US12106239B1
Systems and methods are provided for automatically assigning a task identified from information received from one or more sensors. The automatically assigning including identifying a plurality of matches between the task and more than one of the plurality of individuals based on attributes of the individuals and requirements of the task; and in response to identifying a match, automatically assigning the task to the individual corresponding to a match having a highest ranking, wherein the automatically assigning comprises displaying the task on the display within the mobile application associated with the individual. Additionally, the systems and methods may determine one or more additional tasks that are related to the task and automatically assigning the one or more additional tasks to one or more individuals.
US12106237B2
Described are a method and system for coordinating the delivery and placement of concrete loads at a job site, and more particularly to adjusting a set time value or value range of the concrete loads, thereby to facilitate finishing or other concrete placement activities. In exemplary embodiments, the adjustments can be made based on an assessment of previously placed concrete loads. The set time values or value ranges of the concrete can be monitored and adjusted to achieve desired properties during installation and/or in its hardened state.
US12106235B2
A method for forecasting aircraft engine deterioration includes creating a first fused data set corresponding to a first actual aircraft engine. The first fused data set includes at least one as manufactured parameter of the actual aircraft engine, expected operating parameters of the first actual aircraft engine, and actual operating parameters of the actual aircraft engine. The actual operating parameters of the actual aircraft engine include internal aircraft sensor data, and external flight tracking data. The method further includes predicting an expected engine deterioration of the first actual engine based on the expected operating parameters and the actual operating parameters of the first actual aircraft engine by applying the first fused data set to a forecasting model. The forecasting model is a recurrent neural network based algorithm, and the recurrent neural network based algorithm is trained via a plurality of second fused data sets corresponding to actual aircraft engines.
US12106229B2
An advanced intelligence engine (AIE) for use in identifying what may be complex events or developments on one or more data platforms or networks from various types of structured or normalized data generated by one or more disparate data sources. The AIE may conduct one or more types of quantitative, correlative, behavioral and corroborative analyses to detect events from what may otherwise be considered unimportant or non-relevant information spanning one or more time periods. Events generated by the AIE may be passed to an event manager to determine whether further action is required such as reporting, remediation, and the like.
US12106227B2
A non-interactive protocol is provided for evaluating machine learning models such as decision trees. A client can delegate the evaluation of a machine learning model such as a decision tree to a server by sending an encrypted input and receiving only the encryption of the result. The inputs can be encoded using their binary representation. Efficient data representations are then combined with different algorithmic optimizations to keep the computational overhead and the communication cost low. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described.
US12106224B2
An assistance system for assisting the planning of automation systems includes a configuration database that has configuration datasets of automation systems, where a respective configuration dataset in each case has the configuration data of a predefined automation system, includes a vectorization component for structuring and adjusting configuration datasets, where the vectorization component is configured to convert the configuration datasets of the configuration database into vectorized configuration datasets, and includes an AI component for processing the vectorized configuration datasets using artificial intelligence, where the processing of the vectorized configuration datasets by the artificial intelligence (AI) component entails utilization of a neural network that has a deep learning architecture.
US12106222B2
Methods and systems for training a neural network are provided. In one example, an apparatus comprises a memory that stores instructions; and a hardware processor configured to execute the instructions to: control a neural network processor to perform a loss gradient operation to generate data gradients; after the loss gradient operation completes, control the neural network processor to perform a forward propagation operation to generate intermediate outputs; control the neural network processor to perform a backward propagation operation based on the data gradients and the intermediate outputs to generate weight gradients; receive the weight gradients from the neural network processor; and update weights of a neural network based on the weight gradients.
US12106219B2
A neural network data quantizing method includes: obtaining local quantization data by firstly quantizing, based on a local maximum value for each output channel of a current layer of a neural network, global recovery data obtained by recovering output data of an operation of the current layer based on a global maximum value corresponding to a previous layer of the neural network; storing the local quantization data in a memory to perform an operation of a next layer of the neural network; obtaining global quantization data by secondarily quantizing, based on a global maximum value corresponding to the current layer, local recovery data obtained by recovering the local quantization data based on the local maximum value for each output channel of the current layer; and providing the global quantization data as input data for the operation of the next layer.
US12106213B2
A method, non-transitory computer readable medium, and apparatus that improves automated damage appraisal includes analyzing one or more obtained images of property using a deep neural network with multiple hidden layers of units between an input and output and which has stored knowledge data encoded from one or more stored property damage images to identify which area of the property has damage. Damage data on an extent of the damage in the identified area of the property is determined using the deep neural network which has stored knowledge data encoded from one or more stored property damage images. The identified damaged part and may be used to determine one or more adjacent parts based on the vehicle information and the repair operation type.
US12106195B2
System and method for identifying enumerating cross-body degradations, the system comprising a computing device designed and configured to receive a biological extraction pertaining to a user, generate a first body degradation function, wherein generating the first body degradation function further includes mapping at least a biological extraction datum of the user to a current level of physiological integrity, determining an instantaneous rate of change of the current level of physiological integrity, and generating, as a function of the current level of physiological integrity and the instantaneous rate of change of the current level of physiological integrity, a first body degradation function, determine a second body degradation function, wherein the second body degradation function describes a rate of biological degradation that is statistically associated with the first body degradation function, and generate a body degradation packet as a function of the first body degradation function and the second body degradation function.
US12106194B1
A computer-implemented method includes a machine learning system receiving distinct types of data associated with multiple individual entities. For each of the individual entities, the machine learning system determines a first attribute that indicates a predicted attribute of the entity based on analysis of the data. The machine learning system also determines a second attribute that indicates a predicted quality attribute of the entity, based on analysis of the data. An attribute weighting module of the machine learning system generates weight values for each of the first attribute and the second attribute of the entity. The machine learning system generates a data structure that identifies a set of entities from among the multiple individual entities, where entities of the set are ranked based on a tier indicator that corresponds to either the first attribute, the second attribute, or both.
US12106187B2
Systems and method are provided for data flattening. A corpus of data is extracted from at least one data source and stored at a data warehousing platform. A workflow is applied to the extracted corpus of data to provide a transformed corpus of data. The workflow includes a sequence of atomic functions selected from a library of atomic functions to perform an associated task on the corpus of data. The transformed corpus of data is provided from the data warehousing platform to a machine learning model as a set of training data.
US12106184B2
Systems, computer-implemented methods, and computer program products to facilitate multireference parallelization of variational quantum computing to achieve high accuracy with short circuit depths. According to an embodiment, a system can comprise a processor that executes computer executable components stored in memory. The computer executable components comprise a trial component that prepares a multireference trial state based on a qubit operator, by applying a unitary circuit operator to a sum of selected initial configurations.
US12106172B1
A location tracking system for tracking locations of individuals in a defined area such as an amusement park includes a plurality of location markers, each of which has a radio-frequency identification (RFID) tag with an identification code. Each location marker of the plurality of location markers is in wireless communication with at least one kiosk of a plurality of kiosks. The RFID tag of each location marker transmits identification signals to at least one kiosk of the plurality of kiosks. The kiosks are in communication with each other. The plurality of kiosks cooperatively determine a location of each location marker of the plurality of location markers via a location algorithm. A selected kiosk of the plurality of kiosks is configured for communicating a location of a chosen location marker of the plurality of location markers to a user.
US12106164B2
An information obtaining method includes obtaining an image of a design printed on a printing target. The design includes an identifier corresponding to specific information. The information obtaining method further includes identifying the identifier included in the design based on the image; and obtaining the specific information corresponding to the identifier based on the identifier.
US12106160B2
Systems, methods, and devices for improved routing operations in a network computing environment. A system includes a first switch and a second switch in a network topology. The system includes a host virtual machine in communication with at least one of the first switch and the second switch. The system includes a routed peer link connecting the first switch to the second switch. The system is such that the first switch and the second switch have the same Internet protocol (IP) address and media access control (MAC) address.
US12106147B2
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for allocating resources based on predictions of workload probability parameters. The method can include collecting a first set of historical workload data generated by operating a first set of one or more applications at a first number of past time instances; predicting probability parameters of a second set of future workload data for operating a second set of one or more applications at a second number of future time instances; and determining future resources allocated to operating the second set of one or more applications for the second number of future time instances, based on allocated current resources, a lower bound of resources to satisfy a quality of service (QoS) for operating the second set of one or more applications, an upper bound of resources to satisfy the QoS, and the predicted probability parameters.
US12106140B2
Transaction processing computer system with multi-channel communication control and decision support
An example method comprises generating one or more requests for information by a requesting party, via a document processing engine, transmitting, by the document processing engine, the one or more requests for information by the requesting party, via a multi-channel communication system, receiving, via the document processing engine, one or more documents and corresponding metadata transmitted by the requesting party, in response to the requests for information by the decisioning party, automatically processing, via the document processing engine, one or more documents and corresponding metadata transmitted by the requesting party, automatically validating, via the document processing engine, one or more documents and corresponding metadata transmitted by the requesting party, triggering, via the multi-channel communication system, one or more journeys, wherein completion of a journey results in a communication by the multi-channel communication system, storing, via a system of record, the one or more processed documents and corresponding metadata.
US12106130B2
Applet-based guided operation computer-implemented method, medium, and system are disclosed. In one computer-implemented method, a trigger instruction for a target applet is detected. In response to detecting the trigger instruction, a host program and a function page of the target applet are opened, a guiding page loaded on the function page is opened, and a guiding video on the guiding page is played. The guiding video includes a directional action, voice prompt, or text prompt performed by a virtual character on the guiding page, and the guiding page includes a guiding touch point. A user operation on the guiding touch point on the guiding page is detected, where the operation is based on the directional action, voice prompt, and/or text prompt. A service function corresponding to the guiding touch point in the target applet is executed based on the user operation.
US12106125B2
A computerized method of generating an automated control pathway for a user interface includes displaying a graphical development environment having a palette area and multiple graphical programming elements, displaying a user selected question programming element and multiple associated pathway branches in the palette area, and assigning a received answer field to one of the branches. The method includes associating a selected determination programming element with one of the branches, and assigning a status value to the selected determination programming element that includes a drug request approval indication or a drug request denial indication. The method further includes running the automated control pathway to receive, via the user interface, an answer to a question associated with the selected question programming element, determining one of the branches associated with the received answer, and automatically transmitting an approval status or a denial status according to the determined branch.
US12106124B2
In some implementations, a method of generating a constraint-based adaptive graphical user interface (GUI) from a static GUI design includes, obtaining a static GUI that includes a plurality of views, identifying a root view and a child view of the static GUI, applying one or more constraints to the child view based on a spatial relation of the child view to borders of the root view, determining that the child view is not fully constrained, in response to determining that the child view is not fully constrained, applying one or more additional constraints to the child view based on a spatial distance between the child view and an additional view that is a neighbor of the child view, and generating the constraint-based adaptive GUI in one or more sizes that differ from a size of the static GUI based on the one or more constraints.
US12106107B2
A memory device includes a memory having a memory bank, a processor in memory (PIM) circuit, and control logic. The PIM circuit includes instruction memory storing at least one instruction provided from a host. The PIM circuit is configured to process an operation using data provided by the host or data read from the memory bank and to store at least one instruction provided by the host. The control logic is configured to decode a command/address received from the host to generate a decoding result and to perform a control operation so that one of i) a memory operation on the memory bank is performed and ii) the PIM circuit performs a processing operation, based on the decoding result. A counting value of a program counter instructing a position of the instruction memory is controlled in response to the command/address instructing the processing operation be performed.
US12106105B2
In an approach to improve integration workflows by automatically generating convergent data mappings for branches in an integration workflow using a computer. A branch schema for each branch is generated, wherein the branch schema represents the union of all the individual node output schemas on the branch. A common output schema for a convergence point is generated, wherein the common output schema represents an intersection of all the branch schemas and generates branch mappings from each branch node to the common output schema.
US12106104B2
A processor that includes compression instructions to compress multiple adjacent data blocks of uncompressed read-only data stored in memory into one compressed read-only data block and store the compressed read-only data block in multiple adjacent blocks in the memory is provided. During execution of an application to operate on the read-only data, one of the multiple adjacent blocks storing the compressed read-only block is read from memory, stored in a prefetch buffer and decompressed in the memory controller. In response to a subsequent request during execution of the application for an adjacent data block in the compressed read-only data block, the uncompressed adjacent block is read directly from the prefetch buffer.
US12106093B2
A workflow tool to build, deploy and release application code of an application to any of one or more cloud computing platforms. The workflow tool is executed by one or more processors to generate a single configuration file for the application, the single configuration file comprising, using a common command-line interface (CLI) language: a build configuration defining a build tool used for building the application; a deploy configuration defining a cloud computing platform to which the application will be deployed; and a release configuration defining logic for releasing the application to one or more users of the cloud computing platform. The workflow tool further includes a release uniform resource locator (URL) generated by the first processor, the release URL providing access, by the cloud computing platform to the one or more users, to the application upon the releasing.
US12106083B2
A system and method for rule selection may include using one or more processors in a computer server, for a set of rules, each rule having one or more rule criteria, determining for each rule if the result of an interaction between interaction metadata and the one or more rule criteria includes one or more criteria. For each rule where the intersection includes one or more criteria, a complement result may be calculated between the result of the intersection and the rule criteria; and based on the complement result, wherein if the complement result is null, the rule may be selected.
US12106080B2
Techniques for an ultra-fact software compilation of source code are provided. A compiler receives software code and may divide it into code sections. A map of ordered nodes may be generated, such that each node in the map may include a code section and the order of the nodes indicates an execution order of the software code. Each code section may be compiled into an executable object in parallel and independently from other code sections. A binary executable may be generated by linking executable objects generated from the code sections. The methodology significantly differs from existing source code compilation techniques because conventional compilers build executable sequentially, whereas the embodiments divide the source code into multiple smaller code sections and compile them individually and in parallel. Compiling multiple code sections improves the compilations in order of magnitude from conventional techniques.
US12106078B2
In some aspects, systems and methods for rapidly building, managing, and sharing machine learning models are provided. Managing the lifecycle of machine learning models can include: receiving a set of unannotated data; requesting annotations of samples of the unannotated data to produce an annotated set of data; building a machine learning model based on the annotated set of data; deploying the machine learning model to a client system, wherein production annotations are generated; collecting the generated production annotations and generating a new machine learning model incorporating the production annotations; and selecting one of the machine learning model built based on the annotated set of data or the new machine learning model.
US12106075B2
The present disclosure relates to digital experience development platforms and, more particularly, to an intelligent digital experience development platform configured to assist different users in the development, design and deployment of digital applications. A computer-implemented method includes: registering, by a computing device, user registration information for a first user and a second user of a collaborative software development environment; accessing, by the computing device, a policy library of security policies providing permissions for sharing information within the collaborative software development environment; assigning, by the computing device, one or more of the security policies to the first user and the second user; receiving, by the computing device, a search request from the first user for the second user; searching, by the computing device, the user registration information for the second user; and determining, by the computing device, that access can be granted to the first user to collaborate with the second user based on the one or more of the security policies.
US12106063B2
The invention is a data processing method and system for suggesting insightful and surprising sentences to geoscientists from unstructured text. The data processing system makes the necessary calculations to assign a surprisingness score to detect sentences containing several signals which when combined exponentially, have tendencies to give rise to surprise. In particularly, the data processing system operates on any digital unstructured text derived from academic literature, company reports, web pages and other sources. Detected sentences can be used to stimulate ideation and learning events for geoscientists in industries such as oil and gas, economic mining, space exploration and Geo-health.
US12106061B2
Implementations analyze transaction data and objectively capture pre-identified desired information about the analyzed transaction data in a consistently organized manner. An example system includes a user interface that enables a user to provide static portions and dynamic portions of a template. The dynamic portions identify variables that are replaced with either data extracted from the transaction or text based on the output of classifiers applied to the transaction. An example method includes applying classifiers to scoring units of a transaction to generate classifier tags for the scoring units and generating a narrative by replacing variables in an automated narrative template with text based on at least some of the classifier tags. The automated narrative template includes non-variable portions and at least some variable portions, each identifying a template variable and having variable replacement logic configured to replace the template variable using the classifier tags and/or data extracted from the transaction.
US12106057B2
A computer implemented method for the automated analysis or use of data is implemented by a voice assistant. The method comprises the steps of: (a) storing in a memory a structured, machine-readable representation of data that conforms to a machine-readable language (‘machine representation’); the machine representation including representations of user speech or text input to a human/machine interface; and (b) automatically processing the machine representations to analyse the user speech or text input.
US12106056B2
One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for analyzing a transcript of a structured interaction. The technique includes determining a first portion of the transcript that corresponds to a first dialogue act. The technique also includes matching the first portion of the transcript to a first component of a script for the structured interaction based on a first set of embeddings for the first portion of the transcript and a second set of embeddings associated with the first component of the script. The technique further includes causing a first mapping between the first portion of the transcript and the first component to be outputted.
US12106055B2
A chatbot system is configured to execute code to perform determining, by the chatbot system, a classification result for an utterance and one or more anchors each anchor of the one or more anchors corresponding to one or more anchor words of the utterance. For each anchor of the one or more anchors, one or more synthetic utterances are generated, and one or more classification results for the one or more synthetic utterances are determined. A report is generated by the chatbot system comprising a representation of a particular anchor of the one or more anchors, the particular anchor corresponding to a highest confidence value among the one or more anchors. The one or more synthetic utterances may be used to generate a new training dataset for training a machine-learning model. The training dataset may be refined according to a threshold confidence values to filter out datasets for training.
US12106054B2
Systems, devices, and methods discussed herein provide improved autonomous agent applications that are configured to generate a diagnosis for input symptoms from labels (e.g., diseases, illnesses, and/or conditions) associated with previously-known cases. Extended discourse trees may be generated that identify multiple discourse trees corresponding to various fragment granularities (e.g., document, paragraph, sentence, phrase, word, etc.) of previously-known cases as well as rhetorical relations between those discourse trees. New symptoms can be provided (e.g., via the autonomous agent) as input. The input can be parsed to identify various fragments of the input and rhetorical relations between the fragments. These fragments can be matched to fragments of previously-known cases by matching nodes of the extended discourse tree. If the rhetorical relations between the input fragments match the rhetorical relations indicated in the extended discourse tree of a previously-known cases, the input may be classified with the same label as those previously-known cases.
US12106052B2
The disclosure discloses a method and an apparatus for generating a semantic representation model, and a storage medium. The detailed implementation includes: performing recognition and segmentation on the original text included in an original text set to obtain knowledge units and non-knowledge units in the original text; performing knowledge unit-level disorder processing on the knowledge units and the non-knowledge units in the original text to obtain a disorder text; generating a training text set based on the character attribute of each character in the disorder text; and training an initial semantic representation model by employing the training text set to generate the semantic representation model.
US12106051B2
There is a need for more effective and efficient text categorization. This need can be addressed by, for example, techniques for semantic text categorization. In one example, a method includes determining an input vector-based representation of an input document; processing the input vector-based representation using a trained supervised machine learning model to generate the categorization based at least in part on the input vector-based representation, wherein: (i) the trained supervised machine learning model has been trained using automatically-generated training data, and (ii) the automatically generated training data is generated by determining an inferred semantic label for each unlabeled training document of one or more unlabeled training documents; and performing one or more categorization-based actions based at least in part on the categorization, and (iii) the labels are described by one or more short documents/short texts.
US12106044B2
Disclosed herein is a method and system for determining quality of an input document during risk and compliance assessment. The method includes receiving input document for risk and compliance assessment, identifying a document type, and at least one sub-type of the input document using a Natural Language Processing (NLP) technique and a trained neural network model. Layout of content present in the input document is detected based on each of a plurality of segments extracted from content and structural parameters associated with respective segments. A document review model is identified from a plurality of document review models based on type and at least one sub-type of input document. Thereafter, the quality of the input document and a compliance score is determined by identifying one or more deviations of content of the input document from content of a predefined template for the input document.
US12106024B2
Provided in the present invention are a geologically constrained infrared imaging detection method and system for an urban deeply-buried strip-like passage, pertaining to the crossing fields of geophysics and remote sensing technology. The method includes: establishing an urban hierarchical three-dimensional temperature field model according to urban street DEM data and geological data corresponding to urban streets; acquiring urban stratum geological background heat flux according to the urban hierarchical three-dimensional temperature field model; using a total solar radiation energy distribution model to calculate urban surface total solar radiation energy; sequentially filtering out the urban surface total solar radiation energy and the urban stratum geological background heat flux from an infrared remote sensing image of a region corresponding to a strip-like underground target, to acquire a perturbation signal image of an urban street deeply-buried strip-like passage; and using grayscale closed-operation plus an edge detection algorithm to perform detection and positioning after preprocessing the perturbation signal image of the urban street deeply-buried strip-like passage, to acquire location information of an urban strip-like underground passage. The present invention achieves inverse detection and positioning of an urban street deeply-buried strip-like passage.
US12106023B2
A method for modeling a new design for electromagnetic effects includes identifying, with a model based system engineering tool, an area of interest in the new design where a lightning strike may occur. The new design includes structural features and electromagnetic features. The method further includes generating, with an electromagnetic effects solver tool and a structural solver tool, a design model for the area of interest in the new design, extracting design parameters from the design model, and generating a reduced order model by processing the design parameters, test results, and simulation results with a modeling tool. The reduced order model couples the structural features with the electromagnetic features. The test results are determined by tests of known designs. The simulation results are determined by simulations of known models. The method further includes storing the reduced order model in a storage medium that is readable by a statistical modeling tool.
US12106022B2
The present disclosure provides a method and device for simulating a dynamic digital twin model of dominant operation of a wind turbine generator assembly, by which conventional operational parameters of the wind turbine generator assembly that are acquired in real time are preprocessed to obtain steady-state operational parameters of the wind turbine generator assembly. A pneumatic subsystem-related data black box model, a transmission subsystem model, a tower subsystem model, and an electrical subsystem model are simulated individually using the steady-state operational parameters, and then combined to form a dynamic dominant-operation simulation model for simulating an operation process of the wind turbine generator assembly. Meanwhile, a dynamic deviation compensation model is constructed on the basis of the dynamic dominant-operation simulation model.
US12106019B2
A method includes: calculating a change amount of energy of an Ising model, the change amount being caused when values of four states are changed, for each of a plurality of first states having a value of 0 before change, so as to satisfy a constraint that a sum of values of states included in each row is 1, and a sum of values of states included in each column is 1, when N (an integer of 2 or larger) squared state variables included in an evaluation function representing the energy of the Ising model are arrayed in N rows and N columns; selecting the four states allowed to change by using the change amount calculated for each of the plurality of first states, and outputting identification information for identifying the four states; and updating values of the four states allowed to change by using the identification information.
US12106012B2
A vehicle includes a first speaker, a data communications device, and an information processing device. The information processing device executes the followings: receiving a user operation to make a volume change of audio output from a first speaker provided in a vehicle, the user operation being input into a volume adjustment portion; and while the data communications device outputs audio from a second speaker, notifying the data communications device of the volume change made by the user operation input into a volume adjustment portion.
US12105999B2
A print management system includes a cloud storage server and an information processing apparatus. The cloud storage server includes a memory that stores a print permission/prohibition condition, a usage amount of consumables used in printing an internal document for each employee of the each entity, and a completion status of a requested amount of the printing based on the usage amount for the each employee. The information processing apparatus includes circuitry to execute a print material determination application to: determine whether a print material is permitted to be printed as the internal document; execute the printing job of the print material according to a result of determination; store the usage amount by the printing job in the cloud storage server; provide a record relating to the requested amount of the printing; and store the completion status of the requested amount of the printing in the cloud storage server.
US12105997B2
An information processing apparatus configured to communicate with a first server system, the first server system being configured to receive a registration request transmitted from a printing apparatus, said registration request corresponding to an operation for registering information in the first server system, includes an identification unit configured to identify application identification information corresponding to model information about the printing apparatus, an obtaining unit configured to obtain an application identified by the application identification information identified from a second server system, a display unit configured to display a print setting screen generated by the obtained application, and a transmission unit configured to transmit a print setting made via the print setting screen to the first server system.
US12105992B1
A method of a flash memory controller includes: using a processor to issue and generate a command signal into a control logic circuit though a bus; buffering the command signal in a specific queue of a specific channel controller of the I/O circuit; and using the arbitrator to control the specific buffer storing a first transmission history information of the specific communication interface.
US12105990B2
The present disclosure generally relates to reducing latency when fetching Scatter Gather Lists (SGL). Rather than fetching the required SGLs sequentially regardless of what SGL descriptor is needed, the data storage device fetches all of the last entries of each SGL segment in ahead of time after receiving the command, but before the read data is available. The data storage device will still fetch the previous entries in the segment. Once the last entries are fetched, the last entries are stored in a table where the earlier descriptors of each segment are stored as the segments are fetched. In so doing, parallel fetching allows the data storage device to fetch SGL descriptors as needed and reduces the latency.
US12105979B2
Volume migration among a set of storage systems synchronously replicating a dataset for a volume, where volume migration includes: initiating a transfer of the volume in dependence upon determining that a performance metric for accessing the volume stored on a first storage system would improve if transferred to a second storage system; and during the transfer of the volume: determining status information for the transfer; intercepting an I/O operation directed to the volume; and directing, in dependence upon the status information, the I/O operation to either the first storage system or the second storage system.
US12105977B2
There is provided a storage system that can avoid an increase in inter-node communication in the cooperation between file service and block service. The storage system includes a management section that manages a file processing section of a node in a currently active system and a file processing section of a node in a standby system as a pair, sets the file processing section of the node in the currently active system to be operational, manages a block processing section of the node in the currently active system and a block processing section of the node in the standby system as a pair, and sets the block processing section of the node in the currently active system to be operational.
US12105973B2
A storage device may include storage for data. A host interface may receive a write request from a host at the storage device. The write request may include a data chunk and a data identifier (ID). A class ID determiner circuitry may determine a class ID for the data chunk. A mapping table may map the data ID to the class ID.
US12105961B2
A method includes receiving, by control logic of a memory device, a copyback clear command from a processing device; causing, in response to the copyback clear command, a page buffer to perform a dual-strobe read operation on first memory cells configured as single-level cells, the dual-strobe read operation including a soft strobe at a first threshold voltage and a hard strobe at a second threshold voltage that are sensed between threshold voltage distributions of the first memory cells; causing the page buffer to determine a number of one bit values within the threshold voltage distributions detected in a threshold voltage range between the first/second threshold voltages; and causing, in response to the number of one bit values not satisfying a threshold criterion, a copyback of data in the first memory cells to second memory cells configured as high-level cells without intervention from the processing device.
US12105945B2
Disclosed is a computerized system and method for altering the sensitivity of computer input devices such as mice. The disclosed method relies on a graphic user interface, through which a user can alter input device sensitivity by altering points on an x/y axis wherein the y axis is defined by sensitivity and the x axis is defined by movement of the input device.
US12105937B2
In one example, an electronic device may include a display screen defining a plurality of display regions. Further, the electronic device may include a camera to capture an image of an operator of the electronic device. Furthermore, the electronic device may include a controller operatively coupled to the camera and the display screen. The controller may detect an orientation of the operator's face with respect to the display screen using the captured image. Further, the controller may determine a first display region of the plurality of display regions corresponding to the detected orientation of the operators face. Furthermore, the controller may activate the first display region to position a cursor of a pointing device within the first display region.
US12105927B2
The present invention relates to a computer-implemented method and system for enhancing display and interaction with user-generated content within a 3D environment on digital platforms. This invention uniquely arranges a multitude of interactive elements in a 3D grid along the X, Y, and Z axes, enabling users to navigate through a dynamic digital scene. A virtual camera, positioned to face this grid, automatically pans through the 3D space or responds to user inputs for manual navigation, providing a seamless and immersive content viewing experience. The system is characterized by its ability to dynamically manage content via customizable vector shapes for interactive elements, gesture recognition for navigation, and an AI-driven recommendation engine for personalized content delivery. This invention leverages Swift's 3D rendering capabilities and the iOS SceneKit for efficient management of 3D objects and animations, ensuring a responsive platform for exploring user-generated content.
