US11859442B2
A door having an integrated pet travel door may include a main body member having a door panel. A passageway may be formed in the door panel. The integrated pet travel door may include a pet travel door frame affixed to the passageway, a pet travel door seal attached to the pet travel door frame, a bumper seal connected to the pet travel door seal, and a flap connected to a portion of the pet travel door frame. The flap may pivotally move between an open and closed position. The integrated pet travel door may also include a pair of flap reinforcement members connected to the sides of the flap, and a security panel hingedly connected to the pet travel door frame, that is sized to cover an internal perimeter of the pet travel door frame. The security panel may be moveable between a closed and open position.
US11859441B2
A fenestration unit includes a frame corner key that includes a corner key fluid outlet and a cladding having an aperture for the corner key fluid outlet. The fenestration unit also includes a weep drainage system with a fluid path defined from the frame corner key, through the corner key fluid outlet, and through the aperture to drain from the fenestration unit.
US11859436B2
A composite trim molding assembly includes a composite outer shell having at least one pressed or molded surface feature and a core disposed within the composite outer shell for at least one of strengthening or stiffening the outer shell. The composite trim molding assembly can be configured as a door jamb. For example, the composite outer shell can include a flat jamb, and the at least one pressed or molded surface feature can include a stop. The core can include a protrusion into a cavity formed by the stop. The cavity formed by the stop may also be hollow. The composite outer shell can be molded from a slurry and/or pressed from a flat composite panel. The at least one pressed or molded surface feature can include a surface texture (e.g., a wood grain pattern). The core can include segments fastened together, particle board, and/or fiberboard.
US11859430B2
A heavy duty full energy, encoder driven non-handed electric door operator for industrial and commercial use a motor and an encoder configured to receive an external set of predetermined instructions. A motor mounting bracket connects the motor to a multi-layer housing. A controller is in electronic communications with the encoder and transmits external sets of predetermined instructions. Internally, the door operator contains a plurality of transfer shaft assemblies in communication with each other and connected with the motor at one end and an output shaft at the other end. The output shaft terminates at each end in a nondetachable spline. A detachable mounting plate serves as a base. The door operator operates heavy swing doors external to a building where the swing doors are required to be open or remain open in strong wind conditions.
US11859411B2
The disclosure relates to a portable lock having an unlocking motor, an authentication for authenticating the user of the lock, and an actuation element that can be actuated by the user to activate the unlocking motor to unlock the lock after a successful authentication of the user. A further subject matter is a locking system having such a lock and a mobile end device to allow a user of the lock to authenticate himself thereat. The disclosure also relates to a method of unlocking a mobile lock.
US11859407B1
Systems, methods, and apparatuses in accordance with embodiments of the invention can use a variety of computing devices to interact with and/or control a secure enclosure for a key fob. The secure enclosure may enclose the key fob, and includes a computing device, a locking mechanism, and at least one actuator. An actuator may control the locking mechanism. The actuator, when activated, may exert a force on a key fob secured within the secure enclosure, which may cause one of the buttons of the key fob to be depressed. The computing device controls the activation of the actuators. The computing device may have wireless communication capability that allows a user to wirelessly control the actuators of the computing device, for example, to lock or unlock the enclosure, or to depress a button of the key fob secured within the enclosure.
US11859406B2
A noise reduction strike plate covering including a sheet of noise dampening material adaptively shaped to cover a strike plate in a door frame with a portion of the sheet including a bolt hole insert adaptively shaped to insert a bolt hole through the strike plate and a portion of the sheet including a strike ramp grip adaptively shaped to grip an end of a strike bolt ramp of the strike plate.
US11859403B2
A campus for fabricating at least one pharmaceutical product has one or more customizable facilities each configured to manufacture the at least one pharmaceutical product, a media/buffer plant, and a utility building connected by a utility line to the media/buffer plant and/or the one or more customizable facilities to provide at least one first utility to the media/buffer plant and/or the one or more customizable facilities via the utility line.
US11859402B1
An apparatus including mechanisms for holding or guiding a fence post (or other type of post), in an essentially vertical orientation and in a relatively loose manner so that the apparatus can readily be removed part way through the post-driving activity and so that the downward driving force does not damage the apparatus. The apparatus is expandable from a compact transport configuration to a free-standing use configuration, and includes an assembly head having a connecting means for connecting a pair of pivotable 1st and 2nd support legs (each having a foot end and having an apex end pivotably connected to the assembly head and essentially opposing the apex end of the other support leg); a 3rd pivotable support leg having a 3rd foot end and a 3rd apex end pivotably connected to the assembly head (and enabling the apparatus to stand when all three support legs are pivoted outwardly); and a stabilizer support downstanding from the assembly head, and including a lower connection end. The apparatus also includes a stabilizer guide member having a middle portion pivotably connected to said lower connection end of said stabilizer support; a stabilizer end pivotably connected to said 3rd support leg; and an opposite guide end defining an aperture sized to accept insertion of the fence post in a manner positioning it essentially vertically for commencement of the user manually driving it into the ground but facilitating lifting of the apparatus off the partially driven post without altering the vertical positioning thereof.
US11859401B2
A modular fence is disclosed that includes a metal frame that includes a top rail, a bottom rail, and a horizontally extending intermediate rail that are connected between upright vertical rails. The plastic planks are fixedly attached to an intermediate connector that is adapted to be assembled to the intermediate rail with fasteners. Top and bottom brackets are attached to the top and bottom rails. Top and bottom ends of the plastic planks are received in a gap or channel defined by the top and bottom brackets but are not fastened to the brackets. Alternatively, the top and bottom brackets may be attached to the ends of the plastic planks and the brackets may be assembled to the top and bottom rails with a gap defined between the brackets and the respective rails.
US11859400B2
Apparatus and associated methods relate to fence bracing apparatus having a tension adjusting module(s) to diagonally brace a fence post(s) and/or adaptive fence bracket(s) for flexibly bracing the fence post(s) for various fence configurations. In an illustrative example, a fence tensioning module may include a tension regulation module coupled to a tension adjusting link. For example, the fence tensioning module may adjust a position of the tension adjusting link relative to the fence tensioning module so that a tension of the tension adjusting link is adjusted. The adaptive fence bracket, for example, may include a butterfly clamp and an adaptive C-bracket having two sidearms configured to couple, for example, to fence rails and/or other tension members to form various fence bracing configurations. The butterfly clamp, for example, may include a ridge portion to engage a blade of the fence post. Various implementations may advantageously provide adaptive and secure fence construction.
US11859395B2
A self-propelled power trowel for finishing a concrete surface is equipped with reversible rotors to allow an operator to reverse the direction of rotation of rotor blades. The trowel includes a rigid frame adapted for operation over a concrete surface, a pair of rotor assemblies having rotor blades tiltably connected to the rigid frame for frictionally contacting the concrete surface and supporting the rigid frame thereabove, a prime mover mounted to the rigid frame and operatively coupled to drive the rotor blades of the rotor assemblies in opposite rotational directions. Synchronous or hydraulic motors are configured for causing, responsive to manual controls, reversal of the direction of rotation of the rotor blades.
US11859388B1
The gutter-cleaning device is configured for use in removing debris from a gutter. The gutter-cleaning device discharges a flow of water into the gutter that washes away the debris. The gutter-cleaning device is an extension apparatus that extends the reach of a client such that the client can discharge the flow of water into the gutter while standing on the ground. The gutter-cleaning device comprises a plurality of pipes, a plurality of fittings, a hose, and a nozzle. The plurality of fittings interconnect the plurality of pipes to form a fluid network. The fluid network is a fluid series circuit that transports water received under pressure from the hose to the nozzle. The nozzle discharges the water into the gutter that washes away the debris.
US11859376B2
A water drain for use in wet areas such as kitchens, bathrooms, toilets, terraces, balconies, gardens is provided. The drain allows the water to be evacuated to be conveyed to the sewer. The drain comprises an adjuster, positioned between the reservoir and the flange, which has the ability and room to move to the right, left and diagonally within the reservoir thanks to the travel clearance. The drain comprises a set positioned between the reservoir blank and the flange blank, which determines the travel limits of the adjuster by entering through such reservoir blank and the flange blank and surrounds the adjuster blank at at least one surface of such adjuster.
US11859371B2
A wear part, a bucket, bucket system and a method for attaching the wear part to the bucket are provided. The wear part includes a forward edge for intruding into a material to be handled by the bucket, and an engagement portion for engaging with an engagement edge of the bucket. The engagement portion has a concave cross section. A lever element extends from a side of the engagement portion in a direction backwards from the forward edge, and a fastening unit is arranged in a distal end of the lever element. The bucket has a plate hole arranged behind a bucket threshold in relation to an engagement edge for receiving a fastening element for fastening the wear part to the bucket.
US11859370B2
A work machine, such as a hauler at a mining site, includes a conductor rod housing concentric metal tubes for receiving electrical power from a contactor sliding on a power rail. A head-end interface of the conductor rod proximate the work machine includes multiple tiers to which terminal connectors are affixed. The tiers are at different heights above the base of the head-end interface, providing a distance or spacing between adjacent terminal connectors, thus reducing the need to increase a diameter of head-end interface to accommodate adjacent terminal connectors.
US11859363B2
A robotics-assisted foundation installation system is provided in which data reporting the X, Y, and Z positions of foundation column tops are sent from a total surveying station to a grid control system. The grid control system receives the data and associates specific data with specific columns in an array—the “grid.” The grid control system compares the actual positions of the columns in the grid to target positions that were determined based on the requirements of the structure to be supported. After determining differences between the actual positions and the target positions, the grid control system sends instructions to column positioning tools associated with the individual columns. Actuators in a column positioning tool are directed by the grid control system to adjust the position of the associated column. Once the live streamed data confirms that each column is in the proper position, the columns are fixed in place.
US11859360B2
The present disclosure is directed to providing a toothed conveyor belt type oil recovery device including: a recovery conveyor which is rotates in such a way that a continuous track rotates, the recovery conveyor having multiple teeth made of a hydrophilic material on an outer surface, the recovery conveyor having one side positioned in water in which oil is spilled to recover the oil while feeding the oil into a space between the adjacent teeth by the rotation; and a separation unit which holds an oil separating liquid, and is positioned on the other side of the recovery conveyor to separate the oil from the teeth while the oil separating liquid is fed into the space between the adjacent teeth by capillary suction when the teeth move on to the oil separating liquid on the other side of the recovery conveyor by the rotation of the recovery conveyor.
US11859347B2
A method is disclosed for predicting the microbial status of a paper or board making process and/or quality of the dry board or paper obtained from the process for controlling microbial status of a paper or board making process or quality of the dry board or paper obtained from the process. Surface level and duration of time in at least one storage tower or pulper are monitored and correlated with respective predetermined values for the tower or pulper in order to predict the risk of microbial activity.
US11859344B2
A plate segment includes: a substrate having a front side and a back side, wherein the back side is configured to be mounted to a support disc of a disperser; and rows of teeth protruding from the front side of the substrate. The rows of teeth are arranged along an arc extending from a first lateral side of the plate segment to an opposite lateral side of the plate segment. A first tooth in the rows of teeth has a first tooth face. A buttress extends from the first tooth face to a face of an adjacent tooth. The buttress has a concave profile at a height above the substrate less than a full height of the teeth.
US11859343B2
A resin composition for preventing fibers from unraveling according to the present invention comprises ethyl acrylate; poly acrylic amide; poly urethane; methyl acrylate; formaldehyde; antistatic agent; quaternary ammonium; maleic anhydride, and surfactant.
US11859340B2
A laundry treating apparatus includes a cabinet, a tub, a water supply part, a drum rotatably located in the tub and including a drum floor surface located on an opposite side of a drum opening, a rotator rotatably located on the drum floor surface within the drum, the rotator including a bottom portion located on the drum floor surface, a pillar protruding from the bottom portion toward the drum opening, and a blade provided to an outer circumferential surface of the pillar, and a spray device connected to the water supply part to spray water supplied from the water supply part into the drum through the drum opening by avoiding the pillar and the blade.
US11859338B2
A package for a single unit dose detergent, the package having an outer shell and an inner structure. The outer shell and the inner structure comprise of a biodegradable material. The inner structure has one or more divided sections enabled to contain one or more single unit dose detergents articles. At least one of the one or more divided sections comprises a protuberance extending from a surface facing an inner surface of the outer shell.
US11859331B2
A tub fixing device is disclosed. The tub fixing device includes a bolt configured to be fastened to a tub, a metal washer configured to have a washer region and a hook region protruded from the washer region, and a spacer configured to be disposed between a cabinet to which the tub is fixed and the washer to limit an open space of the hook region.
US11859328B2
Appliances configured to detect leaks and methods of detecting leaks are provided. The appliance includes a grounded chassis. The appliance also includes a first levelling leg electrically coupled to the chassis and a second levelling leg electrically isolated from the chassis. The appliance also includes a controller in operative communication with the second levelling leg and the chassis. The controller is configured for, and related methods include, monitoring electrical continuity between the second levelling leg and the chassis and detecting water on the base surface in response to electrical continuity between the second levelling leg and the chassis.
US11859318B2
Described are, among other things, methods and devices for providing a learning procedure in a yarn feeding arrangement (12). The learning procedure aims at providing control data to the controller (32) about system components and behavior of system components of the yarn feeding arrangement beforehand, such that the controller has knowledge of the system components before the weaving machine (10) is started to operate at full operational speed.
US11859313B2
An 8-inch SiC single crystal substrate of an embodiment has a diameter in a range of 195 mm to 205 mm, a thickness in a range of 300 μm to 650 μm, a SORI of 50 μm or less, and an in-plane variation of the thickness of the substrate, which is the difference between the maximum and minimum substrate thickness at the center of the substrate and four points on the circumference of a circle having a radius half the radius of the substrate, is 1.5 μm or less.
US11859285B2
A processing apparatus includes: a processing container having a substantially cylindrical shape; a gas nozzle extending in a longitudinal direction of the processing container along an inside of a side wall of the processing container; an exhaust body formed on the side wall on an opposite side of the processing container to face the processing gas nozzle; and an adjustment gas nozzle configured to eject a concentration adjustment gas toward a center of the processing container. The adjustment gas nozzle is provided within an angle range in which the exhaust body is formed at a central angle with reference to the center of the processing container in a plan view from the longitudinal direction.
US11859274B2
A deposition mask includes: a first surface and a second surface, in which a plurality of through-holes are formed; a pair of long side surfaces connected to the first and second surfaces, and defining a profile of the deposition mask in a longitudinal direction of the deposition mask; and a pair of short side surfaces connected to the first and second surfaces, and defining a profile of the deposition mask in a width direction of the deposition mask. The long side surface includes a first portion that is recessed inside and includes a first end portion positioned along the first surface, and a second end portion positioned along the second surface and positioned inside the first end portion. The through-hole includes a first recess formed on the first surface, and a second recess formed on the second surface and connected to the first recess through a hole connection portion.
US11859267B2
A nickel-based alloy composition consisting, in weight percent, of: between 4.0% and 6.9% aluminium, between 0.0% and 23.4% cobalt, between 9.1% and 11.9% chromium, between 0.1% and 4.0% molybdenum, between 0.6% and 3.7% niobium, between 0.0 and 1.0% tantalum, between 0.0% and 3.0% titanium, between 0.0% and 10.9% tungsten, between 0.02 wt. % and 0.35 wt. % carbon, between 0.001 and 0.2 wt. % boron, between 0.001 wt. % and 0.5 wt. %. zirconium, between 0.0 and 0.5% silicon, between 0.0 and 0.1% yttrium, between 0.0 and 0.1% lanthanum, between 0.0 and 0.1% cerium, between 0.0 and 0.003% sulphur, between 0.0 and 0.25% manganese, between 0.0 and 0.5% copper, between 0.0 and 0.5% hafnium, between 0.0 and 0.5% vanadium, between 0.0 and 10.0% iron, the balance being nickel and incidental impurities.
US11859266B2
A product includes a material having: nickel and at least one rare earth element. The at least one rare earth element is present in the material in a weight percentage in a range of about 2% to about 20% relative to a total weight of the material. A method includes forming a material comprising an alloy of nickel and at least one rare earth element. The at least one rare earth element is present in the material in a weight percentage in a range of about 2% to about 20% relative to a total weight of the material.
US11859264B2
Provided are: an alloy powder that can be obtained from a waste lithium ion battery, wherein the alloy powder can be dissolved in an acid solution and enables recovery of metals contained in the alloy powder; and a method for producing the alloy powder. This alloy powder contains Cu and at least one of Ni and Co as constituent components, wherein a portion having a higher concentration of the at least one of Ni and Co than the average concentration in the entire alloy powder is distributed on at least the surface, and the phosphorus grade is less than 0.1% by mass. The method for producing the alloy powder includes a powdering step for powdering a molten alloy using a gas atomization method, the molten alloy containing Cu and at least one of Ni and Co as constituent components and having a phosphorus grade of less than 0.1% by mass.
US11859260B2
A steel sheet has a predetermined chemical composition, in which a metallographic structure in a surface layer region ranging from a surface to a position of 20 μm from the surface in a sheet thickness direction consists of ferrite and a secondary phase having a volume fraction of 1.0% to 15.0%, the metallographic structure in an internal region ranging from a position of more than 20 μm from the surface in the sheet thickness direction to a ¼ thickness position from the surface in the sheet thickness direction consists of ferrite and a secondary phase having a volume fraction of 5.0% to 25.0%, the volume fraction of the secondary phase in the surface layer region is less than the volume fraction of the secondary phase in the internal region, and in the surface layer region, the average grain size of the secondary phase is 0.5 μm to 4.0 μm.
US11859258B2
An evaporator system used for the production of maple syrup. The evaporator system comprises at least one receptacle for receiving and processing maple water destined to be transformed, a combustion chamber for burning biomass, and a detector of temperature of the combustion. The evaporator system also comprises an air supply system being operatively mounted with respect to the combustion chamber for feeding the same with air destined to be used in the combustion of the biomass, the air supply system offering at least one type of air supply to the combustion chamber selected from the group consisting of a primary air supply, a secondary air supply and an intermediate air supply, the air supply system including at least one corresponding fan for generating said at least one type of air supply to the combustion chamber, and said at least one fan being configured for transmitting an air flow being automatically variable according to the operating temperature in the combustion chamber, so as to control the release of energy from the combustion of the biomass in the combustion chamber, thus in order to enable a more constant release of energy in the combustion chamber during the production of maple syrup.
US11859256B2
Disclosed is a kit or a device for the detection of stomach cancer and a method for detecting stomach cancer, and provides a kit or a device for the detection of stomach cancer, including a nucleic acid(s) capable of specifically binding to a miRNA(s) in a sample from a subject, and a method for detecting stomach cancer, including measuring the miRNA(s) in vitro.
US11859250B1
The present invention relates to methods for identifying an EoE endotype of a patient and treating the patient with one or more therapies targeted to the patient's disease endotype; and related methods for stratifying patients for clinical trials.
US11859247B2
The invention relates to constructs comprising a transmembrane protein pore subunit and a nucleic acid handling enzyme. The pore subunit is covalently attached to the enzyme such that both the subunit and enzyme retain their activity. The constructs can be used to generate transmembrane protein pores having a nucleic acid handling enzyme attached thereto. Such pores are particularly useful for sequencing nucleic acids. The enzyme handles the nucleic acid in such a way that the pore can detect its component nucleotides by stochastic sensing.
US11859242B2
Described herein are genetic recognition reagents comprising terminal aromatic moieties that bind specifically to a template nucleic acid and concatenate. Also provided are methods of using the genetic recognition reagents, e.g., to treat or diagnose a repeat expansion disorder, such as DMI.
US11859230B2
Provided herein are compositions and method for producing γ-polyglutamic acid (PGA). In particular, provided herein are bacterial co-culture systems and methods for producing PGA.
US11859229B2
The objects of the present invention are to provide a novel PVA-degrading enzyme that the entity of which is revealed at the amino acid sequence level, a process for producing the same, a DNA encoding the enzyme, a recombinant DNA comprising the DNA, and a transformant having the recombinant DNA. The present invention solves the above objects by providing a polyvinyl alcohol-degrading enzyme having the following characteristics (1) to (3), a process for producing the same, a DNA encoding the enzyme, a recombinant DNA comprising the DNA, and a transformant having the recombinant DNA: (1) having an activity of oxidizing polyvinyl alcohol and forming hydrogen peroxide; (2) having an activity of hydrolyzing β-diketone; and (3) exhibiting a molecular weight of 100,000±20,000 in SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis.
US11859226B2
The present invention relates to a newly isolated bacterium belonging to the genus Microbacterium, a composition for producing psicose comprising the strain, and a method for producing psicose using the same.
US11859224B2
The disclosure provides methods of manufacturing products comprising allulose produced by contacting a protein having allulose 3-epimerase activity with a fructose substrate under conditions such that the fructose substrate is converted into allulose. The disclosure also provides methods of manufacturing products comprising allulose produced by providing a vector comprising a nucleic acid molecule having a polynucleotide sequence encoding a protein having allulose 3-epimerase activity.
US11859219B1
Disclosed herein are compositions and methods for effecting alterations at a defined location in the genome of a plant cell or plant protoplast. Further disclosed are methods using an RNA-guided nuclease to alter a target nucleotide sequence in a cell or protoplast of a plant; embodiments of such methods include treatments with chemical or physical reagents or treatment of the cell or protoplast with a specific thermal regime, such as a heat treatment.
US11859216B2
Bacillus agaradhaerens strain WDG185 expresses an inulosucrase that efficiently synthesizes a broad range of IOS with a GF range of GF3-GF30. The isolated and/or purified inulosucrase, recombinantly engineered variants thereof, active fragments thereof, synthetic nucleic acids encoding the inulosucrase, its variants, or its active fragments, host cells comprising the synthetic nucleic acids, and compositions comprising the inulosucrase are provided. Methods of using the compositions include the manufacture of inulooligosaccharides.
US11859212B2
An object of the present invention is to prepare a functional intestinal organoid from pluripotent stem cells. An intestinal organoid is prepared from pluripotent stem cells, by the following steps (1) to (4): (1) differentiating pluripotent stem cells into endoderm-like cells; (2) differentiating the endoderm-like cells obtained in step (1) into intestinal stem cell-like cells; (3) culturing the intestinal stem cell-like cells obtained in step (2) to form spheroids; and (4) differentiating the spheroids formed in step (3) to form an intestinal organoid, the step including culture in the presence of a MEK1/2 inhibitor, a DNA methylation inhibitor, a TGF-β receptor inhibitor, and a γ-secretase inhibitor, in addition to an epidermal growth factor, a BMP inhibitor, and a Wnt signal activator.
US11859208B2
This disclosure relates to compositions and methods of reversing senescence in T cells by interrupting vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) signaling and/or inhibiting phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase (PI3 kinase) inhibitor signaling and uses in managing cancer and chronic viral infections. In certain embodiments, the disclosure contemplates methods of reversing T cell senescence by mixing T cell in vitro with an agent that prevents VIP from interacting with VIP receptors and/or a PI3 Kinase inhibitor. In certain embodiments, the disclosure contemplates the expansion of senescent T cells by mixing with a PI3 kinase inhibitor, an agent that block VIP and VIP receptor signaling, a VIP degrading enzyme, and combinations thereof.
US11859205B2
Culture media, which contain albumin carrying a reduced amount of fatty acid, are useful for culturing stem cells.
US11859202B2
The present invention relates to a fluid flow device. The device includes an elongate body having a proximal end, a distal end, and a length therebetween, at least one source fluid inflow port, at least one waste fluid outflow port, at least one well inlet port positioned at the distal end of the elongate body, at least one well outlet port positioned at the distal end of the elongate body, at least one conduit connecting the at least one source fluid inflow port to the at least one well inlet port, and at least one conduit connecting the at least one waste fluid outflow port to the at least one well outlet port.
US11859186B2
The present invention is directed to antisense oligomeric compounds that may be used in the treatment Pompe disease as well as method for modulating the splicing of the GAA gene and method to treat Pompe disease. Also pharmaceutical compositions comprising the antisense oligomeric compounds are part of the invention.
US11859178B2
Provided herein are methods, compositions, and kits for removing a portion of a sequence in a member of a nucleic acid library.
US11859175B2
The present invention relates to a cell reprogramming method using a physical stimulation-mediated environmental influx, and more specifically, by subjecting differentiated or non-differentiated cells to physical stimulation which can promote an environmental influx, such as ultrasonic waves, laser or heat shock, without the introduction of a reprogramming-inducing factor or a chemical substance to the differentiated cells, the cells can be reprogrammed with just the imposition of an external environmental influx into pluripotent cells or arbitrary differentiated cells having a different expression type from the differentiated or non-differentiated cells, and as such an inducement has a simple and effective production process, the possibility of an autogenic cell therapy can be made greater.
US11859171B2
The present invention provides an approach to increase the effective read length of commercially available sequencing platforms to several kilobases and be broadly applied to obtain long sequence reads from mixed template populations. A method for generating extended sequence reads of long DNA molecules in a sample, comprising the steps of: assigning a specific barcode sequence to each template DNA molecule in a sample to obtain barcode-tagged molecules; amplifying the barcode-tagged molecules to obtain barcode-containing fragments; juxtaposing the barcode-containing fragments to random short segments of the original DNA template molecule during the process of generating a sequencing library to obtain demultiplexed reads; and assembling the demultiplexed reads to obtain extended sequence reads for each DNA template molecule, is disclosed.
US11859170B2
Animal feed or animal feed additives comprising one or more polypeptides having lysozyme activity. Polypeptides having lysozyme activity, polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides.
US11859168B2
The claimed invention is directed towards a novel combination cell electroporation/cell culturing apparatus which can be termed a cell culture dish suitable for in vitro electroporation, and towards a device suitable for in vivo electroporation—both useful in methods suitable for the generation of developmentally-activated, pluripotent, pluripotent-like, multipotent, and/or self-renewing cells which are capable of beginning to differentiate in culture into a variety of cell types and capable of further differentiation in vivo. The claimed invention is also directed towards the generation of desirable, differentiating somatic cell populations transplantable to animals or patients, genetic modification of endogenous and exogenous cells, and the treatment of patients suffering from diseases that may be ameliorated by these methods. This invention also provides methods for preventing, treating, or retarding disease, for example, immunodeficiency virus (e.g. HIV-1, HIV-2, SIV, FIV, etc.) infection.
US11859167B2
An electrochemical measurement device for measuring a chemical substance generated or consumed in a biological sample in a solution includes electrode surfaces, a spacer, and at least one wall plate. The electrode surfaces, the spacer, and the wall plate are arranged on the same flat surface. Each of the electrode surfaces has a diameter del not more than 80 μm. A height of the spacer has a predetermined value within a range given by h=21.8(del+0.8)/(del+9.7)±5 [μm]. The spacer has a structure in which an enclosed three-dimensional region is not formed by the biological sample, the flat surface, and the spacer while the biological sample is in contact with the spacer. The wall plate has a property of being impervious to a dissolved substance in the solution and has a height not less than the height of the spacer. Two of the electrode surfaces are separated by the wall plate.
US11859162B2
Transfer of genetic and other materials to cells is conducted in a hands-free, automated, high throughput, continuous process. A system using a microfluidic hydrodynamic sheath flow configuration includes arrangements for pushing cells from side streams containing a cell culture medium to a central stream containing an electroporation buffer. Electroporation can be conducted in an assembly in which two or more microfluidic channels are provided in a parallel configuration and in which various layers can be stacked together to form a laminate type structure.
US11859161B2
A method of carrying out a bioreaction in a multivessel bioreactor system may include flowing a culture medium at an initial flow rate through one or more fluidic paths between a master vessel and one or more slave vessels, detecting a first culture medium parameter value in the master vessel or the slave vessels, transmitting the first culture medium parameter value to a control system, determining an adjusted flow rate of the culture medium at the control system based on the first culture medium parameter value, and controlling a bidirectional fluid transfer device with the control system to adjust the flow rate of the culture medium through the one or more fluidic paths. The control system may adjust the flow rate of the culture medium to maintain a substantially uniform value of the first culture medium parameter value in the master vessel or the one or more slave vessels.
US11859160B2
A tank includes a cone-shaped wall formed of steel and attached between a first dome-shaped surface formed of steel and a second dome-shaped surface formed of steel. The cone-shaped wall attached between the first dome-shaped surface and the second dome-shaped surface defines an oval-shape void of angled corners on the inside surface of tank such that, when a product contained in the tank is displaced, the product is displaced in a torus shaped vortex between the first dome-shaped surface and the second dome-shaped surface.
US11859155B2
Methods employing detergent compositions effective for reducing hard water scale and accumulation on hard surfaces, namely within food, beverage and pharmaceutical applications are disclosed. The detergent compositions employ phosphinosuccinic acid adducts in combination with an alkalinity source and optionally polymers, surfactants and/or oxidizers, providing alkaline compositions having a pH between about 10 and 13.5.
US11859151B2
Described herein is a method of using as perfuming ingredients, e.g. to impart odor notes of the fruity, fruity-exotic types, cyclopentanone compounds of formula in a form of any one of its stereoisomers or a mixture thereof, and wherein n represents 1 or 2.
US11859149B2
An ionic liquid composed of nitrogen-free cations and aromatic halogen- and boron-free anions is useful as an additive to prolong the service life of hydrocarbonaceous liquids exposed to nitrogen dioxide contamination, and to provide friction and wear reduction.
US11859145B1
An improved alkaline pretreatment of biomass is provided that is a single-stage, two oxidant alkaline oxidative pretreatment process. The process uses a homogenous catalyst with at least two oxidants (Hydrogen peroxide and enhanced levels of oxygen) in an alkaline environment to catalytically pretreat lignocellulosic biomass in a single-stage oxidation reaction. The provided single-stage alkaline-oxidative pretreatment improves biomass pretreatment and increase enzymatic digestibility to improve the economic feasibility of production of lignocellulose derived sugars.
US11859144B2
An operating guide system of a plant utilizing coal gasification includes a performance analyzer for analyzing performance of the plant by analyzing gasifier performance and synthesis gas cooler performance during an operation of the plant; an operation guide generator for generating an operation guide indicating control values for the operation of the plant based on the performance analysis of the plant; an action guide generator for generating an action guide indicating control values for controlling the plant to prevent an abnormal situation predicted in the plant based on the performance analysis of the plant; and a fuel determiner for determining gasification suitability of an analysis target fuel selected by a user before the plant is started, the gasification suitability including basic suitability and suitability of slag behavior.
