US12322281B2
A load control system may include control devices for controlling electrical loads. The control devices may include load control devices, such as a lighting device for controlling an amount of power provided to a lighting load, and controller devices, such as a remote control device configured to transmit digital messages for controlling the lighting load via the load control device. The remote control device may communicate with the lighting devices via a hub device. The remote control device may detect a user interface event, such as a button press or a rotation of the remote control device. The remote control device or the hub device may determine whether to transmit digital messages as unicast messages or multicast messages based on the type of user interface event detected. The remote control device, or other master device, may synchronize and/or toggle an on/off state of lighting devices in the load control system.
US12322280B2
Method and system for programming a power tool from an external device. The method includes establishing a first communication link with a server. The server includes a profile bank that includes mode profiles generated by a plurality of users. The method further includes receiving, over the first communication link, a list of mode profiles representing a subset of the mode profiles of the profile bank. The method further includes receiving, in response to user input from a first user on the external device, a selection of a mode profile. The method further includes transmitting, over the first communication link, the selection of the mode profile. The method further includes receiving, over the first communication link, the mode profile, the mode profile having been generated by a second user. The method further includes transmitting wirelessly, to the power tool, the mode profile to configure the power tool.
US12322277B2
Technologies for an emergency evacuation system include a system operator and one or more emergency lighting units located in a building. Each emergency lighting unit further includes a processor, communication circuitry configured to communicate with the system operator, and a light indicator configured to be illuminated to indicate an exit of the building.
US12322273B1
A user wearable monitoring device for improved personal security includes a band, a clasp configured for moving between an open position and a closed position, a removable chip coupled to the band, and a digital locking mechanism configured for monitoring detachment. A method of digitally locking the device includes receiving a signal from a user input device and rotating contact sensors into a locked position in response to the signal. A method of unlocking the device may include receiving a second signal from the user input device, or receiving input from the contact sensors, and rotating the contact sensors into an unlocked position. In this manner, the digital locking mechanism is configured for recognizing unauthorized detachment of the device from the user.
US12322272B2
Each alarm received over time is associated with one or more alarm parameters that each provide a priority factor. Each of the plurality of alarms are associated with an open state until the corresponding alarm is acted upon in a predetermined manner by an operator. For each of the plurality of alarms that remain in the open state, a static priority level is based on the priority factors provided by the one or more alarm parameters associated with the corresponding alarm, and a dynamic priority level is determined that is based at least in part on the static priority level of the corresponding alarm and an amount of time that has elapsed since the corresponding alarm was reported. Open state alarms are ranked according to the dynamic priority level and a notification of a highest ranked alarm is displayed.
US12322261B2
According to some embodiments, a control device for a premises security system that is configured to monitor a premises using a plurality of premises devices is provided. The control device is configured to obtain a plurality of acoustic samples for the premises, detect a sound anomaly in at least one of the plurality of acoustic samples, obtain a verification that the sound anomaly is expected, generate an acoustic model for the premises based at least on the plurality of acoustic samples and the verification that the sound anomaly is expected, receive data representing a detected sound during monitoring of the premises, compare the detected sound with the acoustic model for the premises to determine that the detected sound is unexpected, and initiate a premises security system alert based at least on the detected sound being unexpected.
US12322254B2
The present invention relates to a method of operating a gaming system. The method comprises the following steps: placing a bet or bets on the betting grid; activating the bonus buy area having four side-bet areas; registering one of four side-bet areas selected by the player; applying a side-bet multiplier according to the registered side-bet area; closing the betting grid and the bonus buy area; selecting additional numbers to whom additional multipliers are applied; generating a winning number/-s; and pay-out of winning amount to the bet/-s of winning number/-s multiplied by the multiplier number. Addition of the bonus buy area provides increased action for the player while enticing the player to wager more creating increased gaming volume for an operator.
US12322252B2
Gaming systems and methods that maintain a progressive award associated with a guaranteed minimum quantity of generations of a designated symbol in a sequence of one or more plays of a game.
US12322248B2
Methods, apparatus, and article of manufacture for computing an aggregate tax liability at a gaming device comprises receiving an indication from the gaming device of a start and end of a gaming period. A plurality of games are played by a player during the gaming period. The amount of the player's winnings and losses for each game played is monitored. A total winnings and a total losses incurred by the player during the gaming period is computed, and an aggregate amount that comprises a summation of the total winning and the total losses during the gaming period is also computed. Based on the location of the gaming device, determine a jurisdiction that governs the aggregate tax liability. Compute the aggregate tax liability based on the aggregate amount and the jurisdiction.
US12322247B2
A detection system including a control device detecting fraud performed in a game table by using a result of an image analysis performed by an image analyzing device is included. A substitute currency for gaming used for this detection system has a multi-layer structure in which a plurality of plastic layers having different colors are stacked, a coloring layer is included at least in the middle, and white layers or thin-color layers (may be layers having a color thinner than that of the coloring layer; not illustrated in the drawing) are stacked on both sides of the coloring layer disposed in the middle.
US12322239B2
A method of conducting a wagering game includes: conducting a base game on an electronic gaming machine; detecting a first trigger condition in the base game; initiating a feature game in response to the first trigger condition; detecting a second trigger condition in the feature game; granting access to a plurality of bonus feature game levels in response to the second trigger condition; and determining an outcome of the feature game.
US12322234B2
According to one embodiment, when a control unit is notified of information in at least one second signal received by one of first and second wireless communication units after the control unit provides the second wireless communication unit with a command to transmit a first signal containing first address information and before a waiting time elapses and when the at least one second signal contains second address information assigned to an authentication apparatus having received the first signal, then the control unit provides the first wireless communication unit with a command to transmit a third signal for a connection request with the second address information set in a destination address.
US12322233B2
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for providing secure access to a locker of a locker system based on a token that includes token data and a message authentication code (MAC) to authenticate the token data. The token data includes at least the unique locker identifier for the locker. The MAC can be generated using a secret key. The secret key can be obtained based on a unique derivation key associated with a master key. The locker system can determine whether the token is valid based on the token data, the MAC, and the secret key. In response to a determination that the token is valid, the locker system can send a signal to unlock the locker.
US12322232B2
A knob holding structure according to one aspect of the present disclosure has a holder, a pair of pinching members configured to hold a knob and arranged opposed to each other in the holder, and an elastic member configured to support the pair of pinching members so that each pinching member can be displaced relative to an inner surface of the holder, and to bias the pinching members in a direction so as to approach each other.
US12322220B2
Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture to obtain diagnostic information for a system are disclosed. An example apparatus includes vehicle interface circuitry to obtain information corresponding to a detected problem of a vehicle, cloud interface circuitry to obtain, via a network communication, an output of a machine learning model executed based on the information, the output to indicate (a) a component associated with the detected problem, and (b) a probability associated with the component, instruction generation circuitry to generate instructions for performing a test on the component, and user interface control circuitry to cause the instructions to be displayed on a mobile device.
US12322211B2
There is provided an electronic device arranged to be unlocked using a fingerprint. The electronic device includes a touch pad, a processor and an operation system. The touch pad acquires fingerprint data within sequential multiple time intervals, respectively. The processor recognizes a fingerprint of each time interval according to the fingerprint data. Upon a sequence and an operating feature of multiple fingerprints matching a predetermined condition, the processor controls the operation system to unlock the electronic device.
US12322210B2
Artificial intelligence and computer vision analysis is used to generate ergonomics-annotated human forms and location histories in a video sequence. Video images are analyzed to identify human forms and generate a wireframe representing each human form, which is then analyzed to identify ergonomic risks which can be ranked according to severity. Severity markings for the ergonomic risks are superimposed on a location history of the human form to show the history, and the severity markings may also be superimposed on the human form, for example on a superimposed representation of the wireframe, by body region (e.g. neck, lower back). Optionally, where the human form represents a worker or other individual having planned activities, the ergonomic risks can be compared to a task flow for the worker to determine whether the ergonomic risks occurred during the planned activities or during unplanned activities.
US12322208B2
A determination apparatus includes an acquisition unit that acquires a photograph image obtained by photographing a user, a storage unit that stores a first learning model constructed through machine learning using teacher data in which a plurality of images of eyes are associated with labels each indicating whether or not an iris can be extracted, and a first determination unit that inputs the photograph image into the first learning model and determines whether or not iris information can be extracted based on an output from the first learning model.
US12322207B2
The embodiments of the present application provide a method and a device for identifying an unsafe behavior of a drilling operator, which relate to the field of data analysis, and the method includes obtaining eye movement data information of a drilling operator by an eye movement data sensor, processing the eye movement data information to obtain an eye movement characteristic parameter corresponding to the eye movement data information, inputting the eye movement characteristic parameter to an identification model to obtain an output result from the identification model, and determining an operation behavior of the operator according to the output result and sending a warning to the operator when the operation behavior is a preset type. Through analyzing the eye movement data information in real time, whether an operation behavior meets regulations can be determined, thus realizing real-time monitoring and identification of unsafe operation behaviors of the drilling operator.
US12322205B1
The current document is directed to computationally efficient, robust, and accurate methods and systems that determine the heartbeat rate of human subjects, patients, and/or participants monitored by a video-recording-capable device or system by analyzing video recordings of human subjects, patients, and/or participants, either in real time or following video recording. The currently disclosed methods and systems employ face-recognition methods to identify adaptive regions of interest corresponding to facial-skin areas. Spatial averages of the intensities of light components with different frequencies reflected from the identified adaptive regions of interest are extracted from the video recording as intensity signals. The intensity signals are then analyzed to extract detrended, band-pass-filtered oscillating light-intensity signals that are processed by spectral and peak-finding methods that each produces a determined heartbeat rate for each of multiple time intervals.
US12322199B2
In an approach to identifying occluded objects, a computer retrieves a first image that includes an object at least partially occluded by one or more occlusions. A computer removes the one or more occlusions from the first image to create a partial object in a second image. A computer runs a detection model with the second image to predict one or more identifications of a symbol represented by the partial object. A computer determines top predictions of the one or more identifications of the symbol by the detection model. A computer identifies at least one geometric property associated with the one or more identifications of the symbol included in the one or more top predictions. A computer applies the at least one geometric property to the partial object. A computer determines a probability of the one or more top predictions correctly identifying the symbol represented by the partial object.
US12322195B2
Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed that determine related content. An example apparatus includes processor circuitry to generate a segment-level graph by sampling segment-level edges among segment nodes representing text segments, the segment-level graph including segment node embeddings representing features of the segment nodes; cluster the text segments to form entities by applying a first GAN based model to the segment-level graph to update the segment node embeddings; generate a multi-level graph by (a) generating an entity-level graph including hypernodes representing the entities and sampled entity edges connecting ones of the hypernodes, and (b) connecting the segment nodes to respective ones of the hypernodes using relation edges; generate hypernode embeddings by propagating the updated segment node embeddings using a relation graph; and cluster the entities by product by applying a second GAN based model to the multi-level graph, the multi-level graph to generate updated hypernode embeddings.
US12322194B2
A system and a method for determining characteristic cells based on image recognition. In the method, a scanning device capturing a full image of the microslide; a host selecting images that comprise stained blocks from the full image; the host sequentially performing image recognition to recognize stained cells of the images, and determining whether the stained cells comprise the characteristic cells with an AI model; and selecting interested images from the images that comprise the characteristic cells, transforming the coordinate system of the interested images into the original coordinate system of the full image, and employing the scanning device to capture the interested images along the Z axis of the original coordinate system of the full image, thereby obtaining and outputting sets of pictures. The present invention can quickly determine whether there are characteristic cells in the tissue under test, so as to provide a diagnostic reference for doctors.
US12322193B2
A system for a motor vehicle includes a sensor apparatus having a sensor for determining motor vehicle data and/or driving data of the motor vehicle, and an evaluation unit. The evaluation unit includes an emotion determination unit configured to assess the emotions of the driver of the motor vehicle on the basis of sensor signals transmitted by the sensor.
US12322192B2
Systems and methods for vehicle data collection by image analysis are provided. An example method involves positioning a camera in a vehicle to be pointed toward a field of interest in the vehicle, capturing an image of the field of interest with the camera, identifying a region of interest in the image that is expected to convey vehicle information, and running an image processing model over the region of interest to extract vehicle information from the image.
US12322173B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-storage media, for monocular underwater camera biomass estimation. In some implementations, an exemplary method includes obtaining an image of a fish captured by an underwater camera; identifying portions of the image corresponding to one or more areas of interest; extracting the portions of the image from the image; providing the portions of the image to a model trained to detect objects in the portions of the image; and determining an action based on output of the model indicating a number of object detections.
US12322171B2
A display device includes: at least one fingerprint sensor configured to sense a fingerprint of a user corresponding to a first fingerprint sensing area of a display panel; an image generator configured to generate a target fingerprint image based on a sensing signal output from the at least one fingerprint sensor; an image analyzer configured to detect a defect in the target fingerprint image based on at least one first fingerprint image corresponding to the first fingerprint sensing area and at least one second fingerprint image corresponding to a second fingerprint sensing area spaced apart from the first fingerprint sensing area of the display panel; and an image corrector configured to correct the defect in the target fingerprint image.
US12322168B2
Progressive precision image classifier and method of training include storing a dataset of labeled images, training a neural network to generate a classification vector comprising a plurality of confidence values, each confidence value corresponding to a classification, validating the trained neural network, calculating fine-grained confidence thresholds for each classification, wherein each classification represents a leaf-level classification in a hierarchical classification structure, and calculating coarse-level confidence thresholds for at least one parent class in the hierarchical classification structure, wherein each parent class defines a group of at least one leaf-level classification. Each label in the training data identifies a leaf-level classification in the hierarchical classification structure, and the classification vector includes a 1×N vector of confidence values, where N represents a number of leaf-level classifications output by the trained neural network. The neural network may be implemented as a convolution neural network with a single output head.
US12322165B2
Various embodiments are generally directed to techniques for training deep neural networks, such as with an iterative approach, for instance. Some embodiments are particularly directed to a deep neural network (DNN) training system that generates a hardened DNN by iteratively training DNNs with images that were misclassified by previous iterations of the DNN. One or more embodiments, for example, may include logic to generate an adversarial image that is misclassified by a first DNN that was previously trained with a set of sample images. In some embodiments, the logic may determine a second training set that includes the adversarial image that was misclassified by the first DNN and the first training set of one or more sample images. The second training set may be used to train a second DNN. In various embodiments, the above process may be repeated for a predetermined number of iterations to produce a hardened DNN.
US12322161B2
Various techniques are provided for training a neural network to classify images. A convolutional neural network (CNN) is trained using training dataset comprising a plurality of synthetic images. The CNN training process tracks image-related metrics and other informative metrics as the training dataset is processed. The trained inference CNN may then be tested using a validation dataset of real images to generate performance results (e.g., whether a training image was properly or improperly labeled by the trained inference CNN). In one or more embodiments, a training dataset and analysis engine extracts and analyzes the informative metrics and performance results, generates parameters for a modified training dataset to improve CNN performance, and generates corresponding instructions to a synthetic image generator to generate a new training dataset. The process repeats in an iterative fashion to build a final training dataset for use in training an inference CNN.
US12322160B2
An image classification model training method and apparatus are provided. Classification results of each image outputted by an image classification model are obtained. When the classification results outputted by the image classification model do not meet a reference condition, a reference classification result is constructed based on the classification results outputted by the image classification model. Because the reference classification result can indicate a probability that images belong to each class, a parameter of the image classification model is updated to obtain a trained image classification model based on a total error value between the classification results of the each image and the reference classification result.
US12322158B2
An undecimated image processing method includes: acquiring an image to be processed, inputting the image to be processed into an image processing network, to obtain an output image, where a resolution of the output image is the same with a resolution of the image to be processed. The inputting the image to be processed into the image processing network to obtain the output image includes: inputting the image to be processed into an analysis module to perform feature analysis, and outputting a feature tensor image; inputting the feature tensor image into a processing module, and outputting a processed feature tensor image; and synthesizing, by a synthesis module, at least one feature tensor image outputted by the at least one processing module to obtain the output image.
US12322154B2
Methods and systems for automated construction of an anonymized facial recognition library are disclosed. A camera of a client device may capture a first plurality of images of faces of members of a panel of viewers of media content presented on a content presentation device collocated with the client device during viewing sessions. A first machine learning (ML) model may be applied to the first plurality to generate a second plurality of feature vectors, each associated with a different one of the images. One or more clusters of feature vectors of the second plurality may be computationally determined within a vector space of the feature vectors. A respective centroid feature vector may be determined for each respective cluster, and assigned a unique ID. A respective association between each cluster ID and a respective name ID may be determined based on panel-member information received at the client device.
US12322147B2
Methods and devices for encoding a point cloud. More than one frame of reference is identified and a transform defines the relative motion of a second frame of reference to a first frame of reference. The space is segmented into regions and each region is associated with one of the frames of reference. Local motion vectors within a region are expressed relative to the frame of reference associated with that region. Occupancy of the bitstream is entropy encoded based on predictions determined using the location motion vectors and the transform associated with the attached frame of reference.
US12322142B2
A method of synthesizing 3D joint data may include converting joint data collected from a depth camera of each of a plurality of RGB-D cameras from a depth camera coordinate system of each of the RGB-D cameras to a color camera coordinate system of each of the RGB-D cameras, and calculating a confidence level of the joint data converted to the color camera coordinate system using a 3D joint recognition algorithm based on the joint data converted to the color camera coordinate system. The method may further include applying a rotation matrix and a translation vector to the joint data and converting the joint data to a predetermined reference coordinate system, and obtaining a weighted-average of the joint data converted to the reference coordinate system using a weight calculated based on the confidence level to synthesize the joint data.
US12322141B2
Provided are methods for using motion capture sensors to calibrate a component, which can include receiving motion capture sensor data associated with a motion capture sensor, the motion capture sensor data comprising at least a location of a motion capture marker and a location of a reference point on a vehicle, determining a position of a hardware component associated with the vehicle relative to the reference point on the vehicle based at least in part on the motion capture sensor data, determining the position of the hardware component does not satisfy a calibration threshold associated with the hardware component, determining a hardware component alert associated with the hardware component based at least in part on the determining that the position of the hardware component does not satisfy the calibration threshold associated with the hardware component, and routing the hardware component alert. Systems and computer program products are also provided.
US12322134B2
A method for photogrammetric measurement includes capturing a sequence of images of an infant lying in a crib and processing the images so as to extract a skeleton of the infant from one or more of the images. A height of the infant is estimated based on the extracted skeleton.
US12322133B2
The present disclosure provides for devices, systems and methods for precise human head positioning in space. The present disclosure provides for control of precise human head positioning in space with use of drawing lines generated via a facial recognition computer software and positioning of sensors with permanent identification markings onto the human head according to those markings.
US12322129B2
In various embodiments there is a method for camera localization within a scene. An image of a scene captured by the camera is input to a machine learning model, which has been trained for the particular scene to detect a plurality of 3D scene landmarks. The 3D scene landmarks are pre-specified in a pre-built map of the scene. The machine learning model outputs a plurality of predictions, each prediction comprising: either a 2D location in the image which is predicted to depict one of the 3D scene landmarks, or a 3D bearing vector, being a vector originating at the camera and pointing towards a predicted 3D location of one of the 3D scene landmarks. Using the predictions, an estimate of a position and orientation of the camera in the pre-built map of the scene is computed.
US12322128B2
A method includes capturing a first image of a surface illuminated from a first direction along an axis by a first light at a first elevation angle with other lights of the illumination system off, and capturing a second image of the surface illuminated from a second direction along the axis by a second light at a second elevation angle with the other lights off, the second direction being opposite the first direction, the second elevation angle being substantially identical to the first elevation angle. The images are processed by taking a derivative of a reflected light intensity at each of a plurality of pixel locations in the images, respectively. The respective derivatives are employed to identify a set of invalid pixels where a photometric stereo condition is not satisfied. A photometric stereo reconstruction is generated based on a set of images and the identified set of invalid pixels.
US12322127B2
Provided are a depth completion method and apparatus using spatial-temporal information. The depth completion apparatus according to the present invention comprises a processor; and a memory connected to the processor, wherein the memory stores program instructions executable by the processor for performing operations comprising receiving an RGB image and a sparse image through a camera and LiDAR, generating a dense first depth map by processing color information of the RGB image through a first branch based on an encoder-decoder, generating a dense second depth map by up-sampling the sparse image through a second branch based on an encoder-decoder, generating a third depth map by fusing the first depth map and the second depth map, and generating a final depth map including a trajectory of a moving object included in an RGB image continuously captured during movement by inputting the third depth map to a convolution long term short memory (LSTM).
US12322122B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for pre-processing image data before 3D object tracking include, in at least one aspect, a method including: performing object detection in uncompressed, two-dimensional image data from a camera to produce two-dimensional location data for objects of interest; processing the two-dimensional location data for the objects of interest using a motion criterion to generate possible paths data for the objects of interest; and constructing a flight track of an object in three-dimensional space, from the possible paths data and position information obtained from a sensor, by filtering out false positives in the possible paths data.
US12322115B2
A method for evaluating edge quality in an image includes receiving an image from a camera of a vehicle, detecting an edge in the image captured by the camera, fitting a polynomial curve to the edge in the image captured by the camera, executing a numerical optimizer to determine a minimum distance from each pixel in the image of the edge to the polynomial curve, determining a modulation transfer function (MTF) value using the minimum distance, determining whether the MTF value is greater than predetermined threshold, and providing an alert in response to determining that the MTF value is not greater than the predetermined threshold.
US12322114B2
In various examples, image data may be received that represents an image. Corner detection may be used to identify pixels that may be candidate corner points. The image data may be converted from a higher dimensional color space to a converted image in a lower dimensional color space, and boundaries may be identified within the converted image. A set of the candidate corner points may be determined that are within a threshold distance to one of the boundaries, and the set of the candidate corner points may be analyzed to determine a subset of the candidate corner points representative of corners of polygons. Using the subset of the candidate corner points, one or more polygons may be identified, and a filter may be applied to the polygons to identify a polygon as corresponding to a fiducial marker boundary of a fiducial marker.
US12322113B2
Tactile labels with raised touchable and readable projections extending away from a surface of a tangible good, container or package that allow people to quickly recognize and understand the content within the container, wherein the tactile labels may include data that can be extracted via image processing techniques.
US12322107B2
Method for detecting or predicting the occurrence of a cell event, selected from between cell division or cell death, in a sample (10), the sample extending in at least one sample plane (P10) and comprising cells (10p) immersed in a medium, the method comprising the following steps: a) arranging the sample between a light source (11) and an image sensor (16); b) illuminating the sample (10) using the light source (11) and acquiring a plurality of successive images ((I1(ti), I1(ti+1) . . . I1(ti+K)) of the sample at different instants ([ti; ti+K]) forming an acquisition time range, each image being representative of an exposure light wave to which the image sensor is exposed; c) on the basis of each acquired image of the sample, calculating an observation image at each instant (I10(ti), I10(ti+1) . . . I10(ti+K)), the observation image corresponding to a spatial distribution of an optical path difference induced by the cells, or of an absorbance of the cells, in the sample plane (P10); d) using the observation images resulting from c) as input data of a supervised artificial intelligence algorithm (CNNd, CNNp), so as to predict or locate an occurrence of the cell event.
US12322102B2
Targeted and individualized methods are provided herein for determining specific treatment sites based on an individual patient. Embodiments described herein may use functional and/or structural connections to create brain mapping of the patient and/or control groups having the same metrics as the patient, and combinations thereof in determining target locations for stimulation treatment.
US12322099B2
An image processing apparatus (10) includes an image processing unit (110) and a risk information generation unit (120). The image processing unit (110) acquires and processes an image generated by an image capture apparatus (20), that is, an image including a plurality of persons. As an example, the image processing unit (110) sets a person being at least part of the plurality of persons as a reference person and computes a distance (first distance) between the reference person and the closest person to the reference person. By using the first distance, the risk information generation unit (120) generates infection risk information in a target region being an image capture target of the image capture apparatus (20).
US12322094B2
An image acquire device comprising: an irradiator configured to irradiate an undyed tissue with excitation light; an image sensor configured to acquire a third harmonic image of the undyed tissue based on light generated in third harmonic generation caused by interaction between the undyed tissue and the excitation light.
US12322090B2
A system and method include acquisition of a two-dimensional radiograph of a patient, input of the radiograph to a trained machine learning model to generate a classification, performance of a computed tomography scan of the patient based on the two-dimensional radiograph if the classification indicates that the patient does not have a first condition, and determination to modify the computed tomography scan if the classification indicates that the patient has the first condition.
US12322087B1
An example method includes obtaining a workpiece image of a semiconductor workpiece. The example method includes providing the workpiece image as input to a machine-learned encoding model. The example method includes obtaining an output from the machine-learned encoding model, the output includes an encoding corresponding to the semiconductor workpiece. The example method includes determining one or more characteristics of the semiconductor workpiece based at least in part on the encoding or modifying a semiconductor manufacturing process based at least in part on the encoding.
US12322083B1
Systems and methods are provided to perform PdM surveys using data acquisition units which screen multiple locations where equipment or structures to be evaluated are present. Video data will be acquired and processed to measure translational and vibratory motion and additional data will be collected from other camera, sensors or via data links. The motion present in the equipment or structures under test and the supplemental data will be automatically evaluated to detect suspect equipment conditions and to minimize the amount of video data maintained on the data acquisition unit and transmitted back the central PdM server for review by a PdM analyst and long term archival.
US12322069B2
There is provided an imaging support apparatus including a processor, and a memory in which the memory stores a first trained model, the first trained model is a trained model used for control related to imaging performed by an imaging apparatus, and the processor is configured to generate a second trained model used for the control by performing learning processing in which a first image, which is acquired by being captured by the imaging apparatus, and a set value, which is applied to the imaging apparatus in a case where the first image is acquired, are used as teacher data, and perform specific processing based on a first set value, which is output from the first trained model in a case where a second image is input to the first trained model, and a second set value, which is output from the second trained model in a case where the second image is input to the second trained model.
US12322066B2
Systems and methods are described for digital compositing. In an example, a video frame from video frames stored in memory can be identified based on video frame latency data. The video frame latency data can specify a number of video frames to be stored in the cache memory space before the video frame is selected. A scene related information frame of the scene related information frames stored in the memory can also be identified based on a timecode of the video frame. Augmented video data that includes one or more composited video frames can be provided based on the video frame and the scene related information frame.
US12322042B2
A transaction processing circuit in a graphics rendering system receives information identifying a particular vertex of a plurality of vertices in a strip, each of which is associated with a viewport, and selects a plurality of viewports for viewport transformation of the particular vertex by selecting relevant vertices from the vertices in the strip based on a provoking vertex, and selecting the plurality of viewports to comprise the viewport associated with that relevant vertex. Viewport transformation instructions are sent to a viewport transformation module to perform a viewport transformation on untransformed coordinate data for the particular vertex for each of the viewports, wherein the one or more viewport transformation instructions comprises a viewport transformation instruction for each of the plurality of viewports, each viewport transformation instruction comprises information identifying the particular vertex and information identifying one of the plurality of viewports.
US12322038B2
A content generation platform is generally described herein. More specifically, interactive image generation and techniques and features thereof are disclosed herein. One or more sets of images of a scene are captured in an imaging studio. The captured one or more sets of images of the scene are processed using one or more machine learning based networks to generate an interactive image of the scene comprising a plurality of interactive features. One or more of the plurality of interactive features of the generated interactive image may be modified or edited according to user preferences.
US12322034B2
In some aspects, the disclosure is directed to methods and systems for a dynamic, reconfigurable virtual reality environment with in-environment access to external data and resources. Implementations of these systems also provide an external mechanism for modifying other aspects of the virtual reality experience with no need to recode or compile the experience. This can alter the primary flow of the experience, change its behavior based on the specific user accessing it and add branded or customer-specific aspects to the application. The same level or environment can provide drastically different experiences for various users from beginners through experts, even allowing the option of random or ordered events, controllable by an instructor or administrator, through simple configuration.
US12322032B2
In an approach to generating a synthetic three-dimensional (3D) X-ray volume, a first bag image of the plurality of bag images that includes an associated bag subvolume greater than a volume of a threat represented in a first threat image of the plurality of threat images is selected. An image is created based on inserting the threat of the first threat image into the associated bag subvolume of the first bag image.
US12322029B2
In one embodiment, a method includes a step of receiving a geometric representation of a virtual object and a texture atlas, the geometric representation comprising multiple geometric primitives defining a shape of the virtual object, the texture atlas comprises regions each of which is allocated to include shading information of a respective geometric primitive of the plurality of geometric primitives, and the shading information of the respective geometric primitive being scaled down to be smaller than the allocated region so as to create a buffer between the allocated region and adjacent regions of the plurality of regions on the texture atlas. The method further includes steps of identifying, based on a first viewpoint from which to view the virtual object, visible geometric primitives from the plurality of geometric primitives and rendering images of the visible geometric primitives using corresponding shading information included in the texture atlas.
US12322026B2
A method and system for processing graphics in tile-based rendering mode are disclosed. The system includes: a geometry processing system configured to perform geometry processing on primitives to tile visible primitives into a plurality of tiles M in screen view space; and a fragment processing system configured to render the plurality of tiles M and generate rendered images of the plurality of tiles M, where the fragment processing system includes a post-processing module configured to: start to perform pixel filtering on pixels in a first pixel set Pin0 of a target tile M0 in the plurality of tiles M at a first time after a rendered image of the target tile M0 is generated and before all the rendered images of the plurality of tiles M are generated. The present disclosure can effectively improve processing efficiency of overall image pixel filtering, without generating additional pixel shading workload.
US12322025B2
A method and system for performing a render using a graphics processing unit that implements a tile-based graphics pipeline where a rendering space is sub-divided into tiles. Geometry data for the render is received, the geometry data including primitives associated with one or more vertex shader programs. The geometry data is processed using the vertex shader programs to generate processed primitives, and it is determined in which tile each of the processed primitives are located. For at least one selected tile there is stored i) a representation of per-tile vertex shader data identifying the one or more vertex shader programs used to generate the processed primitives in that tile, and ii) a representation of per-tile render data that can be used when rendering the processed primitives in that tile in subsequent stages of the graphics pipeline. It is determined whether the output of a previous render for the selected tile(s) can be used as an output for the render by comparing the per-tile vertex shader data of that tile with that of the previous render before comparing the per-tile render data of that tile with that of the previous render.
US12322018B2
Using latent space manipulation and neural animation to generate hyperreal synthetic faces is described. A machine learning model(s) may be trained to generate a synthetic face of a subject featured in unaltered video content based at least in part on video data of an actor making a mouth-generated sound or a three-dimensional (3D) model of a face of the subject that has been animated in accordance with the mouth-generated sound. Latent space manipulation and neural animation may be used with the trained machine learning model(s) to generate instances of the synthetic face, and the instances of the synthetic face can be used to create altered video content featuring the subject with the synthetic face making the mouth-generated sound.
US12322017B2
A method for controlling a virtual avatar comprises: dividing a virtual avatar into a plurality of skeleton chains, wherein each of the plurality of skeleton chains comprises a plurality of skeleton points; acquiring state information of at least one control point and initial state information of at least one skeleton point, wherein the state information comprises location information and orientation information; determining movement information of at least one skeleton point based on the state information of the at least one control point and/or the initial state information of the at least one skeleton point, wherein the movement information comprises translation information and/or rotation information; and controlling the at least one skeleton point whose movement information is determined to move according to the movement information.
US12322015B2
Use of pose prediction models enables runtime animation to be generated for an electronic game. The pose prediction model can predict a character pose of a character based on joint data for a pose of the character in a previous frame. Further, by using environment data, it is possible to modify the prediction of the character pose based on a particular environment in which the character is location. Advantageously, the use of machine learning enables prediction of character movement in environment in which it is difficult or impossible to obtain motion capture data.