US12105918B2
Provided is a display device including a display panel having a plurality of pixel regions, a first insulating layer on the display panel, having a first refractive index, and having a plurality of first openings defined in regions which overlap the plurality of pixel regions, a second insulating layer directly on the first insulating layer and having a plurality of second openings defined in regions which correspond to the plurality of first openings, and a third insulating layer covering the display panel, the first insulating layer, and the second insulating layer and having a second refractive index higher than the first refractive index, wherein the third insulating layer may overlap the plurality of pixel regions on a plane.
US12105914B2
A touch detection method includes the following steps: (1). providing a touch display device, wherein the touch display device includes a plurality of LED units and a plurality of switches, each LED unit includes a LED and a photo sensor, and the switches are electrically coupled to the LED units; and (2). enabling the LED and a photo sensor coupled to the conductive one non-simultaneously during a conductive period of a conductive one of the switches. As a result, an influence of a touch detection of the photo sensor by a light emission of the LED could be reduced.
US12105909B2
The disclosure provides a method for driving an OLED touch-and-display device, a driving circuit, and an OLED touch-and-display device. The method includes: dividing each display frame into at least one display period and at least one touch detection period which are alternated; during each display period, generating sequentially-shifted gate driving signals and sequentially-shifted light-emission control signals, and sequentially applying the sequentially-shifted gate driving signals to at least a part of gate driving lines, and sequentially applying the sequentially-shifted light-emission control signals to at least a part of light-emission control lines; during each touch detection period, suspending generation of sequentially-shifted gate driving signals without suspending generation of sequentially-shifted light-emission control signals; and during a period when a gate driving signal for each row of pixels is of active level, maintaining a light-emission control signal for the row of pixels at inactive level.
US12105908B2
A transmission system includes a first touch device and a second touch device. The second touch device includes a transmission region and the transmission region forms an invisible barcode. The first touch device and the second touch device work together to operate in a touch mode or in an application mode. When the first touch device and the second touch device work together to operate in the application mode, the transmission region uses the invisible barcode to transmit a transmission signal to the first touch device to unlock the first touch device.
US12105906B2
A channel driver circuit includes a differential module and a driver module. In some examples, the channel driver circuit also includes a sigma-delta module. The differential module receives, via a single node of a load, a channel driving signal that is provided to the load at the single node (e.g., that is based on an electrical characteristic of the load) and generates an analog error signal that is based on the channel driving signal and a reference signal. The driver module is coupled to the differential module and generates the channel driving signal based on the analog error signal or a digital error signal corresponding to the analog error signal and transmits the channel driving signal via the single node to the load. The channel driver circuit simultaneously transmits the channel driving signal to the load at the single node and senses the channel driving signal at the single node.
US12105905B2
A touch display panel, includes: a base substrate, and a display structure and a touch structure that are stacked on the base substrate, the touch structure includes a first metal mesh layer, an orthographic projection of a mesh hole of at least one first metal mesh of the first metal mesh layer on the base substrate covers orthographic projections of two pixel opening regions of two adjacent sub-pixels on the base substrate, and the two adjacent sub-pixels are configured to emit light of a first primary color; and a center distance between two pixel opening regions is smaller than a center distance between two pixel opening regions of two sub-pixels emitting light of same one other primary color, which is different to the first primary color. The touch display panel has a good display effect.
US12105903B2
The present application provides a display panel and the electronic device. The display panel includes: a substrate; a display layer including light-emitting units; and a touch layer including a first insulating layer, a touch electrode layer, and a second insulating layer. The touch electrode layer includes touch electrodes. Each of the touch electrodes is provided with a first opening corresponding to one of the light-emitting units. Second openings are defined in the first insulating layer and located corresponding to the first openings. The second insulating layer fills the first openings and the second openings, and an included angle between a sidewall of each of the second openings and a side of the first insulating layer close to the display layer is an acute angle.
US12105901B2
An input device (900) may include a rotatable member (952), a virtual scroll controller (912) and a host interface block (906). The virtual scroll controller (912) may be configured to select a virtual scroll state from a plurality of virtual scroll states based on a rotational velocity of the rotatable member (952). Each virtual scroll state may be associated with a respective output function. The virtual scroll controller (912) may be further configured to compute an output velocity according to the output function associated with the selected virtual scroll state. The virtual scroll controller (912) may be further configured to generate a virtual position count (928) based on the computed output velocity. The host interface block (906) may be configured to send the generated virtual position count (928) to a computing device connected to the input device (900).
US12105897B2
A device such as a stylus may have a color sensor. The color sensor may have a color sensing light detector having a plurality of photodetectors each of which measures light for a different respective color channel. The color sensor may also have a light emitter. The light emitter may have an adjustable light spectrum. The light spectrum may be adjusted during color sensing measurements using information such as ambient light color measurements made with a color ambient light sensor that has a plurality of photodetectors each of which measures light for a different respective color channel. An inertial measurement unit may be used to measure the angular orientation between the stylus and an external object during color measurements. Arrangements in which the light emitter is modulated during color sensing may also be used. Measurements from the stylus may be transmitted wirelessly to external equipment.
US12105889B2
The technology disclosed relates to automatically interpreting motion of a control object in a three dimensional (3D) sensor space by sensing a movement of the control object in the (3D) sensor space, interpreting movement of the control object, and presenting the interpreted movement as a path on a display. The path may be displayed once the speed of the movement exceeds a pre-determined threshold measured in cm per second. Once the path is displayed, the technology duplicates a display object that intersects the path on the display. In some implementations, the control object may be a device, a hand, or a portion of a hand (such as a finger).
US12105888B2
A gesture detection system is disclosed. The gesture detection system includes a gesture detection sensor including a base sheet formed of a skin-conformable material, to be tightly attached to a skin, a sensing part formed at the base sheet, to measure deformation of the skin, and an electrode pattern formed at the base sheet and connected, at one end thereof, to the sensing part, to transmit an electrical signal varying in accordance with the deformation of the skin, a reader module connected to the gesture detection sensor, to read the electrical signal, and a computing device configured to receive the electrical signal from the reader module, thereby recognizing a gesture of the user. Through disposable use of the gesture detection sensor and multiple use of the reader module and the computing device, a hygienic gesture input environment may be provided to a plurality of users at low cost.
US12105884B2
Method and capability to yield gesture-based, touchless communication between user and electronic device. The system identifies hand or finger gestures by utilizing depth-mapping-based camera sensor technology, eliminating the necessity of a touch or hover sensitive device. With the use of an inertial measurement unit or similar gyroscopic sensor(s), the system will be portable and be able to function as a wearable, In particular implementations, “mouse movement gestures”, “pinch gestures”, “twist gestures”, and other gestures of the like can, but are not limited to, be used to provide input, actuate commands, manipulate display(s), and allow access to applications.
US12105878B2
A stress feedback device and a virtual image display system are provided. The stress feedback device includes a position sensor and a pressure generator. The position sensor is configured to generate a position information based on a trigger signal and send the position information to a host. The pressure generator is configured to apply a stress to a target area based on the trigger signal and adjust an intensity of the stress.
US12105877B2
The disclosure relates to technology for haptic stimulation. According to one aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a haptic stimulation system comprising a haptic stimulation interface comprising a pattern of stimulation elements configured to stimulate receptors in skin of a user. The haptic stimulation system further comprises a control circuit configured to present information in the haptic stimulation interface in accordance with a presentation mode that is tailored to the user.
US12105876B2
Methods and systems are provided for detecting and processing gestures, expressions (e.g., facial), tone and/or gestures of the user for the purpose of improving the quality and speed of interactions with computer-based systems. Such information may be detected by one or more sensors such as, for example, electromyography (EMG) sensors used to monitor and record electrical activity produced by muscles that are activated. Other sensor types may be used, such as optical, inertial measurement unit (IMU), or other types of bio-sensors. The system may use one or more sensors to detect speech alone or in combination with gestures, expressions (e.g., facial), tone and/or gestures of the user to provide input or control of the system.
US12105874B2
The present disclosure generally relates to controlling electronic devices. In some examples, the electronic device uses gaze information to activate a digital assistant. In some examples, the electronic device uses gaze information to identify an external device on which to act. In some examples, the electronic device provides an indication that distinguishes between different speakers.
US12105872B2
The present specification describes methods and systems for modifying a media, such as Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, or Mixed Reality (VR/AR/MxR) media based on a vision profile and a target application. In embodiments of the specification, a Sensory Data Exchange (SDE) is created that enables identification of various vision profiles for users and user groups. The SDE may be utilized to modify one or more media in accordance with each type of user and/or user group.
US12105862B2
Examples provide a multi-factor device holder (MDH) for storing multi-factor authentication devices. A housing encases a set of ports configured to connect to the set of connectors on two or more multi-factor authentication devices placed within the MDH. An external port can connect the MDH to a port on a user device. A selection device, such as a user interface, enables user selection of an authentication device from the set of authentication devices. A locking mechanism secures the housing in a closed configuration to prevent unauthorized access to the authentication devices stored within the MDH. The MDH can include a user authentication device, such as a biometric reader, to authenticate a user attempting to utilize the MDH. If authorized, the selected authentication device is unlocked and provided with power. The selected authentication device transmits a code to the user device via the external port connector.
US12105860B2
A memory device includes a non-volatile memory (NVM) and a secure-programming circuit (SPC). The SPC is configured to receive a program-NVM instruction to program a given data word in a given location of the NVM, and, responsively to receiving the program-NVM instruction, to program bits of the given data word in the NVM in a random order.
US12105856B2
Methods and systems are provided for validating and registering an IHS (Information Handling System) and components of the IHS for technical support. Upon delivery and initialization of an IHS, an inventory certificate that was uploaded to the IHS during factory provisioning of the IHS is retrieved. The inventory certificate includes an inventory that identifies factory-installed hardware components in the IHS. The inventory also specifies whether a registration requirement has been specified for the IHS, such as to initiate technical support. While still operating a pre-boot validation process, an inventory is collected of the detected hardware components of the IHS. Based on the inventory certificate, the validation process confirms whether a detected hardware component is a factory-installed hardware component and determines whether registration is required. If required, registration of the IHS is initiated by the validation process and initialization of the IHS continues.
US12105854B2
A data intermediary system includes a processor and a storage unit. The storage unit stores, for a plurality of services used by a user in the past, provision situation information indicating data for each item of the data provided to a service provider to use the service. The processor acquires information indicating an item of data requested, by the service provider, acquires the provision situation of data of the same item as the item of the data requested by the service provider, determines that an item of the data whose provision situation satisfies a predetermined condition is provided to the service provider, and controls distribution of the data to the service provider that that holds the data of the item determined to be provided.
US12105844B1
An output of a generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) model is received which is responsive to a prompt by a requestor. The output is tokenized to result in a plurality of tokens. These tokens are then used to determine that the output includes at least one string comprising personally identifiable information (PII). This determined can use pattern recognition to identify tokens and sequence of tokens indicative of PII. Thereafter, a classifier is used to assign a PII type to each string in the output comprising PII. It is then determined that at least one of the PII types in the output requires redaction which results in strings having a PII type determined to require redaction to be redacted which, in turn, results in a modified output for transmission to the requester. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described.
US12105843B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including a method for updating user consent in a verifiable manner. In some aspects, a method includes receiving, from a client device, a request including an attestation token. The attestation token includes a set of data that includes at least a user identifier that uniquely identifies a user of the client device, a token creation time that indicates a time at which the attestation token was created, user consent data specifying whether one or more entities that receive the attestation token are eligible to use data of the user, an action to be performed in response to the request. The attestation token also includes a digital signature of at least a portion of the set of data, including at least the user identifier and the token creation time. An integrity of the request is verified using the attestation token.
US12105842B1
The technology disclosed allows for leveraging decentralized credentials to achieve bidirectional authentication between two actors leveraging a messaging platform/system, such as email or another text-based system, verifiable credentials (VCs), and secure web endpoints. It empowers one party (“Sender”) to send a message enclosed with a Verifiable Presentation which allows another party (“Recipient”) to authenticate the message's provenance and the identity of the sender. Moreover, the message contains a link to a secure web endpoint, where the recipient can submit a response signed by their own Verifiable Presentation, allowing the Sender to authenticate the identity of the Recipient. In this way, both participants are able to authenticate each other's identities with an additional factor of authentication, with neither participant being required to share a single service.
US12105817B2
This disclosure describes techniques for allowing an organization to manage user identities. In some examples, the management of user identities may be serverless. In some examples, serverless identity management may be enabled through a distributed application on user devices of the organization. The application may generate and/or store information related to the user identities on the user devices. Serverless identity management may further include storing at least some of the information at a location that is easily accessible to the user devices, such as a cloud computing location, while maintaining security for private data. Serverless identity management may therefore provide an organization with greater operational flexibility.
US12105813B2
Embodiments implement a secure connector framework at a cloud infrastructure. Embodiments receive one or more notebook profiles from an on-premises system corresponding to a first cloud customer, the on-premises system comprising at least one of one or more datasets, one or more models, or one or more libraries, the notebook profiles comprising permission sets that specify a level of access to the datasets, the models and the libraries, the notebook profiles corresponding to an on-premises machine learning (“ML”) notebook. Embodiments transform the received notebook profiles into a cloud policy set for sharing the datasets, the models and the libraries. Embodiments then transmit and receive corresponding data from the first cloud customer to a second cloud customer, the transmitted and received data based on the cloud policy set.
US12105808B2
Automated trust center for real-time security and compliance monitoring including maintaining, for an organization, a plurality of control statuses for a trust center report, including: retrieving control status responses from a group of services providers of the organization, wherein each control status response is associated with a control in the trust center report; and determining, based on the control status responses, a control status for each control of the trust center report; receiving a request for the trust center report from an organization client; generating, in real-time, the trust center report using the control statuses for each control; and providing, to the organization client, the trust center report generated in real-time using the control statuses for each control.
US12105807B1
Disclosed in some examples is an enterprise software management system (ESMS) that manages procurement, deployment, security, and maintenance of software in large enterprises. The ESMS may include one or more of a software tracking component, a software component storage component, a licensing repository component, a software vulnerabilities detection component, and a software risk management component. The ESMS governs and manages software applications and components to reduce legal, security, and other risks to the enterprise environment. The ESMS solves the technical problem of tracking and managing software and components using the technical solution of a tracking framework that utilizes interconnected systems that document, track, and ensure compliance with enterprise software goals.
US12105804B2
Securely executing instructions of software on a computerized device by accessing a software of a computerized device, wherein the software includes a plurality of instructions and respective reference message authentication codes (MACs), generating a cryptographic key based at least in part on a key derivation function, wherein arguments of the key derivation function are based at least in part on a unique identifier of the computerized device and a value extended from a measurement of a content of the software of an extension mechanism of a platform configuration register of the computerized device, verifying an instruction of the plurality of instructions of the software based at least in part on the cryptographic key and a reference MAC of the respective reference MACs, and in response to verifying the instruction of the plurality of instructions of the software, executing the instruction.
US12105779B2
Systems and methods for authenticating identification information are disclosed. For example, a system may include an Automated Teller Machine (ATM). An ATM may comprise a user interface. The user interface may comprise a joystick. The user interface may be configured to receive joystick input from a user. The ATM may comprise at least one memory storing instructions. The ATM may comprise at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to perform operations. The operations may comprise receiving identification information from the user. The operations may comprise receiving the joystick input. The operations may comprise extracting a joystick sequence from the joystick input. When the joystick sequence is within a predetermined threshold from a stored joystick sequence corresponding to the identification information, the operations may comprise authenticating the user for an ATM operation.
US12105777B2
An authentication apparatus transmits code and challenge to a target, receives a response, and authenticates the target based on the response. The target receives the code and the challenge, generates a password for comparison by executing n times of repetitive computation by a recurrence relation or a recursive function using the code as an initial input, executes password authentication using a pre-stored password and the password for comparison. If the password authentication has succeeded, the target reads out an authentication seed corresponding to the number n that is the number of times of execution of the repetitive computation with which the password for comparison that matches a password has been obtained, and generates the response using the read-out authentication seed and the challenge received from the authentication apparatus, and transmits the response.
US12105775B2
A refrigerator appliance is provided including a cabinet defining a chilled chamber, a door rotatably hinged to the cabinet to provide selective access to the chilled chamber, and an audiovisual input assembly for monitoring the chilled chamber. A controller obtains a video stream and an audio stream using the audiovisual input assembly and analyzes these streams using a standard object weighting to generate a video-based inventory change and an audio-based inventory change. An inventory list is updated if the video-based inventory change and the audio-based inventory change match. Otherwise, the controller can reanalyze the streams using an updated object weighting to see if the audio and video streams generate matching proposed inventory changes.
US12105774B2
A method for generating traffic demand data of a data center network includes: acquiring traffic demand samples each including a source address, a destination address, a flow interval, and a flow size; acquiring a first interval number by performing equal-frequency binning discretization processing according to the flow interval and acquiring a second interval number by performing equal-frequency binning discretization processing according to the flow size; determining a traffic demand subset according to the source address and the destination address, and acquiring a first parameter matrix and a second parameter matrix by training a latent Dirichlet allocation probability topic model according to the traffic demand subset; and generating the traffic demand data according to the first interval number, the second interval number, the first parameter matrix, and the second parameter matrix.
US12105770B2
According to an embodiment, an estimation device includes one or more processors configured to: generate, from first point cloud data, second point cloud data obtained by combining an attention point and observation points; estimate an attribute of the attention point by an attribute indicated by an estimation result label having a higher belonging probability among belonging probabilities output from an attribute estimation neural network; estimate reliability of the estimation result label by a reliability estimation neural network; and display, on a display device, first display information generated by performing rendering on an object including an attention point whose attribute is estimated by an attribute of the estimation result label whose reliability is higher than a first threshold, and generated by not performing rendering on an object including an attention point whose attribute is estimated by an attribute of the estimation result label whose reliability is the first threshold or less.
US12105767B2
Digital content layout encoding techniques for search are described. In these techniques, a layout representation is generated (using machine learning automatically and without user intervention) that describes a layout of elements included within the digital content. In an implementation, the layout representation includes a description of both spatial and structural aspects of the elements in relation to each other. To do so, a two-pathway pipeline that is configured to model layout from both spatial and structural aspects using a spatial pathway, and a structural pathway, respectively. In one example, this is also performed through use of multi-level encoding and fusion to generate a layout representation.
US12105765B2
A method of automated database element processing includes training a wide machine learning model with historical feature vector inputs to generate a wide ranked element output. The method includes training a deep machine learning model with the historical feature vector inputs to generate a deep ranked element output. The method includes generating a set of inputs specific to an individual entity, obtaining a set of current article database elements, and creating a feature vector input according to the set of inputs and the set of current article database elements. The method includes processing the feature vector input with the wide machine learning model to generate a wide ranked element list, processing the feature vector input with the deep machine learning model to generate a deep ranked element list, and merging database elements of the wide and deep ranked element lists to generate a ranked element recommendation output.
US12105763B2
Systems and methods for the generation of a sequence of related text-based search queries.
US12105759B2
A recommendation system includes: a first acquisition unit configured to acquire user history information; a calculation unit configured to calculate a use maturity representing maturity of use of a service for each of a plurality of users on the basis of the user history information; a second acquisition unit configured to acquire recommendation history information including target algorithm information and recommendation success/non-success information; a selection unit configured to select a target algorithm on the basis of the recommendation history information of a user group having a use maturity corresponding to the use maturity of the target user among the plurality of users; and a recommendation unit configured to determine a content to be recommended to the target user using the selected target algorithm and output information representing the determined content.
US12105755B1
Systems and techniques for retrieving video data associated with a selected attribute are described. The systems and techniques include receiving a multimodal input associated with the attribute for querying a catalog of video data to identify video data including the attribute. A first embedding is determined for the input using a first encoder to map the input to a representation space. A second embedding is determined for the video data to map the video data to the representation space. A similarity score is determined between the video data and the input based on a distance between the embeddings. The video data associated with the attribute may be selected based on the similarity score.
US12105747B2
Systems and methods are directed to generating content that is contextually relevant in a writing style of a user. In example embodiments, a plurality of logical inputs regarding a topic is received in bullet point format. A content generator generates draft content using machine learning (ML) models. The generating comprises identifying a writing style of the user by applying the plurality of logical inputs to a first ML model, determining a context and direction for the draft content using a second ML model, and based on the plurality of logical inputs, the identified writing style, and the context and direction, generating at least one paragraph of draft content in the writing style of the user that follows an outline associated with the bullet point format and comprises a same context and direction as the plurality of logical inputs. The draft content is then presented at a client device.
US12105739B2
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer-readable device embodiments for mass insertion into single-threaded databases. An embodiment includes a processor and a memory, a storage layer to interface with a plurality of software applications and to receive data output from the plurality of software applications, and a listener that runs according to an update policy, to detect the presence of information newly stored within the storage layer. The processor and memory may be configured to maintain at least a part of a running database cluster including a plurality of nodes, with at least two nodes configured to run without multi-threading, and to execute an intermediate module to send at least part of the information to the database cluster, and to perform simultaneous access to multiple database nodes running without multi-threading.
US12105727B2
Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for providing a unified search tool for searching data in multiple domains. One method includes an operation for causing presentation of a user interface (UI) for entering one or more search parameters to search items in two or more domains. Each domain is owned by a different entity and data for each domain is acquired by the corresponding entity. Further, the method includes operations for receiving one or more search parameters values, searching, in response to the received search parameter values, the two or more domains based on the search parameters values, and ranking separately search results for each domain. Further, the method includes causing presentation in the UI of the search results for the two or more domains based on the ranking, the search results for each domain being presented in a separate results list.
US12105724B1
A data intake and query system receives raw machine via an internet protocol (IP) such as the hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP). The system has configurable global settings for the received raw machine data that determine properties such as the metadata that is associated with raw machine data. Each event is associated with a token, which is also configurable and provides settings such as metadata settings for the raw machine data. The raw machine data is stored as events based on the metadata. Electronic devices that generate raw machine data may transmit the raw machine data to the data intake and query system within HTTP messages. The HTTP messages may also include settings such as metadata for the raw machine data. The raw machine data is stored as events based on the global metadata settings, token metadata settings, and HTTP message metadata settings.
US12105705B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure describe an approach for database query processing with database clients. According to the approach, a first set of queries are obtained from a plurality of clients in communication with a database server. A second set of queries are generated by normalizing the first set of queries. A set of access paths corresponding to the second set of queries are determined for retrieving data from at least one of the plurality of clients and the database server. Data is retrieved from at least one of the plurality of clients and the database server based on the set of access paths.
US12105704B2
A device receives a query from a user associated with a car dealership and applies the query to a first trained machine learning model configured to predict an intent, and to a second trained machine learning model to predict a set of entities. The device generates a normalized representation of the first query that is database language agnostic based on the predicted intent and the predicted set of entities, and translates the normalized representation into a second query having a format compatible with a language of a database of the car dealership. The device fetches data from the database of the car dealership using the second query, and provides the data for display to the user.
US12105696B2
Methods that provide dynamic index management for a set of computing storage resources are disclosed herein. One method includes collecting, by a processor, a set of current performance data for a set of storage resources storing data and implementing a set of indexes for the data stored on the set of storage resources based on an optimized performance predicted for the set of storage resources based on the collected set of current performance data and a set of predicted performance data that identifies the set of indexes. Also disclosed herein are apparatus, systems, and computer program products that can include, perform, and/or implement the methods for providing dynamic index management for a set of computing storage resources.
US12105694B2
In another example, a device includes a processor and a computer-readable medium storing instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations. The operations include acquiring a plurality of data items from a plurality of data sources, wherein the at least two data sources data sources of the plurality of data sources are maintained by different entities, normalizing attributes of the plurality of data items, using a first machine learning technique, matching at least two data items of the plurality of data items to form a grouping, wherein the matching is based on similarities observed in the attributes of the at least two data items subsequent to the normalizing, and creating a single profile for an individual associated with the at least two data items, based on the grouping, wherein the single profile consolidates the attributes of the at least two data items.
US12105686B2
Methods, systems, and computer readable media for content item purging are provided. A contact item purger, such as may be incorporated within a local client application of a content management system running on a user device, may leverage knowledge as to which items have been uploaded to the content management system, and how long such content items have been stored on the user device, to propose items for deletion from the user device so as to reclaim storage space. A contact item purger may run on one or more user devices, and may activate upon various triggering events, based on various conditions and parameters, with or without user interaction, thus maintaining available memory capacity at all times.
US12105683B2
A system and method include providing a user interface for provisioning of the database using a selectable one of a plurality of database engines supported by the database management system, each of the supported ones of the plurality of database engines having a software profile, receiving a request via the user interface to create a new database for a first database engine not supported by the database management system, requesting and receiving a first binary for a database software for the first database engine and a second binary for an operating system software for the first database engine, and creating a first software profile from the first binary and the second binary, said first software profile usable by the database management system to create the new database using the first software profile.
US12105680B2
A network system for providing long haul network connection between endpoint devices is disclosed. The network system includes a first and a second endpoint devices, a first and a second exchange servers, a first access point server coupled between the first endpoint device and the first exchange server, a second access point server coupled between the second endpoint device and the second exchange server, a first storage node coupled between the first exchange server and the second exchange server, and a second storage node coupled between the first exchange server and the second exchange server. The first exchange server is configured to convert first packetized traffic into a carrier file and write the carrier file to the second storage node. The second exchange server is configured to read the carrier file from the second storage node and convert the carrier file into second packetized traffic.
US12105673B2
Digital information management systems, methods and file formats are provided. One digital information management system comprises a receiving device comprising at least one processor and a memory storing instructions which when executed by the at least one processor configure the at least one processor to perform the method. The method comprises receiving a file construct from a source device, and rendering the file construct. Another digital information management system comprises at least one processor and a memory storing instructions which when executed by the at least one processor configure the at least one processor to perform another method. The other method comprises obtaining a file construct, and sending the file construct to a receiving device.
US12105669B2
A method, computer program product, and computer system for receiving, by a computing device, a snapshot create operation of a volume to create a first snapshot. Existing dirty data of the volume for the first snapshot may be flushed from an in-memory cache. New writes to the volume for the first snapshot may be maintained in the in-memory cache as dirty. A snapshot create operation to the volume may be received to create a second snapshot. The new writes to the volume for the first snapshot may be combined as part of the second snapshot.
US12105665B2
A universal serial bus (USB) control device and a control method thereof are provided. The USB control device includes multiple host interfaces, multiple USB ports, a bus physical layer circuit, a microprocessor, and a bus schedule controller. The bus schedule controller controls the bus physical layer circuit according to a USB task. The microprocessor obtains a USB task command through the host interface, which includes a USB port number of a specific host interface. The microprocessor queries the USB port number of the specific host interface based on an index lookup table to correspond to a specific USB port, generates the USB task according to the specific USB port, and transmits the USB task to the bus schedule controller. The index lookup table is configured to record a relationship between a part of the USB port that each host interface is responsible for and the USB port number.
US12105660B2
The present invention discloses a communication method having both defined and undefined bus communication mechanism used in an electronic that includes steps outlined below. A connection between an application program and the peripheral electronic equipment is established through a built-in driver. A proxy library and a proxy driver respectively corresponding to a user mode and a kernel mode are activated by the application program. A connection between a combination of the proxy library and the proxy driver and the peripheral electronic equipment are established by the application program. Defined commands defined by the built-in driver are transmitted to and received from the peripheral electronic equipment through a bus by the application program by using the built-in driver. Non-defined commands not defined by the built-in driver are transmitted to and received from the peripheral electronic equipment through the bus by the application program by using the proxy library and the proxy driver.
US12105659B2
Cable designs and methods are provided herein to enable remote end access to active cable controllers for monitoring and upgrade operations. One illustrative network cable design includes: a first end connector configured to couple with a first host port and a second end connector configured to couple with a second host port, each of the first and second end connectors configured to convey a data stream in each direction via optical or electrical conductors connected between the first and second end connectors; a controller and a powered transceiver circuit included in the first end connector, the controller operable to configure operation of the powered transceiver circuit; and electrical contacts in the second end connector for a management bus to convey information from the second host port to the controller in the first end connector.
