US12327448B2
An access control system includes an identification unit having an infrared (IR) transmitter, an IR detector that receives reflected IR radiation from one or more body parts of the user, one or more signal processing components to determine a temperature of the user, a hand sanitization unit that sanitizes hands of the user when the hands are placed in a palm placement area, and an identification device to receive identification information of the user. The access control system also includes a processor that receives the reading of the user, instructs a door lock controller to unlock a door when the temperature is below the threshold temperature or the temperature is within the temperature range. The processor sends an alert when the temperature is above the threshold temperature or the temperature is outside the temperature range, and sends identification information of the user to one or more network devices.
US12327443B2
An integrated monitoring apparatus is mounted on a vehicle. An evidence log collection unit that of the integrated monitoring apparatus starts collecting a log from an ECU mounted on the vehicle when a predetermined log collection start condition is met. A determination unit of the integrated monitoring apparatus determines whether the ECU is operating normally based on the log of the ECU collected. When the ECU is determined to be operating normally, the log collection unit of the integrated monitoring apparatus stops collecting the log from the ECU.
US12327441B2
This application involves a vehicle data processing method performed by a computer device. The method includes: obtaining current vehicle trajectory data and current vehicle status data of a target vehicle; determining a current travel scenario and a corrected vehicle speed of the target vehicle according to the current vehicle trajectory data and a historical vehicle trajectory data set of the target vehicle; determining a target matching mode of the current vehicle trajectory data and the current vehicle status data based on the corrected vehicle speed and vehicle speed reference information corresponding to the current travel scenario; obtaining target matching vehicle trajectory data corresponding to the current vehicle status data from the current vehicle trajectory data according to the target matching mode; and transmitting recommended information to the target vehicle based on the target matching vehicle trajectory data, the current vehicle status data, and the current travel scenario.
US12327438B2
A data collection system includes: an alternativity determination unit determining whether or not data has alternativity, allowing replacement of the data with alternative data when a data necessity inquiry transmitted from an in-vehicle terminal is received by a center-side reception unit; and a center-side transmission unit (i) transmitting a discard notice back to the in-vehicle terminal that has transmitted the data necessity inquiry, and letting the in-vehicle terminal to discard the data based on a determination by the alternativity determination unit that the data has alternativity, and (ii) transmitting a keeping notice back to the in-vehicle terminal that has transmitted the data necessity inquiry, and letting the in-vehicle terminal to keep the data based on a determination by the alternativity determination unit that the data has no alternativity.
US12327436B2
Systems and methods are provided for estimating the energy range of an electric vehicle, including updating an energy consumption estimation model based on the location of a vehicle or based on the current time. One embodiment comprises obtaining a route of a vehicle and deploying an energy consumption estimation model to provide an energy consumption estimate along the route from a first location to a destination. In response to determining that the vehicle enters a subsequent location, the energy consumption estimation model is updated with a location model received from an edge/cloud server, to estimate an energy range along the route through the subsequent location.
US12327432B2
Techniques and apparatuses are described that implement pattern recognition for face-authentication anti-spoofing. In particular, a face-authentication system distinguishes between a real human face and a presentation attack that uses a display to present a virtual human face. Operational settings of a camera system of the face-authentication system are tailored to enable detection of a pattern associated with an operation of the display. A spoofing detector of the face-authentication system analyzes one or more images captured by the camera system and determines whether or not the pattern is present within the image(s). If the pattern is present, the face-authentication system does not provide face authentication. Alternatively, if the pattern is not present, the face-authentication system can provide face authentication if facial recognition is successful. In this way, the face-authentication system can prevent unauthorized actors from using the presentation attack to gain access to a user's account or information.
US12327430B2
A method for training a neural network for facial expression recognition includes recognizing a plurality of digital human face models. For each of the plurality of digital human face models, a plurality of simulated facial expressions are simulated. Simulated capacitance measurements for an array of simulated radio frequency (RF) antennas are found for each of the plurality of simulated facial expressions. The simulated capacitance measurements for each simulated facial expression are provided as input training data to a neural network configured to output facial expression parameters based on input capacitance measurements.
US12327411B2
A life-assisting system to enhance the quality of life for people with visual impairment. The system integrates state-of-the-art sensing and sensory stimulation with light detection and ranging (LiDAR), machine learning, and advanced haptic navigation to provide the visually impaired population with a real-time haptic map of the three-dimensional environment and auditory descriptions of objects within that environment. By allowing the visually impaired population to sense objects in the surrounding environment through haptic and auditory feedback, the disclosed system has the potential to promote individual independence, reduce anxiety and stress, facilitate access to educational and employment opportunities, and reduce social and economic gaps. To provide those benefits, the system uses multi-modal learning to convert higher dimensional (e.g., four-dimensional) scene data into lower dimensional (e.g., one-dimensional) auditory data and (e.g., two- or three-dimensional) haptic data.
US12327408B2
A method for delivering interactive video to a user is disclosed herein. A computing system identifies video contents corresponding to a sporting event. The video contents include a plurality of video frames. The computing system annotates each video frame of the plurality of video frames to uniquely identify the video frame and contents contained therein. The computing system receives, from a plurality of prediction models, a plurality of data inputs related to agents and actions captured in each video frame of the plurality of video frames. The computing system generates a plurality of data frames based on the plurality of data inputs. The computing system associates each data frame with a respective video frame using the annotations. The computing system causes a user device to present the interactive video to the user by instructing the user device to merge the plurality of data frames with the plurality of video frames.
US12327405B2
An information processing device includes an extraction unit that extracts a core line from an image containing dermatoglyphic pattern; an identification unit that identifies an evaluation value indicating possibility of the dermatoglyphic pattern of the core line; and a correction unit that corrects the image based on the evaluation value.
US12327385B2
A neural network system, a method and an apparatus for image compression are provided. The neural network may include a generator including an encoder, an entropy estimator, and a decoder, where the encoder receives an input image and generates an encoder output, a plurality of quantized feature entries are obtained based on the encoder output outputted at a last encoder block, the entropy estimator receives the plurality of quantized feature entries and calculates an entropy loss based on the plurality of quantized feature entries, and the decoder receives the plurality of quantized feature entries and generates a reconstructed image. Furthermore, the neural network may include a discriminator that determines whether the reconstructed image different from the input image based on a discriminator loss. Moreover, the generator may determine whether content of the reconstructed image matches content of the input image based on a generator loss including the entropy loss.
US12327384B2
An example device for filtering decoded video data includes one or more processors configured to execute a neural network filtering unit to: receive data from one or more other units of the device, the data from the one or more other units of the device being different than data for a decoded picture of video data, and wherein to receive the data from the one or more other units of the device, the one or more processors are configured to execute the neural network filtering unit to receive boundary strength data from a deblocking unit of the device; determine one or more neural network models to be used to filter a portion of the decoded picture; and filter the portion of the decoded picture using the one or more neural network models and the data from the one or more other units of the device, including the boundary strength data.
US12327383B2
A decoder may generate a reconstruction of a luma block based on a prediction of the luma block and a residual of the luma block. The decoder may generate, at one or more hidden layers, a score distribution. The decoder may generate the score distribution based on the reconstruction of the luma block and one or more coding parameters of the luma block. The decoder may generate, at an output layer and based on the score distribution, a prediction of a chroma block corresponding to the luma block. The decoder may determine a reconstruction of the chroma block based on the prediction of the chroma block and a residual of the chroma block.
US12327373B2
An image processing apparatus may include: a memory storing one or more instructions; and a processor configured to execute the one or more instructions stored in the memory, wherein the processor executes the one or more instructions to use one or more convolutional neural networks to: determine first parameters, based on position information of first pixels included in a first region of a first image and position information of samples of the first image; obtain sample values of the samples by applying the first parameters to pixel values of the first pixels; obtain feature information corresponding to the first region by performing a convolution operation between the sample values and a kernel of the one or more convolutional neural networks; and generate a second image, based on the feature information.
US12327369B2
In an aspect, the present disclosure provides a method of providing a dimensionally aware prediction for an object in an image captured by an image sensor, using a scale selective machine learning system, comprising: obtaining an input comprising image data of an object at an input image scale; generating a plurality of variant images based on re-scaling the input with a plurality of different image scaling factors, each variant image comprising the object at a variant image scale; generating a plurality of scale selective predictions based on the plurality of variant images, and assigning an in-scope response when the variant image comprises the object at an in-scope image scale, and determining a location prediction for the object based on a scale selective prediction comprising the in-scope response.
US12327368B2
An image processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire an image captured by an imaging unit, and image capturing information at the time of image capturing of the image, and a calculation unit configured to calculate an object side pixel dimension of a target subject in the image based on the image capturing information and a pixel dimension of the imaging unit, wherein the acquisition unit acquires in-focus information indicating an in-focus state of a subject in an image, as the image capturing information, and wherein the calculation unit calculates the object side pixel dimension based on the in-focus information.
US12327364B2
This document describes techniques and systems for generating a fused object bounding box based on uncertainty. At least two bounding boxes, each associated with a different sensor, is generated. A fused center point and yaw angle as well as length, width, and velocity can be found by mixing the distributions of the parameters from each bounding box. A discrepancy between the center points of each bounding box can be used to determine whether to refine the fused bounding box (e.g., find an intersection between at least two bounding boxes) or consolidate the fused bounding box (e.g., find a union between at least two bounding boxes). This results in the fused bounding box having a confidence level of the uncertainty associated with the fused bounding box. In this manner, better estimations of the uncertainty of the fused bounding box may be achieved to improve tracking performance of a sensor fusion system.
US12327361B2
Various methods and systems are provided for segmenting a three-dimensional (3D) region of interest (ROI) from an image sequence. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a positive point selection or negative point selection for an ROI in a first image slice of an image sequence, mapping the first image slice and the positive point selection or negative point selection to a first segmentation mask of the ROI using a weakly supervised segmentation model, simulating positive and negative point selections in a second image slice based on the first segmentation mask to produce a plurality of simulated positive and negative point selections, wherein the second image slice is adjacent to the first image slice, and mapping the second image slice and the plurality of simulated positive and negative point selections to a second segmentation mask for the ROI in the second image slice using the weakly supervised segmentation model.
US12327360B2
In part, the disclosure relates to methods, and systems suitable for evaluating image data from a patient on a real time or substantially real time basis using machine learning (ML) methods and systems. Systems and methods for improving diagnostic tools for end users such as cardiologists and imaging specialists using machine learning techniques applied to specific problems associated with intravascular images that have polar representations. Further, given the use of rotating probes to obtain image data for OCT, IVUS, and other imaging data, dealing with the two coordinate systems associated therewith creates challenges. The present disclosure addresses these and numerous other challenges relating to solving the problem of quickly imaging and diagnosis a patient such that stenting and other procedures may be applied during a single session in the cath lab.
US12327354B2
The disclosure relates to an extended-reality device having an interface, a computing unit, and a user interface. The extended-reality device may be configured to capture, using the interface, a procedure of an imaging examination using an imaging apparatus. The computing unit may be configured to determine information concerning the procedure of the imaging examination and to provide said information to a user of the extended-reality device using the user interface. The disclosure further relates to a system including an imaging apparatus with an extended-reality device, and to a method for providing information concerning a procedure of an imaging examination using the system.
US12327352B2
A processor is configured to generate a structure-highlighted synthesized two-dimensional image from a plurality of tomographic images, to detect a structure of interest from the plurality of tomographic images or the structure-highlighted synthesized two-dimensional image, and to set at least some of the plurality of tomographic images as either storage-required images or non-storage-required images based on a detection result of the structure of interest.
US12327351B2
An end effector state estimation system for use in minimally invasive surgery (MIS) applications performs sensing and prediction algorithms to determine and visualize the state of an implantable therapeutic device during deployment. The end effector state estimation system includes a flexible elongate member, a therapeutic device coupled to a distal portion of the flexible elongate member, a sensor that measures at least one parameter related to the deployment state of the therapeutic device, and a processor. The processor receives image data from an imaging system representative of the therapeutic device positioned within the body cavity of the patient and the at least one parameter from the sensor, determines the deployment state of the therapeutic device based on the image data and the at least one parameter, outputs a graphical representation of the deployment state of the therapeutic device.
US12327350B2
The present disclosure relates to a method, a device and a medium for performing vessel segmentation in a medical image. The method may comprise acquiring a medical image for vessel segmentation containing multiple parts, each of which contains vessels with different structural attributes. The method may comprise dividing the medical image into sub-medical images according to the parts by using a processor. The method may comprise determining individual vessel segmentation result for each part by means of using the vessel segmentation model corresponding to the part based on the sub-medical image of the part by using the processor. The method may comprise obtaining a vessel segmentation result of the medical image by means of fusing the individual vessel segmentation results of the sub-medical images of the parts by the processor. By applying the method and the device, vessel segmentation models are adapted differentially for the individual parts so as to segment the vessels of the individual parts respectively, so that the entire vessel segmentation process is fast, effective, and accurate.
US12327321B2
Techniques for intelligently identifying what type of moving platform an MR system is operating on are disclosed. A display artifact that is associated with content displayed by the MR system is detected. A determination is made that a current configuration of a motion model used to display the content is causing the display artifact. Time-limited series of convoluted motion data is analyzed. The time-limited series of convoluted motion data is fed as input to a predictive ML algorithm. The predictive ML algorithm determines a particular category for the moving platform based on the time-limited series of convoluted motion data. Based on the determined category, either a reconfigured version of the motion model is used or a new motion model is used to display a hologram.
US12327309B2
The present disclosure provides an area wide object dimensioning system for an object in motion, such as mounted to a vehicle (e.g., a lift truck). One or more sensors (e.g., a radar system, an acoustic sensor, an image capture system, a LIDAR system, a microwave system, etc.) are located within the area to capture data corresponding to one or more dimensions of the object as it travels through the area. Control circuitry receives the data from the sensors, which is converted into multiple dimensions corresponding to one or more surfaces of the object. Surface dimensions are employed to determine a shape, volume, orientation, or area of the surfaces of the object, and/or the object itself, based on the multiple surface dimensions.
US12327306B2
Provided in the present disclosure are methods and apparatuses, an electronic device, a medium, and a program product for presenting an animation. A method for presenting an animation comprises: receiving a sending operation for a target session message, wherein the target session message comprises a first target interactive picture; in response to the sending operation, sending the target session message to a second user; and if the first target interactive picture comprises a first object, presenting a sending animation of the first object, the sending animation comprising a sending track of the first object, the sending track being different from a receiving track, the receiving track being a movement track of the first object included in a receiving animation of the first object, and the receiving animation being an animation presented, in response to receiving the first target interactive picture, by a second user.
US12327302B2
An Augmented Reality (AR) system is provided. The AR system generates a text scene object including virtual text objects based on a text and detect a text selection gesture made by a user of the AR system. The AR system generates a selection line based on a landmark of the user's hand. The AR system detects a confirmation gesture made by the user and sets a text selection start point at an intersection of the selection line with a start virtual text object of the one or more virtual text objects. The AR system detects a subsequent confirmation gesture made by the user, sets a text selection end point, and selects selected text from the text based on the text selection start point and the text selection end point.
US12327298B2
Techniques and systems for translating images of biological samples stained according to a first staining technique into images representing the biological samples stained according to a second staining technique. In various implementations, the first staining technique can include a histopathological staining technique and the second staining technique can include an immunofluorescence staining technique or an immunohistochemistry staining technique.
US12327293B2
A multi-tenant, RFID system that may be Cloud based or run on a local area network (LAN) for distributed RFID devices and RFID applications. The RFID system a central abstraction and translation layer between RFID devices installed in geographically diverse locations and applications. RFID devices initiate communication to a Cloud or LAN network over to send events and receive commands. RFID applications can receive RFID tag data, device health, and requested and derived events from the RFID system to automatically run processes based on the provided data. Applications manage RFID devices and settings in the RFID system using command and configuration interfaces.
US12327291B2
To provide a new technique for a teacher to recognize a tackling attitude of a student toward class is provided, the present invention provides a processing apparatus 100 including: an input word acquisition unit 101 that acquires an input word being a word input to each of a plurality of student terminals; a classification unit 102 that classifies the input words into a plurality of categories; and a first output unit 103 that displays a list of at least some of the input words, and also outputs, via an output terminal, a screen indicating a result of the classification of each of the input words displayed in the list.
US12327285B2
Systems and methods are disclosed with respect to using a blockchain for managing the subrogation claim process related to a vehicle collision, in particular, utilizing evidence oracles as part of the subrogation process. An exemplary embodiment includes receiving recorded data from one or more connected devices at a geographic location; analyzing the recorded data, wherein analyzing the recorded data includes determining that an collision has occurred involving one or more vehicles; generating a transaction including the data indicative of the collision based upon the analysis; and transmitting the transaction to at least one other participant in the distributed ledger network.
US12327284B2
A back-end application computer server may receive a request along with a descriptive term. A look-up process may be performed based on the descriptive term (and hidden terms) may establish a set of potential pre-determined descriptions. The user may select one of the potential descriptions, and a user identifier may be associated with the request. A series of dynamic information exchanges may then help assign a category to the user identifier. A partial set of initial request details may be received from a third-party device and the user may adjust and/or add details to create a complete set. A potential value may then be calculated for the request. An indication of the potential value may be transmitted to the user, and information about the user identifier may be transmitted to a user response terminal to facilitate communication between the user response terminal and the user.
US12327280B2
A method includes generating a virtual model of a human body based at least in part on a selected image of the human body and generating a segment of an article of clothing based at least in part on a selected image of the article of clothing. The method also includes generating a layer mask indicating whether a plurality of output pixels of an output image should be produced according to the image of the human body, the image of the shirt, or the image of the pair of pants and producing the plurality of output pixels of the output image according to the layer mask. The output image shows the article of clothing on the human body in the selected image of the human body.
US12327274B1
Techniques for automatically initializing customer assistance in a retail store based on video analysis are provided. An exemplary method includes retrieving video data from a database and extracting one or more features from the video data. The method also includes identifying a product is missing on a store shelf based on the one or more features. The method includes training an artificial intelligence model using the one or more features to identify a customer needs assistance, and applying the trained artificial intelligence model to predict a customer needs assistance at a particular location in the store. The method includes sending a notification to a computing device of a customer service representative, wherein the notification identifies the customer, the customer's location, and information about the missing product.
US12327265B1
A system of promoting or gifting a specific product or service by a person. The system includes a network and an e-commerce/customer social media and networking platform coupled to the network. The platform includes a social networking platform providing social networking services to a plurality of users communicating with the e-commerce/customer social media and networking platform via the network and an e-commerce module for performing online purchase transactions of goods and services published on the e-commerce/customer social media and networking platform. The e-commerce module displays products or services for sale to the plurality of users and enacts purchase transactions of a product or service selected by a purchasing user. Endorsements received from the purchasing user may be published to a plurality of members observing the purchasing user. The system may also provide a gifting feature to enable users to send gifts to other users.
US12327264B1
A computer device and method for processing an insurance claim and making decisions regarding an insurance policy utilizing informatic data received from one or more informatic camera sensor devices configured to capture imagery data relating to an insured property. Analysis is performed on the received imagery informatic data to determine an assessment variable regarding the insured property. An insurance policy associated with the insured property is also received by the computer and analyzed to determine insurance coverage terms and conditions for the insured property. Predefined business rules are preferably applied by the computer using at least the determined assessment variable and the determined insurance coverage terms and conditions for the insured property to determine an event relating to the insurance policy associated with the insured property.
US12327259B2
Computer-implemented systems and methods are described for providing user access to content via customized options for a plurality of regions, a customized option being provided to a user based on a region associated with the user. An upload of content for distribution and metadata describing the content are received. A first option definition is received that defines first criteria for accessing the content in a first region. A second option definition defining second criteria for accessing the content in a second region is received. One or more options for the content are provided to the user based on the region associated with the user. An identification of an option is received from the user, and access to the content is provided according to the criteria of the option that the user has identified.
US12327253B2
A mobile consumer device with a display, processor(s), and memory: identifies a merchant device in proximity to the consumer device based on broadcasted information transmitted by the first merchant device, the broadcasted information including a first identifier corresponding to the first merchant device; transmits the first identifier to a server and receives from the server an electronic communication including identification and transaction information associated with the merchant; displays the identification information, receives user selection of the merchant identification information; and in response, displays the merchant transaction information, receives supplemental user information, and transmits the supplemental transaction information to the server for completion of the transaction.
US12327246B2
A method executed by a computing entity includes obtaining control over a transaction token representing a first pending transaction associated with a transaction item. The method further includes selecting a set of selected public benefit credit assets from a group of candidate public benefit credit assets based on an identity of the transaction item and an associated credit level of each candidate public benefit credit asset of the group of candidate public benefit credit assets. The method further includes generating an updated secure first token in accordance with a securely passing process to represent the selection of the selected set of public benefit credit assets to subsequently provide conversion of the set of selected public benefit credit assets to complete the first pending transaction.
US12327245B2
A method and apparatus for a first server computer system processing a transaction received from a second server computer system are described. The method may include receiving a request to perform a first transaction. The method may also include generating a second transaction originating from an account of the first server computer system, the second transaction comprising payment data associated with a user selected payment method for the first transaction. The method may also include transmitting the second transaction to a transaction interface of the first server computer system, and authorizing the second transaction with an authorization system using payment data associated with the user selected payment method for the first transaction to complete the first transaction.
US12327244B2
A method is disclosed. The method includes receiving a first session key different from a Master Key from a remote entity, the first session key based on the Master Key. The first session key is usable for a limited number of transactions. In response to receiving the first session key, the method includes provisioning a payment application in the user device with the first session key. The method includes receiving, at the payment application, a request for an application cryptogram from a point-of-sale terminal. In response to the receiving the request for the application cryptogram, the method includes generating the application cryptogram using the first session key, transmitting the application cryptogram to the point-of-sale terminal, and receiving a second session key from the remote entity. The second session key is based on the Master Key.
US12327232B2
Location polygons are defined along traffic lanes and parking spaces to facilitate determination of the location of a vehicle relative to features associated with the location polygons. The location polygons are used, in one application, to identity entrance and exit of a special toll lane along a roadway, and to ensure that the vehicle properly enters and exits the tolling lane.
US12327231B2
Systems, devices, methods, and non-transient machine-interpretable programming and/or other instruction products for the generation, transfer, storage, and other processing of secure data sets used in electronic payment transactions, including particularly the secure creation, administration, manipulation, processing, and storage of electronic data useful in processing of pre-funded, pre-paid, and/or otherwise pre-authorized payment transactions. Devices and methods in accordance with the disclosure can be used to create pre-funded payment token data sets, the token data sets comprising secure data items or records representing negotiable monetary or other economic value, and to share them between network communication devices such as smart phones, home or business desktop computers, etc., for use in purchases and other transactions.
US12327230B1
A method of operating a drive through interface of a drive through system includes detecting a presence of a vehicle at the drive through interface based on image data of a portion of a lane at the drive through interface. The method includes, responsive to an order being placed by a customer in the vehicle via the drive through interface, operating a display screen of the drive through interface to notify the customer that the order is not yet ready for pickup and prompting the customer to keep the vehicle at the drive through interface. The method includes, responsive to the order being ready for pickup at a particular pickup window of multiple pickup windows, operating the display screen of the drive through interface to notify the customer that the order is ready for pickup and prompt the customer to drive the vehicle to the particular pickup window.
US12327223B2
A system for applying an artificial intelligence engine to affect course corrections and influence outcomes of a meeting may include a network interconnecting a facilitator device, a teammate participant device, and a computing system operating a recurrent neural network. The facilitator device may receive parameters of a meeting including one or more of a meeting start time, a meeting location, a meeting duration, a meeting topic, and a list of teammate participant names. The teammate participant device may be a binary meeting score indicating if the meeting was either productive or not productive. The computing system may correlate the meeting score with the meeting parameters to create parameter scores. As scores are stored in the memory of the computing system, over time, the recurrent neural network may transform the parameter scores into parameter suggestions which may be conveyed to a meeting facilitator in real time.
US12327209B1
A system and method for a risk management visualization system comprises a computer having a processor and memory and configured to model a supply chain network as a supply chain planning problem, one or more key process indicators (KPIs) of the supply chain planning problem is based, at least in part, on the one or more input variables, model an impact on the one or more KPIs from each of the one or more input variables at a selected confidence interval using a Bayesian optimization process, and display a visualization of a risk profile for the one or more KPIs, the visualization indicating a probability that an actual KPI value differs from a predicted KPI value.
US12327207B2
A technique is described for implementing drones as a service. As an example, a drone may receive instructions from one or more network elements, coordinate operations with the one or more network elements, and perform at least one task associated with the instructions. The drone may deliver a container to a first location and perform object recognition to validate an object of a subscriber being delivered to a second location. The drone may measure the weight and dimensions of the object to confirm the object is within operating guidelines. After verifying the object is within operating guidelines, the drone may transport the container containing the object to the second location.
US12327204B2
Disclosed is a population and contamination estimation method for severe accidents in nuclear power plants. The population estimation method performed by a population estimation device according to an embodiment may include storing location information of a nuclear power plant on a map and predicting a multi-unit accident occurrence point based on information on a plurality of single units associated with the nuclear power plant stored on the map.
US12327200B2
Various systems and methods for modeling a manufacturing assembly line are disclosed herein. Some embodiments relate to operating a processor to receive cell data and line production data, determine one or more production associations between the cell data and the line production data; evaluate the one or more production associations to identify one or more critical production associations; retrieve the cell data and the line production data associated with the one or more critical production associations; and train a predictive model with the retrieved cell data and the retrieved line production data to predict the production level of the manufacturing assembly line.
US12327192B2
Methods, systems, and apparatuses, including computer programs for detecting pancreatic neoplasms. A method includes providing an image as an input to a first model, obtaining first output data generated by the first model based on the first model's processing of the image, the first output data representing a portion of the image that depicts a pancreas, providing the first output data as an input to a second model, obtaining second output data generated by the second model based on the second model's processing of the second input data, the second output indicating whether the depicted pancreas is normal or abnormal, providing the first output data and the second output data as an input to a third model, and obtaining third output data generated by the third model, the third output data including data indicating that the pancreas is normal or data indicating a likely location of a pancreatic neoplasm.
US12327191B2
A neural network pruning method includes acquiring a first task accuracy of an inference task processed by a pretrained neural network, pruning, based on a channel unit, the neural network by adjusting weights between nodes of channels based on a preset learning weight and based on a channel-by-channel pruning parameter corresponding to a channel of each of a plurality of layers of the pretrained neural network, updating the learning weight based on the first task accuracy and a task accuracy of the pruned neural network, updating the channel-by-channel pruning parameter based on the updated learning weight and the task accuracy of the pruned neural network, and repruning, based on the channel unit, the pruned neural network based on the updated learning weight and based on the updated channel-by-channel pruning parameter.
US12327186B2
An abnormality detection device trains a model using multiple network sections each configured to process acquired time series data sets and a concatenation section configured to combine output data output from each of the multiple network sections and to output, as a combined result, a result of combining the output data output from each of the multiple network sections. The trained model is then applied to adapt a unit of process performed during manufacture of a processed object.
US12327180B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for processing inputs using neural networks that include one or more conditional convolutional layers. A conditional convolutional layer has a plurality of kernels and determines a respective input-dependent weight for each of the plurality of kernels and generates an input-dependent kernel by computing a weighted sum of the plurality of kernels in accordance with the respective input-dependent weights.
US12327179B2
A processor, a method of operating the processor, and an electronic device including the processor are disclosed. The method includes arranging, in respective input registers, weights and activations having a smaller number of bits than a minimum operation unit of an operator included in the processor, performing a multiplication between values stored in the input registers, storing a result of the multiplication in an output register, and outputting, from the output register, a value in a preset bit range as a result of a dot product between a first vector including the weights and a second vector including the activations.
US12327178B2
Disclosed is a neural network accelerator including a maximum value determiner outputting a maximum value based on a first magnitude component corresponding to first input data and a second magnitude component corresponding to second input data, a sign determiner outputting a sign component corresponding to the maximum value among a first sign component corresponding to the first input data and a second sign component corresponding to the second input data, as an output sign component, an offset operator quantizing a difference between the first magnitude component and the second magnitude component and outputting an output offset based on the first sign component, the second sign component, and the quantization result, and a magnitude operator calculating an output magnitude component of an output data based on the maximum value and the output offset. Each of the first input data and the second input data is data on a logarithm domain.
US12327160B2
Method and systems for driving an aiming assembly of a barcode imager are provided. An example method includes obtaining an operating mode of the barcode imager having an aiming assembly and, in response, determining a duty cycle of an aiming pulse of the aiming assembly. That duty cycle is determined as a percentage of a frame duration of an imager sensor and, further, such that simultaneous constraints are satisfied by the aiming pulse. The constraints include a simultaneous frame duration-independent, peak pulse optical power constraint and a frame duration-dependent heat dissipation constraint.
US12327156B2
Examples of radio-frequency identification (RFID) printer antennae are provided. For example, an example RFID printer antenna includes a plurality of axial RFID printer antenna segments and a plurality of oblique RFID printer antenna segments. In some examples, the plurality of axial RFID printer antenna segments are in parallel arrangements with one another. In some examples, each of the plurality of oblique RFID printer antenna segments connects two of the plurality of axial RFID printer antenna segments at oblique angles.
US12327145B2
Methods and systems for managing provisioning of virtual machines. Virtual machines may host applications that may provide computer implemented services. Various hardware resources may be allocated to the virtual machines via a hypervisor. As the workloads of the applications change, the virtual machines may become over or under provisioned. To manage provisioning of virtual machines, various types of resource consumption estimates may be obtained. The resource consumption estimates may be used to ascertain how to provision various virtual machines to reduce or eliminate inefficient allocations of hardware resources for use by the virtual machines.
US12327143B2
A method may include partitioning a tensor that includes a plurality of data values into a number (K) of subtensors, where each of the K subtensors may include a respective subset of the plurality of data values. The method may also include retrieving one or more first data values of the subset of data values included in a first subtensor of the K subtensors in accordance with an access pattern associated with a neural network processor. The method may include storing the one or more first data values of the subset of data values in one of K segments of cache memory, where each of the K segments may be associated with a respective one of the K subtensors. Further, the method may include processing, using the neural network processor, the one or more first data values of the subset of data values in accordance with the access pattern.
US12327142B2
A computer-implemented method may include availing a computer platform to a client system. The computer platform may host data and perform data processing. The computer platform may receive a data set from the client system. Computational resources may be determined for the client system, based at least in part on the size of the data set and a size of other data received from the client system, and a category assigned to the client system. A weight may be determined for the client system based on the category, indicating a degree to which resources may be preferentially allocated to process requests associated with the client system. The client system may request a data operation be performed using the data set. Allocation of one or more resources may be prioritized for the data operation, based on the weight. The prioritization may influence how quickly the data operation is performed.
US12327141B1
Approaches presented herein can allocate resources in such a way that sufficient capacity will be provided to perform a job or task, while minimizing any excess capacity included with those allocated resources. A number of jobs can be performed with differently sized resource instances in some embodiments, to determine an instance size, from a set of available sizes, that is appropriate for each of those jobs. Various parameters for those jobs can be determined, and those values associated with the determined instance sizes. When a new job is received that is to be performed, the parameter values for that job can be compared against the corresponding values for these testing jobs, and an instance size can be selected where a testing job that was successfully performed with that instance size had the same or larger values for these parameters.
US12327137B2
A data storage device includes a memory device and a controller coupled to the memory device. The controller is configured to receive a shutdown notification, fetch one or more command identifiers from a submission queue of a host device, generate error indications for the one or more command identifiers, and send a completion message, including the generated error indication, for each of the one or more command identifiers to the host device. The controller is further configured to push non-processed pending commands to a completion finite state machine, where the controller generates an error indication for each of the non-processed pending commands and sends a completion message, including the generated error indication, for each of the non-processed pending commands to the host device. While the controller is fetching command identifiers and pushing non-process commands, the controller is configured to continue processing processed commands in parallel.
US12327129B2
A processing system includes safety monitoring circuits configured to generate error signals by monitoring a microprocessor operations, a memory controller, and/or a resource. The system further includes fault collection sub-circuits, each including one or more error combination circuits, each including a first programmable register and being configured to receive a subset of the error signals, determine whether an error signal is asserted, and store to the first register error status data that identifies the asserted error signal. Each error combination circuit is configured to read enable data from the first register and generate a combined error signal based on the error status and enable data. The error management circuit includes a second programmable register and is configured to receive the combined error signals, read routing data from the second register, and generate for each microprocessor an error signal based on the combined error signals and routing data.