US11859143B2
Disclosed is a hydrocarbon composition containing isomerised paraffins having specific cut-off points in a distillation curve, a density from 768.0 to 772.0 and an average carbon number of 14.3 to 15.1. The hydrocarbon composition can be used as a fuel or fuel component, especially a jet fuel. Disclosed is also a method to produce a hydrocarbon composition. The isomerised paraffins in the hydrocarbon composition can be from a renewable source.
US11859140B2
An integrated hydrotreating and hydrocracking process includes contacting a hydrocarbon oil stream with a hydrogen stream and a hydrotreating catalyst in a moving-bed hydrotreating reactor, thereby producing a hydrocarbon product stream and a spent hydrotreating catalyst; contacting the hydrocarbon product stream with a second hydrogen stream and a hydrocracking catalyst in a hydrocracking reactor, thereby producing a hydrocracked hydrocarbon product stream; processing the spent hydrotreating catalyst to produce regenerated hydrotreating catalyst; and recycling the regenerated hydrotreating catalyst to the moving-bed hydrotreating reactor.
US11859137B2
An integrated system for the conversion of biomass to renewable natural gas and then to methanol and other value-added products is provided. The integrated system includes a compressor that receives biomass gases from a biomass source and a series of purification stations that produce purified gas from the biomass gases. Characteristically, the purified gas has an enhanced amount of methane. A gas-to-liquids plant converts the purified gas to a product blend that includes methanol.
US11859133B2
Systems and methods are provided for using size-reversing materials in vessels where direct heating is used to at least partially provide heat for reforming reactions under cyclic reforming conditions. An example of a size-reversing material is the combination of NiO and Al2O3. It has been discovered that size-reversing materials can undergo a phase transition that can assist with re-dispersion of metal at elevated temperatures. This can assist with maintaining catalytic activity for reforming over longer time periods in the presence of cyclic reforming conditions.
US11859130B2
This disclosure relates generally to solution processed low temperature metal oxide, metal bronze or polyoxometalate materials as charge storage material used in electrochromic devices, charge storage material and electrochromic devices comprising the materials and methods of making and using the same.
US11859124B2
A method of well treatment may include: providing a polymer; correlating performance of the polymer to a least one physical property of the polymer; and preparing a treatment fluid comprising the polymer.
US11859122B2
A method including entraining carbon dioxide (CO2) in a cement slurry composition and subjecting the cement slurry composition to conditions under which the CO2 achieves and maintains a supercritical state; and allowing the cement slurry composition to harden to form a hardened cement having CO2 sequestered therein.
US11859117B2
The present application discloses a preparation method for quantum dots (QDs). The method includes providing initial QD cores, and mixing the initial QD cores with an organic carboxylic acid to bond the organic carboxylic acid to the surface of the initial QD cores; preparing a shell layer on the surface of the initial QD cores in a shell-growth reaction system containing an organic carboxylic acid; and mixing and heating the solution system, obtained after a completion of shell-layer growth reaction, with an organic amine, an organic phosphine, or a mixed solution of the organic amine and the organic phosphine.
US11859115B2
A method for activating and/or deactivating the phosphorescence of a structure is disclosed. The structure may include a first and a second material, wherein a phosphor is admixed with the first material and oxygen is present in the region of the phosphor. The second material may be oxygen-impermeable at an ambient temperature and, in the oxygen-impermeable state, act as an oxygen barrier between the first material and a surrounding environment. To activate the phosphorescence, in a first activation step, oxygen present in the structure is photochemically deactivated by irradiating the structure with light of a first characteristic, and, in a second activation step, the phosphorescence is activated by irradiating the structure with light of a second characteristic. To deactivate the phosphorescence, oxygen is introduced into the structure by heating the structure and/or by irradiating the structure with light of a third characteristic.
US11859105B2
A method for forming a self-cleaning coating, comprises providing a first dispersion comprising plasmonic nanoparticles by suspending plasmonic nanoparticles in an organic medium and providing a second dispersion comprising a precursor of a photocatalytic matrix in an organic medium. The method further comprises forming a mixture of the first and second dispersion and coating the mixture on a surface. The method also comprises calcining the coated mixture.
US11859100B2
The present invention relates to new coating compositions for the preparation of functional surface coatings on various base material substrates. The coating compositions are based on a silazane-containing polymer and a non-polymeric phenolic compound comprising at least two and not more than four aromatic units in its molecular structure. The coating compositions provide improved physical and chemical surface properties and may be applied by user-friendly coating methods.
US11859097B2
A paint composition has incombustibility, flame resistance, heat shielding, heat insulation, water resistance and dew condensation prevention effects, thereby being effectively usable as a finishing, heat insulating, water resistant and incombustible material for buildings, and has a significantly thick film thickness even if applied only once, thereby being rapidly and conveniently usable when applied.
US11859090B2
Inorganic coatings that may be used to coat and protect galvanized steel are disclosed. The protective inorganic coatings include a liquid composition portion comprising water, alkali metal oxide components and a silicate-containing component. The coatings also include a powder composition portion comprising microspheres, metal oxide powder and optional microfibers. When applied to galvanized steel, the coatings provide chemical and physical protection.
US11859083B2
A low-dielectric rubber resin material and a low-dielectric metal substrate are provided. The rubber resin material includes a low-dielectric rubber resin composition and inorganic fillers. The low-dielectric rubber resin composition includes: 5 wt % to 40 wt % of a liquid rubber, 20 wt % to 70 wt % of a polyphenylene ether resin, 5 wt % to 30 wt % of a bismaleimide resin, and 20 wt % to 45 wt % of a crosslinker. A molecular weight of the liquid rubber ranges from 800 g/mol to 6000 g/mol. An iodine value of the liquid rubber ranges from 30 g/100 g to 60 g/100 g.
US11859071B2
The present invention relates to the field of manufacture of polymer materials, and more particularly to an ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) composition and a cut resistant and creep resistant fiber prepared therefrom. The ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene composition comprises the following components: modified graphene, modified silicon carbide whisker, and ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene. The ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene composition provided by the present invention has superior cut resistance, high strength and high modulus. By regulating the morphology of silicon carbide, the type of a coupling agent, the mixing ratio and so on, not only cut resistance, high strength and high modulus can be provided, but also creep resistance can be improved. Meanwhile, adding the coupling agent into the formulation makes silicon carbide being wrapped, so that direct contact with human body can be avoided, thus ensuring safety without toxic side effects while improving product performance.
US11859057B2
Provided herein is a method of recycling reactive prepolymers from additively manufactured articles or recovered coating material that comprises a crosslinked polymer formed from a single-cure resin comprising a reactive blocked prepolymer and a crosslinker, by forming and recovering a regenerated reactive prepolymer. Light-polymerizable resins, methods of making recyclable objects from such resins, and methods for sustainable manufacturing are also provided.
US11859055B2
The purpose of the present invention is to provide a polysiloxane monomer which gives an ophthalmic device with excellent wettability and a method for preparing the same. The present invention provides a compound represented by the following formula (1): wherein R1 is a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, L1 is a single bond or a divalent hydrocarbon group which has 1 to 6 carbon atoms and may have at least one selected from an ether bond, an ester bond, and a urethane bond, Z is a monovalent organic group which has 1 to 10 carbon atoms and has a quaternary ammonium group or an amphoteric ion group, A is a linear or branched organo(poly)siloxanyl group having 1 to 100 siloxane units, L2 is a linear, branched or cyclic, divalent or trivalent hydrocarbon group which has 2 to 10 carbon atoms and may have an ether bond, and L3 is a divalent or trivalent hydrocarbon group having one carbon atom, provided that and when L3 is trivalent, then L2 is also trivalent, and L3 and L2 together form a ring.
US11859054B2
A method of preparing an alkoxy-functional organosilicon compound is provided. The method comprises reacting (A) an initial organosilicon compound and (B) an alcohol component in the presence of (C) a catalyst, thereby preparing the alkoxy-functional organosilicon compound. The initial organosilicon compound (A) comprises at least one alkoxysilyl group. The alcohol component (B) comprises an organic alcohol. The catalyst (C) comprises (C1) an ammonium carboxylate compound or (C2) a titanate compound. A reaction product comprising an alkoxy-functional organosilicon compound prepared in accordance with the method, and a composition comprising the reaction product, are also provided. The alkoxy-functional organosilicon compound, and the reaction product and composition comprising the same, are prepared in increased purity under functional group-tolerant conditions.
US11859048B2
In an embodiment, a reactor for carrying out a melt transesterification reaction at a reactor temperature of 160 to 300° C. and a reactor pressure of 5 to 200 mbar, comprises a cylindrical tank comprising a top, a side, and a bottom, wherein the bottom is convex, extending away from the top; a stirring shaft disposed within the cylindrical tank along an axis thereof so that it is rotatable from outside of the cylindrical tank; an impeller extending from the stirring shaft in the cylindrical tank and comprising a plurality of blades; a reactant solution inlet; a reaction solution outlet; and an externally located heat exchanger in fluid communication with the cylindrical tank via a recirculation stream and a heated stream. The reactor can be used for the polymerization of a polycarbonate oligomer.
US11859040B2
The present invention relates to a catalyst for olefin polymerization. Specifically, the present invention relates to a hybrid catalyst comprising different transition metal compounds and capable of preparing a polyolefin, particularly a linear low-density polyethylene, which has excellent processability, impact strength, and haze.
US11859039B2
Branched block copolymers, derived from alkenyl aromatic hydrocarbon-1,3-diene monomer system, and branched polyisoprene homopolymers, derived from isoprene, are obtained by polymerization in the presence of an anionic initiator; at a temperature from 0° C. to 100° C.; followed by coupling with a multifunctional coupling agent of formula (R1O)3Si—Y—Si(OR2)3, wherein R1 and R2 are independently C1-C6 alkyl groups; and Y is a C2-C8 alkylene group. The polymers thus obtained can be used in many applications, including rubber cements having high solids content and low zero shear viscosities, and for producing aqueous latices therefrom.
US11859032B2
A process to produce a branched ethylene-α-olefin diene elastomer comprising combining a catalyst precursor and an activator with a feed comprising ethylene, C3 to C12 α-olefins, and a dual-polymerizable diene to obtain a branched ethylene-α-olefin diene elastomer; where the catalyst precursor is selected from pyridyldiamide and quinolinyldiamido transition metal complexes. The branched ethylene-α-olefin diene elastomer may comprise within a range from 40 to 80 wt % of ethylene-derived units by weight of the branched ethylene-α-olefin diene elastomer, and 0.1 to 2 wt % of singly-polymerizable diene derived units, 0.1 to 2 wt % of singly-polymerizable diene derived units, and the remainder comprising C3 to C12 α-olefin derived units, wherein the branched ethylene-α-olefin diene elastomer has a weight average molecular weight (Mw) within a range from 100 kg/mole to 300 kg/mole, an average branching index (g′avg) of 0.9 or more, and a branching index at very high Mw (g′1000) of less than 0.9.
US11859030B2
The present invention relates to a process for producing a heterophasic propylene copolymer (RAHECO) having a xylene cold soluble fraction (XCS) determined according to ISO 16152 (25° C.) of more than 30 wt.-%, a heterophasic propylene copolymer (RAHECO) produced by the process as well as an article, preferably a film, a flexible tube or cable insulation, comprising the heterophasic propylene copolymer (RAHECO).
US11859029B2
The invention provides a method for preparation of homopolymers and non-homopolymers comprising polymerizing in an aqueous medium a monomer comprising at least one acryloyl moiety and at least one functionalized or unfunctionalized lactam moiety, and optionally at least one hydrophilic or hydrophobic comonomer, in the presence of at least one chain transfer agent and at least one non-radiation initiator. Exemplary diblock polymers prepared by the method have the structure: where subscripts x, y, and z and variables R, R8, R9 and R10 are described herein.
US11859028B2
Object: To provide a method for manufacturing a polymer, which is a method for forming a polymer having a homogeneous copolymer composition and a narrow molecular weight distribution. Resolution Means: A method for manufacturing a polymer using a microreactor including a flow path capable of mixing a plurality of liquids to perform radical polymerization of a monomer component containing two or more types of monomers in the presence of a polymerization initiator; wherein the microreactor includes a first inlet port configured to feed the monomer component and an additional inlet port located downstream of the first inlet port; and the method includes feeding the monomer component through the first inlet port and the additional inlet port.
US11859023B2
Disclosed herein is method for conjugating a metal chelating agent to a functionalized dextran by reacting a chelator with an aminated dextran backbone, where the chelator comprises a one, and only one, derivatized carboxylic acid group to form a chelator-dextran complex. In certain aspects, the dextran-chelator complex is substantially free of intra- or intermolecular crosslinking. In certain aspects, the functionalized dextran is an amine dextran, an alkynyl dextran, or a thiol dextran. In exemplary implementations, the functionalized dextran is an amine dextran. In further embodiments, one and only one carboxylic acid group on the chelating agent is derivatized as a N-hydroxysuccinimide (NHS) ester.
US11859011B2
The present invention is directed to novel heterodimeric antibodies.
US11859003B2
Provided are antibodies that bind to human CD137 or antigen binding fragments thereof, nucleic acid encoding the same, therapeutic compositions thereof, and their use to enhance T-cell function to upregulate cell-mediated immune responses and for the treatment of T cell dysfunctional disorders, such as tumor immunity, and for the treatment of cancer.
US11858999B2
The present invention relates to IL-17 Receptor A (IL-17RA or IL-17R) antigen binding proteins, such as antibodies, polynucleotide sequences encoding said antigen binding proteins, and compositions and methods for diagnosing and treating diseases mediated by IL-17 Receptor A activation by one or more IL-17 ligands. The present invention relates to the identification of neutralizing determinants on IL-17 Receptor A (IL-17RA or IL-17R) and antibodies that bind thereto. Aspects of the invention also include antibodies that compete for binding with the IL-17RA neutralizing antibodies described herein.
US11858992B2
The invention relates to antibodies that are capable of specifically binding TREM-1 and preventing the activation of TREM-1, a protein expressed on monocytes, macrophages and neutrophils. Such antibodies find utility in the treatment of individuals with an inflammatory disease, such as rheumatoid arthritis and inflammatory bowel disease.
US11858988B2
The present invention provides antibodies useful as therapeutics for treating and/or preventing diseases associated with cells expressing Claudin-6 (CLDN6), including tumor-related diseases such as ovarian cancer, lung cancer, gastric cancer, breast cancer, hepatic cancer, pancreatic cancer, skin cancer, malignant melanoma, head and neck cancer, sarcoma, bile duct cancer, cancer of the urinary bladder, kidney cancer, colon cancer, placental choriocarcinoma, cervical cancer, testicular cancer, and uterine cancer.
US11858984B2
Provided is a substance capable of effectively suppressing cancer metastasis or a pharmaceutical composition that effectively acts on an inflammatory disease. The pharmaceutical composition is a pharmaceutical composition containing, as an active ingredient, an antibody or an antibody fragment thereof having antigen-binding activity for an S100A8/A9 heterodimer, and blocks interaction between S100A8/A9 and a group of receptors therefor, to thereby strongly suppress cancer metastasis both in vitro and in vivo, or alleviate inflammation. That is, the anti-S100A8/A9 antibody or the antibody fragment thereof can strongly suppress cancer metastasis or alleviate inflammation, by virtue of its blocking action on the interaction between S100A8/A9 and the group of receptors therefor.
US11858978B2
The present invention relates to peptides, proteins, nucleic acids and cells for use in immunotherapeutic methods. In particular, the present invention relates to the immunotherapy of cancer. The present invention furthermore relates to tumor-associated T-cell peptide epitopes, alone or in combination with other tumor-associated peptides that can for example serve as active pharmaceutical ingredients of vaccine compositions that stimulate anti-tumor immune responses, or to stimulate T cells ex vivo and transfer into patients. Peptides bound to molecules of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), or peptides as such, can also be targets of antibodies, soluble T-cell receptors, and other binding molecules.
US11858976B2
Nucleic acid constructs encoding chimeric NK receptor, cells containing, and therapeutic use thereof
The present invention relates to chimeric immune receptor molecules for reducing or eliminating tumors. The chimeric receptors are composed a C-type lectin-like natural killer cell receptor, or a protein associated therewith, fused to an immune signaling receptor containing an immunoreceptor tyrosine-based activation motif. Methods for using the chimeric receptors are further provided.
US11858966B2
Provided herein are mutant single-chain Mycobacterium smegmatis porin (Msp) and uses thereof.
US11858964B2
Disclosed are virus-inspired compositions and preparation methods thereof, where the compositions comprise mutant papillomavirus L1 proteins that spontaneously form capsid backbones and that are conjugated to a peptide comprising an epitope to form immune redirector capsids (IRCs). The epitopes on the peptides are designed to be recognized by a subject's immune system based on the subject's preexisting immune memory developed from the subject's past exposure to the epitope through infection or vaccination. The mutant papillomavirus L1 proteins possess three mutations including an amino-terminal truncation, a carboxy-terminal truncation, and a truncation at helix four. These mutations in the L1 protein yield capsomeres that are form non-canonical T=1 geometry capsid backbones. Disclosed are uses and methods of using the compositions in treating and/or preventing cancers in subjects in need thereof.
US11858961B2
Ammonium cation detergents comprising a quaternary or tertiary ammonium cation can be used as detergents to denature proteins and are particularly useful in denaturing glycoproteins or glycopeptides prior to enzymatic deglycosylation. Ammonium cation detergents with sulfate or sulfonate anions are particularly useful.
US11858959B2
The present invention provides a compound of formula (I) or a salt thereof: (Formula (I)) wherein X, L, V, R1; R2, R3 and R4, are as defined herein. The claimed compounds inhibit the enzyme 11-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 2 (11-HSD2) and as a result are useful in the treatment of hyperkalemia by preventing cortisol from being oxidised to cortisone and thus allowing it to occupy the mineralocorticoid receptor, thus stimulating potassium excretion.
US11858954B2
The present invention relates to new solid forms of the compound (2S,3S,4S,5R,6S)-3,4,5-trihydroxy-6-(((4aR,10aR)-7-hydroxy-1-propyl-1,2,3,4,4a,5,10,10a-octahydrobenzo[g]quinolin-6-yl)oxy)tetrahydro-2H-pyran-2-carboxylic acid with the formula (Id) below. The compound of formula (Id) is a prodrug of a catecholamine for use in treatment of neurodegenerative diseases and disorders such as Parkinson's Disease.
US11858953B2
The invention provides compositions and methods for synthesis of phosphorylated organic compounds, including nucleoside triphosphates.
US11858951B2
α-Amino boronic acid derivatives are useful for inhibiting the activity of immunoproteasome (LMP7) and for the treatment and/or prevention of medical conditions affected by immunoproteasome activity such as inflammatory and autoimmune diseases, neurodegenerative diseases, proliferative diseases, and cancer.
US11858949B2
Provided are an organometallic compound represented by Formula 1, an organic light-emitting device including the organometallic compound, and a diagnostic composition including the organometallic compound. M1(L11)n11(L12)n12
US11858947B2
Provided is a heterocyclic compound of Chemical Formula 1: wherein: L is a substituted or unsubstituted tricyclic or higher divalent heterocyclic group including two or more heteroatoms selected from among N, O and S; Ar is a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group, or a substituted or unsubstituted heteroaryl group; and R1 to R14 are the same as or different from each other, and each independently is hydrogen, a nitrile group, a halogen group, a substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group, a substituted or unsubstituted aryl group, or a substituted or unsubstituted heteroaryl group, or bond to adjacent groups to form at least one substituted or unsubstituted aromatic ring; and an organic light emitting device including the same.
US11858946B2
Disclosed are novel compounds that accumulate in Gram-negative bacteria. Also disclosed are method of antimicrobial treatment using the compounds.
US11858942B2
The present invention provides triazolotriazine derivatives of formula (1) as A2A receptor antagonists. Compounds of formula (1) and pharmaceutical compositions including the compounds can be used for the treatment of disorders related to A2A receptor hyperfunctioning, such as certain types cancers. Compounds of formula (1) and methods of preparing the compounds are disclosed in the invention.
US11858936B2
This invention is directed to synthetic co-crystals of anhydrous guanine and at least one additional material, wherein the co-crystals have a high refraction index and therefore, provide products with pearlescence or whiteness with high coverage. The invention is further directed to a process for the preparation of anhydrous guanine and of the co-crystals.
US11858935B1
Novel pyrrolo[2,3-c][1,7]naphthyridine-2-carboxylic acid compounds, a method of synthesizing said compounds, a pharmaceutical composition comprising said compounds and a suitable carrier, and a method of using the compounds. The pyrrolo[2,3-c][1,7]naphthyridine-2-carboxylic acid compounds, identified as CK2 inhibitors, are useful as anticancer and/or antitumor agents, and as agents for treating other kinase-associated conditions including inflammation, pain, and certain immunological disorders, and other types of diseases such as diabetes, viral infection, neurodegenerative diseases.
US11858933B2
The invention provides a novel class of therapeutics that are safe and effective inhibitors of Janus kinase 1 and pharmaceutical composition and methods of preparation and use thereof in the treatment of various diseases and disorders (e.g., inflammatory diseases, immune-mediated diseases or cancer).
US11858929B2
Provided are compounds, compositions and methods for inhibiting fascin activity or treating a condition or disorder mediated by fascin activity in a subject in need thereof.
US11858924B2
Compounds having the structure of Formula (I): and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein X1, R1, R2, R3, R4, R5 and R6 are as defined in the specification; pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds and salts; use of such compounds and salts to treat or prevent Prolyl endopeptidase fibroblast activation protein (FAP)-mediated conditions; kits comprising such compounds and salts; and methods for manufacturing such compounds and salts.
US11858920B2
Provided is a composition for optical materials that gives optical materials which can have at least one improved property selected from among satisfactory mold releasability after polymerization and curing, unsusceptibility to separation from the mold during polymerization and curing, transparency, and low-level striae. The present invention further provides a compound represented by formula (1). The composition for optical materials comprises the compound represented by formula (1) and a compound represented by formula (2). (In formula (1), X1 and X2 represent O or S, provided that both X1 and X2 are O or that X1 is O and X2 is S.)
US11858918B2
The present disclosure provides GLP-1R agonists, and compositions, methods, and kits thereof. Such compounds are generally useful for treating a GLP-1R mediated disease or condition in a human.
US11858916B2
Provided herein are 6-carboxylic acids of benzimidazoles and 4-aza-, 5-aza-, and 7-aza-benzimidazoles as GLP-1R agonists, processes to make said compounds, and methods comprising administering said compounds to a mammal in need thereof.
US11858909B2
Disclosed herein are compounds, such as compounds of Formulae (I), (II), and (III), and d3-etoricoxib, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, hydrates, solvates, polymorphs, co-crystals, metabolites, and prodrugs thereof, and compositions, methods, uses, and kits thereof. The compounds disclosed herein are COX inhibitors and are therefore useful for the treatment and/or prevention of various conditions (e.g., inflammation, pain, or fever).
US11858901B2
A new intermediate is useful in the synthesis of elagolix. A process for obtaining the intermediate includes reacting a precursor with iodine monochloride in the presence of an organic solvent. A process for preparing elagolix makes use of the intermediate. The intermediate can be 3-((R)-2-(amino-2-phenylethyl)-1-(2-fluoro-6-trifluoromethylbenzyl)-5-iodo-6-methyl-1H-pyrimidine-2,4-dione or a salt thereof, such as a hydrochloride.
US11858899B2
A cocrystal complex of pirfenidone with a polyphenolic macrocycle host is disclosed. The composition is useful, in some embodiments, as an acne treatment. In one embodiment, the macrocycle is calixarene or a calixarene derivative. In another embodiment, the macrocycle is resorcin[4]arene. In one embodiment, the macrocycle is C-methylresorcin[4]arene (RsC1). In another embodiment, the macrocycle is C-butylresorcin[4]arene (RsC4).
US11858896B2
The disclosure relates to N-methyl-N-allyl-tryptamine (MALT) hydrofumarate, crystalline MALT hydrofumarate, N—N-dibutyl-tryptamine (DBT) iodide, crystalline DBT iodide, crystalline N-ethyl-N-propyl-tryptamine (EPT) hydrofumarate, and crystalline N—N-diisopropyl-tryptamine (DiPT) hydrofumarate, compositions containing them, and the methods of treatment using them.
US11858887B2
The present disclosure provides a bifunctional linker for coupling at least one functional moiety, preferably a bis-allyl propionic acid (BAPA), to a polymer-containing matrix. Also disclosed by the present disclosure are anhydrides of the bifunctional linker, processes for preparing the bifunctional linker and such anhydride, as well as surfaces, such as cellulose containing matrices, coupled with the bifunctional linker, at times, the latter carrying a functional agent.
US11858886B2
Disclosed is a process for converting methane into value-added compounds. In this process, a gas mixture containing hydrogen as well as high-concentration acetylene formed through methane pyrolysis (e.g. non-oxidative coupling of methane) is selectively hydrogenated in the presence of a bimetallic supported catalyst. This process obtains ethylene from acetylene in the gas mixture while unreacted methane and hydrogen are recovered as byproducts and/or additionally recycled.
US11858871B2
A renewable methane production module generally includes a water capture generator designed for directly capturing water from atmosphere to provide water in a liquid form, an electrolyser operatively coupled to the water capture generator for electrolysis of the liquid water to produce hydrogen and a reactor operatively coupled to the electrolyser for reacting the hydrogen with carbon dioxide at to produce renewable methane. Associated methods permit methane to be produced using the renewable methane production module.
US11858868B2
Disclosed are an anti-corrosion and anti-coking ceramic coating with easy state identification for a coal-fired boiler and a preparation method thereof. The ceramic coating is formed by compounding a bottom coating layer and a surface coating layer, wherein the bottom coating layer is prepared from raw materials comprising sodium silicate, lanthanum oxide, niobium pentoxide, aluminum oxide, bismuth oxide, boron oxide, zinc oxide, silicon oxide, titanium dioxide, nano whisker, titanium nitride, and graphite fluoride, and the surface coating layer is prepared from raw materials comprising sodium silicate, lanthanum oxide, niobium pentoxide, chromium oxide, aluminum oxide, bismuth oxide, boron oxide, zinc oxide, silicon oxide, graphite fluoride, titanium nitride, silicon carbide, nano whisker, and cobalt green. An operating state of the ceramic coating is rapidly identified by a color difference between the bottom coating layer and the surface coating layer, which is beneficial to efficient maintenance of the ceramic coating during inspection.
US11858866B2
A fire-resistant two-component mortar system contains a curable aqueous-phase aluminous cement component A and an initiator component B in aqueous-phase for initiating the curing process. Component A further contains at least one blocking agent selected from phosphoric acid, metaphosphoric acid, phosphorous acid and phosphonic acids, at least one plasticizer, and water. Component B contains an initiator, at least one retarder, at least one mineral filler, and water. A fire-resistant two-component system, which is ready-for-use, can be used for a fire-resistant chemical fastening of anchors and post-installed reinforcing bars in mineral surfaces, such as structures made of brickwork, concrete, pervious concrete or natural stone.
US11858859B2
A method for treating a carbon or ceramic yarn includes forming a coating on the yarn in a reaction zone of a reactor by heating a segment of the yarn in the presence of a gas phase in a microwave field, wherein the gas phase includes a mixture of a diluent gas and a coating precursor in the vapor state, and wherein the gas phase is formed at least by introducing the diluent gas into the reactor and mixing the introduced diluent gas with the coating precursor in the reactor before the reaction zone.
US11858856B2
Provided is polycrystalline diamond having a diamond single phase as basic composition, in which the polycrystalline diamond includes a plurality of crystal grains and contains boron, hydrogen, oxygen, and the remainder including carbon and trace impurities; the boron is dispersed in the crystal grains at an atomic level, and greater than or equal to 90 atomic % of the boron is present in an isolated substitutional type; hydrogen and oxygen are present in an isolated substitutional type or an interstitial type in the crystal grains; each of the crystal grains has a grain size of less than or equal to 500 nm; and the polycrystalline diamond has a surface covered with a protective film.
US11858851B2
A complex according to the present disclosure contains a β-eucryptite crystal phase and a lithium tantalate crystal phase. In a temperature range of 0 to 50° C., a coefficient of thermal expansion calculated for each 1° C. is within 0±1 ppm/K. Calcium is contained in the lithium tantalate crystal phase. The volume ratio of the β-eucryptite crystal phase to the lithium tantalate crystal phase is from 90:10 to 99.5:0.5.
US11858847B2
The invention comprises a composition comprising hyaloclastite having a volume-based mean particle size of less than or equal to 40 μm. The invention also comprises a cementitious material comprising a hydraulic cement and hyaloclastite, wherein the hyaloclastite has a volume-based mean particle size of less than or equal to approximately 40 μm. The invention further comprises a cementitious-based material comprising aggregate, a cementitious material comprising a hydraulic cement and hyaloclastite, wherein the hyaloclastite has a volume-based mean particle size of less than or equal to approximately 40 μm and water sufficient to hydrate the cementitious material. A method of using the composition of the present invention is also disclosed.
US11858846B2
The present invention discloses a glass with high refractive index for fiber optic imaging elements with medium-expansion and fabrication method therefor, the glass comprising the following components in percentage by weight: SiO2 5-9%, Al2O3 0-1%, B2O3 23-28%, CaO 0-3%, BaO 6-12%, La2O3 30-34%, Nb2O5 4-8%, Ta2O5 0-1%, Y2O3 0-1%, ZnO 4-9%, TiO2 4-8%, ZrO2 4-6%, SnO2 0-1%. The present invention further provides a fabrication method for the glass with a high refractive index, comprising: putting raw materials quartz sand, aluminum hydroxide, boric acid or boric anhydride, calcium carbonate, barium carbonate or barium nitrate, lanthanum oxide, niobium oxide, tantalum oxide, yttrium oxide, zinc oxide, titanium dioxide, zirconium oxide and stannic oxide, etc. into a platinum crucible according to the requirement of dosing, melting at a high temperature, cooling and fining, leaking and casting to form a glass rod, and then annealing, cooling and chilling the molded glass rod.
US11858842B2
Fiber bending mechanisms vary beam characteristics by deflecting or bending one or more fibers, by urging portions of one or more fibers toward a fiber shaping surface having a selectable curvature, or by selecting a fiber length that is to be urged toward the fiber shaping surface. In some examples, a fiber is secured to a flexible plate to conform to a variable curvature of the flexible plate. In other examples, a variable length of a fiber is pulled or pushed toward a fiber shaping surface, and the length of the fiber or a curvature of the flexible plate provide modification of fiber beam characteristics.