US12105655B2
A system for optimizing AHB bus data transmission performance includes a master; a decoder connected to the master; a first multiplexer connected to the decoder; and a plurality of slaves connected to the first multiplexer, the decoder, and the master, where the decoder is configured to output a slave selection signal, and determine a slave in transmission communication with the master based on the slave selection signal. The first multiplexer is configured to receive a transmission complete signal output by each slave, and select a transmission complete signal of a corresponding slave based on a first selection signal and output it to the corresponding slave, where the first selection signal is formed by beating the slave selection signal.
US12105652B2
An information handling system may include a management controller and a chassis having mounted therein at least one add-in card. The management controller may be configured to: retrieve connection information from the add-in card, the connection information indicating a physical location of the add-in card within the chassis; compare the connection information with expected connection information associated with the information handling system; determine that the physical location of the add-in card within the chassis is in conflict with a restriction associated with the add-in card; and transmit an error message based on the determining.
US12105649B2
Herein are solutions for computer bus transaction processing by a device that is rebooting. Data and logic of a bus driver of a device are configured to remain loaded and fully operational during an operating system (OS) kernel reboot on the device. That logic is specially memory mapped into an unused area of volatile memory that is not overwritten by the OS kernel. Driver logic is self-contained such that its statically linked codebase contains all logic needed to detect and fully handle an outstanding bus transaction. In an embodiment having a host computer that is connected to a device by a bus, a central processing unit (CPU) of the device bootstraps an OS kernel of the device. Concurrent to bootstrapping the OS kernel, the CPU of the device detects a transaction on the bus that was not initiated by the device, executes an instruction sequence for the transaction, and sends on the bus a response to the transaction.
US12105647B2
Techniques are provided for asynchronous reservation of storage volumes in a storage system with persistent storage of reservation data. One method comprises obtaining, by a target storage device, a reservation command from a host device that requests to reserve a storage volume of the target storage device; creating a new execution thread to process the reservation command, wherein an execution of the reservation command is asynchronous; storing an intermediate result of the reservation command in a persistent storage, wherein the stored intermediate result allows the execution of the reservation command to restart from an execution point following the storage of the intermediate result; and initiating a notification to the host device of the reservation of the storage volume in response to a completion of the execution of the reservation command. The target storage device may recover from a failure during a processing of the reservation command by loading a stored intermediate result from the persistent storage.
US12105645B2
The invention relates to a method for distributing a network stream from at least one data source to a plurality of processors or processor cores of a computing device. The computing device has a network card which supports the receive side scaling (RSS) function, wherein, when this function is activated, the network card or its device driver generates an RSS indirection table (25) in which there is stored, for each index, the number of a processor or processor core, which will process an incoming data packet assigned to this index, and subsequently the network card calculates a hash value for each incoming data packet and maps the hash value to an index in precisely this table, wherein the hash value is formed via the combination of source and destination IP addresses and ports and is thus static for the duration of the connection. The method comprises the steps of specifying (34) at least one processor or processor core of the computing device, selecting (35) a port of the at least one data source, generating (36) a data set assigned to the selected port, determining (37) the processor or processor core assigned to the data set, repeating the steps of selection (35), generation (36) and determination (37) until a port has been determined for each specified processor or processor core, and sending (39) data packets via the ports determined for the specified processors or processor cores.
US12105640B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to evict in a dual datapath victim cache system. An example apparatus includes a cache storage, a cache controller operable to receive a first memory operation and a second memory operation concurrently, comparison logic operable to identify if the first and second memory operations missed in the cache storage, and a replacement policy component operable to, when at least one of the first and second memory operations corresponds to a miss in the cache storage, reserve an entry in the cache storage to evict based on the first and second memory operations.
US12105631B2
An apparatus comprises a processing device configured to receive a write request to write a given portion of data to a storage system comprising a multiple-instance write cache, the multiple-instance write cache comprising a first write cache instance that utilizes replica-based data protection and a second write cache instance that utilizes data striping-based data protection, and to determine a size of the given data portion and to compare the size of the given data portion to at least one size threshold. The processing device is also configured, responsive to a first comparison result, to write the given data portion to the first write cache instance. The processing device is further configured, responsive to a second comparison result different than the first comparison result, to write at least part of the given data portion to the second write cache instance.
US12105630B2
A dataflow graph for an application has operation units that are configured to be producers and consumers of tensors. A write access pattern of a particular producer specifies an order in which the particular producer generates elements of a tensor, and a read access pattern of a corresponding consumer specifies an order in which the corresponding consumer processes the elements of the tensor. The technology disclosed detects conflicts between the producers and the corresponding consumers that have mismatches between the write access patterns and the read access patterns. A conflict occurs when the order in which the particular producer generates the elements of the tensor is different from the order in which the corresponding consumer processes the elements of the tensor. The technology disclosed resolves the conflicts by inserting buffers between the producers and the corresponding consumers.
US12105628B2
Disclosed herein are an apparatus and method for managing cache memory. The apparatus includes one or more processors and executable memory for storing at least one program executed by the one or more processors. The at least one program reads an s1-tag and an s2-tag of cache memory upon receiving an access request address for reading data in response to a request to access the cache memory, checks whether the access request address matches the value of the s1-tag and the value of the s2-tag, and reads the data from data memory when the access request address matches all of the value of the s1-tag and the value of the s2-tag.
US12105622B2
The invention relates to a method, a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium and an apparatus for data access in response to a host discard command. The method includes: allocating space in a random access memory (RAM) for an expanded discard table; receiving the host discard command from a host side; appending new entries each including one first logical address to the expanded discard table; and setting a start-address register and/or an end-address register in a performance engine for redefining an address range in the RAM that stores the expanded discard table, thereby enabling the performance engine to search the expanded discard table in the address range in the RAM for determining whether a specific logical address of user data is no longer used.
US12105620B2
A system including embedded storage devices is described. A method of system operation includes determining, by a processing device of a storage system controller operatively coupled via a network to embedded storage devices, that data is to be stored in a first storage portion of a first storage device of the embedded storage devices. The method also includes buffering the data in a second storage portion of a second embedded storage device of the embedded storage devices.
US12105618B2
A computer-implemented method for fuzzing a target software running on a computer. In the method: a target program is carried using first input data, memory context information of the target program's run is captured, a machine learning model is trained using the first input data and the memory context information as model input, a fuzzing input is generated based on an output of the machine learning model, the target program is tested using the fuzzing input.
US12105616B2
Devices and methods are provided for identifying a debug event associated with a data element of a data stream, and performing debugging when a processor executes a software program in connection with the data stream. The debug event is tracked through a data pipeline to the processor. In an embodiment, the debug event is acted on only when the processor is ready to consume the data element associated with the debug event. In an embodiment, the debug event is determined by monitoring iteration counts of loop counters associated with an address generator and comparing the iteration counts to respective stored count values.
US12105612B1
A method for matching neural network layouts to hardware architectures is provided. The method comprises iteratively: holding neural network parameters constant while changing a hardware architecture parameters, calculating a first loss value for a combination of the neural network parameters and hardware architecture parameters according to a gradient-based differentiable function within specified resource constraints, holding the hardware architecture parameters constant while changing the neural network parameters, calculating a second loss value for a new combination of parameters within the specified resource constraints, and combining the first loss value and the second loss value to calculate a combined loss value. The above iterative steps are stopped when the combined loss value reaches a specified threshold, and an optimal combination of neural network parameters and hardware architecture parameters is determined according to the combined loss value.
US12105607B2
Techniques are described for a data recovery validation test. In examples, a processor receives a command to be included in the validation test that is configured to validate performance of an activity by a server prior to a failure to perform the activity by the server. The processor stores the validation test including the command on a memory device, and prior to the failure of the activity by the server, executes the validation test including the command responsive to an input. The processor receives results of the validation test corresponding to the command and indicating whether the server performed the activity in accordance with a standard for the activity during the validation test. The processor provides the results of the validation test in a user interface.
US12105604B1
A method for managing data availability includes making a first determination by a first security module (FSM) that a first storage area network (SAN) infrastructure in a first data center has experienced a failure. The method also includes generating a secure string based on a first configuration parameter. Further, the method includes appending the secure string to a SAN failure notification to generate a secure string-appended request. In addition, the method includes sending the secure string-appended request to a second data center, wherein the second data center is selected based on a second configuration parameter. Moreover, the method includes making a second determination that the encrypted secure string-appended request is valid. Further, the method includes offloading processing of requests sent to the first data center using the second data center.
US12105602B2
Communications are exchanged with a copy service of a host to identify writers associated with the copy service. The identification includes a type of a writer as being a system or application writer. Writers identified as system writers are added to a list of writers that should participate in a backup operation. For writers identified as application writers, components of an application writer are iterated through to determine whether a component of the application writer has a name or logical path that includes a name of a system service. When any component has the name or logical path that includes the name of the system service, the application writer is promoted to be of type system writer by adding the application writer to the list of writers that should participate in the backup operation. Components of each writer listed in the list of writers are backed up.
US12105601B2
A computer system includes memory hardware configured to store software application files and computer-executable instructions executed by processor hardware. The instructions include determining memory space required for reinstallation of an archived target software application into a directory and preserving the memory space by creating a storage space preservation file in the directory based on the determined memory space. The storage space preservation file is unusable as the archived target software application. The instructions include detecting an execution call to a first replacement executable file and, in response to detecting the execution call, restoring files of the archived target software application to the directory and forwarding the execution call to a first executable file of the archived target software application in the directory. Detecting the execution call, restoring the files of the archived target software application, and forwarding the execution call are executed automatically without manual intervention by a user.
US12105599B2
Assets to associate to a data protection policy and configuration information for the policy is received. The configuration information includes a data protection job to perform for the assets and a schedule for the job. A shadow policy is generated including the configuration information from the data protection policy and a retry protocol. The data protection job is performed according to the schedule. A failure of the data protection job for an asset is detected. The asset is moved out of the data protection policy and into the shadow policy. The data protection job for the asset is retried according to the retry protocol in the shadow policy.
US12105597B2
The disclosure provides migration of control plane nodes across multiple architecture platforms. Embodiments include one or more processors configured to backup data of a source control plane node running on a first host, the first host having a first architecture platform, identify a second architecture platform of a second host, the second architecture platform being different than the first architecture platform, select a first control plane binary of a plurality of control plane binaries based on the first control plane binary being for the second architecture platform, wherein the plurality of control plane binaries are for a plurality of architecture platforms, deploy a target control plane node on the second host using the selected first control plane binary, copy the backed up data to the second host to configured the target control plane node, and run the target control plane node on the second host.
US12105588B2
A method includes writing sets of encoded data slices to storage units of a storage network in accordance with error encoding parameters, where for a set of encoded data slices, the error encoding parameters include an error coding number and a decode threshold number, the error coding number indicates a number of encoded data slices that results when a data segment is encoded using an error encoding function and the decode threshold number indicates a minimum number needed to recover the data segment. The method further includes monitoring processing of the writing the sets of encoded data slices to produce write processing performance information. When the write processing performance information compares unfavorably to a desired write performance range, the method further includes adjusting at least one of the error coding number and the decode threshold number to produce adjusted error encoding parameters for writing subsequent encoded data slices.
US12105586B2
The present invention relates to computerized (“smart”) mobile electronic devices and more particularly, to a system and methods of diagnosing and repairing malfunctions in smart mobile electronic devices, including a diagnostic process that utilizes decisions based on Big Data that holds information of multiple devices and offers a “disable components” (i.e., turn-off components) solution in order to overcome the problem without flashing a firmware or doing a factory-reset.
US12105585B2
Provided is a bit error rate equalizing method of a memory device. The memory device selectively performs an error correction code (ECC) interleaving operation according to resistance distribution characteristics of memory cells, when writing a codeword including information data and a parity bit of the information data to a memory cell array. In the ECC interleaving operation according to one example, an ECC sector including information data is divided into a first ECC sub-sector and a second ECC sub-sector, the first ECC sub-sector is written to memory cells of a first memory area having a high bit error rate (BER), and the second ECC sub-sector is written to memory cells of a second memory area having a low BER.
US12105575B2
Example implementations relate to executing a workload in a computing system including processing devices, memory devices, and a circuit switch. An example includes identifying first and second instruction-level portions to be consecutively executed by the computing system; determining a first subset of processing devices and a first subset of memory devices to be used to execute the first instruction-level portion; controlling the circuit switch to interconnect the first subset of processing devices and the first subset of memory devices during execution of the first instruction-level portion; determining a second subset of the processing devices and a second subset of the memory devices to be used to execute the second instruction-level portion; and controlling the circuit switch to interconnect the second subset of processing devices and the second subset of memory devices during execution of the second instruction-level portion.
US12105554B2
Enhanced resolution for a real-time clock is implemented, which includes a real-time clock configured to operate at a first time resolution, at least one processing unit configured to operate at a second time resolution, wherein the second time resolution has a higher frequency than the first time resolution, a memory for storing data at a location including data from the real-time clock and the at least one processing unit, an interrupt configured to load information into the memory at the location using the at least one processing unit, the interrupt further configured to operate at a frequency associated with the second time resolution, a timing service configured to read information from the memory at the location, the timing service configured to operate at the second time resolution, and a calibration module configured to re-calibrate the real-time clock.
US12105552B2
It is provided a synchronization system capable of managing execution of synchronization for clocks to be mounted on various devices. A synchronization system of clocks comprising: a leader device; a follower device capable of establishing communication connection with the leader device; and a server apparatus capable of establishing communication connection with the leader device and/or the follower device, the system further comprising: a time deviation calculator configured to calculate a time deviation between the leader device and the follower device; and a time corrector configured to correct a time in the follower device based on the calculated time deviation, wherein the synchronization system executes the time deviation calculator and/or the time corrector when the server apparatus generates, transmits, and/or receives predetermined information.
US12105549B2
In an embodiment, a voltage reference circuit is disclosed that includes a first transistor circuit that is configured to receive an external supply voltage as an input and to output a first voltage and a chopper circuit that is configured to receive a second voltage as an input and to output a voltage reference. The chopper circuit has a breakage threshold. The voltage reference circuit further includes a second transistor circuit that is configured to receive the first voltage as an input and to output the second voltage at a value that is less than or equal to the breakage threshold of the chopper circuit.
US12105544B2
A water drain valve system structured to drain water from a fuel-water separator. The system includes a collection vessel structured to temporarily store water, a liquid level sensor structured to monitor a level of the temporarily stored water, a drainage port extending radially from the collection vessel and having a port inlet and a port outlet, and a valve assembly. The port inlet receives water to be drained from the collection vessel, the water flowing through the drainage port and exiting through the port outlet. The valve assembly is movable between a closed position in which the port outlet is closed, and an open position, in which the port outlet is open, to selectively allow water to be drained from the collection vessel. The valve assembly includes a solenoid coupled to a seal member, the seal member closing the port outlet in the closed position of the valve assembly.
US12105542B2
Apparatus for use with an applicator, systems for dispensing fluids, methods of using a nozzle (52), and a nozzle (52). The nozzle (52) includes a communication device (60) having a memory (86). The memory (86) stores data relating to the operational history and configuration of the nozzle (52). In response to receiving a query signal (90) from an interrogation device (24), the communication device (60) transmits the data residing in the memory (86). The communication device (60) also receives and stores data in the query signal (90) to the memory (86) so that the operational history of the nozzle (52) is maintained in the memory (86) of the communication device (60). The transmitted data may be received by the interrogation device (24) and used to adjust a fluid dispensing operation, determine when the nozzle (52) has reached the end of its operational life, for process improvement, or for inventory tracking.
US12105541B2
A water supply system for an aircraft having consumers with buffer stores connected to a water tank by lines and a pressure source. Each consumer has a filling valve between the buffer store and the pressure source. The buffer store can be filled by opening the filling valve. In each consumer, water can be removed from the buffer store by opening a consumer valve. Each consumer transmits at least one state parameter describing a state of the buffer store of the respective consumer to a control system. The control system controls opening and closing of the filling valves of the consumers taking into account the transmitted state parameters such that removal of water from the water tank by the pressure source does not exceed a threshold value at any point in time. An aircraft having a water supply system and method for controlling a water supply system are disclosed.
US12105537B2
A multi-stage pressure regulation system, device with enhanced thermal distribution for reducing the pressure of gas passing through a gas sample conditioning system. The device and method allow for automatic and/or manual configuration settings for regulating different types of gas having different profiles while still avoiding dew point dropout thereby ensuring accurate sample analysis at a downstream analyzer. The pressure regulating device includes a housing having a core, a vapor sample input port, a plurality of openings on an upper surface, a plurality of pressure regulating valves configured to reduce the pressure of a vapor sample, an assembly having a base and substantially central stem orthogonal to the base and extending axially therefrom, the stem being disposed within the core, and an adjunct for enhanced distribution of thermal energy from the heating device to the plurality of pressure regulating valves.
US12105529B2
An aerial device is provided. The aerial device includes a processor and a memory that includes instructions configured to cause the processor to perform certain operations when the processor executes the instructions. The operations may include receiving a first signal indicative of a first position of the aerial device. The operations may also include generating, based on the first signal and based on a randomly or pseudo-randomly generated sequence, a second signal configured to actuate flight hardware of the aerial device to a second position.
US12105515B2
The present invention may include a processor that monitors location of a robot in an environment. The processor captures the environment with one or more environment sensors. The processor analyzes the captured environment to determine an exit location. The processor validates an exit route based on historical data and the exit location and communicates the exit route to the robot.
US12105512B2
A method for preventing a robot from colliding with a charging base, including: step 1, during a process of moving in a current working area of the robot, detecting, in real time, a reception condition of a base avoidance signal of the robot within a received signal coverage range thereof; and step 2, establishing a safety area in the current working area according to a direction feature relationship between the base avoidance signal and a preset working path of the robot, and before establishing the safety area, according to an orientation relationship between the base avoidance signal and a direction of a current moving path of the robot, marking and establishing a danger area at a position that satisfies a collision avoidance relationship with a current position of the robot, so that the robot avoids the charging base during the process of moving in the current working area.
US12105507B2
A computer-readable medium may include instructions that may cause a processor to perform operations that may include receiving audio data representative of sound waves generated by industrial devices and extracting features from the audio data. The features may be representative of a portion of the audio data. The operations may also include identifying a subset of the features based on distances between each of the plurality of features in an information space. The information space may include known clusters. The operations may then include determining that the subset of the features corresponds to an unknown cluster in the information space, performing a constrained classification operation based on each feature of the subset of the features to identify a new known cluster for the information space, and modifying operations of the industrial devices based on the new known cluster.
US12105499B2
Applied within an automated robotic manufacturing system that includes additive manufacturing capabilities, methods and enabling devices are disclosed for achieving precise multi-dimension positional alignment among a plurality of diverse took that are involved in collaboratively constructing a solid object. The enabling devices according to various embodiments include an automatically deployed contact sensing probe and a tool center point sensor that detects contact with tools in multiple axes. At least one disclosed method advantageously utilizes both sensing devices in complement.
US12105498B2
A method analyzing a machine having a rotating shaft includes generating an electric measurement signal dependent on mechanical vibrations from the shaft rotation; sampling the measurement signal to generate a digital measurement data signal; performing a decimation of the digital measurement data signal to achieve a digital signal having a reduced sampling frequency, where the decimation includes controlling the reduced sampling frequency such that the number of sample values per revolution of the shaft is kept at a substantially constant value, and receiving the digital signal at an enhancer input performing a correlation in the enhancer so as to produce an output signal sequence where repetitive signals amplitude components are amplified in relation to stochastic signal components, and performing a condition analysis for analyzing the condition of the machine dependent on the digital signal having a reduced sampling frequency.
US12105493B2
A scent delivery system includes first and second scent delivery units and a central controller. The central controller is configured to generate command data capable of affecting operation of at least the first and second units based on one or more scenting schedules. The central controller is also configured to determine a relatedness and an order of priority between the units, and determine whether a desired activation time for the first unit overlaps at least partially with a desired activation time for the second unit. Based upon a determination that the first unit is related to the second unit and that a desired activation time for the first unit overlaps at least partially with a desired activation time for the second unit, the central controller is further configured to coordinate activity level of each of the first and second delivery units during the overlapping activation time according to the order of priority.
US12105487B2
A system for controlling building equipment devices includes a processing circuit comprising a processor and memory storing instructions executed by the processor. The system is configured to generate a first combination profile indicating a number of active devices within each of one or more device groups according to a first combination of the building equipment devices, and generate a second combination profile indicating a number of active devices within each of the one or more device groups according to a second combination of the building equipment devices. The system is also configured to compare the first combination profile against the second combination profile to determine whether the first combination is redundant with the second combination, generate control decisions for the building equipment devices based on whether the first combination is redundant with the second combination, and operate the building equipment devices in accordance with the control decisions.
US12105482B2
An environment control system that controls an environment of a subject is provided. The environment control system includes an actuator configured to control an environment of a subject, and a controller configured to control an operation of the actuator. The environment control system includes an inference unit that includes a first learned model and a second learned model. The first learned model has been trained by associating environmental information indicating an environment of a subject with data correlating with one of sleep, excretion, movement, skin, and stress conditions of the subject. The second learned model has been trained by associating the data correlating with one of the sleep, excretion, movement, skin, and stress conditions of the subject with data correlating with a magnitude of one or more risks that may occur with respect to the subject in a future period of time. The environment control system includes an operating condition determining unit configured to, in a case in which data correlating with the magnitude of the one or more risks that may occur with respect to a subject in a future period of time is inferred based on the first and second learned model, evaluate the inferred data to determine an operating condition of the actuator.
US12105481B1
An embodiment includes a system for automatic depth positioning of wire conveyed operations using proportional-integral-derivative (PID) control loops.
US12105473B2
Methods of performing a complex Fourier transform of a complex data set corresponding to an image are disclosed. The methods comprise receiving a complex data set and performing a first 1D complex Fourier transform in the complex data set in Cartesian form; converting the complex data set into polar form and compressing the complex data set in polar form; performing a row-column transformation of the complex data set; decompressing the complex data set and converting the complex data set back into Cartesian form; and performing a second 1D Fourier transform in the complex data set in Cartesian form, wherein the second 1D complex Fourier transform is orthogonal to the first 1D complex Fourier transform. Corresponding systems are also disclosed, as are application to the iterative computation of computer-generated holograms.
US12105464B2
An operation assisting tool includes a gripper, and an engagement portion to engage with a handle of a drawer drawable from a housing of an image forming apparatus.
US12105459B2
An image forming apparatus includes a first roller pair including a first roller and a second roller, a first driving unit, a second roller pair, a second driving unit, an image forming unit, and a control unit configured to execute a first mode and a second mode. The second mode includes (1) a first processing, (2) a second processing, and (3) a third processing of controlling the first driving unit such that the rotational speed of the first roller pair becomes faster than the second rotational speed. The first mode includes (1) a fourth processing, (2) a fifth processing, and (3) a sixth processing of controlling the first driving unit such that the rotational speed of the first roller pair is decelerated from the first rotational speed to equal to or less than the second rotational speed.
US12105456B2
An image forming device, including: a drawer movable from an inside position where the drawer is located inside a housing to an outside position where the drawer is located outside the housing via an intermediate position; a stopper movable between a first position where the stopper stops the drawer from moving from the intermediate position to the outside position and a second position where the stopper allows the drawer to move from the intermediate position to the outside position; a drum cartridge mountable on the drawer; and a toner cartridge mountable on the drawer; wherein the toner cartridge mounted on the drawer is detachable from the drawer in a state in which the drawer is located at the intermediate position, and wherein the drum cartridge mounted on the drawer is detachable from the drawer in a state in which the drawer is located at the outside position.
US12105455B2
A sliding member for a fixing device includes a resin layer that includes plural recessed portions on a surface of the resin layer, in which, in a top view, the recessed portion has a shape having a tip angle less than 90° in a sliding direction and an area ratio of an area of the recessed portions to a surface area of the resin layer is 30% or more and 70% or less.
US12105443B2
Disclosed herein is a developing cartridge, which is detachably mounted in an imaging device. The developing cartridge comprises: a housing; a developer roller configured to rotate about a developer roller axis extending in a first direction, and provided on a front end side of the housing in a second direction; a handle provided on a rear end side of the housing in the second direction, the rear end side being opposite to the front end side where the developer roller is located; a driving gear provided on a driving side of the housing in the first direction; an electrode with an electrical contact portion provided on a right end side of the housing in a left and right direction; a chip provided on the driving side of the housing of the developing cartridge; and a detected component provided on an opposite side of the driving side of the housing.
US12105441B2
A toner container includes a storage portion configured to store toner and a communicating member including a receiving port, a discharge port, and a passage. The passage includes a first inclined surface and a second inclined surface connecting the first inclined surface and the discharge port to each other. When viewed in a third direction perpendicularly intersecting with both of a first direction and a second direction, the first inclined surface is inclined with respect to the second direction such that a more downstream portion of the first inclined surface in the first direction is closer to the discharge port in the second direction, and the second inclined surface is inclined with respect to the second direction such that a more downstream portion of the second inclined surface in the first direction is closer to the discharge port in the second direction.
US12105433B2
A metrology target may include a first rotationally symmetric working zone with one or more instances of a first pattern and a second rotationally-symmetric working zone with one or more instances of a second pattern, where at least one of the first pattern or the second pattern is a Moiré pattern formed from a first grating structure with a first pitch along a measurement direction on a first sample layer and a second grating structure with a second pitch different than the first pitch along the measurement direction on a second sample layer. Centers of rotational symmetry of the first and second working zones may overlap by design when an overlay error between the first sample layer and the second layer is zero. A difference between the centers of rotational symmetry of the first and second working zones may indicate an overlay error between the first and second sample layers.
US12105416B2
A photocurable composition can comprise a polymerizable material, an organic ionic compound and a photoinitiator, wherein an amount of the organic ionic compound may be not greater than 1.5 wt %, the organic ionic compound comprises an organic cation, and a conductivity of the photocurable composition can be at least 20 μS/cm. The photocurable composition can have an improved drop spreading and merging of drops in comparison to the same composition but not including the organic ionic compound.
US12105408B2
An optical element driving mechanism is provided in the present disclosure, including a fixed portion, a first movable portion, and a driving assembly. The first movable portion is movable relative to the fixed portion. The driving assembly drives the first movable portion to move relative to the fixed portion. The first movable portion brings an optical element to move.
US12105405B2
A conversion lens attachment structure includes a first magnetic body provided on a conversion lens device that includes a conversion lens, and a second magnetic body provided on a device main body that includes a master lens. The conversion lens device is attached to the device main body due to a first surface of the first magnetic body and a second surface of the second magnetic body being pulled toward each other, and the second magnetic body is provided such that a normal line of the second surface is not parallel to an optical axis of the master lens.
US12105401B2
Provided are a device and a method by which high-precision auto focus (AF) processing can be performed while a focus lens or a zoom lens is being operated. An interchangeable lens acquires position information regarding a focus lens and a zoom lens at a predetermined time interval during an exposure time period of detection information acquisition pixels for use in calculation of a defocus amount (DF), and outputs the position information to an imaging device. The imaging device calculates the defocus amount (DF) by using information regarding the detection information acquisition pixels, calculates a reference focus lens position (Ref_fc) by using points, on a cam curve, corresponding to the inputted lens position information, calculates a target focus lens position (Tgt_fc) in an in-focus position, from the reference focus lens position (Ref_fc) and the defocus amount (DF), and outputs the target focus lens position (Tgt_fc) to the interchangeable lens.
US12105395B2
This disclosure relates generally to optically-switchable devices, and more particularly, to systems, apparatus, and methods for controlling optically-switchable devices. In some implementations, the apparatus includes an interface for communicating with window controllers, and the apparatus includes one or more processors. A processor can be configured to cause status information received from a window controller to be processed. The status information can indicate at least a tint status of one or more optically-switchable devices controlled by the window controller. In response to receiving the status information, one or more tint commands can be sent via the interface to the window controller.