US12327128B2
The disclosed technology is generally directed to virtual machines. In one example of the technology, a first virtual machine executing on a first virtual machine host is reconfigured without rebooting the first virtual machine. The reconfiguring includes controlling the following actions. At least one compute artifact of a plurality of compute artifacts is associated with a first user that is associated with the first virtual machine. At least one compute artifact of the plurality of compute artifacts is modified. A configuration is published to the first virtual machine host.
US12327126B2
Methods for operating a device, a Bootstrap server and a network node are disclosed. The method for operating a device includes requesting a Bootstrap data object from a node reachable via the network, the Bootstrap data object including an identification of a device management server, receiving a Bootstrap data object from a node reachable via the network, configuring a data object on the device in accordance with the received Bootstrap data object, and requesting registration with the device management server identified in the received Bootstrap data object. Also disclosed are a device, a Bootstrap server and a network node.
US12327123B2
An embodiment of an integrated circuit may comprise a return stack buffer (RSB), a speculative return stack buffer (SRSB), and circuitry coupled to the RSB and the SRSB, the circuitry to track a count until the SRSB is empty at a time of a prediction by a branch prediction unit, and return an output from the branch prediction unit that corresponds to one of the RSB and the SRSB based at least in part on the count until the SRSB is empty. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
US12327108B2
A device identification information is received for identifying an electronic control device conforming to a predetermined platform as a reprogram target. A detailed information is held for a connection destination necessary for transmitting a processing request to the electronic control device as the reprogram target identified by the device identification information. The processing request is transmitted to the electronic control device conforming to the predetermined platform via a programming interface based on the detailed information.
US12327100B2
An information processing apparatus is provided. According to a setting applying instruction included in received instruction information, the apparatus applies a setting value included together with the setting applying instruction to a specified application program. The applying includes stopping the specified application program after the specified application program has been started, applying a setting value received together with the setting applying instruction to a setting value of the application program when stopped, and starting the application program with the setting value applied.
US12327096B2
Deferred formula computation executes software containing a set of programmed formulas, wherein the set includes a first programmed formula defined in an associated dependency graph to be dependent on a result of a second programmed formula. A method may encounter a reference to the first programmed formula during execution of the software, wherein the reference is associated with deferred formula computation request program code in the executing software to obtain a result of the first programmed formula; identify during execution of the software the second programmed formula based on traversal within the associated dependency graph of the first programmed formula; compute a result of the second programmed formula during execution of the software; compute the result of the first programmed formula during execution of the software, and return the computed result of the first programmed formula in association with the reference to the first programmed formula.
US12327095B2
Systems and methods are provided for parsing, at a server, a design file including code for a user interface, where the code is readable by the server into a tree representation having nodes, the nodes represent design elements of the user interface and includes one or more design properties, a unique identifier, and references to child elements. The server traverses the tree representation and comparing the design elements of the tree representation to a set of factors to determine when the design elements and meet a criteria to be a subcomponent for one or more components of the code of the design file. The server adds the design elements to a list of subcomponent candidates that meet at least one of the set of factors to be a subcomponent. The server generates a tree structure for the one or more components using the list of subcomponent candidates.
US12327094B2
A computing device is provided, including a processor configured to execute a visual scripting program. The processor is further configured to display a graphical user interface (GUI) of the visual scripting program, which is configured to display a plurality of nodes that are connectable by graphical wires that represent dataflow between the nodes. The GUI includes a selectable reroute node icon that enables connection of one node of the plurality of nodes to one or more other nodes of the plurality of nodes via one of the graphical wires. The selectable reroute node icon includes a left end and a right end, in which each end includes a selectable region that has a width that is at least one third of a total width of the selectable reroute node icon, and the left and right side selectable regions together occupy at least 35% of a total area of the icon.
US12327089B2
A first natural language understanding (NLU) model associated with a first language is obtained. A second natural language understanding model associated with a second language different from the first language is obtained. The second NLU model is functionally consistent with the first NLU model. A change to a functionality of the first NLU model is detected. In response to detecting the change to the functionality of the first NLU model, the change is automatically propagated to the second NLU model.
US12327085B2
The disclosure herein describes a system and method for attentive sentence similarity scoring. A distilled sentence embedding (DSE) language model is trained by decoupling a transformer language model using knowledge distillation. The trained DSE language model calculates sentence embeddings for a plurality of candidate sentences for sentence similarity comparisons. An embedding component associated with the trained DSE language model generates a plurality of candidate sentence representations representing each candidate sentence in the plurality of candidate sentences which are stored for use in analyzing input sentences associated with queries or searches. A representation is created for the selected sentence. This selected sentence representation is used with the plurality of candidate sentence representations to create a similarity score for each candidate sentence-selected sentence pair. A retrieval component identifies a set of similar sentences from the plurality of candidate sentences responsive to the input query based on the set of similarity scores.
US12327077B2
Routing a circuit design includes generating a graph of the circuit design where each connected component is represented as a vertex, generating a routing solution for the circuit design by routing packet-switched nets so that the packet-switched nets of a same connected component do not overlap, and, for each routing resource that is shared by packet-switched nets of different connected components, indicating the shared routing resource on the graph by adding an edge. Cycle detection may be performed on the graph. For each cycle detected on the graph, the cycle may be broken by deleting the edge from the graph and ripping-up a portion of the routing solution corresponding to the deleted edge. The circuit design, or portion thereof, for which the routing solution was ripped up may be re-routed using an increased cost for a shared routing resource freed from the ripping-up.
US12327074B2
According to one embodiment, a simulation apparatus is disclosed. The simulation apparatus includes a storage device storing data relating to a thermal equivalent circuit of a semiconductor device. The simulation apparatus further includes an estimation device estimating a time-dependent change in thermal characteristics of the semiconductor device by using the data. The thermal equivalent circuit includes a first thermal equivalent circuit corresponding to a lower-surface-side part of the semiconductor device. The thermal equivalent circuit further includes a second thermal equivalent circuit connected to the first thermal equivalent circuit and corresponding to an upper-surface-side part of the semiconductor device.
US12327070B2
A method, apparatus, system, and computer program product generates construction metrics. Building means, methods, and limitations of construction for one or more companies are gathered in a computer. A digital building information model (BIM) is acquired. Fabrication and construction parameters are extracted from the BIM. Construction metrics (for the BIM) are generated by combining the building means, methods, and limitations with the extracted fabrication and construction parameters. The construction metrics are then visualized in a modeling application and/or used to output construction process documentation.
US12327068B2
Methods for generating a measurement table including target identification information indicating a measurement target are disclosed herein. One method includes adding, by a processor, attribute information for a dimension value of a measurement target included in drawing data and a delimiter for identifying number information for the dimension value to the dimension value, adding the number information including a drawing sheet number and a dimension number for the measurement target to the delimiter, and generating a measurement table including target identification information indicating the measurement target corresponding to the drawing data and inspection standards based on dimension addition information. The attribute information is associated with the number information added to the delimiter and is based on the dimension value of the measurement target. Apparatus and systems that can perform the methods generating a measurement table including target identification information indicating the measurement target are also disclosed herein.
US12327065B2
Embodiments include a method for controlling a device, a voice-controlled device, and a computer program product. One embodiment of the method may comprise receiving a first command from a first user at a device and receiving a second command from a second user at the device, and determining, by a first trained machine learning model, that the second command conflicts with the first command. In response to determining the second command conflicts with the first command, some embodiments may determine, by a second trained machine learning model, a physical world hierarchy between the first user and the second user, determine a response to the second command using the physical world hierarchy. The method may further comprise performing the response. Some embodiments may further comprise identifying, by the second trained machine learning model, a higher ranking user chosen from the group consisting of the first user and the second user.
US12327058B2
At least two display areas are formed after an action such as folding a foldable screen of a device. The device displays a first display interface comprising a display interface of a first application. The device detects a first operation such as unfolding the screen and in response, displays a second display interface comprising a first display area and a second display area. The device displays the display interface of the first application in the first display area of the second display interface, and displays at least one application icon in the second display area of the second display interface. The device detects a second operation acting on an application icon corresponding to the first target application and in response, displays a third display interface that comprises the first display area and the second display area.
US12327052B2
A chip, a chip set, an electrical parameter detection method, a consumable, and an image forming apparatus are provided in embodiments of the present disclosure. The chip is capable of being installed on the consumable; and the consumable is capable of being detachably installed on the image forming apparatus. The chip includes an installation detecting terminal; a chip controller configured to control the installation detecting terminal to output a low level after the chip is powered on; and a storage unit configured to store a time control parameter, where the time control parameter is configured to control a time point for the installation detecting terminal to output the low level. The above configuration can realize that the signal conflict between a plurality of chips is not generated when detecting whether the plurality of chips is in a desired contact with the image forming apparatus.
US12327051B2
The present invention provides a flash memory controller configured to access a flash memory module. The flash memory controller includes a transmission interface circuit, a buffer memory and a microprocessor. The transmission interface circuit is coupled to a host device, and the transmission interface circuit includes a time queue, at least one virtual queue and a command processing circuit, wherein the command processing circuit is configured to receive a plurality commands from a host device, write information of the plurality of commands into the time queue in sequence, and write the information of at least part of the plurality of commands into the at least one virtual queue. The buffer memory is configured to store the plurality of commands. The microprocessor is configured to selectively read the time queue or the at least one virtual queue to read the information of the plurality of commands.
US12327032B2
A data processing method includes: detecting, when writing first block data into a local cache and a local storage, a first block processing space of a storage buffer pool; writing, when a number of block data to be stored does not reach a buffer block processing threshold, the first block data into the storage buffer pool based on N block data to be stored; detecting a second block processing space of a storage processing pool; and determining, when a number of block data to be fed back does not reach a feedback block processing threshold, block data to be merged for overlap detection with the block data to be fed back in the storage buffer pool based on the number of the block data to be fed back and the feedback block processing threshold, and writing the data retained after overlap detection to a distributed database.
US12327003B2
A computer-implemented method for selecting a viewpoint of a set of objects in a bounding box. The bounding box comprising at least one volume wherein the set of objects is enclosed. The method comprises identifying faces of the at least one volume, associating with each identified face a viewpoint on the set of object, selecting, upon user action, one of the faces associated with one viewpoint, and displaying a view of the set of objects according to the viewpoint associated with the selected face.
US12326997B2
An apparatus includes a backplane, a light emitting layer, a sensing layer, and a cover layer. The backplane includes an array of display pixel circuits and an array of sensing pixel circuits formed on a same substrate. The light emitting layer includes an array of light emitting elements above the backplane. Each display pixel circuit is configured to drive a plurality of light emitting elements. The sensing layer includes an array of optical sensing elements above the light emitting layer. Each sensing pixel circuit is configured to drive a respective optical sensing element. The cover layer is above the sensing layer. When an object is in contact with the cover layer, at least one optical sensing element is configured to detect optical information of the object based, at least in part, on light generated by at least one light emitting element and reflected by the object.
US12326991B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a first housing, a second housing, a hinge configured to foldably connect one side of the first housing to one side of the second housing, a display including a first display area disposed in the first housing and a second display area disposed in the second housing, one or more processors, and memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the electronic device to, in case that attachment of an external accessory for displaying a user interface is detected in the second display area, display a user interface corresponding to a type of the external accessory in an area of the second display area to which the external accessory is attached.
US12326976B2
A method at least for determining an eye distance between a user's eye and an optical element of an optical system of a pair of data glasses including a virtual retina display. The method includes: generating a scanned laser beam; optically reproducing the scanned laser beam; illuminating a user's eye by means of the optically reproduced scanned laser beam; detecting a reflection signal reflected by the user's eye; ascertaining pupil positions within the detected reflection signal; determining relative distances of the pupil positions, ascertained from the reflection signal, to one another and/or to a common origin point and/or to one or more reference points; and calculating an instantaneous eye distance from the determined relative distances.
US12326972B2
A method, computer system, and a computer program product are provided for enabling a user to obtain additional information about a content. In one embodiment, the process starts by collecting, from at least one sensor, eye gazing data relating to eye movement of the user looking at a content. User's saccade rate is calculated based collected eye gazing data. It is determined when the saccade rate falls below a first value of the viewing content of a first area and the location is flagged as a first subset. It determined when the saccade rate shifts backwards over a second subset of the content one or more times and this area is flagged as a second area. The portion of the content located between the first and second flagged areas are emphasized. Explanatory tools are provided relating to content of emphasized portion.
US12326968B1
Techniques are provided for orienting a digital human towards an isolated human speaker. One method comprises obtaining coordinates associated with a human speaker; storing the coordinates as a variable in a memory of a multi-dimensional graphics engine; instantiating a multi-dimensional plane within the multi-dimensional graphics engine; positioning a multi-dimensional shape in the multi-dimensional plane based on the stored coordinates; and binding a digital human to the multi-dimensional shape to orient the digital human towards a position of the multi-dimensional shape. The coordinates may be obtained by comparing text obtained from one or more video streams to text obtained from one or more audio signals.
US12326967B2
A handle calibration method, a handle, a head-mounted display and a storage medium are disclosed. The handle calibration method is applied to at least two handles belonging to a same virtual reality system. The method comprises the steps of: generating a calibration signal when the at least two handles maintain a target relative position; and sending the calibration signal to the head-mounted display, so that when the at least two handles maintain the target relative position, the head-mounted display calibrates a current relative displaying position of the at least two handles in the head-mounted display to a target relative displaying position corresponding to the target relative position.
US12326964B2
Methods and systems for managing configuration of data processing systems are disclosed. Configuration of data processing systems may be managed by limiting connectivity to components of data processing systems and credentialing access for the components. To enable access to components of data processing systems, the operation of the components may be updated for limited durations of time to allow various devices to communicate with these components. While allowed to communicate, the components of the data process system may restrict access to credentialed users.
US12326961B2
An individual data unit for enhancing the security of a user data record is provided that includes a processor and a memory configured to store data. The individual data unit is associated with a network and the memory is in communication with the processor. The memory has instructions stored thereon which, when read and executed by the processor cause the individual data unit to perform basic operations only. The basic operations include communicating securely with computing devices, computer systems, and a central user data server. Moreover, the basic operations include receiving a user data record, storing the user data record, retrieving the user data record, and transmitting the user data record. The individual data unit can be located in a geographic location associated with the user which can be different than the geographic locations of the computer systems and the central user data server.
US12326955B2
Systems and methods for authorizing rendering of objects in three-dimensional spaces are described. The system may include a first system defining a virtual three-dimensional space including the placement of a plurality of objects in the three-dimensional space, and a second system including a plurality of rules associated with portions of the three-dimensional space and a device coupled to the first system and the second system. The device may receive a request to render a volume of three-dimensional space, retrieve objects for the volume of three-dimensional, retrieve rules associated with the three-dimensional, and apply the rules for the three-dimensional space to the objects.
US12326948B2
The disclosed technology teaches a computer-implemented method of enabling identity governance administration to examine the state of identity management objects at an arbitrary prior time. The method includes maintaining a data store of identity management objects used for identity governance administration, including specification of user roles from which permissions or authorizations derive and recording in the data store copies of identity management objects with an as-of time stamp at each creation, change and deletion of each identity management object. Also included is retaining time-stamped versions of the objects for a queryable time window. The method also includes receiving a query with an as-of time criteria for at least some of the identity management objects and returning responsive objects from which the permissions or authorizations were derived at the as-of-time. Responding to the query with the responsive objects that correspond to the as-of time criteria in the query is also disclosed.
US12326946B2
A system and method include execution of program code within an enclave of a trusted execution environment to receive a query identifying an analytic, retrieve an analytic profile corresponding to the analytic from a first distributed ledger, the analytic profile identifying input data and including first code executable to compute the analytic from the input data, retrieve the input data from a second distributed ledger, retrieve cryptographic information associated with the retrieved input data from one or more other enclaves of the trusted execution environment, decrypt the retrieved input data using the cryptographic information, and execute the first code to compute the analytic from the decrypted input data.
US12326943B2
An apparatus features processor(s) and a non-transitory storage medium including an intelligent-adversary simulator and a formatting modules. The simulator calculates path(s) of least resistance for a cyber threat in a cyber-attack scenario to compromise 1) a first virtualized instance (source device), 2) a second virtualized instance (targeted device), and 3) virtualized instances of components of a virtualized instance of a network associated with selected pathways of the cyber-attack scenario through the virtualized instance of the network. The virtualized instances may be based on historical knowledge of connectivity and behaviour patterns of users and devices within an actual network under analysis. The formatting module generates a report with identified devices that are communicatively coupled to the virtualized instance of the network and prioritized to allocate security resources. The simulator calculates the least resistance path(s) through the virtualized instance of the network and refrains from calculating every theoretically path therefrom.
US12326940B2
A processor-implemented method generates adversarial example objects. One or more processors represent an adversarial input generation process as a graph. The processor(s) explore the graph, such that a sequence of edges on the graph are explored. The processor(s) create, based on the exploring, an adversarial example object, and utilize the created adversarial example object to harden an existing process model against vulnerabilities.
US12326930B2
A method for managing a microvisor includes: issuing an API call to a microvisor agent to obtain a configuration template (CT) required to provision an LCS on an IHS; upon obtaining the CT, sending the CT to a microvisor kernel via the microvisor API; provisioning the LCS based on the CT; upon provisioning of the LCS and based on the microvisor kernel's request, initiating a guest BIOS of the LCS; notifying, via a GUI, an administrator about the provisioned LCS; after notifying the administrator: monitoring communication traffic of the LCS; analyzing the communication traffic to generate an analysis output; making, based on the analysis output, a determination that the activity is a malicious activity; and implementing, based on the determination, a security policy to disrupt a malicious user of the LCS.
US12326929B2
The disclosure provides computing platforms, systems, methods, and storage media for delivering contextual feedback to a user of a potential cybersecurity attack, such as a phishing attack. In an aspect, the disclosure provides: configuring, via a processor, a plurality of rules, each rule associated with an indicator of suspicious activity and a feedback snippet corresponding to the indicator; receiving, at the processor, a report of a potentially malicious electronic communication; triggering, at the processor, a rule of the plurality of rules based on the associated indicator and the report of the electronic communication; generating, at the processor, feedback comprising the feedback snippet associated with each triggered rule; automatically providing the feedback to the user.
US12326925B2
Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for identification and verification of brute force attacks using hash signature segmentation and behavior clustering analysis. The present invention is configured to receive a plurality of access attempts and an associated plurality of hash values; determine a failure request load based on the plurality of access attempts; determine whether the failure request load meets a failure threshold, wherein, in an instance where the failure request load meets the failure threshold, separating the plurality of access attempts associated with the failure request load into a plurality of hash clusters; generate a behavior cluster for each hash cluster based on shared behavior data of the plurality of access attempts; and determine, based on the behavior cluster for each hash cluster, a likelihood of misappropriation for each access attempt of the plurality of access attempts.
US12326920B2
Systems and methods for embedding concealed meta-data into DNNs. Specifically, the system and method presented consists of receiving a trained neural network that includes one or more layers each having weights. The disclosed process includes transforming at least one layer to a transformed domain, adding information to the layer(s) in the transformed domain, and performing an inverse domain transform on at least one layer such that the layer(s) has new weights with an embedded watermark.
US12326916B2
The invention provides a method of generating an image recognition model and an electronic device using the method. The method includes the following. A source image is obtained; a first image is cut out of a first region of the source image to generate a cut source image; a preliminary image recognition model is pre-trained according to feature data and label data, in which the feature data is associated with the cut source image, and the label data is associated with the first image; and the pre-trained preliminary image recognition model is fine-tuned to generate the image recognition model. The method of generating the image recognition model and the electronic device provided by the invention may correctly restore an input image.
US12326913B2
A computer-implemented method, computer program product and computing system for defining a data description model and a function description model corresponding to a website on one or more of a plurality of machine-accessible public computing platforms; processing a complex task to define a plurality of discrete tasks each having a discrete goal; executing the plurality of discrete tasks on the plurality of machine-accessible public computing platforms; determining if any of the plurality of discrete tasks failed to achieve its discrete goal; and if a specific discrete task failed to achieve its discrete goal, defining a substitute discrete task having a substitute discrete goal.
US12326910B2
The disclosure herein provides systems, methods, and devices for identifying and presenting identifications of significant attributes of unique items. A significant attributes system for identifying and presenting identifications of significant attributes of unique items comprises an item analysis engine, at least one driver models database, and a model building engine, wherein the item analysis engine comprises an item description receiver and one or more driver calculators.
US12326902B2
A computing system is provided, including non-volatile storage storing a reactive database including a plurality of database entities. The computing system may further include a processor configured to, via a reactive database application program interface (API), receive a first standing query registration input including a first standing query. The first standing query may include a first update condition and may be associated with a first database entity. The processor may be further configured to store the first standing query in the non-volatile storage. The processor may be further configured to write data to the reactive database and determine that the first update condition is satisfied by the written data. In response to determining that the first update condition is satisfied, the processor may be further configured to execute the first standing query to perform a first state change at the first database entity of the plurality of database entities.
US12326898B2
A system and a method for recommending background music that corresponds to an extracted text from a book based on emotion and a topic that is relevant to the extracted text using machine learning models provided. The method includes, (i) determining, using a first trained machine learning model, the emotion from the extracted text that corresponds to the paragraph of the book, (ii) assigning, using a word similarity technique, a similarity score for emotion-words based on the emotion, (iii) determining the emotion-words that exceed a threshold to obtain a subset of emotion-words, (iv) determining a query using the subset of the emotion-words and the emotion, (v) retrieving, using the query, songs that match any of words in the query, and (vi) recommending background music based on top-ranked songs for the extracted text from the book.
US12326897B2
An embodiment establishes a creative work database based in part on data representative of a plurality of identified creative works and authors associated with the plurality of identified creative works. The embodiment extracts a set of a first set of features from an unidentified creative work. The embodiment compares the first set of features corresponding to the unidentified creative work to a second set of features corresponding to an identified creative work to obtain a similarity score between the unidentified creative work and the identified creative work. The embodiment compares the similarity score to a threshold similarity score, and upon a determination that the similarity score meets the threshold similarity score, identifies a particular author to associate with the unidentified creative work. The embodiment authenticates the new identified creative work. The embodiment updates the creative work database to include the new identified creative work.
US12326886B2
Disclosed are various approaches for facilitating verifier integrations using computer models. An exemplary system of the present disclosure comprises a computing device comprising a processor and a memory; and machine-readable instructions stored in the memory that, when executed by the processor, cause the computing device to at least: receive an unstructured claim query for a data document from an entity computing device, wherein the data document is structured in accordance with a data document schema; parse the unstructured claim query to identify attributes that are then converted to a machine-understandable representation of the unstructured claim query; prepare, using a predictive model that is trained to understand data documents that are structured in accordance with the data document schema, a query response to the machine-understandable representation of the unstructured claim query by evaluating contents of the data document; and transmit the query response to the entity computing device.
US12326884B2
Methods and systems for modifying a search result are described. A computing device may receive a query. A search result based on the query may be determined. The computing device may modify the search result based on a term of the query.
US12326881B2
A first relative frequency distribution in original data is calculated for each of feature amounts. Data segments are cut out from the original data using time windows. A second relative frequency in extracted data is calculated for each of the feature amounts. An error between the first relative frequency distribution and the second relative frequency distribution is calculated. A trial from determination of a setting of time windows to calculation of the error is repeatedly executed while changing the setting of the time windows. One or more settings of the time windows in which the error is less than a threshold value are selected and output.
US12326880B2
Disclosed is a method for an intermediary mapping an de-identification comprising steps of retrieving datasets and meta data from a data source; selecting a target standard; mapping the retrieved datasets and the metadata to the target standard, wherein the datasets and the metadata are mapped to the target standard using one of, a schema mapping, a variable mapping, or a combination thereof; infer one or more of, variable classifications, variable connections, groupings, disclosure risk settings, and de-identification settings using the dataset mapping and metadata; perform a de-identification propagation using the mapped datasets, the mapped metadata, the inferred variable classifications, the inferred variable connections, the inferred groupings, the inferred disclosure risk settings, the inferred de-identification settings, or a combination thereof.
US12326874B2
Methods for data visibility in nested transactions in distributed systems are performed by systems and devices. Distributed executions of queries are performed in processing systems according to isolation level protocols with unique nested transaction identifiers for data management and versioning across one or more data sets, one or more compute pools, etc., within a logical server via a single transaction manager that oversees the isolation semantics and data versioning. A distributed query processor of the systems and devices performs nested transaction versioning for distributed tasks by generating nested transaction identifiers, encoded in data rows, which are used to enforce correct data visibility. Data visibility is restricted to previously committed data from distributed transactions and tasks, and is blocked for distributed transactions and tasks that run concurrently. Local commits for completed transactions and tasks are used to minimize transaction manager interactions, and instant rollbacks are enabled for aborted transactions and tasks.
US12326870B2
Systems and methods for deep connectivity between disparate database systems are described. User input to configure a content connectivity module includes a uniform resource identifier (URI) to a resource at a third party system. A bot may be configured with permissions to retrieve data at the resource, scan for links associated with third party objects, each link having a keyword associated with the content block management system. Identifiers of objects in the content block management system may be extracted from the links. Based on the identifiers, a relational connection between each block object and each third party object may be generated.
US12326860B2
An apparatus for applying database commands to one or more database tables includes a memory and a hardware-implemented pipeline. The hardware-implemented pipeline includes one or more table-processing circuits, and is configured to receive a stream of input records drawn from the one or more database tables, to parse first records, from among the input records, into a key and one or more fields other than the key, to store at least parts of the first records in the memory so as to be accessible using the key, and to apply a database command by matching at least parts of second records from among the input records to the at least parts of the first records stored in the memory, in accordance with the key.
US12326859B1
A system and method include breaking symmetry in a query graph by converting the query graph into a transformed query graph by generating a symmetry breaking expression that includes detecting one or more orbits in the transformed query graph, selecting an orbit from the one or more orbits having more than one node, generating an automorphism breaking sub-expression for the selected orbit, assigning a node of the selected orbit a unique node attribute, recalculating the one or more orbits in the transformed query graph, repeating the process until each node is in its own orbit, and combining each of the automorphism breaking sub-expressions to obtain the symmetry breaking expression. Using the symmetry breaking expression, the system and method include finding one or more subgraphs of a main graph that match the symmetry breaking expression of the query graph.
US12326856B2
The present disclosure generally relates to systems, software, and computer-implemented methods for using generative artificial intelligence to improve user interactions. One example method includes receiving a notification from a contact center application that user interaction events have been generated during an interaction session. Event descriptions for events generated in the session are located in a contact center application use case definition. Event descriptions are enhanced with event information for to generate contextualized event information. The contextualized event information to is added to a generative large language model artificial intelligence context that is provided to a generative large language model artificial intelligence engine. A query is provided to the generative large language model artificial intelligence engine. A query response is received from the generative large language model artificial intelligence engine and the query response is used in the interaction session.
US12326842B1
Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for obtaining data. The data may be obtained from a variety of data sources. In order to determine the preferred data source for obtaining the data, data quality scores may be computed and assigned to each data source of interest for a given implementation. Each data quality score may take into account several criteria including the computing resources required to obtain the data, the financial cost of obtaining the data, the security risk of obtaining the data, etc. Data may be obtained from the preferred data source, presented to a user associated with the data for verification, and processed in order to provide a computer-implemented services to the user.
US12326838B2
Methods and systems of a log engine for logging data operation in a file system is disclosed. The log engine includes a user interface module configured to receive a plurality of data operation logs that respectively record a data operation and a sequence ID corresponding to an order of the data operation being performed; and a shared log manager configured to provide an in queue configured to consolidate the plurality of data operation logs, and swap the plurality of data operation logs to an out queue with the plurality of data operation logs being ordered based on the sequence ID and saved in a shared log.
US12326825B2
A primary communication apparatus includes: a bus interface which is adapted to connect the primary communication apparatus to a data bus; a memory device in which software is stored; and a control unit. The control unit is adapted, when executing the software, to cause the primary communication apparatus to: provide a communication telegram for a predetermined secondary communication apparatus; insert into the communication telegram a first address assigned to the predetermined secondary communication apparatus; copy the communication telegram n times, wherein n is greater than 1; insert into each of the copied communication telegrams a second address, wherein the second addresses are all different and each is assigned to a separate coupling module; and transmit each of the copied communication telegrams via the bus interface.
US12326814B1
A fetch process for a computing system is described herein. The computing system comprises a non-transitory memory. In the non-transitory memory, instructions are stored in Cycle-Redundancy Blocks (CRC blocks). Each of these CRC blocks comprises a first CRC code associated with the instructions stored in the CRC block. During a fetch process, the computing system generates a second CRC code based on the instructions stored in the CRC block and compares the second CRC code with the first CRC code to ascertain the success of the fetch process.
US12326809B2
In examples there is a computing device comprising a processor, the processor having a memory management unit. The computing device also has a memory that stores instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the memory management unit to receive a memory access instruction comprising a virtual memory address; translate the virtual memory address to a physical memory address of the memory, and obtain permission information associated with the physical memory address. Responsive to the permission information indicating that metadata is permitted to be associated with the physical memory address, a check is made of a metadata summary table stored in the physical memory to check whether metadata is compatible with the physical memory address. Responsive to the check being unsuccessful, a trap is sent to system software of the computing device in order to trigger dynamic allocation of physical memory for storing metadata associated with the physical memory address.
US12326808B2
The present invention provides a control method of a flash memory controller, which includes the steps of: setting a waiting time in an interrupt coalescing mechanism, and setting a timer, wherein a timeout value of the timer is equal to the waiting time; receiving multiple commands from a submission queue in a host device, generating multiple command responses after processing the multiple commands, and writing the multiple command responses to a completion queue in the host device; receiving a submission queue tail and a completion queue head from the host device; and when the timer reaches the timeout value, subtracting the completion queue head from the submission queue tail to obtain a queue depth of a command queue of the host device.
US12326806B2
Intelligent memory brokering for multiple process instances, such as relational databases (e.g., SQL servers), reclaims memory based on value, thereby minimizing cost across instances. An exemplary solution includes: based at least on a trigger event, determining a memory profile for each of a plurality of process instances at a computing node; determining an aggregate memory profile, the aggregate memory profile indicating a memory unit cost for each of a plurality of memory units; determining a count of memory units to be reclaimed; identifying, based at least on the aggregate memory profile and the count of memory units to be reclaimed, a count of memory units to be reclaimed within each process instance so that a total cost is minimized to reclaim the determined count; and communicating, to each process instance having identified memory units to be reclaimed, a count of memory units to be reclaimed within the process instance.
US12326802B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to automatically detecting, analyzing, and correcting errors in an application. The computing platform may identify errors in an application, and subsequently correct the errors based on corresponding actions that have been determined to correct the errors. The computing platform may determine a confidence score that corresponds to a particular action, representing the level of confidence that the particular action will successfully correct the corresponding error. The computing platform may set a predetermined threshold range that is compared to the confidence score, in which a confidence score greater than the threshold range will cause the computing platform to automatically correct the error. The computing platform may input results and feedback into a machine learning model to further refine the accuracy and reliability of the computing platform over time.
US12326796B2
A processor may receive at least one test application corresponding to an application profile. The processor may simulate the at least one test application in a non-production environment for a plurality of infrastructure configurations to generate a plurality of test performance results. The processor may evaluate the plurality of test performance results to identify an optimal infrastructure configuration from among the plurality of infrastructure configurations for the application profile. The processor may apply the optimal infrastructure configuration to an application corresponding to the application profile that is deployed in a production environment.
US12326794B2
A product use and behavior instrument includes a housing defining a central compartment therein. A controller is positioned within the central compartment. The controller includes a connector. The connector is configured to operatively and removably couple the product use and behavior instrument to an electronic smoking article. The electronic smoking article includes a heating element to heat a tobacco product. The electronic smoking article includes a battery. A sensor circuit is structured to collect at least one use data characteristic of a smoking action. The smoking action is associated with use of at least one of the heating element and battery. Local memory is structured to store the at least one use data characteristic of the smoking action. A communication interface is structured to communicate the stored at least one use data characteristic of the smoking action to a remote computing device.
US12326793B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to preserving enterprise artifacts using digital twin technology and intelligent smart contracts. The computing platform may receive a stream of internal data and a stream of external data. The computing platform may compare the received internal data and the received external data to historic internal data and historic external data, respectively. The computing platform may identify inconsistencies between the received data and the historic data using a plurality of key performance indicators, and may determine a critical value for each key performance indicator. The computing platform may determine whether the key performance indicator threatens the security of the enterprise artifacts. If the computing platform determines that the key performance indicator threatens the security of the enterprise artifacts, then the computing platform may execute at least one enterprise artifact protection protocol to safeguard the enterprise artifacts.
US12326790B2
One example method includes receiving, at a remote site from a production site, copies of production site assets, storing, at the remote site, the copies of the production site assets, using, at the remote site, the copies of the production site assets to restore a temporary production site, running the temporary production site at the remote site, and restoring, from the remote site to the production site, the copies of the production site assets.
