen, where the expanded portion of the screen has extended from a compact portion of the screen. The mobile device implements a configuration manager configured to activate one or more components of the mobile device to indicate that the mobile device received the user input based on the one or more forces satisfying a threshold value.
US12260013B2
An electronic device includes a processor; and a memory storing a program which, when executed by the processor, causes the electronic device to: obtain a plurality of VR images that are sequentially captured; and generate, from each of the plurality of VR images, a VR image in which a reference direction of the VR image is corrected to a direction in which a specific subject is present in the VR image.
US12260012B2
One or more example embodiments of the present invention describes a method for monitoring a person in an environment, including integrating the person into the environment, wherein the person has a task to solve in the environment, measuring with a sensor system a number of physical conditions of the person while the person interacts with the environment, the sensor system providing a sensor-dataset including measured physical values about the person from which mental conditions of the person can be inferred, generating assessment-data from the sensor-dataset, the assessment-data reflecting at least one of an ability of the person to accomplish the task or the mental load of the person while solving the task, repeating the measuring and the generating a plurality of times and outputting the generated assessment-data or data based on the generated assessment-data.
US12260011B2
A method for reading sensory augmentation comprising displaying a text on a reading device, determining a reader's current location in the text with a gaze tracking system, identifying a subsequent location in the text, processing the text at the subsequent location with an emotion processing unit to predict an emotional response to the text at the subsequent location, generating a sensory augmentation routine based on the predicted emotional response, and initiating playback of the sensory augmentation routine at the subsequent location in the text. The sensory augmentation routine can include a musical composition, a sound, and/or an ambient lighting effect. The gaze tracking system can be configured to receive data from the reading device related to the text currently displayed thereon and to receive data from an image capture device related to eye movement tracking of the reader.
US12260003B1
A data processing service facilitates the creation and processing of data processing pipelines that process data processing jobs defined with respect to a set of tasks in a sequence and with data dependencies associated with each separate task such that the output from one task is used as input for a subsequent task. In various embodiments, the set of tasks include at least one cleanroom task that is executed in a cleanroom station and at least one non-cleanroom task executed in an execution environment of a user where each task is configured to read one or more input datasets and transform the one or more input datasets into one or more output datasets.
US12259997B2
Dynamic evaluation of data store access store permissions is disclosed: obtaining a set of record identifiers (IDs) associated with a selected data store associated with an external system; determining record-level access permissions associated with a user for records in the selected data store associated with the set of record IDs; inferring one or more data store-level access permissions associated with the user for the selected data store based at least in part on the record-level access permissions associated with the user for the records in the selected data store; and presenting the inferred one or more data store-level access permissions associated with the user at a user interface.
US12259995B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for secure communications in a digital engineering ecosystem. In some implementations, a digital platform receives a request from a user device to interact with a digital model. The digital platform determines whether a user operating the user device is authorized. In response to determining the user is authorized to access the digital platform, the digital platform generates a token that provides the user with access to the digital platform. The digital platform determines whether the request includes malicious activity. In response to determining that the request is absent of the malicious activity, the digital platform executes a digital thread that executes one or more operations using digital tools and the digital model. The digital platform provides data indicative of the one or more operations executing the digital thread to the user device.
US12259991B2
Methods of referencing row access policy (RAP) protected mapping tables in a RAP for a data table are disclosed herein. An example method of referencing a mapping table in a data table using nested RAP includes defining, by a processing device, a first access policy for the mapping table to control access by specific users or under specific conditions. The processing device further defines a second access policy attached to the data table referencing the mapping table. The processing device in response to a query, executes the second access policy of the data table to provide a response or operation of data associated with the data table and the mapping table. Executing the second access policy invokes executing the first access policy of the mapping table. The executing of both the second access policy of the data table and the first access policy of the mapping table are recorded.
US12259973B2
Systems and methods related to flush plus reload cache side-channel attack mitigation are described. An example method for mitigating a side-channel timing attack in a system including a processor having at least one cache is described. The method includes receiving a first instruction, where the first instruction, when executed by the processor, is configured to flush at least one cache line from the at least one cache associated with the processor. The method further includes, prior to execution of the first instruction by the processor, automatically mapping the first instruction to a second instruction such that the at least one cache line is not flushed from the at least one cache even in response to receiving the first instruction.
US12259972B2
A computer-implemented method, computer program product and computing system for: a computer-implemented method is executed on a computing device and includes: obtaining object information concerning one or more initial objects within a computing platform in response to a security event; identifying an event type for the security event; and executing a response script based, at least in part, upon the event type.
US12259970B1
The disclosed computer-implemented method for identifying security threats in smart contract-based services to protect against malicious attacks utilizing off-blockchain resources may include (i) identifying a reference associated with a transaction on a smart contract-based platform, (ii) detecting content describing one or more smart contracts associated with the reference on the platform, (iii) extracting an identifier from the content to locate off-blockchain resources utilized by the smart contracts, (iv) determining potential security threats associated with the off-blockchain resources, and (v) performing a security action that protects against the potential security threats. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US12259963B2
A confidential computing (CC) apparatus includes a CPU and a peripheral device. The CPU is to run a hypervisor that hosts one or more Trusted Virtual Machines (TVMs). The peripheral device is coupled to the CPU and to an external memory. The CPU includes a TVM-Monitor (TVMM), to perform management operations on the one or more TVMs, to track memory space that is allocated by the hypervisor to the peripheral device in the external memory, to monitor memory-access requests issued by the hypervisor to the memory space allocated to the peripheral device in the external memory, and to permit or deny the memory-access requests, according to a criterion.
US12259962B1
Non-fungible token transaction management systems and methods for user verification or credentialing
A non-fungible management system may generate non-fungible tokens based on credential data of a user. In one example, a non-fungible token can be generated responsive to receiving credential data for the user, whereby the credential data is received from a verified credentialing organization. Non-fungible tokens based on credential data can be held in a digital wallet of the user, used as a resume or record of achievement, and/or traded in a marketplace.
US12259960B2
Permitting a claims holder to get a limited verifiable credential leveraging off of a previously-issued verifiable credential. This is done by having the limited verifiable credential include only a selected subset of the verifiable claims present within the previously-issued verifiable credential. The limited verifiable credential may then be exposed to a relying entity computing system so that the relying entity computing system can verify any of the selected subset of verifiable claims, but not verifiable claims that are outside of the selected subset of verifiable claims.
US12259956B2
A user equipment (UE) is configured to perform a prewarming process, wherein the prewarming process includes concurrently performing a face detection process and an unlock process independent of face detection, determine whether a face detection operation indicates the presence of a face within a field of view of a camera of the UE and disable prewarming for a predetermined time period when the face detection operation is not satisfied.
US12259953B2
One example method includes receiving, from a VM, a request for a software license, in response to the request, transmitting a UUID to the VM, receiving, from the VM, a response that comprises a first encrypted UUID corresponding to the request, and transmitting a client object that includes the first encrypted UUID, and the client object serves as a request for entry of the client object in a database of a cloud computing site.
US12259952B2
In one aspect, a method of guarding an automated software includes generating, by a first language model, a training set of rule-violating data, generating, by the first language model, a training set of contrastive examples by altering the rule-violating data into non-violating data, training a guardrail machine learning model using the generated training sets, generating, with an automated software, an output based on a user input, monitoring with the trained guardrail machine learn model whether the generated output violates a rule, and preventing the automated software from transmitting to the user the generated output that violates a rule.
US12259942B2
A method may include: a computer program populating a Hermitian matrix A with input data; calculating an upper bound a for a maximum eigenvalue for the Hermitian matrix A; initializing a time evolution value t=1/a; generating a first quantum computer program using the time evolution value t; communicating the first quantum computer program to a quantum computer; receiving a result including a binary value for each n-bit string and a probability for each binary value; converting each binary value into an integer; identifying a maximum absolute value of the integers; determining a value x for the maximum absolute value of all of the integers; updating the time evolution value t based on the value of x; generating a second quantum computer program using the updated time evolution value t; and communicating, by the classical computer program, the second quantum computer program to the quantum computer.
US12259936B1
A method for providing one or more customized experience to a user profile associated with an application is disclosed. The method comprises querying a key-value pair store for retrieving a key-value pair associated with the user profile. The retrieved key-value pair is loaded into a first memory. Further, one or more segment definitions for the one or more segments are received from a second memory. The one or more segment definitions are based on at least one of the user profile, user behaviour, user transaction on the application, user interaction with the application, and user subscription. Further, the one or more segment definitions and the one or more user events are evaluated in the first memory. The customized experience is provided to the user profile within sub-second latency and the customized experience is updated based on change in the one or more user events associated with the user profile.
US12259935B2
A computing device executing software displays a view of a search assignment in a user interface to a learning platform. The device receives user input comprising search terms associated with the search assignment, and generates queries based on the user input. The device submits the queries to a search engine, whereupon the search engine performs searches based on the queries, and the device displays the results. As a user evaluates resources provided in the results, the device updates the user interface to include an option selectable for adding evaluated ones of the resources to a collection of resources for the search assignment. In response to the user selecting the option with respect to a resource of the evaluated ones of the resources, the device adds the resource to the collection of resources.
US12259925B2
In response to receiving a tagging request to map a first non-fungible token (NFT) to a first user device, a processor transmits an authorization request to a second user device to map the first NFT to the first user device. In response to receiving an approval of the request, the processor transmits a request to a minting server of an NFT blockchain network to generate the first NFT for the first user device. The processor stores a token ID of the generated first NFT in a memory. In response to receiving a second authorization from the first user device to perform a data interaction, the processor requests the NFT blockchain network based on the token ID, verification of the first user device. In response to receiving an indication that the first user device is verified, the processor processes the data interaction.
US12259924B2
User permissions for a search on content managed by a content management system (CMS) can be evaluated in a search engine based on a user identity of a user providing a query input for the query rather than after return of an initial results set to the CMS or some other front-end application. The search engine can constrain possible results returned from a search for the query input using a content index of a plurality of content items maintained in a repository of the content management system. The constraining can include limiting the search engine from adding a content item of the plurality of content items to a permissions-filtered results set unless the evaluating of the user permissions and the search for the query input against the content index do not exclude the content item. Other aspects can support index updating by selective use of a metadata index.
US12259922B2
In one example method, a first image including M objects is obtained. For N objects in the M objects, when N is greater than or equal to 2, arrangement orders of the N objects is determined, where an arrangement order of any one of the N objects is determined based on at least one of a scene intent weight, a confidence score, or an object relationship score. The scene intent weight is used to indicate a probability that the any object is searched in a scene corresponding to the first image, the confidence score is a similarity between the any object and an image in an image library, and the object relationship score is used to indicate importance of the any object in the first image. Search results of some or all of the N objects are fed back according to the arrangement orders of the N objects.
US12259921B1
This disclosure relates to a content cluster system that provides a framework for leveraging large language models (LLMs) to tag content items (e.g., interactive multimedia content items, such as gaming content items) with attribute tags and, based on attribute tags for related content items, generating cluster descriptions of a cluster of content items. Features of the content cluster system involve tagging content items, determining multi-dimensional embeddings for the content items, and clustering the content items based on proximity of values contained within the multi-dimensional embeddings. The content cluster system may further utilize the LLM to generate one or more cluster descriptions based on the associated tags to create a more creative and dynamic representation of related groupings of titles (e.g., gaming titles). By utilizing LLMs and machine learning resources, the content cluster system provides a scalable approach to conventional approaches in determining and presenting groupings of titles.
US12259920B1
Disclosed embodiments provide techniques for monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of key value pairs (KVPs) used in a document processing system. In embodiments, KVPs are obtained from multiple extractors of a document processing system. A score is computed for the KVPs by computing an effectiveness metric for each KVP from the multiple KVPs. In response to the computed score being below a predetermined threshold, a model retraining process is performed to generate a new set of KVP extractors, and provide the new set of KVPs to the document processing system.
US12259913B1
A system and method for improving computer functionality by retrieving answers/responses to questions/input from a cache such as those used with chatbots and generative AI systems. Disclosed is a multi-layered caching strategy that focuses on the relevance of a cache hit by improving the quality of the answer. The approach demonstrates that response latency is significantly reduced when using caching and how a caching strategy could be applied in various layers of increasing relevance for a simple Question-and-Answer system with the possibility of extending to more complex generative AI interactions.
US12259910B2
Systems and methods for automated data curation and presentation are disclosed herein. The system can include a memory including a structured database and a plurality of storage bins. The system can include at least one server that can receive a packetized data file generated from a data file. This packetized data file can include a first packet generated from a content file of the data file, a second packet generated from metadata of the data file, and a third packet generated from a payload of the data file. The at least one server can automatically generate at least one tag for the packetized data file, which at least one tag is automatically generated based at least one key phrase identified in at least the targeted portion of the content file. The at least one server can index the packetized data file according to the at least one tag into a predetermined taxonomy, receive a data request including a plurality of parameters identifying attributes of packetized data, and deliver curated data selected according to the at least some of the plurality of parameters of the data request.
US12259906B2
Restriction-compliant data replication including receiving a request to replicate a dataset of a database that is stored in a cloud-based data warehouse at a first region of a plurality of geographic regions to a second region of the plurality of geographic regions, wherein the second region is subject to persistent storage restrictions different from restrictions of the first region; selecting a replication policy, applicable to the second region, wherein the replication policy specifies replication restrictions that conform to the persistent storage restrictions of the second region; and replicating the dataset from the first region to the second region, including applying the replication policy to the dataset.
US12259901B2
Systems and methods for ingesting different data types using a are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a method for universal data ingestion may include: (1) receiving, at a data ingestion layer in a multi-layer pod, data from a data producer, wherein the data may be in any format; (2) ingesting, by the data ingestion layer, the data using a producer proxy agent or an ingestion application programming interface (API); (3) staging, by a data messaging/staging layer in the multi-layer pod, the ingested data; (4) enriching or transforming, by a data enrichment/transformation layer in the multi-layer pod, the staged data based on at least one customer requirement; and (5) routing, by a data connection layer in the multi-layer pod, the enriched or transformed data from the data messaging/staging layer to a data store at an appropriate velocity.
US12259899B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for presenting web application content. A method for presenting web application content includes executing a web application using a web browser, the web application configured to display a web page element in a web browser. The method includes identifying an application component requested by a user action. The method also includes querying a component registry database for the application component, the component registry database including one or more application components loadable by the web application. The method then includes obtaining, from a link in the component registry database, application component code for the application component. The method also includes incorporating the application component code into the web page element. The method also includes rendering the application component code and the web page element using the web browser so that the application component is displayed in the web browser as part of the web page element.
US12259898B1
Transient exploratory editing of input tables on a data warehouse including: presenting, on a client computing system by a workbook manager, an input table in a cloud-based data warehouse, wherein the input table is presented in an exploration mode that displays edits to the input table without altering the input table in the cloud-based data warehouse; receiving, by the workbook manager, a change to the input table; and modifying, by the workbook manager, a presentation of the input table reflecting the change without modifying the input table in the cloud-based data warehouse.
US12259895B1
An improved search system can address sparse behavioral signals. Machine learning is used to determine queries with historical data that are similar to an input query, which have limited behavioral signals. Co-acquisitions of items for query pairs are used to generate a similarity value for the pairs, which are used as labels during training of machine learning models. Multiple machine learning models are used during inference such that a subset of similar queries is determined with a less computationally expensive model and a more computationally expensive model is used to re-rank the subset of queries. Accordingly, for input queries with limited behavioral data, the search system identifies similar queries with behavioral data and their corresponding search results can be presented to a user.
US12259892B2
A computer-implemented method for facilitating large data transfers from a first data management system to a second data management system is disclosed. The method comprises receiving data from the first data management system by a first buffer component, rerouting, upon the first buffer component reaching a predefined fill-level, dynamically the received data to a second buffer component, wherein the second buffer component is adapted to process the rerouted received data, forwarding, by the second buffer component, the rerouted data once the first buffer component is again ready for receiving the rerouted data from the second buffer component, and sending, by a sending component, the data buffered in the first component to the second data management system.
US12259889B2
Systems and methods for query generation based on a logical data model with one-to-one joins are described. For example, methods may include accessing a join graph representing tables in a database; receiving a first query; selecting a connected subgraph of the join graph that includes the two or more tables referenced in the first query; accessing an indication that a directed edge of the connected subgraph corresponds to a one-to-one join; modifying the connected subgraph based on the indication to obtain a modified subgraph; generating one or more leaf queries based on the modified subgraph; generating a query graph that specifies joining of results from queries based on the one or more leaf queries; invoking a transformed query on the database that is based on the query graph and the queries based on the one or more leaf queries.
US12259885B2
Implementations of this specification provide query optimization methods, apparatuses, and systems for secure multi-party databases. In an implementation, a method includes: receiving a current query associated with a plurality of target database of a multi-party database system, generating a plurality of execution plans for the current query, determining, for each execution plan, a respective cost computation formula of a plurality of cost computation values for computing an execution cost of jointly executing the execution plan by the plurality of target databases, receiving a secure computation result from each of a plurality of query engines corresponding to the plurality of target databases, and determining an optimal execution plan having a lowest cost value in the plurality of cost computation formulas based on the secure computation result.
US12259882B2
Systems and methods for discovery, classification, and indexing of data in a native computing system
In general, various aspects provide methods, apparatuses, systems, computing devices, computing entities, and/or the like for performing data discovery on a target computing system. In various aspects, a third party computing connects, via a public data network, to an edge node of the target computing system and instructs the target computing system to execute jobs to discover target data stored in data repositories in a private data network in the target computing system. In some aspects, the third party computing system may schedule the jobs on the target computing system based on computing resource availability on the target computing system.
US12259879B2
Systems and methods for mapping natural language to queries using a query grammar are described. For example, methods may include generating, based on a string, a set of tokens of a database syntax; generating a query graph for the set of tokens from a finite state machine representing a query grammar, wherein nodes of the finite state machine represent token types, directed edges of the finite state machine represent valid transitions between token types in the query grammar, vertices of the query graph correspond to respective tokens of the set of tokens, and directed edges of the query graph represent a transition between two tokens in a sequencing of the tokens; determining, based on a tour of the query graph, a sequence of the tokens in the set of tokens, forming a database query; and invoking a search of a database using a query based on the database query to obtain search results.
US12259864B1
Described herein is an apparatus and method for training a machine learning model. An apparatus may include a computing device configured to receive a corpus of data containing entries corresponding to a plurality of subjects; identify a plurality of entries within the corpus, corresponding to a first subject of the plurality of subjects and representing medical history of the first subject; determine a plurality of temporal attributes of the plurality of entries; generate a plurality of tokens as a function of the plurality of entries; generate a chronological data structure segment ordering one or more of the plurality of entries and the plurality of tokens, as a function of the plurality of temporal attributes; and train a multimodal machine learning model on a training dataset including the chronological data structure segment.
US12259860B2
Character string analysis and classification can be useful in a variety of contexts, including examining web URLs to determine whether a URL indicates that a user is attempting to take a particular action on an electronic service platform. In some cases, however, URLs or other string data may have “noise” in them, such as random sub-strings, that prevents a string from being properly classified. Sometimes it may be useful to classify a string into a category, however, and it may be important to do this quickly (e.g. during an active user interaction with a website). Learning tables allowing for O(1) lookup can be established by tokenizing strings and then using probability analysis to eliminate tokens that appear an insufficient number of times. This allows for quick and accurate string classification, which may be useful in numerous circumstances.
US12259859B2
A deduplication system includes a similarity searcher, a difference calculator, and a storage manager. The similarity searcher searches for a similar fingerprint in a database storing a plurality of local sensitive fingerprints, resembling a new fingerprint of a new block. The difference calculator computes a difference block between the input block and a similar block associated with the found similar fingerprint, and the storage manager updates the database with the new fingerprint and stores the difference block, if not empty, in a store. A method for deduplication includes searching in a database, storing a plurality of local sensitive fingerprints, a similar fingerprint, resembling a new fingerprint of a new block, calculating a difference block between the input block and a similar block associated with the similar fingerprint, if found, updating the database with the new fingerprint and storing the difference block, if it is not empty, in a storage unit.
US12259857B2
Systems and method than generate an effective recipe file by selecting at least one of a functionality, a feature and a configuration option from a master recipe database, the selecting based on a business objective; and generating a customized resource by applying the effective recipe file to a first working copy of a resource selected from a master copy of resources.
US12259850B2
Space efficient distributed storage systems are disclosed. For example, A system comprising a distributed storage volume (DSV) deployed on a plurality of hosts, the DSV comprising logical volumes, the logical volumes deployed on physical storage devices; and a first host of the plurality of hosts with a local cache, and a storage controller, the storage controller executing on a processor to receive a request relating to a first file; query the DSV to determine whether a second file that is a copy of the first file is stored in the DSV; and based on determining from the querying that the second file resides in a logical volume of the logical volumes in the DSV, store a separate reference to the second file in at least one logical volume of the DSV, wherein the separate reference is a virtual reference or link to the second file.
US12259843B2
An artificial intelligence (AI) switch chip includes a first AI interface, a first network interface, and a controller. The first AI interface is used by the AI switch chip to couple to a first AI chip in a first server. The first network interface is used by the AI switch chip to couple to a second server. The controller receives, through the first AI interface, data from the first AI chip, and then sends the data to the second server through the first network interface. By using the AI switch chip, when a server needs to send data in an AI chip to another server, an AI interface may be used to directly receive the data from the AI chip, and then the data is sent to the other server through one or more network interfaces coupled to the controller.
US12259839B2
Provided is a multi-chip interconnection system based on Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIE) buses. The system includes: N accelerators, M processors, and M PCIE buses, N and M being positive integers, and M being greater than N. Each accelerator includes at least two endpoints. Each processor includes one root complex. One endpoint and one root complex are connected by means of one PCIE bus, so that the at least two endpoints of each accelerator are connected to at least two processors by means of different PCIE buses.
US12259829B2
Memory having internal processors, and methods of data communication within such a memory are provided. In one embodiment, an internal processor may concurrently access one or more banks on a memory array on a memory device via one or more buffers. The internal processor may be coupled to a buffer capable of accessing more than one bank, or coupled to more than one buffer that may each access a bank, such that data may be retrieved from and stored in different banks concurrently. Further, the memory device may be configured for communication between one or more internal processors through couplings between memory components, such as buffers coupled to each of the internal processors. Therefore, a multi-operation instruction may be performed by different internal processors, and data (such as intermediate results) from one internal processor may be transferred to another internal processor of the memory, enabling parallel execution of an instruction(s).
US12259826B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for multi-banked victim cache with dual datapath. An example cache system includes a storage element that includes banks operable to store data, ports operable to receive memory operations in parallel, wherein each of the memory operations has a respective address, and a plurality of comparators coupled such that each of the comparators is coupled to a respective port of the ports and a respective bank of the banks and is operable to determine whether a respective address of a respective memory operation received by the respective port corresponds to the data stored in the respective bank.
US12259825B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for concurrent support for multiple cache inclusivity schemes using low priority evict operations. For example, some methods may include, receiving a first eviction message having a lower priority than probe messages from a first inner cache; receiving a second eviction message having a higher priority than probe messages from a second inner cache; transmitting a third eviction message, determined based on the first eviction message, having the lower priority than probe messages to a circuitry that is closer to memory in a cache hierarchy; and, transmitting a fourth eviction message, determined based on the second eviction message, having the lower priority than probe messages to the circuitry that is closer to memory in the cache hierarchy.
US12259811B2
One or more computer processors generate a debug chain from one or more similar resource bound breakpoints, wherein the debug chain provides dynamic code flow. The one or more computer processors distribute the generated debug chain to one or more tenants.
US12259809B2
The disclosed examples provide a method that includes identifying a list of revisions for an Extended Reality (XR) operating system and dividing the list of revisions to set a currently selected revision. An already-compiled version of the currently selected revision of the XR operating system is retrieved and installed on an XR device. The method also includes initiating a test script for the XR device to test the XR operating system and receiving results of the test script. The method of dividing the list of revisions, retrieving and installing the already-compiled version, and initiating and receiving results of the test script is repeated until a revision that passes the test script is found to be adjacent to a revision on the list that fails the test script.
US12259797B2
A data synchronization method for a host machine and a backup machine of a station application server includes the following steps: receiving initial data sent by the host machine and storing the initial data in a backup machine local file by the backup machine to realize data synchronization between the host machine and the backup machine in an initial state after establishing a communication between the host machine and the backup machine; and receiving message data sent by a station terminal device in real time and storing the message data in a host machine local file, then sending the message data to the backup machine by way of polling, and receiving the message data and storing the message data in the backup machine local file by the backup machine to realize data synchronization between the host machine and the backup machine.
US12259795B2
There is provided a database system and a method for providing a backup for a database. A database is stored at a primary server. A snapshot of the database is communicated from the primary server to a secondary server, and the snapshot of the database is stored at the secondary server. At least one request to make a change to the database is received at a publisher server, and the publisher server transmits the at least one request to each of a message queue associated with the primary server and a message queue associated with the secondary server. The database at the primary server is updated by processing each requested change.
US12259790B2
A high frequency snapshot technique improves data replication in a disaster recovery (DR) environment. A base snapshot is generated from failover data at a primary site and replicated to a placeholder file at a secondary site. Upon commencement of the base snapshot generation and replication, incremental light weight snapshots (LWSs) of the failover data are captured and replicated to the secondary site. A staging file at the secondary site accumulates the replicated LWSs (“high-frequency snapshots”). The staging file is populated with the LWSs in parallel with the replication of the base snapshot at the placeholder file. At a subsequent predetermined time interval, the accumulated LWSs are synthesized to capture a “checkpoint” snapshot by applying and pruning the accumulated LWSs at the staging file. Once the base snapshot is fully replicated, the pruned LWSs are merged to the base snapshot to synchronize the replicated failover data.
