US12334026B2
A backlight display control method and apparatus are provided. The method includes: obtaining a fused image based on an input image; identifying a salient region and a non-salient region in the fused image; increasing a backlight power value of the salient region; and/or decreasing a backlight power value of the non-salient region. In this way, a region of interest that is for human eyes and that is in the image may be identified, the backlight power value and luminance distribution are controlled based on salience information, the backlight power value is dynamically allocated, and contrast of the region of interest for human eyes is maintained or improved, to improve quality of a displayed image under a same power value constraint; and backlight luminance is adjusted, without weakening image effect, to decrease or increase a backlight power value of a specific region, and thus improve contrast and lighting effect.
US12334023B2
A display panel includes a plurality of subpixels, a plurality of data lines, and a plurality of gate lines. A data driving circuit supplies a data voltage to the data lines. A gate driving circuit supplies a gate signal to the gate lines. A timing controller controls the data driving circuit and the gate driving circuit. A display area of the display panel includes a first area corresponding to the data driving circuit and a second area located outside of the first area. A first data link line group having a linear structure is connected to a first data line group disposed in the first area. A second data link line group having a bending structure is connected to a second data line group disposed in the second areas.
US12334022B2
A shift register unit, a gate driving circuit, a display device, and a driving method are disclosed. The shift register unit includes a first sub-circuit, a second sub-circuit, a leakage prevention circuit and a blanking input sub-circuit, wherein the first sub-circuit includes a first input circuit and a first output circuit; the second sub-circuit includes a second input circuit and a second output circuit; the leakage prevention circuit is configured to control a level of a leakage prevention node under control of the level of the first node, so as to turn off a circuit connected between the first node and the leakage prevention node; and the blanking input sub-circuit is connected to the first node and the second node, and is configured to receive a selection control signal and a first clock signal, and control the level of the first node and the level of the second node.
US12334018B2
A display apparatus includes a mode controller configured to generate a first control signal and a second control signal, a gate drive circuit configured to generate a light-emitting signal, a first scan signal, and a second scan signal, a shared circuit connected to a reference voltage line configured to provide a reference voltage, the shared circuit comprising a first transistor configured to operate based on the first scan signal, and a second transistor connected to the first transistor in series and configured to operate based on the second scan signal and a first pixel circuit connected to the mode controller and the gate drive circuit, wherein the first pixel circuit includes a driving transistor, a third transistor configured to operate based on the light-emitting signal and connected to the second transistor, a fourth-first transistor configured to operate based on the first control signal, a fourth-second transistor configured to operate based on the second control signal, a first light-emitting element connected to the fourth-first transistor, a second light-emitting element connected to the fourth-second transistor and a capacitor connected to the first transistor, the second transistor, the third transistor, and the driving transistor.
US12334002B2
A display device includes a substrate having an edge extending along a first direction, a first group of a plurality of light emitting units including a first light emitting unit having a first color and a second light emitting unit having a second color, and a second group of a plurality of light emitting units including a first light emitting unit having the first color and a second light emitting unit having the second color. A distance between the first light emitting unit in the first group and the edge is less than a distance between the first light emitting unit in the second group and the edge along the second direction. A width of the first light emitting unit in the first group is less than a width of the first light emitting unit in the second group along the second direction.
US12333998B2
A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels respectively connected to a plurality of data lines and a plurality of scan lines, a data driver which outputs data signals to the plurality of data lines including a first data line and a second data line branched from a data output terminal connected to the data driver, and a scan driver which outputs scan signals to the plurality of scan lines. A first scan output terminal and a second scan output terminal respectively connected to the plurality of scan lines are connected to the scan driver. One of the first scan output terminal and the second scan output terminal is connected to a resistance.
US12333993B2
The present disclosure relates to a clock generator and a display device including the same. The clock generator includes a first clock generation circuit configured to output a clock, data, and a timing control signal; a first wiring through which the clock is serially transmitted; a second wiring through which the data is serially transmitted; a third wiring through which a pulse of the timing control signal is serially transmitted; a second clock generation circuit connected to the first clock generation circuit through the first wiring, the second wiring, and the third wiring and configured to generate pre-clocks in which phases are sequentially shifted based on the data and the clock; and a clock adjustment circuit configured to receive the pulse of the timing control signal and the pre-clock and output an output clock.
US12333987B2
A driving method of a display panel includes: obtaining first initial voltage values respectively corresponding to N sub-pixels on a first data line and second initial voltage values respectively corresponding to the N sub-pixels on a second data line in a first initial picture, and third initial voltage values respectively corresponding to 1st to Mth sub-pixels of the N sub-pixels on the first data line and fourth initial voltage values respectively corresponding to the 1st to Mth sub-pixels on the second data line in a second initial picture following the first initial picture; calculating a voltage compensation value for the Mth sub-pixel based on the corresponding first, second, third, and fourth initial voltage value; calculating a target voltage value for the Mth sub-pixel based on the voltage compensation value; and displaying the second initial picture based on the target voltage value.
US12333985B2
This application discloses a compensation method for a pixel circuit and a display panel. The compensation method firstly obtains the nonlinear function of the pixel circuit, then converts the nonlinear function into a corresponding linear function, and then obtains the compensated first gate-source voltage difference according to the linear function and the second gate-source voltage difference. Since the nonlinear function requires more compensation data and has a larger error than the linear function, using the converted linear function for compensation can reduce the required storage resources and improve the accuracy of compensation.
US12333962B2
A computer-implemented method and a smart-learning and knowledge retrieval system (SLKRS) are provided for imparting adaptive and personalized e-learning based on continually artificially learned unique characteristics of a knowledge seeker. A knowledge concept graph is generated for the knowledge seeker continually based on each of the received query and the received feedback by the smart-learning and knowledge retrieval system, thereby artificially learning unique characteristics of the knowledge seeker for measuring an ability of the knowledge seeker to learn and to show continued interest in an e-learning course. The knowledge concept graph is a cognitive blueprint of the knowledge seeker in a domain of knowledge at a point in time. The knowledge concept graph displays levels of granularity comprising one or more of interconnected concepts, categories of concepts, sub-categories of concepts, granular concepts, micro concepts, and macro concepts.
US12333957B2
Systems and methods for conducting a synchronized student-lecturer session on an e-learning server in a computer network. The method includes obtaining a lesson material template from the lecturer computing system; logging a lecturer and one or more students in the e-learning application by verifying respective credentials to access the lesson material template, presenting the lesson material template on a session screen of the e-learning application corresponding to the lecturer and the one or more student users; generating a lecturer session; generating a student session log; tracking the lecturer session log, wherein the lecturer activity as recorded in the lecturer session log is monitored by one or more student users, and tracking the student session log, wherein the student activity as recorded in the student session log is monitored by the lecturer user.
US12333956B2
Vehicle flight control method and apparatus for unmanned aerial vehicle, and unmanned aerial vehicle
Embodiment of the present invention are a flight control method and apparatus for an unmanned aerial vehicle, and an unmanned aerial vehicle. The flight control method for an unmanned aerial vehicle includes: obtaining an obstacle position and an obstacle orientation of each obstacle within a preset range around the unmanned aerial vehicle; calculating a push-pull coefficient of each obstacle relative to the unmanned aerial vehicle according to the obstacle position of each obstacle; obtaining a target position and a target orientation of the unmanned aerial vehicle; calculating a baton coefficient of the target position relative to the unmanned aerial vehicle according to the target position; and adjusting a flight direction of the unmanned aerial vehicle according to the baton coefficient, the target orientation, the push-pull coefficient of each obstacle relative to the unmanned aerial vehicle, and the obstacle orientation.
US12333955B2
Methods, devices, and systems for ground traffic aircraft management are described herein. One device includes a user interface, a memory, and a processor configured to execute executable instructions stored in the memory to receive airport information associated with an airport, generate, using the airport information, a map of the airport, display an intersection on the map of the airport, receive a selection of the intersection, and display flight information of each of a plurality of aircraft passing through the intersection within a particular period of time and the map of the airport in a single integrated display responsive to receiving the selection of the intersection.
US12333949B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure describe a secure, scalable and extensible aircraft and other system and device identity management (IdM) system that enables services for identity provisioning (idP), and identity validation, verification and authentication (idVV&A). The identity and management system uses dual-mode local broadcast and network connected device communication elements across a wide area network. The system serves as a Source System of Record (SSoR) that securely ingests private registration data, system/device identity verification and authentication requests and returns validated identity and activity information.
US12333947B2
Systems, methods, and apparatus for identifying and tracking UAVs including a plurality of sensors operatively connected over a network to a configuration of software and/or hardware. A computing device can tune the RF receiver to a particular frequency set. The computing device can receive RF signal data corresponding to a plurality of RF signals via the RF receiver. The computing device can detect a plurality of signal characteristics corresponding to the plurality of RF signals from the RF signal data. The computing device can identify a matching RF signal by comparing the RF signal data to a plurality of known RF signals. The computing device can apply a predetermined rule set to the matching RF signal to determine at least one action to take.
US12333945B2
Provided is a traffic safety support system capable of improving traffic safety in a situation in which it is predicted that a mobile body will not obey a signal displayed by a traffic light. A traffic safety support system includes a recognizer, a HMI, a risk notification setting unit, and a risk notification control device. The risk notification setting unit sets a notification mode to a hinting notification mode in a case where a four-wheeled automobile acts as an oncoming mobile body and at least one of the four-wheeled automobile or a motorcycle is approaching a traffic light, and sets the notification mode to an analogue notification mode in a case where the four-wheeled automobile is present within an analogue notification actuation range.
US12333938B2
In the information processing device according to the present disclosure, the control unit receives a first request requesting information on a second vehicle having a power supply function from a first terminal corresponding to the first vehicle. The control unit acquires the parked location of the second vehicle and the first information on the surroundings of the second vehicle, triggered by the reception of the first information. The control unit determines whether there is a parking space around the second vehicle based on the parked location of the second vehicle or the first information. When it is determined that there is a parking space around the second vehicle, the control unit sends second information including the parked location of the second vehicle to the first terminal.
US12333926B2
Emergency alert systems and methods for disabled and/or differently abled persons are disclosed. Upon receiving an alert message, the system translates the alert message to an audio message (text to speech) when the text to speech feature is enabled. In some implementations, the system waits for a threshold period of time (e.g., 30 seconds) to receive a user acknowledgment of the alert message, and translates the alert message to an audio message if no acknowledgment is received within this time. The user acknowledgment can be received via a selection of an option (e.g., by clicking an “OK” button) and/or via an audio option (e.g., by saying “Ok, received”) when the text to speech feature is enabled. The system then outputs (e.g., reads out loud) the translated message so that the disabled or differently abled persons can be informed of the emergency situation. After outputting the translated message, the system can further wait for a user acknowledgment of the translated audio message.
US12333925B2
Systems and methods for detecting potential theft and identifying individuals having a history of committing theft use an electromagnetic emission associated with a personal electronic device associated with an individual is received from at least one of a sensor that is coupled to at least one of a traffic camera or an aerial drone camera. One or more signal properties of the electromagnetic emission are analyzed to determine an emission signature. Video data and video analytics are correlated with the emission signature to identify the individual having possession of the item. The emission signature and video data are stored for later use during a checkout procedure. If an emission signature detected at a checkout station matches that of the individual having possession of the item, and the item is not processed through the checkout station, an alert is issued and the individual is flagged as a potential shoplifter.
US12333922B2
A method for monitoring and securing a facility without employing a manned control center, according to which a server acquires surveillance data from each of a plurality of distributed surveillance devices deployed within or adjacent to a given security sensitive facility. Then the server receives an intrusion alert from a guard, or from one or more of the plurality of surveillance devices to initiate a triggering event, if the acquired surveillance data is indicative of activity that has been detected at an indicated location. A first guard is alerted and presented with a full situational awareness image to assess the severity of the detected activity and the triggering event is terminated if found by the first guard to be of a low severity, or an interception operation initiated by self-dispatching or dispatching one or more additional guards to a close by location that holds tactical advantage relative to the indicated location if the triggering event was found by the first guard to be of a high severity.
US12333909B2
Systems and method for providing a slot-type game in which a game outcome is reached that includes an active area and an inactive area, with any awards being determined by the position of randomly generated symbols in the active area, the active area increasing in size to include additional positions of randomly generated symbols from the inactive area responsive to an occurrence of a triggering event, wherein the triggering event is based on the satisfaction of a preset criteria associated with the active area of the game outcome, may result in enhanced awards and may be triggered one or more instances thereafter by the satisfaction of the preset criteria associated with the increased active area, each instance of being triggered resulting in the active area increasing in size until a maximum active area is achieved.
US12333906B2
A computer implemented method of operating a gaming system can include determining that a first event has been triggered on a first electronic gaming machine (“EGM”). The method can further include, responsive to determining that the first event has been triggered on the first EGM, causing a probability of triggering a second event on a second EGM to be adjusted based on a proximity of the second EGM to the first EGM.
US12333889B2
A food preparation appliance and associated components and methods. The food preparation appliance is configured to support transmission of operations updates and other data to/from a local or remote computer. In some embodiments, the food preparation appliance provides a virtual data bus for transmission of the updates or data. The virtual data bus may be bridged to a physical data bus of the food preparation appliance. The food preparation appliance can be configured to receive operations updates regardless of an operational mode of the food preparation appliance.
US12333886B2
A resilient coin sorting pad for imparting motion to a plurality of coins is provided, the resilient coin sorting pad designed to be coupled to a rotatable disc of a coin sorter, the resilient coin sorting pad being generally circular and having an outer periphery edge. The resilient coin sorting pad comprises a lower foam layer having a top surface, an upper skin layer coupled to the top surface of the foam layer, and a layer of mesh material. According to some embodiments, the upper skin layer comprises at least one layer of nitrile rubber and the layer of mesh material is nylon fiber mesh. According to some embodiments, the upper skin layer comprises at least two layers of nitrile rubber and the layer of mesh material is positioned between the at least two layers of nitrile rubber.
US12333876B1
The present disclosure provides systems and techniques for dynamically operating a peripheral component of a gun, such as a flashlight, an electronic sight, or a haptic motor. The gun may perform an authentication procedure to identify a user operating the gun, retrieve a configuration file from memory housed in the gun in response to the authentication procedure, and perform a function at the peripheral component based on the configuration file indicating that the function is to be performed for the user. The gun may collect authentication data, such as biometric data or token data, and the gun may identify the user operating the gun based on the authentication data. The user operating the gun may be identified in response to matching the collected authentication data to authentication data stored in the memory, and the gun may determine the function based on the configuration file indicating the function for the user.
US12333869B2
A method for monitoring the travel speed of a bicycle, in particular a pedelec. The method includes: providing a power supply for a speed signal transmitter, ascertaining a first speed for the bicycle, interrupting the power supply for the speed signal transmitter for a specifiable interruption time span, while the power supply is switched off, ascertaining a second speed, ascertaining a comparison result by comparing the ascertained first and second speed, and recognizing a faulty speed signal transmitter as a function of the result of the comparison.
US12333862B2
An information processing device according to the present invention includes: a storage means that stores reference attribute information representing an attribute of a person corresponding to a target place; an extraction means that extracts person attribute information representing an attribute of a person in a captured image obtained by capturing an image of the target place; and a detection means that detects a predetermined person in the captured image based on the reference attribute information and the person attribute information.
US12333859B2
An information processing system is provided. The information processing system includes first and second information processors. The first information processor obtains a first moving image including a face and detecting an eye from two or more first images among the first moving image. The first information processor detects a pupil from the eye detected from the first image, calculating its size, and performing learning using a change over time in the size of the pupil. The second information processor obtains a second moving image including a face and detecting an eye from two or more second images among the second moving image. The second information processor detects a pupil from the eye detected from the second image, calculating its size, and performing inference on the change over time in the size of the pupil on the basis of the result of the learning performed by the first information processor.
US12333853B2
A facial parsing method and apparatus, a facial parsing network training method and apparatus, an electronic device and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, which relate to the field of artificial intelligence. The facial parsing method includes inputting a facial image into a pre-trained facial parsing neural network; extracting a semantic feature of the facial image by using a semantic perception sub-network; extracting a boundary feature of the facial image by using a boundary perception sub-network; and processing the cascaded semantic feature and boundary feature by using a fusion sub-network, to obtain a facial region to which each pixel in the facial image belongs. The method can improve the resolution capability of a neural network for boundary pixels between different facial regions of a facial image, thereby improving the precision of facial parsing.
US12333850B2
The present disclosure relates to a fingerprint identification method, device, an electronic apparatus and a storage medium. The fingerprint identification method includes: capturing a fingerprint by a fingerprint sensor, identifying matching pairs of minutiae between the captured fingerprint and a reference fingerprint; calculating a first matching result based on the minutia matching pairs; identifying minutia surrounding features for each minutia of the captured fingerprint in the minutia matching pairs; determining, for each minutia in the minutia matching pairs, whether the minutia surrounding features of the captured fingerprint match with minutia surrounding features of the reference fingerprint; calculating a second matching result based on the determination; and generating an identification result based on the first matching result and the second matching result.
US12333837B2
A computer-implemented method is provided. The method includes: obtaining a sample text and a sample image corresponding to the sample text; labeling a true semantic tag for the sample text according to a first preset rule; obtaining a text feature representation of the sample text and a predicted semantic tag output by a text coding sub-model; obtaining an image feature representation of the sample image output by an image coding sub-model; calculating a first loss based on the true semantic tag and the predicted semantic tag; calculating a contrast loss based on the text feature representation of the sample text and the image feature representation of the sample image; adjusting parameters of the text coding sub-model based on the first loss and the contrast loss; and adjusting parameters of the image coding sub-model based on the contrast loss.
US12333835B2
A system for extracting useful information from the documents associated with various courts' dockets uses a bidirectional long short-term memory (BiLSTM)-Attention-conditional random fields (CRF) architecture having a multi-headed output layer producing an outcome and settlement classification. The system includes a BiLSTM layer, an attention layer, a CRF layer, and a sigmoid layer that interact to produce the outcome and settlement classification.
US12333834B2
At least one processor of an image processing system acquires a target object image including a target object. The at least one processor detects, from the target object image, a plurality of line segments located relatively on an outer side based on predetermined line segment detection processing. The at least one processor acquires, based on the plurality of line segments, information about an outline of the target object in the target object image. The at least one processor processes, based on the information, at least a part of the target object image so that the outline matches or approximates a predetermined outline.
US12333829B2
A system comprising one or more processors and one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computing instructions that, when executed on the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations including: receiving sensor data detected by one or more image sensors in a vehicle, wherein the sensor data is representative of driver movements of a driver in the vehicle; categorizing the sensor data as driver postures representative of actions of the driver in the vehicle; rotating and scaling the driver postures to be standardized for different drivers and for different locations of the one or more image sensors within different vehicles; analyzing the sensor data to determine a reference position of the driver in the vehicle; and storing, in a database, the driver postures, as rotated and scaled, and the reference position of the driver in the vehicle. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US12333826B2
A method for detecting obstacles around a vehicle includes acquiring driving information of the vehicle; acquiring the target position information of a lane line on either side of the vehicle according to the driving information of the vehicle; acquiring an alarm area corresponding to the lane line on either side according to the target position information of the lane line on either side; and judging whether an obstacle exists in the alarm area by performing an obstacle detection in the alarm area. An electronic device and a non-transitory computer readable storage medium are also provided.
US12333819B2
A method includes obtaining, by a processing device, an impact analysis configuration related to an image sensor operation type for an autonomous vehicle (AV), receiving, by the processing device, image data from a sensing system including at least one image sensor of the AV, causing, by the processing device, fault detection to be performed based on the image data, causing, by the processing device, a fault notification to be generated using the impact analysis configuration, and sending, by the processing device to a data processing system of the AV, the fault notification to perform at least one action to address the fault notification. The fault notification includes a fault summary related to the image sensor operation type.
US12333811B2
A method for recognizing long-range activities in videos includes segmenting an input video stream to generate multiple frame sets. For each of the frame sets, a frame with a highest likelihood of including one or more actions of a set of predefined actions is identified regardless of its order in the frame set. A global representation of the input stream is generated based on pooled representations of the identified frames. A long-range activity in the video stream is classified based on the global representation.
US12333810B2
A method of detecting objects in a video includes, for each image in the video, determining a degree of correlation between the image and at least one preceding image in a sequence of images; and obtaining a first measure of energy consumption required for performing an object detection process on the image, obtaining a second measure of energy consumption required for performing an object tracking process for tracking at least one object from a previous image, and comparing the first and second measures of energy. The object detection process is performed on the image if either said degree of correlation is below a threshold level or said first measure of energy is lower than the second measure of energy, and otherwise the object tracking process is performed on the image.
US12333808B2
A system for identifying and timing an athlete during a timed sporting event. The athlete is timed using image recognition technology in which one or more images of the athlete taken during the sporting event by a camera (106a, 106b, or 106c) is time-stamped to generate a finish time for the athlete. The athlete is identified by comparing one of the images taken during the sporting event with a profile image of the athlete.
US12333807B2
In a system including a processor and memory, the memory includes instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to control the system to perform receiving a video stream capturing objects; identifying, based on the received video stream, object areas corresponding to the objects, respectively; tracking the object areas in the received video stream; generating, based on the tracking of the object areas, visual data sets at a plurality of times, wherein each visual data set is generated at a different time and includes visual data representing each object area; determining a priority of each visual data in each visual data set; selecting, based on the determined priority of each visual data, a group of the visual data to be transmitted to a remote system; and transmitting, to the remote system, the selected group of the visual data.
US12333803B2
An augmented reality device is provided. The augmented reality device includes a display, a camera, a sensor, and at least one processor, wherein the at least one processor is configured to detect a gaze direction of a user by using the sensor, capture a first image in the gaze direction of the user by using the camera, recognize a first object included in the captured first image, generate first object data including first content classification information to which the recognized first object belongs, acquire, based on the first object data, first priority data including a priority for the first content classification information, select, based on the acquired first priority data, a first object of interest among at least one object included in the first image acquired using the camera, and display a first augmented reality content including information on the selected first object of interest.
US12333801B2
An example method includes receiving georeferenced satellite images of a geographic region that includes electrical assets. Segmentation maps are generated by providing the georeferenced satellite images to fully convolutional networks to classify pixels of the georeferenced satellite images as either trees or non-trees. Rasters of the geographic region are generated based on the segmentation maps and vectors are generated based on the rasters. A vector includes one or more polygons, a polygon representing a tree and having a set of coordinates defining the polygon. Canopy height models are generated based on received digital surface models. The canopy height models include heights of trees in the geographic region. Heights of trees are associated with polygons. A height of a polygon is compared to a distance between the polygon and an electrical asset to identify a tree as a potential hazard. Notifications thereof are provided.
US12333798B2
Methods and structures are presented for implementing an automatic target recognition system as a convolutional neural network (CNN) in a satellite or other environment with constrained resources, such as limited memory capacity and limited processing capability. For example, this allows for the automatic target recognition to be implemented on a field programmable gate array (FPGA). Image data is split into subsets of contiguous pixels, with the subsets processed in parallel in a CNN of a corresponding processing node using quantized weight values that are determined in a training process that accounts for the constraints of the automatic target recognition system. The results of the automatic target recognition process is based on the combined output of the processing nodes.
US12333795B2
Disclosed are a method for processing multimodal data using a neural network, a device, and a medium, and relates to the field of artificial intelligence and, in particular to multimodal data processing, video classification, and deep learning. The neural network includes: an input subnetwork configured to receive the multimodal data to output respective first features of a plurality of modalities; a plurality of cross-modal feature subnetworks, each of which is configured to receive respective first features of two corresponding modalities to output a cross-modal feature corresponding to the two modalities; a plurality of cross-modal fusion subnetworks, each of which is configured to receive at least one cross-modal feature corresponding to a corresponding target modality and other modalities to output a second feature of the target modality; and an output subnetwork configured to receive respective second features of the plurality of modalities to output a processing result of the multimodal data.
US12333784B2
Provided are a trajectory prediction method and device, a storage medium, and a computer program to avoid low accuracy and low reliability of a prediction result in conventional trajectory prediction methods. A trajectory prediction neural network acquires input current trajectory data and current map data of current environment when a moving subject moves in the current environment. The current trajectory data and the current map data are expressed as a current trajectory point set and a current map point set in a high-dimensional space. A global scene feature is extracted according to the current trajectory point set and the current map point set. The global scene feature has a trajectory feature and a map feature of the current environment. Multiple prediction trajectory point sets of the moving subject and a probability corresponding to each prediction trajectory point set are predicted and output according to the global scene feature.
US12333783B2
Systems and methods for anatomical identification using ultrasonic imaging and acoustic shadow detection methods are provided. At least some embodiments of the disclosure comprise the following steps: acquiring ultrasound image; detecting shadow region; extracting shadow profile; filtering shadow profile with matched filter; identifying anatomical landmarks within shadow; extracting features of anatomical landmarks; classifying anatomy, and determining with a high degree of confidence that the target anatomy is depicted in the image. A determination is made as to the degree of confidence that the target anatomy is depicted in the image. Conditionally, graphics indicating presence and position of target anatomy is displayed including disposition, location and orientation thereof.
US12333772B2
Key point correction system, key point correction method, and nontransitory computer readable medium
A key point correction apparatus detects a plurality of key points of a target object from each of a plurality of captured images. The key point correction apparatus decides whether or not a plurality of key points of the target object detected from the captured image satisfy an appropriacy condition. When the key points of the target object satisfy the appropriacy condition, the key point correction apparatus determines a correction parameter regarding the target object using the key points. When a correction parameter has been determined for the target object detected from the captured image, the key point correction apparatus corrects the key points of the target object using a correction parameter.
US12333771B2
A method of comparing and determining three-dimensional (3D) identity of a tool mark includes: obtaining a 3D image of a suspect tool and a tool mark; extracting a contact portion of the suspect tool contributed to formation of the tool mark from the 3D image of the suspect tool; determining a matching area by comparing a shape of the contact portion 12 of the suspect tool 10 with a shape of the tool mark 20; and calculating a matching rate between the contact portion of the suspect tool and the tool mark.
US12333760B1
A system for estimating a three dimensional pose of one or more persons in a scene is disclosed herein. The system includes one or more cameras and a data processor configured to execute computer executable instructions. The computer executable instructions include: (i) receiving the one or more images of the scene from the one or more cameras; (ii) extracting features from the one or more images of the scene for providing inputs to a three dimensional pose estimation neural network; (iii) generating, by using the three dimensional pose estimation neural network, vertices of a canonical human mesh model for the one or more images of the scene; (iv) retrieving a weight matrix from an annotation server that corresponds to a desired keypoint set; and (v) generating the desired keypoint set by multiplying the retrieved weight matrix with the vertices of the canonical human mesh model.
US12333753B2
A method of feature matching in images captured from camera viewpoints uses the epipolar geometry of the viewpoints to define a geometrically-constrained region in a second image corresponding to a first feature in a first image; comparing the local descriptor of the first feature with local descriptors of features in the second image to determine respective measures of similarity; identifying, from the features located in the geometrically-constrained region, (i) a geometric best match and (ii) a geometric next-best match to the first feature; identifying a global best match to the first feature; performing a first comparison of the measures of similarity for the geometric best match and the global best match; performing a second comparison of the measures of similarity for the geometric best match and the geometric next-best match; and, if thresholds are met, selecting the geometric best match feature in the second image.
US12333742B2
An object tracking integration method and an integrating apparatus are provided. In the method, one or more first images and one or more second images are obtained. The first image is captured from a first capturing apparatus, and the second image is captured from a second capturing apparatus. One or more target objects in the first image and in the second image are detected. A detection result of the target object in the first image and a detection result of the target object in the second image are matched. The detection result of the target object is updated according to a matching result between the detection results of the first image and the second image. Accordingly, the accuracy of the association and the monitoring range may be improved.
US12333738B2
At least one example embodiment provides a method including obtaining surface information of a patient using a camera; determining a motion of the patient based on the surface information; and providing an indicator of a region of interest (ROI) of the patient based on the motion.
US12333735B2
Methods and systems are provided for an insulation system of a stator. In one example, a method may include receiving images of the stator at a processor of a computing system and feeding the images to a deep learning tool to generate processed images by segmenting and cropping the images according to slots identified in the images. Further, the varnish in the processed images may be quantified based on fluorescence of the varnish, converted into estimated varnish fill percentages, based on an output from analysis of the processed images, and the estimated varnish fill percentages may be displayed in a report.
US12333732B2
The present disclosure provides methods and systems for image-based nerve fiber extraction. The methods may include obtaining an anatomical image of a subject and a diffusion image of the subject. The subject may include at least one region of interest (ROI) that relates to extraction of at least one target nerve fiber in the subject. The methods may further include determining, based on the anatomical image, the at least one ROI in the diffusion image; and extracting, from the diffusion image, at least one of the at least one target nerve fiber based on the at least one ROI.
US12333719B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for processing digital images to predict at least one continuous value comprising receiving one or more digital medical images, determining whether the one or more digital medical images includes at least one salient region, upon determining that the one or more digital medical images includes the at least one salient region, predicting, by a trained machine learning system, at least one continuous value corresponding to the at least one salient region, and outputting the at least one continuous value to an electronic storage device and/or display.
US12333718B2
A computer is caused to perform processing of: acquiring a plurality of medical images generated based on signals detected by a catheter inserted into a lumen organ while the catheter is moving a sensor along a longitudinal direction of the lumen organ, the lumen organ including a main trunk, a side branch branched from the main trunk, and a bifurcated portion of the main trunk and the side branch; and recognizing a main trunk cross-section, a side branch cross-section, and a bifurcated portion cross-section by inputting the acquired medical images into a learning model configured to recognize the main trunk cross-section, the side branch cross-section, and the bifurcated portion cross-section.
US12333714B2
Methods and systems of estimating b-values. One system including an electronic processor configured to receive a set of medical images associated with a patient, where the set of medical images are diffusion-weighted images. The electronic processor is also configured to extract a set of patches from each medical image included in the set of medical images. The electronic processor is also configured to determine, via an estimation model trained using machine learning, a set of estimated b-values, where each estimated b-value is associated with a patch included in the set of patches. The electronic processor is also configured to determine a b-value for each of the medical images included in the set of medical images, where the b-value is based on the set of estimated b-values.
US12333713B2
A computer-implemented method to determine placement of transducers on a subject's body, the method including: selecting a plurality of intersecting line segment pairs on an image of the subject's body, each of the line segment pairs intersecting in a region of the image corresponding to a tumor in the subject's body, each of the line segment pairs corresponding to locations to place the transducers on the subject's body; determining a pair value for each of the intersecting line segment pairs, each pair value based on a length of each line segment of the corresponding intersecting line segment pair; selecting one or more intersecting line segment pairs based on the pair values to obtain one or more selected intersecting line segment pairs; and outputting the locations to place the transducers on the subject's body corresponding to the one or more selected intersecting line segment pairs.
US12333709B2
An apparatus for inspecting a display panel includes a light source irradiating light toward a surface of the display panel; a light detector detecting light reflected from a region of interest on the surface of the display panel to generate a captured image; a lens system including at least one lens receiving the reflected light and providing reflected light to the light detector; and an analyzer quantifying a degree of curvature of the region of interest based on a result of comparing modeling data including distribution of reference light intensity for the region of interest with detection data corresponding to the captured image, and determining whether the display panel is defective based on a quantified result.
US12333699B2
A method automatically detects defects during borescoping of an engine. A video borescope is inserted into the engine such that, engine blades can be moved successively through the image region of the borescope. A possible defect on an engine blade is identified by image recognition on the basis of a video borescope frame. The movement of the engine blades in the image region is detected by comparing successive frames. The possible defect is tracked by optical image recognition on the basis of the successive frames used for detecting the movement. In a condition where a trace of the possible defect on the video image corresponds to the detected movement in terms of direction and speed over a predefined length, the possible defect is identified as an actual defect.
US12333696B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a memory, an image sensor including light receiving elements each including at least two sub light receiving elements, and an image signal processor. The image signal processor is configured to obtain images corresponding to light from outside by using the image sensor, the images including at least a raw image, a first sub image, and a second sub image, the first sub image being an image corresponding to light detected by at least one first sub light, the second sub image being an image corresponding to light detected by at least one second sub light, identify a luminance ratio between the first sub image and the second sub image, identify a defect in the raw image, based on the luminance ratio, and perform a function corresponding to a type of the defect.
US12333695B2
The invention provides a sample observation system including a scanning electron microscope and a calculator. The calculator: (1) acquires a plurality of images captured by the scanning electron microscope; (2) acquires, from the plurality of images, a learning defect image including a defect portion and a learning reference image not including the defect portion; (3) calculates estimation processing parameters by using the learning defect image and the learning reference image; (4) acquires an inspection defect image including a defect portion; and (5) estimates a pseudo reference image by using the estimation processing parameters and the inspection defect image.