US12326779B2
A method for improving fault tolerance of MapReduce computing systems processing extremely large data sets employs a custom mapper script that outputs the results to the shuffle and reduce processes. The Reducer writes its results into multiple files that are then compressed. The resulting files are processed by a map-only Reducer job that aggregates and reduces the results of a single file into a single output. The non-block compression prevents the file from being split across multiple mappers. The job can recover if a single mapper fails without requiring that each Map node be rerun, thus improving fault tolerance.
US12326777B2
A system and method for determining root causes of a failure in a virtual desktop system in real time is disclosed. The virtual remote desktop system has interconnected service components to make a virtual desktop available on a client device, and agents monitoring events from the components. An event collection module is coupled to the agents of the desktop system. The event collection module compiles events from the components relating to the failure. An aggregation module is coupled the event collection module. The aggregation module correlates events in a time-ordered stream relating to the fault. A diagnosis analysis system identifies one of the events of the time-ordered stream as the likely root cause of the fault.
US12326774B2
A wake-up mechanism controlling method includes following operations: performing, by a processor of an electronic device, an initialization process for a driver program of a login device; controlling, by the processor, the login device to be in a low-power mode and to support a wake-up mechanism when the electronic device is in a first state, in which the login device is configured to log into an operating system of the electronic device when the login device is waken up; and controlling, by the processor, the login device to be in the low-power mode and not to support the wake-up mechanism when the electronic device is in a second state.
US12326757B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a flexible display comprising a first housing, a second housing and a third housing movably coupled with respect to the first housing, a first region disposed in the first housing to form a first surface exposed to the outside of the electronic device, a second region which extends from the first region and is located inside the second housing, and a third region which extends from the first region and is located inside the second housing, and a processor that may display a first screen in the first region, determine a direction and a distance in which the flexible display is extended based on a value obtained by a sensor, and display a screen different from the first screen in the second region or the third region based on the determination.
US12326754B2
A digitizer and a display apparatus including the same are provided. The digitizer includes a base layer in which a metal pattern is disposed, and a blocking layer disposed on the base layer.
US12326753B2
A semiconductor device includes a command pulse generation circuit configured to generate a first command pulse in synchronization with a frequency division clock and to generate a second command pulse in synchronization with an inverted frequency division clock, based on a test write command. The semiconductor device also includes an alignment data generation circuit configured to align first internal data in an in-phase manner to generate first alignment data, based on the first command pulse, and to align second internal data in an out-of-phase manner to generate second alignment data, based on the second command pulse. The semiconductor device further includes a phase detection circuit configured to determine synchronization states of a clock and the frequency division clock, based on the first alignment data and the second alignment data.
US12326747B1
The present disclosure relates to a dual mode, low dropout regulator circuit and method of using the same. The circuit may include a multiplexer configured to switch between a high-speed mode and a low-power mode and an error amplifier configured to generate an amplifier output. The circuit may include a class AB circuit configured to receive the amplifier output and generate a class AB output and a unity feedback circuit in electrical communication with the class AB circuit, wherein a single reference voltage is applied to perform a dual mode operation.
US12326745B2
Some embodiments provide a system and method for interfacing with an irrigation controller based on rainfall, the system comprising: an interface unit including a housing and a control unit within the housing and configured to: cause an interruption of one or more watering schedules executed by the irrigation controller, which is separate from the interface unit, based on signaling received from a rain sensor including hygroscopic material, when a sensed expansion of the hygroscopic material is above a set rainfall accumulation threshold parameter, the rain sensor being separate from the interface unit and the hygroscopic material being configured to expand in response to being contacted by the rainfall and to contract in response to an absence of the rainfall; and remove the interruption after a completion of a predetermined interval of time after a sensed contraction of the hygroscopic material indicative of a rainfall stop.
US12326742B2
A system is provided with a first valve having a first valve element, and a second valve having a second valve element, with the second valve positioned adjacent to the first valve. A first actuator is provided with an actuator member movable between a first actuator position and a second actuator position, and the actuator member is coupled to each of the first valve element and the second valve element for movement therewith. A method of controlling the system is also provided.
US12326738B2
A method for controlling motions of a quadruped robot based on reinforcement learning and position increment, including: acquiring motion environment information, quadruped robot attitude information, and foot sole position information; based on the acquired information, generating foot sole positions of the quadruped robot during motions within all preset time steps, and calculating a change of the foot sole positions in all the time steps; taking a maximum moving distance within a single time step as a constraint, and accumulating the time steps at the same time to obtain a foot sole position trajectory; and controlling the quadruped robot to perform corresponding actions based on the foot sole position track combined with a preset reward function, so as to keep motion balance of the quadruped robot.
US12326735B2
A dynamic active control system (DACS) configured for: (1) total vessel pitch axis control by fast symmetric deployment of water engagement devices (WEDs) or controllers, coupled with engine trim adjustments; (2) total roll and heading control by differentially deploying WEDs to counter rolling motions while simultaneously adjusting engine steering position to counter the steering moment associated with WED delta position; and (3) adjustment of the engine steering angle to counter yaw moments produced by gyroscopic stabilization systems.
US12326730B2
Systems and methods described herein are directed to an environment involving a plurality of robots, wherein for receipt of a plurality of orders, the systems and methods generate a plurality of task batches to fulfill the plurality of orders; generate a parameter set for execution by the plurality of robots to execute the plurality of task batches. For a determination by a controller that one or more of the plurality of robots is to execute the plurality of task batches, the systems and methods load the parameter set; and control the one or more of the plurality of robots based on the loaded parameter set to execute the task batch.
US12326727B2
Vehicles may have the capability to navigate according to various levels of autonomous capabilities, the vehicle having a different set of autonomous competencies at each level. In certain situations, the vehicle may shift from one level of autonomous capability to another. The shift may require more or less driving responsibility from a human operator. Sensors inside the vehicle collect human operator parameters to determine an alertness level of the human operator. An alertness level is determined based on the human operator parameters and other data including historical data or human operator-specific data. Notifications are presented to the user based on the determined alertness level that are more or less intrusive based on the alertness level of the human operator and on the urgency of an impending change to autonomous capabilities. Notifications may be tailored to specific human operators based on human operator preference and historical performance.
US12326723B2
A computer-implemented method, according to one approach, includes identifying machines involved in performance of a manufacturing process at a manufacturing location, and identifying a workflow sequence of execution of the machines. Conditions associated with remote operators using virtual reality (VR) devices to remotely control the machines to perform the workflow sequence of execution at the manufacturing location are received. The method further includes determining, for each of the VR devices, an extent of a VR collaborative environment to display. The extents are determined based on the conditions, thereby reducing latency in performance of the workflow sequence of execution at the manufacturing location. The method further includes outputting the extents to the VR devices.
US12326719B2
The present invention provides a control system that achieves both high reliability and versatility. A control system 100 of the present invention includes a control device 1 including an operating system 20, non-real-time software 21 executed on the operating system 20, and real-time software 22 executed on the operating system 20, an execution time analysis unit 50 that inputs and analyzes execution time information of the non-real-time software 21 and execution time information of the real-time software 22, and a real-time interface generation unit 52 that determines whether or not to generate binary data for updating processing of the control device from an analysis result of the execution time analysis unit.
US12326716B2
A method and an apparatus for determining a product manufacturing program, a device and a storage medium are provided. According to an information identifier configured for describing target key information of the product manufacturing requirement of the target user, a first product manufacturing program with the same information identifier as the target key information is determined from a product manufacturing program library; an operating parameter of a product manufacturing device when manufacturing the target product is input into the first product manufacturing program to simulate manufacturing of the target product, to obtain a first product parameter of a first product obtained, and the first product parameter is compared with a standard product parameter to obtain a first comparison result; when the first product parameter is same as the standard product parameter, the first product manufacturing program is determined as a first target product manufacturing program.
US12326715B2
Provided is an apparatus for taking out a molded product, which is capable of determining occurrence of a suction error and/or likelihood of a suction error of the molded product with high accuracy and of knowing a cause thereof. A pressure data storing section stores time-series pressure data from a pressure detector. A suction error cause determining section determines occurrence of a suction error and/or likelihood of a suction error of a molded product by a suction member on a basis of a time-series comparison result obtained by comparing the stored time-series pressure data with predetermined time-series reference data. When the suction error cause determining section determines the occurrence of the suction error and/or the likelihood of the suction error, the suction error cause determining section determines a cause of the occurring suction error and a solution therefor based on a time-series change pattern.
US12326708B2
A collection device includes a state correlation information storage unit that stores state correlation information indicating correlative relationships between control information relating to control of an industrial machine and environment information relating to the environment of the industrial machine, a control information acquisition unit that acquires control information from the industrial machine, an environment information acquisition unit that acquires environment information relating to the environment of the industrial machine, a state inference unit that infers the current state of the industrial machine on the basis of the control information, the environment information, and the state correlation information, and a proxy response unit that responds to an inquiry from another device on behalf of the industrial machine on the basis of the inferred state of the industrial machine.
US12326704B2
A method for providing primary frequency response for a renewable energy plant coupled to an electric power grid, the renewable energy plant having an intermittent energy source coupled thereto by an inverter, the method comprising: using a renewable energy plant control system, measuring frequency and determining a first difference signal between the measured frequency and a frequency reference; measuring power output from the renewable energy plant and determining a second difference signal between the measured power output and a power reference; generating an error signal from a sum of the first and second difference signals; generating a control signal by applying the error signal to a controller; limiting the control signal output from the controller to between predetermined minimum and maximum power limits for the inverter; while the control signal is limited by the predetermined minimum power limit for the inverter, disabling an integral function of the controller; and, applying the control signal to the inverter to control the power output from the intermittent energy source.
US12326703B2
A controller device for controlling an effective value of an electric load current at a time-variant load is provided. The controller device provides at the time-variant load a voltage pulse sequence having a duty cycle in at least one pulse phase of the voltage pulse sequence. A sample value of the electric load current is acquired at the time-variant load, to determine an actual effective value of the electric load current using a dependency stored in the controller device. The actual effective value is assigned to the sample value of the electric load current. A difference value between the actual effective value of the electric load current and a setpoint effective value of the electric load current is determined, and adapted duty cycle of the voltage pulse sequence is determined from the difference value, and provides at the time-variant load an adapted voltage pulse sequence having the adapted duty cycle.
US12326702B2
Provided are an electronic device for providing operation state information of a household electrical device without network function and a method of operating the electronic device. Provided is an electronic device receiving a first sound signal output from a household electrical device through a microphone, detecting the first sound signal as a wake-up signal, identifying first operation state information corresponding to the first sound signal from memory, and outputting a notification message representing the first operation state information.
US12326696B2
A device for determining a position of a horological display, the device including a control device coordinating a time base, a shape recognition device, and an optical acquisition device. The control device identifies the display and monitors its travel in order to code its instantaneous position in relation to a fixed guide-mark, and controls entries of its position at distinct instants in time to determine its mobility in relation to the fixed guide-mark. The device includes a device for determining the depth position of the display in relation to the fixed guide-mark, a device for controlling the position of the optical acquisition device, a device for controlling a focus of the optical acquisition device, and an additional optical acquisition device coupled with the optical acquisition device to interferentially monitor the display.
US12326684B2
An image forming system includes an image forming apparatus including an image forming unit and a first control unit which controls the image forming unit, a varnish application apparatus provided downstream in a sheet conveyance direction with respect to the image forming apparatus and including a varnish application unit which applies varnish to a sheet and a second control unit which controls the varnish application unit, and a sheet conveyance apparatus provided between the image forming apparatus and the varnish application apparatus in the sheet conveyance direction and including a receiving roller which receives a sheet discharged from the image forming apparatus, a processing unit which performs predetermined processing on a sheet present in the sheet conveyance apparatus, and a third control unit which controls the processing unit, wherein the first control unit is capable of communicating with the second control unit and the third control unit.
US12326674B2
A developing device includes a developer carrier, first and second chambers, first and second communication portions, first and second conveyance screws, a pair of sealing members, and a drive transmission gear. The developer carrier carries developer containing toner and carrier for developing an electrostatic image formed on an image carrier. The second chamber is partitioned from the first chamber. The first conveyance screw conveys the developer in a first direction from the first communication portion toward the second communication portion. The second conveyance screw conveys the developer in a second direction from the second communication portion toward the first communication portion. The sealing member pair seals the first and second communication portions to store initial developer in the second chamber. The drive transmission gear includes a fitting portion to which a tool to input a driving force for rotating the second conveyance screw to the drive transmission gear is fitted.
US12326670B2
A metrology system includes a beam splitter and first and second sensors. The beam splitter splits scattered radiation scattered by a target into first and second portions of radiation. The first sensor receives the first portion. The second sensor receives the second portion after the second portion propagates along a path that includes a wedge system comprising a first wedge configured to diverge the second portion.
US12326669B2
Disclosed is an illumination arrangement for spectrally shaping a broadband illumination beam to obtain a spectrally shaped illumination beam. The illumination arrangement comprises a beam dispersing element for dispersing the broadband illumination beam and a spatial light modulator for spatially modulating the broadband illumination beam subsequent to being dispersed. The illumination arrangement further comprises at least one of a beam expanding element for expanding said broadband illumination beam in at least one direction, located between an input of the illumination arrangement and the spatial light modulator; and a lens array, each lens of which for directing a respective wavelength band of the broadband illumination beam subsequent to being dispersed onto a respective region of the spatial light modulator.
US12326666B2
The exposing apparatus according to the present invention for exposing a substrate so as to transfer a pattern formed on an original to the substrate by using exposure light from a light source, includes a substrate stage on which the substrate is mounted, a driving unit configured to drive the substrate stage with a plurality of actuators each configured to apply a thrust to the substrate stage in respective orientations different from each other, and a controller configured to control the driving unit to cause the substrate stage to move in the scanning direction when exposing each of a plurality of shot regions on the substrate, and to cause each of the plurality of actuators to apply the thrust to the substrate stage in at least a part of time duration of each movement in the scanning direction.
US12326645B2
A system includes a multi-channel beam splitter arranged and configured to split an input optical signal into a plurality of split optical signals; a plurality of phase modulators, wherein each phase modulator of the plurality of phase modulators is operative to modify a phase of a corresponding split optical signal of the plurality of split optical signals in response to a control signal; a waveguide arranged at an optical output of the plurality of phase modulators, the waveguide configured to spatially-rearrange the split optical signals output from the plurality of phase modulators into a pattern, thereby producing an optical signal pattern; and an optical amplifier arranged at an optical output of the waveguide, wherein the optical amplifier is configured to amplify the optical signal pattern produced by the waveguide.
US12326644B2
Systems, devices, and methods are provided for all-optical reconfigurable activation devices for realizing various activations functions using low input optical power. The device and systems disclosed herein include a directional coupler comprising a first phase-shift mechanism and an interferometer coupled to the directional coupler. The interferometer comprises at least one microring resonator and a second phase-shift mechanism coupled to thereto. The interferometer and the directional coupler comprise waveguides formed of a first material, while the microring resonator comprises a waveguide formed of a second material and a third phase-shift mechanism. The second material is provided as a low-loss material having a high Kerr effect and large bandgaps, to generate various nonlinear activation functions. The first, second, and third phase-shift mechanisms are configured to control biases within the disclosed systems and devices to achieve a desired activation function.
US12326643B2
The light modulator includes a substrate having a main surface including a first area, a second area, and a third area, a first III-V compound semiconductor layer of a first conductivity-type provided on the first area, a second III-V compound semiconductor layer of a first conductivity-type or a second conductivity-type provided on the second area, a core provided on the third area and including a group III-V compound semiconductor, and an electrode connected to the first III-V compound semiconductor layer. The first III-V compound semiconductor layer includes a first portion having a thickness smaller than a thickness of the core in a second direction orthogonal to the main surface and a second portion having a thickness larger than the thickness of the first portion in the second direction. The second portion is disposed between the first portion and the core.
US12326631B2
Particular embodiments described herein provide for an electronic device that can be configured to include a display. The display can include a liquid crystal array and a backplane. The backplane generates a backlight created by a plurality of microLEDs and each microLED is comprised of a plurality of nano-pyramid LEDs, where each nano-pyramid has a receiving pad coupling layer that is coupled to the receiving pad on the backplane. The backplane can include a plurality of blue microLEDs, a plurality of green microLEDs, and a plurality of red microLEDs
US12326626B2
Digital signage unit, such as for digital out of home advertising, with monitoring features are provided. The digital signage unit includes an electronic display, a sensor for measuring tilt, and a controller which receives data from the sensor and determines, on an ongoing basis, an operating status of the digital signage unit based, at least in part, on the data from the sensor.
US12326621B2
The invention provides a method and a system for generating a robust higher-order Poincaré sphere polarization state. The method includes: loading vortex phases into fully coherent vector beams for modulating them into left- and right-handed circularly polarized modes in a Poincaré sphere; synthesizing the left-handed and right-handed circularly polarized modes into a vector polarized light beam on the Poincaré sphere, and generating a polarization matrix of the Poincaré sphere; reducing the degree of spatial coherence of the polarized light, performing shaping to obtain a random electromagnetic beam, and simultaneously extracting polarization information in the polarization matrix and transferring the polarization information into a spatial correlation tensor of the random electromagnetic beam; and transmitting the random electromagnetic beam to a far field where the polarization information is transferred from the spatial correlation tensor into a polarization matrix of the random electromagnetic beam, to obtain a robust higher-order Poincaré sphere polarization state.
US12326619B2
An ophthalmic lens operable to protect the eye from harmful ultraviolet and high energy visible wavelengths of light and methods for producing the same.
US12326616B2
The embodiments disclose an apparatus including an eyewear pupilometer for detecting, measuring and processing a wearer's pupil movement and size, for detecting and processing retinal images, for detecting and processing a wearer's field of view, for broadcasting alerts, for pre-diagnostic screening, for overriding vehicle operation and for measuring, recording and transmitting circadian responses, at least one eyewear pupilometer module including a lens fiber optic camera module, an image processor module, a retinal image infrared detector module, an outward camera module, at least one alert module, an alert light and message projector, a WI-FI module, an automated pullover module, an automated steering module, fiber optic & data cables, a contact lens pupilometer image, sensor and processor module, and at least one eyewear pupilometer module coupled to and/or embedded into eyewear frames and lenses, contact lenses, a vehicle wind shield and protective covers for hand held devices and laptop computers.
US12326611B2
An adjusting device is provided for positioning an object. The adjusting device includes a base and a supply line. The base is configured to move an object that is connectable to the base in the connected state along a path of motion in a position-controlled manner. The supply line supplies the energy and/or signal transmission to and/or from the base. The supply line is coupled to the base in a reversibly detachable manner.
US12326605B2
A carriage is configured to be mounted in a fiber distribution cabinet. The carriage includes a carriage body having a front end, a rear end, a first side, a second side, and a back wall cooperating to define a cavity. A top wall is disposed at the front end of the carriage body, and a plurality of side walls extending from the back wall to the top wall. The top wall, the side walls, and the back wall define a plurality of openings at the front end of the carriage body. The top wall includes a plurality of slots, and each the plurality of slots being associated with a respective one of the plurality of openings. The plurality of openings are sized and configured to receive a fiber optic component.
US12326604B2
Integrated circuit packages having electrical and optical connectivity and methods of making the same are disclosed herein. According to one embodiment, an integrated circuit package includes a glass substrate, an optical channel, and redistribution layers. The integrated circuit package further includes an integrated circuit chip positioned on the glass substrate and in optical communication with the optical channel and in electrical continuity with the redistribution layers.
US12326601B2
A new fiber optic ferrule has an alignment structure on a surface through which light passes. The alignment structure is preferably in the shape of a dog bone, allowing the alignment structure to align the fiber optic ferrule in a receptacle while reducing the influence of temperature on the alignment.
US12326599B2
The disclosed embodiments relate to an integrated circuit structure and methods of forming them in which photonic devices are formed on the back end of fabricating a CMOS semiconductor structure containing electronic devices. Doped regions associated with the photonic devices are formed using microwave annealing for dopant activation.
US12326596B2
The present disclosure relates to a fiber management device or system for facilitating routing and storing optical fibers. The fiber management device includes a flexible, film-like substrate that has optical fiber management, storing functionality, and splicing functionality all on one film-like substrate. The flexible, film-like substrate can provide a routing path for routing optical fibers onto a flexible planar substrate that can be temporarily supported by, mounted on or attached to the flexible planar substrate. The flexible, film-like substrate can accommodate fibers that are in a multi-fiber (e.g., ribbon) configuration or a single fiber configuration.
US12326582B2
A light shielding component with low gloss and high optical concentration independent of the film thickness of the light shielding layer is provided. The light shielding component includes a substrate film; and a light shielding layer formed on at least one surface of the substrate film. The maximum height Rz measured according to JIS B0601:2001 of the surface forming the light shielding layer is set to 1 μm or more and 5 μm or less, and the average length Rsm of the contour curve elements is set to 40 μm or less. Preferably, the light shielding layer includes a particle group with a particle size of 2 μm˜6 μm and a particle group with a particle size of 0.06 μm˜0.4 μm.
US12326581B2
Disclosed is an image stitching-based aerial image formation apparatus, including sequentially along an optical path direction: an image source comprising a plurality of display units arranged in an array; a rear lens group comprising a plurality of optical lens units arranged in an array; and a front lens group, wherein light rays passing through the rear lens group are converged via the front lens group to render a real image in midair. The disclosure offers the following benefits: by splitting the image source into a plurality of display units arranged in an array and constituting the rear lens group by a plurality of optical lens units arranged in an array, the image is split into smaller patches, such that the longitudinal distance needed for chromatic aberration adjustment also decreases, which shrinks the longitudinal dimension of the whole apparatus so as to be better adapted for installation in a narrow space.
US12326575B2
An optical sensing device including a base, a light sensing element, an image capturing lens, at least one light source, and a top cover is provided. The light sensing element is disposed on the base. The image capturing lens is disposed above the light sensing element. The light source is disposed on the base, beside the light sensing element, and configured to emit a light beam. The top cover covers the light source and has a slit pattern. The slit pattern includes at least one slit. The slit pattern is disposed on a path of the light beam to diffract the light beam. The image capturing lens is configured to collect a signal light formed by an outside object reflecting a diffracted light beam and transmit the signal light to the light sensing element.
US12326567B2
A disclosed hinge assembly for a head-mounted display device comprises a four-bar linkage. A first linkage of the four-bar linkage is mountable to or forms part of a wearable article for a head of a user. A second linkage and a third linkage of the four-bar linkage each rotatably couple the first linkage to a fourth linkage of the four-bar linkage. The fourth linkage of the four-bar linkage is mountable to or forms part of a display device. A disclosed head-mounted display device comprises a display device; a rearward mount by which the head-mounted display device is mountable to a wearable article for a head of a user; and a hinge assembly rotatably coupling the display device to the rearward mount. The hinge assembly includes a four-bar linkage that provides a path of travel for the display device along a curved path from a deployed state to a stowed state.
US12326566B1
For a region of an image, a portion of a semi-reflective surface of an optical combiner from which light rays of the given region are reflected towards eyes of a user during display via a display unit is determined. For this portion of the semi-reflective surface, a secondary reflection intensity of light rays of another region of the image that undergo secondary reflection from a portion of another surface of the optical combiner is determined. A minimum intensity level of pixels in the image is increased. Intensity values of pixels in said region of the image are adjusted based on the secondary reflection intensity. The image is displayed via the display unit, thereby producing a synthetic light field. The optical combiner reflects the synthetic light field towards the eyes, whilst optically combining the synthetic light field with a real-world light field.
US12326565B2
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to a computer display stray-light suppression system for a head-worn computer comprising an eye cover including a flexible material with a perimeter, wherein the perimeter is formed to substantially encapsulate an eye of a person, and the eye cover including an attachment system adapted to removably and replaceably attach to a perimeter of the head-worn computer to suppress light emitted from a computer display in the head-worn computer.
US12326560B2
The present invention concerns an optical system intended to be held by a frame and worn by a wearer, the optical system comprising a lens, the lens further comprising a metasurface formed by at least a set of nanostructures, at least the lens and the metasurface being designed to achieve an optical system transmission target optical function and an optical system reflective target optical function.
US12326550B2
A device for receiving samples in a microscope is provided. The device comprises a microtiter plate. The microtiter plate comprises an inner part with cavities for the samples and with an optically transparent bottom plate, which seals the cavities underneath and a frame which defines a supporting surface and is configured to hold the inner part at least in a first position. The bottom plate is arranged above the supporting surface in the first position of the inner part. The inner part is movable relative to the frame along a direction (A) perpendicular to the supporting surface.
US12326548B2
A confocal scanner (21) according to the present disclosure includes a first pinhole array disk (211a), a second pinhole array disk (211b), a condensing element array disk (212) located between the first pinhole array disk (211a) and the second pinhole array disk (211b), a connecting shaft (213) connecting the first pinhole array disk (211a), the second pinhole array disk (211b), and the condensing element array disk (212), and a motor (214) configured, together with the connecting shaft (213), to rotate the first pinhole array disk (211a), the second pinhole array disk (211b), and the condensing element array disk (212). The first pinhole array disk (211a) is located at a first focal plane, the second pinhole array disk (211b) is located at a second focal plane, and a diameter of first pinholes and a diameter of second pinholes are different from each other.
US12326543B2
A zoom lens includes in order from an object side to an image side along an optical axis a first lens group having a positive refractive power, including a first lens disposed along the optical axis, and a second lens group having a negative refractive power, including a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, and a seventh lens disposed in order along the optical axis. Positions of the second lens to the seventh lens on the optical axis can be changed to achieve continuous zooming of the zoom lens. A total effective focal length ft of the zoom lens when it is in a final state and a total effective focal length fs of the zoom lens when it is in an initial state satisfy 1.3
US12326530B2
A method, and system to implement the process, of selecting a plurality of sets of source and receiver locations over a survey area, modeling on a subsurface attribute model of a subterranean region each source and receiver pair of the plurality of sets of source and receiver locations to generate low frequency seismic data, performing a reverse time migration on the low frequency seismic data to reposition diving wave energy of each source and receiver pair of the plurality of sets of source and receiver locations to generate a diving wave illumination image, extracting seismic amplitudes from the diving wave illumination image at a region of interest, and computing a contribution of a respective diving wave from each source and receiver pair of the plurality of sets of source and receiver locations to diving waves passing through the region of interest.
US12326528B2
The invention relates to a method for operating ultrasonic sensors) for a motor vehicle, including emitting a plurality of ultrasonic signals by respective ultrasonic sensors. The ultrasonic signals include a sequence of elementary signals. The elementary signals have signal pauses and a plurality of different signal pulses. The ultrasonic signals differ from one another by the sequence of the elementary signals. The method further includes receiving reflected ultrasonic signals, wherein the received ultrasonic signals are associated with the emitted ultrasonic signals on the basis of the sequences of the elementary signals.
US12326521B2
A lidar system, including: a laser, an optical detector, a laser antenna, and a silicon-based integrated magneto-optical circulator. The silicon-based integrated magneto-optical circulator includes a silicon-based integrated Mach-Zehnder interference structure or a silicon-based integrated micro-ring structure, and silicon-based integrated magneto-optical waveguides. The silicon-based integrated magneto-optical circulator further includes an input port, a receiving port, and an emission port. The laser is aligned and coupled to the input port of the silicon-based integrated magneto-optical circulator via an optical fiber, a grating coupler, or an edge coupler. The optical detector is aligned and coupled to the receiving port of the silicon-based integrated magneto-optical circulator via the optical fiber, the grating coupler, or the edge coupler. The laser antenna is aligned and coupled to the emission port of the silicon-based integrated magneto-optical circulator via the optical fiber, the grating coupler, or the edge coupler.
US12326520B2
Apparatus and methods for determining the distance to an object by detecting a reflected light beam. A light emitter emits a light beam. An optical fiber is mounted to direct the light beam as an output light beam of the optical fiber. An actuator is coupled proximate a distal end of the optical fiber, for moving the distal end of the optical fiber in a desired pattern. Collimation optics are mounted to intercept the output light beam of the optical fiber and collimate the output light beam of the optical fiber. A photodetector is mounted to receive a reflected light beam after reflecting off an object in an external environment. A control system determines a distance to the object based on an elapsed time between emission of the light beam and a detection of the reflected light beam by the photodetector.
US12326516B2
The present disclosure relates to a pulse compressed radar signal detection method. The aspect of the present disclosure is to provide a radar signal detection method based on a generalized likelihood ratio test (GLRT) for detecting a pulse compressed radar signal by adequately utilizing the repeatability of pulses and being applicable even to a non-pulse compressed radar signal, thus having a relatively wide application range and securing excellent detection performance.
US12326513B2
A hardware unit of an ADV comprises an input port to directly receive data from one or more sensors perceiving a driving environment. The hardware unit is coupled with the one or more sensors to perform data processing of the data from one or more sensors. The hardware unit comprises a monitor unit to monitor a data rate of output data after the data processing. The hardware unit further comprises a self-adjustment unit to dynamically configure and adjust the data processing based on the data rate of output data. The hardware unit further comprises an output port to transfer the output data to an autonomous driving system (ADS) of the ADV to control the ADV to drive autonomously based on the output data.
US12326498B2
A radar apparatus includes: a plurality of transmission antennas that each transmit a transmission signal; and a radar transmitter that applies a Doppler shift amount to the transmission signal transmitted from each of the plurality of transmission antennas. A plurality of the Doppler shift amounts have intervals set by unequally dividing a Doppler frequency range subject to Doppler analysis.
US12326494B2
Aspects of the present invention provide systems and methods for distributed signal processing of indoor localization signals wherein statistical algorithms and machine learning are used in place of a fingerprint map. The disclosure relates to calculation of angle and distance based on measurements of an indoor localization signal, followed by energy-efficient distribution of signal processing. Local signal processing is performed using any of multiple eigen structure algorithms or a linear probabilistic inference, before cloud-based signal processing is performed using a nonlinear probabilistic inference and machine learning that's been trained with historical data transmitted by the base stations and time-of-day location patterns. Without having to generate and constantly update an energy-exorbitant fingerprint map, the disclosed system reduces localization error to merely 50 cm with 95% probability without compromising energy-efficiency to rival the accuracy of indoor localization systems that utilize fingerprinting.
US12326484B2
The present invention describes method directed to magnetic resonance (MR) imaging simulation, said method comprising—partitioning a pulse sequence in parts that have RF excitation and parts that do not have RF excitation; —for each of the parts that do not have the RF active, called gradient parts, performing compression of the gradient parts and then representing signals driving the gradients as an accumulation of area until a readout time point; and then performing the simulation.
US12326481B2
A method and a system for modelling an ultracapacitor are disclosed. The method involves modelling the ultracapacitor using measured and simulated charge-discharge plots. Measured plots are obtained from a capacitor modelling apparatus that uses one or more constant currents and/or voltages, while simulated plots are generated by a simulation platform using same constant currents and/or voltages values and an initial set of values for capacitors and resistors in a circuit model employing RC ladder-based electrical equivalent circuit model of the ultracapacitor. An optimization process adjusts the initial values of capacitors and resistors in the circuit model to make the simulated plots converge with the measured plots. The final values of capacitors and resistors are determined based on the converged simulated plots, matching the behaviour of the given ultracapacitor, providing an accurate representation of behaviour of the ultracapacitor.
US12326479B2
A leakage current detection and interruption device includes a switch module; a leakage current detection module for detecting leakage current signal on current carrying lines and generating a leakage fault signal in response thereto; a drive module, coupled to the switch module and the leakage current detection module, for driving the switch module to disconnect electrical connection on the current carrying lines in response to the leakage fault signal; a self-test module, coupled to the leakage current detection module and the drive module, for periodically generating a simulated leakage current signal and detecting malfunction in the leakage current detection module and/or drive module, and generating a self-test fault signal in response thereto; and an alarm module, coupled to the self-test module, for generating an alarm signal in response to the leakage fault signal and/or self-test fault signal. The device can alert the user under tripped or malfunction conditions.
US12326476B2
Discussed is a battery swelling inspection apparatus, including an upper plate; a lower plate located to face the upper plate; a fixing frame to which a portion of the upper plate and a portion of the lower plate are fixedly coupled thereto; a pressure measurer located on at least one of an upper portion and a lower portion of the lower plate and to measure a first pressure value applied from the battery toward the lower plate; and a pressure measuring pad having a coupling surface and a measuring surface, the coupling surface coupled to a lower surface of the upper plate or an upper surface of the lower plate and the measuring surface located at a side opposite to the coupling surface to face the battery and a pressure being applied from the battery to at least a portion of the measuring surface.