US12259788B2
Techniques for UNDO and REDO operations in a computer-user interface are disclosed. The techniques enables users to configure entities for UNDO and REDO operations. The techniques also enable users to roll back individual entity to an immediate previous state in one UNDO operation and subsequently to the other previous states. Other entities are not affected by the UNDO operations to the entity.
US12259787B1
Aspects of the present disclosure provide a monitoring algorithm that ensures that each step of an automated virtual machine reclamation process executes correctly before moving on to the next step. After each step of the process, some implementations can determine whether the resulting data is correct. If the resulting data is incorrect, some implementations can initially revert any fields updated by the process to their correct value. Some implementations can further decide whether to resubmit the virtual machine for reclamation automatically, or queue it for manual review based on, for example, multiple or repeated failures, server or data center failures, etc. Thus, some implementations can not only automate each step of the reclamation process, but also provide process evaluation and error detection for the reclamation process.
US12259782B2
A plurality of computing devices are communicatively coupled to each other via a network, and each of the plurality of computing devices is operably coupled to one or more of a plurality of storage devices. Data communication is made more efficient by removing the need to copy data in the networking stack, using hardware accelerated end-to-end checksum calculation, and supporting transmission formatting of data and header for special cases.
US12259778B2
A memory system and an operating method thereof perform word line verification by deactivating each of a plurality of word lines at the same time as initiating a bit line equalization, determine a fail bit count for each word line according to a number of bit flips that occurred during the word line verification, and determine a degraded word line on the basis of the fail bit counts of the plurality of word lines.
US12259775B2
A timer intellectual property (IP) block that automatically determines an interval on which a processor circuitry is to be woken up to service periodic events, when it is given details about the requirements for those events (e.g., approximately how often they must occur, if it's important that they not happen too frequently or too infrequently, if the total number of events over a long average is important, etc.). For each periodic event that firmware must handle, the IP provides an Application Programming Interface (API) to register details of that event. The firmware configures all the events that it requires during system configuration, although it is possible to add, remove or modify individual events at runtime. At runtime, the optimized timer IP will interrupt the processor circuitry whenever one or more events need to be handled, based on a batching algorithm.
US12259773B2
An information processing apparatus includes a memory which temporarily stores a program of an OS; a first processor which executes the program to implement functions of the OS; a second processor which detects a face area with a face captured therein from an image captured by an imaging unit. When the face area is no longer detected, the first processor performs first processing to limit the use of at least some of the functions of the OS for a predetermined first time, and when it is detected that the information processing apparatus is held by a user before the first time elapses, the first processor disables the first processing, and performs second processing to limit the use of at least some of the functions of the OS for a predetermined second time.
US12259769B2
A system for automated control of a layer 2 or layer 3 communications infrastructure device connected to a first network located at a first site. The system includes a first uninterruptable power supply (UPS) at the first site configured to supply power to the layer 2 or layer 3 communications infrastructure device and powered by a first power source, and a network switch located at a core site remote from the communications infrastructure device, the network switch being communicatively connected to the first UPS. The network switch is configured to receive information indicative of a power event associated with the first power source and to send a shutdown command to the first UPS in response to detection of the power event.
US12259767B2
Performance adaptation for an integrated circuit includes receiving, by a workload prediction system of a hardware processor, telemetry data for one or more systems of the hardware processor. A workload prediction is determined by processing the telemetry data through a workload prediction model executed by a workload prediction controller of the workload prediction system. A profile is selected, from a plurality of profiles, that matches the workload prediction. The selected profile specifies one or more operating parameters for the hardware processor. The selected profile is provided to a power management controller of the hardware processor for controlling an operational characteristic of the one or more systems.
US12259766B2
A method for verifying correct power cord usage includes detecting, with a close-range sensor, a close-range sensor tag in a power cord near a power receptacle of a power supply of a computing device and reading cord information stored on the close-range sensor tag. The method includes determining from the cord information that the power cord is of a type that is not rated for use with the power supply and disabling startup of the power supply in response to determining that the power cord is of a type that is not rated for use with the power supply.
US12259762B2
According to an embodiment of the disclosure, a foldable electronic device may comprise a hinge structure unit including a first hinge structure and a second hinge structure and a bracket to which the hinge structure unit is rotatably coupled. The first hinge structure or the second hinge structure may include a rotator provided with an interlocking hole and a cam having an end provided with an interlocking protrusion to be fitted into the interlocking hole to be assembled to the rotator.
US12259761B2
A rotating mechanism and a foldable electronic device is provided. The rotating mechanism includes a fixed base, a flexible support member, a first rotating member, and a second rotating member. A first rotating body of the first rotating member is installed in a first rotating groove of the fixed base and is slidable along the first rotating groove. When the first rotating body rotates relative to the fixed base along the first rotating groove, the flexible support member is driven to bend or unfold. A second rotating body is installed in a second rotating groove of the fixed base and is slidable along the second rotating groove. When the second rotating body rotates relative to the fixed base along the second rotating groove, the flexible support member is driven to bend or unfold.
US12259756B2
A display assembly includes: a bearing assembly (1) configured to bear a flexible display module (3) and drive the flexible display module (3) to bend or fold; at least two supporting layers (2) stacked in sequence on the bearing assembly (1), each supporting layer (2) being bendable and having resilience, and each supporting layer (2) being provided with a hollowed-out pattern. The hollowed-out patterns of the supporting layers (2) are different in at least one of the following properties: the area of a hollowed-out part, the shape of the hollowed-out part, and the position of the hollowed-out part. The display assembly further includes the flexible display module (3) located on the side of the at least two supporting layers (2) facing away from the bearing assembly (1).
US12259752B1
A case assembly selectively encases and displays a mobile communications device. The case assembly includes or incorporates a segmented cradle assembly configured to adjustably cradle variously sized mobile communications devices. The segmented cradle assembly includes an anterior panel, a posterior panel, and a plurality of device-holding cradle segments. Each device-holding cradle segment includes a panel-opposing portion and a device-cradling portion. The anterior panel is spaced from the posterior panel, and the panel-opposing portions are loosely sandwiched intermediate the anterior panel and the posterior panel. The panel-opposing portions are further attached to the panels by way of an elastic tether member. The cradle segments are displaceable relative to the panels and to one another via the elastic tether members for varying a distance between the device-holding cradle segments thereby being adjustable for receiving and cradling variously sized mobile communications devices.
US12259751B2
A display control device includes: a processor configured to: acquire a folding angle of a foldable display portion; and display a receiving portion configured to receive input by a user, on the display portion in different modes according to the folding angle.
US12259748B2
A display device is disclosed. The display device of the present disclosure may comprise: a flexible display panel; a roller which is elongated and on which the display panel is wound or unwound; a housing in which an accommodating space is provided, wherein the roller is rotatably mounted in the accommodating space; and a speaker assembly which is positioned between the roller and the housing and which is placed on the bottom of the housing, wherein the housing may comprise a front cover which is positioned at the inner side of the front of the housing, is fixed to the bottom of the housing, and has a coupling hole formed therein, and wherein the speaker assembly may comprise a coupling part which is formed at the upper side of the speaker assembly and is inserted into the coupling hole.
US12259740B2
A method and system to precision dose a fluid system with an injection fluid having chemicals is provided. The method and system includes providing a buffered dosing tank of a known geometry between a source tank and an injection pump. The fluid level detector measures the pressure of the dosing tank to determine a fluid level. The fluid level together with the known geometry allow for a controller to calculate a fluid volume in the dosing tank and a change of volume over time. Using the change of volume over time, the controller can calculate an actual dose rate and adjust a speed or duty cycle of the injection pump such that the actual dose rate is approximately the target dose rate.
US12259739B2
A mass flow controller for controlling flow rate comprising a controller, a valve assembly, and at least one pressure sensor, valve position sensor, and temperature sensor; wherein, at least one of the sensors is a semiconductor based sensor. The valve assembly is in fluid communication with at least one upstream location and at least one downstream location. The at least one pressure sensor is in in fluid communication with the at least one upstream location and the at least one downstream location. The valve assembly can comprise at least one piezoelectric or solenoid valve. The controller is communicable coupled with the valve assembly and at least one of the sensors. The controller determines at least one of: pressure; position; and temperature. The controller further causes an adjustment to valve stroke based on an actual fluid flow rate and at least one of the pressure, position, temperature, and a predetermined value.
US12259736B2
A work screen display system including a position information obtaining unit for obtaining position information on a work vehicle based on positioning correction information supplied from a first reference station; a region shape determination unit for determining a shape of a specific region where the work vehicle performs autonomous travel, based on positioning correction information supplied from a second reference station; and a display control unit for displaying, on a display unit, a specific region indication section indicating the specific region determined by the region shape determination unit. The display control unit displays the specific region indication section in a display mode that varies between a case where the first and second reference stations are identical and a case where the first and second reference stations are not identical.
US12259729B2
A device for maintaining the trajectory of a vehicle, which moves along a trajectory and has at least one contact point with the ground, includes an attachments system to the vehicle, and a sphere configured to rotate on the ground during the movement of the vehicle.
US12259725B2
A modular vehicle management system is described, comprising a controller module configured to control different types of carrier modules. The controller module includes a computer system and optionally one or more sensors. The computer system is configured to perform operations comprising detecting whether a carrier module is connected to the controller module. If the carrier module is connected to the controller module, the carrier module is authenticated. If the authentication fails, operation of the vehicle is inhibited. The control module is configured to determine carrier module capabilities including information regarding a navigation processing device, and/or a radio modem. The controller adapts to the capabilities of the controller module. Using information from the sensors and the navigation processing device, the vehicle management system navigates the vehicle.
US12259721B2
The present disclosure discloses an industrial Internet of Things for intelligent control of filling production, including a user platform, a service platform, a management platform, a sensor network platform, and an object platform interacting in sequence, wherein the service platform is provided with a plurality of independent service sub-platforms; the management platform is provided with a general management platform and a plurality of independent management sub-platforms, the management sub-platforms interacting with the general management platform, and the management sub-platforms interacting with the corresponding service sub-platforms; and the sensor network platform is provided with a general sensor network platform and a plurality of independent sensor network sub-platforms, the sensor network sub-platforms interacting with the general sensor network platform, and the general sensor network platform interacting with the general management platform. The present disclosure determines the target production device through processing a relationship diagram using a fault prediction model, the relationship diagram indicating a relationship between the devices corresponding to the production processes of the mixed filling production line, which can effectively reduce the complexity of the detection device, reduce defect detection costs, and improve the yield rate.
US12259718B2
A debugging method for production line devices may include: receiving control commands for a plurality of first devices in a production line, where respective control programs may be configured for the plurality of first devices; and calling the control programs for the plurality of first devices according to the control commands for the plurality of first devices respectively so as to debug the plurality of first devices.
US12259717B2
In an industrial control system (ICS), latent vectors are generated to represent identity or behaviors of host devices coupled to the ICS. A computing system captures communications transmitted by a host device across a network associated with the ICS. A set of values are extracted from one or more respective fields in the communication, then applied to a trained neural network. Values of a first set of fields are applied at an input layer of the trained neural network, while values of a second set of fields are applied at an output layer of the neural network. Based on the application of the neural network to the values extracted from the communication, the computing system generates a latent vector.
US12259716B2
Industrial automation system with a system for embedding a web application to be embedded in a surrounding web application and method for embedding a web application into a surrounding web application, wherein the web application to be embedded is provided to run in a separate execution and display region of the surrounding web application, the web application to be embedded is provided by at least two web servers so as to increase redundancy, monitoring capability and operability and therefore fault tolerance, to reduce complexity, to reduce communication traffic and to obtain improved options for access restriction for personnel, particularly in large industrial automation systems, such as process control systems.
US12259715B2
An open application protocol for industrial equipment is disclosed. Disclosed techniques include: opening a connection between (a) an open application associated with a manufacturing execution system and (b) an instance of a data sharing interface operating on an industrial machine used in a surface mounting process, the open application being configured to communicate with any machine that implements the data sharing interface, regardless of machine type or manufacturer; discovering, by the open application via the connection, discoverable information associated with the industrial machine, the discoverable information including one or more of data items, events, commands, or alarms; and controlling, by the open application via the connection, operation of the industrial machine to control at least a portion of the surface mounting process.
US12259713B2
A method of automatically tuning a proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controller (102) controlling a DC-DC converter (100) includes substituting the PID controller (102) with a modified relay feedback test (MRFT) (104) controller having a threshold parameter (β) and a magnitude parameter (h), iteratively determining a current error signal (e[k]) by measuring an output voltage (Vo[k]) of the DC-DC converter (100) and comparing it to a desired reference output voltage (Vo-ref), input the error signal (e[k]) to the MRFT (104), determining an output value (u[k]) of the MRFT, update the duty cycle (D) based on the output value (u[k]), operating the DC-DC converter (100) using the updated duty cycle (D), exciting oscillations in the loop containing the MRFT (104) and the DC-DC converter (100), measuring a frequency (Ω0) and amplitude (α0) of the output voltage (Vo[k]), updating PID controller parameters based on the frequency (Ω0) and amplitude (α0), and substituting the MRFT (104) with the PID controller (102).
US12259688B2
Jumper device (80) for a timepiece device (100) including at east one first arm (81) including a first beak (81a) for positioning a first mobile unit (10), at least one second arm (82) including a second beak (82a) for positioning a second mobile unit (20), an elastic element (84) for returning the first arm and the second arm to configurations positioning the first and second mobile units, and a lever (83; 83′) interfaced between, on the one hand, the elastic return element, and on the other hand, the first and second arms.
US12259680B2
An image forming apparatus, including a process cartridge and a main body with an opening and a cartridge supporter is provided. The process cartridge includes a drum cartridge; a toner cartridge attachable to the drum cartridge; and a switching member switchable states in the process cartridge between a first state, wherein detachment of the toner cartridge is restricted, and a second state, wherein the toner cartridge is released from the restriction. The cartridge supporter is movable between a first position, wherein the cartridge supporter supports the process cartridge to be placed entirely in an inner space in the main body on an inner side of the opening, and a second position, wherein the cartridge supporter supports the process cartridge to be at least partly placed outside the inner space. When the cartridge supporter is in the second position, the switching member is at least partly placed outside the inner space.
US12259675B2
A process cartridge includes: a drum cartridge; and a developing cartridge. The drum cartridge includes: a drum frame; a photosensitive drum rotatable about a first axis extending in a first direction; and a first memory having a first electrical contact surface. The developing cartridge is attachable to the drum frame and includes: a casing; a developing roller rotatable about a second axis extending in the first direction; a second memory having a second electrical contact surface; and a developing holder holding the second electrical contact surface such that the second electrical contact surface is movable relative to the casing. The drum cartridge further includes an elastic member that can expand and contract in a second direction crossing the first direction. The developing holder is connected to the elastic member and is movable in the second direction in a state where the developing cartridge is attached to the drum frame.
US12259655B1
Provided is a manufacturing method of a flexographic printing plate, including a development step of subjecting a plate surface of a flexographic printing original plate including at least a support, a photosensitive resin composition layer, and an infrared ablation layer sequentially stacked to brushing with a brush while supplying an organic solvent-based developer to the plate surface, wherein the organic solvent-based developer includes 0.1% by mass or more and 10.0% by mass or less of a polymer gel.
US12259644B1
The present disclosure provides rotatable camera mounting device, wherein comprising: an upper base, wherein, the upper base comprises a loading surface and an upper base body connected to the loading surface, the upper base body comprises an upper base frame, a first connecting member, and a first reinforcing skeleton connected to the upper base frame, the first connecting member is provided with an accommodating cavity, and one end of the first connecting member away from the loading surface is provided with a first connecting surface.
US12259642B2
An optical filter attachment assembly for a camera is provided. The optical filter attachment assembly includes an attachment assembly configured to be threadably coupled to the camera and having an attachment frame. The attachment frame includes a first set of magnets. The optical filter attachment assembly further includes at least one filter assembly. Each filter assembly includes at least one optical filter mounted in a filter frame. The filter frame includes a second set of magnets. The first set of magnets and the second set of magnets are configured to detachably couple to each other such that the at least one optical filter is retained on the camera.
US12259640B2
An underwater system is disclosed for use with a digital image capturing device (DICD) in underwater environments. The underwater system includes a center band having first and second support bands; a first housing fixedly connected to the first support band and including an optically clear material; a second housing fixedly connected to the second support band and including an optically clear material; a cradle connected to the first support band and configured to receive the DICD; and a latching mechanism positioned between the cradle and the first support band. The second support band is pivotally connected to the first support band such that the underwater system is repositionable between an open position and a closed position, and the latching mechanism is repositionable between a locked position, in which the latching mechanism securely engages the DICD, and an unlocked position, in which the latching mechanism is disengaged from the DICD.
US12259639B2
Folded cameras comprising a movable lens having a lens optical axis and positioned in an optical path between an optical path folding element (OPFE) and an image sensor, wherein the OPFE folds light from a first direction to a second direction, the second direction being substantially along the lens optical axis, and an actuator for controlled lens movement, the actuator including or being attached to a shield partially surrounding the lens, the shield having an opening positioned and dimensioned to enable installation of the lens into the shield from an insertion direction substantially parallel to the first direction. A folded camera disclosed herein may be included together with an upright camera in a dual-camera.
US12259632B2
An optical arrangement for enlarging spectral bandwidths by nonlinear self-phase modulation for shortening ultrashort pulses using a multipass cell and a nonlinear medium. The nonlinear medium is arranged within the multipass cell, and a laser beam having ultrashort pulses passes through the nonlinear medium multiple times. The laser beam is coupled into the multipass cell by way of a shaping optical unit. The laser beam is shaped into an astigmatic beam and coupled into the multipass cell by way of the shaping optical unit.
US12259629B2
An electrophoretic display includes an electrophoretic medium having a non-polar fluid and two sets of charged pigment particles dispersed in the non-polar fluid and movable through the non-polar fluid under influence of an electric field. The two sets of charged pigment particles have different optical characteristics from each other. The display also includes a light-transmissive electrode on one side of the electrophoretic medium, a rear electrode on an opposite side of the electrophoretic medium, and a dielectric layer having a dielectric constant greater than 5 between the electrophoretic medium and the light-transmissive electrode or between the electrophoretic medium and the rear electrode configured to reduce electrode electrochemical degradation and buildup of remnant voltages in the display.
US12259628B2
Electrochromic devices with multi-layer conductors including one or more of a defect mitigation insulating layer, a color tuning layer and metal layer pair, and a transparent conductive oxide layer.
US12259617B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and an electrode, the electrode includes a main electrode and a secondary electrode, the main electrode surrounds and is spaced apart from the secondary electrode, the main electrode receives a first voltage signal, and the secondary electrode receives a second voltage signal, so that deflection directions of liquid crystals located in a main electrode region and in a secondary electrode region are different, thereby effectively improving the color cast of a multi-domain liquid crystal display panel and improving the display effect.
US12259615B2
A backlight apparatus includes an LED substrate having a principal surface over which a plurality of light-emitting elements that emit excitation light are arrayed, a phosphor layer containing a phosphor that emits fluorescence upon receiving the excitation light, a wavelength-selective reflecting layer disposed between the phosphor layer and the LED substrate, and a louver film disposed between the wavelength-selective reflecting layer and the LED substrate and having a plurality of louvers. The wavelength-selective reflecting layer has different transmittances according to wavelengths and/or angles of incidence of light falling thereon. The louver film blocks the fluorescence and the excitation light falling thereon at an angle greater than or equal to a first angle and smaller than 90 degrees with respect to a direction normal to a film surface of the louver film.
US12259611B2
An air-circulation-type touchscreen device includes a touch panel, an LCD device mounted behind the touch panel, a liquid crystal panel assembly disposed in front of the LCD device, an LCD device bracket fixing and supporting the LCD device, and at least one heated air circulation fan mounted behind the liquid crystal panel assembly to forcibly circulate heat between the touch panel and the liquid crystal panel assembly. A heated air flow space is defined between the touch panel and the liquid crystal panel assembly.
US12259609B2
A display device is provided, including: a display panel; a light guide component on a light entering side of the display panel; and a supporting assembly connected to the display panel and the light guide component. The supporting assembly is configured to support the display panel and the light guide component, and the supporting assembly includes: a frame body having a first supporting surface facing the display panel, the light guide component being fixed on the first supporting surface; and a light transmission portion on the first supporting surface and on an outer side of a side surface of the light guide component, the light transmission portion having a second supporting surface facing the display panel. The display panel is fixed on the second supporting surface, and the light transmission portion is configured to refract light so that the refracted light exits through the second supporting surface.
US12259602B2
A liquid crystal display includes a first substrate including: a display area including a plurality of pixels on the first substrate, a non-display area which is disposed on an outside of the display area and in which a dummy wire is disposed on the first substrate, and an image input hole which is defined therein in the non-display area and in which an image input device is disposed, a second substrate facing the first substrate and including a display area and a non-display area corresponding to those of the first substrate, a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first and second substrates, and a sealant which is in the non-display area of the first and second substrates and seals the liquid crystal layer between the first and second substrates. The dummy wire is disposed near the image input hole.
US12259596B2
The present disclosure relates to an ophthalmic lens with an extended depth of field including an optical unit that includes a first surface and a second surface both centered by an optical axis and opposite to each other. At least one of the first and second surfaces is defined by a superposition of a base sag profile and a feature sag profile and includes in sequence a first zone, a second zone, and a third zone along a radial direction away from the optical axis. The first zone is designed as a freeform surface zone, and the second zone is designed as a phase transition zone. The ophthalmic lens enables patients to acquire a continuous range of vision from intermediate to far distances and also optimizes their far vision without visual interference, such that the resulting far vision correction is equivalent to that of existing monofocal ophthalmic lenses.
US12259595B2
Eyewear having a frame, a hinge, and a hyperextendable temple having a flexible printed circuit (FPC) including service loops. An extender is coupled to the hinge and the temple, and the extender extends with respect to the hinge allowing hyperextension of the temple with respect to the frame. A first service loop allows extension of the FPC when the temple rotates about the hinge, and a second service loop allows the temple to be radially extended away from the hinge.
US12259593B2
A retractable lens barrel includes a moving unit configured to move a first optical member in an optical system between an imaging position located on an optical axis and a shifted position shifted from the optical axis, a base member movably supporting the moving unit, a cylindrical member, and an operating member configured, when operated, to cause relative movement between the cylindrical member and the base member. The cylindrical member includes a sliding surface on which the moving unit slides and an engagement portion. The moving unit slides on the sliding surface and moves the first optical member from the imaging position to the retracted position as the lens barrel transitions from the imaging state to the retracted state. In a case where the lens barrel is in the retracted state, the moving unit is engaged with the engagement portion and restricted from moving.
US12259592B2
The present disclosure relates generally to a cable management system including a trough member, at least one intermediary divider, and at least one connecting mechanism. The trough member includes a base having a plurality of holes extending through a top surface and a bottom surface, and a first sidewall and a second sidewall extending from the base. The intermediary divider includes a divider base and a divider wall extending from the base. The connecting mechanism is configured to connect the divider base of the at least one intermediary divider to the holes of the trough member.
US12259584B2
An optical fiber connector comprises a multi-fiber ferrule having an array of grooves recessed relative to an upper surface of a medial portion thereof, wherein each groove has a depth greater than a maximum diameter of an uncoated fiber segment received therein, and is shaped such that an optical fiber received therein lacks contact with the groove over large arc length thereof (e.g., an arc spanning at least 120 or at least 150 degrees). A method for fabricating a multi-fiber connector with a multi-fiber ferrule includes flexing a medial portion of the ferrule into a non-linear configuration to expand an average width of at least some grooves defined in an upper surface of a medial portion thereof, receiving optical fibers in the grooves, pushing the fibers away from the bottom of each groove, and securing the optical fibers in the grooves.
US12259581B2
An integrated optical device includes: a mounting base; an optical semiconductor device which is provided on a surface of the mounting base; a substrate; and an optical waveguide which is provided on a surface of the substrate, wherein an incident surface of the optical waveguide is disposed to face an emission surface of the optical semiconductor device, wherein light emitted from the optical semiconductor device is able to be incident to the optical waveguide, wherein the optical semiconductor device is connected to the mounting base through a metal layer, wherein the mounting base is connected to the substrate through the other metal layer, and wherein a mounting base bottom surface on the side opposite to a surface of the mounting base and a substrate bottom surface on the side opposite to a surface of the substrate are provided on the substantially same plane.
US12259580B2
Some embodiments of the disclosure provides a substrate for optical fiber array and the disclosed substrate fixes the fiber by epoxy. In some embodiments, the substrate includes a main body, a first holding groove, and a second holding groove. The first holding groove is notched along a width direction of the main body for holding a stripped optical fiber by epoxy. The second holding groove is an arc-shaped groove and connected with the first holding groove. The second holding groove extends along a notching direction of the first holding groove for holding an unstripped optical fiber. In other embodiments, a groove is notched along a length direction of the main body to prevent epoxy overflow.