US12333694B2
This application provides an image processing method, including: adaptively determining at least one interpolation point based on feature information or dynamic metadata of a to-be-processed image, and determining the at least one interpolation point and a modified spline curve that passes through the at least one interpolation point, where the modified spline curve includes at least one of a linear spline curve or a cubic spline curve; and performing tone mapping on the to-be-processed image based on a modified tone mapping curve, where the modified tone mapping curve includes at least a part of an initial tone mapping curve and the modified spline curve. According to the method provided in this application, the tone mapping curve can be adaptively modified based on a scene requirement, so that images in various scenes can have a good display effect.
US12333692B2
The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media that modify digital images via multi-layered scene completion techniques facilitated by artificial intelligence. For instance, in some embodiments, the disclosed systems receive a digital image portraying a first object and a second object against a background, where the first object occludes a portion of the second object. Additionally, the disclosed systems pre-process the digital image to generate a first content fill for the portion of the second object occluded by the first object and a second content fill for a portion of the background occluded by the second object. After pre-processing, the disclosed systems detect one or more user interactions to move or delete the first object from the digital image. The disclosed systems further modify the digital image by moving or deleting the first object and exposing the first content fill for the portion of the second object.
US12333691B2
The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media that modify digital images via scene-based editing using image understanding facilitated by artificial intelligence. For example, in one or more embodiments the disclosed systems utilize generative machine learning models to create modified digital images portraying human subjects. In particular, the disclosed systems generate modified digital images by performing infill modifications to complete a digital image or human inpainting for portions of a digital image that portrays a human. Moreover, in some embodiments, the disclosed systems perform reposing of subjects portrayed within a digital image to generate modified digital images. In addition, the disclosed systems in some embodiments perform facial expression transfer and facial expression animations to generate modified digital images or animations.
US12333688B2
Apparatuses, systems, and techniques are presented to train and utilize one or more neural networks. A denoising diffusion generative adversarial network (denoising diffusion GAN) reduces a number of denoising steps during a reverse process. The denoising diffusion GAN does not assume a Gaussian distribution for large steps of the denoising process and applies a multi-model model to permit denoising with fewer steps. Systems and methods further minimize a divergence between a diffused real data distribution and a diffused generator distribution over several timesteps. Accordingly, various embodiments may enable faster sample generation, in which the samples are generated from noise using the denoising diffusion GAN.
US12333673B2
An image processor processes an image having color pixels (R, G, B) arranged in a Bayer pattern. The image processor provides a de-correlated image composed of three types of components (Y, Cr, Cb). The image processor provides a component of the first type (Y) as a substitute for a pixel of the first type (G), whereby the component of the first type (Y) is a weighted combination of a cluster of pixels that includes the pixel of the first type (G) and neighboring pixels, wherein neighboring pixels of the second and third type (R, B) have an overall positive weighting factor corresponding to an overall addition of neighboring pixels of the second and third type (R, B) to the pixel of the first type (G). The image processor also provides a component of the second type (Cr) and a component of the third type (Cb) in similar fashion.
US12333671B2
The present disclosure relates to a data quantization processing method and apparatus, an electronic device, and a storage medium. The apparatus includes a control unit having an instruction caching unit, an instruction processing unit, and a storage queue unit. The instruction caching unit is configured to store a calculation instruction associated with an artificial neural network operation, the instruction processing unit is configured to parse the calculation instruction to obtain a plurality of operation instructions, and the storage queue unit is configured to store an instruction queue. The instruction queue includes a plurality of operation instructions or calculation instructions to be executed in an order of the queue. The above-mentioned method improves the operation precision of related products during a neural network model operation.
US12333662B2
An electronic device such as a head-mounted device may present extended reality content such as a representation of a three-dimensional environment. The representation of the three-dimensional environment may be changed between different viewing modes having different immersion levels in response to user input. The three-dimensional environment may represent a multiuser communication session. A multiuser communication session may be saved and subsequently viewed as a replay. There may be an interactive virtual object within the replay of the multiuser communication session. The pose of the interactive virtual object may be manipulated by a user while the replay is paused. Some multiuser communication sessions may be hierarchical multiuser communication sessions with a presenter and audience members. The presenter and audience members may receive generalized feedback based on the audience members during the presentation. A participant may have their role changed between audience member and presenter during the presentation.
US12333647B2
Systems and methods for dynamically controlling a knowledge scope of artificial intelligence (AI) characters are provided. An example method includes associating a knowledge store with an AI character generated by an AI character model, where the AI character is a virtual character in a virtual world; determining context parameters for the AI character; defining, based on the context parameters, a scope of knowledge available to the AI character from a knowledge store; constricting access of the AI character to the knowledge store based on the defined scope of knowledge; monitoring changes in the context parameters; and dynamically adjusting the scope of knowledge based on the changes in the context parameters.
US12333646B2
A method and device are provided for processing images. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving an image is received of a scene having a plurality of real objects and determining if at least one of these real objects is a reference object stored in a database. Subsequently, candidate shadow map of the reference object identified is retrieved when available and when a reference object cannot be identified, an object in the scene with adequate parameters is selected and the candidate shadow maps of this new reference object using said lighting parameters is computed.
US12333643B2
In accordance with some embodiments, exemplary processes for changing (e.g., non-linearly) the size of a virtual object are described.
US12333641B2
A method and apparatus are provided for compressing vertex parameter data in a 3D computer graphic system, where the vertex parameter data is a data block relating to a plurality of vertices used for rendering an image. The data relating to each vertex includes multiple byte data relating to at least one parameter. The parameters include X, Y and Z coordinates and further coordinates for texturing and shading. The multiple byte data is divided into individual bytes and bytes with corresponding byte positions relating to each vertex are grouped together to form a plurality of byte blocks.
US12333629B2
An emergency response system (ERS) configured to acquire equipment location data, target terminal location data, and emergency responder terminal location data; determine a horizontal distance measure between the emergency responder terminal and a select unit of equipment, determine a vertical distance measure between the emergency responder terminal and a select unit of equipment, engage a camera component of the emergency responder terminal to capture images of at least a portion of the surrounding real-world scene, providing such images for display on the touchscreen display of the emergency responder terminal, and/or providing an equipment display object for display on the touchscreen of the emergency responder terminal such that, when an image provided for display spans a region of the real-world scene within which the equipment is located, the equipment display object dynamically overlays a segment of the image associated with the acquired equipment location data.
US12333626B2
A processor, method and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for handling data, by obtaining task data describing a task to be executed in the form of a plurality of operations on data, the task data further defining an operation space of said data, analyzing each of the operations to define transformation data comprising transformation instruction representing a transform into an associated operation-specific local spaces. In case transformation instructions to get to the operation-specific local space for an operation are producing less dimensions compared to the operation space, one or more operation-specific arguments are stored in a data field corresponding to a dimension not produced by the transformation instructions in the transformation data corresponding to the operation.
US12333625B2
A system and method for training a neural network. In some embodiments, the system includes a computational storage device including a backing store. The computational storage device may be configured to: store, in the backing store, an embedding table for a neural network embedding operation; receive a first index vector including a first index and a second index; retrieve, from the backing store: a first row of the embedding table, corresponding to the first index, and a second row of the embedding table, corresponding to the second index; and calculate a first embedded vector based on the first row and the second row.
US12333624B1
A gloss value of a clear topcoat (e.g., flood of varnish) on a substrate relative to a bare substrate is an indicator of digital watermark robustness for an encoded signal carried by modulating the clear topcoat. This measurement can be used to predict encoded signal robustness prior to printing. One claim is directed to an image processing method comprising: obtaining a first gloss value corresponding to a layer comprising a matte or gloss topcoat flooded over a substrate; obtaining a second gloss value corresponding to the substrate; and determining a relationship between the first gloss value and the second gloss value to determine digital watermark signal robustness of a sparse mark pattern provided on the substrate with the matte or gloss topcoat. Of course, other claims are combinations are described as well.
US12333619B2
A storing unit stores therein contract information indicating, with respect to each of a plurality of devices rented to a user and included in a system, an expiration time point at which a rental contract of each of the plurality of devices expires and communication channel information indicating inter-device communication channels between the plurality of devices. A processing unit determines, based on the contract information and the communication channel information, a second device to experience effect of expiration of the rental contract of a first device at a first time point amongst the plurality of devices, and outputs information indicating the effect on the second device.
US12333616B1
A computing platform is configured to (1) extract a first source dataset from a first database containing data about a set of product-level ingredients, (2) extract a second source dataset from a second database containing data about food products, (3) merge the first and second source datasets into a first merged dataset, (4) update the first merged dataset by inserting a column representing a data variable that, for each product-level ingredient in the set, provides a respective dry mass measurement of the respective product-level ingredient within a corresponding food product in which the respective product-level ingredient is included, (5) extract a third source dataset from a third database containing environmental-impact values for ingredients, (6) merge the updated first merged dataset and the third source dataset into a second merged dataset, and (7) determine a group of environmental-impact indicators for each product-level ingredient in the set using the second merged dataset.
US12333613B2
A system for providing recommendations to a user for reducing spending in response to the user identifying how much to save and considering user spending preferences. The system includes a back-end server having a processor for processing data and information, a communications interface communicatively coupled to the processor, and a memory device storing data and executable code. When the code is executed, the processor can allow the user to enter how much the user wants to save, allow the user to enter information concerning areas that the user does not want to reduce spending, determine what the user is spending on, how much the user is spending and how often the user is spending, and provide recommendations to the user of areas that the user can reduce spending considering the amount the user wants to save and the areas that the user does not want to reduce spending.
US12333606B2
A centralized budget dashboard and report system (CBDRS) includes a memory having non-transitory instructions stored therein; and processing circuitry coupled to the memory, and being configured to execute the non-transitory instructions, thereby causing the processing circuitry to cause a graphical user interface (GUI) to be output by a user interface (UI), the GUI including a first user input field configured to receive a first user input identifying an authorized user to log in to the CBDRS; in response to a successful log in to the CBDRS, obtain master data from the memory, the master data being associated with the authorized user; and update the GUI output by the UI, the updated GUI including a budget dashboard configured to display budget data associated with the authorized user.
US12333604B2
Provided herein are systems, methods, and articles for generating and handling units or records derived from non-commodifiable work products, and the like. The disclosure provides for generating a certification record, including receiving work product data and generating a digitized record derived from the work product data.
US12333601B2
Disclosed herein are methods and systems for dynamic pricing of collective investment vehicles (CIVs). Portfolio composition data that identifies a plurality of portfolio securities of a CIV is received at a pricing server. Pricing data is obtained at the pricing server. A market-dynamic security price is determined at the pricing server for each portfolio security of the plurality of portfolio securities. The market-dynamic security price is dependent at least in part upon market-feed metrics determined from the pricing data. Based on the determined market-dynamic prices, an indicative value of a CIV share is generated at the pricing server. The indicative value of the CIV share is transmitted for publication.
US12333590B2
A method may include receiving data related to a plurality of items and processing the data using a machine learning model. The machine learning model may have been trained to output a score for each of the plurality of items based on one or more target variables and to process the data using a grouped linear regression for groups of items based on sub-divisions of the groups. The method may include storing the output in a data store. Each entry in the data store may include at least an item identifier for an item, a group name, and the score. The method may include receiving search criteria for a search and identifying a set of search results in a group of items. The method may include determining an order of the set of search results and outputting the set of search results.
US12333575B1
Systems, methods and computer readable products are provided for enabling dynamic loading of one or more digital image branding functions associated with one or more distribution rules. A distribution rule is used to target a group of end users that are selected from a dataset mapping a plurality of end-users according to one or more distribution rules. Instructions are forwarded to present an indication the digital image branding function to each member of the end users group.
US12333563B2
An approach to facilitating identity-recognition-based promotions using virtual containers is provided. A first virtual container may be associated with a first virtual item set and identified by a first container identifier. Container instances of the first virtual container that are purchased through a store interface during a first time period may be configured to be activated by users in a game space to obtain item instances of virtual items of the first virtual item set. The first virtual container may be modified to be associated with a second virtual item set and identified by the first container identifier. Container instances of the first virtual container that are purchased during a second time period may be container instances of the modified first virtual container that are configured to be activated by the users in the game space to obtain item instances of virtual items of the second virtual item set.
US12333556B2
Enterprise reputation evaluation techniques are disclosed. Reputation data extracted from each of a plurality of data sources is received. The reputation data is associated with a plurality of physical locations of an enterprise entity. An aggregate reputation score is determined for the entity using at least a portion of the received data. The aggregate reputation score is provided as output.
US12333555B2
A computer system including a processor in communication with a memory and a database may be provided. The processor may be programmed to: (i) execute a query on the database including a list of user identifiers associated with a plurality of users, (ii) receive license data associated with the user identifiers including a list of licenses and respective license renewal data associated with each user, (iii) determine, from the license data, that one or more licenses of a group of users is in a renewal period, (iv) notify each user of the group of users of the one or more licenses in the renewal period, (v) pre-populate a license renewal application for the one or more licenses in the renewal period the group of users, (vi) transmit the pre-populated application to be approved by the group of users, and (vii) receive the approved pre-populated application from the group of users.
US12333552B1
Techniques are disclosed for improving spend approval cycle time in a software-as-service (SasS) electronic spend management system based on community spend approval information. The techniques include the spend management system collecting information about spend approval cycle times across a community of users that use the system. A graphical user interface is then provided by the spend management system to individual customer users of the spend management system where the graphical user interface includes a graphical comparison of the user's individual spend approval cycle time performance against the community's spend approval cycle time performance. By doing so, the individual user can be motivated to improve or maintain his or her spend approval cycle time performance.
US12333549B2
Systems and methods are provided for use in verifying an interaction, between a user and a first party, in which the user is physically present at the first party. One example computer-implemented method includes receiving a data tag request for a transaction, from a first party, and generating a data tag for the transaction where the data tag includes an indicator of a type of user verification for the transaction. The method also includes storing the data tag in a data structure and transmitting the data tag to the first party, in response to the data tag request. The method then includes receiving, by a processing network, an authorization request including a data tag, verifying that the data tag from the authorization request matches the stored data tag, and in response to failed verification of the data tag in the authorization request, removing the data tag from the authorization request.
US12333542B2
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for authentication and authorizing a payment request. In one embodiment, the system includes a server including a first memory and a first electronic processor communicatively connected to the first memory. The first electronic processor is configured to receive the payment request, three-domain secure (3DS) data, and fast ID online (FIDO) data, output an authentication request that includes a portion of the 3DS data and a portion of the FIDO data, receive an authentication response based on the 3DS data and the FIDO data, the authentication response including one or more authentications, output the payment request based on the authentication response, and receive an authorization or a denial of the payment request.
US12333541B2
System and methods and computer program code are provided to transfer value from a first wallet application on a first mobile device to a second wallet application on a second mobile device. Pursuant to some embodiments, the transfer is performed over a short or medium range communications protocol and does not require for either or both devices to be “online” or connected to a remote network device or system.
US12333540B2
A method performed by a session initiation system (SIS) for reducing a time to authenticate a user includes communicating, to a mobile device, session identifying information associated with a session. The mobile device is configured to subsequently communicate at least part of the session identifying information to an authentication server, and the authentication server is configured to subsequently communicate account information associated with the session identifying information to an intermediate gateway. The method also includes receiving, from the intermediate gateway, the account information associated with the session identifying information; and communicating, to the intermediate gateway, a request that specifies the account information, wherein in response to receiving the request, the intermediate gateway is configured to communicate the request to an account server, and wherein the account server is configured to transfer a value amount from a first account specified by the account information to a second account associated with the account server.
US12333538B2
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for a system for authorizing proxy number token requests. The system may comprise a memory storing instructions and at least one processor configured to execute instructions to perform operations. These operations may comprise receiving a first request to use a proxy number token to complete a first action associated with a first entity; authorizing the first request; receiving a second request to use the proxy number token to complete a second action associated with a second entity; determining a modifiable relationship data binding associated with the first and second entities, the modifiable relationship data binding comprising multiple parameters; determining that the second request satisfies the parameters; and authorizing the second request based on a determination that the second request satisfies the parameters.
US12333537B2
Disclosed are systems and methods for generating and augmenting digital instruments that implement electronic transfers. The system converts instruments to a digital format and applies electronic augmentations in the form of metadata or layered optically perceptible data that can be verified or edited. The electronic augmentations are integrated with the digital instrument prior to transmitting the instrument to a third party to initiate transfer execution.
US12333528B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods are provided for enabling a transaction using a token associated with a first payment network to be conducted using a second payment network. When a transaction using a token is submitted to a payment network, the payment network can determine the payment network associated with the token. If the token is associated with a second payment network, a token verification request including the token can be sent to the second payment network. The second payment network can then return a token verification response including a primary account identifier such as a primary account number (PAN) corresponding to the token and a validation result. The transaction may then be processed using the primary account identifier.
US12333526B2
Systems and methods for payment token provisioning with variable risk evaluation are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method may include: an issuer backend: (1) receiving, from an electronic wallet application, a payload comprising an identification of a card to be provisioned to the mobile electronic device; (2) determining that the card is eligible for provisioning to the mobile electronic device; (3) generating a card payload and communicating the card payload to the payment network, wherein the payment network creates a payment token for the card comprising payment token origin information; (4) receiving the payment token from the payment network and generating a risk profile for the payment token; and (5) activating the payment token in response to the validation.
US12333517B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide an intuitive platform for non-contact instructions regarding resource allocation. In this way, a user may utilize one or more specific gestures which are captured, analyzed, and responded to by the system of the invention in order to initiate or complete one or more resource activities such as a resource transfer, resource transfer split, or other resource action.
US12333516B2
A peer-to-peer content provision network is disclosed which implements a privacy-preserving payment mechanism for rewarding actors in the network (for example, a content supplier, a content distributor and storage-contributing peers). To reward some or all of those actors, a user device obtains, from a token service, anonymous digital payment tokens which include an ephemeral public key. Payment is achieved by adding an assignment layer to the token which involves combining a payee ephemeral public key with the token, and applying a digital signature to the combination using the ephemeral private key corresponding to the ephemeral public key in the token. Subsequent assignments can be made by the payee by adding a further assignment layer to the token using a payee ephemeral private key which pairs with the payee ephemeral public key in the received token. A payment service can divide a payment from the user between actors in the network.
US12333512B2
A robot fleet management platform includes a job configuration system that determines tasks to be performed by robots of a robot fleet based on a job request and a first fleet objective. A proxy service applies fleet configuration services to the tasks to produce a data structure. An intelligence layer activates intelligence services to produce a robot task and associated contextual information that facilitates robot selection and task ordering. A job workflow system generates a workflow defining a performance order of the tasks. A workflow simulation system simulates performance of the job request based on the workflow to recursively redefine the tasks, the data structure, or the workflow until the simulation result satisfies a second fleet objective. In response to the simulation result satisfying the set of fleet objectives, a plan generator generates a job execution plan based on the set of robot tasks, the data structure, and the workflow.
US12333502B2
A maintenance planning system for a production plant comprises: a production planning system for determining a production sequence for the production plant; an automation system for controlling production in the production plant; a state monitoring system for acquiring states of the production plant and its components; and a business planning system for the economic management of production and maintenance in the production plant. The maintenance planning system is designed for determining maintenance measures for the production plant. When determining the maintenance measures, the maintenance planning system takes into account the information of the production planning system, the automation system, the state monitoring system and the business planning system and performs optimization with regard to an economic utilization of the production plant. The disclosure further relates to a method for determining maintenance measures for a production plant and corresponding computer programs.
US12333500B2
An apparatus, including a central processing computer which is specially programmed to process recruitment, job searching, project searching, or scheduling, information; and a distributed ledger and blockchain technology system. The central processing computer provides or transmits an electronic forum to a user communication device, wherein the central processing computer receives, from a user communication device, information for engaging in a recruitment, job searching, project searching, or scheduling, activity, in or via the electronic forum, and the central processing computer provides a videoconference call between the individual and an employer or hiring entity or between the individual and a job applicant. Upon a conclusion of the electronic forum, the central processing computer generates an electronic forum report containing information regarding an activity or activities of the individual in or during the electronic forum. The electronic forum report is stored in the distributed ledger and blockchain technology system.
US12333499B2
One or more embodiments describe techniques for proactively connecting members of an organization together based on detected interest in a particular topic. The system analyzes a profile of a member to detect a particular topic associated with the member, and based on evaluating a set of interactions that another member of the organization had regarding the particular topic, generates an overall connection score for rating a connection between the second member and the particular topic. Responsive to determining that the overall connection score meets a threshold value, the system transmits a communication to generate a connection between the two members, and any other members whose overall connection scores meet the threshold value, for initiating collaboration on the particular topic amongst the various connected members.
US12333497B2
Auditing data containing sensitive data are stored in a data structure comprising data objects. Each data object comprises one or more pairs of a name and a value. Pairs that are flagged or identified as containing sensitive data are partially encrypted; the value is encrypted using an asymmetric key and the name corresponding to the encrypted value remains unencrypted. Some pairs that are not flagged or identified as containing sensitive data are left unencrypted. Unencrypted data may be stored in the partially encrypted auditing data as plain text. The auditing data may be analyzed to generate business metrics and identify application errors. The auditing data may also be queried, and data objects containing unencrypted pairs and/or partially encrypted pairs may be returned based on matching unencrypted names and/or values to the data query.
US12333476B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining first positional information comprising a location of a non-stationary entity mobile within an environment, the first positional information obtained from a service provider monitoring a positional status of the non-stationary entity within the environment. A path of the non-stationary entity is predicted according to the first positional information. A delivery device mobile within the environment is directed according to the predicted path to deliver an item to the non-stationary entity. Second positional information is obtained, identifying a location of the delivery device within the environment. A separation distance is calculated between the location of the non-stationary entity and the location of the delivery device within the environment and a delivery opportunity is detected based upon the separation distance not exceeding a threshold distance. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US12333471B2
A method, computer program product, and computing system for initiating a bespoke journey concerning a business process transition event; providing information concerning the bespoke journey to a plurality of recipients participating in the business process transition event; enabling a virtual chatbot as a point-of-contact concerning the bespoke journey; and gathering information from the plurality of recipients concerning the bespoke journey via the virtual chatbot.
US12333467B2
Disclosed is a method, performed by an electronic device, for conflict process control. The method comprises obtaining a first data set from one or more systems; determining, based on the first data set and a predictive model having one or more parameters, one or more conflict data patterns indicative of a conflict; and predicting, based on the one or more conflict data patterns, a conflict result parameter and a confidence score associated with the conflict result parameter.
US12333465B2
Detection, aggregation, and distribution of user and team effectiveness includes detecting, using one or more machine learning algorithms, user fatigue levels, based, at least in part, on detected attributes and evaluating and/or classifying, using one or more machine learning algorithms, user fatigue levels, based, at least in part, on detected attributes. Detection, aggregation, and distribution of user and team effectiveness further includes creating, using a plurality of artificial intelligence algorithms, a plurality of inference models, based at least in part on detected and evaluated and/or classified user fatigue levels, predicting, by a machine learning predictive services algorithm, using the plurality of created inference models, user effectiveness at different intervals, and providing, by the machine learning predictive services algorithm, effectiveness weights for requested collaboration sessions that include the user.
US12333463B2
Systems and methods for generating and providing experience recommendations to members of a task facilitation service are provided. A task recommendation system can identify a set of experience recommendations within a geographic region. These experience recommendations are ordered based on a member profile. The ordered experience recommendations are provided such that one or more experience recommendations can be selected for presentation to the member. When the member selects an experience recommendation, tasks corresponding to the experience recommendation are generated and performance of these tasks is monitored. The member profile is updated based on the performance of these tasks, the selected experience recommendation, and feedback corresponding to performance of these tasks.
US12333462B2
A method can include receiving monitoring information associated with a machine learning (ML) or artificial intelligence (AI) workload implemented by an edge compute unit of a plurality of edge compute units. Status information corresponding to a plurality of connected edge assets can be received, the plurality of edge compute units and connected edge assets included in a fleet of edge devices. A remote fleet management graphical user interface (GUI) can display a portion of the monitoring or status information for a subset of the fleet of edge devices, based on a user selection input, and can receive a user configuration input indicative of an updated configuration associated with at least one edge compute unit of the fleet. A cloud computing environment can transmit control information corresponding to the updated configuration to the at least one edge compute unit.
US12333461B2
An online concierge system iteratively makes a batch of one or more orders available to an increasing number of shoppers to choose to fulfill. Each shopper may choose to accept or reject a batch for fulfillment. To improve batch acceptance and matching between batches and shoppers, the batches are scored with respect to expected resource costs, likelihood of acceptance by the shopper, and/or other quality metrics to iteratively offer the batch to an increasing number of shoppers (prioritizing the scoring factors) until a shopper accepts. The number of shoppers notified of the batch and the frequency that additional shoppers are selected may vary based on characteristics of the batch and likelihood the batch will be accepted by a shopper.
US12333459B2
Methods for optimizing metro operation scheduling in a smart city are provided. The method may be realized by an Internet of Things system for optimizing metro operation scheduling in a smart city including a user platform, a service platform, a management platform, a sensor network platform, and an object platform. The method may be executed by the management platform, and may comprises: obtaining, based on the object platform, passenger flow data of at least one metro station related to a target station by the sensor network platform; determining predicted passenger flow data of the target station in a target period of time based on the passenger flow data of the at least one metro station; and determining an operation scheduling scheme of the target station in the target period of time based on the predicted passenger flow data, the operation scheduling scheme including at least a metro departure interval.
US12333456B2
In some implementations, a method for providing a decentralized parking fulfillment service may include executing, by a first processor of a connected computing device, a first artificial intelligence network. In addition, the decentralized parking fulfillment service may include executing, by a second processor of a connected vehicle, a second artificial intelligence network. The decentralized parking fulfillment service may include providing the decentralized parking fulfillment service including solving, by the first artificial intelligence network and the second artificial intelligence network, a function that determines a parking space for the connected vehicle. In some implementations, a decentralized parking fulfillment system for providing the decentralized parking fulfillment system includes a parking lot agent stored in a first non-transitory memory of the connected computing device and a vehicle parking agent stored in a second non-transitory memory of the connected vehicle.
US12333453B2
Disclosed is a method in which first information from an apparatus or a system is obtained. The first information is used to determine a first mode of communication for transferring access information to a box installation. Using the first information, the first mode of communication for transferring the access information to the box installation is determined. The access information is transferred to the box installation using the first mode of communication in order to obtain access to the box installation. Further, apparatuses and computer programs that are able to control and/or perform the respective methods are disclosed.
US12333451B2
Interpretable supervised anomaly detection for determining reasons for unsupervised anomaly decision
Techniques are provided for determining reasons for unsupervised anomaly decisions. One method comprises obtaining values of predefined features associated with a remote user device; applying the predefined feature values to an unsupervised anomaly detection model that generates an unsupervised anomaly decision; applying the predefined feature values to a supervised anomaly detection model that generates a supervised anomaly decision; determining a third anomaly decision using the unsupervised anomaly decision; and determining reasons for the third anomaly decision by analyzing the supervised anomaly decision. The supervised anomaly detection model can be trained using the unsupervised anomaly decision and/or anomalous training data based on known anomalies. The third anomaly decision can be based on the supervised anomaly decision and the unsupervised anomaly decision using ensemble techniques.
US12333450B1
Devices and techniques are generally described for sample size prediction for online activity. In various examples, first data related to a first sample of users interacting with an online service during a first time period may be received. In some cases, first key performance indicator (KPI) data related to the first sample of users' interaction with the online service may be received. A predicted sample size of users that will interact with the online service for a second time period following the first time period may be predicted. A predicted statistical power may be determined using the predicted sample size. In some examples, a minimum amount of time to route traffic to the online service may be determined based at least in part on the predicted statistical power.
US12333448B2
In an example embodiment, a machine learned model is utilized for identifying duplicate crash dumps. After a developer submits code, corresponding test cases are used to ensure the quality of the software delivery. Test failures can occur during this period, such as crashes, errors, and timeouts. Since it takes time for developers to resolve them, many duplicate failures can occur during this time period. In some embodiments, trash triggering is the most time-consuming task of development, and thus if duplicate crash failures can be automatically identified, the degree of automation will be significantly enhanced. To locate such duplicates, a training-based machine learned model uses component information of an in-memory database system to achieve better crash similarity comparison.
US12333440B2
According to an embodiment, a first signal processing apparatus includes one or more hardware processors configured to function as a signal processing unit, a first signal adjustment unit, and an update unit. The signal processing unit is configured to perform first signal processing on an input signal in which a second signal is superimposed on a first signal using at least one parameter and to output a first restoration signal obtained by restoring the first signal. The first signal adjustment unit is configured to multiply at least one of the first signal and the first restoration signal by a weighting coefficient and to output a corrected first signal and a corrected first restoration signal. The update unit is configured to update the at least one parameter using an error between the corrected first signal and the corrected first restoration signal.
US12333431B2
Generating a multi-dimensional video using a multi-dimensional video generative model for, including, but not limited to, at least one of static portrait animation, video reconstruction, or motion editing. The method including providing data into the multi-dimensionally aware generator of the multi-dimensional video generative model, and generating the multi-dimensional video from the data by the multi-dimensionally aware generator. The generating of the multi-dimensional video includes inverting the data into a latent space of the multi-dimensionally aware generator, synthesizing content of the multi-dimensional video using an appearance component of the multi-dimensionally aware generator and corresponding camera pose and formulating an intermediate appearance code, developing a synthesis layer for encoding a motion component of the multi-dimensionally aware generator at a plurality of timesteps and formulating an intermediate motion code, introducing temporal dynamics into the intermediate appearance code and the intermediate motion code, and generating multi-dimensionally aware spatio-temporal representations of the data.
US12333429B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for performing inference on input data using a neural network and a processing device employing the aforementioned method. The method comprises the steps of obtaining and storing input data, obtaining parameter data indicating the parameters of the first layer and storing the parameter data in a parameter data storage location and processing the input data using the first layer parameter data, to form first layer output data. The method further comprises storing the first layer output data, obtaining parameter data of the second layer and storing the second layer parameter data by replacing the first layer parameter data with the second layer parameter data, processing the first layer output data using the stored second layer parameter data to form second layer output data; and storing the second layer output data.
US12333413B1
An apparatus and method for training an artificial intelligence-supported diagnostic assessment tool may provide rapid and accurate prognosis determinations. Apparatus may include at least a processor configured to receive a plurality of multi-channel sensor readings of physiological data, generate training data correlating each of the plurality of multi-channel sensor readings with a plurality of diagnostic labels, train a neural network using the plurality of diagnostic labels, receive a time series input describing user physiological data from at least a sensor, input the time series input into the trained neural network, generate diagnostic data as a function of the time series input and the trained neural network, determine prognostic data as a function of the diagnostic data, and output the prognostic data.
US12333411B2
A photoelectric detection model transfer and sharing method and an Internet of Things monitoring and evaluation system based on a cloud service are provided. The transfer and sharing method includes: invoking a temperature compensation model and a spectrum transfer model to calibrate spectrum information of agricultural product samples, and invoking a detection model to compute the calibrated spectrum information to obtain detection results of the agricultural product samples. The Internet of Things monitoring and evaluation system calibrates spectrum information by using a spectrum transfer and sharing method, invokes a detection model for computing, and returns detection results to a detection terminal in real time, thereby realizing remote monitoring and evaluation of the quality of agricultural products.
US12333409B2
An information processing device includes a parallel deep neural network configured to input a captured image of an article to deep neural network models respectively corresponding to a plurality of articles and perform inferences about the plurality of articles in parallel using the deep neural network models, a new article determination unit configured to determine whether an article included in the image is an unlearned article based on learned model information about the articles and the image, and a new article learning unit configured to learn a deep neural network model corresponding to the article determined to be unlearned based on the image and initial model configuration information about the deep neural network model when the article included in the image is determined to be an unlearned article. The new article learning unit adds the learned deep neural network model to the deep neural network models.
US12333408B2
Various embodiments provide an electronic device for generating data and improving task performance by using only a very small amount of data without prior knowledge of an associative domain and an operating method thereof. According to various embodiments, the electronic device may be configured to construct a plurality of data pairs from at least three data points, acquire relative information between the data points with respect to each of the data pairs, and learn a transformation function between the data points based on the relative information. According to various embodiments, the transformation function which can be learnt without a data overfitting problem even in a very small amount of data can be provided.
US12333400B2
A method may include an aggregator node in a distributed computer network: generating an aggregator node public/private key pair; communicating the aggregator node public key to participant nodes; receiving, from each participant node, a message comprising a local machine learning (ML) model encrypted with a participant node private key and the aggregator node public key, and a participant node public key encrypted with the aggregator node public key; decrypting the local ML models and the participant node public keys using the aggregator node public key; decrypting the local ML models using the participant node public keys; generating an aggregated ML model based on the local ML models; encrypting, with each participant node public key, the aggregated ML model; and communicating the encrypted ML models to all participant nodes. Each participant node decrypts one of the encrypted ML models and modifies its local ML model with the aggregated ML model.