US12326474B2
An SoC includes an execution domain processor for running an execution domain which hosts n partitions by accessing, for each partition, one or more SoC resources; a control point processor that generates control data with n debug enable signals corresponding to the n partitions for controlling access to the SoC resources by identifying at least a first SoC resource that each partition is allowed to access; and an access control circuit to provide, in response to the control data, a dynamic runtime isolation barrier which allows access by the debugging tool to only a specified partition running on the execution domain which has a debug enable signal set to a first active value and prevents access to the other n−1 partitions running on the execution domain, For the partition under debug, the dynamic runtime isolation barrier may block debugger access to selected memory regions accessible by the partition under debug.
US12326473B2
The disclosure provides an electronic fuse (eFuse) device and an operation method thereof. The eFuse device includes an eFuse, a readout circuit, a register, and a safety control device. The readout circuit reads out target data recorded by the eFuse to the register and the safety control device. The safety control device compares the target data provided by the readout circuit with the target data provided by the register to determine whether a soft error occurs in the target data stored in the register. When the soft error occurs in the target data stored in the register, the readout circuit reads out the target data recorded by the eFuse again to the register and the safety control device.
US12326468B2
A portable device is described for use with a system in which a transmitter signal is transmitted by a transmitter from within the ground at a transmission frequency during an operational procedure. The portable device is configured for measuring electromagnetic noise. An extension leg supports a measurement wheel at a distal end such that the electromagnetic noise is measured on a measurement path along which the measurement wheel is rolled for use in selecting a transmission frequency. A display can be configured to display the electromagnetic noise as measured on the measurement path in coordination with measured distance.
US12326461B2
An electrical connector includes: a base and a contact module received by the base; a cover movably disposed relative to the base; and a latch mechanism including a pair of latches pivotably disposed relative to the cover and rotatably disposed relative to the base, wherein each of the pair of latches has an upper guiding portion and the base has a corresponding portion for engaging the upper guiding portion.
US12326449B2
Provided is a biomaterial detection sensor. The biomaterial detection sensor comprises a substrate and a detection probe including a metal nanoparticle deposited on the substrate, and an erythrocyte membrane conformally covering the metal nanoparticle, wherein the detection probe may selectively react with fibrinogen.
US12326444B2
The invention relates to ex-situ biosensors that impedimetrically detect cardiac biomarkers of interest in a bodily fluid sample derived from a patient. The biosensors include a multi-array of vertically aligned platinum wires having immobilized thereon an aptamer that is selected to specifically and selectively bind to the cardiac markers of interest. The biosensors are contacted with a portion of the bodily fluid sample, and the aptamer binds to the cardiac markers of interest in the bodily fluid sample. As a result, an electrochemical impedance signal is generated and therefore, a change in electrochemical impedance is indicative of the presence of the cardiac markers of interest in the bodily fluid sample. The biosensors are point-of-care, on-demand devices that can be used in a medical environment, as well as in domestic settings.
US12326443B2
A method includes depositing an antimicrobial material onto a surface of a substrate. The method includes binding a photochromic material to the antimicrobial material. Depositing the antimicrobial material and binding the photochromic material can include forming a mixture of the antimicrobial material and the photochromic material and depositing the mixture onto the surface of the substrate. It is also contemplated that depositing the antimicrobial material and binding the photochromic material can include first depositing the antimicrobial material onto the surface of the substrate and then depositing the photochromic material onto the antimicrobial material.
US12326441B2
Techniques for data processing and control for a glucose monitoring system are provided, including obtaining a first sensitivity of a glucose sensor; obtaining a second sensitivity of the glucose sensor; comparing a difference between the first sensitivity and the second sensitivity to a predetermined range of values; if the difference is outside the predetermined range of the values, causing a calibration routine for the glucose sensor to be performed; and if the difference is within the predetermined range of values determining a composite sensitivity for a current calibration of the glucose sensor based on the first sensitivity and the second sensitivity and calculating the glucose level based on the current calibration of the glucose sensor.
US12326436B2
The invention relates to a system and method for analyzing drilling fluid from a drilling rig for accessing subterranean hydrocarbons. The system and method involve analysis for chloride by replacing conventional chemical titration with electrical conductivity titration.
US12326432B2
There is provided a perishable goods monitoring system for monitoring the freshness or condition of a perishable product encapsulated within a package, the system comprising a sensor device, a wireless communication reader device and a processing module, said sensor device comprising a fibrous hydrophilic material based electrical sensor and a wireless communication tag chip coupled thereto and being configured to be incorporated in or on a said package, said wireless communication reader device being configured for wireless communication with said wireless communication tag by means of wireless communication technology when said reader device is within a predetermined distance of said tag, and said processing module being configured to receive sensor data from said sensor, via said reader device, correlate said sensor data against a stored calibration data set associated with said perishable product and determine thereby data representative of freshness of said perishable product.
US12326431B2
A gas detection device for detection of one or more gas analytes in an environment includes a housing including an inlet via which gas to be sampled from the environment enters the housing, a control system within the housing comprising a processor system and a memory system in communicative connection with the processor system, and one or more gas sensors within the housing in fluid connection with the inlet and in communicative connection with the control system. Each of the one or more gas sensors is independently responsive to one of the one or more gas analytes. The control system is configured to control flow rate of gas from the environment through an accessory device assembly including one or more accessory devices in fluid connection with the inlet on the basis of data for the accessory device assembly in fluid connection with the inlet.
US12326429B2
The gas measurement device includes a catalyst member connected to a power source applying voltage or current, performing a reaction of a first gas and a second gas contained in a mixed gas contacted with the catalyst member to generate a third gas, and exhibiting a catalytic action in which the reaction changes in response to temperature, and a gas sensor configured to detect gas molecules contacted with the catalyst member.
US12326422B2
A gas sensor comprises a membrane, a first plate arranged on a first side of the membrane and having through openings for the passage of a gas, a second plate arranged on a second side of the membrane, the second side being situated opposite the first side, and an electronic circuit, which is connected to the membrane, the first plate and the second plate and causes the membrane to emit ultrasonic radiation, and which is configured to determine a resonant frequency of the ultrasonic radiation.
US12326421B2
A circuit for detecting air, a related system, and a related method are provided. The circuit for detecting air includes a receiver connection and an air-detection circuit. The receiver connection is configured to provide a receiver signal. The air-detection circuit is in operative communication with the receiver connection to process the receiver signal to generate a processed signal corresponding to detected air. The air-detection circuit includes one or more active-rectifying elements configured to actively rectify the receiver signal to provide the processed signal.
US12326418B2
Provided are a standard sample film for use in laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry, the standard sample film containing an organic substance and having a small variation in signal intensity of an ion of a metal element depending on a measurement position; a standard sample; a method for producing a standard sample film; a sample set; a quantitative analysis method; and a transfer film. The standard sample film of the present invention is a standard sample film for use in laser ablation inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry, the standard sample film containing a polymer and a metal element, and having a maximum height difference in film thickness of the standard sample film of 0.50 μm or less.
US12326417B2
Embodiments described herein generally relate to cartridges suitable for performing electrophoretic separation of analytes. Cartridges described herein are particularly well suited for reuse. Cartridges described herein can include a reservoir disposed between a capillary and a container containing a run buffer. The reservoir can inhibit run buffer from intruding into the capillary, thereby allowing repeated electrophoretic separations to be more consistent, more accurate, and/or more reliable.
US12326412B2
A display substrate (100), a display apparatus, and a method of detecting cracks in a display substrate (100). A display substrate (100) includes a display area (101) and a frame area (102) disposed at least on a side of the display area (101), the frame area (102) including a crack detection area (1021). The display substrate (100) includes a base substrate (10), a detection wiring (82) on the base substrate (10), and a conductive layer (30) on a side of the detection wiring (82) away from the base substrate (10); the conductive layer (30) is disposed in the frame area (102); the detection wiring (82) is disposed in the crack detection area (1021); and at least a portion of an orthographic projection of the detection wiring (82) on the base substrate (10) falls within an orthographic projection of the conductive layer (30) on the base substrate (10). A display apparatus includes the display substrate.
US12326410B2
A measurement system and method are presented for measuring one or more parameters of a sample. The measurement system comprises an excitation system and a detection system. The excitation system is configured to generate combined exciting radiation comprising one- or multi-parameter modulation of multiple exciting signals of different types to be applied to at least a portion of a sample under measurements to thereby induce electron emission response of said at least portion of the sample to said combined exciting radiation. The detection system is configured for detecting the electron emission response of the at least portion of the sample and generating measured data indicative of a modulated change of an electrical state of the at least portion of the sample, thereby enabling determination of one or more parameters of the sample from the measured data.
US12326401B2
Refractive index distribution standard in the form of a three-dimensional object which contains in its volume a base medium and regions of variable size and distance with a refractive index other than that of the base medium, characterised in that the difference between the refractive index of said regions and the refractive index of the base medium is not greater than 0.04, at least one of the regions is a set of at least two prisms or cylinders or coaxial rings of variable size and distance, having a dimension in at least one direction similar to the resolving power of the measurement system under assessment and at least one of the regions is sphere-like or ellipsoid-like in shape.
US12326388B2
An abnormality detecting device relating to the present disclosure includes at least two first cover parts arranged next to each other in a circumferential direction; a plurality of electrode parts respectively supported by the first cover parts; a plurality of magnet parts provided inside of the first cover parts in the radial direction, where each magnet part is in contact with a corresponding one of the electrode parts; and at least two second cover parts provided between adjacent ones of the first cover parts in the circumferential direction. Each electrode part has an oil-repellent surface.
US12326381B2
A method, system, and medium for gas monitoring and assessment based on Internet of Things. The method is executed by a processor in a smart gas safety management platform of a system for gas monitoring and assessment based on Internet of Things. The method includes: obtaining industrial gas data of a workshop to be monitored based on a smart gas indoor device object platform and uploading the industrial gas data to a smart gas data center through a smart gas indoor device sensor network platform; obtaining regional data of the workshop to be monitored based on a smart gas service platform and uploading the regional data to the smart gas data center through the smart gas indoor device sensor network platform; determining a key sub-region based on the regional data and the industrial gas data.
US12326380B2
A testing device includes a drive unit and an output unit, which are connected together via first and second gearboxes. The testing device is configured to adjustably tilt and/or adjustably displace at least one of the first and second gearboxes for at least partially simultaneous testing of the first and second gearboxes.
US12326379B2
An object of the present disclosure is to improve an SN ratio while maintaining a distance resolution and to accurately detect an event occurrence location. An event detection device according to the present disclosure includes: an OTDR waveform acquisition unit that acquires an OTDR waveform of an optical fiber to be measured; a feature quantity extraction unit that performs wavelet transform on the OTDR waveform and generates a scalogram with each wavelet coefficient as a feature quantity; a peak extraction unit that calculates a noise threshold value from the OTDR waveform, and extracts a peak from the feature quantity on the scalogram based on the noise threshold value to generate a peak graph; and an event identification unit that identifies an event in the optical fiber to be measured from the peak graph.
US12326372B2
A methodology includes circulating a temperature-controlled and flow-rate-controlled medium through a container at a controlled flow rate and submerging a thermistor with the medium. With the thermistor submerged, a power output of the thermistor is determined and compared to a power criterion, after which classification of the thermistor occurs based on a comparison of the power output to the power criterion. The methodology can include submerging a reference thermistor within the medium and determining a reference power output of the reference thermistor with the reference thermistor submerged within the medium, the power criterion determined based on the reference power output.
US12326367B2
Systems and methods for a sample database are provided, where the sample database is for matching a target coating. In one embodiment, the system comprises a sample database stored on a storage device. The sample database includes a sample coating formula and a sample image feature with at least one sample coating formula linked to at least one sample image feature. At least one sample image feature includes a spatial micro-color analysis that includes a value determined by a sample pixel feature difference between at least two sample pixels.
US12326360B2
A sensing system comprising a measurement sensor configured to detect electromagnetic radiation and a reference sensor configured to detect a source of measurement uncertainty. The sensing system further comprises a shield configured to reduce an interaction between the electromagnetic radiation and the reference sensor.
US12326354B2
A filling level measuring device, a method for capacitive filling level measurement of filling material in a container that includes a counter electrode integrated therein using a filling level probe, and a method for calibrating a filling level probe, that includes introducing the filling level probe into the container. The filling level probe has first and second spaced apart electrodes extending successively and substantially parallel to the counter electrode, thereby defining a measurement path. The level probe is operable in a first, second, or third measurement mode, by switching between a measurement potential or a shielding potential that can each be applied to the first and second electrodes, while a counter electrode potential is applied to the counter electrode. For capacitive filling level measurement, relative capacitance changes measured with a calibrated level probe in each measurement mode compared to an empty container, are used.
US12326350B2
A method for reducing thermal induced error in real-time for a sensor in a region of interest. The method includes receiving at least one data point from a temperature sensor, the temperature sensor configured to determine temperature for the sensor of interest. The method includes receiving at least one data point from the sensor, the sensor having thermal sensitivity and offset shift for a given temperature range. The method includes determining at least three percentage change coefficients for thermal sensitivity. The method includes determining at least three percentage change coefficients for thermal zero offset. The method includes calculating real-time thermal error reduction.
US12326347B2
Under-display sensor provided. The under-display sensor includes an optical sensor, having an emitter configured for emitting a sensing light and a receiver configured for detecting an externally-reflected light reflected from an object and returned by the sensing light, a sensor polarization layer, being disposed over the optical sensor and having a polarization axis inclined at a first angle, and a sensor retardation layer, being disposed over the sensor polarization layer and having a slow axis inclined at the first angle with respect to the polarization axis.
US12326345B2
The techniques and systems herein enable pose correction based on landmarks and barriers. A vehicle pose, one or more radar-occupancy grid (ROG) landmark locations relative to the vehicle, and one or more map landmark locations are received. Based on determined association probabilities of candidate pairs (e.g., treating the map landmark locations as observations), one of the ROG landmark locations and one of the map landmark locations are selected as corresponding to each other. An ROG barrier location and a map barrier location are identified, and ripple point locations are identified that are along the barriers at a radial distance from the landmarks. Based on the ripple point locations and a cost function, a pose correction for the pose is determined. By using the described techniques, reliable vehicle localization can be performed using radar data and a map in a wide array of environments without necessitating other sensors.
US12326343B2
A network controller comprising one or more processors and memories in order to make it possible to achieve both continuous operation of a route search system and energy consumption reduction or leveling used resources. The one or more memories store one or more programs. The one or more processors, by reading the one or more programs, realize a user terminal traffic information acquirer, a traffic demand predictor, a route information acquirer, a route determiner, an operating state information acquirer, and an activation request generator. A navigation route is determined from one or more route candidates based on traffic demand prediction information predicting future traffic demand based on user terminal traffic information. Each base station in an off state corresponding to each area on the determined navigation route is activated.
US12326340B2
One or more processors identify a first set of candidate passes of a second vehicle at a work area to provide area coverage of the work area within an outer boundary of the work area and to avoid contact between one or more components of the second vehicle and plant rows at the work area, based on dimensions of the second vehicle and estimated positions of the plant rows at the work area. A user interface presents, from a first present position and a first present heading of the second vehicle, the identified first set of candidate passes for operator selection of one of the first set of candidate passes as a planned first pass guidance path of the second vehicle.
US12326338B2
A server apparatus includes a communication interface and a controller configured to transmit/receive information to/from another apparatus via the communication interface. When a first boarding location is specified by a terminal apparatus, the controller notifies, to the terminal apparatus, a second boarding location which is within a predetermined distance range from the first boarding location, and reachable by a dispatchable vehicle earlier than the first boarding location.
US12326331B2
An apparatus for generating a roll map of a merge-wound electrode includes a position measurement device configured to acquire coordinate value data for a longitudinal position of a merged-wound electrode, an input device configured to input an input signal indicating a start of merge-winding or an end of merge-winding, a seam detector configured to detect a seam and acquire electrode coordinate values of the seam, and a reference point detector configured to detect reference points of the merge-wound electrode and acquire electrode coordinate values of the reference points. A roll map for simulating the merge-wound electrode is generated based on the input signal of the input device, the electrode coordinate values of the seam, and the electrode coordinate values of the reference points of the merge-wound electrode.
US12326330B2
A compact inspection assembly comprising digital sensors and/or laser measurement systems to measure and validate attributes of pipe and associated threaded connections. A custom designed end-effector sensor assembly is selectively attached to a robotic arm having software and control systems. An automated sensor assembly, selectively positioned relative to a pipe section, measures data regarding the pipe and associated threaded connections. The measured and recorded data can be inspected for defects and/or compared to predetermined standards (such as, for example, original equipment manufacturer and/or end user specifications or requirements) to verify pipe/connection compliance with desired standards.
US12326324B1
A projectile configured to illuminate upon impact with a target following a launch event. A launch sensor is configured to cause a processor to transition from a sleep state to a working state in response to a launch event. The processor then provides electrical power to an accelerometer. The accelerometer detects the rotation and/or the deceleration of the projectile to determine if the projectile has been launched, is rotating as expected, and has impacted an object within a predetermined time. Responsive to determining that the rotation and/or deceleration thresholds have been met, the processor is configured to provide electrical power to one or more of the plurality of illumination elements.
US12326322B1
The load transfer system for tactical plate carriers includes a top interface, a bottom interface, and a linkage. The top interface may couple to an armor plate directly or indirectly via a plate carrier. The bottom interface may couple to anatomically inferior gear located below the top interface. The top end of the linkage may couple to the top interface and the bottom end of the linkage may couple to the bottom interface. The load transfer system may be adapted to be worn by a user to transfer a load from the user's shoulders and/or lower back to the users' hips. As a non-limiting example, the load May comprise the weight of the armor plate and/or the weight of gear suspended from the plate carrier. The load transfer system may permit movement of the armor plate relative to the anatomically inferior gear.
US12326320B2
A feed forward guidance kit for a ballistic device that includes at least one optical imaging sensor, a processor that is operatively in communication with the at least one optical imaging sensor, and a feed forward guidance protocol that is stored on a computer readable medium and that is operatively in communication with the processor. When the at least one optical imaging sensor initially intercepts an aircraft at an initial location during combat, the feed forward guidance protocol instructs the processor to proactively calculate an anticipated second position of the aircraft as an orientation of the aircraft changes from an initial orientation to a translated orientation.
US12326310B2
A suppressor system for a firearm having aligned sleeve openings between the barrel or a central tube and an inner sleeve. The suppressor system further includes dividers located between an outer sleeve and the inner sleeve. The suppressor system provides improved noise attenuation through the expansion of hot gasses multiple cavities in the suppressor system and also by slowing the hot gasses via tortuous pathways or collision of hot gasses in the suppressor system.
US12326302B2
A heat exchanger and an air conditioner are provided. The heat exchanger includes fins and flat pipes arranged in parallel. Each of the flat pipes includes a first finned region, a second finned region, and a finless region. The first finned region is the second finned region via the finless region. The fins are provided both between adjacent two first finned regions and adjacent two second finned regions. An end of the finless region connected to the first finned region is twisted and defined as a first torsion section, the other end of the finless region connected to the second finned region is twisted and defined as a second torsion section.
US12326297B2
The present disclosure discloses a vacuum drying tank, including a shell and a pumping device. The shell includes a first shell part, a second shell part, and a third shell part; the second shell part has an accommodating cavity provided with an opening in the top; an air pumping hole is formed in the accommodating cavity; the first shell part is, hermetically covered at the opening; the third shell part is arranged below the second shell part; the pumping device is arranged in the third shell part and is communicated with the air pumping hole; and the pumping device is used for pumping out air in the accommodating cavity from the air pumping hole, so that the accommodating cavity is in a vacuum state.
US12326296B2
A temperature regulating apparatus can comprise a housing, an intake fan, an outlet fan, and one or more canisters containing a pressurized cooling gas, such as carbon dioxide, freon, nitrogen, difluoroethane, trifluoroethane, or tetrafluoroethane, positioned within the housing. The inlet fan draws warm air from outside of the housing into the housing through vent openings formed in the housing. Cooling gas is released from the canisters when a temperature sensing device detects the ambient temperature is above a predetermined desired temperature, and the outlet fan blows cooled air out of the housing through the vent openings, whereby the ambient temperature outside of the housing can be cooled to the predetermined desired temperature.
US12326295B2
A refrigerator appliance includes a cabinet, a door pivotally attached to the cabinet, and a mullion bar pivotally attached to the door and having a guide pin. The mullion bar moves between a deployed position and a tucked position. A guide element is mounted to the cabinet and defines a recessed area. The guide element includes a deflectable member disposed in the recessed area and cooperating with a side wall of the recessed area to define an opening sized to receive the guide pin only when the mullion bar is in the tucked position. The deflectable member is deflectable upon contact with the guide pin to allow the guide pin within the recessed area when the mullion bar is in the deployed position.
US12326290B2
A refrigerator includes: a cabinet in which a refrigerating compartment is provided; a first door connected to the cabinet to open and close the refrigerating compartment and having an opening; a housing provided in the first door and accessible through the opening therein; an ice making room provided in the housing; a storage room that is provided below the ice making room and maintained at a temperature different from that of the refrigerating compartment; a guide duct provided below the ice making room to guide discharge of ice; a second door connected to the first door; a dispenser disposed on a front surface of the second door; and a discharge duct provided in the second door, wherein, when the second door is closed, the guide duct communicates with the discharge duct, and ice made in the ice making room is discharged to the dispenser.
US12326284B2
Disclosed herein are air conditioning systems including a refrigerant line configured to transport a refrigerant; a compressor in fluid communication with the suction line; and a controller in communication with a sensor configured to measure a characteristic of the refrigerant line. The compressor can be configured to move the refrigerant through the refrigerant line, and the refrigerant can have a first temperature at the outlet of the compressor. The controller can be configured to receive sensor data from the sensor indicating a current value associated with the characteristic of the refrigerant line; determine, based at least partially on the sensor data, that the characteristic of the refrigerant line is above a predetermined threshold; and output instructions for the compressor to perform one or more corrective actions.
US12326276B2
An air purifier includes a first pot; a second pot and a fan suitable for creating an air flow between the inside and outside of the air purifier. The second pot which is provided with a bottom and is housed inside the first pot in which the lateral walls of the second pot are formed by a plurality of ribs which extend in the vertical direction of the pot and in which adjacent ribs are arranged essentially parallel to each other, creating slots between them essentially of the length of the ribs. A gap is formed between the first pot and the second pot which extends preferably along the entire length of said slots. The use of the air purifier is also disclosed.
US12326263B2
A user interface assembly and a cooktop appliance having the user interface assembly is provided. The user interface assembly includes a panel with a display portion, a plurality of light sources, a diffusion stack representing the display, and a light guide having light channels to guide light from the sources through the diffusion stack to display a graphic in the display portion.
US12326259B2
A fuel swirler has a swirler housing defining an interior chamber having a fuel outlet at a downstream end. A swirler core is mounted inside the interior chamber. The swirler core has a downstream end portion with one or more fuel channels disposed thereon. The one or more fuel channels is in fluid communication with the fuel outlet. An internal bore extends longitudinally through the swirler core. The internal bore has an inlet connectable to a source of fuel. One or more exit holes fluidly connects the internal bore to the one or more fuel channels. An annular air gap is provided radially between the swirler housing and the swirler core for thermally shielding the internal bore.
US12326253B1
The moving, candelabra-like, multi-arm lighted display is for enhanced viewer entertainment and excitement during festive/celebratory occasions, which first has the appearance of a trophy, but after a user lights a centrally-located candle wick, or other ignitable material accessed through the open top of the trophy, small candles hidden within the trophy with elongated wicks initially positioned in close association with the ignitable material then also become lit without further action on the part of the user. As the small/mini candles create heat, the trophy separates into downwardly rotating pieces that reveal a previously hidden centrally-located pickleball, the separated pieces of the trophy then providing a multi-arm array of lights around the pickleball. The display may optionally have a rotating or stationary pickleball, an audio component, LED lights, be disposable or reusable, and/or be used as a cake topping or table decoration.
US12326247B2
Disclosed is a light tube, a light fixture, and a light body. The light tube comprises at least one tube member and at least one flexible filament. The tube member includes a light-transmitting tube and one or more inner layers. The at least one flexible filament penetrates into the tube member. The light fixture comprises a light holder and the light tube. The at least one tube member includes a sealed end and a connecting end. The at least one tube member is mounted on the light holder. The light body comprises the light tube and a light cap. The light cap is fixedly connected with the connecting end of the at least one tube member. A drive power board is disposed in the light cap. Positive and negative pins of the drive power board are electrically connected with a top end and a side end of the light cap, respectively.
US12326245B1
A downlight with adjustable color temperature, which includes a body, the body being in a cylindrical structure with an end communicated with outside, an annular lamp panel being provided at an opening side of the body, and a groove being provided at an end wall of an inner ring of the body along an axial direction of the body. The groove is arranged at an inner side of the body and a boss is arranged on an outer side of a tapered barrel, and relative rotation of the tapered barrel and the body is realized by embedded connection between the boss and the groove. A shift lever is arranged on a back of the reflective cup, and the dial handle can be clamped and fixed through the U-shaped groove, and the dial handle is placed transversely, so that an arc rotation trajectory of the dial handle can be enlarged.
US12326243B2
A LED lamp includes a case, a power source arranged inside the case, a heat sink connected to one end of the case, a light source connected to the heat sink and the power source, a lamp head connected to the case, and a rotating structure arranged between the case and the heat sink. The rotating structure includes a first and a second rotating components which respectively include a first rotating surface and a second rotating surface opposite to the first rotating surface. The acute angle between the first rotating surface and a side wall of the case is a, and the acute angle between the second rotating surface and the side wall of the case is b. The included angle a and the included angel b are respectively larger than or equal to 15 degrees and less than or equal to 75 degrees.
US12326239B2
A light emitting module and a car lamp are provided. The light emitting module includes a flexible light emitting panel (10) and a support (20) disposed at the shadow side of the flexible light emitting panel (10). The surface of the side of the support (20) close to the flexible light emitting panel (10) includes a plurality of sub-surfaces (201), and the plurality of sub-surfaces (201) are sequentially connected to form an integral step-shaped structure.
US12326231B2
Projection device (10) for a motor vehicle headlight, wherein the projection device (10) comprises the following: a light entry micro-optics array (100), comprising micro entrance optics, a light emitting micro-optics array (200), comprising micro exit optics, a substrate layer (300), on which the at least one light entry micro-optics array (100) is arranged on a first side (310) of the substrate layer (300) and the at least one light emitting micro-optics array (200) is arranged on a second side (320), wherein respectively a micro entrance optic (110) and respectively precisely one associated micro exit optic (210) form a micro-optics pair (400), wherein the light entry surface (111) of the micro entrance optic (110) and the first side (310) form a first marginal edge (410a) in a common surface section line, and wherein the light emitting surface (211) of the micro exit optic (210) and the second side (320) form a second marginal edge (410b) in a common surface section line, wherein the substrate layer (300) is made of translucent glass, wherein between adjacent micro-optics pairs (400), an interference structure (500) is arranged by means of a laser processing method in order to prevent light rays injected into one micro-optics pair (400) from crossing into an adjacent micro-optics pair (400), wherein the interference structure (500) extends substantially from the first marginal edge (410a) to the second marginal edge (410b) for each micro-optics pair (400).
US12326222B1
A sealing structure of an underground high-pressure gas storage and a construction method thereof are provided. The sealing structure includes an annular lining structure, wherein the annular lining structure is surrounded by a plurality of concrete segments; closed steel sheets; the closed steel sheets are arranged at an inner side of the annular lining structure and used for connecting two adjacent concrete segments and plugging a gap between two adjacent concrete segments; and a sealing layer, wherein the sealing layer is arranged close to the inner side of the annular lining structure and forms a coating with the annular lining structure on the closed steel sheets.
US12326215B2
A tablet stand includes a bottom base, a supporting assembly and a cantilever. The bottom base and the supporting assembly are connected through the cantilever, and the angle of the cantilever is adjustable. A charging device is arranged on the supporting assembly. Thus, putting a tablet on the said tablet stand, then the tablet is recharged. Since the charging device is provided on the supporting assembly, the tablet is recharged without interference even if users move the stand or adjust an angle of the stand.
US12326199B2
A diaphragm-type control valve having a diaphragm and a valve body is provided preferably for use in the separation of and fluid control between a fluid source and a pressurized gas volume. The diaphragm element and a port in the body together form an intermediate chamber that eliminates the need for a check-valve downstream of the valve. In one preferred embodiment, an inner surface of the valve body defines a chamber having an inlet and an outlet in communication with the chamber, and an elongated seat member defining a groove in communication with the port. A diaphragm member having upper and lower surfaces is disposed within the chamber. The lower surface preferably includes a pair of spaced apart elongated members defining a channel therebetween. The diaphragm member engages the seat member placing the channel in communication with the groove to define an air seat in communication with the port.
US12326194B2
Technologies are generally described for valve assemblies that include a valve body whose inner wall defines two ports and a controllable flow path that extends along the inner wall between the two ports of the valve body. Each port may be fitted with a corresponding gasket. A rotatable member disposed in the controllable flow path of the valve body may include a hemispherical-shaped body with a substantially flat disk-shaped surface portion, and a seal ridge formed about a perimeter of the substantially flat disk-shaped surface portion. During opening and closing operation, the seal ridge may be selectively engaged with either one of the gaskets reducing an initial contact surface, and thereby reducing friction between the rotatable member and the gaskets.
US12326188B2
A sliding surface sealing structure is a structure that seals a sliding surface between a rotating member that rotates about an axis and a sealing member that makes sliding contact with a circumferential surface of the rotating member, and includes: a wall surface configured to hold the sealing member between the wall surface and the circumferential surface of the rotating member; an opposing surface facing the sealing member with a gap therebetween; and a protruding portion protruding from the opposing surface toward the sealing member.
US12326187B2
Provided is a unit including: a heat exchanger; a housing configured to accommodate a power transmission mechanism; and a covering having a portion that covers the housing, in which the heat exchanger has a portion offset from the covering when viewed in a radial direction, and the heat exchanger has a portion that overlaps the covering when viewed in the radial direction.
US12326181B2
An internal-meshing planetary gear device includes an internally toothed gear provided with internal teeth and is fixed to an outer ring. A planetary gear is provided with external teeth which partially mesh with the internal teeth. A plurality of internal pins is respectively inserted into a plurality of internal pin holes formed on the planetary gear revolve within the internal pin holes and rotate relative to the internally toothed gear. An inner ring includes a first inner ring and a second inner ring, which are opposite each other in a direction parallel to a rotation axis and have opposite surfaces that come in contact with each other. The first inner ring has a plurality of holding holes, through which the plurality of internal pins respectively penetrate in the direction parallel to the rotation axis. Each of the plurality of internal pins is held in the inner ring and is rotatable.
US12326174B2
A rolling-element bearing includes first and second concentric ring assemblies. The first ring assembly has a first rolling ring and a first sealing ring abutting axially at a joint, and the first sealing ring supports a first seal element and a second seal element located axially between the first sealing element and the first rolling ring. The second ring assembly has a second rolling ring and a second sealing ring mounted axially at a joint, and rolling elements support the ring assemblies for relative rotation. The first and second seal elements have lips in contact with the second sealing ring, and the lips delimit a first chamber between the first and second sealing rings. The first lip and the second lip extend obliquely toward each other, and a first purging channel extends from the first chamber to an external surface of the first ring assembly.
US12326172B2
A bearing system is provided that includes a stationary structure, a rotating structure, a magnetic-foil bearing and a cooling jacket. The rotating structure is rotatable about an axis. The magnetic-foil bearing radially supports the rotating structure within the stationary structure. The magnetic-foil bearing includes a magnetic bearing stator, a magnetic bearing rotor and a foil bearing. The foil bearing is disposed radially between the magnetic bearing stator and the magnetic bearing rotor. The cooling jacket circumscribes and radially engages the magnetic bearing stator. A cooling circuit is configured to flow cooling fluid within the cooling jacket to cool the magnetic bearing stator.
US12326169B2
Provided is a guide roller for a vehicle sliding door. The guide roller rolls along a rail located on a vehicle body. The guide roller is pivotally supported in a rotatable manner by a support member coupled to the vehicle sliding door. The guide roller includes a ring-shaped inner race made of metal, a ring-shaped outer race, and a covering member mounted on an outer peripheral surface of the outer race.
US12326166B2
Described is a combination fastener for attaching an object to a stud extending from or an opening formed in a component. The combination fastener includes a carrier portion to retain the object and a fastener portion. The fastener portion includes a body sidewall that defines a central longitudinal axis and a hollow space configured to receive the stud. A plurality of stud-retention features are resiliently coupled to an interior surface of the body sidewall to retain the stud within the hollow space. Each of the plurality of stud-retention features are angled toward the central longitudinal axis to deflect outward from the central longitudinal axis as the stud passes through the hollow space. A plurality of panel-retention features resiliently coupled to an exterior surface of the body sidewall to retain the combination fastener within the opening.