US12259576B2
Depositing a side slab structure on a cladding layer before etching a supporting dielectric prevents tapering of a silicon waveguide during etching of the supporting dielectric and a substrate. For example, the side slab structure may be deposited over the silicon waveguide and the cladding layer after etching the cladding layer. As a result, when an electronic device is integrated ex situ on the substrate, wave intensity and/or total internal reflection is improved, which improves an efficiency of the electronic device.
US12259575B2
Various embodiments provide for clock signal distribution within a processor, such as a machine learning (ML) processor, using a photonic fabric.
US12259574B2
A lighting keyboard includes a backlight module and at least one keyswitch. The backlight module includes a lighting unit, a light guide panel, and a lighting board for illuminating a keycap of the keyswitch. The light guide panel includes a panel hole to accommodate the lighting unit. The light guide panel further includes plural slots intervally surrounding the lighting unit. The lighting board includes a micro-structure region facing toward the light guide panel. Each of the slots of the light guide panel has a bulge portion protruding to the lighting unit. At two sides of the bulge portion, each of the slots forms two slots walls with an obtuse angle, thereby expanding the transmitting angle for the multi-color lights from the lighting unit and enhancing the light-mixing uniformity while illuminating the keycap.
US12259573B2
The present application concerns an optical device for controlling light, the optical device including: a first waveguide for receiving a light beam from an external light source, at least a second waveguide, an optical coupler for coupling a light beam from the first waveguide to the second waveguide, a beam shaping structure with a light emitting area for emitting a light beam, wherein the second waveguide is configured to guide a light beam coupled from the first waveguide to the beam shaping structure, wherein the beam shaping structure is configured to propagate a light beam received from the second waveguide to the light emitting area such that the beam divergence of a light beam emitted from the light emitting area is lower than the beam divergence of the light beam received from the second waveguide.
US12259569B2
Optical elements with anisotropic, patterned surface relief microstructures in which information is encoded in the distribution of the orientation of different zones. From the analysis of the distribution of the light scattered from the element, the orientation distribution in the element and therefore the encoded information can be evaluated. The elements are particularly useful for securing documents and articles against counterfeiting and falsification.
US12259568B2
Provided is an image display apparatus that has a small overall apparatus volume and can be miniaturized. The image display apparatus includes an image display element; a light guide plate on which light emitted by the image display element is incident and which internally and totally reflects the light satisfying a total reflection condition to guide the light; and a retroreflective element that is provided on a surface of the light guide plate and retroreflects the light guided in the light guide plate.
US12259564B2
Disclosed herein is a high throughput optical scanning device and methods of use. The optical scanning device and methods of use provided herein can allow high throughput scanning of a continuously moving object with a high resolution despite fluctuations in stage velocity. This can aid in high throughput scanning of a substrate, such as a biological chip comprising fluorophores. Also provided herein are improved optical relay systems and scanning optics.
US12259563B2
A light field imaging device may include a diffraction grating assembly configured to receive an optical wavefront from a scene and including one or more diffraction gratings. Each diffraction grating has a refractive index modulation pattern with a grating period along a grating axis and is configured to generate a diffracted wavefront. The device may also include a pixel array configured to detect the diffracted wavefront in a near-field region. The pixel array includes light-sensitive pixels and a pixel pitch along the grating axis that is equal to or larger than the grating period. Each pixel samples a portion of the diffracted wavefront and generates a pixel response. The pixels include groups or pairs of adjacent pixels, where the adjacent pixels in each group or pair have different pixel responses as a function of the angle of incidence of the optical wavefront. Light field imaging methods are also disclosed.
US12259558B1
An optical sensor includes a light source emitting signal light, a light sensing element on an optical path of the signal light, and a photoelectric conversion element on a side of the light sensing element away from the light source. The light sensing element is used to receive ambient light and the signal light on one side and transmit an incident light on another side, wherein a transmittance of the light sensing element changes according to an intensity of the ambient light to adjust an intensity of the incident light transmitted from the light sensing element. The photoelectric conversion element is configured to receive the incident light transmitted from the light sensing element, and to output a voltage modulation signal according to the incident light. A glasses is also provided.
US12259556B2
A head-mounted display including an image generator, a projection lens, and a waveguide is provided. The image generator is configured to provide an image beam. The projection lens is disposed on a path of the image beam. The projection lens has an image side and an object side. The image generator is configured at the image side. The projection lens includes a first lens element and a lens element group. The lens element group is disposed between the image generator and the first lens element. A first central axis of the first lens element and a second central axis of the lens element group are not overlapped. The waveguide is disposed on the path of the image beam and located at the object side of the projection lens.
US12259554B2
Head-mounted displays with waveguides comprising superimposed diffractive gratings and methods for fabricating said waveguides are described herein. In an embodiment, a head-mounted display comprises an optical element and an image source that provides an image beam to an optical element. The optical element comprises two gratings superimposed over each other, at least one of which comprising a buried diffractive grating. The buried diffractive grating comprises a high-refractive index material interspersed with a low-refractive index material or non-solid pockets, such as gas, air or vacuum. Light diffracted by a first of the two gratings is further diffracted by a second of the two gratings without interacting with a surface of the optical element between diffractions.
US12259543B2
A compact single-axis confocal endomicroscope is provided, capable of complying with 2.8 mm diameter endoscope space requirements. The single-axis confocal endomicroscope uses a folded path design achieved between a fixed mirror and a lateral plane scanning mirror thereby producing high numerical apertures that allow for diffraction-limited resolution in sub-surface scanning. The scanning mirror has a central aperture that allows for illumination beam expansion in the folded path design.
US12259535B2
An optical unit and an image display device include a display element configured to emit imaging light, a first mirror having partial transparency and configured to reflect a portion of the imaging light emitted from the display element, and a second mirror configured to return the imaging light reflected by the first mirror to the first mirror to form an exit pupil. The imaging light is incident on the first mirror from the display element at a first incident angle, and the imaging light is incident on the first mirror at a second incident angle that is smaller than the first incident angle from the second mirror, and the first mirror includes an angle dependent separation film that shows different separation characteristics for the imaging light according to the difference between the first incident angle and the second incident angle.
US12259533B2
A lens, wherein a first profile in a first direction intersecting an optical axis and a second profile in a second direction intersecting the optical axis are different from each other, and a length of the first profile in the first direction is different from a length of the second profile in the second direction.
US12259531B2
A photographing optical lens assembly includes, in order from object side to image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element, a sixth lens element and a seventh lens element. The first lens element has positive refractive power. The second, third, fourth and fifth lens elements have refractive power. The sixth lens element with refractive power has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region, wherein an object-side surface and the image-side surface of the sixth lens element are both aspheric, and the image-side surface has at least one inflection point. The seventh lens element with refractive power has an image-side surface being concave in a paraxial region, wherein an object-side surface and the image-side surface of the seventh lens element are both aspheric, and the image-side surface has at least one inflection point.
US12259529B2
A lens assembly comprises a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a sixth lens, a seventh lens and an eighth lens which are arranged sequentially from an object side to an image side along an optical axis. The first lens is a meniscus lens with negative refractive power and comprises a convex surface facing an object side and a concave surface facing an image side. The second lens is with negative refractive power. The third lens is with refractive power. The fourth lens is with positive refractive power. The fifth lens is with positive refractive power and comprises a convex surface facing the image side. The sixth lens is with refractive power. The seventh lens is with positive refractive power. The eighth lens is with refractive negative power and comprises a concave surface facing the object side.
US12259526B2
There is provided an imaging lens having a low profile and a low F-number and allowing satisfactory correction of aberrations. An imaging lens comprises in order from an object side, a first lens L1 with positive refractive power, a second lens L2 with negative refractive power, a third lens L3, a fourth lens L4 with positive refractive power, and a fifth lens L5 with negative refractive power, wherein an image-side surface of said fourth lens L4 is convex in a paraxial region, an object-side surface of said fifth lens L5 is an aspheric surface having at least one inflection point, and the following conditional expressions are satisfied: f/Dep<2.0 (1) 1.2
US12259524B2
The presently disclosed subject matter includes a mobile electronic comprising an integrated camera, comprising a Wide camera unit comprising a Wide lens unit, and a Telephoto camera unit comprising a telephoto lens unit, the telephoto lens unit and the wide lens unit having respectively TTL/EFL ratios smaller and larger than 1 and defining separate telephoto and wide optical paths.
US12259512B2
Downhole measurement systems and methods include deploying a bottomhole assembly having a multipole transmitter into a formation and transmitting acoustic signals into the formation. The multipole transmitter is of order n≥2. Acoustic signals are received at respective receivers that are circumferentially aligned with the multipole transmitter, and are axially offset from the multipole transmitter, and axially offset from each other. The order of the first and second multipole receivers are equal to the order of the multipole transmitter. A controller is used to obtain first and second acoustic multipole data from the first and second multipole receivers at one or more azimuthal angles of a rotation of the bottomhole assembly in a formation during a drilling operation. Acoustic azimuthal anisotropy of the formation is determined from the first acoustic multipole data and the second acoustic multipole data.
US12259510B2
The present disclosure provides a device for full-wave field seismic source based on a gas explosion technology and a method for acquiring seismic data. The device includes a cylindrical explosion-proof metal outer barrel, and four sides of the explosion-proof metal outer barrel are fixedly connected to four high-strength steel plates. The device also includes a cylindrical explosion-proof metal gas explosion inner barrel and pipelines for injecting high-pressure air and high-pressure gas into the gas explosion inner barrel. A center of the gas explosion inner barrel is installed with an electronic ignition gun, which is connected to a GPS timing module connected to the electronic ignition gun. The device further includes a controller configured to control a seismic source of a gas explosion full-wave field. Longitudinal wave source signals propagating vertically downward and perpendicular to ground, shear wave source signals propagating downward and parallel to a seismic source line direction, and shear wave source signals propagating downward and perpendicular to the seismic source line direction are triggered in sequence at each seismic source point. Longitudinal wave data and two transverse wave data orthogonal to each other and parallel to the ground excited through the each seismic source point are recorded in sequence by three-component geophones deployed on the ground, thereby achieving full-wave field exploration.
US12259505B2
It is an object to provide a device and a method for x-ray and/or gamma ray detection. a detector comprising a plurality of pixels, each pixel in the plurality of pixels being switchable between a floating mode and a detection mode, wherein each pixel in the plurality of pixels is configured to detect incident x-ray and/or gamma ray radiation when in the detection mode; a control unit coupled to the detector, configured to: during a first temporal frame, configure a first subset of pixels in the plurality of pixels to the floating mode and a second subset of pixels in the plurality of pixels to the detection mode; and during a second temporal frame, configure a third subset of pixels in the plurality of pixels to the floating mode and a fourth subset of pixels in the plurality of pixels to the detection mode.
US12259503B2
The invention relates to a method for adaptive beamforming of ultrasound signals, the method comprising the steps of (a) Receiving time-aligned RF signals acquired by multiple ultrasound transducer elements in response to an ultrasound transmission; (b) Determining content-adaptive apodization weights for beamforming the time-aligned RF signals by applying a trained artificial neural network (16) to the time-aligned RF signals; and (c) Applying the content-adaptive apodization weights to the time-aligned RF signals to calculate a beamformed output signal. The invention also relates to a method for training an artificial neural network (16) useful in adaptive beamforming of ultrasound signals, and a related computer program and system.
US12259501B2
A robot including a chassis; a set of wheels coupled to the chassis; a range finding system coupled to the robot; a plurality of sensors; a processor; and a tangible, non-transitory, machine-readable medium storing instructions that when executed by the processor effectuates operations including: obtaining, with the processor, distances to obstacles measured by the range finding system as the robot moves relative to the obstacles; and determining, with the processor, a position of the obstacle based at least partially on the distance measurements, including: identifying, with the processor, at least one position of the range finding system when encountering the obstacle; and determining, with the processor, the position of the obstacle based at least partially on the at least one position of the range finding system when encountering the obstacle.
US12259492B2
A zero-phase calibration method includes: selecting a group of range combinations with the same ranges and a group of adjacent range combinations consisting of the range and a smaller range adjacent to the range between different channels of a wide-range meter, measuring phase calibration parameters between channel signals of the group of range combinations with the same ranges and phase calibration parameters between channel signals of the group of adjacent range combinations, storing the measured phase calibration parameters in a memory, invoking the measured phase calibration parameters stored in the memory to calculate phase calibration parameters between channel signals of each of the remaining range combinations of the wide-range meter level by level, and storing the calculated phase calibration parameters in the memory, invoking corresponding phase calibration parameters stored in the memory to calibrate zero-phase points between different channels of signals of the meter while calibrating the wide-range meter.
US12259490B1
The present disclosure provides a multi-antenna single-station stereoscopic-arrangement ultra-short baseline lightning location method and related devices. The method includes: adopting a multi-antenna stereoscopic arrangement to form an equilateral pentagon interferometer array without angular error and multiple equilateral triangle interferometer arrays with angular error by combining different numbers of antennas; obtaining a time difference of a same pulse signal between VHF antennas through the combinations of different antennas; using the equilateral pentagon interferometer array to conduct a two-dimensional observation without systematic error; correcting a result of a two-dimensional observation with systematic error that is obtained from the equilateral triangle arrays; and finally, using two-dimensional information obtained by the equilateral pentagon interferometer array as a reference, and performing spatial intersection with the corrected two-dimensional information obtained by multiple equilateral triangle interferometer arrays to obtain three-dimensional information.
US12259487B2
An electronic device may receive a first signal from a first transmitting device at a first time. The electronic device may receive a second signal from a second transmitting device at a second time. The electronic device may access location information for the first transmitting device and the second transmitting device. The electronic device may receive a message from a second electronic device having a known distance relationship to the first transmitting device and the second transmitting device, wherein the second electronic device is configured to receive the first signal, the second signal, and the message including timing information of the signals. The electronic device may determine the position of the electronic device using the location information and the timing information, wherein the position is dependent on the known distance relationship.
US12259484B2
A positioning processing method applied to a base station is provided. The positioning processing method includes: receiving a first positioning reference signal from a first terminal device; receiving a second positioning reference signal from a second terminal device bound to the first terminal device; determining position information of the first terminal device based on the first positioning reference signal and the second positioning reference signal; and sending the position information to at least one of the first terminal device or the second terminal device.
US12259479B2
A wearable device that can receive a plurality of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) timing signals using an antenna, where the antenna is located in an exterior portion of the wearable device such that the antenna receives GNSS signals at the external portion of the wearable device, without the GNSS signals first passing through an air gap within a housing of the wearable device. The wearable device is configured to determine a geographic location of the wearable device based at least in part on the GNSS signals. The wearable device is configurable to perform underwater dead-reckoning procedures, measuring energy levels during dwell periods, measuring efficiency of swim strokes, sharing wearable device information with other electronic devices, calibrating the wearable device, or a combination thereof.
US12259477B2
A light detection and ranging (LIDAR) sensor system includes a plurality of LIDAR pixels and a local oscillator module. The local oscillator module is coupled to the plurality of LIDAR pixels. The local oscillator module includes a first local oscillator input configured to receive a first local oscillator signal and a second local oscillator input configured to receive a second local oscillator signal. The local oscillator module is configured to provide the first local oscillator signal or the second local oscillator signal to a first LIDAR pixel of the plurality of LIDAR pixels.
US12259474B2
A method for capturing at least particle compositions (21) in a monitoring region (14) that exhibit a temporally dynamic behaviour with an optical detection apparatus (12), and an optical detection apparatus (12) are described. In the method, during at least one measurement, optical transmission signals (22) are transmitted into the monitoring region (14) and transmission signals (22) that are reflected at particle targets (28) of any particle compositions (21) present in the monitoring region (14) are received as particle reflection signals (30). The presence of dynamic particle compositions (21) is concluded from the particle reflection signals (30). At least two measurements are performed with a temporal distance. A particle target density or a variable characterizing the particle target density is ascertained for at least one partial volume (48) of the monitoring region (14) from the particle reflection signals (30) of each measurement. If the particle target density (52) or the variable characterizing it from the at least two measurements should differ by more than a prescribable or prescribed tolerance, it is concluded that the particle reflection signals (30) from the at least one partial volume are caused by the reflection of the transmission signals (22) at dynamic particle compositions (21).
US12259472B2
This application discloses a LiDAR and a mobile device, where LiDAR includes a lens and a photonic chip, an optical axis of the lens extends along a first preset direction; the photonic chip and the lens are spaced apart along the first preset direction, the photonic chip includes a cladding layer and multiple receiving waveguide core layers, all the receiving waveguide core layers are located at an end of the cladding layer that is closer to the lens and are spaced apart along a second preset direction, each receiving waveguide core layer has a first end surface and a second end surface opposite to each other, the first end surface is closer to the lens than the second end surface; and there is a distance between a first end surface of at least one receiving waveguide core layer and a focal plane of the lens.
US12259468B2
Disclosed are aspects of a radar system for a vehicle that includes a first radar antenna assembly connected to at least one radar transmitter for transmitting radar signals into a traffic space and a second radar antenna assembly connected to at least one radar receiver for receiving radar signals reflected by objects present in the traffic space. The first radar antenna assembly is spaced apart from the second radar antenna assembly. The at least one radar transmitter is coupled to the at least one radar receiver by a synchronization line for a bistatic radar operation of the radar system. Further, at least one of the first radar antenna assembly or the second radar antenna assembly includes a feed horn and a reflector for the feed horn.
US12259466B2
Described is a method for extraction of a region of interest (ROI) from a composite synthetic aperture radar (SAR) phase history data. The method comprising receiving, with a system comprising a processor, the composite SAR phase history data of a plurality of backscattered return signals produced by a SAR system illuminating a scene with a SAR beam. The method also comprises obtaining a location of a first ROI within the scene and extracting from the composite SAR phase history data a first component SAR phase history data corresponding to the ROI at the location of the ROI.
US12259465B2
Provided is a method for movement estimation and movement compensation of a target object that can be applied without introducing restrictions on antenna placement. The present invention provides a radar apparatus including: a radar signal transmission-reception unit acquiring a radar signal acquired by measurement using a transmission antenna and a reception antenna, and a measurement time of the radar signal; a velocity candidate control unit holding a setting of a velocity candidate set of a target object; a velocity estimation imaging unit generating a radar image applied with movement compensation by using each velocity candidate; a velocity estimation unit selecting an estimated velocity from a velocity candidate set, based on comparison of each generated radar image; and an output image imaging unit generating a final output image applied with movement compensation using an estimated velocity.
US12259464B2
Creating and updating an accurate radar map layer for HD map using crowdsourcing may comprise a vehicle obtaining radar data and filtering the radar data on a frame-by-frame basis. In some embodiments, additional filtering may be made on a batch of frames. The vehicle can then transmit the filtered radar data responsive to a determination that a confidence of a position estimate of the vehicle exceeds a conference threshold level and/or a determination that a reliance of the position estimate of the vehicle on the radar data exceeds a reliance threshold level.
US12259450B2
A method of fabricating a stretchable RF coil assembly of an MR system using a sewing machine is provided. The method includes providing a sewing accessory assembly. The sewing accessory assembly includes a substrate holder including an inner hoop and an outer hoop. The method also includes assembling a former and a stretchable substrate with the substrate holder by coupling sides of the former and sides of the stretchable substrate between the inner hoop and the outer hoop. The method further includes coupling the assembled substrate holder with a sewing machine, and assembling an RF coil assembly by sewing a pattern of a fiber conductor on the stretchable substrate.
US12259448B2
A spin state readout device of a quantum sensor. The quantum sensor has spin-manipulable electrons. The spin state readout device includes: a pumping unit configured to emit a first laser to the quantum sensor to polarize the electron spin state of the quantum sensor; a probing unit configured to emit a second laser to the quantum sensor to make the spin-polarized quantum sensor in an excited state; a signal receiving unit configured to receive fluorescence photons emitted from the quantum sensor and convert optical signals into electrical signals; and a timing unit coupled to the probing unit and the signal receiving unit and configured to time an excited state lifetime of the quantum sensor. The spin state readout device of the quantum sensor provided can reduce spin state reading errors caused by laser power drifts, system signal collection efficiency drifts and the like.
US12259440B2
Provided is a battery management system and method for selecting at least one battery cell of a high-risk group and calculating a maximum current limit value for stably using a battery pack using the selected at least one battery cell of the high-risk group. According to the present invention, the battery cells of high-risk group may be selected and managed by calculating a maximum voltage change amount of a plurality of battery cells, and the battery pack may be stably used by calculating a maximum current limit value that prevents the battery cell from being out of an operating voltage range to have a maximum margin.
US12259439B2
A voltage tap for measuring a voltage includes at least one contact region and one abutment surface. Using the abutment surface, the voltage tap is electrically connectable to a contact surface of an electrical circuit board. The abutment surface comprises an enlarged surface with respect to the contact surface of the electrical circuit board, so that the electrical connection between the voltage tap and the electrical circuit board is provided independently of a movement of the voltage tap.
US12259437B2
A method and/or system configured to select state estimator operation settings based on one or more system inputs; and determine a battery state of a battery, based on sensor measurements associated with the battery, using a state estimator operating under the state estimator operation settings.
US12259429B2
A voltage tracking circuit includes a first, second, third and fourth transistor. The first transistor is in a first well, the first transistor including a first source terminal and a first body terminal that are coupled to a first voltage supply. The second transistor includes a second source terminal being coupled to the first drain terminal, a second gate terminal being coupled to a pad voltage terminal and configured to receive a pad voltage. The third transistor is in a second well, and includes a third gate terminal coupled to the first voltage supply, and a third body terminal coupled to a first node. The fourth transistor includes a fourth drain terminal coupled to the third source terminal, a fourth gate terminal coupled to the third gate terminal and the first voltage supply, and a fourth source terminal coupled to the pad voltage terminal.
US12259424B2
An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: obtain failure information to identify details of a failure which has occurred in a target device on which failure analysis is to be performed; and superimpose and display information related to a part or a wire on a captured image of a printed circuit board included in the target device, the part or the wire being a possible cause for the failure identified by the failure information from multiple parts and wires disposed on the printed circuit board.
US12259413B2
A fault protection system is configured to detect a fault in an electric power system. The fault protection system obtains a differential measurement signal. The differential measurement signal may, for example, indicate, as a function of time, the difference between currents or voltages measured at two or more terminals or boundaries of a fault protection zone of the electric power system. Regardless, the fault protection system generates a fault detection signal by cross-correlating the differential measurement signal with a reference signal. The reference signal may for instance be the differential measurement signal that is expected upon occurrence of a fault. The fault protection system performs fault detection, for detecting a fault internal to the fault protection zone, as a function of the fault detection signal.
US12259410B2
Provided are a Rogowski-type current sensor capable of being flexibly deformed and easily mounted even when a clearance is narrow, an inverter, and a method of mounting a Rogowski-type current sensor. A main body of a Rogowski-type current sensor is formed from a belt-shaped flexible wiring board. The main body includes a measuring portion in which a Rogowski coil is formed in a length direction by a conductive pattern. When measuring a current flowing through a wiring of a measurement target, the main body is mounted such that it is bent in an annular shape to surround the wiring of the measurement target, and front surfaces (first main surfaces) are overlaid with each other so as to surround the wiring of the measurement target.
US12259403B2
Provided is an inertial sensor module having excellent detection accuracy. The inertial sensor module includes: a first sensor having a first axis, a second axis, and a third axis as detection axes; and a second sensor having accuracy higher than that of the first sensor and having the third axis as a detection axis. The first sensor and the second sensor are disposed on an inner bottom surface which is one plane in a package. The first sensor and the second sensor are sealed by the package in an airtight manner.
US12259399B2
A system, device and method to pick and/or place specimen containers. The system or device may include a mechanical pick and/or place head, or a vacuum-based pick and/or place head. The mechanical pick and/or place head may include a drive shaft with an engagement head to draw a single specimen container into a receiver and retain such until positioned to place such. The vacuum-based mechanical pick and/or place head may include a vacuum conduit to draw a single specimen container into a receiver and drive shaft that orients a portion of the receiver to retain such until positioned to place such. Various sensors may be employed, for example to detect frost, and a defroster employed.
US12259397B2
Disclosed herein are methods of identifying biomarkers (such as genes (e.g., RNA or mRNA), proteins, and/or small molecules) that can be used to predict organ or tissue function or dysfunction. In some embodiments, the methods include ex vivo perfusion of the organ or tissue, collection of samples from the organ or tissue (for example, perfusate, fluids produced by the organ (such as bile or urine), or tissue biopsies) and measuring the level of one or more biomarkers in the sample. It is also disclosed herein that an analysis of biomarkers (such as genes (e.g., RNA or mRNA), proteins, and/or small molecules) present in a biological sample from an organ, tissue, or subject can be used to identify whether the organ, tissue, or subject is at risk for (or has) organ dysfunction or organ failure.
US12259395B2
The present application provides methods, compositions and kits for determining SHD catabody levels in a biological sample, and for treating or preventing a protein aggregation disease (PAD) in an individual. Also provided are catabodies specifically recognizing amyloid beta (Aβ) peptides and methods of use thereof.
US12259387B2
A system, method, apparatus and diagnostic test for Plasmodium vivax, to determine a likelihood of a specific timing of infection by P. vivax in a subject, and hence identify individuals with a high probability of being infected with otherwise undetectable liver-stage hypnozoites. The system, method, apparatus and diagnostic test relate to the identification of hypnozoites (“dormant” liver-stages), or at least of the likelihood of the subject being so infected. Optionally and preferably, the specific timing relates to recent infections, for example within the last 9 months.