US12105391B2
A display panel and a liquid crystal display device are provided by the present application. The display panel includes a thin film transistor, a data line, and a scanning line. The thin film transistor includes an active layer, and the active layer includes a first section extending along a length direction of the data line and overlapping the data line, wherein the first section is electrically connected to the data line; a second section extending along the length direction of the data line; and a third section connecting the first section and the second section and extending along a length direction of the scanning line and overlapping the scanning line.
US12105388B2
A display device includes a wiring region including a gate wiring, a source wiring intersecting the gate wiring, and a first insulating layer between the gate wiring and the source wiring and an opening region including a pixel electrode on the first insulating layer and adjacent to the wiring region. The first insulating layer includes a first oxide insulating layer and a first nitride insulating layer, the first oxide insulating layer is disposed over the wiring region and the opening region, the first nitride insulating layer is disposed in the wiring region and includes a first opening overlapping the opening region, and the pixel electrode overlaps the first opening.
US12105385B2
A method for manufacturing a digital display device which includes an optically active medium disposed between at least one electrode and a corresponding counter-electrode, the optical properties of the optically active medium being modifiable by applying an electric current or voltage between the at least one electrode and the at least one corresponding counter-electrode, the digital display device including a transparent display surface through which at least one piece of information displayed by this digital display device is perceptible, the manufacturing method including the step of providing the transparent display surface of the digital display device with at least one first and one second decorative and/or functional pattern, the first pattern having a thickness different from that of the second pattern. A digital display device provided with at least one first and one second decorative and/or functional patterns whose thicknesses are not the same.
US12105384B2
A display device in which parasitic capacitance between wirings can be reduced is provided. Furthermore, a display device in which display quality is improved is provided. Furthermore, a display device in which power consumption can be reduced is provided. The display device includes a signal line, a scan line, a first electrode, a second electrode, a third electrode, a first pixel electrode, a second pixel electrode, and a semiconductor film. The signal line intersects with the scan line, the first electrode is electrically connected to the signal line, the first electrode has a region overlapping with the scan line, the second electrode faces the first electrode, the third electrode faces the first electrode, the first pixel electrode is electrically connected to the second electrode, the second pixel electrode is electrically connected to the third electrode, the semiconductor film is in contact with the first electrode, the second electrode, and the third electrode, and the semiconductor film is provided between the scan line and the first electrode to the third electrode.
US12105383B2
An array substrate has a display area and a bezel area located on at least one side of the display area. The bezel area includes a bonding region. The array substrate includes a substrate, a plurality of signal lines, a plurality of conductive bumps, and an insulating layer. The signal lines are disposed on the substrate. The conductive blocks are disposed on a portion of the substrate located in the bonding region, and a conductive bump is connected to at least one signal line. The insulating layer covers the plurality of signal lines and is located between every two adjacent conductive bumps. The conductive bump includes a conductive metal layer. A distance from a surface of the conductive metal layer away from the substrate to the substrate is less than or equal to a distance from a surface of the insulating layer away from the substrate to the substrate.
US12105380B2
A lighting device includes a lighting unit emitting an output light having a light spectrum. The light spectrum in a range from 520 nm to 780 nm has a main peak, and the light spectrum in a range from 400 nm to 470 nm has a sub peak with a maximum intensity at a first wavelength. A first sub peak integral is an integral of the light spectrum calculated from a wavelength of the first wavelength minus 20 nm to the first wavelength. An intensity integral of a main wave having the main peak in the light spectrum is calculated from 521 nm to 780 nm, and a ratio of the first sub peak integral to the intensity integral is in a range from 0.05 % to 2%.
US12105378B2
A first surface 21a of a light diffusion sheet 43 has a light diffuser 43A provided with a plurality of recesses 22 arrayed two-dimensionally and a plurality of luminance enhancers 43B that is flatter than the light diffuser 43A. The plurality of luminance enhancers 43B is provided in a gradation pattern such that the arrangement density is higher in a region where the luminance is lower in the luminance distribution generated by the plurality of point light sources 42 when the plurality of recesses 22 is formed all over the first surface 21a.
US12105374B2
A liquid crystal coherent transparent display screen and a liquid crystal-laser transparent display system are provided. The polarizer, the analyzer and the optical filters in the conventional technology are replaced by an optical resonant microcavity formed by the first partial reflector and the second partial reflector in the liquid crystal coherent transparent display screen, thereby improving the light transmittance of liquid crystal transparent display.
US12105357B2
The present disclosure embodiment may disclose eyeglasses. The eyeglasses may include an eyeglass frame and two speakers. The eyeglass frame may include an eyeglass rim and two eyeglass temples. The two eyeglass temples may be rotatably connected to the eyeglass rim, respectively. The two speakers may include an earphone core. The two speakers may be connected to the two eyeglass temples via hinge components of the two eyeglass temples, respectively. Each hinge components may be rotatable to change a position of its connected speakers relative to one of the two eyeglass temples. The eyeglasses of the present disclosure may satisfy various requirements when a user wears the eyeglasses, and the hinge state may be switched easily, thereby providing convenience for the user.
US12105356B2
An optical imaging lens assembly is provided, which includes, a first lens having a negative refractive power; a second lens having a positive refractive power; a third lens; a fourth lens having a positive refractive power; a fifth lens having a negative refractive power; a sixth lens having a positive refractive power; and a seventh lens with a convex object-side surface. An axial distance TTL from an object-side surface of the first lens to an imaging plane of the optical imaging lens assembly and a half of a maximal field-of-view Semi-FOV of the optical imaging lens assembly satisfy: TTL/Tan(Semi-FOV)<1.0 mm; and a total effective focal length f of the optical imaging lens assembly, a radius of curvature R11 of an object-side surface of the sixth lens and a radius of curvature R12 of an image-side surface of the sixth lens satisfy: −5.0
US12105355B2
A wide-angle lens assembly includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, and a fifth lens. The first lens is a meniscus lens with refractive power and includes a convex surface facing an object side and a concave surface facing an image side. The second lens is with refractive power. The third lens is with positive refractive power. The fourth lens is with refractive power. The fifth lens is with positive refractive power and includes a convex surface facing the image side. The first lens, the second lens, the third lens, the fourth lens, and the fifth lens are arranged in order from the object side to the image side along an optical axis.
US12105353B2
An optical imaging lens system includes five lens elements which are, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element and a fifth lens element. The first lens element has positive refractive power. The second lens element has negative refractive power. The third lens element has positive refractive power. The fourth lens element has negative refractive power. The fifth lens element with negative refractive power has an object-side surface being concave in a paraxial region thereof.
US12105352B2
An optical imaging lens includes, in order from an object side to an image side, an aperture, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens and a fifth lens, wherein the first lens has positive refractive power and includes an object-side surface being convex; the second lens has negative refractive power and includes an object-side surface being concave; the third lens has positive refractive power and includes an object-side surface being convex and an image-side surface being convex; the fourth lens has positive refractive power and includes an object-side surface being concave and an image-side surface being convex; the fifth lens has negative refractive power and includes an object-side surface being concave. When specific conditions are satisfied, the optical imaging lens can have a compact size, high thermal endurance and good imaging qualities.
US12105345B2
The invention provides a lens module, including: a lens assembly having an optical axis; a first bracket; a first elastic plate suspending the lens assembly in the first bracket; a second bracket; a suspending wire; and a driving assembly for driving the lens assembly to move along the optical axis relative to the first bracket, and for driving the lens assembly to move in a direction perpendicular to the optical axis. The second elastic plate is fixed on the second bracket, and includes a fixed part fixedly connected to the second bracket and a deformation part. The deformation part performs elastic deformation along the optical axis relative to the fixed part for reducing the bending force of the suspending wire. Compared with prior art, a lens module of the present invention has an improved image optical stabilization function.
US12105343B2
A lens support mechanism 10 comprises lens group units 23 to 27, a substantially cylindrical rectilinear cylinder 11, and a substantially cylindrical cam cylinder 12. The rectilinear cylinder 11 envelops the lens group units 23 to 27, and has main cam followers 11b protruding outward in the radial direction from the outer peripheral surface, and a sub cam groove 11c. The cam cylinder 12 has main cam grooves 12b and a sub cam follower 12c, and is disposed on the outer peripheral side of the rectilinear cylinder 11. The main cam grooves 12b engage with the main cam followers 11b and are formed substantially parallel to the sub cam groove 11c, and upon rotating relative to the rectilinear cylinder 11, move the lens group units 23 to 27 back and forth in the optical axis direction. The sub cam followers 12c project inward in the radial direction and engage with the sub cam grooves 11c.
US12105342B2
A downsized lens apparatus in which a degree of freedom in arrangement is improved is provided. A lens apparatus comprises: a first operation member configured to move an optical element along an optical axis direction; a first elastic member configured to transmit a force to the first operation member; a pressing member configured to change a force applied to the first elastic member according to the movement along the optical axis direction; a second operation member configured to move the pressing member along the optical axis direction; and a fixed element configuring at least a part of an exterior unit, wherein the pressing member is movably held by the fixed element along the optical axis direction, and the second operation member is rotatably held by the fixed element.
US12105333B2
An optical assembly (100) for use in a wearable device is provided, the assembly (100) comprising: a prism (104), a photonic integrated chip, PIC (108), a substrate layer (106), and a lid (102); wherein the PIC (108) is mounted onto the substrate layer (106); the prism (104) comprising: (i) a first input/output surface (112) optically coupled to the PIC (108), and (ii) a second input/output surface (114) optically coupled to the lid (102), the second input/output surface (114) orientated perpendicularly to the first input/output surface (112), and wherein the prism (104) provides an optical path and reflects a percentage of light from the first input/output surface (112) to the second input/output surface (114). Methods of manufacturing such an optical assembly are also provided.
US12105331B2
A device for transporting pulsed laser radiation includes a pulse duration setting device configured for setting a transport pulse duration of the pulsed laser radiation. the device further includes a hollow core optical fiber having a hollow core surrounded by a material. The hollow core optical fiber is configured to be operated with beam path parameter values that are present at the first fiber end and lie in a target tolerance range. The device further includes a fiber input coupling device configured to couple the pulsed laser radiation into the hollow core optical fiber with the beam path parameter values that lie in the target tolerance range. the transport pulse duration is set so that input coupling of the pulsed laser radiation into the hollow core is provided for all of the beam path parameter values in the target tolerance range.
US12105329B2
An optical connector has a front end and a rear end in a first direction. The optical connector includes a ferrule that holds an optical fiber at the front end, and a front housing that accommodates the ferrule. The ferrule includes a flange portion having a regular hexagonal prism shape. The front housing has a through-hole into which the flange portion is inserted. The through-hole includes a first hole portion in which a cross section perpendicular to the first direction is a regular hexagonal shape, and a second hole portion that is continuous from the first hole portion. The second hole portion has a third end close to the front end, and a fourth end close to the rear end. In a cross section of the fourth end perpendicular to the first direction, six contours corresponding respectively to six sides of the third end bulge outward or inward.
US12105319B2
A lighting arrangement (100), comprising: LEDs (110), a PCB (120) arranged to support the LEDs, a light guide element (130) configured to guide light emitted from the LEDs, wherein the light guide element is plate-shaped and arranged in a plane, P, and wherein the LEDs are arranged at an edge (140) of the light guide element, a support structure (150) fastened to the PCB and arranged at at least a first edge portion (155) of the light guide element, wherein the support structure comprises a groove (190), wherein the lighting arrangement further comprises a cover plate (200) comprising flanges (210) matingly and biasedly arranged in the groove, whereby the support structure, via first (160) and second portions (170) thereof, clamp the at least a first edge portion of the light guide element for positioning of the LEDs at the edge of the light guide element.
US12105316B2
According to one embodiment, an illumination device comprises a light guide, a light source, a reflective layer, a first prism and a second prism, wherein the light guide has a thickness in a second direction increasing toward a second side surface, the first prism and the second prism have cross-sectional shapes being formed in a triangle shape, a first height of the first prism in the second direction is smaller than a second height of the second prism in the second direction.
US12105315B2
The present application discloses a backlight module and a display device. The backlight module includes a light source assembly, a light concentration structure concentrating light emitted from the light source assembly and emitting the light in a predetermined angle range, a light guide structure guiding the light concentrated by the light concentration structure in a way of mirror reflection out from a light exiting surface of the light guide structure, and a viewing angle switch assembly, wherein the viewing angle switch assembly guides light emitted from the light guide structure outward at a first viewing angle or a second viewing angle.
US12105313B2
A lighting device that can ensure task productivity while reducing the glare is provided herein. The lighting device has a light source; and a light guiding part including a light guiding panel and configured to guide light that is emitted from the light source. The light guiding panel includes: a light incident end surface that is situated facing the light source, the light incident end surface being a surface on which the light emitted from the light source is incident; a first light emitting part that is included in an opposite end from the light incident end surface, and that emits the light guided inside the light guiding panel; and a second light emitting part that is included in a predetermined main surface of the light guiding panel that intersects with the light incident end surface, and that emits the light guided inside the light guiding panel.
US12105311B2
Provided are a backlight module, a display panel and a display apparatus. The backlight module includes a back plate, including a bottom plate and a frame surrounding the bottom plate; at least one light bar, fixed on an inner sidewall of the frame, wherein a gap is formed between an end portion of the light bar and the inner sidewall of the frame in an extension direction of the light bar; and a reflector sheet, disposed in the frame and on the bottom plate, wherein at least one first sidewall of the reflector sheet is provided with at least one first protrusion, the first protrusion being extended from the first sidewall on which the first protrusion is disposed towards an inner sidewall of the frame opposite to the first sidewall on which the first protrusion is disposed, and the first protrusion being disposed in the gap.
US12105302B2
An integral optical stack includes a lens film having first and second major surfaces. The first major surface includes microlenses having an average peak-to-valley height PV1. A light absorbing layer is disposed on the lens film and defines a plurality of openings. A substantially planarizing optically diffusive layer is disposed on the first major surface of the lens film, conforming to the microlenses. The optically diffusive layer includes a plurality of nanoparticles. A polymeric material bonds the nanoparticles to each other to form a plurality of nanoparticle aggregates defining a plurality of voids therebetween. The optically diffusive layer has an average thickness greater than about 8 microns, and an index of refraction of less than about 1.25. Any non-planarity of a major surface of the optically diffusive layer due to the microlenses of the first major surface has an average peak-to-valley height PV2, PV2≤0.7 PV1.
US12105299B2
A Broadband Diffractive-Optical Element (BDOE) as a lens whose f-number and numerical aperture are decoupled. The BDOE can include a substrate and an array of optical cells formed on the substrate to have a non-linear arrangement of cell heights to diffract light into a focal spot. The geometry of the focal spot can be designed to decouple the f-number from the numerical aperture for an imaging device that employs the broadband diffractive optical element as a lens.
US12105298B2
A metalens includes one or more regions of nanostructures. A first region of nanostructures directs a first field of view (FOV) of light incident on the first region of nanostructures to a first region of an image plane. A second region of nanostructures directs a second FOV of light incident on the second region of nanostructures to a second region of the image plane in which the second FOV is different from the first FOV, and the second region of the image plane is different from the first region of the image plane. A third region of nanostructures directs a third FOV of light to a third region of the image plane, in which the third FOV is different from the first FOV and the second FOV, and the third region of the image plane is different from the first region and the second region of the image plane.
US12105297B2
An optical mouse operated with respect to an illuminated surface outside the optical mouse is provided. The optical mouse includes a light source configured to emit a light beam, and a light pipe including a first optical element and a second optical element. The light beam enters the light pipe through the first optical element, and then propagates in the light pipe from the first optical element to the second optical element without reflection, and then leaves the light pipe through the second optical element, and then illuminates the illuminated surface. The light pipe does not have any protrusion extending therefrom and attached to a front surface of the light source.
US12105295B2
The technology described herein relates to a balanced helmet mounted visual communication and navigation system. A helmet mounted visual communication and navigation system may include a vision module attachable to, and removable from, a front portion of a helmet by an attachment mechanism, a compute module attachable to, and removable from, a back portion of a helmet by another attachment mechanism, and a cable with an end for connecting to the vision module and another end for connecting to the compute module, the cable having a housing configured to house one or more wires. The vision module may include a sensor, a heads up display (HUD) combiner subassembly, and one or more user control buttons. The compute module may include an internal core subassembly with electronic and computing components for operation of the helmet mounted visual communication and navigation, a heat management element, and a power module.
US12105284B2
Disclosed are a method and system for implementing a platform for providing offline information to smart glass. A computer device for implementing an information platform may include an information manager configured to manage service information to be exposed on smart glass based on service configuration information to be broadcasted through an information broadcasting device (IBD) registered by an information owner, and a content manager configured to distribute content, generated based on the managed service information, in a format configured in the smart glass.
US12105282B2
This disclosure describes techniques for device authentication and/or pairing. A display system can comprise a head mountable display, computer memory, and processor(s). In response to receiving a request to authenticate a connection between the display system and a companion device (e.g., controller or other computer device), first data may be determined, the first data based at least partly on audio data spoken by a user. The first data may be sent to an authentication device configured to compare the first data to second data received from the companion device, the second data based at least partly on the audio data. Based at least partly on a correspondence between the first and second data, the authentication device can send a confirmation to the display system to permit communication between the display system and companion device.
US12105278B2
A spacer includes an outer circumferential surface in contact with a lens barrel, and an inner circumferential surface forming a hole for controlling an amount of light, a first length of the hole in a first direction, intersecting an optical axis, and a second length of the hole in a second direction, intersecting the optical axis, are different from each other, and a first distance from the outer circumferential surface to the inner circumferential surface, extended in the first direction, is less than a second distance from the outer circumferential surface to the inner circumferential surface, extended in the second direction.
US12105271B2
The invention relates to a microscope having an excitation beam path for guiding excitation light, having a laser light source for providing a laser light beam as excitation light and having a scanning apparatus for aligning and moving a focused laser light beam in the entrance pupil of an illumination objective; wherein the laser focus is directed into an entrance point that is offset with respect to the optical axis of the illumination objective; and also having a detection beam path for guiding detection light, comprising a microlens array having a focal plane for generating partial imaged presentations and a detector arranged in the focal plane of the microlens array for capturing the partial imaged presentations. In addition, an evaluation unit for evaluating the captured image signals of the detector in accordance with light-field technology is present. The invention additionally relates to a method for microscopic image generation.
US12105269B2
A telephoto imaging system includes: a solid lens assembly and a tunable lens assembly. The solid lens assembly includes a first group, a second group, and a third group of solid lenses along the optical axis from the object plane to the image plane. The tunable lens assembly is configured for zooming under the effect of a driving mechanism to achieve focusing on objects at different distances. The following condition is satisfied by the tunable lens assembly when at least an in-focus state exists in the focusing process: 0<|delta(f/ft)|<0.9.
US12105264B2
A camera optical lens includes, from an object side to an image side: a first lens with a positive refractive power, a second lens with a negative refractive power, a third lens with a negative refractive power, a fourth lens with a positive refractive power, and a fifth lens with a negative refractive power. The camera optical lens satisfies the conditions of 0.95≤f1/f≤1.30 and 2.40≤d2/d4≤5.00. The camera optical lens of the present disclosure has excellent optical performances, and meanwhile can meet design requirements of wide angle and ultra-thin.
US12105263B2
An optical system, a lens module, and an electronic device are provide. The optical system includes, in order from an object side to an image side along an optical axis, a first to seventh lenses. Each of the first lens, the third lens, and the sixth lens has a positive refractive power. Each of the second lens and the seventh lens has a negative refractive power. Each of the second lens, the third lens, and the sixth lens has an object-side surface which is convex near the optical axis. Each of the second lens and the seventh lens has an image-side surface which is concave near the oprtical axis. The third lens has an image-side surface which is convex near a periphery of the image-side surface of the third lens. The seventh lens has an object-side surface which is convex near the optical axis.
US12105261B2
A six-piece optical image capturing system is disclosed. In order from an object side to an image side, the optical lenses along the optical axis include a first lens with refractive power; a second lens with refractive power; a third lens with refractive power; a fourth lens with refractive power; a fifth lens with refractive power, and a sixth lens with negative refractive power. At least one lens among the first lens to the fifth lens has positive refractive power. The image-side surface and object-side surface of the sixth lens are aspheric, and at least one of the image-side surface and the object-side surface of the sixth lens has an inflection point. The optical lens of the optical image capturing system can increase aperture value and improve the imagining quality for use in compact cameras.
US12105254B2
A dust-proof covering element is provided to close a projection aperture located in the dashboard of a vehicle and through which the information-carrying source light beam projected by the projecting module of a head-up display device passes on its way to a partially reflective return element. The covering element comprises a transparent carrier and an optical coating placed on one of the faces of the carrier; wherein, the optical coating comprises a metal layer with plasmonic properties, said metal layer being endowed with an array of subwavelength nanoperforations, and being configured to allow the extraordinary transmission of one or more restricted bands of wavelengths of the visible spectrum that are centered on the one or more wavelengths of the light beam projected by the projecting module.
US12105243B2
Improved systematic inversion methodology applied to formation testing data interpretation with spherical, radial and/or cylindrical flow models is disclosed. A method of determining a flow line parameter includes determining a diverse set of flow models and selecting at least one flow model from the diverse set of flow models representative, at least in part, of a formation tester tool, at least one formation, at least one fluid, and at least one flow of the at least one fluid. The method further includes lowering the formation testing tool into the at least one formation to intersect with the formation at least one formation and sealing a probe of the formation tester placed in fluid communication with the at least one formation. The method further includes initiating flow from the at least one formation and utilizing the at least one selected flow model to predict the flow line parameter.
US12105241B2
Geologic modeling methods and systems are provided with a novel log segmentation approach and an improved conditioning technique for fitting geobody templates to associated well segments in multiple wells. One illustrative geologic modeling method embodiment includes: deriving a sequence of well segments from each logged well in a region of interest; associating well segments from different wells to form sets of associated well segments; populating a region of interest with geobodies by fitting a parameterized geobody template to each set of associated well segments; using the geobodies to specify a volumetric distribution of formation properties throughout the region of interest; and providing the volumetric distribution as a geologic model suitable for evaluating one or more well placement and production strategies.
US12105237B2
In contrast to existing methods wherein derived horizons are interpreted in isolation, the disclosure provides a process that does not interpret patches themselves but determines the relationships between patches, in order to associate and link patches to derive a holistic geological interpretation. Predefined patches, such as from a pre-interpreted suite, are received as inputs to determine the relationships and derive an interpretation for a complete volume. In one aspect the disclosure provides an automated method of generating a geological age model for a subterranean area. In one example, the automated method includes: (1) abstracting seismic data of a subsurface into a limited number of patches, (2) abstracting the patches by defining patch-links between the patches, and (3) generating a geological age model of the subsurface by solving for the relative geological age of each of the patches using the patch-links.
US12105230B2
A muon detector includes: a chamber having a maximum cross-sectional dimension of 30 cm or less; a gas sealed inside the chamber ionized by the passage of atmospheric muons to form ions in the chamber; a cathode in the chamber at a first position; an anode in the chamber displaced from the first position, the anode including a mesh of wires; a micropattern gaseous detector arranged between the cathode and the anode and proximate to the anode and configured to receive the ions formed in the chamber between the anode and the cathode and generate electrons in response to each ion sufficient to generate a current in one or more of the mesh wires of the anode; and readout electronics in electrical communication with the anode to detect signals in response to the current generated in the mesh wires.
US12105229B2
There is provided a radiation detection apparatus capable of effectively discriminating between noise and X-ray signal. The radiation detection apparatus includes a detector for detecting radiation and producing a detector output signal, a first differential filter having a time constant and operative to differentiate and convert the detector output signal into a first pulsed signal, a second differential filter having a time constant greater than that of the first differential filter and operative to differentiate and convert the detector output signal into a second pulsed signal, and a noise detection section for detecting noise based on the difference in timing between peaks of the first and second pulsed signals.
US12105214B2
In one implementation, a method includes receiving versions of a message from a first satellite-based receiver and a second satellite-based receiver that both received a radio frequency (“RF”) transmission of the message, the message comprising a self-reported position of a transmitter of the message. The method also includes determining a time difference between a first arrival time of the RF transmission of the message at the first satellite-based receiver and a second arrival time of the RF transmission of the message at the second satellite-based receiver. The method further includes determining a measure of the likelihood that the self-reported position of the transmitter is valid based on the time difference between the first and second arrival times. The method still further includes transmitting an indication of the measure of the likelihood that the self-reported position is valid.
US12105208B2
Systems and methods for providing a health coaching message are disclosed. The method may include processing an electronic audio file to generate audio pace data, storing the audio pace data, receiving the electronic audio file and pace data, collecting electronic fitness data during a fitness activity; generating activity pace data; and playing the electronic audio file based on a comparison of the audio pace data and the activity pace data.
US12105207B2
To reduce power consumption of a receiver that acquires its current position by using a signal from a satellite. The receiver includes a reception section, a signal processing section, and a positioning process section. In this receiver, the reception section receives a signal from a predetermined satellite as a reception signal. The signal processing section performs a process of determining whether or not a reception signal received from the reception section includes a specific message. The positioning process section performs a positioning process of acquiring a current position in a case where the reception signal includes a specific message.
US12105204B2
A first light emitting element emits first detecting light toward the outside of a vehicle. A second light emitting element emits second detecting light toward the outside of the vehicle. A first light receiving element outputs a first signal corresponding to an amount of incident light. A second light receiving element outputs a second signal corresponding to an amount of incident light. A processor acquires first data corresponding to the first signal and second data corresponding to the second signal, and exchanges the first data and the second data in a case where the first data is based on the second detecting light and the second data is based on the first detecting light.
US12105201B2
An information processing device includes a server device, wherein a point cloud integrating section acquires point cloud data, and a deviation amount calculating section acquires aerial photograph data with a bird's view on a ground surface from sky. Then, the deviation amount calculating section calculates deviation amounts between absolute positions on the aerial photograph data and absolute positions for point clouds included in the point cloud data, wherein the absolute positions on the aerial photograph data and for point clouds correspond to predetermined reference points and. A trajectory correcting section corrects a travelling trajectory extracted from the point cloud data by a trajectory extracting section, based on the deviation amounts calculated in the deviation amount calculating section, wherein the absolute positions for point clouds in the point cloud data are corrected based on the correction result of the trajectory correcting section.
US12105200B2
A system includes a near-infrared (NIR) illuminator, an NIR image sensor, a light detection and ranging (LIDAR) device, and control circuitry configured to perform operations. The operations include causing the NIR illuminator to illuminate a portion of an environment, and obtaining, from the NIR image sensor, NIR image data representing the portion of the environment illuminated by the NIR illuminator. The operations also include detecting a retroreflector within the NIR image data and, based on detecting the retroreflector within the NIR image, determining a position of the retroreflector within the environment. The operations further include, based on the position of the retroreflector within the environment, adjusting at least one parameter of the LIDAR device in connection with scanning the retroreflector.
US12105197B2
A method includes acquiring range data and intensity data of a first image frame captured at a high illumination, the first image frame including an image of a high-reflectivity object and a low-reflectivity object, the image of the high-reflectivity object being saturated; acquiring range data intensity data of a second image frame captured at a reduced illumination, the second image frame including an image of the high-reflectivity object, with the low-reflectivity object being invisible; and identifying a saturation region on the first image frame. The method further includes performing a cross-correlation operation between the identified saturation region and a corresponding region on the second image frame to identify a region in the saturation region, the identified region corresponding to an expected size of the high-reflectivity object on the first image frame; and replacing the identified region in the saturation region with a corresponding region in the second image frame.
US12105192B2
Methods and systems are described that enable radar reference map generation. A high-definition (HD) map is received and one or more HD map objects within the HD map are determined. Attributes of the respective HD map objects are determined, and, for each HD map object, one or more occupancy cells of a radar occupancy grid are indicated as occupied space based on the attributes of the respective HD map object. By doing so, a radar reference map may be generated without a vehicle traversing through an area corresponding to the radar reference map.