US12321996B2
Disclosed are systems, methods, and media having at least one processor; and a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instruction which, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to perform operations comprising receiving from one or more sources images related to a plurality of features of housing offerings, said images being associated with other images related to features of housing offerings; presenting to a first user an initial prompt and based on response to that initial prompt, presenting a plurality of selectable images related to a first feature of housing offerings; receiving from the first user input regarding the desirability of the images related to the first feature of housing offerings; and iteratively deriving, based on inputs regarding the desirability of the images related to one or more of the plurality of features of housing offerings, a hypothesis regarding a different feature of housing offerings; based at least in part on the hypothesis, presenting to the first user images related to the different feature of housing offerings; and receiving from the first user input regarding the desirability of the images related to the different feature of housing offerings.
US12321995B2
Method for gas supply deployment of smart gas pipeline network and internet of things system thereof
Method for gas supply deployment of smart gas pipeline network and an IoT system thereof are provided, the method including: obtaining historical gas consumption data in the target region; determining target demand information of the target region at a future time point; predicting a target difference amplitude of a gas supply and demand difference at the future time point in the target region; for the target region where the target difference amplitude meets a first preset condition, determining, based on gas statistical data, the target difference amplitude, and environmental data of the target region, a reason for supply and demand difference corresponding to the target region; determining, based on the target difference amplitude and the reason for supply and demand difference, a gas supply adjustment parameter, generating a gas supply adjustment instruction; and in response to remaining storage space meeting a second preset condition, generating a distribution instruction.
US12321991B1
A system and method for a forensic investigation service assignment application facilitating the collection of a variety of forensic data that is tagged to one or more base images. Further, data from other sources may be collected including, but not limited to, cause and origin data regarding causation of damage conditions, specifications of building materials, and other types of information associated with material specifications/properties to determine causation of damage assessment. In turn, the forensic investigation service assignment application facilitates the generation of damage assessment reports as a function of the forensic data collected and tagged to the base images. The forensic investigation service assignment application incorporates several process modules that include a mobile unit, an office base unit, an adjuster user client mobile unit, a market user client desktop unit, a drone field service module unit, and a data organizer.
US12321990B1
Systems and methods for creating component-dependent variable combinations of different financial interests in a portfolio of stocks, a stock index or other financial assets based on component factors, such as a series of interim cash flows of the asset. Specifically, the present invention relates to systems and methods for creating securities comprising component-dependent variable combinations of securities in underlying reference assets following dividing such assets into income and equity components. In one aspect, the income component is an ordinary dividend component for a fixed time period or until a fixed dollar amount has been paid and the equity component is a capital component that can be traded separately.
US12321989B1
Aspects of the invention include ingesting capitalization data defining capitalization of a private credit asset. A model determines a share price. The value of the private credit asset is fractionalized into a plurality of digital shares, each digital share having a value of the share price and represented by a token. A capitalization table tracks relationships between the plurality of digital shares and the private credit asset using metadata incorporated in each digital share tying the digital share back to the private credit asset. A buy/sell transaction for a portion of the private credit asset is performed based on the share price, including transferring at least one token to a digital wallet of a new investor in the private credit asset.
US12321981B2
A system, method, and apparatus for automated object recognition and checkout at a retail kiosk is provided. The system includes a controller configured with a processor and a memory to control operations of the automated retail checkout system. The system further includes an imaging device in communication with the controller and configured to create multiple electronic images of an object, such as a product for purchase. The system also includes an object recognition device in communication with the controller and the imaging device. The processor may execute software to receive electronic images from the imaging device, extract at least one feature from the images, and recognize the object based on a predetermined model being applied to the extracted feature from the images. The system also includes a display device to display an indication of the recognized object from the object recognition device.
US12321974B2
Computer-implemented methods, computer systems, and computer readable media for determining, sorting, or determining and sorting a set of items. The method includes receiving, via a user device, parameter values from a user and receiving parameter weights. The method further includes determining a sort score for each vehicle of a set of vehicles based on the received parameter values and parameter weights, and sorting the set of vehicles based on the sort score of each vehicle of the set of vehicles.
US12321973B2
Computer-implemented methods and systems include determining vehicle grades for a user by accessing a plurality of user platforms, identifying user-related content linked to the user via the user platforms, extracting user attributes based on the user-related content, applying weights to vehicle attributes in a vehicle recommendation engine, based on the extracted user attributes, generating the vehicle grades based on the weights, and providing the vehicle grades to the user via a vehicle grading platform.
US12321970B2
Systems and methods for using an information wallet system to deliver a gift and receive, redeem, or re-gift the gift are disclosed. The information wallet system's storage is securely maintained by a financial institution computing system (i.e. a bank) and receives and holds purchase transaction information. Purchase information transaction may be received from a user computing device or an entity computing system, such as a merchant computing system. In one embodiment, a user may purchase a gift through an online website or at a brick and mortar location and direct the gift to be deposited into the information wallet storage of a recipient. A recipient may then continue to hold the gift, redeem the gift, or re-gift the gift to another party.
US12321969B2
A system and method of transaction of goods, configured by a digital platform (10) including at least one secondary platform (12), the secondary platform(s) (12) being configured to interact with one another, wherein each secondary platform is configured with a specific function that may be related to the transaction of goods so that the system may be configured with a set of functions through each secondary platform, wherein at least one secondary platform is configured as an interactive map (12A), an augmented reality tool (12B), an intermediate tool (12C) or a search tool (12D). Also disclosed are a mobile device (10), a digital platform (11) and a mobile device-readable medium (10) compatible with the system and method of transaction of goods.
US12321967B2
A digital artwork content digital rights management and content distribution network has a digital artwork edition database comprising digital artwork content, digital artwork edition data stored in relation to the digital artwork content, digital artwork edition data attributes comprising edition attributes and edition DRM attributes stored in relation to the digital artwork edition data. The network has a DRM control subsystem configured for monitoring checking out and checking in of the digital artwork edition instances and updating digital artwork edition usage attributes accordingly and the network is configured for reissuing further digital artwork editions for digital artwork content according to digital artwork edition usage attributes of digital artwork edition data attributes thereof.
US12321966B1
Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and devices for generating distinguishing factors between multiple reproductions of a digital asset. As an example, unique aging and grading of digital assets are disclosed. In one embodiment, a computer implemented method for maintaining a digital asset is disclosed. The computer implemented method includes receiving the digital asset, wherein the digital asset is associated with a blockchain. The computer implemented method further includes modifying the digital asset to provide a first effect; securing the first modified digital asset to the blockchain; determining a grade of the modified digital asset; and securing the grade to the blockchain. an alternate blockchain, a sidechain, and/or a server host.
US12321961B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide for improved determination of adjustment unit allocation(s). For a particular user profile and electronic item representation, embodiments determine a recommended adjustment unit allocation particular to a transaction for that user profile and particular electronic item representation that increases and/or maximizes a particular goal metric while simultaneously maintaining or minimizing the decreased likelihood for a user to initiate such a transaction, or maximizing the likelihood that the user will initiate such a transaction. Embodiments of the present disclosure utilize allocation models specially configured for each user and prospective transaction for a particular electronic item representation.
US12321952B2
A system for enabling self-service access to fitting rooms or a cluster of fitting rooms for trusted shoppers while restricting access by non-trusted shoppers in a retail environment, comprising: a) providing an individual fitting room or cluster of fitting rooms further comprising a restriction point at which access is restricted; b) providing a means of uniquely identifying an individual attempting to access the fitting room or cluster of fitting rooms; c) providing a means of automatically enabling access to the fitting room or cluster of fitting rooms; d) providing one or more sensors for identifying fitting room behaviors of the individual; e) measuring the fitting room behaviors of the individual during a time when the individual is in proximity of or interacting with the fitting room or cluster of fitting rooms; f) assessing whether the fitting room behaviors of the individual are suspicious or not relative to a set of suspicious event thresholds; g) storing the individual and the fitting room behaviors of the individual as accessible records in at least one database; and h) providing an algorithm which determines future access privileges of the individual to the fitting room by analyzing their historical behaviors.
US12321949B2
A method and apparatus for light-based data communication for a personal inventory and product support system are described. In one embodiment, the method comprises using a device associated with a user, including capturing visible light carrying data identifying a product, obtaining the data identifying the product from the captured visible light, configuring the device to receive product support content for the product based on the identifying data, the product support content having been curated from a plurality of content servers on behalf of the user, receiving a notification that curated product support content for the product is available, and presenting the curated product support content to the user.
US12321942B2
Systems, methods, and computer program products are provided for predicting a specified geographic area of a user. An example system includes a processor configured to determine a verified geographic area associated with each user, and determine a feature vector associated with an account of each user. The processor is also configured to receive transaction data and determine a value of each parameter of the feature vector for each user based on the transaction data to produce a training matrix. The processor is further configured to train and validate a geographic area prediction model based on the training matrix. The processor is further configured to repeatedly generate a prediction that a user will conduct a transaction in a geographic area, communicate an offer to the user based on the prediction, receive new training data, and update the geographic area prediction model based on the new training data.
US12321941B2
There is disclosed a method of authorising an electronic transaction, the method involving a server receiving transaction details for the electronic transaction and an identifier for a participant in the electronic transaction. The server sends the transaction details to the participant in the electronic transaction, and in return receives authorisation data from the participant, the authorisation data including authentication data authenticating the identity of the participant. The server then determines an account code identifying an account associated with the participant based on the identifier, and proceeds with the electronic payment transaction using the account code.
US12321929B2
A payment processor computing device for performing an electronic transaction initiated by a vehicle is described. The payment processor computing device is configured to receive a registration secure token from a vehicle computing device, the registration secure token corresponding to a cardholder and including an account identifier, a vehicle identifier, and a biometric identifier. The payment processor computing device is further configured to store the registration secure token in memory, receive an authorization request message associated with a payment transaction initiated by the cardholder using the vehicle computing device in communication with a merchant computing device wherein the authorization request message includes a transaction secure token, authenticate the authorization request message by matching the transaction secure token to the registration secure token, embed a matching indicator within the authorization request message, and transmit the authorization request message with the embedded matching indicator to an issuer.
US12321922B2
Various embodiments are directed to applying, via contactless card authentication, one or more restrictions to a virtual card number and generating the card number for use by a recipient. The one or more restrictions may be specifically personalized to the recipient and may include, for example, a merchant restriction, an amount restriction, a time period restriction, or a location restriction. The generated virtual card number along with the applied one or more restrictions may be consumed in various ways, such as writing the number to a blank card, transmitting the number directly to the recipient's computing device, etc., all via near-field communication.
US12321917B2
Systems and methods of executing a real-time electronic transaction by a UI platform are disclosed. One method includes receiving an input selection by a user to indicate an originating account, receiving account, and payment amount. The system may transmit an option for the user to carry out the transaction by using a default payment setting, and upon the user selecting this option, determining the default payment setting, payment time or date, and a transaction cost, and displaying these to user. Alternatively, the system may transmit an option for the user to carry out the electronic transaction by the user defining the payment setting, and upon selection of this choice, performing payment optimization logic to display available payment settings, receiving a selection from the user of the chosen payment setting, and displaying the payment setting including the originating account, receiving account, payment amount, delivery time or date, and transaction cost.
US12321913B2
A method of providing benefits to owners of non-fungible tokens is provided. A minter of a non-fungible token corresponding to a digital asset can encourage or incentivize users of the non-fungible tokens to purchase additional non-fungible tokens, or perform transactions using a non-fungible token to receive benefits.
US12321907B2
A method is disclosed and includes receiving a push transfer message with a first transaction amount, and a digital tag, a credential or a token from an application server computer, in a transaction. In the transaction, a first user using a first user device interacts with a second user using the digital tag. The digital tag associated with the credential or the token, and the first user device has a transfer application that receives the digital tag and is in communication with the application server computer. The push transfer message is transmitted to an authorizing entity computer where a second amount is credited to the second user's account.
US12321902B2
A management apparatus includes a controller that manages mobile objects that deliver articles. The controller determines and outputs a plan for maintenance of at least one target mobile object, which is a mobile object that is out for delivery among the mobile objects and is in a problematic state for delivery, based on information about the target mobile object.
US12321899B2
Systems and methods for generating an event occurrence feedback report after receipt of an event occurrence completion indicator, the event occurrence completion indicator associated with an event occurrence identifier and received from a third party event scheduling resource, and to present the event occurrence feedback report to a client device associated with an event occurrence creator identifier are provided herein.
US12321898B2
Systems and methods that can provide verifications and grades corresponding to items represented within ecommerce platforms such as online resume generation, online product marketplace, and online social media platforms. Evaluations of items such as skills, products, users, topics, and characteristics of users and items, contribute to verifications and grades that can be displayed in a user-friendly and understandable manner, employing graphic indicators. Contributions to the verifications and grades can be weighted according to grader profiles and item classification.
US12321896B1
A system and method that provides for the secure execution of any electronic document through the linkage of authenticated electronic signature(s) without modifying or storing the original electronic document to be executed. As such, users may approve, decline, acknowledge, consent, certify and/or electronically execute any electronic document in a fully secure fashion and in compliance with applicable electronic signature laws.
US12321895B2
A self-service lender portal provides lenders with a suite of tools for interacting with a multi-lender architecture configured to provide loan applicants with automated pre-qualification and eligibility evaluation for multiple candidate lenders. The lender portal provides lenders with an interface for uploading rule sets defining lending and eligibility criteria, downloading operational data generated from processing loan applicant information, generating and managing security keys for encryption and decryption of sensitive data, and managing access policies for providing single sign-on by interfacing with the lender's own identity management systems.
US12321889B2
Detecting, locating, identifying, engaging, and/or shifting objects in automated or semi-automated fashion as well as methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer-program products therefor. Embodiments used for shifting objects in automated or semi-automated fashion may be implemented in stationary environments, and/or in moving, e.g., in-transit, environments, and may be used to transfer, route, and/or organize objects based on their designated destinations. The embodiments may further be implemented in a logistics network, thereby increasing the efficiency and capacity of the logistics network, among other benefits.
US12321880B2
A centralized skills management server, a computer-readable storage medium, and a computer-implemented method for standardized skill tagging are described herein. The method includes accessing, via a processor of the computing system, a property graph including data objects corresponding to a tenant and extracting skills-related terms from object metadata corresponding to the data objects within the property graph. The method also includes interfacing with a global skills graph via an API and importing standardized skill tags from the global skills graph, where the imported standardized skill tags relate to the extracted skills-related terms from the object metadata. The method further includes incorporating the standardized skill tags into the object metadata for the corresponding data objects within the property graph.
US12321874B2
A method for intuitive system building includes accessing a processor through a user interface to execute a program, wherein the program is stored on a memory device connected to the processor, creating projects and tasks, setting up processes within a task, setting security for personnel, giving access rights and privileges to individual accounts, and accessing a generic API library for integrating software, executing instructions through the processor whereby the projects and tasks are set as a tree structure for intuitive system building, executing instructions through the processor by giving approved personnel an ability through the user interface to create a set of forms to deploy through a task to the personnel to facilitate individualized processes, executing instructions through the processor whereby the security for personnel is set by role and the user interface applies a global set of rules over roles where read/write, edit and viewing capabilities are set.
US12321873B2
A method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus for transport service are provided. The apparatus may receive a plurality of transport service transactions associated with a point of interest entity. For each transport service transaction, the apparatus may determine a transport service location at which the transport service transaction is executed. The apparatus may cluster the transport service locations determined for the plurality of transport service transactions. The apparatus may determine one or more candidate transport service locations for the point of interest entity based on the clustering. The apparatus may provide the one or more candidate transport service locations to a client or a service provider associated with a transport service transaction that is to be executed at the point of interest entity.
US12321871B2
A system and method for contaminant control, often infection control, with multiple time and space domains that integrate active and passive infection control devices and processes that preferably feature infection control active additives with controllable dispassivation to limit post-consumption environmental impact. Additionally, the system executes the infection control devices and process transactions by controlling the dispatch of infection control tasks centered around a potential infection control incidence and/or cross-contamination locations from assets or personnel having probabilistic infection rates to increase compliance of infection control preventative measures.
US12321870B2
Various embodiments provide an apparatus, a method, and a computer program product. 1. An apparatus incudes at least one processor; and at least one non-transitory memory includes computer program code; wherein the at least one memory and the computer program code are configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to: perform an overfitting operation, at an encoder side, to obtain an overfitted probability model, wherein overfitting comprises one or more training operations applied to a probability model, wherein one or more parameters of the probability model are trained; use the overfitted probability model to provide probability estimates to a lossless codec or a substantially lossless codec for encoding data or a portion of the data; and signal information to a decoder on whether to perform the overfitting operation at the decoder side.
US12321863B2
Method(s), apparatus, and system(s) are provided for filtering a set of data, the set of data comprising multiple data instances by: receiving a set of scores for the set of data; determining attention filtering information based on prior knowledge of one or more relationships between the data instances in said set of data and calculating attention relevancy weights corresponding to the data instances and the set of scores; and providing the attention filtering information to a machine learning, ML, technique or ML model.
US12321859B2
A method of training an image classification model includes obtaining training images associated with labels, where two or more labels of the labels are associated with each of the training images and where each label of the two or more labels corresponds to an image classification class. The method further includes classifying training images into one or more classes using a deep convolutional neural network, and comparing the classification of the training images against labels associated with the training images. The method also includes updating parameters of the deep convolutional neural network based on the comparison of the classification of the training images against the labels associated with the training images.
US12321856B2
The invention relates to a method (100) for evaluating the robustness of a neural network (102) used for image processing against a group of at least two different disturbances that can be found in images. The method comprises determining a robustness score (SRIi), called individual robustness score, of said neural network (102) for each disturbance (Pi) in said group; determining at least one similarity score (SSIi,j), called individual similarity score, for the similarity between two disturbances in said group; and calculating a robustness score (SRG), called overall robustness score, of said neural network (102) against said group of disturbances as a function of: the individual robustness scores (SRIi) for all the disturbances (P), and at least one individual similarity score (SSIi,j) for the similarity between two disturbances. The invention also relates to a computer program and a device implementing such a method.
US12321852B2
In one aspect, a method of training a DNN includes transmitting an input vector x through a weight matrix W and reading a resulting output vector y, transmitting an error signal δ, transmitting the input vector x with the error signal δ through conductive row wires of a matrix A, and transmitting an input vector ei and reading a resulting output vector y′ as current output. The training also includes updating a hidden matrix H comprising an H value for RPU devices by iteratively adding the output vector y′ multiplied by the transpose of the input vector ei to each H value. The training also includes, when an H value reaches a threshold value, transmitting the input vector ei as a voltage pulse through the conductive column wires of the matrix W simultaneously with sign information of the H values that reached a threshold value as voltage pulses through the conductive row wires matrix W.
US12321850B2
A method and apparatus for controlling a massage chair have been disclosed. The method for controlling a massage chair comprises extracting multimedia information, detecting an action item, and controlling an action item. According to the present disclosure, the timing of the multimedia effect and the timing of the action item may be synchronized based on analysis using a deep neural network model through a 5G network.
US12321845B1
An iterative attention-based neural network training and processing method and system iteratively applies a focus of attention of a trained neural network on syntactical elements and generates probabilities associated with representations of the syntactical elements, which in turn inform a subsequent focus of attention of the neural network, resulting in updated probabilities. The updated probabilities are then applied to generate syntactical elements for delivery to a user. The user may respond to the delivered syntactical elements, providing additional training information to the trained neural network.
US12321842B2
A method for controlling an electronic apparatus is provided. The method for controlling an electronic apparatus includes the steps of selecting a generic-purpose artificial intelligence model, generating a compressed artificial intelligence model based on the selected generic-purpose artificial intelligence model, and generating a dedicated artificial intelligence model based on the generated compressed artificial intelligence model, and the step of generating a compressed artificial intelligence model includes the steps of acquiring a rank of a singular value decomposition (SVD) algorithm based on a compression rate, compressing and training the selected generic-purpose artificial intelligence model based on the acquired rank and converting the model into the compressed artificial intelligence model, determining the performance of the converted compressed artificial intelligence model based on a predetermined first threshold value, and based on the performance of the converted compressed artificial intelligence model being lower than the predetermined first threshold value, generating the dedicated artificial intelligence model.
US12321836B2
A learning device according to the present application includes a generation unit that generates, from a plurality of values indicating features of a predetermined target and indicating different types of a plurality of features, a value corresponding to a set of the types of the features, and a learning unit that causes a model to learn a feature of the predetermined target using a value generated by the generation unit.
US12321835B1
Techniques for utilizing a federated learning service are described. An exemplary method includes causing a development of a deployable machine learning model using at least two devices, the development of the deployable machine learning model including: providing an initial machine learning model or algorithm to the at least two devices external to the provider network, causing each of the at least two devices external to the provider network to locally train the initial machine learning model or algorithm using training data to each generate a modified version of the initial machine learning model, determining updates between the initial model and the generated modified versions of the initial machine learning model, and applying the determined updates to the initial model to generate the candidate machine learning model.
US12321818B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for decoding at least one optical code by a data reader. The method comprises obtaining an image comprising the at least one optical code being positionable in one of a plurality of orientations in one of a plurality of rows representing a plurality of regions in the image. The method comprises detecting a plurality of markers related to the at least one optical code by decoding pixels of each row in the image at a time by following an interval of pre-defined rows. The method comprises constructing at least one row representing at least one sub region in the image comprising the at least one optical code when no optical code is decoded from the plurality of markers. The method comprises decoding the constructed at least one row to derive data corresponding to the at least one optical code.
US12321817B2
A portable scan-assistance device is provided. A mobile device operated by a customer establishes a connection to the scan-assistance device at the start of a shopping trip by tapping the mobile device on the scan-assistance device or by the mobile device scanning a code affixed to the scan-assistance device. A status light on the scan-assistance device illuminates a designated color (such as blue) upon successful connection. A camera/image sensor/barcode reader of the scan-assistance device captures an item code of an item placed in front of the camera and forwards the item code to a mobile shopping application on the user mobile device during the customer's shopping trip. When an item code is successfully captured the status light of the scan-assistance device illuminates a second color (such as green), otherwise the status light of the scan-assistance device illuminates a third color (such as red).
US12321811B2
An example bioptic barcode reader includes an imaging assembly, first illumination assembly, and second illumination assembly. No more than 10% of a light source of the second illumination assembly is visible within a boundary of a first imaging FOV of the imaging assembly. No more than 10% of a first mirror is visible within a boundary of a second imaging FOV of the imaging assembly. An upper edge of an aperture in an upper housing portion is outside a boundary of a first illumination FOV of the first illumination assembly. All or substantially all light rays from the second illumination assembly that pass through a horizontal window in a lower housing portion form respective angles relative to horizontal that are equal to or less than a second angle formed between a normal line of the first mirror and horizontal.
US12321808B2
A system for tracing members of an animal population throughout a process including moving at least some of the members between a plurality of physically separate locations, the system comprising: a plurality of identification devices, each being attached to, and uniquely identifying, a respective member of the members; a plurality of identification device readers, each capable of being located at a respective physically separate location of the physically separate locations, and each capable of reading the identification devices to uniquely identify the respective member; a data repository comprising one or more records, each of the records (i) being associated with a respective member of the members, and (ii) including a unique animal identifier associated with the identification device attached to the respective member of the members; and a processing circuitry configured to perform a process for storing location change records indicative of location changes of the members during the process.
US12321801B2
Metal layers (650, 730, 750, 830, 850) of a smartcard (SC, 600, 700, 800) have module openings (614, 712, 714, 812, 814) for receiving a transponder chip module (TCM). Thermosetting resin (TR, 668B, 768A, 768B, 868A, 868B) coats (encapsulates) the bottom surfaces and fills the module openings of the metal layers. A first metal layer (650, 750, 850) may have a slit (S; 620, 720B, 820) which may also be filled by the thermosetting resin. A second metal layer (ML, 730) disposed above the first metal layer (750) may have a slit (S, 720A) which may also be filled by the thermosetting resin. A booster antenna circuit (BAC, 844) may be disposed between the first and second metal layers, with magnetic shielding material (842) disposed between the booster antenna circuit and the second metal layer (730).
US12321797B2
An image processing apparatus includes an interface and a processor. The interface acquires printing data including an image. If length in a longitudinal direction of the image is larger than a printing width of a medium on which the image is printed, the processor rotates the image.
US12321794B2
A hybrid architecture that combines the efficiency of small language models with the accuracy of large language models for enhanced selection of requested functionality and identification of data visualizations using a network system is described. For instance, an orchestration module employs a hybrid architecture using both small language models and large language models to generate API payloads for clients in a way that harnesses the benefits of both models.
US12321785B2
A method in an illustrative embodiment includes: obtaining an initial state of a group of dedicated processing resources; determining, in response to a request for receiving a group of tasks, a set of candidate allocations each indicating allocation of the group of tasks to the group of dedicated processing resources; determining, based on the initial state, an operating state of the group of dedicated processing resources when executing the group of tasks according to each candidate allocation in the set of candidate allocations; and selecting a target allocation from the set of candidate allocations based on the operating state to enable the group of tasks to be executed on the group of dedicated processing resources according to the target allocation.
US12321783B2
In various examples, each hosted application may be modeled with a corresponding application-specific resource consumption model that predicts a measure of that application's anticipated resource utilization at some future time based on an input representation of one or more features of the current state of an instance of the hosted application. For cloud gaming, those features may include the current level being played, current obstacles, user results playing the level or obstacles, metadata quantifying one or more aspects of the level or obstacles, game progress, etc. As such, application-specific models may be used to predict resource demands at a future time and schedule resource allocations accordingly. The present techniques may be used to manage and reallocate resources for applications such as game streaming applications, remote desktop applications, simulation applications (e.g., an autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicle simulation), virtual reality (VR) and/or augmented reality (AR) streaming applications, and/or other application types.
US12321781B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, are described for scheduling tasks of ML workloads. A system receives requests to perform the workloads and determines, based on the requests, resource requirements to perform the workloads. The system includes multiple hosts and each host includes multiple accelerators. The system determines a quantity of hosts assigned to execute tasks of the workload based on the resource requirement and the accelerators for each host. For each host in the quantity of hosts, the system generates a task specification based on a memory access topology of the host. The specification specifies the task to be executed at the host using resources of the host that include the multiple accelerators. The system provides the task specifications to the hosts and performs the workloads when each host executes assigned tasks specified in the task specifications for the host.
US12321779B2
A method, system, and computer program product for context relevant data migration to a cloud server with job rescheduling are provided. The method identifies a contextual situation associated with at least a portion of data sets available for migration to a cloud server by a set of data sources. The method identifies an application associated with the contextual situation. A set of use characteristics are determined for the data sets based on the contextual situation and the application. Bandwidths are determined for one or more data sources. One or more data sets are selected for prioritization based on a contextual relevance, the set of use characteristics, and the bandwidths for the one or more data sources. The method schedules a job processing sequence of the selected one or more data sets based, at least in part, on the contextual relevancy, the set of use characteristics, and the bandwidths.
US12321778B1
Disclosed are various embodiments for preemptive scheduling for a serverless High Performance Computing (HPC) architecture. In one embodiment, workloads are scheduled for execution by an infrastructure including a plurality of clusters. Execution of a particular workload is interrupted according to a scheduled interruption, and the particular workload is transferred from a first machine instance in a particular cluster to a second machine instance in the particular cluster. The execution of the particular workload is resumed by the second machine instance.
US12321775B2
Systems or methods of the present disclosure may provide for interrupt migration using a processor and/or system on a chip. The system includes multiple processing cores and an interrupt controller. The interrupt controller includes an input terminal configured to receive an interrupt request and an interrupt controller timer. The interrupt controller also includes an output terminal configured to output an interrupt based on the interrupt request. Furthermore, the interrupt controller includes an interface configuration and status circuitry configured to track a period of time that the interrupt is transmitted to a first processing core of the multiple processing cores.
US12321772B2
A method for providing a language agnostic contract execution on a blockchain is provided. The method includes providing a menu comprising multiple execution environments, and selecting, from a suite of virtual machine containers, a virtual machine container that runs an execution environment selected by the developer of the blockchain application. The method also includes enabling one or more functions in the virtual machine container to access a dedicated memory or a state variable in the block producer to run an action in the virtual machine container, the action provided by a server running the blockchain application, providing the action to the blockchain application in the virtual machine container, and writing an output from the action of the blockchain application to a secure ledger in a blockchain. A system and a non-transitory, computer-readable medium storing instructions to perform the above method are also provided.
US12321769B1
Systems and methods are described for stateful execution of code modules in an on-demand network code execution system. A user may provide a code module for execution on the system by submitting a code module. The code module may reference previously generated state information, such as a state of components of the execution environment. The system may obtain a snapshot of the state information for execution of the code module. Based on the code module referencing the state information, a virtual machine instance with the execution environment may be initialized based on the state information. The system may generate incremental snapshots or otherwise capture information regarding the state of the components of the virtual machine instance based on executing the code module. The system may then store the snapshots for loading for additional code modules.
US12321768B2
Various approaches for exposing a virtual Non-Uniform Memory Access (NUMA) locality table to the guest OS of a VM running on NUMA system are provided. These approaches provide different tradeoffs between the accuracy of the virtual NUMA locality table and the ability of the system's hypervisor to migrate virtual NUMA nodes, with the general goal of enabling the guest OS to make more informed task placement/memory allocation decisions.
US12321765B2
In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for providing on-demand localization in a microservice application environment. Generally described, an on-demand localization environment enables the system to serve localized user interface labels for an existing, e.g., monolith application, on-demand-without impacting the existing setup of the application or its present means of handling localizations. The described approach can ensure that only the localization which is needed for a particular user interface or visited page is served, without incurring additional round-trips back to the server for user interface messages that could have been served from the client. For applications and user interfaces comprising more than one module, the system can retrieve the localization for each of the modules in a single call.
US12321747B2
A method is described herein. The method generally includes fetching a set of data from a memory coupled to a memory controller. The method generally includes determining a first subset of data from the set of data. The method generally includes determining a second subset of data from the set of data. The method generally includes determining a first element from the set of data. The method generally includes providing a vector including the first subset, the first element, and the second subset, wherein each element of the first subset is disposed in one portion of the vector and each element of the second subset is disposed in another portion of the vector. The method generally includes storing the vector into a register of the memory controller.
US12321745B2
It is desirable to process a header by a processor for flexible processing in a stream data processing device. However, in the processing by the processor, load/store overhead increases and causes a problem in performance. Stream data is directly written to or read out from a large size data queue, a part of which is mapped to a region (window) of a general-purpose register of the processor. Imposing constraints on update of a pointer of the queue makes it possible to ensure that a large-small relationship between pointers can be constantly correctly evaluated, and thus to maintain the consistency between write to and read from the queue and the processor processing. A region, which is the same as the data queue, has a control flag queue mapped to a control and status register space of the processor, and the processor gives this control flag, so that an output from the queue is finely controlled without copying the data.
US12321741B2
Techniques are described for performing an automated region build using a version set that identifies versions of configuration files and/or artifacts with which the region build is to be performed. A Multi-Flock Orchestrator (MFO) may be configured to maintain multiple version sets identifying a respective set of configuration files associated with various services to be bootstrapped. The MFO may execute a validation process using one version set. A second version set may be identified from the first based on identifying configuration files that successfully passed the validation process. The automated region build can be performed using the second version set.
US12321735B2
A neural transcompilation model is tested with a set of syntax unit tests to determine the syntax elements of a source code program written in a source programming language that fail to translate properly into a target programming language. The syntax elements having a translation defect are identified and ranked according to a translation failure rate. The neural transcompilation model is then fine-tuned with training samples of the syntax elements having the highest translation failure rates and their paired correct translation in order to teach the model to learn the association between the syntax elements of a source programming language causing translation defects and its correct translation in a target programming language.
US12321734B2
A deployment platform, computer-readable medium, and computer-implemented method for intelligent execution of a solution on a computer network, including receiving an instruction to execute a solution in a local runtime environment on the deployment platform, the solution including solution code written in a solution language, determining, by a helper program on the deployment platform, whether the solution is executable on the deployment platform based on the solution language and either launching, by the helper program, the solution on the deployment platform when the solution is executable on the deployment platform or launching, by the helper program, the solution on a remote platform on the computer network that is configured to execute the solution when the solution is not executable on the deployment platform, the helper program being configured to communicate with the launched solution to enable the launched solution to interface with the local runtime environment on the deployment platform.