US12259386B2
The present invention relates to an immunodiagnostic kit and method for co-detection of R. solanacearum and F. oxysporum that cause bacterial wilt disease and fungal wilt disease, respectively, which are difficult to accurately diagnose due to the overlapping onset time and similar disease symptoms thereof in plants, and to a test kit for determining a pathogen of plant wilt disease in an early stage by using a semi-quantitative lateral flow immunodiagnostic technique to detect the pathogen in a plant juice.
US12259380B2
The present invention relates to oligonucleotides that are capable of inducing expression of ubiquitin-protein ligase E3A (UBE3A) from the paternal allele in animal or human neurons. The oligonucleotides target the suppressor of the UBE3A paternal allele by hybridization to SNHG14 long non-coding RNA downstream of SNORD1091B. The present invention further relates to pharmaceutical compositions and methods for treatment of Angelman syndrome.
US12259376B2
In one example, a system for evaluating an agricultural material is provided. The system comprising: a housing having a passage in or through an interior of the housing with an inlet for receiving agricultural material and an outlet for outputting the agricultural material; a wall opening in a wall of the passage; and an imaging device having a window located within a border, the imaging device having a removable portion with at least one of a moisture absorbing material, a heat source, and an anti-fog agent within the removable portion.
US12259371B2
Carrier gas connection devices (100, 402, 404, 406, 408) enable one to change the carrier gas provided to a gas chromatography channel. The carrier gas connection devices (100, 402, 404, 406, 408) comprise a channel adaptor (102, 202), a carrier block (104, 302), and a clamping system, and two or more channel adaptor positions. In each of the channel adaptor positions, a fluid-tight flow path for carrier gas out of the carrier block (104,302) into the channel adaptor (102, 202) is formed. Carrier gas distribution systems (400), gas chromatography instruments, and methods of changing a carrier gas supplied to a GC are also provided.
US12259369B2
Sample preparation and separation can be performed using a sample cartridge (201). The cartridge includes a barrel (204) with a first and second end, a column segment (209) connected to the second end of the barrel, and a column (205) containing a sorbent material. The sorbent material includes particles that have antibodies attached to them to selectively retain analytes, proteins attached to them to retain certain classes of antibodies, or enzymes attached to them to perform specific modifications to certain classes of molecules. The column segment can be in thermal communication with a temperature control device in order to control the temperature of the column.
US12259367B2
The present invention relates to a metal foil fatigue test apparatus and a metal foil fatigue test method using the same. The metal foil fatigue test apparatus includes: a metal foil moving unit including an unwinding roll, from which a metal foil is unwound, a plurality of guide rolls configured to support and transfer the metal foil supplied from the unwinding roll, and a rewinding roll where the metal foil transferred from the guide rolls is wound; and a tensile strength measuring unit configured to measure tensile strength of the metal foil.
US12259364B2
A strain testing rig for an elongate specimen has a first grip for the first end portion of the specimen, a second grip for the second end portion of the specimen, and a drive mechanism for moving the first grip away from the second grip to stretch the specimen lengthwise. The first grip and the second grip are configured to maintain a grip on the specimen as the cross section of the specimen decreases during stretching. Each of the first grip and the second grip can include a tapered dog, a press for compressing the respective end portion of the specimen, and a clamp for clamping the respective end portion of the specimen in a direction perpendicular to the action of the clamp. A method of testing strain characteristics can involve using digital image correlation to separately measure strain on each of the at least three independent strain zones.
US12259362B2
Systems and methods are provided for inspecting aircraft fuselages. Non-Destructive Inspection (NDI) stations inspect sections of a fuselage via pulsed-line assembly techniques. After each pulse, a section of fuselage is moved by less than its length, and one or more NDI stations disposed at different portions of the section to inspect the section of fuselage for out-of-tolerance conditions. A method for inspecting a structure for inconsistencies which includes advancing a structure along a track in a process direction through a Non-Destructive Inspection (NDI) station, indexing the structure to the NDI station and inspecting the structure with the NDI station.
US12259361B2
The disclosure includes a system for photoacoustic inspection of an object. The system includes a broadband emission source configured to generate an emission beam, a direction apparatus including at least one spectrum splitter configured to split the emission beam into at least a first and a second component, the direction apparatus being configured to sequentially direct the respective components to N respective locations on the object at N times to generate N respective acoustic waves within the object. The N respective locations and N times are such that the respective N acoustic waves at least semi-constructively interfere to generate a respective propagating acoustic wave within the object. The system also includes a vibration sensing system configured to detect said respective propagating acoustic waves at a respective detection location on the object.
US12259350B2
A sensor assembly and method of sensing water in a fluid may include a sensor body having a first electrical connection, a second electrical connection, and a probe portion configured to be submerged in a fluid comprising a fuel, a signal input line supplying a signal voltage and power to the sensor from a voltage source to the first electrical connection of the sensor body, a ground line connected to the second electrical connection of the sensor body, and a controller configured to receive a signal output from the signal input line for determining a presence of water in the fluid.
US12259349B2
A method of calculating a soil moisture profile includes obtaining a capacitance measurement of a soil surface at a location, applying a preselected calibration to the capacitance measurement to obtain a top surface moisture estimate, obtaining local climatic and hydrological data correlated with the location, the local climatic and hydrological data, which includes at least local water input data, and calculating an estimate of the soil moisture at the location by applying a preselected evapotranspiration model to the top surface moisture estimate and the local climatic and hydrological data.
US12259348B2
Methods, systems, and apparatuses for multichannel, matrix-based testing of electrochemical materials are described herein. The system provides an electrochemical testing apparatus that consists of a bottom block having a first array of N×M receiving wells, and a top block with a second array of N×M chambers, with each of the N×M chambers having an electrical connector. The method involves inserting, into a number of the first array of N×M receiving wells, one or more electrochemical compositions to be tested. The method then involves closing the top block onto the bottom block. When the top and bottom blocks are closed, the N×M receiving wells and N×M chambers are aligned, thereby forming N×M testing cells. Finally, the method involves measuring one or more properties of the electrochemical composition inserted in the plurality of the N×M receiving wells.
US12259347B2
A device and a method for sensing the electrolytic conductivity of a fluid are disclosed. The device comprises a battery (1) having an oxidizing electrode (2) and a reducing electrode (3) connected by a hydrophilic and/or a porous material or an empty receptacle (4) providing a microfluidic cavity for a fluid (10), said battery (1) being activated upon the addition of said fluid (10) therein and providing electrical energy while the fluid (10) impregnates by capillarity said microfluidic cavity; and at least one instrument (5) connected to the battery (1). The instrument (5) has an equivalent impedance that makes the battery (1) work at a specific operating point allowing determining or discriminating among values of electrolytic conductivity of the fluid (10) and includes means for quantifying the electrolytic conductivity of the fluid (10), thereby inferring the conductivity of the fluid (10) from the performance of the battery (1).
US12259344B1
Provided is a living cell microbeam directional and quantitative irradiation imaging apparatus. The problem that qualitative analysis of the mechanism of action of biological cells irradiated cannot accurately study the mechanism of action of different irradiation doses on biological cells as the cell irradiation technology can be only used to perform qualitative irradiation on living biological cells is solved. The apparatus includes a vertical microbeam terminal, a living cell directional irradiation module, a wide-field microscopic module, a mode switching module, and a single-proton counting and radiation synchronous control module. The vertical microbeam terminal, the living cell directional irradiation module, the mode switching module and the wide-field microscopic module are sequentially matched, the mode switching module is connected to the single-proton counting and radiation synchronous control module, and the vertical microbeam terminal is matched with the single-proton counting and radiation synchronous control module.
US12259343B2
The present disclosure provides methods of collecting electron diffraction patterns from nanocrystals to obtain a three-dimensional structural model of a compound, as well as methods of identifying compounds and methods of determining polymorphic forms. In addition, the present disclosure provides methods of characterizing a first compound from a sample, as well as methods of screening compounds from a sample. The present disclosure also provides systems for characterizing a compound from a sample, which systems include modules for high-performance liquid chromatography, dispensing, and electron microscopy.
US12259340B2
A nondestructive inspecting device (10) includes a neutron emission device (2) that emits a neutron beam to a local irradiation location on a surface (la) of an inspection target (1), a detection device (3) that detects, at each of inspection positions facing the surface (la), scattered neutrons returned from the inspection target (1) as a result of emission of the neutron beam to the irradiation location, and measures the detected number of the scattered neutrons at each of the detection positions, and a ratio calculation unit (5) that calculates, for each of the detection positions, a ratio of the detected number at the detection position to a reference value for the detection position, and outputs the ratios. The reference value is set as the detected number at each of the detection positions in an assumed case of no defects existing in the inspection target (1).
US12259337B2
An apparatus for inspecting a pharmaceutical cylindrical container made of glass or of a polymer is provided. A corresponding method for inspecting the pharmaceutical cylindrical container made of glass or of a polymer and to a bundle of pharmaceutical cylindrical containers made of glass or of a polymer is also provided.
US12259335B2
The inspection apparatus includes: a linear polarizer and a wave plate generating polarized light from light emitted from a light source; a polarization camera imaging the polarized light generated by the linear polarizer and the wave plate and transmitted through a molding product; and a determination unit determining a state of the molding product using an image captured by the polarization camera.
US12259327B2
Systems and methods for performing a photoluminescence analysis on a medium such as the fundus of a patient's eye are provided. An imaging device, a spectral analyser and an excitation light source are provided. An optical assembly defines an imaging light path between the patient's eye and the imaging device and a spectral analysis light path between an analysis spot on the patient's eye and the spectral analyser. The excitation light source generates an excitation light beam comprising an excitation wavelength selected to excite components present in the patient's eye for the generation of fluorescent light at a photoluminescence wavelength, and is optically coupled to the spectral analysis light path for projecting the excitation light beam on the analysis spot. An optical filter is coupled to the spectral analyser, and has a low light transmissivity at the excitation wavelength and a high light transmissivity at the photoluminescence wavelength.
US12259321B2
Provided is a method of quantifying a target substance present in a solvent comprises acquiring a first fluorescence decay curve and a second fluorescence decay curve to acquire some factors from the curves.
US12259315B2
An ultrasonic transducer holder, which is an embodiment, has a detachable container for containing a liquid sample, and transmits an ultrasonic wave. The ultrasonic transducer holder includes an ultrasonic transducer that emits an ultrasonic wave, and a protective layer that is fixed to the ultrasonic transducer and transmits the ultrasonic wave to the container. The protective layer includes a first surface that is a surface to which the ultrasonic transducer is fixed, and a second surface that is a back surface of the first surface and is designed to fix the container via a contact medium.
US12259309B2
A microparticle measurement spectrometer includes a spectroscopic element that disperses light emitted from microparticles flowing through a flow path, and a photoelectric conversion array that has a plurality of light receiving elements having different detection wavelength ranges and converts optical information obtained by the light receiving elements into electrical information, in which the photoelectric conversion array has a uniform output of all channels when light with which the amount of light per unit wavelength becomes same is incident.
US12259306B2
A sensor head assembly for a measurement system for powderised agent includes: an elongate body having a proximal end configured to receive a fibre optic cable, and a distal end; a sensing chamber provided within the elongate body, a first window provided at a proximal side of the sensing chamber and a second window provided at a distal end of the sensing chamber; and a concave mirror mounted within the elongate body at a distal side of the second window, wherein the concave mirror is mounted such that its position within the elongate body is adjustable.
US12259301B2
A leak detection apparatus includes a test chamber and a vacuum source connected to the test chamber via a pneumatic line. A first pressure transducer is in communication with the test chamber. A controller is configured to collect and analyze data generated by the first pressure transducer at a predetermined frequency throughout an entire test cycle. The controller is also configured to convert specified collected data to logarithmic scale to accumulate a first set of data and apply a linear regression to the first set of data and determine regression parameters.
US12259299B2
The disclosure relates to a method for measuring the size of a leakage flow of a seal. In exemplifications of the disclosure, a leakage sensor is provided on a leakage side of the seal, said leakage sensor comprising at least one heating element and at least two temperature sensors which are in heat-transferring connection with the leakage flow. In exemplifications, the following steps are utilized: continuous or intermittent detection of a temperature difference in the leakage flow over a section of a leakage channel through which the leakage flow flows by means of the temperature sensors, wherein a predetermined constant reference heat quantity is simultaneously generated by the heating element and transferred into the leakage flow in the section of the leakage channel, and determination of the size of the current leakage flow as a function of the currently detected temperature difference; or continuously or intermittently setting a constant temperature difference in the leakage flow over a section of a leakage channel through which the leakage flow flows by generating a variable amount of heat with the heating element and transferring the amount of heat into the leakage flow in the section of the leakage channel, and determining the size of the current leakage flow as a function of the currently generated amount of heat.
US12259296B2
An apparatus, method and system are set forth for detection of fluids using Bragg grating sensors, wherein the Bragg grating sensing element comprises an optical fiber having a Bragg grating inscribed therein characterized by optical properties that are dependent upon the periodicity and effective refractive index of the grating, and a package for subjecting the Bragg grating to a change in strain when contacted by a fluid such that periodicity and effective refractive index of the grating changes, whereby when interrogated with laser light any such change in periodicity and effective refractive index may be detected.
US12259293B2
A condition of at least one structural part (11) of a working machine (10) is determined by determining a computational position of the first structural part (11′) on the basis of the computational model of the working machine (10) and determining an actual position of the first structural part (11′) by detecting means (22). The condition of the at least one structural part (11) is determined on the basis of the difference between the computational position of the first structural part (11′) and the actual position of the first structural part (11′).
US12259280B1
An apparatus and system provide coolant temperature data at the individual electronic device level, e.g., for a single server blade, using thermally conductive couplers positioned in-line with one or both of the fluid inlet and outlet tubes and temperature sensors in thermal contact with the couplers. Thus, provided with granular coolant temperature data at the device level, the cooling system, e.g., fan and/or pump speeds, may be controlled with the same level of granularity, thereby improving both temperature control and the conservation of energy.
US12259277B2
An image polarimeter includes a MEMS MMA divided into two or more segments in which the mirrors in each segment are provided with a polarizer of a given polarization. The mirrors in each segment are tipped and tilted to steer polarized light onto different portions of an optical detector. In certain configurations the mirrors may also be pistoned to reduce aberrations. Each frame that is read out from the detector includes two or more distinct component polarized images having different polarizations P0, P2, . . . of the same scene to fully characterize the polarization properties of the scene. Since the mirrors only tip/tilt/piston in the dead period between frames, no components are moving during image acquisition and co-registration of the component polarized images is simple. The number of segments and the different polarizations may be selected to implement Jones calculus, Mueller calculus and Stokes parameters or other polarimetry techniques.
US12259270B2
A level fork protection sleeve includes a first cylinder and a second cylinder disposed within the first cylinder. The cylinders are joined together via a material bonding such as welding. A gap in the second cylinder along its length provides a channel within the sleeve for the ingress and egress of liquid media. The sleeve is embodied to fit onto a shaft of a vibronic limit level device and to extend over and protect the vibrating member of the limit level device.
US12259265B1
The present invention provides an adjustable height apparatus for storing, measuring and dispensing a desired quantity of semi-solid food, the apparatus being assembled on a piston base with peripheral contact inside a rigid circular sleeve configured for storing at least 600 cubic centimeters of a semi-solid food substance above the piston base inside the rigid circular cylinder. Preferably, the rigid circular sleeve is transparent. After filling, the apparatus is configured to enable pushing a measured food material out the top of the cylinder. A graduated bar is slidingly engaged in the outer surface of the circular sleeve such that markings on it can be aligned with the top of the piston base. Pushing down on the circular sleeve enables the desired quantity only to be above the top rim of the cylinder.
US12259263B2
A sensor system includes a radiation source, an optical fiber, and a detection device. The radiation source is arranged to emit pulses of radiation. The optical fiber comprises a first end and a core. The first end is arranged to receive pulses of radiation output from the radiation source such that, in use, the pulses of radiation are coupled into the fiber. The core is arranged to support propagation of the pulses of radiation along the fiber. The core includes a plurality of reflectors each comprising a portion of the core having a refractive index which is different to the refractive index of adjacent regions of the core. Reflections of a pulse of radiation from adjacent reflectors output at the first end of the fiber are resolvable from each other in the time domain. The detection device is arranged to measure radiation output from the first end of the fiber and resolve radiation reflected at different locations in the core of the fiber.
US12259246B1
A method for dynamically computing a handrail influence intensity factor includes the steps of identifying a current location of a vehicle, retrieving map data of an area corresponding to the current location of the vehicle, identifying a current road of the vehicle based on the map data and the current location of the vehicle, determining at least one of one or more roads that intersect the current road and one or more roads closest to the current road, retrieving a vehicle heading for the vehicle, determining a set of candidate roads, determining a relative target heading for each candidate road in the set of candidate roads, calculating a handrail influence intensity factor based on a distance between the current location of the vehicle and a closest point on each candidate road and based on a difference between the vehicle heading and the relative target heading for each candidate road.
US12259234B2
A surface sensing device is mounted on an articulating probe head of a coordinate measuring machine. The device includes an elongate probe holder which is rotatable about an axis. An elongate sensing module includes a surface finish or surface roughness probe with a stylus tip. This is connected to the probe holder via an adjustable knuckle joint. To determine the geometry of the surface sensing device, including the tip normal and drag vector of the stylus tip, the orientations of the probe holder and the sensing module are determined by probing points which are spaced along their lengths, using a separate probe.
US12259232B2
Methods for optically inspecting a surface (10) of an object (1) and an inspection device (9) including are described. With the method a temporally periodic pattern (13) with different illumination patterns (130) is generated on the surface (10) via a illumination device (8) of the inspection device (9) during an image recording sequence (13), and in the image recording sequence a number of images of the pattern (13) on the surface (10) are recorded via an image recording device (7) of the inspection device (9), wherein generating one of the different illumination patterns (130) is synchronised, respectively, with the image recording of one of the images of the pattern (13), the phase of the pattern (13) is determined from the succession of the recorded known illumination patterns (130) in at least one image point and defects (4, 5) on the surface (10) are detected from deviations of the recorded illumination pattern (130) from the generated known illumination pattern (130).
US12259221B2
A quick-release ballistic plate assembly for a protective vest includes an outer chassis configured to attach to a chest and/or back panel of the vest. The outer chassis has an open lower end leading to an inner cavity, wherein a ballistic plate and sleeve subassembly inserts upward into the cavity. An emergency release handle depending downward from the subassembly may be pulled to overcome a retention mechanism and jettison the subassembly in case the wearer ends up in a body of water or alternative situation requiring such function. This avoids the need to shed the entire protective vest which typically has numerous pockets for a variety of tools, survival gear and ammunition. The assembly may be built into the protective vest at the OEM level, or may be retrofit to existing vests.
US12259215B2
A ramrod for a muzzleloading firearm and method of using the same. The ramrod comprises an elongated ramrod outer body having a hollow portion and an exterior size and shape permissible for insertion into the firearm bore. An extension member is movable within the outer body hollow portion, and includes a clasping member which is foldable between a stowed position in which the clasping member is generally aligned with the longitudinal axis of the outer body to a working position in which the clasping member makes a substantial angle with respect to the outer body longitudinal axis. The extension member is movable between a retracted position wherein a first length of the extension member is within the outer body hollow portion to an extended position wherein the first length of the extension member is outside the outer body hollow portion.
US12259212B1
A device implementable on a firearm includes a firearm grip configured to be held or gripped by a user of the firearm. The firearm grip includes a grip body and a grip insert. The grip body has a first end and a second end opposite the first end. The first end can mate with a surface of the firearm when the firearm grip is installed on the firearm. The second end has a void that can receive and accommodate the grip insert therein. The grip insert includes a first lock and a second lock. When in a first position, the first lock locks the grip insert in the void of the grip body. When in a second position, the first lock unlocks the grip insert such that the grip insert is removable from the grip body. The second lock is configured to lock the first lock in the first position.
US12259210B1
Various embodiments include an actuated projectile launcher, including: a base structure; a projectile support, and a holding area from which a projectile launches; propulsion wheels selectively driven to rotate; and support arms, each supporting at a first end thereof a separate one of the propulsion wheels and being supported at an opposed second end thereof by the base structure. The support arms are configured to move the propulsion wheels between an expanded position and a contracted position, in which the propulsion wheels are closer to one another in the contracted position as compared to the expanded position. The movement of the propulsion wheels toward the contracted position brings the propulsion wheels into engagement with the projectile and drives the projectile from the holding area.
US12259209B2
This application discloses a three-mode toy gun which comprises a gun shell, a firing cylinder assembly, a transmission gear train, a mating member and a trigger mechanism. An electric drive mechanism comprises a motor and a power supply cable having a first switch and a second switch connected in series. The mating member is movably provided in the gun shell, and the mating member has a first position, a second position and a third position. The trigger mechanism is arranged in the gun shell, and the trigger mechanism has a trigger and a convex bar. The three-mode toy gun is provided with a single-action mode, an automatic mode and a manual mode by means of mating arrangement of the structural members, which provides players with three use experiences and satisfies the preferences of different players.
US12259186B2
All of a cast-iron or cast-copper stave cooler's weight is supported inside a furnace containment shell by single gas-tight steel collar on the backside. All the coolant piping in each cooler has every external connection collected and routed together through the one steel collar. A wear protection barrier is disposed on the hot face. Such is limited to include at least one of horizontal rows of ribs and channels that retain metal inserts or refractory bricks, or pockets that assist in the retention of castable cement and/or accretions frozen in place from a melt, or an application of an area of hardfacing that is welded on in bead, crosshatch, or weave pattern.
US12259185B2
A powder feeder system for a foundry system having a mixing hearth includes a housing assembly, and a feeder assembly in the housing assembly having a moveable barrel feeder for feeding a pre-weighed charge of metal powder into the mixing hearth of the foundry system during operation thereof. A method for recycling metal powder includes the steps of melting a content of the mixing hearth completely; and then feeding the metal powder into the mixing hearth while the contents of the mixing hearth are still molten using the powder feeder system.
US12259178B2
A vacuum adiabatic body according to an embodiment may include a first plate, a second plate, and a seal that seals a gap between the first plate and the second plate. Optionally, the vacuum adiabatic body according to an embodiment may include a support that maintains a vacuum space. Optionally, the vacuum adiabatic body according to an embodiment may include a heat transfer resistor that reduces an amount of heat transfer between the first plate and the second plate. Optionally, the vacuum adiabatic body may include a component coupling portion connected to at least one of the first or second plate so that a component is coupled thereto. Optionally, the vacuum adiabatic body may further include a side plate extending in a height direction of the vacuum space. Accordingly, the vacuum adiabatic body capable of achieving the industrial purpose may be provided.
US12259177B2
A refrigerator includes an inner case, an outer case, and an insulating material. The refrigerator includes a first door, a second door where the second door is to open and close at least another portion of a storage compartment, a rotating bar rotatable with respect to the first door or the second door so that the rotating bar covers a gap between the first door and the second door while the first door and the second door are closed; and a rotation guide coupleable to the inner case to guide the rotating bar while the rotating bar is being rotated according to opening and closing of the first door or the second door. The inner case is formed to cover a front member of the rotation guide so that the front member of the rotation guide is unexposed to a front side of the inner case.
US12259176B2
A refrigerator of the present embodiment comprises: a cabinet for forming a storage space; and a door for opening/closing the storage space. The door comprises: a frame assembly in which a thermal insulation material is filled; and a panel assembly which is separably-coupled to the frame assembly and forms the front exterior of the door, wherein, in a state where the lower side of the panel assembly is supported on the lower side of the frame assembly, the upper side of the panel assembly is fixed to the upper side of the frame assembly.
US12259172B1
An ice dispenser is disclosed. The ice dispenser includes a container configured to store ice, a stand configured to maintain the container at an angle relative to a horizontal surface, an ice chute mechanically attached to the container, wherein the ice chute is configured to direct the ice from the container to a point of delivery, an auger, wherein the auger includes a helical blade that rotates within the container, and wherein the helical blade is configured to capture and propel the ice stored in the container along a shaft to the ice chute and the shaft is parallel to a longitudinal axis of the container, a driver, wherein the driver is operatively connected to a proximal end of the auger such that rotating the driver actuates the auger and a lid configured to enclose the container, wherein the driver is connected to the auger through the lid.
US12259171B2
A refrigerator appliance includes a cabinet with a door rotatably mounted to the cabinet. The refrigerator appliance also includes an ice making chamber defined in one of the cabinet and the door. An ice making assembly and an ice storage bin are positioned within the ice making chamber. The refrigerator appliance further includes an infrared emitter mounted to a movable part of the ice making assembly and an infrared detector mounted to a movable part of the ice making assembly. The refrigerator appliance further includes an infrared emitter and an infrared detector mounted to the ice making assembly.
US12259163B2
A climate-control system may include a compressor, a thermal storage device, an outdoor heat exchanger, an indoor heat exchanger, a first expansion device, and a second expansion device. The compressor may include an intermediate-pressure inlet, an intermediate-pressure outlet, a discharge outlet, a suction-pressure pocket, and a plurality of compression pockets. The thermal storage device may include a conduit and a phase-change material surrounding the conduit. The first expansion valve, the second expansion valve, the outdoor heat exchanger, the indoor heat exchanger, and the thermal storage device may be in fluid communication with the compressor. The climate-control system is operable in a charging mode and a discharging mode, and is operable in a cooling mode and a heating mode. The thermal storage device may be configured to absorb heat from a working fluid or to transfer heat to the working fluid.