US11858840B1
The present invention relates to the treatment of a wastewater stream that is generated from animal processing such as the processing of chicken, beef or pork. More particularly, the present invention relates to the separation of usable protein from an animal processing wastewater stream using a density modifier and a modification of the protein phase density to enhance lipid fat phase separation from protein solids.
US11858835B2
This disclosure relates to systems and methods for controlling treatment of water with ozone. The systems and methods can utilize one or more processing modules and one or more non-transitory storage modules that are configured to store computing instructions. Execution of the instructions can cause the one or more processing modules to perform acts of: generating ozone; and applying the ozone to water. The act of generating the ozone can include: controlling a quantity of the ozone generated; and controlling when the ozone is generated.
US11858834B2
Plant growth and energy storage is supported by complicated bio-electro-chemical processes causing the intake of water and nutrients from the ground. These processes are affected by adaptations such as root structure and genetic characteristics that facilitate a plant species' survival in its native regions. Disclosed are methods for altering the water and nutrient intake through electrical alignment of molecules with dipole characteristics and ionized molecules, and apparatus for performing the disclosed methods. Through the disclosed invention, the capacity of water molecules to interact at an electro-chemical level with soil elements can be increased or reduced to guide absorption-transport activity, facilitating optimal plant growth for agricultural and other purposes.
US11858830B2
A disinfection system for treating water. In a specific example, the system treats water prior to its upload to an aircraft or other passenger transportation vehicle. One or more replaceable filters are positioned within a filter chamber housing in order to expose water flowing through the system to filtration treatment.
US11858822B2
The invention relates to the field of efficient separation and recovery of bromine by full wet method, especially to a two-step separating method of bromide and recovery of lead and zinc from printed circuit board Incineration ash. It mainly includes first sodium hydroxide alkaline leaching, secondary sodium peroxide alkaline leaching, pH adjustment, separate lead and zinc, bromide evaporation and crystallization to recover crude bromide and other steps. Compared with traditional comprehensive recovery process of ash, the invention uses sodium hydroxide to dissolve bromide, lead and zinc, and uses the strong oxidation of sodium peroxide in alkaline environment, copper bromide and other bromine are oxidized and leached; through two-step method, the efficient leaching of bromine, lead and zinc is realized, silver and other precious metals are enriched at the same time. It is beneficial to subsequent recovery of precious metals and has the characteristics of short tail liquid discharge.
US11858819B2
A method of producing a syngas composition includes hydrolyzing a metal halide salt to form a hydrohalic acid and a hydroxide salt of the metal in the metal halide salt. The metal includes an alkaline earth metal or an alkali metal. The method includes reacting the hydrohalic acid with a metal carbonate salt, wherein the metal carbonate salt is a carbonate salt of the alkaline earth metal or alkali metal, to form CO2 and the metal halide salt. At least some of the metal halide salt formed from the reacting of the hydrohalic acid with the metal carbonate salt is recycled as at least some of the metal halide salt in the hydrolyzing of the metal halide salt to form the hydrohalic acid and the hydroxide salt. The method also includes electrolytically converting the CO2 and the water into the syngas composition including carbon monoxide and hydrogen.
US11858816B2
Disclosed herein are dendritically porous three-dimensional structures, including hierarchical dendritically porous three-dimensional structures. The structures include metal foams and graphite structures, and are useful in energy storage devices as well as chemical catalysis.
US11858815B2
Provided is a composition that may include an alkylamine modified graphene having a formula R[—CH2-alkylamine)]x, where R is a graphene core, [—CH2-alkylamine)] is an alkylamine functional group, and x is a non-zero integer. The alkylamine functional group may include [—CH2-n-propylamine)], [—CH2-n-hexylamine)], or [—CH2-n-dodecylamine)]. Trace amounts of an oxygen and nitrogen functional group may be coupled to the graphene core. Further provided is a method that may include introducing alkylamine modified graphene into a hydrocarbon-contaminated water. The method may further include separating a hydrocarbon-absorbed alkylamine modified graphene from the recovered water. Further provided is a system that may include a holding tank, a pump, a membrane housing, and a collection tank. The membrane housing may include membranes and a filtration media.
US11858813B2
Systems and method for producing graphene on a substrate are described. Certain types of exemplar systems include lateral arrangements of a substrate gas scavenging environment and an annealing environment. Certain other types of exemplar systems include lateral arrangements of a graphene producing environment and a cooling environment, which cools the graphene produced on the substrate. Yet other types of exemplar systems include lateral arrangements of a localized annealing environment, localized graphene producing environment and a localized cooling environment inside the same enclosure. Certain type of exemplar methods for producing graphene on a substrate include scavenging a first portion of the substrate and preferably, contemporaneously annealing a second portion of the substrate. Certain other type of exemplar methods for producing graphene include novel annealing techniques and/or implementing temperature profiles and gas flow rate profiles that vary as a function of lateral distance and/or cooling graphene after producing it.
US11858811B2
A phosphorus production method can include reducing feed containing phosphate ore and providing a silica ratio from 0.3 to 0.7 in a reaction chamber from 1250 to 1380° C. Less than 20% of the phosphate remains in the residue. Another phosphorus production method includes continuously moving a reducing bed through the reaction chamber with the feed agglomerates substantially stable while in the reducing bed. Reaction chamber temperature can be from 1250 to 1380° C. A phosphorus production system includes a barrier wall segmenting the reaction chamber into a reduction zone differentiated from a preheat zone. The bed floor is configured to move continuously from the preheat zone to the reduction zone during operation. A method for producing a reduction product includes exothermically oxidizing reduction/oxidation products in the reaction chamber, thereby adding heat to the reducing bed from the freeboard as a second heat source.
US11858809B2
The invention belongs to the technical field of metal micro-forming, and in particular relates to a method for inflating micro-channels. The present invention is aimed at the problems of low process flexibility, single product type, and non-closed structure of the micro-channel when preparing metal micro-channels by micro-plastic forming of ultra-thin metal strips. The present invention uses a method combining numerical simulation and bond rolling experiment to analyze the effect of the hydrogen pressure and bond strength of the metal composite ultra-thin strip after bond rolling on the pore diameter of the micro-channel, and the corresponding relationship between the micro-channel pore diameter and the titanium hydride content, heating temperature, and bond strength of the metal composite ultra-thin strip is obtained.
US11858803B2
A method and apparatus are provided for controlling a fuel delivery system to limit acidic corrosion. An exemplary control system includes a controller, at least one monitor, an output, and a remediation system. The monitor of the control system may collect and analyze data indicative of a corrosive environment in the fuel delivery system. The output of the control system may automatically warn an operator of the fueling station of the corrosive environment so that the operator can take preventative or corrective action. The remediation system of the control system may take at least one corrective action to remediate the corrosive environment in the fuel delivery system.
US11858798B2
A refrigerator appliance includes a dispensing assembly. The dispensing assembly includes a dispenser recess with a flexible hose that is in fluid communication with a water supply to deliver water to the dispenser recess. The dispensing assembly also includes an actuating mechanism in operative communication with the water supply to cause the water supply to deliver a flow of water to the flexible hose when the actuating mechanism is activated. The dispensing assembly further includes a vibration generator coupled to the flexible hose and in operative communication with the actuating mechanism such that the vibration generator is activated when the actuating mechanism is activated. The vibration generator moves the flexible hose relative to the dispenser recess when the vibration generator is activated, thereby providing a wave pattern flow of water from the flexible hose.
US11858793B2
A thrust lifting device that is able to transmit a thrust force for lifting loads, includes at least one articulated lift column provided with at least one meshing part, and with at least one arm directed upward from the meshing part, the lift column made up of links with a link of rank 1 at the upper end of the upwardly directed arm and running links of rank n, where n is between 2 and N, the number of links of the lift column, —at least one rotary pinion driving the lift column by the meshing part meshing with the pinion, —at least one arm opposite the upwardly directed arm and formed by resting links, the resting links being able to pass to the meshing part and to the upwardly directed arm by rotation of the pinion, and —at least one stabilizer that is movable along the upwardly directed arm.
US11858788B2
A telescoping jib of a mobile crane having a basic box and a plurality of inner boxes that can each be extended from a retraction position to an extension position and that can be locked and unlocked together in the respective retraction position or extension positions by means of bolting holes, which are arranged in the basic and inner boxes, and associated locking bolts. In order to provide a telescoping jib of a mobile crane which can be easily unlocked in an emergency, it is proposed that, in the retraction position of the basic and inner boxes, the bolting holes for the extension positions are aligned with one another.
US11858775B2
A paper sheet detection device includes: an optical sensor that includes a light-emitting portion that emits light, and a light-receiving portion that receives the emitted light; a storage portion that stores a first threshold value used for determining whether or not a paper sheet is present in a path of the emitted light, a target light-receiving level set as a target value of a level of the light received by the light-receiving portion in a state where the paper sheet is not present, and a second threshold value that is set to a value that is greater than the first threshold value and less than the target light-receiving level; an estimating portion that determines whether the level of the light received by the light-receiving portion is equal to or greater than the first threshold value and less than the second threshold value, and that estimates whether or not the paper sheet is present; and a light amount adjusting portion that adjusts an amount of the light emitted by the light-emitting portion so that the level of the light received by the light-receiving portion becomes the target light-receiving level in the state where the paper sheet is not present when the estimating portion estimates that the paper sheet is not present after the estimating portion determines that the level of the light received by the light-receiving portion is equal to or greater than the first threshold value and less than the second threshold value.
US11858772B2
An apparatus for cutting diagnostic reagent strips includes first and second shafts with facing knife blades and spacers. A guide between the shafts ensures accurate, defect-free cutting. Adjusting screws fine-tune the shaft interval for enhanced cutting.
US11858769B2
A web splice for attaching two webs, such as paper webs used in paper converting operations. The web splice comprises a non-linear butt joint. The butt joint forms an acute included angle (α) with the side edges.
US11858768B2
A method and an apparatus for preparing an edge of a reel of web material wherein it is envisaged to grip any portion of an external layer of web material of a new reel, removing damaged web material forming loops of the reel, and arranging a leading edge of the new reel to be joined with a tail edge of the reel close to finishing,
US11858767B2
Methods and apparatus to form tear-off paperband composites that adhesively attach a paper web to an empty web spool. In some embodiments, the paperband composite is applied in several layers to an empty web spool, each layer suitable for fixedly attaching a paper web to the empty spool. Multiple layers of paperband composite allow for use during multiple turn-up procedures with one layer of paperband composite used per turn-up procedure. In some examples, the paperband composite may be applied to a paper spool tangentially along the spool face and perpendicular to the axis of rotation of the spool. In other examples, the paperband composite may be spirally wrapped around the paper spool.
US11858762B2
According to a method for transferring a cargo from a cargo receiving portion of a vehicle onto a cargo take-up station, the vehicle is controlled by a vehicle control unit such that the vector of the velocity of the vehicle is modified immediately before, or upon its arrival at the cargo take-up station and the vehicle is oriented by the vehicle control unit and/or by at least one guide system positioned in the region of the cargo take-up station before the arrival of the vehicle at the cargo take-up station, such that the trajectory of the cargo that is moving away from the cargo receiving portion as a result of the modification in the velocity vector, ends at a receiving region of the cargo take-up station.
US11858761B2
An offloading vacuum system. The system has a tank to capture debris from an excavation site. The debris is pulled into the tank due to a blower pulling air into an attached hose. An internal conveyor within the tank conveys material to an offloading hub. The offloading hub has a ground-facing door which opens to deposit debris into an external conveyor. The external conveyor, when deployed, can move debris from below the tank to a dump container with a wall greater than a height of the tank.
US11858753B2
An inversion guide device is configured to guide tofu conveyed by a transfer conveyor and inverted by a turn-back portion at one end of the transfer conveyor. The inversion guide device includes an endless conveyor configured to support the tofu along a track of the turn-back portion and guide the tofu while being driven in a circulating manner.
US11858751B2
Provided is an apparatus for treating containers, having a treatment device for treating the containers, and a carrier which is arranged such that it can move linearly with respect to a holder, wherein a plurality of rolling elements being arranged between the carrier and the holder and guiding the movement of the treatment device, wherein these rolling elements at least temporarily contact both a running surface of the carrier and a running surface of the holder, wherein the rolling elements are arranged in a rolling elements cage and move in the direction of movement, wherein this rolling element cage extends in the direction of movement and has a greater length than the holder.
US11858748B2
Example systems and methods for automated delivery of a food and/or beverage from a kitchen may be directed to a first vertically extending elevator configured to transport a payload to and from the kitchen. The payload may include a food and/or a beverage. Example systems also may include a laterally extending conveyor configured to transport the payload laterally from the first elevator to a second elevator. The second elevator is configured to transport the payload from the conveyor to a customer delivery window.
US11858736B2
This application relates to the field of intelligent warehousing, and discloses a carrying device and a transport robot having the carrying device. The carrying device includes: a bracket; a tray, mounted on the bracket, and configured to hold goods; a detection device, connected to the tray, and configured to detect the goods placed on the tray; and a telescopic arm, mounted on the bracket, and extensible in a direction parallel to the tray, to move the goods placed on the tray. In the carrying device, the detection device is mounted on the tray, and the detection device detects the goods placed on the tray, avoiding the manual detection of the goods, and providing higher efficiency.
US11858730B1
The feminine hygiene disposal container is a containment structure. The feminine hygiene disposal container is configured for use with a feminine hygiene product. The feminine hygiene disposal container forms a protected space that contains the feminine hygiene product after use. The feminine hygiene disposal container receives the feminine hygiene product. The feminine hygiene disposal container secures the feminine hygiene product in the protection space. The feminine hygiene disposal container comprises a housing structure, a control structure, and one or more bag cartridges. The housing structure contains the control structure and the one or more bag cartridges. The control structure controls the operation of the feminine hygiene disposal container. By controlling the operation of the feminine hygiene disposal container is meant that the control structure: a) detects the deposit of a feminine hygiene product; and, b) secures the feminine hygiene product in the protection space.
US11858729B2
A lawn refuse disposal assembly includes a lawn refuse bag comprising a bag body defining a top end; and a bag insert comprising a bag stand and a rake detachably coupled to the bag stand, the bag stand inserted into an interior cavity of the lawn refuse bag through the top end, the rake configured to shift lawn refuse into the lawn refuse bag.
US11858727B2
A cargo container has a tubular shell, an annular mounting ring mounted thereto, and a nose cone clamped to the annular mounting ring by an annular clamping collar. The mounting ring has a coupling slot and an annular flange. The nose cone has an annular flange. The clamping collar has an inwardly facing annular groove, and a constriction device. The mounting ring is mounted to the tubular shell wherein an annular edge of the tubular shell is rigidly held in the coupling slot. The nose cone and mounting ring annular flanges together form a mounting wedge. The clamping collar clamps the nose cone to the annular mounting ring wherein the mounting wedge is rigidly held in the annular groove by constriction of the clamping collar by the constriction device.
US11858724B2
A modular portable storage container system includes a storage container having first and second sections. The first section defines a first partial volume of storage space and the second section defines a second partial volume of storage space. The system further includes a lock mechanism with a lock arm, lock handle, and pivot shaft defining an axis of rotation. The lock arm and handle are fixed for common rotation with the pivot shaft. The arm extends radially outward from the pivot shaft to a roller assembly. A lock track is disposed within the second section and extends from a fluted open portion to a closed end, with a continuous track portion disposed therebetween. The first and second sections are movable between at least closed and open positions. In the closed position, the roller assembly engages with the lock track and retains the first section in contact with the second portion.
US11858721B2
A container for storing a plurality of food items having a base portion with a peripheral edge at a base peripheral edge plane. The base portion can include a plurality of cavities with each cavity having an interior wall surface extending up a first axis from a cavity base wall. At least a first portion of the interior wall surface terminates at a cavity rim formed where the first portion of the interior wall surface intersects with the peripheral edge surface, wherein an exterior cavity rim portion can be formed by the plurality of cavities. An interior support member formed within the base portion can extend up from the base portion to a first plane above the peripheral edge plane. A lid support member can extend down from the top surface of the lid portion and contact the top surface of the interior support member.
US11858720B2
In an example embodiment, a pack for tobacco articles comprises an inner sleeve, and an outer box comprising front and back covers that allow access to the inner sleeve when the outer box is opened. The inner sleeve can include a front connecting panel pivotally connecting a front wall of the inner sleeve to an inner surface of the front cover and a back connecting panel pivotally connecting a back wall of the inner sleeve to an inner surface of the back cover. A slot in the outer box is configured to allow opening of the outer box by applying pressure against a bottom wall of the inner sleeve.
US11858705B2
A strap system includes a strap, the strap including a plurality of apertures. The strap system further includes a buckle, the buckle located a first end of the strap, the buckle including an aperture and prong, the prong extending beyond the aperture, the prong sized to fit in each of the plurality of apertures. The strap system further includes a sliding holder, the sliding holder located on the strap, such that the sliding holder slides along the strap, the sliding holder including a projection, the projection extending from the sliding holder, the projection sized to fit into each of the plurality of apertures.
US11858704B2
The embodiments provide a container of the type to hold fresh food or produce. Container has a base and a lid moveable with respect to the base between an open position and a closed position. The lid has a planar area. The base has a second planar area. In the closed position, the first planar and the second planar area include a substantially flat area suitable for receipt of an adhesive membrane, such as a self-adhesive label. The substantially flat area includes an edge of the first planar area and at least part of the second planar area.
US11858701B2
The present invention is directed to a can lid that is child resistant, and at the same time senior friendly, and can be initially installed on a can to be removed by an adult, especially a senior adult, and be put back on the can in the same condition where a child could still not be able to easily remove it. The child resistant and senior friendly can lid provided has a replaceable can lid and a locking member, such that when a can is initially opened, it may be readily resealed. The child resistant and senior friendly can lid has tapered, smooth sides to make the lid difficult to grasp and a sealing ledge on the inside surface to grab the seam roll of the upper edge of the can. The lid sealing ledge is relieved in two areas ninety degrees apart leaving a ridge to maintain a seal when the lid is attached to a can. The can lid will be flexible enough to bend for removal by seniors but resistant to removal by children.
US11858700B2
The invention relates to a shipping and reshipping packaging unit comprising a packaging body (C) and at least one closure panel (27, 77) and means for maintaining the closure panel (27, 77) in a closed position of the packaging body (C) by adhesion, characterized in that the maintaining means comprise at least one closure strip (B) comprising at least one separable portion (31, 33, 52) connected to the rest of the closure strip (B) and/or to the rest of the packaging unit, namely the body and/or the closure panel (27, 77), by at least one weaker line, and at least one permanent portion (32, 51, 53) that is substantially aligned with the separable portion (31, 33, 52) and remains integral with the rest of the packaging unit after separation of the separable portion (31, 33, 52), the closure strip (B) bearing, on a face, referred to as internal face, intended to be oriented towards the interior of the packaging unit when the latter is closed, at least one rectilinear adhesive strip (40) extending at least partially along the length of the closure strip (B), including over the separable portion (31, 33, 52) and permanent portion (32, 51, 53) and being covered by a protector that is peelable into a plurality of individually peelable portions (41, 42, 42) corresponding at least to the separable and permanent portions of the closure strip (B).
US11858677B2
A packaging apparatus for small piece goods, the use of the packaging apparatus, and a method for producing a blister tube are provided. The packaging apparatus includes a packaging material guiding device for providing a shaped packaging material web suitable for receiving small piece goods, a longitudinal joining device which is arranged downstream of the packaging material guiding device and a transverse joining device which is arranged downstream of the packaging material guiding device. The transverse joining device joins the shaped packaging material web together at predetermined intervals transversely to the direction of travel to form a transverse joining area. The transverse joining device includes two joiners, a first joiner having a plurality of embossers that are individually movable transversely to the direction of travel and are arranged so that they can be extended from the first joiner and retracted into the first joiner.
US11858673B2
A doser mechanism includes a cylindrical shell, an auger conveyor, and a check valve. The cylindrical shell includes a hollow cylinder and an end plate. The hollow cylinder at least partially defines an internal enclosure extending between first and second ends of the hollow cylinder, a first opening at the first end, and a second opening through a thickness of the hollow cylinder. The end plate covers the second end. The auger conveyor includes an auger at least partially extending through the internal enclosure through the first end. The check valve has a valve member configured to selectively cover the second opening. The check valve may cause the valve member move between a rest position and an open position to cover or expose the second opening in response to a magnitude of a force applied to the valve member from the internal enclosure through the second opening.
US11858666B2
The present disclosure discloses a propulsion method based on liquid carbon dioxide phase change and a propulsion device. The method includes the following steps of: accommodating carbon dioxide in a thermally insulated container in a liquid phase form; transiently heating to convert the carbon dioxide from a liquid phase to a gas phase; and jetting carbon dioxide gas after the phase change in a predetermined direction by a predetermined jet-out amount so as to obtain a propulsion force.
US11858659B2
An integrated pushback guidance system and method is provided for guiding pushback travel of electric taxi system-driven aircraft. The pushback guidance system may be integrated with existing ramp monitoring systems to monitor reverse pushback travel of pilot-controlled electric taxi system-driven aircraft along an optimum pushback path from a stand to a pushback end location. Visual signals relating to pushback travel safety as the pilot drives the aircraft along the pushback path are generated in real time by the system and transmitted to a range of display devices viewable by the aircraft pilot and airport personnel responsible for guiding aircraft pushback. The pilot may be guided by visual signals on only display devices or with guidance from airport personnel also viewing the visual signals on display devices to drive the aircraft safely in reverse with the electric taxi system along the pushback path to the pushback end location.
US11858657B2
A method of making a roadbed, including paving an area with foamed glass bodies to define a bed and covering the bed with a layer of cementitious material to define a composite bed. The composite bed is at least 85 percent foamed glass bodies. The composite bed has a cementitious surface.
US11858653B2
Systems and methods relating to foreign object detection with respect to passenger-accessible stowage compartments are provided. According to one example, sensor data is captured via a sensor subsystem that includes a sensor associated with each of a plurality of stowage compartments. For each of the stowage compartments, a baseline condition is identified in which foreign objects are absent from the stowage compartment. A foreign object is detected within a stowage compartment based on the sensor data received for the stowage compartment and the baseline condition identified for the stowage compartment. An audit of the stowage compartments is conducted, and based on the audit, an indication that the foreign object is detected within the stowage compartment is output. This indication may identify the stowage compartment containing the foreign object among the plurality of stowage compartments.
US11858651B2
Subject matter described herein includes generating a visual environment for interactive development of a machine learning (ML) model. The method includes accessing observations of data each of which includes values of independent variables and a dependent variable. The method includes performing an interactive feature construction and selection in which select independent variables are selected as or transformed into a set of features for use in building a ML model to predict the dependent variable. The method includes building the ML model using a ML algorithm, the set of features, and a training set produced from the set of features and observations of the data. And the method includes outputting the ML model for deployment to predict the dependent variable for additional observations of the data.
US11858647B2
Method and system for managing hydrogen fuel in hydrogen fuel cell-powered aircraft is disclosed. The method identifies unused hydrogen fuel in a fuel tank of the aircraft. Determines an amount of the unused hydrogen fuel in the fuel tank of the aircraft. Transfers the amount of the unused hydrogen fuel from the fuel tank of the aircraft into a hydrogen fuel cell of the aircraft and converts the amount of the unused hydrogen fuel into electricity via the hydrogen fuel cell of the aircraft.
US11858644B2
The invention relates to a drive device (1) for an aircraft, comprising: an electric machine (2) with a stator (3) and a rotor (4) and a cooling device (10) for cooling the electric machine (2), the cooling device (10) having an encapsulated first cooling region (12), in which a first cooling liquid for cooling the stator (3) and/or the rotor (4) is disposed, the cooling device (10) having a second cooling region (15), which is separate from the first cooling region (12) and in which the second liquid is disposed, and the cooling device (10) having an internal heat exchanger (11) for transmitting heat from the first cooling liquid to the second cooling liquid.
US11858643B2
A piece of rotary equipment for a drone, the rotary equipment having a rotary assembly including at least one blade. The rotary assembly includes at least one furrow that extends in a skin from a first end to a second end, the at least one furrow being at least arranged over the blade, the at least one furrow presenting at least one change of direction on the blade, the rotary assembly including at least one deicer having an electrically conductive track that extends in the at least one furrow, the electrically conductive track extending from a first terminal to a second terminal, the first terminal being present at the first end and the second terminal being present at the second end, the deicer including a protective layer covering the electrically conductive track.
US11858638B2
The invention relates to a system for remote monitoring of an area intended to accommodate at least one passenger of an aeroplane, notably a cargo area provisionally converted into cabin space, including: at least one control member configured to generate at least one signal relating to the safety of the passenger present in the area, and at least one interface means that is situated at a distance from the area and allows the cabin crew to have access to information relating to the area and/or to the passenger present in the area on the basis of the signal.
US11858635B2
An automatic spraying unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) system based on dynamic adjustment of early warning range and a method thereof are disclosed. In the automatic spraying UAV system, an unmanned aerial vehicle analyzes a forward direction and a forward speed of a staff appearing in an environment video, calculates a preset distance, and generates an early-warning range by extending outwardly a spraying range by a preset distance; when determining the staff appears within the early-warning range in the environment video, the unmanned aerial vehicle pauses an automatic spraying operation, so as to achieve the technical effect of improving safety of the staff in an operation area by dynamically adjusting the early-warning range of the automatic spraying operation of the unmanned aerial vehicle.
US11858630B2
An agitator, a planting system including the agitator, and methods of using the agitator to agitate seeds in a hopper, are described. The agitator can be mounted within the hopper of the planting system. The hopper can be transported by an unmanned aerial vehicle to spread the seeds over a geography. The agitator can include one or more arms that oscillate through a sweep angle to move one or more paddles through the seeds. An outlet of the hopper can be within the sweep angle such that the arms and paddles sweep seeds into the outlet as the arms oscillate within the hopper. The sweep angle can vary over time by incrementally increasing the sweep angle during several stages. The varying sweep angle maintains consistent seed mixing and spreading over time. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
US11858628B2
An autonomous vehicle that is equipped with image capture devices can use information gathered from the image capture devices to plan a future three-dimensional (3D) trajectory through a physical environment. To this end, a technique is described for image-space based motion planning. In an embodiment, a planned 3D trajectory is projected into an image-space of an image captured by the autonomous vehicle. The planned 3D trajectory is then optimized according to a cost function derived from information (e.g., depth estimates) in the captured image. The cost function associates higher cost values with identified regions of the captured image that are associated with areas of the physical environment into which travel is risky or otherwise undesirable. The autonomous vehicle is thereby encouraged to avoid these areas while satisfying other motion planning objectives.
US11858624B1
Exemplary inventive practice improves the taxiing dynamics of a seaplane by propulsively imparting roll moments so as to continually encourage levelness of the two wings, thereby maintaining both wings completely above (out of) the water. Two matching motor-driven propellers are correspondingly positioned at or near the wingtips. A computer receives sensory motion inputs and transmits sequential commands that continually adjust the respective propulsive forces of the wingtip propellers by effecting equal and opposite changes in their respective rotational speeds. An increase in one wingtip propeller's rotational speed is concomitant a decrease in the other wingtip propeller's rotational speed, wherein the increase and the decrease are of the same magnitude. The seaplane rolls upward on the wing whose wingtip propeller is increasing in rotational speed. Control of the seaplane's rolling motion is thus enabled by a sustained propulsive equilibrium between the two wingtip propellers.
US11858622B2
The cross-sectional shape of a support member is an airfoil shape in which a first end portion including a first end is curved and which tapers toward a second end. The support member is arranged such that the tapering direction of the airfoil shape is downward, and the tapering direction of the support member is determined in advance according to the moving direction of a blade passing directly above the support member during rotation of a takeoff and landing rotor.
US11858613B2
An aerospace vehicle including: a body, wherein the body is configured to generate heat during operation; a coating disposed over at least a portion of the body, the coating being configured to shift a frequency of at least one wavelength of the heat generated by the body from a first frequency to a second frequency having higher transmissivity relative to a neighboring medium surrounding the body as compared to the first frequency.
US11858612B2
A rotating retractable step system positioned within a cutout of a wall is presented. The rotating retractable step system comprises a foot pedal and a support shaft. The foot pedal is configured to be stowed in a vertical orientation within the cutout of the wall, and to rotate between the vertical orientation and a horizontal orientation. The support shaft is associated with the foot pedal, such that movement of the support shaft extends the foot pedal outwardly away from the cutout, or retracts the foot pedal towards the cutout.
US11858606B2
The present invention regards a watercraft vehicle (1) having a propeller shaft (9) coupled to a motor (3) and a propeller (7) forming a propeller disc (11) having a hub (17). A first blade (8) of the propeller (7) is hingedly coupled to a first oblique lag-pitch hinge (22′) of the hub (17) and a second blade (10) of the propeller (7) is hingedly coupled to a second oblique lag-pitch hinge (22″) of the hub (17). The first oblique lag-pitch hinge (22′) being oriented in a direction oblique to the axis of rotation (RX) and parallel with the second oblique lag-pitch hinge (22″). A control circuitry (5) provides a first thrust (T) in a first arc segment (13′) of the propeller disc (11) and provides a second thrust (T″) in a second arc segment (13″) of the propeller disc (11) by controlling a rate of change of shaft (9) rotational velocity, wherein a first propeller blade pitch change is achieved about the first oblique lag-pitch hinge (22′) and a second propeller blade pitch change is achieved about the second oblique lag-pitch hinge (22″). The present invention also regards a method of manoeuvring the watercraft vehicle (1).
US11858602B2
The protective cover as described will protect the outer surface of a vessel from debris that may strike the vessel either in the water or during sporting events such as fishing. Any damage to a boat is typically expensive and time consuming and is generally to be avoided by the boat owner.
US11858601B2
A variable use pontoon boat configured to operate in both a high speed condition and an improved wake-profile condition is provided. The boat includes a pair of outer pontoons that flare outward in the rearward direction. A rear section of the outer pontoons has a width that is greater than its height. An inclined bottom surface is defined by the outer pontoons. The bottom surface is inclined upward in the rearward direction, and may be inclined laterally upward. The system may include a center pontoon that flares outward in the rearward direction. The center pontoon and the outer pontoons may be spaced apart at a decreased distance at the rear of the boat relative to the front of the boat, such that water is blocked at the rear of the boat and displaced downward. A pair of wake panels may be disposed at the rear of the outer pontoons, and the wake panels may be individually and selectively actuated downward into the water to enhance the wake profile and retracted upward at high speeds.