US12333399B2
Disclosed herein are embodiments for anomaly detection using machine learning models (MLMs) and similarity regularization. An embodiment operates by obtaining data for a first product, a second product, and a target product. The data include a set of sparse data points for the target product. Next, similarity scores between the target product and the first product and the second product may be calculated. The embodiment further operates by generating a target MLM associated with the target product using a regularization penalty. The regularization penalty is based on the similarity scores and distances between a target set of coefficients for the target MLM and coefficients for a first MLM and a second MLM associated with the first product and the second product, respectively. The embodiment may then detect an anomaly associated with the target product by feeding the target MLM with a feature vector associated with the target product.
US12333390B2
A machine learning system and method of operating a machine learning system for determining a time series, comprising providing an input for a first in particular generative model depending on a probabilistic variable, determining an output of the first model in response to the input for the first model, the output of the first model characterizing the time series. The first model comprises a first layer that is trained to map input for the first model determined depending on the probabilistic variable to output characterizing intermediate data, and a second layer that is trained to map the intermediate data to the time series depending on an output of a third layer of the first model. The output of the third layer characterizes a physical constraint to a machine state. Values of the time series or of the intermediate data are constrained by the output of the third layer.
US12333378B1
Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that provide detecting and decoding of visual markers that encode data. In some implementations, a visual marker is detected in an image of a physical environment. In some implementations, detecting the visual marker is based on a pre-determined portion of the visual marker. In some implementations, detecting the visual marker is based on a predefined shape. In some implementations, a visual marker interpretation scheme is determined for decoding the visual marker. In some implementations, the visual marker is decoded based on one or more colors being attributed a same value. In some implementations, the visual marker is decoded based on one or more other colors being attributed a different value.
US12333377B2
The disclosure a barcode reader having a feedback device for providing tactile feedback to the user through the trigger button. The feedback device may be disposed within the housing and in cooperation with the trigger button. The feedback device may be configured to provide tactile feedback related to the barcode read to the user through the trigger button via a resistance impressed upon to the trigger button in a first instance, and a release of the resistance to the trigger button in a second instance.
US12333371B2
A wearable article, system, and method includes a structure configured to enclose a body part, a first antenna, in a first positon on or within the structure, tuned to communicate according to a wireless communication modality through air, a second antenna, in a second position on or within the structure, tuned to communicate according to the wireless communication modality through the body part, the first antenna being tuned differently than the second antenna, and a transceiver, operatively coupled to at least one of the first antenna and the second antenna, configured to communicate with an external antenna via the at least one of the first and second antennas according to the wireless communication modality.
US12333365B1
Chip cards that are protected from unauthorized access to information and instructions stored in the chip card's chip by unauthorized persons using illicit devices that emulate chip readers to interrogate the chips in chip cards and obtain or download confidential data stored in the chips. The chip cards are disabled when not ready to be used, such that the chips cannot be accessed by illicit devices, thus protecting the chip card owner and/or issuer from potential losses.
US12333355B1
In one implementation, systems and methods are provided for processing digital experience information. A computer-implemented system for processing digital experience information may comprise a central data location. The central data location may comprise a connector that may be configured to receive information belonging to a category from an information source; an event backbone that may be configured to route the information received by the connector based on the category; a translator that may be configured to transform the received information into a common data model; and a database that may be configured to store the received information. The event backbone may be further configured to send information to the connector from the event backbone and the database based on one or more criteria.
US12333351B2
A method, system, and apparatus are disclosed herein for bridging a deterministic phase of instructions with a non-deterministic phase of instructions when those instructions are executed by a machine learning accelerator while executing a machine learning network. In the non-deterministic phase, data and instructions are transferred from off-chip memory to on-chip memory. When the transfer is complete, processing elements are synchronized and, upon synchronization, a deterministic phase of instructions is executed by the processing elements.
US12333344B2
Aspects of systems, methods, algorithms, and non-transitory media storing computer-readable instructions for segmenting data processing workflows are provided. In a first aspect, a computer-implemented method for segmenting data processing workflows includes determining a configuration of an instrument system. The instrument system can include an analytical instrument coupled with an instrument PC (IPC). The IPC can be configured to receive raw data from the analytical instrument, to process the raw data, and to communicate with a client computing device coupled with the instrument system. The method can also include segmenting a data process workflow based at least in part on the configuration, attributing at least a subset of constituent operations of the data process workflow to the client computing device or the IPC.
US12333339B2
Techniques are disclosed relating to affinity-based scheduling of graphics work. In disclosed embodiments, first and second groups of graphics processor sub-units may share respective first and second caches. Distribution circuitry may receive a software-specified set of graphics work and a software-indicated mapping of portions of the set of graphics work to groups of graphics processor sub-units. The distribution circuitry may assign subsets of the set of graphics work based on the mapping. This may improve cache efficiency, in some embodiments, by allowing graphics work that accesses the same memory areas to be assigned to the same group of sub-units that share a cache.
US12333338B2
A system including one or more processors and one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processors and perform ingesting streaming events for processing by multiple models; mapping each of the streaming events to a model of the multiple models; storing each of the streaming events in a respective queue in a respective sequence store, such that a respective one of the multiple models retrieves (i) a respective one of the streaming events in the respective sequence store associated with the respective one of the multiple models and (ii) a respective key corresponding to the respective one of the streaming events from a leaf store, to asynchronously perform the respective machine-learning inferencing, wherein the multiple models run independently and in parallel on multi-tenant threads. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US12333337B2
Techniques for managing network-accessible infrastructure metadata are provided. A method includes receiving a resource request comprising resource metadata corresponding to a network-accessible infrastructure resource, determining whether to commit the resource request based at least in part on a constraint associated with the network-accessible infrastructure resource, and, in accordance with a determination to commit the resource request: generating, by the computer system, a resource identifier describing resource metadata in accordance with the resource request, storing, by the computer system, the resource metadata in a data store in communication with the computer system, receiving, by the computer system, a data request to provide the resource metadata described by the resource identifier, and providing, by the computer system, the resource metadata described by the resource identifier in accordance with the data request.
US12333333B2
A task scheduling method and an apparatus that belongs to the field of intelligent vehicles is provided. The method may be applied to an embedded device using AUTomotive Open System Architecture (AUTOSAR), the embedded device includes a memory and a processor, the memory stores an interface function, and a first software component and a second software component are deployed in the processor. In this solution, registration information of a to-be-deployed algorithm may be obtained and parsed by using the interface function, and a task in the algorithm may be scheduled and executed by using the software component.
US12333329B2
Systems and methods for dynamically managing network functions (NFs) in a network such as 5G network are disclosed. The method includes instantiating a new NF associated with a target region; iteratively querying one or more network repository functions (NRFs) for lists of NFs associated with smaller regions based on a preceding response; and registering the new NF based on one or more responses to the iterative queries.
US12333321B2
Techniques for implementing application-assisted VM provisioning operations, and in particular application-assisted live migration, are provided. In one set of embodiments, a hypervisor of a source host system can notify a guest application that the VM within which the guest application runs will be imminently live migrated from the source host system to a destination host system, prior to actually carrying out the live migration. In response, the guest application can execute one or more remedial actions that mitigate or avoid issues which may arise with respect to its runtime operation when the VM is stunned and switched over to the destination host system.
US12333319B2
An interpreter interacts with a tracing Just-In-Time (JIT) WebAssembly (WASM) compiler to compile frequently-executed interpreter opcodes into WASM code. The interpreter monitors the frequency of the execution of targeted locations of the interpreter opcodes of a web application to determine the most frequently executed linear sequences of the interpreter opcodes. The execution of the WASM code is monitored for execution failure before replacing the linear sequence of opcodes with an entry point opcode that immediately executes the WASM code without monitoring the execution failure of the WASM code.
US12333316B2
Self-managed configuration of information technology assets in an information technology environment
An apparatus comprises at least one processing device configured to deploy, at a given one of a plurality of information technology assets in an information technology infrastructure environment, an instance of a self-managed information technology asset configuration tool. The at least one processing device is also configured to determine, utilizing the instance of the self-managed information technology asset configuration tool deployed on the given information technology asset, a logical dispatch order for performing configuration operations for at least one of the plurality of information technology assets in the information technology infrastructure environment, wherein the logical dispatch order operates recursively across two or more levels of a processing hierarchy. The at least one processing device is further configured to perform, utilizing the instance of the self-managed information technology asset configuration tool deployed on the given information technology asset, the configuration operations in accordance with the determined logical dispatch order.
US12333312B2
A data storage device includes a memory device and a controller coupled to the memory device. When a boot operation of the data storage device is initiated, the controller retrieves a relevant boot file from the memory device to boot the data storage device with. The relevant boot file to be retrieved from a plurality of boot files may be determined by a write temperature corresponding to the temperature of when the boot file was programmed to the memory device and a read temperature of the boot file during the boot operation. Each boot file of the plurality of boot files is programmed using different programming parameters in order to cover a range of possible retention levels.
US12333311B2
A new level(s) of hierarchy—Cooperate Group Arrays (CGAs)—and an associated new hardware-based work distribution/execution model is described. A CGA is a grid of thread blocks (also referred to as cooperative thread arrays (CTAs)). CGAs provide co-scheduling, e.g., control over where CTAs are placed/executed in a processor (such as a GPU), relative to the memory required by an application and relative to each other. Hardware support for such CGAs guarantees concurrency and enables applications to see more data locality, reduced latency, and better synchronization between all the threads in tightly cooperating collections of CTAs programmably distributed across different (e.g., hierarchical) hardware domains or partitions.
US12333303B2
In variants, a method for sensory characterization can include: determining attributes for a sample, collecting sensory data for the sample, determining a sensory characterization model, training the sensory characterization model based on the attributes and the sensory data, determining attributes for a test sample, and predicting a sensory characterization for the test sample using the sensory characterization model.
US12333294B2
A method of searching and displaying an image forming apparatus includes obtaining a first information array of image forming apparatus through a first searching method; obtaining a second information array of image forming apparatus through a second searching method; determining if the first information array matches the second information array; determining an image forming apparatus discovered according to matching result is a wireless network image forming apparatus or a wired network image forming apparatus; and according to determining result, displaying a guide icon of driver installation of the image forming apparatus. The wireless network image forming apparatus has been connected to a network through a wireless network interface thereof.
US12333289B2
Container image optimization is provided for a deployment environment. An indication of a plurality of container images to be deployed in a deployment to provide a plurality of services within a computing environment is obtained. The plurality of container images of the deployment has a total layer size of a plurality of image layers of the plurality of container images. At least one container image of the plurality of container images is reconfigured to adjust the total layer size for the deployment. The reconfiguring is based on one or more deployment characteristics of the deployment and includes replacing at least one image layer of a container image of the at least one container image with one or more other image layers configured based on the plurality of container images to be deployed.
US12333287B2
Certain example embodiments relate to techniques for installing and/or updating an application instance on a target mainframe. Packaged code, received by the target mainframe from a source mainframe in a deployment package, is executable on the target mainframe. The deployment package also includes a memory dump of control blocks of a source application running on the source mainframe. The control blocks constitute each program of the source application. The source application corresponds to the application instance to be installed/updated. The packaged code, when executed, is programmed to cause the target mainframe to: identify an area of memory of the target mainframe into which the control blocks from the memory dump are to be loaded; load the control blocks from the memory dump into the identified area of memory; and cause the target mainframe to branch to a first address in the identified area of the memory, in the installing/updating.
US12333286B2
One example described herein includes a system that can generate a graphical user interface indicating pieces of legacy software in a computer system. The graphical user interface can also include options corresponding to the pieces of legacy software. The system can receive a first selection of a first option corresponding to a first piece of legacy software identified in the graphical user interface. In response, the system can deploy the first piece of legacy software within a container in the computer system. The system can also receive a second selection of a second option corresponding to a second piece of legacy software identified in the graphical user interface. In response, the system can initiate a process for obtaining security support from an external support entity for the second piece of legacy software.
US12333281B2
A method and a system for the automatic discovery of AI/ML models, their parameters, data input and output specifications, and data transforms in a production code repository using Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning are disclosed. A method and system for automatic discovery of the location, identification, classification, and definition of the AI/ML models, their parameters, data input and output specifications, and data transforms in the production code repository using Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning are also disclosed. The method and system utilize a plurality of source codes from a plurality of sources, such as open-source AI/ML libraries with the source codes, non-open-source AI/ML libraries, and tagged/pre-classified code, in conjunction with a production code repository, to identify the method of working on the plurality of source codes using Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning.
US12333278B2
A network computer provides interactive graphic design system instructions to a user computing device, causing the user computing device to render a design interface and provide an input interface at the user computing device. The user computing device interprets an input action, the input action comprising selecting a selection of a plurality of objects using the input interface. For a property, the user computing device identifies a set of one or more property values corresponding to the property for objects in the plurality of objects. The user computing device displays the set of one or more property values. The user computing device receives user input specifying a selected property value and user input specifying a new value for the selected property value. The user computing device updates the property for each object of the plurality of objects having the selected property value to reflect the new value.
US12333271B2
A processing device comprises multiplier circuitry configured to output a product of mantissas represented by first and second signals in response to a mode signal and output a product of an integer represented by the first signal and a mantissa represented by the second signal in response to the mode signal. The processing device further includes an aligning circuit configured to shift a mantissa part of a third signal based on an exponent part of the third signal and an exponent of a product of the first and second signal to generate and output a shifted signal. The processing device further includes an arithmetic logic circuit configured to output a mantissa of a sum of a product of the first and second signals and the third signal in response to an output signal of the aligning circuit and an output signal of the multiplier circuitry.
US12333269B2
A dot product array comprises dot product circuits each to process a respective pair of first and second input vectors to generate a respective dot product result. In a real number mode, each dot product result and vector element represents a respective real number. In a hypercomplex number mode, an input vector manipulation is applied to at least one of the first/second input vectors to be supplied to each dot product circuit, to cause the dot product array to generate hypercomplex dot product results each indicating a sum of hypercomplex products of corresponding pairs of hypercomplex numbers. In the hypercomplex number mode, respective subsets of elements of the first/second input vectors represent respective hypercomplex numbers, for which respective components are represented by different elements of the subset, and each hypercomplex dot product result comprises components represented by the dot product results generated by a corresponding group of at least two dot product circuits.
US12333266B2
A training method, a text translation method, an electronic device, and a storage medium, which relate to a field of artificial intelligence, in particular to fields of natural language processing and deep learning technologies. A specific implementation solution includes: performing a feature extraction on source sample text data to obtain a sample feature vector sequence; obtaining a target sample feature vector according to the sample feature vector sequence; performing an autoregressive decoding and a non-autoregressive decoding on the sample feature vector sequence, respectively; performing a length prediction on the target sample feature vector; training a predetermined model by using translation sample data, the autoregressive text translation result, the non-autoregressive text translation result, a true length value of the source sample text, the first predicted length value, a true length value of the translation sample text, and the second predicted length value to obtain the text translation model.
US12333257B2
A social agent system includes a computing platform having processing hardware and a system memory storing a social agent software code. The processing hardware is configured to execute the social agent software code to receive, from a client system, input data provided by a user of the client system when the user is interacting with the social agent system using the client system, and to select, using the input data, a dialogue template for responding to the user. The dialogue template includes one or more placeholder fields to be filled by the client system to create a personalized dialogue for responding to the user. The processing hardware is further configured to execute the social agent software code to deliver, to the client system, the dialogue template including the one or more placeholder fields to be filled by the client system to create the personalized dialogue for responding to the user.
US12333251B2
Disclosed are an information extraction method, an electronic device and a readable storage medium, which relate to the field of artificial intelligence technologies, and particularly to the field of knowledge graph technologies. The information extraction method includes: acquiring to-be-processed text to obtain a semantic vector of each token in the to-be-processed text; generating a relationship prediction matrix, an entity prediction matrix and an alignment matrix according to each token in the to-be-processed text and the semantic vector of each token; and extracting a target triplet in the to-be-processed text using the relationship prediction matrix, the entity prediction matrix and the alignment matrix, and taking the target triplet as an information extraction result of the to-be-processed text.
US12333244B2
Methods, apparatus, and processor-readable storage media for automated address data determinations using artificial intelligence techniques are provided herein. An example computer-implemented method includes extracting address information from one or more documents using at least one artificial intelligence-based address extraction model; parsing, into one or more address components, at least a portion of the extracted address information using at least one artificial intelligence-based parsing model; comparing at least a portion of the one or more parsed address components to stored address information using at least one artificial intelligence-based scoring model; and performing one or more automated actions based at least in part on results from the comparing of at least a portion of the one or more parsed address components to stored address information.
US12333243B2
A machine learning of response selection to structured data input enables a machine to flexibly and responsively actively engage with a response recipient through a device, such as any electronic device connected to a data network. A system of one or more computers can be configured to respond to structured language messages, such as a textual messages, received from user devices with one or more templates that have been ranked using predetermined criteria including a machine learning classification of a momentum of a structured language message using a machine learning model. The momentum classification is correlated with templates. A ranking engine ranks the selection of candidate response templates in accordance with ranking criteria, including the momentum classifications for the candidate response templates. A highest ranked candidate response template is selected to provide a response to the textual messages received from the user devices.
US12333235B2
In some implementations, a font generator device may receive input text that includes one or more characters. The font generator device may generate a disability-oriented font based on one or more parameters that relate to a vision deficiency, wherein the disability-oriented font is readable by users that have the vision deficiency and unreadable by users that do not have the vision deficiency. The font generator device may transform the one or more characters included in the input text into the disability-oriented font. The font generator device may generate an output that represents the input text using the disability-oriented font based on transforming the one or more characters included in the input text into the disability-oriented font.
US12333215B2
A display system includes a display, a plurality of speakers, and a control device that controls the display and the speakers. The display is configured to be able to simultaneously display video of main content and video of sub-content. The speakers are configured to output sound of the main content. The control device is configured to stop output of sound from a speaker on a side closer to the sub-content when video of the sub-content is desired to attract a user.
US12333214B2
Embodiments are directed to a method and system for receiving, in a bitstream, metadata associated with the audio data, and analyzing the metadata to determine whether a loudness parameter for a first group of audio playback devices are available in the bitstream. Responsive to determining that the parameters are present for the first group, the system uses the parameters and audio data to render audio. Responsive to determining that the loudness parameters are not present for the first group, the system analyzes one or more characteristics of the first group, and determines the parameter based on the one or more characteristics.
US12333210B2
An example electronic device may include a housing, a flexible display, wherein at least a portion of the flexible display which is positioned in the housing is configured to be exposed to an outside of the housing as the housing slides, a speaker, and a processor operatively connected with the speaker and the flexible display. The processor may be configured to control the speaker to output a first sound at a first volume value while a state of the housing is a normal state, identify a size of a first area of the flexible display exposed to the outside, based on a first slide of the housing to change the state of the housing to an extended state, and control the speaker to output the first sound at a second volume value higher than the first volume value based on a size of the first area while the state of the housing is the extended state.
US12333194B2
A printing apparatus communicates with an information processing apparatus which displays a remaining amount of a first color material and a second color material in the printing apparatus on a display region based on information sent from the printing apparatus. A first color material display color is modified such that a color difference between the first color material display color and a background color of the display region becomes more than or equal to a predetermined value. A modified display color difference between the display color of the second color material and the background color becomes more than or equal to the predetermined value. The information processing apparatus displays the remaining amount of the first and second color materials in the display region using the modified first and second material display colors and the background color.
US12333189B2
A data storage device for providing failure recovery may include a device memory including one or more memories and a command history buffer. The device memory may be configured to receive and process (i) commands directed to the one or more memories, and (ii) an access command for accessing the command history buffer. The command history buffer may be configured to store information related to the commands. The data storage device may also include a controller coupled to the device memory and configured to: send the commands to the device memory; retrieve information stored in the command history buffer from the device memory, by issuing the access command; and in accordance with a determination that the information stored in the command history buffer indicates invalid command flows, resend at least a portion of the commands to the device memory.
US12333182B2
According to an example of the present disclosure, a system is provided. A system may include a main memory including a dynamic memory cell electrically coupled to a bitline and a word line, and a memory controller configured to selectively omit a restore operation during a read operation of the dynamic memory cell.
US12333179B2
A system includes a first compute express link (CXL) storage device, a second CXL storage device, a first CXL memory device, and a CXL switch connected to the first CXL storage device, the second CXL storage device and the first CXL memory device through a CXL interface, the CXL switch configured to arbitrate communications between the first CXL storage device and the second CXL storage device, and the first CXL memory device. The first CXL memory device is configured to store first map data of the first CXL storage device and second map data of the second CXL storage device, the first CXL storage device is configured to exchange at least a portion of the first map data with the first CXL memory device through the CXL switch, and the second CXL storage device is configured to exchange at least a portion of the second map data with the first CXL memory device through the CXL switch.
US12333176B2
Systems and methods for a novel architecture to support always-on applications and/or models suffering drift in their results. The system may comprise one or more servers that are configured to track the historical behavior of incoming request data for a model and/or redirect the request as needed using parallel data domains. The one or more servers may maintain and update a catalog of potential data domains that partitions the historically received data. One partition may comprise data output from a current model. Another partition may comprise detected outliers in the data. In the case of drift, outliers, and/or anomalies in the incoming data, the system may return an error signal that causes data to be duplicated into a new data domain.
US12333169B2
Provided is a memory system including a host system including a memory controller configured to control a read or write operation for a plurality of memory ranks, based on target or non-target information for the plurality of memory ranks, and a memory device including a storage configured to store on-die termination (ODT) information of the memory ranks. Here, the memory controller is further configured to determine a target rank to be read or written, and transmit information about the determined target rank, to the memory device, and the memory device is further configured to perform a comparison of the ODT information of the memory ranks stored in the storage with target or non-target information received from the memory controller, and change an ODT value of the target rank, based on target information received from the memory controller based on a result of the comparison.
US12333161B2
Systems and methods for reducing the provisioned storage capacity of a disk or aggregate of disks of a storage appliance while the storage appliance continues to serve clients are provided. According to one embodiment, the size of the aggregate may be reduced by shrinking the file system of the storage appliance and removing a selected disk from the aggregate. When an identified shrink region includes the entire addressable PVBN space of the selected disk, the file system may be shrunk by relocating valid data from the selected disk elsewhere within the aggregate. After the valid data is relocated, the selected disk may be removed from the aggregate, thereby reducing the provisioned storage capacity of the aggregate by the size of the selected disk.
US12333153B2
There are provided a memory device and an operating method of the memory device. The memory device includes: a memory block including first select transistors, memory cells, and second select transistors, which are connected between bit lines and a source line; a precharge controller for monitoring a program operation of the memory cells, and changing a precharge mode of unselected strings among strings included in the memory block according to a monitoring result; and a select line voltage generator for generating a positive voltage or a negative voltage, which is applied to a second select line connected to the second select transistors, according to the precharge mode selected in the precharge controller.
US12333152B2
A storage device including: a memory device including a plurality of superblocks, wherein each superblock includes memory blocks included in a group of a plurality of non-volatile memories; and a controller for controlling the memory device, wherein the controller controls a first superblock among the plurality of superblocks to be erased to program data received from a host, controls the data to be programmed in the first superblock, controls the first superblock to be selected as a victim superblock for a garbage collection operation, and controls a media scanning operation to be performed on the memory device when a data duration is greater than a threshold, wherein the data duration is an interval between a first time point, at which the first superblock is erased, and a second time point, at which the first superblock is selected as the victim superblock.
US12333147B2
A network interface card, a controller, a storage apparatus, and a packet sending method are disclosed, and relate to the storage field to reduce a delay of an RDMA read operation. The network interface card includes: a processing module, configured to: in response to a doorbell signal of a controller, obtain a work queue element (WQE) from a send queue (SQ) corresponding to the controller, where the doorbell signal indicates that there is a to-be-sent message in a storage space to which at least one WQE points in the SQ, the WQE includes indication information, and the indication information indicates a type of a first remote direct memory access (RDMA) packet scheduled by the WQE.
US12333144B2
A method, computer program product, and computing system for processing a plurality of input/output (IO) operations on a plurality of storage objects of a storage system. The plurality of storage objects may be divided into a plurality of storage object groups based upon, at least in part, the plurality of IO operations processed on the plurality of storage objects. Each storage object group may be associated with an IO machine learning model selected from a plurality of IO machine learning models, thus defining a plurality of storage object group-specific IO machine learning models. IO performance data may be forecasted for the plurality of storage objects using the plurality of storage object group-specific IO machine learning models.
US12333140B2
According to one embodiment, a memory system comprises a first memory including a nonvolatile memory cell array, a second memory configured to operate at higher speed than the first memory, and a memory controller. The memory controller executes, in response to a write command from a host, data transfer from the host to the second memory, a data-in operation, and a program operation, with respect to first data instructed to be written by the write command. After the data-in operation for the first data is started and before the data-in operation is completed, the memory controller transfers the first data from the second memory to the host in response to a read command to read the first data. After the program operation for the first data is started, the memory controller transfers the first data from the first memory to the host in response to the read command.
US12333135B2
A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a software switch program for causing a display section to display a touch switch including a knob that is in a state in which the knob selects, of a first choice and a second choice that are in an exclusive relation, the first choice and a guide showing a moving path of the knob from the first choice to the second choice and including a first moving path extending along a first direction and a second moving path extending along a second direction different from the first direction and, when receiving first touch input operation for sliding one of the knob and the guide with respect to the other along the first moving path and second touch input operation for sliding the one of the knob and the guide along the second moving path, switching the state to a state in which the knob selects the second choice.
US12333132B2
In one aspect of the present disclosure, a method of acquiring gesture data is provided. The method may include acquiring a gesture signal. The method may include acquiring a feature value corresponding to the gesture signal. The method may include acquiring a signal state corresponding to a feature point based on the feature value, adding the feature value and the signal state to a gesture signal set. The method may include acquiring all feature values and all signal states between a gesture start point and a gesture end point in the phase of acquiring the gesture data from the gesture signal set. The method may include generating signal change information based on the all feature values and the all signal states. The method may include identifying the signal change information as a signal data segment of a target gesture in response to the signal change information meeting signal verification information.
US12333128B2
Systems and techniques that provide improvements to designer applications as described to address, for example, limitations associated with constructing a user interface as it is being designed by a user in a development environment. In some implementations, a system provides a design interface through which a user can view, develop, and test functional aspects of an electronic form in real-time while the user is building the application. The system maintains associations between components of the electronic form and expressions for the components referenced in program logic for the electronic form.
US12333127B2
Usage metrics for augmented reality content may be identified and analyzed to determine measures of fitness for respective usage metrics. The measures of fitness may indicate a level of correlation with an outcome specified by an augmented reality content creator and an amount of interaction with an augmented reality content item by users of a client application. Recommendations may be provided to augmented reality content creators indicating modifications to augmented reality content items that have at least a threshold probability of increasing the level of interaction between users of the client application and the augmented reality content item.
US12333124B2
The present disclosure relates to music user interfaces. A device, comprising a display and a rotatable input mechanism, one or more processors, memory, and one or more programs, is described. In response to receiving the first user input, the one or more programs may include instructions for ceasing display of an audio playback user interface and displaying a first user interface of a first set of user interfaces. While displaying the user interface of the first user interfaces, the one or more programs may include instructions for: receiving a second user input representing a directional swipe in a second direction and, in response to receiving the second user input, ceasing display of the first user interface of a first set of user interfaces and displaying the audio playback user interface.
US12333122B2
A light-emitting user input device can include a touch sensitive portion configured to accept user input (e.g., from a user's thumb) and a light-emitting portion configured to output a light pattern. The light pattern can be used to assist the user in interacting with the user input device. Examples include emulating a multi-degree-of-freedom controller, indicating scrolling or swiping actions, indicating presence of objects nearby the device, indicating receipt of notifications, assisting pairing the user input device with another device, or assisting calibrating the user input device. The light-emitting user input device can be used to provide user input to a wearable device, such as, e.g., a head mounted display device.
US12333116B2
A display apparatus includes a first insulating layer, a conductive pattern disposed directly on the first insulating layer, a cladding pattern disposed on side surfaces of the conductive pattern, and a second insulating layer on the conductive pattern and the cladding pattern, wherein the cladding pattern includes a first cladding layer including a first material and a second cladding layer including a second material different from the first material.
US12333114B2
A kitchen and/or gastronomy device, in particular a cooking device, comprising a control unit, a touch display connected to the control unit, and a turning unit with a knob, which can be turned by the user around a Z-axis for executing a user input, and with at least one touch element arranged at the knob for swiping and thereby actuating the touch display; wherein the turning unit is fixed on a surface of the kitchen and/or gastronomy device.
US12333102B2
A display device includes a substrate, a sub-pixel on the substrate and including an organic light emitting diode, an encapsulation layer on the organic light emitting diode, and a plurality of touch electrodes on the encapsulation layer, the plurality of touch electrodes including an open area. The sub-pixel may include first and second emission areas and a first non-emission area in the open area of the plurality of touch electrodes, the first non-emission area being configured to be in a black state or to have a lower brightness than the first and second emission areas. Each of the first non-emission area and at least one of the first and second emission areas may have a shape of an octagon, a circle, an ellipse, a polygon, a triangle, a square, or a hexagon in a plan view.
US12333100B2
An electronic device includes a first insulating layer, a first conductive portion, a second conductive portion, a transistor, and an electronic unit. The first insulating layer has a first opening penetrating the first insulating layer along a first direction. The first conductive portion is disposed in the first opening. The second conductive portion is electrically connected to the first conductive portion. The transistor is electrically connected to the second conductive portion. The electronic unit is electrically connected to the first conductive portion. In a cross-sectional view of the electronic device, the electronic unit and the second conductive portion are disposed on two opposite sides of the first insulating layer respectively, the first conductive portion has a first length along a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, the second conductive portion has a second length along the second direction, and the first length is different from the second length.
US12333095B2
The present disclosure provides a wireless communication system including a first host computer, a communication dongle, a second host computer and an input device. The communication dongle is connected to the first host computer via a USB interface, connected to the second host computer via a Bluetooth interface, and connected to the input device via a wireless interface. The first host computer has first application software for intercepting the operating signal(s) of the input device and transferring, via the communication dongle, to the second host computer to be executed thereby. The first application software also controls the first host computer to ignore the operating signal(s) during the operating signal(s) is being transferred to the second host computer.
US12333079B2
Various example embodiments relate to providing audio or haptic feedback to a user. An apparatus may comprise: detection circuitry coupled to a first coil, wherein the detection circuitry is configured to detect a user input on a surface based on a triggering signal comprising voltage or current induced at the first coil by displacement of the surface by a user. The apparatus may further comprise feedback circuitry coupled to a second coil, wherein the feedback circuitry is configured to activate a feedback signal in response to detection of the user input by the detection circuitry, and wherein the second coil is configured to cause or alter movement of the surface based on a magnetic field configured to be generated by the second coil upon activation of the feedback signal. Apparatuses, methods, and computer programs are disclosed.
US12333078B2
Provided are a control apparatus, a control method, and a system for a force-sense device that can apply a more natural haptic sensation. According to the present disclosure, a control apparatus for a force-sense device has a position information acquiring section for acquiring position information regarding a surface of a virtual object and position information regarding a fingertip, and a control section for controlling the position of an acting portion that applies a force to the fingertip, in reference to the pieces of position information, and the control section makes a second force weaker than a first force, the first force being applied to the acting portion in a first direction away from the surface of the virtual object in a case where the fingertip is pushed in further beyond the surface of the virtual object, and the second force being applied in a second direction opposite to the first direction in a case where the fingertip is to be placed back from the position where the fingertip has been pushed in.
US12333076B2
The present disclosure relates to a tactile emotion recognition method and device, and is directed to assigning an impedance value to each object in a virtual space; inducing virtual force using displacement between the object and a user's body in the virtual space; inducing a signal, which causes a signal of a sensory nerve to be fired, with a value corresponding to the virtual force; stimulating a location where the sensory nerve is located temporarily or over time; and generating feedback in the virtual space based on a stimulation result.
US12333074B2
Interface systems for directing communication between an individual and a plurality of external devices using an external system control unit, where the individual has a neural interface device having an electrode component electrically coupled with a transmitter/receiver component.
US12333068B2
An eye tracking system can include a first camera configured to capture a first plurality of visual data of a right eye at a first sampling rate. The system can include a second camera configured to capture a second plurality of visual data of a left eye at a second sampling rate. The second plurality of visual data can be captured during different sampling times than the first plurality of visual data. The system can estimate, based on at least some visual data of the first and second plurality of visual data, visual data of at least one of the right or left eye at a sampling time during which visual data of an eye for which the visual data is being estimated are not being captured. Eye movements of the eye based on at least some of the estimated visual data and at least some visual data of the first or second plurality of visual data can be determined.