US12259162B2
A processing liquid temperature control apparatus includes a block body with an integral structure made of a silicon carbide sintered body, the block body having a flow path through which a semiconductor processing liquid flows, and a temperature adjustment portion provided at the block body to adjust a temperature of the semiconductor processing liquid flowing through the flow path. Accordingly, it is possible to reduce the number of parts and achieve compactness and cost reduction. In addition, it is possible to enhance heat conduction between the processing liquid and the temperature adjustment portion, and improve heat exchange efficiency.
US12259155B2
The present invention provides an air purifier which includes an outer case (10) having a filtering cavity (15) and a driving cavity (16) space apart from each other, a filter (20) received in the filtering cavity (15), a driving fan (30) received in the driving cavity (16). The outer case has at least one air inlet (17) and an air output arrangement (11). The air purifier further includes an air hub (40) provided between the filtering cavity (15) and the driving cavity (16). The air hub (40) includes a first air drawing frame (41) and a second air drawing frame (42). The first air drawing frame (41) extending within a central cavity (21) of the filter (20) and is coaxially formed with respect to the filter (20). An axial direction of the first air drawing frame (41) is aligned with a longitudinal axis of the driving fan (30). The second air drawing frame (42) peripherally, upwardly and radially extends from the first air drawing frame (41) toward an upper end of the filter (20). The first air drawing frame (41) and a second air drawing frame (42) increase total surface area for air flow and reduces air resistance and noise.
US12259148B2
A heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) control system generates a request to replace a first air filter installed in an air handler of an HVAC system with a second air filter. The second air filter has a particulate matter removal efficiency rating that is greater than a particulate matter removal efficiency rating of the first filter. The system delays for a predetermined period of time and then obtains (i) a first temperature of air downstream of the air handler and (ii) a second temperature of air upstream of the air handler. The system then calculates a temperature difference between the f temperatures and determines whether the temperature difference is within an acceptable range. In response to the temperature difference being within the acceptable range, the system (i) operates the HVAC system using the second air filter and (ii) generates an alert indicating compatibility of the second air filter.
US12259138B1
A stand for a firepit includes a number of uprights spaced apart to receive a firepit, a horizontal support fixedly attached to the uprights and configured to be adjacent to the firepit when the fire pit is received between the uprights, a number of leg uprights extending from the uprights, a number of cross members extending from the leg uprights and toward a central hub, and a number of legs selectively connectable to the leg uprights.
US12259132B2
A method of improving an endothermic process in a furnace utilizing steps a) calibrating the simplified physical model of step c3) by measuring one or more tube temperature for at least a tube impacted by the throttling of a burner in standard and in throttled state, b) acquiring information on a tube temperature for the tubes present in the furnace with all the burners present in the furnace under standard non-throttled conditions, c) getting a map of burners to throttle including c1) choosing at least one parameter representative of the performances of the furnace with a target of improvement, c2) choosing at least one or more power ratio for the burner throttling, c3) utilizing the information of step b) and a simplified physical model of the impact of throttling a burner on the tube temperature, c4) getting a map of burners to throttle, step d) throttling the burners.
US12259129B2
The present disclosure provides a graded oxygen regulating, explosion preventing and recycling system and method for liquid nitrogen wash tail gas, and relates to the technical field of environmental protection and energy utilization. The system provided by the present disclosure includes a multi section catalytic combustor, the multi-section catalytic combustor being divided into a first-section catalytic combustion region, a second-section catalytic combustion region, and a third-section catalytic combustion region, the first-section catalytic combustion region and the second-section catalytic combustion region being internally filled with multiple layers of catalysts that are disposed at intervals, and an air flow guide pipe being arranged above each layer of catalyst; a first-section heat exchanger communicating with the first-section catalytic combustion region; a second-section heat exchanger communicating with the second-section catalytic combustion region; a pulverized coal drying section communicating with the second-section heat exchanger; and a boiler section communicating with the third-section catalytic combustion region.
US12259128B2
A multi-stage flame acceleration device and method for a gas-fuel engine are provided. The device includes a pressing piece, an upper chamber, a spark plug, a fuel ejector, a cooling device, and a flame acceleration nozzle. The spark plug and the fuel ejector are mounted in the upper chamber. The pressing piece is sleeved on an upper part of the upper chamber, and the device is wholly and fixedly connected to a cylinder head through a step groove of the upper chamber. A nozzle sealing ring, the flame acceleration nozzle, and a cylinder head sealing ring are mounted at a bottom of the upper chamber from top to bottom in sequence. Annular obstacles formed by annular plates are arranged in a chamber of the flame acceleration nozzle. In the method, a fuel is ejected in the chamber of the flame acceleration nozzle to obtain a homogeneous gas mixture.
US12259124B2
A lens including a light entering part having a concave shape in a lower region of the lens, and on which light emitted from a light emitting device is to be incident, and a light exiting part through which the incident light is emitted to an outside of the lens, in which each of the light entering part and the light exiting part has a major axis and a minor axis in plan view, and the major axis of the light entering part is orthogonal to the major axis of the light exiting part, the light entering part includes a light incident vertical surface extending from a lower surface of the lens, and a light incident inclined surface extending upward from the light incident vertical surface, and the light incident vertical surface surrounds the light emitting device.
US12259122B2
The present disclosure relates to an illumination module for a speaker in an automotive vehicle. According to one aspect, there is provided an illumination module for a speaker, the illumination module comprising: a holder configured to be attachable to the speaker; one or more light sources for emitting light; and one or more lenses for projecting light from the one or more light sources onto an illuminable area of the speaker.
US12259119B2
The invention relates to an inflatable lighting body comprising an inflatable gas-tight inner sleeve, an outer sleeve which is translucent at least in some regions and which surrounds the inner sleeve, means for attaching at least one lighting means to the lighting body in such a manner that the lighting means emits light into the interior of the lighting body and dispenses light outwards as diffused light via translucent regions of the outer sleeve, and optionally securing means for mounting the lighting body, wherein a lighting tube or a lighting panel can be attached to the inflatable lighting body as the lighting means, and the means for attaching the lighting means are designed such that lighting means or luminaires of different shapes and sizes can be selectively attached to the lighting body. According to the invention, the means for attaching the lighting means to the lighting body comprise one or more strips which surround the lighting means or the luminaire in the secured state thereof. The lighting body according to the invention has a flexible application and can be used in a versatile manner, and the user is not limited to using the lighting means provided by the manufacturer of the lighting body when selecting the lighting means.
US12259106B1
An Adjustable Camping/Utility Light Suspension Device is a versatile, telescoping system designed to suspend various existing lighting sources, including LED, propane, and gas lanterns, for outdoor activities. Capable of vertical adjustment up to 10 feet and horizontal extension up to 10 feet, it provides optimal illumination over large areas, enhancing safety and convenience, the device includes a 30-foot rope for light suspension, an iron spiked base for unlevel terrain, and a weightable plastic base for stable use on concrete. Once the base is set, the telescoping boom system and light source are easily adjusted, offering a secure and flexible lighting solution in dark outdoor environments.
US12259103B2
A headlamp for vehicles is provided with a light source unit containing numerous light sources, and with a hologram unit containing numerous hologram segments for generating a predefined light distribution. Each of the hologram segments has at least one dedicated light source. The hologram segments are reflection hologram segments behind the respective dedicated light sources in the direction light is emitted by the headlamp, which light from the light sources strikes them at an acute angle and is reflected in the light emission direction in accordance with the holographic diffraction information stored in the respective reflection hologram segments.
US12259093B2
System and methods for analyzing a multiphase production fluid include a fluidic supply and analysis unit configured to transition the fluidic separation chamber to a static state after a complete gaseous phase column and a complete oil phase column are formed within the fluidic separation chamber; communicate with the fluidic separation detector to measure the absolute or relative sizes of the complete gaseous phase column and the complete oil phase column; and calculate an oil/gas volume fraction as a function of the measured sizes of the gaseous phase and oil phase columns in the fluidic separation chamber.
US12259090B2
A conformable pressure vessel including pressure vessel segments defined by a cavity disposed within a liner. The pressure vessel segments receive and store a gas in a compressed state. Each of the pressure vessel segments includes a first section of the liner having a first diameter and a second section of the liner having a second diameter smaller than the first diameter. The conformable pressure vessel includes a reinforcement layer surrounding the liner, and an inlet in fluid communication with the cavity of the liner. The inlet receives the gas from a gas source. The conformable pressure vessel includes an outlet in fluid communication with the cavity of the liner. The outlet outputs the gas from the pressure vessel segments. The conformable pressure vessel includes a connecting tube in fluid communication with the inlet and the outlet. The connecting tube receives the gas from the outlet.
US12259086B2
A adjustable image capture device that includes a housing, a linkage assembly having a bore and including a plurality of linkages, and where each linkage has a bore, and the bores of the plurality of linkages define the bore of the linkage assembly, and an image capture device, wherein the image capture device is configured to fit within a bore of the linkage assembly, where the linkage assembly is configured to fit within the housing, where, when the linkage assembly is in a first state, each linkage of the plurality of linkages are positioned inside a channel of the housing, and where, when the linkage assembly is in a second state, one or more of the linkages of the plurality of linkages are positioned outside the channel of the housing.
US12259075B2
A system and method for automatically jointing of reinforced thermosetting resin (RTR) pipes. For example, an automated installation of RTR joints system may have an inductor and a pig for automated in-field installation of RTR pipes. The inductor may be fitted on an outside of RTR joint. Additionally, the pig may be inserted inside the pipeline and remotely controlled to assist operators during the alignment of the pipes and subsequent joint making/welding. Through the successive inflation and deflation of pneumatic wheels placed along the pig, the pig may autonomously move inside the RTR pipeline (from one RTR joint to the other) during the installation, while also be used to apply internal pressure at specific locations of the pipe, as needed, during installation.
US12259073B1
A connector assembly may include an elastomeric connector comprising an approximately perpendicular flange at a distal end thereof and an opening therethrough; and a rigid compression fitting having an opening aligned with the opening of the elastomeric connector. The connector assembly may be used with a converter hose. Related methods include attaching the converter hose to a shower head, faucet or spigot.
US12259071B2
An apparatus for organizing, untangling, and storing multiple lines. The apparatus prevents tangling of lines and decreases wasted time in organizing, detangling, using, and storing lines. The apparatus includes a stop groove for preventing movement of the apparatus long the multiple lines being managed. The apparatus may also include an indicator for identification of the position of the stop groove.
US12259069B2
A pipe joint having a compound locking ring is disclosed herein. The pipe joint bell has a segment cavity into which ring segments may be inserted through a slot on the face or outer surface of the bell end of a first pipe. The locking ring has multiple ring segments, each segment having an arcuate outer surface. The outer surface may be a compound surface of multiple arcs.
US12259068B2
A method by which threaded sections of oil field pipe are connected to form a coupled and sealed tubular connection having proper sealing positioning at proper make-up torque. A tubular coupling has box ends and an internal mid region which forms interior shoulder regions. A seal ring is received on the mid region and mates with the end faces of the coupling shoulder and with a centrally located groove on the shoulder. The pin ends of opposing sections of pipe are received within the oppositely arranged box ends of the coupling and are made-up to a final, desired make-up position. The final position and amount of squeeze on the seal ring are controlled by utilizing the contact between the pipe pin ends and the shoulder regions of the coupling.
US12259066B2
A fluid control valve includes a cover portion and a body portion. Inner surfaces of the cover and the body portion define a chamber that includes an inlet and an outlet in communication with the chamber. The cover portion includes a central section and an inversion inhibitor circumscribing the central section. The inversion inhibitor projects into the chamber toward a central axis of the chamber. The fluid control valve also includes a diaphragm disposed between the cover portion and the body portion. The diaphragm has a flexible member that is disposed within the chamber for controlling communication between the inlet and the outlet. The inversion inhibitor prevents the flexible member from reaching its natural-inverted position and creates a force within the flexible member that urges the flexible member to a seated position. In the partially inverted position, the upper surface of the flexible member conforms to at least a portion of the inner surface of the cover portion to define a passageway that permits communication between the inlet and the outlet.
US12259060B2
A ball-type check valve is disclosed that is passively sealed by an embedded permanent magnet and a gasket. The permanent magnet is used to increase the strength of the valve seal while still allowing forward flow, and a position of the magnet relative to the gasket allows for setting a cracking pressure that is required to overcome the magnetic force and open the valve. A microfluidic pumping system and a bi-directional microfluidic pump comprising the check-valve are also disclosed. Methods for manufacturing the check-valve and the bi-directional microfluidic pump in a microfluidic chip are disclosed. The present disclosure also provides a syringe pump system that may be coupled to a microfluidic device for dispensing and withdrawing fluid into and from the device. The syringe pump system comprises a plurality of syringes and a mobile plate that is configured to actuate the syringes at different times.
US12259033B2
A work of incorporating a speed reduction mechanism including a scissors gear into a gear case is facilitated. In a state where the angular positions of gear teeth of a first gear and the angular positions of gear teeth of a scissors gear are made to coincide with each other against the elastic force of a torsion spring (19), these angular positions are fixed by a fixing member (position fixing step). The first gear, the scissors gear, and a second gear are housed in a gear case, and the gear teeth of the second gear are made to engage with the gear teeth of the first gear and the gear teeth of the scissors gear (gear incorporating step). The fixing of the angular position of the first gear and the angular position of the scissors gear by the fixing member is released through an opening formed in the gear case.
US12259030B2
A first rotating element is a first sun gear that rotates with a rotor. A third rotating element is a first ring gear connected to a case. A fourth rotating element is a second ring gear that rotates with an input element. A second rotating element is a first carrier rotatably supporting a first pinion gear and a second pinion gear that rotate together. The first pinion gear meshes with the first sun gear and the first ring gear. The second pinion gear has a smaller diameter than the first pinion gear and meshes with the second ring gear. The first sun gear is supported in a radial direction with respect to the case via a first support bearing. The second ring gear and the input element are connected such that their relative movement in the radial direction is restricted.
US12259027B2
A ball nut assembly and an end component thereof are provided. The ball nut assembly includes a nut body and an end component. The nut body includes an outer ring wall, a ball groove, an assembling groove, and a fixing hole. The assembling groove is arranged on an end portion, and the assembling groove has a first side surface, a second side surface, and a bottom surface. The end component is accommodated in the assembling groove of the nut body, and includes a first contact surface, a second contact surface, a radial surface, a fixing portion, and a reflow bend. The fixing portion is arranged on the radial surface. The first and second contact surfaces contact the first and second side surfaces of the assembling groove in a force-fit manner, respectively, and two ends of the reflow bend respectively correspond to the ball groove and the reflow channel.
US12259026B2
The invention relates to a control drive, in particular a spindle drive for adjusting a swivelable vehicle flap, comprising a housing (2), a spindle rod (3) that is rotatably mounted in the housing (2), a first coupling element (5) for driving a rotational movement of the spindle rod (3), and a torque-limiting device (6) arranged between the first coupling element (5) and the spindle rod (3) for limiting the torque transmitted from the first coupling element (5) to the spindle rod (3), comprising an adapter sleeve (8) arranged at a first end (3a) of the spindle rod (3) in a rotationally fixed manner, and a first tolerance element (13) arranged between the spindle rod (3) and the first coupling element (5). According to the invention, a control drive is provided, which is designed such that it is compact and can be economically produced, in such a way that the first tolerance element (13) is rotationally fixed to one of the first coupling element (5) and the adapter sleeve (8).
US12259020B2
A dividing bar for an energy guide chain including a plate-like main body having two main sides and two narrow sides extending in a heightwise direction between two end regions. At least one of the end regions is adapted for releasable fixing to a transverse bar. A respective number of holding grooves for holding plate-like shelves is provided at main sides. According to the invention each holding groove is respectively of a continuous configuration from the one narrow side to the other and at each narrow side has an insertion opening through which a shelf can be respectively introduced into and removed again from the respective holding grooves respectively in both opposite assembly directions. The dividing bar further includes a securing device for securing fitted shelves against unwanted displacement in both assembly directions and against unwanted release from the respective holding groove.
US12259016B2
A brake caliper for a vehicle disc brake including a pair of brake pads, and brake a disc positioned in between the brake pads is provided. The brake caliper includes a thrust piece that is configured to move at least one of the brake pads relative to the brake disc, an adjuster unit in threaded engagement with the thrust piece, and a spring unit operatively coupled to the adjuster unit and the thrust piece. The spring unit has a latching element and the adjuster unit has a corresponding latching interface, wherein the latching element is arranged to engage the latching interface when the adjuster unit is in threaded engagement with the thrust piece, and the spring unit further has a mounting element in engagement with the thrust piece to provide a resistance against a rotational movement the adjuster unit relative to the thrust piece.
US12259014B2
A power coupler for transferring rotary power from a rotary power device to a load device includes a shear thickening fluid (STF) and a chamber that contains the STF. The power coupler further includes a drive shaft housed radially within a drive side section of the chamber and protruding outward from an end of the chamber for coupling to the rotary power device. The power coupler further includes a load shaft housed radially within a load side section of the chamber and protruding outward from another end of the chamber for coupling to the load device. The power coupler further includes a drive turbine housed radially within the drive side section and coupled to the drive shaft. The power coupler further includes a load turbine housed radially within the load side section at a fixed operational distance from the drive turbine and coupled to the load shaft.
US12259008B2
An adjusting ring for a moving walkway or an escalator can include a hollow cylindrical annular body and at least one adjusting screw. An outside diameter of the annular body is greater than an inner outside ring diameter of an outer ring of a roller bearing arranged adjacently in the assembled state. Furthermore, the adjusting ring can include at least one annular groove arranged concentrically to the inside diameter in a lateral ring face of the annular body which is directed against the roller bearing in the assembled state.
US12259002B2
A thrust air bearing includes a plurality of foil units arranged in a circle. Each foil unit includes a top foil portion, and a bump foil portion integrally provided with the top foil portion and disposed opposite the top foil portion in a circumferential direction forming the circle. The foil unit is disposed such that the top foil portion lies on top of the bump foil portion of another adjacent foil unit.
US12259000B2
A pivoting mechanism for a spring hinge includes a pin and at least one cap assembly. The pin defines an axial direction and is configured to be disposed through a barrel portion of the spring hinge. The at least one cap assembly is disposed on an end of the pin and includes a cap body, a restricting member and an engaging member. The cap body includes a first abutting wall lateral to the axial direction, a first circumferential wall extending around the axial direction and connected with the first abutting wall and a groove recessed on an inner surface of the first circumferential wall. The restricting member is embedded within the groove and radially protrudes beyond the inner surface. The engaging member surrounds the pin and is disposed between the restricting member and the first abutting wall.
US12258999B2
Securing devices are shown and disclosed. In one embodiment, the securing device includes a base having a first channel. The securing device additionally includes a pair of clamp members received in the first channel. The securing device further includes an actuator member that is received in the first channel and that enables a user to simultaneously move the pair of clamp members toward or away from each other.
US12258993B2
In various representative aspects, an assembly for securing a solar panel rail and rail-less support structures to a shingle roof. More specifically, the apparatus includes a connection bracket and flashing device for use in installing solar panel rail support structures. The connection bracket is secured to the flashing device by rotating its base around a threaded connection until it locks in place so that a solar panel rail support guide can be connected to a generally U-shaped connection on the top of the bracket. The apparatus also offers an improved means to cover the penetration point on the flashing to protect it and prevent water from leaking into the roof as well as an improved way to install the apparatus over existing products. An alternate embodiment of the apparatus is offered to support a rail-less pivot mount as well.
US12258991B2
A channel nut includes a web, a first flange projecting from the web where the first flange has a first notch for receiving a first lip of a strut channel, and a second flange projecting from the web where the second flange has a first notch for receiving the first lip of the strut channel. The first notch of the first flange and the first notch of the second flange are arranged in a non-aligned relationship with respect to each other such that the first notch of the first flange and the first notch of the second flange form a curved first seat for the first lip of the strut channel.
US12258985B2
An anchor for insertion into an aperture, wherein the anchor includes a body element, two or more elongate engagement members, and a release element. The body element has a first end and an opposed second end, and the body element defines a tapered surface adjacent to a first end portion of the body element. The release element is slidably coupled to the body element. Each of the engagement members has a first end via which the engagement member is coupled to the release element, and a second end which includes a radially outwardly projecting lug. The second ends of the engagement members engage the tapered surface defined by the body element. When the release element is in a release position relative to the body element, the second ends of the engagement members are engaged with a relatively narrow portion of the tapered surface and the lugs are in a radially contracted configuration. When the release element is in an engaged position relative to the body portion, the second ends of the engagement members are engaged with a relatively wide portion of the tapered surface and the lugs are urged radially outwards from the body element by the tapered surface to form a radially expanded configuration.
US12258974B1
An impeller includes a hub, and a vain unit provided radially at a position spaced apart by a predetermined distance based on the hub. The vane unit is configured to begin at a position spaced apart by a predetermined radius based on the hub and to end to be formed into a streamlined shape in which a beginning portion becomes narrower in width than an end portion. The vane unit includes “n” first vanes radially configured at positions spaced apart by a radius r1 based on the hub and having a first length, where “n” is a natural number equal to or greater than 3; and “n” second vanes disposed between the first vanes, the second vanes having a second length that is less than the first length of the first vanes.
US12258973B2
A gas compressing system including a plurality of n compressors connected in parallel. Each compressor has a suction line connected to a common suction manifold and a discharge line connected to a common discharge manifold configured to deliver compressed gas to a downstream load. The system also includes a process controller configured to control an average speed of the compressors based upon a discharge pressure in the common discharge manifold or a discharge flow through the common discharge manifold. The system further includes an adaptive load sharing optimizing controller configured to determine the speed of each compressor in the plurality of n compressors. A method of controlling a gas compressing system is also provided.
US12258972B2
An abnormality early-warning method for a fan includes: when a target fan is capable of normally dissipate heat, obtaining a target rotational speed, a target operating current, and a target ambient temperature of the target fan at a current moment; when the target rotational speed is less than a minimum rotational speed of the target fan, providing first early-warning information as a prompt; when the target rotational speed is greater than or equal to the minimum rotational speed of the target fan, predicting a rotational speed and an operating current of the target fan at a next moment based on a rotational speed change curve, a current change curve, the target rotational speed, the target operating current, and the target ambient temperature to obtain a predicted rotational speed and a predicted operating current; and when the predicted rotational speed is less than a first preset threshold or the predicted operating current is greater than a second preset threshold, providing second early-warning information as a prompt. The present disclosure further relates to an abnormality early-warning apparatus and device for a fan, and a medium.
US12258971B1
A fan assembly includes a fan having a shroud having an inner surface defining a flow chamber and an outer surface defining a plurality of teeth arrayed circularly around a circumference of the shroud. The fan also includes a plurality of blades arranged circularly around a central axis of the fan and extending radially inwardly from the shroud towards the central axis of the fan. Each of the plurality of blades is arranged inside the flow chamber and includes an outer edge connected to the inner surface of the shroud. The fan assembly further includes a drive assembly arranged outside the shroud and operatively engaged with the plurality of teeth of the shroud to rotate the fan around the central axis.
US12258969B2
Water pumps for an urban water landscape, including a water pump main body, a water pump base, a grille net cover, and a filter component. The water pump main body may include a water pump shell. A water outlet interface may be disposed on a top of the water pump shell. The grille net cover may be located on a front side of the water pump shell. The grille net cover may be fixedly connected to the water pump shell through a filter component pallet on a bottom of the grille net cover and filter component cross bars on two sides of the grille net cover. Two filter assemblies may be inserted in series in the filter component slot. The water pump main body may be detachably disposed on the water pump base.
US12258959B2
A self-energizing valve includes a valve body defining an inner chamber having an inlet and an outlet. A valve head within the inner chamber is moveable between a first position and a second position. A valve seal in fluid communication with the inlet has a sealing surface with a sealing member between the valve head and the valve seal. The sealing member is movable between a closed position where the sealing member engages with the sealing surface and an open position where the sealing member disengages from the sealing surface to allow flow through the inlet into the inner chamber. A cam is coupled to the valve head. Rotation of the cam causes movement of the valve head between the first position and the second position to move the valve head to the first position to hold the sealing member in the closed position.
US12258950B2
A light-weight reciprocating element is disclosed. The reciprocating element may include a body defining a cavity, the body having a closed distal end and an open proximal end opposite the closed distal end, wherein the body is configured to apply a pressure to a working fluid. The cavity extends from the open proximal end towards the closed distal end. The reciprocating element may include an insert disposed in the cavity, the insert is configured to prevent debris from accumulating within the cavity.
US12258947B2
An offshore power generation structure comprising a submerged portion having a first deck portion comprising an integral multi-stage evaporator system, a second deck portion comprising an integral multi-stage condensing system, a third deck portion housing power generation equipment, cold water pipe; and a cold water pipe connection.
US12258941B2
A wind turbine plant and a power control method and device thereof are provided. The power control method comprises: controlling rotational speed and torque of a generator of the wind turbine plant based on an optimal rotational speed torque curve and a specific rotational speed torque curve, when receiving a power-limiting operation instruction or a power-releasing operation instruction; wherein, for each point on the optimal rotational speed torque curve, the specific rotational speed torque curve includes a point on an isopower curve starting from said point that satisfies a predetermined condition.