US11858585B2
Provided is a straddle vehicle that allows for high design flexibility, that can absorb strong shocks applied in the up-down direction, and that can avoid contacting obstacles on the ground. The straddle vehicle includes a supported structure and a shock absorber. The supported structure includes a first element that performs a first function and a second element that performs a second function, the second element being located above a rear of the first element. The shock absorber includes an upper mounting portion and a lower mounting portion. The lower mounting portion of the shock absorber is connected to a swing arm, and the upper mounting portion of the shock absorber is connected to the second element.
US11858571B2
Vehicle chassis with interchangeable performance packages and related methods. are disclosed herein. An example vehicle chassis disclosed herein includes a frame including a first chassis portion including a cavity, a battery platform coupled to first chassis portion, and a first subframe couplable within the cavity, the first subframe including a first motor and a first suspension assembly, and a second subframe couplable within the cavity, the second subframe including a second motor and a second suspension assembly, the second motor having a greater power than the first motor, the second suspension assembly having a greater stiffness than the first suspension assembly.
US11858570B2
An autonomous mobile robot is provided. The autonomous mobile robot includes an upper module including a cargo space provided therein, and a cover, a lower module positioned under the upper module and providing a driving force, and a driving module provided in the lower module, in which the driving module includes a plurality of pairs of wheels capable of asynchronously contacting a road surface or ground so as to overcome a step or a stair.
US11858566B2
A track link having sensor-receiving cavities and a method of producing a track link is disclosed. The track link may include a link body and a cavity formed in the link body configured to receive a sensing device. The track link may also include a protrusion substantially surrounding the cavity. The protrusion may include a substantially flat surface.
US11858564B2
A vehicle includes a frame, a first axle assembly coupled to the frame and including a first pair of tractive elements, a second axle assembly coupled to the frame and including a second pair of tractive elements, a prime mover coupled to the frame and configured to drive the first axle assembly and the second tractive assembly to propel the vehicle, a ballast movably coupled to the frame, and a ballast actuator configured to reposition the ballast relative to the frame to shift a center of gravity of the vehicle relative to the first axle assembly and the second axle assembly.
US11858559B2
A cargo component of a vehicle includes a panel, at least one ridge, and a plurality of measurement gradations. The ridge extends along the panel. The plurality of measurement gradations are formed in and along the ridge. In one form, the ridge extends in a longitudinal direction of the panel.
US11858558B2
A body frame and a vehicle having the same are provided. The body frame includes: a transverse beam, provided with a transverse sliding groove; a longitudinal beam, connected with the transverse beam and provided with a longitudinal sliding groove; and a joint, disposed at a junction of the transverse beam and the longitudinal beam and mounted to the transverse beam by a transverse rivet and to the longitudinal beam by a longitudinal rivet. The transverse rivet is slidably mated with the transverse sliding groove, and the longitudinal rivet is slidably mated with the longitudinal sliding groove.
US11858557B2
A support structure for a motor vehicle instrument panel support having a support part, which follows the longitudinal extension of the instrument panel support, and a metal connector for connecting the support part to another structure. The support part is made of a different material than the metal connector. The metal connector has a multi-part construction including a base part and a bracket part. The base part has a support part connection surface supported on the lateral surface of the support part. The bracket part encloses the support part opposite to the support part connection surface to provide a support part enclosure together with the support part connection surface of the base part. The metal connector is connected in a materially bonded manner to the support part in the area of its support part enclosure. The bracket part is connected to the base part via a joining process using heat.
US11858554B2
A cowl reinforcement structure of a vehicle according to an embodiment of the present disclosure for reinforcement of a cowl upper panel connected to a dash panel by forming a curved line along a front and rear direction of the vehicle includes a cowl upper side reinforcement member provided in a shape corresponding to the curved line of the cowl upper panel at the lower part of the cowl upper panel; and a cowl support bracket joined to the cowl upper side reinforcement member at the lower part of the cowl upper panel.
US11858551B1
A modular, cost-effective, field repairable chassis and mechanical components for an heavy duty autonomous robot having a uni-member bended frame 200 having a first end 210, a second end 220 and a middle section 240 whereby the uni-member bended frame 200 is configured to easily connect and remove the following body parts: a first set of rotatable members 310 removably affixable at the first end; a second set of rotatable members 320 removably affixable at the second end; at least one battery 330; at least one solar panel 340; at least one electric motor 350; at least one gearing mechanism 360 that is connectable to the at least one electric motor 350 and to at least one of the first and the second set of rotatable members 310, 320; at least one sensor 370; and at least one computer system 380.
US11858550B2
An electrified vehicle assembly according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a brace assembly that extends from a passenger side frame rail of a vehicle to a driver side frame rail of the vehicle, and at least one electrified vehicle powertrain module supported by the brace assembly.
US11858549B2
A method for generating a steering command for controlling a vehicle is provided. The method includes: generating a first vehicle steering control torque command by a steering controller in the vehicle while the vehicle is driven in a semi-autonomous mode; generating an impedance-adjusted vehicle steering angle command based on a first vehicle steering angle command that was generated to compensate for a trajectory error, and a measured driver steering torque command generated in response to navigation of the vehicle using a steering wheel; generating an impedance-adjusted vehicle steering control torque command by the steering controller in the vehicle based on a difference between the impedance-adjusted vehicle steering angle command and a measured vehicle steering angle command; generating a steering command by a power steering system in the vehicle based on the measured driver steering torque command and the impedance-adjusted vehicle steering control torque command; and operating the vehicle in accordance with the steering command.
US11858546B2
The present disclosure relates to an apparatus for adjusting a steering wheel, which include: a camera unit installed inside a vehicle to photograph a driver's face; and a control unit which processes an image photographed by the camera unit to detect a face shape, checks whether higher and lower portions of detected face are photographed in an optimal face shape without being cut off, and outputs designated steering wheel adjustment information when the face shape is not the optimal face shape.
US11858545B2
A vehicle having a support structure includes a front structural section for receiving a front axle assembly and a rear structural section opposite the front structural section in the longitudinal direction of the vehicle. A support part is arranged between the front structural section and the rear structural section as part of the support structure. The support part has a support wall which runs in a self-contained manner in the circumferential direction transversely with respect to the longitudinal direction of the vehicle.
US11858541B2
An articulated rail-transport car for transporting long sections of ribbon rail is described. The car includes a plurality of segments arranged end-to-end and coupled and supported at their adjacent ends by shared trucks. Dedicated trucks are provided near each terminal end of the car and couplers configured to couple to an adjacent rail car are provided at the respective terminal ends. Rail stands are disposed along the length of the car with a spacing that is independent of the locations of the shared and dedicated trucks and that provides a greater number of rail stands than trucks. The segments may be configured to enable interchangeability and to allow any number of the segments to be included in the car. A plurality of the cars can be coupled to enable transport of ribbon rails of any length.
US11858540B2
An arrangement for driving a locomotive has various energy-provision systems. The locomotive contains a main energy-provision system as the main system and a drive system. Energy provided by the main system is supplied to the drive system as drive power and is used by the drive system for moving the locomotive. A carriage contains at least one additional energy-provision system as an auxiliary system. The auxiliary system is used in a manner which is temporally offset from the main system in order to supply drive power to the drive system. Components which can be used by both the main system and the at least one auxiliary system are implemented only once and are used jointly by both the main system and the at least one auxiliary system. Components which are used exclusively by the at least one auxiliary system are arranged on the carriage.
US11858537B2
A method of controlling the operation of a foldable accelerator pedal device in manual driving mode of an autonomous driving vehicle includes: when an autonomous driving vehicle provided with a foldable accelerator pedal device is driven in manual driving mode and the speed of the autonomous driving vehicle exceeds the driving speed limit of a road, a safety mode, which includes a haptic mode and a pedal pad protrusion reducing mode, and a pedal pad hiding mode, is activated using an actuator provided for a folding function of a pedal pad.
US11858536B1
Example aspects of the present disclosure describe determining, using a machine-learned model framework, a motion trajectory for an autonomous platform. The motion trajectory can be determined based at least in part on a plurality of costs based at least in part on a distribution of probabilities determined conditioned on the motion trajectory.
US11858533B2
An autonomous vehicle control system includes one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to cause a transmitter to transmit a transmit signal from a laser source. The one or more processors are configured to cause a receiver to receive a return signal reflected by an object. The one or more processors are configured to cause one or more optics to generate a first polarized signal of the return signal with a first polarization, and generate a second polarized signal of the return signal with a second polarization. The one or more processors are configured to calculate a value of reflectivity based on a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) value of the first polarized signal and an SNR value of the second polarized signal. The one or more processors are configured to operate a vehicle based on the value of reflectivity.
US11858531B2
Provided are a method, a device, and a computer program for controlling stop of an autonomous vehicle using a speed profile. The method of controlling, by a computing device, stop of an autonomous vehicle using a speed profile includes obtaining surrounding information of an autonomous vehicle, determining candidate routes for controlling stop of the autonomous vehicle on the basis of the surrounding information, calculating scores for candidate driving plans for the autonomous vehicle to travel the determined candidate routes according to a preset speed profile, and finalizing a driving plan for the autonomous vehicle on the basis of the calculated scores.
US11858514B2
Techniques for top-down scene discrimination are discussed. A system receives scene data associated with an environment proximate a vehicle. The scene data is input to a convolutional neural network (CNN) discriminator trained using a generator and a classification of the output of the CNN discriminator. The CNN discriminator generates an indication of whether the scene data is a generated scene or a captured scene. If the scene data is data generated scene, the system generates a caution notification indicating that a current environmental situation is different from any previous situations. Additionally, the caution notification is communicated to at least one of a vehicle system or a remote vehicle monitoring system.
US11858494B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for processing vehicle driving mode switching, a vehicle and a server. The method includes: determining (S103) a target switching reason upon detecting that a driving mode of a vehicle is switched from unmanned driving to manned driving; acquiring (S104) status information and/or traveling environment information of the vehicle corresponding to the target switching reason; and sending the status information and/or the traveling environment information, and the target switching reason to a server, to enable the server to analyze the target switching reason, and improve the automatic driving system continuously according to the analysis result.
US11858489B2
A riding lawn mower includes a chassis having longitudinal support beam, a drive wheel, an electric motor coupled to the drive wheel, a suspended subframe having a longitudinal subframe beam pivotally coupled to the longitudinal support beam about a pivot axis, and a suspension device coupled between the longitudinal subframe beam and the longitudinal support beam. The longitudinal subframe beam at least partially supports the electric motor. The drive wheel and the electric motor are configured to translate relative to the chassis via the pivotal coupling between the longitudinal support beam and the longitudinal subframe beam.
US11858483B2
An electro-pneumatic parking brake arrangement includes a shut-off valve and a parking brake module. The parking brake module includes a reservoir connection configured to connect to a compressed air reservoir, a first spring-loaded accumulator connection configured to connect to the shut-off valve, an electro-pneumatic valve unit having at least one electro-pneumatic valve configured to output a spring-loaded brake pressure at the first spring-loaded accumulator connection, and an electronic control unit configured to receive parking brake signals from an electronic parking brake switch and/or a higher-order control unit. The shut-off valve comprises a second spring accumulator connection configured to connect the spring-loaded brakes of the further axle and to shut off the second spring accumulator connection depending on a shut-off signal provided by the parking brake module.
US11858480B2
A ready mix truck wash system includes a frame adapted for receiving a ready mix truck during operation of the system, a plurality of nozzles supported at predetermined positions by the frame to direct a pressurized liquid for washing the ready mix truck, a controller, and a plurality of sensors controlled by the controller for monitoring a position of the ready mix truck relative to at least one of the frame and the plurality of nozzles in preparation of operation and during operation of the system. In response to the ready mix truck being temporarily positioned at a first fixed position during operation of the system, a controlled predetermined volume of pressurized liquid is introduced into a barrel of the ready mix truck from at least one nozzle of the plurality of nozzles, the predetermined volume of pressurized liquid mixing with a concrete load in the ready mix truck.
US11858473B2
An imaging device images rearward of a vehicle through a windshield from inside a cabin of the vehicle, and a vehicle washing device includes a wiping device and a controller. The wiping device is capable of reciprocatingly wiping a predetermined range of the windshield. The predetermined range of the windshield includes an imaging range for the imaging device. The controller switches operation of the wiping device to one of a first mode or a second mode in accordance with an input. In the first mode, the wiping device wipes the predetermined range of the windshield. In the second mode, the wiping device wipes the imaging range of the windshield preferentially compared to the first mode.
US11858457B2
An alert system to assist in child safety in a vehicle includes a seat belt buckle insert adapted to be inserted between the male and female parts of a standard safety belt found in most automobiles or for a child car safety seat. It may also include a portable receiver device designed to be carried by a vehicle operator. The seat belt buckle insert detects whether the seat belt has been buckled and the temperature is within an acceptable range, as well as the approximate distance between the seat belt buckle insert and portable receiver device. The seat belt buckle transmits information gathered to the portable receiver device and triggers alerts notifying the vehicle operator of a child's safety status.
US11858446B2
An assembly for a vehicle includes a dash. The assembly includes a seat having a seatback and a head restraint extending upwardly from the seatback. The assembly includes an airbag supported by the seatback. The airbag is inflatable from the seatback toward the dash in a seat-rearward direction to an inflated position. The airbag includes an upper portion adjacent the head restraint and a pair of lobes extending from the upper portion along the head restraint in a seat-forward direction in the inflated position. The head restraint is between the lobes in the inflated position.
US11858426B2
A luggage board apparatus for a vehicle includes an upper board and a lower board. The upper board and the lower board are capable of moving together in a vertical direction, and the upper board is capable of moving in a front-rear direction with respect to the lower board. A shopping cart may be seated, loaded and stored on the luggage board by using a slide rail provided on the luggage board and a slide roller coupled to the slide rail on the luggage board.
US11858410B2
A front left lamp includes a housing, an outer cover which covers an opening of the housing, a lighting unit disposed in a space formed by the housing and the outer cover, and a corner cube reflector, which is configured to increase radar radio wave reflectance and is disposed to face the housing.
US11858392B2
To provide a vehicle seat with a function of reducing fatigue regardless of the physique of the seated person, a vehicle seat includes: an ischial tuberosity support device that is driven to change a position of a part of a seat cushion corresponding to ischial tuberosities of a seated person; a sacrum/ilium support device that is driven to change a position of a part of a seat back corresponding to the sacrum and ilia of the seated person; a ninth thoracic vertebra support device that is driven to change a position of a part of the seat back corresponding to a ninth thoracic vertebra of the seated person; and a control device, wherein the control device sequentially executes: an information acquisition step of acquiring physique information of the seated person; a decision step of deciding parameters regarding a driving amount of each of the ischial tuberosity support device, the sacrum/ilium support device, and the ninth thoracic vertebra support device based on the acquired physique information; and an output step of driving the ischial tuberosity support device, the sacrum/ilium support device, and the ninth thoracic vertebra support device based on the corresponding parameters.
US11858390B2
A hygienic cover, hygienic kit, and a method thereof for a hygienic seat location including a stretchable antimicrobial hygienic headrest cover having an ability to conform itself to dimensions of the existing headrest. The cover comprises a stretchable, antimicrobial, a non-mesh fabric configured to provide a barrier between a user and the headrest. The headrest has an elastic opening in the back surface allowing the fabric to stretchily fit over an existing headrest. A tray table cover defined by a top panel, a bottom panel, and a sidewall connecting said top and bottom panels thereby creating an opening to a cavity therein is included. A pre-packaged sanitizing wipe is included to sanitize the seating location, and a container is included to encapsulate the pre-packaged sanitizing wipe, the tray table cover, and the stretchable headrest cover, wherein the headrest cover and the tray table cover are compressed.
US11858387B2
A ventilation system for a seat cushion comprises a reticulated ventilation manifold disposed in the seat cushion. The ventilation manifold has an inlet disposed adjacent a first side of the cushion and a plurality of manifold ducts extending from the inlet to terminate in outlets disposed at or near openings in a second side of the cushion. A fan motor is attached adjacent the first side of the cushion and has a fan outlet in fluid communication with the inlet of the ventilation manifold. The fan motor operates to apply a positive or a negative pressure, via the fan outlet to the ventilation manifold to supply air through the ventilation manifold and the cushion.
US11858386B2
A sealed boat seat suspension including a plurality of sealed rails. The sealed boat seat suspension also includes a boat seat attachment component which is coupled to the plurality of sealed rails. The sealed boat seat suspension also includes a boat seat attachment component which is movable with respect to at least a portion of the plurality of sealed rails. The sealed boat seat suspension also includes a suspension component which is coupled to the boat seat attachment component such that the suspension component provides at least some control of movement of the boat seat attachment component with respect to at least a portion of the plurality of sealed rails.
US11858382B2
The present invention discloses a seat rotation locking mechanism, including a locking mechanism mounted on a rotating disc in a seat rotation mechanism and at least one lockhole disposed on an outer circumference of a fixed disc in the seat rotation mechanism, where the locking mechanism includes: a lock support fixed on the rotating disc; and at least two lock pins horizontally and moveably configured in the lock support, where a first end of the lock pin is of a truncated-cone-shaped structure; and the first end of the lock pin is inserted into the lockhole, to implement zero-clearance locking by using wedging between the truncated-cone-shaped structure of the first end of the lock pin and the lockhole. The present invention eliminates a fit clearance existing after a rotation mechanism is locked, improves a grade of a product, and improves user experience. In an adjustment process, even if an operator releases an adjustment lever, a locking piece and a fixed disc do not generate scraping noise, and service life of the product is prolonged since wearing is eliminated.
US11858378B2
A battery discharge control system and method for a motor-driven vehicle may monitor a SOC of an auxiliary battery in real time and control electric power supply to a first electric component, a wireless communication module, a vehicle controller, and a second electric component which is an always-on component, based on a predetermined order according to the SOC of the auxiliary battery, thereby inhibiting the complete discharge of the auxiliary battery and eliminating driver's discomfort.
US11858377B2
The present disclosure relates to an information provision service system for an electric vehicle. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to an information provision service system for an electric vehicle using a vehicle sensor, wherein the system estimates a battery status and a distance to empty of an electric vehicle considering weather condition and to information based on a path, and estimates a battery status through an analysis of big data by using travel and weather information measured by a vehicle sensor and weather observation and forecast information from outside, thereby achieving accurate estimation.
US11858370B2
A vehicle includes: a battery that is chargeable with electric power supplied from a charger provided outside the vehicle; and an air-conditioning and cooling system that cools the battery. An ECU controls a charging operation for the battery such that the battery is charged under a charging condition of a constant current which is constant over a charging period from start of charging to satisfaction of a completion condition. The ECU sets the charging condition such that a battery temperature when the completion condition is satisfied becomes an upper limit temperature, based on an amount of heat generation in the battery caused by charging and an amount of cooling of the battery by the air-conditioning and cooling system.
US11858366B2
A vehicle includes: a battery pack including a secondary battery, a battery sensor that detects a state of the secondary battery, and a first control device; a second control device provided separately from the battery pack; and a converter. The first control device is configured to use a detection value of the battery sensor to obtain a current upper limit value indicating an upper limit value of an input current of the secondary battery. The second control device is configured to use a power upper limit value indicating an upper limit value of an input power of the secondary battery to control the input power of the secondary battery. The converter is configured to perform a conversion of the current upper limit value into the power upper limit value.
US11858365B2
An agricultural/utility vehicle has as its motive power source one or more electric motors supplied by one or more rechargeable batteries to drivingly rotate a shaft of the vehicle driveline. To recharge the batteries, an external power source is applied to cause the driveline shaft to rotate, resulting in at least one of the electric motors acting as a generator to recharge the batteries. The external power source may include a source of fluid pressure that drives a hydraulic pump of the driveline as a hydraulic motor. The external power source may be an external source of rotational energy coupled to a power take-off shaft of the vehicle.
US11858361B2
An electric vehicle having an internal rechargeable battery which is recharged via a recharging connector. The electric vehicle has an external battery secured to an exterior of the electric vehicle. The external battery communicates electricity to the internal rechargeable battery via the recharging connector. The external battery being carried by a cantilevered platform from the electric vehicle, pulled by a trailer, or mounted to the roof of the electric vehicle.
US11858350B2
Systems, methods and computer readable storage media provide flexible vehicle status notifications via an instrument cluster displayed on an in-vehicle screen. In some examples, when a non-displayed gauge goes into an out-of-parameter or warning range, the gauge may be dynamically shown in the out-of-parameter or warning state in a container position assigned to the gauge in another display or in a dynamic container position in the instrument cluster. In some examples, a popup notification may be provided to inform the driver of a condition. When there are multiple notifications, they may be grouped into definable severity classifications and prioritized so that a notification determined to be a most important message at the time is presented to the driver in a notification zone central to a driver's field of vision on the instrument cluster that allows for reusing screen space for providing warning and information from a range of data sources.
US11858346B1
Disclosed herein are systems and methods, implementable in a vehicle equipped with adaptive cruise control, for maintaining in a subject vehicle substantially constant following distance relative to a preceding target vehicle where there has been a change in slope of a surface on which the subject vehicle is travelling and/or where pitch of the subject vehicle has changed. Systems and methods disclosed herein may maintain such substantially constant following distance by managing engine torque. Such engine torque management effective for maintaining substantially constant following distance relative to a preceding target vehicle, notwithstanding change in driving surface slope and/or change in pitch of the subject vehicle, may be realized, according to the subject vehicle's torque map, based on data received into the subject vehicle's electronic control unit through sensors for detecting surface slope and sensors for detecting vehicle pitch, which may be located on the subject vehicle.
US11858345B2
A method of controlling wheel slip of a vehicle and an apparatus thereof, the method includes determining, by a controller, a torque command for a driving device configured to drive the vehicle based on vehicle operation information obtained by an operation information detector while the vehicle is traveling, obtaining, by the controller, real-time vertical load information of a left wheel and a right wheel of the vehicle while the vehicle is traveling based on the vehicle operation information collected in the vehicle, determining, by the controller, a threshold engagement torque for control of a limited slip differential from the obtained real-time vertical load information, comparing, by the controller, a real-time torque command determined in real time based on the vehicle operation information, with the determined threshold engagement torque, and controlling, by the controller, the limited slip differential to be engaged so that differential action of a differential is limited when the real-time torque command exceeds the threshold engagement torque.
US11858341B2
An apparatus for preventing fuel overflow of a vehicle fuel tank includes: a valve unit including a valve body, a housing configured to cover a lower part of the valve body, a float mounted on the valve body and configured to slide up and down, a vapor line opened and closed according to a movement of the float, and a fuel inlet hole; a cover unit coupled to and enveloping the housing, the cover unit having a plurality of windows along an outer circumferential surface at a height corresponding to the fuel inlet hole, thereby being formed to allow the fuel to be introduced into the valve unit; and a shielding unit mounted on the cover unit to shield open windows, the shielding unit able to rotate along a turning direction of the vehicle to form an inflow path of the fuel flowing into the fuel inlet hole.
US11858340B2
A fuel conveying device having a pumping stage, an electric motor to drive the pumping stage, a control unit, a magnetoresistive fill level sensor that generates a fill level signal, including a temperature-effect compensator that generates a compensation signal to compensate for temperature-related influences on the fill level signal, and an evaluation unit (5) designed such that the temperature of a fluid surrounding the fill level sensor can be determined by the evaluation unit by the compensation signal. A fuel tank equipped with a fuel delivery device of said type, a method for determining the temperature of a fluid inside a fuel tank, a method for controlling and/or regulating an electric motor, and a method for controlling and/or regulating an injection of fuel vapors to a combustion process of an internal combustion engine.
US11858339B2
The invention relates to a fuel filler neck for providing fuel to a fuel tank. The fuel filler neck comprises a base tube with an access opening and at least one outlet opening and a flow path from the access opening through an interior of the base tube to the least one outlet opening. Further, the fuel filler neck comprises a transition tube with an access port and an extension tube with at least one outlet port. The transition tube is releasably connected to the extension tube, and a flow passage is provided from the access port through an interior of the transition tube and through an interior of the extension tube to the at least one outlet port. A least a portion of the transition tube is arranged removably and in coverage of the at least one outlet opening within the interior of the base tube.
US11858338B2
The invention relates to a device (2) for closing a motor vehicle cooling module, comprising: a closure element (4) for closing air inlets (6) in a motor vehicle; a guide element (8) for guiding the closure element (4) during an opening and a closing movement; and a control element (10) for controlling an opening and a closing movement of the closure element (4); wherein the closure element (4) and the guide element (8) are arranged with respect to one another and can be controlled by the control element (10) in such a way that air inlets (6) in a motor vehicle can be opened and closed by the closure element (4) along a vehicle width (B); wherein, at the same time, two air inlets (6) arranged opposite one another along a vehicle width (B) can be opened and closed by the closure element (4).
US11858337B2
A cooling air opening arrangement is for a motor vehicle front end. The cooling air opening arrangement has a peripheral edge surrounding a cooling air opening, and a plurality of slats. The slats are arranged substantially in parallel to one another and extend in the cooling air opening within the peripheral edge. The slats are arranged in a pivotably mounted manner in such a way that, in a first pivoting position, the slats are arranged such that the cooling air opening is substantially open for air flow and, in a second pivoted position, the slats are arranged to close the cooling air opening. The cooling air opening arrangement further has a peripheral sealing frame against which the slats bear in a sealing manner. The peripheral sealing frame being provided on the peripheral edge. Adjacent ones of the slats bear against one another in a sealing manner.
US11858336B2
The invention relates to a housing (3) for a front face module (2) of a motor vehicle (1), defining an air duct (4) for the flow of an air stream, said housing comprising: —an openwork structure (30) having a plurality of openings (32) defined by ribs (34); —a lining (36) which is securely attached to the openwork structure (30) and covers the openings (32) so as to form a wall which is airtight to the air stream. The invention also relates to a method for manufacturing such a housing and to a front face module (2) comprising such a housing.
US11858333B2
A vehicle body structure includes a front floor panel provided on a vehicle front side and a rear floor panel provided at the rear of the front floor panel. The front floor panel is positioned higher than the rear floor panel. A first battery arrangement portion is provided long in a vehicle front-rear direction at a center portion of the front floor panel in the vehicle width direction. A second battery arrangement portion is provided outside the first battery arrangement portion in a vehicle width direction below the front floor panel. An upper portion of the first battery arrangement portion is positioned higher than an upper portion of the second battery arrangement portion.
US11858324B2
A vehicle includes a vehicle frame, a vehicle body and elastic seal. The vehicle body is supported on the vehicle frame. The vehicle body has a cabin and a cargo box. The cabin houses one or more vehicle seats of the vehicle. The cabin and the cargo box are separately mounted on the vehicle frame and being separated by a gap. The elastic seal movably connects the cabin and the cargo box and covers the gap.
US11858323B2
A convertible top element for a convertible vehicle has, in sequence: an outer cover layer, a coupling layer, a convertible top bow, an absorber layer and an inner cover layer.
US11858311B2
Examples provide an attachment frame for combination attachment of environmental control devices. A plurality of non-articulating, rigid segments within a main body bend at various fixed angles. A perpendicular support arm forms an “L-shaped” attachment at the top of the main body. The support arm mounts one or more lights which attach to a top surface of the support arm. A bottom surface of the support arm mounts a fan or heater above a conveyor or other work area. The attachment frame includes a container holder to hold a water bottle or other container. A mounting plate connected to segment at the bottom of the main body mounts to the trailer conveyor device or other equipment. The attachment frame provides light, ventilation and/or temperature control for users working within an interior of a trailer or other confined spaces.
US11858307B2
An air management system for a vehicle having a first pneumatic circuit and a second pneumatic circuit, in which the first and second pneumatic circuits are pneumatically connected in a neutral position via a cross-flow mechanism. The first pneumatic circuit is configured to independently adjust air pressure of a first side of the vehicle. The second pneumatic circuit is configured to independently adjust air pressure of a second side of the vehicle. The system is configured to establish pneumatic communication between the first and second pneumatic circuits when the air management system is not independently adjusting the adjust air pressure of the first side of the vehicle and the air pressure of the second side of the vehicle in the cross-flow mode.
US11858305B2
A roll stabilizer in the form of a stabilizer bar which has a connecting portion at each end. The connecting portion is configured such that at least two bores are arranged on a circle arc. The center point of the circle arc constitutes the upper pivot point of the connecting element.
US11858304B2
The present invention relates to a multi-modal vehicle operable in a first mode as a fixed wing aircraft and reconfigurable to be operable in a second mode as a ground vehicle. The vehicle comprises first and second ends configured to operate in a first direction, with the first end leading the second end, in the first mode and in a second direction, with the second end leading the first end, in normal operation in the second mode.
US11858291B2
A carpenter square including a triangular plate and a base. The base has a corner at an intersection of a first side and first end. The corner extends into a pivot notch defined in a first side edge of the plate. During use, the base's corner may be placed on a side wall of a workpiece and the plate is pivoted about a pivot axis extending along the base's corner. An angular measurement may be marked on the workpiece's surface when a selected angle on the plate aligns with an edge of the workpiece that extends along an intersection of the workpiece's surface and side wall. First and second regions of the plate extend outwardly beyond opposite ends of the base. Each of the first and second regions includes a distance measurement scale and the first region further includes one or more angular measurement scales.
US11858279B2
A recording device includes a recording unit configured to perform recording by discharging a droplet to a medium a conveyance belt disposed facing the recording unit and convey the medium, and a cleaning unit including a scrape unit configured to make contact with the conveyance belt and scrape off a residual at the conveyance belt. The cleaning unit includes a pressing part configured to push the scrape unit against the conveyance belt, and the scrape unit includes a sponge member configured to be pressed against the conveyance belt to scrape off the residual and a contact part of the sponge member that is brought into contact with the conveyance belt is worn.
US11858266B2
A printer includes an ink ejecting section that ejects ink from a nozzle, an ink circulation path including an ink flow path through which the ink can be supplied to an ink ejecting section and an ink return path through which the ink supplied to the ink ejecting section is returned, a warming device including a temperature control module provided in the ink circulation path, where the warming device can heat the ink in the temperature control module, and a feed pump that can flow the ink in the ink circulation path, wherein the flow rate of the ink, in the ink circulation path, heated by the warming device is adjusted.