US12333051B1
The disclosed computer-implemented method for verifying social media accounts to prevent identity-based attacks on social media platforms may include (i) detecting identity data for an owner of a set of auxiliary social media accounts on a group of client devices, (ii) verifying, a core social media account, based at least in part on the detected identity data, (iii) linking the auxiliary social media accounts to the core social media account, (iv) signing a social media post originating from a linked auxiliary social media account by storing a unique identification of the social media post as a record on a publicly readable permissioned ledger (e.g., a blockchain), and (v) performing a security action that prevents an identity-based attack against third parties accessing the social media post by confirming that the social media post is legitimate based on the record. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US12333047B2
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing a central location to manage permissions provided to third-parties and devices to access and use user data and to manage accounts at multiple entities. A central portal may allow a user to manage all access to account data and personal information as well as usability and functionality of accounts. The user need not log into multiple third-party systems or customer devices to manage previously provided access to the information, provision new access to the information, and to manage financial or other accounts. A user is able to have user data and third-party accounts of the user deleted from devices, applications, and third-party systems via a central portal. The user is able to impose restrictions on how user data is used by devices, applications, and third-party systems, and control such features as recurring payments and use of rewards, via a central portal.
US12333031B2
A flash drive locked by using wireless communication that is applicable to a mobile device is provided. The mobile device includes a mobile communication component and a mobile control component. The flash drive includes a connection port, an information storing component, a communication component, an identification certificate component and a control component. The information storing component stores information. The identification certificate component stores identification information of the flash drive. When the communication component communicates with the mobile communication component, the communication component transmits a locking command generated by the mobile control component from the mobile communication component to the control component. The control component, according to the locking command, locks the identification certificate component and the data storing component, thereby prohibiting the flash drive from being identified and accessed by an electronic device having a slot into which the connection port of the flash drive is inserted into.
US12333027B2
Techniques for implementing policies in resources of a computing environment are disclosed. A machine learning model selects and implements policies on one or more resources in a computing environment. The machine learning model identifies characteristics associated with operations to be performed by the one or more resources. The machine learning model selects a particular policy to apply to the one or more resources based on the characteristics associated with the operations to be performed by the one or more resources. Another neural network associated with deep reinforcement learning selects a sequence of actions to apply to resources in the computing environment to implement the policies or standards in the computing environment.
US12333022B2
There are provided systems and methods that include at least one memory that has a plurality of memory cells. The cells may be disposed in rows and columns. The device can further include a controller that is communicatively coupled to the at least one memory, and the controller may be configured by its hardware topology and its instruction set and/or by a communicatively coupled processor or higher-level system or subsystem to maintain data integrity in the at least one memory and/or to prevent or mitigate malicious access patterns that may compromise the at least one memory. The controller may be configured to execute a deterministic protocol in conjunction with or sequentially to a probabilistic protocol to achieve one or more of the above-noted functions.
US12333014B2
A storage device includes a memory that includes a firmware image area, and a memory controller that receives a first firmware image that includes a firmware signature, firmware data, a first certificate that includes a first certificate public key, and a second certificate that includes a second certificate public key. The memory controller verifies the first certificate using the second certificate public key, compares a hash value of the firmware data with the firmware fingerprint when the first certificate is verified, verifies the firmware signature using the first certificate public key when the hash value of the firmware data matches the firmware fingerprint, and stores the first firmware image in a firmware image area when the firmware signature is verified.
US12333013B2
Provided is a technique for enabling software having different memory maps to be written in a nonvolatile memory of an electronic control device in reprogramming of control software. The electronic control device includes a microcomputer including a CPU and a nonvolatile memory. The nonvolatile memory includes activation software, control software, and validity confirmation information for confirming validity of the control software. A storage area of the validity confirmation information in the nonvolatile memory is different from a storage area of the activation software.
US12333002B2
Methods, systems, and devices for secure operating system update are described. A first message including a first value and a request associated with an operating system that is stored in a write-protected area of memory may be transmitted to a server. In response to the first message, a second message including data associated with the operating system, a second value corresponding to the first value, and a signature of the server may be received. The data associated with the operating system may be validated based on the signature of the server and a comparison of the second value and the first value. Based on validating the data associated with the operating system, the data associated with the operating system may be written to the write-protected area of memory.
US12332999B1
Techniques are described that enable an IT and security operations application to prioritize the processing of selected events for a defined period of time. Data is obtained reflecting activity within an IT environment, wherein the data includes a plurality of events each representing an occurrence of activity within the IT environment. A severity level is assigned to each event of the plurality of events, where the events are processed by the IT and security operations application in an order that is based at least in part on the severity level assigned to each event. Input is received identifying at least one event of the plurality of events for expedited processing to obtain a set of expedited events, and the identified events are processed by the IT and security operations application before processing events that are not in the set of expedited events.
US12332998B2
A control method for an anomalous data sensing system including at least a plurality of authentication servers and including: sensing whether data obtained from a device is not anomalous; obtaining first transaction data including information indicating the data; verifying, by a first authentication server included in the plurality of authentication servers, the first transaction data obtained, when the data is sensed as not being anomalous; and recording a block including the first transaction data into a distributed ledger when an agreement about validity of the first transaction data is reached using a consensus algorithm.
US12332997B2
Systems, methods, devices, and apparatus are discussed for generating data that appears to be an insider attack.
US12332986B2
Authentication tokens, systems, and methods are described. An illustrative method is disclosed to include receiving an electronic file including a digital image, receiving biometric information that is associated with a person, modifying the electronic file with the biometric information such that one or more pixels in the digital image are replaced with the biometric information, and storing the modified electronic file as a digital authentication token to be used in connection with authorized publications of original digital work.
US12332976B2
Embodiments securely control an electronic asset. In some embodiments, a computer-implemented method of securely controlling an electronic asset includes identifying an asset NFT pertaining to the electronic asset. An ownership status of the electronic asset is computationally evaluated according to a proof of ownership provided by an owner node paired with the electronic asset. Responsive to evaluating the ownership status of the electronic asset, the asset NFT is bound with a representation of an identity of the owner node or of an authorized user node paired with the electronic asset. The bound representation of the identity and the asset NFT are registered on a blockchain associated with the electronic asset. A task is computationally performed involving the electronic asset, and the bound representation of the identity, and the electronic asset is securely controlled, in response to receiving a task request from the owner node or the authorized user node.
US12332963B2
A method, including capturing, at a first time from an executing web-based application including browser-executable code, a first request including a first Uniform Resource Locator (URL) for a specified resource hosted by a first server, and conveying the request to the first server. Upon receiving, from the first server, the requested resource in response to the conveyed request, the received resource is stored to a second server referenced by a second URL different from the first URL. While executing the application at a second time subsequent to the first time, a second request for the specified resource is detected in the code. While the application is executing at the second time, the code is modified so as to reference the second URL, and the modified code is executed so as to convey the second request to the second URL.
US12332961B1
Statistical analysis can be used to attempt to identify potentially malicious references, such as trap URLs. When a URL is utilized for a request, that request can be intercepted before analysis before that URL is resolved to an address. Portions of this URL, as well as the entire URL, can be compared against one or more lists of known URLs using a probabilistic matching process to determine whether there are any matches that are very close but not quite exact. Any determined match with high probability above a suspicion threshold can be flagged as being suspicious, or associated with a potentially malicious site. An action can then be taken, such as to block that URL or prompt a user for confirmation of intent.
US12332940B2
Methods, systems and programming for providing query suggestions based on user feedback. In one example, a prefix of a query is first received. An input including a prefix of a query is received from a user in a search session. A plurality of query suggestions are fetched based on the prefix of the query. Rankings of the plurality of query suggestions are determined based, at least in part, on the user's previous interactions in the search session with respect to at least one of the plurality of query suggestions. The at least one of the plurality of query suggestions has been previously provided to the user in the search session. The plurality of query suggestions are provided in the search session based on their rankings as a response to the input.
US12332922B2
A system is configured to: (a) receive multi-modal data from one or more sources; (b) analyze the data to determine features; (c) store the features in a database; (d) receive a search query for searching the stored features; (e) analyze the search query using a large language model to extract search features; (f) generate search results from the search features; and (g) display search results on a standardized graphical user interface including a legend having at least one or more of the search features displayed.
US12332917B2
This disclosure relates to a time series segmentation system that efficiently and accurately segments univariate time series data. For example, the time series segmentation system utilizes proxy variable time series to identify distinct segments in a univariate time series. To illustrate, the time series segmentation system generates proxy variables that approximate a univariate time series and combine with the time series to generate a supplemented multivariate time series. The time series segmentation system then divides the supplemented multivariate time series into portions using time-based windows, converts the windowed subsequences into graph objects using a sparse graph recovery model, utilizes a conditional similarity model to determine segmentation timestamps from the graph objects, and generates a segmented univariate time series from the segmentation timestamps.
US12332910B2
Techniques and solutions are described for retaining names for metadata elements, such as when metadata is imported, converted to a different format, or used with a system that may have restrictions on naming different than a system on which the metadata is created. Metadata includes a plurality of metadata elements, including a first metadata element associated with a first name. A second name is received for the first metadata element. The second name is assigned to the first metadata element. An association is created between the renamed first metadata element and the first name.
US12332908B2
In some implementations, there is provided initiating an extract transform and load from a first system to a second system; in response to the initiating, performing the extract transform and load by extracting input data at the first system, transforming the input data using one or more rules to form generated data, and loading the generated data into the second system; and during at least a portion of the extract transform and load, storing a data object including a snapshot and a log, wherein the snapshot includes the input data and the log indicates which of the one or more rules was applied to the row in the input data, and storing an aggregation table including a row identifier identifying a row of the generated data and further including a source identifying which rows in the input data were used to form the row of the generated data.
US12332906B1
Automatic data-analysis formula phrase generation includes obtaining a natural language string expressing a request for an automatically generated data-analysis formula phrase, obtaining first prompt data including a first proper subset of defined data-analysis formula phrases previously defined in a data access and analysis system in accordance with a defined data-analysis-formula grammar and associated with defined data-analysis formula phrase categories, obtaining first large language model generate data responsive to the first prompt data, obtaining a proper subset of the defined data-analysis formula phrase categories, obtaining second prompt data including a second proper subset of the defined data-analysis formula phrases identified in accordance with the proper subset of the defined data-analysis formula phrase categories, and obtaining second large language model generated data responsive to the second large language model input data that includes the automatically generated data-analysis formula phrase.
US12332905B2
One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for searching across multiple user interfaces are provided. For example, a search query may be received from a user of a computing environment. A set of user interfaces, hosted by the computing environment, may be identified (e.g., mobile apps of a mobile operating system, browser tabs of a web browser, etc.). Content within the set of user interfaces may be queried using the search query to identify search results of the search query (e.g., webpages, social network posts, emails, or other content matching the search query). In an example, cached content of the user interfaces (e.g., recently accessed emails cached within a local content buffer cache by the web browser) may be searched using the search query for efficient querying of relevant content, such as through local or offline querying. The search results may be provided to the user.
US12332884B2
In some implementations, a device may obtain the relational statement associated with a query of a database. The device may parse the relational statement to identify one or more temporary queries included in the relational statement. The device may modify the relational statement to include segment indicators for respective segments of the relational statement associated with respective temporary queries from the one or more temporary queries. The device may execute the relational statement. The device may determine, based on executing the relational statement and based on the segment indicators, one or more execution performance parameters for each segment included in the relational statement, wherein the one or more execution performance parameters indicate performance levels of the one or more temporary queries. The device may store the one or more execution performance parameters for each segment.
US12332876B2
Systems and methods for natural language query processing and visualization. In embodiments, a structure associated with a dataset and a natural language question are obtained and provided to an AI model to request, from the AI model, a query that may be used for retrieving data from the dataset responsive to the natural language question. The query is received form the AI model and executed against the data in the dataset to retrieve data responsive to the natural language question. In embodiments, the data responsive to the natural language question is analyzed to determine one or more structural characteristics of the data responsive to the natural language question, and a graphical visualization of the data responsive to the natural language question is generated based on the one or more structural characteristics of the data responsive to the natural language question.
US12332869B2
An apparatus for labeling data in a machine-to-machine (M2M) system, and a method for operating the apparatus may include determining a label for data and generating a resource including information related to the label. The resource may include at least one of information indicating being training data, information indicating a type of an annotation, information indicating a format of labeling, information describing an annotation, information on an applied ontology, and information referencing the data.
US12332868B2
A server receives target sample data sent from the user equipment, and searches sample data in a database using the target sample data as a search query to identify the sample data whose similarity measure to the target sample data is equal to or greater than a threshold. The server identifies a three-dimensional structure model associated with the identified sample data, and outputs the identified three-dimensional structure model as a three-dimensional structure model corresponding to the target sample data.
US12332866B1
Methods, systems, and devices for data management are described. A data management system (DMS) may obtain metadata associated with a snapshot stored by the DMS and including information associated with data paths in the snapshot. The DMS may scan an index registry for identifiers of the data paths to determine whether the index registry includes namespace and hierarchical index information that map the data paths to path identifiers and to descendent data paths within the snapshot, respectively. The DMS may generate term and count index information based on the metadata. The term and count index information may map terms to data paths that include the terms and numerical values associated with the terms, respectively. The DMS may store, in the index registry, the term and count index information with an identifier of a corresponding index group. The namespace and hierarchical index information may be common to multiple index groups.
US12332863B2
Methods and apparatuses relate to transferring user-specific data that can be validated via a hash tree. If not all of the underlying data of the hash tree is transferred, then in place of the non-transferred data, a suitable hash value from the hash tree can be transferred. The data to be transferred includes at least one reference data element which is suitable for checking the authenticity of the sender.
US12332850B2
Systems and methods for architecture embeddings for efficient dynamic synthetic data generation are disclosed. The disclosed systems and methods may include a system for generating synthetic data configured to perform operations. The operations may include retrieving a set of rules associated with a first data profile and generating, by executing a hyperparameter search, a plurality of hyperparameter sets for generative adversarial networks (GANs) that satisfy the set of rules. The operations may include generating mappings between the hyperparameter sets and the first data profile and storing the mappings in a hyperparameter library. The operations may include receiving a request for synthetic data, the request indicating a second data profile and selecting, from the mappings in the hyperparameter library, a hyperparameter set mapped to the second data profile. The operations may include building a GAN using the selected hyperparameter set and generating, using the GAN, a synthetic data set.
US12332843B2
A data management apparatus selects a trail from management data. The management data includes, for an operation item regarding a system to be operated, data representing a workflow representing one or a plurality of works constituting a business of a system operation and associated with the operation item, and data representing a regulation matter associated with the operation item for a standard or a law. A trail is associated with the workflow. The data management apparatus performs deletion determination that is determination as to whether or not the selected trail can be deleted. The deletion determination includes a determination as to whether or not the current date and time exceeds the holding expiration time of the selected trail. The holding expiration time of the selected trail is an expiration time determined from the generation date and time of the trail and the holding period represented by the regulation matter associated with the operation item corresponding to the workflow with which the trail is associated. When a result of the deletion determination is true, the data management apparatus deletes the selected trail.
US12332840B2
Techniques described herein relate to systems and methods of data storage, and more particularly to automatic file site clone generation. In certain embodiments, a computing device may include receiving a selection indicating that a clone directory is visible in a head node. In response to the selection indicating that the clone directory to be visible in the head node, the computing device may include generating a snapshot of a target file system. Also, the computing device may include duplicating a directory of the target file system into the clone directory. Further, the computing device may include mapping an address of the target file system into the clone directory. The computing device may include linking the clone directory to the head node.
US12332839B2
Methods, systems, and devices for data management are described. A data management system (DMS) may receive an indication of a storage configuration for an object storage location within a cloud environment. The DMS may generate a snapshot of a computing system in accordance with a backup policy associated with the computing system. The DMS may cause one or more data objects corresponding to the snapshot to be stored in the object storage location within the cloud environment in accordance with the storage configuration. The DMS may apply immutable object locks to the one or more data objects within the object storage location. The DMS may execute, in accordance with the backup policy associated with the computing system, one or more jobs that cause the respective immutable object locks for the one or more data objects to be extended one or more times during a retention period for the snapshot.
US12332829B2
Automatic test equipment (ATE) configured to test devices under test (DUTs) can include a host device tester, one or more load boards, and one or more host bus adapters (HBAs). The host device tester does not support odd sector sizes and/or non-standard sector sizes. The one or more load boards can be communicatively coupled to the host device. The one or more HBAs can be communicatively coupled between respective load boards and one or more respective devices under test (DUTs). The one or more load boards can be configured to communicate with respective HBAs using one or more first communication protocol interfaces. The one or more HBAs can be configured to communicate with the respective DUTs using one or more second communication protocol interfaces. The HBAs can be configured to translate commands and data between the host device tester and the one or more DUTs that support odd sector size or non-standard sector size.
US12332828B2
This application describes systems and methods for facilitating memory access for graph neural network (GNN) processing. An example method includes fetching, by an access engine circuitry implemented on a circuitry board, a portion of structure data of a graph from a pinned memory in a host memory of a host via a first peripheral component interconnect express (PCIe) connection; performing node sampling using the fetched portion of the structure data of the graph to select one or more sampled nodes; fetching, by the access engine circuitry, a portion of attribute data of the graph from the pinned memory via the first PCIe connection; sending the fetched portion of the attribute data of the graph to one or more processors; and performing, by the one or more processors, GNN processing for the graph using the fetched portion of the attribute data of the graph.
US12332822B2
A graphics hub has a dock size to accept an information handling system on an upper surface so that plural contactless connectors in the bottom surface of the information handling system align with plural contactless connectors of the dock. Each set of plural contactless connectors interfaces with a PCIe bus having a bandwidth that is equaled by the cumulative bandwidth of the plural contactless connectors when communicating serially. Visual information on the information handling system communicated through a bus, such as a PCIe bus, is communicated through the serial wireless 60 GHz signals at the full bus bandwidth available.
US12332821B2
A circuit, method and device for addressing CAN nodes are provided. The circuit includes: a fuse adapter board including a short-circuited circuit; a first CMU including a first MCU and a first CAN identification circuit; and a second CMU including a second MCU and a second CAN identification circuit. The fuse adapter board is connected to the first MCU or the second MCU through the short-circuited circuit, and is configured to control the short-circuited circuit to be shorted to enable a level on a GPIO pin of the first MCU or the second MCU connected to the short-circuited circuit to be a low level, so that the first MCU and the second MCU set their respective CAN addressing based on the respective levels of the respective GPIO pins.
US12332819B2
The present disclosure is a system and method for transmitting management data between a client computer and a remote device within a network. The system and method for transmitting management data between a client computer and a remote device within a network may include an adapter configured to receive a data stream from the client computer, separate the stream into user data and management data, and send the user data and the management data to different ports of the remote device. The adapter also includes a storage element capable of storing the management data and transmitting the management data to the remote device upon an input from the client computer.
US12332816B1
According to one example of the present disclosure, a system may be provided. The system may comprise at least one processing core configured to process computations of the at least one neural network model comprising at least one tensor, at least one memory circuit configured to store the at least one tensor, a bus circuit, electrically coupled to the at least one processing core and the at least one memory circuit, configured to transmit the at least one tensor based on a memory access operation instruction, and a controller configured to control a priority of a memory access operation for each tensor of the at least one processing core.
US12332811B1
This disclosure provides systems, methods, and devices for memory systems that support enhanced exclusive access fairness operations for scalable exclusive monitor architectures. In a first aspect, device includes a processing system that includes one or more shared memory devices and one or more request nodes. The processing system also includes one or more network interface units (NIUs), each NIU including an exclusive monitor configured to monitor exclusive accesses to shared memory addresses for a corresponding request node and including a timeout register for the exclusive monitor configured to control exclusive access fairness. The processing system includes one or more home nodes coupled to a corresponding shared memory device of the one or more shared memory devices. The processing system further includes an interconnect configured to couple the one or more request nodes to the one or more shared memory devices. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.
US12332807B2
The present disclosure provides a data processing method and apparatus, an electronic device, and a storage medium. The data processing provided by the present disclosure includes: receiving a first request message from a first device, where the first request message includes a first address aligned with a first data length and a first size in a unit of the first data length; converting the first address into a second address aligned with a second data length, where the second data length is greater than the first data length; converting the first size into a second size in a unit of the second data length; and sending a second request message to a second device, where the second request message includes the second address and the second size.
US12332802B2
An embodiment of an integrated circuit comprises circuitry to generate a cache tag for data to be stored in a cache memory, store a first portion of the cache tag in a primary tag memory, and store a second portion of the cache tag in a secondary tag memory, wherein a size of the first portion is smaller than a size of the second portion. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
US12332798B2
An intelligent processing device includes a first memory, a second memory, a memory management circuit and a convolution operation circuit. The memory management circuit transfers an input data from an external memory to the first memory. The convolution operation circuit reads the input data from the first memory, and performs multiple stages of calculations to generate multiple sets of feature map data. After a first data tile of a first feature map data is generated, the memory management circuit stores the first data tile to the second memory. When a data amount of the first data tile stored satisfies a predetermined value, the memory management circuit transfers the first data tile from the second memory to the first memory, and the convolution operation circuit reads the first data tile from the first memory and accordingly performs a second-stage calculation to generate a second data tile of a second feature map data.
US12332796B2
In one embodiment, a processor includes interconnect circuitry, processing circuitry, a first cache, and cache controller circuitry. The interconnect circuitry communicates over a processor interconnect with a second processor that includes a second cache. The processing circuitry generates a memory read request for a corresponding memory address of a memory. Based on the memory read request, the cache controller circuitry detects a cache miss in the first cache, which indicates that the first cache does not contain a valid copy of data for the corresponding memory address. Based on the cache miss, the cache controller circuitry requests the data from the second cache or the memory based on a current bandwidth utilization of the processor interconnect.
US12332792B2
A system may include multiple coherent agents, where a given coherent agent includes one or more caches configured to cache data. Memory controller circuitry may control one or more memory circuits from which the one or more caches are configured to cache data and maintain a directory that tracks which of the multiple coherent agent circuits is caching copies of a plurality of cache blocks and states of the cached copies in the multiple coherent agent circuits. A first agent may transmit a first request for a first cache block. The first agent may store, in request buffer circuitry, information corresponding to the first request then detect a second snoop from a second agent circuit to the first cache block. The first agent may absorb the second snoop, including to store information corresponding to the second snoop with the information corresponding to the first request in the request buffer circuitry.
US12332785B2
Methods, systems, and computer program products for implementing a precomputed availability cache that is a database of precomputed availabilities for availability searches. An availability request is received. Segmentation data that includes one or more segments is obtained. An associated segmentation entry within a precomputed availability cache is determined for each of the one or more segments. A validity check of the availability data that indicates that at least one of the availabilities for the segments is invalid is performed. An availability for the at least one of the availabilities for the segments is invalid is determined by accessing an inventory database replication and processing an availability computation for the at least one of the availabilities. The cache is updated with the determined availability for the at least one of the availabilities. Availability results that include availabilities for each of the one or more segments are provided.
US12332782B2
A system on chip (SoC) includes a CPU, a main bus, and a plurality of subsystems. The SoC also includes an address remapping module coupled between the CPU and the bus. The address remapping module quickly and efficiently changes any memory addresses that need to be changed with the CPU requests a read or write operation associated with the addresses.
US12332774B2
One embodiment provides for a non-transitory machine-readable medium storing instructions to cause one or more processors to perform operations comprising receiving an instruction to dynamically allocate memory for an object of a data type and dynamically allocating memory for the object from a heap instance that is specific to the data type for the object, the heap instance including a memory allocator for the data type, the memory allocator generated at compile time for the instruction based on a specification of the data type for the heap instance.
US12332773B2
A method, computer program product, and computing system for generating a plurality of artificial storage devices for a storage system, wherein each artificial storage device includes a defined storage capacity. A total useable storage capacity for the storage system is defined based upon, at least in part, the defined storage capacity for each artificial storage device and a storage capacity associated with a plurality of physical storage devices. One or more input/output (IO) requests are processed on the storage system. An IO request concerning an artificial storage device of the plurality of artificial storage devices is discarded.
US12332772B1
Automated test case validation execution is presented herein. A system obtains image data representing a test result of a test step of a validation process; extracts the test result from the image data; derives an expected result from an expected result sentence that has been obtained from a first cell of a row of a table of a document, in which the row corresponds to the test step; based on the test result and the expected result, determines a test status of the test step; generates a result sentence comprising the test result and a portion of the expected result sentence; generates a javascript object notation (JSON) data structure comprising the result sentence and the test status; and populates, using the JSON data structure, a second cell of the row with the result sentence and a third cell of the row with the test status.
US12332767B2
Described herein are techniques that use machine learning to triage issues by classifying the issues into impact levels. Described herein are also techniques for generating a natural language description of issues that occur in sessions of a software application. The techniques collect data during sessions in which a user is interacting with the software application. The techniques process the data collected during the sessions using a language model to obtain natural language descriptions of issues that occur in the sessions.
US12332759B2
An example methodology includes determining, by a management module instance managing an array, whether the management module instance is an array embedded management module instance. The method also includes, responsive to a determination that the management module instance is an array embedded management module instance, by the array embedded management module instance, retrieving information about an embedded appliance on the array and writing the information about the embedded appliance to a shared memory mechanism that is accessible by one or more host installed management module instances managing the array, so as to distribute the information about the embedded appliance from the embedded management module instance to the one or more host installed management module instances.
US12332756B2
There are disclosed various methods, apparatuses and computer program products for a testing apparatus. In accordance with an embodiment the testing apparatus has a frame; a gripping head for gripping a device to be tested; a first movement element for moving the gripping head with respect to the frame; a movement detector to detect at least one of a location and a position of the device; a touching element for touching the device; an imaging device for capturing images of the device; a display for generating visual information for capturing by the device; a set of sensors for examining operations of the device; a set of actuators for providing signals for reception by the device; and a set of plugs adapted to be inserted into a socket of the device.
US12332752B2
A device includes a port with a replay buffer and protocol logic to receive a flit in a sequence of flits to be sent on a point-to-point link and determine an error in the flit. Based on the error, a copy of the flit is stored in a first position within the replay buffer as well as a copy of a next flit received in the sequence of flits, which is stored in a second position within the replay buffer. The copies of the flits are then written to a register for access by software.
US12332748B1
A CXL memory subsystem unavailability recovery system includes a computing device having a CXL device, CXL memory subsystems, a non-volatile memory system, and a CXL memory subsystem unavailability recovery subsystem. The CXL memory subsystem unavailability recovery subsystem configures the first CXL device to use a first CXL memory subsystem, and copies data stored in the first CXL memory subsystem by the first CXL device to the non-volatile memory system to generate back-up data. During runtime operations for the computing device, the CXL memory subsystem unavailability recovery system determines the first CXL memory subsystem is unavailable, copies the back-up data from the non-volatile memory system to a second CXL memory subsystem, and configures the first CXL device to use the second CXL memory subsystem and stop using the first CXL memory subsystem without requiring initialization of the computing device subsequent to the determination that the first CXL memory subsystem was unavailable.
US12332743B2
A method includes performing a read operation of a first codeword including first hard data and generating an error vector using a reliability metric of the first hard data. The first hard data and error vector are stored in first and second portions of memory. A first corrected codeword is returned that combines the error vector and the hard data from the first and second portions of memory. A read operation of a second codeword is performed, including second hard data and soft information. The hard data and soft information are stored in the first and second portions of memory. A bit of second hard data is flipped responsive to comparing a reliability metric of the bit of the second hard data to a bit flipping threshold, wherein flipping the bit includes updating the second hard data. The updated second codeword is returned resulting from reading the portions of memory.
US12332741B2
A memory device may include a read controller and an error correction circuit. The read controller may sequentially perform a plurality of read retry operations on a memory device. The error correction circuit may perform a plurality of first error correction decodings on read data respectively acquired from the plurality of read retry operations, store a plurality of Unsatisfied Syndrome Check (USC) values respectively produced by the plurality of first error correction decodings, and perform a second error correction decoding based on read data corresponding to a minimum USC value among the plurality of USC values.
US12332739B2
A method is described. The method includes a buffer semiconductor chip receiving a plurality of data signals. The method includes the buffer chip calculating first CRC information from the plurality of data signals. The method includes the buffer chip transmitting the plurality of data signals in parallel with the first CRC information if a read burst transfer sequence is being performed, the buffer chip receiving second CRC information in parallel with the plurality of data signals and comparing the first CRC information with the second CRC information if a write burst transfer sequence is being performed.
US12332736B2
Disclosed herein is a network management apparatus, comprising: a correlating information storage unit configured to store correlating information that correlates an error that may occur when executing a workflow to a way of resolving the error, the workflow defining a series of network construction processes consisting of a plurality of processes; a log collection unit configured to collect logs related to executing the workflow; a workflow stop unit configured to stop executing the workflow when an error occurs during the workflow being executed; an error handling unit configured to, during the workflow being stopped, refer to the correlating information based on the logs and determine a handling dealing with the error to perform the handling; and a workflow resuming unit configured to resume, when the error is resolved by the handling, the workflow from a process corresponding to the handling among the plurality of processes.
US12332728B2
Disclosed is a power loss protection method. In some implementations, the method includes initiating a timer to indicate a progress of a power loss protection procedure that performs a data transfer upon occurrence of a power loss interrupt event, initiating a first data transfer operation to transfer a first amount of data to a memory device, and upon an indication by the timer that the power loss protection procedure has reached a predetermined progress level, continuing the first data transfer operation until the first amount of data is transferred to the memory device, or upon an indication by the timer that the power loss protection procedure has failed to reach the predetermined progress level, discontinuing the first data transfer operation and performing a second data transfer operation to transfer a second amount of data to the memory device, wherein the second amount is less than the first amount.
US12332721B2
A memory chip includes at least two memory blocks. In a method for controlling power supply for the memory blocks of the memory chip, each memory block receives a command for switching to standby mode. The commands are issued, for example by a processor, separately for each memory block in order to be able to individually place the memory block in standby mode.
US12332720B2
There is a tradeoff between the amount of power consumption decreased and the latency needed to return a data storage device back to an operational power mode. When the data storage device receives a wake up indication from a host device, a controller of the data storage device initiates a counter in order to determine a host exit latency. Based on the host exit latency, the controller determines a group of low power state entrance actions from a plurality of groups to perform during a next entrance into a firmware active idle state based on an associated completion wake up time and the host exit latency. The controller selects the group whose completion wake up time is closest to the host exit latency and less than or equal to the host exit latency. The controller performs the selected groups low power state entrance actions during a next entrance into the firmware active idle state.
US12332713B2
The technology described herein is related to a two-phase deployment-initiated wakeup mechanism for a body-mountable electronic device. During a first phase of the two-phase wakeup mechanism, a motion sensor detects an acceleration event indicative of deployment of the device onto the body of the user. During a second phase of the two-phase mechanism, control circuitry can be adapted to be enabled by the acceleration event. Once enabled, the control circuitry can verify that the device has been launched onto the body of a user via a deployment applicator in which the device is retained until deployment. Once verified, the control circuitry can wake up the body-mountable electronic device by transitioning the device from a sleep state to a functional (or operational) state.
US12332712B2
A method of updating power firmware is applied to update power firmware when a power supply is powered. The method is executed by a microcontroller of the power supply, and the method includes steps of: planning a memory space in the microcontroller as a first space and a second space, wherein the first space stores a first program currently executing the power supply required by the power supply, emptying the second space before the power firmware is updated, writing a second program stored in a management system into the second space, switching the second space to the first space to complete updating the power firmware after the second program is completely written into the second space, and continuously outputting working power.
US12332707B2
Hierarchical and lightweight imitation learning (IL) for power management of embedded systems-on-chip (SoCs), also referred to herein as HiLITE, is provided. Modern SoCs use dynamic power management (DPM) techniques to improve energy efficiency. However, existing techniques are unable to efficiently adapt the runtime decisions considering multiple objectives (e.g., energy and real-time requirements) simultaneously on heterogeneous platforms. To address this need, embodiments described herein propose HiLITE, a hierarchical IL framework that maximizes energy efficiency while satisfying soft real-time constraints on embedded SoCs. This approach first trains DPM policies using IL; then, it applies a regression policy at runtime to minimize deadline misses. HiLITE improves the energy-delay product by 40% on average, and reduces deadline misses by up to 76%, compared to state-of-the-art approaches. In addition, the trained policies not only achieve high accuracy, but also have negligible prediction time overhead and small memory footprint.
US12332705B2
An electronic device according to various embodiments may include: a temperature sensor; a sensor unit; and at least one processor. The at least one processor may be configured to determine that a temperature value detected by the temperature sensor exceeds a temperature threshold value; determine whether a condition is satisfied, the condition being related to at least one of a flexible state of the electronic device, whether a cover case is mounted on the electronic device, or a distance between a user's contact position on the electronic device and a position of the at least one processor; based on the condition being satisfied, operate according to a first clock level corresponding to the temperature value; and based on the condition not being satisfied, operate according to a second clock level higher than the first clock level.