US12105188B2
A radar power control method and an apparatus are provided. The method includes: emitting a first detection signal at a target emission angle; obtaining a reflectivity of a first detection point of the first detection signal if signal power of an echo signal of the first detection signal is less than a preset power threshold, where the first detection point is a point on a surface of a detected object in a direction of the target emission angle; and increasing emission power corresponding to the target emission angle if the reflectivity of the first detection point is greater than a preset first threshold. The solution helps consider both power consumption and a detection distance of a radar.
US12105186B2
An object tracking device according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a detection unit, a prediction unit, a first region setting unit, an estimation unit, a registration unit, a prohibition region setting unit, and a registration prohibition unit. The registration prohibition unit prohibits observed values of at least one observed value detected by the detection unit and that are within a prohibition region set by the prohibition region setting unit from being registered as new targets by the registration unit.
US12105181B2
An active radio-frequency (RF) sensing technology for determining the relative and/or absolute state (e.g., position, velocity, and/or acceleration) of a target object (e.g., a person, a car, a truck a lamp post, a utility pole, a building) is described. The sensors described herein operate in the Terahertz band (300 GHz to 3 THz). An active RF sensing device comprises a substrate and first and second semiconductor dies mounted on the substrate. The first semiconductor die has an RF transmit antenna array integrated thereon, and the transmit antenna array comprises a first plurality of RF antennas configured to generate an RF signals having frequency content in the 300 GHz-3 THz band. The second semiconductor die has an RF receive antenna array integrated thereon, and the receive antenna array comprises a second plurality of RF antennas configured to receive RF signals having frequency content in the 300 GHz-3 THz band.
US12105178B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for multimodal audience detection and identification. An example system disclosed herein includes at least one memory, instructions in the apparatus, and processor circuitry to execute the instructions to: select a portion of a set of signal strength values associated with advertising packets from a device associated with a user, the advertising packets captured by a multi-axis receiver on a plurality of different signal polarizations; calculate a first representative signal strength value based on the selected portion of signal strength values; and determine a presence of the user based on whether the first representative signal strength value satisfies a threshold.
US12105177B2
Motion tracking systems and methods for determining how a plurality of trackers is positioned on a plurality of body members of a person may include: wirelessly receiving, by a computing device, one or more first data packets of each tracker of the plurality of trackers; digitally determining a first direction in which the computing device is relative to the respective tracker by computing an angle of departure of the one or more first data packets; digitally determining based on the first directions, a second direction in which each tracker of the plurality of trackers is relative to one or more other trackers of the plurality of trackers; and digitally determining on which body member is each tracker of the plurality of trackers positioned on the person at least based on both the second directions and the plurality of body members requiring to have a tracker positioned thereon.
US12105175B2
Techniques of prospectively compensating for motion of a subject being imaged by an MRI system, the MRI system comprising a plurality of magnetics components including at least one gradient coil and at least one radio-frequency (RF) coil, the techniques comprising: obtaining first spatial frequency data and second spatial frequency data by operating the MRI system in accordance with a pulse sequence, wherein the pulse sequence is associated with a sampling path that includes at least two non-contiguous portions each for sampling a central region of k-space; determining a transformation using a first image obtained using the first spatial frequency data and a second image obtained using the second spatial frequency data; correcting the pulse sequence using the determined transformation to obtain a corrected pulse sequence; and obtaining additional spatial frequency data in accordance with the corrected pulse sequence.
US12105172B2
A magnetic resonance tomography unit includes a magnet unit having a magnetic controller for generating a homogenous magnetic field. The magnetic controller is configured to change the homogenous magnetic field in a short, predetermined time within image acquisition of an object under examination, such that a Larmor frequency for a predetermined layer of the object under examination remains in a predetermined frequency range. A layer in the object under examination is selected and a value for the homogenous magnetic field, in which the Larmor frequencies of the nuclear spins of the layer lie in a predetermined frequency band, is determined by a control unit taking into account a predetermined magnetic field gradient. The established value for the homogenous magnetic field and the predetermined magnetic field gradient is set by the magnetic controller, and an excitation pulse, frequencies of which only lie in the predetermined frequency band, is emitted.
US12105171B2
The disclosure relates to techniques for saturation band MRI scanning. The techniques include obtaining the position of a saturation band of the saturation band MRI, obtaining the position of the region of interest to be imaged, taking the direction from the saturation band to the region of interest as a first direction, determining the direction of the slice selection gradient, and starting saturation band MRI scanning.
US12105161B2
An integrated fluxgate device includes a substrate that includes a dielectric layer. A fluxgate core is located over the dielectric layer. Lower windings are disposed in a lower metal level between the fluxgate core and the dielectric layer, and upper windings are disposed in an upper metal level above the fluxgate core. A metal structure in the upper metal level or the lower metal level overlaps an end of the fluxgate core and is conductively isolated from the upper and lower windings.
US12105160B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a magneto-optical material capable of exhibiting the Faraday effect even though no magnetic field is applied. The magneto-optical material of the present invention has a nanogranular structure in which magnetic nanoparticles are dispersed in a fluoride matrix, and can exhibit Faraday properties without requiring the application of a magnetic field because the magnetic nanoparticles are configured by a magnetic material that has residual magnetization and consists of any of a Fe—Pt alloy, a Co—Pt alloy, a Fe—Co—Ni—Al alloy, a Co ferrite, or a Ba ferrite.
US12105159B2
An external field response distribution visualization device includes: an induction circuit that induces a first field component from each of induction positions; a sensor that senses a field strength at sensing positions for each of the induction positions; and an information processing circuit that generates an image showing an external field response distribution. The information processing circuit: calculates, using the sensing result as a boundary condition, an induction position dependent field function that takes an induction and sensing positions as inputs and outputs the field strength; calculates an imaging function that takes an imaging target position as an input and outputs an image intensity, and is defined based on the strength output from the induction position dependent field function in response to inputting the imaging target position; and generates the image based on the imaging function.
US12105153B2
A battery management system includes a monitoring device and a controller. The monitoring device is arranged in a housing accommodating a battery, monitors the battery and acquires battery monitoring information that includes information indicating a state of the battery. The controller performs wireless communication with the monitoring device and execute a predetermined process based on the battery monitoring information. The controller transmits a request for battery monitoring information to the monitoring device. The monitoring device transmits the battery monitoring information to the controller in response to the request. The controller determines whether missing of the battery monitoring information has occurred based on a correlation between the battery monitoring information acquired from the monitoring device via wireless communication and relationship information held by the controller related to the battery monitoring information.
US12105152B2
A battery capacity estimation system executes a charging and discharging process (S1), an alternating current impedance acquiring process (S2 and S3), and a battery capacity estimating process (S4 to S6). The charging and discharging process involves charging and discharging a target secondary battery. The alternating current impedance acquiring process involves acquiring a measurement result of an alternating current impedance of a target secondary battery, by applying an alternating current signal within a specific frequency range to the target secondary battery after completion of the charging and discharging in the charging and discharging process and before a predetermined maximum waiting time elapses. The battery capacity estimating step involves estimating a battery capacity of the target secondary battery based on the measurement result of the alternating current impedance.
US12105148B2
Disclosed are a gas density relay having a simulation check function and a simulation check method thereof, the gas density relay includes a gas density relay body, a simulation reference signal unit, a simulation check signal unit, a driving contact action mechanism, and an intelligent control unit. The intelligent control unit obtains, according to the check, by the simulation reference signal unit, of a simulation check signal generated by the simulation check signal unit, a current working state of a monitoring part, so as to quantitatively and accurately measure the precision of the gas density relay; by providing the driving contact action mechanism, the gas density relay body generates an alarm and/or a locking contact action to ensure that a contact execution mechanism of the gas density relay body and a contact itself are normal. The present application completes online simulation or virtual check of the gas density relay while being used for monitoring the gas density of a insulation or arc extinguishing electrical equipment, thereby improving working efficiency, reducing operation and maintenance costs, and guaranteeing safe operation of a power grid.
US12105145B2
A method for testing a chip comprising receiving N scan-in chains of test data; using the N scan-in chains of test data to perform tests on the chip; receiving a merged expected test-result and masking-instruction signal on X pins of the chip from the off-chip test equipment, X being less than 2*N; decoding the merged expected test-result and masking-instruction signal to extract N decoded output signals, each of the N decoded output signals corresponding to a respective chain of test results.
US12105144B2
A semiconductor device includes a control signal generating circuit, a first circuit and a second circuit. The control signal generating circuit is configured to generate a control signal. The first circuit is coupled to the control signal generating circuit and configured to receive the control signal and generate a first test pulse signal according to the control signal. The second circuit is coupled to the control signal generating circuit and the first circuit and configured to receive the control signal and generate a second test pulse signal according to the control signal. The first circuit is comprised in the first block. The second circuit is comprised in the second block. The first block and the second block are connected with each other via one or more interconnection logics and timing of the first test pulse signal and timing of the second test pulse signal are synchronized.
US12105143B2
A digital-to-analog converter (DAC) includes a switching network and built-in-self-test (BIST) circuitry. The DAC, in operation, generates analog output signals in response to input codes of a set of input codes of the DAC. The BIST circuitry sequentially applies codes of a determined subset of codes of the set of input codes to test the plurality of switches. The determined subset of codes has fewer codes than the set of input codes. The BIST circuitry detects failures of switches of the plurality of switches based on responses of the DAC to the applied codes. In response to detecting a failure of a switch, the BIST generates a signal indicating a failure of the switching network.
US12105142B2
The present disclosure provides a method and system for creating dipole moment model. The method is applied to a tested circuit and includes: performing a near-field measurement on the tested circuit, to obtain a near-field electric field and a near-field magnetic field related to the tested circuit; performing a two-dimensional divergence calculation on the near-field electric field and the near-field magnetic field, to obtain a near-field electric divergence field and a near-field magnetic divergence field; performing a convolution calculation on the near-field electric divergence field and the near-field magnetic divergence field with a digital filter; and building a dipole moment matrix equivalent to the tested circuit according to a result of the convolution calculation.
US12105137B2
To provide more test data during the manufacture of non-volatile memories and other integrated circuits, machine learning is used to generate virtual test values. Virtual test results are interpolated for one set of tests for devices on which the test is not performed based on correlations with other sets of tests. In one example, machine learning determines a correlation study between bad block values determined at die sort and photo-limited yield (PLY) values determined inline during processing. The correlation can be applied to interpolate virtual inline PLY data for all of the memory dies, allowing for more rapid feedback on the processing parameters for manufacturing the memory dies and making the manufacturing process more efficient and accurate. In another set of embodiments, the machine learning is used to extrapolate limited metrology (e.g., critical dimension) test data to all of the memory die through interpolated virtual metrology data values.
US12105135B2
Disclosed in the present disclosure are an insulation resistance detection circuit, a resistance detection method, a converter and a photovoltaic centrifuge. The insulation resistance detection circuit includes a resistance detection module connected between a positive electrode and a negative electrode of a direct-current bus to be detected. The resistance detection module includes a first resistance bridge and a second resistance bridge arranged in parallel. The first resistance bridge is connected to the positive electrode of the direct-current bus by means of a first sampling resistor R1. The second resistance bridge is connected to the negative electrode of the direct-current bus by means of a second sampling resistor R2, and both the first sampling resistor R1 and the second sampling resistor R2 are equipped with voltage sampling chips. The resistance detection module is configured to calculate an insulation resistance value of the direct-current bus according to voltage values of the two sampling resistors before and after a first switch S is switched.
US12105131B2
A testing device for testing an antenna is provided. The testing device includes a housing, an antenna module for holding the antenna and disposed under the housing, and a receiving module disposed on the housing. The antenna module includes a base and a flexible film disposed on the base. The receiving module includes a substrate, a coupling radiation element disposed on the substrate and a support disposed on the substrate and having an opening. The antenna is partially exposed from the opening.
US12105123B2
A zero-crossing detection circuit includes a logic unit and an input stop detection unit. The logic unit is configured to estimate a zero cross of an AC signal in accordance with at least one of a first monitoring target signal and a second monitoring target signal, respectively input through diodes from a first node and a second node between which the AC signal is applied, so as to generate a zero-crossing detection signal. The input stop detection unit is configured to compare the first monitoring target signal with the second monitoring target signal after giving an offset to one of them so as to generate an input stop detection signal. The logic unit is configured to fix a logic level of the zero-crossing detection signal in accordance with the input stop detection signal.
US12105120B2
A sensor circuit may comprise or otherwise be connected to a transformer. The transformer may comprise a primary winding and a secondary winding. The primary winding may be configurable and/or connectable to sense a current flow in the primary winding. A configurable circuit with an output may be connected to the input of a comparator circuit. The output of the comparator circuit and one or both of the input of the configurable circuit or the output of the configurable circuit may connect across the secondary winding.
US12105116B2
A disposable flow velocity measuring device including: a first panel having a flow velocity measuring structure, and having additional micro protrusion patterns formed around the flow velocity measuring structure; a second panel separated from the first panel, and including a fluid channel through which a sample passes; a porous ultra-thin film formed on a portion, at which the first panel and the second panel come in contact with each other, so that the sample passing through the fluid channel does not directly come in contact with the flow velocity measuring structure, thereby separating the first panel and the second panel and removing micro-air bubbles included in the fluid passing through the fluid channel; a non-porous ultra-thin film formed in a partial region of the porous ultra-thin film; and a negative pressure forming unit for applying negative pressure in order to adsorb the first panel and the second panel.
US12105108B2
A method is provided for detecting one or more analytes in a sample. The method relies, in part, on the ability of functionalized particles added to the sample to partially or completely inhibit the transmission of electromagnetic radiation into and out of the sample through a detection surface in a reaction vessel containing the sample. In a microarray format, the invention can be used to screen millions, billions or more biological elements, such as an organism, cell, protein, nucleic acid, lipid, saccharide, metabolite, or small molecules. Methods, apparatuses and kits are described.
US12105100B2
Disclosed herein are methods of aiding in the diagnosis and evaluation of a subject that has sustained or may have sustained an injury to the head. For example, the present disclosure provides methods for aiding in the diagnosis and evaluation of a subject to determine whether the subject has sustained a traumatic brain injury (TBI) by detecting or measuring a combination of the levels of ubiquitin carboxy-terminal hydrolase L1 (UCH-L1) and glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) in samples taken at various time points within 48 hours after the subject has sustained or may have sustained an injury to the head.
US12105098B2
Disclosed herein are methods, and kits for use in said methods, that aid in the diagnosis and evaluation of a subject that has sustained an orthopedic injury and sustained or may have sustained an injury to the head, such as mild traumatic brain injury (TBI), using ubiquitin carboxy-terminal hydrolase L1 (UCH-L1), glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), or a combination thereof. Also disclosed herein are methods, and kits for use in said methods, that aid in determining whether a subject that has sustained an orthopedic injury and sustained or may have sustained an injury to the head would benefit from and thus receive an imaging procedure, such as MRI or head computerized tomography (CT) scan based on the levels of GFAP and/or UCH-L1. These methods involve detecting levels and changes in levels of GFAP and/or UCH-L1 in biological samples taken from a subject at time points within 48 hours after the subject has sustained or may have sustained an injury to the head.
US12105097B2
The present invention relates to a peptide capable of binding to rheumatoid arthritis autoantibodies, which is a consecutive 10-25 amino acid sequence of any one fragment of the group consisting of SEQ ID NO: 3-4, 7-13 or 16-19, wherein the peptide fragment has an epitope that binds to the rheumatoid arthritis autoantibodies. Furthermore, the peptide fragment bound to the rheumatoid arthritis autoantibodies is used for testing rheumatoid arthritis, and according to this use, the present invention provides a method for testing rheumatoid arthritis disease and a test reagent kit used for determining whether a subject to be tested suffers from rheumatoid arthritis disease.
US12105096B2
The present invention is directed to a method for predicting the risk of a female subject to develop postpartum HELLP syndrome, postpartum preeclampsia, or postpartum eclampsia. The method is based on the determination of the levels of i) sFlt-1 and PlGF, or ii) Endoglin and PlGF in a first sample obtained from said subject before delivery of baby, and a second sample of from said subject obtained after delivery of baby. Moreover, encompassed by the invention are devices and kits for carrying out the method of the present invention.
US12105079B2
The invention relates to the field of nanopores, in particular to engineered Fragaceatoxin C (FraC) nanopores and their application in analyzing biopolymers and other (biological) compounds, such as single-molecule (protein) sequencing. Provided is a system comprising oligomeric FraC nanopores comprised in a lipid bilayer, wherein the sum of the nanopore fraction in the heptameric (Type II) state and the nanopore fraction in the hexameric (Type III) state represents at least 60% of the total number of FraC nanopores.
US12105077B2
A computer system obtains a first set of micro-computed tomography (micro-CT) data representing a rock sample obtained from a subterranean formation that includes gas-bearing sandstone. The system obtains a plurality of second sets of micro-CT data in a sequence, each representing the rock sample after a performance of a corresponding triaxial shear test on the rock sample. Performing each triaxial shear test includes applying a triaxial load force to the rock sample, and removing the triaxial load force from the rock sample. The system estimates, based on the first micro-CT data and the plurality of second sets of micro-CT data, one or more characteristics of the underground formation, including a permeability of the underground formation and/or a porosity of the underground formation. The system causes one or more resource extraction operations to be performed on the underground formation based on the one or more characteristics of the underground formation.
US12105076B2
Provided herein are methods of characterizing rock qualities, such qualities of rock obtained as cuttings from petroleum operations. One embodiment comprises determining the carbonate grain size of one or more rock samples by subjecting the samples to conditions that cause release of carbon dioxide or carbon dioxide-related compound(s) and quantifying the amount thereof. In another embodiment, the invention provides a method of identifying regions of a geologic area likely to be associated with faults by identifying regions of low carbon dioxide or other target volatile compound(s) compared with expected properties and/or the surroundings of the low volatile compound region. Other methods involve analyzing differences in the amounts of compounds of different sizes in different geologic areas. The methods can aid in guiding petroleum exploration and/or production operations.
US12105073B2
A method for generating an abnormal state detection model, that includes: receiving first and second normal state signals detected, for a predetermined time by first and second sensors, respectively; generating a normal state data set based on the first and the second normal state signals; recognizing first and second variable values; generating a first abnormal state signal by applying the first variable value to an impulse function and a second abnormal state signal by applying the second variable value to a Gaussian distribution function; generating an abnormal state data set based on the first and second abnormal state signals; generating a detection model learning set for generating an abnormal state detection model by combining the normal state data set and the abnormal state data set; and generating an abnormal state detection model based on the detection model learning set.
US12105071B2
The system and method for a multi-element, ultra-low SWaP chemical concentrator incorporating Applicant's own open cell foamed adsorbent material which allows high volume sampling (e.g., liters per minute) to achieve low detection limits (ppt) using high-volume, low-pressure air sources (i.e. fans or blowers) rather than pumps. The device delivers the sample directly to an analyzer without the need for a typical intermediate cryogenic trapping step. In one example, a rotary style concentrator comprises four individual foam elements. Each element can be individually heated to desorb analytes.
US12105068B2
Hitherto, preprocessing for separating impurities and calculation processing, for example, a peak splitting method, are required in order to acquire information on test substances from spectral information. An information processing apparatus according to the present invention includes information acquisition means for acquiring quantitative information on a test substance estimated by inputting spectral information on a sample containing the test substance and impurities into a learning model.
US12105066B2
A preparative liquid chromatograph includes a liquid feeding pump (2) that feeds a mobile phase, an injector (4) that injects a sample into the mobile phase at a downstream of the liquid feeding pump (2), a separation column (6) for separating components in the sample injected into the mobile phase by the injector (4) at a downstream of the injector (4), and an eluate fractionator (8) configured to divide a flow of the eluate from the separation column (6) into a flow of a minute flow rate and another flow at a downstream of the separation column (6) and to extract at least a part of an eluate that forms the flow of a minute flow rate into an fractionation container (22).
US12105063B2
The auto-sampler for chromatographs includes a needle for sampling configured to move while a tip end thereof faces vertically downward; a switching valve having a plurality of ports to which channels constituting a chromatograph are connected, the switching valve switching between port connecting conditions to switch between channel configurations; and an injection port including an opening at an upper surface thereof through which a tip end of the needle is inserted to make the needle fluidically communicate with a pipe connected to one port of the switching valve, and a needle seal configured to get into contact with an outer circumferential surface of the tip end portion to make the needle fluidically communicate with the pipe in a liquid-tight manner when the tip end of the needle is inserted through the opening.
US12105059B2
A tensile test machine is a tensile test machine that executes a tensile test by applying a test force to a test target to deform the test target and includes a detection unit that detects an elongation amount of the test target, a calculation unit that calculates an elongation rate of the test target on the basis of a detection result of the detection unit, and a display control unit that displays a graph showing a change in the elongation rate.
US12105058B2
A method and system for determining acoustic emission (AE) parameters of rock based on moment tensor analysis. The method includes: constructing, according to macroscopic mechanical parameters, a numerical model of a rock specimen to be tested; loading the numerical model through particle flow code software to simulate a failure process of the rock specimen to be tested, and identifying fracturing time and positions of microcracks when the PFC software loads the numerical model; determining, when the PFC software loads the numerical model, if rock grains of two sequentially generated microcracks include common rock grains, and an interval for generating the two microcracks is less than duration time of a present AE event, the two microcracks as a same AE event; taking geometric centers of all microcracks within a spatial range of an AE event as source positions of the corresponding AE event; and determining AE parameters of the AE event.
US12105054B2
A light source that emits beam light, a beam shaping unit that shapes the beam light, and a pulse control unit that forms the beam light into pulse light are included. The light source emits beam light that has a wavelength that is to be absorbed by a measurement-target substance. The pulse control unit forms beam light that is emitted from the light source and with which a measurement-target part is irradiated, into pulse light that has a preset frequency and has a pulse width that is a reciprocal of twice the frequency. The beam shaping unit shapes the beam light so that a beam radius of the beam light that is emitted from the light source and with which the measurement-target part is to be irradiated is equal to a value obtained by dividing a speed of sound by π×f, where f denotes the frequency.
US12105047B2
A sensor element includes an element body having a measurement-object gas flow section formed therein, and a porous protective layer arranged to cover first to fifth surfaces of the element body. When an external wall that is the thinnest of parts of an external wall which constitute the element body and extend from the measurement-object gas flow section to the first to fifth surfaces is defined as a thinnest external wall and a surface corresponding to the thinnest external wall is defined as a closest surface, a part of the protective layer which covers the closest surface overlaps the entirety of the thinnest external wall when viewed in a direction perpendicular to the closest surface, and has one or more internal spaces formed therein which overlaps 80% or more of the thinnest external wall when viewed in the direction perpendicular to the closest surface.
US12105045B2
Sensors are configured to capture measurement data representing dissolved oxygen (DO) measurements of an environment and capacitance measurements of a medium of the environment. A memory includes computer-executable instructions. One or more processors are communicatively coupled to the one or more sensors and configured to execute the computer-executable instructions to carry out operations comprising: generating, using first measurement data captured by the one or more sensors, a model based on a relationship between the first set of DO measurements and the first set of capacitance measurements; receiving, from the one or more sensors, second measurement data; predicting, using the model and based on the new capacitance measurement, an expected DO measurement; determining whether to use the expected DO measurement or the new DO measurement; and controlling, a valve to cause the determined oxygen input amount to flow into the environment based on the expected DO measurement.
US12105043B2
A gas sensor includes: a gas sensor cartridge; and a gas sensor body to which the gas sensor cartridge, which includes: a case that has an intake port and an exhaust port and serves as a gas sensor chamber; a gas sensor device provided inside the case; an external connection terminal provided at the case and connected to the gas sensor device; a first sealing member that seals the intake port such that the intake port is opened when the gas sensor cartridge is attached to the gas sensor body; and a second sealing member that seals the exhaust port such that the exhaust port is opened when the gas sensor cartridge is attached to the gas sensor body, is detachably attached.
US12105042B2
Time until a conductivity meter is ready to measure a conductivity after an electric decationizing apparatus starts is shortened. Water to be treated that contains cations and anions is supplied to the electric decationizing apparatus while applying a first voltage to the electric decationizing apparatus, and decationized water is generated. Next, the decationized water that is generated by the electric decationizing apparatus is supplied to the conductivity meter in order to measure conductivity of the decationized water. Before the first voltage is applied to the electric decationizing apparatus and before the conductivity meter begins measuring the conductivity of the decationized water, a second voltage that is lower than the first voltage is applied to the electric decationizing apparatus in a state in which the electric decationizing apparatus is charged with water to be treated.
US12105040B1
A probe provides one end of an electrically conductive path with a ground stake defining a second end. The probe is supported on a tip of a cable rotatably supported by a snake, with the snake including a conductor routed toward the ground stake. A spool can optionally be located between the conductor and the ground stake. A voltage source and a current sensor are located upon said electrically conductive path. The probe is fed by action of the snake along an underground pipe to be scanned. The current sensor senses current flow between the probe within the underground pipe and the ground stake. Analysis of the current flowing in this electric circuit allows for determining if underground pipe material includes lead, based at least partially on electrical conductivity of pipe segments through which the probe passes.
US12105031B2
Described herein is Dielectric Constant Sensor (DDKS) comprising an EIT-based with two U-shaped structures and a transmission line that can compare dielectric constants (Dks) of two different materials that are placed at open stubs U-shaped structures. In at least one embodiment, DDKS generates fully tuned EIT resonance when a reference sample and a sample under test (SUT) have the same Dk. In at least one embodiment, a sharp resonant split is observed within EIT resonance band when a reference sample and sample under test have different Dks. In at least one embodiment, Dk sensor can detect biomarkers of infectious diseases in blood, urine, saliva, medicines, or any other biological sample.
US12105028B1
A method of quality control and testing for manufactured semiconductors by generating a model for spectroscopic ellipsometry constant analysis includes: calculating, by an operator, simulation data representing a spectroscopic ellipsometry constant of an analysis target through reasoning on attribute data representing an attribute of the analysis target using a simulation model; calculating, by an error calculator, an error representing a difference between actual measured data obtained by measuring the spectroscopic ellipsometry constant of the analysis target and the simulation data; and performing optimization in which an optimizer modifies a parameter of the simulation model according to the error.
US12105024B2
A sensor for detecting an analyte can include a photoluminescent nanostructure embedded in a sensor porous planar substrate. The sensor porous planar substrate can be supported by a substrate porous planar substrate.
US12105021B2
The present disclosure relates to a THz measuring device for measuring a measuring object and a THz measuring method for measuring a measuring object.
US12105019B2
The concentration measurement device 100 includes an electric unit 20 having a light source 22 and a photodetector 24, a fluid unit 10 having a measurement cell 1, a first light-transmission member 11 for transmitting light from the light source to the measurement cell, a second light transmission member 12 for transmitting light from the measurement cell to the photodetector, a lens 3A provided in the fluid unit, the lens 3A being arranged such that light from the first light transmission member is to be incident on the first position and light is to be emitted from the second position to the second light transmission member, a pressure sensor 5 for measuring pressure of fluid flowing through the measurement cell, and an arithmetic circuit 28 for detecting concentration of the fluid flowing through the measurement cell, the arithmetic circuit being configured to calculate the fluid concentration based on the output of the photodetector and a correction factor related to the pressure output by the pressure sensor and the concentration of fluid in order to reduce the measurement error due to the refractive index of the fluid.
US12105009B2
In relation to application of artificial intelligence to image analysis of particles, to make it possible to provide data for machine learning corresponding to user demands while making it possible to reduce, as much as possible, man-hours taken to, for example, prepare vast amounts of actual image data obtained by actually capturing images of particles, the present invention generates virtual particle image data, which is image data of a virtual particle, on the basis of a predetermined condition, generates label data corresponding to the virtual particle, and associates the virtual particle image data with the label data.