US12326156B2
The invention relates to a fluid pump (1), which comprises an impeller unit (2) with an impeller (4) and an electric motor (6) with a motor housing (10). The impeller unit (2) comprises an inlet side (2a) with a fluid inlet (5a) and an outlet side (2b) with a fluid outlet (5b), wherein a guide channel (26) fluidically connects the inlet side (2a) and the outlet side (2b) via the impeller (4). It is substantial for the invention that the guide channel (26) is additionally realised in regions by a cooling fluid jacket (27) formed in the motor housing (10).
US12326144B2
A device and method are used for changing the compression ratio of a reciprocating compressor. The device includes compression chambers pneumatically connected between an inlet and an outlet port. Communication valves change the number of compression steps and are arranged to switch from a first to a second open/closed state combination, or vice-versa. A lower number and a higher number, and vice-versa, respectively, of the compression chambers include chambers serially connected to one another, so that a gas is subjected to a number of compression steps that increases when switching from the first to the second combination and decreases when switching in the opposite direction. A control unit receives pressure signals upstream and downstream of the reciprocating compressor, respectively, to compute the corresponding pressure ratios, to generate opening/closing control signals responsive to the pressure ratios, and to transfer the control signals to actuators of the commutation valves.
US12326142B2
A diaphragm pump system includes a diaphragm pump and a pressure regulator. The diaphragm pump has a housing having a pumping chamber containing fluid to be pumped, and a transfer chamber adapted to contain hydraulic fluid. A diaphragm is supported by the housing and at least partially defines a pumping chamber side and a transfer chamber side. A driven plunger slides in a reciprocating motion and forcing hydraulic fluid against the diaphragm. A first valve allows hydraulic fluid into the transfer chamber and a second valve allows hydraulic fluid to be removed from the transfer chamber. A hydraulic fluid reservoir is in fluid communication with the transfer chamber. The pressure regulator includes valving that provides a hydraulic fluid pressure above a pumped fluid inlet feed pressure to maintain a proper amount of hydraulic oil in the transfer chamber.
US12326141B2
The present disclosure relates to a technical field of inflatable pump movement, specifically to a high-pressure, high-flow inflatable movement. A double air intake communicator communicated with the air supply fan device and the air supply piston device again is adopted, the air supply fan device is used for outputting a high-flow gas to the double air intake communicator, and the air supply piston device is used for outputting a high-pressure gas to the double air intake communicator.
US12326140B2
In order to provide a sealing device (15) for sealing a piston rod (8) of a reciprocating compressor (1), which provides good sealing properties at compressor standstill, which has a simple structure, which allows for a simple handling and which requires no external source of energy, the sealing device (15) comprises a number of first packing retainers (18), each retainer including a retaining opening (18a) in which a first packing ring (19) is arranged, a second packing retainer (20), including a retaining opening (20a) in which a second packing ring (21) is arranged, the second retainer (20) being positioned closer to the second axial device end (15b) than the number of first packing retainers (18) in an axial direction of the sealing device (15), wherein the second packing ring (21) is an uncut ring, comprising a continuous inner circumferential sealing surface (21a), wherein the second packing ring (21) is made from a material comprising a polymer, the material having a thermal expansion coefficient (α), which is at least two times higher than the thermal expansion coefficient (αFE) of iron, wherein at or below a defined activation temperature an inner diameter (d_i) of the second packing ring (21) is smaller than an outer diameter (D_a) of the piston rod (8) to be sealed, such that in the mounted state of the sealing device (15) in the compressor (1) the second packing ring (21) is prestressed in a radial direction in order to form a tight seal between the continuous inner circumferential sealing surface (21a) of the second packing ring (21) and the outer circumferential surface (8a) of the piston rod (8), wherein at a given operating temperature, the inner diameter (d_i) of the second packing ring (21) is larger than the outer diameter (D_a) of the piston rod (8), such that in the mounted state of the sealing device (15) in the compressor (1) the continuous inner circumferential sealing surface (21a) of the second sealing ring (21) is detached from the outer circumferential surface (8a) of the piston rod (8) in order to provide a leakage path past the second packing ring (21) in the axial direction.
US12326127B2
A fuel injector is capable of injecting a plurality of different fuels in a single fuel injection event, the fuel injector including: a nozzle at an end of the fuel injector, the nozzle having a tip, openings in the tip of the nozzle through which fuel is configured to be injected, and a check valve member with a tip located within the nozzle, the check valve member being movable between an injection position in which fuel is injected via the openings and a closed position in which the openings are closed. The fuel injector further includes a primary fuel path within the fuel injector, a pilot fuel path within the fuel injector, and a mixing volume connecting the primary fuel path and the pilot fuel path when the check valve member is in the closed position.
US12326120B1
A method for controlling a fuel system for a gas turbine engine is disclosed. The method includes directing fuel from an outlet of a main pump to an inlet of a fuel oil cooler. Fuel is directed from an outlet of the fuel oil cooler to a fuel control. The fuel control is in fluidic communication with a burner of the gas turbine engine. Fuel is directed from the outlet of the main pump to the fuel control through a fuel-oil-cooler bypass valve whenever an augmentor pump of the fuel system is actively pumping fuel to an augmentor of the gas turbine engine. The fuel-oil-cooler bypass valve forms a bypass flow path around the fuel oil cooler.
US12326111B2
A hybrid-electric aircraft system is provided and includes first and second hybrid-electric engines, first and second ducting systems fluidly communicative with each other and with the first and second hybrid-electric engines, respectively, and a control system. The control system is operably coupled to each of the first and second hybrid-electric engines and to each of the first and second ducting systems. The control system is configured to run the first hybrid-electric engine normally, to run the second hybrid-electric engine in a lower power mode and to control each of the first and second ducting systems to direct bleed air from the first hybrid-electric engine to the second hybrid-electric engine.
US12326110B1
A hydrogen production and electricity generation system includes an electrolyzer that splits water into oxygen and hydrogen, a renewable power source that powers the electrolyzer, a combustion gas turbine, and a turbo-expander. An oxygen storage tank receives compressed oxygen from the combustion gas turbine, and a hydrogen storage tank receives compressed hydrogen form the turbo-expander fluid communication with the second compressor to receive and store a portion of the compressed hydrogen. The system is operable in a first mode, where the compressed oxygen and hydrogen are provided to the combustion gas turbine while the electrolyzer is powered by the renewable power source, and a second mode, where the renewable power source is unable to power the electrolyzer and the compressed oxygen and hydrogen are provided to the combustion gas turbine from the oxygen and hydrogen storage tanks, respectively.
US12326107B2
A control system for use in a fluid flow application includes a heater and a control device. The heater includes at least one resistive heating element having a relationship between resistance and temperature defining a non-monotonic curve. The heater is to heat fluid flow. The control device is to determine a flow characteristic of the fluid flow and a temperature of the at least one resistive heating element along the non-monotonic curve between resistance and temperature based on a change in resistance of the at least one resistive heating element.
US12326094B2
A seal system for a bearing chamber (22) of a turbomachine includes the baffle element (70) encircling the axis (25) of the machine. The baffle element is formed with front surface including both a recess (73) which defines a circumferentially-extending oil-receiving channel (74), and an oil-deflecting surface (78) on a gutter (77). The channel decreases in cross-sectional area close to the oil-deflecting surface, and a circular line which is within the channel distant from the gutter, intersects with the oil-deflection surface. This forces the oil to change direction at the gutter, and urges the oil radially outward. Thus, a high rotational velocity of the body of oil may be maintained, whilst improving the drainage efficiency of the seal system at the gutter.
US12326091B2
A guide vane for arrangement in a gas duct of a turbomachine, including a guide vane blade and an outer platform which, relative to a longitudinal axis of the turbomachine, is arranged radially on an outside on the guide vane blade. The outer platform delimits the gas duct with an inner wall surface radially to the outside. The inner wall surface has a curved profile with an inflection point when viewed in an axial section, the inner wall surface having a concave curvature in a first axial section which is upstream from the inflection point with respect to a flow through the gas duct, and a convex curvature in a second axial section which is arranged downstream from the inflection point with respect to the flow through the gas duct.
US12326086B2
An apparatus for injecting grouting material, mining machine and method of injecting grouting resin into several drilled holes is provided. The apparatus includes an injector head provided with a mixing device, which are both insertable into a drilled hole by a flexible feed hose. The injector head includes a valve assembly mounted inside a distal end portion of the feed hose.
US12326080B2
There is provided a wellbore measuring apparatus according to one aspect. The wellbore measuring apparatus includes an outer body that is tubular with spaced-apart ends threaded for connection in line with a drill string. The outer body has a plurality of recesses extending around the outer surface thereof in one or more helical patterns. The wellbore measuring apparatus includes a plurality of sensors operatively coupled to and each positioned within a respective said recess of the outer body. Each sensor is arranged to measure at least one characteristic of a wellbore. The wellbore measuring apparatus may include at least one rib coupled to and extending radially outwards from the outer surface of the outer body. The at least one rib is helical in shape and with the plurality of sensors extending along and being adjacent to the at least one rib.
US12326073B2
Some embodiments of the present disclosure provide a power system and a fracturing device. The power system includes an oil tank, a reduction gearbox and a hydraulic system. The reduction gearbox is provided with a lubricating system, and the lubricating system is communicated with the oil tank. The hydraulic system includes a hydraulic actuating member, and the hydraulic actuating member is communicated with the oil tank.
US12326066B2
A float tool is used for controlling flow in tubing. The float tool comprises a housing, at least one valve, and at least one inset. The housing is configured to install on the tubing and has a longitudinal bore therethrough. The at least one valve is disposed in the longitudinal bore. The at least one valve is configured to allow the flow in a downbore direction through the longitudinal bore and is configured to prevent flow in an upbore direction through the longitudinal bore. The at least one inset is disposed in the longitudinal bore and is disposed downbore of the at least one valve. The at least one inset defines an orifice therethrough. The orifice has one or more vanes angled relative to the longitudinal bore. The one or more vanes are configured to produce turbulence in the flow in the downbore direction through the longitudinal bore.
US12326062B2
A section of casing within a wellbore is milled. After milling the section of the wellbore, the section of the wellbore is underreamed through to a next layer of casing. A setting fluid is squeezed into the section. The setting fluid penetrates micro-channels exposed by the milling and underreaming A scab liner is installed over the section. The scab liner is secured within the wellbore.
US12326058B2
A tool (1) comprises a body (40) having a through-going opening (9) and one or more elongate flexible elements (12, 22). The tool comprises a movable element (30) with an associated drive unit (6) and at least one control unit (11, 21). The elongate flexible elements (12, 22) are connected at one end to the movable element (30) and at another end to a control unit (11, 21), and the movable element is configured to extend at least a portion of at least one of the elongate flexible elements into the opening (9). The movable element (30) may be a ring gear drivingly connected to the drive unit, and the connection members (13, 23) are preferably connected to the ring gear at diametrically opposite sides. The tool may be used as a wiper tool for wiping substances from the outer wall of a tubular element or a rod element, such as a drill pipe (3).
US12326051B2
An apparatus to be positioned in a wellbore formed in a subsurface formation. The apparatus comprises a first lug coupled with a rotation component and configured to rotate a first angle from a neutral position about a central axis when a rotational force is applied to the first lug via the rotation component. The apparatus comprises first bias component coupled with the first lug and configured to return the first lug to the neutral position when the first lug is rotated about the central axis.
US12326050B2
A guide assembly including a guide nose, a body supporting the guide nose, and a torque limiter having a configuration to connect the guide nose and the body to a separate structure. A method for negotiating a restriction in a borehole including running a guide assembly into the borehole, encountering a restriction with the guide nose, limiting torque on the guide nose while encountering the restriction, longitudinally unloading the guide nose, incrementing an incrementing feature of the guide assembly to thereby rotate the guide nose. A wellbore system including a borehole in a subsurface formation, a string in the borehole, a guide assembly disposed within or as a part of the string.
US12326049B2
Methods and systems for conveying a WFT via drill pipe within a wellbore penetrating a subterranean formation and setting two packers of the WFT on opposite sides of a zone of interest of the formation, thereby isolating an interval of an annulus between the WFT and a wall of the wellbore. DTT of the formation is then performed by operating two WFT pumps of the WFT to pump fluid from the formation via the isolated interval, through the WFT, and out of the WFT to the wellbore, while operating mud pumps to pump drilling mud into the wellbore and thereby convey a mixture of the drilling mud and the pumped formation fluid through the annulus to a mud gas separator. Gas from the mud gas separator is used to measure a surface production rate of the formation fluid.
US12326033B2
Various embodiments herein each include at least one of devices, methods, and assemblies for terminal breach protection. Some such embodiments may be deployed to prevent insertion of implements, such as hooks and wedges, within a terminal, such as an ATM or SSCO, that may be used to apply sudden, sharp pulling forces to safe doors to enable access to currency stored therein. Some such embodiments also or alternatively include baseplates that at least partially absorb such sudden, sharp pulling forces in a direction from which they are applied in such terminal breaching attempts.
US12326031B2
An actuating device (10) for triggering a function of a vehicle (1) by a user is provided, having a cover element (11) for a vehicle part (2) of the vehicle (1) with a cover inner side (11.1) and a cover outer side (11.2), an electronics unit (12) having a sensor unit (20) for detecting an actuation action (200) of the user for triggering the function of the vehicle (1), an electronics outer side (12.2), and an electronics inner side (12.1) facing the electronics outer side (12.2). A vehicle (1), and a method (100) are also provided.
US12326030B2
A sensor outputs distance information indicating a first distance to a first object located in a detection area and a second distance to a second object located in the detection area. A control device allows an operation control of a device to be controlled based on a fact that the distance information satisfies prescribed conditions that include: i) a condition that the first distance and the second distance exhibit changes corresponding to entries of the first object and the second object into the detection area; and ii) a condition that one of the first distance and the second distance monotonically decreases and then monotonically increases while the other one of the first distance and the second distance maintains a first value.
US12326027B2
A vehicle door pushing device in a vehicle door includes a gear member, a male screw member, and a female screw member. The gear member is rotatable by an actuator around an axis extending in a first direction substantially parallel to a vehicle width direction. The male screw member is coaxial with the gear member, and rotates integrally with the gear member. The female screw member is screwed onto the male screw member, and is movable along the first direction by rotation of the male screw member to each of a first position of being in a casing and a second position of at least partially protruding from the casing to a vehicle inner side. The gear member has a cup-shaped structure open at an end on the vehicle inner side in the first direction for being able to accommodate at least a part of the female screw member.
US12326008B2
Disclosed is a spa tub cover. The spa tub cover comprising one or more Ultraviolet (UV)-C lights integrated to an inner side of the spa tub cover such that the one or more Ultraviolet (UV)-C lights are arranged in an array configuration, and to be activated to disinfect water and/or surfaces within a spa tub; a hinge positioned between a first surface and a second surface of the spa tub cover to make the spa tub cover foldable; a switch mounted near the hinge of the spa tub cover, and to be operated for activating or deactivating the one or more Ultraviolet (UV)-C lights of the spa tub cover; and a power cord attached to the second surface of the spa tub cover for supplying power to the one or more Ultraviolet (UV)-C lights for sterilizing the water and/or within the spa tub.
US12325994B2
A set of building panels including a first mechanical locking system at respective first and second opposite edges. The first mechanical locking system including at one of the first or second opposite edges a tongue groove configured to receive a locking tongue of the other of the first or second edges, for vertical locking of adjacent essentially identical panels in an assembled position. The locking tongue includes an essentially horizontal and/or upwards-facing upper surface. A second mechanical locking system is formed on respective third and fourth opposite edges. The second mechanical locking system includes at one of the third or fourth edges a wedge groove configured to receive a displaceable locking tongue, for vertical locking of essentially identical adjacent panels in an assembled position. The displaceable locking tongue is configured to displace in a displacement groove provided in the said other of the third or fourth edge.
US12325991B2
Disclosed is a hand-held sanitary device and to an impermeable and essentially biodegradable personal-hygiene sachet which can be filled with water and used for washing intimate body parts by gentle rubbing. The sanitary device chiefly includes a stop piece, a ring, a spring for keeping the personal-hygiene sachet sealed, a valve and connection to a water heater and dryer which is controlled by the valve. It can be used with running-water toilet bowls, without the need to use toilet paper. The sanitary device is particularly intended for the surface washing of intimate body parts, for vaginal washing, re-establishing pelvic-floor muscle tone, and pleasurable vaginal stimulation in women, using the hygienic sachet intended for each use.
US12325990B1
A protective cover for wall mounted toilet flush sensors including a cover assembly, a fastening assembly and an adhesive assembly. The cover assembly includes a cover having at least two openings in a central portion thereof. The fastening assembly includes fasteners and the adhesive assembly includes an adhesive member. The adhesive member is a double-sided adhesive used to adhere said cover to a front wall of a flush sensor. The fasteners are used to fix said cover between an external cover and said flush sensor. The external cover has a sensor opening. Said cover prevents depressing said sensor by covering said sensor opening.
US12325980B2
A display device is provided. The display device displays an image captured by a first camera of a plurality of cameras, the captured image representing a situation around a shovel, and when a predetermined object is detected within an imaging range of a second camera that is different from the first camera, the display device displays an image representing that the predetermined object is detected outside a range of the displayed captured image of the first camera.
US12325977B1
A work vehicle includes a plurality of vehicle drivetrain components, a plurality of state sensors and a variable flow conditioning hydraulic fluid source. A control manifold includes a plurality of control valves to control flow of conditioning hydraulic fluid to the plurality of drivetrain components to lubricate and cool the drivetrain components. A controller receives the state signals and is configured to selectively open one or more of the control valves at least in part in response to the one or more of the state signals to provide flow of conditioning hydraulic fluid to lubricate and cool any of the drivetrain components which are in an active operating state and to close one or more of the control valves to reduce or prevent flow of conditioning hydraulic fluid to any of the drivetrain components which are not in an active operating state.
US12325973B2
An exhaust system includes a vehicle body frame, a bonnet cover provided on the vehicle body frame in a height direction along a height of the vehicle body frame and having a first opening, an exhaust treatment device provided inside a space surrounded by the vehicle body frame and the bonnet cover to treat exhaust from an engine, an exhaust pipe passing through the first opening. The exhaust pipe has an intake port connected to the exhaust treatment device and an exhaust port provided outside the space opposite to the intake port. A muffler cover is provided on the bonnet cover in the height direction, covers the first opening, and has a second opening in a portion facing the exhaust port. A baffle plate is configured to cover a gap between the bonnet cover and the exhaust port in the height direction.
US12325972B2
An actuated shear pin includes an actuator and pin body coupled to the actuator. The actuator selectively configures the pin body in a locking configuration or a stowed configuration. In the locking configuration, the pin body is placed in a travel path of two components configured to move relative to each other, to inhibit such relative movement. In the stowed configuration, the pin body is out of the travel path, thereby allowing the two components to move relative to each other.
US12325970B2
A drain assembly capable of being placed inground includes a first panel and a second panel spaced-apart from the first panel, a plurality of supports extending between the first panel and the second panel, a bottom or pipe extending between a bottom portion of the first panel and the second panel, and a cap extending between a top portion of the first panel and the second panel. The first panel may define a plurality of drainage apertures. A related method is also provided.
US12325969B2
A modular foundation including plurality of prefabricated concrete modules defining an upper layer of modules including at least one internal passage opening onto at least its upper and lower faces, at least one lower layer of modules on which the upper layer at least partially rests, including at least one internal passage opening onto at least one of its sides and onto at least its upper face, this internal passage communicating at the level of the interface between the upper layer and the lower layer(s) with the internal passage of the upper layer in such a manner as to form at least one global internal passage in the foundation opening onto at least one side and onto at least the upper face of the foundation.
US12325966B2
The disclosure relates to an interference noise-control unit comprising a housing to be secured on a sound arresting wall. The housing comprises a hollow compartment comprising at least one first channel and at least one second channel, wherein the first channel has a first channel height A and a first channel length B, and wherein the second channel has a second channel height A′ and a second channel length B′, and wherein the first channel height A is different from the second channel height A′.
US12325964B2
A modular post for use in a barrier system comprises a post component and a base. The post component is configured to be attached or attachable on, to or in the base in a deployed configuration. The post component is configured to be housed within the base when the modular post is in a stored configuration. A method of using a modular post suitable for use in a barrier system is also provided. The method comprises providing a post component and a base. The post component is configured to be attached or attachable on, to or in the base in a deployed configuration. The post component is receivable or configured to be housed within the base when the modular post is in a stored configuration.
US12325963B1
An attachment device for floor shaving systems includes a machine mounting coupler and a joint that connects the mounting coupler to a tool receptacle. A receiving block is configured to engage the mounting coupler and an inside edge of a tool receiver of a floor scraping machine to secure the mounting coupler to the floor scraping machine.
US12325962B2
Present embodiments relate to a tie plate orientation device. More specifically, but without limitation present embodiments relate to a tie plate orientation device that orients tie plates in a desired orientation for subsequent feeding, including an optional handheld magnetic device for manual assisted manipulation of the tie plates.
US12325960B2
The present invention is directed to a coated paper substrate that is particularly suitable for metallization and other nano-coatings that provide barrier properties and are applied using vacuum deposition techniques. The invention is also directed to a process for preparing the coated paper substrate. The invention is also directed to a packaging material comprising the coated paper substrate.
US12325949B2
A laundry treating apparatus includes a cabinet, a drum, a base, a motor, a supply duct, a heat exchange unit, a duct cover, duct sealing unit, and sealing mount part. The base includes the supply duct in fluid communication with the drum, the heat exchange unit provided in the supply duct and including first and second heat exchangers, the duct cover coupled to an upper portion of the supply duct and covering the first and second heat exchangers, the duct sealing unit disposed between the supply duct and the duct cover and configured to block air in the supply duct from leaking, and the sealing mount part provided on a surface of the duct cover and configured to receive the duct sealing unit. The sealing mount part includes first and second sealing mount parts that are in fluid communication with each other and integrally provided as one body.
US12325947B2
An additive feeding device includes a water supply pipeline; a liquid storage box containing an additive; and a suction structure which includes a connecting pipeline which is at least partially connected with the water supply pipeline in parallel, the connecting pipeline is provided with a power unit for providing suction power, the liquid storage box is connected with the connecting pipeline, and the water supply pipeline and/or the connecting pipeline are/is provided with a control device for controlling the flow direction and/or on-off of a liquid in the pipeline. The control device is used for pumping the additive into the water supply pipeline, or enabling a fed water stream to flow through the connecting pipeline to flush a power device. The automatic feeding device can achieve the effect that the additive is sucked into the water supply pipeline through the suction structure and the suction structure is flushed.
US12325946B2
A washing machine includes a main body, a tub inside the main body, a drum configured to be rotated inside the tub, and a drive device configured to rotationally drive the drum. The drive device includes a drum shaft connected to the drum, a motor including a stator and a rotor configured to be rotated by an interaction with the stator, a sun gear connected to the rotor, a carrier connected to the drum shaft, a planetary gear configured to transmit a rotational force of the sun gear to the carrier, and a cooling flow path formed therein and through which air is introduced and discharged to cool the planetary gear. The cooling flow path includes a first cooling hole formed in the sun gear to allow outside air to be introduced, and a second cooling hole formed in the rotor to allow inside air to be discharged.
US12325945B2
The present invention discloses an isolation type tunnel washer for cleaning clothes, which comprises a closed tunnel washer box body. A partition wall is provided in the middle of the tunnel washer box body, a feeding port and a discharging port are provided at two ends of the tunnel washer box body, and the feeding port and the discharging port are respectively located at two sides of the partition wall. A water vapor separation structure is mounted between the feeding port and the partition wall, the water vapor separation structure extracts and exhausts air from the interior of the tunnel washer box body, and a first door body and a second door body which can be opened and closed are respectively mounted at the feeding port and the discharging port.
US12325919B2
An apparatus for processing a substrate is provided. The apparatus includes a processing apparatus and a controller. The processing apparatus includes a chamber. The controller includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The memory stores computer-executable instructions for controlling the processor to control a process of the processing apparatus. The process includes first forming a first film in a first region of the substrate in the chamber by chemical vapor deposition. The process further includes second forming a second film in a second region of the substrate in the chamber by atomic layer deposition. The first forming and the second forming are performed without moving the substrate out of the chamber.
US12325917B2
A reciprocating rotary CVD apparatus and a method for applying same. The reciprocating rotary CVD apparatus includes a cavity, a wafer heating base, a rotating apparatus. The rotating apparatus is located outside the cavity and includes a rotating power mechanism and a rotating sealing mechanism, and the rotating sealing mechanism includes a rotating member and a fixed member; the fixed member is fixedly and hermetically connected to the cavity, the rotating member is fixedly and hermetically connected to the wafer heating base, the rotating member is movably and hermetically connected to the fixed member, and the rotating member is connected to the rotating power mechanism, to drive, by using the rotating power mechanism, the rotating member and the wafer heating base to perform reciprocating rotation. In the present invention, the rotating apparatus rotates, to improve the uniformity of thin film deposition in a circumferential direction of a wafer.
US12325916B2
A film forming apparatus including a bell-shaped chamber having an internal space and an exhaust port; a wafer boat in the bell-shaped chamber, and in which wafers are sequentially stackable from a lower end portion to an upper end portion; a gas supply pipe passing through the bell-shaped chamber to supply gas to the bell-shaped chamber; and an injector connected to the gas supply pipe to inject gas onto the wafers, wherein the injector includes a gas flow path through which the gas supplied from the gas supply pipe flows and nozzles connected to the gas flow path, stepped surfaces are on an inner surface of the injector such that a diameter of the gas flow paths in at least two different locations within the injector are different, and lengths of the nozzles are different from each other, and correspond with the diameter of the gas flow path.
US12325899B2
A “modified” meta-stable #titanium alloy that, apart from carbon content, corresponds to the composition range for standard Beta-C titanium alloy. The modified alloy comprises vanadium, chromium, molybdenum, zirconium, aluminium, with maxima for oxygen, iron, nitrogen, hydrogen, yttrium, and other elements (apart from carbon and titanium), with a balance (apart from carbon) of titanium. The modified alloy has carbon present at a stable total carbon level sufficiently in excess of 0.05 wt. % achieving an improvement in the mechanical properties of UTS, DSS and fatigue strength in threaded regions, relative to standard Beta-C alloy with a specified carbon level below 0.05 wt. %, with a maximum carbon content controlled so as to preclude carbide formation having a detrimental effect on the level of fatigue strength.
US12325895B2
A method for dynamically controlling high-pressure leaching reaction condition of laterite nickel ore includes: setting a target temperature and a target pressure of an high-pressure reactor; obtaining the heat power required for heating the feeding pulp to the target temperature; obtaining the heat power brought by the acid; obtaining the required new steam thermal power; obtaining the required new steam flow; adjusting the real-time flow of the new steam to the required flow of the new steam, and adjusting the exhaust valve opening degree and discharge flow rate of the high-pressure reactor to make the real-time pressure of the high-pressure reactor equal to the target pressure, and adjusting the flow rate of the new steam to make the real-time temperature of the high-pressure reactor equal to the target temperature.
US12325893B2
A method for manufacturing a steel sheet provided with a coating included from 0.80 to 1.40 wt. % of Al, from 0.80 to 1.40 wt. % of Mg, unavoidable impurities and optionally one or more additional elements selected from Si, Sb, Pb, Ti, Ca, Mn, Sn, La, Ce, Cr, Zr or Bi, the weight content of each additional element in the coating being less than 0.3%, the remainder being Zn, the outer surface of the coated steel sheet having a waviness Wa0.8 before skin-pass of less than or equal to 0.50 μm; the coated steel sheet obtained by this method; the part obtained by deformation of a steel sheet and a land motor vehicle comprising a body, the body including the part.
US12325892B2
Provided is a method for manufacturing a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet. A steel slab having a specific chemical composition is heated and hot rolled. A hot-rolled steel sheet thus obtained is subjected to hot band annealing to obtain a cold-rolled steel sheet, which is then subjected to primary recrystallization annealing to obtain a primary recrystallized steel sheet. An annealing separator is applied to the primary recrystallized steel sheet, which is then coiled. The coil is subjected to secondary recrystallization annealing to obtain a grain-oriented electrical steel sheet having an average value of a deviation angle (α2+β2)1/2 calculated from a deviation angle α from ideal Goss orientation around an ND rotation axis and a deviation angle β from ideal Goss orientation around a TD rotation axis of 4.5° or less, and an area ratio Rβ of crystal grains with β≤0.50° of 15% or less.
US12325890B2
An oriented electrical steel sheet according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a base texture; an AI permeation layer positioned on the base texture; and a film positioned on the AI permeation layer, wherein the AI permeation layer includes AI at 0.5 to 5 wt %, and the film includes an Al—Mg composite.
US12325889B2
A hot rolled steel sheet having a composition including the elements, expressed in percentage by weight 0.11%≤Carbon≤0.16%, 1%≤Manganese≤2%, 0.1%≤Silicon≤0.7%, 0 02%≤Aluminum≤0.1%, 0.15%≤Molybdenum≤0.4%, 0.15%≤Vanadium≤0.4%, 0.002%≤Phosphorus≤0.02%, 0%≤Sulfur≤0.005%, 0%≤Nitrogen≤0.01%, and can contain one or more of the following optional elements 0%≤Chromium≤0.5%, 0%≤Niobium≤0.05%, 0.0001%≤Calcium≤0.005%, 0%≤Boron≤0.001%, 0%≤Magnesium≤0.0010%, 0%≤Titanium≤0.01%, with 0.3%≤Mo+V+Nb≤0.6%, the remainder composition being composed of iron and unavoidable impurities, the microstructure of steel sheet including in area fraction, 70% to 90% Bainite, 10% to 25% Ferrite wherein the cumulated amounts of Bainite and Ferrite is at least 90% and a cumulated amount of Residual Austenite and Martensite is between 0% and 10%.
US12325883B2
Primers and methods of amplifying DNA from shiga toxins stx1 and stx2 designed for use in a multiplex method and useful in detecting shiga-toxin producing E. Coli (STEC). The primers being especially designed for use in Loop-mediated Isothermal Amplification (LAMP).
US12325874B2
Provided is a bacterium number measuring system comprising a database storing known bacterial growth patterns in advance and an analyzing part. The analyzing part has first cultures containing a bacterial liquid that contains a measurement target bacteria and second cultures being different from the first cultures and containing the bacterial liquid and an antimicrobial drug. The analyzing part performs bacterium number measurement which measures the number of bacteria in the first cultures on a culturing part where culturing has started in the first and second cultures. The analyzing part compares the bacterium number measurement result with the growth curves stored in the database and thereby determines a timing to perform MIC measurement which measures the number of bacteria in the second cultures to determine a minimum inhibitory concentration of the measurement target bacterium. The analyzing part performs the MIC measurement at the thus-determined timing.
US12325871B2
The present invention relates to lysosomal enzymes modified by use of cell based methods, a compositions comprising a modified lysosomal enzyme, as well as methods for producing a modified lysosomal enzyme and therapeutic use of such modified lysosomal enzyme. In particular, the present disclosure relates to a modified lysosomal enzyme which has low Man6P and low exposed Mannose and high sialic acid content of alpha2,3 type enabling long circulation time and improved uptake into difficult-to-reach organs like heart, kidney and brain.
US12325862B2
The present disclosure relates to compositions comprising nitroreductase enzymes; plants, plant calluses, plant seeds, and vegetables incorporating genes expressing nitroreductase enzymes; methods for stably and operably incorporating genes expressing nitroreductase enzymes into plants and plant tissues; wherein the nitroreductase enzymes are capable of reducing nitro groups on phytotoxic and/or otherwise harmful compounds such as, for example, thaxtomins, wherein the thaxtomins are secreted by plant pathogenic bacteria and/or exogenously applied as an agricultural composition such as an herbicide, and wherein reducing the nitro groups renders the thaxtomins non-damaging or reduces the level of damage from the thaxtomins to the plants expressing the nitroreductase enzymes.
US12325861B2
The present invention is in the field of plant molecular biology and provides methods for production of high expressing promoters and the production of plants with enhanced expression of nucleic acids wherein nucleic acid expression enhancing nucleic acids (NEENAs) are functionally linked to said promoters and/or introduced into plants.