US12332701B2
An electronic device has a hinge structure including a first fixed structure on which a first arc-shaped guide rail is formed, a second fixed structure on which a second arc-shaped guide rail is formed, a first rotating structure including a first coupling portion rotatably coupled to the first guide rail, a second rotating structure including a second coupling portion rotatably coupled to the second guide rail, and a torque structure which provides torque to the first rotating structure and the second rotating structure. The torque structure includes a cam structure formed on the first rotating structure and the second rotating structure, a cam member including a moving cam engaged with the cam structure, and an elastic member which is compressed or tensioned in response to linear movement of the cam member.
US12332697B2
Embodiments are generally directed to a flexible overlapping display. An embodiment of a mobile device includes a processor to process data for the mobile device, a bendable and foldable display screen, one or more device sensors to sense an orientation of the mobile device, and one or more display sensors to sense a current arrangement of the display screen. The processor is to identify one or more portions of the display screen that are visible to a user based at least in part on data from the one or more device sensors and the one or more display sensors.
US12332696B2
A foldable touch screen display device made up of flexible segments that can be folded from a compact state to an expanded state which also includes an aperture that can retract parallel to the respective planes of each flexible display segment structure. The form factor of the compact state is roughly the size of a typical handheld phone or smaller. The form factor of the expanded state is roughly the size of a larger phone or tablet computer, which may also have the size and mechanical functionality of a laptop. The device may also have a flip phone configuration. Both folded states may include an integrated speaker and microphone. The device may also be folded 360 degrees about a hinge such that it can fold to a compact folded state in one direction with its flexible display segments facing inward towards each other, or to an inverted compact folded state in the opposite direction such that the flexible display segments are facing outward along the device's segment structures. The aperture acts as a central support for the flexible display that can also retract as the device is folded to any state such that the display is not damaged.
US12332695B2
A foldable apparatus and an electronic device, wherein foldable apparatus includes a mounting bracket and a rotating bracket assembly. The rotating bracket assembly includes a first rotating bracket and a second rotating bracket arranged on two sides of the mounting bracket along a width direction of the mounting bracket. The first rotating bracket is rotatably connected to the mounting bracket by using a first rotating shaft. The second rotating bracket is rotatably connected to the mounting bracket by using a second rotating shaft. When the first rotating bracket and the second rotating bracket rotate toward each other, the first rotating shaft and the second rotating shaft move in a direction away from the mounting bracket along the width direction of the mounting bracket.
US12332688B2
A finger-worn wearable ring device may include a ring-shaped housing, a printed circuit board, and a sensor module that includes one or more light-emitting components and one or more light-receiving components. The wearable ring device may further include a communication module configured to wirelessly communicate with an application executable on a user device.
US12332685B2
In an example, a device stand may include a base having a plunger cavity extending into a device interface, a plunger having a sloped portion and movably disposed within the plunger cavity between a lock position and a release position, a slider having a slider ramp to engage with the sloped portion and disposed within a slide channel intersecting the plunger cavity, and a base magnet disposed on the plunger. The slider may be movable between a resting position and a depressed position. Upon the slider being moved from the resting position to the depressed position, the slider ramp may engage with the sloped portion to move the plunger from the lock position to the release position.
US12332674B2
Techniques are described herein for regulating output voltage using a low-dropout (LDO) voltage regulator. In an example, an LDO voltage regulator circuit includes a pass circuit that is driven or otherwise controlled by a first buffer circuit, and a sense circuit that is driven or otherwise controlled by a second buffer circuit. The pass circuit is configured to pass current from a voltage supply terminal to an output voltage terminal, responsive to a first control signal. The sense circuit is configured to sense the current passed by the pass circuit, responsive to a second control signal. The first buffer circuit is configured to provide the first control signal to the pass circuit, responsive to a third control signal, and the second buffer circuit is configured to provide the second control signal to the pass circuit, also responsive to the third control signal.
US12332665B1
Systems and methods for public transport infrastructure facilitated drone delivery are provided. In example embodiments, a request to deliver a package to a drop-off destination using a drone is received. Public infrastructure information is accessed. A public infrastructure terminal from which the drone delivers the package is identified based on the public infrastructure information. An instruction is communicated to transport the package to the identified public. A drone delivery route from the identified public infrastructure terminal to the drop-off destination is determined based on the public infrastructure information. An instruction to deliver the package using the drone delivery route is communicated to the drone.
US12332661B2
An apparatus for guiding a transition between flight modes of an electric aircraft is illustrated. The apparatus comprises at least a sensor configured to detect a movement datum of the electric aircraft and a flight controller communicatively connected to the at least sensor, wherein the flight controller is configured to receive the movement datum from the at least a sensor, determine a current flight mode of the electric aircraft as a function of the movement datum, generate a guidance datum as a function of a change in flight mode and the movement datum, communicate the movement datum and the guidance datum to a pilot indicator in communication with the flight controller, and display the movement datum and the guidance datum using the pilot indicator.
US12332655B2
In a work management device and a work management method, in the case where the number of autonomous mobile working machines used in performing work has been changed, or in the case where, among a plurality of assigned working regions, a difference that is greater than or equal to a percentage threshold value has occurred in a work completion percentage, which is a ratio of a portion where the work is completed to each of the assigned working regions, resetting of the assigned working regions is carried out.
US12332652B1
Aspects of the disclosure relate to an autonomous vehicle that may detect other nearby vehicles and designate stationary vehicles as being in one of a short-term stationary state or a long-term stationary state. This determination may be made based on various indicia, including visible indicia displayed by the detected vehicle and traffic control factors relating to the detected vehicle. For example, the autonomous vehicle may identify a detected vehicle as being in a long-term stationary state based on detection of hazard lights being displayed by the detected vehicle, as well as the absence of brake lights being displayed by the detected vehicle. The autonomous vehicle may then base its control strategy on the stationary state of the detected vehicle.
US12332644B2
A remote autonomous driving control management apparatus, a system including the same, and a method thereof are provided. The remote autonomous driving control management apparatus is configured to authenticate a remote control terminal, obtains a surrounding image from an autonomous vehicle, receives a parking position from the remote control terminal, and performs autonomous parking or autonomous stop by remote control, based on the parking position and the surrounding image. The remote autonomous driving control management apparatus shares an accurate position through communication to facilitate precise remote control of the autonomous vehicle.
US12332643B2
An approach for a computer program to retrieve historical incident data associated with a contaminated site to predict a future incident at the contaminated site. In the approach, the computer program evaluates the historical incident data to determine a deployment of a plurality of unmanned vehicles to form a virtual fence around the contaminated site. Furthermore, in the approach, the computer program determines instructions for the deployment of each of the plurality of unmanned vehicles to form the virtual fence around the contaminated site. In the approach, the computer program sends the instructions to form the virtual fence to each of the plurality of unmanned vehicles.
US12332642B2
A fault tolerant interface includes a sensor and a safety control that are electrically connected to each other by a single wire. The sensor is configured to provide various signals to the safety control dependent on environmental parameters. Based on the ignal received by the safety control, the fault tolerant interface may act accordingly and place the overall system in a mitigative state in the event of a fault state or an alarm state. Data and fault or alarm states are detected by determining a first time interval between a first edge and a second edge of a signal, wherein an edge is one of a transition of the signal from a first voltage to a second voltage or a transition of the signal from the second voltage to the first voltage on a single wire. Data values versus fault or alarm states are assigned based on whether a current time interval corresponds to the first time interval or the second time interval, or another time interval associated with alarm or fault states.
US12332630B2
A reception unit receives a processing instruction including a recipe. A calculation unit calculates an identifier from the recipe received by the receiving unit. A determination unit determines whether an identical identifier to the calculated identifier is stored in a memory. A control unit controls a substrate processing apparatus using an operation data item associated with the identical identifier and the recipe received by the receiving unit when the determination unit determines that the identical identifier is stored in the memory.
US12332626B2
An accuracy analysis system for a machine tool includes: a control unit, a data server, a data communication unit, a data analyzer, a corrected machine accuracy calculation unit, and a data display unit. The control unit stores preliminarily obtained accuracy data regarding a machine accuracy, compensation data for compensating for an error, and machine information. The data communication unit transmits the accuracy data, the compensation data, and the machine information to the data server. The data analyzer uses the accuracy data and the compensation data in the data server to obtain a compensation data correction value as a correction value of the compensation data and expected accuracy data when the compensation data correction value is applied. The corrected machine accuracy calculation unit calculates a post-correction machine accuracy from the expected accuracy data. The data display unit displays the post-correction machine accuracy calculated by the corrected machine accuracy calculation unit.
US12332618B2
Vaporizers and vaporizer systems, which can include a user device in communication with a vaporizer, can include one or more features related to control of functions and/or features of the vaporizer. A method for locking a vaporizer is provided. The method includes determining whether a vaporizer is within a communication range of a second device. The method further includes locking the vaporizer in response to the vaporizer being within the communication range. The method further includes receiving information associated with a user of the vaporizer. The method further includes determining, based on the received information, an age of the user and unlocking, by the one or more processors and based on the age of the user satisfying a threshold, the vaporizer to activate the operation of the vaporizer.
US12332600B2
Provided is a hologram image normalization method for a holographic printer. In a holographic printing method according to an embodiment, generating, encoding, and normalizing for the (n+1)-th hogel are performed in parallel with loading and recording of a normalized hologram for the n-th hogel, and moving and waiting for the (n+1)-th hogel. Accordingly, a global maximum value and a global minimum value for normalization may be calculated as approximate estimation values, and a hologram generation process and a printing process may be performed in parallel, so that a total printing time may be minimized and memory usage may be optimized when holographic printing is performed.
US12332595B2
An image forming apparatus includes an adjustment processing portion, an acquisition processing portion, and a determination processing portion. Each time an adjustment condition is satisfied during execution of an image forming process, the adjustment processing portion uses toner to adjust one adjustment target selected in accordance with a specific order among a plurality of adjustment targets related to image quality of an output image output by the image forming process. The acquisition processing portion acquires variation amount information related to an amount of variation in a state value related to an image forming portion caused by a start of the image forming process. The determination processing portion determines an adjustment target to be adjusted first after the start of the image forming process by the adjustment processing portion, based on the variation amount information acquired by the acquisition processing portion.
US12332593B2
A fixing unit includes a rotary member that includes a conductive layer, a magnetic core inserted in an interior space of the rotary member, and an energizing coil that includes a conductor and that is wound helically around a circumference of the magnetic core. In a case where a distance between a first cross section of the conductor in a plane along the longitudinal direction and a second cross section of the conductor in the plane and adjacent to the first cross section in the longitudinal direction is L1 (mm), and a distance between the conductor and the magnetic core in a radial direction orthogonal to the helical axis is L2 (mm), following inequalities are satisfied, L1>0.1 and 0.1
US12332577B2
A voltage generating apparatus includes: a first circuit configured to output a first voltage; a controller configured to control a value of the first voltage output by the first circuit with a control signal; and a storage unit configured to store control information of the first circuit. The controller uses the control signal for communication with the storage unit.
US12332576B2
A method for maintaining a projection exposure apparatus comprising at least two modules and a reference element, wherein the modules are referenced to the reference element, comprises: removing a module; attaching a service module to or in the vicinity of the projection exposure apparatus; referencing the service module to the reference element of the projection exposure apparatus; and implementing a maintenance measure with the aid of the service module.
US12332567B2
The present invention is a composition for forming a silicon-containing resist underlayer film, containing one or both of a hydrolysis product and a hydrolysis condensate of one or more silicon compounds (A-1) shown by the following general formula (1). This provides: a composition for forming a silicon-containing resist underlayer film with which it is possible to form a resist underlayer film having favorable adhesiveness to resist patterns regardless of whether in negative development or positive development, and also having favorable adhesiveness to finer patterns as in EUV photo-exposure; a patterning process; and a silicon compound.
US12332555B2
An optical engine module used in a projection device and configured to generate an image beam includes a housing and a plate. The housing has a surrounding side wall and a bottom wall connected to each other. The bottom wall has a first opening. The surrounding side wall has an off-state beam irradiation zone adjacent to the first opening. The first opening is configured to allow the image beam to exit. The off-state beam irradiation zone is configured to be irradiated by an off-state beam. The plate has a light receiving part and a heat dissipating part. The light receiving part is disposed in the off-state beam irradiation zone. The heat dissipating part passes through the bottom wall and extends out of the housing. A projection device adopting the optical engine module is also provided.
US12332549B2
A low parallax imaging device includes a plurality of imaging lens elements arranged to capture adjacent fields of view. In some examples, adjacent imaging lens elements may contact at datum features to maintain a desired spacing. The spacing may allow for partial overlapping of low-parallax volumes associated with the respective imaging lens elements.
US12332548B2
A camera module is provided. The camera module includes a first lens group including a foremost lens disposed closest to an object; a second lens group including a rearmost lens disposed closest to an imaging plane; and a lens barrel in which a first accommodation space and a second accommodating space are formed, the first accommodation space configured to accommodate the first lens group therein, and the second accommodating space configured to accommodate the second lens group therein. The second accommodation space may become narrower from an object side toward the imaging plane.
US12332546B2
An optical element driving mechanism is configured to receive light. The light is incident to a light-path adjustment element via an incident axis, and travels into the optical element driving mechanism along a first axis, and the incident axis is not parallel to the first axis. The optical element driving mechanism includes a movable portion, a fixed portion, and a driving assembly. The movable portion has a receiving space configured to connect an optical element. The fixed portion includes a base, the movable portion is movable relative to the fixed portion, and the base has a first surface facing the movable portion. The driving assembly is configured to drive the movable portion to move. The movable portion further includes an opening connected to the receiving space, and when viewed along the first axis, the sidewall of the optical element is located between the opening and the first surface.
US12332544B2
A lens driving device includes: a fixed portion; a movable portion including a lens carrier that holds a lens body; a middle portion provided between the fixed portion and the movable portion; a first elastic support member movably supporting a front portion of the middle portion with respect to the fixed portion in a direction orthogonal to an optical axis of the lens body; and a second elastic support member movably supporting the movable portion with respect to a rear portion of the middle portion in a direction orthogonal to the optical axis of the lens body.
US12332541B2
A method of generating broadband output radiation and associated broadband radiation source. The method includes generating pulses of input radiation having a duration between 50 fs and 400 fs and having a rise time of less than 60 fs; and exciting a working medium within a hollow core fiber with the pulses of input radiation.
US12332538B2
Techniques regarding quantum transducers are provided. For example, one or more embodiments described herein can include an apparatus that can comprise a superconducting microwave resonator having a microstrip architecture that can include a dielectric substrate positioned between a superconducting waveguide and a superconducting ground plane. The superconducting waveguide can have a first material composition. Also, the superconducting ground plane can have a second material composition that is distinct from the first material composition. Further, an optical resonator can be arranged with the dielectric substrate.
US12332526B2
Disclosed are a display substrate, a display panel and a display device. The display substrate includes: a base substrate, multiple gate-line groups, multiple data lines, the multiple data line include: first type of data lines and second type of data lines alternately arranged along the first direction; multiple transistors, transistors in the same sub-transistor group are connected with the same gate line, transistors in adjacent sub-transistor groups are connected with different gate lines, and transistors of the same sub-transistor group are connected with different data lines; multiple pins, the multiple pins include: first type of pins and second type of pins alternately arranged along the first direction; two adjacent first type of data lines are connected with a same first type of pin, and adjacent second type of data lines are connected with a same second type of pin.
US12332520B2
An optically anisotropic layer in which the occurrence of a haze is suppressed and a winding aptitude is excellent; and an optical film, a polarizing plate, and an image display device, each having the optically anisotropic layer. The optically anisotropic layer is obtained by polymerizing a polymerizable liquid crystal composition containing a polymerizable liquid crystal compound, in which in a case where an amplitude value at each wavelength determined by subjecting data of a three-dimensional surface roughness to a Fourier transform is defined as L, the amplitude value L at a wavelength of 5 μm or more is 0.125 or more, and the amplitude value L at a wavelength of 2.0 to 2.5 μm is 0.025 or less.
US12332510B2
Controlling the propagation and interaction of light in complex media has sparked major interest. Unfortunately, spatial light modulation devices suffer from limited speed precluding real-time applications (e.g., imaging in live tissue). To address this problem, various embodiments use a phase-control technique to characterize complex media based on use of fast 1D spatial modulators and 1D-to-2D transformation performed by the same medium being analyzed. Some embodiments use a micro-electro-mechanical grating light valve (GLV) with 1088 degrees of freedom modulated at 350 KHz, enabling unprecedented high-speed wavefront measurements. Some embodiments continuously measure the transmission matrix, calculate the optimal wavefront and project a focus through various dynamic scattering samples in real-time, (e.g., within 2.4 ms per cycle). As such, some embodiments improve, by more than an order of magnitude, prior wavefront shaping modulation speed and open new opportunities for optical processing using 1D-to-2D transformations.
US12332499B2
A lens barrel and an imaging device which can be miniaturized, the lens barrel with a movable cylinder that moves along the optical axis with a change in focal length; first and second drive units in the movable cylinder; and first and second lens driven by the first and second drive units respectively to move along the optical axis relative to the movable cylinder. The movement amount of the first lens relative to the cylinder when the focal length is changed to a second focal length from a first state where the first lens is at a position closest to a subject with a first focal length is less than the movement amount of the first lens relative to the cylinder when the focal length is changed to the second focal length from a second state where the first lens is closer to an image plane than the first state.
US12332495B2
An imaging lens module includes a plastic lens barrel, a first optical element assembly and a second optical element assembly, wherein both of the first optical element assembly and the second optical element assembly are disposed in the plastic lens barrel. The plastic lens barrel includes a first inner annular surface and a second inner annular surface. The first inner annular surface forms a first receiving space. The second inner annular surface forms a second receiving space. The first optical element assembly is disposed in the first receiving space and includes a plurality of optical lens elements and a first retainer. The second optical element assembly is disposed in the second receiving space and includes a first light blocking sheet and a second retainer.
US12332492B2
An optical fiber drop cable including a cable jacket having an outer surface defining the outermost surface of the optical fiber drop cable. The optical fiber drop cable also includes a subunit, a first strength element, and a second strength element. The first strength element, the second strength element, and the subunit are embedded in the cable jacket, and the first strength element, the second strength element, and the subunit are arranged substantially parallel to each other on a first plane. The subunit includes a buffer tube having an inner surface and an outer surface, at least one optical fiber, and a plurality of strengthening yarns. The plurality of strengthening yarns are disposed between the inner surface of the buffer tube and the at least one optical fiber, and the outer surface of the buffer tube is at least partially in contact with the cable jacket.
US12332472B2
An optical film comprises a light incident side and a light emitting side opposite to the light incident side. A plurality of light incident microstructures are formed on the light incident side, and the light incident microstructures are tapered structures. According to the structural design of the light incident microstructures of the optical film, the light field of a light source can be expanded to achieve the purpose of emitting light at a specific angle. The invention also provides a backlight module and a display device including the optical film.
US12332463B2
A sample holder for use in an optical microscope is disclosed. The sample holder includes a plasmonic layer defining a periodic array of sub-micron structures wherein the periodic array of sub-micron structures comprise an array of separated plasmonic regions. The regions may be a circle, a torus, an ellipse, a cross, rectangle, square, line, strip. Methods of performing reflection and fluorescence microscopy using such a sample holder and other sample holders are also disclosed.
US12332457B1
Various lens shapes are able to transform laser beams into laser sheets that can span both two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) space in a controlled manner. The electromagnetic characteristics of the laser beams can be tailored as the laser light enters, traverses, and exits a lens. The projected image can be shaped. The lenses may have sections being multiply or simply connected with or without cavities. The lenses may also have solid or hollow race features, and coatings and/or material layers, which affect the output laser sheet. A fan angle of the produced laser sheet can be up to and include 360 degrees.
US12332454B1
Techniques for designing display (glasses) devices in light-weight and small footprint are described. To reduce the cost, weight and volume of the display devices, only one imager is used. An optical engine (cube) is provided to split optical images from the imager into a first (left) portion and a second (right) portion. Each of the portions is redirected via one or more optical lenses to a predefined path, where the optical lenses are based upon polarization volume hologram (PVH) lenses in one embodiment, all having different optical characteristics to diffract light beams at predefined angles.
US12332447B2
Disclosed is a display module including an output unit configured to form an image to output the image forward, a lens unit configured to have a virtual central axis in front of the output unit and transmit the image so that an optical axis of the image transmitted from the output unit is parallel with the central axis to transmit the image forward, and a guide unit formed to be elongated to have at least a pair of total reflection surfaces facing each other and of which the image transmitted through the lens unit is incident on one side to move to the other side through total internal reflection at least one or more times and the image is reflected on the other side through a separate exit surface to be provided to the user's field of view.
US12332437B2
A method includes obtaining, from a memory of an electronic device connected to a head mounted display (HMD), a first reference frame, wherein the first reference frame comprises a first set of pixels associated with a first time. The method includes, rendering, at the electronic device, a source image as a new frame, wherein the new frame includes a second set of pixels associated with a display to be provided by the HMD at a second time, and generating, by the electronic device, a differential frame, wherein the differential frame is based on a difference operation between pixels of the new frame with pixels of the first reference frame to identify pixels unique to the new frame. Still further, the method includes sending the differential frame to the HMD, and storing the new frame in the memory of the electronic device as a second reference frame.
US12332436B2
In an embodiment, an augmented reality display provides an expanded eye box and enlarged field of view through the use of holographic optical elements. In at least one example, an incoupling element directs an image into a waveguide, which transmits the image to a set of outcoupling gratings. In one example, a set of holographic optical elements opposite the outcoupling elements reflect the image to the user with an enlarged field of view while maintaining an expanded eye box.
US12332434B2
A device and a system includes a head-up display intended to be used to display projected images on surface such as an interior surface of a vehicle windshield. The device and system more particularly relates to a holographic head-up display device, a light module comprising a light source, together with a spatial light modulator displaying a computer-generated hologram once unmodulated beams are filtered using an optical filter. Said HUD device further comprises a head-tracking system for measurement of and adjustment according to interpupillary distance, a processor circuitry for said adjustment and processing pertaining thereto to be undertaken, as well as an optical steering apparatus.
US12332432B2
A tracking apparatus, method, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium thereof are provided. The apparatus determines whether a target object appears in a field of view, wherein the target object is tracked by a head-mounted display. The apparatus calculates a first pose information corresponding to the target object based on a real-time image in response to determining that the target object appears in the field of view. The apparatus transmits the first pose information to the head-mounted display to make the head-mounted display calculate a fusion pose information of the target object according to the first pose information.
US12332425B2
A lens curvature variation apparatus according to an embodiment includes: a liquid lens including a common electrode and a plurality of individual electrodes; a lens driver configured to apply a voltage to the common electrode and the plurality of individual electrodes; a sensor unit configured to sense an interface of the liquid lens; an AD converter configured to convert an analog signal corresponding to the interface output from the sensor unit into a digital signal; and a controller configured to control the lens driver based on a signal output from the AD converter, wherein the plurality of individual electrodes includes a first group and a second group each including two or more individual electrodes, wherein the sensor unit includes a first sensor unit connected to a first individual electrode among individual electrodes of the first group; and a second sensor unit connected to a second individual electrode among individual electrodes of the second group; and wherein the controller includes a controller for controlling the lens driver to adjust the voltage applied to each of the individual electrodes included in the first group and the second group based on the signal output from the AD converter.
US12332423B2
A transparent optical device configured to be used with an underlying device. The underlying device is configured to provide output light. The optical device is configured to transmit light from the underlying device through the optical device. The optical device includes first and second zones. The first zone includes a first plurality of active elements configured to cause the first zone to have a first optical performance capability and a first plurality of transparent regions formed in the first zone allowing light to pass through from the underlying device. The second zone includes a second plurality of active elements configured to cause the second zone to have a second optical performance capability that is different than the first optical performance capability and a second plurality of transparent regions formed in the second zone which allow light in the first spectrum to pass through from the underlying device.
US12332419B2
A digital holographic microscope that includes a light source and a photonic integrated circuit. The photonic integrated circuit can include a branching waveguide optically coupled to the light source, and a multi-angle illumination device optically coupled to the branching waveguide. In various examples, the multi-angle illumination device includes an optical phased array that includes a plurality of light emitters. In various examples, the multi-angle illumination device includes a grating coupler.
US12332413B2
A variable magnification optical system comprising a plurality of lens groups which includes a first positive lens group disposed at a most object side and having positive refractive power, a first negative lens group disposed at an image side of the first positive lens group and having negative refractive power, and a second negative lens group disposed at a more image side than the first negative lens group and having negative refractive power; upon varying a magnification, distances between adjacent lens groups being varied; the first negative lens group being movable to include a component in a direction perpendicular to the optical axis as a vibration reduction lens group; the second negative lens group being moved along the optical axis upon carrying out focusing; and the first negative lens group further including a lens that satisfies predetermined conditional expression(s), thereby various aberrations being corrected superbly, and vibration reduction lens group being made small in size.
US12332395B2
A seismic sensor 10 comprises an acceleration acquisition unit 21, an acceleration waveform generation unit 22, a frequency sensing unit 24, and an earthquake determination unit 25. The acceleration acquisition unit 21 detects vibration and measures the acceleration of the vibration. The acceleration waveform generation unit 22 generates an acceleration waveform that indicates the relation between the elapsed time and the acceleration measured by the acceleration acquisition unit 21. The frequency sensing unit 24 senses the frequency of the acceleration waveform generated by the acceleration waveform generation unit 22. The earthquake determination unit 25 determines whether or not there is an earthquake by classifying acceleration waveforms into those in which the frequency sensed by the frequency sensing unit 24 is above a specific threshold and those in which the frequency is below the specific threshold, and excluding any acceleration waveforms in which the frequency is above the specific threshold.
US12332393B2
A novel method and a related system are configured to place measured trajectories into a voxel space, which moves with respect to a particle detector system. The trajectories are measured in a detector reference frame. The voxel space, typically fixed with respect to the object being imaged, is tracked optically with markers and a camera system. A decipherable correlation is established between a set of markers and a set of detector elements. This correlation provides coordinate transformation definitions to place the trajectories into the voxel space in medical imaging, treatment planning, and/or therapeutic applications. The novel method provides a clever process to register an optical tracking system with a particle detector system, which improves quality assurance, accuracy, speed, and operating cost efficiencies of ion, particle, and/or radiation-based imaging, treatment planning, or therapies. This novel method may be utilized in proton imaging, helium imaging, other ion-based imaging, or x-ray imaging.
US12332391B2
The embodiments of the present disclosure provide detector systems and imaging devices. The system may include a first photosensor array, a second photosensor array and a readout module. A position of the first photosensor array may be opposite to a position of the second photosensor array. Configurations of the first photosensor array and the second photosensor array may be the same. The first photosensor array and the second photosensor array may be configured to output electrical signals related to radiated photons, respectively. The readout module may include a first readout unit and a second readout unit. Configurations of the first readout unit and the second readout unit may be the same. The first readout unit and the second readout unit may be configured to process the electrical signals.
US12332389B2
Techniques for coupling fields to exotic matter at a particular location to identify, or determine the current date/time at that location, are provided. Example techniques include capturing sensor data indicating a decay rate associated with a radioactive material at the location over a period of time; analyzing the sensor data indicating the decay rate associated with the radioactive material at the location over the period of time in order to identify a peak decay rate over the period of time and a point in time, over the period of time, at which the peak decay rate occurred; and determining one or more of: a current time at the particular location, a current date at the location, or an identification of the location, based on one or more of: the peak decay rate or the point in time over the period of time at which the peak decay rate occurred.
US12332367B2
A system may include a mobile ad-hoc network (MANET) including a plurality of nodes. Each of the plurality of nodes is configured to transmit communication data packets and transmit beacons. Each of the plurality of nodes has passive spatial awareness. A first node has information of own node velocity, own node orientation, and a destination. The first node may be configured to: calculate a direct line or an arc from the first node to the destination; utilize passive spatial awareness; assess possible relay routes beyond the communication range and within the beacon range of the first node; determine a next relay node that is on one of the possible relay routes wherein the one of the possible relay routes may be closest to the direct line or the arc without being determined to be part of a dead-end route; and transmit a communication data packet to the next relay node.
US12332365B2
The subject matter disclosed herein relates to determining a background location of a mobile device using one or more signal metrics.
US12332362B2
Systems, methods, and devices for radio frequency (RF) ranging-aided localization and crowdsourced mapping are provided. In one aspect, a method performed by a user equipment (UE) includes obtaining sensor data comprising first radio frequency (RF) ranging data and imaging data. The method further includes tagging the first RF ranging data with location information and semantic information, wherein the semantic information is based on the imaging data, and wherein the semantic information indicates a first portion of the RF ranging data is associated with a static object type and a second portion of the RF ranging data is associated with a temporary-static object type different from the static object type. The method further includes transmitting, to a RF ranging assistance server, the first RF ranging data tagged with the location information and the semantic information.
US12332360B2
A method includes obtaining an initial survey of multiple receivers located on a dynamic platform. The method also includes obtaining sensor readings from the multiple receivers. The method further includes validating, using a differential calculator, the initial survey by (i) selecting a reference receiver and a target receiver from among the multiple receivers and (ii) calculating, based on the sensor readings and baselines between the reference receiver and one or more remaining receivers, a platform attitude, platform thermal expansion state, and survey error values corresponding to the target receiver. The method also includes, starting from a validated survey, adding a new receiver to the initial survey by (i) determining a baseline between the reference receiver and the new receiver and (ii) associating the baseline to a coordinate frame of the initial survey.
US12332355B2
An image capturing apparatus may include a first time of flight (ToF) sensor configured to calculate a distance to a target object using the time difference between a reference pulse time at which a modulated light signal is irradiated and a pulse sensing time at which a reflected modulated light signal, reflected from the target object and incident thereon, is sensed, a second ToF sensor configured to calculate the distance to the target object using a phase difference between the modulated light signal and the reflected modulated light signal, and a controller configured to enable any one of the first and second ToF sensors, based on first pixel data which the first ToF sensor generates to sense the reflected modulated light signal.
US12332353B2
An example method for obtaining data at a vehicle for automobile navigation based on cellular radio frequency (RF) sensing comprising obtaining, with a camera at the vehicle, a camera image of an environment surrounding the vehicle. The method further comprises determining a failure condition of the camera preventing object detection of the camera image, wherein the failure condition is caused by inclement weather, blockage on a lens of the camera, electrical failure of the camera, or a combination thereof. The method further comprises responsive to determining the failure condition of the camera, configuring a cellular communication interface of the vehicle to obtain cellular RF sensing data of the environment surrounding the vehicle. The method further comprises performing the automobile navigation support based at least in part on cellular RF sensing data of the environment surrounding the vehicle.
US12332351B2
The embodiments of this application disclose a time of flight measurement method, including: performing delay processing on an echo signal to obtain N delayed signals; generating X clock signals with different phases based on a multi-phase clock unit; performing delay latch on the N delayed signals based on each of the X clock signals; determining a to-be-processed time of flight based on the reference signal and each of the delay latch result; and determining a target time of flight based on the X to-be-processed time of flights, where the target time of flight is a time difference between emitting the reference signal and receiving the echo signal. With the embodiment of this application, the precision of measuring the time of flight of the echo signal can be effectively improved while saving costs and simplifying calculations.
US12332349B2
In various examples, techniques for sensor-fusion based object detection and/or free-space detection using ultrasonic sensors are described. Systems may receive sensor data generated using one or more types of sensors of a machine. In some examples, the systems may then process at least a portion of the sensor data to generate input data, where the input data represents one or more locations of one or more objects within an environment. The systems may then input at least a portion of the sensor data and/or at least a portion of the input data into one or more neural networks that are trained to output one or more maps or other output representations associated with the environment. In some examples, the map(s) may include a height, an occupancy, and/or height/occupancy map generated, e.g., from a birds-eye-view perspective. The machine may use these outputs to perform one or more operations.
US12332346B2
A situational awareness system for a vehicle comprising a cyber-physical system, wherein the situational awareness system is configured to generate an imaging dataset for processing by the cyber-physical system for enabling semi-autonomous or autonomous operational mode of the vehicle, wherein the situational awareness system includes a sensory system with a first electro-optical unit for imaging the surroundings of the vehicle, a second electro-optical unit configured for imaging a ground area in a direct vicinity of the vehicle, a radar unit for detecting objects, and a third electro-optical unit for object identification, wherein the situational awareness system further includes a data synchronization system configured to synchronize the imaging dataset obtained by means of each unit of the sensory system, wherein the data synchronization system is configured to provide the synchronized imaging dataset to the cyber-physical system of the vehicle.
US12332344B2
A method (100) for referencing a digital elevation model (10), involving a step of obtaining (110) two SAR images (12, 14) having a common area (15) that their area of overlap (16, 17) shares with the digital model (10); the method (100) involving, for the SAR images (12, 14), steps of: selecting (120) an AOI (18) in the common area (15); calculating (130) a simulated image (22) in the AOI (18); estimating (140) an offset (di,dj) between the simulated image (22) and the SAR image (12); the method (100) involving steps of selecting a reference point (26) in the AOI (18); projecting (160) the reference point (26) into the SAR images (12, 14) to obtain one connection point per SAR image (12, 14); correcting (170) the connection points by the offsets (di,dj); calculating (180) the readjusted reference point (26); referencing (190) the digital model (10).