US11858264B2
An apparatus for dispensing droplet may include a droplet discharging member, a stage and a control member. The droplet discharging member may include a plurality of nozzles arranged in a first direction by a constant interval. The stage may receive a substrate including a plurality of regions for forming a plurality of pixels of a same size disposed in the first direction and a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction. The control member may control the droplet discharging member such that amounts of droplets may be substantially identical in the regions of the substrate for the pixels if the numbers of the nozzles of the droplet discharging member with respect to sides of the regions of the substrate for the pixels are different in the first direction. The control member may identify patterns of discharged droplets in the regions of the substrate for the pixels and adjusts the amounts of the droplets form the nozzles of the droplet discharging member by controlling operation of each of nozzles of the droplet discharging member.
US11858263B2
Disclosed is a printing device including at least one processor and a print head. The processor detects a nail region based on an image obtained by photographing a finger or a toe, sets at least a part of the detected nail region as a preceding print setting region, detects a region on which the preceding print is printed as a succeeding print region based on an image obtained by photographing the finger or the toe on which the preceding print is printed, sets a succeeding print region reference point corresponding to the succeeding print region, or sets a preceding print setting region reference point corresponding to the preceding print setting region and the succeeding print region reference point, and causes the print head to print a succeeding print on the nail region based on information on the preceding print setting region and a reference point that is set.
US11858259B2
According to an example, a cutting module may comprise a carriage and a cutting blade, wherein the carriage may be capable of reciprocating movement along a cutting path. The carriage may be supported by a support structure and the cutting blade may have a fitting pin to engage with the carriage. During a first direction movement along the cutting path, the fitting pin may obtain a first cutting-edge angle. During a second direction movement along the cutting path, the fitting pin may obtain a second cutting-edge angle.
US11858247B2
A nonwoven carrier material including at least a first part and a second part whereby the first and the second part including at least two layers of thermoplastic fibers. The first part and the second part are connected with each other in a connecting area to form the nonwoven carrier material whiteout thickness and weight variations in the connecting area. Further, a method for connecting a first and a second part of a nonwoven carrier material to form a connected nonwoven carrier material.
US11858222B2
The invention relates to a method for applying a material (30) to a fiber composite component within an application region (13) of the fiber composite component, the fiber composite component being produced from a fiber composite material having a fiber material (11) and a matrix material (12), the method comprising the following steps: —providing at least one monofilament woven fabric (20), in which a plurality of or all threads each consist of a single filament, —arranging the at least one monofilament woven fabric (20) on a fiber preform (10) in the application region (13), which fiber preform is formed from the fiber material (11) of the fiber composite material, —curing, in a common process step, the matrix material (12) of the fiber composite material, which matrix material embeds the fibers material (11) of the fiber preform (10), and a matrix material (12) embedding the monofilament woven fabric (20), thereafter the matrix material (12) of the fiber preform (10) and the matrix material (12) of the monofilament woven fabric (20) being at least partially cured, —tearing off the monofilament woven fabric (20) integrally bonded to the fiber preform (10), and—applying the material (30) in the application region (13) after the monofilament woven fabric (20) has been torn off.
US11858216B2
A fabrication device includes a platform to receive layers of build material for production of a 3-dimensional solid representation of a digital model, a component to deposit layers of build material, and an imagining component to bind respective portions of the build material into cross sections representative of portions of data contained in the digital model. The first imaging component may be a programmable planar light source or a specialized refractive rastering mechanism, or other imaging system. The platform includes an infusion system for providing photocurable resin to the component being built. The object may be a powder composite component using any of a variety of powder materials or a plastic component.
US11858214B2
A build chamber for a 3D printer includes a heated build space in an interior of the build chamber and a thermal isolator configured to insulate 3D printer components from the heated build space. The thermal isolator includes a first baffle section and a second baffle section. Each of the first baffle section and the second baffle section includes an accordion-pleated panel having a length, a width, a first end and a second end, wherein the panel comprises a parallel alternating top folds and bottom folds along the width forming a series of pleats, and each pleat within the series being configured to expand and contract, and wherein the panel is constructed of a heat-resistant material. Each baffle section also includes support rods affixed to the accordion-pleated panel in parallel to the pleats and at intervals along the length of the panel, the support rods substantially spanning the width of the panel. Ends of the support rods rest on surfaces proximate a ceiling of the build chamber to support the first and second baffle sections wherein the support rods are configured to provide sufficient strength and rigidity to the panel to substantially prevent the panel from sagging or buckling as the panel is expanded and contracted along its length.
US11858206B2
Disclosed embodiments relate to recoater systems for use with additive manufacturing systems. A recoater assembly may be used to deposit a material layer onto a build surface of an additive manufacturing system. In some instances, the recoater assembly may include a powder entrainment system that trails behind a recoater blade of the recoater assembly relative to a direction of motion of the recoater blade across a build surface of the additive manufacturing system. The powder entrainment system may generate a flow of fluid across a portion of the build surface behind the recoater blade that at least temporarily entrains powder above a threshold height from the build surface to mitigate, or prevent, the formation of defects on the build surface with heights greater than the threshold height.
US11858199B2
In vat polymerization printer, light is projected from a digital light processing (DLP) light source towards an opening in a tank containing photo-curable liquid resin. A mask is used to filter the light from the DLP light source, the mask having pixels configurable to be individually transparent or opaque to portions of the light from the DLP light source. In a build area of the tank, the filtered light is used to cure the photo-curable liquid resin so as to form a layer of a partially formed object. The operation of the DLP light source is synchronized with the operation of the mask, such that light from the DLP light source with high intensity is transmitted through the transparent pixels of mask and light from DLP light source with low intensity is blocked by the opaque pixels of mask. The mask may enhance the resolution of DLP light source.
US11858196B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure describe a magnetic substrate including a cured magnetic ink and a cured polymer resin, wherein the cured magnetic ink includes a plurality of functionalized magnetic iron oxide nanoparticles and wherein the magnetic substrate is a freestanding magnetic substrate.
US11858192B2
A sealing device for sealing off the intermediate space between a housing and a shaft which is mounted rotatably in the housing, which housing has a first plate-like body with a front side, a rear side and a first opening extending from the front side to the rear side and suitable for the leadthrough of the shaft, and has a line which runs in the body and which is suitable for conducting a liquid or gaseous medium. Here, the first body is suitable for being fastened sealingly to the housing such that the shaft which is rotatably mounted in the housing is led through the first opening. The line has a multiplicity of outlets which are connected to an inlet via at least one diversion and/or at least one divergence and which lead radially symmetrically into the first opening. The first opening is suitable for the introduction of first sealing such that the first sealing seals off an intermediate space between the shaft and the first body without blocking the outlets of the line.
US11858185B2
A movable platen according to the present invention includes: a mold clamping platen 42 having a projecting portion 62 in a mold closing direction-side surface; a mold mounting platen 44 mounted to the projecting portion 62 of the mold clamping platen 42; and a guide mechanism 50 fixed to the mold clamping platen 42 and supporting the mold mounting platen 44. Only the mold clamping platen 42 is fixed to the guide mechanism 50, while the mold mounting platen 44 is not fixed but placed on platen surface support portions 52.
US11858176B2
The invention relates to a die assembly for a pelletizing apparatus, the die assembly having a pressure regulating device that has a base member, a flow channel, and an annular channel. The base member has a fluid inlet side and a fluid outlet side. The flow channel is formed in the base member to provide a fluid-conducting connection between the fluid inlet side and the fluid outlet side. The annular channel section is connected to the flow channel in a fluid-conducting manner and formed in the region of the fluid outlet side. The invention is characterized by a flow cross-section regulating element for influencing a flow cross-section of the annular channel section. The regulating element is movable relative to the annular channel section and/or the flow channel.
US11858167B2
A saw blade cover for a bench saw, to an angle stop for a bench saw and to a bench saw. The saw blade cover includes a cover body which is manufactured from a first material as well as a contact region which includes a sliding section which is manufactured from a second material and along which the workpiece can slide on contact with the contact region. The stop unit includes a stop arm with a main section which is manufactured of a first material and with an end section which is manufactured of a second material. The bench saw includes a cover flap which covers a gap between the housing arrangement and a lay-on section lower side, the gap arising given a pivoting of the housing arrangement.
US11858164B2
A log feeding apparatus for feeding a log to first and second cutting spindles is provided, in which a log is fed to a second receiving position when centering spindles have reached a second delivery position that is away from the second receiving position downstream in the direction of log transport by a distance equal to or greater than an assumed maximum diameter of the log. That is, a new log is transported to the second receiving position by placing sections when the log held between the centering spindles reaches a position that will avoid contact with the new log. As a result, the time can be reduced for transporting the log to the cutting spindles.
US11858152B2
According to an aspect, there is provided a mounting assembly (12) for a hair cutting appliance, the mounting assembly comprising a head (16) for receiving a cutting unit (14); and a body (18). The head is mounted to the body by a four-bar linkage (20) having a coupler link (22) associated with the head, a frame link (24) associated with the body, and two arms (26) extending therebetween. The frame link is connected to each arm at respective joins (28), and the coupler link is connected to each arm at respective joins. Pivoting movement of the arms about parallel linkage axes (30) passing through each join permits rotation of the coupler link relative to the frame link about a virtual pivot (32). One of the coupler link and the frame link is a first link coupled to the arms by two-degree-of-freedom joins, thereby permitting the arms and the other of the frame link and the coupler link to further pivot in unison relative to the first link about a rotation axis (34) perpendicular to the linkage axes.
US11858142B2
Provided are a manipulation system and a driving method of the manipulation system capable of performing manipulation efficiently and suitably while suppressing damage to a minute object at the time of manipulation regardless of the degree of skill and technique of an operator. A sample stage configured such that a minute object is placed thereon, a first manipulator including a first pipette for holding the minute object, a second manipulator including a second pipette for operating the minute object that is held on the first pipette, an imaging unit for imaging the minute object, and a controller that controls the sample stage, the first pipette, the second pipette, and the imaging unit are provided.
US11858137B2
A mechanical device for grasping an object without a power source includes a receiver and at least one grabber assembly secured to the receiver. The grabber assembly includes first and second arms with proximal end portions and distal end portions, hooks disposed at the distal end portions, and a mechanical linkage disposed near the proximal end portion of the first arm and the second arm. The mechanical linkage kinematically couples the first arm to the second arm. Displacement of the first arm or the second arm against the object causes movement of the mechanical linkage and thus movement of the second arm or first arm, respectively.
US11858134B2
A manufacturing process adopting the reconfigurable robotic manufacturing cells that can work conjointly and yet have the capabilities to be reconfigured to disconnect from other cells and handle multiple tasks. The reconfigurable robotic cell is not dependent on any other robotic cells to complete work in progress.
US11858127B2
Systems and methods for mounting a robotic arm for use in robotic-assisted surgery, including a mobile shuttle that includes a support member for mounting the robotic arm that extends at least partially over a gantry of an imaging device. Further embodiments include a mounting apparatus for mounting a robotic arm to a base or support column of an imaging device, to a patient table, to a floor or ceiling of a room, or to a cart that extends over the top surface of the patient table.
US11858122B2
Provided is a process including: obtaining a first set of one or more images generated via an optical gas imaging (OGI) camera and a second set of one or more images generated via a second camera, wherein the first set and the second set correspond to a first location of a plurality of locations in a facility; classifying, via a convolutional neural network (CNN), the first set of one or more images according to whether the one or more images depict a gas leak; and storing a result of classifying the first set in memory.
US11858105B2
The present specification relates to a two-speed power transmission for a power tool comprising a planetary gear and a torque responsive gear shift mechanism for directing torque through the planetary gear in a high torque/low speed mode or past the planetary gear in a low torque/high speed mode, and comprising a driving member, a driven member, and a number of coupling elements arranged to intercouple in a first position the driving member and the driven member and in a second position the planetary gear and the driven member, the driving member comprising a number of recesses and axially acting first cam means for cooperation with the coupling elements in the first position forming part thereof. The present specification also relates to power tool comprising such a gear unit and a method for controlling such a power tool.
US11858103B1
A clamping grip for a hydraulic tamper has an ergonomic handle and a vertical post having an angled base secured to a clamp. At each distal end of the clamp is an aperture. The ergonomic handle is secured to the vertical post via a ball and socket joint which permits the handle to swivel freely about the vertical post.
US11858097B2
An adjusting-free clamp pliers jaw, the first and second pliers bodies rotating on the base and the first and second pliers bodies being mirror symmetrical, the clamping rim is provided on both the first and second pliers bodies, the extrusion notch is provided on both the first and second pliers bodies, the clamping rims on the first and second pliers bodies are jointly used for clamping a clamp, and the extrusion notches on the first and second pliers bodies are used for jointly pinching off the clamp. The invention brings following benefits that: the clamping rims and the extrusion notches are arranged on the first and second pliers bodies, so that a clamping and breaking of the clamp from the extrusion can are realized and both the crimping and shearing functions can be integrated together without a conversion operation, and an operation of this device is simple, convenient and quick.
US11858092B2
A substrate processing method of thinning a substrate having a protective tape attached on a front surface thereof includes measuring a thickness of the protective tape; and grinding, by using a grinder, a rear surface of the substrate held by a substrate holder.
US11858091B2
An apparatus for recirculating fluids in semiconductor systems. The apparatus including a base portion, an inlet portion coupled to a first end of the base portion, and a nozzle coupled to a second end of the base portion. The nozzle including a helical groove extending from a position near a nozzle base portion to a position near a tip of the nozzle portion. The helical groove extending from an exterior surface through the nozzle portion to an interior surface of the nozzle portion. Methods of using the apparatus in a semiconductor recirculation system are also disclosed.
US11858089B2
A polishing layer is provided. The polishing layer have a surface pattern, a cross section of the surface pattern along a direction has a plurality of grooves and a plurality of polishing portions, each of the grooves is disposed between every two adjacent polishing portions, and the polishing layer comprises a body layer and a surface layer. The surface layer is disposed on a surface of the body layer, and a top of at least one of the polishing portions has at least one flattened region exposing the body layer.
US11858084B2
A tool turret, in particular intended for use in a machine tool, is for an automated tool change process. In a work station (7) of the pivotable tool disk (5), a holder (9) intended for receiving a machining tool (15) can be attached to the tool disk (5) in a re-detachable manner by a clamping device (31) assigned to the work station (7). In an adjusting position of the tool disk (5) that differs from the working position (11), the respective clamping device (31) can be activated or deactivated, while leaving the holder (9) on the tool disk (5). In a changing position of the tool disk different from the working (11) and adjusting positions (57), the clamping device (31) unlocks the holder (9) in such a way that the holder can be removed from the tool disk (5) and replaced with another holder (9) to be used.
US11858083B2
A dental blank positioning device for positioning a dental blank holder within a manufacturing apparatus, the device capable of securing to a dental blank around its circumferential perimeter and comprising an interior side corresponding to the dental blank and an exterior side generally corresponding to a dental blank holder, an index element extending outwardly of the exterior side, whereby a portion of the index element may rest against an index chamber of a blank holder.
US11858079B2
A lock and pin for the structural and fluid tight repair of cracks not amenable to high temperature repairs or synthetic material patches. Fluid tight pins and locks seal the crack while one or more locks prevent the crack from growing. These repairs need to endure the remaining life cycle of the machinery part while withstanding all the strain, pressure, heat and expansion and contraction of the part before the crack(s) were formed. Often these cracks evolved due to engineering design flaws that will require even greater strength from these areas than when new.
US11858074B2
A medical apparatus remanufacturing method includes: disassembling a housing including a first housing and a second housing. The first housing can include a boss that is press-fitted to a boss hole of a press-fitted portion of a second housing to form an assembled state in which the first housing and the second housing are assembled to each other. The housing is disassembled by changing a temperature of at least one of the boss or the press-fitted portion to decrease a contact surface pressure between the boss and the boss hole, and removing the boss from the boss hole to release the assembled state.
US11858073B2
Methods and systems for creating and controlling an AC output for welding, plasma cutting or heating are provided. One embodiment of the present disclosure achieves a desired square wave AC output and reduces the number of circuit components needed by combining components of a buck converter and a full bridge inverter. Current flow paths through a power control circuit that are generated via switching of transistors in the circuit on and off are provided. In one embodiment, a pulse width modulation leg, which controls the level of current flow through an inductor, is provided. Certain embodiments include a bidirectional buck converter that converts an unregulated DC flow to a regulated DC flow through an inductor. In one embodiment, a steering leg is provided, which controls a direction of current flow through the inductor. Additionally, an output clamp circuit, which suppresses the parasitic load inductance during polarity reversal is provided.
US11858064B2
Disclosed are systems and methods to plan a path to form a part using an additive manufacturing system. The additive manufacturing system may include one or more additive manufacturing tools. The additive manufacturing tools may include arc welding tools and non-arc welding tools. The system may also manufacture the part based on the planned path.
US11858062B2
A multi-position clamp is disclosed for positioning and holding a portable friction welding tool adjacent a substrate for friction welding a plurality of fixtures in a precise pattern referenced from a fixed position on a substrate. The clamp has a clamp base temporarily securable at the fixed position on the substrate, a traveling mount comprising a tool mount for receiving said portable friction welding tool, and a connection to the clamp base allowing relative movement of the tool mount over the substrate. Index stops help install the plurality of fixtures in the pattern and an articulated fixture loading system allow positioning and loading successive fixtures without disengaging and removing said portable friction welding tool from connection with the clamp base.
US11858060B2
A friction stir spot welder includes a controller configured to: drive a rotary actuator and an advancement/withdrawal actuator to cause a pin to press workpieces while rotating; after the pressing, drive the rotary actuator and the advancement/withdrawal actuator to cause the pin and a shoulder to press the workpieces while rotating; and after the pressing, drive the rotary actuator and the advancement/withdrawal actuator to cause the pin and/or the shoulder to plunge into a weld region of the workpieces while rotating and stir the weld region to weld the workpieces together.
US11858053B2
Cutting tool for the rotary machining of workpieces, in particular a twist drill, with a cutting tip which has at least one main cutting edge and at least one free surface (24), wherein a flank face adjoins the main cutting edge radially to the outside, and wherein a flank angle of the flank face increases in a radially outward direction.
US11858049B2
A cemented carbide composed of a first hard phase, a second hard phase and a binder phase, in which the first hard phase is composed of tungsten carbide particles, the second hard phase is composed of at least one first compound selected from the group consisting of TiNbC, TiNbN and TiNbCN, the second hard phase has an average particle diameter of no more than 0.1 μm, the second hard phase has a dispersity of no more than 0.7, the second hard phase has a content of no less than 0.1 vol % and no more than 15 vol %, the binder phase contains at least one first element selected from the group consisting of iron, cobalt and nickel, and the binder phase has a content of no less than 0.1 vol % and no more than 20 vol %.
US11858028B2
A method of bending a conduit is disclosed. An engagement member is displaced via contact with the conduit and engages a switch. A signal is sent to a microprocessor indicative of a characteristic of the conduit to be bent, in response to engagement of the switch. The microprocessor provides a motor control signal to the motor to control a rotation of the shoe, wherein rotation of the shoe bends the conduit.
US11858014B2
The method and system uses ultrasound (US) transducers in contact with an inboard surface underwater portions of marine vessels or structures. By first digitally generating disruptive, multi-frequency, interfering US waveform signals (complex waveforms, typically replicating a Bessel function) and then converting the signals into analog, the transducers generate disruptive, multi-frequency, interfering US waveforms through the underwater portions of the marine vessels and structures which waveforms disrupt unwanted marine growth on the water-side of the vessel or structure. The digital signals, and also the analog signals, are complex waveform signals, typically produced with a Bessel function. The US transducers are either circular membrane transducers or surface transducers. A computer processor coupled to a memory, generates the complex waveform signals fed to the US transducers.
US11858012B2
A pre-saturated wiper for use in a cleanroom environment, or other similarly controlled environment, that includes a woven fabric which incorporates a unique weave pattern with sealed edges that is saturated with only Ultrapure water (UPW).
US11858007B2
To provide an optical grain sorter that can reduce the proportion of non-defective grains blown off collaterally, and even in a case in which a plurality of defective grains or the like fall down in a state overlapping each other, can blow off all the defective grains or the like. The optical granular matter sorter includes a control unit configured to control an ejection time of a compressed gas from an air ejecting unit based on a result of detection obtained by an optical detecting unit, in which the control unit has a comparing unit configured to compare a defect detection time for an object to be sorted by the optical detecting unit and a single-granular matter passage set time set in advance, and a calculating unit configured to multiply the defect detection time by a predetermined coefficient based on a result of comparison obtained by the comparing unit to calculate the ejection time, and in a case in which the defect detection time is less than or equal to the single-granular matter passage set time as the result of comparison obtained by the comparing unit, the calculating unit multiplies the defect detection time by a small coefficient as compared to a case in which the defect detection time exceeds the single-granular matter passage set time to calculate the ejection time, and controls the ejection time of the compressed gas from the air ejecting unit based on a result of calculation.
US11858006B2
Systems and methods for sorting delivery items are disclosed. The system may include an intake area, a sorting area operably coupled with the intake area, and a computing system operably coupled with the intake area and the sorting area. The intake area may include a source of delivery items having a plurality of delivery items, and a scanner for scanning respective indicia of each of the plurality of delivery items. The sorting area may include a conveyor having a respective sensor disposed at opposing end portions thereof, one or more sort locations disposed about the conveyor, and one or more indicators configured to indicate a proper sort location for the delivery items. The computing system may receive data corresponding to a delivery item from the scanner, determine the proper sort location for the delivery item, and send a signal to the indicator to indicate the proper sort location.
US11858002B1
A shaker screen comprising a panel defining a plurality of openings therein, the panel having an upper surface and a lower surface. A plurality of mesh screens is attached to the panel, and separately formed side rails are connected to the panel at first and second sides thereof. The side rails have a connecting hook at a first end thereof and a receiving slot at a second end thereof. The receiving slot is configured to receive the connecting hook at the first end of a side rail of an adjacent shaker screen and the receiving slot is covered by the panel.
US11857992B2
A device, comprising: an electroacoustic transducer on a substrate; a power supply to supply electromagnetic wave energy to the electroacoustic transducer; and a source of a substance that is movable to the substrate; wherein the electroacoustic transducer and the substrate are configured to generate acoustic wave energy that is used to move the substance from the source to the substrate, and to manipulate the substance on the substrate.
US11857990B2
Implementations provide cold spray additive manufacturing (“CSAM”) with gas recovery in situ in an open environment without requiring part disassembly and removal to a repair facility. Recapturing and reusing gas in an open environment reduces costs, rendering CSAM more commercially viable and efficient, and avoids risk of new damage to parts from contemporary pre-existing CSAM processes. A gas recovery nozzle attaches to a supersonic nozzle and sends used gas to a gas recovery sub-system by capturing gas that is deflected on impact with the part during CSAM. Captured gas is stored for reuse. A flexible coupling controls distance from the gas recovery nozzle to a part substrate to prevent (1) nozzle clogging; (2) stationary shock wave interference with gas flow; and (3) gas flow misdirection. The gas recovery nozzle also suppresses disruptive supersonic sounds. Implementations enable capture for later reuse of supersonically-propelled gas during in-situ CSAM in open environments.
US11857989B2
A system for retaining and maneuvering workpiece items to be spray-coated, the system including a workpiece hanger mount including a body portion, two side portions extending downward from the body portion to form an upper open space therebetween, two flange portions extending inwardly respectively from proximate distal ends of the two side portions to form a lower open space therebetween, and a groove formed in an upper surface of each of the flange portions, and one or more workpiece hangers including a lower portion configured to be attached to a workpiece, and an upper portion having two side tabs extending away from one another and configured to be selectively received in the respective grooves formed in the flange portions of the hanger mount, wherein a workpiece is hung from the system by attaching the workpiece to one of the workpiece hangers and mounting the workpiece hanger in the hanger mount.
US11857985B2
An airpot beverage dispenser having a body with a beverage cavity, a lid with lower and upper lid portions, a bellows within the upper lid portion, an actuator for compressing the bellows to increase the pressure of trapped air in the bellows, a duckbill valve, a skirt valve extending fully around the duckbill valve, and a spout. The skirt valve is movable into sealing engagement with a lid lower wall to define an air flow path from the bellows to the beverage cavity, and when the pressure of the trapped air in the bellows is sufficiently increased, the duckbill valve opens and passes the trapped air to the beverage cavity to force beverage out the spout. When the spout is moved to a stored position and the dispenser is in a locked state, the skirt valve serves as a relief valve to prevent over pressure in the beverage cavity.
US11857983B2
A magnetic shower head that can be prevented from falling off due to any accidental reasons, which includes a shower head and a fixing seat, and two magnetic assemblies to achieve magnetic attachment between the shower head and the fixing seat. One magnetic assembly is mounted on the shower head, and another magnetic assembly is mounted on the fixing seat. The first magnetic assembly includes a first mounting seat, a first magnetic piece and a fastener. The second magnetic assembly includes a second mounting seat and a second magnetic piece. The fastener is movable to achieve locking and unlocking of the shower head with respect to the fixing seat.
US11857974B2
Methods and systems for thermally controlling a chemical reaction in droplets. In an exemplary method, a first thermal zone and a second thermal zone having different temperatures from one another may be created in a reaction chamber. An emulsion including droplets encapsulated by a carrier fluid may be held in the reaction chamber. The droplets may have a density mismatch with the carrier fluid, and each droplet may include one or more reactants for the chemical reaction. An orientation of the reaction chamber may be changed to move the droplets from the first thermal zone to the second thermal zone, such that a rate of the chemical reaction changes in at least a subset of the droplets.
US11857973B2
A gene sequencing reaction device, a gene sequencing system and a gene sequencing reaction method. The gene sequencing reaction device includes: a supporting platform; a dipping container disposed on the supporting platform, wherein the dipping container has a dipping reaction area, and the dipping reaction area is configured to hold a chemical reagent for gene sequencing reaction, so as to dip a sequencing chip having a DNA sample loading structure on the surface and having a DNA sample loaded thereon in the chemical reagent to perform a gene sequencing reaction; a temperature control apparatus, configured to control the temperature of the chemical reagent in the dipping reaction area; and a transfer apparatus, configured to insert the sequencing chip into the dipping reaction area or pull out the sequencing chip from the dipping reaction area.
US11857968B2
Microfluidic methods of altering the spacing of a stream of objects. In an exemplary method, objects of the object stream may be transported in carrier fluid along a microfluidic channel structure having an inflow region, an outflow region, and an expanded region extending from the inflow region to the outflow region. The expanded region may have a greater cross-sectional area for fluid flow than each of the inflow region and the outflow region. Objects of the object stream may be moved from the inflow region to the expanded region such that at least a subset of such objects are moved closer to one another. Objects of the object stream may be passed from the expanded region to the outflow region to increase a distance between such objects.
US11857963B2
A microfluidic structure in which a plurality of chambers arranged at different positions are connected in parallel and into which a fixed amount of fluid may be efficiently distributed without using a separate driving source, and a microfluidic device having the same. The microfluidic device includes a platform having a center of rotation and including at least one microfluidic structure. The microfluidic structure includes a sample supply chamber configured to accommodate a sample, a plurality of first chambers arranged in a circumferential direction of the platform at different distances from the center of rotation of the platform, and a plurality of siphon channels, each of the siphon channels being connected to a corresponding one of the first chambers.
US11857962B2
The present disclosure provides systems and methods for sample analysis. The system comprises a container. The container comprises a sample receptacle and a cap, and the cap comprises a reservoir for retaining a composition, a first piercing member and a first pierceable barrier for sealing said composition within said reservoir. There is also provided a method for sample analysis.
US11857961B2
Methods and apparatuses for sequencing by synthesis using mechanical compression. These methods and apparatuses may mechanically control microfluidic movement using a force applicator and an elastically deformable sheet.
US11857960B2
This invention provides devices, systems, and methods for performing point-of-care, analysis, including multiplexed analysis, of a biological fluid analyte, such as blood. The invention includes a cartridge for collecting the biological fluid analyte. The cartridge is configured to be inserted into an assay reader, in which one or more assay reactions may be performed. The assay reader is designed to read and report the results of the one or more assay reactions.
US11857957B2
The present disclosure provides fluidic devices that in some embodiments have passive air control valves and in some instances, high resistance air valve constriction channels, or channel dimensions and compositions that provide effective capillary pressure ratios, that can be used to fill reaction wells and/or manipulate fluids in reaction wells. Also provided are fluidic systems containing fluidic devices adjoined to one another, methods for operating the fluidic devices, and methods for manipulating fluids using the fluidic devices. Methods for use of the fluidic devices in performing immunoassays, nucleic acid detection, other assay systems, including but not limited to point of care applications are also provided.
US11857954B2
Disclosed are novel supported nanoparticle compositions, precursors, processes for making supported nanoparticle compositions, processes for making catalyst compositions, and processes for converting syngas. The catalyst composition can comprise nanoparticles comprising metal oxide(s), such as manganese cobalt oxide. This disclosure is particularly useful for converting syngas via the Fischer-Tropsch reactions to make olefins and/or alcohols.
US11857951B2
Disclosed herein is a catalyst which comprises a silica core having an outer surface and a mesoporous silica shell having an outer surface and an inner surface with the inner surface being inside the outer surface of said mesoporous silica shell proximate to and surrounding the outer surface of said silica core. Wherein the outer surface of the mesoporous silica shell has openings leading to pores within the mesoporous silica shell which extend toward the outer surface of said silica core. The catalyst also includes catalytically active metal nanoparticles positioned within the pores proximate to said core, wherein the catalytic metal nanoparticles comprise about 0.0001 wt % to about 1.0 wt % of the catalyst. Also disclosed are methods of making the catalyst and using it to carry out a process for catalytically hydrogenolysizing a polyolefinic polymer.
US11857946B2
The present disclosure relates to a preparing method of a super absorbent polymer sheet and a super absorbent polymer sheet prepared therefrom. The preparing method of a super absorbent polymer sheet of the present disclosure may prepare a porous flexible super absorbent polymer sheet exhibiting high flexibility and fast absorption rate.
US11857945B2
Disclosed is the use of a composite for extracting one or more metal or contaminating chemical species from an aerial or aqueous medium by selective binding, the composite including at least one porous template functionalized by at least one polymer, the polymer including one of the following chemical functions: primary, secondary or tertiary amine, amide, nitrile, pyridine, pyrole, thiol, thiolether, thiophene, thiadiazole, alcohol/hydroxyl, phenol, catechol, pyragalol, carboxylic acid, aldehyde, ester, acyl, crown ether, phosphate, phosphoryl, epoxide, halogen, haloalkane.