US12258938B2
Provided is an arrangement for transporting a wind turbine component, the arrangement including: a first portion adapted to be placed on a loading area, in particular of a trailer; a second portion, in particular component adapter portion, adapted to support the component; the first portion and the second portion each having a respective connection interface via which the first portion and the second portion are reversibly couplable to each other.
US12258937B2
A method of dismounting or mounting a rotor blade of a wind turbine involves: supporting a rotor blade of a wind turbine with a ground-based lift system at a tip-side position on the rotor blade in relation to a center of gravity of the rotor blade, and supporting the rotor blade with a nacelle-mounted lift system at a hub-side position on the rotor blade in relation to the center of gravity of the rotor blade, so that the rotor blade is supported by the ground-based lift system and the nacelle-mounted lift system in a substantially non-vertical orientation with respect to the ground; and, then separating the rotor blade from or connecting the rotor blade to a rotor hub of the wind turbine.
US12258927B1
When EGR gases are introduced into the intake passage through EGR passage, the control device determines whether or not the condensed water is generated in the merging portion of the intake passage, which is the portion to which EGR passage is connected. The control device determines whether or not the internal combustion engine is in a high-load operation based on the engine speed and the engine torque. The control device determines that the condensed water is generated in the merging portion of the intake passage, and reduces the amount of the condensed water collected by the collection device when the internal combustion engine is determined to be in a high-load operation.
US12258923B2
A propulsor is provided having a power source; a fan section coupled to the power source and configured to provide thrust opposite a downstream direction; and a cowl assembly at least partially enclosing the power source and the fan section, the cowl assembly including: a forward cowl component; a first aft cowl component disposed in the downstream direction relative to the forward cowl component and movable to vary a first aft cowl displacement from the forward cowl component in the downstream direction; and a second aft cowl component disposed in the downstream direction relative to the first aft cowl component and movable to vary a second aft cowl intermediate displacement from the first aft cowl component.
US12258920B2
An improved throttle body structure is provided. The structure includes a throttle body. The throttle body is provided with a plurality of airflow channels running from top to bottom, each of the airflow channels is internally provided with a butterfly valve for controlling a ventilation volume, and the throttle body is internally provided with injectors whose quantity corresponds to a quantity of the airflow channels. Each of the airflow channels is further internally provided with a tubular atomizer mounted and fixed in a radial direction, the atomizer is in a shape of a blind tube with one opening end, a tube wall of the atomizer is provided with a plurality of atomizing holes, and the opening end of the atomizer is connected to the injectors. The tubular atomizer is used, and the opening end of the atomizer is directly connected to the injectors.
US12258913B2
A method of controlling an exhaust valve arrangement of an internal combustion engine is provided. The exhaust valve arrangement is operable to direct combusted exhaust gas out from a combustion chamber of the internal combustion engine. The exhaust valve arrangement comprises a first exhaust valve and a second exhaust valve. The method includes determining a pressure level in the combustion chamber during compression release braking, comparing the pressure level with a predetermined threshold pressure; and controlling the exhaust valve arrangement to control either a single one, or both, of the first and second exhaust valves to be arranged in an open position during compression release braking in response to the pressure level being below or above the predetermined threshold pressure.
US12258907B2
An aircraft propulsion system in includes a compressor section, a heat addition system, and an expansion section in serial flow arrangement, wherein the heat addition system is configured to receive a flow of gaseous fuel from a fuel system, and wherein the flow of gaseous fuel is provided to the heat addition system to generate combustion gases. A lubricant system is configured to provide a flow of lubricant through the propulsion system. A hydraulic system is configured to provide a flow of hydraulic fluid to an actuator at the propulsion system. A thermal management system is configured to provide a flow of fluid in thermal communication with the lubricant system and the hydraulic system. The thermal management system comprises a turbine configured to receive the flow of fluid via a fluid circuit extended in fluid communication from the compressor section.
US12258899B1
A machine includes a VGT and a controller. The controller monitors, based on causing the VGT to operate according to the non-dynamic control scheme, a plurality of hardware limit parameters associated with an engine of the machine. The controller determines that a hardware limit parameter, of the plurality of hardware limit parameters, satisfies a dynamic threshold for the hardware limit parameter and thereby causes the VGT to operate according to a dynamic control scheme. The controller then monitors the plurality of hardware limit parameters and thereby determines that each hardware limit parameter, of the plurality of hardware limit parameters, satisfies a non-dynamic threshold for the hardware limit parameter. The controller therefore causes the VGT to operate again according to the non-dynamic control scheme.
US12258894B2
A marine propulsion device includes an engine, an exhaust pipe to allow exhaust gas of the engine to pass through the exhaust pipe, and a cooling water supply passage to supply cooling water for the engine into the exhaust pipe toward a downstream side in a flow direction of the exhaust gas and cause the cooling water to flow circumferentially along an inner peripheral surface of the exhaust pipe.
US12258886B2
A gas generator has a first and a second piston disposed in, respectively, a first and a second fluid chamber and coupled to, respectively, a first and a second combustion chamber to be actuatable by combustion that expands the respective combustions chambers. The first and second fluid chambers receive liquid CO2 and the combustion chambers receive fuel and oxygen for combustion. The second piston is mechanically coupled to the first piston, such that combustion in the first and second combustion chambers pushes the liquid CO2 from the first and second fluid chambers to, respectively, the second and first combustion chambers while expelling, respectively, the combustion gases and vaporized CO2 (the mixed working fluid) from the first and second combustion chambers to an expander for generating power. The mixed working fluid is supplied to a closed reservoir, from where liquid CO2 is supplied back to the first and second fluid chambers.
US12258875B2
An airfoil is provided defining a spanwise direction, a chordwise direction, a root end, a tip end, a leading edge end, and a trailing edge end. The airfoil includes: a leading edge extending from the leading edge end; a body extending along the spanwise direction between the root end and the tip end, the body including a plurality of cavity walls defining a plurality of cavities, each of the plurality of cavities having an inlet located at the leading edge; and a porous face sheet positioned on at least one inlet of the plurality of cavities.
US12258857B2
Methods and systems for determining a drilling-induced rock damage map are disclosed. The method includes obtaining a sonic dataset, including sonic waveforms recorded at a plurality of source-receiver separations for a plurality of source positions along an axis of a wellbore. The method further includes determining a log of a first metric using the sonic dataset and determining a map of a second metric using the sonic dataset. The method still further includes determining the drilling-induced rock damage map based, at least in part, on the log of the first metric and the map of the second metric.
US12258855B2
A method includes obtaining, by a downhole tool, a first shape of sensor data representing one or more characteristics of a wellbore, comparing, by the downhole tool, the first shape with a set of pre-determined reference shapes stored in a downhole memory to select a pre-determined reference shape that can be imposed on the first shape, calculating one or more delta values between the first shape and the selected pre-determined reference shape, and transmitting, by the downhole tool, the pre-determined reference shape and the delta values to a processor at a surface of the wellbore.
US12258847B2
The present invention provides a method and system for providing on-site electrical power to a fracturing operation, and an electrically powered fracturing system. Natural gas can be used to drive a turbine generator in the production of electrical power. A scalable, electrically powered fracturing fleet is provided to pump fluids for the fracturing operation, obviating the need for a constant supply of diesel fuel to the site and reducing the site footprint and infrastructure required for the fracturing operation, when compared with conventional systems.
US12258846B2
There is provided system and methods for restimulating a hydrocarbon producing well using water and pressures below the closure pressure, which results in production rates approaching the initial production rate of the well. There is provided multiple restimulation techniques using water based fluids at or below the closure pressure of the well, which results in production rates approach that of the prior rate upon stimulation.
US12258834B2
A configurable coupling assembly includes a body having a central bore and multiple receptacles. The central bore is configured to facilitate flow of fluid through the body, the receptacles are positioned radially outward from the central bore, the receptacles are substantially the same as one another, the receptacles are configured to receive respective couplers, and the respective couplers include multiple different types of couplers.
US12258833B2
A running tool (87) having an annulus seal assembly (86) and casing hanger (89) attached thereto may be sent into to the wellhead (1) to lock and preload the casing hanger (89) in a single trip. The running tool (87) may be rotated a first time to drop the annulus seal assembly on the casing hanger (89), a first pressure may be applied axially above the annulus seal assembly to set the annulus seal assembly, the running tool may be rotated a second time to close a gap between the annulus seal assembly and the wellhead, and a second pressure may be applied axially above the annulus seal assembly to preload the casing hanger.
US12258827B2
In at least one embodiment, a compression plate to be used with a slip hanger or a packoff in oilfield equipment is disclosed. The compression plate includes one or more grooves or slots extending circumferentially with respect to an axis of the slip hanger or the packoff. The compression plate is to be associated with an annulus seal gland of the slip hanger or the packoff and is to enable a gland volume of the annulus seal gland to change with temperature applied to the slip hanger or the packoff.
US12258826B2
A traction tool is operable with fluid flow from coiled tubing for use in a wellbore. The traction tool includes a mandrel, a driver, at least one piston, and a motor. The driver is rotatably disposed on the mandrel and can be movable between retracted and extended conditions when the at least one piston is actuated. The driver in the extended condition is configured to engage inside the wellbore. The piston is adjacent to the driver and is actuated by the fluid flow from the mandrel. The motor is also actuated by the fluid flow from the mandrel. The motor imparts rotation to the piston and the drive, which can be supported by bearings on the tool's mandrel. Tracks on the driver arranged at an angle transverse to a longitudinal axis of the tool allow the rotating driver to spiral inside the wellbore and advance the traction tool.
US12258816B2
A land-based drilling rig includes a drill rig floor and a subfloor, the subfloor supporting the drill rig floor. The land-based drilling rig also includes a plurality of substructure boxes, the substructure boxes supporting the subfloor, each substructure box including a lower substructure box and two upper substructure boxes, wherein there is a gap between the two upper substructure boxes. In addition, the land-based drilling rig further includes a mast, the mast mechanically coupled to the drill rig floor.
US12258813B2
Quick release systems for window shades for selectively disengaging and engaging a window shade holding element with a remainder of a lift mechanism of the window shade. When engaged, the shade functions normally, and when disengaged, the covering material of the window shade falls under the pull of gravity to an open position.
US12258804B2
A hinge assembly for connecting a door to a fuselage of an aircraft includes a hinge arm having a fuselage fitting pivotably coupled to a fuselage rotatable interface and a door fitting pivotably coupled to a door rotatable interface. The hinge assembly includes a programmable gear assembly coupled to the hinge arm allowing the hinge arm to pivot around the fuselage fitting when the door is moved from a door closed position to a door open position and causing the door to maintain in a generally parallel orientation relative to the fuselage between the door closed position to the door open position. The programmable gear assembly includes a fuselage gear coupled to the fuselage fitting, a door gear coupled to the door fitting, and a rack operably coupled between the fuselage gear and the door gear.
US12258803B2
A hinge element for a large domestic appliance contains a main body as well as a functional body which includes a plastic material. Accordingly, the main body and the functional body are connected to one another non-releasably. Ideally, a large domestic appliance, in particular a large domestic refrigerator, contains a housing in which a receiving space is formed. The domestic appliance has a closure element by which the receiving space can be closed, and the hinge element hingedly attaches the closure element to the housing.
US12258800B2
In example a panel for an overhead sectional door is provided. The panel includes a laminate core, a laminate skin, and a universal fabric hinge. The laminate skin is coupled to two opposing sides of the laminate core. The universal fabric hinge is coupled to the laminate skin to connect the panel to an adjacent panel of the overhead sectional door.
US12258798B2
A door stop rod assembly includes a base having a room defined therein. A neck and a yoke are respectively connected to two opposite ends of the base. The collapsible part is connected to the neck. The yoke includes a notch against which the door knob contacts. A warning device is located in the room of the base and includes a circuit, a power supply, a buzzer, a vibration detector, a static electricity sensor and a switch. When the vibration detector detects vibration from the door knob due to exterior touch of the door knob, the circuit activates the buzzer to warn the persons inside the house.
US12258796B2
A handle for a vehicle opening leaf includes an inner bracket mechanism and an outer bezel mechanism. The inner bracket mechanism is mounted from an inside of the opening leaf. The outer bezel mechanism is mounted from an outside of the opening leaf and is fixed to the inner bracket mechanism. The outer bezel mechanism includes a bezel and a grip mechanism. The bezel extends inward to an interior of the opening to allow access by a hand to the grip mechanism. The grip mechanism is configured to cooperate with a latch mechanism so as to unlatch the opening leaf. The grip mechanism is rotatably mounted on the outer bezel mechanism between a resting position in which the grip mechanism is flush with the opening leaf, and an opening position in which the grip mechanism drives the latch mechanism to unlatch the opening leaf.
US12258793B2
A latch for use in a motor vehicle. The latch including a first housing member, a second housing member, and a clip. The first housing member including a first edge member, the second housing member including a second edge member. The clip including a first leg and a second leg collectively configured to sandwich the first and second edge members to fix the first housing member to the second housing member.
US12258782B2
An exemplary lockset includes a mortise case, a magnet assembly mounted in the mortise case, and a manual actuator operable to move the magnet assembly between a coupling position in which a first magnet of the magnet assembly is aligned with a reference point and a decoupling position in which the first magnet is misaligned with the reference point. In certain embodiments, the magnet assembly further includes a second magnet having an opposite polarity as the first magnet, and the second magnet is misaligned with the reference point when the magnet assembly is in the coupling position and is aligned with the reference point when the magnet assembly is in the decoupling position.
US12258781B2
A device includes a door latch activator configured to disengage a door latch from a door frame and a door handle coupled to the door latch activator and configured to activate the door latch activator to disengage the door latch from the door frame. The device further includes a movable plunger having a first end coupled to the door latch activator and adapted to activate the door latch activator to disengage the door latch from the door frame, and an arm rest coupled to a second end of the plunger. The second end is opposite the first end, and the arm rest includes a base region adapted to receive a downward force to engage the plunger. When the base region engages the plunger, the plunger causes the door latch activator to disengage the door latch from the door frame. The plunger may be spring-activated.
US12258764B2
A staircase kit, device, and method that uses precut, fixed-sized components capable of producing building code-compliant staircases that can accommodate foot or more differences in home story heights. The design uses fixed-length stringers and adjustable height risers. The angle between the stringers to the floor changes depending on the height of the adjustable height risers and story height. The angles of the steps, stringers and banisters/handrails are configured to adjust with respect to the other components with the aid of turnbuckles and movable joints or bolts, thus keeping the steps and landings level at different story heights. This enables homeowners, generally exempt from contractor license requirements, to use a prefabricated kit to build code-compliant stairways in their homes with little or no staircase cutting or part modification.
US12258763B2
A first staircase part structure includes a staircase with a substantially U-shape in plan view having a first staircase part extending in a straight line in plan view from a floor of a lower floor, an intermediate part extending in a direction orthogonal to the first staircase part from an end on an upper-floor-side of the first staircase part, and a second staircase part extending from an end opposite to the first staircase part of the intermediate part substantially parallel to the first staircase part and in a direction of a foot of the first staircase part, a study corner formed by extending a stair landing formed in the first staircase part into an open ceiling space formed between the first staircase part and the second staircase part, a storage space formed below the second staircase part, and a storage rack disposed between the study corner and the storage space.
US12258758B2
The present disclosure relates generally to a column cover comprising a first portion comprising a first side panel having a first edge and a second edge, a second side panel having a first edge and a second edge, a front panel extending between the second edge of the first side panel and the second edge of the second side panel, and an outer surface having at least one textured contour that replicates a natural building material. The cover further comprises a second portion comprising a first side panel having a first edge and a second edge, wherein the first side panel of the second portion is substantially coplanar with the first side panel of the first portion, wherein the first edge of the first side panel of the first portion is spaced apart from the first edge of the first side panel of the second portion.
US12258756B2
A ceiling system is provided for use in a building space having a plurality of walls. The ceiling system includes a grid system that extends to at least two of the plurality of walls and separates the building space into an occupiable space below the grid system and a plenum space above the grid system; and a plurality of ceiling tiles that are supported by the grid system and, with the grid system, create a barrier between the occupiable space and the plenum space, the plurality of ceiling tiles including three different polygonal non-rectangular ceiling tiles.
US12258753B2
A hinge joint is disclosed. In an embodiment, the hinge joint includes a first hinge component, a second hinge component and a flexible member linking the first and second hinge components to support relative movement of the first hinge component and the second hinge component between an abutting relationship and a non-abutting relationship. A foldable shelter including a hinge joint according to an embodiment of the disclosure is also disclosed.
US12258745B2
A carrier plate for supporting a wall-mounted water closet, the carrier plate including a face plate having a top end, a bottom end opposite the top end, a front face, and a rear face opposite the front face. The carrier plate also including a bracket extending from the rear face of the face plate proximate the top end to define a bracket length, and one or more feet extending from the rear face of the face plate proximate the bottom end to define a foot length and a base plane, where the foot defines an anchor aperture therethrough, where the anchor aperture defines an anchor zone including a volume delineated by the cross-section of the anchor aperture extended normal to the base plane in both directions therefrom, and where the bracket is not positioned within the anchor zone.
US12258737B2
A boom is attached to a machine main body. A bucket is attached to the boom. A boom cylinder is attached to the machine main body and drives the boom. A bucket cylinder is attached to the machine main body and drives the bucket with respect to the boom. A controller calculates a mass of a load within the bucket based on boom cylinder force and bucket cylinder force.
US12258728B2
A remote-control unit is provided that suppresses the generation of “shaking” in a remote-control lever when the remote-control lever is operated. The remote-control unit includes a remote-control lever, a fixed rail, a movable rail, a first support member, and a second support member. The fixed rail and the first support member are fixed to a working vehicle, the movable rail slidably engages with the fixed rail, and is configured to be movable in a direction that the fixed rail is disposed. The first support member supports the second support member by way of a first resin member at a position different from a position on the fixed rail and from a position on an extension of the fixed rail.
US12258726B2
An operation support system for a construction machine includes a memory that stores a program and a processor configured to execute the program stored in the memory to perform a process. The process includes generating multiple operation patterns or multiple arrangement patterns for the construction machine such that a rating regarding a predetermined target index becomes relatively high, obtaining environmental information of the construction machine to be supported, and outputting, based on the multiple operation patterns or the multiple arrangement patterns, an operation pattern or an arrangement pattern with which the rating regarding the predetermined target index of an operation of the construction machine to be supported becomes relatively high under an environment corresponding to the obtained environmental information.
US12258723B2
Provided is a support structure and a method for manufacture thereof. The support structure, in one aspect, includes first and second expanded metal structural pillars positioned within the ground by a distance (d1), the first and second expanded metal structural pillars comprising a metal that has expanded in response to hydrolysis. In at least one other aspect, the support structure includes one or more beams spanning the first and second expanded metal structural pillars.
US12258714B2
According the present disclosure, there is provided an aramid pulp and a method for manufacturing the same, in which a completely dried, oilless aramid yarn that has not been applied with a general spinning oil agent is used, and thus the water dispersion and swelling time of the fiber can be reduced as compared with a conventional case, thereby providing an aramid pulp that is improved in productivity and pulp properties and excellent in interfacial adhesion force with different materials.
US12258713B2
A sheet manufacturing system includes a coarsely crushing apparatus that coarsely crushes a paper, a sheet manufacturing apparatus that generates a sheet-shaped recycled paper using coarsely crushed pieces of the paper as a raw material, and a server that is connected to the coarsely crushing apparatus and the sheet manufacturing apparatus via a network, in which the coarsely crushing apparatus has an integration section that integrates the coarsely crushed pieces, an integration amount detector that detects an integration amount of the coarsely crushed pieces in the integration section, and a transmission section that transmits information related to the integration amount, which is detected by the integration amount detector, to the server, and the sheet manufacturing apparatus has a reception section that acquires the information related to the integration amount from the server, a display information generation section that generates display information related to the integration amount based on the information acquired by the reception section, and a display section that displays the display information.
US12258709B2
A chemical solution spraying method for spraying a chemical solution onto a canvas K1 has a loop shape in a side view while reciprocating two nozzle devices S at the same speed along rail L extending in a width direction of canvas K1 with respect to canvas K1, in which time period Tc during which canvas K1 is in contact with wet paper X is 0.03 seconds or more, time period Tn required for nozzle devices S to each one-way move is 0.5 to 10 minutes, traveling speed Vp of canvas K1 is 500 m/min or more, length K of canvas K1 is 20 to 80 m, a number of times of contact N of any point on a surface of canvas K1 with wet paper X during time period Tn, time period Tn, traveling speed Vp, and length K satisfy a relationship of N=(Tn·Vp)/K, under predetermined conditions.
US12258707B2
A multi-strand cord (50) having a 1×N structure comprises a single layer (52) of N strands (54) wound in a helix about a main axis (A), each strand (54) having one layer (56) of metal filaments (F1) and comprising M>1 metal filaments wound in a helix about an axis (B). The cord (50) has a total elongation At>8.10% and the energy-at-break indicator Er of the cord (50), defined by Er=∫0Atσ(Ai)×dAi where σ(Ai) is the tensile stress in MPa measured at the elongation Ai and dAi is the elongation such that Er is strictly greater than 52 MJ/m3.
US12258706B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a carpet exhibiting excellent antifouling property against both dry soil and wet soil. The carpet is a carpet including a pile yarn having a coated pile single yarn, in which the coated pile single yarn is a pile single yarn to which a layer A containing organopolysiloxane and a fluorine-based compound is attached, a fineness of the coated pile single yarn is 8 to 40 dtex, a crimp elongation of the pile yarn is 10% to 30%, a carpet staining degree (ΔE) in an antifouling dry test is 30 or less, and a carpet staining degree (ΔE) in an antifouling wet test is 30 or less.
US12258698B2
A drainage device for a steam dryer defining a space includes a container, a steam generator connected to the container, and a steam diverging device connected to the container and the steam generator. The container supplies water to the steam generator. The steam diverging device includes a connecting passage for communicating with the space. The steam generator generates steam that is ejected through the steam diverging device into the space, and water generated by the condensation of the steam flows back to the container through the steam diverging device. A steam dryer having the drainage device is also disclosed.
US12258694B2
A sewing machine that suppresses sewing defects is provided. The sewing machine includes: a sewing needing, held by a needle bar and moving back and forth while holding an upper thread: a shuttle, configured to hold a bobbin which is housed in a bobbin case and around which a lower thread is wound, and cooperating with the sewing needle to form a seam; a presser foot member, configured to press a to-be-sewn article at a sewing position directly below the sewing needle: a pressure adjustment portion, adjusting pressure applied to the to-be-sewn article by the presser foot member; a feeding mechanism, where endless feeding belts for feeding the to-be-sewn article from the sewing position to a first direction are disposed on two sides of a second direction orthogonal to a first direction with respect to the sewing position, the feeding mechanism is provided with a belt drive portion, and the belt drive portion independently drives the feeding belts on one side of the second direction with respect to the sewing position and the feeding belts on another side of the second direction with respect to the sewing position; and a control portion, configured to control the pressure adjustment portion to make a pressure of the presser foot member be corresponding to a difference between a feeding amount of the feeding belts on one side of the second direction with respect to the sewing position and a feeding amount of the feeding belts on another side of the second direction with respect to the sewing position.
US12258680B2
A solid support for use in non-aqueous DNA-conjugated molecule reactions, wherein the support comprises a solid body formed from a plurality of polyethylene glycol units, wherein the solid body includes at least one cationic moiety.
US12258676B2
A pre-heat ring for a substrate processing device, which includes: a reaction chamber, a bearing disk, the pre-heat ring and a gas injection port. The bearing disk is arranged in the reaction chamber and supports a substrate; the pre-heat ring is arranged around the bearing disk; a supporting piece is arranged in the reaction chamber and supports the pre-heat ring; the gas injection port is formed in the reaction chamber and introduces a process gas; the pre-heat ring includes a ring body; the inner periphery and the outer periphery of the ring body each include a first section and a second section, the first section corresponds to the gas injection port, and the second section does not correspond to the gas injection port; and the first section of the outer periphery extends towards a gas injection port side.
US12258670B2
Electrosynthesis of oxirane can include contacting a halide electrolyte with an anode that includes an electrocatalyst comprising iridium oxide loaded with a period-6 metal oxide and provided on a metal substrate. The cathode can be operated under ORR conditions. The electrochemical system can also be provided as an integrated system that includes CO2 electroreduction to produce ethylene and formation of hypochlorous acid using the electrocatalyst, followed by contact of the ethylene and the hypochlorous acid to form ethylene chlorohydrin which is, in turn, contacted with OH− ions to produce oxirane.
US12258669B2
The present disclosure concerns a process and a system for the electrochemical reduction of oxalic acid to glyoxylic acid. The process involves withdrawing a portion of oxalic acid-depleted catholyte from the process and contacting it with a quantity of solid oxalic acid to provide a concentrated oxalic acid solution which is re-entered into the process.
US12258658B2
A method for producing a spectral gradient filter on a substrate including: providing the substrate with a first surface to be coated; providing a shadow mask that includes a bordered coating area with an edge, wherein the geometry of the shadow mask is adjusted to the desired gradient profile of the gradient filter; creating a masked substrate by fixing the shadow mask on the first substrate surface to be coated in such a way that parts of the substrate surface are covered, but the substrate surface is essentially exposed in the coating area; and carrying out PVD coating so that parts of the shadow mask lie directly on the surface of the substrate so that no vapour migration occurs in the area of these parts during the coating process and the shadow mask is detachably fixed to the substrate so that the shadow mask can be used for several coatings.