US12321729B2
A method, computer program product, and computer system for identifying involvement of application services in a distributed application. The method includes accessing traced request data of application requests for a distributed application and determining dependencies and call frequency between application services from the traced request data of the application requests. The method includes obtaining an involvement factor of an application service as a measure of involvement of the application service in the application requests based on the dependencies and call frequencies. The method applies the involvement factor to availability and functioning management of the distributed application.
US12321725B1
A method for creating and deploying plugins for use with one or more web-hosted large language model applications includes: displaying a user interface comprising a code template for creation of a plugin, wherein the code template comprises a context template, a native function template, and a semantic prompt template; receiving modifications to the code template via the user interface to form a modified code template, the modified code template comprising: custom context based on the context template; custom native code comprising one or more computer executable functions based on the native function template; and a custom prompt configured to prompt a large language model based on the semantic prompt template; generating a plugin based on the modified code template; and storing the plugin within a database of a plugin registry.
US12321719B1
The present disclosure describes a method for conditioning and preprocessing raw cosmic ray data to extract features and generate a binary string representing the inherent randomness in the data. Measurable characteristics of cosmic ray particles, such as arrival times and amplitudes, are processed to create random binary sequences. These binary strings are then used to train a generative adversarial network (GAN) framework. In the GAN framework, the generator creates random sequences resembling the target distribution, which matches the entropy of the conditioned cosmic data. The discriminator evaluates the generated sequences by comparing them to the conditioned cosmic data and assigns a randomness score that characterizes the quality of the generated sequences. This adversarial process ensures the generation of high-quality random sequences that are statistically indistinguishable from the conditioned input data.
US12321714B2
An embodiment of an apparatus comprises one or more fractional width fused multiply-accumulate (FMA) circuits configured as a shared Wallace tree, and circuitry coupled to the one or more fractional width FMA circuits to provide one or more fractional width FMA operations through the one or more fractional width FMA circuits. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
US12321707B2
Machine classifiers in accordance with embodiments of the invention capture long-term temporal dependencies in the dialogue data better than the existing recurrent neural network-based architectures. Additionally, machine classifiers may model the joint distribution of the context and response as opposed to the conditional distribution of the response given the context as employed in sequence-to-sequence frameworks. Further, input data may be bidirectionally encoded using both forward and backward separators. The forward and backward representations of the input data may be used to train the machine classifiers using a single generative model and/or shared parameters between the encoder and decoder of the machine classifier. During inference, the backward model may be used to reevaluate previously generated output sequences and the forward model may be used to generate an output sequence based on the previously generated output sequences.
US12321704B2
A text mining system providing NLP and NLU capabilities is operable to perform, at a first processing layer, a first operation on input data to produce metadata about the input data. At a second processing layer, a rules module applies a composite AI extraction rule to further process the input data. The composite AI extraction rule has a rule condition that leverages the metadata from the first operation and a rule action that involves a second operation. Other composite AI extraction rules involving multiple text mining operations may also be applied. For instance, a rule may specify using the tonality of a document from a sentiment analysis to classify the document according to a relevant taxonomy. Another rule may specify classifying documents of a particular type under a specific category. In this way, new/enhanced information about the input data can be deduced, validated, and/or enriched.
US12321699B2
A computing platform is configured to: (i) obtain a pool of available words for use in generating four-word passphrases, (ii) generate a candidate batch of four-word passphrases using the pool of available words, (iii) identify one or more duplicate four-word passphrases in the candidate batch and then filter the identified one or more duplicate four-word passphrases out of the candidate set; (iv) based on the filtered candidate batch of four-word passphrases, generate a new batch of four-word passphrases for use on direct mail; and (v) release the new batch of four-word passphrases for use on direct mail.
US12321697B2
There is provided a computer-implemented method for ensuring that a large language model (LLM) generates original text, including (i) providing or accessing a database of previous text that the LLM should not generate, wherein the database includes text used to train the LLM; (ii) checking potential continuations generated by the LLM against the database; (iii) when a potential continuation generated by the LLM matches text in the database, adjusting the potential continuation generated by the LLM to no longer match that text in the database, to produce an adjusted potential continuation, and (iv) storing the adjusted potential continuation.
US12321696B2
Described herein are exemplary devices, apparatuses, systems, methods, and non-transitory storage media for providing an application framework. The application framework can provide various machine-learning models to perform a variety of analysis tasks to analyze enterprise data such as communications between one or more employees of an organization and one or more clients of the organization and provide intelligence and insights for a user in the organization. The insights and intelligence can include a recommendation or an observation related to a client or customer of the organization. The recommendation or observation can be provided, for example, in a communication platform, a chatbot, or a variety of other interfaces. Advantageously, to perform an analysis task, the application framework automatically provides to the machine-learning model(s) information in accordance with the enterprise's data sharing and access control requirements to prevent inappropriate access and use of sensitive information.
US12321695B2
The technology disclosed relates to accessing data within or external to spreadsheet cells (NSC data) and presenting it to users, so they can select one or more value to populate the cell. In one implementation, the technology disclosed is a spreadsheet function (predefined formula) where the user inputs a cell range or NSC data formula resulting in a button operated drop-down (pop-up or other visual) populating one value within the cell. Once the formula is completed the user can change that value by clicking the button and selecting the desired value from the multiple values presented. In another implementation the function input can be altered to add a constraint (filter) limiting the values presented for selection. In variants of any of the implementations, the presented values can be organized in ascending or descending orders for easy selection and show all values or only the unique (distinct) values.
US12321692B2
Annotating data points on a workbook element, including: receiving, by a workbook manager from a client computing system, an annotation for a data point of an element of a workbook, wherein the workbook presents a dataset from a cloud-based data warehouse; and storing, by the workbook manager and into the cloud-based data warehouse, the annotation in association with a record in the dataset corresponding to the data point.
US12321690B2
Disclosed herein are computer-implemented devices, systems, and methods of sanitizing a transcript. In an example, such a method includes selecting a transcript to be sanitized, identifying potential redactions to be made in the transcript, and redacting the transcript at the potential redactions to sanitize the transcript. The potential redactions are identifiable via a multi-pass process that includes: generating initial redactions to be made based on surrounding context within the transcript; generating matching redactions to be made based on the initial redactions, and generating character redactions to be made based on at least one of the initial redactions and the matching redactions.
US12321688B2
A method for editing an electronic document includes: opening a second editing interface of an electronic document in a second client by using an insertion collaboration entry provided by a first client on a first computer device, the insertion collaboration entry being used for collaborating with the first client to perform a multimedia file insertion into the electronic document; obtaining a multimedia file; and inserting the multimedia file into a first insertion position in the second editing interface of the electronic document.
US12321687B2
A framework for segmenting a medical text report into sections is disclosed. For each sentence of the report, a first sentence representation is determined by inputting a word-level context representation for each sentence sequentially into a neural network. A second sentence representation is determined by inputting an aggregated representation for each sentence sequentially into another neural network. For each sentence, a third sentence representation is determined based on a combination of the first and second sentence representations, and a section classification for the sentence is determined by inputting the third sentence representation into a section classifier. Each sentence is assigned the section classification determined for the sentence.
US12321681B2
A chip design methodology and a set of integrated circuits that are taped out from a common design database are disclosed. The area of a full instance of the integrated circuit is defined, and one or more chop lines are defined to identify portions that will be removed for one or more partial instances. A variety of techniques and mechanisms are defined to permit the tape outs to occur from a common design database, so that the effort to tape out partial instances may be minimized beyond that to tape out the full instance.
US12321672B2
A computer-implemented method and system determine an initial or starting position of a manikin for use in simulation. The method automatically analyzes environment data to determine a highest ranking type of data from among the environment data. In response, a guiding vector and a sweep mode are determined based upon the determined highest ranking type of data. The determined guiding vector and sweep mode are used to automatically analyze free space between a manikin and a target object in a simulated real-world environment to determine an initial position for and pre-position of the manikin in a simulation of the real-world environment.
US12321670B2
A computer-based method for designing surface protection systems for spaces is provided. The method includes the steps of searching for past saved appointments, loading selected past saved appointments, modifying the selected past saved appointments, creating a new project based on the modified selected past saved appointments, adding new rooms and features, drawing out space design aspects for the new rooms and features, selecting surface types for the space design aspects, including site specific surface, appending use specific design products, selecting from predesigned formulations for the new project, designing new formulations, selecting colors, calculating costs for, estimating time frames, providing iterative return design choice reconfigurations, finalizing a list of materials, list of processes, list of costs, list of chronology of events, and description and list of deliverables, and engaging in an offer/counter offer iterative process which results in a mutually approved contractual agreement.
US12321669B2
A tool for forming a composite part and a method of making the tool and the composite part are disclosed. The tool includes a top surface that supports the composite part during forming, the top surface comprising a first lateral portion and a second lateral portion arranged on either side of a central part contacting surface; a first integrated heat sink arranged on an opposite surface of the top surface, wherein a shape of the first integrated heat sink is based on a thermal topology optimization process of the tool; a first vacuum port arranged at a first location on the first lateral portion; and a second vacuum port arranged at a second location on the first lateral portion, wherein the first vacuum port and the second vacuum port provide access to a vacuum pump to provide at least a partial vacuum to the top surface during composite part formation.
US12321647B2
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium stores a program for causing a computer to execute a method of controlling an information processing apparatus. The method includes displaying, in a case where predetermined information is not received from an application program for generating image data, a first print setting screen including at least a first setting item, and displaying, in a case where the predetermined information is received from the application program, a second print setting screen including at least the first setting item and a second setting item, the second setting item being not included in the first print setting screen.
US12321642B2
Various examples disclosed herein relate to trimming of system elements to prepare the elements for execution of boot code and application code. In an example embodiment, a system is provided. The system includes memory access circuitry and processing circuitry coupled to the memory access circuitry. The memory access circuitry is configured to receive a read request corresponding to a set of instructions for execution by processing circuitry stored in non-volatile memory, determine whether to preempt current access to the non-volatile memory corresponding to one or more access requests in favor of the read request based on a priority of the read request relative to the one or more access requests, obtain the set of instructions from the non-volatile memory, and supply the set of instructions to the processing circuitry. The processing circuitry executes the set of instructions.
US12321632B2
An image processing apparatus includes: a line buffer configured to store image data; a clock gating circuit configured to apply a clock signal to the line buffer; and a data processor configured to determine, when performing a write operation, whether to skip the write operation to the line buffer for each of adjacent data according to whether a value of each of the adjacent data within an image is the same, wherein the data processor is further configured to control the clock gating circuit, such that the clock signal is prevented from being applied to the line buffer while the write operation is skipped and the clock signal is applied to the line buffer while the write operation is performed.
US12321631B2
Methods, systems, and devices for suspension during a multi-plane write procedure are described. A memory system may perform a multi-plane write procedure by writing to a set of planes in parallel. Upon detecting a defective plane in the set of planes, the memory system may suspend writing to the defective plane until writing to the other planes in the set of planes is finished. The memory system may then resume writing to the defective plane.
US12321612B2
Space efficient data integrity checks are disclosed herein. During a write operation of a first data to a location, a combined integrity value is calculated based on a first data integrity value of the first data and the location. The first data is stored at the location along with the combined integrity value. During a read operation of the first data, the first data is read from the location along with the combined integrity value, and a second data integrity value is calculated for the read first data. Data corruption and/or location errors can be determined based on the second data integrity value, the location, and the combined integrity value.
US12321610B2
Methods, systems, and devices for balanced codewords for reducing a selected state in memory cells are described. A memory device may divide a sequence of data bits into sets of bits associated with different bit-positions in a coding scheme. The memory device may then balance a first codeword that includes the first set of the data bits in the binary domain to reach a target ratio of logic values for the codeword. Using the first codeword and the other set(s) of data bits, the memory device may balance the remaining two states in the state domain to reach an overall target distribution of the three states. The memory device may then generate one or more codeword(s) for the other set(s) of data bits so that the memory device can write all of the codewords to ternary cells.
US12321606B2
A method for performing a memory operation and an apparatus are provided. The method for performing a memory operation includes: generating an operation command, where the operation command includes a universal flash storage protocol information unit UPIU frame header and an extension header segment EHS, where the EHS frame header includes a total length field of the EHS, the total length field of the EHS indicates that a length of the EHS is not 0, and the EHS indicates storage addresses respectively corresponding to a plurality of EHS operation commands; and sending the operation command to a universal flash storage UFS device controller.
US12321604B2
Methods and systems for a networked storage system are provided. One method includes predicting an IOPS limit for a plurality of storage pools based on a maximum allowed latency of each storage pool, the maximum allowed latency determined from a relationship between the retrieved latency and a total number of IOPS from a resource data structure; identifying a storage pool whose utilization has reached a threshold value, the utilization based on a total number of IOPS directed towards the storage pool and a predicted IOPS limit; detecting a bully workload based on a numerical value determined from a total number of IOPS issued by the bully workload for the storage pool and a rising step function; and implementing a corrective action to reduce an impact of the bully workload on a victim workload.
US12321597B2
Methods and apparatus related to enabling individual NVMe (Non-Volatile Memory express) IO (Input Output or I/O) queues on differing network addresses of an NVMe controller are described. In one embodiment, a plurality of backend controller logic is coupled to a plurality of non-volatile memory devices. One or more virtual controller target logic (coupled to the plurality of backend controller logic) transmit data from a first portion of a plurality of IO queues to a first backend controller logic of the plurality of the backend controller logic. The one or more virtual controller target logic transmit data from a second portion of the plurality of IO queues to a second backend controller logic of the plurality of backend controller logic. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.
US12321591B2
A system for managing a storage array in a storage system may include an analysis component for analyzing a set of compression ratios used for a set of storage blocks written on a first storage device and a second storage device to determine a pattern. The system may include a determination component for determining, responsive to the pattern, a first compression ratio and a second compression ratio; the first compression ratio may be different from the second compression ratio. The system may include a data read/write component for writing a storage block to the first storage device with the first compression ratio and writing the storage block to the second storage device with the second compression ratio.
US12321588B2
Provided is a display device that includes a first display unit, a determination unit, a virtual display region setting unit, a transmission unit, and a reception unit. The determination unit determines a connection with a different display device that includes a second display unit. The virtual display region setting unit sets, based on a determination that a connection with the different display device has been made, a second virtual display region with which each position of the second display unit is associated, in association with a first virtual display region with which each position of the first display unit is associated. The transmission unit transmits information regarding a first contact position of a first contact on the first display unit to the different display device. The reception unit receives information regarding a second contact position of a second contact on the second display unit from the different display device.
US12321587B2
A mobile terminal comprises: a body; a first display which is located on one surface of the body, detects a touch input, and outputs a screen; a second display which is located on the other surface of the body, detects a touch input, and outputs a screen; a gyro sensor for detecting movement of the body; and a control unit for controlling the first display and the second display on the basis of the touch input, wherein the control unit outputs a first screen on the first display, when detecting a first touch input on the first display, removes the first screen from the first display, and, when the gyro sensor detects that the locations of the one surface and the other surface of the body are reversed, outputs the first screen on the second display, wherein the mobile terminal may easily implement multitasking by using displays located on both surfaces thereof.
US12321583B1
Systems and methods for Artificial Intelligence (AI)-driven computer system utilities for generating dynamic User-Interface (UI) elements and loading parsed semi-structured data into a structured data schema, which may then be readily queried utilizing known end-user tools.
US12321582B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a display, a processor functionally connected with the display, and a memory functionally connected with the processor. The memory stores instructions configured to, when executed, enable the processor to display a first image through the display, display one or more second images through the display while displaying the first image, select a third image from among the one or more second images, identify a value of at least one property of the third image, generate a filter for applying the value of the at least one property to an image, apply the value of the at least one property to the first image using the filter, display the first image, to which the value of the at least one property is applied, through the display, and store the filter in the memory.
US12321579B2
Techniques for guidance image generation for a mobile device are described and are implementable to generate a guidance image for display by a first device based on digital content displayed by a second device. For instance, a mobile device executes and controls a gaming application, and communicates digital content from the application to a display device. A screenshot of the digital content displayed by the remote display device is captured, and based on the screenshot the mobile device generates a guidance image. The guidance image depicts one or more touchpoints of the application, and is displayed by the mobile device. The mobile device is further operable to terminate display of the guidance image, such as based on receipt of an instance proximity-based input. The mobile device recalls the guidance image subsequent to termination of display, such as based on a user request to recall the guidance image.
US12321572B2
Systems and methods for providing application management and navigation in a web-based environment are described. In some embodiments, an Information Handling System (IHS) may include a processor and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory having program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution, cause the IHS to: determine that a user has dragged-and-dropped a tab onto a launch bar of a web browser, parse a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) associated with the tab into a resource and a data source, and add a web app icon corresponding to the resource to the launch bar.
US12321567B2
A device obtains historical interaction data concerning a plurality of user interactions, where a user interaction of the plurality of user interactions includes one or more touchpoint sets, obtains historical response data concerning a plurality of user responses, where a user response of the plurality of user responses corresponds to a user interaction, and processes the historical interaction data and the historical response data using a modelling pipeline to determine an association between user interaction score and a touchpoint set. The device determines information concerning a current user interaction, processes the information concerning the current user interaction using the modelling pipeline to determine a current user interaction score and ranking of one or more touchpoint sets of the current user interaction, and causes, based on the current user interaction score and the ranking of the one or more touchpoint sets, at least one action to be performed.
US12321565B2
A display control device that includes: a memory; and a processor that is coupled to the memory, the processor being configured to in a case in which a contact with, or a movement adjacent to, any of a plurality of operating portions provided inside a vehicle cabin is detected, display information corresponding to that operating portion on a display portion inside the vehicle cabin, and, in a case in which a contact with, or a movement adjacent to, two or more of the operating portions is detected, arbitrate the displaying of information on the display portion.
US12321563B2
Methods for displaying and organizing user interfaces in a computer-generated environment provide for an efficient and intuitive user experience. In some embodiments, user interfaces can be grouped together into a container. In some embodiments, user interfaces can be added to a container, removed from a container, or moved from one location in the container to another location. In some embodiments, a visual indication is displayed before a user interface is added to a container. In some embodiments, a user interface can replace an existing user interface in a container. In some embodiments, when moving a user interface in a computer-generated environment, the transparency of a user interface that is obscured can be modified.
US12321562B2
Disclosed is an interface and/or system for presenting three-dimensional (“3D”) graphical user interface (“GUI”) elements to improve user interactions with a device. The system determines a first angle from which to render a 3D GUI. The system receives 3D images that are linked to the 3D GUI elements. The system generates the 3D GUI elements by rendering each of the 3D images from a first render position that aligns with the first angle. The system detects an input that changes the first angle to a second angle, and updates a visualization of the 3D GUI elements by rendering each of the 3D images from a second render position that aligns with the second angle.
US12321558B2
A display device includes a display panel including a light emitting area and a non-light-emitting area adjacent to the light emitting area and an input sensor disposed on the display panel. The input sensor includes a first sensor conductive layer disposed on the display panel, a first sensor insulating layer disposed on the first sensor conductive layer, and a second sensor conductive layer disposed on the first sensor insulating layer. At least one of the first sensor conductive layer and the second sensor conductive layer is provided with a mesh opening defined therethrough, at least one of a side surface of the first sensor conductive layer and a side surface of the second sensor conductive layer is provided with a recessed portion defined therein, and the input sensor further includes a light absorption layer disposed in the recessed portion.
US12321552B2
A control device for a motor vehicle, comprising a display element, a projection unit, and a capacitive proximity sensor. At least one control element can be projected onto a visible surface of the display element by the projection unit. Actuation of the control element can be detected by the capacitive proximity sensor.
US12321523B2
Described are various embodiments of a haptic feedback device and method. In one embodiment, the haptic feedback device comprises a modular section, the modular section comprising an anchor component having a first impedance coupled to the skin of the arm at a first location; a low mass component having a second impedance coupled to the skin of the arm at a second location; and an inertial mass component having a third impedance mechanically coupled to said anchor component and to said low mass component via one or more couplings; and configured to provide actuation thereto. The first impedance is larger than said second and third impedances, so that upon said actuation said low mass component is displaced by a larger amount than said anchor portion, said displacement of the low mass component moving a portion of the skin proximate said second location thereby creating a haptic feedback.
US12321522B2
An electronic device that can include a device main body, a button on the device main body and at least partially exposed out of the device main body, and an external force recognition and tactile feedback component inside the device main body and opposite to the button. The external force recognition and tactile feedback component can recognize a magnitude of an external force and perform a corresponding tactile feedback action based on the recognized magnitude of the external force, when the button is subjected to the external force. An external force recognition and tactile feedback method for an electronic device includes recognizing a magnitude of an external force, and performing a corresponding tactile feedback action based on the recognized magnitude of the external force.
US12321520B2
A haptic feedback method for an electronic system includes pairing an electronic device with a first wireless communication module and an input device with a second wireless communication module and a haptic feedback motor unit, inputting a control signal to the electronic device through the input device, and sending a wireless motor driving signal to the second wireless communication module of the input device by the first wireless communication module of the electronic device according to the control signal, so that the second wireless communication module generates a wired motor driving signal according to the wireless motor driving signal and directly transmits the wired motor driving signal to the haptic feedback motor unit to directly enable vibration of the haptic feedback motor unit.
US12321509B2
In one embodiment, a method includes determining a location of a user of an extended reality (XR) system. The method further includes determining, based on the determined location, a location-specific layout for one or more XR objects in an XR environment for display to the user and displaying, by a display of the XR system, the location-specific layout in the XR environment.
US12321503B1
In some embodiments, a method can include measuring, via a sensor disposed within an interior of a housing, an out-of-band characteristic of an electronic circuit disposed within the interior of the housing. The method can further include receiving, from the sensor and at a management circuit disposed within the interior of housing, a sensor signal indicating the out-of-band characteristic of the electronic circuit. The method can further include analyzing, at the management circuit, the out-of-band characteristic of the electronic circuit to produce an alarm signal. The method can further include sending, from the management circuit, the alarm signal to initiate a remedial action in response to receiving the alarm signal.
US12321501B2
A method is provided for securely provisioning a plurality of integrated circuits (ICs) manufactured by a first entity for use in a plurality of manufactured product types manufactured by a second entity. Each IC of the plurality of ICs includes a key pair and a unique identifier (UID). The first entity generates a plurality of key pairs that are not related to the plurality of ICs. A plurality of product types is received from the second entity. A plurality of certificates is generated by the first entity using the UIDs and the key pairs. The plurality of certificates is transferred from a first computer system of the first entity to a second computer system under physical control of the second entity. The second entity injects the plurality of ICs with selected certificates of the plurality of certificates. Unused certificates may be deleted from the second computer system.
US12321497B1
Techniques described herein include providing personal data of users of a payment service to a data service when such users have granted sharing permissions. Then, a query may be configured to determine which of the users are eligible for a promotion from a third party service. The query may be sent to a data service and a query result may be received from the data service based on the third party service provisioning a temporary viewing permission to the payment service. Eligible promotions may be presented to individual users based on the query results.
US12321496B2
In some implementations, a system may receive a set of data intended for storage. The system may detect, within the set of data and using pattern matching, a set of potential sensitive data fields. The system may detect, using characters not included in the potential sensitive data fields, at least one non-sensitive data field included in the set of potential sensitive data fields. The system may mask first data included in the set of potential sensitive data fields other than the at least one non-sensitive data field and may refrain from masking second data included in the at least one non-sensitive data field. The system may generate a modified set of data based on masking the first data and refraining from masking the second data and output the modified set of data for storage.
US12321495B2
The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media for generating anonymized digital images utilizing a face anonymization neural network. In some embodiments, the disclosed systems utilize a face anonymization neural network to extract or encode a face anonymization guide that encodes face attribute features, such as gender, ethnicity, age, and expression. In some cases, the disclosed systems utilize the face anonymization guide to inform the face anonymization neural network in generating synthetic face pixels for anonymizing a digital image while retaining attributes, such as gender, ethnicity, age, and expression. The disclosed systems learn parameters for a face anonymization neural network for preserving face attributes, accounting for multiple faces in digital images, and generating synthetic face pixels for faces in profile poses.
US12321489B2
Systems as described herein may label data to preserve privacy. An annotation server may receive a document comprising a collection of text representing a plurality of confidential data from a first computing device. The annotation server may convert the document to a plurality of text embeddings. The annotation server may input the text embeddings into a machine learning model to generate a plurality of synthetic images, and receive a label for each of the plurality of synthetic images from a third-party labeler. Accordingly, the annotation server may send the confidential data and the corresponding labels to a second computing device.
US12321486B2
It is provided a method for providing data for training a machine learning model. The method is performed in a training data provider (1) and comprises the steps of: obtaining (40) a data structure comprising a chain of delegations, the chain of delegations covering a delegation path from a media capturing device (3) to the training data provider (1) such that, in the chain of delegations, each delegation is a delegation from a delegator to a receiver; sending (42) a key request to a delegation verifier (2), the key request comprising the data structure; receiving (44) a decryption key from the delegation verifier (2); obtaining (46) encrypted media data captured by the media capturing device (3); decrypting (48) the encrypted media data, resulting in decrypted media data; and providing (50) the decrypted media data for training the machine learning model.
US12321483B2
Disclosed are techniques for linking information about individual entities across multiple datasets. A target dataset with some information corresponding to at least one attribute of an entity is received. Semantic processing is performed on the target dataset to extract semantic representations of the information and corresponding attributes, which is utilized to search at least one other dataset for additional information that is absent from the target dataset, corresponding to at least one attribute of the entity, which are used to augment the target dataset with additional information corresponding to the entity. This is repeated iteratively, with each subsequent iteration including semantic representations of information found in the searches of previous iterations until no additional information about the entity is found when searching the multiple datasets with semantic representations of the now augmented target dataset. In some embodiments the augmented target dataset is used for determining privacy risks for the entity.
US12321477B2
In some implementations, a distributed database management system may monitor data operations performed by a plurality of user devices, wherein the data operations are associated with a distributed database. The distributed database management system may detect that a user device is to perform a data operation associated with a data structure of the distributed database. The distributed database management system may determine identification information associated with the user device. The distributed database management system may generate, based on the data operation, evidence information associated with the data operation, wherein the evidence information includes the identification information. The distributed database management system may store the evidence information in an immutable data structure to record that the user device is associated with the data operation. The distributed database management system may enable the user device to perform the data operation after the evidence information is stored in the immutable data structure.
US12321475B2
A storage device for performing an access authority control and an operating method thereof are disclosed. The storage device including processing circuitry configured to store a plurality of security information associated with the plurality of namespaces in response to a command from the host, each of the security information including virtual machine information associated with a corresponding one of the plurality of virtual machines and unique information associated with the corresponding virtual machine, the virtual machine information including an identifier for the corresponding virtual machine, and the unique information including unique information uniquely set for the corresponding virtual machine, extract at least first information by decoding a data access request received from the host device, and abort processing of the data access request based on the security information and the extracted at least one first information.
US12321471B1
In various embodiments, once the client registers onto the system, a third party (a “requestor”) may transmit a request to the client for the client to provide the requestor with access to the client data. In at least one embodiment, a requestor may be an entity or person that desires to utilize client data for the requestor's business purposes. In one embodiment, upon registration with the application, the system generates and assigns the requestor a requestor key. In one or more embodiments, the system transmits the requestor key along with each requestor request. In some embodiments, the client may accept or reject the requestor's request. In many embodiments, if the client accepts the requestor's request, the system grants the requestor access to the client data.
US12321465B2
A system for generating an identity-based Non-Fungible Token (NFT) that uses, as a least a portion of the input file, a verified identity of the user. Once generated, the identity-based NFT is stored within a distributed trust computing network, which provides for verifying the authenticity and unalerted state of the NFT. Subsequently, the identity-based NFT can be accessed via the distributed trust computing network to verify the identity of the user. Additionally, the NFT may use other verified data as a portion of the input file, such as verified identity of users having a familial relationship with the user, verified life events, and/or verified user preferences. Further, the NFT may include one or more markers that identify a familial relationship and are configured to link the NFT to other NFTs associated with the related users.
US12321462B2
Techniques for evaluating and improving data security are provided. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving results from a sensitive data scan of information technology (IT) infrastructure of an organization, in which the result includes indications of a volume of sensitive data found during the scan, types of the sensitive data found during the scan, and locations at which the sensitive data was found during the scan. The method also includes determining a cybersecurity risk score for the IT infrastructure. This can include calculating the cybersecurity risk score based on the volume of sensitive data found during the scan, value of the sensitive data found during the scan, and vulnerability of the locations at which the sensitive data was found during the scan. Additional systems, devices, and methods are also disclosed.
US12321458B2
Methods and systems for switching between multiple languages of a remote desktop client operating on a secure boot device are disclosed. A method includes initiating an operating system from the secure boot device and receiving credentials including a user identification and a password. The method also includes booting, from the secure boot device, the operating system in a first language and receiving a selection of a second language different from the first language within a user interface of the operating system. The method further includes performing a desktop reset to execute the operating system in the second language.
US12321456B2
A system and method of deployment of malware detection traps by at least one processor may include performing a first interrogation of a first Network Asset (NA) of a specific NA family; determining, based on the interrogation, a value of one or more first NA property data elements of the first NA; obtaining one or more second NA property data elements corresponding to the specific NA family; integrating the one or more first NA property data elements and the one or more second NA property data elements to generate a template data element, corresponding to the specific NA family; producing, from the template data element, a malware detection trap module; and deploying, on one or more computing devices of a computer network, one or more instantiations of the malware detection trap module as decoys of the first NA.
US12321452B2
A system and method for computer security of a protected device that has a processor and an operating system software running on the processor includes security software that runs on the protected device and has local data for control of the security software. Upon initialization of the security software, the security software loads the local data and periodically reads file-type associations from the operating system software. For each file-type association, the security software determines if that file type is permitted by the local data and if that file type is not permitted by the local data, the security software removes that file-type association from the operating system software.
US12321443B2
An apparatus, a method, and a system are presented in which the apparatus includes an interface control circuit that may be configured to receive a message including a cryptographic keyword and a policy value. The policy value may include one or more data bits indicative of one or more policies that define allowable usage of the cryptographic keyword. The apparatus also includes a security circuit that may be configured to extract the cryptographic keyword and the policy value from the message, and to apply at least one policy of the one or more policies to usage of the cryptographic keyword in response to a determination that an authentication of the message succeeded.
US12321440B2
Provided are a control device and a program verification method capable of suppressing an operation load in a case where different keys are used for respective devices. The control device 1 stores a program to be verified, a plurality of verification expected values related to verification of the program to be verified, and registered verification expected value information 183 that identifies one of the verification expected values. The control device verifies whether the program to be verified is correct using the registered verification expected value information 183.
US12321433B2
A method for adapting a guest mode for portable speakers includes obtaining a current state of an assistant-enabled device while a guest mode is enabled. Here, the assistant-enabled device is configured to allow a digital assistant to fulfill queries spoken by speakers who are not enrolled users when the guest mode is enabled. Based on the current state of the assistant-enabled device, the method includes disabling the guest mode to suppress fulfillment of queries spoken by speakers who are not enrolled users. While the guest mode is disabled, the method includes receiving audio data corresponding to a query, the query including a command for the digital assistant to perform an action, performing speaker identification to determine that a speaker of the query is not an enrolled user, and based on determining that the speaker of the query is not an enrolled user, suppressing fulfillment of the action.
US12321429B2
A face authentication apparatus (50) includes an image generation unit (102) that generates a first image by capturing an image of a person, a control unit (104) that, when the first image does not satisfy a criterion for face collation, controls lighting and causes the image generation unit (102) to generate a second image by capturing an image of the person again, and a face authentication unit (52) that executes face authentication by using the second image.