US11857931B2
The application refers to process for production of a nano-microemulsion system of plant oil triglycerides, including: (i) preparing a dispersed phase plant oil triglyceride; (ii) preparing a carrier made from a mixture of propylene glycol monocaprylate and lecithin by a weight ratio of 5-6:1-1.5; (iii) adding the carrier to the dispersed phase by a weight ratio of 3-4:1-1.5, wherein the dispersed phase temperature is maintained between 60-100° C. while stirring under vacuum, followed by introduction of the whole mixture through the high-pressure microjet homogenizer; (iv) adding Tween 80 and Tween 60 to the solution mixture obtained in step (iii) by a weight ratio of 3-4:1-1.5:1-1.5, wherein the temperature of the dispersed phase is continuously maintained between 60-100° C. while stirring under vacuum; and (v) forming a nano-microemulsion system of plant oil triglycerides by cooling the mixture, followed by homogenization of the mixture by ultrasonication to achieve a droplet size of less than 100 nm, quality control of the resultant product by dissolution thereof in water and measurement of the transparency, in which if the required transparency is not met, continue to heat and measure the transparency until the required transparency is met, then stop the reaction, and emulsification of the mixture to obtain a nano-microemulsion system of plant oil triglycerides.
US11857930B2
Provided is a technique for continuously performing poor solvent crystallization or reactive crystallization. A porous membrane in which multiple pores through which a liquid passes are formed internally partitions the treatment container into a first flow space and a second flow space. A raw material liquid supply unit continuously supplies a raw material liquid to the first flow space. A treatment liquid supply unit continuously supplies a treatment liquid to the second flow space at a pressure at which the treatment liquid passes through the porous membrane and enters the first flow space. An extraction unit continuously extracts a mixed liquid of the raw material liquid and the treatment liquid from the first flow space. An aging unit precipitates and grows crystals of a target substance from a mixed liquid.
US11857927B2
A reverse osmosis filter ram apparatus comprises a base rack having a controllable linear actuator thereon, preferably a hydraulic ram apparatus. The ram apparatus comprises detachable and changeable connection brackets configured to alternately connect to steel reverse osmosis tubes and fiberglass reverse osmosis tubes. The linear actuator comprises a plunger head that is configured to push one or more spools within a reverse osmosis tube for moving tubular reverse osmosis filters therein, either for adding the same from the reverse osmosis tube or removal of the same from the reverse osmosis tube. Systems and methods of using the same are further provided.
US11857924B2
The Invention describes photocatalytic reactor systems that employ fluidization of the photocatalyst. These systems are useful for performing chemical transformations on a chemical containing fluid, including for VOCs. Aspects of the invention include non-imaging optics, abrasion resistant coatings and photoreactor designs.
US11857919B2
Methods, apparatuses, and systems related to electrochemical capture of Lewis acid gases from fluid mixtures are generally described. Certain embodiments are related to electrochemical methods involving selectively removing a first Lewis acid gas from a fluid mixture containing multiple types of Lewis acid gases (e.g., a first Lewis acid gas and a second Lewis acid gas). Certain embodiments are related to electrochemical systems comprising certain types of electroactive species having certain redox states in which the species is capable of binding a first Lewis acid gas but for which binding with a second Lewis acid gas is thermodynamically and/or kinetically unfavorable. The methods, apparatuses, and systems described herein may be useful in carbon capture and pollution mitigation applications.
US11857912B2
A process for producing a purified gas stream having impurities, using a production unit for producing a gas stream and a storage reservoir. The process includes producing a first gas stream by means of the production unit. Storing at least a portion of the first gas stream in the storage reservoir. Extracting, from the storage reservoir, a second gas stream corresponding to at least one portion of the first stream polluted by the impurities. Purifying the second gas stream by transfer of at least one portion of the impurities contained in the second gas stream into the first gas stream. And recovery of the purified gas stream at the output of the purification.
US11857910B2
Metal-organic frameworks for capturing one or more of SO2, CO2, and H2O are disclosed herein. Non-limiting examples of metal-organic frameworks include NbOFFIVE-1-Ni and AIFFIVE-1-Ni, among others. The metal-organic frameworks can be used in applications for removing and/or sensing one or more of SO2, CO2, and H2O from a fluid composition or an environment, either of which can proceed under dry or humid conditions and/or at room temperature.
US11857909B2
Systems for atmospheric water generation are disclosed. An illustrative system may comprise an atmospheric water generator, and a wireless communications device communicatively coupled to the atmospheric water generator. The wireless communications device may be configured to receive and display status information associated with the atmospheric water generator, and to provide operating instructions to the atmospheric water generator. The wireless communications device may be further configured to display an outside temperature, an outdoor humidity, a water level, an indoor temperature, an indoor humidity, and a dew point. The wireless communications device may be further configured to receive control instructions, and wherein the wireless communications device is further configured to communicate the control instructions to the atmospheric water generator.
US11857892B2
The invention relates to a method for separating a mixture in a system comprising a plurality of chromatography columns, the method successively comprising, in a cyclical manner, in a given part of the system: a step of collecting a raffinate; a step of injecting the mixture to be separated; a step of collecting an extract; and a step of injecting a mobile phase; the method further comprising: determining, in a node of the system, the history of a variable representing the concentration of at least one species contained in the mixture to be separated; detecting, within said history, a characteristic point between the beginning of a step of collecting the extract and the end of the following step of collecting the raffinate; comparing the position of the characteristic point in relation to a target position; and adjusting the carrier volume of the characteristic point, modifying the position of the characteristic point in order to bring the position of the characteristic point closer to the target position; the volume of the mobile phase injected per cycle being maintained higher than, or equal to, a minimum threshold and/or lower than, or equal to, a maximum threshold. The invention also relates to a computer program for carrying out the steps of such a method, to a storage medium on which such a program is recorded, and to a system comprising a processor coupled to a memory on which such a program is recorded.
US11857885B2
The present invention provides a cubic puzzle which is capable of changing its entire body into a cubic block shape ad has an improved entertainment property as a toy. A controller automatically changes a display pattern to a reference pattern by an actuator, making it a minimum condition that a current pattern being a display pattern at that point of time when identified by a pattern identifying means is different from a reference pattern being a predetermined reference display pattern, while a start state detecting means detects a predetermined start state.
US11857867B2
A system that managing playing cards to which information is given by an RFID tag and gaming chips to which information is given by an RFID tag. A system is provided with a storage box integrally configured to contain a card drawer for storing playing cards and a chip drawer for storing gaming chips, a card RFID reader for reading information of an RFID tag attached to the playing cards stored in the card drawer, and a chip RFID reader for reading information of the RFID tag attached storing gaming chips stored in the chip drawer. A card RFID reader and a chip RFID reader reads information of each RFID tag using different frequencies.
US11857850B2
Embodiments of golf clubs with grooves and methods of manufacture thereof are described herein. In one embodiment of a golf club described herein, the golf club has a head with a body. The body has a strike face with channels and at least one insert located within at least one of the channels. At least one of the channels comprises a single groove, and the insert forms at least a portion of the single groove. At least one of the channels comprises an opening on the strike face that is narrower than a bottom of the at least one of the channels. Other embodiments and related methods are also disclosed herein.
US11857845B1
A golf ball core, mantle, and/or cover layer(s) of golf ball having a composition comprising functionalized aluminosilicate particles having a particle size of less than 50 μm is disclosed herein. The aluminosilicate microspheres with an average diameter less than 50 μm are functionalized with, but not limited to, polysulfide, vinyl, amino, epoxy, hydroxyl, carboxyl, methacryloyl, hydrocarbon, mercapto and isocyanate.
US11857844B2
Aquatic activity fin (1) comprising a foot support portion (2) configured for fixing to a person's foot, and a fin portion (3) extending from the foot support portion substantially along a base plane (P). The fin portion (3) comprises a support frame (4), a plurality of hydrofoil blades (5) mounted pivotally to the support frame (4) via pivot couplings (6), and a mechanism for limiting the maximum blade pivot angle β of each hydrofoil blade. The mechanism for limiting the maximum blade pivot angle comprises bidirectional angle stops (7) configured to allow pivoting of the hydrofoil blade from the a thrust position where a trailing edge (9b) of the hydrofoil blade is above said base plane (P), to a return position where the trailing edge (9b) is below said base plane (P).
US11857836B2
Systems and methods are described for providing coaching, training, or equipment specification information to individual golfers based on data generated during their individual golf swings. Additionally, data hubs are described that provide information and services to individuals based on data collected for a community of multiple golfers. Such community data hub systems and methods may provide one or more of the following: (a) storage of scoring data, swing data, ball flight data, and/or equipment data for multiple golfers; (b) at least some level of individual access to the stored data for the community; and/or (c) electronic interaction between golfers within the community.
US11857833B2
A foot-pedaling exercise apparatus by which a user can perform an effective foot-pedaling exercise is provided. A foot-pedaling exercise apparatus includes a crank, a main-body part configured to rotatably hold the crank, a link rotatably connected to the crank, the link including a pedal on which a sitting user puts his/her foot, a moving member disposed in the link, and a tilt table including an inclined surface on which the moving member slides.
US11857831B2
A lifting apparatus having a bar with a shoulder bar supportable on a lifter's shoulders and a weight sleeve configured to receive at least one weight. The lifting apparatus includes an adapter that allows adjustment of the distal member to one of a plurality of different positions relative to a longitudinal axis of the shoulder bar.
US11857829B2
A motorized lifting rack that selectively lifts and lowers a barbell through linear actuators is provided. The powered lifting rack can engage a barbell at floor level. The linear actuators can also selectively raise and lower safety bars design to “spot” the barbell for a single user. The powered lifting rack is embodied in a system that includes a platform that the safety bars can nest in. The platform provides a plurality of actuating benches for a user of the barbell to utilize.
US11857827B2
A sensing base for an adjustable free weight may include a cradle, and a sensing assembly, which includes a plurality of sensors and mechanical components (e.g., pivoting levers), each associated with a respective plate well that accommodates a weight plate of the adjustable free weight such that each mechanical component actuates the state of a respective sensor upon placement or removal of the weight in a plate well. Sensor signals reflecting the states of the sensors are communicated, via a circuit, a processor to determine the weight selection of the adjustable free weight when removed from the base. The sensing assembly may be implemented using individual sensors of a variety of different types such as hall effect sensors, optical interrupt sensors, IR optical sensors, and the like. The base may be configured to automatically communicate the determined weight to an external computing device to facilitate activity tracking and/or fitness coaching.
US11857818B2
A pump panel training device is provided and includes a plurality of simulated gages operable to imitate gages upon a fire truck pump panel, a plurality of simulated controls operable to imitate controls upon the fire truck pump panel, and a simulated water hose operable to imitate one of water temperature changes, water temperature pressure, and water hose vibration for the fire truck pump panel.
US11857812B2
An ultrasound treatment system operable to deliver ultrasound energy to a patient's brain, the system comprises a treatment ultrasound transducer comprising a plurality of treatment elements, the treatment ultrasound transducer locatable to deliver ultrasound into the head of the patient. The system further comprises a data store, one or more position sensors configured to detect relative movement between the head of the patient and the treatment ultrasound transducer, and a data processor.
US11857810B2
An apparatus for treating tissue includes a first energy application device to direct energy at tissue of a patient to cause at least one channel to be formed and a controller to control application of energy from the first energy application device to form the at least one channel. The at least one channel may be in the shape of a spiral-like shape or may be in a flower-like shape. Mechanisms are provided to help open channels formed in the human skin structure. A second energy application source may be used to maintain the channel open after formation. The controller may cause the first energy application device to form a plurality of channels of varying depth, width and distribution over the human skin surface. The apparatus to control the application of energy may be operated using a foot-activated pedal.
US11857809B2
The invention provides compositions featuring TRP-4 polypeptides and polynucleotides, methods for expressing such polypeptides and polynucleotides in a cell type of interest, and methods for inducing the activation of the TRP-4 polypeptide in neurons and other cell types using ultrasound.
US11857808B2
Particle or hadron therapy is used on abnormal tissue using carbon atoms, protons, or helium atoms run through a linear accelerator and then directed at the target in the body. This can be used to treat, for example, atrial fibrillation, ventricular tachycardia, hypertension, seizures, gastrointestinal maladies, etc. Contouring and gating may be used to account for cardiac and respiratory motion, helping reduce collateral damage.
US11857797B1
The present disclosure relates to implantable neuromodulation devices, and in particular to a wireless power coil for a neuromodulation device that is to be implanted in a minimally invasive manner, for example, through a trocar or cannula. Particularly, aspects of the present disclosure are directed to a medical device that includes a lossy housing surrounding a power supply, and a receiving coil configured to exchange power wirelessly via a wireless power transfer signal and deliver the power to the power supply. The receiving coil is spaced a predetermined distance from the lossy housing. The medical device further includes a gap provided between the lossy housing and the receiving coil on a vertical plane, and a spacer that fills in at least a portion of the gap to maintain the lossy housing a predetermined distance from the receiving coil.
US11857794B2
This document discusses, among other things, systems and methods for managing pain of a subject. A system includes one or more physiological sensors configured to sense a physiological signal indicative of patient brain activity. The physiological signals may include an electroencephalography signal, a magnetoencephalography signal, or a brain-evoked potential. The system may extract from the brain activity signal one or more signal metrics indicative of strength or pattern of brain electromagnetic activity associated with pain, and generate a pain score using the one or more signal metrics. The pain score can be output to a patient or a process. The system may select an electrode configuration for pain-relief electrostimulation based on the pain score, and deliver a closed-loop pain therapy according to the selected electrode configuration.
US11857790B2
Techniques, systems, and devices are disclosed for delivering stimulation therapy to a patient. In one example, a medical device determines a first set of stimulation parameters that define entrainment stimulation pulses configured to entrain electrical activity in a patient. The medical device may control a stimulation generator to generate the entrainment stimulation pulses according to the first set of stimulation parameters. The medical device may further determine a second set of stimulation parameters that define at least one desynchronization stimulation pulse configured to disrupt at least a portion of the electrical activity entrained by the entrainment stimulation pulses. The medical device may subsequently control the stimulation generator to generate the desynchronization stimulation pulse(s) according to the second set of stimulation parameters.
US11857786B2
A method and apparatus for transdermally providing electrical current to a region of a user's head at high impedance conditions, while maintaining low voltage levels.
US11857784B2
A method of conducting a stimulus treatment includes the steps of examining health conditions of a subject to obtain examination data information of the subject, registering the examination data information in an information accumulation device, planning a schedule of the stimulus treatment determined to be suitable for the subject based on the examination data, and conducting the stimulation application treatment by applying a stimulation to a stimulation receiving site of the subject with a stimulation application device so as to increase the blood flow in the subject by 60% or more after the application of stimulation, as compared to the blood flow before the application of the stimulation.
US11857775B2
A fluid flow system and a method for detecting air bubble and liquid are provided. The fluid flow system comprises a force sensor configured to monitor at least one of an air bubble or an occlusion in a flow tube. The fluid flow system comprises a controller to execute the method. The controller is configured to monitor an output signal of a force sensor of the fluid flow system, and the output signal comprises an Alternating Current (AC) component and a Direct Current (DC) component, and detect a change in the output signal to a new output signal based on a number of transitions to the new output signal, and a time duration of the new output signal. The controller compares the change in the output signal with one of a predefined number of transitions or a predefined time and determines a new threshold when the change in the output signal exceeds one of the predefined number of transitions or the predefined time.
US11857765B2
A processor-implemented method comprises obtaining current operational context information associated with a sensing device; obtaining an expected calibration factor parameter model associated with a patient; calculating an expected calibration factor value based on the expected calibration factor parameter model and the current operational context information; obtaining one or more electrical signals from the sensing device, the one or more electrical signals having a signal characteristic indicative of a physiological condition; converting the one or more electrical signals into a calibrated measurement value for the physiological condition using the expected calibration factor value; and outputting the calibrated measurement value for the physiological condition.
US11857763B2
A method may include displaying to a user an interface at which the user inputs a fear of hypoglycemia index (FHI), the FHI corresponding to an acceptable probability of a blood glucose level being below a threshold blood glucose level. The method may also include receiving blood glucose data for a person with diabetes (PWD). The method may additionally include calculating a probability of the PWD having a blood glucose level below the threshold blood glucose level based on the variability of the received blood glucose data. The method may also include setting one or more target blood glucose levels to align the probability of the PWD having a blood glucose level below the threshold blood glucose level with the acceptable probability associated with the user input FHI. The method may additionally include delivering insulin, using the insulin delivery device, based on the target blood glucose level.
US11857754B2
A closure container that can house a preset drug applicator in an easily accessible manner with tamper evidencing means. The closure container contains a plurality of dosing ribs and a retainer to retain the syringe in a preset dosage amount and preferably has a window to view the barrel of the syringe.
US11857752B2
An intermittent, injection port assembly includes a flexible valve member of the type which is laterally deflected when moved from a closed position to an open position. A high flow non-tortuous flow passage is provided through the injection port assembly by a plurality of lateral passages bypassing a base which supports the flexible valve member.
US11857742B2
The present application relates to a balloon catheter, which is a rapid exchange structure and has a balloon catheter body and a hub, wherein the balloon catheter body has a push member, a transition member, a balloon loading member, a balloon, a imaging mark and a tip head, the balloon loading member comprises an outer tube and an inner tube, a distal end of the handle is connected with a proximal end of the push member, a proximal end of the transition member extends from a distal end of the push member, a distal end of the transition member is nested inside a proximal end of the outer tube of the balloon loading member, the balloon loading member loads the balloon, the tip head is provided on a distal end of the balloon, the imaging mark is provided on the balloon loading member, characterized in that the balloon has a wall thickness of 10-15 microns, the balloon has a nominal dilation pressure of 3-4 atm, and the balloon catheter has a rated burst pressure of is 10-12 atm.
US11857738B2
A stabilized coronary sinus catheter system having a proximal section and a distal section with a memory shape portion, and a tip, distal of the memory shape portion. A handle having a body, a tip deflection actuator, a memory shape portion deployment actuator, and an axis. The tip is in line with the axis and the tip deflection actuator is at a first position. The tip is deflected out of alignment with the axis when the tip deflection actuator is at a second position. A third position is a delivery configuration where the memory shape portion and the tip are in line with the axis. The memory shape portion deployment actuator is at a first location. A deployed configuration allows the memory shape portion to form a predetermined shape conforming to the shape of the coronary sinus when the memory shape portion deployment actuator is at a second location.
US11857735B2
Systems and methods of manufacturing 3D printed medical devices. The method includes feeding a first filament and a second filament into an interior cavity of a heating cartridge and melting each of the filaments on a substrate. The heating cartridge is then moved linearly and rotationally relative to the substrate to form a jacket including material from each of the first and second filaments. Further, rotating the substrate provides a uniform mixture and creates support rings between the filament materials within the structure of the jacket.
US11857734B2
A method to manage flushing of a catheter assembly may include providing a clamp for a fluid tube configured to be coupled to the catheter assembly. The clamp may include a sensor configured to detect the clamp is closed. The method may include starting a timer in response to the sensor detecting the clamp is closed. The method may include providing an alert in response to the timer reaching a predetermined duration of time. The alert may indicate to a clinician that the catheter assembly should be opened and flushed, which may prevent occlusion of the catheter assembly.
US11857728B1
Condensation traps are disclosed herein for the purpose of trapping and removing water condensed from the humidified air present within respiratory ventilatory systems and tubing. Traps disclosed herein can be positioned inline with the tubing, and therefore allow the trap to be positioned very near the patient interface, and minimize dead space between the trap and the patient interface. Minimizing the dead space in this manner prevents water from condensing prior to entering the trap. Respiratory ventilator systems incorporating condensation traps and methods of mechanical ventilation relying on condensation traps are also disclosed herein.
US11857723B2
Devices and methods for delivering air to a patient are provided. A device includes a first portion having a first airflow inlet and a sensor configured to sense airflow, the first portion defining a first airflow path, and a second portion comprising a second airflow inlet, an impeller, and an outlet for communicating airflow to a patient, the second portion defining a second airflow path. The device includes means for coupling the first portion and the second portion, such that the sensor sensing airflow in the first portion causes corresponding movement of the impeller, wherein the impeller is configured to impel air through the second airflow inlet and out of the outlet to the patient, upon movement of the impeller.
US11857715B2
An extracorporeal blood treatment apparatus comprises: a blood treatment device; an extracorporeal blood circuit comprising a blood withdrawal line and a blood return line coupled to the extracorporeal blood treatment device, wherein the blood return line presents a heating zone coupled or configured to be coupled to a blood warmer; a blood pump configured to be coupled to a pump section of the blood withdrawal line; at least a post-infusion line connected to the blood return line upstream of the heating zone; an air trapping device placed on the blood return line upstream of the heating zone.
US11857713B2
An automated peritoneal dialysis system and machine configured to perform dextrose mixing are disclosed. An example dialysis machine includes a pump, a first solution having a first formulation stored in a first container that is placed in fluid communication with the pump, and a second solution having a second formulation stored in a second container that is also placed in fluid communication with the pump. The first container has a first unique identifier indicative of the first formulation and the second container has a second unique identifier indicative of the second formulation. The dialysis machine also includes a logic implementer programmed to receive a therapy prescription and operate the pump if the first formulation indicated by the first unique identifier is specified by the therapy prescription, or the second formulation indicated by the second unique identifier is specified by the therapy prescription.
US11857711B2
A method for setting a control device or a closed-loop control device of a blood treatment apparatus, includes providing, determining or reading out a correction factor and correcting the flow value and/or the treatment target entered by the user by or about the correction factor. Furthermore, the present disclosure relates to a blood treatment apparatus, a digital storage medium, a computer program product, and a computer program.
US11857708B2
A supplementary device configured to be attached to a drug delivery device, the supplementary device including: first means being adapted to mechanically couple the supplementary device to a dosage selector of the drug delivery device; second means being adapted to select a dosage to be delivered by the drug delivery device; third means being adapted to mechanically couple the second means to the first means such that a dosage selection made with the second means generates a torque being transferred via the third means to the first means; a sensor configured to output signals indicative of the generated torque; and electronics configured to receive the signals output from the sensor and to determine based on the signals the selected dosage.
US11857682B2
A method of making a modified hyaluronate composition including providing an aqueous solution of uncrosslinked hyaluronic acid or sodium hyaluronate in unbuffered 135 to 200 mM NaCl, crosslinking the uncrosslinked hyaluronic acid or sodium hyaluronate in the aqueous solution with a dialdehyde or disulfide crosslinking agent to provide crude modified hyaluronate having a soluble fraction and a crosslinked fraction with a 10% to 98% degree of crosslinking, centrifuging the crude modified hyaluronate and removing at least a portion of the soluble fraction, and optionally repeating the centrifuging and removing until the modified hyaluronate has less than 10% by weight of the soluble fraction based on the total weight of hyaluronate, with a soluble fraction polydispersity (Mw/Mn) of 1 to 1.6, an Rh of the crosslinked fraction of 150 nm to 2000 nm, and an Rz of the crosslinked fraction of 50 nm to 700 nm, wherein Rh>Rz.
US11857679B2
The subject invention pertains to polyacrylate homopolymers produced from acrylolated drug monomers. The homopolymers can be produced in the form of nanoparticles. The nanoparticles comprising the homopolymers can be produced via a free radical-induced emulsion polymerization of the acrylolated drug monomers to produce an aqueous emulsion of uniformly sized nanoparticles. The homopolymers of the invention containing acrylolated antibiotic monomers can be active against Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria, such as Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli. Accordingly, methods are provided of treating a disease, for example, an infection, by administering to a subject the homopolymers, homopolymeric nanoparticles, or emulsions containing homopolymeric nanoparticles of the invention.
US11857648B2
The present invention provides a multivalent compound for targeted molecular imaging and/or targeted drug delivery, wherein two components or targeting molecules each interacts with one or more biomarkers on a cell. The present invention further provides a multifunctional chelator to combine the targeting molecules. The present invention also provides an in vitro high-throughput screening assay to determine the length of the spacer molecules. The present invention also relates to compounds/probes, kits and methods for use in targeted molecular imaging and/or targeted drug delivery.
US11857646B2
Provided herein are improved methods for preparing phospholipid formulations including phospholipid UCA formulations.
US11857645B2
Compositions and methods for visualizing tissue under illumination with fusion compounds of near-infrared radiation using near IR, closed chain, sulfo-cyanine dyes and prostate specific membrane antigen ligands are provided.
US11857632B1
A versatile drug delivery system comprised of plant-based nanocellulose can be used for providing high loading and extended release for virtually any drug. This system is made from nanocrystalline cellulose chemically cross-linked to form a hydrogel. This versatile hydrogel-based drug delivery system can be functionalized to support extended release of oral dosing, relieving patient burden and increasing quality of life.
US11857626B2
Biochemical scaffolds for regulating mammalian cell function. The biochemical scaffolds include a base liquid medium, a bioenergetic platform and a vibrational platform. The bioenergetic platform includes at least one Krebs cycle modulator and/or neurotransmitter modulator. The vibrational platform includes at least one energy signature component, e.g., an herb. The biochemical scaffold is subjected to harmonic oscillation for a defined, predetermined period of time, wherein the energy signature of the energy signature component is imparted to, captured, replicated, and retained by the liquid medium, and, when the biochemical scaffolds are delivered to and, thus, in communication with biological tissue, the biochemical scaffolds induce specific biochemical activities via the resonant transfer of the retained energy signature to the biological tissue and, hence, endogenous cells thereof.
US11857614B2
The invention provides compositions comprising flagellin polypeptides from bacterial strains and the use of such compositions in the treatment of disease.
US11857605B2
Provided herein are thiosuccinyl-crosslinked hemoglobin conjugates useful as blood replacement agents and therapeutic proteins, pharmaceutical compositions comprising the same and the methods of use and preparation thereof.
US11857602B2
A composition for treating a disease or condition responsive to human growth hormone receptor antagonists, comprising a modified human growth hormone receptor antagonist; and an anti-cancer composition. A method for treating cancer using human growth hormone antagonists, comprising pre-screening a patient by analyzing a tumor biopsy to confirm the presence of cancer and the presence of certain predetermined factors indicative of responsiveness to human growth hormone antagonists; and treating the patient with an effective amount of a composition that includes a modified human growth hormone receptor antagonist and an anti-cancer composition.
US11857598B2
Described herein are cell-selective mRNA constructs that can contain a RNA of interest and one or more miRNA targets. The cell-selective mRNA constructs described herein can be used to express an RNA of interest to a cell in a cell-selective manner.
US11857594B2
Disclosed herein are compositions for treating, ameliorating, preventing, or reducing the symptoms associated with menopause and/or hot flashes. The compositions disclosed herein comprise a curcumin composition, a green tea extract composition, and a phycocyanin composition that act as neurokinin 3 receptor antagonists. Also described herein are methods utilizing the aforementioned compositions.
US11857593B2
A nutraceutical food product includes a solid matrix and a liquid combined into a gel. The nutraceutical food product may include an immune modulator, such as transfer factor and/or a nanofraction immune modulator. A fruit component may be included in the nutraceutical food product. The fruit component may include at least one oligoproanthocyanidin-containing fruit, such as açai.
US11857588B2
Extracts obtained from the genus Hippophae or other plant sources or compositions produced by chemical or molecular biological techniques each having in common certain moieties in amounts effective when combined with reproductive cells to reduce the loss of function.
US11857581B2
Molecules secreted or derived from probiotic bacteria are provided for use in compositions and methods for the treatment and/or prevention of infection by pathogenic viruses. The isolated secreted molecules can also be used in nutritional or medical food products which provide probiotics to the gastrointestinal tract of a mammal.
US11857568B2
The invention discloses an aluminium salt for use in the treatment and prevention of dementias associated with β-amyloid deposition, preferably AD.
US11857561B2
The present invention is directed to methods for the use of 5′-adenosine diphosphate ribose (ADPR), and compositions thereof, for treating, managing, or preventing adenovirus-related diseases or conditions, eye disorders, cancer, or diseases or conditions caused by infection, inflammation, or physical, chemical, thermal, or radiation injuries.
US11857558B2
This disclosure provides bioceramic compositions of multiparticulate crystalline multimetallic silicates having silica double tetrahedra structures, such as Strontium-akermanite (Sr2MgSi2O7), Akermanite (Ca2MgSi2O7), Baghdadite (Ca3ZrSi2O9), Hardystonite (Ca2ZnSi2O7), as sources for controlled release of multiple metallic ions, such as Ca2+, Mg2+, Zr4+, Sr2+, Zn2+ for medical and dental use. This disclosure also includes medical and dental uses of the disclosed compositions, for example, in tissue regeneration, including bone tissue.
US11857549B2
A combination of active agents for the treatment of Lowe Syndrome (LS) comprising a RhoA inhibitor and a mTOR inhibitor; a pharmaceutical composition comprising the combination and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier; a combination of pharmaceutical compositions in which one composition comprises a RhoA inhibitor and the other composition comprises a mTOR inhibitor; and a method of treating a patient for LS.
US11857542B2
The present disclosure provides methods for the acute treatment of migraine with or without aura, comprising the administration of ubrogepant. In particular, the present disclosure provides methods for the acute treatment of migraine in patients having hepatic impairment; in patients with renal impairment; and in patients concurrently taking CYP3A4 modulators or BCRP and/or P-gp only inhibitors.
US11857541B2
Provided herein are combination therapies for the treatment of progeroid diseases and conditions, cellular aging, bone diseases, and cardiovascular diseases. The provided combination therapies target the aberrant farnesylation of the mutant lamin A protein progerin and increase progerin clearance.
US11857540B2
To provide a medicament for safely treating a patient in need of treatment with pemafibrate, a salt thereof, or a solvate of any of these (hereinafter also referred to as pemafibrate therapy). A medicament for treating a patient in need of pemafibrate therapy, the medicament comprising the step of avoiding or suspending concomitant use of pemafibrate, a salt thereof, or a solvate of any of these as an active ingredient in order to suppress an increase in plasma concentration of pemafibrate when the treatment is combined with a medicament containing an OATP1B inhibitor, or the step of reducing the dose of pemafibrate, a salt thereof, or a solvate of any of these.