US12325851B2
When a stirring device 11 performs processing of stirring a mixed solution in a test tube S, a holding mechanism 13 and a movement mechanism 14 are operated so that the test tube S is moved to a position of B2. Then, in the test tube S, the cells attached to the inner surface of the test tube S and the liquid are separated. Further, the cells attached to the inner surface of the test tube S are detected by a color sensor 152. Therefore, it is possible to reduce the work for determining the end of the stirring processing by the user. As a result, the workability of the user when using the stirring device 11 can be improved.
US12325846B2
A device for simulating a function of a tissue includes a first structure, a second structure, and a membrane. The first structure defines a first chamber. The first chamber includes a matrix disposed therein and an opened region. The second structure defines a second chamber. The membrane is located at an interface region between the first chamber and the second chamber. The membrane includes a first side facing toward the first chamber and a second side facing toward the second chamber. The membrane separates the first chamber from the second chamber.
US12325838B2
Disclosed herein is a refined PUFA oil with an enhanced palatability comparing to the same PUFA oil without refinement. Also disclosed is a food composition for a companion animal or a food for human consumption wherein said food composition comprises the above refined PUFA oil and thus having enhanced palatability. Further disclosed herein is a method for manufacturing the above-mentioned refined PUFA oil wherein said method comprises the step of deodorization.
US12325833B2
An integrated process for upgrading a hydrocarbon oil feed stream utilizing a delayed coker and steam enhanced catalytic cracker includes solvent deasphalting the hydrocarbon oil stream to form at least a deasphalted oil stream and heavy residual hydrocarbons, the heavy residual hydrocarbons including at least asphaltenes; delayed coking the heavy residual hydrocarbons to form petroleum coke and a delayed coker product stream; hydrotreating the delayed coker product stream and the deasphalted oil stream to form a light C5+ hydrocarbon stream, and a heavy C5+ hydrocarbon stream; steam enhanced catalytically cracking the light C5+ hydrocarbon stream to form a light steam enhanced catalytically cracked product stream including olefins, benzene, toluene, xylene, naphtha, or combinations thereof; and steam enhanced catalytically cracking the heavy C5+ hydrocarbon stream to form a heavy steam enhanced catalytically cracked product including olefins, benzene, toluene, xylene, naphtha, or combinations thereof.
US12325829B2
Pyrolysis processes comprise contacting a waste polyolefin with a solid catalyst at a pyrolysis temperature to form a pyrolysis product containing C1-C10 hydrocarbons. In some instances, the solid catalyst can be a silica-coated alumina, a fluorided silica-coated alumina, or a sulfated alumina, while in other instances, the solid catalyst can be any suitable solid oxide or chemically-treated solid oxide that is characterized by a d50 average particle size from 5 to 12 μm and a particle size span from 0.7 to 1.7. Hydrocarbon compositions are formed from the pyrolysis of waste polyolefins with specific amounts of methane and higher carbon number hydrocarbons.
US12325828B2
A duct intersection comprising a first duct portion and a second duct portion extending laterally from a side of the first duct portion. At least one flow modifier is mounted inside one of the first and second duct portions. The flow modifier is a contoured duct liner and/or the flow modifier includes at least one turning vane. The duct intersection may also include a transition portion extending between the first and second duct portions, wherein the transition portion has a length extending along a side of the first duct portion and a depth extending away from the side of the first duct portion, wherein the length is greater than a diameter of the second duct portion.
US12325825B2
A coated proppant including a particulate substrate, a first polymeric layer surrounding the particulate substrate, and a second polymeric layer surrounding the first polymeric layer. The first polymeric layer may include chemical additives. The second polymeric layer may include chemical tracers. The chemical tracers include barcoded degradable polymers, fluorescent dyes, quantum dot nanoparticles, superparamagnetic nanoparticles, up-conversion phosphors, long-persistent phosphors, time-resolved fluorescence resonance energy transfer polymer-nanoparticles (TR-FRET), or combinations thereof.
US12325822B2
The effectiveness of expansive cement systems may be diluted when, during a well cementing operation, commingling takes place between the cement slurry and a spacer fluid, a drilling fluid, or both. Incorporating expansive agents in the spacer fluid or drilling fluid may reduce or negate the loss of expansion at the cement slurry/spacer interface or the cement slurry/drilling fluid interface, thereby promoting zonal isolation throughout the cemented interval.
US12325821B2
The present disclosure provides methods and lubricant blends for increasing lubricity of a brine-based drilling fluid having an alkaline pH and a threshold divalent cation concentration. An embodiment of the methods herein comprise providing a produced water or a brine having a threshold divalent cation concentration and an alkaline pH; adding to the produced water or brine at least one source of free fatty acids; and optionally further adding a dispersant. Also provided are brine-based drilling fluids produced by the methods and lubricant blends disclosed herein. Also, provided are methods for improving lubricity in a wellbore during drilling operations, which comprise, combining in a modulated manner, a quantity of a produced water or brine and a quantity of a lubricant blend comprising at least one source of free fatty acids and a dispersant, to target formation of a semi-solid lubricant that adheres to downhole surfaces.
US12325818B2
Provided is a flame retardant composition which can be used without solidification for a long period of time, and has suppressed odor derived from the Tsunomata seaweed glue. The flame retardant composition contains boric acid or a borate, a Tsunomata seaweed glue, a zeolite powder and water. The flame retardant composition may further contain lime. The flame retardant composition may contain one or more combinations of an aluminum powder, a copper powder and a silver powder. It is preferred that the boric acid or borate is contained in an amount of 5 to 35% by mass relative to the whole, the Tsunomata seaweed glue is contained in an amount of 1 to 10% by mass relative to the whole, the zeolite powder is contained in an amount of 0.3 to 35% by mass relative to the whole, the hydrated lime is contained in an amount of 0.5 to 10% by mass relative to the whole, one or more combinations of the aluminum powder, the copper powder and the silver powder are contained in an amount of 0.3 to 3% by mass relative to the whole, and water is contained in an amount of 50 to 85% by mass relative to the whole.
US12325812B2
A method for preparing a lignin adhesive and a product thereof are provided. The method includes: treating a wood fiber raw material with a mixed solution; after the treatment, adding an organic solvent to perform a solid-liquid separation while stirring, subjecting an obtained liquid to a rotary evaporation to remove the organic solvent, and washing and drying the product to obtain the lignin adhesive. The method can remove a large amount of lignin from wood fiber raw materials at a low temperature, and in the process of lignin removal, the lignin adhesive is formed by the cross-linking reaction with the solvent in the system, realizing the separation of lignin and the formation of lignin adhesive simultaneously. And the method is simple, has low cost and high yield, and can realize the large-scale preparation of lignin adhesive and the efficient removal of lignin.
US12325804B2
Disclosed are a foaming material, a thermal insulation cabinet, and preparation methods therefor. The foaming material comprises 100 parts of a combined polyol, 10-30 parts of a foaming agent composition, and 120-150 parts of an isocyanate. In the present invention, the type of the polyol used in a foaming system is adjusted in order to increase the content of a polyester polyol and reduce the content of a polyether polyol, such that the compressive strength of the foaming material is significantly improved without increasing or changing the injection amount.
US12325802B2
One embodiment relates to a water-based inkjet yellow ink containing a yellow pigment (A) having a specific partial structure, an organic solvent, a basic organic compound, and water, wherein an amount of the yellow pigment (A) is 1 to 10% by mass of a total mass of the water-based inkjet yellow ink, the basic organic compound contains 0.1 to 1.25% by mass of a basic organic compound (B) having a pKa value of 9.5 or less at 25° C. of the total mass of the water-based inkjet yellow ink, and an amount of an organic solvent having a boiling point of 240° C. or higher under 1 atmosphere is 5% by mass or less of the total mass of the water-based inkjet yellow ink.
US12325800B2
The present invention relates to a laser additive comprising core/shell particles, to a process for the preparation of a laser additive of this type, and to the use thereof, in particular as laser absorber in plastics and plastic-containing coatings of articles.
US12325799B1
This disclosure relates to extraction methods for compatibilizing lignocellulosic biomass and residues thereof with polymers to produce value-added composites therefrom and other value-added products generated during the extraction methods.
US12325793B2
The invention pertains to a layered high-void-fraction material comprising a composite surface layer comprising structural material and a polyester derived from an aliphatic polyol with 2-15 carbon atoms and an aliphatic polycarboxylic acid with 3 to 15 carbon atoms, wherein the surface layer is connected to a high-void-fraction layer of structural material. As compared to a high-void-fraction material without the composite surface layer, the material has, among others, improved surface properties, and improved bending stiffness, while insolation properties for both sound and heat are maintained. The material may be used, e.g., as insulating material, as filtration material, or in hydroponics.
US12325760B2
Peptides and methods of use thereof, are disclosed for use in treating various diseases and disorders, including inflammation, pain, oral mucositis, oral lesions, and cancer. The peptides modulate the activity of the transcription factor NF κB.
US12325759B2
The present invention relates to the field of biomedicine and specifically relates to an anti-VEGF-anti-PD-L1 bispecific antibody, a pharmaceutical composition of same, and uses thereof. Specifically, the present invention relates to the bispecific antibody, which comprises: a VEGF-targeted first protein functional area and a PD-L1-targeted second protein functional area, wherein: the first protein functional area is an anti-VEGF antibody or an antigen-binding fragment thereof, or, the first protein functional area comprises a VEGF receptor or a fragment having a VEGF receptor function, and the second protein functional area is an anti-PD-L1 monoclonal antibody. The bispecific antibody of the present invention is capable of activating the immune system and blocking tumor angiogenesis at the same time, and provides great antitumor prospects.
US12325758B2
The present invention provides recombinant bispecific antibodies designed to bind to a surface antigen on target cells and to an activating component on immune cells such as T cells. The bispecific antibodies comprise two polypeptide chains that contain Fv and Fab as antigen-binding fragments and a modified Fc region to facilitate heterodimer formation. In one embodiment, the bispecific antibodies further comprise protease cleavage sites and/or motifs that would cause steric occlusion of the antigen binding sites so that the antibodies would be activated only in a specific environment, e.g. in the vicinity of a tumor. In another embodiment, the bispecific antibodies comprise modified sequences that confer reduced binding affinity to CDS and/or cross-reactive binding to CDS on cells from different species.
US12325745B2
Anti-DLL3 antibodies and antigen-binding fragments thereof, anti-CD47 antibodies and antigen-binding fragments thereof, and anti-CD47/DLL3 bispecific antibodies and antigen-binding fragments thereof are described. Also described are nucleic acids encoding the antibodies, compositions comprising the antibodies, and methods of producing the antibodies and using the antibodies for treating or preventing diseases, such as cancer and/or associated complications.
US12325740B2
The invention relates to antibodies and antigen binding fragments thereof that are capable of binding to influenza B virus hemagglutinin (HA) and neutralizing influenza B virus in two phylogenetically distinct lineages. In one embodiment, the antibody or antigen binding fragment is capable of binding to influenza B virus hemagglutinin and neutralizing influenza B virus in Yamagata and Victoria lineages.
US12325739B2
Provided herein are methods and compositions relating to improved bispecific antibodies capable of binding and neutralizing SARS-CoV-2 variants.
US12325738B2
The present invention relates to an immunoglobulin therapy. In particular, an immunoglobulin therapy for treating CIDP with non-axonal damage or mild axonal damage is provided.
US12325736B2
The present invention is directed to transduced T cells expressing at least 100,000 molecules of human somatostatin receptor 2 (SSTR2), which improves PET/CT imaging sensitivity. The present invention is also directed to transduced T cells expressing SSTR2 and chimeric antigen receptor (CAR). In one embodiment, the CAR is specific to human ICAM-1 and the CAR comprises a binding domain that is scFv of anti-human ICAM-1, or an I domain of the αL subunit of human lymphocyte function-associated antigen-1. In another embodiment, the CAR is specific to human CD19, and the CAR comprises a binding domain that is scFv of anti-human CD19. The present invention is further directed to using the above transduced T cells for monitoring T cell distribution in a patient by PET/CT imaging and/or treating cancer.
US12325727B2
Provided are a method for producing a peptide compound including a step of using an aromatic heterocyclic compound represented by Formula (1); a protective group-forming reagent including the compound; and the compound. In Formula (1), a ring A represents an aromatic heterocyclic ring, YA's each independently represent —OH, —NHR, —SH, or —X0, where X0 represents Cl, Br, or I, RA and RC each independently represent an aliphatic hydrocarbon group or an organic group having an aliphatic hydrocarbon group, RBs' each independently represent a monovalent aliphatic hydrocarbon group, a (1+c)-valent aromatic group, or a (1+c)-valent heteroaromatic group, where, in a case where both a and c is 0, RB is a monovalent aliphatic hydrocarbon group, and the number of carbon atoms in at least one aliphatic hydrocarbon group of RA, RB, or RC is 12 or more
US12325717B2
Provided are organometallic compounds comprising a first ligand LA of Formula I Also provided are formulations comprising these organometallic compounds. Further provided are OLEDs and related consumer products that utilize these organometallic compounds.
US12325711B2
The present invention is directed to, in part, a compound having the structure: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, useful for preventing and/or treating a disease or condition relating to aberrant function of a voltage-gated, sodium ion channel, for example, abnormal late/persistent sodium current. Methods of treating a disease or condition relating to aberrant function of a sodium ion channel including neurological disorders (e.g., Dravet syndrome, epilepsy), pain, and neuromuscular disorders are also provided herein.
US12325710B2
The present invention provides azepino-indoles and other heterocycles and methods of using the compounds for treating brain disorders. The present invention provides a compound of Formula (Ia), or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or isomers thereof, wherein the compound has the following structure:
US12325708B2
The instant disclosure provides novel adenosine receptor antagonist compounds, compositions, methods of making and methods of using. In a further aspect, a method of treating a subject in need thereof, comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of any one or more of the compounds described herein. In some embodiments, the subject has cancer and the method is a method of treating cancer.
US12325707B2
Improved processes and intermediates for preparing ruxolitinib and deuterated analogs of ruxolitinib are disclosed.
US12325704B2
Anti-angiogenic treatments, for example treatment of ocular neovascularization or cancer, treatments of hyperpermeability disorders, treatments of neuropathic and neurodegenerative disorders, pain treatments, methods of treating or preventing fibrosis and compounds for use in such methods are described.
US12325700B2
Disclosed is Crystal Form S4 of a fumarate salt of compound (I) represented by the following structural formula: (I) The molar ratio between compound (I) and fumaric acid is 1.0:1:0. Crystal Form S4, 5 characterized by an X-ray powder diffraction pattern which comprises peaks at 6.6°, 9.8°, 16.3°, 21.1°, 28.7°, and 30.2°±0.2 in 2θ.
US12325699B2
Provided herein are heterocyclic derivative compounds and pharmaceutical compositions comprising said compounds that are useful for inhibiting the growth of gram-negative bacteria. Furthermore, the subject compounds and compositions are useful for the treatment of bacterial infection, such as urinary tract infection and the like.
US12325696B2
An indazole derivative, a preparation method therefor, and a pharmaceutical application thereof. In particular, the present invention relates to an indazole derivative represented by general formula (I), a preparation method therefor, a pharmaceutical composition comprising the derivative, and a use of the derivative as an estrogen receptor modulator in the prevention and/or treatment of an estrogen receptor mediated or dependent disease or condition, the disease being particularly preferably breast cancer. The definition of each substituent in the general formula (I) is the same as that in the description.
US12325674B1
A modular system is configured to generate renewable fuel. The system includes a modular container that has inlets/outlets and houses a treatment subsystem configured to produce treated water and an electrolysis subsystem configured to perform electrolysis of the treated water to produce hydrogen and oxygen. The modular container further includes a reactor configured to perform an exothermic reaction in as little as a single pass using the hydrogen and carbon dioxide to produce the renewable fuel. The modular container can further include a post-processing subsystem configured to perform further processing of the renewable fuel.
US12325673B2
A fertilizer composition including a base fertilizer granule with a hydrophobic or super-hydrophobic coating that reduces fertilizer caking and dust formation. The coating can include a roughening component, which creates micron-scale surface roughness, and a hydrophobic coating. Together, the components of the coating act to physically protect water soluble fertilizers granules from the ingress of moisture and from caking, and increase the resistance of the granules to abrasion.
US12325666B2
A method for densification by Chemical Vapor Infiltration of a plurality of fibrous preforms arranged in the enclosure of a densification furnace, the method including at least the following procedures a) and b), each being repeated more than once: a) introducing a first gaseous phase, the thermal decomposition of which allows the matrix to form in the pores of the plurality of fibrous preforms; b) introducing a second gaseous phase while simultaneously placing the enclosure of the furnace under vacuum, such that the introduction of the second gaseous phase takes place at the same time as the expulsion of the first gaseous phase out of the enclosure, the temperature of the second gaseous phase being less than or equal to 25° C. when it is introduced into the enclosure of the furnace.
US12325664B2
A multi-component mortar system contains a curable aqueous-phase aluminous cement component A and an initiator component B in aqueous-phase for initiating the curing process. Component A further contains at least one plasticizer, water, and at least one blocking agent selected from phosphoric acid, metaphosphoric acid, phosphorous acid, and phosphonic acids. Component B contains an initiator, at least one retarder, at least one mineral filler, and water. A multi-component system is useful, which is ready-for-use, for chemical fastening of anchoring means, preferably of metal elements, in mineral surfaces, such as structures made of brickwork, concrete, pervious concrete or natural stone as well as its use for chemical fastening of anchoring means.
US12325661B2
Disclosed herein are lead free glass compositions having, in some embodiments, SiO2 from 25 wt % to 60 wt %, Al2O3 from 0 wt % to 20 wt %, B2O3 from 0 wt % to 35 wt %, ZrO2 from 0 wt % to 5 wt %, Li2O from 5 wt % to 17 wt %, Na2O from 3 wt % to 10 wt %, K2O from 1 wt % to 10 wt %, RO from 0 wt % to 20 wt %, wherein RO is an alkaline earth oxide, ZnO from 0 wt % to 15 wt %, and 0 wt % lead.
US12325660B1
A method for creating a hydrophilic antimicrobial diamond coating on a silicon or glass surface includes providing a silicon or glass surface, creating a second surface by seeding a plurality of nanodiamond particles on the silicon or glass surface by microwave plasma chemical vapor deposition (MPCVD), and forming a silver nitrate and hydroxylamine solution. A third surface may be created by seeding a plurality of silver nanoparticles onto the second surface by spraying the silver nitrate and hydroxylamine solution onto the second surface and maintaining the silver nitrate and hydroxylamine solution on the second surface for a predetermined time. The third surface may then be exposed to an oxygen plasma treatment.
US12325645B2
A liquid treatment loop system for dissociating and removing brine compositions found in wastewater and producing clean water for freshwater and potable water applications. The system includes an acoustic source process cell stage (SPCS) operatively in communication with a continuous stream from a fluid source. The SPCS is configured to eviscerate contaminants in the continuous fluid stream in at least one treatment process. The SPCS is also configured to separate the eviscerated contaminants from the continuous fluid stream to provide permeated water in the at least one treatment process. The system includes at least one mining process cell stage (MPCS) operatively in communication with SPCS. The at least one MPCS is adapted to receive the eviscerated contaminants from the SPCS. The system includes at least one permeate outlet operatively in communication with SPCS, wherein the at least one permeate outlet is adapted to receive the permeated water from the SPCS.
US12325641B2
The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods of producing lithium carbonate. The lithium carbonate can be produced by contacting a lithium precursor with a carbon dioxide gas. The lithium carbonate produced from this method can include micron-sized lithium carbonate particles with nano-sized lithium carbonate particles coated on a surface of the micron-sized lithium carbonate particles.
US12325638B2
A pyrolysis method and a pyrolysis reactor for thermal decomposition of polymer waste materials, particularly rubber and plastics waste materials, using a fast pyrolysis process, are disclosed. The waste material is delivered to a pyrolytic chamber, and is heated to a decomposition temperature of the waste material by microwave radiation.
US12325636B2
A method of reducing graphene oxide (GO), the method comprising the steps of: suspending GO and dissolving an iodide in a liquid medium, whereby the dissolved iodide partially reduces the GO to obtain a liquid composition comprising partially reduced GO (prGO) and dissolved iodide, removing liquid medium from the liquid composition to form a graphitic layer comprising prGO and iodide, and irradiating the graphitic layer with UV radiation to further reduce the prGO and provide for a reduced form of graphene oxide.
US12325632B2
The present invention relates to a process for the production of carbon dioxide and ammonia for the production of urea or ammonium carbamate from residual gases in the steel and metal industries, in particular basic oxygen furnace (BOF) gas and/or blast furnace (BF) gas. The process according to the invention comprises: (a) subjecting a mixture comprising (i) basic oxygen furnace gas and/or blast furnace gas and (ii) steam to a separation-enhanced water gas shift reaction to obtain a first product gas comprising H2 and N2 and a second product gas comprising CO2; (b) subjecting the first product gas originating from step (a) to NH3 synthesis to obtain a product gas comprising NH3; and (c) optionally subjecting at least part of the CO2 originating from step (a) and at least part of the NH3 originating from step (b) to the synthesis of urea or ammonium carbamate.
US12325631B2
A compound represented by the Formula 1 and having an argyrodite-type crystal structure: LiaM1xM2wPSyM3z Formula 1 wherein M1 is at least one element of Group 2 or Group 11 of the periodic table, M2 is at least one metal element other than Li of Group 1 of the periodic table, M3 is at least one element of Group 17 of the periodic table, and wherein 4≤a≤8, 0
US12325629B2
A nanostructure transfer method is provided. The method includes providing a first substrate (10) having thereon a plurality of nanostructures (12), the nanostructures (12) extending away from the first substrate (10). A solder material (14) is deposited on distal ends of the nanostructures (12). A second substrate (18) having thereon a first metal layer (20) is provided. The solder material (14) is bonded to the first metal layer (20), thereby attaching the nanostructures (12) to the second substrate (18). The attached nanostructures (12) are then released from the first substrate (10).
US12325626B2
An electronic device includes a microelectromechanical system (MEMS) rectifier. The MEMS rectifier includes a mainboard and a sub-board. The mainboard has one or more radiofrequency (RF) inputs configured to receive an RF signal, and a first electrical contact. The sub-board is positioned parallel to the mainboard with a gap in-between, and has a thin film piezoelectric layer, a second electrical contact positioned opposite the first electrical contact, and a ground plane. The sub-board is configured to vibrate as the RF signal is received at the one or more RF inputs, and the thin film piezoelectric layer is configured to generate energy due to the vibration and piezoelectric properties of the thin film piezoelectric layer.
US12325617B2
A water purifier includes a water tank having a cold water path inside the tank, a coolant inside the water tank, a cooling device including an evaporator inside the water tank and through which a refrigerant flows, and a compressor that is operable to compress the refrigerant. The cooling device is configured to cool the coolant to cool water flowing through a temperature sensor, which is configured to detect a temperature of the coolant and output coolant temperature information about the detected temperature of the coolant. The purifier also includes an agitator operable to agitate the coolant and a controller configured to control the compressor and the agitator to operate simultaneously and control the agitator to stop operating while the compressor is controlled to continue operating based on preset ice-making temperature information and the coolant temperature information. There is also a method of controlling a compressor and an agitator.
US12325615B2
A multifunctional strobe light that may be used with a forklift, and related methods, are disclosed. The multifunctional strobe light may have one or more cameras for video recording and determining whether the forklift is about to get into a collision. If the multifunctional strobe light determines that the forklift is about to get into a collision, then the strobe light may produce audible and/or visual warning signs to put the operator of the forklift and others around the forklift on notice. The multifunctional strobe light may be designed to video record the entire surrounding of the forklift and also recognize the type of nearby objects. The multifunctional strobe light may also determine whether the operator has completed pre-requisite tasks before operating the forklift.
US12325609B2
A winding unit for an electric vehicle charging cable includes a rotationally symmetrical reel unit, a rotationally symmetrical internal body, and a rotationally symmetrical round outlet plate. The winding unit has a first winding region, onto which a cable can be wound, and a second winding region in a radial peripheral region of the reel unit. The second winding region is adjacent to the first winding region so that a cable in the second winding region can be wound from a region close to the first winding region alongside one another in the direction of the round outlet plate opposite to a winding direction in the first winding region. The second winding region extends over a radial portion of the internal body. The round outlet plate is rotatable a predetermined number of revolutions together with the reel unit and in order to then be blocked, so that a cable is pushed out of the outlet opening.
US12325597B2
A component supply control system includes a state recognition section configured to derive a supply state of a component for each of multiple areas set in advance in a supply region based on image data acquired by imaging the supply region in a state in which a bulk feeder has conveyed multiple components to the supply region by vibration, and a conveyance control section configured to control a conveyance operation of the components in the bulk feeder based on the supply state for each of the multiple areas.
US12325595B2
During a switch from a first state in which a transport vehicle is connected to a first access point in a first access point group to a second state in which the transport vehicle is connected to a second access point in a second access point group, or a switch from the second state to the first state, an upper-level controller executes network segment switching processing including restarting a communication controller and a protocol stack, while maintaining a physical layer device in an active state.
US12325594B2
A robotic system including a storage structure provided with vertical members supporting a grid collectively defining grid spaces and a plurality of storage containers arranged in vertical stacks for storing inventory items, each one of the vertical stacks configured to be arranged within a respective one of the grid spaces. One or more load handling robots are installed upon the grid and include a lifting device extendable in a vertical direction to extract one or more storage containers from the vertical stacks and transport the extracted storage container to a station. The robotic system further includes one or more manipulator robots installed at the station and within a single grid space. The one or more manipulator robots include a picking arm provided with a pneumatic gripping tool arranged to pick an inventory item from the transported storage container and place the picked item into an order container.
US12325593B2
Three-dimensional warehouse handling and dispatching system and method for implementing item picking
Three-dimensional warehouse handling and dispatching systems, devices, and methods for implementing item picking are provided. In one aspect, a system includes: one or more control centers, one or more first handling devices, one or more second handling devices, at least one lifting device, and at least one three-dimensional warehouse including floors connected by the at least one lifting device. The one or more control centers are configured to: select, according to a handling task, a first handling device, a second handling device, and a lifting device for performing the handling task, and send a handling instruction for performing the handling task separately to the first handling device, the second handling device, and the lifting device, such that the lifting device is used to handle an item indicated in the handling instruction, and the first and second handling devices cooperate to transport the item in the at least one three-dimensional warehouse.
US12325592B2
Automated, environmentally monitored and controlled storage units and systems for storing, monitoring, and maintaining a supply of products, particularly temperature sensitive pharmaceutical and/or other high-value products, be they temperature sensitive or not. Such automated storage units contain an array of independently addressable holding locations for containers with product in one or more environmentally monitored (e.g., for temperature, humidity, etc.) and controlled zones fitted with appropriate environmental sensors. In preferred embodiments, the automated storage units also include a reader to track product information and status. Product loading, retrieval, and movement within such automated storage units is performed by a computer-controlled robot. A user interface device, preferably in communication with an application service provider to provide remotely managed inventory management and other services, provides users with inventory- and product-specific information.
US12325590B2
To provide a low-temperature storage system that can reduce unusable idle spaces to improve space efficiency for storing storage objects and to prevent a drop in cooling efficiency with simple structure. The low-temperature storage system includes a low-temperature storage chamber accommodating a rotary storage shelf, a moving mechanism having a holding part to carry a storage rack thereon for loading and unloading a storage object in the storage rack, and a picking stage. The holding part is located such that its center axis along a direction of its back and forth movement does not intersect a rotating shaft of the rotary storage shelf. The rotary storage shelf stores the storage rack such that the storage rack, when brought to a removal position, is oriented in a same direction as that of a storage rack placed on the picking stage.
US12325589B2
Methods, apparatuses and computer program products for movement of rectangular prisms in a multi-dimensional space are provided.
US12325581B2
A cassette for dispensing bags from an elongated tubing comprising an annular receptacle accommodating a length of tubing in an accumulated condition. An annular opening at an upper end of the annular receptacle is for dispensing the tubing. The annular receptacle defines a central opening through which a knotted end of the tubing passes to form a bag supported by the annular receptacle with disposable objects passing through the circular central opening to be received in the bag, and a clearance only at a bottom of the central opening.
US12325580B1
A hand-held lift loop assembly tester apparatus and method tests peel strength of a heat seal connection between a lift loop patch and a bulk bag body as an indicator of shear strength of the connection and whether the bag will pass industry safety lifting requirements. A lifting platform of the hand loop tester is inserted between the patch and the bag body in an unsealed area and measures the amount of peel and thus the peel strength of the heat seal bond or connection at the edges or sides of the unsealed area. If the peel strength is adequate, this is a reliable indicator that the shear strength of the bond or connection is also adequate and that the bag will meet the current industry required 5 to 1 safety lifting requirements.
US12325579B2
A beverage brewing cup with a floor having a puncture area is disclosed.
US12325572B1
A reusable shipper container has a container body with a payload chamber for holding goods and a lid operable to access the payload chamber. The reusable shipper container also has a tablet display screen detachably coupled to the container body. The reusable shipper container also has an inner lid assembly with one or more doors selectively movable between a first position over the payload chamber to close the payload chamber, and a second position to allow access to the payload chamber. The reusable shipper container can have a display screen on an underside of the lid that can auto-display information or autoplay videos, for example, when the lid is open and/or the shipper container has arrived at its destination.
US12325562B2
A self-locking subpackaging bottle comprising a bottle body, a bottle cap and an adapter is provided. The bottle cap comprises a receiving cap and a rotating cap sequentially arranged at a front end of the bottle body; the adapter comprises an adapter cap, a rotating ring and a fixing ring which are coaxially connected, the adapter cap comprises an annular cap, a first bearing arranged on an inner wall of the annular cap and a support ring arranged above the first bearing, the rotating ring is rotatably connected to the interior of the annular cap through the first bearing, and the fixing ring is connected to the interior of the annular cap through the support ring; and an inner wall of the rotating ring meshes with an outer wall of the rotating cap, and an inner wall of the fixing ring meshes with an outer wall of the receiving cap.
US12325555B2
The current invention relates to a transport container comprising a frame and a flexible compartment system suspended within said frame, wherein the frame has at least one open side, wherein the transport container has a cover that is movable between closed and open configurations for selectively covering and uncovering said open side, and wherein the frame is further provided with at least one elongate suspension member that extends along a side edge of said open side, and fitted through a sleeve formed by the compartment system. In particular, the cover extends in its closed configuration along said sleeve, contacting the sleeve. The invention further provides a method of assembling transport containers.
US12325552B2
Disclosed is a transport system (100), including: a pallet (110), formed from plastic, wherein the pallet extends heightwise from a pallet top deck (130) to a pallet bottom deck (140) to define a pallet height, lengthwise from a pallet forward end (160) to a pallet aft end (170) to define a pallet length, and widthwise from a pallet first side (190) to a pallet second side (200) to define a pallet width, wherein the pallet bottom deck defines a pocket (210), the pocket defines a pocket sidewall that extends heightwise into the pallet, from the pallet bottom deck to a pocket base to define a pocket height; and a pad (240), formed of an elastomer, having complementary shape to the pocket and configured to be removably secured within the pocket, to define a pallet foot.
US12325549B2
A method for packaging Cannabis includes placing a first Cannabis mixture into a first capsule mold of a tray. The method also includes pressing the first Cannabis mixture into a first inside surface of the first capsule mold to form a first Cannabis puck. The first inside surface is rounded in two directions. The method also includes attaching a first cover to the tray to cover the first Cannabis puck in the first capsule mold.
US12325548B2
A container filling and sealing apparatus includes a first conveyor having m lanes and configured to convey articles in the m lanes; a container supply device configured to place containers over the articles, respectively; a container reverser configured to reverse the containers so as to insert the articles inside the containers while the containers are covering the articles; a second conveyor arranged downstream of the first conveyor and configured to convey the containers containing the articles in n lanes which are less than the m lanes, n being a natural number of 2 or more; a delivery conveyor provided between the first conveyor and the second conveyor and configured to receive from upstream m containers as a unit containing the articles and deliver downstream n containers as a unit; and a sealing device configured to seal an opening in each of the containers conveyed by the second conveyor.
US12325545B2
A curved guide of a band-width-adjustable banderoling machine and a corresponding insert allow the curved guide to be adapted to bands of different widths. The curved guide mounted on the banderoling machine has a band guiding surface which is restricted on a first side and unrestricted on a second side. The insert has a restriction surface which, in the assembled state, is intersected by the continuation of the band guiding surface. The restriction surface is selected in such a way that in the assembled state the distance between the first side of the band guiding surface and the restriction surface is adapted to the width of the desired band. The restriction surface of the insert restricts the band guiding surface on the second side. In addition to such an adaptable curved guide, a banderoling machine preferably also comprises an adaptable band drive with an at least partially replaceable band channel.