US12105003B2
A system and a method for testing a filter used in ultrapure water are provided. The method for testing a filter, which is used for removing particles from ultrapure water, comprises: providing a testing solution with particles; detecting the particles in the testing solution by a particle counter; passing the testing solution through a filter; and detecting the particles in the testing solution, which is passed through the filter, by another particle counter.
US12104998B2
The present invention relates to devices for measuring property changes via in-situ micro-viscometry and methods of using same. The aforementioned device is inexpensive and can be used to quickly and accurately measure numerous physical and chemical property changes, including but not limited to the rate of chemical cure, change in tack, and rate of mass loss, for example, rate of moisture, solvent and/or plasticizer change.
US12104992B2
The present invention relates to a technology related to an exfoliative cell processing device which obtains exfoliative cells out of a vial which has contained specimen of exfoliative cells (e.g., exfoliative cells and liquid medium) of a human body and then thinly smears the exfoliative cells on a cell smear slide. More specifically, the present invention relates to a technology for vertically entering the upper entrance of a vial which containing a specimen so as to extract a part of the specimen from the vial and then for thinly smearing the part of specimen on a cell smear slide which being disposed adjacent to the vial. The present invention has an advantage in that exfoliative cells may be attached in a thinly spread state on the lower surface of the specimen collector since the process of suctioning specimen from the vial.
US12104984B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure belong to the field of valve sealing, and in particular, relate to a test device for simulating sealing performance of a one-way valve. A box is provided with a gas inlet pipe and a gas outlet pipe, the gas inlet pipe is communicated with a gas source, a detection device is communicated with the gas outlet pipe, the detection device is used to detect detection gas input into the box by the gas source, a sleeve is connected to the gas inlet pipe, one end of the sleeve is communicated with the gas source, the other end of the sleeve has a gas outlet, one end of a fitting piece is used to block the gas outlet, and the other end of the fitting piece is connected to a driving member, which is used to drive the fitting piece to move and rotate.
US12104981B2
Described herein are systems and methods for determination of rolling resistance from a sensor or sensors in a tire or tires for application in smart cars to provide feedback to interested parties, such as Departments of Transportation or tire manufacturers.
US12104979B2
A whole vehicle in-loop test system of an intelligent automobile, including: a rotary drum platform, used for simulating a longitudinal movement of a test vehicle; an environment perception platform, disposed at a front end of the rotary drum platform, used for simulating a transverse movement of a test vehicle, and including a support base at a lower portion and a vehicle placing platform at an upper portion, where a transverse drive wheel is mounted at the lower portion of the support base, and the transverse drive wheel moves along a transverse track disposed on the ground; and a target vehicle simulation unit, disposed at a periphery of the environment perception platform, and configured to simulate a target vehicle.
US12104968B2
This disclosure provides a flexible capacitor array and a preparation method therefor, a capacitor array detection system, and a robot. The flexible capacitor array includes: a first flexible electrode layer including a first electrode array; a second flexible electrode layer including a second electrode array arranged opposite to the first electrode array; and a spacer layer and a dielectric layer, the spacer layer and the dielectric layer being arranged between each electrode pair arranged opposite in the first electrode array and the second electrode array. A unit capacitor in the flexible capacitor array includes the electrode pair, the spacer layer, and the dielectric layer.
US12104967B2
One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods are provided. In an example, a method includes tuning a sensor comprising a first resonator having an effective gain, a second resonator having an effective loss, and a coupling circuit connected between the first resonator and the second resonator at an extrema degeneracy point with a nonlinear response to a force applied to the sensor. At least one of the first resonator, the second resonator, or the coupling circuit comprises a variable capacitor having a capacitance that varies as a function of the force. The method comprises injecting an input signal into one of the first resonator or the second resonator, receiving an output signal from one of the first resonator or the second resonator, and determining a magnitude of a force based on a difference between a first frequency extrema point and a second frequency extrema point in the output signal.
US12104966B2
Disclosed are systems and methods for providing an adiabatic power compensation differential scanning calorimeter to minimize a temperature difference between a sample and a reference. For instance, methods can include providing ramp-up heating power to heat a sample container and a reference container based on a preprogrammed temperature ramp rate; minimizing a temperature difference among the sample container, the reference container, and at least one furnace; providing compensating heat to the sample container and the reference container when a self-heating activity of the sample material is detected; providing container-only compensating heat to the sample container to block heat transfer from the sample material to the sample container once the self-heating activity of the sample material is detected; and providing compensating heat to the reference container to facilitate container-only compensating heat calculation and control.
US12104957B2
The invention relates to a photometer (30) for analysing the composition of a sample gas. The photometer comprises an infra-red (IR) source (20) configured to direct a first plurality of pulses (40) of IR radiation through the sample gas to an IR detector (26), at least two of the first plurality of pulses being of different wavelength. The photometer further comprises an ultraviolet (UV) source (32) configured to generate a second plurality of pulses (38) of UV radiation for conveyance to a UV detector (36), at least two of the second plurality of pulses being of different wavelength. A path selection arrangement (22, 42-50) is configured to selectively convey different ones of the second plurality of pulses (38) to one of the sample gas and the UV detector (36). The photometer further comprises processing circuitry coupled to the IR source (20), the UV source (32), the IR detector (26), the UV detector (36) and the path selection arrangement (22, 42-50). The processing circuitry is configured to (i) select the wavelength to be used for a given UV pulse of the second plurality of pulses (38), (ii) receive a plurality of detection signals from each of the IR detector (26) and the UV detector (36) and (iii) based on the detection signals, determine a concentration of at least one component of the sample gas. A method for analysing the composition of a sample gas is also disclosed.
US12104954B2
An apparatus for detecting an ultraviolet blocking material includes a light receiver configured to acquire detection light from a target object; a spectrum signal generator configured to generate spectrum signals based on the detection light; and a processor configured to: select a reference wavelength from a range from about 290 nm to about 400 nm, and detect an ultraviolet blocking material based on a first spectrum signal of a first wavelength less than the reference wavelength and a second spectrum signal of a second wavelength greater than the reference wavelength, the first spectrum signal and the second spectrum signal being generated by the spectrum signal generator.
US12104951B2
The invention provides a photocoupler sensing circuit and an operation method thereof. The photocoupler sensing circuit includes a processing circuit and a sensing circuit. The processing circuit has a first input terminal and a second input terminal. The processing circuit outputs a first signal according to a connection status of the first input terminal and the second input terminal being short or open. The sensing circuit is coupled to the processing circuit and receives the first signal. The sensing circuit determines to output a sensing signal to a system terminal according to the first signal, so that the system terminal determines whether the connection status of the first input terminal and the second input terminal is short or open according to the sensing signal. The sensing circuit includes a single-diode photocoupler coupled to the system terminal.
US12104948B2
An optical measurement device according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes a universal metasurface on which light is incident, a polarization sensor configured to measure a polarization state of light passing through the universal metasurface, and a controller configured to collect a quantitative differential interference contrast (QDIC) image for the x polarization of incident light that is collected by the polarization sensor, a QDIC image for y polarization, and a quantitative relative phase (QRP) image representing a relative phase difference between the x polarization and y polarization and configured to calculate intensity, a phase or polarization information of the incident light.
US12104939B2
A method for the measurement of a physical parameter of a liquid by means of a sensor having at least one measuring tube for conducting the liquid, wherein the measuring tube can be excited to vibrate in at least one flexural vibration mode, comprises: determining at least one current value of a vibration parameter of the flexural vibration mode; determining a measurement value of the physical parameter according to the current value of the vibration parameter, wherein the measurement value is compensated in respect of the resonator effect according to a current value for the natural frequency of the flexural vibration mode and according to the sound velocity of the liquid conducted in the measuring tube, wherein the value for the sound velocity is provided independently of the vibrations of the measuring tube.
US12104934B2
An electronic device is described. The electronic device may include a housing, a rotatable crown, and a self-mixing interferometry (SMI) sensor positioned within the housing. The rotatable crown may include an array of retroreflective surface features that reflect incident light back to a light source. Each retroreflective surface feature of the array of retroreflective surface features may be formed as a corner-cube with three perpendicular faces. The SMI sensor or associated processing electronics may compare originally emitted light with reflected light to identify a movement or distance of the rotatable crown with respect to the SMI sensor.
US12104932B2
An encoder for detecting rotation information of a first rotation shaft includes a first detector which detects a pattern provided in the first rotation shaft, a first housing case which houses the pattern provided in the first rotation shaft and the first detector, a second housing case which houses at least a part of a shaft portion different from a portion where the pattern is provided, of the first rotation shaft, and an adjusting mechanism which adjusts at least one of an atmospheric pressure and a temperature in the first housing case to be higher than at least one of an atmospheric pressure and a temperature in the second housing case. The inflow of the high-humidity air from a motor into the encoder is prevented or suppressed, so that the condensation in the encoder can be prevented or suppressed.
US12104930B2
A sensor arrangement, including a detection unit and a carrier element for attaching the detection unit at a motor cover, The detection unit, on a side facing the motor cover, including electronic components which are accommodated in a receptacle of the carrier element. A motor including a motor cover and a corresponding sensor arrangement are also described.
US12104928B2
An absolute encoder includes a spindle gear fixed to a motor shaft, a permanent magnet provided on the spindle gear, and a first driven gear having a center axis perpendicular to a center axis of a worm gear portion, and engaging the worm gear portion. The absolute encoder includes a second driving gear provided coaxially with the first driven gear and rotating according to a rotation of the first driven gear, and a second driven gear having a center axis perpendicular to the center axis of the first driven gear, and engaging the second driven gear. The spindle gear includes a magnet holder which is fit onto a tip end of the motor shaft, coaxially with the motor shaft, and a resin gear portion provided with the worm gear portion on an outer side in a radial direction.
US12104925B2
An object of the present disclosure is to improve the resistance of a sensor device to external damage. A sensor device includes a sensor element, and a resin cover part that covers the sensor element, wherein at least a portion of a surface of the resin cover part is cross-linked.
US12104914B2
The disclosure is generally directed to systems and methods related to charging an electric vehicle. A method for determining recommendations for a user of a user device includes determining that the user is consuming content on a first application on the user device, the content available on the electric vehicle, determining a charge state of the electric vehicle, determining, based on the charge state of the electric vehicle that a length of time to charge the electric vehicle satisfies a timing requirement associated with the content, locating a charge station where the electric vehicle can be charged while the vehicle plays the content, and presenting a recommendation to charge the vehicle at the charging station.
US12104913B2
A system that reduces the possibility of damaging items. A route searching system includes a type-of-item obtaining part that obtains a type of an item transported by a vehicle; a destination obtaining part that obtains a destination; and a route searching part that searches for a route that reaches the destination by selecting, based on the type of an item, a road with a low possibility of damaging the item on a priority basis over a road with a high possibility of damaging the item.
US12104912B2
Methods and systems for autonomous and semi-autonomous vehicle control, routing, and automatic feature adjustment are disclosed. Sensors associated with autonomous operation features may be utilized to search an area for missing persons, stolen vehicles, or similar persons or items of interest. Sensor data associated with the features may be automatically collected and analyzed to passively search for missing persons or vehicles without vehicle operator involvement. Search criteria may be determined by a remote server and communicated to a plurality of vehicles within a search area. In response to which, sensor data may be collected and analyzed by the vehicles. When sensor data generated by a vehicle matches the search criteria, the vehicle may communicate the information to the remote server.
US12104909B2
A fully self-contained portable location tracking device autonomously compares a current location with a latitude-longitude map stored in memory. The latitude-longitude map stores guidance zone values indicative of a predetermined safe zone, progressive alert zones, and a predetermined reference point. The guidance zone values represent actions to be taken based upon current location. When initiated by some combination of current location or zone value, location history, and time, or when otherwise queried, the tracking device transmits the offset from reference location, rather than actual current location data, to at least one wireless communications monitoring apparatus. The monitoring apparatus also stores a copy of the latitude-longitude map and reference point. Using the received offset, the monitoring apparatus knows both the location of the location tracking device and the actions to be taken based upon current location.
US12104908B2
The disclosure belongs to the technical field of integrated navigation under non-ideal conditions, and in particular relates to a robust filtering method for integrated navigation based on a statistical similarity measure (SSM). In view of the situation that there are normal beam measurement information of the DVL and beam measurement information with a large error simultaneously in a SINS/DVL tightly integrated system, and aiming at the problem that the existing robust filters of an integrated navigation system process the measurement information in a rough manner and are likely to lead to loss of normal measurement information, the disclosure proposes a novel robust filtering method based on decomposition of multi-dimensional measurement equations and the SSM. The disclosure introduces the SSM theory while decomposing the multi-dimensional measurement equations of the SINS/DVL tightly integrated navigation system, and assists the measurement noise variance of each beam to complete respective adaptive update in case of a large measurement error, finally ensuring independence of processing of the measurement information of each beam. The disclosure can be used in the field of integrated navigation of underwater vehicles under non-ideal conditions.
US12104906B2
Disclosed is a chip-level disc-type acousto-optic standing wave gyroscope including a substrate and a gyroscope structure placed on an upper surface of the substrate; the substrate is in a shape of a circular disc; the gyroscope structure includes an acoustic wave drive module and an optical detection module, the acoustic wave drive module is arranged in a circular shape taking the center of the circular disc as an origin and extending outward radially, and the optical detection module is arranged in the middle of the acoustic wave drive module and is annular; the acoustic wave drive module includes an annular interdigitated transducer, a metal electrode layer group uniformly sputtered on the annular interdigitated transducer, annularly arranged metallic pillars and an annular reflection grating, respectively placed in sequence from center of the disk radially to periphery of the disk; the optical detection module includes a first grating coupler, an optical waveguide at a light source input end, a first coupler, a second coupler, an optical waveguide at a signal output end and a second grating coupler, which are connected in sequence. According to the technical solution of the disclosure, the sensitivity of gyroscope detection can be improved.
US12104904B2
A support structure for a micro-vibrator includes: a micro-vibrating body having a curved surface portion and a recess recessed from the curved surface portion; and a support member having a rod and an adhesive member arranged at a tip end of the rod. The support member is adhered on a connecting surface of the recess through the adhesive member. The connecting surface of the recess is an internal bottom surface of the recess.
US12104900B2
Methods and apparatus receiving data at a first time from at least one sensor, determining a parameter from the received data for the first time, estimating the parameter for a future time based on the data for first time, and outputting the estimated parameter for the future time to a receiving device. In some embodiments, an IC package can process the received data to generate the estimated parameter for the future time. The IC package may transmit the estimated parameter using a particular protocol. In some embodiments, the receiving device can treat the estimated parameter as real-time data.
US12104894B2
Provided are an illumination device and an electronic apparatus. The illumination device includes a light source configured to emit light, a surface light source layer configured to convert the light emitted from the light source to surface light, a focusing lens configured to focus the surface light from the surface light source layer, and a display panel including an aperture through which light focused by the focusing lens passes.
US12104891B1
A system for measuring a target grating includes an illumination source, a reference transmission grating, a pupil filter, and a detector. The illumination source is disposed to generate an incident light beam that illuminates the reference transmission grating. The reference transmission grating splits the incident light beam into a plurality of diffraction orders. The plurality of diffraction orders interrogates a target grating. The reference transmission grating and the target grating are parallel. The pupil filter allows transmission of a subset of diffraction orders of light that has been diffracted and/or reflected from the target grating after being split again by passing through the reference transmission grating. The detector takes a measurement of the subset of diffraction orders of light after transmission through the pupil filter.
US12104887B2
An explosive device configured for outputting a quasi-planar shock wave includes: a body structure having a proximal end and an opposing distal end, and within which (a) an initiation device chamber; (b) a donor charge having a geometric shape correlated with first cone having an internal void exhibiting a geometric shape correlated with a second cone, wherein a first base of the first cone and a second base of the second cone reside in a common plane and have a common center point; (c) a non-explosive wave shaper filling the void; and (d) an acceptor charge are sequentially disposed adjacent to each other in a direction toward the distal end. Perpendicular to the central axis, a maximum lateral span of each of the wave shaper, the donor charge, and the acceptor charge coincide. The acceptor explosive charge mass does not laterally extend to a set of body structure outer walls.
US12104882B2
Skin-core structure fibers with both infrared and radar stealth, a preparation method therefor, and the use thereof are provided. The fibers are as follows: a core material of the skin-core structure fibers comprises the following raw materials in parts by weight: 10 parts of paraffin; 0.7-1.5 parts of an electromagnetic wave absorbent; and 1 part of a high-molecular polymer, wherein the electromagnetic wave absorbent is one or more of ferroferric oxide-intercalated graphene oxide, nano ferroferric oxide and carbon black, and wherein the skin-core structure fiber is obtained by spinning the core material with a skin-layer material.
US12104876B1
A deformable archery toy may include an annular rotating arm, a rotating shaft sleeve, an unfolding arm body A, an unfolding arm body B and a connecting arm body, wherein one end of the annular rotating arm is rotatably connected with the grip connecting arm, one end of the grip connecting arm far away from the annular rotating arm is fixedly connected with the unfolding arm A, one end of the unfolding arm A far away from the grip connecting arm is clamped with the string connecting sleeve block A, one end of the annular rotating arm far away from the grip connecting arm is fixedly connected with the unfolding arm B. In this invention, the whole archery toy could be effectively folded, the archery toy could be changed from the archery bow to the slingshot, so that the dual-purpose function could be effectively achieved.
US12104874B2
A magazine of a pistol for cartridges of the caliber .22LR with a case rim, consisting of a hollow magazine body for receiving the cartridges in two rows, a stub-like base plate, a feeder slidably guided in the magazine body, a compression spring between the feeder and the base plate, which base plate has a bore as do the two side walls of the magazine body comprise openings, all of which are formed by a transversely extending bolt, wherein the upper end region of the magazine body forms a constriction in which two rows of cartridges are brought together into one. The side walls have inwardly directed corrugations running longitudinally over their entire height, which merge with guide ribs in the upper region.
US12104849B2
A system and method for cooling a gas using a mixed refrigerant includes a compressor system and a heat exchange system, where the compressor system may include an interstage separation device or drum with no liquid outlet, a liquid outlet in fluid communication with a pump that pumps liquid forward to a high pressure separation device or a liquid outlet through which liquid flows to the heat exchanger to be subcooled. In the last situation, the subcooled liquid is expanded and combined with an expanded cold temperature stream, which is a cooled and expanded stream from the vapor side of a cold vapor separation device, and subcooled and expanded streams from liquid sides of the high pressure separation device and the cold vapor separation device, or combined with a stream formed from the subcooled streams from the liquid sides of the high pressure separation device and the cold vapor separation device after mixing and expansion, to form a primary refrigeration stream.
US12104846B2
A refrigerator utilizes a quick fill dispenser that incorporates a fluid storage receptacle that is easily removable for cleaning and/or dispensing independently of the refrigerator, and that is coupled to a dock through a combined inlet/outlet through which the receptacle is filled and fluid is dispensed through the receptacle. A dock closure may also be used to inhibit fluid flow through the combined inlet/outlet when the fluid storage receptacle is removed.
US12104840B2
A refrigerator includes an ice maker, which includes an ice making cell, a heater configured to supply heat to the ice making cell during an ice making process, and a controller configured to control the heater. A cooling power of the cooler when a temperature sensed by a temperature sensor is greater than or equal to a limit temperature during an ice making process is greater than a cooling power of the cooler when the temperature is less than the limit temperature. A heating amount of the heater when the temperature sensed by the temperature sensor is greater than or equal to the limit temperature during the ice making process is greater than a heating amount of the heater when the temperature is less than the limit temperature.
US12104839B2
An ice maker, according to the present disclosure, comprises: a first tray forming a part of an ice-making cell; a second tray forming another part of the ice-making cell; and a heater arranged on the first tray or the second tray, wherein the heater operates during a period when cold air is supplied for the purpose of freezing ice.
US12104838B2
An ice cube tray includes a base and a lid for covering an open top of the base. The open top provides access to compartments for making individual ice cubes. The lid includes ridges on its bottom surface that define holding areas. When the lid covers the open top, such that the holding areas are facing the compartments, and the tray is turned upside down, ice cubes are released from the compartments and fall into the holding areas on the lid. When the base is moved away from the lid, the ice cubes are each held in a respective holding area for grasping by a user. Any ice cubes remaining on the lid remain held in the holding areas. The base can then be placed back over the lid and the tray can be turned right-side up, which returns the remaining ice cubes to their original compartments.
US12104823B2
A thermal-storage container used in a thermal-storage system to exchange heat by fluid flow though phase-changing material disposed inside the thermal-storage container, including a thermal-storage container housing, a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet, and one or more capsules containing the phase-change material, wherein the housing is shaped as an elongate container, a ratio of length to width of the housing is between 2 and 20. Related apparatus and methods are also described.
US12104814B2
A remote monitoring device communicates with an external device via a public communication line and sends, to an air-conditioning apparatus, an operation instruction signal for operating the air-conditioning apparatus. The remote monitoring device communicates with the external device via the public communication line, and communicates with the air-conditioning apparatus via a dedicated communication line. A monitoring-side data storage unit stores air-conditioning operation data set by a user of the air-conditioning apparatus that indicates operation contents of the air-conditioning apparatus for communication disruption. A disruption, and a monitoring-side control unit generates the operation instruction signal based on the air-conditioning operation data if communication with the external device via the public communication line is disrupted, and sends the operation instruction signal to the air-conditioning apparatus via the dedicated line.
US12104809B2
A sensor assembly including a housing having an inlet an outlet and an interior space generally closed from an environment external to the sensor assembly. The interior space of the housing can include an inlet zone, a central zone and an outlet zone. A baffle can be disposed within the central zone of the interior space of the housing and be located between the inlet zone and the outlet zone and nearer to the inlet zone than to the outlet zone. The baffle can extend downwardly from an upper side of the housing. A gas sensor that can be operable to detect a presence of a lower GWP refrigerant can be disposed in the outlet zone of the interior space of the housing. The housing includes a door in a lower side of the housing in the central zone of the housing.
US12104807B2
A radon management system using a radon detector is proposed. The system includes: at least one radon detector installed in a specific space indoors or outdoors, and configured to detect in real time alpha particles present in the specific space, output a predetermined alpha particle detection signal, count for a preset measurement time to calculate and transmit an alpha particle concentration value, and transmit unique device identification information; and a radon management server configured to collect the unique device identification information and alpha particle concentration value, calculate and quantify an average value of the collected alpha particle concentration values to be converted into a database for each radon detector, store and manage the average value, compare the alpha particle concentration value and the average values of the previously stored alpha particle concentration value to each other to calculate a change amount thereof, and generate radon generation event information data.
US12104806B2
A dehumidifier includes a housing having a mounting groove, a water tank detachably inserted in the mounting groove and including an abutment member, a pump assembly including a water pump and a water pump inlet pipe, a water tank outlet pipe, and a micro switch installed at the housing. A first end of the water pump inlet pipe is connected to the water pump. A first end of the water tank outlet pipe is detachably connected to a second end of the water pump inlet pipe. A second end of the water tank outlet pipe is located in the water tank. When the water tank is installed in place, the micro switch is pressed by the abutment member to connect the water pump to a power supply, and the water pump inlet pipe is communicated with the water tank outlet pipe.
US12104798B2
A heating cooking apparatus includes a heating cooking chamber and a first air sending unit. The heating cooking chamber includes an accommodation space that accommodates an object to be heated, and a first space that communicates with the accommodation space. The first air sending unit includes a first partitioning member positioned between the first space and a first air sending chamber, a first suction hole portion disposed in the first partitioning member and configured to suction air inside the heating cooking chamber, and a first blow-out hole portion disposed in the first partitioning member and configured to blow air into the heating cooking chamber. The accommodation space is a space that can accommodate the object to be heated and has a predetermined capacity. The first space indicates a space into which the object to be heated is prohibited from entering.
US12104796B2
A modular firestarter assembly. The modular firestarter assembly includes a number of modular components configured to be able to join to one another to form the firestarter assembly. The modular components can be broken down to save space. The modular firestarter assembly can be formed from a number of different combinations of the modular components to hold fuel sources and assist in starting a fire.
US12104795B2
A combustor for a gas turbine includes a combustor liner that has an outer liner and an inner liner. At least one of the outer liner and the inner liner includes (a) an upstream liner section fixedly connected in the combustor, (b) a downstream liner section fixedly connected in the combustor, and (c) a dilution liner section including a movable portion including at least a part of the dilution liner section and having at least one dilution opening therethrough. The movable portion is arranged to translate in an upstream direction and in a downstream direction. At least one actuator is connected to the movable portion of the dilution liner section and controls translational movement of the movable portion in the upstream direction and the downstream direction to adjust a volume of a primary combustion zone within the combustor.
US12104793B2
A flame-holder device for a turbojet afterburner comprises an annular row of flame-holder arms, each having an inner branch having a free end and another end, and two outer branches which extend from the other end (52) and diverge from one another in a direction extending from the free end to the other end, such that the inner branch transitions radially outward into the two outer branches which diverge radially outward from one another in two opposing circumferential directions, thereby forming mutually approaching areas between consecutive flame-holder arms for enabling the flame to spread from arm to arm.
US12104789B2
A combustion control apparatus of an Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) reforming system and a method for controlling the same may include a burner provided to supply heat to a reformer, a flame temperature analyzer configured to analyze a flame temperature of the burner, an air flow rate calculator configured to determine an initial value of a flow rate of air to be supplied to the burner depending on a flow rate of fuel gas supplied to the burner, and an air flow rate controller electrically connected to the air flow rate calculator and the flame temperature analyzer and configured to select the flow rate of the air at which the flame temperature transmitted by the flame temperature analyzer reaches a maximum while changing the flow rate of the air from the initial value and to control supply of the selected flow rate of the air to the burner.
US12104788B2
A method includes firing a first burner into a furnace process chamber in a first initial condition, firing a second burner into the process chamber in a second initial condition, and measuring temperature at each of an array of locations in the process chamber. The first burner is adjusted to a first adjusted condition while the second burner is being fired at the second initial condition, and a resulting first temperature change is measured at each of the locations. The second burner is adjusted to a second adjusted condition while the first burner is being fired at the first initial condition, and a resulting second temperature change is measured at each of the locations. The measured first and second temperature changes are recorded as reference data for adjusting burner conditions to adjust temperatures at each of the locations. The method can thus be used to improve temperature uniformity throughout the array of locations.
US12104786B2
A burner of a gas stove includes a burner body, a partition member, and at least one flame cover. The burner body includes a gas conduit and a base. The gas conduit has at least one gas input passage for injecting gas and air, and the base has at least one mixture passage for mixing the gas and the air. The at least one mixture passage communicates with the at least one gas input passage. The partition member has a plurality of through holes and covers the at least one mixture passage. The at least one flame cover provided with a plurality of flame holes covers the partition member. Whereby, the size of the burner of the gas stove is reduced significantly, and the gas can mix with the air effectively and uniformly.
US12104785B2
The invention provides a light generating system (1000) comprising a light generating device (100), a luminescent body (200), and first optics (410), wherein: •the light generating device (100) is configured to generate device light (101); wherein the light generating device (100) comprises a laser; •the luminescent body (200) comprises a luminescent material (210), wherein the luminescent material (210) is configured to convert at least part of the device light (101) into luminescent material light (211), and wherein the luminescent body (200) is transmissive for at least part of the luminescent material light (211); •the first optics (410) are transmissive for at least part of the device light (101) and reflective for at least part of the luminescent material light (211), wherein the first optics (410) comprise a primary optic surface (411) having a first surface area A1, wherein the primary optic surface (411) is configured in a light receiving relationship with the light generating device (100); •the luminescent body (200) is enclosed by a cavity (500) having a cavity opening (510) having a smallest cross-sectional area A2, wherein the cavity (500) is at least partly defined by the optics (410); wherein the first optics (410) comprises the cavity opening (510); wherein A2
US12104774B1
An angle adjustment device for lighting softbox includes an operating device, a first connecting rod, a second connecting rod, and a controlled device which are connected in series. The first/second connecting rod is provided with a first/second outer tube, a first/second inner tube and a first/second inner rod, one side of the first/second inner tube close to the operating device is provided with a first/second non-circular fixing base, and one side of the first inner tube distanced from the operating device is provided with a clamping fixing base; and the controlled device is provided with a rotary portion, an outer tube fixing base and a plurality of screw positioning beads, the plurality of screw positioning beads surround the outer tube fixing base and pass through the outer tube fixing base and the second outer tube, and the plurality of screw positioning beads abutting against the rotary portion.