US11857537B2
The present invention relates generally to the use of compositions and methods for treating nociceptive events that occur on the ocular surface in association with dryness, injury, environmental pollutants, and infectious and non-infectious diseases. Specifically, the present invention is directed to the use of certain compounds for treating for treating ocular pain or ocular discomfort.
US11857534B2
Methods are disclosed for treating neurodegenerative disorders, such as ALS and FTD by using an effective amount of a type I protein arginine methyltransferase (Type I PRMT) inhibitor to decrease cellular toxicity caused by dipeptide repeat proteins (DRPs).
US11857531B2
Provided herein are compositions and methods for the treatment of conditions such as benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH), Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms (LUTS), chronic prostatitis (CP) and/or chronic pelvic pain syndrome (CPPS). In particular, provided herein are combination therapies comprising a mast cell inhibitor and a histamine receptor antagonist.
US11857530B2
The disclosure is directed to formulations comprising cannabinoids. More particularly, the cannabinoid formulations can be designed to align with an individual's genotype based on a defined list of polymorphisms.
US11857525B2
A specialized immunonutrition supplement can be administered to a surgical patient to reduce post-operative complications by restraining the expansion of myeloid-derived suppressor cells. The supplement includes one or more of L-arginine, omega-3 fatty acids, vitamin A, and dietary nucleotides, preferably all four of these compounds. The supplement is administered to the patient at least once per day for a time period extending from a pre-operative day that is three to seven days prior to a bladder surgery of the patient to a post-operative day that is three to seven days after the bladder surgery. The supplement can be administered to treat or prevent post-operative paralytic ileus in a bladder cancer patient; treat or prevent surgery-induced, inflammation-induced or cancer-induced cachexia; reduce the incidence of chronic infections resulting from expansion of myeloid-derived suppressor cells in a patient; and/or reduce mRNA expression of pro-inflammatory cytokines in a patient.
US11857524B2
The present invention relates to stable liquid pharmaceutical compositions of baclofen or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. More specifically, stable oral suspensions of baclofen at concentrations of equal to or more than 2 mg/mL or more are provided. Preferably, the liquid pharmaceutical compositions of baclofen are suitable for oral administration and are stable at wider pH ranges over a variety of storage conditions, including long-term storage for extended periods of time. Methods of treating various disorders using the inventive pharmaceutical compositions are also provided. The invention further relates to various methods for preparing stable suspension of baclofen.
US11857517B2
Described herein are compounds of Formula I: wherein R1-R6 are as described herein, for use in the treatment of a coronavirus infection; a method of inhibiting a coronavirus 3CL protease, by contacting the 3CL protease with a compound of Formula I; as well as methods pharmaceutical composition comprising a compound of Formula I and at least one phospholipid, wherein a weight ratio of the phospholipid(s) to the compound in the composition is in a range of from 10:1 to 1:10. Further described herein is a method of treating a coronavirus infection in a subject in need thereof, by administering to the subject at least one compound that exhibits at least two of: inhibition of an activity of a 3CL protease of the coronavirus; inhibition of inflammation in the subject; and inhibition of autophagy in the subject.
US11857515B2
Healthcare formulations, including, inventive surfactants, Active ingredient formulated as solids, liquids, or emulsions. The present disclosure provides formulations of healthcare products, such as: prescription drugs, over the counter drugs; minerals, herbal, and/or vitamin supplements; drugs administered in hospitals, clinics, physician's office, and places of palliative care; vaccines, tissue, organ, and cell transplants and/or grafts and/or infusions; and wound care formulations including topical ointments, lotions, cleaners, wipes, bandages, and dressings. The Active may be included in the formulations as a solute, a solvent, a particle, or an oil immiscible component of the formulation. The Active may be included in tablets, capsules, tinctures, liquids, or emulsions. Inventive healthcare formulations include formulations suitable for administration orally, topically, and/or by injection.
US11857504B1
Provided herein are patient-controlled oral liquid-medicine dispenser and deactivation systems. The system includes a dosing container having a defined volumetric capacity and a spillway adapted and configured to allow fluid in excess of the defined volumetric capacity to flow out of the dosing container; a sealed and tamperproof waste receptacle fluidly coupled to the dosing container, the waste receptacle adapted and configured to capture and prevent diversion of liquid medicine dispensed in excess of the defined volumetric capacity of the dosing container; and a suction apparatus extending between a lower region of the dosing container and outside of the dosing container. Also provided herein are methods of administering a medication using the system.
US11857499B2
In certain embodiments, a vial adaptor comprises a housing configured to couple the adaptor with a vial, an access channel, a regulator channel, and a regulator assembly. The access channel is configured to facilitate withdrawal of fluid from the vial when the adaptor is coupled to the vial. The regulator channel is configured to facilitate a flow of a regulating fluid from the regulator assembly to compensate for changes in volume of a medical fluid in the vial. In some embodiments, the regulator assembly includes a flexible member configured to expand and contract in accordance with changes in the volume of the medical fluid in the vial. In some embodiments, the flexible member is substantially free to expand and contract. In some embodiments, the flexible member is not partly or completely located in a rigid enclosure.
US11857496B2
A temperature-controlled shipper for shipping diagnostic blood samples is disclosed. The shipper must remain at a temperature between 6° C. and 37° C. for up to 24 hours while in transit. The shipper includes identical mating PCM blow-molded bottles which enclose and protect diagnostic blood sample vials. Identical mating clamshell insulating containers further enclose and protect the PCM bottles. Both the bottles and clamshell containers can be re-used. A dual PCM liquid suspension is utilized in the PCM bottles and is preconditioned and stored at a single temperature.
US11857492B2
A tablet cassette that inhibits rotation of a rotor when the tablet cassette is not mounted. A plurality of engaged portions are provided, about the axial line of a rotary shaft at predetermined intervals in the circumferential direction on an annular inner surface region of a bottom wall portion located a predetermined distance away from the rotary shaft. A sliding shaft is disposed in the rotary shaft, slidable in the axial direction, such that the sliding shaft rotates together with the rotary shaft. The rotary shaft is displaced toward a rotor body when the rotary shaft is coupled to a drive shaft and the rotary shaft is displaced toward a bottom wall portion when the rotary shaft is not coupled to the drive shaft. Two or more engaging portions are provided on arm portions provided on the sliding shaft and engage with some of a plurality of engaged portions.
US11857487B2
An example system includes a first wearable computing device, and at least one additional wearable computing device. The first wearable computing device is configured to retrieve information regarding a series of tasks to be performed in treating a patient in cardiopulmonary arrest. The information includes, for each task, an indication of a user to perform the task, an indication of a time point to perform the task. The first wearable computing device is further configured identify one or more subsets of the information, and transmit each subset to a different corresponding one of the additional wearable computing devices. Each additional wearable computing device is configured to receive, from the first wearable computing device, at least one of the one or more subsets of the information, and output, for each task within a received subset, a corresponding prompt to perform the task at the respective time point associated with the task.
US11857484B2
The invention relates to a crutch accessory set for two crutches, which comprises: in duplicate, a single- or multi-part cover by which an arm guiding portion and a gripping portion of a crutch can be completely or partially covered, and a container arrangement to accommodate small parts. The container arrangement is composed of two individual containers which can be releasably connected to one another by means of connecting elements, wherein, if the individual containers are separated from one another, in each case one of the two individual containers can be releasably fastened by means of the connecting element to a respective one of the two covers, for which purpose corresponding connecting elements are arranged on each cover. The invention further relates to a kit for persons with impaired mobility, comprising two crutches (forearm crutches), and to a crutch accessory set according to the invention.
US11857480B1
A sexual stimulation device includes a ring structure, at least one first function member, at least one second function member and at least one battery. The ring structure has two opposite sides. The first function member is positioned at one side of the ring structure. The second function member is positioned at the other side of the ring structure. The battery is arranged in the first function member and/or the second function member. The first function member and the second function member collectively include N stimulation sources, wherein N is greater than or equal to 3.
US11857476B2
The invention is directed to a molded, hollow, ligature resistant wardrobe comprising a ligature resistant top portion, a ligature resistant coat hanger support and a shelf. A door may be attached to enclose a storage shelf and the igature resistant coat hanger support. The igature resistant coat hanger support having a closed hanger hook engagement recess to prevent providing a ligature tie off point. The ligature resistant top portion may have a sloping shape extending from a back to a front.
US11857472B2
A wheelchair includes a seating portion on which a wheelchair user sits, a body frame that supports the seating portion, a pair of rear wheels and a pair of front wheels rotatably supported by the body frame, and a seat back portion capable of changing the inclination angle with respect to the seating portion. The wheelchair includes push-along handle portions as engaging portions capable of fixing the seat back portion to a side sill as a vehicle body member that forms a door opening of the vehicle when the seat back portion is tilted backward of the wheelchair.
US11857461B2
This invention is in the field of medical intervention related to the lacrimal system. The invention relates to a lacrimal system device or system and methods of using the device for drug delivery to the eye, sinuses and/or periocular tissues.
US11857455B2
A reusable menstrual discharge collection device is described comprising: dual durometer article that forms a menstrual discharge disc-shaped collection device with a half spherical dome catch where the half spherical dome catch includes a continuous circumferential top and bottom portion, and wherein the continuous top portion is attached to a continuous uniform flexible hinge that is placed along an entire circumferential uniform upper portion of the half spherical dome catch and wherein the hinge also forms a base for and is connected to a 360-degree continuous uniform circumferential rim section such that the hinge allows the half spherical dome catch to be in both an inverted use position/configuration that allows movement of the catch toward the rim section allowing for adjustability to fit multiple cervix physiologies and the elongated configuration allows for ease of manufacturing and cleaning.
US11857450B2
A strap attachment for attaching a strap to a frame member in an orthopedic device including a retainer; a cable connected to the retainer having at least one segment arranged to be adjustably connected to a frame of a device; a connector securable to an end portion of the at least one segment of the cable, the connector arranged to engage the frame.
US11857435B2
Disclosed is an angle-expandable spinal cage including an upper plate and a lower plate disposed to face each other, a frame disposed between the upper plate and the lower plate, the frame having a space formed therein, a block disposed between the upper plate and the lower plate and disposed in front of the frame, and a driving bolt having one end thereof connected to the frame and a remaining end thereof connected to the block. The angle-expandable spinal cage is implanted into an affected area while occupying the minimum angle thereof and to be expanded between vertebral bodies.
US11857433B2
An implant stabilizes two adjacent bones of a joint, while enabling a natural kinematic relative movement of the bones. Support components are connected to each bone of the joint, and a flexible core is interposed between them. The core and at least one of the support components are provided with a smooth sliding surface upon which the core and support component may slide relative to each other, enabling a corresponding movement of the bones. The surfaces may have a mating curvature, to mimic a natural movement of the joint. The core is resilient, and may bend or compress, enabling the bones to move towards each other, and or to bend relative to each other.
US11857431B1
A method of performing a transcorporeal procedure including placement of a vertebral body replacement device into a transcorporeal void within a cervical spine is disclosed. The method includes creating a working channel through a vertebral body of a vertebra by removing at least a portion of the vertebral body of the vertebra, beginning anteriorly and extending inwardly toward the epidural space, the working channel extending from an anterior wall through a posterior wall, and placing the vertebral body replacement device within the working channel, the placement of the vertebral body replacement device leaving the inferior and superior endplates to perform their function and leaving at least a portion of the intervertebral disc functional thereby avoiding an intervertebral fusion to an adjacent vertebra.
US11857428B2
The invention relates to a modular humeral prosthesis for an inverse shoulder prosthesis, comprising an anatomical shaft (1) and a separable epiphyseal head (2) which may be angularly orientated by rotation about the longitudinal axis (XX) of the anatomical shaft. The anatomical shaft and the epiphyseal head comprise complementary angular indexing means (11, 28) for relative rotational fixation.
US11857427B2
Implants, device, systems and methods for replacing an articulation surface in a joint, for example, shoulder prostheses with stemless humeral components or stemmed humeral components. Methods for using the shoulder prostheses with stemless humeral components or stemmed humeral components are also disclosed.
US11857425B2
Systems (500, 1000) and methods (1700) for fabricating a soft tissue implant (100, 400). The methods generally involve: receiving implant data representative of the target implant; determining a planned weaving path for forming the soft tissue implant; and communicating the planned weaving path to an output device.
US11857423B2
Off-center liners can be used with an acetabular cup in hip replacement or revision surgical procedures. The liners (of metal or plastic) can be laterally spaced from the acetabular cup, angled relative to the acetabular cup and/or have an opening that is offset relative to the axis of the acetabular cup. The liners have an orientation indicator that identifies where the liner should be impacted (e.g., impaction location or point) by the impactor to ensure the liner is impacted in a square manner relative to the acetabular cup.
US11857420B2
Presently disclosed is a sacroiliac joint implant. In an embodiment, a sacroiliac joint implant includes a porous body configured to promote bone growth. The porous body may have a window that is configured to hold a graft material. The porous body may also include a first face and second face configured to contact the sacrum and the ilium of the sacroiliac joint when the implant is maintained in compression within the sacroiliac joint.
US11857416B2
Embodiments of a catheter assembly are disclosed. The catheter assembly comprises a shaft; at least one connector assembly. The connector assembly can comprise a first connector portion and a second connector portion, wherein the first connector portion is fixedly coupled to a distal end of the shaft, and is coupled to the second connector portion with a limited degree of freedom of movement by at least one radially extending pin retained within at least one slot on the second connector portion. The at least one slot can have an oversized circumferential dimension that allows limited rotation of the second connector portion relative to the first connector portion about a longitudinal axis of the shaft.
US11857413B2
A prosthetic heart valve including a stent frame and a valve structure. The valve structure is disposed within a lumen of the stent frame. The stent frame is configured to self-expand from a compressed condition for transluminal delivery. The stent frame has a lattice structure forming a tubular shape defining a circumference and a plurality of closed cells arranged to define a band exhibiting a variable radial stiffness. The prosthesis can be deployed such that the band applies a minimal force on to anatomical locations relating to the heart's conductive pathways. A region of the band otherwise having low radial stiffness is located at or over a conductive pathway upon final implant.
US11857402B1
An osmotic sanitary collection bag for collecting fluid discharged from the vagina during menstruation. The osmotic sanitary collection bag includes an absorbent sponge having a plurality of drainage apertures disposed therethrough. Elongated adhesive strips extend away from the sponge and are adhered to a first surface of a conventional sanitary device to secure the osmotic sanitary collection bag in place. A collection bag abuts the absorbent sponge and is disposed in underlying relation to the absorbent sponge and the drainage apertures. The absorbent sponge is laced with salt, alcohol, and an odor-masking substance, such as sodium bicarbonate.
US11857395B2
A device promotes triple flexion of the hip, knee and ankle. The device includes a belt, knee cuff, ankle wrap, foot wrap and two pairs of adjustable bands. The device is configured to promote triple flexion in the hip, knee and ankle of the user during the swing phase of walking when the user has the belt wrapped around the user's waist, the knee cuff wrapped around the user's knee, the ankle wrap wrapped around the user's ankle and the foot wrap wrapped around the user's foot.
US11857392B2
A multifocal IOL including at least one diffractive surface including a plurality of discrete, adjacent, diffractive, concentric rings, having a radial phase profile cross-section with a near-symmetrical diffractive surface topography, and an odd number, greater than three, of diffractive orders and an asymmetrical distribution of energy flux over the diffractive orders.
US11857386B2
A method for manufacturing a dental or medical tool the method comprising the steps of positioning a pre-fluted blank 14 including a stem 24 and a shank 22 within a machine 30, using a probe to identify a position and/or an orientation of at least one flute 26 of the pre-fluted blank 14 and/or the position and/or orientation of an orientation indicator 28 of the pre-fluted blank 14, and using the machine 30 to form a cutting end region 36 at the end of the stem 24 of the pre-fluted blank 14 remote from the shank 22, the flute 26 extending into the cutting end region 36, the machine 30 being controlled to ensure that the cutting end region 36 is correctly orientated relative to the flutes 26 of the pre-fluted blank 14.
US11857374B2
An image registration system (111) for registering a live stream of ultrasound images (112) of a beamforming ultrasound probe (113) with an X-ray image (114) is described. The image registration (111) system identifies, from the X-ray image (114), the position of a medical device (116) represented in the X-ray image (114); and determines, based on ultrasound signals transmitted between the beamforming ultrasound probe (113) and an ultrasound transducer (115) disposed on the medical device (116), a location of the ultrasound transducer (115) respective the beamforming ultrasound probe (113). Each ultrasound image from the live stream (112) is registered with the X-ray (114) image based on the identified position of the medical device (116). The registration includes determining an offset from said identified position that is based on i) a predetermined spatial relationship of the ultrasound transducer (115) respective the medical device (116) and ii) the determined location of the ultrasound transducer (115) respective the beamforming ultrasound probe (113).
US11857371B2
An ultrasound apparatus includes: a display unit configured to display on an ultrasound image a measuring device image including a plurality of measuring points which indicate points on the ultrasound image that are to be measured, and an adjusting portion for adjusting the plurality of measuring points; an input unit configured to receive a touch input for changing a position of the adjusting portion; and a controller configured to adjust a position of at least one of the plurality of measuring points based on the changed position of the adjusting portion, and to obtain a measurement value based on positions of the plurality of measuring points including the at least one measuring point, the position of which is adjusted, wherein the plurality of measuring points are disposed apart from the adjusting portion.
US11857369B1
A system and method for remote ultrasonic scanning and informational imaging for neoplasia are provided having a portable ultrasonic transducer integrated with summation software capable of producing a three-dimensional data set. The instant abstract is neither intended to define the invention disclosed in this specification nor intended to limit the scope of the invention in any way.
US11857364B2
An ultrasound probe and method for using the same are described. In one embodiment, the ultrasound probe comprises: a probe array assembly having a probe tip; a first enclosure disposed around a portion of the probe array assembly, where the first enclosure has first and second openings and comprises a thermally conductive material; and one or more thermally conductive fins contained within the first enclosure, each of the one or more thermally conductive fins having one end enclosed within the probe array assembly and a portion extending away from the probe array assembly and in thermal contact with an inner surface of the first enclosure to create a thermal path from the first opening to the second opening in the first enclosure.
US11857362B2
A method of assembling an intravascular imaging device is provided. In one embodiment, the method includes obtaining a support member having a body portion including a plurality of recesses longitudinally spaced from one another; positioning a flex circuit around the support member such that the flex circuit is radially spaced from the body portion of the support member; and filling a space between the flex circuit and the support member with a backing material through the plurality of recesses of the body portion. In one embodiment, an intravascular imaging device includes a flexible elongate member; an imaging assembly including: a flex circuit; and a support member around which the flex circuit is disposed, the support member having a body portion including plurality of recesses, wherein the support member defines lumen in fluid communication with a space between the flex circuit and the support member via the plurality of recesses.
US11857348B2
An exemplary optical measurement system includes a signal generator configured to generate a signal and a processing unit configured to direct the signal generator to apply the signal to a component within the optical measurement system, generate, based on a response of the component to the signal, characterization data representative of a timing uncertainty associated with the component, and perform, based on the characterization data, an action associated with the component.
US11857345B2
Medical devices and methods for making and using medical devices are disclosed. An example medical device may include a medical device for measuring blood pressure. The medical device may include an elongated shaft having a proximal region and a distal region and a lumen extending therethrough and an optical pressure sensing block disposed within the lumen, the optical pressure sensing block including a distal portion bearing a pressure sensing membrane and a proximal portion forming an optical fiber connector extending proximally from the proximal portion. The optical fiber connector may be configured to be coupled to an optical fiber extending through the lumen.
US11857338B2
The invention relates to a system for analysing physico-chemical properties of a skin surface, comprising: at least one contact sensor for applying to said skin surface to be analysed in order to determine specific information, once or twice a day, about a particular area of the skin surface; at least one environment sensor designed to accompany a user throughout the day and to measure, throughout the day, at least one external parameter acting on said skin surface; and a processing unit interfaced with the contact and environment sensors, said unit being fitted with analysis means allowing the determination of physico-chemical properties of the skin surface to be analysed, from signals generated by the contact and environment sensors.
US11857332B2
An arrangement for determining a degree of stretching of hair is provided. The arrangement includes a detection unit for detecting hair characteristics and an evaluation unit for evaluating the detected hair characteristics and for determining the degree of elongation of hair based on the detected hair characteristics. The detection unit contains a near-infrared sensor, and is configured to irradiate a hair sample with electromagnetic waves in the infrared range and to detect an absorbance of the hair sample in a wavelength range from about 800 to about 2500 nm. The acquisition unit is configured to generate an absorption spectrum of the hair sample in the wavelength range of from about 800 to about 2500 nm and provide it to the evaluation unit and the evaluation unit is configured to compare the generated absorption spectrum with a calibration model and to determine a degree of elongation of the hair sample.
US11857308B2
A system for respiratory monitoring of a subject comprises: a bioimpedance measurement sensor, which is configured for arrangement in relation to the subject for acquiring a bioimpedance signal; a processing unit, which is configured to receive the acquired bioimpedance signal and receive a reference signal, the reference signal representing a respiratory effort of the subject or a respiratory airflow at a time of bioimpedance signal acquirement, the processing unit being further configured to divide the bioimpedance signal into an effort component representing a respiratory effort of the subject and a flow component representing a respiratory airflow of the subject based on the received bioimpedance signal and the received reference signal.
US11857305B2
Disclosed is a system for detecting an internal object in a body. The system includes at least one antenna pair including two antennas which are adapted to be symmetrically positioned around the body in relation to a line of symmetry. The system is adapted to transmit microwave signal into the body which are reflected and/or scattered from the internal object. The system is adapted to receive the reflected and/or scattered microwave signals, and to compare the received microwave signals at the symmetrically positioned antennas. The system is adapted to detect the internal object or a change in an already detected internal object when there is a difference between the received microwave signals at symmetric antenna pairs. The difference is related to the different dielectric properties between the internal object and the body.
US11857303B2
An apparatus for measuring foot blood flow has a platform with a platform contact surface configured to receive a foot force from a user placing their foot on the contact surface. The apparatus also has a plurality of PPG sets (having at least one light source and at least one detector) extending through the platform contact surface, and a plurality of springs. Each PPG set is coupled with one or more of the springs to movably couple with the platform. In addition, each spring is biased to produce a biasing force via its coupled PPG set when the contact surface of the platform receives the foot. To maintain consistent pressure against the skin and good signal to noise ratio, each PPG set and its corresponding one or more springs are configured so that the biasing force has a magnitude that is substantially independent of the foot force magnitude.
US11857297B1
Systems, devices, and methods are described herein for ensuring constant contact of a physiological sensor with a subject. A device may include a wearable band wearable by the subject, an elastic coupling member, a sensor module coupled by the elastic coupling member to the wearable band, a housing attached to the wearable band, a processor, and a user interface. The wearable band may include a recess extending into the wearable band. The elastic coupling member and/or the sensor module may be disposed within the recess. As the subject wears the wearable band, the elastic coupling member may press the sensor module against the subject and may cause constant contact between the sensor module and the subject. Electrical tracing embedded in the wearable band and extending from the sensor module to the housing may couple the sensor module to the processor or the user interface.
US11857287B2
A surgical drape is configured for covering a patient and an ultrasonography probe during surgical treatment of the patient. The surgical drape may include a first portion that includes a canopy portion. The canopy portion can be sized and shaped to at least partially cover a mechanical arm coupled to the ultrasonography probe and a proximal portion of the ultrasonography probe, and the canopy portion can be configured to move with the proximal portion of the ultrasonography probe when the ultrasonography probe is supported by the mechanical arm. A second portion can be coupled to the first portion, in which the second portion is sized and shaped to cover at least a portion of a torso of the patient.
US11857285B2
A surgeon input device for controlling a robotic surgical system is disclosed herein. The surgeon input device comprising a housing and at least one sensor disposed within the housing. The at least one sensor, in operative communication with an electromagnetic signal transmitter, configured to detect at least one of a position and orientation of a surgeon's hand within a predefined electromagnetic field generated by the electromagnetic signal transmitter. The surgeon input device further comprising at least one button protruding out of the housing, where the at least one button configured to open and close an end-effector of a surgical instrument and at least one sensor disposed within the housing, where the at least one sensor configured to detect a compression and decompression of the at least one button and send a signal via a sensor wire to a control system to regulate opening and closing of the end effector of the surgical instrument.
US11857282B2
Provided is a multi-segment rotation robotic arm which contains a plurality of concatenated robotic arm segments which can rotate 360 degrees along an adjacent oblique section thereof. Any one of the concatenated robotic arm segments of the multi-segment rotation robotic arm can be arbitrarily concatenate in accordance with use requirements. When the concatenated robotic arm segments rotate relatively, they can rotate 360 degrees without affecting the electric supply, and can also reduce the volume increase by rotated joints. Therefore, the multi-segment rotation robotic arm of the present invention can effectively adapt to complex and tortuous spaces in the body cavity to reduce the possibility of expanding the opening of the minimally invasive surgery and causing damage to organs or tissues in the body cavity.
US11857274B2
Various embodiments of a physical instrument are described herein. The physical instrument includes a main tubular body with a first terminal portion and a second terminal portion. The physical instrument further comprises a code platform proximate to the first terminal portion of the main tubular body. The code platform includes a plurality of different codes. The physical instrument also includes at least one of: (i) a flat tip at the second terminal portion and (ii) a passage internal to the main tubular body and extending from the first terminal portion to the second terminal portion.
US11857269B2
Methods and systems for performing robotically-assisted surgery in conjunction with intra-operative imaging. A method includes moving a robotic arm with respect to a patient and an imaging device to move an end effector of the robotic arm to a pre-determined position and orientation with respect to the patient based on imaging data of the patient obtained by the imaging device. The robotic arm maintains the end effector in the pre-determined position and orientation with respect to the patient and does not collide with the imaging device or with the patient when the imaging device moves with respect to the patient.
US11857267B2
Disclosed is a system for assisting in guiding and performing a procedure on a subject. The subject may be any appropriate subject such as inanimate object and/or an animate object. The guide and system may include various manipulable or movable members, such as robotic systems, and may be registered to selected coordinate systems.
US11857264B2
Systems and methods for providing assistance to a surgeon during an implant surgery are disclosed. A method includes defining areas of interest in diagnostic data of a patient and defining a screw bone type based on the surgeon's input. Post defining the areas of interest, salient points are determined for the areas of interest. Successively, an XZ angle, an XY angle, and a position entry point for a screw are determined based on the salient points of the areas of interest. Successively, a maximum screw diameter and a length of the screw are determined based on the salient points. Thereafter, the screw is identified and suggested to the surgeon for usage during the implant surgery.
US11857256B2
An apparatus, method, computer-readable medium, and computer program product, for designating an OCT scan location to be performed on a retina. The apparatus comprises a display device for displaying an image comprising a background image of the retina and a planning element designating the location; a touch-sensitive input device that generates touch interaction data indicative of touch interaction of a user with the input device; an image manipulation module determines, based on the touch interaction data, a manipulation to be performed on the displayed image, and applies the image manipulation to the image in response to each touch interaction to generate an updated image to display; and a scan location designation module generates data indicative of the location of the OCT scan to be performed, based on a location of the planning element on the background image in at least one updated image.
US11857248B2
Methods, systems and devices for endometrial ablation. In accordance with a method, a working end of an RF ablation device is positioned in a patient uterus to contact endometrial tissue, the working end comprising a dielectric wall capable of non-expanded and expanded shapes. An indicator mechanism is operatively coupled to the wall and configured to indicate non-expanded and expanded shapes of the wall.
US11857244B2
Example methods and apparatuses are disclosed for providing tissue ablation through electrolysis, electroporation, or a combination thereof. A way to deliver the combination through a pulse that has an element of gradual decay and can thereby reduce both muscle contraction and electric breakdown discharge at the electrodes is disclosed. The apparatus disclosed may include an electrode, a power supply, and a controller. The controller may control a charge applied to the electrode to induce a direct current through a treatment site to produce electrolysis products and a voltage to produce electroporation. The duration and magnitude of the charge applied may determine the dose of the products and the degree of the permeabilization of cells in the treatment site.
US11857243B2
A vapor delivery needle and method is provided that is adapted for treating prostate cancer. The energy delivery probe can apply condensable vapor energy to tissue, such as a peripheral zone tissue in a human prostate. In one method, a needle is introduced into peripheral zone tissue of a human prostate, and vapor media is delivered through the needle to ablate peripheral zone tissue without ablating non-peripheral zone tissue. Systems for treating prostate cancer with vapor therapy are also provided.
US11857242B2
An attachment for a gas-assisted electrosurgical device. The attachment has a housing having a channel within it, an electrosurgical blade and an electrical connector. The electrosurgical blade has a conductive member comprising an elongated distal portion and a proximal portion, the distal portion having a width greater than a width of the proximal portion, the width of the distal portion being at least three times the thickness of the distal portion, and a coating on at least a portion of said conductive member.
US11857240B2
A cryosurgical instrument having a cryosurgical probe, at least one electrode configured to generate products of electrolysis, and a protective member coupled to at least a portion of an exterior surface of the cryosurgical probe effective to substantially isolate the cryosurgical probe from the products of electrolysis is disclosed. Methods of providing combined cryosurgical treatment and electrolysis with the cryosurgical instrument are disclosed. A system having the cryosurgical instrument, a cryogenic power supply, an electrolysis power supply, and a controller configured to generate a cryogenic signal and an electric signal is disclosed. Methods of producing the cryosurgical instrument by selecting a cryosurgical probe, coupling at least one electrode to the cryosurgical probe, and fastening the protective member to at least a portion of an exterior surface of the cryosurgical probe are disclosed. Cryosurgical probe protective devices are also disclosed.
US11857237B2
Provided is forceps for internal fixation, including: a first member having a first holding portion for holding a first side of bone fragments and a first grip extending from the first holding portion; and a second member having a second holding portion for holding a second side spaced a predetermined distance from the first side of the bone fragments and a second grip extending from the second holding portion.
US11857235B2
A differential compression bone screw and a method are provided for compressing adjacent bone portions together to encourage bone fusion. The compression bone screw is comprised of a head portion and a shank. A center hole extends from the head portion to a distal end of the shank. A superior end of the head portion includes a shaped opening that receives a tool for driving the compression bone screw into a hole drilled in a patient's bone. An inferior end of the head portion includes barbs that engage with surrounding bone tissue. A smooth portion of the shank is disposed between proximal threads and distal threads that rotatably engage within the hole in the patient's bone. A thread pitch of the distal threads is greater than a thread pitch of the proximal threads, such that the compression bone screw comprises a differential pitch configured to compress the adjacent bone portions.