US12325541B2
An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) includes a fuselage, a power driving unit, and an UAV arm. The UAV arm includes a cantilever, a mounting base, and a connecting portion. The mounting base is connected to a first end of the cantilever. The mounting base is configured for a power driving unit of the UAV to be mounted. The connecting portion is connected to a second end of the cantilever. The connecting portion is configured to be connected to the fuselage of the UAV. An upper end of a cross section of the cantilever is arc-shaped, and a lower end of the cross section of the cantilever is pointed. The cross section of the cantilever is a section perpendicular to a direction from the first end of the cantilever toward the second end of the cantilever.
US12325540B1
An embodiment aircraft boom includes a boom member, a vertical stabilizer, a rear landing gear, and a front landing gear. The boom member may extend in a first direction and have a front internal structural member disposed therein, where a portion of the front internal structural member is a first attachment point for a first wing. The vertical stabilizer may extend from the boom member, where the vertical stabilizer has a rear internal structural member disposed therein and extends from the boom member and through an interior of the vertical stabilizer, and where a portion of the rear internal structural member is a second attachment point for a second wing. The rear landing gear may be coupled to the rear internal structural member. The front landing gear may be coupled to the front internal structural member of the boom member.
US12325534B2
Aircraft light, aircraft comprising an aircraft light, and method of manufacturing an aircraft light
An aircraft light comprises at least one light source and a local electric power supply for supplying electric power to the at least one light source. The local electric power supply comprises a power supply housing, which is produced by additive manufacturing and comprises a compartment accommodating power supply electronics and at least one hollow cavity, which is delimited from the compartment. The compartment is filled with a potting material. The aircraft light further comprises a plurality of electric connections extending from the power supply electronics through the potting material to the at least one light source for supplying electric power to the at least one light source, thus enabling an aircraft light output of the aircraft light.
US12325532B2
A cover for an aircraft opening or equipment formed from a collapsible material having programmable magnets encapsulated on at least one edge portion to adhere the cover to an aircraft surface is provided. The programmable magnets have a close field strength sufficient to maintain the cover in place during high winds while not damaging the aircraft surface coatings during installation and removal while not interfering with electric signals or nearby electrical equipment.
US12325523B2
A self-disinfecting partition system is disclosed. The system includes a housing, and an attachment element configured to attach the housing to a surface. The system further includes one or more arms configured to deploy from a stored position an extended position. The system further includes a flexible screen coupled to the one or more arms configured to restrict a transmission of microbes. The system further includes a retraction assembly configured to retract the flexible screen into the housing. The system further includes an electromagnetic energy source disposed within the housing configured to emits disinfecting electromagnetic energy onto the flexible screen. A second self-disinfecting partition system is disclosed that includes a housing configured to fit around the headrest and/or seatback of a passenger seat. The system further includes an accordion-folded flexible screen coupled to the housing that deploys from the housing and disinfected via electromagnetic energy.
US12325522B1
A wall assembly for a passenger cabin such as an aircraft passenger suite. The assembly includes a first fixed wall, a second fixed wall positioned relative to the first fixed wall to define an interior space, an entrance formed between the first fixed wall and the second fixed wall for accessing the interior space, and a movable wall section movably mounted to the first fixed wall. In use, the movable wall section is movable between a first position in the entrance and a second position in the interior space, wherein motion includes at least rotational and vertical motion components. In a particular use case, the wall portion is temporarily movable to expand the entrance to facilitate reduced mobility passenger access into the interior space.
US12325516B2
The present invention includes a distributed propulsion system for a craft that comprises a frame, a plurality of hydraulic or electric motors disposed within or attached to the frame in a distributed configuration; a propeller operably connected to each of the hydraulic or electric motors, a source of hydraulic or electric power disposed within or attached to the frame and coupled to each of the disposed within or attached to the frame, wherein the source of hydraulic or electric power provides sufficient energy density for the craft to attain and maintain operations of the craft, a controller coupled to each of the hydraulic or electric motors, and one or more processors communicably coupled to each controller that control an operation and speed of the plurality of hydraulic or electric motors.
US12325501B2
An adaptable tie bar assembly for use with a power boat having more than one engine. The adaptable tie bar assembly comprises a hollow tube for a first part, a rod for second part that slides within the first part of the adaptable tie bar assembly and a pin to secure the rod second part in fixed position in the hollow tube at which point the engines are parallel and the power boat is being operated at higher speeds. A solenoid may be used to insert and retract the pin. Physically aligned and secured engines improve safety when moving at high speeds. At lower speeds, being able to operate the engines independently enables better steering control.
US12325487B2
An automatic pedal for a cycle includes a rotation shaft designed to be fixed to a cycle. The rotation shaft extends in a longitudinal direction. A body is mounted rotating around the rotation shaft. The body defines a cavity to receive the rotation shaft. At least first and second primary connectors are designed to collaborate with at least two secondary connectors of a sole of a cycling shoe to fix the cycling shoe on the body. The rotation shaft has an annular groove. The body has an opening arranged to open out facing the annular groove. A rod is inserted in the opening and in the annular groove to limit the translational movement of the body with respect to the translation shaft in the longitudinal direction.
US12325485B2
A human powered reciprocal motion drive comprising: two independently driven drive assemblies for interchangeably operating in driving and return strokes, each drive assembly comprising: (a) a spiral cone; (b) a driving cable, a first end of the cable is connected to a first winding group on the spiral cone, and a second end of the same driving cable is connected to a second winding group on the same spiral cone; (c) a pedal which is attached to said driving cable; and (d) a gear assembly for defining a ratio between the number of revolutions in said first winding group and the number of revolutions in said second winding group, thereby to define an operative position along the thread of the spiral cone; the system further comprising a reciprocal motion mechanism which, during each driving motion by one of said pedals, causes a return motion of the other pedal.
US12325484B2
The present disclosure provides a personal mobility device including a personal mobility device body including a first wheel mounted at a front portion and a second wheel mounted at a rear portion with respect to a longitudinal direction of the personal mobility device body. The personal mobility device may include a steering rod that includes an operable handle, and mountable on any one of steering apparatus connectors at the front portion or the rear portion. A load cell assembly may be provided on each of the steering apparatus connectors, and each including a plurality of load cells. The personal mobility device may enable steering control using a low-cost load cell, and facilitate steering in either direction of the personal mobility device.
US12325480B2
A bicycle frame element includes a frame tube, such as a downtube. The same forms an accommodation space for accommodating a battery. Further, a channel element is arranged in particular in the frame tube, which extends in the longitudinal direction of the frame tube, and serves to accommodate cables, wires, hydraulic lines and the like. To simplify the mounting, the channel element can be closed with a cover element. The cover element is held so as to be slidable in particular in the longitudinal direction.
US12325477B2
A system and method for a vehicle control adaptation to a crosswind and a wind gust including a controller situated within a vehicle to receive wind data inputs. The wind data inputs are based on a location of the vehicle and include a sustained wind velocity, a sustained wind direction, and a wind gust level. The controller further receives vehicle measurement data from one or more sensors situated within the vehicle and determines a wind impact on the vehicle based on the wind data inputs and the vehicle measurement data. The controller further compensates for the wind impact by a feedforward control in response to a low bandwidth component of the wind data inputs and by a feedback control in response to a high bandwidth component of the wind data inputs. The controller generates a feedback and/or a control based on the wind impact.
US12325467B2
A front part assembly for a mobility device, a front-part-integrated assembly including the same, and a process of assembling the same are disclosed. The front part assembly includes a bumper, a fender, and a hood, which are integrally formed, wherein the bumper and the fender are connected to each other to define an internal space therebetween, and the hood is rotatably connected at a front end thereof to the bumper such that a rear end of the hood is rotated vertically to open and close the internal space. The front-part-integrated mobility device includes the front part assembly and a frame, which is coupled to the front part assembly and is coupled to a cowl and a rear fender. The method includes rotating the hood to open the internal space, coupling the front part assembly to the frame, and rotating the hood to close the internal space.
US12325466B2
A structural components node (9) a crash box connector (14) and a crash extender connector (13) each having a top plate extending in a substantially horizontal plane and allowing to secure directly together the crash extender (7) and the crash box (8). Advantageously, the structural components node (9) can further optionally include connections with a hanger (10) and a front transverse member (11). It is possible to reduce the amount of welding operations needed to assemble the structural components node (9) and to provide a robust structural components node (9) ensuring a high structural strength to the assembly and an efficient cooperation between the lower and middle load paths and between the left and right side of the vehicle in case of a front impact. A process of assembling such a structural components node (9) is also provided.
US12325465B2
There are provided a vehicle-body member provided at a vehicle-body front portion, a bumper-face support member supporting a bumper face in front of the vehicle-body member, and plural brackets fixedly connecting the vehicle-body member and the bumper-face support member. The bracket comprises an inclination portion which is inclined such that a front side thereof is positioned on an inward or outward side, in the vehicle width direction, of the bracket, a high-rigidity portion, at least part of which is positioned at the inclination portion and which is configured to have high rigidity against an input of a load applied in a vehicle longitudinal direction, and a fragile portion which is configured to be deformable by receiving the input of the load applied in the vehicle longitudinal direction. The high-rigidity portion and the fragile portion are provided adjacently to each other in the vehicle longitudinal direction.
US12325464B2
The present disclosure relates to a steering column for a vehicle, with: —an inner steering column element that is received in an outer steering column element, the inner and outer steering column element being displaceable relative to one another along a displacement axis; —at least one preload force generating element that is configured to generate a preload force to set a defined resistance against the relative displacement; where the inner steering column element has a number of side faces which form a hollow cross-section of the inner steering column element; where at least a portion of a side face of the number of side faces has a protruding shape.
US12325461B2
The invention relates to a stroller comprising a stroller chassis and a child receiving device for receiving at least one child. The child receiving device can be oriented in at least two different orientations, in particular a forwards orientation and a rearwards orientation, relative to the stroller chassis, wherein at least one receiving section of the child receiving device is movable, in particular at least partly pivotal, such that at least one first and second setting of the child receiving device can be set, and a coupling device is provided and designed such that a conversion from at least one first orientation of the child receiving device to a second orientation is blocked in at least one first setting of the child receiving device.
US12325460B2
A loading frame includes a rectangular u-shaped frame with an opening at one side, forks extendable and retractable between the closed side and the open side of the U-shaped frame, loading frame wheels on one arm of the U-shaped frame, and a truck interface on the other arm of the U-shaped frame. The loading frame wheels and truck interface support travel of the frame in a direction other than the direction of travel of the forks between the open and closed sides of the U-shaped frame.
US12325456B2
A method may include detecting a first pressure and a second pressure of a fluid in a brake pipe of a vehicle system that includes a plurality of vehicles and extends from a lead vehicle to an end vehicle. The first pressure may be measured in the lead vehicle and the second pressure may be measured in the end vehicle. The method may further include determining a pressure differential signature between the first pressure and the second pressure and evaluating the pressure differential signature with a machine learning model to determine whether a blockage or a leak exists in the brake pipe. A system may include one or more processors configured to detect a first pressure and a second pressure of a fluid in a brake pipe. The one or more processors may be further configured to determine a pressure differential signature between the first pressure and the second pressure and evaluate the pressure differential signature with a machine learning model to determine whether a blockage exists in the brake pipe.
US12325442B2
Systems and methods for managing speed thresholds for a fleet of vehicles are disclosed. Input is used to provide associations between particular weather-relation conditions (such as rain) and arithmetic operations, that may be used to determine a current speed threshold as a function of a local posted speed limit at the current location of a vehicle. The current speed threshold is subsequently used to detect whether vehicles are exceeding the current speed threshold.
US12325439B2
A vehicle-mounted apparatus (10) according to the present invention includes: a surrounding object information acquisition unit (11) that acquires surrounding object information relating to a surrounding object being an object detected in surroundings of a vehicle; a line-of-sight information acquisition unit (12) that acquires line-of-sight information of a driver of the vehicle; an operation information acquisition unit (13) that acquires operation information indicating an operation performed by the driver on the vehicle; an operation intention information generation unit (14) that generates operation intention information associating an operation indicated by the operation information with the surrounding object causing the operation indicated by the operation information, based on the surrounding object information, the line-of-sight information, and the operation information; and a transmission and reception unit (15) that transmits the operation intention information to a surrounding vehicle.
US12325438B2
The present disclosure provides a vehicle control method, an apparatus and a system, applied to a terminal control device in a vehicle. The terminal control device is in communication connection to a human-machine interface device, and the vehicle comprises a plurality of executive mechanisms. The method comprises: when a start instruction for a target function is monitored, receiving current gesture data sent by the human-machine interface device; and when the current gesture data meets a preset condition, generating a target control instruction according to the current gesture data, and sending the target control instruction to a target executive mechanism for the target executive mechanism to execute an operation corresponding to the current gesture data.
US12325437B2
A method for synchronizing a clock-free computational node in a vehicle such that the clock-free computational node is able to perform an action at a pre-defined time, including generating a mapping between at least one current counter value received from the clock-free computational node and at least one current time information received from a clock unit. Moreover, the method includes determining a pre-defined counter value being associated with the pre-defined time based on the mapping. Furthermore, the method includes providing the pre-defined counter value to the clock-free computational node. Additionally, a method for performing an action at a pre-defined time using a clock-free computational node is presented. The disclosure is directed to a corresponding first computational node including the clock unit and a second computational node being clock-free and a computational system for a vehicle.
US12325435B2
Controlling activation of an autonomous navigation function of a vehicle is provided. A system can include a data processing system with one or more processors, coupled to memory. The data processing system can determine, based on data collected from a vehicle and using a machine learning model trained on historical driving data associated with a driver of the vehicle and a driver having a driver profile corresponding to the historical driving data, that a vehicle controller of the vehicle is configured to autonomously navigate the vehicle through a scenario, facilitate, based on the collected data and the trained model, display of a prompt at the vehicle to activate autonomous navigation of the vehicle for the scenario, and upon receiving an indication of activation from the driver, provide instructions to the vehicle controller to perform autonomous driving control through the scenario, thereby reducing likelihood of error and lowering insurance premiums.
US12325434B2
A Vehicle Intelligent Unit (VIU) is configured to provide vehicle operations and control for Connected Automated Vehicles (CAV) and, more particularly, to connect with a Collaborative Automated Driving System (CADS) and manage and/or control information exchange between CAV and CADS and manage and/or control CAV lateral and longitudinal movements, including vehicle following, lane changing, and route guidance.
US12325423B2
The disclosure relates to a method for operating a lane change assistance system, in which a detection apparatus, which is provided on a front corner of the motor vehicle, monitors an adjacent lane in front and to the side, and in which the detection apparatus detects an object on the adjacent lane and, when the detected object is evaluated by way of an electronic computing apparatus, at least one characterizing parameter of the object is determined, wherein at least one function unit detects an intention of a user of the motor vehicle to change lane and a differential speed between the motor vehicle and the object is determined as a characterizing parameter and the electronic computing apparatus generates at least one control signal for at least one further function unit on the basis of the intention to change lane and the differential speed.
US12325419B2
A rule-based adaptive cruise control system for determining a vehicle-following behavior of a vehicle includes a plurality of perception sensors for collecting perception data representing an environment surrounding the vehicle and one or more controllers in electronic communication with the plurality of perception sensors. The one or more controllers categorize a profile of a roadway based on a route plan and the perception data into one of a plurality of roadway profiles that are each indicative of the geometry of the roadway, categorize detection of a preceding vehicle based on the perception data into one of a plurality of detection states, classify the selected roadway profile and the selected detection state into one of a plurality of scenarios based on a set of classification rules, and assign a specific vehicle-following behavior based on the selected scenario.
US12325416B2
An activity monitor for a modular software system, the system having a first software component for use in configuring operation of a second software component via a proxy and stub interface, the activity monitor comprising; an input arranged to monitor a first event associated with the first software component and a second event associated with the proxy; a processor arranged to compare the first and second events to a schedule of events to assess compliance with the schedule of events; and an output arranged to generate an error message in response to non-compliance with the schedule of events, the error message being for use in treating the error. A method of generating an activity monitor for monitoring operation of a modular software system.
US12325415B2
A non-transitory computer readable storage medium has instructions executed by a processor to obtain the relative speed between a first traffic object and a second traffic object. The separation distance between the first traffic object and the second traffic object is received. The relative speed and the separation distance are combined to form a quantitative measure of hazard encountered by the first traffic object. The obtain, receive and combine operations are repeated to form cumulative measures of hazard associated with the first traffic object. The cumulative measures of hazard are analyzed to derive a first traffic object safety score for the first traffic object.
US12325405B2
An electronic brake for a vehicle and a control method therefor according to an embodiment of the present disclosure are able to stably generate a required braking force by controlling an auxiliary brake device by an auxiliary controller, if a flow path on the auxiliary brake device that connects a main brake device and a wheel brake is unintentionally closed.
US12325397B2
A brake-by-wire system for a motor vehicle provides haptic feedback to the driver via the brake pedal in the event of an anti-lock braking. The brake system includes a brake pedal configured to receive a braking request from a driver driving the motor vehicle and to forward the request to a braking apparatus. The braking apparatus is configured to translate the braking request into a corresponding brake pressure and to transmit it to brake actuators. The brake pedal is further mechanically and/or hydraulically decoupled from the braking apparatus. The brake system has at least one mechanical actuator in the form of a unbalance motor and/or a magnetic plunger. The at least one mechanical actuator is connected to the brake pedal and is configured to induce the brake pedal to vibrate in the event of an anti-lock braking.
US12325396B2
Methods and apparatus to determine brake pad wear are disclosed herein. An example vehicle disclosed herein includes a brake, memory, and a processor to execute instructions to detect the vehicle is in operation on a road, determine a deceleration capability of the brake in response to a first brake check event, compare the deceleration capability of the vehicle to a first threshold, and in response to determining the deceleration capability of the vehicle does not satisfy the first threshold, cause the vehicle to navigate to an exit of the road prior to a portion of the road with a grade higher than a threshold grade.
US12325394B2
A parking brake control method for an electromechanical brake system of an urban rail vehicle includes an operation instruction mechanism, a brake control mechanism, an electromechanical actuating mechanism and an auxiliary mechanism. The operation instruction mechanism outputs a control signal to the brake control mechanism to drive the action of the electromechanical actuating mechanism so as to achieve braking application and relief of the vehicle. The auxiliary mechanism is used for a redundant power supply system of a brake system. The auxiliary mechanism further includes a zero-speed state monitoring mechanism for monitoring a zero-speed state of the vehicle and an energy storage battery mechanism for providing a backup power supply. The parking brake control method enables an urban rail vehicle using an electromechanical brake system to achieve brake application and relief in a parked state and achieve brake application and relief in a dormant state of the urban rail vehicle.
US12325386B2
Embodiments of the present application provide a battery swapping platform and a battery swapping station. The battery swapping platform may comprise: a guide rail extending along a first direction and used for moving a mobile battery swapping apparatus along the first direction, wherein the guide rail may comprise a first guide rail segment and a second guide rail segment; a first platform that may be rotatable and used for fixing the first guide rail segment; a second platform that may be used for fixing the second guide rail segment, may be provided on the first platform, and rotatable with the first platform; and a translation drive assembly for driving the second platform to move along a second direction perpendicular to the first direction relative to the first platform, so as to move the mobile battery swapping apparatus along the second direction.
US12325385B2
A target alignment system for calibrating a safety sensor mounted on a vehicle with front and rear wheels by locating an optimum target position upon a horizontal surface for accurate calibration of the sensor. The target alignment system comprises a plurality of visual guide projectors and a pair of target assemblies which project a visible guide line perimeter around the vehicle, the perimeter including parallel longitudinal lines on either side of the vehicle, a lateral alignment guide line crossing the longitudinal lines in front of the vehicle, and a center guide line colinear with the vehicle center line. The front and rear wheels of the vehicle are longitudinally aligned causing the vehicle thrust line to match the vehicle center line. One of the visual guide projectors projects a transverse line across the center guide line, creating an intersection point which marks the optimum target position.
US12325384B2
A windshield wash system includes a pump with an inlet and an outlet, and a fluid reservoir fluidically connected to the inlet of the pump. A fluid delivery line is fluidically connected to the outlet of the pump and at least one nozzle is fluidically connected to the fluid delivery line. An electronic control unit is in controlling communication with the pump. A pressure sensor is in the fluid delivery line and is in communication with the electronic control unit.
US12325382B2
A ladder-mounted storage system, including a ladder-mounted storage container to store at least one item therein, a plurality of ladder-mounted fasteners disposed on at least a portion of the ladder-mounted storage container to removably connect the ladder-mounted storage container to a ladder of a vehicle and prevent movement of the ladder-mounted storage container while the plurality of ladder-mounted fasteners are locked against at least one rung of the ladder, and a plurality of reinforcement rails disposed on at least a portion of the ladder-mounted storage container to dampen an impact of the ladder-mounted storage container against the ladder and prevent damage to the ladder-mounted storage container while the ladder-mounted storage container is connected to the ladder.
US12325376B2
A method for controlling a pedal lever of a hydraulic power brake for an at least partially automated mobile platform. In the method, the pedal lever acts mechanically on a master brake cylinder, and the pedal lever is mechanically coupled to an actuator. The method includes: providing a first signal to a control unit for the power brake for the purpose of controlling the pedal lever so as to move same into a passive position; establishing a first hydraulic connection between the master brake cylinder and a compensating volume; and transferring a first hydraulic volume of the master brake cylinder into the compensating volume by means of the actuator acting on the pedal lever in order to control the pedal lever so as to move same into a passive position.
US12325375B2
A vehicle door interior trim assembly includes a trim panel and an armrest supported by the trim panel. The armrest includes an energy absorbing device. The energy absorbing device includes an inboard panel and an outboard panel. The outboard panel is between the inboard panel and the trim panel. The energy absorbing device has a variable crush resistance based on a temperature of the energy absorbing device. A heater is operatively coupled to the energy absorbing device.
US12325364B1
A camera mount assembly for a motor vehicle having a base configured to be installed on the vehicle and having a recess on a top surface and a carrier assembled above the base. The carrier has a first camera mount and a second camera mount. The first camera mount has a first protrusion extending on the bottom side. The second camera mount has a second protrusion extending on the bottom side. The camera mount also has a camera configured to be installed onto one of the first and second camera mounts. The camera is received into one of the first and second camera mounts when a corresponding one of the first and second protrusion extends into the recess in the base, and the other of the first and second protrusions contacts the base and prevents installation of the camera in the other of the first and second camera mounts.
US12325361B2
In a mobile object, a camera unit including an optical system that forms an optical image having a high-resolution region and a low-resolution region on a light receiving surface of an image pickup element and is disposed on a side of the mobile object, wherein the camera unit is installed to meet the following conditions: A tan(h/(d1+x))−θv/2<φv
US12325359B2
A door mirror structure comprises a mirror unit and a support member fixing the mirror unit to a frame member inside a side door. The mirror unit comprises a door-mirror body portion, a mirror base having a tip-end portion fixed to the door-mirror body portion and a base-end portion provided away from the tip-end portion, a rotational support axis connected to the base-end portion and rotatably supporting the door-mirror body portion and the mirror base between a mirror-use position and a mirror-storage position, and an electromotive rotational unit rotating the door-mirror body portion and the mirror base between the mirror-use position and the mirror-storage position around an axis line of the rotational support axis. The electromotive rotational unit is provided inside the side door.
US12325347B2
A cargo restraining system for a vehicle includes an extended flexible structure movably connected to a positioning arrangement. The flexible structure is adapted for holding cargo arranged on a cargo floor of a vehicle cargo compartment in position in relation to the cargo floor, and the flexible structure is sized to cover at least a part of the cargo floor. The positioning arrangement is adapted for enabling movement of the flexible structure between a storage position and a load securing position, where in the storage position the flexible structure is adapted to be positioned on a first height from the cargo floor, and where in the load securing position the flexible structure is adapted to be positioned on a second height from the cargo floor. The first height is different from the second height.
US12325336B2
A seat assembly for use by an occupant in an automotive vehicle includes a seat cushion pivotally coupled to a seat base at a cushion pivot. The seat assembly further includes a seat back pivotally coupled to the seat cushion at a lower recline pivot. A tilt mechanism is further coupled between the seat cushion and the seat base for pivoting of the seat cushion at the cushion pivot to move the seat assembly to and from a zero-gravity position. A first line extends vertically through an H-point of the occupant when the seat assembly is disposed in a design position. The lower recline pivot is positioned under the H-point approximately on the first line and the cushion pivot is positioned forward of the first line to facilitate optimal comfort for the occupant when the seat assembly is disposed in the zero-gravity position.
US12325329B2
The present disclosure relates to a battery system with adjustable heating rate and control method thereof, the battery system comprises a battery pack, a heating plate, a power control module, and a battery management system; when the temperature of the battery pack is lower than the preset self-heating switch-on temperature, the power control module is turned on, and the battery management system transmits the collected status information of the battery pack to the power control module, the power control module adjusting the current on-off time and switching frequency of the heating plate through a PWM signal to adjust the heating power and heating rate, to realize self-heating of the battery; when the temperature of the battery pack reaches the preset self-heating switch-off temperature, the power control module is turned off to stop heating; wherein, the power control module further includes a current adjustment module, a current acquisition module, and a heating control module. The present disclosure can realize the beneficial effects of fast heating rate, long driving range, and fast charging at low temperature of the power battery system.
US12325323B2
Techniques for determining range of electric vehicles are described. A sensor provides a signal indicative of the current being supplied by a battery of an electric vehicle to a motor of the electric vehicle. A controller receives the signal and determines the current supplied by the battery. The controller also receives a voltage supplied by the battery and determines a notional distance travelled by the electric vehicle. Based on the voltage, the current, and the notional distance, the controller determines the range of the electric vehicle.
US12325321B2
A lift and battery system to be used with an electric vehicle, for example, farm equipment, wherein the lift is attached to the electric vehicle the battery operates so that batteries can be removed and installed without returning to a central battery installation location. An auxiliary battery is also on the electric vehicle to allow the vehicle to be operated with the battery is depleted or being installed.
US12325311B2
This device for actively discharging an electrical energy storage device has a branch having first and second ends connected respectively to positive and negative terminals of the electrical energy storage device, and between the two ends, a thermistor having a resistance that increases with a temperature of the thermistor and a switch designed to receive a control signal (vGS) to change from an open state to a closed state, the thermistor and the switch being connected to one another so that, when the switch is closed, a discharge current (iD) enters through the first end, flows through the thermistor (210) and the switch one after the other, and emerges through the second end; and a device for controlling the switch. The control device is connected to the switch so as to provide the control signal (vGS) independently of the resistance of the thermistor.
US12325308B2
A system for controlling anti jerk of an xEV vehicle using power of a motor, includes a battery configured to supply driving power to the motor, a battery control unit (BCU) configured to manage and control charging and discharging of the battery, and a motor control unit (MCU) configured to control driving of the motor, wherein the motor control unit is configured to execute a command for performing a method of controlling anti-jerk of an xEV vehicle.
US12325307B2
A transmission device for an electric vehicle that includes a transmission element, a parking lock with a parking lock actuator which blocks the transmission element, and a transmission housing which encloses the transmission element and the parking lock. The device further includes a first connection apparatus that has a first cable arrangement that extends into the transmission housing and a first plug connector by which the first cable arrangement connects the exterior of the transmission housing to the parking lock actuator. The device further includes a pressure equalization apparatus which runs through the first plug connector of the first connection apparatus and forms a gas-permeable connection between the interior of the parking lock actuator and the exterior of the transmission housing.
US12325299B2
A fuel tank cap includes a seal cap body and a detaching-proof unit. The cap body has a handheld wall and a surrounding wall that extends from the handheld wall and that is formed with an engaging groove. The detaching-proof unit includes a ring sleeve member and a connection member. The ring sleeve member has an outer ring wall that surrounds the surrounding wall, and a resilient wall that extends the outer ring wall and that is engaged resiliently with the engaging groove. The connection member is connected to the ring sleeve member to be connected to a cap installation portion of a vehicle body.
US12325294B2
A transportable enclosure comprises a sheet of flexible material defining a closed loop, with the sheet defining an opening therethrough. The closed loop of the sheet is configured to be rotated by an actuator for selectively aligning the opening with an access position, such as a port in a side panel of a housing, for loading or unloading cargo from the interior space. A drive pulley is coupled to the actuator for rotating the sheet, and a belt extends along the closed loop to engage the drive pulley. The actuator may be located within the transportable enclosure or outside of the transportable enclosure. One or more guides are configured to hold the closed loop of the sheet outwardly while allowing the sheet to rotate. The transportable enclosure may be used with a ground or an aerial vehicle, which may be a vehicle configured for unmanned and/or autonomous operation.
US12325293B2
There is provided a tire sun shield, an attachment system for the tire sun shield, and a method of making and using the tire sun shield. A structure according to the present disclosure includes: a flexible fabric sheet including two holes; a flexible frame attached to a periphery of the flexible fabric sheet; two resilient fasteners, each of the two resilient fasteners having a first end and a second end and being threaded through a respective one of the two holes, two fasteners configured to attach to a wheel, one of the two fasteners being attached to the first end of one the resilient fasteners and another of the two fasteners being attached to the first end of another of the resilient fasteners; and two resilient fastener locks configured to be secured to a respective one of the two resilient fasteners at the front side of the flexible fabric sheet.
US12325290B2
An air filter monitoring system and method includes a plenum, a pressurization blower, a first motor driving the pressurization blower, a first motor current sensor, a recirculation blower, a second motor driving the recirculation blower, a second motor current sensor, a speed selector, a fresh air filter, a recirculation air filter, a pressurization blower speed sensor, a recirculation blower speed sensor, and a non-transitory computer readable medium comprising a program instruction for permitting a controller to monitor the HVAC system. The program instruction is adapted to produce a first and a second motor control signal to drive independently the pressurization blower and the recirculation blower, respectively. The first and second motor control signals are a function of the speed sensor signals to maintain a constant speed. Comparing a first and second motor current sensor signal to a baseline and triggers a replacement action when either signal falls below a threshold.
US12325289B2
A vent assembly of a vehicle includes a bezel defining a vent opening through which an airflow is directed. A primary vane extends across the vent opening. The primary vane is selectably movable about a primary vane axis to adjust a direction of the airflow. A plurality of secondary vanes are arrayed across the vent opening. Each primary vane is selectably movable about a secondary vane axis nonparallel to the primary vane axis to adjust the direction of the airflow. An adjustment knob has a knob central axis. The adjustment knob is configured such that movement of the adjustment knob along the knob central axis moves the primary vane about the primary vane axis, and rotating the adjustment knob about the knob central axis moves the plurality of secondary vanes about their respective secondary vane axes.
US12325287B2
A method for drying an evaporator of a vehicle air conditioner comprises closing an air duct after cooling of the vehicle air conditioner is stopped, operating the heating core and the fan, so as to generate, by means of the heating core and the fan, hot air which can circulate in the air duct. During circulation, the hot air carries away condensed water precipitated on a surface of the evaporator core for conversion into hot and humid air. The method includes directly venting the hot and humid air from the air duct to exterior environment, so that the evaporator core is dried. The method can implement the drying of the evaporator with high-efficiency and low energy consumption.
US12325284B2
A road construction machine in the form of a road finisher or feeder vehicle comprising an operator stand with a floor surface as a tread surface and a cooling system for producing a mist from a cooling agent. The cooling system comprises a tank for receiving the cooling agent and a spray apparatus for nebulizing the cooling agent into a mist. The cooling system is configured to produce the mist in the area of the operator stand, and the spray apparatus is arranged thereby at a height of at least 1.7 m above the tread surface.
US12325282B2
An embodiment thermal management system for a vehicle includes a compressor on a first refrigerant line that compresses a refrigerant circulated therein, an external condenser on the first refrigerant line downstream of the compressor that releases heat of the refrigerant, a front evaporator on the first refrigerant line downstream of the external condenser that evaporates the refrigerant, a second refrigerant line connected to the first refrigerant line that allows the refrigerant to be introduced thereinto and then to be discharged upstream of the compressor, a rear evaporator on the second refrigerant line that selectively releases heat of the refrigerant, a first flow control valve on the first refrigerant line that allows the refrigerant to be introduced into the rear evaporator or the external condenser, and a second flow control valve on the second refrigerant line that allows the refrigerant to be introduced into the compressor or the external condenser.
US12325264B2
A wheel assembly to be coupled to a hub of a vehicle may include an inner rim to be coupled to the hub of the vehicle and an outer rim surrounding the hub. The wheel assembly may also include gas springs operatively coupled between the inner rim and the outer rim to provide a gas suspension for relative movement between the inner rim and the outer rim. An outer ring may be adjacent an inboard side of the outer rim and defining a closeable gap with adjacent interior portions of an inboard side of the inner rim to define a mechanical stop to limit relative movement between the inner rim and outer rim. The gas springs may be arranged on an outboard side of the outer ring.