US12321423B2
A system for providing code suggestions according to licensing criteria is described. The system comprises computing devices that implement a code suggestion service. The code suggestion service receives a request that specifies licensing criteria via an interface of the code suggestion service. The code suggestion service determines respective licenses for respective source code files according to a source code attribution database from parsing the plurality of source code files that are applicable to the plurality of source code files. The code suggestion service generates a set of candidate code suggestions based, at least in part, on the plurality of source code files. The code suggestion service determines code suggestions from the set of candidate code suggestions that satisfy the licensing criteria based on the respective licenses. The code suggestion service provides the code suggestions determined from the set of candidate source code files that satisfy the licensing criteria.
US12321412B1
Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program, and a method for managing electronically published collections of content. The method may include accessing a content collection that comprises one or more content items ordered in a sequence. The method further includes causing presentation of a tile on a display of a client device, the tile comprising a thumbnail image indicating an existence of the content collection. The method further includes accessing an update to the content collection comprising a new content item, and publishing the update by inserting the new content item into the content collection, updating the tile based at least on the new content item being inserted into the content collection, and updating a read point of the content collection based on the new content item.
US12321410B2
A system including an electronic document inspection device that identifies a set of electronic documents using a search query; a composite page generator that generates a composite page that i) is hosted by a different domain than at least some electronic documents in the set of electronic documents and ii) includes electronic documents from the set of electronic documents; an asset package generator that generates digital content asset packages, each digital content asset package including i) digital content assets and ii) instructions that specify a configuration of the digital content assets for the respective digital content asset package; and an asset package list generator that generates a digital content asset package list specifying an order of presentation of the digital content asset packages, wherein the composite page, the digital content asset packages, and the digital content asset package list are transmitted to a user device that provides the search query.
US12321405B2
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for providing a trained model to a computing device of a user. In one aspect, an exemplary method comprises, receiving, by a model transmitter, registration information from the computing device of the user comprising a trained model of the user's behavior, wherein the model is constructed using software provided by a service, storing, by the model transmitter, the received registration information in a database of behavior models, and during a repeat visit, by the user, to the service, updating the trained model of the user's behavior and transmitting the updated trained model to the service, wherein the updated trained model differs from a previously sent model of the user's behavior by no more than is allowed for unambiguous identification of the user on the service.
US12321399B2
A web scraping system configured with web scraping countermeasure resolution technology.
US12321394B2
A search request relating to one or more datasets in the data repository can be received, the search request comprising a display request to display at least a portion of the one or more datasets. In response to the search request, a searchable database can be generated from the one or more datasets in a data repository based on ontological data associated with the one or more datasets. An object view of at least the portion of one or more datasets can be generated from the searchable database, the view being generated based on the ontological data. The generated object view can be provided to be displayed on a display device.
US12321390B2
Systems and methods for decoupling information into multiple levels of detail based on semantics while providing a compact global representation structure. A tree-based graph represents objects in an environment. The top node provides complete environment information at the lowest level of detail. Leaves of the tree-based graph complement the parent nodes with more detailed local information. This achieved efficient processing, communication, and data compaction.
US12321388B2
A data construction system and a data construction method. The data construction system includes a construction process management unit and a data construction unit. The data construction unit is configured to receive an initiation construction request. The data construction unit obtains corresponding construction rule data from the construction process management unit according to the initiation construction request, and sends an obtaining source data request to the construction process management unit. The construction process management unit receives the obtaining source data request, and calculates a new access location according to a source data identification number and access location information in the obtaining source data request. The construction process management unit obtains corresponding source data according to the new access location, and updates the access location information according to the new access location. The construction process management unit sends the corresponding source data to the data construction unit.
US12321381B2
A method includes obtaining first data representing a subterranean domain, and creating a geotag associated with a three-dimensional location of interest in the subterranean domain and a feature at the location of interest. The geotag is further associated with second data that describes the location of interest in the subterranean domain. The method also includes generating metadata describing a portion of the first data, the second data, or both, storing the geotag in a database including a plurality of geotags. The method may also include searching for an analog to the geotag.
US12321380B2
A system and method provide extractions of regions of interest from images hand annotated by reviewers by lifting annotations from images, filtering out text labels, reconstructing continuous closed boundaries, and marking the contained region.
US12321378B2
A method, computer system, and a computer program product are provided for providing a multi-perspective multimedia output. In one embodiment, this comprises a first captured version of an event from a first capturing device and a second captured version of the event from a second capturing device. A geolocation polygon is then calculated based on a geolocation of the first capturing device used as a first point of reference, and a geolocation of the second capturing device used as a second point of reference. An ephemeral cloud is then established by determining any digital resources available within the geolocation polygon. The first and second captured versions are then processed by using the resources available within said ephemeral cloud. A single output is then generated using the processed first and second captured versions. The single output is a combination of the first and second captured versions.
US12321364B1
A system and method for generating structured data objects from unstructured data is provided. The unstructured data is received and parsed by comparing substrings with entries from an entities data structure and a listing of curated patterns to identify and classify substrings. The identified substrings are then ranked and filtered to identify one or more of the most relevant substrings. One or more of the ranked and filtered substrings are used to generate a structured data object.
US12321361B2
The subject technology receives a query, the query referencing a unified representation for structured type data and semi-structured type data, the unified representation being provided in storage and in memory during query processing, the unified representation comprising a set of structured type fields that include a set of semi-structured typed fields that enables type safety and enforcement for the set of structured type fields, and flexibility for the set of semi-structured typed fields in a same column, the unified representation in storage including type information for the semi-structured type data as part of the semi-structured type data, the unified representation being utilized for structured type data and semi-structured type data. The subject technology processes the query using the unified representation stored in the memory, the unified representation providing performance parity between structured type data and semi-structured type data.
US12321356B1
An embodiment may receive observed data from a monitored system. The embodiment may receive a request to generate a contextual report based on the observed data. The embodiment may identify a relevant persona corresponding to the request based on a series of linguistic cues. The embodiment may identify a list of suitable keywords based on the identified relevant persona. The embodiment may generate a persona-based contextual report for the observed data based on the identified relevant persona and the list of suitable keywords.
US12321353B2
Disclosed herein are techniques for storing, within a database system, metadata that indicates an intended usage (IU). Once created, an IU may be assigned to a column to (a) indicate how the column is intended to be used, and (b) affect how the database server behaves when database operations involve values from the column. The IU assigned to a column supplements, but does not replace, the datatype definition for the column. Each IU may have an IU-bundle. The IU-bundle of an IU indicates how the database server behaves with respect to any column that is assigned the IU. For example, the IU-bundle may indicate constraints that the database server must validate during operations on values from columns assigned to the IU. Techniques are also described for implementing multi-column IUs and flexible IUs.
US12321338B2
Techniques are disclosed that pertain to deploying immutable instances of a system. A computer system may maintain an active generation value that indicates an immutable instance of a database system that is permitted to write data to a database. The computer system may deploy a first immutable instance of the database system and update the active generation value to permit the first immutable instance to write data to the database. The computer system may receive a request to deploy a second immutable instance of the database system that includes an update not found in the first immutable instance. The computer system may deploy the second immutable instance and update the active generation value to cause the first immutable instance to cease writing data to the database and to permit the second immutable instance to write data to the database.
US12321336B2
Systems and methods described herein use context-adaptive resolution to achieve lossless transfer of critical industrial control system data. Bandwidth and storage optimization is achieved for time-series data generated or collected by an industrial control system and transmitted through a network to a remote historian system. The control system may be implemented through one or more embedded historians and local historians. The control system continuously processes input data, computes output variables, and generates an event trigger when a set of variables meet pre-defined set of conditions. When there are no active event triggers, the control system publishes time-series data for a pre-defined set of variables at a lower resolution to conserve bandwidth and storage. When an event trigger is activated, the control system publishes recent and current time-series data for a subset of the variables to subscribers at a higher resolution.
US12321331B2
Technology described herein is related to communication by a system B-Tree system using a lock system. An example method can comprise implementing, by a system comprising a processor, an exclusive lock in a lock domain that identifies a system B-tree (SBT) of an SBT system, updating, by the system, the SBT and incrementing, by the system, an SBT generation number associated with the SBT, and generating, by the system, a notification that requests verification of a change to the lock domain. Another example method can comprise applying a lock in a lock domain associated with a system B-Tree (SBT) of an SBT system, caching generation numbers associated with the lock domain, and verifying the generation numbers relative to one another to determine whether the generation numbers match one another.
US12321327B2
In a distributed database, many nodes can store copies, or instances, of the same record. If the record is split on one node, it should be split on the other nodes to maintain consistency, concurrency, and correctness of the data in the distributed database. In some distributed databases, the records are locked during the update process to ensure data integrity. Unfortunately, locking the records can increase latency, especially for larger databases. But if the records aren't locked and a node fails as a record is being split and updated simultaneously, the split and update may not propagate throughout the distributed database, leading to a loss of data integrity. Exchanging messages about the status of record splitting and forwarding updates internally reduces the likelihood of a loss of data integrity due to a node failure.
US12321315B1
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to file system delta visualization. A primary data set and a secondary data set can be received. A difference between the primary data set and the secondary data set can be determined. A determination can be made that a condition is met for file system delta visualization. The difference between the primary data set and the secondary data set can be visualized within a file system delta visualization representation.
US12321310B2
Embodiments described herein provide techniques to facilitate instruction-based control of memory attributes. One embodiment provides a graphics processor comprising a processing resource, a memory device, a cache coupled with the processing resources and the memory, and circuitry to process a memory access message received from the processing resource. The memory access message enables access to data of the memory device. To process the memory access message, the circuitry is configured to determine one or more cache attributes that indicate whether the data should be read from or stored the cache. The cache attributes may be provided by the memory access message or stored in state data associated with the data to be accessed by the access message.
US12321291B2
An electronic system includes a plurality of master devices, a memory controller and a memory device. The master devices generate requests for memory access operations, where each request includes locality information indicating whether requests are to be executed continuously. The memory controller receives the requests from the plurality of master devices, determines an execution order of the requests based on the locality information, and sequentially generates commands to perform the memory access operations according to the execution order. The memory device receives the commands from the memory controller and performs the memory access operations based on the commands.
US12321286B2
A one-time programmable (OTP) memory is included in both a memory device and a processing device. The OTP memories store encryption keys and the encryption and decryption of messages between the two devices are used as a heartbeat to determine that the memory device has not been separated from the processing device and, in some instances, connected to a malicious processing device.
US12321280B2
A device may include a processor configured to obtain a plurality of values for one or more cache population parameters associated with a distributed cache for a machine learning system. The processor may be further configured to provide the obtained plurality of values as inputs into a machine learning model trained to select a cache policy for the distributed cache; receive the selected cache policy from the machine learning model, wherein the selected cache policy includes a cache eviction policy that includes an eviction rule indicating when to remove particular data items from the distributed cache; and apply the received cache policy to the distributed cache.
US12321276B2
An example method may include identifying one or more requested data items requested by a client system, identifying, in view of one or more requested data items, a plurality of predicted data items and, for each predicted data item, a respective probability that the predicted data item will be requested by a subsequent access request, identifying a plurality of cacheable data items, where the cacheable data items comprise one or more of the predicted data items, wherein each cacheable data item comprises a predicted data item that satisfies caching criteria, wherein the caching criteria are evaluated in view of the respective probability that the predicted data item will be requested by a subsequent access request, and storing each of the plurality of cacheable data items in a cache memory of a respective storage server at which the cacheable data item is located.
US12321274B2
System and techniques for recall pending cache line eviction are described herein. A queue that includes a deferred memory request is kept for a cache line. Metadata for the queue is stored in a cache line tag. When a recall is needed, the metadata is written from the tag to a first recall storage, referenced by a memory request ID. After the recall request is transmitted, the memory request ID is written to a second recall storage referenced by the message ID of the recall request. Upon receipt of a response to the recall request, the queue for the cache line can be restored by using the message ID in the response to lookup the memory request ID from the second recall storage, then using the memory request ID to lookup the metadata from the first recall storage, and then writing the metadata into the tag for the cache line.
US12321256B1
Computer-implemented agile software development, testing, and implementation are provided. At least one computing device accesses at least one input file and processes the file(s) to generate an application framework including a plurality of files. An interactive interface including selectable options associated with the respectively accessible folders is provided. Via the interactive interface, editable access to each of the plurality of files is provided and the at least one computing device receives, via the interface, at least one edit to at least one of the files. A testing case of the generated application framework is generated, includes step definition files. The at least one computing device tests the generated application framework by stepping through automation provided by the generated application framework as a function of the step definition files. Moreover, the at least one computing device generates reporting associated with the testing of the generated application framework.
US12321249B2
A memory testing device uses a master control unit (MCU) to concurrently operate multiple, intelligent, slave control units (SCUs). The MCU or an SCU translates memory addresses of a device under test (DUT) into a matrix. The SCU accumulates error data by testing a test bit of the memory across multiple cells of the matrix, the accumulated error data is post-processed to determine if the test bit is faulty, and the process is repeated for additional test bits. The post-processed data is analyzed to identify one or more of the test bits as faulty, and then include in a test log preferably only a single instance of a memory address that corresponds to each of the one or more faulty test bits.
US12321240B2
Providing content based data protection for data stored in a large-scale data storage system by scanning data stored in one or more databases for discovery of metadata, and extracting the discovered metadata, for storage in a data catalog, the data catalog having a scanning function performing the scanning step, and comprising a database storing the metadata in one or more tables. A protection policy is defined to commonly protect content data referenced by metadata in the data catalog, and applied to the referenced content data to perform a data protection operation the content data. Datasets stored in the catalog are generated by running queries on the catalog, where a query comprises metadata selectors as tags applied to the catalog, where the tags define at least one of a file type, name, location, creation time, or file characteristic.
US12321239B2
Managing database protection after updating the data manager to utilize immutable unique identifiers
In general, the technology relates to A method for managing databases, the method includes receiving a database identifier (DID) for a database, generating, using the DID, a unique identifier (UID) for the database, making a first determination that the UID does not exist in any agent service records, based on the first determination, making a second determination that at least one backup copy of the database exists, based on the second determination: creating an agent service record that comprises the UID and a tag, wherein a value of the tag is DIRTY, initiating copy discovery of the database, and receiving a notification that the copy discovery has been completed, wherein after the notification, requests from a data manager comprising the UID are permitted to be provided to an agent, wherein the request a backup request or request for copy discovery.
US12321237B2
A method is described. The method includes processing first meta data for first units of stored content in a first storage system. The processing includes constructing a first tree of first nodes where first lower nodes represent fewer of the first units of stored content and first higher nodes represent more of the first units of stored content. The first nodes include respective first hash values calculated from the first meta data to represent the respective content of the respective first units of stored content that the first nodes respectively represent. The method includes processing second meta data for second units of stored content in a second storage system. The processing includes constructing a second tree of second nodes where second lower nodes represent fewer of the second units of stored content and second higher nodes represent more of the second units of stored content. The second nodes include respective second hash values calculated from the second meta data to represent the respective content of the respective second units of stored content that the second nodes respectively represent. The method includes comparing at least a subset of the first hash values with a corresponding at least a subset of the second hash values to ascertain sameness between the first and second units of stored content.
US12321236B2
A method of operating a storage device may include determining a fault condition of the storage device, selecting a fault resilient mode based on the fault condition of the storage device, and operating the storage device in the selected fault resilient mode. The selected fault resilient mode may include one of a power cycle mode, a reformat mode, a reduced capacity read-only mode, a reduced capacity mode, a reduced performance mode, a read-only mode, a partial read-only mode, a temporary read-only mode, a temporary partial read-only mode, or a vulnerable mode. The storage device may be configured to perform a namespace capacity management command received from the host. The namespace capacity management command may include a resize subcommand and/or a zero-size namespace subcommand. The storage device may report the selected fault resilient mode to a host.
US12321234B2
Data and error correction information may involve accessing multiple data channels (e.g., 8) and one error detection and correction channel concurrently. This technique requires a total of N+1 row requests for each access, where N is the number of data channels (e.g., 8 data row accesses and 1 error detection and correction row access equals 9 row accesses.) A single (or at least less than N) data channel row may be accessed concurrently with a single error detection and correction row. This reduces the number of row requests to two (2)—one for the data and one for the error detection and correction information. Because, row requests consume power, reducing the number of row requests is more power efficient.
US12321227B2
This application provides a data processing method, a device, and a data transmission system. The method includes: A first device determines a first mode from a plurality of error detection and correction modes based on an obtained first status parameter of a data link. Then, the first device may indicate a second device to use the first mode for encoding, the first device may use the first mode for decoding, thereby implementing error detection and correction of transmitted data. In the method provided in this embodiment of this application, the first device and the second device may support a plurality of error detection and correction modes, and the first device may determine a used error detection and correction mode based on a status parameter of the data link.
US12321223B2
The present embodiments relate to proactive learning of network software problems. In an embodiment, a method includes receiving, by a detection system, webpage data from a computer system. The computer system can receive the webpage data from a plurality of client devices. The webpage data can be associated with user identifiers identifying each client device of the plurality of client devices. The detection system can then receive assistance data from a user assistance computer. The user assistance computer can receive the assistance data from a plurality of user devices. The assistance data can be associated with user identifiers identifying each user device of the plurality of user devices. The detection system can label the webpage data based on the assistance data including matching user identifiers and then determine at least a pattern based on the labeled webpage data.
US12321221B1
Systems and methods for accident detection and handling are described. In some embodiments, an Information Handling System (IHS) may include an Embedded Controller (EC), and a memory coupled to, or integrated into, the EC, where the memory comprises program instructions that, upon execution by the EC, cause the EC to, in response to a determination that the IHS suffered an accident prior to a reboot, transmit an indication of the accident to a remote service during the reboot.
US12321211B2
Component-level, scene-based power management in a test, monitoring, or measurement instrument or system is provided by identifying one or more controllable components; determining a power consumption of the identified one or more controllable components; generating a system model based, at least in part, on the determined power consumption, where the system model includes one or more scenes, each scene defining a list of controllable components and respective power states for the list of controllable components; generating a scene table for the test instrument by selecting a plurality of scenes from the system model; and executing the selected scenes in the scene table at a runtime for the test instrument, where each scene is executed based on an operation mode of the test instrument.
US12321210B2
A system for thermal management of a handheld computing device, including: a docking station, including: a first air inlet; a first air outlet; a first fan; the handheld computing device that is removably coupled to the docking station, including: a primary air outlet; a secondary air outlet including a vent door; a primary air inlet; a secondary air inlet; a DOO fan; wherein when the handheld computing device is coupled to the docking station: the first fan moves i) air from the first air inlet to the first air outlet to the secondary air inlet and ii) from the secondary air inlet to the secondary air outlet, and the fan i) moves air from the primary air inlet to the primary air outlet and ii) circulates air about the handheld computing device and to the secondary air outlet.
US12321201B2
A rotating shaft mechanism for folding an electronic device, a housing assembly and an electronic device are provided. The rotating shaft mechanism includes a supporting frame, a rotating member and a resilient piece. An end of the rotating member is rotatably disposed on the supporting frame; and the resilient piece is disposed on the supporting frame and is configured to apply a damping force to the rotating member.
US12321200B2
Damage to a flexible display can be prevented. A display device having improved mechanical strength can be provided. A display device (10) includes a display panel (11) and a protection cover (12). The display panel (11) includes a first portion having flexibility. The protection cover (12) has a light-transmitting property and flexibility and is provided to overlap with a display surface side of the display panel (11). The display device (10) has a function of being reversibly changed in shape to a first mode in which the display panel (11) and the protection cover (12) are each substantially flat and a second mode in which the first portion of the display panel (11) is curved such that the display surface side becomes a concave surface and part of the protection cover (12) is curved in the same direction as the first portion. In the second mode, there is a gap between the first portion and the protection cover.
US12321197B2
A roll-slide display device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a first frame, a second frame, and a third frame constituting an exterior and a flexible display unit including a first area that is coupled to the first frame, a second area that is coupled to the third frame, and a third area that is positioned between the first area and the second area, wherein the flexible display unit includes a display panel and a support frame disposed on a rear surface of the display panel and including a plurality of ribs that are elongated in one direction and a plurality of bridges that connect the plurality of ribs, wherein the roll-slide display device may implement and original state and an extended state by slidably moving the first frame leftward and rightward with respect to the second frame.
US12321193B1
Aspects of the present disclosure include system, methods, and software for buffer insertions. In one example, a method includes receiving a clock signal network layout, the clock signal network layout comprising a clock source electrically coupled to a plurality of clock sinks via a plurality of net segments, a first hierarchy that bounds a first region of the clock signal network layout, and a second hierarchy that bounds a second region of the clock signal network layout. The method additionally includes creating a graph representative of the clock signal network layout, the graph comprising a plurality of logical edges, and identifying a to-be-inserted buffer location comprising a location on a net segment of the plurality of net segments to insert a buffer. The method further includes selecting a selected logical edge to insert the buffer based on the to-be-inserted buffer location, the first hierarchy, the second hierarchy, or a combination thereof.
US12321192B2
A portable electronic device includes a status detector and a processor. The status detector is configured to obtain acceleration data from a motion sensor of the portable electronic device. The status detector is further configured to determine, for each acceleration measurement in the acceleration data, whether the acceleration measurement satisfies an acceleration threshold. Responsive to the acceleration measurement satisfying the acceleration threshold, the status detector is configured to increment a first counter. Responsive to the acceleration measurement not satisfying the acceleration threshold, the status detector is configured to selectively increment or refrain from incrementing a second counter. The status detector is further configured to determine whether the portable electronic device is in an on-table or an off-table state based on whichever of the counters reaches a counter threshold. The processor is configured to configure one or more components of the portable electronic device based on the determined state.
US12321187B2
Provided is a voltage regulator supplying a first voltage on a first output node and comprising a first input transistor of a non-inverting stage and a second biasing transistor of the non-inverting stage. The first and second transistors are coupled in series, in this order, between the first node and a second node of application of a second reference voltage. The second transistor is being configured to be controlled by a third voltage depending on the first voltage.
US12321185B2
A low dropout (LDO) regulator includes an operational amplifier connected to a capacitor receiving an input voltage through a first end and storing an offset voltage through a second end, a first transistor configured to control an electrical connection between the input voltage and the first end of the operational amplifier, a second transistor configured to control an electrical connection between the first end of the operational amplifier and a first node, a third transistor configured to control an electrical connection between an output end of the operational amplifier and a second node, and a fourth transistor configured to control an electrical connection between a second end of the operational amplifier and the output end of the operational amplifier.
US12321184B2
Provided is a process, including: receiving, via the network interface, from a remote user device, a command to change a state of the fluid-handling device to a target state; translating the received command into a translated command operative to cause a local controller of the fluid-handling device to drive the fluid-handling equipment to the target state, the local controller being responsive to the command and feedback from the fluid-handling device indicative of whether the fluid-handling device is in the target state; and sending the translated command to the local controller.
US12321183B2
Thermal control devices and methods to provide improved control, speed and efficiency in temperature cycling are provided herein. Such thermal control device and methods can include one or more active elements, such a thermoelectric cooler device, that is controlled by an algorithm that regulates a temperature distribution of an adjacent reaction-vessel according to a temperature distribution command trajectory and estimated reaction-vessel temperature distribution. Some embodiments include two active elements that are bilaterally applied to opposing sides of the reaction-vessel. In some embodiments, the estimated reaction-vessel temperature is determined based on a state of power electronics of the element and a temperature output of one or more sensors of a portion of the element and/or an ambient environment of the reaction-vessel. Methods of calibration of such systems utilizing a thermal calibrator as a proxy for the reaction-vessel are also provided herein.
US12321179B2
A method includes receiving requests to form a vehicle platoon from a plurality of vehicles, determining terms of a contract for the plurality of vehicles to form the vehicle platoon comprising a lead vehicle and one or more follower vehicles, and transmitting terms of the contract to the plurality of vehicles. The terms of the contract comprise the lead vehicle receiving a first payment, at least one of the follower vehicle making a second payment, and each of the follower vehicles receiving vehicle data from the lead vehicle according to a unique service profile associated with each follower vehicle.
US12321173B2
A vehicular control system includes a forward-viewing camera, a forward-sensing sensor and a cabin-sensing imaging sensor. With the system controlling driving of the vehicle, the system determines a triggering event that triggers handing over driving of the vehicle to a driver of the vehicle before the vehicle encounters an event point associated with the triggering event. The vehicular control system (i) determines a total action time available before the vehicle encounters the event point, (ii) estimates a driver takeover time for the driver to take over control of the vehicle and (iii) estimates a handling time for the driver to control the vehicle to avoid encountering the event point. The vehicular control system estimates the driver takeover time based at least in part on processing by the vehicular control system of the in-cabin image data captured by the cabin-sensing imaging sensor.
US12321166B2
A vehicle may include a movable roof, a sensor supported by the roof, and an actuator for selectively raising and lowering the roof.
US12321164B2
A system includes equipment operable to affect, monitor, or control one or more variable states or conditions in a building. The system further includes circuitry configured to perform a plurality of performance checks for the equipment, determine a plurality of individual performance check indicators based on the plurality of performance checks using a plurality of first weights determined based on different timings, generate an overall performance index for the equipment using the plurality of individual performance check indicators and a plurality of second weights, and initiate or execute a preventative maintenance action for the equipment based on the overall performance index.
US12321159B2
In accordance with some embodiments, systems, methods, and media for monitoring a production process of a product are provided. In some embodiments, a system comprises a remote server, a communications connection between the remote server and a facility database, at least one processor coupled to the communication system, and a memory device having stored thereon a set of computer readable instructions. The set of computer readable instructions cause the at least one processor to: receive a first set of data related to the production process, calculate a first monitoring index indicator for the production process based on the first set of data, receive a second set of data related to the production process after one or more performance variables of the production process are modified, calculate a second monitoring index indicator for the production process based on the second set of data, and output a result.
US12321153B2
An industrial information hub (IDH) serves as a single industrial ecosystem platform where multiple participants can deliver repeatable and standardized services relevant to their core competencies. The IIH system is centered around the development of an ecosystem that creates and delivers value to users—including industrial enterprises, OEMs, system integrators, vendors, etc.—through the aggregation of digital content and domain expertise. The IIH system serves as a trusted information broker between the ecosystem and the OT environments of plant facilities, and provides a platform for connecting assets, contextualizing asset data and providing secure access to the ecosystem. Additionally, the IIH system provides tools and support to OEMs and other subject matter experts, allowing those experts to enable their digital assets for use in the ecosystem. The IIH system reduces the cost and risks for digital transformation of industrial assets.
US12321150B2
A display unit 1b of a design assistance system S highlights an error section of a 3D model and displays at least one of a designation condition recognized by an elimination condition recognition unit 2f and an elimination section.
US12321145B2
Process control systems for operating process plants are disclosed herein. The process control systems include control modules that are decoupled from the I/O architecture of the process plants using signal objects or generic shadow blocks. This decoupling is effected by using the signal objects or generic shadow blocks to manage at least part of the communication between the control modules and the field devices. Signal objects may convert between protocols used by control modules and field devices, thus decoupling the control modules from the I/O architecture. Generic shadow blocks may be automatically configured to mimic the operation of field devices within a controller executing the control modules, thus partially decoupling the control modules from the I/O architecture by using the shadow blocks to manage communication between the control modules and the field devices.
US12321123B2
A charge eliminating apparatus configured to remove charges from a sheet on which an image is formed by a printing apparatus, includes a charge eliminating roller pair including a first charge eliminating roller and a second charge eliminating roller configured to form a nip portion together with the first charge eliminating roller, the charge eliminating roller pair being configured to remove the charges from the sheet in a state of contacting the sheet at the nip portion, a first setting unit configured to set a value of a voltage applied to the charge eliminating roller pair, and a second setting unit configured to set whether to apply the voltage to the charge eliminating roller pair, wherein the second setting unit is configured to set whether to apply the voltage to the charge eliminating roller pair without changing the value of the voltage set by the first setting unit.
US12321120B2
An information processing apparatus is communicably connected to an image forming apparatus and acquires a consumption amount of a consumable in the image forming apparatus, outputs a delivery request for a replacement consumable based on the acquired consumption amount, and notifies information for prompting to stock a spare replacement consumable based on the consumption amount.
US12321106B2
A device (20) for detecting a temperature on a surface (15) of an optical element (14) for semiconductor lithography. The device includes an optical element (14) having a face (16) irradiated with electromagnetic radiation (7, 8, 43), a temperature recording device (21), and a temperature controlled element (22) configured to be temperature-controlled and arranged so that the predominant proportion of the intensity of the thermal radiation (25.2) detected by the temperature recording device and reflected by reflection at the surface of the optical element is emitted by the temperature-controlled element. Also disclosed are an installation (1) for producing a surface (15) of an optical element (14) for semiconductor lithography and a method for producing a surface (15) of an optical element (14) of a projection exposure apparatus (30), wherein the surface is temperature-controlled and the surface temperature is detected during the temperature control.
US12321096B2
A curable resin composition comprising (A) a silicone-based polymer, the surface, and (C) a solvent.
US12321088B2
The present invention relates to an accessory for controlling a camera incorporated into a portable electronic device, such as a smartphone. The accessory comprises a controller configured to control the camera. The controller may be configured to initiate camera control by sending a camera control command to the portable electronic device. Alternatively, a user may initiate a camera mode on the portable electronic device and the accessory may then be used to control the camera. The accessory may comprise a reconfigurable camera grip or removable camera controls, whereby portable electronic devices such as smartphones can then be gripped and operated by a user similar to traditional cameras.
US12321086B2
A camera module is provided. The camera module includes a housing configured to have an inner space covered by a cover; a folded module which includes a reflective member configured to reflect light incident from the outside, and change a path of the light, and a moving holder on which the reflective member is mounted and configured to be movable in the inner space; a lens module positioned behind the folded module in the inner space and comprising a lens barrel including a plurality of lenses aligned in an optical axis direction and configured to allow light reflected from the reflective member to pass therethrough; and a damper positioned between the folded module and the lens module inside the housing, and comprising a first cushioning surface, a second cushioning surface, and a third cushioning surface which respectively face 3-axis directions orthogonal to each other.
US12321084B2
A camera housing includes a first surface and a second surface noncoplanar with the first surface. A first interconnect mechanism is coupled to the first surface and rotatable between a collapsed position and an extended position. In the collapsed position, protrusions of the first interconnect mechanism extend parallel to the first surface. In the extended position, the protrusions of the first interconnect mechanism extend in a perpendicular manner away from the first surface. A second interconnect mechanism is coupled to the second surface and rotatable between a collapsed position and an extended position. In the collapsed position, protrusions of the second interconnect mechanism include coplanar surfaces and extend adjacent to the second surface. In the extended position, the protrusions of the second interconnect mechanism extend in a perpendicular manner away from the second surface.
US12321082B2
An image pickup apparatus includes an image sensor, an optical filter, a holding member configured to hold the optical filter, a driving unit configured to move the holding member, a grip portion configured to be gripped by a user, and a light blocking member configured to control blocking or opening of an image pickup range. The driving unit moves the optical filter between (i) a first position at which the optical filter is inserted into the image pickup range and (ii) a second position at which the optical filter is retracted from the image pickup range in a direction from the first position toward the grip portion. The optical filter is located on a side closer to the image sensor than the light blocking member.
US12321069B2
In a display device having high reliability, even if being a narrow framing type, and a method for manufacturing thereof, having a display panel, being made up with a first substrate 101 and a second substrate 201, which are adhered with using a seal 301, a main SOC 302 is disposed like a wall, on a peripheral end portion of the first substrate 101 and the second substrate 201, and the seal 301 is disposed inwardly of the main SOC 302. Also, in a method for manufacturing thereof, the main SOC 302 is formed in a region including a cutting plane between the display panel regions neighboring with, and on the cutting plane is made the cutting thereof.
US12321063B2
A light source device comprises a diffuser plate and a light source module disposed behind the diffuser plate. The light source module includes a substrate, a plurality of light emitting diodes mounted on the substrate, and a plurality of reflective layers each provided on a front surface of the plurality of light emitting diodes. When a distance between the centers of each of the plurality of light emitting diodes is referred to as a pitch, and a distance between the diffuser plate and the substrate is referred to as an optical distance, a ratio of the pitch to the optical distance satisfies the following expression: 2.5≤pitch/optical distance≤4.5.