US12332337B2
The present invention provides a radar velocity measurement system, method, and radar device. The system includes a radar module and an electrically connected signal processor. The radar module includes a transmission antenna and a receive antenna. The signal processor includes a sequence unit, a conversion unit, and a compare calculation unit that are coupled with each other. The sequence unit establishes an even number receive sequence and an odd number receive sequence. The conversion unit carries out a time domain to frequency domain conversion upon the receive sequences to generate a first reflection signal and a second reflection signal, respectively. The compare calculation unit uses an interpolation method to compare the phase difference between the reflection signals with a comparison model to obtain a true velocity. Therefore, the present invention effectively prevents the velocity ambiguity issue of radar system.
US12332332B1
A circuit arrangement for correcting an input signal that includes a useful signal with a useful frequency and an interference signal with an interference frequency comprises: a high-pass filter with a cut-off frequency; an inverting operational amplifier circuit connected downstream from the high-pass filter and connected in series with the high-pass filter; an active rectifier circuit connected downstream from the inverting operational amplifier circuit and connected in series thereto, with two parallel-connected line paths, wherein each line path comprises a rectifying element; and a summing amplifier circuit connected downstream from the rectifier circuit, wherein the summing amplifier circuit has an inverting input and a non-inverting input and each line path is electrically connected to one of the inputs of the summing amplifier circuit. This provides a simple and compact circuit arrangement with which interference signals can be effectively suppressed.
US12332317B2
The invention relates to a sensor(S), in particular for an electrical network of an electrically driven vehicle, in particular in an electric car. The sensor according to the invention comprises first of all a measuring device (ME) for current measurement and/or for voltage measurement in the electrical network, in particular with a low-resistance current sense resistor for current measurement according to the four-wire technique. Furthermore, the sensor(S) according to the invention comprises an integrated insulation monitoring device (ME, IQ, Rk, S3) for monitoring an electrical insulation of high-side and/or low-side of the electrical network. The sensor(S) according to the invention is characterized by the fact that the insulation monitoring device (ME, IQ, Rk, S3) operates actively and impresses measurement pulses into the electrical network for insulation monitoring.
US12332314B2
A generator fault detection method based on the characteristics of air gap magnetic flux density includes the following steps: S1: installing detection devices on a generator and building a test platform; S2: obtaining an air gap magnetic flux density signal through the detection devices; S3: transforming a time domain signal of the magnetic flux density into a frequency domain signal by using a fast Fourier transform; S4: judging if the generator has an air gap eccentricity or a stator inter-turn short circuit fault through the comparison of time domain and frequency domain; S5: obtaining a value of air gap magnetic flux density by calculation, selecting and then comparing a root mean square value of magnetic flux density under different working conditions with the root mean square value of magnetic flux density under normal condition to determine a fault degree.
US12332306B2
An apparatus has a collection of ring oscillators. An instruction register block is configured to sequentially address and activate each ring oscillator in the collection of ring oscillators. A multiplexer with input lines is connected to each ring oscillator in the collection of ring oscillators and an output line. A pulse counter is connected to the output line of the multiplexer to count the number of oscillations of a selected ring oscillator within a selected time period to form a multiple bit frequency count output signal. A data shift register receives the multiple bit frequency count output signal and produces a serial frequency count output signal.
US12332302B2
Limiting circuitry is disclosed. In one example, the limiting circuitry provides limited electric current and/or limited electric voltage for electrically testing at least one device under test. The limiting circuitry comprises a plurality of DC-DC-converters being connected in parallel to each other, each being provided with an electric input DC voltage and each being configured for providing a converted electric output current to be forwarded to an assigned one of electric contacts for contacting the at least one device under test. A control mechanism is configured for controlling the DC-DC-converters for limiting the electric output current and/or an electric output voltage which relates to said electric output current.
US12332301B2
A method of determining defect sensitization includes parsing a netlist of a circuit design to determine a plurality of potential defects and partitioning the circuit design into a plurality of blocks. The method also includes generating a graph representing the circuit design and determining a transitive closure of the graph. The method further includes grouping the plurality of potential defects to produce a plurality of groups of potential defects and selecting a potential defect from each group of the plurality of groups to form a simulation group of potential defects. The method also includes simulating the circuit design by injecting, into the circuit design, every potential defect of the simulation group to produce a set of outputs of the plurality of blocks and determining a defect sensitization for the simulation group of potential defects based on the set of outputs of the plurality of blocks.
US12332299B2
An example method includes the following operations: (i) receiving a device signal from a device under test (DUT); (ii) setting an attenuation value; (iii) applying the attenuation value to the device signal to produce an attenuated device signal for a frequency spectrum analyzing device, where the frequency spectrum analyzing device produces a noise signal; (iv) obtaining a power spectral density value using the frequency spectrum analyzing device, where a power spectral density comprises a power, at a frequency value, of a combined signal that is based on the attenuated device signal and the noise signal; (v) repeating operations (ii), (iii), and (iv) one or more times to produce multiple power spectral density values; (vi) repeating operations (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), and (v) one or more times to add power spectral density values to the multiple power spectral density values; and (vii) obtaining a power spectral density of the device signal.
US12332296B1
A calibration and impedance synthesis (tuning) method for active load pull systems employs prior calibration and dynamic interpolation routines. Since active load pull systems differ from passive load pull systems in that the device under test (DUT) is part of the tuner, in large signal the tuner cannot be calibrated independently. The new active load pull system comprises an impedance generation algorithm based on prior calibration and dynamic in memory interpolation routines. At small signal levels the procedure is like with passive load pull tuners. At higher power, where the DUT becomes nonlinear, the calibration yields only approximate data. For load pull contour generation this is still adequate.
US12332295B2
A wafer inspection system includes a carrier device, a probe card, a first metal kit and a surround separating unit. The probe card includes a detection portion and a conductive layer surrounding the detection portion and disposed on its bottom surface. The first metal kit is configured at a bottom portion of the probe card and coupled to the conductive layer and includes a first window for the detection portion to extend out and a first ring piece extending from a periphery of the first window. The surround separating unit includes a conductive wraparound body surrounding and laterally enclosing the detection portion and a wafer to be inspected during probing. The probe card, first metal kit, carrier device, and conductive wraparound body jointly define an space range, shielding the detection portion and wafer from external noise or interference sources, thereby improving inspection accuracy.
US12332291B2
A method for retrieving a probe pin includes following operations. A probe head is received in a carrier. The probe head includes an upper die, a lower die, and at least a probe pin extending in a direction from the lower die to the upper die. A first bending delta between a probe tip of the probe pin and a pin tip of the probe pin is measured. The probe pin is bended by a bending fixture when the first bending delta is greater than a value to obtain a second bending delta between the pin tip and the pin head. The probe pin is pushed in the direction from the lower die to the upper die by a plate. The probe pin is picked from the probe head by an arm.
US12332288B2
An electric utility meter includes a housing, an input configured on the housing that receives input electricity from an electricity source, and a controller having an electronic processor and a memory. The electronic processor is configured to measure a first characteristic and a second characteristic of the input electricity, determine a fault parameter value, calculate a confidence score corresponding to the fault parameter value, compare the confidence score to a threshold value, and determine that a fault is occurring based on the confidence score exceeding the threshold value.
US12332272B2
A rolling bearing may have at least two bearing rings arranged rotatably relative to each other, at least one row of rolling elements arranged such that they can roll between the bearing rings, and a position-determining device for determining an absolute angular position of the bearing rings relative to each other. The position-determining device includes field patterns that are arranged on a surface of a first of the bearing rings and distributed around a circumference thereof, with fields of the field patterns having field heights with discrete values. The position-determining device also includes at least one eddy current sensor that is provided on a second of the bearing rings to scan the field patterns. An evaluation device may be configured to assign an associated angular position signal, which describes the absolute angular position of the first and second bearing rings relative to each other, to a scan of each field pattern.
US12332271B2
A capacitive microelectromechanical device is provided. The capacitive microelectromechanical device includes a semiconductor substrate, a support structure, an electrode element, a spring element, and a seismic mass. The support structure, for example, a pole, suspension or a post, is fixedly connected to the semiconductor substrate, which may comprise silicon. The electrode element is fixedly connected to the support structure. Moreover, the seismic mass is connected over the spring element to the support structure so that the seismic mass is displaceable, deflectable or movable with respect to the electrode element. Moreover, the seismic mass and the electrode element form a capacitor having a capacitance which depends on a displacement between the seismic mass and the electrode element.
US12332270B2
Described herein are systems, methods, and other techniques for determining a period during which an implement of a construction machine is interacting with a ground surface. A vibration signal that is indicative of a movement of the implement is captured. One or more features are extracted from the vibration signal. The one or more features are provided to a machine-learning model to generate a model output. An implement-on-ground (IOG) start time and an IOG end time are predicted based on the model output, the IOG start time and the IOG end time forming the period.
US12332265B2
A sample preparation instrument with an integrated device for estimating a concentration of white blood cells in a specimen is described. The sample preparation instrument receives a specimen for which a sample is to be prepared for analysis. The integrated device can implement an optical method, an electrical resistance method, or a flow cytometry method, for example, to estimate the white blood cell concentration in the specimen. For some types of analysis, a sample volume of the specimen is dependent on the white blood cell concentration. Therefore, the sample preparation instrument can automatically determine and adjust the sample volume of the specimen based on the estimated white blood cell concentration prior to adding additional reagents, such as labeling reagents and/or lytic reagents, to prepare the sample.
US12332244B2
A composition for diagnosing diseases associated with COX2 overexpression, containing a compound with a structural feature of exhibiting strong binding activity to a COX2 protein; and a screening method therefor.
US12332239B2
A method for magnetic cellular manipulation may include contacting a composition with a biological sample to form a mixture. The composition may include a plurality of particles. Each particle in the plurality of particles may include a magnetic substrate. The magnetic substrate may be characterized by a magnetic susceptibility greater than zero. The composition may also include a chargeable silicon-containing compound. The chargeable silicon-containing compound may coat at least a portion of the magnetic substrate. The biological sample may include cells and/or cellular structures. The method may also include applying a magnetic field to the mixture to manipulate the composition.
US12332232B1
A crude oil transportation drag-reducing agent testing loop test bench and its use method is provided. The test bench includes a gas supply and pressurization system, a pressurized storage tank system, a pipeline testing system, a reflux and circulation system, a valve switching system, a heating and insulation testing system, and a sensor testing system. The test bench can evaluate the performance of drag-reducing agents in transportation pipeline devices within a laboratory setting, and further inspect, evaluate, and test the effective performance of different proportions and types of drag-reducing agents. The test bench also ensures the safety of experimental test, reduces testing costs, avoids the production of large amounts of waste liquid, and minimizes test space.
US12332230B2
A method to perform a field operation with digital cement modeling is disclosed. The method includes acquiring computed tomography (CT) scan data of a metal-cement core sample and a cement-rock core sample that are associated with a borehole setup, generating, based on the CT scan data of the metal-cement core sample and the cement-rock core sample, a three-dimensional (3D) image of a synthesized metal, cement, and rock core sample, generating, by at least upscaling the synthesized metal, cement, and rock core sample, a multi-scale borehole digital model of the borehole setup, and calculating, using the multi-scale borehole digital model of the borehole setup and based on digital rock physics techniques, a predicted cement longevity.
US12332227B2
Various example embodiments described herein relate to a sensor assembly. The sensor assembly includes a substrate and a disk for providing parallel gas flow to a plurality of sensing dies. The substrate defines a plurality of openings and an inlet conduit. The plurality of openings is adapted to receive at least one sensing die of the plurality of sensing dies. The inlet conduit is defined between a first end of the substrate and a second end of the substrate. The first end of the substrate is adapted to receive an inflow of a gas. The disk is adapted to be positioned below the substrate so that a top portion of the disk is exposed to the second end of the inlet conduit and the disk defines a passage for the gas to uniformly flow from the second end to a sensor head of the at least one sensing die.
US12332225B2
A data analysis method for a component separation/tandem mass spectrometer system, including first and second MS steps which data therefrom includes respective sample components (MS1-SC, MS2-SC), includes analyzing per sample a data set for MS2-SC to determine mass-to-charge ratio and retention index (m/z-RI) for each MS2-SC. m/z-RI for each MS2-SC is compared to a known compound library and matching MS2-SC removed from the data set, the remaining MS2-SC being candidate MS2-SC. Clusters are formed across the candidate MS2-SC, each having m/z-RI within respective ranges per cluster. For each sample within each cluster, MS1-SC within the cluster ranges are retrieved. For each cluster, at most one consensus MS1-SC represents each sample, with corresponding consensus MS2-SC and m/z-RI, and designated as a molecular ion or derivative thereof. Clusters are grouped by consensus RI and candidate clusters from each group are selected and correlated by consensus parameters with an unknown compound.
US12332224B2
Chromatographic systems for size exclusion chromatography (SEC) are provided that comprise an inlet, an outlet, an analytic column having a first interior volume that has a first length and a first cross-sectional area normal to the first length, the first interior volume containing a first stationary phase, and a guard column having a second interior volume that has a second length and a second cross-sectional area normal to the second length, the second interior volume containing a second stationary phase. The inlet is in fluid communication with the guard column, the guard column is in fluid communication with the analytic column, and the analytic column is in fluid communication with the outlet. Moreover, the second length is smaller than the first length, and the second cross-sectional area is smaller than the first cross-sectional area.
US12332223B2
A multidimensional chromatographic assembly includes a chromatographic medium selector module, which receives a sample from an injector module and moves the sample through one of at least two chromatographic media of a chromatographic medium module using at least one eluent from at least one fluid moving module. At least a portion of the sample is re-circulated through the same or the second chromatographic medium using a multi-configuration fluid diverting module, which isolates a selected portion of the chromatographed eluent containing at least a portion of the sample in at least one fluid holding compartment and later moves the isolated portion through one of the chromatographic media in an iterative manner until all attributes of the isolated portion in question are analyzed. A detector module, which is located between the chromatographic medium selector module and the fluid diverting module, acquires data each time a portion of the sample passes through the detector module and provides data for a multidimensional chromatogram. The configurable portion (the rotor) of the fluid diverting module comprises movable flow-paths with two termini, which lie on a circular perimeter, concentric to the axis of rotation of the rotor, on the interfacial plane where the rotor meets the stationary portion of the fluid diverting module (the stator), and a connecting coplanar groove, spatial disposition of which is either concave or convex to the circular perimeter with only the termini intercepting the perimeter. The entire assembly is controlled by a controller, which receives data from the detector module and sends instructions to all modules during the multidimensional analysis with or without human intervention.
US12332221B2
A supercritical fluid apparatus includes a solvent supplier that supplies a solvent, a pressure control device provided in a flow path for a solvent supplied by the solvent supplier, and a controller that controls the pressure control device. The controller includes a first controller that increases a pressure in the flow path, puts the solvent in a supercritical fluid state and maintains an environment for execution of a predetermined process by controlling the pressure control device, and a second controller that sets an intermediate target value for a pressure in the flow path and controls a pressure in the flow path in order to get the pressure to reach the intermediate target value, when ending the environment for execution of a predetermined process.
US12332212B2
A method for characterizing the gas load of a medium, which comprises a liquid loaded with gas, using a measurement sensor that guides the medium in at least one vibrating measurement tube, includes: determining a speed of sound value and a resonator density value of the medium based on natural frequencies of at least two different vibration modes of the measurement tube; determining a measured pressure value for the medium guided in the measurement tube; determining a gas volume content of suspended bubbles in the medium based on the resonator density value, the speed of sound value and the measured pressure value; and determining a value for the gas volume content of free bubbles based on the resonator density value of the medium and the gas volume content of suspended bubbles.
US12332201B2
A system and method are disclosed for enhancing pit detection and sizing in a test object. Response signatures are created and stored in a signature library to characterize various sensor responses (liftoff, orientation) and pit properties (e.g., depth, width), possibly with or without additional considerations (e.g., edges, cracks). A sensor is placed on and scanned across a surface of interest on the test object. During scanning the sensor is measured repeatedly at regular intervals. An encoder may be used to record the sensor position for each measurement. The measurement results are then correlated with one or more signatures in the signature library. A threshold is used to determine if the correlation is indicative of the detection of a pit. If so additional processing may be performed to estimate pit properties.
US12332197B2
Implementations described and claimed herein provide systems and methods for determining surfactant impact on reservoir wettability. In one implementation, a nuclear magnetic resonance T1 measurement of a sample is obtained before surfactant imbibition is applied to the sample, and a second nuclear magnetic T2 measurement of the sample is made after forced imbibition of the surfactant. Moreover, another nuclear magnetic resonance T1 measurement (e.g., omitting surfactant imbibition) can be obtained simultaneously with the nuclear magnetic resonance T2 measurement using a twin core sample. The nuclear magnetic resonance T1 measurement and the nuclear magnetic resonance T2 measurement are captured under simulated reservoir conditions. A fluid typing map is generated using the nuclear magnetic resonance T1 measurement and the nuclear magnetic resonance T2 measurement. An impact of the surfactant on fluid producibility is determined based on the fluid typing map.
US12332184B2
A method according to the present disclosure for monitoring contaminants in a production site having a plurality of test spots. The method comprises displaying a first image of the production site on a display and overlaying parts of the display showing the test spots with symbols. The method can a second image of the production site on the display based on user inputs. The method can also overlay parts of the display showing the test spots of the second image with the symbols and make changes to each of the symbol based on a contaminant test performed at the test spot.
US12332178B1
A Raman signal analysis device, which enables miniaturization of the device and non-invasive continuous monitoring of blood glucose level, includes a housing that forms an internal accommodation space therein; one or more light source units that are disposed within the housing and irradiate light onto a subject; a light receiving unit that obtains a Raman signal of light reflected or scattered from the subject using an optical filter array and an optical detection component array; and a processor configured to analyze biological information of the subject based on the Raman signal acquired by the light receiving unit.
US12332175B2
In order to prevent cracking of a window material in manufacturing an optical measurement cell that satisfies various performances required for airtightness, heat resistance, and the like by atomic diffusion bonding, an optical measurement cell into which a sample is introduced includes a light transmission window through which light is transmitted, and includes a window material forming the light transmission window, and a flange member to which the window material is bonded via a metal thin film, and a ratio of a thermal expansion coefficient of the flange member to a thermal expansion coefficient of the window material is 0.5 times or more and 1.5 times or less.
US12332169B2
An apparatus and method of use are provided; the apparatus having at least a degasser, a hollow core fiber HCF, an optical mechanism, a detector, and circuitry. The degasser enables gasses to permeate out of a liquid into the degasser interior. The propagator establishes a low-pressure area that helps to pull the gas from the degasser interior into the HCF interior, where the optical mechanism delivers electromagnetic radiation EMR that interacts with the gas. The detector determines EMR absorption, producing output signals which are sent to the circuitry. Circuitry controls the optical mechanism and analyzes the output signals to quantify the concentration of gas in the HCF and in the liquid.
US12332165B2
A method for analyzing a volatile liquid mixture is described. The method includes providing a sensor, and placing the sensor within a chamber. The mixture is stored in the chamber for a duration sufficient to achieve a series of dynamic non-equilibrium mass-transfer processes: (1) spreading and wetting of the analyte on at least a portion of the bottom-inside surface of the chamber from the source of the injection, (2) evaporation of at least a portion of the analyte liquid into a vaporized analyte, (3) convection and/or diffusion of the vaporized analyte through the chamber to the sensor, and (4) sorption of the vaporized analyte on the sensor. The sensor detects, over time, a plurality of non-equilibrium spectral responses, each corresponding to at least one compositional change in the analyte liquid. The method further includes machine learning algorithms to measure or predict the compositional change and/or presence of contaminants.
US12332164B2
A dual resolution spectrometer includes a slit plate comprising a slit receiving light reflected from a measurement target. The slit plate directs the light reflected from the measurement target to a first mirror. The first mirror reflects light from the slit to a diffraction grating. The diffraction grating disperses light from the first mirror according to a wavelength of the light. The diffraction grating directs light in a first wavelength region to a second mirror and directs light in a second wavelength region to a third mirror. The second mirror reflects the light in the first wavelength region to a detector. The third mirror reflects the light in the second wavelength region to the detector. The detector detects the light in the first wavelength region and the light in the second wavelength region with different resolutions from each other.
US12332157B2
Methods and systems for determining pore-volume of a fracture in a core plug. The method includes developing a grid block model constrained by fracture porosity estimated from a mechanical laboratory test, aperture calculation, and discrete fracture model validation. The method further includes determining the natural fracture porosity and pore volume from the equivalent medium for natural fractures, determining oil or gas reserves by calculating the fracture pore volume, and determining fracture porosity measurement from a test to calibrate 3D fracture models. The method also includes determining fracture porosity from a mechanical test, analyzing borehole image logs, developing a geomechanical model and fracture drivers, performing fracture model predictions, validating and calibrating the model, and determining fracture pore-volume of the core plug.
US12332152B2
A method of monitoring aircraft including removing a conical collector through a cabin exhaust valve of the aircraft wherein ambient cabin air has been driven from the cabin over a reagent fluid within the conical collector in order to collect a representative sample of the cabin air within the reagent fluid.
US12332142B2
A bellows including a cylindrical and corrugated side wall, extending about a longitudinal axis, the side wall including: an alternation of crests and of troughs, forming corrugations; flanks, each flank extending between a crest and a trough, each corrugation having a first flank and a second flank that are opposite, separated by a same trough; the bellows includes at least one elementary electrical circuit associated with a corrugation, the elementary electrical circuit includes a first conductive element and a second conductive element, extending along the first flank and/or the second flank, the first conductive element being separated from the second conductive element; a first conductive track and a second conductive track, linked respectively to the first conductive element and to the second conductive element, and the first conductive track and the second conductive track are configured to be connected, to a detector of closure of the elementary electrical circuit.
US12332139B2
A rotary encoder includes a stator, a malfunction determination device, and a shaft having a bearing configuration internally connected to an axial bushing arranged in a housing. The bearing configuration provides for rotation of the shaft relative to the housing. A rotor is attached to the shaft. The malfunction determination device includes a detection device configured to determine whether a connection device is operably connected between a fixed portion of the encoder and the bushing, and to output the status of the connection to a control device. If there is no connection, the detection device determines a rotation of the bushing associated with a malfunction of the bearing configuration.
US12332138B2
A method of applying a contrast agent, such as a luminescent contrast agent (e.g. fluorescent, phosphorescent) to the tooth flank surfaces (3, 4) of a gearset (1, 2) wherein the luminescent contrast agent is mixed with transmission oil and is preferably invisible to the human eye. While the members of the gearset roll together, the contrast agent-oil mixture (6) is first introduced into the mesh of the rolling gears. While the mixture is squeezed through the tooth contact, most of the oil is removed in the area of tooth contact. A camera (15), including, as necessary, a filter for certain light wave frequencies, obtains an image which shows the areas with and without luminescent contrast agent. The area (10) where the luminescent contrast agent has been partially or completely removed represents the zone of the tooth contact.
US12332135B2
This invention relates to devices used to measure the mass moment of inertia (MOI) of physical objects. It is a compact device that is easy to use and adjustable to broaden the range of physical object sizes/MOIs that would not otherwise be measurable with a single nonadjustable device. The device protects certain components from being lost, disturbed or damaged by the user by attaching those components to the device, while still allowing the adjustability noted. Some parts, such as one or more auxiliary platters, must be fully attached and detached for the purpose of adjustment.
US12332128B2
An athletic performance monitoring system includes an article of apparel having a upper body portion and a lower body portion, a sensor system configured to sense a movement of the user and including an upper body sensor connected to the upper body portion, a lower body sensor connected to the lower body portion, at least one port in communication with the sensors, and a plurality of conductive leads connecting the sensors to the port(s). The sensors may be stretch-based sensors that increase in resistance upon tensile deformation. At least one electronic module is connected to the port(s) to collect movement data from the sensors through the port(s). The module(s) may analyze the movement data and provide real-time feedback to the user regarding the movement of the user, based on analysis of the movement data, or the module(s) may transmit the movement data to an external device for analysis.
US12332127B2
An example microelectromechanical system (MEMS) force sensor is described herein. The MEMS force sensor can include a sensor die configured to receive an applied force. The sensor die can include a first substrate and a second substrate, where a cavity is formed in the first substrate and where at least a portion of the second substrate defines a deformable membrane. The MEMS force sensor can also include an etch stop layer arranged between the first substrate and the second substrate, and a sensing element arranged on a surface of the second substrate. The sensing element can be configured to convert a strain on the surface of the membrane substrate to an analog electrical signal that is proportional to the strain.
US12332125B2
A gas turbine engine includes a compressor, a combustor and a turbine. A compressor section has an exit upstream of the combustor. A temperature probe extends through a compressor exit housing surrounding the compressor section exit. The temperature probe taps air downstream of the exit into a probe body having a passage leading to a temperature sensor. There is a controlled leakage also allowing air from within the compressor exit housing to leak. A method and a test probe are also disclosed.
US12332119B2
A method for counting and for determining the position of people in a room, the method including: activating a thermal imager; the thermal imager capturing a raw thermal image of a scene included in the room; deactivating the thermal imager; after deactivating the thermal imager, acquiring a calibrated thermal image of the scene from the raw thermal image; comparing the calibrated thermal image of the scene with another calibrated thermal image of the scene acquired beforehand; and acquiring the number of people and the position of the people in the room.
US12332117B2
Methods and systems for determining parameters of a desired target image from hyperspectral imagery obtained from a surgical procedure are described herein. Techniques may include capturing in real time hyperspectral snapshot mosaic images of a scene using a hyperspectral image sensor coupled to an optical scope, the snapshot mosaic images being of relatively low spatial and low spectral resolution; undertaking spatio-spectrally aware demosaicking of the snapshot mosaic images, the demosaicking comprising upsampling of the snapshot mosaic images and the application of a spectral calibration operator, to generate a virtual hypercube of the snapshot mosaic image data, the virtual hypercube comprising image data of relatively high spatial resolution compared to the snapshot mosaic images; from the image data in the virtual hypercube, determining relatively high spatial resolution parameters of a desired target image; and outputting in real time the determined relatively high-resolution parameters as representative of the desired target image.
US12332105B2
A fill level measuring device for measuring the fill level of a liquid in a tank of a vehicle includes a multiband slotted waveguide antenna to be attached in the upper region of the tank, the antenna having a waveguide and multiple slots spaced apart, which are dimensioned differently, so that they have different resonance frequencies, to respectively emit radar waves having different frequencies. At least one radar transmitter can be coupled to the waveguide to feed the multiband slotted waveguide antenna with radar waves having the different resonance frequencies, and at least one radar receiver is provided for receiving reflected radar waves of different frequencies via the multiband slotted waveguide antenna. An evaluation unit is provided for detecting the fill level and the spatial distribution of the liquid in the tank based on the reflected radar waves.
US12332097B2
A measurement device, including a doppler LiDAR unit that includes an optical transmitter operable to transmit a signal, and which further includes an optical receiver operable to receive a backscatter signal that includes a portion of the signal, and the measurement device also includes a processor operable to determine a doppler shift as between the signal and the backscatter signal, and use the doppler shift to determine a volumetric flow rate of a fluid to which the signal is directed, and from which the backscatter signal is received.
US12332096B2
A magneto-inductive flow measurement device, comprises a means for producing a magnetic field with a self-inductance, wherein the means for producing the magnetic field comprises a coil arrangement; a means for sensing a measurement voltage induced in the flowable medium; an operating circuit, which is adapted to apply an operating signal on the coil arrangement, wherein the operating signal has operating signal parameters; a measuring circuit, which is adapted to determine a coil electrical current of the coil arrangement; a control circuit, which is adapted so to control at least one of the operating signal parameters that a function dependent on a self-induction value of the self-induction and a coil electrical current value of the coil electrical current does not differ from a predetermined, first desired value.
US12332094B2
A method for configuring a learning machine to predict a flow rate of at least one phase of a fluid. The method comprises determining a feature set for the learning machine, the feature set including information derived from a signal generated by a flow of the fluid interacting with a fluidic oscillator in a wellbore. The method comprises configuring the learning machine with the feature set including information derived from the signal.
US12332093B2
A magnetic sensor includes a bridge circuit including a first arm and a second arm, a first substrate, and a second substrate. The first arm is provided on the first substrate. The second arm is provided on the second substrate. The first arm includes a first resistor and a second resistor connected in series. The second arm includes a third resistor and a fourth resistor connected in series. The second substrate is located at a position away from the first substrate so that a phase of a resistance of the second arm when a target magnetic field changes periodically is different from that of a resistance of the first arm when the target magnetic field change periodically.
US12332092B2
A portable device including a capacitive proximity sensor can suppress a drift superimposed to the capacitive proximity signal and the corresponding method. A processor generates a baseline value by integrating a series of values that are derived from the slope of the proximity signal, when the slope is within stated limits, or a fixed value outside of the stated limits.
US12332076B2
A road surface information providing apparatus includes an information acquisition unit, a road surface condition estimation unit, a risk map generation unit, and a transmission unit. The information acquisition unit acquires vehicle information from at least one vehicle with a wheel detected as being idling among vehicles that are traveling in a predetermined region, and acquire weather information about a surrounding area around the at least one vehicle. The predetermined region includes the surrounding area around the at least one vehicle. The road surface condition estimation unit generates road surface information about an estimated condition of a road surface in the predetermined region on the basis of the vehicle information and the weather information. The risk map generation unit generates a risk map in which the road surface information is correlated with map information. The transmission unit transmits the risk map to the vehicles traveling in the predetermined region.
US12332066B2
Provided is a system for predicting expected time of arrival (ETA) of vehicles. The scanning module is installed at a toll plaza for electronic toll collection (ETC) scan of a tracked vehicle and same and similar (SaSi) vehicles crossing the toll plaza. The SaSi vehicles are identified based on a plurality of predetermined factors. The computation module computes a segment time for plurality of segments from time difference between the ETC scans in two consecutive toll plazas for the SaSi vehicles moving ahead of the tracked vehicle. The segment time is computed based on a defined criteria. A segment time is computed for plurality of segments in an event of presence of non-SaSi vehicles or absence of toll road. Based on the computed segment time and periodic error correction module between successive segments, the ETA of the tracked vehicle is predicted.
US12332065B2
The present disclosure provides a device and method for generating lane information. The method includes obtaining information on a structure located around a vehicle and driving information of a surround vehicle based on information collected by a sensor and prestored navigation information; and generating geometric information on a travel lane of the vehicle in a road area based on the information on the structure and the driving information of the surround vehicle.
US12332057B2
An optical rotation rate sensor. The sensor includes a laser light source for generating weak light pulses, optically connected to a photonic waveguide, optically connected to a first interference coupler that includes a first input and two first outputs, optically connected to a second interference coupler that includes two second inputs and two second outputs, optically connected to at least one first sensor waveguide for showing the Sagnac effect, optically connected to a third interference coupler that includes two third inputs and two third outputs, optically connected to two photodetectors, the photonic waveguide, the first interference coupler, the second interference coupler, the third interference coupler and the sensor waveguide being integrated on a shared substrate.
US12332056B2
A vibrating-type gyroscope element includes a fixed part, a resonator having a vibration mode of cos Nθ (N is a natural number of two or more), support parts, and electrodes. The electrodes are arranged in 4N orientations arranged in an outer circumferential direction of the resonator. The electrodes include at least one primary driving electrode and at least one secondary pickoff electrode. A relationship U≥1 or (S1+S2)−2≥|S1−S2| is satisfied, where S1 is the number of cases where a secondary pickoff electrode is clockwise adjacent to a primary driving electrode, S2 is the number of cases where a secondary pickoff electrode is anticlockwise adjacent to a primary driving electrode, and U is the number of the secondary pickoff electrodes being neither clockwise nor anticlockwise adjacent to a primary driving electrode.
US12332050B2
An alignment frame for affixing a sensor configured to measure one or more alignment angles to a wheel of a vehicle can include a pair of arms configured to contact a tire mounted on the wheel to support the alignment frame, a center base configured to receive a first bar, a second bar, and a third bar orthogonally aligned in a linear alignment such that the first bar is at ninety degrees from the horizontal axis defined by the second and the third bar, and a spacer positioned on each of the first, second, and third bars and configured to align the bars with a face of the rim so as to center the center base with respect to the rim of the wheel. The center base can receive a mounting portion of the sensor to center the sensor with the respect to the rim of the wheel.