US12258655B2
A nickel-based alloy composition consisting, in weight percent, of: between 1.0 and 3.5% aluminium, 0.0 and 3.6% titanium, 0.0 and 6.0% niobium, 0.0 and 4.9% tantalum, 0.0 and 5.4% tungsten, 0.0 and 4.0% molybdenum, 8.9 and 30.0% cobalt, 10.8 and 20.6% chromium, 0.02 and 0.35% carbon, between 0.001 and 0.2% boron, between 0.001 and 0.5% zirconium, 0.0 and 5.0% rhenium, 0.0 and 8.5% ruthenium, 0.0 and 4.6 percent iridium, between 0.0 and 0.5% vanadium, between 0.0 and 1.0% palladium, between 0.0 and 1.0% platinum, between 0.0 and 0.5% silicon, between 0.0 and 0.1% yttrium, between 0.0 and 0.1% lanthanum, between 0.0 and 0.1% cerium, between 0.0 and 0.003% sulphur, between 0.0 and 0.25% manganese, between 0.0 and 6.0% iron, between 0.0 and 0.5% copper, between 0.0 and 0.5% hafnium, the balance being nickel and incidental impurities, wherein the following equations are satisfied in which WNb, WTa, WTi, WMo, WAl, WRe and WRu are the weight percent of niobium, tantalum, titanium, molybdenum, aluminium, rhenium and ruthenium in the alloy respectively 4.2≤(WW+0.92WRe+1.58WRu)+WMo WAl+0.5WTi+0.3WNb+0.15WTa≤4.0 and 3.0≤WAl+0.5WTi+1.5(0.3WNb+0.15WTa).
US12258654B2
A nickel-chromium-aluminum alloy includes (in mass %) 12 to 30% chromium, 1.8 to 4.0% aluminum, 0.1 to 7.0% iron, 0.001 to 0.50% silicon, 0.001 to 2.0% manganese, 0.00 to 1.00% titanium, 0.00 to 1.10% niobium, 0.00 to 0.5% copper, 0.00 to 5.00% cobalt, in each case 0.0002 to 0.05% magnesium and/or calcium, 0.001 to 0.12% carbon, 0.001 to 0.050% nitrogen, 0.001 to 0.030% phosphorus, 0.0001 to 0.020% oxygen, max. 0.010% sulfur, max. 2.0% molybdenum, max. 2.0% tungsten, and a remainder of nickel with a minimum content of ≥50% and the usual process-related impurities for use in solar power towers, using chloride and/or carbonate salt melts as a heat transfer medium, wherein in order to ensure a good processability, the following condition must be met: Fv≥0.9 with Fv=4.88050−0.095546*Fe−0.0178784*Cr−0.992452*AI−1.51498*Ti−0.506893*Nb+0.0426004*AI*Fe, where Fe, Cr, AI, Ti, and Nb are the concentration of the respective elements in mass %.
US12258652B2
Disclosed in the present disclosure is a method for smelting a high-temperature alloy with an ultrahigh N content in a VIM furnace, and a high-temperature alloy with an ultrahigh N content. The VIM-furnace smelting method comprises a smelting step performed in a VIM furnace, and a casting step, wherein at a later stage of smelting, a nitrogen-containing substance is added to the VIM furnace to adjust the content of N. In the present disclosure, by comprehensively improving the raw materials, the smelting process, etc., the yield of N during a VIM-furnace smelting process is increased and accurate control over the content of N in the high-temperature alloy is achieved, such that a target content of nitrogen can be guaranteed, and an ideal product can thus be obtained.
US12258641B2
A method for heat treatment of an object of sheet metal, includes the step of heating at least one selected portion of the object using an energy beam. The beam is projected onto a surface of the object so as to produce a primary spot on the object, the beam being repetitively scanned in two dimensions in accordance with a scanning pattern so as to establish an effective spot on the object, the effective spot having a two-dimensional energy distribution. The effective spot is displaced in relation to the surface of the object to progressively heat the at least one selected portion of the object. The scanning pattern includes interconnected curved segments.
US12258635B2
Personalized medicine involves the use of a patient's molecular markers to guide treatment regimens for the patient. The scientific literature provides multiple examples of correlations between drug treatment efficacy and the presence or absence of molecular markers in a patient sample. Methods are provided herein that permit efficient dissemination of scientific findings regarding treatment efficacy and molecular markers found in patient tumors to health care providers.
US12258621B2
A high throughput method for detecting chromosomal aberrations and/or telomere aberrations using a biological sample of 150 μL to 200 μL including preparing a cytogenetic slide from the sample in a microplate, the mitotic index in the cytogenetic slide being 3 times higher on average than the conventional procedure of culturing cells in flasks with 10 to 20 mL of medium, simultaneously labeling the telomeres and centromeres with peptide nucleic acid probes with a hybridisation time from 30 minutes to 1.5 hours, flow image quantifying the fluorescence intensity of telomeres on interphase nuclei using a 10× magnification objective for overall telomere quantification, and automatically capturing the metaphase chromosomes to detect chromosomal aberrations and/or telomere aberrations in each chromosome. Also a high-throughput detection kit for quantifying telomeres and detecting chromosomal aberrations and/or telomere aberrations.
US12258617B2
Differential expression of long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) and enhancer RNAs (eRNAs) are used to monitor diseases and determine therapeutic efficacy in, for example, neurological diseases, inflammatory diseases, rheumatic diseases, and autoimmune diseases. Machine learning systems are used to identify lncRNAs or eRNAs having differential expression correlated with responsiveness to various therapies.
US12258616B2
The present disclosure relates to methods, compositions, and kits for concentrating and purifying at least one target analyte from a clinical biological sample. In some embodiments, the methods involve one or more aqueous two-phase system (ATPS) compositions and at least one solid phase medium. Some embodiments provide a kit comprising one or more ATPS compositions, a binding buffer; and a solid phase medium. Other embodiments provide methods of treating cancers or infectious diseases in a patient in need thereof.
US12258608B2
Controlled coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) fermentation production processes and methods for controlling the CoQ10 fermentation production processes are provided in the present disclosure. The processes may include growing a microbial culture of bacteria by providing a carbon source and an oxygen source for a predetermined period of time, thereby producing CoQ10-containing bacteria, carbon dioxide, and lactate in the bacterial culture. During various stages of the production process, the concentration of carbon dioxide may be maintained at predetermined levels, respectively. Alternatively or additionally, during various stages of the production process, the concentration of lactate may be maintained at predetermined levels, respectively.
US12258599B2
Methods for inactivating in a cell a mutant allele of the elastase, neutrophil expressed gene (ELANE gene) gene having a mutation associated with severe congenital neutropenia (SCN) or cyclic neutropenia (CyN) wherein the mutant allele is selected from the group consisting of the ELANE mutants set forth in Table 1, the method comprising introducing to the cell a composition comprising: a CRISPR nuclease or a sequence encoding the CRISPR nuclease; and a first RNA molecule comprising a guide sequence portion having 17-30 nucleotides, wherein a complex of the CRISPR nuclease and the first RNA molecule affects a double strand break in the mutant allele of the ELANE gene the method optionally further comprising introduction of a second RNA molecule comprising a guide sequence portion capable of complexing with a CRISPR nuclease, wherein the complex of the second RNA molecule and CRISPR nuclease affects a second double strand break in the ELANE gene.
US12258595B2
The invention provides for systems, methods, and compositions for altering expression of target gene sequences and related gene products. Provided are structural information on the Cas protein of the CRISPR-Cas system, use of this information in generating modified components of the CRISPR complex, vectors and vector systems which encode one or more components or modified components of a CRISPR complex, as well as methods for the design and use of such vectors and components. Also provided are methods of directing CRISPR complex formation in eukaryotic cells and methods for utilizing the CRISPR-Cas system. In particular the present invention comprehends optimized functional CRISPR-Cas enzyme systems.
US12258594B2
The present disclosure generally relates to systems, methods and compositions related to Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR) and components thereof. The present disclosure also relates to methods, systems, and compostions modified to reduce immunogenicity. Additionally, the present disclosure relates to methods for developing or designing CRISPR-Cas system based therapy or therapeutics.
US12258586B2
Embodiments of the invention include systems and media for mammalian cell culture that enhance cell viability which enables biological assays and quantitative studies in tissues such as skin explants. Certain embodiments may be used in coordination with each other or may be practiced separately. An exemplary embodiment of the invention is a culture medium that includes Dulbecco's Modified Eagle's Medium, X-VIVO medium, and subcutaneous adipocyte medium. In one embodiment the culture medium includes approximately 30-60% Dulbecco's Modified Eagle's Medium by volume, approximately 30-60% X-VIVO medium by volume, and approximately 2.5-15% subcutaneous adipocyte medium by volume. Certain embodiments of the culture medium can also include recombinant human stem cell factor. Embodiments of the invention disclosed here are not limited to the brands described and encompass equivalents, as well as combinations, of the individual chemical components that make up the media described herein.
US12258585B2
Described are methods for producing multi-layered tubular tissue structures, tissue structures produced by the methods, and their use.
US12258584B2
The generation of complex organ tissues from human embryonic and pluripotent stem cells (PSCs) remains a major challenge for translational studies. It is shown that PSCs can be directed to differentiate into intestinal tissue in vitro by modulating the combinatorial activities of several signaling pathways in a step-wise fashion, effectively recapitulating in vivo fetal intestinal development. The resulting intestinal “organoids” were three-dimensional structures consisting of a polarized, columnar epithelium surrounded by mesenchyme that included a smooth muscle-like layer. The epithelium was patterned into crypt-like SOX9-positive proliferative zones and villus-like structures with all of the major functional cell types of the intestine. The culture system is used to demonstrate that expression of NEUROG3, a pro-endocrine transcription factor mutated in enteric anendocrinosis is sufficient to promote differentiation towards the enteroendocrine cell lineage. In conclusion, PSC-derived human intestinal tissue should allow for unprecedented studies of human intestinal development, homeostasis and disease.
US12258582B2
The disclosure provides methods of making a red blood cell, plasma, and platelet products having a uniform dose and volume. The method comprises pooling a plurality of blood units, leukoreducing the blood and inactivating any pathogen contained therein. Plasma, RBCs, and platelets are then divided into uniform dose and volume units which have an extended shelf life.
US12258581B2
The generation of antigen specific T cells by controlled ex vivo induction or expansion can provide highly specific and beneficial T cell therapies. The present disclosure provides T cell manufacturing methods and therapeutic T cell compositions which can be used for treating subjects with cancer and other conditions, diseases and disorders personal antigen specific T cell therapy.
US12258580B2
The present disclosure provides methods for genetically engineering T cells, such as CD4+ T cells, for use in cell therapy. In some aspects, the provided methods include one or more steps for incubating the cells under stimulating conditions, introducing a recombinant polypeptide to the cells through transduction or transfection, and cultivating the cells under conditions that promote proliferation and/or expansion. In some aspects, the incubation and/or the cultivation is performed in the presence of recombinant IL-2. In some aspects, the provided methods are an efficient, reliable means to produce genetically engineered T cells with a high degree of success.
US12258566B2
This disclosure relates to novel PRNP targeting sequences. Novel PRNP targeting oligonucleotides for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases are also provided.
US12258565B2
The present invention relates to RNAi agents, e.g., double stranded RNA (dsRNA) agents, targeting the complement component C3 gene (C3). The invention also relates to methods of using such RNAi agents to inhibit expression of a C3 gene and to methods of preventing and treating a C3-associated disorder, e.g., cold agglutinin disease (CAD), warm autoimmune hemolytic anemia, and paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH), lupis nephritis (LN), bullous pemphigoid, pemphigus, e.g., pemphigus vulgaris (PV) and pemphigus foliaceus (PF), and C3 glomerulopathy.
US12258564B2
Provided herein, are compositions comprising GalNAc moieties that may be conjugated to an oligonucleotide. The oligonucleotide may be a small interfering RNA or an antisense oligonucleotide. Also provided herein are methods of treatment that include administering the composition to a subject.
US12258561B2
This disclosure relates to methods for promoting bone formation or reducing bone destruction. This disclosure also relates to methods for promoting the recruitment of mesenchymal stem cells (MSC) to a local site of injury or surgical intervention in bone to promote healing. In addition, this disclosure relates to methods for reducing or preventing mineral formation or bone growth, or reducing bone mass. The methods disclosed herein are useful for treating conditions such as osteoradionecrosis.
US12258560B2
The present invention provides circularized RNA and methods of making and using same.
US12258557B2
A mammalian or avian cell line that expresses high levels of human influenza virus receptors is provided. In one embodiment, the cell line supports human influenza virus, e.g., human A/H3 influenza virus, isolation and growth much more effectively than corresponding conventional (unmodified) cells or in corresponding human virus receptor-overexpressing cells, and the propagated viruses may maintain higher genetic stability than in the corresponding cells.
US12258555B2
An automated nucleic acid extraction device includes a base body, a cassette, a driving unit, a moving frame and a syringe. The base body includes a sample accommodating area, a column accommodating area, a cassette accommodating area and a collection tube being arranged in a linear direction. The cassette is arranged in the cassette accommodating area and includes two parallel walls and at least four vertical walls. The parallel walls and the vertical walls jointly form a lysis buffer well, at least one wash buffer well and an elution buffer well. Each vertical wall includes a load-bearing abutment. The driving unit and the moving frame are arranged on the base body. The syringe is arranged on the moving frame and is driven by the driving unit to reciprocate along with the moving frame in the linear direction.
US12258539B2
The present invention relates generally to methods for producing detergent compounds from waste plastic feedstocks. More specifically, the invention relates to methods for producing detergent intermediates, including alkylbenzenes, paraffins, olefins, oxo alcohols, and surfactant derivatives thereof from waste plastic feedstock.
US12258536B2
A process for extraction of crude oil from distillers dried grain solubles and/or distillers dried grains using a solvent extraction process and producing corn distillers meal that may be used as an animal feed supplement is disclosed. The corn distillers meal may be used as a crude protein supplement for use in a livestock feed diet, poultry feed diet, aquatic feed diet or the like. The solvent extracted crude oil may be suitable for other processes, including oleochemical processing for personal care and home care products, biodiesel production, and/or renewable diesel production from hydro-treating the extracted oil to make green diesel fuel.
US12258534B2
The present invention aims to provide a viscosity-index improving agent having an excellent friction reduction effect to reduce friction of a lubricating oil composition when the viscosity-index improving agent is added thereto. The present also aims to provide a lubricating oil composition containing the viscosity-index improving agent. The present invention relates to, for example, a viscosity-index improving agent containing: (co)polymer (A) containing, as an essential constituent monomer, a polyolefin-based monomer (a) represented by the following formula (1); an ester oil (B1) having a kinematic viscosity at 100° C. of 1.00 to 2.50 mm2/s; and an ester oil (B2) having a kinematic viscosity at 100° C. of 2.51 to 5.00 mm2/s: wherein R1 is a hydrogen atom or a methyl group; —X1— is a group represented by —O—, —O(AO)m-, or —NH—, A is a C2-C4 alkylene group, m is an integer of 1 to 10, and each A may be the same or different when m is 2 or more; R2 is a residue after removal of one hydrogen atom from a hydrocarbon polymer containing a 1,2-butylene group as a structural unit; and p represents a number of 0 or 1.
US12258527B2
A continuous desulfurization process and process system are described for removal of reduced sulfur species at gas stream concentrations in a range of from about 5 to about 5000 ppmv, using fixed beds containing regenerable sorbents, and for regeneration of such regenerable sorbents. The desulfurization removes the reduced sulfur species of hydrogen sulfide, carbonyl sulfide, carbon disulfide, and/or thiols and disulfides with four or less carbon atoms, to ppbv concentrations. In specific disclosed implementations, regenerable metal oxide-based sorbents are integrated along with a functional and effective process to control the regeneration reaction and process while maintaining a stable dynamic sulfur capacity. A membrane-based process and system is described for producing regeneration and purge gas for the desulfurization.
US12258526B2
Provided are a method for manufacturing syngas including the steps of (S1) heat-treating organic waste in a first reactor to produce a first mixed gas; (S2) introducing the first mixed gas to a second reactor and subjecting it to methane reforming in the presence of a catalyst to produce a second mixed gas; (S3) separating the catalyst and carbon dioxide from the second mixed gas and recovering a third mixed gas from which the catalyst and the carbon dioxide have been removed; (S4) converting the carbon dioxide separated in step (S3) into carbon monoxide through a reverse Boudouard reaction in a third reactor; and (S5) mixing the third mixed gas recovered in step (S3) and the carbon monoxide converted in step (S4) to produce syngas, and an apparatus for manufacturing syngas.
US12258516B2
A method of reducing water production in a wellbore may include introducing an alkaline nanosilica dispersion to the wellbore such that it contacts a water producing zone of the wellbore, introducing a sodium bicarbonate activator to the wellbore such that it contacts the alkaline nanosilica dispersion in the water producing zone, and forming a gelled solid from the water shutoff material in the water producing zone, thereby reducing water production in the wellbore.
US12258510B2
The present invention relates to a liquid crystal (LC) medium comprising a compound of formula I and one or more compounds selected from the group of compounds of the formulae IIA, IIB, IIC and IID, as defined in claim 1, and to the use thereof for optical, electro-optical and electronic purposes, in particular in LC displays, especially in IPS, FFS, VA or PS-VA displays.
US12258503B2
A curable silicone-(meth)acrylate pressure sensitive composition is curable via hydrosilylation reaction to form a silicone-(meth)acrylate pressure sensitive adhesive with an initial adhesion. When the silicone-(meth)acrylate pressure sensitive adhesive is exposed to actinic radiation, the resulting silicone-(meth)acrylate adhesive has a subsequent adhesion, which is higher than the initial adhesion.
US12258499B2
The present invention is a method for peeling an adherend from a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer by irradiating a laminate in which the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer and the adherend are laminated with light, the peeling method includes a step of irradiating the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer with the light having a pulse width of 1 second or less and a light irradiation amount of 1,000 mJ/cm2 or more, and the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer satisfies predetermined conditions in terms of a minimum transmittance in a near-infrared region of a wavelength of 800 nm to 2,500 nm and a maximum transmittance in a visible light region of a wavelength of 380 nm to 780 nm.
US12258494B2
An adhesive for a pellicle, the adhesive including a phenol compound, the phenol compound having at least two hydroxyl groups, a polymer having a hydroxyl group or an amine group, and water.
US12258492B2
Provided are a polishing composition, a polishing method, and a method for manufacturing a substrate. The polishing composition contains polishing abrasive grains, an additive molecule, a pH adjusting agent, and a dispersing medium. The polishing abrasive grains contain silica particles, and the silanol group density on the surface of the silica particles is 0 to 3.0 groups/nm2. The silanol group density is calculated and determined based on the specific surface area measured by the BET method and the amount of silanol groups measured by titration. The pH adjusting agent is used to adjust the pH of the polishing composition to a range of 1.5 or more and 4.5 or less. The additive molecule has a structure represented by Formula (I). (In Formula (I), R1, R2, n, m, p, q, and r are as defined in the specification.)
US12258489B2
A composition comprising a first, synthetic gel and a second gel is useful for the preparation of waterborne multicolor paints.
US12258487B2
A composition containing: (a) a polysiloxane resin, wherein the polysiloxane resin contains the following siloxane units: [R3SiO1/2], [(OZ)qSiO(4-q)/2] and at least one of [(OZ)tREPSiO(3-t)/2] and [(OZ)dRREPSiO(2-d)/2]; where: each R is independently in each occurrence selected from hydrocarbyls, REP is an epoxy functional hydrocarbyl group, subscript q is in each occurrence a number selected from a range of 0-3, subscript t is in each occurrence a number selected from a range of 0-2, and subscript d is in each occurrence a number selected from a range of 0-1 provided that the average concentration of OZ groups is at least 15 mole-percent relative to moles of silicon atoms in the polysiloxane resin; (b) a photo acid generator; (c) a moisture cure catalyst; and (d) optionally, an epoxy functional diluent.
US12258480B2
An aqueous inkjet ink containing a pigment, a binder resin, a water-soluble organic solvent, a surfactant and water, wherein the binder resin contains, as structural units, an aqueous resin containing a structure derived from an ethylenically unsaturated monomer containing an acid group and a structure derived from an ethylenically unsaturated monomer containing a hydroxyl group, the resin has a weight average molecular weight of 5,000 to 45,000, and a glass transition temperature of 35 to 110° C., the water-soluble organic solvent contains a first water-soluble organic solvent having an SP value of 8.5 to 13 (cal/cm3)1/2, and does not contain a second water-soluble organic solvent having a boiling point at 1 atmosphere of 235° C. or higher, and the surfactant contains an acetylene-based surfactant.
US12258478B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a gardenia blue pigment that can stably maintain the color tone even after heating under acidic conditions, and a method for producing the gardenia blue pigment. A gardenia blue pigment that can stably maintain the color tone even after heating under acidic conditions is obtained by carrying out the following first and second steps: the first step of reacting walnut peptide, bitter melon peptide, and/or soy peptide with genipin in a solvent without the supply of a gas containing oxygen; and the second step of treating the reaction solution obtained in the first step with the supply of a gas containing oxygen.
US12258475B2
The present invention provides a functionally dry warm mix asphalt binder composition modified with lubricating agents or additives that can be mixed with aggregate and compacted at temperatures substantially below asphalt binder compositions that do not contain the disclosed lubricating additives.
US12258474B2
The present invention is directed to a functionalized elastomer comprising the reaction product of a living anionic elastomeric polymer and a polymerization terminator of formula (1) where the substituent structures are further defined.
US12258471B2
Disclosed are thermoplastic vulcanizates comprising a plastic phase and a rubber phase and process for preparing such thermoplastic vulcanizates, wherein the plastic phase comprises a thermoplastic polymer and the rubber phase comprises a carboxylated nitrile rubber.
US12258464B2
Provided is a polymer composition for blow molding which includes a high-density polyethylene recovered from a secondary battery separator and has excellent mechanical properties. The polymer composition having excellent processability may be prepared by recycling a secondary battery separator, and may be molded to manufacture an environmental small to medium sized container which has excellent mechanical properties such as flexural strength, elongation, and impact strength in a large temperature range and has excellent processing moldability.
US12258449B2
Photocurable compositions comprising 20-90% by weight of a polymerizable core resin; 20-90% by weight of a diluent resin miscible with said core resin; and at least about 1% by weight of at least one rheology modifier which is distinct from said diluent resin. Rheology modifiers of the present disclosure include compounds which may form covalent bonds with the core resin or diluent resin and compounds which have a particle size of 1-200 nm. Rheology modifiers which may form covalent bonds have at least one terminal functional group selected from the group consisting of acrylates, methacrylates, epoxides, oxetanes, nitriles, alkenes and alkynes.
US12258437B2
Described herein is a compact polyurethane having a density of ≥850 g/l, obtainable by reacting at least the components: i) a polyisocyanate composition; and ii) a polyol composition, including at least one polyether polyol (ii.1) which is obtainable by reacting ii.1.1) a polyol starter with a functionality of 3 to 6 with ii.1.2) propylene oxide and/or butylene oxide, in the presence of a boron-based, fluorine-containing Lewis acid catalyst (ii.1.3), where the polyether polyol (ii.1) has an equivalent molecular weight of 50 to 150 g/mol, and ii.1.4) optionally further auxiliaries and/or additives. Also described herein are a process for producing such a compact polyurethane and compact polyurethanes obtainable by this process. Also described herein is a method of using such a compact polyurethane for the production of a fiber composite. Also described herein are a corresponding fiber composite material and a process for producing such a fiber composite.
US12258431B2
A transparent thermoplastic resin composition includes: 100 parts by mass of a transparent thermoplastic resin composition composed of 10 to 60 parts by mass of a graft copolymer (A) obtained by graft-copolymerizing a monomer mixture (a) containing at least an aromatic vinyl-based monomer (a1) and a (meth)acrylic acid ester-based monomer (a2) in the presence of a rubbery polymer (r), and 40 to 90 parts by mass of a vinyl-based copolymer (B) obtained by copolymerizing a monomer mixture (b) containing at least an aromatic vinyl-based monomer (b1), a (meth)acrylic acid ester-based monomer (b2), and a vinyl cyanide-based monomer (b3); and 15 ppm or more and 40 ppm or less of a polydimethyl siloxane gum (C) having a weight-average molecular weight of 300,000 or more.
US12258429B2
New C2C3 random copolymer composition, which shows improved sealing behaviour due to low sealing initiation temperature (SIT) and high hot tack force. In addition, the inventive composition shows an excellent sterilization behaviour, i.e. retention of low haze level after sterilization. The present invention is furthermore related to the manufacture of said copolymer composition and to its use.
US12258426B2
The present disclosure relates to compositions comprising mixtures of hydroxypropyl-β-cyclodextrin, wherein the compositions may be isomerically purified. The disclosure also relates to methods of isomerically purifying a mixture of hydroxypropyl-β-cyclodextrins.
US12258420B2
Provided herein are engineered antibodies that comprise a modified IgA2 heavy chain constant region, pharmaceutical compositions, and methods of use. The engineered antibodies described herein comprise one or more amino acid substitutions or deletions in a constant region of an IgA2 domain that modify naturally occurring glycosylation site(s). Further provided herein are methods of treating disorders, including cancer, by administering an engineered IgA antibody described herein.