US12321058B2
Display assemblies and related systems and methods are provided which provide modified operations for condensation control. A controller calculates a dewpoint spread between a dewpoint temperature for air at the display assembly and an internal temperature for the display assembly determined based, at least in part, on data received from one or more sensors located along an airflow pathway extending within a housing for an electronic display. The controller continues to operate the display assembly in a modified operating mode until the dewpoint spread is determined to be above a predetermined threshold by at least a predetermined clear parameter. The controller continues to not operate in the modified operating mode unless and until the dewpoint spread is determined to be less than the predetermined threshold by at least a predetermined buffer parameter.
US12321054B2
According to the present invention, an optical testing apparatus is used in testing an optical measuring instrument. The optical measuring instrument provides an incident light pulse from a light source to an incident object and receives a reflected light pulse as a result of reflection of the incident light pulse at the incident object. The optical testing apparatus includes a testing light source and a rise time control section. The testing light source is arranged to generate a testing light pulse to be provided to the optical measuring instrument. The rise time control section is arranged to control the rise time of the testing light pulse.
US12321053B2
A system includes a classical computing system and one or more quantum computing chips coupled to the classical computing system. The one or more quantum computing chips includes one or more electro-optic devices. Each electro-optic device includes a substrate, a waveguide disposed on top of the substrate, and a layer stack disposed on top of the waveguide and including a plurality of electro-optic material layers interleaved with a plurality of interlayers. Each electro-optic device further comprising a waveguide core disposed on top of a portion of the layer stack. The plurality of interlayers are characterized by a first lattice structure and the plurality of electro-optic material layers are under tensile stress and are characterized by a second lattice structure and crystallographic phase.
US12321045B2
Apparatus for vision correction includes an electrically-tunable optical phase modulator (42, 44), which is configured to be mounted in proximity to an eye of a subject. Control circuitry (26) is configured to apply drive signals to the optical phase modulator so as to generate in the optical phase modulator a first phase modulation profile in a central zone (37) that intercepts a line of sight (32) of the eye and a second phase modulation profile, different from the first phase modulation profile, in a peripheral zone (39) extending peripherally around the central zone over at least 180° of arc. The first phase modulation profile is selected so as to enable clear vision by the eye in the central zone, while the second phase modulation profile is selected so as to blur light that is incident on the eye through the peripheral zone.
US12321035B2
A photographing apparatus includes a shape memory alloy (SMA) motor, an image sensor, a lens, and a controller. The SMA motor includes an SMA wire. The SMA wire is configured to deform to drive the lens to move. The controller is configured to output a pulse signal. The pulse signal includes a drive signal and a detection signal. The drive signal is used to cause the SMA wire to deform. The detection signal is used to detect deformation of the SMA wire. N times a pulse signal cycle is equal to a time difference between the first time of sampling and the second time of sampling in correlated double sampling of the image sensor.
US12321033B2
Optical distribution systems for data centers or similar networks are disclosed, where one or both ends of a high fiber-count backbone cable branch out once to serve multiple buildings. The optical distribution systems include the backbone cable, an enclosure that receives an end portion of the backbone cable, a plurality of tether cables connected to the backbone cable within a sealed interior of the enclosure and extending from the enclosure, and a plurality of multiport terminals each receiving one of the tether cables and including connection ports for an auxiliary cable that can extend to one of the buildings. Related methods are also disclosed.
US12321026B2
A composite module includes a housing, an optical component, and a power supply component. A first end of the housing is provided with a first socket, and a second end of the housing is provided with a second socket. The optical component includes a first optical connector, an optical-to-electrical conversion component, and a second optical connector. One end of the optical-to-electrical conversion component is connected to the first optical connector, and the other end of the optical-to-electrical conversion component is connected to the second optical connector. The power supply component includes a first electrical connector, a power supply line, and a second electrical connector. One end of the power supply line is connected to the first electrical connector, and the other end of the power supply line is connected to the second electrical connector.
US12321025B2
In one embodiment, an optical transceiver includes: a photonic integrated circuit (PIC) formed on a semiconductor die having a first side and a second side opposite the first side, where the first side includes a first optical circuit and a second optical circuit and the second side is to electrically couple with a substrate. The PIC may further have one or more through silicon vias (TSVs) formed through the semiconductor die to electrically couple the first side with the second side, where at least one of the TSVs is to enable electrical coupling between a first other die adapted to the first side and a second other die. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US12321024B2
An optical transceiver includes a housing, a fastening component and a latch. The fastening component is disposed on the housing. The fastening component is movable with respect to the housing in a releasing direction from an electrical port of the optical transceiver toward a fiber optic port of the optical transceiver. The latch is movably disposed on the housing to be at either an unlocking position or a locking position. The fastening component is allowed to be moved with respect to the housing in the releasing direction when the latch is at the unlocking position, and a movement of the fastening component in the releasing direction is confined by the latch when the latch is at the locking position.
US12321021B2
Apparatuses, systems and methods for optical coupling, optical integration, electro-optical coupling, and electro-optical packaging are described herein. Optical couplers may comprise various optical elements (e.g., mirrors as described herein) to relax optical assembly requirements and improve producibility. Optical couplers may improve fiber-to-chip, fiber-to-fiber and chip-to-chip optical connection. Optical couplers and optical components may be used to improve integration of, connection of, and/or packaging of optical systems and/or components with electrical systems and/or components.
US12321019B2
A fiber optic connector has a fiber optic connector shutter that rotates about a first axis and an adapter for the fiber optic connector also has an adapter shutter that rotates about a second axis in the adapter. When the fiber optic connector and the adapter are mated to one another, the axes for the fiber optic connector shutter and the adapter shutter are aligned and the fiber optic connector shutter and the adapter shutter rotate about a single axis. The fiber optic connector shutter and the adapter shutter include structure to maintain engagement during the mating and un-mating of the fiber optic connector and the adapter.
US12321016B2
An optical fiber inspection system may include an alignment guide having a sleeve portion and a mechanical key structure. The sleeve portion may comprise a first opening arranged to be proximal to one or more optical components in an inspection device and a second opening arranged to be distal to the one or more optical components when the alignment guide is removably engaged with the inspection device. The mechanical key structure may be located adjacent to the second opening and have a shape to engage a geometry of one or more recesses in a bulkhead. Accordingly, the alignment guide may stabilize the inspection device at a particular angle relative to an end face of an object in a field of view of the one or more optical components when a shaft of the inspection device is inserted into the bulkhead.
US12321014B2
Configurations for an optical device used for light splitting and wavelength locking are disclosed. The optical device may be a two by three coupler with a first waveguide coupled to a second waveguide, and a third waveguide coupled to the second waveguide. The first and third waveguides may receive input light and optically couple light to the second waveguide. The output signals of the first, second, and third waveguides may have a constant phase difference from one another over a broadband wavelength range, which may allow for phase unwrapping. By phase unwrapping the output signals over an FSR and performing further phase unwrapping over the broadband wavelength range, a continuous signal may be produced and used to sequentially lock each wavelength of light emitted by light sources over the broadband wavelength range.
US12321012B2
The present disclosure relates to a process by which an optical fiber array is cleaved with a laser-cleaving apparatus. The coating material is stripped or removed from a section of an optical fiber array; a coated or ribbonized section of the optical fiber array is secured in a holder; the holder is aligned inside the laser-cleaving apparatus; the laser cleaves the stripped ends of the fibers in the optical fiber array; the laser-cleaved ends of the optical fibers are then mechanically separated to remove the free ends from the optical fibers in the optical fiber array, leaving a cleaved array of optical fibers. The cleaving process enables the optical fiber array to be cleaved at flexible locations along an optical fiber ribbon or optical fiber cable with no swelling, minimal cleave angle variation across the cores of the optical fibers, a controlled surface roughness of the optical fiber end-faces, and high process yield.
US12321009B1
Structures for a photonic chip that include a photodetector and methods of forming such structures. The structure comprises a photodetector including a pad, a first semiconductor layer on the pad, and a second semiconductor layer on the pad. The second semiconductor layer is laterally spaced from the first semiconductor layer. The structure further comprises a first waveguide core connected to the pad adjacent to the first semiconductor layer, and a second waveguide core connected to the pad adjacent to the second semiconductor layer.
US12321008B2
In a multi-chip module and method, the multi-chip module includes a carrier; a multimode optical waveguide formed on and/or in the carrier; a first and second chip disposed on the carrier and coupled to the multimode optical waveguide; wherein the first chip is configured to transmit light beams into the multimode optical waveguide; the multimode optical waveguide is configured to generate mixed light beams that are an at least partial superposition of the light beams; the second chip is configured to receive the mixed light beams from the multimode optical waveguide; and the second chip is configured to store a representation of the received mixed light beams as a transmission signature and/or as a cryptographic key in a memory associated with the second chip, and/or compare the representation of the received mixed light beams with a target representation stored in the memory associated with the second chip.
US12321002B2
A polarizer, an electronic device and a method of preparing the polarizer are provided. The polarizer includes a base substrate and a metal wire grid structure provided on the base substrate. The metal wire grid structure includes a plurality of metal wire grid layers and one or more dielectric layers stacked between adjacent metal wire grid layers of the metal wire grid layers. Each of the plurality of metal wire grid layers includes a plurality of metal wire strips periodically arranged in a first direction parallel to a surface of the base substrate, and each of the plurality of metal wire grid layers is stacked in a second direction perpendicular to the surface of the base substrate, and a period of the metal wire strips in each of the plurality of metal wire grid layers is less than or equal to 300 nm.
US12320991B2
A composite lens and a manufacturing method, and an infrared detector. The composite lens comprises a substrate (2); a lens (3) located on the first surface of the substrate (2); and a first metasurface structure array (1) that is provided on the second surface of the substrate (2) according to the surface type machining error of the lens (3), the first metasurface structure array (1) comprising a plurality of metasurface structure units. The first surface is opposite to the second surface. Because the lens (3) and the first metasurface structure array (1) are located on two different surfaces of the substrate (2), after the lens (3) is manufactured, the first metasurface structure array (1) can be set according to the surface type of the lens (3), so as to correct an aberration that is generated due to a surface type error when the lens (3) is machined; moreover, because the first metasurface structure array (1) can be set after the lens (3) is manufactured, the tolerance to a machining error is extremely high.
US12320990B2
An optical imaging system includes a sensor configured to obtain position and attitude information of the optical imaging system; an optical lens component; an image stabilizing mechanism, configured to change a path of the light based on the position and attitude information. The image stabilizing mechanism includes a first optical element; a support frame supporting the first optical element; a drive mechanism, configured to generate a linear driving force based on the position and attitude information; and a conversion part, configured to convert the linear driving force to a rotary driving force, so as to cause the support frame carrying the first optical element to move with respect to an axis to change the path of the light.
US12320989B2
A method of conical anisotropic rigorous coupled wave analysis for grating and a computing device are disclosed. The method includes: obtaining a target geometric phase δ′g for the anisotropic-material-based grating; obtaining a slow axis azimuth angle ϕc(x) of the anisotropic-material-based grating according to the target geometric phase δ′g; obtaining a permittivity tensor of the anisotropic-material-based grating, wherein the anisotropic-material-based grating has an ordinary index no and an extraordinary index ne, the anisotropic-material-based grating has a slow axis polar angle θc and slow axis azimuth angle ϕc(x), and the permittivity tensor is based on no, ne, θc and ϕc(x); applying the permittivity tensor into Maxwell equations; obtaining electromagnetic field for the anisotropic-material-based grating by using boundary conditions of at least two layers or sublayers of the anisotropic-material-based grating to obtain a diffraction efficiency for the anisotropic-material-based grating.
US12320987B2
A head-mounted device may include optical assemblies for presenting images to a user. Optical assembly positioning systems may be used to adjust the spacing between the optical assemblies to accommodate different interpupillary distances. The optical assembly positioning systems may have motors, shafts rotated by the motors, nuts that receive the shafts and that are moved as the shafts are rotated, and clutches that couple the nuts to the optical assemblies. The clutches may be spring-loaded clutches, magnetic clutches, electrically adjustable clutches, clutches that exhibit fixed clutch holding forces as a function of optical assembly position, and clutches that exhibit varying clutch holding forces as a function of optical assembly position. Electrically adjustable brakes may be used to help secure the optical assemblies in place.
US12320982B2
Aspects of the present disclosure relates to user interface systems and methods for use in head-worn computing systems.
US12320973B2
One disclosed example provides a near-eye display device. The near-eye display device comprises an eye tracking system configured to determine a position of an eye of a user relative to the near-eye display device, and a waveguide including at least an input coupler and an output coupler, the output coupler including a plurality of zones, each zone activatable via a dynamically controllable output coupling element of the zone. The near-eye display device further comprises an image source configured to output image light to the input coupler, and a controller configured to selectively activate one or more zones of the output coupler based at least on the position of the eye.
US12320970B2
An image forming apparatus includes a light emitting device that emits light, a movable mirror that reflects the light emitted from the light emitting device, a first actuator that causes the movable mirror to swing about a first axis, a first reference signal output portion that outputs a first reference signal by estimating a point in time when a deflection angle of the movable mirror about the first axis becomes equal to a first reference angle, a light emission controller that causes the light emitting device to emit the light based on the first reference signal output from the first reference signal output portion, an imaging apparatus that images the light reflected by the movable mirror, and a correction portion that corrects a timing of the first reference signal output by the first reference signal output portion based on imaging information acquired by the imaging apparatus.
US12320965B2
High-speed and high-accuracy focus adjustment is achieved. A microscope system (1) includes: an irradiation unit (18) that emits line illumination parallel to a first direction; a stage (26) that supports a specimen and is movable in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction; a phase difference acquisition unit (60I) that acquires phase difference information regarding an image of light emitted from the specimen by being irradiated with the line illumination; an objective lens (22) that focuses the line illumination on the specimen; a derivation unit (60E) that derives relative position information between the objective lens and the specimen based on the phase difference information; and a movement control unit (60F) that causes at least one of the objective lens and the stage to move in a third direction vertical to each of the first direction and the second direction based on the relative position information.
US12320963B2
A zoom lens L0 includes a first lens group L1 and a rear group LR disposed in order from an object side to an image side, the first lens group L1 having a negative refractive power and the rear group LR having a positive refractive power as a whole. The rear group LR includes a partial group LP, a partial group LN, and two or more lens groups between which distances change in zooming. When image blur is corrected, the partial group LN moves in a direction including a component of a direction perpendicular to an optical axis. A lens surface closest to the object side among lens surfaces of the partial group LN and a lens surface closest to the image side among the lens surfaces of the partial group LN are both concave surfaces.
US12320956B2
An optical arrangement having a center axis, an object side, an image side, and a catadioptric arrangement is provided. The catadioptric arrangement includes first and second partly reflective optical components, the first optical component including radially inner and radially outer regions, the inner region being configured to be transparent to light incident from the object side, and the outer region being configured to reflect light incident from the object side, the second optical component including a radially inner region and a radially outer region, the outer region being configured to be transparent to light incident from the object side, and the inner region being configured to be transparent to light incident from the object side and to reflect light incident from the image side. At least one further optical component with positive refractive power is arranged at the inner region of the second optical component on the object side.
US12320945B2
A method includes receiving historical well-production data, and determining curve parameters based on the historical well production data. Determining the curve parameters includes accounting for uncertainty. The method also includes determining curve fits for the historical data based on the curve parameters using a plurality of models, calculating accuracy for each of the models based on a comparison of the curve fits to the well-production data, comparing the accuracy for each of the models using an information criteria that accounts for uncertainty, selecting one of the models based on the comparison, and determining an estimated ultimate recovery (EUR) for the well using at least the selected one of the models.
US12320936B2
In the present invention, an earthquake detection system based on the combination configuration of a free field and remote signal source is provided. The earthquake detection system includes: a host; a main sensor arranged in a free field and connected to the host; and a plurality of backup sensors, which are remotely arranged with respect to the main sensor, wherein each of the backup is connected to the host via the internet and transmits a remote signal to the host so as to avoid misjudging the occurrence of earthquakes because of unnatural factors, and prevent the vibration caused by human activities from interfering with the detector. The earthquake detection system achieves the effect of verification through a plurality of sensors installed in different positions. Only when all the sensors confirm that there is an earthquake, an earthquake warning will be issued to the protected place, and two sensors set in different environments can be used to avoid the deficiency that the two sensors misjudge at the same time due to the same kind of interference that the two sensors may receive in the same environment.
US12320929B2
Provided are an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus and a control method for an ultrasound diagnostic apparatus capable of reducing power consumption by reliably detecting an operation status without being bothered by unintended vibration, contact, or the like. A power saving control circuit controls operations of an ultrasound probe and an apparatus main body by selecting one of a normal mode in which the ultrasound probe and the apparatus main body are normally operated or a power saving mode in which power consumption of at least a part of the ultrasound probe and the apparatus main body is reduced, on the basis of a determination result of the probe use determination unit as to whether or not the ultrasound probe is being used and presence or absence of an operation of the operation panel detected by the touch sensor.
US12320927B2
A ranging device includes a transmitter, a scanner including an optical element, and a detector. Working states of the ranging device after power-on include a normal state and a standby state. In the normal state, the transmitter transmits a light pulse sequence, the optical element is kept in a motion state to change the light pulse sequence to different directions to emit at different moments, and the detector receives at least part of reflected light reflected by an object and converts the at least part of the reflected light into an electrical signal, and determines at least one of a distance or an orientation of the object with respect to the ranging device according to the electrical signal. In the normal state, the transmitter suspends transmitting the light pulse sequence and the optical element is kept in the motion state.
US12320926B2
A light ranging system including a shaft having a longitudinal axis; a light ranging device configured to rotate about the longitudinal axis of the shaft, the light ranging device including a light source configured to transmit light pulses to objects in a surrounding environment, and detector circuitry configured to detect reflected portions of the light pulses that are reflected from the objects in the surrounding environment and to compute ranging data based on the reflected portion of the light pulses; a base subsystem that does not rotate about the shaft; and an optical communications subsystem configured to provide an optical communications channel between the base subsystem and the light ranging device, the optical communications subsystem including one or more turret optical communication components connected to the detector circuitry and one or more base optical communication components connected to the base subsystem.
US12320920B2
A linear chirp radar system, apparatus and method use a radar control processing unit to control an LFM radar front end which generates analog-to-digital (ADC) sample signals from one or more target return signals received in response to transmitted linear chirp radar signals, where the radar control processing unit is connected and configured to mitigate range migration by directly filtering the ADC samples using a modified Doppler filter that is tuned to fast-time scaled, slow-time frequencies to generate a focused ADC Doppler cube, and by applying a Fourier Transform on each Doppler cell in the focused ADC Doppler cube to generate a focused range-Doppler cube.
US12320918B2
A radar system includes a transmitter configured to transmit a radar signal; and a receiver configured to receive an echo signal obtained after the radar signal is reflected by a target, where a transmit antenna array of the transmitter and a receive antenna array of the receiver are used to form a virtual linear array and a virtual planar array, the virtual linear array includes a uniform linear array in a first direction, the virtual planar array includes a uniform planar array, and a first spacing between two adjacent array elements in the uniform linear array is less than a second spacing between two adjacent array elements in the first direction in the uniform planar array.
US12320914B2
A sensor system for determining occupancy in a space generally includes a transmitter radio device that transmits radio signals over a channel in the space; a receiver radio device that receives the transmitted radio signals that have traveled through the space; and at least one processor implementing an occupancy-centric algorithm that determines occupancy in the space based on the radio signals. The at least one processor determines channel state information based on the radio signals transmitted over the channel, determines occupancy in the space based on the channel state information, and outputs an occupancy signal based on the determined occupancy.
US12320909B2
A location system for locating workers including a plurality of light detectors mounted at known locations and configured to detect light from one or more workers, and a processing system configured to determine locations of the workers using the light detected by the light detectors. There is also disclosed a wearable device for locating a worker including a wireless transceiver, and a wearable device light source and/or one or more reflective elements. There is also disclosed a method for locating workers including detecting light from one or more workers using a plurality of light detectors mounted at known locations, and determining locations of the workers using the light detected by the light detectors.
US12320908B2
Location-based systems, such as a Real-time Location System (RTLS), are used to locate and track assets such as equipment, people, etc. In order to accomplish high accuracy in determining locations of assets, the information sent to the location server from sensors should be accurate, relevant, sufficient, and timely. The limitations of a low bandwidth network between the sensors and the location server may pose challenges to reliably determining locations of assets. This invention is related to a hybrid lighting and location system, which involves the use of a system control device and lighting devices that may include integrated sensors, transceivers, etc. Different embodiments are disclosed on apparatus, methods and systems to resolve the potential network congestion in such a hybrid system.
US12320907B2
The present disclosure provides for systems and methods for quasi-static and dynamic characterization and adjustment of radio frequency aperture and transmission. The system may comprise a transmission structure with a plurality of sensors and a plurality of optical metric markers. The system may send information from an estimator to one or more controllers via corrective signals. The method may comprise conversion of distance measurements received from a plurality of sensors to plot cartesian coordinates in three-dimensional space as a function of time. The computation module may comprise multilateration or trilateration and the estimator. When the system comprises one or more controllers, the controllers may be actuated in response to optical information received from the plurality of optical metric markers. The estimator may provide knowledge needed for phase correction of large array from sparse data that is then translated to controller actuation.
US12320904B2
Aspects presented herein may improve the positioning accuracy and latency of a positioning engine that receives at least one position constraint for assisting the positioning. A wireless device obtains an indication of at least one position constraint for a positioning engine. The wireless device detects whether the at least one position constraint exceeds an error threshold based on a set of PR residuals between the wireless device and at least one satellite. The wireless device excludes the at least one position constraint from a calculation at the positioning engine if the at least one position constraint exceeds the error threshold, or includes the at least one position constraint in the calculation at the positioning engine if the at least one position constraint is below the error threshold.
US12320898B2
A system and method for vehicle odometry using coherent range Doppler optical sensors. The system and method includes operating a Doppler light detection and ranging (LIDAR) system to collect raw point cloud data that indicates for a point a plurality of dimensions, wherein a dimension of the plurality of dimensions includes an inclination angle, an azimuthal angle, a range, or a relative speed between the point and the LIDAR system; determining a corrected velocity vector for the Doppler LIDAR system based on the raw point cloud data; and producing revised point cloud data that is corrected for the velocity of the Doppler LIDAR system.
US12320888B2
Examples are disclosed that relate to utilizing a facial tracking sensor for controlling computer-generated facial expressions. One example provides a method of controlling computer-generated facial expressions. The method comprises receiving a sensor value acquired via a facial tracking sensor and determining an interpolated value for the sensor value within a value range. The value range corresponding to a blendshape range for a facial expression. The method further comprises determining a blendshape mapping based at least upon the interpolated value, determining expression data based at least upon the blendshape mapping, and providing the expression data to a device.
US12320884B1
Autonomous self-calibration procedure for autonomous loop impedance measuring devices, with a system like the previous one, which comprises an initial stage (8) for obtaining a normalized calibration curve (8.1) of the measuring device and introduction of the normalized values (8.2) in the memory, and a self-calibration stage (9) that includes the phases for obtaining the range (10) of the loop resistance (Rb) of the measuring device, and calculation (14) of the loop impedance values (15).
US12320883B2
A first resistivity value and a correlation function relating thickness of a conductive layer having the first resistivity value to a signal from an in-situ monitoring system are stored. A second resistivity value for a conductive layer on a substrate is received. A sequence of signal values that depend on thickness of the conductive layer is received from an in-situ electromagnetic induction monitoring system that monitors the substrate during polishing. A sequence of thickness values is generated based on the sequence of signal values and the correlation function. For at least some thickness values of the sequence of thickness values adjusted thickness values are generated that compensate for variation between the first resistivity value and the second resistivity value to generate a sequence of adjusted thickness values. A polishing endpoint is detected or an adjustment for a polishing parameter is determined based on the sequence of adjusted thickness values.
US12320862B2
A battery management system includes a voltage measurement circuit for generating a voltage signal indicating a cell voltage of each of a plurality of battery cells connected in series, and a controller. The controller determines an observation matrix including a plurality of observation voltage vectors indicating a voltage history of each of the plurality of battery cells in a moving window having a predetermined size based on the voltage signal. The controller determines a recovery matrix including a plurality of recovery voltage vectors corresponding to the plurality of observation voltage vectors in a one-to-one relationship. The controller detects an abnormality of each of the plurality of battery cells based on a plurality of absolute error vectors indicating a difference between the plurality of observation voltage vectors and the plurality of recovery voltage vectors.
US12320861B2
A battery status measurement method includes following steps. A voltage detection circuit (102) is connected to a motor (202) and a battery (204). The battery (204) provides a starting voltage (206) to the motor (202) to start the motor (202). The voltage detection circuit (102) detects the starting voltage (206) to obtain a minimum starting voltage value (208). The voltage detection circuit (102) sends the minimum starting voltage value (208) to a comparing unit (104). The comparing unit (104) compares the minimum starting voltage value (208) and a starting voltage threshold value (210) to obtain a battery status signal (212). The comparing unit (104) sends the battery status signal (212) to a display (106). The display (106) displays the battery status signal (212).
US12320860B2
A deterioration diagnosis apparatus of an assembled battery includes at least one processor. The at least one processor executes discharging of each of a plurality of cells included in the assembled battery, measures a voltage of each of the cells during the discharging, ends the discharging at a predetermined discharging end timing, and estimates a deterioration degree of the assembled battery using voltage data indicating a transition of a voltage of at least one of the cells from a discharging start voltage to a predetermined discharging end voltage. When the voltage of at least one of the cells reaches the discharging end voltage, the at least one processor decides the discharging end timing using the voltage data of the cell of which the voltage reaches the discharging end voltage.
US12320859B2
A jig for impedance measurement of a battery cell includes: a jig body configured to receive a battery cell in a longitudinal direction; a first bus bar installed on a first side of the jig body, the first bus bar being configured to couple to a first lead part of the battery cell; a second bus bar installed on a second side of the jig body, the second bus bar being configured to couple to a second lead part of the battery cell; an impedance measuring board in the jig body; and a conducting line for impedance measurement connecting the first bus bar, the impedance measuring board, and the second bus bar to constitute an impedance measuring circuit. A part of the conducting line for impedance measurement faces a surface of the battery cell and extends in the longitudinal direction of the battery cell.
US12320855B2
A method for ascertaining a state of charge of an energy storage unit of a measuring device and/or a probable remaining operating time of the measuring device, includes capturing a plurality of voltage measured values for the voltage dropped across the energy storage unit and a plurality of current measured values for the current provided by the energy storage unit within a respective ascertainment interval. Subsequently, the state of charge associated with the respective ascertainment interval and/or the remaining running time associated with the ascertainment interval are ascertained in each case depending on the plurality of voltage measured values and current measured values. A measuring device for capturing a measured variable is also provided.
US12320843B2
Systems and techniques for performing processor debugging over an internal interconnect fabric are described. An example techniques includes obtaining interconnect fabric traffic comprising one or more debugging commands for a first processor within a computing system. The interconnect fabric traffic with the one or more debugging commands is converted into debugging traffic with the one or more debugging commands. The debugging traffic is routed to a debug port of the first processor.
US12320833B2
The disclosure relates to a method of fabricating a test socket including forming a plate-shaped first coupling block by joining a first base member made of a conductive material and a first insulating member made of an insulating material; forming a plate-shaped second coupling block by joining a second base member made of the conductive material and a second insulating member made of the insulating material; forming a first barrel accommodating hole for accommodating a part of the probe and a first support hole for supporting one end portion of the probe in the first coupling block; forming a second barrel accommodating hole for accommodating the rest of the probe and a first support hole for supporting the other end portion of the probe in the second coupling block; inserting one end of the probe into the first barrel accommodating hole to be supported on the first support hole, and inserting the other end of the probe into the second barrel accommodating hole to be supported on the second support hole; and joining the first coupling block and the second coupling block.
US12320828B2
Magnetic field detector module comprising a pair of magnetic field concentrators, an airgap formed between the pair of magnetic field concentrators, a magnetic field sensing cell mounted within the airgap, a plurality of terminals for interconnecting the magnetic field sensing cell to an external circuit, and an insulating housing within which the magnetic field concentrators, magnetic field sensing cell, and the terminals are assembled. The magnetic field detector module further comprises a circuit board on which the magnetic field sensing cell is mounted such that a portion of the circuit board is inserted in the airgap, each terminal having a substantially planar shape cut out of a sheet of metal arranged substantially orthogonally to the circuit board and comprising an internal board connection portion having a pair of opposed contacts separated by a slot, each contact engaging a respective side of the circuit board.
US12320820B2
A sample pretreatment device of an aspect of the present invention includes a conveyance mechanism (22) including a Z-axis guide (223) that linearly moves in two axes of an X axis and a Y axis and expands/contracts in a Z-axis direction on a table (21) where a unit that performs each step of pretreatment is arranged. The Z-axis guide (22) is integrally provided with a liquid handler (224) and a grip handler (225) oriented in opposite directions to each other. A side wall of a housing (20) on the autosampler side is provided with a sample conveyance opening (201). When pretreatment of a sample ends, the Z-axis guide (223) is moved to a position close to the opening (201) in a state where a gripper (228) grips a pretreated plate. An arm (227) enters a housing of the autosampler through the opening (201) and an opening formed in the autosampler, and sets a plate at a predetermined position. Thus, the sample pretreatment device can eliminate the labor of the worker setting a pretreated sample in the analysis device.
US12320812B2
Methods for diagnosing the presence of BCR in prostate cancer in a subject are provided, such methods including the detection of levels of a variety of biomarkers diagnostic of BCR. Compositions in the form of kits and panels of reagents for detecting the biomarkers of the invention are also provided.
US12320808B2
Described herein are compositions and methods for performing plasmapheresis. The compositions and methods for performing plasmapheresis are innovative at least in their application towards the treatment and prevention of aging and conditions associated with aging. Plasmapheresis compositions and methods described herein are directed towards reducing or eliminating conditions associated with aging.
US12320806B2
The application describes a method of quantifying a multimeric analyte in a sample comprising: (i) treating the multimeric analyte with a separating agent selected to convert at least a portion of the multimeric analyte into monomeric analyte; (ii) binding the analyte to an analyte-specific binding agent; (iii) comparing the amount of binding of the analyte to the analyte-specific binding agent to a calibration curve, wherein the calibration curve is obtained (i) by binding the analyte-specific binding agent to one or more predetermined amounts of separating agent treated analyte, prior to contacting with analyte-specific binding agent or (ii) by binding the analyte-specific binding agent to a predetermined amount of substantially monomeric analyte; and (iv) determining an amount of the multimeric analyte in the sample.
US12320803B2
Devices, systems, and methods for detecting molecules of interest within a collected sample are described herein. In certain embodiments, self-contained sample analysis systems are disclosed, which include a reusable reader component, a disposable cartridge component, and a disposable sample collection component. The reader component may communicate with a remote computing device for the digital transmission of test protocols and test results. In various disclosed embodiments, the systems, components, and methods are configured to identify the presence, absence, and/or quantity of particular nucleic acids, proteins, or other analytes of interest, for example, in order to test for the presence of one or more pathogens or contaminants in a sample.
US12320788B2
Disclosed herein are chromatography columns with conical or reducing inside dimensions and improved fits for use therewith, along with methods for making the columns and the frits.
US12320787B2
Exemplary embodiments eliminate the need for column ovens in serial column chromatography arrangements and systems by using insulated sleeves. The insulated sleeves may encase individual chromatography columns or clusters of chromatography columns. The use of the insulated sleeves allows the chromatography columns to be positioned in close proximity to each other. This may decrease the overall size of a serial column chromatography arrangement and may reduce costs by not requiring the column ovens.
US12320771B2
The inventive concepts disclosed herein are generally directed to the need to measure a microsample and obtain one or more measurement for one or more analyte in the microsample by configuring a sensor array having one or more first reference signal source interlaced with one or more analyte sensor positioned along the longitudinal axis the sensor body and a second reference signal source positioned downstream of the sensor body along a sample flow path.