US12332044B2
Provided is a detection device which is able to accurately detect position information on an optical axis of laser light and reduce a measurement error, including a first split unit configured to split laser light output from a light source into a plurality of light beams, a detection unit configured to detect a position of each of the plurality of light beams, a light guide unit configured to guide the plurality of split light beams to the detection unit with optical path lengths different from each other, and a control unit configured to calculate an angular deviation or a positional deviation of the laser light on the basis of a difference in the position of each of the plurality of light beams detected by the detection unit, wherein the detection unit is one sensor that detects the position of each of the plurality of light beams guided by the light guide unit.
US12332039B1
An avalanche triggering apparatus having a tower, a detonation chamber, and gas supply lines that are configured to deliver fuel gas and oxidizer to the detonation chamber. The flow is gas is controlled remotely, and a spark plug is configured to ignite gases within the detonation chamber based on the flow of fuel gas through a flow switch that acts as a sensor. The detonation chamber has a closed, rounded top and an open bottom end that is configured to face a snow surface. The detonation chamber is connected to the tower via mounting brackets and two pairs of isolator springs. Each isolator spring is comprised of a helical cable isolator that is inserted through a plurality of holes in two aluminum members in a helical configuration. The tower is comprised of at least two sections that are secured together via flanges.
US12332036B2
An automatic retention firearm magazine includes a mounting plate, a face plate, and a web. The mounting plate and the face plate are arranged opposite to each other. Each of the first side and second side of the mounting plate comprises a plurality of mounting plate attachment points. Each of the first side and second side of the face plate comprises a plurality of face plate attachment points. The web comprises a plurality of mounting plate complementary attachment points and a plurality of face plate complementary attachment points corresponding to the plurality of mounting plate attachment points and the plurality of face plate attachment points, respectively. The web is resilient to provide a retention force to keep the mounting plate and face plate in position.
US12332033B2
A munition has an explosive charge with direction explosive characteristics, such as a nonuniform detonation velocities. The explosive charge may have multiple portions of explosives with nonuniform characteristics, and/or may have portions with graded nonuniform characteristics. The explosive charge may be used to propel a material from the munition in a desired manner. For example the material may be fragments that are part of a fragmentation munition. Alternatively the material may be a layer of a material, such as a metal, that produces an explosively formed penetrator or shaped charge. The explosive charge may be configured to control the spread and/or direction of the material to be propelled from the munition.
US12332032B2
Flown munition that is rocket-propelled for hitting a target behind a barrier, and which comprises a rocket motor; and a successive payload that is mounted behind the rocket motor in a tandem configuration and is towed by it; and wherein the rocket motor is used for accelerating the munition towards the barrier and also serves as a sort of kinetic penetrator to clear a passage through the barrier for the successive pay load, which is connected to it and towed by it, and the successive payload (e.g.—a high-explosive charge) is adapted for delayed detonation following and just after said rocket motor hits the barrier.
US12332030B1
A feedback device which ejects items upon hitting target surface is provided, including a target body, a bull's-eye, a flagpole, a first spring, and a second spring. The target body has an installation cavity, and an installation hole is provided at the center of the front face of the target body. The bull's-eye is configured to be telescopically movable within the installation cavity and extends through the installation hole. The flagpole is also configured to be telescopically movable within the installation cavity and extends outward from the target body. The flagpole is detachably connected to the bull's-eye. The first spring is positioned within the installation seat and drives the bull's-eye to extend forward. The second spring is located within the installation cavity and drives the flagpole to extend outward. This allows players to quickly determine whether the bull's-eye has been hit, providing convenience and enhancing enjoyments of shooting games.
US12332007B2
A plurality of trigger blocks are described. Embodiments of the trigger block can be implemented as a collapsible trigger block adapted to shroud a trigger to aid in preventing accidental discharges of a firearm. The collapsible trigger block can implement a linear ratchet assembly and a stop to secure the collapsible trigger block inside a trigger guard of a firearm.
US12331995B2
A glass furnace including a refractory portion defining a hot face in contact or intended to be in contact with molten glass or with a gaseous environment in contact with molten glass, and a cold face at a distance from the hot face, and a temperature measurement device. The temperature measurement device including a waveguide that includes a measurement portion including at least one temperature measurement sensor configured to send a response signal in response to the injection of an interrogation signal into the waveguide. The temperature measurement device including an interrogator connected to an input of the waveguide and configured to inject the interrogation signal into the input, to receive the response signal returned by the sensor in response to the injection of the interrogation signal, to analyze the response signal received and to transmit a message according to the analysis.
US12331994B2
A vibratory round dryer comprises a container that is resiliently supported; and a working passage. A heating device, which is installed at the container, is provided for heating the drying agent and workpieces.
US12331990B2
The present invention relates to a multi-functional double-layer crisper, comprising a bottom box body, a sandwich box body and a cover body; the edge of the opening end of the bottom box body is protruded outwards to form an annular flange; the edge of the bottom end of the sandwich box body is protruded outwards to form an annular clamp plate which is hermetically abutted with the annular flange; the sandwich box body is internally provided with vertical partition plates, the bottom end face of the sandwich box body is concave inwards to form a containing groove, and an insulation ice box is clamped in the containing groove; the inner part of the cover body is a cavity. The present invention can be used for storing food in layers and zones, and has good effects of cooling and fresh-keeping when used in summer.
US12331989B2
Provided is a clip, comprising: a first clamping part, a rotary shaft being arranged thereon; a second clamping part, arranged opposite to the first clamping part, a rotary shaft hole being arranged on the second clamping part corresponding to the rotary shaft, and the rotary shaft being fitted in the rotary shaft hole to achieve a rotational connection of the first clamping part and the second clamping part; a spring, sandwiched between the first clamping part and the second clamping part; and a chip, arranged in the first clamping part and/or the second clamping part and used for storing data information. The clip of the present invention has an ingenious structure and is easy to configure. Also provided is a refrigerating/freezing apparatus having the clip.
US12331984B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to a cryogenic micro-zone connection assembly for a substrate support assembly suitable for use in cryogenic applications. In one or more embodiments, the cryogenic micro-zone connection assembly has a first end having a micro-zone connector. A second end has a socket connection. A flange is disposed between the micro-zone connector and the socket connection. And a wiring harness is coupled at the first end to the micro-zone connector, extends through the flange and is coupled at the second end to the socket connection.
US12331977B2
A method of cleaning an evaporator of an ice maker can include a first manual intervention comprising activating a switch of an ice maker, activating the switch of the ice maker comprising initiating an overall cleaning procedure; a first automatic step comprising signaling to a user that a second manual intervention comprising pouring one of a cleaning fluid and a sanitizing fluid into a tank of an evaporator case of the ice maker is required; the second manual intervention comprising pouring the one of the cleaning fluid and the sanitizing fluid into the tank; and a second automatic step comprising automatically initiating and completing at least one of a cleaning stage and a sanitizing stage upon completion of the second manual intervention, automatically initiating the at least one of the cleaning stage and the sanitizing stage comprising operating a cleaning valve of a water circuit of the ice maker by a main controller of the ice maker.
US12331970B2
A heat pump system is provided. The heat pump system comprises a compressor, a first heat exchanger, a second heat exchanger, a third heat exchanger and a six-way valve. The compressor comprises a fluid suction port and a fluid discharge port. The first heat exchanger is arranged in a first circulation path, the second heat exchanger is arranged in a second circulation path, and the third heat exchanger is arranged in a third circulation path, wherein the first circulation path, the second circulation path and the third circulation path are parallel paths. A first end of the first circulation path, a first end of the second circulation path and a first end of the third circulation path are connected to the six-way valve and are in controllable communication with the fluid suction port and the fluid discharge port of the compressor by means of the six-way valve. A second end of the first circulation path, a second end of the second circulation path and a second end of the third circulation path are connected to a common path converging point. The components of the heat pump system in the present application have simple pipelines, have a high degree of integration, are not difficult to mount, and have a small pressure drop during fluid suction and discharge, and the control logic therefor is simple.
US12331955B2
A building air handling unit includes a housing defining an air passageway, and a plurality of coil banks arranged in layers of adjacent pairs within the air passageway. At least some of the adjacent pairs are swivel mounted with the housing and may rotate relative to the housing to alter orientation of the at least some of the adjacent pairs relative to flow of air through the air passageway.
US12331952B2
A heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system includes a condensate drain pan configured to be positioned beneath a heat exchanger of the HVAC system, relative to gravity, and configured to collect condensate formed via operation of the heat exchanger. The condensate drain pan comprises a drain surface, a plurality of walls extending from the drain surface to form a receptacle configured to collect the condensate, and a drain outlet formed in a wall of the plurality of walls. The condensate drain pan further comprises an air dam comprising a plurality of baffles, wherein a baffle of the plurality of baffles extends from the wall of the plurality of walls. The air dam is configured to re-direct an air flow flowing within the condensate drain pan away from the drain outlet.
US12331921B2
A manual adjustment control apparatus, applied in a waterproof lamp, includes a rotating part and a toggling assembly; the lamp housing is provided with a through hole with a folding edge, the rotating part is in interference fit with the stepped edge by the sealing rings on the circumferential side wall; and the rotating part is in gear engagement with the toggling assembly, which is linked to a lamp switch, enabling the rotating part to toggle the lamp switch through the toggling assembly. Compared with a design of a linear lamp switch, the present disclosure ensures that there will be no great differences in magnitudes of interference on different positions of the sealing rings when using, and stable waterproofness and good operation hand feeling are achieved at the same time.
US12331914B2
Lighting control systems and methods for providing dynamic control of multiple light sources with a single input are disclosed herein. When a long touch is detected at a user interface element, a first light source is turned on. If the long touch persists for a predefined time period, a second light source (e.g., an adjacent light source) is also turned on. The luminosity of the first light source may be gradually increased from zero to 100% during the predefined time period. If the long touch persists beyond the predefined time period, the luminosity of the second light source may be gradually increased from zero until the long touch ends or a second longer predefined time period is reached.
US12331905B2
A vehicle lamp including: a container-shaped lamp body whose front surface is opened; and a front cover assembled to a front opening of the lamp body and defines a lamp chamber inside. On a back wall of the lamp body, a plurality of beams having a substantially arc-shaped cross section and constituting a part of the back wall extend in a truss shape from an upper edge portion to a lower edge portion of the back wall.
US12331896B2
The LED plug-in outlet or DC power light has LED-unit(s) to offer one or more than one near-by lighted-location(s) with preferred adjustable angle constriction and each of said LED-unit(s) has built-in plurality of the said dip or chip or dice or COB LED(s) to emit directly or in-directly LED light-beam from big surface of the said each of LED-unit(s) to supply consumer for one LED light offer one or more than one near-by lighted locations for desired or selected-functions, light color(s), brightness(s), light performance(s) while incorporate with circuitry, AC-to-DC circuit, IC, and control device select from sensor, motion sensor, photo sensor, sound sensor, power fail circuit, switch, wireless controller with APP software to make setting or adjustment or selection to make the LED light to turn-on/off, fade-in and fade-out, high-low brightness, motion or non-motion selection, change functions from variety pre-programed functions to offer near-by locations which is less than 30 feet and brightness is less than 100 CD from each of the said LED unit(s).
US12331891B2
The invention relates to a system for providing a fluid, comprising at least a first and a second cryogenic container for storing the fluid, wherein the system comprises a first retrieval line connecting to the first cryogenic container for retrieving a first mass flow (M1) of fluid and a second retrieval line connecting to the second cryogenic container for retrieving a second mass flow (M2) of fluid, wherein the system comprises means, which are configured to establish two mass flows (M1, M2) of different dimensions such that in a first operational mode a hold time of the two cryogenic containers converges upon retrieval and/or in a second operational mode the hold time of the two cryogenic containers essentially decreases at the same rate if the hold times of the two cryogenic containers are essentially equal.
US12331879B2
Blowdown valves and associated methods for separating oil and air in a lubrication system of an aircraft engine are provided. A method includes receiving a mixture of air and oil at a blowdown valve including a valve member movable between a valve-closed position and a valve-open position. With the valve member in the valve-open position, the method includes impinging the mixture against the valve member. A first portion of the mixture having a first fraction of oil is released from the blowdown valve upstream of the valve member. A second portion of the mixture having a second fraction of oil greater than the first fraction of oil is guided around and past the valve member. The second portion of the mixture is released from the blowdown valve downstream of the valve member.
US12331873B1
A multifunctional storage stand comprises a first side stand and a second side stand arranged opposite to each other, the first side stand and the second side stand have the same structure, the first side stand comprises a base stand, two ends of the base stands are connected by bottom connecting rods, one end of the base stand is rotatably connected to an adjusting arm, the adjusting arm is connected to the base stand through an angle positioning mechanism, tops of the adjusting arms are connected by a top connecting rod, an expansion slot is arranged at a middle of the adjusting arm away from one side where the adjusting arm is connected to the base stand. The multifunctional storage stand of the invention can accommodate tablets or laptops, headphones, and keyboards, increasing the types of items that can be stored and enhancing convenience of use.
US12331872B2
A display apparatus including a support bracket including a coupling groove on a rear surface of a display module, a locking link movable from outside of the coupling groove to inside of the coupling groove, and from inside of the coupling groove to outside of the coupling groove, and a rotating link; and a support module, including a magnet, being lockable to, and unlockable from, the support bracket, wherein the support module is insertable in the coupling groove so that the magnet moves the locking link from outside to inside of the coupling groove to contact the support module and lock the support module to the support bracket, and when the rotating link is rotated while the support module is locked to the support bracket, the rotating link moves the locking link from inside to outside of the coupling groove and unlocks the support module from the support bracket.
US12331869B2
An inspection device for examining pipelines is provided, and comprises a sensor carrier which in operation is rollable through the pipeline. The sensor carrier has an at least essentially circular circumference in a cross section that runs transverse to an axis of rotation. The sensor carrier also has at least one sensor unit. The sensor carrier further comprises at least one stabilizing means, preferably a multitude disposed along the circumference.
US12331862B2
An apparatus for supporting one or more pipes is disclosed. The apparatus includes a first tower, a second tower, and each tower includes four vertical columns, and a first set of horizontal beams. Each beam is configured to span and connect two of the vertical columns via biaxial moment connecting collars. The towers are aligned to support a first pipe on beams from both towers along a primary pipe support axis, and none of the columns in the first tower is connected to a column of the second tower by a biaxial moment connecting collar.
US12331857B2
In some implementations, a hydraulic coupling connection includes a coupling disposed at an end of a hose and defining a flange having: a lower surface configured to engage a body of a valve; an upper surface; and an outer diameter surface connecting the lower surface and the upper surface, the outer diameter surface defining a first plurality of straight sides; and a split flange engaged with the coupling, the split flange having: a first lower surface configured to engage the body of the valve; a second lower surface configured to engage the upper surface of the flange; and an inner diameter surface connecting the first lower surface and the second lower surface, the inner diameter surface defining a second plurality of straight sides, wherein engagement between the first plurality of straight sides and the second plurality of straight sides is configured to secure the connection at a first angle.
US12331856B1
A sealing gasket is shown which is designed to be used in making up a sealed pipe joint in a plastic pipeline conveying fluids, such as a water or sewer pipeline. The sealing gasket is a two-component gasket with an elastomeric component and a plastic component. The elastomeric component is stretched over a portion of the plastic component during assembly. Since the two components of the gasket are not permanently bonded to one another, the gasket can be disassembled, allowing various combination s of seal and retainer designs. The gasket can be removed and replace by another gasket after the initial installation. The hard plastic component can be provided with a gripping structure which acts as a restraint mechanism when the sealing gasket is in use.
US12331852B2
A seal system includes a first annular component having a radially-outer surface with a first threaded portion and a first sealing portion, wherein the first sealing portion has a first angled surface that is oriented at a first angle relative to a vertical axis. The seal system also includes a second annular component having a radially-inner surface with a second threaded portion and a second sealing portion, wherein the second sealing portion has a second angled surface that is oriented at a second angle relative to the vertical axis, and the second angle is different from the first angle. The first annular component and the second annular component are configured to threadably couple to one another via the first threaded portion and the second threaded portion and to form a metal-to-metal seal against one another via the first angled surface and the second angled surface.
US12331851B2
A threaded connection comprising: a first tubular component (1) having a first male threaded portion (16) and a second male threaded portion (17), a root width in the first male threaded portion (16) decreasing in a direction oriented a first pipe body (3), the root width being constant in the second male threaded portion (17), the second tubular component (2) comprising a female threaded zone (10) having a first female threaded portion (19) with a root width decreasing in a direction oriented towards a second pipe body (5), the connection being partially made up in a self-locking arrangement in order to provide a locking region (18) and a non-locking region (20), a female distal thread (22) of the locking region (18) has a width such that FDTW/TH>=125%, in which FDTW is a tooth width of the female distal thread (22) of the locking region and TH is the tooth height of said female distal thread (22).
US12331845B2
A method for monitoring a solenoid valve, including regularly repeated monitoring stages and each comprising the steps of driving the electric motor of the solenoid valve to modify the current position of it movable member; evaluating a monitoring value representative of an inrush current of the electric motor during the driving step; comparing the monitoring value with at least one first predetermined threshold and, if the monitoring value is greater than said first predetermined threshold, implementing at least one corrective action to avoid a blockage of the solenoid valve.
US12331840B2
An integrated air inlet and outlet valve and a pressure swing adsorption air path system including the same are disclosed. The integrated air inlet and outlet valve includes a valve body with an air inlet, an air outlet, an exhaust port, a first blowback air inlet and two air path control units. The air path control unit includes a first air inlet and outlet port connected with the air outlet through a first one-way valve and a second air inlet and outlet port selectively communicated with the air inlet or the exhaust port through a first control valve, the exhaust port is provided with an on-off control mechanism, the first blowback air inlet is respectively connected with the first air inlet and outlet port of each air path control unit through a second one-way valve, and the valve body is further provided with a pressure equalization control assembly.
US12331831B2
Methods, apparatuses, and systems for determining a dynamic shift schedule for a system are provided. A method includes: determining, by a controller, a priority for a system based on data indicative of operation of the system; determining, by the controller, a shift point for the system based on the priority and at least one of a current gear, a current accelerator pedal position (APP), an acceleration vector, or a target gear; and taking, by the controller, an action based on the determined shift point.
US12331830B2
Actuation of a hydraulic device that provides a hydraulic supply to a torque-transmitting device is provided. An electrically operated pump is operated in a first operating state. The first operating state has a primary pump rotational speed that provides a first fluid pressure to the torque-transmitting device via a fluid tract. A switchover process is initiated to operate the electrically operated pump device in a second operating state based on a second fluid pressure and a second fluid target pressure. The second operating state has a secondary pump rotational speed that provides the second fluid pressure to the torque-transmitting device via the fluid tract. During operation of the hydraulic device, the secondary pump rotational speed for the switchover process is determined based on a first power value. The first power value includes electrical pump power of the pump device in a preceding switchover process.
US12331821B2
A gear includes an annular sleeve and a tooth portion provided by injection molding to cover a part of the sleeve. The sleeve is a stacked body including a plurality of annular steel plates stacked in an axial direction of the sleeve.
US12331820B2
A method of making an interaxle differential unit. The method may include piercing a workpiece and then ring roll forging the workpiece to form an annular case that is a seamless ring. The annular case may be heat treated before installing an interaxle differential unit gear nest inside the annular case.
US12331815B2
A chassis actuator (1), in particular for a rear axle steering system, includes a rotational-linear transmission (5) which is provided for coupling, on the output side, to a chassis element, wherein a rotatable, input-side element (9) of the transmission (5) is mounted in a housing (13) by means of at least one axial bearing (16, 17). The transmission (5) is self-lockingly set by means of an adjustable preloading device (21), which loads the axial bearing (16, 17) with an axial force.
US12331814B2
A cam includes a cylindrical ring having a substantially circular outer section and, externally, a helical running track. The ring has a conduit that connects two ends of the external helical running track, and the conduit comprising includes a track for recirculation between the ends of the running track.
US12331796B2
A damper device including a first rotary body; a second rotary body that is rotated relative to the first rotary body; an elastic mechanism portion; and a control plate that includes a radially extending portion that abuts against the elastic mechanism portion and an axially extending portion that is partially housed in at least one of the first rotary body and the second rotary body. The control plate is disposed in only one of the first housing space and the second housing space in the axial direction. The device also includes a first sliding portion that generates first sliding torque; and a second sliding portion that generates second sliding torque. The first sliding torque and the second sliding torque are generated when the first rotary body and the second rotary body are rotated relative to each other.
US12331793B2
A rear mechanism for a work machine includes first and second spring housings operably engaged by one or more springs. The first and second spring housings are assembled with an endcap housing between first and second clutch packs that engage a rear axle of the work machine. A first cavity is formed between the first and second spring housing, and a second cavity is formed between the first housing and the endcap housing. Pressurizing the first cavity compresses the springs and releases a park brake of the work machine to enable front wheel drive of the work machine. While pressurizing the first cavity, the second cavity is pressurized such that the first spring housing compresses the first clutch pack to enable four wheel drive of the work machine.
US12331788B2
A method for connecting functional elements (14) to a shaft (10, having the following steps: (a) forming elevations (12) for receiving the functional elements (14), said elevations (12) being machined out of the shaft (10) by removing material, and (b) welding the functional elements (14) to the elevations (12) on the shaft (10).
US12331787B2
A rolling bearing includes an outer ring, an inner ring disposed coaxially with the outer ring, the inner ring being on an inner peripheral side of the outer ring. The rolling bearing includes multiple rolling elements disposed between the outer ring and the inner ring. The rolling bearing includes a strain gauge configured to detect strain of the outer ring or the inner ring. The strain gauge includes a resistor formed of a Cr composite film.
US12331782B2
A slide bearing pad for a slide bearing arrangement has a bearing surface. On a first circumferential face of the slide bearing pad, a lubricating oil transport groove is configured in the region of the bearing surface. The lubricating oil transport groove may have a radial groove depth and a circumferential groove depth between 10% and 300% of the radial groove depth.
US12331775B2
The present disclosure relates to a device with a spindle for a machine tool, with a tool holder and a driver ring that is rotationally fixed on the spindle and can be displaced along a rotational axis of the spindle. The spindle and the tool holder have matching faces which are designed to form a frictionally engaged connection when assembled. The opposing faces of the tool holder and of the driver ring have matching contours so that the driver ring can engage on the tool holder.
US12331765B2
A pneumatic actuating element, an exhaust air system, a housing, and a pneumatic actuator, are provided, which are designed to provide a possibility to collect exhaust air that is discharged when the pneumatic actuating element is ventilated, which exhaust air typically includes contaminations, and to release the exhaust air in an area that is not visible during operation, in order to prevent irritation due to a contaminated housing on the one hand and, on the other hand, to protect components that might come into contact with the contaminated exhaust air.
US12331763B2
A hydraulic system, working vehicle, and method for producing hydraulic power to a hydraulic system of a working vehicle is provided. The hydraulic system includes a fixed displacement hydraulic pump and a speed and torque controlled electric motor for driving the hydraulic pump. An electric controller is arranged to adjust the speed of the electric motor and to thereby adjust produced hydraulic fluid flow and pressure in the system. Further, there is a bypass flow channel including a throttle element for directing limited continuous discharge fluid flow from the system.
US12331761B2
A recycling secondary reservoir of a hydraulic system is charged with clean fluid from a primary hydraulic circuit. The secondary reservoir maintains clean fluid for use by a backup pump to cycle a hydraulic device. The secondary reservoir recaptures fluid used by the backup pump to maintain clean fluid that can be reused an indefinite number of times.
US12331758B1
A grinder pump comprising a volute housing and a cutting assembly including a cutter plate comprised of a mounting flange and a cutting disc. The volute housing has a mounting shoulder that is joined to the mounting flange of the cutter plate. The mounting flange includes a mounting surface joined to the mounting shoulder of the volute housing. The mounting flange is comprised of an outer side wall, an inner region, and an inner side wall. The cutting disc is bounded by an inner surface, an outer surface, and a lateral side wall, and includes an outer region contiguous with the inner region of the mounting flange. The inner surface of the cutting disc and the inner side wall of the mounting flange form a cylindrical recess in the cutter plate.
US12331732B2
There is described herein a system for determining the interaction between a test atmosphere and a simulated respiratory tract, said system comprising: (a) a first pump comprising: (i) a chamber configured for containing a first volume of gas comprising a test atmosphere; (ii) a first port adapted for receiving and outputting gas and comprising a valve for regulating the flow of gas through the first port, said valve being moveable between open and closed positions, wherein in the open position said valve is openable towards a test atmosphere or surrounding air; (iii) a second port adapted for outputting and receiving gas and comprising a valve for regulating the flow of gas through the second port, said valve being moveable between open and closed positions; (iv) a piston plate in the chamber, said piston plate comprising one or more apertures for the uptake or inflow of gas into the chamber wherein one or more, or each, of the apertures include a valve that is movable between open and closed positions and is capable of regulating the uptake or inflow of gas; (b) a second pump comprising: (i) a chamber configured for containing a second volume of gas, wherein the first and second volumes of gas are different; (ii) a port adapted for receiving and outputting gas; and (iii) a motor for controlling the operation of the second pump; (c) a connecting structure operable to transmit the gas from the first pump into the second pump; and (d) one or more openings in the first pump or the second pump or the walls of the connecting structure or a combination of two or more thereof, said openings being capable of receiving a module for containing a cell culture medium or for monitoring conditions in the chamber or for gas sampling or for gas characterisation.
US12331728B2
The present invention relates to a vertical axis wind turbine equipped with a high-temperature superconducting generator having a batch impregnation cooling structure. The vertical axis wind turbine is configured to allow the superconducting generator and accessory devices (a cooling system, a power conversion system, etc.) to be located under a turbine tower, whereas allowing only a rotary body with vertical blades to be located on the upper portion of the turbine tower, unlike a conventional horizontal axis wind turbine, thereby remarkably reducing a top-head weight of the wind turbine, greatly decreasing installation and maintenance costs, removing technical difficulties in large scale construction, and allowing a center of weight to move to a portion under the turbine tower so that if the vertical axis wind turbine is applied for floating offshore wind power generation, it advantageously ensures the miniaturization of a floating body and the stability of a floating posture.
US12331718B2
A wind turbine comprising, a tower, a nacelle mounted on the tower, and a rotor for harvesting wind energy by rotation of the rotor about a rotor axis extending in a vertical center plane. The nacelle comprises a main unit and two auxiliary units each housing a first and a second operative component. To obtain a combination of reuse of components and a good weight distribution, the first operative components in the first and second auxiliary units have the same distance to the center plane and the second operative components in the first and second auxiliary units have different distances to the center plane.
US12331716B2
A hub assembly for a wind turbine includes a hub having a surface defining a first set of bolt holes and a shaft having a flange having a second set of bolt holes. The first set of bolt holes is aligned with the second set of bolt holes at a hub-shaft interface. The hub assembly also includes a plurality of hub bolts extending through the first and second sets of bolt holes at the hub-shaft interface, a plurality of washers with one of the plurality of washers extending around each of the plurality of hub bolts, and at least one spacer positioned between the surface of the hub and a subset of the plurality of washers. At least two of the plurality of hub bolts extend through the at least one spacer.
US12331710B2
Methods, systems and apparatuses including systems and methods that can be used for operating a water turbine such as along one or more flow channels of a tidal estuary for power generation is disclosed. The water turbine can be positioned within the one or more flow channels and can be turned by the flow of the water from the estuary.
US12331708B2
A fuel injector includes a nozzle, and a nozzle check including a closing hydraulic surface. The fuel injector also includes a high pressure passage, a low pressure drain, a control passage, a check control chamber, and a valve seat. A relief passage is formed by at least one of an injector housing or a control valve in a control valve assembly. The control valve is movable among a rest position, a lifted injection position, and a lifted relief position where the high pressure passage connects to the relief passage. The control valve can be operated to selectively connect the high pressure passage to the relief passage to bleed fuel pressure to prevent over-pressurization. Related apparatus and methodology is also disclosed.
US12331690B2
A method of controlling the renewable energy absorbed by a hybrid power train for driving a load, and in particular compressors for a liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant is disclosed. The method comprises an analysis of the health status of part and of the whole hybrid power plant that drive the load. A power plant is also disclosed, operated by the controlling method.
US12331683B2
An engine assembly is provided that includes a sun gear, a ring gear, a plurality of intermediate gears, a carrier, a first rotating structure, a second rotating structure and a first bearing. The ring gear is rotatable about an axis and circumscribes the sun gear. The intermediate gears are arranged circumferentially about the axis in an array. Each of the intermediate gears is radially between and meshed with the sun gear and the ring gear. The carrier is rotatable about the axis. Each of the intermediate gears is rotatably mounted to the carrier. The first rotating structure is configured as or otherwise includes the carrier. The second rotating structure is configured as or otherwise includes the ring gear. The first bearing is radially between and engaged with the first rotating structure and the second rotating structure.
US12331677B2
A system and method for generating power and steam for a hydrocarbon recovery operation, in which a fuel gas and oxygen are combusted in a carbon dioxide working fluid in at least one combustor, the combustion products driving a turbine to generate power, and extracting heat from the turbine output stream, part of the heat used for heating the carbon dioxide working fluid before the combustion stage and part of the heat used for heating a feedwater to generate steam.
US12331672B2
An internal combustion engine includes a cylinder head with an exhaust manifold configured to supply exhaust gas through a main exhaust outlet to a main exhaust aftertreatment system having a main catalytic converter, a bypass passage in fluid communication with the exhaust manifold via a bypass port, a bypass catalytic converter disposed within the bypass passage, and a dual-acting valve assembly configured to move between a first position that seals the bypass port, and a second position that seals the main exhaust outlet. During cold start, long idle, and/or low main catalytic converter temperature conditions, the dual-active valve assembly is moved to the second position to direct exhaust flow through the bypass passage and the bypass catalytic converter to reduce emissions.
US12331668B1
A variable valve device includes a pair of cam housings separated from each other in a predetermined direction, a pair of rocker shafts supported by the pair of cam housings, a plurality of rocker arms supported by the pair of rocker shafts in a swingable manner, a switching mechanism that couples and separates intake arms, and an upper housing on the pair of cam housings. The upper housing is formed with a first injection hole for supplying lubrication oil to the switching mechanism and a second injection hole for supplying lubrication oil to the rocker arms. A passage length from a lubrication groove around a camshaft to the second injection hole is larger than a passage length from the lubrication groove to the first injection hole.
US12331645B2
The present invention is related to a high-efficiency sine rotary engine that converts rotational energy by burning fuel or using fluid pressure or transmits a fluid using rotational power, and also relates to technology for reducing friction between components to increase power transmission efficiency and increase a fluid sealing effect.
US12331638B1
An apparatus includes at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code. The at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to: determine a target position for a drill bit of the track-mounted drill rig; determine a turning trajectory of an aiming point of the drill bit; monitor position of the turning trajectory of the aiming point of the drill bit with respect to the target position of the drill bit during approach of the track-mounted drill rig to the target position; and cause turning of the track-mounted drill rig to align the aiming point of the drill bit with the target position of the drill bit based on determining that the turning trajectory of the aiming point of the drill bit substantially coincides with the target position of the drill bit.
US12331633B2
A system for high voltage protection may comprise a high voltage protection module electrically connected to a transmitter module and a receiver module and a muting module connected to the high voltage protection module and the receiver module. A method for high voltage protection may comprise disposing a downhole tool into a wellbore, transmitting an excitation signal from the transmitter module to transceiver as a high voltage pulse signal to the high voltage protection module, reducing the high voltage pulse signal with the high voltage protection module, and preventing saturation of the receiver with a low impedance interface from the muting module.
US12331626B2
The present disclosure provides a fracturing device driven by a variable-frequency adjustable-speed integrated machine (VFASIM), including the VFASIM and a plunger pump. The VFASIM includes a driving device for providing a driving force and an inverting device integrally installed on the driving device. The inverting device supplies power to the driving device. The plunger pump is integrally installed together with the VFASIM, the plunger pump is mechanically connected to the driving device of the VFASIM and driven by the driving device. According to the present disclosure, it is possible to achieve an overall layout with a high degree of integration. The present disclosure also provides a well site layout including a plurality of fracturing devices described above.
US12331625B2
An example turbine fracturing apparatus and an example turbine fracturing well site are disclosed. The turbine fracturing apparatus may include a turbine engine, configured to provide power; a deceleration device, having an input end and a plurality of output ends, the input end being connected with the turbine engine; a plurality of plunger pumps, connected with the plurality of output ends, respectively, each of the plurality of plunger pumps being configured to intake low-pressure fluid and discharge high-pressure fluid; and an auxiliary power unit, configured to provide auxiliary power to at least one of the turbine engine, the deceleration device, or each of the plurality of plunger pumps. The auxiliary power unit, the turbine engine, and the deceleration device may be sequentially arranged.
US12331621B2
Some methods of producing hydrocarbons from a formation include pressurizing a formation by pumping fluid into a portion of a wellbore having one or more first fractures in fluid communication with the formation, while the formation is pressurized, restricting fluid communication between the formation and the wellbore via the first fracture(s), and, while fluid communication between the formation and the wellbore via the first fracture(s) is restricted, producing hydrocarbons from the formation via one or more second fractures of the wellbore that are in fluid communication with the formation. Some methods include, while fluid communication between the formation and the wellbore via the first fracture(s) is restricted, creating the second fracture(s).