US12104770B1
Provided is a downlight comprising: an optics housing configured to receive a source of light; a support for holding the optics housing in position; a vertical track configured for the support to move along in a vertical direction; an angled track attached to the vertical track and configured to move the support from a horizontal orientation to an angled orientation; and a frame with an aperture positioned below the support; wherein position of the optics housing is configured to change relative to the aperture in a vertical direction and a vertical axis.
US12104761B2
A vehicle lamp includes a light source configured to emit light, a liquid crystal element configured to variably modulate a polarization state of the light emitted from the light source, a condensing optical system configured to condense the light emitted from the light source toward the liquid crystal element, a polarization beam splitter configured to transmit light containing one of polarized components of the light condensed by the condensing optical system toward the liquid crystal element and configured to reflect light containing the other polarized component of the light condensed by the condensing optical system toward the light source, and a scattering and reflecting member disposed at a surrounding of the light source and configured to scatter and reflect the light reflected by the polarization beam splitter toward the condensing optical system.
US12104759B2
A representative embodiment of a lighting system includes a carrying bag having a first opening with a control panel cover; a mounting bracket arranged in the carrying bag; a power supply coupled to or arranged on the mounting bracket; a control panel arranged within the first opening and coupled to the mounting bracket; a first flexible light strip; a second flexible light strip; and a power cable coupleable within the carrying bag to the control panel, the first flexible light strip, and the second flexible light strip. The first and second flexible light strips are coupleable to the power cable to receive DC power from the control panel, and may be extended throughout a structure, such as a tent, using a plurality of hangers. In a representative embodiment, the first flexible light strip provides white light and the second flexible light strip provides blackout light.
US12104755B2
LED arrays comprise patterned reflective grids that enhance the contrast ratio between adjacent pixels or adjacent groups of pixels in the array. The pattern on the reflective grid may also improve adhesion between the reflective grid and one or more layers of material disposed on and attached to the reflective grid. The reflective grid may be formed, for example, as a reflective metal grid, a grid of dielectric reflectors, or a grid of distributed Bragg reflectors (DBRs). If formed as a metal grid, the reflective grid may provide electrical contact to one side of the LED diode junctions. This specification also discloses fabrication processes for such LED arrays.
US12104753B2
The present invention relates to a color tunable and/or color temperature tunable LED filament (20, 22, 24), said LED filament comprising an elongated carrier (220), said elongated carrier comprising a first major surface (222) and a second major surface (224) arranged opposite to said first major surface, a plurality of LEDs (210) arranged in at least one linear array on said first surface of said elongated carrier, wherein the plurality of LEDs includes LEDs of different colors and/or different color temperatures, a first elongated transparent or substantially transparent layer (230) covering the plurality of LEDs on the first major surface and also at least partly covering said first major surface, and a first elongated light scattering layer (240), arranged to at least partially cover said first transparent or substantially transparent layer.
US12104744B2
A turner apparatus, adapted for supportively disposed between two surfaces of two objects so as to allow the two objects rotating with respect to each other, includes a frame body and a rotor mechanism. The frame body includes a ring-shape turner frame and a ring-shape support turner, wherein the turner frame having a ring-shape rotor chamber formed therein and said support turner is rotatably mounted at an opening of the rotor chamber to enclose the rotor chamber. The rotor mechanism which is rotatably received in said rotor chamber includes a plurality of rotors and a ring-shape retainer unit configured to intervally retain the plurality rotors in a rotatable manner. The turner frame has a first rolling surface and the support turner has a second rolling surface, wherein the first and second rolling surfaces are positioned face to face to define a rolling track channel such that each of the plurality of rotors is capable of revolving along the rolling track channel.
US12104737B2
The invention relates to a line feed-through (1) for feeding a line (4) through a building component, comprising one or more sealing arrangements (2) for feeding the line (4) through, wherein the one or more sealing arrangements (2) have at least two sealing structures (51) lying opposite each other, wherein at least one first of the sealing structures (51) has an arrangement of elongate fins (53) adjacent to each other, the protruding ends of which lie against a second of the sealing structures (51) and thus seal the passage region.
US12104732B2
The disclosure relates to a plug connector and method for connecting pipes for liquid or gaseous media. The plug connector includes a connector body and a locking element. An indicator element is formed, which has an indicator surface, a first partial section and a second partial section, wherein the first partial section and the second partial section are flexibly coupled to one another by means of a spring section. The first partial section is connected to the locking element, and the indicator surface is formed on the second partial section, wherein the indicator element is formed such that, in a locking position of the locking element, the second partial section is deformed relative to the first partial section, so that the indicator surface is pushed into an indicator position.
US12104731B2
A pipe disassembly system for removing a pipe fitting from a pipe includes a fitting removal tool comprising a locking pliers with engagement members attached to the jaws of the locking pliers for engaging the pipe fitting. One of the engagement members engages a body of the pipe fitting, and another of the engagement members engages a release collar of the pipe fitting to move the release collar to disengage from the pipe.
US12104714B2
A valve actuator includes: a housing, a motor that is disposed in the housing and that includes a motor shaft, a drive gear coupled to the motor shaft, a transfer gear that engages with the drive gear and that is configured to, based on the drive gear rotating, be rotated according to a predetermined gear ratio, an output shaft disposed in the housing, an output gear that is coupled to the output shaft and that engages with the transfer gear, and a stopper that is disposed in the housing and that is configured to control a rotation radius of the output gear. The transfer gear comprises an inner part, an outer part disposed at an outside of the inner part, a first magnet disposed at the outer part, and a second magnet that is disposed at the inner part and that faces the first magnet.
US12104710B2
Valve assemblies are described that provide magnetic coupling between a valve actuator and a valve body housing the valve rotor and stator. A valve assembly embodiment, includes, but is not limited to, a valve body, the valve body including at least one magnet, and a rotor and a stator configured to define a plurality of fluid flow passageways; a valve actuator configured to drive the rotor via a drive shaft; and an actuator mount coupled to the valve actuator and configured to magnetically couple with the at least one magnet of the valve body to magnetically couple the valve body and the valve actuator.
US12104699B2
A representative seal system (such as a seal system for a turbopump of a rocket engine) automatically adjusts a balance ratio of a seal. The system can include a ring element encircling an axis. A front side of the ring element contacts a revolving surface to form a seal with the revolving surface. The front side can include a stepped surface having two or more steps. Each step includes a sealing surface configured to contact the revolving surface to form a sealing area that is different from a sealing area of each other sealing surface. Each step is positioned and configured to wear away during operation of the machine to expose an underlying surface to the revolving surface, to change the sealing area and the balance ratio of the seal. A representative method of operating a turbomachinery system includes changing the balance ratio of a seal while rotating a rotor.
US12104696B2
A waterproof click pad device includes a click pad, a frame and a waterproof unit. The frame surrounds the click pad and surrounds an axis passing through the click pad. The waterproof unit is transverse to the axis and is in sheet form. The waterproof unit includes a frame adhesive member surrounding the axis and adhered to the frame, a first non-adhesive member surrounding the axis, connected to an inner periphery of the frame adhesive member and spaced apart from and located above the frame, a second non-adhesive member surrounding the axis, connected to an inner periphery of the first non-adhesive member and spaced apart from and located above the click pad and the frame, and an plate adhesive member connected to an inner periphery of the second non-adhesive member and adhered to the click pad.
US12104695B2
An apparatus and methods are provided for a CVT primary clutch that provides enhanced adjustability and performance to off-road vehicle drivetrain. The clutch comprises a stationary sheave attached to a center post coupled to an output end of an engine crankshaft. A moveable sheave slides along the center post toward and away from the stationary sheave in response to engine RPM. A spider portion mounted onto the center post is coupled with the moveable sheave by multiple shift arms and ramps. The shift arms roll along the ramps to push the moveable sheave toward the stationary sheave in response to engine RPM. The weight of the shift arms and the angle of the ramps may be adjusted to affect the engine RPM at which the moveable sheave begins to move toward the stationary sheave. A face plate is fastened onto the moveable sheave for protecting internal components of the clutch.
US12104694B2
Methods and systems for transmission control are provided. In one example, a transmission system operating method includes maintaining a displacement set-point of a variable displacement hydraulic motor in a hydrostatic assembly within a working zone, where at least a portion of a boundary of the working zone is determined based on a kinematic constraint of the hydrostatic assembly. the transmission system includes the hydrostatic assembly that includes the variable displacement hydraulic motor that is hydraulically coupled in parallel with a variable displacement hydraulic pump and a gearbox mechanically coupled to the hydrostatic assembly and including one or more clutches.
US12104686B2
A harmonic deceleration module, a dynamic power device, an automatic mobile vehicle, a transfer apparatus, a dynamic power supply system, and an electric bicycle are provided. The harmonic deceleration module includes a connecting member, a flexible bearing, a first frame, a first circular spline, a second frame, and a second circular spline. When the connecting member is driven, the connecting member rotates around a central axis. The connecting member has a cam part, and the cam part and the flexible bearing jointly form a wave generator. The wave generator is configured to be driven by the connecting member to drive a flexspline to continually and flexibly deform, and the flexspline drives the second circular spline and the second frame connected to the second circular spline to rotate. The second frame has a hollow channel penetrating through the second frame along the central axis.
US12104683B2
Disclosed is a torque converter. A torque converter according to an embodiment of the present invention may include a front cover, an impeller assembly coupled to the front cover and configured to rotate together with the front cover, a turbine assembly disposed at a position facing the impeller assembly, a lock-up clutch including a piston configured to directly connect the front cover and the turbine assembly, and a torsional damper coupled to the lock-up clutch and configured to absorb impact and vibration applied in a rotation direction, in which a turbine shell provided in the turbine assembly may further include at least one damper connection part protruding in an axial direction toward the torsional damper and bent to be coupled to the torsional damper.
US12104678B2
Drive devices, in particular linear drives, spindle drives, and/or telescopic drives, for moveable vehicle components are provided. A housing assembly for a drive device is also provided. A connecting element for a drive device is also provided. A spring element for a drive device is also provided.
US12104677B2
A forward/backward movement device includes: a case; a guide member that is housed in the case and includes a shaft and a protrusion formed on an outer peripheral surface of the shaft; and a forward/backward movement member having a cylindrical shape. The forward/backward movement member includes a groove that is formed on an inner peripheral surface of the forward/backward movement member and moves forward and backward with respect to the case while rotating by being guided by the protrusion. The groove is a portion where the protrusion slides. Thereby the forward/backward movement device can be miniaturized while preventing the intrusion of water.
US12104672B2
An inflatable structure includes a top end cap, a bottom end cap, a bladder attached to the top and bottom end caps and configured to hold pressurized air therebetween, and a plurality of tethers disposed within the bladder, each tether in the plurality of tethers having a first end coupled to the top end cap and a second end coupled to the bottom end cap, wherein when the bladder is inflated, the bladder expands axially forcing the top end cap and the bottom end cap away from one another, the plurality of tethers adapted to restrict movement of the top end cap and the bottom end cap away from one another and limit axial expansion of the bladder, wherein, at least one of the plurality of tethers is elastic, and the inflatable structure is adapted to provide multiple support profiles that are capable of supporting compressive loading.
US12104670B2
An outer attachment member (111) includes a first end member (117), a second end member (118), and an intermediate member (116), in which the first end member (117) and the second end member (118) are respectively fitted into both end portions of the intermediate member (116) in the axial direction, a coupled portion (135) provided in any one of the vibration generating part and the vibration receiving part is disposed on one end surface of both end surfaces of the first mounting projecting portion (124) in the axial direction provided in the intermediate member (116), and a second mounting projecting portion (125) is disposed on the other end surface thereof, the first mounting projecting portion (124) and the second mounting projecting portion (125) are separately provided with insertion holes (111a) through which fixing bolts (136) for integrally fixing the first mounting projecting portion (124) and the second mounting projecting portion (125) and for coupling the first mounting projecting portion (124) to the coupled portion (135) are inserted, a first crimping portion (128) and a second crimping portion (129) for separately crimping the first end member (117) and the second end member (118) is formed at both end portions of the intermediate member (116) in the axial direction, and the circumferential length of the first crimping portion (128) is larger than the circumferential length of the second crimping portion (129).
US12104666B2
A brake caliper of a disc brake has a caliper body straddling a brake disc and having a thrust device housing accommodating a thrust device operatively connected to a translating screw nut. The translating screw nut is operatively connected to a worm. The worm is operatively connected to a gearbox and rotatably supported by a screw thrust bearing configured to apply for the worm an axial reaction. At least one part of the gearbox is rotatably supported by a gearbox thrust bearing configured to apply for the at least one part of the gearbox a radial reaction. The thrust bearing has at least one radially inner slewing ring and the gearbox has an epicyclic gear having a fixed gear or an internally toothed body cooperating with at least one planet gear rotatably supported about at least one planet gear pin connected to the at least one radially inner slewing ring to transmit action of the gearbox to the worm by the at least one radially inner slewing ring.
US12104663B2
An object of the invention is to provide a positive clutch that has a high rigidity and simple structure, and offers potential to allow easy adjustment of torque limit load, suppress friction loss and noise generation, realize a size reduction, and extend the service life. This positive clutch is configured to prohibit relative rotation of an outer and inner races by circumferentially holding each of a plurality of rollers between an outer race slope portion and an inner race slope portion. The clutch includes a torque limiter mechanism, which includes a piston member having a flat portion that forms the outer or inner race slope portion, and a resilient member that applies a constant load on the piston member. The piston member is slidably accommodated in a piston member accommodating hole formed in the outer race or the inner race.
US12104654B2
Disclosed is a system for measuring the wear condition due to friction in a clutch system, which is widely used in the automotive industry.
US12104643B2
A welded structural assembly and method, in one form, includes an upper substrate, a lower substrate adjacent the upper substrate, a fastener, and a sealing member. The fastener includes a shank portion, a first head portion, and a second head portion. The shank portion extends through the upper substrate and into the lower substrate. The shank is welded to the lower substrate. The first head portion has an outer periphery and an underside. The second head portion is frangibly coupled to the first head portion. The sealing member is disposed under the first head portion between the upper substrate and the first head portion. The sealing member contacts the underside and extends beyond the outer periphery such that the sealing member extends radially outward beyond all points of the first head portion.
US12104641B2
Retention washers include a washer body having a first side and a second side opposite the first side. The washer body has a perimeter having one or more lobes, and the retention washer further includes a multi-point star-shaped hole extending through the washer body from the first side to the second side. The retention washer is configured to maintain an installation torque of an installed nut when the retention washer is positioned such that the hole circumscribes the nut. Systems for retaining a propeller assembly on a shaft may include a nut installed on a bolt, and a retention washer positioned such that the hole of the retention washer circumscribes the nut, thereby limiting rotation of the nut with respect to the bolt and retaining the nut on the bolt. The system may include a circular array of nuts and bolts, each nut having a respective retention washer positioned thereon.
US12104636B2
A quick-release and quick-installation nut includes a nut body. The nut body includes a first threaded block and a second threaded block. An inner wall of the first threaded block and an inner wall of the second threaded block are formed with inner threaded surfaces for cooperating with an outer threaded surface of a screw rod. A right end of the first threaded block is detachably connected to a right end of the second threaded block. A left end of the first threaded block is hingedly or detachably connected to a left end of the second threaded block. The nut can realize quick disassembly and installation with the screw rod.
US12104635B2
A roof-mount antenna mounting structure includes a first threaded part, a second threaded part, a legged washer, a leg opening preventing part and a receiving part. The legged washer has a washer ring having a size smaller than the diameter of a mounting hole of a vehicle roof and a leg part extending from the washer ring and having a plurality of claws that can abut against the vehicle roof. The leg part has such elasticity that it closes once when the legged washer is inserted into the mounting hole of the vehicle roof from the washer ring side and recovers to substantially the original opening state after insertion. The leg opening preventing part has a horizontal part and a vertical part and prevents the leg part from opening at a predetermined angle or more when the claws abut against the vehicle roof.
US12104617B2
A blower mounting assembly of a heating, ventilation, and/or air conditioning (HVAC) system includes a bracket assembly including a base panel, a plurality of mounting flanges extending from the base panel, and an alignment flange extending from and transverse to the base panel. The blower mounting assembly includes a first mounting aperture extending through the base panel in a first direction and includes second mounting apertures extending through the plurality of mounting flanges in a second direction transverse to the first direction. The blower mounting assembly includes a bolt configured to extend through and slidably engage with an aperture of the alignment flange and a blower mounting skid such that the bolt limits movement of the blower mounting skid relative to the bracket assembly. The aperture of the alignment flange extends through the alignment flange in a third direction transverse to the first mounting aperture and the second mounting apertures.
US12104616B1
Disclosed is a handheld fan, including a main body, a housing cover and a fan blade. The main body includes a handheld area and a fan blade area longitudinally arranged, the main body is internally provided with a driving device, the driving device drives the fan blade to rotate, a sliding connecting structure is arranged between the main body and the housing cover, the housing cover leans against the sliding connecting structure and slides relative to the main body, and the housing cover has two working positions, one for covering the fan blade area and the other for exposing the fan blade area.
US12104611B2
The present disclosure relates to a fan system and a fan driving method. The fan system includes a first fan and a second fan, which are used to operate according to a first driving signal and a second driving signal, respectively, and to generate a first rotating speed signal and a second rotating speed signal. The first rotating signal has a first phase, and the second rotating signal has a second phase. The second fan is electrically connected to the first fan to receive the first rotating speed signal, and obtain a detected phase difference between the first phase and the second phase. The second fan is further configured to selectively increase or decrease the duty cycle of the second driving signal according to the detected phase difference, so that the second phase is adjusted to maintain a preset phase difference with the first phase.
US12104609B2
A fan includes a first blower and a second blower each having an impeller. The first blower includes a first motor and a first motor drive controller to control driving of the first motor and communicate with the second blower. The second blower includes a second motor and a second motor drive controller to control driving of the second motor and communicate with the first blower. The first motor drive controller controls the driving of the first motor based on a result of communication with the second blower.
US12104600B2
A device to assist the performance of a heart with at least one pump that is formed as a rotary pump and driven via a magneto coupling.
US12104591B2
A fluid pump including a fluid end body having a plurality of interconnected fluid paths, a plurality of valves located within the plurality of interconnected fluid paths and a plunger located within at least one of the plurality of interconnected fluid paths to push a first portion of the volume of fluid through a first section of the plurality of interconnected fluid paths and from a second fluid port during a push stroke to push a second portion of the volume of fluid through a second section of the plurality of interconnected fluid paths and from the second fluid port during a back stroke. Each of the plurality of valves is movable between an open position and a closed position to form the first section and the second section.
US12104589B2
A device for monitoring an electrical submersible pump having a motor includes an integrated temperature sensor and electrical feedthrough assembly having a probe body housing the temperature sensor, the electrical feedthrough assembly, and a high voltage insulator; an electronics assembly operably connected to the integrated temperature sensor and the electrical feedthrough assembly; and a pressure assembly operably connected to the electronics assembly.
US12104588B2
A low hysteresis piezo-electric pump using a piezo-electric element as an actuator to dispense a liquid may maintain accurate viscous liquid discharge characteristics by adjusting an applied voltage in response to changes in behavioral characteristics of a piezo-electric actuator depending on causes such as temperature change.
US12104585B2
A pressurization dehydrator comprising an air compressor and a controller connected to enable automatic operation of the dehydrator. The dehydrator is implemented as a freestanding, bench-top unit having a housing that encloses a baffle plate on which the compressor is mounted. The bottom panel of the housing is affixed to the plate using dampers inserted therebetween. The plate has legs protruding through the corresponding openings in the bottom panel for supporting the whole unit in the upright position on the bench top. Some or all of the legs may not have contact with edges of the openings. In operation, the legs provide an efficient mechanical pathway for transferring some vibrational energy of the plate to the bench top, thereby diverting said energy away from the housing. The circuit board of the controller is affixed to the housing, which beneficially reduces vibration levels transferred to the electronic components of the controller.
US12104580B2
A main bearing housing for a wind turbine comprising a bearing arrangement having a sump located in a floor region of the main bearing housing. The sump comprises a floor pan surrounded by a side wall and includes an overflow arrangement configured to permit fluid to spill from the sump. The overflow arrangement comprises a spill passage configured with a spill inlet at or near the floor pan of the sump and a spill outlet located in a position between the spill inlet and an upper edge of the sump side wall. An advantage of the invention is that since the spill passage is fed with oil from a position that is close to the bottom of the sump, debris and sediment at the bottom of the sump tends to be entrained with the flow of oil and so tends not to collect at the bottom of the sump. The lubrication system therefore is able to clean the oil more effectively because the debris and sediment is encouraged to circulate around the lubrication system.
US12104579B2
A canopy for a direct drive wind turbine is provided. The canopy includes an interface section configured for mechanically coupling the canopy to a generator, wherein the interface section includes at least one outlet configured to receive cooling fluid exhausted by the generator and eject the received cooling fluid. A wind turbine including such a canopy is also provided.
US12104574B2
A kinetic fluid energy to mechanical energy conversion system includes hubs that are rotatable with respect to a hub carrier and support one or more independently controlled articulating energy conversion plates (“ECP”) and a track orientation control mechanism (“TOCM”) for alternating the independent control of each ECP in response to operating conditions. Each ECP has opposed surfaces and leading and trailing edges and may have one or more lips projecting from one of the opposed surfaces, wherein the one or more lips comprise at least an inboard end lip extending transversely from an inboard end of the plate. Articulation of each ECP is controlled by a follower within a track that is rotatable with respect to the hub carrier, and service lines pass through a chase or bore passing through the hub carrier to bring power and/or control signals to the TOCM for effecting controlled, powered rotation of the track.
US12104572B2
A semi-submersible floating wind power generator includes a wind power generator set, a post device, a load carrying device and a mooring device. The wind power generator set is disposed at a first end of the post device. The load carrying device is disposed at a second end of the post device. The mooring device is disposed at the second end of the post device. The post device includes a main post and multiple auxiliary posts. The main post is disposed in parallel with the multiple auxiliary posts, and second ends of the multiple auxiliary posts are aligned such that the second ends of the multiple auxiliary posts form a first plane, and the second end of the main post is disposed at a position closer to the first end of the main post than the first plane.
US12104567B1
A self-contained hydroelectricity generating system to produce an amount of usable electrical energy has primary and secondary cisterns containing a motive fluid. A hydro-expeditor tower assembly includes a plurality of spiral hydro-expeditor towers each disposed in fluid communication with the primary cistern, a portion of the motive fluid flows from the primary cistern into and through each of the hydro-expeditor towers increasing the velocity thereof. A hydroelectric generator assembly has a plurality of hydroelectric generator units each disposed in fluid communication with a corresponding spiral hydro-expeditor tower, the motive fluid discharged from each of the spiral hydro-expeditor towers contacts the turbine of a corresponding hydroelectric generator unit resulting in generation of the amount of usable electrical energy. The motive fluid from the hydroelectric generator units is discharged into the secondary cistern and is then transferred to the primary cistern for reuse through the system.
US12104561B2
Method of temperature management of fuel injected in internal combustion engines (1) applicable to said system, which takes into account the measurement of the fuel flow to be injected and one or more dynamic data of the engine demand level (1) in an immediate current instant, providing accuracy in the transformation of electrical energy into heat by controlling the fuel heating temperature and, consequently, great precision in the reduction of pollutant gases, without deterioration of the vehicle's energy balance (battery).
US12104559B1
Embodiments of the present invention generally relate to a vapor retention device and methods of using a vapor retention device to manage propellant for upper stage space vehicles. The use of a vapor retention device, in combination with controlled acceleration, drives liquid propellant from a propellant supply line communicating with an upper stage main engine back into a propellant tank and establishes an insulating liquid/gas propellant interface that prevents the exchange of gaseous propellant across the interface.
US12104554B2
An aircraft propulsion assembly equipped with a thrust-reversing device which includes at least one lateral aperture, passing through the nacelle of the propulsion assembly, configured to be in an open state or a closed state, at least one inflatable barrier configured to be in a deflated state in which the barrier does not protrude into an annular duct channeling a flow of air and an inflated state in which the barrier, substantially rigid or semi-rigid, is deployed and extends across the annular duct to deflect at least a part of the flow of air toward the lateral aperture, and at least one supply system configured to supply the inflatable barrier with fluid. An aircraft is provided which includes at least one such propulsion assembly.
US12104549B2
A vehicle (1) is a hybrid vehicle including a traveling mode to travel only with the driving force of a drive motor (5). Vehicle (1) is mounted with an internal combustion engine (10) capable of being operated at an air-fuel ratio leaner than the theoretical air-fuel ratio. The operation of internal combustion engine (10) is controlled by a control unit (41). Control unit (41) is configured to determine whether to stop internal combustion engine (10) in an operation state, in consideration of the NOx adsorption ratio of a downstream-side exhaust purification catalyst (33) provided in an exhaust passage (31) of internal combustion engine (10).
US12104545B1
A method can include controlling, by at least one controller, an amount of hydrocarbons provided upstream of a diesel oxidation catalyst. The method can include determining, by the at least one controller, a first temperature of exhaust gas at an inlet of the diesel oxidation catalyst. The exhaust gas can be produced from combustion of fuel. The method can include determining, by the at least one controller, a second temperature of the exhaust gas at an outlet of the diesel oxidation catalyst. The method can include calculating, by the at least one controller, a lower heating value of the fuel based on the first temperature, the second temperature, the amount of hydrocarbons, and a flow rate of the exhaust gas. The method can include estimating, by the at least one controller, a percentage of biodiesel in the fuel based on the lower heating value.
US12104543B2
A hydrogen pressure maintenance system of a hydrogen fuel engine includes a hydrogen tank configured to store hydrogen, an injector configured to inject the hydrogen, a hydrogen internal combustion engine configured to operate using the hydrogen from the injector, a hydrogen pressure controller configured to supply the hydrogen to the injector by controlling a pressure of the hydrogen supplied from the hydrogen tank, a hydrogen pressure intensifier device configured to increase the pressure of the hydrogen and supply the hydrogen to the injector, a hydrogen pressure sensor configured to measure the pressure of the hydrogen and output a signal based on the measured pressure of the hydrogen, a hydrogen bypass valve configured to control the hydrogen to be supplied to the injector through the hydrogen pressure controller or to the injector through the hydrogen pressure intensifier device, and a controller configured to control the hydrogen bypass valve according to the signal from the hydrogen pressure sensor.
US12104539B2
A gas turbine engine defines an axial direction and a radial direction and comprises a turbomachine having an unducted primary fan, a core engine a combustor casing enclosing a combustor and defining an outer surface, a core cowl surrounding at least a portion of the core engine. The outer surface of the core cowl defines a peak cowl diameter (D) in the radial direction, and the outer surface of the combustor casing defines a maximum combustor casing diameter (d) along the radial direction. The core engine defines an overall core axial length (L) along the axial direction and an under-core cowl axial length (L1) along the axial direction. The gas turbine engine defines a core cowl diameter ratio (CDR) equal to the peak cowl diameter (D) divided by the maximum combustor casing diameter (d) and a core cowl length ratio (CLR) equal to the under-core cowl axial length (L1) divided by the overall core axial length (L). The CDR is between 2.7 and 3.5 and the CLR is between 0.25 and 0.50.