US12320768B2
A measuring device includes a substrate having a first surface and a second surface on an opposite side from the first surface, a first electrode and a second electrode provided on the substrate, a heat-sensitive portion, provided on the first surface, and configured to detect heat of a substance that makes contact with the first surface, a temperature sensor provided on the second surface, and a heat transfer member, penetrating the substrate, and configured to transfer heat of the heat-sensitive portion to the temperature sensor.
US12320760B2
The present application relates to a device and a method for detecting SAR and a mobile terminal. The device comprises: an SAR sensor, a plurality of first capacitance limitation modules, a plurality of second capacitance limitation modules, and a plurality of signal isolation modules. The SAR sensor comprises a plurality of detection ports each is configured to perform SAR detection on one antenna. The first end and second end of each first capacitance limitation module are connected to the antenna and the detection port respectively. The first end and second end of each second capacitance limitation module is connected to the detection port and a power control circuit respectively. The first end of each signal isolation module is connected to the antenna; the second end of each signal isolation module is connected to the detection port.
US12320757B2
A semiconductor inspection tool system is disclosed. The system comprises a first illumination setup for generating at least one first illumination radiation and for directing the at least one first illumination radiation to at least one bonding region non-filled volume formed between two layers of a multi-layer stack. The system also comprises a second illumination setup being for generating at least one second illumination radiation and for directing the at least one second illumination radiation at multi-layer stack edges. The second illumination radiation is configured for illuminating at least a normal edge of at least two layers, the second illumination setup has different radiation parameters than the first illumination setup. The system further includes a bonding region sensor unit for collecting reflected electromagnetic radiation from a bonding region volume and generating at least one sensing data being indicative of the bonding region.
US12320753B2
Methods and systems for determining the concentration of compounds, such as proteins, in compositions comprising adjuvanted complexes of the compounds are provided. The methods and systems generally comprise (i) measuring the intrinsic fluorescence of a composition comprising adjuvanted complexes of the compound and (ii) comparing the measured fluorescence intensity value to a calibration curve prepared using known concentrations of the compound. Also provided are methods and systems for determining percent adsorption of a selected compound to an adjuvant.
US12320750B2
A solution is proposed for testing a luminescence imaging apparatus (105). A corresponding testing device (110) comprises one or more seats (320) and one or more containers (325), each filled with a liquid comprising at least one luminescence substance and accommodated in a corresponding seat (320); the seats (320) have corresponding windows (330) for imaging the luminescence substance of the containers (325) accommodated therein. The seats (320) are slanted with respect to a resting surface (310) of the testing device (110). A holder (305) for use in the testing device (100) is further provided. A luminescence imaging apparatus (105) for use with the testing device (110) is also proposed. Moreover, a system (100) comprising a luminescence imaging apparatus (105) and this testing device (110) is proposed.
US12320737B2
A device suitable for measuring or quantifying the permeation or diffusion of one or more substances through a membrane, said device including a housing at least part of which is configured to form a first chamber or cell capable of holding a fluid or liquid in use, and a membrane support means to hold or locate at least one membrane in use adjacent to said first chamber or cell, wherein the first chamber or cell includes one or more windows or orifices through which ultraviolet (UV), visible (VIS) and/or infrared (IR) electromagnetic radiation can pass.
US12320728B2
A liquid intrusion detection system includes a controller board, an absorbent material, first electrical contacts, and at least one processor. The controller board is disposed within a housing of an electric power steering unit. The absorbent material is at least partially disposed about a component. The first electrical contacts have first ends disposed on at least one of the controller board and the absorbent material. The at least one processor in communication with the first electrical contacts.
US12320725B2
An object of the present disclosure is to provide a few-mode fiber testing method and a few-mode fiber testing device capable of acquiring a loss and inter-mode crosstalk for each mode at a connection point of a few-mode fiber by measurement only from one end of FUT. The few-mode fiber testing method according to the present disclosure includes receiving a test light pulse in a basic mode from one end of an optical fiber under test that is connected in series with few-mode fibers of the same type, measuring an intensity distribution relating to a distance from the one end of backward Brillouin scattering light generated by receiving a test light pulse, obtaining a transmittance of the backward Brillouin scattering light at a connection point of the optical fiber under test from the measured intensity distribution, and calculating a connection loss of the basic mode from the transmittance, calculating a ratio of an axial deviation amount to a mode field radius of the optical fiber under test at the connection point from the calculated connection loss, and calculating a connection loss of a higher-order mode and inter-mode crosstalk between different modes from the calculated ratio.
US12320724B2
Shaped body, in particular for a pressure sensor, having a membrane and having a supporting section supporting the membrane, the membrane being produced at least in sections from a ceramic material by means of additive manufacturing, in particular 3D screen printing, and having at least in sections a thickness of less than 0.5 mm.
US12320723B2
A capillary pressure measurement device includes a centrifuge having a rotating apparatus adapted to hold porous media samples and to test the samples under centrifugal motion during rotation of the rotating apparatus. A fluid capture device disposed adjacent to each porous media sample receives fluid displaced from the sample due to centrifugal motion applied to the sample during rotation. A measurement system measures an amount of fluid displaced from the porous media samples by taking an image of a fluid meniscus in the fluid capture device. A position sensor determines a position of the fluid capture device and triggers a camera to take the image of the fluid meniscus when the fluid meniscus is in a field of view of the camera. The image of the fluid meniscus is processed to determine a fluid volume correlated to capillary pressure of the corresponding porous media sample.
US12320720B2
A device for connecting one or more sensors to a pipe, may include a sealed capsule and a pipe connector. The sealed capsule may include the one or more sensors and a non-corrosive liquid. The pipe connector may be configured to fix the sealed capsule to the pipe. The one or more sensors may be configured to measure pressure or pressure transient from a first liquid via the non-corrosive liquid.
US12320705B2
The present disclosure generally pertains to a polarization imaging portion having a plurality of imaging elements, wherein each imaging element is configured to convert light into an electric signal, the polarization imaging portion further including: a set of event sensors configured to detect an event being indicative of an intensity change of the light; a set of polarization filters; and a set of tunable polarizers configured to adjust a polarization of the light in response to an electric signal, wherein each polarization filter of the set of polarization filters is associated with a respective tunable polarizer of the set of tunable polarizers, thereby configuring a set of tunable polarization filters, such that the set of tunable polarization filters is associated with the set of event sensors.
US12320693B2
A method and system for detecting dirt on an electrode of an electromagnetic flowmeter are provided. The method includes: under three different conditions acquiring resistance values between the electrode and ground to form a first dataset, second datasets, and a sample set to be tested; extracting a positive definite feature matrix corresponding to each sample batch and calculating a Riemann center thereof; calculating a similarity index between the sample feature matrix and each of the first feature matrices and second feature matrices; extracting/feature matrices with a largest similarity index, and calculating a local Riemann center thereof; and calculating proximity between the local Riemann center and each of the second Riemann centers, and determining that a Riemann center with the greatest proximity corresponds to dirt on the electrode corresponding to the sample set to be tested. The method can achieve online rapid detection of dirt on the electrode.
US12320679B2
A sensor assembly for a rotary sensor is provided. The sensor assembly comprises a sensor housing, a sensor shield, and a sensor. The sensor housing defines a cavity. The sensor shield is disposed within the cavity of the sensor housing and defines a slot along a length of the sensor shield. The sensor shield is composed of a highly permeable material. The sensor is disposed within the cavity and at least a portion of the sensor is positioned within the slot of the sensor shield. The sensor comprises a printed circuit board having a plurality of sensor elements disposed along an inner circumference of the printed circuit board in a radially outward direction, and each sensor element is positioned at an equal distance from each other.
US12320677B2
The present disclosure provides tracking systems and methods. One such method comprises generating a continuous wave signal over a frequency range; applying the continuous wave signal to a reading coil element that is electromagnetically coupled to a sensor array, in which the sensor array comprises a plurality of sensing resonators tuned at different resonance frequencies, where an output frequency response of the sensor array varies as a function of a location of a target object or a shape of the target object within a coverage area of the sensor array; acquiring frequency spectrum data showing changes in the output frequency response of the sensor array from the reading coil element; and predicting, by a control unit device using machine learning, a location of the target object within the coverage area or a behavior of the target object based on the acquired frequency spectrum data. Other methods and systems are also provided.
US12320668B2
A system and a method include a control unit configured to monitor one or more values of one or more aircraft at one or more airports, and compare the one or more values with one or more attributes of one or more airport maps associated with the one or more airports to determine accuracy of the one or more airport maps.
US12320659B2
A path determination method includes: obtaining current position information and destination position information of a target vehicle; determining a candidate path of the target vehicle according to the current position information and the destination position information; acquiring road condition information of the candidate path and reference vehicle information; determining first energy consumption information required to be consumed by the target vehicle to travel on the candidate path over a unit distance according to the road condition information and the reference vehicle information; and recommending the candidate path to the target vehicle according to the first energy consumption information.
US12320653B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for receiving, by a smart infrastructure device and from a first vehicle, first information associated with the first vehicle in a first format associated with a first communication protocol. The first information is converted from the first format into an agnostic format. An image, video, or real-time feed of an environment of the smart infrastructure device is captured. The first vehicle and a second vehicle in the image, video, or real-time feed is identified. It is determined that the second vehicle is temporarily or permanently incapable of performing a communication with the smart infrastructure device based on the image, video, or real-time feed. The image, video, or real-time feed is analyzed to generate second information associated with the second vehicle. The second information is converted into the agnostic format.
US12320650B2
This disclosure describes a map-matching module that supports a Global Positioning System (GPS) and provides a user with a best match trajectory corresponding to GPS sampling points taken at a low sampling rate. The best match trajectory is based upon a spatial-temporal analysis.
US12320646B2
An instrument tracker includes a case having an interior and exterior with a plurality of instrument seats, an inertial measurement unit (IMU), and a controller. The IMU and controller are arranged within the interior of the case and the controller is disposed in communication with the IMU and is responsive to instructions recorded on a memory to receive position information from the IMU, determine at least one of position and orientation of an instrument fixed relative to the case by the plurality of instrument seats using the position information received from the IMU, and transmit the at least one of position and orientation to a display device for displaying position and orientation of the instrument relative to a predetermined insertion path through a subject between an entry point on the surface of the subject and a region of interest within the interior of the subject. Instrument tracking systems and methods tracking position of instruments are also described.
US12320644B2
Embodiments relate to an Inertia Measurement Unit (IMU) sensor that generates strain information including a change in strain based on first output light of a first type of optical fiber sensing unit, calculates acceleration information of an object on which an IMU sensor (10) is mounted based on the strain information, generates angular velocity information based on output light of a second type of optical fiber sensing unit, and calculates angle information of the object based on the rotational speed information.
US12320643B2
A drilling system includes a method of determining an orientation of a drill string in a borehole. Sensor readings of a magnetic field of a drill bit are obtained at a plurality of positions along a curve extending around the drill bit along a longitudinal bit axis from a first location to a second location. A drill string includes the drill bit and a downhole magnetic field sensor that obtains a measurement of a local earth magnetic field, wherein the measurement is affected by the magnetic field of the drill bit. A processor determines a magnetic dipole moment of the drill bit from the plurality of sensor readings, calculates a second measurement of the local earth magnetic field downhole using the magnetic dipole moment of the drill bit, and determines the orientation of the drill string from the calculated correction of the measurement of the local earth magnetic field.
US12320638B2
Systems and methods for a vehicle pedal assembly and an inductive sensor assembly thereof. The inductive sensor assembly includes a rotary inductive sensor target and a printed circuit board (PCB) positioned opposite the rotary inductive sensor target. The inductive sensor assembly includes a first inductive sensor circuit defined on the PCB. The first inductive sensor circuit includes a first coil circuit including a first coil having a first electrical current in a first flow direction and a second electrical coil having a second current in a second flow direction opposite to the first flow direction. The first inductive sensor circuit is configured such that a rotation of the rotary inductive sensor target induces a change in the first electrical current and the second electrical current within the first coil and the second coil.
US12320636B2
In one embodiment, a method is provided. The method includes obtaining sensor data indicative of a set of objects detected within an environment. The method also includes determining a set of positions of the set of objects and a set of properties of the set of objects based on the sensor data. The method further includes generating a state graph based on the sensor data. The state graph represents the set of objects and the set of positions of the set of objects. The state graph includes a set of object nodes to represent the set of objects and a set of property nodes to represent the set of properties of the set of objects. The state graph is provided to a graph enhancement module that updates the state graph with additional data to generate an enhanced state graph.
US12320632B2
A compact displacement sensor comprises a light intensity pattern object, a micro-lens array and an imaging device including a light-intensity measuring surface. The micro-lens array is disposed between the light intensity pattern object and the imaging device such that each micro-lens focuses a corresponding sub-image making up a portion of the light-intensity pattern on the light-intensity measuring surface to create thereupon an image of the object comprising an array of focused sub-images. The displacement sensor can provide high resolution measurements of displacement of the light intensity pattern object from a reference position by registering subsequent images captured after a change in relative position between light intensity pattern object and the imaging device to a reference image based on pattern portions in the focused sub-images.
US12320631B2
A measurement apparatus, comprising: a projection apparatus configured to project a predetermined pattern on a subject; and an image capturing system configured to capture a group of images from at least two different viewpoints, wherein the distance between the viewpoints is shorter than the distances between the projection apparatus and the viewpoints, the measurement apparatus further comprising: relative position calculation means for obtaining a relative position of the projection apparatus relative to at least one of the viewpoints from pattern image positions on the group of images and a positional relationship between the viewpoints, wherein distance information regarding the subject is acquired from the relative position and a pattern image position on an image at the viewpoint.
US12320627B2
A method measures an object using a CMM having a CMM accuracy. To that end, the method provides a jogbox with a 3D scanner having a scanner accuracy, positions the object on the CMM, and scans, using the 3D scanner, the object to produce scan data of the object. The method also measures a first portion of the object using the scan data, and a second portion of the object using the CMM. The CMM accuracy is more accurate than the scanner accuracy.
US12320626B2
A delivery system for mixing and dispensing a gel stemming material into a blast hole is disclosed. The system includes a dual-pump assembly in fluid communication with respective sources of a first gel precursor fluid and a second gel precursor fluid; a pair of hoses associated with a means to vary an effective length of said hoses; a dosing head having a first inlet and a second inlet, said inlets arranged in respective fluid communication via said hoses with the dual pump assembly to receive the first and second gel precursor fluids, the dosing head being configured to receive and mix the first and second gel precursor fluids to produce the gel stemming material and to dispense the gel stemming material via an outlet. In use, the effective length of the hoses may be varied to position the dosing head and dispense the gel stemming material in the blast hole.
US12320624B1
A device is provided for inhibiting pitch and yaw within a barrel bore of a gun-launched projectile having a nose and a boattail. The device includes an endcap, a cruciform and a plug. The endcap attaches to the boattail. The endcap includes a center cavity. The cruciform includes a central ring that engages around the endcap. The cruciform further includes a plurality of radial spokes. Each spoke extends from the ring and ends in a flange that engages the bore. The plug inserts into the ring and the cavity. After the projectile launches from the bore, the plug sheers away from the endcap, thereby causing the cruciform to separate from the endcap. Preferably, the endcap, cruciform and plug are composed of aluminum alloy.
US12320620B2
A method of operating a back-up aiming system for an artillery device having at least one back-up aiming drive unit and an artillery unit for a vehicle. The back-up aiming system is operated at least in the event of a failure of a main aiming system of the artillery device. An activation signal is provided to an interface to a back-up aiming electronics unit, the activation signal being configured to activate the back-up aiming system. A setpoint signal is read via an interface to a detection device, wherein an alignment signal with a setpoint speed and/or a setpoint torque with respect to a movement of the artillery device is calculated and set from the setpoint signal of the at least one back-up aiming drive unit. At least one alignment signal is outputted for aligning the at least one back-up aiming drive unit after the step of reading.
US12320618B2
A zoom sight includes a sight body, an inner tube, a zoom lens set, an eyepiece set, and a drive member. The inner tube is provided in the sight body, and capable of making circumferential rotation around a central axis of the inner tube; an axial position of the inner tube relative to the sight body is stable; the zoom lens set is provided in the inner tube, and linked with the inner tube; the inner tube in the circumferential rotation drives the zoom lens set to move along an axial direction of the inner tube; the eyepiece set is provided at an end of the sight body close to an eye side; the drive member is connected between the inner tube and the eyepiece set; and the drive member, the eyepiece set, and the inner tube maintain synchronous circumferential rotation.
US12320614B2
The present disclosure provides systems and techniques for determining whether a user is holding a gun. The gun may include a sensor, such as a laser proximity sensor, a capacitive proximity sensor, a load cell, an accelerometer, or a biometric sensor, and the gun may determine whether a user is holding the gun based on an output generated by the sensor. A processor housed in the gun may identify activation of a proximity sensor, determine that a user is holding the gun based on the activation of the proximity sensor, and perform an action in response to determining that the user is holding the gun. The action performed by the processor may include performing a boot procedure, performing a health check procedure, visually indicating state information about the gun, audibly indicating state information about the gun, or tactilely indicating state information about the gun.
US12320612B2
An air launch apparatus includes a frame, a grip, and a plurality of sidewalls and also includes a hollow substantially cylindrical barrel having a central longitudinal axis. The air launch apparatus further includes a piston disposed substantially concentric with the barrel. The piston is configured to move longitudinally along the outer surface of the barrel in directions parallel to the longitudinal axis. The air launch apparatus also includes a nut that is configured to engage the piston as a front block carrying the nut is drawn rearward toward a user, and to hold the piston stationary relative to the front block while so engaged. A plunger, fixedly connected to the piston, is configured to move with the piston. Movement of the piston and plunger, forward during cocking draws air into a volume within an air chamber of the air launch apparatus. The plunger, together with the piston, is driven rearward (toward the user) during firing of the air launch apparatus.
US12320610B2
A cover kit for a firearm handguard having a plurality of slots, the cover kit includes a bottom side detachably mounted on the slot of the firearm handguard; fastening means for securing the cover body to cover the slot on the firearm handguard; a cable secured between the bottom side of the cover body and the firearm handguard; wherein the bottom side comprises a plurality of horizontal tunnels and a plurality of transversal tunnels intersected with the transversal tunnels; wherein the cable is embedded in at least one of transversal tunnel and/or the horizontal tunnels.
US12320605B2
A connector assembly for connecting a firearm accessory to a muzzle device for a firearm is disclosed. The connector assembly comprises a first connector part and a second connector part engaged to the first connector part by a threaded engagement. The first connector part presents a first engagement surface. At least two clamp members are configured to receive the muzzle device therebetween, the clamp members coupled to the second connector part to be axially and rotationally retained thereto. Each of the clamp members presents a second engagement surface to engage the first engagement surface. Rotation of the first connector part relative to the second connector part in a first direction moves the first connector part from a first relative axial position to a second relative axial position to engage the first engagement surface against the second engagement surfaces, to drive the clamp members radially inwards against the muzzle device in an inward radial position, to thereby clamp the muzzle device and connect the firearm accessory to the firearm.
US12320600B2
A trigger mechanism assembly for a firearm provides a horizontal arrangement of its sear relative to a trigger of the firearm by way of a linkage bar. The sear and a disconnector share a pivot point, wherein at each engagement surface between the pivot point and the sear and the disconnector, respectively, there is a bearing. A pair of mandibles is provided, one mandible by each of the sear and the disconnector. A spring is operatively associated between the sear and the disconnector to bias them to rotate about the pivot point dependently, whereby a first distance between the pair of mandibles is maintained. An inclined surface is provided along at least one mandible so that a downward force urged by a hammer against the inclined surface moves the disconnector independently of the sear, whereby a second distance between the pair of mandibles is greater than the first distance.
US12320597B2
The purpose of the present invention is to provide a plate-type heat exchanger in which the formation of burrs and chips during fin processing may be eliminated by eliminating fin processing work for stacking and bonding fins and plates. In order to achieve the above purpose, a plate-type heat exchanger according to the present invention is characterized by comprising: plates which include an inlet formed on one side in the longitudinal direction, an outlet formed on the other side in the longitudinal direction, and a flow surface formed between the inlet and the outlet; and a fin part which is inserted into a plate part formed by bonding a pair of the plates and rests on the flow surface. The plates include a fin part movement preventing means to ensure that one end of the fin part in the longitudinal direction is spaced a certain distance from the inlet and the other end of the fin part in the longitudinal direction is spaced a certain distance from the outlet such that the fin part rests only on the flow surface.
US12320595B2
A flow chamber, a cooling system and a method are described. The flow chamber includes an upper chamber including a top wall, an actuator, and a lower chamber. The actuator is located distally from the top wall. The lower chamber receives fluid from the upper chamber when the actuator is actuated. The top wall includes at least one cavity therein. The cooling system utilizes cooling cells including the flow chamber. The method includes driving the actuator at a frequency that directs fluid through the flow chamber.
US12320593B2
An integrated vapor chamber includes a metallic top cover, a metallic bottom cover, a working space, capillary structures and a working fluid in the working space. The top cover includes oppositely an outer heat-dissipating surface and an inner condensation surface surrounded by a top frame. The inner condensation surface has parallel top grooves and protrusive supporting structures. The bottom cover includes oppositely an outer heat-absorption surface having recessed spaces for accommodating electronic elements and an inner evaporation surface surrounded by a bottom frame. The inner evaporation surface has parallel bottom grooves. The working space is an airtight space formed by engaging the top frame and the bottom frame with the inner condensation surface to face the inner evaporation surface, the top grooves to overlap individually the bottom grooves, the supporting structures to contact individually at the inner evaporation surface among the bottom grooves.
US12320579B2
Disclosed are a method for updating data of a refrigerator freshness reservation model, a device and a storage medium. The method includes: S1, collecting refrigerator information of a plurality of users, wherein the refrigerator information of each user includes an item identifier corresponding to each of stored items in a refrigerator, and a usage frequency; S2, performing statistical computation on the refrigerator information to acquire a mean and a variance of usage frequencies corresponding to each food identifier; and S3, screening the refrigerator information based on the acquired mean and variance. In the present invention, uploaded data are automatically screened in an optimizing manner by mutual cooperation between the means and the variances, such that the uploaded data can be filtered, thereby maintaining the calculation accuracy while reducing the pressure on a server.
US12320576B2
A home appliance includes a refrigerator including a panel assembly. The panel assembly includes: a first panel formed of a glass material; a second panel spaced apart from the first panel and formed of a glass material; a plurality of spacers provided between the first panel and the second panel so as to maintain a gap between the first panel and the second panel, and arranged to be spaced apart from each other; a sealing member disposed between the first panel and the second panel for sealing a space between the first panel and the second panel; an exhaust hole provided in at least one of the first panel and the second panel so as to discharge air such that the space between the first panel and the second panel becomes a vacuum insulation space; and a cover member covering the exhaust hole.
US12320571B2
A refrigeration appliance includes a cabinet having a trim breaker defining a mullion region and a refrigerant system. The cabinet defines a first compartment and a second compartment. The refrigerant system includes a refrigerant defining a flow path through a compressor, a heat loop coupled to the compressor, a condenser coupled to the heat loop, and an evaporator assembly coupled to the compressor and the condenser. The heat loop is routed around a perimeter of the cabinet and through the mullion region. The evaporator assembly includes at least one first evaporator disposed in the first compartment and a second evaporator disposed in the second compartment. The at least one first evaporator may include a first roll bond evaporator coupled to a second roll bond evaporator in series with the first, or a wire-on-tube evaporator.
US12320565B2
A refrigeration cycle device includes: a refrigerant circuit which circulates a mixed refrigerant containing at least CF3I and HFO1123, the RC including a compressor, an expansion valve, an indoor heat exchanger, an outdoor heat exchanger and a refrigerant reservoir; an injection pipe having a first end at a first height within the refrigerant reservoir and a second end connected to the compressor; and an injection valve included in the injection pipe. The CF3I has the greatest fluid density among refrigerants contained in the mixed refrigerant. The first height is higher than a height at which an end of a refrigerant pipe, other than the injection pipe, is located within the refrigerant reservoir.
US12320553B1
The shed with integrated solar roof is a prefabricated building. The shed with integrated solar roof is an alternative electric power source. The shed with integrated solar roof is configured for use with a primary building. The primary building further comprises a primary building load. The primary building load is the requirement for the amount of electric energy necessary to support the operation of the electrically powered devices in the primary building. The shed with integrated solar roof provides electric energy comprises a shed structure and a power circuit. The shed structure forms a shed protected space that contains the power circuit. The power circuit is an electric circuit. The power circuit provides the electric energy necessary to support the primary building load.
US12320552B1
The solar-heated decking boards includes a plurality of deck planks and a fluid transport structure. The plurality of deck planks forms a component of the fluid transport structure. The plurality of deck panels forms the horizontally oriented surface formed by a deck. Each individual deck plank selected from the plurality of deck planks forms a load bearing structure. Each selected individual deck plank further attaches to one or more additional individual deck planks selected from the plurality of deck planks to form the horizontally oriented surface. The plurality of deck planks are fluidically interconnected. The plurality of deck planks forms a fluidic connection within the fluid transport structure. The plurality of deck planks collects solar energy and converts the collected solar energy into heat. The plurality of deck planks forms a heat exchange structure that heats water that flows through the fluid transport structure.
US12320542B2
A parallel-walled ventilation duct assembly with integrated low-profile subducts, and/or methods of manufacturing the assembly are provided. The assembly of embodiments includes a main shaft body defined by at least one wall surrounding an interior cavity and at least one low-profile subduct disposed within the interior cavity. The cross-sectional area of the main shaft body has a rectangular or an obround shape. The low-profile subduct includes an interior channel defined by a plurality of walls. The low-profile subduct is integrated into at least one wall of the main shaft body such that at least one wall of the plurality of walls of the low-profile subduct includes at least a portion of an interior surface of the at least one wall of the main shaft body, and the portion of the interior surface of the at least one wall includes a flat portion of the interior surface.
US12320541B2
An apparatus, system and method for controlling airflow is described. The apparatus comprises a wall which delimits a flared bore. The apparatus further comprises at least one air guide member which retractably protrudes into the flared bore from the wall. The flared bore widens to an outlet, thereby to permit a diverging airflow to be expelled therefrom when each of the at least one air guide member is retracted. When the at least one air guide member protrudes into the flared bore, air flowing in the flared bore is guided by a surface, e.g. a concave surface, of the respective air guide member away from the wall and towards the outlet. The retractable air guide member thus enables the direction and/or degree of convergence of the air flowing out of the outlet to be controlled.
US12320538B2
An air conditioner is provided. The air conditioner includes a housing with separate channels, a heat exchanger, two fans, a driver, and a controller. The heat exchanger exchanges heat with air in one channel, while the two fans expel air from separate channels. The driver operates the fans, and the controller regulates their operation based on indoor and outdoor temperatures, selectively activating a second fan of the two fans according to preset temperature conditions.
US12320534B2
A Thermal Performance Forecast approach is described that can be used to forecast heating and cooling fuel consumption based on changes to user preferences and building-specific parameters that include indoor temperature, building insulation, HVAC system efficiency, and internal gains. A simplified version of the Thermal Performance Forecast approach, called the Approximated Thermal Performance Forecast, provides a single equation that accepts two fundamental input parameters and four ratios that express the relationship between the existing and post-change variables for the building properties to estimate future fuel consumption. The Approximated Thermal Performance Forecast approach marginally sacrifices accuracy for a simplified forecast. In addition, the thermal conductivity, effective window area, and thermal mass of a building can be determined using different combinations of utility consumption, outdoor temperature data, indoor temperature data, internal heating gains data, and HVAC system efficiency as inputs.
US12320532B2
An air conditioning system includes a first system and a second system. The first system includes a compressor, a first heat exchanger, a second heat exchanger, an electronic control assembly, and a first throttle. The second system includes a first heat exchange assembly and a heat exchange member. The first heat exchange assembly includes a first channel and a second channel isolated from each other. A second communication port of the first channel is in communication with a second opening of the compressor or a second opening of the second heat exchanger. A first communication port of the heat exchange member is in communication with a first communication port of the second channel. A second communication port of the heat exchange member is in communication with a second communication port of the second channel. The heat exchange member includes a heat dissipation surface in contact with the electronic control assembly.
US12320527B2
Examples are disclosed that relate to cooking systems with internal ventilation systems. One example provides a cooking system comprising a ventilation duct comprising an inlet aperture configured to receive cooking exhaust, a fan disposed within the ventilation duct, the fan being configured to pull the cooking exhaust through the inlet aperture and the ventilation duct, and a particulate removal system positioned within the ventilation duct between the inlet aperture and the fan. In an example, the particulate removal system includes a cyclonic filtration system.
US12320526B2
A hood apparatus for a cooking device includes at least one temperature sensor arranged in a direction of a cooking device including a plurality of burners, a communication interface to perform communication with the cooking device, a driving device configured to adjust a sensing direction of the at least one temperature sensor, and a processor configured to identify at least one burner being driven from among the plurality of burners, control the driving device to adjust the sensing direction of the at least one temperature sensor so that the at least one temperature sensor faces a position of the identified at least one burner, and control the communication interface to transmit a sensing result of the at least one temperature sensor to the cooking device.
US12320521B2
A method heats a furnace process chamber with the combustion of fuel gas. The method heats the process chamber in a preheat mode when the temperature of the process chamber is below the autoignition temperature of the fuel gas. The preheat mode forms preheated combustion air by directing the combustion air through a regenerative bed. A stream of the preheated combustion air is directed into the process chamber in a condition unmixed with fuel gas. The preheat mode also forms a fuel rich mixture of the fuel gas and unheated combustion air. The fuel rich mixture is directed into the process chamber adjacent to the stream of preheated combustion air.
US12320505B2
A user-wearable illumination assembly comprising eyeglass frames supporting a pair of lenses, a mounting structure on a bridge of the eyeglass frames, a headlamp removably coupled to the mounting structure, a battery housing removably coupled to the headlamp, and a battery inside the battery housing.
US12320504B2
Illumination devices as include a frame intended to be worn by a user and one or more light sources (e.g., LEDs) positioned by the frame so as to be near a user's zygomatic bones and oriented to project light in a direction of the user's view when the illumination device is worn on the wearer's head. The frame may be shaped to be worn over the user's ears and behind the user's head, and may be made of one or more of plastic, metal and/or a metal alloy, carbon fiber, wood, cellulose acetate, natural horn and/or bone, leather, and an epoxy resin. An optional strap may be retractably attached to connect portions of the frame over the wearer's head. The LEDs may be included in respective panels swivelly mounted to booms of the frame and the panels may further include imaging devices, such as a camera, and/or a projector.
US12320503B2
Apparatus and methods for lighting. The apparatus may include a removable recess lighting assembly. The lighting assembly may include a light-emitting diode (“LED”) light source. The LED light source may include an LED. The lighting assembly may define a central axis. The apparatus may include a heat sink. The heat sink may be configured to be mounted in a structure. The heat sink may be configured to retain the lighting assembly. The heat sink may be configured to release the lighting assembly in response to a translation of the lighting assembly along the central axis. The translation may be a translation without a rotation of the light assembly about the central axis. In operation, the lighting assembly may be serviced without causing damage to the structure in which the apparatus is mounted. The lighting assembly may be removed through a defined aperture in the apparatus.
US12320500B2
A mounting bracket for flush mounting a lighting device is provided. The mounting bracket comprises: a first planar member and a second planar member, at least one of the first and second planar members having a center, and one or two transverse members disposed at opposite ends of at least one of the first and second planar members, wherein at least one of the first and second planar members includes two adjacent openings and a receiving member offset from the center of the at least one of the first and second planar members, the receiving member being positioned intermediate the two openings.
US12320492B1
A lighting apparatus that includes a housing having first and second sidewalls, a top housing wall disposed between the first and second sidewalls, and an open end disposed between the sidewalls and opposite the top housing wall. The housing includes a housing interior enclosed by the sidewalls and the top housing wall. The apparatus includes a lighting lens housing having a first and second lens sidewalls and a lens panel disposed between the lens sidewalls, where the lighting lens housing has a lens interior. The lens sidewalls block transmission of light. The lighting lens housing is removably secured within the housing interior, wherein, upon removably securing the lighting lens housing within the housing interior, at least one of the first and second lens sidewalls is positioned at an offset and adjacent the open end of the housing.