US12258419B2
The present invention relates to the field of therapeutic monoclonal antibodies, and specifically provides an anti-FXI/FXIa antibody or an antigen-binding fragment thereof, nucleic acid molecules encoding same, and methods for preparing same. The anti-FXI/FXIa antibody or antigen-binding fragment thereof described in the present invention has specificity and high affinity to FXI/FXIa, and can effectively inhibit the activity of FXI/FXIa. Therefore, the present invention further provides a pharmaceutical composition comprising the antibody or antigen-binding fragment thereof, and a use thereof in the preparation of a drug which is used for the prevention and/or treatment of diseases or disorders related to coagulation or thromboembolism.
US12258409B2
The present invention is based, in part, on the discovery of monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies that specifically bind to phosphorylated PD-1, as well as immunoglobulins, polypeptides, nucleic acids thereof, and methods of using such antibodies for diagnostic, prognostic, and therapeutic purposes.
US12258400B2
The present invention relates to antibodies having specificity for BTN2A and uses thereof, in particular for the treatment of cancer.
US12258381B2
Current invention relates to a polynucleotide encoding activating chimeric receptors comprising engineered Natural Killer Group 2 member C (NKG2C) having enhanced affinity for HLA class I histocompatibility antigen alpha chain E (HLA-E)/peptide complex or an extracellular receptor domain of NKG2A coupled to an effector domain. It also relates to NK cells expressing such constructs and the use of these NK cells to induce cytotoxicity. It further exemplifies that the NK cells expressing polynucleotide encoding NKG2C (SIIS)/CD94/DAP12 or NKG2C/CD94/4-1 BB/CD3z showed enhanced NK cytotoxicity against cancer cells.
US12258379B2
The present invention includes compositions and methods comprising sortase immune receptors and sortase chimeric antigen receptors (CARs).
US12258376B2
Provided are a novel polypeptide wherein a portion of DCTN1 protein is fused to a portion of RET protein; a polynucleotide encoding the polypeptide; a method for detecting the polynucleotide or the polypeptide; a method of screening for a compound that inhibits expression of the polynucleotide or expression and/or activity of the polypeptide; and a pharmaceutical composition containing a compound that inhibits RET as an active ingredient.
US12258367B2
A glucoside derivative that acts as an SGLT1 inhibitor and an application thereof in the preparation of a drug for SGLT1 related diseases. Specifically disclosed is a compound represented by formula (II), a tautomer thereof or a pharmaceutically acceptable composition thereof.
US12258366B2
The present disclosure is directed to modulators of SOS1 and their use in the treatment of disease. Also disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions comprising the same.
US12258357B2
The present disclosure provides a composition including trifluoroacetyl iodide, at least one organic impurity and at least one inorganic impurity. The at least one organic impurity includes at least one of: difluoroiodomethane, pentafluoroiodoethane, iodomethane, iodopropane, dichlorotetrafluoroethane, dichlorotrifluoroethane, trichlorotrifluoroethane, methyltrifluoroacetate, trifluoroacetic anhydride, difluorobutane and methyl propane. The at least one inorganic impurity includes at least one of: hydrogen iodide, hydrogen chloride, iodine and hydrogen triiodide.
US12258356B2
The invention provides a facile process for preparing various Group VI precursor compounds useful in the vapor deposition of such Group VI metals onto solid substrates, especially microelectronic semiconductor device substrates. The process provides an effective means to obtain such volatile materials, which can then be sources of molybdenum, chromium, or tungsten-containing materials to be deposited on such substrates. Additionally, the invention provides a method for vapor deposition of such compounds onto microelectronic device substrates.
US12258353B2
The present specification relates to a heterocyclic compound represented by Chemical Formula 1, and an organic light emitting device including the same.
US12258342B2
The present invention relates to compounds having a structure of general formula (I), processes for their preparation, pharmaceutical compositions containing them as the active ingredient, to their use as medicaments and to their use in the manufacture of medicaments for use in the treatment of bacterial infections in humans and warm-blooded animals.
US12258340B2
Provided herein are pyrazole compounds and pharmaceutical compositions comprising the same. The compounds and compositions are useful as modulators of monoacylglycerol lipase (MAGL). Furthermore, the compounds and compositions are useful for the treatment of pain.
US12258328B2
Provided are 6-membered heteroaryl-containing aminopyridine compounds and pharmaceutically acceptable compositions thereof which exhibit inhibition activity against certain mutated forms of EGFR.
US12258302B2
A process for producing high octane alkylate is provided. The process involves reacting isobutane and ethylene using an ionic liquid catalyst. Reaction conditions can be chosen to assist in attaining, or to optimize, desirable alkylate yields and/or properties.
US12258301B2
A process for oligomerizing olefin streams comprising sending olefin streams comprising a C2− olefin vapor stream and a C3+ olefin liquids stream to a first stage oligomerization reactor containing a solid acid oligomerization catalyst to produce a first stage oligomerized stream; oligomerizing said first-stage oligomerization stream in a second stage oligomerization reactor containing a metal catalyst to provide a second stage oligomerized stream.
US12258294B2
A process for producing cement includes combining a cement precursor and a wax, wherein the wax includes alkyl ketene dimer wax and/or alkenyl ketene dimer wax, grinding the cement precursor and the wax to yield cement grains coated with the wax. A cement includes cement powder grains and a coating of wax on the Portland cement powder grains, wherein the wax includes alkyl ketene dimer wax and/or alkenyl ketene dimer wax. A process for making cementitious material includes combining a cement with water to yield a slurry, wherein the cement includes cement powder grains and a coating of wax on the cement powder grains, wherein the wax includes alkyl ketene dimer wax and/or alkenyl ketene dimer wax, and allowing the slurry to set.
US12258293B2
A hybrid additive for use in construction materials such as asphalt and concrete is disclosed. The additive includes pellets formed of a plastic or polymer material, and one or more of fibers, pozzolans, nano-carbon tubes, glass, recycled asphalt shingles (RAS), liquid anti-strip, hydrated lime, rejuvenators, cementitious material, and ground tire rubber. Also disclosed are hybrid composite materials useful as paving and building materials, and methods of making the same. The hybrid additives were found to maintain the positive performance aspects of typical asphalt and concrete mixtures, while improving the performance of the mixtures by increasing bonding and strength within the mixture—and therefore increasing useable life and lowering costs.
US12258284B2
There is provided an activated carbon having a high total trihalomethane filtration capacity, even in water treatment by passing water at a high superficial velocity (SV). In the activated carbon of the present invention, a pore volume A (cc/g) of pores with a size of 1.0 nm or less, of pore volumes calculated by the QSDFT method, is 0.300 cc/g or more, and elemental vanadium and/or a vanadium compound is contained.
US12258283B2
Systems, devices, and techniques described herein relate to iron-based desalination of water. In some cases, an inflow of water including chlorine and sodium can be received. A plurality of iron nanoparticles may capture the chlorine and the sodium. The iron nanoparticles may at least partially include Zero Valent Iron (ZVI). An outflow of the water may be emitted. The chlorine and the sodium may be omitted from the outflow.
US12258272B2
A method of dry reforming methane with CO2 using a bi-metallic nickel and ruthenium-based catalyst. A dry reformer having the bimetallic catalyst as reforming catalyst, and a method of producing syngas with the dry reformer.
US12258269B1
A preparation method for EV-grade lithium sulfide includes: mixing and reacting sulfur powder, metallic lithium and a lithium-containing additive to obtain a crude lithium sulfide product, and then pulverizing and calcining the crude lithium sulfide product to remove excess sulfur powder to obtain the EV-grade lithium sulfide. The method being used for preparing the lithium sulfide is advantaged in simple process, strong operability, large-scale production, and being capable to meet the requirements for safe operation and EV-grade lithium sulfide, without toxic gas generation and secondary pollution.
US12258265B2
A semiconductor device structure is provided. The semiconductor device structure includes a first substrate including a first face and a second face opposite the first face. A second substrate is bonded to the first face of the first substrate such that the second face of the first substrate faces away from the second substrate. One or more recesses are arranged in the second face of the first substrate and are configured to compensate for thermal expansion or thermal contraction.
US12258252B2
A deodorizing method includes a first rinsing step of supplying first rinse water for a first circulation system to a first circulation system (25a) including at least a heat sterilizer (3) that heats a drink, a chemical circulation step of supplying and circulating a chemical for a first circulation system in the first circulation system (25a), and a second rinsing step of supplying second rinse water for a first circulation system to the first circulation system (25a). At the chemical circulation step, the chemical for a first circulation system is heated to a temperature of 70° C. or higher and 150° C. or lower in the first circulation system (25a).
US12258246B2
An apparatus for lifting and lowering manhole covers is shown and described. The apparatus for lifting and lowering manhole covers includes a main beam secured to a vehicle connection support. A winch is secured along the main beam. The winch is configured to secure to a manhole cover. A support leg secured to the main beam such that the winch is positioned between the vehicle connection support and the support leg.
US12258245B2
A step for an elevating platform, the step including a top flange, a bottom flange, and a transition; the step configured to insert into a cutout in the platform sidewall. The bottom flange is configured to contact an outer surface of the platform sidewall when the top flange contacts an inner surface of the sidewall, thereby placing all of the contact areas between the step and the platform under compression when force is applied to the step.
US12258235B1
A supply roll stand for loading first and second supply rolls each including a core and dispensing material therefrom. The supply roll stand broadly comprises a frame, a lift support, an unwind assembly, and a transfer support. The lift support receives the first supply roll and raises the first supply roll. The unwind assembly unwinds the first supply roll as the lift support raises the first supply roll. The transfer support receives the first supply roll so that the first supply roll is transferred from the lift support. The lift support receives the second supply roll after the first supply roll is transferred to the transfer support. The transfer support dispatches the core of the first supply roll when the first supply roll is depleted of material. The unwind assembly unwinds the second supply roll when the first supply roll is depleted of material.
US12258233B2
Disclosed is an adjustable paper blocking structure of a thermal printer, comprising: a base evenly provided with a plurality of tooth grooves; a paper blocking component slidably connected to the base and used to limit the two ends of label paper in the middle of the paper tray of the desktop thermal printer, and a locking component having one end rotatably connected to the paper blocking component and the other end engaging with the tooth groove. The proposed adjustable paper blocking structure of a thermal printer can be used for label papers of different sizes and improves printing accuracy.
US12258217B2
A sorting device operates to shorten or lengthen a length of an upper portion of a travel path for a conveyor belt by reciprocating movement of sliding support surfaces at least partially supporting the conveyor belt. The reciprocating movement of the sliding support surfaces caused by rotational movement of a connected pivoting mechanism, which may be operated by an actuator located outside of an area defined by the travel path for the conveyor belt.
US12258212B2
An automated biological or chemical sample processing system includes a dock frame and at least one dock frame module. The dock frame includes at least one docking interface that operably couples and interfaces the dock frame with laboratory equipment. The dock frame defines a spine structure of the system alongside which a variable number of laboratory equipment are arrayed. The dock frame extends longitudinally and has a variable elongated configuration and longitudinal length. The at least one dock frame module includes the docking interface, where each module is interchangeable with another module, and has control features with a predetermined relationship to a reference datum of the dock frame module and with a reference datum of the dock frame so that the at least one dock frame module is interchangeably coupled in linear configuration with at least the other dock frame module to select the variable elongated configuration and longitudinal length.
US12258208B2
A trashcan has collapsible storage in a storage mode, and also has a deployed mode. The trashcan has a base with an insertion channel. Panels include a front side panel, a rear side panel, a right side panel, and a left side panel. The front side panel and the rear side panel have a curved structure and each have a pair of engaging rails. The right side panel and the left side panel each have a pair of engaging rails. The front side panel has a front side panel first engaging rail and a front side panel second engaging rail. The rear side panel has a rear side panel first engaging rail and a rear side panel second engaging rail.
US12258203B1
A semi-closed base tray of molded pulp material having cavities for holding individual food articles, such as apples, and a pair of opposing wings or flaps integral with the base tray and hingedly attached to opposing front and rear edges of the base tray, for partially enclosing the apples positioned in the base tray, in combination with an open-ended sleeve positionable over the base tray (when filled with the food articles) that serves to hold the wings in the closed position while allowing the fruit to be visible in the tray and sleeve combination.
US12258196B2
An insert including a folded body including: a main panel having a top surface and an aperture to accommodate a container; first and second structural tubes at first and second opposing ends of the folded body; the first structural tube includes a first side folded away from the top surface, a second side folded from the first side and a third side folded from the second side towards a bottom surface; and the second structural tube comprises a fourth side folded away from the top surface, a fifth side folded from the fourth side and a sixth side folded from the fifth side towards the bottom surface. One of the third and sixth sides having a cradle provided within the aperture, the cradle being a cut-out; and a platform disposed in the aperture and offset from the top surface, the platform being a part of the folded body.
US12258187B2
A product package or packaging is configured such that: (i) the product(s) are obscured from a potential buyer's view when the product package 10 is in a closed position and (ii) the product(s) becomes visible to the potential buyer when an extent of the product package is in a partially opened position. Once the product(s) becomes visible to the potential buyer, an illumination assembly illuminates the product(s). This selective illumination of the product(s) permits: (i) the illumination assembly to be battery powered, (ii) highlights features and attributes of the product(s) in order to attract and keep the potential buyer's attention, and (iii) makes it easier to see the product(s) within the product package, which helps prevent potential buyers from removing the product(s) from the package thereby reducing the chance that the product is inadvertently damaged.
US12258172B1
A tray comprising: a base having a base perimeter and a wall extending upward from the base perimeter. The wall is continuous around the base perimeter. The wall includes an inner wall surface and an outer wall surface. The wall includes a first end at the base perimeter and a second end opposite the first end. The tray also includes a flange extending outward from the second end of the wall. The flange includes one or more hinges, a top flange surface, a bottom flange surface, and a trim edge. The flange and the one or more hinges extend continuously around the second end of the wall. At least a portion of the flange is configured to be folded downward such that at least a portion of the bottom flange surface is closer to the outer wall surface after being folded.
US12258163B2
Machinery for packaging articles (15, 15′) in preformed cartons (18), having a conveyor (19) for making cartons travel with an article resting on top of the carton, partially enclosed by the carton, comprising a closing station, in particular having first folding means (24) designed to lift a first side wall of the said carton arranged transversely to the carton progress direction (A) so that it is positioned against the article, in particular towards the rear of the article with respect to the carton progress direction, characterised by the fact that said closing station may be moved parallel to the carton progress direction, wherein the closing station is integral to a sliding surface (20) which is parallel to the surface (26) of the machine on top of which the cartons travel. Packaging method using a machine as described above.
US12258155B2
This publication describes automatic bundling tool devices capable of tightening one-piece-ties with increased tolerance with respect to the thickness of the one-piece-tie (OPT) strap. In an aspect, disclosed is a bundling tool device that includes a tightening mechanism with a tightening gear unit with a tightening gear, and with a tightening roller unit with two tightening rollers, forming a gap in between tightening gear and tightening rollers. The gap is configured to hold a strap of a respective OPT processed by the device. The tightening gear includes teeth which are configured to fit into a serration of the strap. The tightening roller unit includes a lever with the two tightening rollers being arranged on the lever in a first end section of the lever, a turning point of the lever being arranged in a middle section of the lever, and an adjustment element of the tightening roller unit.
US12258147B2
Techniques for auto-locating and autonomous operation data storage are disclosed. An example method can include storing a representation of an aircraft in a data storage of the computing system. The representation and instructions for performing a first operation on the aircraft can be transmitted to a first robot. The first robot can be configured to identify the aircraft based on a first feature of the representation. The method can further include receiving sensor data. The method can further include transmitting the sensor data to an analysis service to identify a state of a part of the aircraft. The method can further include storing the analysis in the data storage. The method can further include generating second instructions for performing a second operation on the aircraft based on the analysis and the representation stored in the data storage.
US12258133B2
A low profile pass-through electrical connector is designed for aerospace applications. The connector allows voltage and current to pass-thru a conductive wing surface, while maintaining a low profile height for aerodynamic performance considerations. Examples of applications of the electrical connector include power for thin film heaters and communication antennae applications.
US12258130B2
Described are energy absorbing assemblies for a passenger seat. The energy absorbing assemblies can include one or more auxetic energy absorbing elements (130), each element including a crushable matrix formed of cells having an auxetic cell geometry that are crushable in a direction of energy capture.
US12258129B2
A system to distribute air across a lavatory floor is disclosed herein. The system includes a dryer unit and at least one sensor in an aircraft lavatory coupled to a locking mechanism of the aircraft lavatory responsive to an action comprising an actuation of a slide switch to open the locking mechanism of a door of the aircraft lavatory wherein the dryer unit is electronically coupled to the at least one sensor. In response to a detection by at least one sensor of the actuation of the slide switch to open the locking mechanism of the door of the aircraft lavatory, the dryer unit is configured to receive a command from a processor communicatively coupled to the at least one sensor to cause the dryer unit to be activated.
US12258126B2
Embodiments related to a monument for an aircraft cabin. On the monument, a screen is provided for displaying the images captured by a video surveillance device.
US12258120B2
An arrangement for influencing liquid flow comprises a first section selectively configurable to provide a vortex generator surface to induce vortices in the liquid flow. The arrangement further comprises a second section, wherein the first section and second section are movable relative to one another to provide the vortex generator surface.
US12258118B2
A thermal protection system is provided for a vehicle moving with velocity through a free stream of air. The system comprises a substrate layer having coolant feed holes through which coolant can pass, and an insulation layer bonded to the substrate layer and covering the coolant feed holes of the substrate layer. The system also comprises a honeycomb layer including (i) a first major surface bonded to the insulation layer, (ii) a second major surface opposite the first major surface and exposed to the free stream of air, and (iii) a cell structure that shifts a thermal boundary interface from between the insulation layer and the first major surface of the honeycomb layer to the second major surface of the honeycomb layer. Surface cooling of the insulation layer and the substrate layer is provided by coolant passing through the coolant feed holes of the substrate layer into the insulation layer as the vehicle moves with velocity through the free stream of air.
US12258114B2
An outboard engine includes a steering mechanism having a pod propulsion device disposed in water outside a hull; a propulsive drive mechanism that is disposed in the hull and gives a propulsive drive force to the pod propulsion device; and a circulation cooling circuit which has an outward flow path that supplies a cooling oil to the steering mechanism and the propulsive drive mechanism, and an inward flow path which recovers the cooling oil from the steering mechanism and the propulsive drive mechanism, in which the inward flow path and the outward flow path of the circulation cooling circuit communicate with each other inside a case body of the pod propulsion device.
US12258110B2
A pontoon boat including a thruster system is disclosed.
US12258097B2
A battery powered electric scooter (100) having two front wheels, a deck (102) and tiller (104), and a dual mode steering system responsive to turn the wheels upon rotation of the tiller (104) about a vertical axis and/or upon rotation of the deck (102) about a horizontal axis.
US12258091B2
A headlight device including a headlight configured to emit light frontward of a leaning vehicle to form a lower light beam, an upper central light beam, an upper left light beam and an upper right light beam, and a control device that controls light emission from the headlight without any user operation. The control device forms both the upper left and the upper right light beams while the leaning vehicle is traveling straight, and reduces a brightness of the upper left and upper right light beams, responsive to a vehicle being illuminated by the upper left and upper right light beams respectively, and forms the upper left and upper right light beams respectively while the leaning vehicle is turning left and right, and maintains the brightness of the formed upper left or upper right light beam regardless of whether any vehicle is illuminated by the upper left or upper right light beam.
US12258090B2
A chain separator for separating a chain of a bicycle from a sprocket of the bicycle. The chain separator includes a body defining an outer surface and at least one projection extending from the body to define a sprocket channel. The chain is disengaged from the sprocket and positioned on the outer surface and the chain separator is positioned on the bicycle such that the sprocket is positioned within the sprocket channel.
US12258085B2
A dropper seatpost assembly is disclosed. The dropper seatpost assembly includes a lower post and an upper post configured to telescopically move with respect to the lower post. The dropper seatpost assembly also includes a translating mechanism configured to maintain an orientation such as a lateral orientation, a rotational orientation, or both a lateral orientation and a rotational orientation of the upper post with respect to the lower post as the upper post telescopically moves with respect to the lower post, the translating mechanism comprising two or more vertically offset features.
US12258082B2
A leg assembly for a legged robot includes first through three motors, first through second legs, and a transmission component. The first motor is coupled to the second motor to drive the second motor to rotate, and a rotation axis of the first motor is substantially orthogonal to a rotation axis of the second motor. The second motor is coupled to the third motor to drive the third motor to rotate, and a rotation axis of the third motor substantially coincides with the rotation axis of the second motor. The third motor is arranged at a first end of the first leg, the second leg is pivotably coupled to a second end of the first leg, and the transmission component is coupled to an output shaft of the third motor and the second leg to drive the second leg to rotate relative to the first leg.
US12258079B2
Method for compensating for a friction between at least two parts, the method being based on a friction model (M), a speed (v) between at least one part and at least one other part of the at least two parts, the speed being measured, or estimated from a measurement, the speed (v) being input data of the model (M), the model (M) being based on an internal state (z) of friction, a time derivative (ż) of the internal state (z) being a function of said internal state and of the speed (v) and of a first gain (σ), the method comprising a step of saturation of the speed v at the input of the friction model, so that an absolute value |v| of the speed (v) remains lower than a saturation value, the saturation value being a function of the speed, of the first gain and of a second gain.
US12258078B2
A method to control a steer-by-wire steering system for a road vehicle including a steering device, a road wheel actuator to actuate road wheels, and a controller configured or programmed to generate a motor torque request for the road wheel actuator based on an actual or an estimated position and a position request, which is based on the position of the steering device, includes detecting a road wheel actuator power limit situation, modifying the position request so that it can be followed by the road wheel actuator within power limits, and using the modified position request to generate the motor torque request for the road wheel actuator.
US12258075B2
An adjustable base plate system includes a first track structure configured to extend along one side of a vehicle cargo area and a second track structure configured to extend along an opposite side of a vehicle cargo area. At least one base plate has a first edge and a second edge opposite of the first edge, wherein the first edge is supported by the first track structure and the second edge is supported by the second track structure. The first track structure and the second track structure each comprise at least a first tier track and a second tier track such that a distance between a bottom surface of the at least one base plate and a support surface of the vehicle cargo area can be adjusted.
US12258074B1
A device for bridging a gap between a tailgate and a truck bed may include an angled bridge plate having a first plate section and a second plate section, wherein the second plate section extends from the first plate section at an angle. A first tab may extend from a first side edge of the first section of the bridge plate, and a second tab may extend from a second side edge of the first section of the bridge plate. The device may also include a first bed hinge configured to attach to a surface of the truck bed adjacent to the gap, wherein the first tab is configured to pivotably engage with the first bed hinge, and a second bed hinge configured to attach to the truck bed adjacent to the gap, wherein the second tab is configured to pivotably engage with the second bed hinge.
US12258073B2
An embodiment unitary structural component for attaching to a floor of a vehicle, the unitary structural component including a first cross portion, a second cross portion spaced apart from the first cross portion, and a central extension connecting the first cross portion and the second cross portion and extending along a central longitudinal axis of the floor, wherein the first cross portion, the second cross portion, and the central extension define a unitary one-piece structure.
US12258069B2
An embodiment vehicle body includes a tubular part extended in a longitudinal direction of a vehicle and having a hollow shape, a base part in which the tubular part is inserted, the base part integrally connecting an A pillar to a side portion of a roof, and an outer garnish shaped to be extended in the longitudinal direction along the base part and coupled to the base part to cover the base part.
US12258060B1
An assembly storage rack, which comprises two sets of vertically arranged upright rods, at least two storage baskets are arranged between the upright rods, and adjustment blocks are arranged on each of the upright rods, the adjustment blocks and the upright rods are relatively fixed and pre-installed as the integral modular components, the storage baskets are detachably connected to the adjustment blocks on the upright rods on both sides; the storage basket comprises a first storage basket and a second storage basket arranged vertically in sequence, the first storage basket can be placed in the second storage basket; first adjustment blocks are arranged between the first storage basket and the upright rods.
US12258049B2
A method and a system analyze the control of a vehicle having an autonomous driving unit. A change in the driving mode from autonomous driving to manual driving is detected, and at least one driving parameter before and/or after detecting the change is monitored. Based on driving values obtained by the monitoring with respect to the detected change in driving mode, at least one driving quantity quantifying the quality of interplay between the autonomous driving unit and a human driver is determined.
US12258048B2
This application is directed to predicting vehicle actions according to a hierarchy of interconnected vehicle actions. The hierarchy of interconnected vehicle actions includes a plurality of predefined vehicle actions that are organized to define a plurality of vehicle action sequences. A first vehicle obtains one or more images of a road and a second vehicle, and predicts a sequence of vehicle actions of the second vehicle through the hierarchy of interconnected vehicle actions using the one or more images. The first vehicle is controlled to drive at least partially autonomously based on the predicted sequence of vehicle actions of the second vehicle. In some embodiments, the hierarchy of interconnected vehicle actions includes a first action level that is defined according to a stage of a trip and corresponds to three predefined vehicle actions of: “start a trip,” “move in a trip,” and “complete a trip.”
US12258043B2
Systems and methods are described for receiving a user selection indicating that a wireless network of a vehicle has been compromised; in response to receiving the user selection, causing the vehicle to be disconnected from the compromised wireless network; and while the vehicle is disconnected from the compromised wireless network performing a remedial action to enable the vehicle to navigate from a current location of the vehicle to a safe location.