US12331616B2
A technique facilitates controlled creation of pressure waves in a downhole environment. The technique enables creation of, for example, dynamic underbalance (DUB) pressure waves or dynamic overbalance (DOB) pressure waves which can be used to perform desired activities downhole. According to an embodiment, a pump is coupled with a pressure chamber and conveyed downhole into a borehole to a desired location. The pump may be operated downhole to change a pressure level in the pressure chamber until a sufficient pressure differential exists between an interior and an exterior of the pressure chamber. A release mechanism in communication with the pressure chamber is then rapidly opened to establish the desired pressure wave as the differing pressures equalize.
US12331615B2
An insertion tool assembly includes a lubricator and a tubular adapter. The tubular adapter includes a main body with a central bore therethrough. A top end of the adapter can be attached to the lubricator and the bottom end attached to a crown top of a wellhead. The tubular adapter also includes a kill fluid port disposed through a side-wall of the main body. The insertion tool assembly is configured such that, when the BPV is attached to the distal end of the rod and the bottom end of the tubular adapter is attached to the crown top, the BPV can pass through the tubular adapter and into the wellhead through the crown top as the rod is extended from the lubricator, and a kill fluid injected into the kill fluid port can flow through the crown top into the well.
US12331612B2
A shifting sleeve tieback seal system may include a body portion and a swellable material disposed about a circumference of the body portion. The swellable material is configured to expand in response to exposure to wellbore fluids. Further, the system may include an upper end ring disposed in a position axially above the swellable material, a lower end ring disposed in a position axially below the swellable material, and a sleeve disposed radially outward from the swellable material and sealed against the upper end ring and/or the lower end ring in a run-in position to isolate the swellable material from wellbore fluids. The sleeve is configured to contact a downhole feature in a setting position and contact with the downhole feature is configured to move the sleeve to expose the swellable material to wellbore fluids such that the swellable material expands to seal against a downhole tubular.
US12331607B2
Provided is a milling tool, a whipstock assembly, a well system, and a method. The milling tool, in at least one aspect, includes a plurality of blades extending radially outward from a mill body, each of the plurality of blades having a primary surface and first and second side surfaces coupled to opposing sides of the primary surface, adjacent blades of the plurality of blades separated by a spacing. The milling tool may further includes a lug slot extending partially into one of the plurality of blades from the first side surface exposed by the spacing, the lug slot configured to engage with a lug of a related tool to couple the milling tool with the related tool when rotating in a first direction and to disengage from the lug of the related tool to release the milling tool from the related tool when rotating in a second opposite direction.
US12331606B2
Apparatus and methods according to which a slip cartridge is secured to a first segment of a tubular string, the slip cartridge is landed in a wellhead by conveying the tubular string to which the slip cartridge is secured through the wellhead and into a wellbore, the slip cartridge is left behind landed in the wellhead, and the slip cartridge is set in the wellhead by securing a plurality of slips of the slip cartridge to a second segment of the tubular string.
US12331603B1
Wellbore logging apparatus include a positioning mechanism that couples one or more well logging devices included in a well logging tool to a downhole tractor. The positioning tool allows the logging tools to be moved at a different rate of travel through a wellbore compared to the rate of travel of the downhole tractor through the wellbore.
US12331602B2
A well-killing system for ultra-deep well drilling with co-existence of overflow and lost circulation is provided. An upper part of a wellhead blowout preventer is connected to a first mud pump and a lost circulation material mud tank through a pipeline, a first three-way control valve, and a second three-way control valve. A lower port of the second three-way control valve is connected to a second mud pump and a mud pit. A lower port of the first three-way control valve is connected to a first well-killing fluid tank and a second well-killing fluid tank. A gas-liquid separation tank is connected to a side of a wellhead device. A first pressure sensor and a first flowmeter are provided on a left port of the first three-way control valve. A second pressure sensor and a second flowmeter are provided at a left port of a third three-way control valve.
US12331601B2
The present disclosure relates to a device and method for continuous mixing of a solid drag reducer. The device for continuous mixing of a solid drag reducer comprises a raw material storage device (1), a pneumatic raw material delivery device (2), a power device (3), a flow testing device (4) and a dissolving device (5). The method for continuous mixing of a solid drag reducer uses the device for continuous mixing of a solid drag reducer, which can realize continuous mixing of the solid drag reducer during large-scale volume fracturing.
US12331599B1
A drilling machine includes a loading device of the carousel type for a plurality of rod modules and optionally a plurality of covering modules. The loading device includes a platform, on which the rod modules are arranged to be orthogonal to the platform, and a conveyor system for conveying the rod modules along a closed path. The carousel loading device includes a lateral containment frame provided with an opening for the extraction and/or insertion of the rod modules through the translation of the rod modules in a direction that is substantially parallel to the platform or has at least one component parallel to the platform.
US12331598B2
A wireline standoff that may ameliorate the effects of wireline cable differential sticking, wireline cable key seating, and high cable drags by reducing or eliminating contact of the wireline cable with the borehole wall during the logging operation. An embodiment includes a wireline standoff. The wireline standoff may comprise a pair of opposing assemblies. The opposing assemblies may each comprise a half shell, a cable insert configured to be disposed in the half shell, and external fins coupled to the half shell. The wireline standoff may further comprise one or more fasteners configured to couple the opposing assemblies to one another.
US12331594B2
In one example, a method of designing a drill bit comprises obtaining a baseline orientation of a shaped cutter with respect to a bit body. The shaped cutter includes a shaped cutting element secured to a substrate. The baseline orientation is defined, at least in part, with respect to an rotational position of the shaped cutting element about a longitudinal axis of the shaped cutter. A wear imbalance is determined between opposing portions of the shaped cutting element at the baseline orientation. An adjusted orientation of the shaped cutter is generated having a different rotational position of the shaped cutting element about the cutter axis expected to reduce the wear imbalance.
US12331590B1
A curtain roller includes a main body of roller and a stop part. The main body of roller is connected with a curtain, and the main body of roller is capable of rotating on a surface of the curtain to a winding position or an unfolding position. When the main body of roller rotates to the winding position, the main body of roller rolls up the curtain. When the main body of roller rotates to the unfolding position, the main body of roller unfolds the curtain. The stop part is connected to the main body of roller. A stop space is formed between the stop part and the main body of roller. When the main body of roller rotates to the winding position to roll up the curtain, and the curtain is positioned in the stop space, the main body of roller cannot rotate on the surface of the curtain.
US12331586B2
A door assembly provides EMC shielding to provide EMI/RFI protection. The door assembly has an EMC door frame, an EMC door, and EMC seals for maintaining a circuit between the door frame, the floor (e.g., threshold, flooring, etc.), and/or the door. The door assembly may also utilize one or more EMC elements (e.g., EMC tape, paint, adhesive, coatings, caulk, etc.) that may be used to create the circuits between the components of the door assembly and/or with other components of the building (e.g., between the door frame and the wall). The EMC shielding is used to reduce (e.g., limit, block, etc.) the levels of electrogenic interference (EMI)/radio frequency interference (RFI) radiation that is able to pass by the shielding. Moreover, the door assembly also provides improve additional door assembly performance (e.g., sound, weather, air flow, heat, cold, or the like abatement, energy harvesting, or other performance benefits).
US12331579B2
A method for controlling a power tailgate in a vehicle power tailgate system includes steps of controlling operation of a motor to attempt to lower or raise a tailgate operably connected to the motor, determining that a clutch interposed between the motor and the tailgate (and operably connected to the motor and the tailgate) slipped by at least a predetermined slip amount during operation of the motor to attempt to lower or raise the tailgate and, responsive to the determination that the clutch slipped by at least the predetermined slip amount, generating an alert indicating a need for manual reset of the tailgate.
US12331573B2
An obstacle detection device includes: an ultrasonic sensor signal processing unit detecting at least a distance to an obstacle among the distance and a shape of the obstacle based on an output of an ultrasonic sensor, the ultrasonic sensor being disposed on a door of a vehicle and detecting the distance within a predetermined detection range by an ultrasonic wave; a camera image processing unit detecting the distance and the shape based on an output of a camera of the vehicle, the camera capturing an image of an area including a trajectory range when the door is opened and a detection range of the ultrasonic sensor; and a controller performing open operation control of the door based on detection results of the ultrasonic sensor signal processing unit and the camera image processing unit.
US12331570B2
A hardware for a slidable facade component includes at least two guide pins for a first side and at least two guide pins for a second side of the component. An actuating rod arrangement for transmitting an actuating force includes a first actuating rod and a second actuating rod for the first side and the second side, respectively, of the component. An actuating device is coupled to the drive rod assembly for transmitting the actuating force to the first and second drive rods with an actuation. The guide pins are eccentric bearing pins with an eccentrically arranged axis of rotation for rotatable attachment to the component and are provided for engagement with a guide groove arrangement arranged in the frame area. The eccentric bearing pins are each coupled to one of the drive rods via a coupling element and are rotatable via a longitudinal movement of the drive rods.
US12331558B2
An aircraft door with an inner door space; a door opening system arranged at least partly in the inner door space. The door opening system comprises: at least one locking device for locking the aircraft door in a locked state, actuation kinematics for actuating the at least one locking device, and at least one transmission rod coupling the actuation kinematics with the at least one locking device; wherein the at least one transmission rod is displaceable in the inner door space by means of the actuation kinematics for actuating the at least one locking device; and an anti-vibration device mounted in the inner door space to the at least one transmission rod for absorbing vibrations of the at least one transmission rod, wherein the anti-vibration device is displaceable in the inner door space together with the at least one transmission rod.
US12331554B2
A latching mechanism system, method and apparatus is disclosed. The latching mechanism including a latch mechanism shaft and a rotatable outer actuator knob. The outer actuator knob including at least one outer actuator knob engagement surface. The at least one outer actuator knob engagement surface having a shape corresponding to a lock body engagement surface of a removable lock. The outer actuator knob can be mounted on the latch mechanism shaft, proximate to a first end of the latch mechanism shaft. The outer actuator knob being capable of rotating the latch mechanism shaft. The removable lock is capable of being secured in a locked position with the lock body engagement surface proximate to the least one outer actuator knob engagement surface.
US12331548B2
Apparatuses, systems, and methods are provided for detecting an alert status of a locking apparatus for an entry point. An external force may be received at a locking apparatus operating in a locked state and determining a first indicia corresponding to the received external force, separately receiving an indication of the external force at an accelerometer of the locking apparatus and determining a second indicia corresponding to the received indication of the external force, comparing the first indicia and the second indicia to determine an alert condition, and selectively performing at least one alert operation corresponding to the determined alert condition.
US12331540B2
The invention relates to a surfing installation (10, 10A, 10B) for generating a surfable wave (60), comprising an inclined ramp (50) to the upper end (51) of which water flows via a water inlet (46), which water is accelerated on the ramp (50) to a first flow speed, the lower end (52) of the ramp (50) leading into a region (30) having a lower second flow speed relative to the first flow speed, and a standing wave, in the flow direction, forming in the region (30) as a result of the water flowing at the first, faster flow speed striking the water flowing at the second, lower flow speed. A further functional area for the surfing installation (10) for one or more surfers (80) is achieved, according to the invention, in that at least two walls (506, 508) that define at least one flow channel (504) are arranged in the region of the water inlet (46) and/or of the ramp (50), which walls are movable in rotation and/or in translation, transversely to the flow direction of the water, by means of at least one drive (5046), in order to generate at least one traveling wave (60) that travels transversely to the flow direction.
US12331534B2
A binding machine includes a first main body, a second main body and a bridge part. The first main body houses a binding part which twists a wire and a driving part which drives the binding part. The second main body is provided with a handle part including an operation trigger. The bridge part connects the first main body and the second main body to each other.
US12331532B2
A metal hand tool including a handle attached to a blade piece and method of construction. The blade piece includes a blade opposite an elongated tang. The handle is made up of two, welded, symmetrical handle halves, each handle half having an opening for receiving a hang hole piece and a notched distal end for forming a handle opening to receive the blade piece elongated tang. In an embodiment, the handle includes a curved distal end accommodating a curved welded connection between the blade piece and the handle. The hand tool further includes a hang hole piece configured for placement through the hang hole openings in the handle and for welded connection to the handle. In an embodiment, the elongated tang includes a hang hole opening through which the hang hole extends. Some embodiments further include one or more tang guide pieces welded to the interior of the handle.
US12331517B2
The present application relates to the technical field of building walls and provides a composite wall being lightweight, easy to be prefabricated and convenient for on-site construction. By making the composite wall such that a decorative layer and a formwork are overhung on both sides of a core concrete layer, it is formed a structure similar to a core-wall and steel structure that has rigidity and is elastically deformable. A thermal insulation layer is filled between the decorative layer and the core concrete layer which are connected by a precast outer cantilever rod. The amount of concrete in the prefabricated part of the composite wall is greatly reduced. The composite wall does not require flipping in the prefabrication process and has a significantly shortened production cycle.
US12331512B2
A drywall system is provided including a first drywall panel and a second drywall panel connected to the first drywall panel via a main hinge. A first drywall flap connected to the first drywall panel via a first hinge, and a second drywall flap connected to the second drywall panel via a second hinge. The first drywall panel, the second drywall panel, the first drywall flap and the second drywall flap can hinge to assume at least one corner configuration in which the first and second flaps lie on a first plane, the first drywall panel lies on a second plane and the second drywall panel lies on a third plane, such that the first plane, the second plane and the third plane are mutually orthogonal. A coating can be provided on an external surface of the framing drywall liner for strengthening the groove which, in embodiments can be polyester strip that extends over portions of the first and second gypsum-containing segments on either side of the of the groove.
US12331506B2
An adjustable hangar for attaching an elongate beam to a structural building member includes a lower module and an upper module that are engaged with one another in a vertically reciprocal manner. The lower module includes a bottom web for supporting an edge of a beam. The upper module includes a top panel opposite and spaced apart from the support web. When a beam is installed between top panel and bottom web, the upper module and lower module may be contracted to adjust the relative position of the top panel and bottom web. In an embodiment, the position can be contracted to trap the top edge and bottom edge of the beam between the top panel and bottom web.
US12331503B2
Drain inserts for diverting the flow of debris and fluids in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. In one embodiment, a drain insert is provided, the drain insert including: a primary opening for receiving flow of debris and fluids, the primary opening comprising a rim that is configured to sit on top of a drain hole; a primary chute that extends from the primary opening and extends beyond a pivot rod of a drain thereby preventing the flow of debris and fluids from making contact with the pivot rod.
US12331501B2
A sink includes a basin including a base wall and lateral walls adjoining the base wall. The basin includes a receiving area which is delimited by the base wall and the lateral walls. An insert plate separate from the basin is inserted into the receiving area. A lifting device is configured to move the insert plate relative to the basin in a height direction and includes a lifting unit with a variable length. The lifting unit includes a lifting mechanism which is embodied as a feed chain or a spindle drive.
US12331500B1
A two-waterway structure for a faucet that includes: a first pipe, which is configured for water intake; a second pipe, which is configured for water intake and is provided with a manual switch configured to control the connection and disconnection of waterway in the second pipe; and a water outlet pipe, which is configured for water output, an end portion of the first pipe and an end portion of the second pipe being both connected to an end portion of the water outlet pipe to form a three-way pipe structure. The two-waterway structure for a faucet can ensure smooth water delivery even when the waterway controlled by the solenoid valve is damaged.
US12331499B2
A water outlet panel assembly configured to be connected to a pull-out faucet comprises a water outlet panel, an adapter member, and a control member. The water outlet panel is detachably connected to a faucet body of the pull-out faucet, and the water outlet panel comprises a water outlet port. The adapter member comprises a water inlet, a first water outlet, and a second water outlet, and the water inlet and the first water outlet are detachably connected to a pull-out pipe of the pull-out faucet. When the second water outlet is controlled to be in communication with the water outlet port by the control member, the first water outlet is controlled to be closed by the adapter member, and when the second water outlet is controlled not to be in communication with the water outlet port by the control member, the first water outlet is controlled to be opened.
US12331498B2
A cold water shower device includes a water storage tank which receives cool water from a water source. The water storage tank including a refrigeration unit to chill the cool water in the water storage tank. A master valve is integrated into a wall of a shower in the bathroom which receives hot water from the water heater and cool water from the water source. The master valve directs an adjustable mixture of the hot water and the cool water into a shower head. A cold water valve is integrated into the wall of the shower which receives the cold water from the water storage tank. The cold water valve can either mix the cold water with the mixture of hot water and cool water from the master valve or supply the cold water directly to the shower head.
US12331497B2
A sanitary construction kit (1) having at least one outflow element (2), at least one control element (3), and at least one connection element (4) by way of which the outflow element (2) is fluidically connectable to the control element (3). At least two functionally dissimilar control elements (3) which selectively, individually or together, are fluidically connectable to the outflow element (2) are provided.
US12331490B2
A controller is configured or programmed to cause a first memory to store, for a period of time, piece(s) of identification information included in wireless signal(s) transmitted from transmitter(s) in or on attachment(s) and received by a receiver in or on a working vehicle, when one of the attachment(s) is attached to a hitch, select a piece of identification information of the attachment attached to the hitch from the piece(s) of identification information stored in the first memory and start a predetermined process according to the selected piece of identification information, and even if the receiver receives wireless signal(s) before the attachment is allowed to be detached from the hitch, continue to perform the predetermined process without performing selection of a piece of identification information again.
US12331486B2
The working machine includes a machine body, an engine provided on the machine body, a motor generator to be operated as a motor to assist driving of the engine in an assisting operation and to be operated as a generator by power of the engine to generate electricity in a generating operation, a battery to store the electricity generated by the motor generator, an acceleration sensor to measure acceleration of the machine body, and a controller to selectively set either one of the assisting operation and the generating operation based on the acceleration of the machine body measured by the acceleration sensor.
US12331480B2
An intelligent dredging system for a high-piled wharf and a control method thereof are provided, and the system includes an intelligent monitoring-decision control subsystem and a decentralized high-pressure water disturbance subsystem. The intelligent monitoring-decision control subsystem is composed of a high-precision pile-foundation sediment siltation warning device, a tidal monitoring device and a control terminal. The decentralized high-pressure water disturbance subsystem is composed of a water spraying device, a cable and a multi-loop power distribution device.
US12331477B2
Various implementations include a ground anchoring apparatus including a longitudinal body, first and second retaining members, and a set of expanding linkage assemblies. The first retaining member is rigidly coupled to the longitudinal body. The second retaining member is movably coupled to the longitudinal body. Each expanding linkage assembly includes first and second linkage members. The first linkage member has first and second portions, and the second linkage member has third and fourth portions. The first portion is rotatably coupled to the first retaining member. The fourth portion is rotatably coupled to the second retaining member. The third portion is rotatably coupled to the second portion. The set of expanding linkage assemblies is movable between a collapsed and expanded configuration. The second retaining member is closer to the first retaining member and the third portion is further from the central axis in the expanded configuration than in the collapsed configuration.
US12331475B2
A soil processing roller includes an elongated roller shell that rotates about a roller axis of rotation and a first fluid chamber in a roller interior space delimited by the roller shell. In association with the first fluid chamber a first opening group is provided which includes a first filling opening, a first discharge opening and a first fill level control opening. A shielding element is arranged in an axial end region of the roller interior space which does not rotate about the roller axis of rotation during a soil processing operation. A first release recess is provided in the shielding element, and a second fluid chamber substantially separated from the first fluid chamber against fluid exchange is delimited by the roller shell. In association with the second fluid chamber a second opening group is provided which includes a second filling opening, a second discharge opening and a second fill level control opening.
US12331471B2
The present disclosure includes various methods systems and apparatuses for carbon dioxide capture and utilization such as for encapsulation in asphalt. For example, a method can include combusting fuel to generate a flow of exhaust from a working machine operating to perform one or more asphalt related tasks, capturing CO2 from the exhaust, storing the CO2 in a storage unit onboard the working machine, forming asphalt that includes an amount of the CO2 from the storage unit by selectively mixing the amount of the CO2 from the storage unit with calcium, and using the asphalt that is formed that includes the amount of the CO2 from the storage unit encapsulated therein at a jobsite.
US12331466B2
A water- and oil-proofing composition which can provide an article with high utility oil resistance is provided. A water- and oil-proofing composition comprising a fluorinated polymer comprising units based on the following monomer (a) and units based on the following monomer (b), a fatty acid ester of polyglycerin and an aqueous medium: Monomer (a): a compound represented by CH2═CH—Rf (wherein Rf is a C1-8 perfluoroalkyl group). Monomer (b): a monomer copolymerizable with the monomer (a).
US12331464B2
Electroconductive paper structure with cellulosic fibrous materials and electroconductive fibers, wherein the electroconductive paper structure has embedded therein a continuous, electroconductive thread for contacting the electroconductive paper structure from one end to the opposite end of the paper structure.
US12331447B2
An appliance (10) for drying and/or washing laundry includes an autonomous fire extinction device (20). The fire extinction device has pipe (26) with an elongate shape and closed at both its longitudinal ends (26x). The pipe includes a fusible thermoplastic wall defining an internal space. The pipe is thermoformed to give it a particular shape in the unconstrained free state corresponding to its mounted position inside the enclosure (12). An extinguishing fluid (29) is inside the space, and is configured to be released by fusion of the pipe wall (26) under the effect of heat produced by a fire or an incipient fire.
US12331441B2
A controller of a sewing machine acquires sewing data for forming a utility pattern continuously in a first direction, acquires a condition for sewing a tapering pattern including a tapering portion, generates a projection image representing the tapering pattern based on the sewing data and the condition, controls a needle bar, a feed dog, and an actuator in accordance with the sewing data to sew the utility pattern continuously in the first direction, after starting sewing of the utility pattern, controls a projector to project the projection image at a planned sewing position of the tapering pattern in a planned sewing size, and performs a tapering pattern sewing operation of, after starting projection of the projection image, controlling the needle bar, the feed dog, and the actuator in accordance with the sewing data and the condition to sew the tapering pattern that is continuous with the utility pattern.
US12331430B2
An article of manufacture making system for making an article of manufacture containing a plurality of dry solid additives, such as fibers, that utilizes a dry solid additive delivery system with a relatively low Stokes Number for the dry solid additives.
US12331429B2
In some embodiments, the present disclosure provides methods including the steps of (i) providing silk fibroin material comprising substantially amorphous structure, and (ii) applying at least one of elevated temperature and elevated pressure to the silk fibroin material to form a silk fibroin article, wherein the applying induces fusion between at least a portion of the silk fibroin and structural change of fibroin in the silk fibroin material. In some embodiments, the present disclosure also provides silk fibroin articles made in accordance with the methods disclosed herein.
US12331420B2
A specific portion of a substrate is allowed to be shielded at a desired timing, and making a plating film-thickness uniform is improved. A plating module includes: a plating tank 410 for housing a plating solution; an anode 430 disposed in the plating tank 410; a substrate holder 440 for holding a substrate Wf with a surface to be plated Wf-a facing downward; a rotation mechanism 447 configured to rotate the substrate holder 440 in a first direction and a second direction opposite to the first direction; and a shielding mechanism 485 configured to move a shielding member 481 into between the anode 430 and the substrate Wf depending on a rotation angle of the substrate holder 440.
US12331417B1
A method includes heating a steam feed stream received from a reactor unit in a first heat exchanger using an anode effluent from an anode of an electrolyzer as a heat transfer medium to generate a first heated steam effluent, heating the first heated steam effluent in a second heat exchanger using a cathode effluent from a cathode of the electrolyzer as a heat transfer medium to generate a second heated steam effluent, combusting, in a combustion unit, a first tail gas stream to transfer heat to the second heated steam effluent to generate a third heated steam effluent, and passing the third heated steam effluent to the cathode of the electrolyzer.
US12331413B2
In a method for supplying oxygen-enriched gas to an oxygen consuming process, in which the oxygen-enriched gas with a low nitrogen content is generated by supplying an anode-side feed gas comprising CO2 to the anode side of a solid oxide electrolysis cell, oxygen is generated on the anode side of the solid oxide electrolysis cell. This way, an anode-side product gas is formed, in which the oxygen-enriched gas comprises at least a part. The oxygen-enriched gas has a low nitrogen content, and the temperature of the oxygen-enriched gas exiting the solid oxide electrolysis cell is between 600 and 1000° C. The method has multiple advantages, first of all as regards energy saving.
US12331412B2
A modular electrolyzer system, comprising a plurality of generator modules, each of the plurality of generator modules including a hotbox, and a gas distribution module configured to supply hydrogen to each of the plurality of generator modules.
US12331406B2
This metallic coated steel includes a steel material and a metallic coating layer. The metallic coating layer has an average chemical composition including Al: 0.2% to less than 4.0%, Mg: more than 4.0% and less than 12.5%, Ca: 0.15% to less than 3.00%, Zn: 65% or more, and impurities. In an any perpendicular cross section (in a thickness direction) in the metallic coating layer, a metallurgical structure observed in a scanning electron microscope observed visual field contains, in terms of area fraction, an MgZn2 phase: 10 to 40%, an Al—Zn phase: 0 to 15%, an Al phase: (Zn<10%): 0 to 5%, a CaZn13 phase: 1.0 to 15%, and a total of a [ternary eutectic structure of Al/MgZn2/Zn] and a [binary eutectic structure of MgZn2/Zn]: 30% or more.
US12331401B2
A vaporization system includes: a vaporization device that is configured to vaporize a liquid material and that includes an inlet port through which the liquid material is introduced and an outlet port through which vaporized gas generated by vaporizing the liquid material is discharged; at least one first fixing screw with which at least one of the inlet port or the outlet port is screwed and fixed onto a base; at least one pipe member that is configured to communicate with the fixed port and through which the vaporized gas or the liquid material flows; and at least one second fixing screw with which the at least one pipe member is screwed and fixed onto the fixed port with a seal member interposed between the at least one pipe member and the fixed port.
US12331398B2
A method of forming a metal oxide layer includes at least the following steps. A substrate is provided in a process chamber of a deposition apparatus, where the substrate has a target layer formed thereon. A first gas and a second gas are introduced into the process chamber through a shower head of the deposition apparatus, so as to form a metal oxide film on the target layer, where the shower head is coated with a hydrophobic film. A patterned photoresist layer is formed on the metal oxide film. The metal oxide film is patterned by using the patterned photoresist layer as a mask, so as to form a patterned metal oxide film. The target layer is patterned by using the patterned metal oxide film as a mask.
US12331389B2
The present disclosure belongs to the technical field of functional films, and in particular relates to a self-lubricating film over wide temperature ranges in vacuum and a preparation method and use thereof. The present disclosure provides a self-lubricating film over wide temperature ranges in vacuum, including: a bonding layer, a transition layer and a lubricating layer laminated in sequence, wherein the bonding layer has a chemical composition of Ti; the transition layer has a chemical composition of Ti and TiB2; the lubricating layer has a chemical composition of Ti, TiB2 and MoS2. In the present disclosure, when the self-lubricating films over wide temperature ranges in vacuum are exposed to different temperatures, different components of Ti, TiB2 and MoS2 in the films may be correspondingly excited to enrich in frictional contact areas. The composition of each layer synergistically exerts a lubricating effect and improves the tribological properties and stability of the self-lubricating film over wide temperature ranges in vacuum in a vacuum over a wide temperature range.
US12331380B2
A process for recovering titanium dioxide from a titanium-bearing material, the process including the steps of: leaching the titanium-bearing material in a first leaching step at atmospheric pressure and at a temperature of 70 to 97° C. with a first lixiviant to produce a first leach solution comprising undissolved first leach solids that include a titanium content and a first leach liquor, the first lixiviant comprising hydrochloric acid at a concentration of less than 23% w/w; separating the first leach liquor and the undissolved first leach solids; leaching the first leach solids in a second leaching step at atmospheric pressure and at a temperature of 60 to 80° C. with a second lixiviant in the presence of a Fe powder reductant to produce a second leach solution comprising undissolved second each solids and a second leach liquor that includes a leached titanium content and iron content, the second lixiviant comprising a mixed chloride solution comprising less than 23% w/w hydrochloric acid and an additional chloride selected from alkali metal chlorides, magnesium chloride and calcium chloride, or mixtures thereof; separating the second leach liquor and the undissolved second leach solids; and thereafter separating the titanium dioxide and the iron content from the second leach liquor by precipitation, and regenerating the second lixiviant for recycle to the second leaching step.
US12331374B2
A thin steel sheet has a specific chemical composition. The thin steel sheet has a microstructure in which ferrite is present in an area fraction of 5% or more and 60% or less, as-quenched martensite is present in an area fraction of 10% or less (including 0%), retained austenite is present in an area fraction of 5% or more and 20% or less, and upper bainite, lower bainite, and tempered martensite are present in a total area fraction of more than 15% and less than 85%; BCC iron that has a misorientation of 1° or less and surrounds retained austenite having an aspect ratio of 2.5 or higher is present in an area fraction of 5% or more and 70% or less; and a top 10% of retained austenite in terms of an equivalent circular diameter has an average aspect ratio of 2.5 or higher.
US12331365B2
An adenosine triphosphatase sarcoplasmic/endoplasmic reticulum Ca2+ transporting 2 (ATP2A2) gene-based molecular marker is provided for identifying a chicken feed efficiency trait, and an identification method and use thereof. A nucleotide sequence of the molecular marker is shown in SEQ ID NO: 1, and a base at locus 926 in the nucleotide sequence is T or G. In the present application, by identifying a genotype of the molecular marker in a chicken genome and then selecting the chicken feed efficiency trait according to the genotype, a breeding method for early selection of the poultry feed efficiency trait is established.
US12331360B2
Methods for the determination of the risk of developing neoplasia in a tissue, preferably anogenital tissue, showing no histopathological indications of neoplasia are described. The method is based on the determination of the methylation status of genomic DNA sequences associated with the genes ZNF671, ZNF154, ZNF776, ASTN1, BRINP2, DLX1, METAP1D and/or DLX2.
US12331351B2
Disclosed herein are methods and systems for correcting errors in sample amplification, including the errors occurred in determining the number of targets in samples. In some embodiments, the method comprises: stochastically barcoding a plurality of targets in the samples using oligonucleotides comprising stochastic barcodes to generate stochastically barcoded targets; contacting one or more defined barcoded primers with each of the one or more samples; and determining an amplification noise.
US12331350B2
Provided herein are reagents and methods for simultaneously enriching many potential rare genetic variants at different genetic loci. The rare variants enriched can include single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), single nucleotide variants, or small insertions and deletions. Embodiments of the invention include procedures for integration with downstream next generation sequencing (NGS) analysis. Embodiments of the invention include analysis of nonpathogenic SNPs for the determination of cell identity and detection of cell contamination using qPCR or NGS.
US12331347B2
Methods of labelling one or more subcellular components (e.g., an organelle and/or subcellular region) in vivo are provided. Methods of labelling a protein in vivo are provided. Methods of determining a nucleic acid sequence in situ are also provided.
US12331345B2
Heritable pathogenic variants in the mismatch repair (MMR) pathway, also known as Lynch Syndrome (LS), can lead to the development of colon cancer and other cancers. Following mismatch, a complex of proteins consisting of MLH1, MSH2, MSH6 and PMS2 translocate into the nucleus to signal recruitment of repair mechanisms. Flow cytometry-based, functional variant assays (FVAs), were developed to determine whether variants in these MMR repair genes and/or other related genes would augment the nuclear translocation of MLH1 and MSH2 and downstream nuclear phosphorylation of ATM and ATR in response to DNA mismatches. Each assay distinguished pathogenic variants in MMR repair genes (MLH1, MSH2, PMS2 and MSH6) from benign controls. The combination of multiple assays provided robust separation between heterozygous pathogenic variant carriers and benign controls. The ability to produce distinct molecular phenotypes by these assays suggest FVA assays of MMR pathways could be used to identify LS and associated risk of colon and other cancers and could act as an adjunct to MMR gene sequencing panels in categorizing variants.
US12331340B1
An efficient synthesis and assembly method for the large fragment DNA based on the programmable nuclease Argonaute, specifically includes: constructing and treating antibiotic resistance gene reconstructed vectors with linearization, dividing a target DNA into multiple small DNA fragments and then synthesizing the small DNA fragments, followed by loading the synthesized small DNA fragments to the antibiotic resistance gene reconstructed vectors; and the SLIC and resistance gene reconstruction are used to achieve assembly of the target DNA. The method combines the SLIC with a resistance gene reconstruction strategy, allowing for the assembly of 5-6 small fragments in a single resistance gene reconstruction, which is more efficient and time-saving. Moreover, the number of the resistance gene reconstructions can be flexibly chosen according to the length of the DNA fragments. Mutations are not introduced caused by PCR, and the reconstructed large fragment do not need a second sequencing, saving time and costs.