US12320483B2
A vehicle lamp has a first light emitting surface and a second light emitting surface forming a light emitting surface, which is continuous in a vehicle width direction, by connecting a back surface on a tip side of a first light guide lens and a front surface on a base end side of a second light guide lens via a connecting portion, and a first lateral emission surface configured to emit some of first light guided in the first light guide lens toward an inner side in a vehicle width direction is provided on the connecting portion.
US12320479B1
An optical water curtain system includes a water supply portion, at least one water collecting portion, a physical rotor, a control module, and an LED light-emitting module and a rotation speed detecting module. The water supply portion is in fluid communication with the water collecting portion, and the water collecting portion has outlets through which water flows down to form a water curtain. The LED light-emitting module emits light to illuminate the water curtain. The physical rotor is located within the water curtain and rotatable under an impulse of a water flow from the water curtain. The rotation speed detecting module detects a rotation speed of the physical rotor and send data to the control module. The control module adjusts a frequency of a PWM signal driving the LED light-emitting module to switch a light-emitting effect of the LED light-emitting module according to the rotation speed of the physical rotor.
US12320466B2
Systems and methods for limiting rotation of a supported object about an axis of rotation are provided. A system as disclosed includes a stop system that engages at a selected amount of rotation about an axis of rotation to provide a balanced force countering further rotation. The stop system includes one or more pairs of stop mechanisms, with one stop mechanism in a pair disposed to act from a first side of the axis of rotation, and a second stop mechanism in the pair disposed to act from a second side of the axis of rotation. Each stop mechanism can include stops that engage a flexure at a selected amount of rotation.
US12320463B2
A vacuum adiabatic body and a refrigerator are provided. The vacuum adiabatic body includes a support. The support includes a main support having a two-dimensional planar structure and crossing a space, and a first bar and a second bar, which respectively extend from both sides of the main support toward a first plate and a second plate, respectively.
US12320451B2
A method for treating a pipe, in particular a motor vehicle pipe, wherein a flare is generated at least at one pipe end of the pipe. At least areas of the flare are provided with at least one layer, which changes the friction properties of the coated surface of the flare. The flare is coated by means of plasma coating.
US12320444B2
A warning device is mounted on a valve including a valve body, a valve seat and a valve stem. The warning device comprises a base, a shaft, a sensing module, a control module and a warning module. The base is connected to the valve body. The shaft has a shaft body and a first sensing member. A profile of a cross section of the shaft being passed through by the first sensing member is asymmetric along at least a radial direction. The sensing module has a second sensing member received in the base and corresponded to the first sensing member to detect changes in position of the first sensing member and generate a sensing signal accordingly. The control module receives the sensing signal generated by the sensing module and calculates a rotation data accordingly. The warning module generates a warning signal according to the rotation data from the control module.
US12320432B2
A multi-port valve includes a valve housing and a valve core. The valve housing is provided with a plurality of outer ports, at least part of which is arranged at an axial end of the valve housing. The valve core is provided with a plurality of inner ports, at least part of which is arranged at an axial end of the valve core. A plurality of flow channels extends through the valve core, whereas the flow channels are fluidly separated from one another inside the valve core. The plurality of the flow channels includes at least two cross-channels intersecting with each other in a projection plane perpendicular to a rotation axis of the valve core. Each of the flow channels communicates with two of the inner ports. At least part of the inner ports is aligned and communicated with the corresponding outer ports in response to the valve core rotating to a desired position as regarded to the valve housing.
US12320431B2
Valve for controlling fluid flows, including a valve housing with a valve bore, in which fluid channels extend from the valve bore to an outer surface of the valve housing, including a first valve member and a second valve member, which are each accommodated linearly moveably in the valve bore. Both the first valve member and the second valve member include a first radial sealing element, which respectively bear in a radially inwardly sealing manner against the first valve member or against the second valve member and in a radially outwardly sealing manner against an inner surface of the valve recess. Each of the first valve member and the second valve member selectively releases and blocks at least one connection between adjacently arranged fluid channels, in which the first valve member is slidably mounted on the second valve member along an axis of movement relative to the second valve member.
US12320428B2
A sealing device provides consistent sealing performance in applications where a rotating shaft rotates at high speed. The sealing device 10 seals an annular gap between a rotating shaft 50 and a housing 60, and includes a case 100 fixedly attached to the shaft hole, and a seal ring 200 held in the case 100 such as to be restricted from moving in a rotating direction, and to separate a high-pressure side (H) where pressure rises during use of the sealing device from an opposite low-pressure side (L). The seal ring 200 is disposed such that there is an annular gap between itself and an outer circumferential surface of the rotating shaft 50, and the annular gap is dimensioned such that a fluid pressure of a sealed fluid flowing from the high-pressure side (H) into the low-pressure side (L) causes the Lomakin effect.
US12320422B1
A control device for a vehicle that includes a switching device for switching a power transmission device between a parking state and a non-parking state. The control device includes: (a) an opening/closing determination portion for determining whether a vehicle door is open or closed; (b) a switching control portion for executing an automatic parking control for switching the power transmission device to the parking state, in a case in which it is determined that the door is open, when a vehicle running speed is not higher than a predetermined speed, with the power transmission device being in the non-parking state, and (c) a reverse-parking determination portion for determining whether or not a vehicle driver is performing a reverse parking. The switching control portion does not execute the automatic parking control, in a case in which it is determined that the driver is performing the reverse parking.
US12320416B2
A utility vehicle including an engine; an exhaust pipe through which exhaust gas is discharged from the engine, the exhaust pipe being connected to the engine; and an air guide that guides outside air toward the exhaust pipe.
US12320410B2
The actuator can include a driver coupled with a motor. The actuator can include a shaft extending through the driver. The actuator can include an anchor coupled with the shaft. The motor can be configured to translate the anchor at a first time by translation of the shaft through the driver. The motor can be configured to rotate the anchor at a second time by rotation of the shaft with the driver. The second time can be different than the first time.
US12320396B2
Systems and methods are presented herein for providing an integrated disconnect. The integrated disconnect may be used within a drive unit. The integrated disconnect comprises an output gear having a cavity. A torque transfer adapter is arranged within the cavity. A clutch body is also arranged within the cavity. The clutch is actuatable through the output gear by an actuator to engage and disengage the clutch with the torque transfer adaptor. The actuator is located external to the cavity.
US12320378B2
A male anti-cross threading fastener comprising: a substantially round shank having a lead end, a torque end, and a plurality of male threads around a circumference of the shank, the plurality of male threads comprising: a standard thread around at least a portion of the circumference of the shank and having a standard thread contour, wherein a width and a thread angle of the standard thread enables engagement with corresponding female threads, wherein the major diameter of the standard thread is between a lower major diameter limit and a higher major diameter limit; a transitional thread around at least a portion of the circumference of the shank and having a transitional thread contour with a width and a thread angle similar to the width and thread angle of the standard thread that enables engagement with corresponding female threads; an anti-cross thread around at least a portion of the circumference of the shank and having an anti-cross thread contour and an outside diameter configured to promote alignment of the male anti-cross thread fastener with a female fastener; and a lead thread around at least a portion of the circumference of the shank and having a lead thread contour, and wherein the transitional thread contour has a height that transitions from the lower major diameter limit of the standard thread to the outside diameter of the anti-cross thread.
US12320374B2
A set including a first panel, a second panel and a mechanical locking device for locking the first panel to the second panel, the mechanical locking device includes an insertion groove at the second edge surface, a flexible tongue positioned in the insertion groove and an edge tongue including a tongue groove, the flexible tongue includes a first locking surface and a second locking surface, the first locking surface is configured to cooperate with the tongue groove for locking of the first panel to the second panel in a first direction when the flexible tongue is positioned in the insertion groove in a first orientation, the second locking surface of the flexible tongue is configured to cooperate with the tongue groove for a locking of the first panel to the second panel in a first direction when the flexible tongue is positioned in the insertion groove in a second orientation.
US12320373B2
A system and method for the controlled lowering and lifting of a load are disclosed. The system and method may include operating a work machine having a hydraulic system including a hydraulic actuator for supporting a load, a first control valve in fluid communication with the actuator, and a controller for operating the first control valve. In one embodiment, the controller includes a first algorithm for operating the first control valve in a load lowering operation. When an operational fault within the hydraulic system is detected, the controller can be configured to enter into a safe lowering mode. In the safe lowering mode, the first algorithm is disabled and a pulse width modulation (PWM) current is sent from the controller to the first control valve. A user interface is provided to allow an operator to control the PWM current duty ratio to allow the load supported by the actuator to be lowered.
US12320367B2
A turbomachine includes a fluid compressor section with a compressor wheel supported on a shaft and a compressor housing that houses the compressor wheel for rotation therein about an axis of rotation. The turbomachine also includes an e-machine section with an e-machine operatively connected to the shaft and configured to convert energy between the e-machine and the shaft as the shaft rotates. The e-machine section includes an e-machine housing that houses at least part of the e-machine. The turbomachine further includes a coolant jacket that is defined at least partly in the e-machine housing. The coolant jacket is configured to receive a fluid coolant flow therein for cooling the e-machine. Also, the turbomachine includes a turbulator insert member that is removably received within the coolant jacket and that sub-divides the coolant jacket for directing the fluid coolant flow through the coolant jacket.
US12320362B2
A fan module includes a mounting bracket, a fan and an anti-backflow device are detachably installed in the mounting bracket. The fan is configured to generate airflow along a predetermined direction, and the anti-backflow device allows the airflow to pass through. The fan is configured to generate airflow in another direction by being turned over, and the anti-backflow device allows the airflow in another direction to pass through be being turned over correspondingly. The anti-backflow device includes a louver assembly for one-way pass function. An electronic device comprising the fan module is also provided.
US12320347B2
An intelligent controller for a reciprocating air compressor includes a processor, a plurality of sensors, and a plurality of peripheral devices. The plurality of sensors is in communication with the processor. The plurality of sensors is configured to read operating data of the reciprocating air compressor and send that operating data to the processor. The plurality of peripheral devices is in communication with the processor. Each of the plurality of peripheral devices are configured to be controlled by the processor. The plurality of peripheral devices is configured to operatively control the reciprocating air compressor. Wherein, the processor is configured to read data from the plurality of sensors and control the plurality of peripheral devices to intelligently extend life of the reciprocating air compressor and reduce energy consumption of the reciprocating air compressor.
US12320345B2
An apparatus for damping pressure pulsation for a compressor of a gaseous fluid in a refrigerant circuit including a housing with an inlet opening and at least one first outlet opening and a piston element movable in an axial direction within a volume enclosed by the housing and supported on the housing in a beared manner via a spring element, wherein the piston element respectively controls a flow cross section of the inlet opening and the first outlet opening, wherein the piston element and the housing have at least one first sealing surface and a second sealing surface. The first sealing surfaces form a first seat and the second sealing surfaces form a second seat, wherein between the seats, one chamber enclosed by the housing and the piston element for expanding the fluid when flowing into the chamber and/or at least one second outlet opening in the housing is formed.
US12320341B2
A low-force, non-displacement, micro/miniature valve and/or pump assembly is provided. A tube component having a first side port coupled to an inlet portion and a second side port coupled to an outlet portion can be selectively moved to alternatively couple the side ports to a first or second piston pump chamber. First and second pistons can be actuated after positioning the tube component to either draw in fluid or push out fluid from either the first or second piston pump chambers during each actuation of the pistons. The fluid can be drawn in from a reservoir and can be expelled to a patient for providing a dose of the fluid to the patient.
US12320334B2
A method for connecting a component of a power conversion circuit of a wind turbine to one or more connection device(s) is/are provided, wherein the component is arranged on a supporting structure in the interior of the wind turbine, wherein the connection devices(s) includes/include at least one connector and the component includes at least one counterpart to the connector, comprising: providing the connection device(s) and lifting the component from the supporting structure, arranging the connection device(s) on the supporting structure and aligning the connector of the connection device(s) with respect to the counterpart at the lifted component, and lowering the component onto the supporting structure and thereby establishing a connection between the connector and the counterpart for connecting the component to the connection device(s).
US12320329B2
A wind turbine rotor blade (10) is provided with a lightning protection device (84) and a leading edge member (70), the leading edge member (70) comprising an erosion shield (78, 80), deicing means, and an electrically conductive outer surface (80) which is operatively connected to the lightning protection device (84). The invention also relates to the use of the leading edge member (70) for providing leading edge erosion protection, ice mitigation and lightning protection of a wind turbine rotor blade.
US12320328B1
A method forming a wind turbine blade includes forming a first shell of the wind turbine blade, the first shell having a first exterior side surface, a first interior side surface, and a first mating side surface connecting the first interior and first exterior side surfaces to one another, forming a second shell of the wind turbine blade, the second shell having a second exterior side surface, a second interior side surface, and a second mating side surface connecting the second interior and second exterior side surfaces to one another, and connecting the first and second mating side surfaces to one another to form the wind turbine blade. The first and second shells include date palm tree material and epoxy.
US12320318B2
A combustion engine for combustion of an air-fuel mixture containing air and fuel, comprising at least one temperature adjusting means for cooling or heating the air, fuel, and/or air-fuel mixture and a control unit configured to determine the methane number and/or hydrogen content of the fuel and/or air-fuel mixture, wherein the control unit is configured to control a temperature of the air, fuel and/or air-fuel mixture based on the determined methane number and/or hydrogen content by controlling the at least one temperature adjusting means.
US12320316B2
A cascade for a thrust reverser device intended to be mounted on a turbomachine of an aircraft, the cascade including first partitions extending in a first direction, seconds partitions extending in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, the second partitions extending in a third direction secant to a plane comprising first and second directions between a first and a second end. Each second partition forms, with reference planes parallel to the second direction and to the third direction, a plurality of different angles at positions distinct from the height of the second partitions separating the first end from the second end of the second partitions, each angle being formed between a reference plane and the tangent to the second partition taken at the intersection between said corresponding reference plane and the second partition at the position of the height of the corresponding second partition.
US12320306B2
An electricity generation system according to an embodiment of the present invention includes an engine, an electric generator, a detector, and a control device. The engine has a compressor including a rotating shaft. The electric generator is connected to the rotating shaft and generates electricity with rotational force of the rotating shaft. The detector detects shaft torque of the electric generator. The control device controls an operational status of the engine or the electric generator on the basis of the shaft torque.
US12320304B2
A gas turbine includes a compressor bleed air system that includes a compressor shroud, a compressor bleed air plenum, and a plurality of compressor bleed air passages arranged through the compressor shroud that provide fluid communication between the compressor airflow passage and the compressor bleed air plenum. The plurality of compressor bleed air passages are arranged circumferentially spaced apart from one another, where a first compressor bleed air passage and a second compressor bleed air passage circumferentially adjacent to one another are spaced apart a first angular spacing, and the respective inlets of at least a portion of a remainder of the plurality of compressor bleed air passages are circumferentially spaced apart from one another a second angular spacing, the second angular spacing being less than the first angular spacing.
US12320303B2
A combined air turbine starter and flow control valve includes a turbine having turbine blades and a shaft rotating with the turbine blades. The turbine is received within a nozzle housing. The nozzle housing includes an inlet. A radially outwardly extending inner surface extends from the inlet and toward the turbine blades. A flow control piston is received to be movable along a rotational axis of the turbine shaft, and toward and away the radially outwardly extending surface of the nozzle housing. A control is programmed to direct a movement system to position the flow control piston relative to the radially outwardly extending surface to achieve a desired volume of airflow to the turbine blades. A gas turbine engine starting system is also disclosed.
US12320302B2
A drive system for an aircraft which is constructed for operation with a liquid fuel and a gaseous fuel, includes: at least one engine having a combustion chamber for operation with the liquid fuel and/or the gaseous fuel; and per fuel at least one separate tank chamber which is or can be brought into connection in flow terms with the combustion chamber via a fuel line for supplying it with the corresponding fuel. A drive system which is optimized in terms of emissions and efficiency is provided in that the drive system is constructed in such a manner that, in the event of firing at a great height, exclusively gaseous fuel is or can be used in the at least one engine during a firing operation at a great height.
US12320301B2
The invention relates to a fluid supply assembly having a line assembly from a fluid reservoir to a target location for supplying a fluid mass flow in a variable supply quantity, in particular for supplying fuel from a fuel reservoir to a combustion chamber, having a primary mass flow supplied or able to be supplied via a primary line and a secondary mass flow supplied or able to be supplied via a secondary line. An advantageous adaptation of the fluid mass flow, in particular fuel mass flow, to variable operating conditions is achieved in that disposed in the primary line and/or the secondary line is a passively operating restrictor which is invariable in its geometry and is without moving parts, by which the mass flow ratio of primary mass flow and secondary mass flow is altered as a function of the fluid mass flow supplied via the line assembly.
US12320296B2
An assembly for an aircraft includes an aircraft housing, an auxiliary power unit (APU), an oil system, a door actuator, and a controller. The aircraft housing forms a compartment. The aircraft housing includes an intake door. The intake door is movable between a closed position, an open position, and intermediate positions between the closed position and the open position. The APU is disposed within the compartment. The APU includes an engine. The engine includes an air inlet and a rotational assembly. The oil pump is operatively connected to the rotational assembly. The door actuator is operatively connected to the intake door. The door actuator is operable to position the intake door in the closed position, the open position, and the intermediate positions to control an ambient air flow to the air inlet. The controller is operatively connected to the door actuator. The controller is configured to identify a fire condition within the compartment, identify a fire position of the intake door, and control the door actuator to position the intake door in the fire position. The fire position is one of the open position or the intermediate positions.
US12320291B2
A car having: two front wheels; two rear wheels; an internal combustion engine, which is provided with: a plurality of cylinders, where respective pistons slide on the inside, a drive shaft connected to the pistons, a plurality of intake valves and of exhaust valves operated by respective camshafts, and a cylinder head, where the camshafts are arranged; at least one lubrication pump configured to cause a lubricant oil to circulate; and at least one cooling pump configured to cause a coolant liquid to circulate. A camshaft axially projects out of the cylinder head on at least one side, and the lubrication pump is coaxial to the camshaft and is directly connected to the camshaft so as to be caused to rotate by the camshaft.
US12320288B2
In an exhaust gas purification catalyst, a catalytic component containing a first oxide, a second oxide, and a precious metal is supported on a three-dimensional structure; the ratio of the amount of precious metal supported on the first oxide to the total amount of precious metal supported on the first oxide and precious metal supported on the second oxide, or the ratio of the amount of precious metal supported on the second oxide to the total amount of precious metal supported on the first oxide and precious metal supported on the second oxide is 70% or more to 100% or less, as measured by an electron probe microanalyzer (EPMA); and the amount of carbon monoxide that the precious metal can adsorb per unit mass is 15 mL/g or more to 100 mL/g or less.
US12320286B2
An electrical heater, an exhaust treatment assembly, and method of manufacture. The heater includes a resistive portion configured to generate heat when electrical current is passed therethrough. A plurality of slots extend into the resistive portion from an outer periphery of the resistive portion and define a serpentine current-carrying path extending through the resistive portion between a pair of electrode attachment portions. Each of the electrode attachment portions is connected to a respective end segment that is bounded between an outer periphery of the resistive portion and a respective first slot of the plurality of slots. At least one auxiliary slot in each of the end segments that extends from the outer periphery toward the first slot in a direction transverse to the first slot to bias current flow through a concentrated region adjacent to and extending along the first slot in each end segment.
US12320263B2
A system includes a gas turbine engine, including a compressor, a combustor, and a turbine. The system includes an intercooler configured to receive a discharge air from the compressor and to cool the discharge air. The system includes a first conduit to divert a portion of the cooled discharge air from the intercooler or a location downstream of the intercooler to a bearing located within the turbine to pressurize the bearing to block leakage of fluid from the bearing.
US12320260B2
A fan assembly for a gas turbine engine includes a fan duct, a fan, and an outlet guide vane assembly located in the fan duct axially downstream of the fan. The outlet guide vane assembly includes a first variable leading edge outlet guide vane that extends radially relative to the central axis and includes a leading edge portion and a fixed aft portion, the leading edge portion including a tip segment configured to rotate about a leading edge pitch axis and a hub segment located radially inward of and separate from the tip segment, the hub segment configured to independently rotate about the leading edge pitch axis relative to the tip segment. The assembly further includes two unique actuation assemblies each including a cam rod and cams located thereon that are configured to rotate a respective tip or hub segment.
US12320258B2
A blade outer air seal has seal mount hooks on both a leading edge of the central web and a trailing edge of the central web. The seal mount hooks have a generally radially outward extending section extending to a generally axially extending section. The seal mount hooks have a support face which is to be supported on a support mount hook. The support face is generally formed about a single radius of curvature over at least 50% of a circumferential length defined from a radially inner end of the support face to a radially outer end of the support face. A radius of curvature of the inner support surface is greater than or equal to 0.150 inch and less than or equal to 0.300 inch. A blade outer air seal and a gas turbine engine are also disclosed.
US12320255B2
A downhole fluid analysis system includes an optical sensor that includes a light source configured to emit light, a light detector, and an optical tip optically coupled to the light source and the light detector. At least a portion of the light emitted from the light source travels through the optical tip and returns to the detector, wherein the optical tip has a bi-conical shape. The system further includes a piezoelectric helm resonator, in which the piezoelectric helm resonator generates a resonance response in response to an applied current, and an electromagnetic spectroscopy sensor positioned symmetrically with respect to the piezoelectric helm resonator in at least one direction. In some embodiments, the optical tip includes a first conical portion and a second conical portion.
US12320241B2
Methods and systems employing autonomous choke control for mitigation of liquid loading in gas wells
Methods and systems are provided for controlling intermittent production of gas in association with liquids from a well. Production tubing disposed in the well provides a flow path for gas and liquids to the surface. An electrically-controlled choke and a controller are disposed at the surface. The choke is in fluid communication with the production tubing. The controller interfaces to the choke and executes autonomous control operations that control operation of the choke, wherein the autonomous control operations involve production cycles that include a production mode followed by a shut-in mode. In the production mode, the controller is configured to operate the choke in an open position. In the shut-in mode, the controller is configured to operate the choke in a closed position.
US12320225B2
An electronic auto-catcher for catching and releasing a plunger in a lubricator attached to a well. The electronic auto-catcher may include an electronic actuator and an auto-catcher. The electronic actuator may include an actuator that causes lateral movement of an actuator shaft, which causes lateral movement of a stem adaptor, which causes lateral movement of a catcher stem, which causes lateral movement of a ball catching device. The ball catching device holds the plunger in the lubricator and/or releases the plunger from the lubricator so that it may fall down the well. Lateral movement of the actuator shaft is not necessarily equal to lateral movement of the plunger catching device.
US12320221B2
An apparatus includes a sensor for sensing pressure, temperature, or another physical parameter at a wellhead assembly or other oilfield component. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a wellhead body and a branch assembly coupled to the wellhead body such that a bore of the branch assembly is in fluid communication with an interior of the wellhead body through an access passage of the wellhead body. The branch assembly includes a penetration extending outwardly from the bore to an exterior surface of the branch assembly that is radially outward of the bore, and a sensor is installed in the penetration of the branch assembly. Additional systems, devices, and methods are also disclosed.
US12320217B2
A cutting device includes a round of shots having a radial shape. Each shot in the round of shots are operable to perforate a wellbore conduit to sever one or more control lines. Each shot in the round of shots overlaps an adjacent shot in the round of shots by an overlap width that is equal to or greater than a width of the one or more control lines such that the round of shots maintains structural integrity of the wellbore conduit.
US12320209B2
The present invention provides a spacer (11) and a spacer segment (13). One or more spacer segments (13) form the spacer (11). The one or more spacer segments (13) are adapted to be interconnected and fitted to/on a first surface. The spacer segment (13) comprises a first collar portion (17), a second collar portion (19), and at least one support assembly (15) extending between the first collar portion and the second collar portion. The at least one support assembly is movable from a normal position, wherein no or minimal force is exerted on the support assembly, to a compressed position, wherein the support assembly supports a load or a portion of a load.
US12320204B1
An interconnectable downhole instrument package has a downhole instrument disposed in a pressure housing; a male connector assembly connecting to a first end of the downhole instrument; and a female connector assembly connecting to a second end of the downhole instrument. The male connector assembly has a first housing and a male rotatable connector that are connected together, while the female connector assembly has a second housing and a female rotatable connector. The second housing is adapted to receive the female rotatable connector.
US12320192B2
A torsion spring adjuster for a rolling shutter is provided. A support plate has a first flange with a hole. A wheel is rotatably mountable on the support plate. The wheel has: a drive recess shaped to engage an end of a torsion spring; a first set of recesses around a circumference of the wheel, the first set of recesses being a first lateral distance from a first end of the wheel; a second set of recesses around a circumference of the wheel, the second set of recesses being a second lateral distance from the first end of the wheel. When the wheel is mounted on the support plate the first lateral distance aligns the first set of recesses with the hole of the first flange of the support plate, and the second lateral distance aligns the second set of recess past the first flange of the support plate.
US12320181B2
A lockbox security system includes a lockbox that has a lockable compartment. The lockbox includes a wireless communications device and a stored program configured to provide access to the lockable compartment in response to a wireless signal. A security device includes a wireless security communication device and a stored distress program configured to activate an alert upon receipt of a distress signal.
US12320179B2
A door hinge for a laboratory instrument door, the door hinge comprising a hollow body with a first longitudinal axis and a curved side wall comprising a track. At least a part of the track is inclined relative to the first longitudinal axis. The door hinge further comprises a linear guiding element with a second longitudinal axis parallel to the first longitudinal axis. At least a part of the linear guiding element is arranged in the hollow. The linear guiding element and the hollow body are rotatable against each other. The door hinge further comprises a body comprising a protruding pin. The body is movably attached to the linear guiding element so that the body is movable in two opposite directions along the second longitudinal axis and the protruding pin is movable on the track.
US12320177B2
Tension hinge pins are disclosed. The tension hinge pins include a body with a hollow interior, an opening into the hollow interior, and an expandable body positioned within the hollow interior. The tension hinge pins include an actuator positioned to engage the expandable body and actuate expansion of expandable body to expand at least a portion of the expandable body outward through the opening. The tension hinge pins can be installed in a hinge used for hanging doors.
US12320176B2
A hinge bracket assembly includes an appliance wrapper defining a first receiving space extending in a first direction, a second receiving space extending in a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction, and a third receiving space extending in a third direction oriented at an acute angle relative to the first direction. An anchor plate is engaged with the appliance wrapper and includes a retention member received by the first receiving space, a first flange received by the second receiving space, and a second flange received by the third receiving space. A hinge plate is coupled with the anchor plate and includes a protrusion received by a slot defined by the retention member. The appliance wrapper is positioned between the anchor and hinge plates. A locking arm is selectively engaged with the anchor and hinge plates and is rotatable between an unlocked position and a locked position.
US12320172B2
The present application relates to a door lock and a control circuit thereof. The door lock includes a switch means, a switch driving means capable of opening the switch means, and a driving slider. The driving slider is capable of driving the switch driving means. The driving slider is capable of being driven by a door hook. The switch driving means (that is, a swing lever) and a lock pin are capable of jointly controlling opening of the switch means. The switch driving means (that is, the swing lever) is driven by a mechanical structure (that is, the driving slider), and the lock pin can be driven by an electronic signal and a circuit structure (for example, a second current loop), thereby improving the sensitivity and reliability in disconnecting the power supply under abnormal working conditions.
US12320152B2
Disclosed in the present invention is a novel code wheel combination lock, comprising a knob and a face plate that can rotate with respect to each other, a lock tongue, and a code wheel assembly. The code wheel assembly comprises a base having an accommodation cavity, a code wheel shaft, several sets of bushings and code wheels, a reset mechanism, a positioning member, and a protection frame; the base is mounted on the face plate; the code wheel shaft passes through a movement cavity and can axially moves; the bushings are sleeved on the code wheel shaft and can rotate together with the code wheel shaft or with respect to the code wheel shaft; the code wheels are sleeved on the bushings and can rotate together with the bushings or with respect to the bushings; the reset mechanism is used for resetting the code wheels; the positioning member is used for limiting reset of the code wheels; the protection frame is used for changing the matching mode between the code wheels and the bushings; in the rotation of the knob and the face plate with respect to each other, there are a first position, a second position and a third position to respectively implement the functions of locking, automatic code wheel reset, and manual password setting. The present invention has a function of automatically resetting the code wheels after unlocking and before locking, thereby improving the product safety and preventing password exposure.
US12320151B2
A disc tumbler cylinder lock has a lock cylinder base, multiple discs, and multiple gaskets. The lock cylinder base has an accommodating space, a position limiting opening, and an accommodating opening. Each of the discs has a position limiting protrusion and a disc notch. Each of the gaskets has a ring body, a position limiting segment, and a rotation limiting segment. The position limiting segment protrudes outward from an outer annular surface of the ring body along a radial direction. The rotation limiting segment protrudes from the position limiting segment along an axial direction of the lock sleeve. The discs and the gaskets are staggeredly accommodated in the accommodating space. A side surface of the position limiting protrusion abuts a side surface of the position limiting opening. Two sides of the position limiting segment abut two opposite sides of the position limiting opening.
US12320147B2
A self disinfecting door system and method is described, including: a door, and an ultraviolet (UV) light in the proximity of the door and configured to shine at at least a portion of the door when activated. The UV light may be directed at the door to the exclusion of other portions of the surrounding environment. The UV light is mounted on the wall or floor proximate the door. Additionally, there may be a nozzle adjacent the door and configured to release a disinfecting fluid directed at the door when activated.
US12320144B2
Techniques and methods for wirelessly communicating underwater with equipment such as, but not necessarily limited to, automatic swimming pool cleaners (APCs) are detailed. Such communication avoids any need for conventional wired communication with the APCs. In some cases sounds may be used to communicate, and such sounds may travel through both air and water.
US12320142B1
A modular fence system is disposable into a freestanding enclosure on a supporting surface without the use of any tools and includes a fence panel assembly having a plurality of fence panels each having a frame with a plurality of fence slats mounted therein. A plurality of fence support units each have a frame interface and a frame support. Each frame interface is disposable between adjacent fence panels and each frame support is positionable into a freestanding relation with the supporting surface. A plurality of toggle clamps are disposable between a disengaged configuration for positioning around portions of adjacent fence panels and/or interfaces disposed thereinbetween, and a releasably secure engaged configuration to maintain the frames of adjacent ones of the plurality of fence panels and the frame interface operably disposed thereinbetween in an interconnected freestanding configuration.
US12320131B2
A thermoplastic-based building panel, such as a floor panel. The building panel includes an upper layer arrangement, a lower layer arrangement, and a balancing layer provided between the lower and the upper layer arrangement. The building panel further includes a groove arrangement including grooves. A thermoplastic-based building panel including an upper layer arrangement and a balancing layer which is a bottom layer of the building panel. The building panel includes a groove arrangement, wherein a major portion of the grooves therein is provided in the balancing layer only. A thermoplastic-based building panel including a mechanical locking system for horizontally and/or vertically locking the building panel to an adjacent building panel. The mechanical locking system includes a cooperating surface which is situated in a balancing layer and is configured to cooperate with a cooperating surface of an adjacent building panel.
US12320129B2
A coupling system for mounting a tile to an outer surface of a building is disclosed. In one embodiment, the coupling system includes support tracks arranged and configured to couple the tile to the building. The support tracks may include integrally formed clips for coupling with the tiles. The clips may be arranged and configured to couple to a top portion of a lower tile and a bottom portion of an upper tile. Additionally, and/or alternatively, the coupling system may include a gasket coupled to the support tracks. The gasket may include first and second arms. The support tracks may include integrally formed, first and second inwardly extending legs for receiving the first and second arms, respectively, of the gasket. In use, the coupling system facilitates faster and easier manufacturability and assembly as compared to other known systems thus providing a more cost-effective solution, particularly when used with smaller tiles.