US11857225B2
This disclosure relates generally to surgical instruments used to deliver locking or set screws to secure a rod or spinal fixation element relative to an implanted bone anchor or other spinal fixation construct during spine surgery. In one embodiment, the inserter instrument can include an inner driver shaft, a ratcheted outer sleeve, and a handle configured to receive the shafts therein. The inner driver shaft can receive a plurality of set screws on a distal end thereof. A side latch, pawl, or button can engage with the ratcheted outer sleeve to facilitate step-wise advancement of the sleeve relative to the driver shaft for set screw delivery. Step-wise advancement can be controlled using another button that causes movement of the side latch.
US11857219B2
Systems for augmenting a vertebral body. A deformable conduit assembly includes a hub defining an opening, and a deformable conduit within which a steering instrument is removably disposed. The deformable conduit may be curved by the steering instrument. An expandable member assembly includes a catheter tube slidably positioned through the opening of the hub and a cannula handle of an access cannula, and an expandable structure. The deformable conduit may be moved proximally relative to the hub and the expandable member assembly to expose the expandable structure within the vertebral body. The hub may define one or more guiding slots though which one or more arms are slidably positioned. An axial controller may be coupled to a proximal end of the deformable conduit. The axial controller is configured to receive an input to expose the expandable structure by moving the deformable conduit relative to the hub and the access cannula.
US11857216B2
A system includes an access cannula, a deployment cannula having a plurality of engagement arms, and a containment bag. The deployment cannula is slidable within the access cannula between an initial condition, wherein the engagement arms are retained in a contracted configuration, and a deployed condition, wherein the engagement arms are disposed in an expanded configuration. The containment bag includes an open end portion configured to receive the first elongated tubular member and the second elongated tubular member. In the initial condition, a portion of the containment bag towards the open end portion is positioned adjacent at least one of the first elongated tubular member or the second elongated tubular member. In the deployed condition, the portion of the containment bag is expanded such that the portion of the containment bag is spaced-apart from the at least one of the first elongated tubular member or the second elongated tubular member.
US11857211B2
In embodiments of an obstruction removal device, system, and/or method, a removal tool is disposed at a distal end of a delivery tool and configured to at least partially separate an obstruction from an inner surface of a vasculature. An expandable member is also coupled to the delivery tool. The expandable member includes a proximal end that is free or slidably coupled to the delivery tool. The proximal end of the expandable member is configured to invert or slide toward a distal end of the expandable member, thereby causing the expandable member to surround at least a portion of the obstruction and the removal tool so that the obstruction is captured between the expandable member and the removal tool, when the delivery tool is withdrawn from the vasculature to remove the removal tool and the obstruction from the vasculature.
US11857209B2
The present teachings provide devices and methods of engaging, capturing, and retrieving emboli. Specifically, one aspect of the present teachings provides a device comprising a generally cylindrical body, with its proximal ends joining to a delivery system and a plurality of cells forming its luminal surface. The cylindrical body is configured to axially rotate as it radially expands. Another aspect of the present teachings provides a device comprising two elongated bodies one disposed within the other. As the device expands radially, both elongated bodies are configured to axially rotate independently.
US11857202B2
Devices and methods for performing total knee arthroplasty procedures with kinematic alignment are described herein. A method of performing a total knee arthroplasty can comprise positioning a femoral cut guide adjacent a distal end of a femur, positioning a tibial cut guide proximate a proximal end of a tibia adjacent an anterior surface of the tibia, adjusting a position of the femoral cut guide and the tibial cut guide relative to each other using a tibial positioning device, fixing the position of the femoral cut guide relative to the tibial cut guide using the tibial positioning device, and resecting the femur and tibia with parallel resections using the femoral and tibial cut guides.
US11857197B2
The present technology includes systems and methods for invasively adjusting implantable devices for selectively controlling fluid flow between a first body region and a second body region of a patient. For example, in many of the embodiments described herein, a catheter can be used to mechanically and/or electrically engage an implanted medical device. Once the catheter engages the medical device, the catheter can (i) increase a dimension associated with the medical device, such as through mechanical expansion forces, and/or (ii) decrease a dimension associated with the medical device, such as by heating a shape memory component of the medical device above a phase transition temperature.
US11857195B2
Systems and methods for treating an afflicted vessel and/or vessel associated with an afflicted tissue of a mammalian patient are presented herein. In particular, devices for the control of flow rate and/or pressure within a vessel of a mammalian patient, and methods of treating an afflicted vessel and/or a vessel associated with an afflicted tissue using the devices are presented herein.
US11857194B2
The present disclosure relates to adapter assemblies for use with and to electrically and mechanically interconnect electromechanical surgical devices and surgical reloads, and to surgical systems including handheld electromechanical surgical devices and adapter assemblies for connecting surgical reloads to the handheld electromechanical surgical devices.
US11857192B2
An anastomosis clamp (1) and a delivery system thereof, where the anastomosis clamp (1) includes inner lancets (102, 602), round corners (103, 603), and outer rings (101, 601) that are sequentially connected; the delivery system may be used in cooperation with the anastomosis clamp (1); and the delivery system includes a distal end (2), a middle flexible sheath (3), and a handle (4).
US11857184B2
A surgical instrument comprising a rotatable and translatable firing member is disclosed.
US11857175B2
A fixation apparatus is provided that includes a reception portion on a proximal end of the fixation apparatus. The reception portion couples the fixation apparatus to a tension element, and adjustment of the tension element with respect to the fixation apparatus does not cause a change in a position of the fixation apparatus. The fixation apparatus also includes a chamber in a distal portion of the fixation device. The chamber provides a supportive enclosure for a tension element that runs through the chamber and is anchored at the reception portion, and a force vector of the tension element exiting at the distal end of the fixation device is redirected at an axis independent of the axis of the fixation apparatus from the proximal end to the distal end.
US11857167B2
An image pickup unit includes: a metal barrel holding an objective lens; a substrate barrel formed of a circuit formed product having insulation property; an image sensor having a chip size package; plural electrodes formed in a penetrating manner from an inside of a substrate barrel to a proximal end side in an exposed manner, the plural electrodes being electrically connected to an image sensor in the substrate barrel; an electric conductive portion formed on an outer surface of the substrate barrel, having an insulation property with respect to the metal barrel, and having a predetermined creepage distance by which a current such as static electricity can be discharged; a ground electrode electrically connected to the electric conductive portion; and a cable provided with plural wires connected to a ground wire connected to the ground electrode and plural wires connected to the plural electrodes.
US11857165B2
A method for endoscopic imaging including: capturing white light images with a video endoscope under white light illumination; evaluating the captured white light images for a structure having a predefined characteristic, when the presence of the structure having the predefined characteristic is found in a white light image, setting a special light imaging mode in which a light source generates special light illumination using the at least one special light and one or more images of a video stream are captured under the special light illumination and subjected to image processing in the set special light processing mode; identifying a subregion of the at least one white light image that contains the structure with the predefined characteristic and reading out only the subregion of a CMOS image sensor associated with the video endoscope, and processing the image data read out from the subregion as one or more special light images.
US11857163B2
An endoscope includes a main body portion that has a housing recession portion that houses an elevator, a drive member arrangement space that houses a drive member and is closed off from the housing recession portion, a lid insertion space that puts the drive member arrangement space and an outer space into communication, and a lid member that can be inserted into the lid insertion space and liquid-tightly closes off the lid insertion space when inserted. Also provided is a fitting/holding member that is fitted to the lid member inserted into the lid insertion space and is fixed to the main body portion, wherein the lid member has a protruding portion, and the fitting/holding member can be inserted into the drive member arrangement space in a direction that is different from a protruding direction of the protruding portion of the lid member.
US11857159B2
An accessory device for an endoscope includes a cap attached to a shaft of the endoscope, the cap extending along a first axis, a first tip coupled to the cap and movable relative to the cap between a deployed configuration and a non-deployed configuration, and a first shaft defining a lumen and extending proximally from the first tip. In the deployed configuration, the first tip extends along a second axis that is offset from the first axis, and in the non-deployed configuration, the first tip extends along a third axis that is offset from the first axis.
US11857156B2
Systems and methods are described herein that improve control of a shapeable or steerable instrument using shape data. Additional methods include preparing a robotic medical system for use with a shapeable instrument and controlling advancement of a shapeable medical device within an anatomic path. Also described herein are methods for altering a data model of an anatomical region.
US11857145B2
One embodiment relates to a method for providing image data of a hollow organ. The method includes applying a first contrast agent to a lumen of the hollow organ, to obtain a contrast agent filling of the lumen; applying a second contrast agent to a blood vessel system, the blood vessel system supplying a wall of the hollow organ, the second contrast agent having a different absorption spectrum than the first contrast agent; generating spectrally resolved computed tomography data of an examination area, the examination area including the hollow organ; calculating first image data indicative of a presence of the first contrast agent and second image data indicative of a presence of the second contrast agent by applying a material separation algorithm onto the spectrally resolved computed tomography data; and providing the image data of the hollow organ including the first image data and the second image data.
US11857137B2
A canister surface cleaning apparatus comprising a canister body having a recess. The recess comprises a wall and sidewalls that extend away from the wall to define a volume. An air treatment assembly is removably mountable to the canister body. When the air treatment assembly is mounted to the canister body and the canister body is positioned with on the floor, the wall extends generally vertically and one of the sides of the air treatment assembly faces the wall and is positioned in the recess.
US11857136B2
A floor mat includes a bottom layer and a top layer; the bottom layer being composed of a water tight material; and the top layer being composed of an absorbent, antibacterial material; the top layer is removably secured to the bottom layer and is disposable.
US11857130B2
A cleaning assembly and a cleaning apparatus are provided. The cleaning assembly includes a fixing mechanism, a lifting shaft, a moving member, a first drive mechanism and a cleaning module. The lifting shaft penetrates through the fixing mechanism and is configured to slide along an axial direction of the lifting shaft relative to the fixing mechanism. One end of the lifting shaft is connected to the cleaning module, and the other end is connected to the moving member. The moving member is configured to cause the lifting shaft to slide along the axial direction of the lifting shaft. The first drive mechanism is connected to the moving member by a transmission device and is configured to cause the moving member to move in a reciprocating motion.
US11857128B2
An automatic shower head contains: a body and a shower scrubber. The body includes a casing, a receiving cap fitted with the casing, a handle, a first connection element, a first water guide ring, and multiple spray bars and a second water guide ring. At least one first seal ring is retained on a water conduit of the first connection element and the second water guide ring. The casing has a coupling loop. The shower scrubber includes a panel, a lid, an accommodation sleeve, a second seal ring, and a rotation element, and a fixing plug. The lid has a copper pin, a waterproof sheet, a first circuit board, a gear seat, a gear assembly, a gear shaft, a drive gear, a holder, a motor, a battery, a contact sheet, and a second circuit board.
US11857125B1
A mounting device has a locking housing with a locking arm that pivots between an open, unlocked position, and a closed, locked position. The locking arm extending to a latch end having a latch hole. A bottom end of the dispensing container is placed within a container receiving space of the locking housing, and the locking arm is moved to the closed, locked position to engage the annular groove of the dispensing container to lock the dispensing container within the locking housing. The device further includes a magnetic locking mechanism for locking the locking arm in the closed, locked position.
US11857122B2
A modular portable toilet apparatus includes a rotary agitator unit having a pair of angled rollers engaging a flexible bowl lined by a replaceable liner bag to mix waste and a reagent therein. The apparatus includes a frame unit and a toilet unit supported by the frame unit. A bowl unit is positioned in the toilet unit along with agitator unit and a power unit including an agitator motor to drive the agitator unit to rotate against the bowl.
US11857120B2
Embodiments relate generally to a heated towel rack that includes at least one lateral support, at least one forced air heating unit in fluid communication with a channel within a lateral support, and at least one cross bar coupled to the at least one lateral support. The at least one cross bar including at least one vent that traverses into a conduit within the cross bar. The channel is in fluid communication with the at least one vent by way of the conduit.
US11857105B2
Disclosed herein are a drip coffee machine and a liquid discharge device used therefor including: a liquid providing module having a discharge pipe discharging liquid to coffee beans; a rotation module having an actuator generating rotational force, a driven gear rotated by receiving the rotational force, and a base plate rotated by being connected to the driven gear, the base plate being configured to move the discharge pipe along a rotation trajectory when rotated; and a translation module including a translation drive unit having an elastic pull member elastically deflecting the discharge pipe along a translation trajectory, an adjustment cam installed to be rotatable with respect to the base plate to adjust the position of the discharge pipe elastically deflected within the translation trajectory by the elastic pull member in the one direction or the other direction opposite to the one direction and having its outer circumferential surface in contact with the discharge pipe, and an intermediate unit transmitting the rotational force generated by the actuator to the adjustment cam , wherein the discharge pipe discharges the liquid while being moved along a discharge trajectory in which the rotation trajectory and the translation trajectory are combined with each other.
US11857103B2
A method to prepare a beverage in a machine for preparing beverages, including: receiving through a user interface associated with a control and command unit the selection of a type of beverage to be prepared selected between a beverage obtained by infusion, or hot water; disenabling the commands of said user interface not related to the type of beverage selected, and enabling the commands correlated to the type of beverage selected, in order to allow the selection by the user of further specific organoleptic characteristics for the type of beverage selected; receiving and verifying the characteristics selected and conditioning the various functioning factors of said machine in relation to the specific selected characteristics and the operating parameters provided for the specific selected beverage.
US11857102B2
A drip filter coffee making device has a filter basket with a lid. The lid supports a water dispenser for wetting grounds in the filter basket. The basket is removable from a body of the device. The lid may have a dampened opening motion, biased into an open position by a spring.
US11857097B1
A support assembly is provided comprising a support portion, an anchoring portion and a receptacle portion configured to receive and secure an item to a wall. In some embodiments, the support assembly comprises a support portion having an upper end and a lower end, an anchoring portion having a penetration end and support end, a receptacle portion having a support end and a receptacle end, the penetration end of the anchoring portion comprising a sharpened tine whereby the anchoring portion may be forced into the wall without the need to drill a hole, and the receptacle end of the receptacle portion having a u-shape whereby the receptacle portion is configured to receive and retain a curtain rod. In some embodiments, anchoring portion comprises an arcuate member. In some embodiments, the anchoring portion comprises a straight member.
US11857094B2
This present invention relates to a flavor dispensing drinking straw device designed to retain and dispense an appropriate amount of flavoring, syrup and/or medicine into a beverage as per the desires of the users. The device comprises a topper having an internal cavity that holds a predefined amount of flavoring, syrup and/or medicine that the user can dispense through a spiral straw by simply and gently squeezing the topper, wherein the user can then consume the flavored or medicated beverage through a second tubular straw in a traditional manner. The uniquely designed straw device is both environmentally safe and reusable. Additionally, the topper can be refilled with the flavor, once the stored flavor is exhausted. The flavor infusing straw offers a more enjoyable and delicious drinking experience, and can be used with a variety of beverage containers.
US11857092B2
An art display box configured for storing, transporting, examining, and displaying pieces of artwork, such as nail art. The art display box includes transparent panels for viewing of the artwork from multiple views and a mounting plate for securely and removably affixing pieces of the artwork for shipment, handling, and evaluation. To further protect the pieces of artwork, the art display box provides a set of stoppers to maintain a predetermined gap between the mounting plate and the interior surface of a front panel.
US11857088B2
An adjustable bench comprises a seat, a skirt extending from the seat, and a plurality of height adjustable leg assemblies coupled to the skirt. The seat is shaped to be selectively mated with the skirt to provide the bench with either a flat top or a sloped top surface.
US11857086B2
Chairs having a cleaning system integrated thereon are provided. These chairs allow a user to comfortably clean their feet while in a sitting or reclined position.
US11857085B2
A console mounted armrest includes an adjustable post to raise and lower the armrest, and a linkage. The linkage defines the tilt of the armrest with respect to the post. A single control mechanism controls the motion of the post, and thereby also controls the tilt of the armrest to maintain a desirable orientation with respect to the sidestick. The control mechanism defines multiple positive lock-out positions with respect to the post such that the control mechanism will always engage one of the positive lock-out positions.
US11857080B2
A sheet fastener includes a first fastening member having a long size and a second fastening member having a long size. The first fastening member includes: a first main body portion including a secured surface; a first engagement portion; a plurality of first slit portions formed along an intersecting direction; and a first continuous portion continuous along a longitudinal direction. The second fastening member includes: a second main body portion including a secured surface; a second engagement portion; a plurality of second slit portions formed along an intersecting direction; and a second continuous portion continuous along a longitudinal direction. By using the sheet fastener according to the present invention, the sheet edge portion, which is curved, of the second sheet member can be easily and smoothly fastened with the sheet edge portion, which is curved, of the first sheet member.
US11857076B2
In one example, this disclosure describes an adjustable bed system that includes first and second adjustable foundations, at least one first motor to adjust the first adjustable foundation, at least one second motor to adjust the second adjustable foundation, a configurable device having a first state and a second state, and a central controller in communication with the device, the controller configured to receive an input representing one of the first state and the second state, the controller including a processor configured to control the at least one first motor and the at least one second motor based on the received input.
US11857072B2
A drawer rear wall for a drawer includes a first fastening portion for fixing the drawer rear wall to a first sidewall of the drawer, and a second fastening portion for fixing the drawer rear wall to a second sidewall of the drawer. The two fastening portions of the drawer rear wall are mutually spaced from one another in a longitudinal direction of the drawer rear wall by a middle portion, and a first wall thickness of at least one of the two fastening portions, preferably both fastening portions, is larger than a second wall thickness of the middle portion.
US11857070B2
A drive device includes a carrier extending in the closing direction of a moveable furniture part, an ejection device for ejecting the moveable furniture part into an open position, and a locking device for locking the ejection device in a locked position. The locking device has a locking pin connected to the ejection device and a guide track for the locking pin formed in or on the carrier, and a synchronization device for synchronizing the movement of the drive device with a second drive device. The synchronization device has a transmission element moveably mounted on the carrier to be moved by the locking pin, and a synchronization coupling element connected to the transmission element. The guide track has a maximum guide track width measured perpendicular to the closing direction, and the synchronization coupling element and the ejection force store are arranged within this guide track width in the closing direction.
US11857067B2
A connecting device includes a case (1), a first rod (2), a second rod (3), and a third rod (4) that are connected to the case (1). Two first connecting members (5) connect the second rod (3) and the third rod (4) to the case (1). A second connecting member (6) connects the first rod (2) to the case (1). The case (1) includes an upper housing (101) and a lower housing (102) that define a first receiving hole (10), a second receiving hole (11), and a third receiving hole (9), the second connecting member (6) and the two first connecting members (5) are received in the first receiving hole (10), the second receiving hole (11), and the third receiving hole (9), respectively.
US11857066B2
A hairbrush includes a base with a handle and an elongated end portion connected to the handle. The elongated end portion includes a plurality of slots extending inwardly from a front side surface of the elongated end portion and a cavity extending inwardly from a lateral side surface of the elongated end portion. The cavity and the slots extend in different directions and intersect one another inside of the elongated end portion of the base. The hairbrush also includes a locking bar with through holes extending in the cavity and movable between a first position and a second position inside of the cavity. The hairbrush may further include a plurality of bristle structures, insertable into the slots and the through holes of the locking bar, and selectively coupleable to the elongated end portion of the base by moving the locking bar to one of the first and second positions thereof.
US11857063B2
A wirelessly locatable tag may include a first housing member defining a first exterior surface of the wirelessly locatable tag and an interior surface opposite the first exterior surface. The wirelessly locatable tag may further include a second housing member defining a second exterior surface of the wirelessly locatable tag a first antenna configured transmit the wireless signal using a first wireless protocol, a second antenna configured to communicate using a second wireless protocol different than the first wireless protocol, and an audio system. The audio system may include a magnet assembly configured to produce a magnetic field and a coil positioned within the magnetic field and coupled to the interior surface of the first housing member, the coil configured to interact with the magnetic field to impart a force on the first housing member, thereby moving a portion of the first housing member to produce an audible output.
US11857062B2
The present invention provides a scrunches/towel combination which surrounds the palm of the user's hand that is involved in sporting or working activities and needs a towel for wiping perspiration from various parts of the body during these activities. While not in use, the towel can be folded within the palm of the hand through the scrunches.
US11857059B2
The present invention includes a compact container having an improved opening/closing structure for different cosmetic materials, the compact container comprising: a container body; a content container which is coupled inside the container body and is to be filled with a first content; a rotation dish coupling member coupled to the lower part of the container body; a rotation dish which is axis-coupled to the lower part of the rotation dish coupling member to be horizontally rotatable and is to be filled with a second content; an axial rotation hole formed at one side of the rotation dish; and an axial rotation part formed on the lower surface of the rotation dish coupling member and fitted in the axial rotation hole, wherein the axial rotation part and the axial rotation hole are configured to be released from or fastened to each other by the forward or backward movement of the rotation dish.
US11857057B2
A replacement type container includes a replacement type component, an accommodating cavity is provided in the replacement component, and a first clasp is provided at a bottom of the replacement component. A second clasp is provided on the base, so that the first clasp and the second clasp can be snapped or separated by a relative rotation of the replacement component and the base. The bottom cover has a first through hole and the bottom cover is snapped with the replacement component The rotating component includes a base and a screw. The screw is fixed on the base, and the base has a third clasp for snapping with an edge of the first through hole; and the screw passes through the first through hole and is connected with the base so that a rotation of the screw causes the base to move so as to lift the replacement component.
US11857052B2
A hair dryer has a primary air flow path and a secondary air flow path. The primary air flow path is operable to dry hair using suction in a first mode of operation. The secondary air flow path is operable to blow dry hair in a second mode of operation. In the primary mode of operation, the motor and fan assembly of the secondary air flow path is operated in reverse to direct air towards hair that is being dried by suction.
US11857046B2
A container includes a base and a shell rotatably coupled. The shell defines an aperture and a cradle is rotatably mounted therein. The top of the cradle holds an object and the cradle is pivotable between presentation and storage positions. An actuatable member is movable to open or occlude the aperture. Rotation of the base relative to the shell, in a first direction, drives the actuatable member towards an open position and pivots the cradle towards the presentation position, and rotation in a second direction drives the actuatable member towards a closed position and pivots the cradle towards the storage position. A lever pin on the cradle extends through a C-slot of an inner mechanism rotating with the base to a channel on the shell. Rotation between the base and shell causes the channel to drive the lever pin to different ends of the C-slot to thereby pivot the cradle.
US11857037B2
A miniaturized coupling for jewelry includes a male coupling and a female coupling, each of which is millimeter-sized or sub-millimeter-sized and each of which is attached to or suited to be attached to a respective jewelry component. The male coupling has a locking member configured to be inserted into the female coupling through an opening into an interior of the female coupling. A resiliently-biased, snap connector located in the interior of the female coupling, so constructed that when the locking member is inserted into the female coupling it initially moves and then is retained by the snap connector. An actuating pin in the female coupling is configured to move the snap connector to release the locking member and thereby disengage the male and female couplings from each other. The actuating pin has an outer surface accessible at an outer surface of the female coupling.
US11857035B2
The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a part comprising at least one three-dimensional metallised pattern overlying a local enamel underlayer.
US11857032B1
Clothing belt adjustment systems are configured for wearing around a user's body such as around the waist. The belt adjustment system includes a belt and a buckle wherein the belt can be looped and secured to the buckle to secure the belt around a user's waist or other portion of the body. The buckle has a body with a thin side profile that is not overly bulky such that it can comfortably fit over the button region of a wearer's pants. The buckle advantageously includes one or more threaded retainer members, such as threaded screws, that secure one portion of the buckle to another portion of the buckle.
US11857028B2
An article of footwear includes an upper and an adjustable lacing system. The adjustable lacing system includes a plurality of fastener engaging elements located at the medial and lateral sides of the upper, where at least one of the medial side and the lateral side includes sets of fastener engaging elements. Each set of fastener engaging elements is distanced from another set in a direction transverse a lengthwise direction of the upper, and the fastener engaging elements are configured to engage with and retain a fastener structure that extends between the medial and lateral sides of the upper such that the fastener structure can be selectively engaged with different sets of fastener engaging elements to adjust a fit of the upper around a width of the foot disposed within the cavity.
US11857024B2
Embodiments herein relate generally to the field of footwear, and more particularly to components of performance footwear, such as midsoles, and in particular related to a high performance composite foam for a midsole, the composite foam comprising: a pelletized expanded thermoplastic elastomer; and a polyurethane (PU) matrix, wherein the pelletized expanded thermoplastic elastomer is mixed within the PU matrix. Midsoles made from a high performance composite foam and footwear including such midsoles. A method of making a high performance midsole is also provided.
US11857022B2
An upper for an article of footwear is configured to be connected to a sole structure and is configured to receive a foot. The upper includes a knitted component having a strobel portion that is configured to be disposed underneath the foot. The strobel portion defines an interior surface and an exterior surface of the knitted component. The strobel portion defines a strobel passage between the interior surface and the exterior surface. Also, the upper includes a tensile strand that extends through the strobel passage.
US11857021B1
An insert for shaping and protecting headwear may include an elongate body shaped to fit along at least a portion of an interior surface of the headwear; and at least one ventilation orifice extending through the elongate body, wherein the elongate body comprises a pressed and/or needled wool felt material.
US11857013B1
Embodiments provide methods of assembling an apparel product. The method includes applying a composition to a portion of a major component of the apparel product or a portion of a minor component of the apparel product. The method includes coupling the portion of the minor component with the portion of the major component via the composition. The major component forms a base portion of the apparel product and is configured to be supported and worn at least partially over a portion of a wearer. The minor component forms a secondary portion configured to be coupled to the major component with an adhesive. The method includes converting the composition to form the adhesive and the apparel product. The adhesive including a shape memory material.
US11857007B1
An adjustable garment in the style of an apron configured to protect clothing during grilling and provides accessibility to utensils, accessories, and other items desired for grilling. The garment is formed from a belt and a skirt having a first panel and one or more detachable second panel(s). The first panel includes one or more pockets sized and shaped to receive a range of grilling accessories. The diameter of the skirt may be adjusted by adding or removing one or more of the detachable second panel(s) and the belt fastens at the back with a buckle.
US11857003B2
Aspects herein are directed to an apparel item that promotes thermo-regulation through the use of engineered openings, venting, and/or stand-off structures. In exemplary aspects, 20-45% of the apparel item may comprise the engineered openings. Vents may be positioned on the apparel item in areas that experience high amounts of air flow to help channel air into the apparel item. The stand-off structures may be positioned on an inner-facing surface of the apparel item where they help to create a space between the apparel item and the wearer's body surface in which air can flow and help cool the wearer by promoting evaporative cooling.
US11856997B2
Smoking articles, and methods for forming such smoking articles, such as an electronic smoking article, are provided. An exemplary smoking article comprises a control body portion having a control body engagement end, and having a first control component therein. A cartridge body portion includes a cartridge body engagement end configured to removably engage the control body engagement end of the control body portion. The cartridge body portion further includes a consumable arrangement comprising at least an aerosol precursor composition and at least one heating element operably engaged therewith, and a second control component. At least the consumable arrangement is configured to be in communication with the first control component upon engagement between the cartridge body and control body portions.
US11856995B2
A reservoir assembly that holds a nicotine pre-vapor formulation in a reservoir includes a reservoir assembly connector assembly defining a connector conduit, and which may be configured to detachably couple with a nicotine vaporizer assembly based on a connector element of the nicotine vaporizer assembly engaging with the connector conduit of the connector conduit. The reservoir assembly may include an isolation structure configured to move in relation to both the reservoir and the nicotine vaporizer connector assembly between a first position where the isolation structure exposes the nicotine vaporizer assembly to the reservoir and at least partially obstructs the connector conduit to restrict the connector element from disengaging from the connector conduit, and a second position where the isolation structure isolates the nicotine vaporizer assembly from the reservoir and opens the connector conduit to enable the connector element to disengage from the connector conduit.
US11856992B2
A cartridge (1) for an aerosol generating device, comprising a first cavity (13) containing a nicotine source and a second cavity (14) containing a lactic acid source, the first cavity and the second cavity defining an inner space between the cavities and an outer periphery of the cavities; and a susceptor comprising one or more susceptor elements, wherein the susceptor is arranged such that the susceptor is partly positioned in the inner space (16) between the cavities, and partly positioned in the outer periphery of the cavities, the outer periphery of the cavities being a space between the cavity walls and the cartridge walls.
US11856986B2
The present disclosure provides an aerosol delivery device and a control unit for use in an aerosol delivery device configured to receive a removable and replaceable aerosol precursor consumable. The control unit comprises a body frame having a proximal end and a distal end, the proximal end of the body frame defining a first portion of a receiving chamber, and a removable and replaceable housing panel configured to be releasably received onto the body frame. In one implementation, the housing panel forms part of an outer surface of the control unit, and the housing panel forms a second portion of the receiving chamber. In another implementation, the housing panel part of an outer surface of the control unit, and the body frame includes a rail feature configured to slidably engage a complementary rail feature of the housing panel.
US11856980B1
This invention relates to a new way of packing smokable vessels such that an open column for the flow of air is created and greatly increases the efficiency of the smoking vessel. Variations include a more efficient way of infusing smokable material after packing into smokable vessels. This invention relates to single-use and is scalable all the way up to mass production.
US11856979B2
A sheet-type aerosol generating article includes at least two aerosol generating sheets each having aerosol generating material and an inductively heatable susceptor The inductively heatable susceptor is positioned between the aerosol generating sheets and each of the aerosol generating sheets has an exposed surface. Methods for manufacturing sheet-type aerosol generating articles are also disclosed.
US11856977B2
A mixing apparatus is configured to efficiently input noodles coated with an additive to a receiving tray, with no need to perform weighing again after the noodles are input to the receiving tray. The mixing apparatus includes at least two hoppers that each house falling noodles and that allows the noodles to fall through rotation of the hoppers. A supply device supplies a sauce to the noodles in the hoppers, and the two hoppers are spaced from one another in the falling direction.
US11856975B2
Shown herein are small molecule compounds that can be used to increase the overall quality of a coffee beverage. The flavor enhancing compounds can be combined with coffee at any stage of its processing to increase the cup score of a coffee beverage. In some embodiments, the flavor enhancing compounds include one or more caffeic ester compounds, for instance caffeic acid esterified with a cyclitol or related compound.