US12325255B2
A writing instrument in which condensation does not occur in a cap even though the writing instrument is equipped with the cap and which has high writing instrument quality and commercial value. The writing instrument includes at least a barrel in which an aqueous ink is contained; a pen tip provided on a tip side of the barrel and capable of discharging the aqueous ink; and a cap that is removably attached on a pen tip side of the barrel, wherein the aqueous ink has a vapor pressure of 10.3 to 12.3 kPa at 50° C.
US12325243B2
There is provided a mounting mechanism for a liquid container capable of suppressing a damage of a mouthpiece and enabling efficient stirring, and there is provided an ink stirring method for an ink cartridge using the mechanism. The mounting mechanism for a liquid container includes: a holder portion that fixes a mouthpiece serving as an outlet of a liquid of a liquid container in which the liquid is contained and that holds the liquid container; a set portion that has a fitting part fitted to the mouthpiece and causing the liquid to flow out of the mouthpiece; a tube that communicates with the fitting part; and a main body that is connected to the set portion by using the tube, in which the set portion is movable with respect to the main body.
US12325240B2
There is provided a liquid pack including: a pouch configured to store a liquid therein; and a spout configured to be connectable to a part at one end in a first direction of the pouch, and having a channel in which the liquid passes. The pouch has: a liquid storing chamber configured to store the liquid therein and communicating with the channel of the spout, a sealing part configured to seal surrounding of the liquid storing chamber, and a liquid-non-storing chamber which is positioned to be separated with respect to the spout by the liquid storing chamber and the sealing part, and in which the liquid is not stored.
US12325236B2
A substrate for use in a liquid ejection head has an ejection hole for ejecting a liquid from the inside to the outside of the substrate. A plurality of scallops periodically changing the diameter of an inner circumferential surface of the ejection hole in the penetration direction are formed on the inner circumferential surface. The substrate for a liquid ejection head is characterized in that a width in the penetration direction of a first scallop present on the outermost side among the plurality of scallops is narrower than a width in the penetration direction of a second scallop adjacent to the first scallop on the inward side, and a depth in a radial direction of the ejection hole of the first scallop is shallower than a depth in the radial direction of the ejection hole of the second scallop.
US12325235B2
A droplet discharge head includes a lower housing, an upper housing, a nozzle plate, a shaft-shaped member, and a driver. The lower housing includes a flow channel. The upper housing is on the lower housing and detachable from the lower housing. The nozzle plate is on a lower surface of the lower housing. The shaft-shaped member includes a valve element at a tip end of the shaft-shaped member to open and close a nozzle orifice of the droplet discharge head. The shaft-shaped member is reciprocatable in the upper housing. The driver is disposed in the upper housing and reciprocates the shaft-shaped member in an axial direction of the shaft-shaped member. The shaft-shaped member is movable in the axial direction of the shaft-shaped member such that a length of the tip end of the shaft-shaped member protruding from the lower surface of the upper housing is shortened.
US12325232B2
A recording device includes a holding part that holds a roll body of a recording medium, a rotation mechanism that rotates the roll body, a pair of transport rollers that transport the recording medium by nipping and rotating the recording medium, a recording part that performs recording on the transported recording medium, a first detection part that detects a leading end of the recording medium, and a notification part that notifies information, wherein whether or not the leading end is detected by the first detection part is monitored in a first monitoring operation in a state in which nipping by the pair of transport rollers is released, and when the leading end has been detected by the first detection part, a first notification operation of causing the notification part to notify that the leading end has been detected by the first detection part is performed.
US12325229B2
A plurality of support rollers rotatably support a belt member. A first motor and a second motor each rotate one of the plurality of support rollers. A first control portion acquires a speed detection value, which is a detection value of a rotational speed of one of the plurality of support rollers, and controls a first supply power supplied to the first motor in accordance with a difference between the speed detection value and a target speed. A second control portion controls a second supply power supplied to the second motor in accordance with one or both of conveyance information on a conveyance state of an object in a specific area and suction force information on a suction force of a suction fan.
US12325227B2
An anti-curl system 1 including a printer configured to deposit a liquid ink and an anti-curl composition onto a print substrate, wherein the liquid ink includes a colorant and is configured for deposit on the print substrate to form a print image, and wherein the anti-curl composition does not include a colorant and is configured for deposit on a non-print area of the print substrate, wherein the non-print area of the print substrate includes at least a portion of a non-print margin area configured for non-deposition of the liquid ink and deposition of the anti-curl composition.
US12325221B2
Provided are an elastic composite non-woven fabric and a manufacturing equipment and a manufacturing method thereof, wherein the elastic composite non-woven fabric manufacturing equipment includes an upper feed roller, an upper shrink roller, an upper bonding roller, upper fins, an middle feed roller, an winding roller, a lower feed roller, a lower shrink roller, a lower bonding roller, and lower fins. Wherein, two elastic non-woven fabrics shrink inward by the shrink roller and enter the gaps among the fins and grooves and teeth of the bonding roller to form regular wavy folds; the two pre-shrunk elastic non-woven fabrics are bonded to the upper and lower surfaces of the elastic material in a flat state by the aligned and adjacently disposed teeth of the bonding roller, thereby forming an elastic composite non-woven fabric.
US12325220B2
This method of laminating a functional film onto an optical article includes: thermoforming the functional film so as to provide the functional film with a predetermined target curvature based on a curvature of a face of the optical article on which the functional film is to be applied; applying the functional film onto that face of the optical article; pressing the functional film against that face of the optical article so as to adhere the functional film to that face of the optical article. This method further includes heating the functional film at at least one predetermined temperature after the applying, so that the functional film conforms to the curvature of that face of the optical article.
US12325215B2
An air and water barrier article comprised of multiple layers. The layers include a porous layer, a polymeric layer disposed on a front side of the porous layer, and a pressure sensitive adhesive disposed on a second side of the porous layer. In certain embodiments, a top polymeric layer having hydrophobic and UV resistant properties will be provided on a surface of the first polymeric layer opposite the adhesive layer. Each of the polymeric layers and the porous layer can be formed of a material(s) having a Tg between −40° C. and 20° C. The top layer, if present, can have a Tg between −5 and 30° C. The barrier article can provide nail seal ability and have a weight of less than 30 ounces per square yard.
US12325211B2
To provide a glass plate with resin frame and a method for producing a glass plate with resin frame, by which high gloss of a design surface with a color expressed by a decorative molding can be achieved. A glass plate 10 with resin frame, which comprises a glass plate 12, a resin frame 14 provided on a peripheral portion of the glass plate 12, and a decorative molding 16 disposed on the resin frame 14, the resin frame 14 being formed integrally with the glass plate 12 and the decorative molding 16, wherein the decorative molding 16 is a transparent design film, and when the glass plate 10 with resin frame is attached to a vehicle, the decorative molding 16 is disposed on the vehicle exterior side.
US12325204B2
A heating press for vulcanizing a vehicle tire under a vacuum, having a heating press upper part (3) and a heating press lower part (6), the heating press upper part (3) has a hood upper part (4) mounted thereon and a container (2), which contains mold parts (16, 18, 21) of a segmented vulcanizing mold, in this hood upper part (4), wherein the hood upper part (4) has a first circular ring (23), which is arranged fixedly on the heating press upper part (3), and a second circular ring (24), which adjoins this first circular ring coaxially in an axial direction and can be telescopically retracted and extended on the inside of the first circular ring (23) in an axial direction P1, wherein vacuum-tight seals (5, 9) are arranged between the two circular rings (23, 24) and between the second circular ring (24) and the heating press lower part (6).
US12325202B2
To determine the magnitude of variation in predetermined quality in a longitudinal direction of an elongated tire member formed by bonding a plurality of types of constituent members, X-rays are applied to a predetermined length range of a tire member, which is elongated, from a top surface side of the tire member while conveying the tire member in a longitudinal direction using a conveying device to acquire image data based on X-ray transmittance of the predetermined length range. The image data is input into a calculation device. Based on contrast in the image data, the magnitude of variation in the dimension in the width direction of a constituent member in the longitudinal direction is calculated by the calculation device, the constituent member being formed of unvulcanized rubber having a larger mass and a higher content rate of a specific component in the tire member.
US12325199B2
A vacuum system and methods of managing an object against a support structure are presented. A vacuum system for at least one of holding or compacting an object is presented. The vacuum system comprises an impermeable layer, a number of pressure inlets extending through the impermeable layer, and a number of valve handles connected to the number of pressure inlets. The number of valve handles is configured to actuate between an active position applying a vacuum to the impermeable layer or an inactive position venting the impermeable layer to atmosphere.
US12325197B2
The present disclosure is related to a method for manufacturing slabs of artificial agglomerated stone comprising: depositing a first layer (1.1) of a first mixture (M1) onto a surface (2), wherein the first layer having a first thickness h1, creating at least one cavity (3), having a width wi and a length Li, in the first layer (1.1) of first mixture (M1), depositing a second mixture (M2) into the at least one cavity (3) of the first layer (1.1), forming a second layer (1.2) by depositing the first and second mixtures, and the second layer having a second thickness h2, compacting and hardening the second layer (1.2), wherein the method further comprises after step c) and before step d), inserting a first tool (5) at least partially into the second thickness h2 of the second layer (1.2), and actuating the first tool (5) wherein the first tool (5) is configured to stir the first wall portion (4.1) while not stirring the second wall portion (4.2).
US12325193B2
A method of additive manufacturing of a three-dimensional object. The method comprises: sequentially dispensing and solidifying a plurality of layers comprising (i) a stack of model layers arranged in a configured pattern corresponding to the shape of the object and being made of a modeling material, (ii) a sacrificial structure having a stack of sacrificial layers made of an elastomeric material, and (iii) a stack of intermediate layers made of a support material having an elastic modulus less than the elastomeric material and being between the stack of model layers and the sacrificial structure; and applying a peeling force to the sacrificial structure to remove the sacrificial structure, and to expose the stack of model layers and/or the stack of intermediate layers beneath the sacrificial structure.
US12325191B2
A method for monitoring and analyzing an additive manufacturing process includes heating a melt zone to fuse an additive media with an active layer to build a part being manufactured based on a part design model, capturing raw melt data of the melt zone, and generating an active layer dataset that is spatially defined. The method may also include analyzing the active layer dataset with respect to a plurality of defect signatures within a defect signature library. The defect signature library may be predefined based on a machine learning processing of historical sensor datasets with corresponding ground truth datasets. The method may also include detecting a defect in the part based on the analysis of the active layer dataset with respect to a plurality of defect signatures, simultaneously with the energy source acting upon the active layer of the part for manufacturing of the part.
US12325190B2
Provided is a method for monitoring additive manufacturing. The method comprises acquiring an image of a three-dimensional object that is being constructed using an object model. The method further includes isolating a layer of the three-dimensional object from the image. The method further includes generating a three-dimensional model from the layer. The method further includes comparing the three-dimensional model with the object model. The method further includes identifying a discrepancy between the three-dimensional model and the object model. The method further includes providing a notification of the identified discrepancy.
US12325185B1
A method and apparatus for the additive manufacturing of three-dimensional objects are disclosed. Two or more materials are extruded simultaneously as a composite, with at least one material in liquid form and at least one material in a solid continuous strand completely encased within the liquid material. A means of curing the liquid material after extrusion hardens the composite. A part is constructed using a series of extruded composite paths. The strand material within the composite contains specific chemical, mechanical, or electrical characteristics that instill the object with enhanced capabilities not possible with only one material.
US12325184B2
A three-dimensional (3D) printer includes a receiver device, a plurality of material deposition units for depositing a material including a particulate material and a liquid vehicle onto the receiver device to form a printed layer on the receiver device, and a material removing system that includes a plurality of extraction units for gradually removing the liquid vehicle from the printed layer. A delivery system of the 3D printer may transport the printed layer from the receiver device to a build platform for stacking a plurality of printed layers and a plurality of post-deposition processing stations may be positioned along the delivery system for performing post-deposition operations on the printed layer.
US12325182B2
A photo-curable composition for use in additive manufacturing, said composition comprising: a) at least one photocurable monomer or oligomer; b) a photoinitiator for polymerization of the monomer; and, from 0.01 to 1 wt. %, based on the weight of the composition, of c) CNS-derived materials. Following polymerization, the resulting polymerized composition has a volume resistivity no greater than 105 ohm·cm.
US12325181B2
Methods to fabricate objects by 3D printing of poly-4-hydroxybutyrate (P4HB) and copolymers thereof have been developed. In one method, these objects are produced by continuous fused filament fabrication using an apparatus and conditions that overcome the problems of poor feeding of the filament resulting from the low softening temperature of the filament and heat creep along the fed filament. Methods using an apparatus including a heat sink, a melt tube, a heating block and nozzle, and a transition zone between the heat sink and heating block, with the melt tube extending through the heat sink, transition zone, and heat block to the nozzle are disclosed. 3D objects are also printed by fused pellet deposition (FPD), melt extrusion deposition (MED), selective laser melting (SLM), printing of slurries and solutions using a coagulation bath, and printing using a binding solution and polymer granules.
US12325178B2
A method of forming a composite panel includes providing an initial composite material, heating the initial composite material, molding the initial composite material to form a preliminary composite panel having a main body connected to an outer edge and a laminate layer secured to the outer edge, and folding an exterior edge portion of the outer edge over an interior edge portion to provide an external folded edge having the laminate layer on at least a portion of an outer surface.
US12325171B2
A method of manufacturing a film including cavities and formed from a polymer in which a cavitating agent is dispersed, the method including a step of extruding the polymer through an extrusion die equipped with adjustment actuators for adjusting thickness of the extruded film, and a step of stretching the film, as well as establishing a mapping function of the film on the basis of mass-per-unit-area profiles of the film before and after the stretching step, establishing a stretch profile of the film as stretched on the basis of the mapping function and of said transverse mass-per-unit-area profiles, and establishing a characteristic transverse profile that is characteristic of the film on the basis of the stretch profile and of a transverse profile of the concentration by mass of cavitating agent in the film as stretched that makes it possible to take into account the distribution of the cavities in the film; in which method the adjustment actuators are controlled as a function of said characteristic transverse profile.
US12325157B2
A homogeneous, aqueous mold release solution including: 5 to 90 wt % water; 3 to 40 wt % polyvinyl alcohol; 0.01 to 3.2 wt % surfactant; 1 to 20 wt % sugar alcohol; 0.005 to 1.05 wt % defoamer; and up to 50 ppm biocide, where a total of all components adds to 100 wt %. The mold release solutions have a viscosity in a range from 20 to 600 cps when measured at 23° C. In another aspect, embodiments disclosed herein relate to a homogeneous, aqueous mold release solution including: 5 to 85 wt % water; 10.5 to 15 wt % polyvinyl alcohol; 0.56 to 0.8 wt % surfactant; 1 to 8 wt % sugar alcohol; 0.01 to 0.3 wt % defoamer; and up to 50 ppm biocide, wherein a total of all components adds to 100 wt %. Also disclosed are films prepared from the mold release solutions, as well as methods of coating a substrate using such mold release solutions.
US12325136B2
The present teaching relates to a method and system for path planning. A target is tracked via one or more sensors. Information of a desired pose of an end-effector with respect to the target and a current pose of the end-effector is obtained. Also, a minimum distance permitted between an arm including the end-effector and each of at least one obstacle identified between the current pose of the end-effector and the target is obtained. A weighting factor previously learned is retrieved and a cost based on a cost function is computed in accordance with a weighted smallest distance between the arm including the end-effector and the at least one obstacle, wherein the smallest distance is weighted by the weighting factor. A trajectory is computed from the current pose to the desired pose by minimizing the cost function.
US12325128B2
A method for supporting designing and operation of a robotic system includes operating a computer-based Inventory configured to operate in a robotic system having Hardware Modules to perform a task, the Inventory including Hardware Module Descriptions including a unique identifier, a description of physical characteristics, a current status and historical data the Hardware Module. The method including the steps of collecting status data of the Hardware Module; collecting operating data representing usage of the Hardware Module and updating the historical data accordingly; and at least one of the steps of scheduling maintenance actions to be performed on the Hardware Module; deriving or modifying, based on the operating data, historical data that is associated with a type of the Hardware Module.
US12325124B2
A collaborative-robot risk assessment guidance device, including: an input device that receives inputs; a storage device; a display device; and at least one processing device, where the processing device prompts a user to input basic information including conditions for collaborating with people, prompts the user to select at least one candidate information item for hazard sources stored in the storage device in association with the input basic information, performs a risk assessment on a basis of risk specifics information stored in the storage device in association with the selected candidate information item for the hazard sources, determines whether a result of the risk assessment is at or below an acceptable risk, and displays, on the display device, countermeasure proposals for separating people and a collaborative robot without partitioning a space therebetween in a case in which the result of the risk assessment is not at or below the acceptable risk.
US12325118B2
A power tool includes an outer housing, a drive mechanism positioned within the outer housing, a gear case positioned within the outer housing, a gear assembly positioned within the gear case, and an output mechanism configured to receive torque from the drive mechanism via the gear assembly to rotate about a rotational axis. The outer housing includes a rib extending from an inner surface of the outer housing, and the rib is received in an aperture of the gear case to rotationally fix the gear case to the outer housing.
US12325108B1
Uniformed improvement to the flex stop system with an effective fit and attachment thereof by improving overall fit to many different types of universal joints, and with the flex and movement for clearance needed with a greater angle of rotation.
US12325107B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for making a grinding wheel with abrasive surfaces located on an outer diameter of the grinding wheel to provide grinding characteristics of both coarse and fine abrasive textures. The method includes forming on the grinding wheel a coarse abrasive portion located proximate to a first axial end of the outer diameter, a fine abrasive portion located proximate to a second axial end of the outer diameter and a transition band formed at an interface between the abrasive surfaces. The transition band has an abrasive coating with a gradual change in texture from a coarse surface to a fine surface.
US12325104B2
A grinding method includes a first grinding step of executing grinding feed of a rough grinding unit and grinding the workpiece to a predetermined thickness while supplying grinding water with a first grinding water amount that allows suppression of wear of grinding abrasive stones and a second grinding step of, after executing the first grinding step, promoting dressing of the grinding abrasive stones to prepare for processing of the next workpiece through executing grinding feed of the rough grinding unit and grinding the workpiece to the finished thickness while supplying the grinding water with a second grinding water amount that increases wear of the grinding abrasive stones and promotes self-sharpening through reduction relative to the first grinding water amount.
US12325103B2
A carrier recycling process designed to recycle carriers discarded after use for a certain period of time. The carrier recycling process includes dipping a carrier to be discarded in an organic solvent to remove a bond and to separate a body and an insert from each other, securing a surface roughness of one side surface of the body from which the insert has been separated, depositing a diamond-like-carbon (DLC) coating layer on the one side surface of the body having the secured surface roughness using a PECVD process, and coupling the insert to a circumference of the body having the DLC coating layer deposited thereon.
US12325099B2
A method for manufacturing panels such that the panels are subjected on at least one side to an operation with cutting tools. The position and/or orientation of each panel is determined prior to the operation, and the position and/or orientation of each panel is adjusted prior to the operation and/or the position of the tools is potentially adjusted, such that at least one part of each panel concerned takes a fixed orientation and position in relation to the tools.
US12325091B2
A stainless-steel welding wire for use in manufacture of an LNG tank is described. From the welding wire, it is possible to obtain a weld metal having excellent tensile strength and impact value because the contents of Ni, Mn, Mo, and Cr in the welding wire are adjusted. The welding wire can be applied to welding of all of 9% nickel steel, high manganese steel, and stainless-steel materials by adjusting the content relationship of Ni, Mn, Mo, and Cr, and has the effect of obtaining a weld metal with excellent ultra-low temperature toughness in the weld zone.
US12325090B2
Provided is a covered electrode for high-Cr ferritic heat-resistant steels with which it is possible to obtain weld metal that has the toughness required for weld parts and has excellent high temperature strength. The covered electrode for high-Cr ferritic heat-resistant steels includes a steel core and a coating agent that coats the core. The covered electrode comprises C, Si, Mn, Ni, Cr, Mo, V, Co, B, Nb, W, N, and Fe each in a predetermined range in the total mass of the covered electrode, contains a slag forming agent, and has a total of the W content and the Co content of 2.8 mass % or more.
US12325087B2
Disclosed is a portable spot welder. The spot welder includes a control board; a battery connected to the control board; an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) detection module connected to the control board; a power metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) module connected to the battery; an optical-coupler isolation driving module connected to the power MOS module and the control board; a battery protection module connected to the battery and the control board; a power supply module connected to the battery protection module and the control board; and a soldering iron module connected to the battery protection module and provided with spot welding pen interfaces. The spot welder can be connected to an external spot welding pen for use or used as an emergency power bank. A safety coefficient is improved, risks of overheating, overcurrent and a short circuit of a portable spot welder body are reduced, and a size is reduced.
US12325084B2
A friction stir welding attachment includes a body configured to be attached to a spindle supported by a spindle head of a machine tool, a metalworking shaft rotatably supported by the body wherein a welding tool is attachable to the metalworking shaft, a plurality of air motors provided in the body, and a transmission mechanism configured to transmit a rotation of each of the plurality of air motors to the metalworking shaft. A fixing portion is provided to supply external air to the plurality of air motors. A drive air distributor is provided to distribute drive air to the air motors. A rotation sensor for detecting a rotation state is provided to the metalworking shaft.
US12325081B2
A method uses a wire saw to cut slices from a workpiece. The wire saw has an array of saw wire tensioned in a plane between two rollers supported between fixed and floating bearings. During a cut-off operation, the workpiece is fed through the wire array with simultaneous axial movement of the floating bearings by adjusting the temperature of the fixed bearings with a cooling fluid in accordance with the temperature of the cooling fluid being in dependence on a depth of cut and correlating with a first correction profile, which specifies the travel of the floating bearings in dependence on the depth of cut. Also, the workpiece is fed through the wire array while simultaneously moving the workpiece along the workpiece axis in accordance with a second correction profile, specifying the travel of the workpiece. The first and second correction profiles are opposed to a shape deviation.
US12325080B2
A band saw including a housing, a motor, a drive pulley configured to receive torque from the motor, and a plurality of driven pulleys rotatably coupled to a plate, in which the plate is coupled to the housing for sliding movement. The band saw further includes a cavity within the housing and located between the drive pulley and the plurality of driven pulleys and an endless saw blade wrapped around the drive pulley and the plurality of driven pulleys. A first of the driven pulleys is rotatable about a first axis oriented perpendicular to the plate. A second of the driven pulleys is rotatable about a second axis that is obliquely oriented relative to the plate to impart a twisting movement to the saw blade about an oblong path defined by the saw blade, prior to the saw blade passing through the cavity.
US12325077B2
A clamping device for releasably holding a tool holder shank includes a housing, a drawbar axially moveable in a bore in the housing, engagement members moveable under the effect of the drawbar into locking engagement with the tool holder shank, and an actuating member rotatably arranged in the bore. Upon rotation of the actuating member, a contact surface on a motion transferring element fixedly connected to the actuating member achieves an axial movement of the drawbar by pressing against a contact surface on another motion transferring element fixedly connected to the drawbar. At least one of the contact surfaces includes two sections with mutually different pitch, such that the same angular displacement of the actuating member, when rotated in a first rotary direction, results in a longer axial movement of the drawbar in a first phase of the rotary movement than in a final phase thereof.
US12325075B2
A cutting tool includes: a substrate; and a coating film disposed on the substrate, wherein the coating film includes an α-Al2O3 layer, the α-Al2O3 layer includes a plurality of α-Al2O3 crystal grains, and has a TC(006) of more than 5 in texture coefficient TC(hkl), and a plastic deformation amount hp of the α-Al2O3 layer at 800° C. is 0 nm or more and 100 nm or less.
US12325074B2
A cutting tool includes: a substrate; and a coating film disposed on the substrate, wherein the coating film includes an α-Al2O3 layer, the α-Al2O3 layer includes a plurality of α-Al2O3 crystal grains, and has a TC(006) of more than 5 in texture coefficient TC(hkl), and a hardness H1 of the α-Al2O3 layer at a room temperature and a hardness H2 of the α-Al2O3 layer at 800° C. represent a relation of the following expression A-1: 0<{(H1−H2)/H1}×100<60 Expression A-1.
US12325071B2
A locking mechanism (100) for coupling an outlet (16) of a container (12) to an inlet (18) for a component of an additive manufacturing process. The locking mechanism (100) includes one or more locking members (102a, 102b) which are moveable, in use, between at least a first position and a second position. One or more actuators (104a, 104b) are provided and are configured, in use, to control movement of the one or more locking members (102a, 102b) between the first and second positions. The one or more locking members (102a, 102b) are configured to engage an exterior surface of the outlet (16) of the container (12) when in the second position so as to couple the outlet (16) to the inlet (18) for the component of the additive manufacturing process.
US12325069B2
A component which was manufactured in a powder-bed production process, proceeding from a base plane. The component includes a finished part and a support structure. The finished part can be divided into an easy portion, which can be manufactured from the base plane without a support structure, and a difficult portion, which cannot be manufactured without a support structure. The support structure is connected to the easy portion by a first partial attachment and to the difficult portion by a second partial attachment. In order to simplify the subsequent processing, the first partial attachment has a plurality of connection points having an equivalent diameter of at most 1 mm.
US12325067B2
Method for manufacturing an aluminium alloy part by additive manufacturing that includes a step in which a layer of a mixture of powders is locally melted then solidified, wherein the mixture of powders includes: first particles that include at least 80 wt. % aluminium and up to 20 wt. % one or more additional elements, and second particles of ZrSi2, the mixture of powders including 1.8 wt. % to 4 wt. % second particles.
US12325066B2
A casting furnace includes a melting chamber, a dual zone mold heating chamber, and a dual zone mold cooling chamber. The melting chamber provides a source of molten alloy or ceramics with adequate superheat. The dual zone mold heating chamber includes an independently controlled primary heating zone and a secondary heating zone. The primary heating zone raises the mold temperature adequately to impart high gradient solidification conditions. The secondary heating zone assists the primary heating zone to minimize overheating of the majority of the mold. The dual zone mold cooling chamber includes a primary cooling chamber and a secondary cooling chamber. The primary cooling chamber speeds up solidification in order to prevent defect formation and refine microstructure. The secondary cooling chamber slows down the cooling of castings to reduce residual stresses build up and minimize elemental segregation through augmenting solid-state diffusion of lower melting elements.
US12325056B2
The present disclosure discloses a multi-sensor-based hot forming production system for an aluminum alloy sheet metal part and a control method thereof, and belongs to the field of aluminum alloy sheet metal forming manufacturing technology. A plurality of sensors are disposed in the hot forming production system, and closed-loop control of a whole process and adaptive production can be realized based on deformation properties, a microstructure evolution law, and a mechanical property change law of the aluminum alloy sheet metal part. The hot forming production system comprises a control system based on a multi-physical quantity model, an environmental heating furnace, an automated transfer and positioning device, a hot stamping and forming device, and an in-die aging device. By using the hot forming production system and the control method thereof, the product quality and the stability of the forming process can be effectively improved, and the adaptability of the process to form different types of alloys can be enhanced.
US12325054B2
A monitor wafer is provided. The monitor wafer includes a substrate and a cleaning layer. The cleaning layer is disposed on a bottom surface of the substrate. The cleaning layer is configured to remove particles from the substrate and/or a processing tool.
US12325049B2
A self-cleaning screen is formed via additive printing. The dimensions of the self-cleaning screen are modified. Supports are printed via additive printing. The supports are formed over a plurality of wires. Side seals may be additively printed along major sides of the plurality of wires. Wear of the screens is monitored.
US12325048B2
Provided is a stereo tactile sensation providing device including a plurality of actuators spaced apart from each other, a connector for mounting the plurality of actuators thereon and including three or more tactile regions, and a controller for applying an operation signal to the actuators, wherein the controller applies a first signal for controlling the actuators to stimulate first tactile cells above a threshold, and a second signal for controlling the actuators to stimulate second tactile cells above the threshold, and wherein the connector provides synthetic tactile sensations generated by the plurality of actuators.
US12325046B2
A superstrate can include a body, a first layer, and a second layer, wherein the first layer is disposed between the body and the second layer. Each of the first and second layers has a proximal surface and a distal surface opposite the proximal surface, wherein the body is closer to the proximal surface than to the distal surface. An Ra of the distal surface of the second layer is less than an Ra of the distal surface of the first layer. In a method of making the superstrate, the relatively high Ra of the distal surface of the first layer may be related to the process or equipment used in forming the first layer. The second layer can be formed using another superstrate, where the Ra of the distal surface of the second layer is substantially the same as the contact surface of the other superstrate.
US12325045B2
Continuously manufacturing a planar layered material by repeatedly performing a bank portion forming step of supplying a first liquid material to a first workpiece and forming a bank portion in a frame shape, filled portion forming step of supplying a second liquid material to an inner side of the formed bank portion and forming a filled portion, and a bonding step of bonding the first workpiece with the filled portion formed thereon and a second workpiece to each other, the planar layered material manufacturing method comprises a height measurement step of measuring, by a height measurement device, a height of the filled portion or the bank portion formed on the first workpiece, and a height adjustment step of adjusting a relative height between the filled portion and the bank portion on the basis of the height of the filled portion or the bank portion measured in the height measurement step.
US12325035B2
Disclosed is an surface-coating robot operating system, a movable base (100) is provided to drive the whole operating system to implement autonomous navigation movement in the workspace; a vertical linear actuator (200) is used to drive a mechanical arm (300) to move up and down so as to meet the requirement for spraying at different heights; and the mechanical arm (300) is used to drive a spray gun (400) to implement multi-degree-of-freedom motion so as to meet the requirement for spraying at different positions; the whole spraying process is autonomously completed by the operating system, which is time-saving and labor-saving, high efficient, and ensures uniform spraying thickness, smooth spraying surface and consistent spraying quality; the robotic spraying may obviously reduce the coating dusts generated in a spraying process and the human risk caused by exposure to harmful coating chemicals. An operating method for surface-coating robot is disclosed.
US12325033B2
A method for fixing a metal sheet serving as a filter element or the like to the inner peripheral wall of a filter device is disclosed. The metal sheet is arranged in a round shape, optionally with overlapping axial edge regions, on the inner peripheral wall of the housing of the filter device and is pressed against the peripheral wall of the housing with the aid of an expansion device. The disclosure further relates to a filter device produced in this way and to the expansion device used to carry out such a method.
US12325017B2
A photoelectric fluid field cluster catalytic method for atomic-scale deterministic processing, comprises the following steps: selecting nanoparticles with photocatalytic activity as a photocatalytic medium, and using a photoreduction method to realize the precipitation of metal nanoparticles on a surface of the photocatalytic medium, thus creating photoelectrocatalytic clusters; illuminating a coupling area between a surface to be processed of a workpiece, the photoelectrocatalytic clusters and a flexible tool with a catalytic light source, and simultaneously applying a bias voltage to a conductive tray of the workpiece; and applying a normal load to a flexible tool head and setting a rotation speed to generate a hydrodynamic pressure to drive a polishing solution to flow, thus enabling controllable removal with atomic-level precision. The disclosure utilizes the metal particles in the photoelectrocatalytic clusters to capture photogenerated electrons, thereby prolonging the lifetime of photogenerated carriers.
US12325016B2
A method of treating exhaust gas from a lean burn internal combustion engine is disclosed. The method comprises: introducing ammonia or an ammonia precursor into the exhaust gas upstream of an Fe-SCR catalyst, the Fe-SCR catalyst comprising iron and a zeolite; and contacting the exhaust gas with the Fe-SCR catalyst; wherein the amount of ammonia or ammonia precursor introduced into the exhaust gas upstream of the Fe-SCR catalyst is controlled to provide an ammonia-to-NOx molar ratio (ANR) in the exhaust gas contacting the Fe-SCR catalyst of from greater than 2 to 6.
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The present invention provides a cerium dioxide-supported low-dose PtCu ultrafine alloy catalyst, a preparation method and an application thereof, which belongs to the fields of environmental catalysis and preparation of catalyst materials. Metal-state PtCu ultrafine alloy particles are prepared by an oleylamine method, and then a cerium dioxide support is immersed into an n-butylamine solution of PtCu ultrafine alloy, centrifuged, washed with alcohol, and dried to obtain the cerium dioxide-supported low-dose PtCu ultrafine alloy catalyst. The catalyst obtained has excellent activity and stability in simultaneously degrading atmospheric VOCs and soot under a photothermocatalytic condition. There are the characteristics of simple preparation process method, very low Pt dosage, high utilization rate, and excellent photothermocatalytic performance.