US12320123B2
A liquid flow diverter (130) for a downpipe (120) includes a body (132). The body (132) includes a channel profile (136) between a first end (131) and a second end (133). The channel profile (136) includes a helix shape and allows flow of a liquid therein. The body (132) further includes a liquid outlet (139) associated with the first end (131). The liquid outlet (139) allows fluid communication of the liquid flow diverter (130) with the downpipe (120). The liquid flow diverter (130) is characterized in that the body (132) is made of a partly rigid material with the helix shaped channel profile (136) having a lead (L) of at least a height (H) of the channel profile (136) at its first end (131).
US12320122B2
A filtration device for filtering a fluid includes a first barrier member having a plurality of openings through which the fluid can penetrate the first barrier member, the first barrier member having a plurality of edges including a first edge; and a first ion-dispersing thread in the first barrier member. A portion of the first ion-dispersing thread extends in a direction, the direction is non-parallel to the first edge of the first barrier member, and the direction is non-perpendicular to the first edge of the first barrier member.
US12320117B2
A joist assembly system that is structured for dynamic retrieval of components, dynamic and precise positioning and location of retrieved components, assembly of the components to form a joist, and delivery of the assembled joist. The joist assembly system has a plurality of material handling systems, a plurality of welding systems, and a rigging table system. The material handling systems are structured to load and position the components such as chords and webs onto the rigging table. The rigging table in turn supports the chords or webs. Subsequently, the plurality of welding systems weld the webs to the chords to form the joist.
US12320114B2
A method of installing a plurality of brackets. A bracket is provided as is a story pole. A plurality of brackets are releasably attached to the story pole. The story pole is positioned proximate an outside surface to which the plurality of brackets is to be attached. The first one of the plurality of brackets is attached to the outside surface in a desired orientation. The second, as well as any other brackets, is attached to the outside surface in a desired orientation. The story pole is released from the brackets leaving the plurality of brackets attached to the outside surface in alignment in at least one dimension.
US12320112B2
A drain assembly for installation in a shower floor, the drain assembly including a drain body including an upper surface defining a top side, and a lower surface opposite the upper surface defining a bottom side. The drain assembly also defines an aperture extending along an axis through the drain body between the upper surface and the lower surface and includes an outlet having a flange and an elongated body. When assembled, the elongated body is configured to extend below the lower surface of the drain body when the flange rests on the upper surface. The drain assembly also includes one or more fasteners configured to couple the outlet to the drain body to form a water-tight seal therebetween, where each of the one or more fasteners are accessible from the top side.
US12320111B2
After a cleaning device is powered-on and initialized, a water path self-detection method for the cleaning device comprises the following steps: 1) judging whether a low water level switch is turned on; if so, controlling a water inlet valve to be turned on, controlling a water pump to be turned off, and going to step 2; if not, controlling the water pump to be turned on, controlling the water inlet valve to be turned off, and going to step 3; 2) judging whether a water replenishment time exceeds a preset first threshold; if so, a fault is confirmed, and the water inlet valve is controlled to be turned off; and if not, returning to step 1; 3) judging whether the low water level switch is turned on; and 4) judging whether a water pumping time exceeds a preset second threshold.
US12320105B2
Disclosed is a shower head and receptacle combination device with an outlet water filtering function, wherein by arranging a filter valve shell arranged in a device shell and mounting a filter element and a switching valve element in the filter valve shell, water flow can be filtered, and then filtered water is sprayed from a handheld shower head and/or an overhead shower head for a user to take a shower. The shower head and receptacle combination device has the advantages of good filtering effect, high water outlet pressure, small size and low cost.
US12320104B2
An improved spray head is provided that is configured to deliver water in multiple modes including a spray mode and a stream mode, with a stream modulation control for modulating a stream pattern from an aerated stream to a cone stream to a concentrated straight beam stream. Thus, a versatile faucet is provided that can be utilized as a multi-purpose cleaning tool that can be adjusted to select a modulated water output pattern that is suited for a given activity. Accordingly, a user may be provided with a wider range of spray and stream pattern options from which the user can easily select and adjust for a customized experience that meets the needs of the user for the task at hand.
US12320102B2
A non-invasive thermal dispersion flow meter with chronometric monitor for fluid leak detection includes a heater, an ambient temperature sensor and a flow rate sensor which are configured to sense the temperature of a fluid in a conduit, and then monitor the flow of that fluid through the conduit. Based upon the ambient temperature sensor readings, the flow rate sensor and heater may be adjusted to optimize the operation of the system to detect leaks. Based on the sensor readings, the flow may be adjusted to prevent damage and leaks by relieving the system of excess pressure. Geographic location, occupancy sensors and occupant identifiers are used to control the system to facilitate operation and minimize leak damage when occupants are away.
US12320098B2
Provided is a work machine including a flow control valve serving as a flow control mechanism that controls a flow rate of pressurized fluid from a hydraulic pump to a hydraulic actuator via a first control valve. A controller of the work machine, when the pressurized fluid is supplied to the hydraulic actuator from only an accumulator, drives a second control valve such that a meter-in side of the hydraulic actuator and the accumulator are connected to each other, drives the first control valve such that a meter-out side of the hydraulic actuator and a tank are connected to each other, and drives the flow rate control mechanism such that a flow of the pressurized fluid from the hydraulic pump to the hydraulic actuator via the first control valve is interrupted.
US12320096B2
A shovel includes a processor, and a memory storing program instructions that cause the processor to obtain environmental information around the shovel, and perform determination related to an object around the shovel based on the obtained environmental information, by using a learned model on which machine learning has been performed. The learned model is updated to an additionally learned model on which additional learning has been performed based on teaching information generated from the obtained environmental information. In a case where the learned model is updated, the processor performs the determination based on the obtained environmental information, by using the updated learned model.
US12320076B2
A concrete dowel placement system and methods for making the same. The system allows for accurate and easy substantially-parallel or parallel placement of slip dowels within sections of concrete so that adjacent sections of concrete may be allowed to undergo thermal expansion and contraction while remaining in a common plane without cracking or faulting. The system includes a coupler and a sheath. The sheath is configured to be slidably extensible over the coupler and may be held to the coupler by friction. An outer surface of the sheath may be textured. Additionally, a method of constructing the concrete dowel placement system includes extruding material to form two tubes of different sizes. The tubes are then attached to each other, then material is extruded or injection molded to form a sheath. Alternatively, construction may include extruding material to form a tube, then removing some of the material from the tube in order to form a coupler.
US12320075B2
In a reprofiling method of a rail (2) of a laid rail track (1) during a travel movement of a machining vehicle (13) along a rail track (1) in a section of its running surface (10) located on the rail head (5), a machining unit (14) includes a first and a second machining aggregate (16, 20). In a first machining step, material is removed in a milling process. In this process, a surface corrugation with corrugation crests (18) and corrugation troughs (19) is formed. In the second machining step, the surface corrugation is reduced by plastic deformation of the corrugation crests (18) by at least one forming force (21) directed towards the running surface (10) to be machined and applied in a pulsating manner.
US12320068B1
The present invention is directed to a 3D printed mold for creating three dimensional pulp products from a fibrous pulp slurry. Transverse filaments are integrated into an infill structure with an open-cell pattern. The transverse filaments form channels through the interior matrix of the mold. The open cell infill pattern and channels allow for the movement of vacuumed materials through the interior matrix of the 3D printed mold when vacuum pressure is applied. The product surface of the mold comprises an array of beads formed from the over-extrusion of melted material at the ends of the transverse filaments. The beaded array narrows the opening of the channels created by the transverse filaments, preventing the fibers from entering the matrix of the mold and clogging the flow of materials. This causes the fibers to aggregate on the product surface of the mold, forming the three dimensional pulp product.
US12320064B2
A carpet tile, includes a pile fabric layer, a primary backing coupled with the pile fabric layer, a secondary backing coupled with the primary backing, and a dual-layer wet-laid nonwoven mat. The dual-layer wet-laid nonwoven mat includes a first layer comprising a plurality of glass fibers and a first binder and a second layer comprising a plurality of synthetic fibers and a second binder.
US12320063B2
Disclosed is a method for providing a textile material(s) resistant to the deposition of oil- and grease-based air pollutants by treating the textile material(s) with an oil/grease resistant composition. The oil/grease resistant composition comprises a modified polysaccharide(s), particularly, polysaccharides modified with anionic groups, and one or more adjuvant materials.
US12320057B2
A control method for a clothes drying apparatus that aims to solve the problem of a load being prone to entangling when an existing clothes drying apparatus is used for drying a large load. For this purpose, the control method for a clothes drying apparatus includes: determining the size of a load in a load determining stage; and when the load is a large load, controlling a drying drum to rotate unidirectionally in a first heating stage, and controlling the drying drum to alternately rotate normally and reversely in a second heating stage. Accordingly, a drying effect can be guaranteed while the load is effectively prevented from being knotted and entangled, and the drying time is shortened.
US12320053B2
An appliance and method for determining an operational state of the appliance is provided. The appliance includes a cabinet, a flow device, and a sensor positioned at the cabinet. The cabinet includes a plurality of panels forming an interior volume at which a wash chamber is positioned. The flow device is configured to flow a fluid at the wash chamber. The sensor is positioned at the cabinet and configured to obtain sound vibrations from the wash chamber. The method includes obtaining, from the sensor, a signal during flow of a fluid at the wash chamber, and comparing the signal to a predetermined operational profile corresponding to operation of the flow device at the wash chamber to determine whether the flow device is operating properly.
US12320052B2
A clothes treatment apparatus for identifying a noise course in which abnormal noise occurs, the clothes treatment apparatus including: a frame forming a skeleton of a cabinet; a cover plate surrounding the frame to form an external appearance of the cabinet; a tub provided in the cabinet; a drum rotatably provided in the tub; a drum motor configured to rotate the drum; and a vibration sensor provided on the frame.
US12320037B2
Described herein are portable apparatuses and methods of creating fibers such as microfibers and nanofibers. The methods described herein employ accelerated air to impact fine jets created from polymer solutions going through individual tracks or channels within an exit die. Apparatuses that may be used to create fibers are also described.
US12320029B2
Methods and systems of electrochemically machining are provided. The methods may include applying a first potential to a tool electrode of an electrochemical machining system to generate a primary electric field. The electrochemical machining system may include a workpiece opposite the tool electrode, at least one bias electrode, and at least one fluid delivery channel within the at least one bias electrode. The method may further include applying at least one second potential to the at least one bias electrode. The method may further include delivering a charged electrolyte solution through the at least one fluid delivery channel into the electrolyte solution. Applying at least one second potential and the delivering the charged electrolyte solution generates at least one secondary electric field adjacent to the primary electric field and quenches at least one location of the primary electric field.
US12320019B2
A catalyst includes an oxide containing titanium (Ti) and a copper (Cu). In an ultraviolet-visible absorption spectrum of the catalyst, a ratio I400/I600 of an intensity I400 at a wavelength of 400 nm to an intensity I600 at a wavelength of 600 nm may be 0.5 to 3.
US12320009B2
A process for thermally spraying metal oxide coated ceramic particles onto a substrate comprising: (i) obtaining a plurality of metal oxide coated particles of silicon carbide, silicon nitride, boron carbide or boron nitride; and (ii) thermally spraying the particles of step (I) onto a substrate.
US12320000B2
A flow through valve can satisfy the manufacturing constraints encountered when handling materials at high temperatures and low pressures, for example during semiconductor thin-film manufacturing using techniques such as vapor transport deposition.
US12319998B2
The present invention discloses a vacuum coating device, comprising: a crucible; an induction heater provided on the periphery of the crucible; a flow distribution box connected to the top of said crucible via a steam pipe. Wherein said flow distribution box is provided inside with a horizontal pressure stabilizing plate, said flow distribution box is connected on the top with a nozzle, said steam pipe is provided with a pressure regulating valve, and said pressure stabilizing plate has a multi-hole structure. The lower surface of said pressure stabilizing plate is connected to a horizontal flow suppression plate, and a space is formed between the side of said flow suppression plate and the inner wall of said flow distribution box. A jet moderating zone is formed between the joint where said flow distribution box and said steam pipe are connected and the lower surface of said pressure stabilizing plate, and a jet accelerating zone is formed between the upper surface of said pressure stabilizing plate and the joint where said flow distribution box and said nozzle are connected. When the high-temperature steam reaches the low-temperature steel plate, a uniform coating can be formed on the steel plate surface.
US12319993B2
The present invention relates to very high performant tool steels which can be produced at low cost. The high performance is achieved through an exceptional combination of thermo-mechanical properties attained trough novel alloying and microstructural guidelines. Several of the tool steels of the present invention can be obtained in large cross-section without significant deterioration of the most relevant properties.
US12319991B2
A base material according to an aspect of the present disclosure is made of a cemented carbide. The cemented carbide includes a first hard phase and a binder phase. The first hard phase consists of WC particles. The binder phase includes at least one element selected from Co and Ni. The base material includes a body portion, and a surface portion provided on a surface of the body portion. The surface portion has a thickness less than or equal to an average particle size in the first hard phase. A ratio (B/A) of an area proportion (B) of the binder phase in a surface of the surface portion to an area proportion (A) of the binder phase in a cross section of the body portion is not less than 1.2 and not more than 2.0.
US12319990B2
The present disclosure relates to a method of making a cemented carbide mining insert, a cemented carbide mining insert with having a chemical and hardness gradient and to the use thereof. The method includes the steps of providing a green mining insert compact formed from a first powder including a WC-based hard phase, optionally one or more further hard-phase components and a binder, applying a second powder including a grain refiner compound and/or a carbon based grain growth promoter to at least one portion of a surface of the green mining insert compact, and sintering the green mining insert compact to produce a cemented carbide mining insert, wherein the first powder additionally includes Cr, in an amount such that the mass ratio of Cr/binder is of 0.01-0.3.
US12319976B2
A coke product configured to be used in foundry cupolas to melt iron and produce cast iron products is disclosed herein. In some embodiments, the coke product has a Coke Reactivity Index (CRI) of at least 30% and an ash fusion temperature (AFT) less than 1316° C. Additionally or alternatively, the coke product can comprise (i) an ash content of at least 8.0%, (ii) a volatile matter content of no more than 1.0%, (iii) a Coke Strength After Reaction (CSR) of no more than 40%, (iv) a 2-inch drop shatter of at least 90%, and/or (v) a fixed carbon content of at least 85%.
US12319972B2
The present disclosure provides a method for monitoring residual disease in a subject. Generally, the method comprises determining a frequency of cancer mutations from a first sample obtained from a tumor biopsy from the subject; determining a frequency of the cancer mutations discovered in the first sample from a second sample comprising cell-free deoxyribonucleic acid (cfDNA) molecules that is obtained from the subject after the subject has undergone a course of treatment for cancer; and determining a presence or absence of cancer in the subject based on an analysis of the frequency of the cancer mutations from sequence data from the second sample.
US12319971B2
Disclosed herein are methods for a RNA in situ hybridization assay workflow for the detection of target RNA within intact cells for the detection of prostate cancer cells in urine samples. The methods disclosed herein can identify a genetic susceptibility to prostate cancer in a subject and differentiate high risk from low risk prostate cancers. The methods disclosed herein can also include treatment and management strategies for prostate cancer and the prevention thereof.
US12319969B2
Provided herein is technology for esophageal disorder screening and particularly, but not exclusively, to methods, compositions, and related uses for detecting the presence of esophageal disorders (e.g., Barrett's esophagus, Barrett's esophageal dysplasia, etc.). In addition, the technology provides methods, compositions and related uses for distinguishing between Barrett's esophagus and Barrett's esophageal dysplasia, and between Barrett's esophageal low-grade dysplasia, Barrett's esophageal high-grade dysplasia, and esophageal adenocarcinoma within samples obtained through endoscopic brushing or nonendoscopic whole esophageal brushing or swabbing using a tethered device (e.g. such as a capsule sponge, balloon, or other device).
US12319961B1
Disclosed herein in are methods and systems for determining genetic variants (e.g., copy number variation) in a polynucleotide sample. A method for determining copy number variations includes tagging double-stranded polynucleotides with duplex tags, sequencing polynucleotides from the sample and estimating total number of polynucleotides mapping to selected genetic loci. The estimate of total number of polynucleotides can involve estimating the number of double-stranded polynucleotides in the original sample for which no sequence reads are generated. This number can be generated using the number of polynucleotides for which reads for both complementary strands are detected and reads for which only one of the two complementary strands is detected.
US12319959B2
The present disclosure provides methods and processes for increasing the efficiency and accuracy of nucleic acid sequencing using techniques such as polymerase chain reaction (PCR). The methods described herein can be used to achieve clonal amplification even with a greater than Poisson distribution of beads and/or nucleic acid templates into an emulsion. A PCR method may comprise generating a partition (e.g., a droplet) comprising at least two beads and/or at least two nucleic acid molecules and generating clonal amplification products corresponding to the nucleic acid molecule, at least a subset of which may be attached to a bead.
US12319947B2
A method for preparing (S)-nicotine by reduction includes conducting a reduction process on an alkene compound as shown in Formula I and/or an iminium cation compound as shown in Formula II, thereby producing (S)-nicotine. The method is simple, safe, reliable, and yields both high purity and high quantities of (S)-nicotine production.
US12319946B2
The disclosure relates, in some aspects, to compositions and methods useful for production of nitrated aromatic molecules. The disclosure is based, in part, on whole cell systems expressing artificial fusion proteins comprising cytochrome P450 enzymes linked to reductase enzymes. In some aspects, the disclosure relates to methods of producing nitrated aromatic molecules in whole cell systems having artificial fusion proteins comprising cytochrome P450 enzymes linked to reductase enzymes.
US12319938B2
Enhanced virus-like particles (eVLPs), comprising a membrane comprising a phospholipid bilayer with one or more virally-derived glycoproteins on the external side; and a cargo disposed in the core of the eVLP on the inside of the membrane, wherein the eVLP does not comprise an exogenous gag/pol protein, and methods of use thereof for delivery of the cargo to cells.
US12319935B2
Methods, compositions and kits for producing functional antigen-specific regulatory T cells (Tr1 cells) by reprogramming non-Tr1 target cells with suitable transcription factors.
US12319933B2
Culture supplement compositions for producing enhanced cellular agriculture products include a formulation including at least one enzyme in a carrier. As embodied herein, the formulation can be configured to adjust production of a base cellular agriculture product to produce an enhanced cellular agriculture product without reducing or inhibiting biomass production or cellular viability compared to the base cellular agriculture product. Furthermore, or as an alternative, the culture supplement composition can further include, in the carrier, at least one of a substrate or an additive. Cellular agriculture products made using the compositions are also provided.
US12319926B2
A recombinant humanized collagen type I alpha-1 (rhCol1A1), and an expression vector and use thereof are provided, belonging to the technical field of bioengineering. The rhCol1A1 has an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1. This aim is to solve the problem of difficulty in expressing soluble full-length humanized collagen in Escherichia coli prokaryotic expression systems, and differences between the recombinant collagen and humanized collagen in yeast expression systems. It is proposed that the rhCol1A1 chain is expressed in Expi293F™ human embryonic kidney cells, and the protein expression level is increased using a fusion expression plasmid, enabling the expression of full-length humanized collagen type I alpha 1 chain. Activity studies have shown that the expressed rhCol1A1 exhibits a desirable activity in promoting cell migration, and may be widely used in the fields of biomedicine, tissue engineering, skin care, and food.
US12319921B2
Methods and materials for modulating biomass levels in plants are disclosed. For example, nucleic acids encoding biomass-modulating polypeptides are disclosed as well as methods for using such nucleic acids to transform plant cells. Also disclosed are plants having increased biomass levels and plant products produced from plants having increased biomass levels.
US12319920B2
A series of independent human-induced non-transgenic mutations found at one or more of the SBEII genes of wheat; wheat plants having these mutations in one or more of their SBEII genes; and a method of creating and finding similar and/or additional mutations of SBEII by screening pooled and/or individual wheat plants. The seeds and flour from the wheat plants of the present invention exhibit an increase in amylose and resistant starch without having the inclusion of foreign nucleic acids in their genomes. Additionally, the wheat plants of the present invention exhibit altered SBEII activity without having the inclusion of foreign nucleic acids in their genomes.
US12319916B2
Described herein are methods of modulating gene transcription using antisense oligonucleotides (ASOs) targeting regulatory RNAs, such as promoter-associated RNAs and enhancer RNAs. These methods are useful for modulating the levels of gene products, for example, increasing expression of Carbamoyl-Phosphatase Synthetase 1 (CPS1), thereby treating diseases associated with aberrant gene expression.
US12319907B2
The present invention relates to a medium composition for culturing Faecalibacterium prausnitzii composed of vegetable peptone, yeast extract, a phosphate compound, a carbonate compound, cyanocobalamin (B12), L-cysteine, ammonium acetate, and maltose, and a method of mass-culturing Faecalibacterium prausnitzii using the medium composition. When the medium composition and the method for culturing Faecalibacterium prausnitzii according to the present invention are used, high-density culture and mass production of strains of Faecalibacterium prausnitzii phylogroup II are possible. In addition, when Faecalibacterium prausnitzii is mass-cultured in the medium composition free of animal components, it may be cultured at high density even in high-concentration anaerobic nitrogen gas, and thus it is possible to provide a culture method which is more economical and suitable for industrialization.
US12319894B2
The subject invention provides microbe-based products, as well as their use to improve oil production and oil transmission and refining by, for example, remediating the disposable layers in oil tanks and other oil storage units. The subject invention can be used to remediate a sludge layer and/or other dissolved solid layers that form in oil storage tanks. Advantageously, the subject invention can decrease the cost of mechanical remediation of disposable layers, and aid in the recovery of more pure hydrocarbons from crude fluids.
US12319890B2
Various aspects of the disclosure relate to methods and systems for extracting plant oil from plant material. A system may comprise a microwave emitter, an extraction chamber, and a cooling chamber. Microwave radiation emitted by the microwave emitter may dielectrically heat a microwave absorbing agent, which may heat the plant oil of the plant material. Plant oil of the plant material may be volatized in the extraction chamber and may be directed into the cooling chamber to be condensed.
US12319888B2
A lubricant composition said composition comprising at least one base oil and from 1 to 70 wt % of at least one friction modifying additive, wherein the composition is such that the viscosity reversibly reduces at a pressure from 50 MPa to 3 GPa. A mechanical system comprising the lubricant composition; use of the lubricant composition and methods of reducing friction using the lubricant composition are also disclosed.
US12319887B2
Provided is an initial break-in lubricant composition capable of easily and economically reducing the coefficient of friction of a sliding portion. The initial break-in lubricant composition includes an organic dispersion medium and nanocarbon particles in a quantity from 0.1 to 2000 ppm by mass. The nanocarbon particles are preferably particles of one or more nanocarbon material(s) selected from the group consisting of: nanodiamonds, fullerenes, graphene oxide, nanographite, carbon nanotubes, carbon nanofilaments, onion-like carbon, diamond-like carbon, amorphous carbon, carbon black, carbon nanohorns, and carbon nanocoils.
US12319884B2
A method for fractionating biomass material according to ash content, the method comprising: grinding the biomass material to produce a ground biomass and sieving the ground biomass through a first screen to yield: a) a first fraction of biomass particles that does not pass through the first screen and which has a first particle size, and b) a second fraction of biomass particles that passes through the first screen and which has a second particle size, wherein the second particle size is smaller than the first particle size, and wherein the second fraction of biomass particles has a higher ash content than the first fraction of biomass particles; and optionally further comprising: passing the second fraction of biomass particles through a second screen having a finer mesh size to produce a third fraction having a smaller particle size and a higher ash content than the second fraction of biomass particles.
US12319879B2
The hydrogenation capacity of an upflow hydrocarbon hydrotreatment reactor is increased by expanding the gas-liquid contact surface.
US12319873B2
A diverter acid fluid composition for use in the stimulation of oil wells during exploration thereof, named Quovadis is disclosed. The diverter acid fluid may be used for stimulating oil wells during matrix acidification. The role thereof is to improve the efficiency of processes of stimulation of wells by acid treatment allowing the fluid to come into contact with regions of low permeability of the carbonate rock matrix, i.e., regions of difficult access. The diverter acid fluid also removes permanent formation damage around the well, allowing for greater coverage of the treatment and, consequently, better use of the treatment.
US12319872B2
Disclosed herein is a crosslinked HPG fluid system using a very low concentration of HPG polymer. The fluid system is able to be used at low HPG concentrations while maintaining stable viscosity for over two hours at elevated temperatures.
US12319865B2
Provided is a thermosetting resin composition capable of achieving both thermal conductivity and dielectric breakdown resistance at high levels and forming a cured product with a surface having high smoothness. In a thermosetting resin composition, a thermosetting resin, a thermally conductive filler, a rheology modifier, and a wet dispersant are mixed to be solvent-free, and a thermal conductivity of a cured product of the thermosetting resin composition is adjusted to 2.5 W/m·K or more.
US12319862B2
A method for preparing a coated article which includes: (a) providing a substrate; (b) applying a photo-polymerizable coating composition to at least a portion of the substrate, where the photo-polymerizable coating composition includes a photo-polymerizable anisotropic material, and a photoinitiator; (c) ordering the anisotropic material present in the photo-polymerizable coating composition; and (d) exposing the ordered photo-polymerizable coating composition of (c) to a light emitting diode light source having a peak emission wavelength ranging from 385 to 460 nanometers to cure the photo-polymerizable coating composition is provided herein. The photoinitiator is capable of activation at the emission wavelength of the light emitting diode light source.
US12319859B2
A phosphor of the present invention is a phosphor containing an inorganic compound in which Eu as an activator is solid-soluted in an inorganic crystal having a crystal represented by LiBa2AlSi7N12 or the same crystal structure as the crystal represented by LiBa2AlSi7N12, in which in an X-ray diffraction pattern of the phosphor measured using a Cu-Kα ray, I1 and I2 satisfy 0
US12319857B2
A compound having a Pt tetradentate structure of Formula 1, is provided. In the structure of Formula 1, rings C and D each independently represent 5- or 6-membered carbocyclic or heterocyclic ring; L1, L2, and L3 are each independently a direct bond, BR, NR, PR, O, S, Se, C═O, S═O, SO2, SiRR′, GeRR′, alkyl, cycloalkyl, or a combination thereof; the sum of n1 and n2 is 1 or 2; X is selected from NRE, O, S, and Se; X3 and X4 each independently carbon or nitrogen; and one of Q1, Q3, and Q4 is oxygen, and the remaining two of Q1, Q3, and Q4 each represents a direct bond. Formulations and devices, such as an OLEDs, that include the compound of Formula 1 are also described.
US12319850B2
Disclosed is a moisture reactive polyurethane hot melt adhesive composition that can be applied to substrates at a low coating weight even at application temperatures as low as 60 to 95° C. while retaining the advantageous high tack, green strength, cured bond strength and toughness of conventional high melting point polyurethane hot melt adhesives.
US12319843B2
This disclosure relates to polishing compositions that include (1) at least one abrasive; (2) at least one organic acid or a salt thereof; (3) at least one first amine compound, the at least one first amine compound including an alkylamine having a 6-24 carbon alkyl chain; (4) at least one second amine compound containing at least two nitrogen atoms, the second amine compound being different from the first amine compound; and (5) an aqueous solvent.
US12319840B2
The present invention relates to a clear coating composition comprising a perlite, wherein the median particle size, d50, of the perlite is in the range of 0.5 and 25 μm, a method of making clear coating compositions and their use in coating an article or substrate.
US12319834B2
Methods for repairing the conventional physical barrier coating barrier on a component having a damaged portion. Applying a coating on the outer surface of the damaged portion of the component. The coating containing a reactive oxide. Initiating a reaction between the coating and the molten sulfates within the outer surface of the component. The reaction catalytically decomposes molten sulfates at the outer surface of the damaged portion of the component.
US12319831B2
A coating composition comprising: a. a polyester imide (PEI) polymer having an acid value of ≥10 mg KOH/g; and b. a crosslinker operable to crosslink the acid functionality on the polyester imide polymer wherein the coating composition is substantially free of bisphenol A (BPA), bisphenol F (BPF), bisphenol A diglycidyl ether (BADGE) and bisphenol F diglycidyl ether (BFDGE).
US12319826B2
Parts made by additive manufacturing are often structural in nature, rather than having functional properties conveyed by a component present therein. Composite filaments suitable for additive manufacturing may comprise a continuous polymer phase of a first thermoplastic polymer and a second thermoplastic polymer that are immiscible with one another, and electrically conductive particles distributed in the continuous polymer phase, such as microparticles, nanoparticles, or any combination thereof. The first thermoplastic polymer is dissolvable or degradable and the second thermoplastic polymer is insoluble or non-degradable under specified conditions. Removal of the first thermoplastic polymer from a printed part may introduce porosity thereto, thereby inducing or enhancing piezoresistivity within the printed part. An aqueous mixture comprising the electrically conductive particles and the first and second thermoplastic polymers may have water removed therefrom, and the resulting composite residue may be extruded to form the composite filaments.
US12319817B2
Compounds useful as fluorescent or colored dyes are disclosed. The compounds have the following structure (I), or a stereoisomer, tautomer or salt thereof, wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, L1, L2, L3, L4, M1, M2, m and n are as defined herein. Methods associated with preparation and use of such compounds is also provided.
US12319802B2
Described herein are polyamide foam particles including a polymer mixture including: (A) from 25 to 95 wt.-% of at least one polyamide, which is different from a copolyamide (B); and (B) from 5 to 75 wt.-% of at least one copolyamide prepared by polymerizing the following components: (B1) from 15 to 84 wt.-% of at least one lactam; and (B2) from 16 to 85 wt.-% of monomer mixture (M) including; (M1) at least one C32-C40 dimer acid; and (M2) at least one C4-C12 diamine; where the sum of the components (B1) and (B2) are 100 wt.-%. Also described herein is a process for preparing such polyamide foam particles and polyamide particle foam moldings obtainable by steam-chest molding.
US12319801B2
Provided is a hard coating film for foldable displays that does not form creases or cracks in the folding portion, and that is also excellent in reducing iridescent colors (interference mottling) caused by fine cracks in an easy-to-adhere resin layer or other layers. The hard coating film for a foldable display contains a polyester film having a thickness of 10 to 80 μm, an easy-to-adhere resin layer, and a hard coating layer, the easy-to-adhere resin layer and the hard coating layer being stacked in this order on at least one surface of the polyester film, wherein the easy-to-adhere resin layer is a cured product of a composition containing a binder resin and at least one type of particles selected from the group consisting of titanium oxide particles, zirconium oxide particles, and silica particles, the at least one type of particles have a mean particle size of 5 to 150 nm, and the polyester film having the easy-to-adhere resin layer stacked thereon but not yet having the hard coating layer stacked thereon satisfies specific conditions.
US12319798B2
There is provided a water-soluble film containing polyvinyl alcohol resin, wherein the ratio of fluorine element to the total amount of elements (F1S) found at the time of analyzing a first surface of the water-soluble film through X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy is 1 mol % or greater and 25 mol % or less; and ratio of the fluorine element to the total amount of elements (F1B) found at the time of analyzing a surface 0.1 μm deep from the first surface through X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy is 0.5 mol % or less. As a result, a water-soluble film having excellent detachability from the support, as well as excellent transparency and sealing property, and a packaging body for chemicals may be provided using this film.
US12319796B2
The invention relates to a composition for the layer-by-layer building of a three-dimensional article by sintering of the composition brought about by electromagnetic radiation, the composition comprising a semicrystalline thermoplastic polymer powder and at least one wax, the wax having a dropping point which is greater than the crystallization temperature of the semicrystalline thermoplastic polymer, said composition in addition optionally comprising a flow agent. The invention also relates to a process for the preparation of said composition and also to its use for the layer-by-layer building of a three-dimensional article.
US12319795B2
A vulcanizate prepared by a method comprising introducing an elastomer, a filler, and a polar polysulfide crosslinking agent to form a masterbatch and introducing a curative to the masterbatch to form a vulcanizable composition. Vulcanizing the composition to graft the polar group from the crosslinking agent onto an elastomer to increase the hydrophilicity of the composition.