US12104534B2
A heat exchanger (100) for an aircraft engine includes a core (1) and radiating fins (2). The radiating fins are configured such that a ratio y/Y of a height y from a surface (10) of the core to a formation position of a connecting portion (23) to a total height Y of each of the radiating fins (2) from the surface of the core satisfies a relationship of 0.34
US12104524B2
A two-cylinder reciprocating engine includes a cylinder block; a first cylinder with a combustion chamber; a second cylinder with a combustion chamber; a crankshaft coupled to the first cylinder and the second cylinder with a crank angle of 270 degrees; a first exhaust port connected with the combustion chamber of the first cylinder; a second exhaust port connected with the combustion chamber of the second cylinder; a first header connected with the first exhaust port; a second header connected with the second exhaust port; and an exhaust converging section connected with the first header and the second header, wherein the first header, the second header, and the exhaust converging section are in the cylinder block.
US12104522B1
A marine engine system includes a marine engine, a turbocharger comprising a compressor, an air valve positioned in a flow path connecting the compressor and a mixing chamber to split flow between an intake air stream and a recovered air stream directed to a separation unit, an air operated compressor to generate a separator feed stream by increasing the pressure of the recovered air stream, the separation unit configured to concentrate nitrogen from the separator feed stream to generate a nitrogen-enriched air stream and a nitrogen-depleted air stream, a mixing chamber to combine the nitrogen-enriched air stream and the intake air stream to generate a nitrogen-enriched intake air stream, and a controller communicatively coupled to the air valve to direct the air valve to variably adjust the split between the intake air stream and the recovered air stream.
US12104519B2
A catalyst support for induction heating includes: a honeycomb structure including a pillar shaped honeycomb structure portion having: an outer peripheral wall; and a partition wall disposed on an inner side of the outer peripheral wall, the partition wall defining a plurality of cells, each of the cells extending from an end face on an inlet side to an end face on an outlet side in a gas flow direction to form a flow path; a catalyst supported onto an interior of the partition wall; and at least one magnetic body provided within the honeycomb structure, wherein the catalyst support has a region A where the catalyst is not supported, at least on the end face side of the catalyst support on the inlet side in the gas flow direction, and wherein the magnetic body is arranged at least in the region A in the gas flow direction.
US12104518B2
Method for emptying an SCR supply system, wherein the SCR supply system comprises a pump with a pump chamber and an actively controllable inlet valve and an actively controllable outlet valve, wherein an emptying process of the SCR supply system is detected and controlled as a function of the pressure curve in negative pressure phases and/or criteria determined in pressure release phases.
US12104515B2
A method for operating a burner, comprising supplying a controlled quantity of combustion air to the burner, supplying a controlled quantity of fuel to the burner, igniting the air-fuel mixture in the burner, determining a pressure pulsation value in the exhaust gas downstream of the burner and/or in an air path upstream of the burner, and adjusting the quantity of combustion air and/or the fuel depending on the pressure pulsation value. Further proposed are a computing unit and a computer program product for performing such a method.
US12104507B2
A plant for producing mechanical energy from a carrier fluid under cryogenic conditions, including a cryogenic tank configured for storing the carrier fluid under cryogenic conditions and a capacitive tank. The plant further includes a supply circuit, arranged as a connection between the cryogenic tank and the capacitive tank and comprising a pump configured to increase the pressure of the carrier fluid. The plant provides an engine body, configured for producing mechanical energy and including at least one work chamber having an inlet port, arranged in fluid communication with the capacitive tank, and an outlet port connected to a discharge circuit for the spent carrier fluid, and a recirculation circuit designed to convey a portion of the spent carrier fluid into the capacitive tank.
US12104504B2
A device for setting the pitch of blades for a turbine engine, including a control system acting on a linkage mechanism and including an actuator having two chambers; —a supply member coupled to a fluid transfer bearing for transferring a pressurised fluid from a main supply source in a fixed frame of reference to the chambers; —an auxiliary supply circuit which is arranged in a rotating frame of reference and is connected to the supply member and to the main supply source, the supply member being configured to: —in normal operation, allow fluid to pass from the main supply source to the chambers and to the auxiliary supply circuit, and—in the event of a break in the supply to the chambers from the main supply source, allow pressurised fluid to pass from the auxiliary supply circuit to the chambers.
US12104489B2
Geosteering can be used in a drilling operation to create a wellbore that is used to extract hydrocarbons from a defined zone within the subterranean formation. According to some aspects, generating paths for the wellbore may include using path-planning protocols and pure-pursuit protocols. The pure-pursuit protocol may be executed to output a plurality of candidate drilling paths. The output may also include control parameters for controlling the drill bit. A trajectory optimizer may determine a result of multi-objective functions for each candidate path. A cost function may represent a cost or loss associated with a candidate path. Additionally, the trajectory optimizer may perform an optimization protocol, such as Bayesian optimization, on the cost functions to determine which candidate path to select. The selected candidate path may correspond to new control parameters for controlling the drill bit to reach the target location.
US12104482B2
Current profile of water (e.g., ocean) around a riser connected to a wellhead may be measured and used to determine integrated current load on the riser at any given moment in time. The integrated current load may be used to estimate the wellhead fatigue damage rate at that moment in time. The estimated wellhead fatigue damage rate may be used to make operational decisions for the well.
US12104481B2
Processes for mitigating wellbore screen-out. The processes can automatically determine an onset of wellbore screen-out by analyzing corrected pressure data from the at least one pressure sensor, select at least one type of mitigation action based on the automatic determination of the onset of the wellbore screen-out, and mitigate the wellbore screen-out with the selected at least one type of mitigation action.
US12104479B2
A downhole solids separator having: a plurality of solids separation modules, a production tube disposed therein, one or more limited entry ports in the production tube, placed in each of the modules, an intake port in the lower half of each module opening into a wellbore annulus, the intake port below the limited entry port of the module, a closed chamber for collecting solids, isolated from the well bore, the closed chamber below modules, a solids conveying conduit from at least one module, opening into the closed chamber, an opening restricted to less than the size of the production tube in the conduit near the bottom of the module, an opening in the production tube in the closed chamber, where the production tube opening and conduit opening are configured to effect a drop fluid velocity into production tube to a level insufficient to carry solids into the production tube.
US12104474B2
An electric submersible pump (ESP), comprising: an intake that suctions fluids into the ESP, wherein the fluids include a mixture of gas, water, and oil; a discharge that discharges the fluids from the ESP; an acoustic intake transducer that determines the speed of sound in the fluids suctioned into the ESP at the intake; and a first acoustic discharge transducer that determines the speed of sound in the fluids discharged from the ESP, wherein the speed of sound of the fluid at both intake and discharge is used to calculate a gas volume fraction difference of the multiphase fluid mixture across the intake and discharge of the pump, and wherein the gas volume fraction difference is used as feedback to control the ESP.
US12104473B2
Provided is a gauge mandrel, a sensing system, and a well system. The gauge mandrel, in one aspect, includes a housing having a length (Lt), the housing having a main section and an upset section extending outward from the main section, and a primary fluid passageway located in the main section of the housing and extending along the length (Lt). In accordance with this aspect, the primary fluid passageway includes an uphole tubing coupling having an uphole tubing coupling centerline (CLTU) and a downhole tubing coupling having a downhole tubing coupling centerline (CLTD). In further accordance with this aspect, the uphole tubing coupling centerline (CLTU) and the downhole tubing coupling centerline (CLTD) are offset from one another by a distance (DT). The gauge mandrel may further include a gauge cavity located in the upset section of the housing and extending along at least a portion of the length (Lt).
US12104471B2
The present disclosure relates to a multi-plunger lift control device for increasing device durability and production efficiency by synchronizing and controlling operating states of a plurality of plunger lifts sharing some production lines. The multi-plunger lift control device according to the present disclosure includes a plunger lift synchronization setting unit configured to set an operation priority of the plurality of plunger lifts so that production stages of the plurality of plunger lifts do not collide, a stage monitoring unit for each plunger lift configured to monitor current production stages of the plurality of plunger lifts, and a plunger lift logic control unit configured to synchronize and control production operations of the plurality of plunger lifts based on the operation priority set by the plunger lift synchronization setting unit and stage monitoring information received from the stage monitoring unit for each plunger lift. The multi-plunger lift control device according to the present disclosure can increase device durability and production efficiency by synchronizing and controlling operating states of the plurality of plunger lifts in an environment that shares a production line for transporting oil and/or gas produced in a plurality of oil and/or gas wells, in which the plurality of plunger lifts are installed, to a remote storage.
US12104468B2
A method and apparatus for containing one or more shaped charges in a single plane, using a shaped charge housing containing a cluster of one or more shaped charges. The cluster contains with the apex ends facing each other, arrayed about the center axis of a gun body, and detonated from a single initiator located in the middle of the cluster of the one or more shaped charges. The shaped charge housing can be one of many shaped charge housings coupled together to perforate in a plurality of single planes.
US12104467B2
A system for use in a well includes a liner hanger including a mandrel, a cone mounted about the mandrel, the cone having tapered slips, a plurality of tapered slips slidably received in the tapered slots, each tapered slip of the plurality of tapered slips comprising a plurality of teeth, wherein each tapered slip of the plurality of tapered slips and the corresponding tapered slot includes a setting ramp, and a loading ramp separate from the setting ramp, and an actuator mounted about the mandrel to selectively shift the plurality of tapered slips between a radially contracted position and a radially expanded, set position.
US12104455B2
Provided is a float for use with a fluid flow control device, a fluid flow control device, a method for manufacturing a fluid flow control device, and a well system. The float, in one aspect, includes a ceramic base material having one or more cavities therein, the ceramic base material and the one or more cavities creating a net density for the float that is between a first density of a desired fluid and a second density of an undesired fluid, such that the float may control fluid flow through a flow control device when encountering the desired fluid or the undesired fluid.
US12104452B2
A sealing tool for sealing a tubing string at a predetermined location, the sealing tool having a prong assembly and a plug assembly, each of which includes a cavity configured to capture and retain debris, and the plug assembly including at least one equalization hole for fluid communication through the plug when unobstructed by the prong.
US12104449B1
A sealing system for fluidly sealing a portion of a wellbore including a housing, a rupture disc disposed within a housing inner bore, and a plug disposed within the housing inner bore. The rupture disc includes a base and a central portion, which extends across the housing inner bore to fluidly seal the housing inner bore in a sealed state. The plug fluidly seals the housing inner bore in the sealed state. The plug is disposed an axial distance from the rupture disc in the sealed state. In some embodiments, a sleeve is disposed within the housing inner bore. A central bore of the sleeve retains the plug in the sealed state. Upon a release event, the plug is released from the sleeve. The release of the plug triggers a rupture event, which fractures the rupture disc. The plug clears rupture disc fragments.
US12104446B2
A system used to dislodge and, if necessary, sever a tubular string that is stuck within a cased wellbore. The system utilizes a jar, a plurality of plugs, and a tubular severance device. Components of the system are carried to their respective desired downhole positions by downward fluid flow within the wellbore. The jar is configured to jar the string in an effort to dislodge the string from its stuck point. The plugs are configured to fill open perforations formed in the casing in order to direct the fluid toward the stuck point and away from the perforations. If the string cannot be freed by the jar, the tubular severance device is deployed within the string above the stuck point. Detonation of the device severs the string above the stuck point.
US12104445B2
A device for handling inner tubes that allows receiving said tubes from the drilling rig to make it available for the extraction of the sample, which reduces operator intervention, reducing risks and facilitates handling of the inner tube, optimizing work times and improves the efficiency of the operation.
US12104431B2
A composite aluminum alloy profile and a preparation method therefor. The composite aluminum alloy profile includes an outer decorative profile, a polyurethane elastomer structural adhesive, and an inner frame profile. The inner frame profile is an integral component of alkali-free glass fibers and polyurethane resin formed by one-time extrusion, and the inner frame profile comprises one upper closed cavity and one lower closed cavity for a total of two cavities and a reinforced heat insulation rib plate between the upper closed cavity and the lower closed cavity; and the outer decorative profile is connected to the inner frame profile through the polyurethane elastomer structural adhesive. The preparation method includes: preparing glass fibers and polyurethane materials of components A and B into a glass fiber resin reinforced profile by a compound strip-threading and injection machine, adhering the inner frame profile to the outer decorative profile through the polyurethane elastomer structural adhesive, and rolling the same. The profile has the features of heat and sound insulation and is easy to produce.
US12104427B2
A vehicle control device includes: an acquisition section configured to acquire a determination result as to whether a predetermined communication terminal is in a vehicle cabin interior area, and acquire another determination result as to whether or not the communication terminal is in a vehicle cabin exterior area; and a control section configured to, based on the determination results of the acquisition section, initiate a closing operation of a vehicle door in cases in which a determination is made that the communication terminal is in the vehicle cabin exterior area, and stop the closing operation in cases in which a determination is made that the communication terminal is in the vehicle cabin interior area after the closing operation was initiated.
US12104422B1
A vehicle includes an interior space and a door assemble having a door, a first door actuator mechanism, and a second door actuator mechanism. The first door actuator mechanism is disposed proximate a top of the door and the second door actuator mechanism is disposed proximate a bottom of the door. Both the first door actuator mechanism and the second door actuator mechanism transition the door between a closed position and an open position. The first door actuator mechanism includes a first channel, as well as a first carriage assembly having a first carriage and a second carriage that traverse the first channel. The second door actuator mechanism includes a second channel, as well as a second carriage assembly having a third carriage and a fourth carriage that traverse the second channel.
US12104419B2
A door assembly of a vehicle includes a first door panel movable at least partially across a door opening from a first side of the door opening toward a second side of the door opening, a second door panel spaced apart from the first door panel and movable at least partially across the door opening from the first side toward the second side. A first magnetic element is located at the first door panel and a second magnetic element is located at the second door panel. The second magnetic element is interactive with the first magnetic element such that moving of the first door across the door opening causes movement of the second door panel across the door opening.
US12104418B1
A carriage arrangement has a driving bar arrangement and a carriage. The carriage has a roller part with a plurality of running rollers. The roller part is displaceable transversely to the longitudinal extent of the carriage with respect to a wing part which can be mounted immovably on a wing. A driving bar of the driving bar arrangement has a control projection which engages in a control slot which is formed obliquely to the longitudinal extent of the carriage. To guide the roller part on the wing part is provided a first roller bearing guide which extends transversely to the longitudinal extent of the carriage. The first roller bearing guide has rolling bodies which are supported both on the wing and roller part so forces acting in the direction of the longitudinal extent of the carriage are channelled away from the wing part into the roller part with low friction.
US12104412B2
An anti-theft device for use in deterring theft of an audio/video device mounted to a bracket.
US12104407B1
A novel multifunctional door lock comprises a main body and a locking device, wherein the locking device is arranged inside the main body; the main body is provided with an input module which can generate an input instruction and transmit the input instruction to the locking device; the locking device comprises a circuit board and a locking mechanism, wherein the circuit board can generate a control signal according to the input instruction; the locking mechanism can respond to the input instructions or control signal and move between a locked position and an unlocked position; the circuit board is provided with a limit switch, and the locking mechanism comprises a limit member and a motor, wherein the limit member is operated to contact the limit switch in the locked position and the unlocked position, and when the limit member contacts the limit switch, the motor stops working.
US12104401B2
A comprehensive dry flood proofing solution to mitigate inland flooding risk for existing or new homes and small buildings. This family of integrated systems of the present disclosure each leverage the building's structure to offer practical and affordable flood protection for those buildings constructed with slab-on-grade foundations. This family of solutions includes pluggable weep holes, entry door/garage door/window protectors, wall appurtenances and penetration protection, house wrap and debris barrier system for wall protection and sewage anti-backflow protection. The components of the solution are reusable, easy to deploy, and do not detract from the building's permanent appearance. Furthermore, the solution allows for ingress/egress during flood events and can protect the building from standing water incursion up to 24″ above slab elevation. The pre-flood design and preparation, the deployment immediately preceding flooding event and the subsequent removal after flooding event has passed is provided by both contractors and homeowners.
US12104383B2
Fastening support devices and systems for hanging half round gutter include engagement portions for internal engagement with the front and rear of a gutter. A rear face of the device may be configured to provide support to a curved rear gutter wall, such as the rear wall of a half round gutter. The rear face may include a substantially vertical upper portion adjacent a curved lower portion. A support body of the device may include a substantially planar lower surface, two or more internal supports projecting upwardly from the lower surface, and one or more thin walls interconnecting the internal supports and the lower surface. These features provide structural rigidity to the device and support the gutter to resist bending under heavy loads. Additional features of the device provide ease of installation and improved aesthetics of the overall gutter system.
US12104379B2
A microbial growth and dust retardant roofing shingle comprising a substrate and a pore filling composition applied on the surface of the substrate is disclosed. The pore filling composition comprises a silane or acrylic composition. A method of protecting a substrate from microbial growth and soiling using the pore filling composition of the present disclosure is also disclosed.
US12104375B2
Concrete form assemblies having insulating foam panels are created using locking members embedded within the insulating foam panels and ties each having a pair of side rails for coupling two insulating foam panels together at a predetermined distance apart, the locking members and side rails being adapted so that either side rail can be coupled to either locking member and either of the ends of the rails and locking members can be toward the top or bottom of the assembly when the rails are coupled to the locking members.
US12104369B2
A joist pocket assembly and a method for manufacturing a joist pocket assembly is described herein. In some embodiments, the joist pocket assembly can include a frame configured to be mounted within a cut-out in a wall. In some embodiments, the joist pocket assembly can include a base of the frame, where the base can be configured to receive a structural member of a joist. In some embodiments, the joist pocket assembly can include a flange extending from a perimeter of the frame, where the flange can cover a gap between the frame and the wall. In some embodiments, the joist pocket assembly can include a first stud coupled to the base of the frame, where the first stud can secure the frame to the wall. In some embodiments, the joist pocket assembly can be placed in a concrete tilt wall or concrete precast wall.
US12104350B2
A speed determination method, an electronic device and a computer storage medium are provided, relates to the field of computer technology, and may be applied to the field of artificial intelligence, especially the field of automated driving. The method includes: determining an expected speed direction of a controlled point of a first controlled target according to an actual location of the controlled point of the first controlled target and a preset trajectory of the controlled point of the first controlled target, wherein the first controlled target is one of a plurality of controlled targets having a kinematic relationship; and determining a target speed of at least one controlled target of the plurality of controlled targets according to the expected speed direction of the controlled point of the first controlled target and the kinematic relationship.
US12104348B1
A compact utility loader compact utility loader comprising a frame, a first track and a second track positioned on either side of the frame, and a pair of loader arms. The loader arms are configured to couple with an attachment via a hitch plate and a hitch pin. The compact utility loader is configured such that as the loader arms are raised and lowered, the hitch pin follows a path approximately defined by a curve f(x)=4.641e0.34x. The value “x” represents a horizontal direction and the function f(x) represents a vertical direction.
US12104333B1
In a system and method for processing recycled asphalt pavement or aggregate for asphalt production, a heating and drying unit includes a trough positioned within an external housing. A hollow auger is positioned in the trough, such that the recycled asphalt pavement or aggregate received at a first end of the trough is transported to a second end of the trough via rotation of the hollow auger. The trough is constructed of two or more sections to allow for thermal expansion, with only one end of each of the two or more sections connected to the external housing. Heated air is introduced into the trough via an inlet and exits the trough via an outlet. Heated oil is pumped through the hollow auger, entering via an inlet and exiting via an outlet. The heated air and heated oil raise the temperature of the recycled asphalt pavement or aggregate.
US12104329B2
A dumping system for accurate and precise dumping of ballast rock, sand, and gravel (aggregate) to all areas of a railroad track (a track) is described. The dumping system includes a dump box, a dump gate having at least two delivery gates, an operating system, and a control system. The at least two delivery gates of the dump gate each include a top portion and a bottom portion. The bottom portion of each of the at least two delivery gates is adjusted in real time by the operating system via the control system to accurately and precisely deliver the aggregate to all areas of the track. The dump box may further be rotated horizontally and vertically to aid with the delivery of aggregate to the track in an accurate manner.
US12104317B2
Disclosed is an artificial leather base material including: a non-woven fabric that is an entangle body of fibers (A) and fibers (B); and an elastic polymer applied inside the non-woven fabric, wherein the fibers (A) are crimped fibers that are formed from two types of resins with intrinsic viscosities different from each other, and that are filaments of 0.6 dtex or more, and the fibers (B) are ultrafine fibers of less than 0.6 dtex.
US12104303B2
Provided is a spunbond nonwoven fabric for use in filters which has excellent rigidity, folding endurance, and uniformity of a weight per unit area, and which also has excellent dust collection performance and mechanical properties. The spunbond nonwoven fabric for use in filters includes a thermoplastic continuous filament and has a partially fused portion. The nonwoven fabric has a stiffness of 2 mN or more and 100 mN or less, a weight per unit area-CV value of 5% or less, and a weight per unit area of 150 g/m2 or more and 300 g/m2 or less.
US12104290B2
A device for joining textile yarns for joining two ends of two textile yarns by decomposition and subsequent re-composition of the twists of the fibers of the ends in order to make up a single yarn, including two counter-rotating components, each provided with at least one joining element and disposed opposite each other defining a joining zone defined by the area between the respective joining elements facing each other and substantially aligned along a work axis.
US12104289B2
The invention relates to a card with a device for recognizing interfering particles, in particular trash parts, neps, shell neps, thick spots and/or foreign parts in a carded fibre web. The device comprises at least one sensor stationarily disposed in a web guiding element, which is disposed at the transition from a doffer to a stripper roll. The at least one sensor detects the fibre web on the doffer.
US12104287B2
The present disclosure provides a unique method of making a fine fiber that is formed from a composition including an epoxy and a polymer component including a 4-vinyl pyridine-containing polymer. The present disclosure also provides a unique method of coating a fine fiber with a composition including an epoxy and a polymer component including a 4-vinyl pyridine-containing polymer. The present disclosure further provides fine fibers wherein the entirety of the fiber is formed from a composition including an epoxy and a polymer component including a 4-vinyl pyridine-containing polymer. Also provided are filter media and filter substrates including the fine fibers.
US12104276B2
Provided is a Ga2O3-based single crystal substrate capable of achieving a high processing yield. A Ga2O3-based single crystal substrate having a crack density of less than 0.05 cracks/cm can be obtained that has as a principal surface thereof a surface rotated 10-150° from the (100) plane, when a rotation direction from the (100) plane to the (001) plane via the (101) plane is defined as positive, having the [010] axis as the rotation axis.
US12104275B2
Cooling jacket devices of ingot puller apparatus used to prepare silicon ingots by the Czochralski method are disclosed. The cooling jacket device may include an inner shell that forms an inner chamber through which the ingot is pulled. The cooling jacket includes an outer shell. A plurality of tubes are disposed between the inner shell and outer shell. Each tube forms a cooling fluid passageway through which cooling fluid passes.
US12104272B2
Methods for treating a substrate are disclosed. The substrate is deoxidized and then immersed in an electrodepositable pretreatment composition comprising a lanthanide series element and/or a Group IIIB metal, an oxidizing agent, and a metal-complexing agent to deposit a coating from the electrodepositable pretreatment composition onto a surface of the substrate. Optionally, the electrodepositable pretreatment composition may comprise a surfactant. A coating from a spontaneously depositable pretreatment composition comprising a Group IIIB and/or Group IVB metal may be deposited on the substrate surface prior to electrodepositing a coating from the electrodepositable pretreatment composition. Following electrodeposition of the electrodepositable pretreatment composition, the substrate optionally may be contacted with a sealing composition comprising phosphate and a Group IIIB and/or IVB metal. Substrates treated according to the methods also are disclosed.
US12104258B2
Presented are lithium-metal electrodes for electrochemical devices, systems and methods for manufacturing lithium-metal foils, and vehicle battery packs containing battery cells with lithium-metal anodes. A method of melt spinning lithium-metal foils includes melting lithium (Li) metal stock in an actively heated vessel to form molten Li metal. Using pressurized gas, the molten Li metal is ejected through a slotted nozzle at the base of the vessel. The ejected molten Li metal is directly impinged onto an actively cooled and spinning quench wheel or a carrier sheet that is fed across a support roller underneath the vessel. The molten Li metal is cooled and solidified on the spinning wheel/carrier sheet to form a Li-metal foil. The carrier sheet may be a polymeric carrier film or a copper current collector foil. An optional protective film may be applied onto an exposed surface of the Li-metal foil opposite the carrier sheet.
US12104253B2
An apparatus for controlling precursor flow. The apparatus may include a processor; and a memory unit coupled to the processor, including a flux control routine. The flux control routine may be operative on the processor to monitor the precursor flow and may include a flux calculation processor to determine a precursor flux value based upon a change in detected signal intensity received from a cell of a gas delivery system to deliver a precursor.
US12104251B2
A substrate processing method includes: forming a coating film so as to cover a front surface of the substrate, the substrate having a recess formed in the front surface and in which an organic film is formed; heating the substrate to turn the organic film into a gas, removing the gas from an interior of the recess by causing the gas to pass through the coating film, and forming in the substrate a sealed space surrounded by the recess and the coating film; supplying a processing gas into the sealed space; and irradiating the substrate with a light to activate the processing gas in the sealed space, causing a reaction product gas to pass through the coating film, and removing the reaction product gas, wherein the reaction product gas is generated by a reaction between a residue of the organic film and the activated processing gas in the sealed space.
US12104236B2
The present invention provides a shape-memory alloy including a Au—Cu—Al alloy having 20 at % or more and 40 at % or less Cu and 15 at % or more and 30 at % or less Al, with the balance being Au and inevitable impurities. The shape-memory alloy has a Vickers hardness of 360 Hv or less. The Au—Cu—Al alloy of the present invention is an alloy capable of developing both biocompatibility and a shape-memory effect, and further capable of achieving artifactlessness in a magnetic environment. The Au—Cu—Al alloy can be produced by heat-treating a clad material formed of a combination of a hollow material made of a Au—Cu alloy and a core material made of metallic Al at 500° C. or more and 700° C. or less.
US12104233B2
A high chromium and silicon-rich corrosion resistant steel is disclosed, which comprises, in weight percent: 22-30% Cr, 2-10% Si, and the balance Fe and incidental impurities, of which a content amount of Cr and Si is less than 37%. Experimental data reveal that, samples of the high chromium and silicon-rich corrosion resistant steel all have a pitting potential greater than 0.8 V and a hardness in a range between HV170 and HV500 in the as-homogenized condition. As a result, experimental data have proved that the high chromium and silicon-rich corrosion resistant steel of the present invention can replace conventional stainless steels having poor pitting resistance like type 304 and type 316 L, and then be adopted for the applications of components and/or structural parts requiring high corrosion resistance.
US12104232B2
A method is used to fabricate a hot-rolled steel having a yield strength greater than 550 MPa and an impact toughness of at least 27 J at a temperature of −40° F. In one embodiment, the yield strength is greater than 690 MPa. The method includes melting steel to create melted steel. The melted steel is poured into a mold. The metal steel is continuously cast into a steel slab. The steel slab is heated to maintain a predetermined temperature. The steel slab is rolled to reduce the thickness to a predetermined thickness to create a hot-rolled steel sheet.
US12104229B1
A cemented carbide is composed of a first hard phase, a second hard phase, and a binder phase, wherein the first hard phase is composed of tungsten carbide particles and having a particle diameter D10 of 0.30 μm to 0.60 μm, a particle diameter D90 of 0.90 μm to 1.40 μm, the second hard phase contains at least one first compound selected from the group consisting of TiNbC, TiNbN, and TiNbCN, and having an average particle diameter of 0.03 μm to 0.50 μm, a content of the binder phase in the cemented carbide is 8.0 vol % to 16.0 vol %, an average particle diameter of the binder phase is 0.15 μm to 0.45, a particle diameter D95 of the binder phase is 1.5 μm or less, and a degree of dispersion of the binder phase is 0.15 to 0.25.
US12104225B2
Provided are a method and molten salt system for recovering rare earth elements from NdFeB waste and use of ferric oxide as a raw material of a manganese-zinc ferrite. The molten salt system comprising the following components in percentage by weight: 40% of K3AlF6 or Na3AlF6, 40% of KBe2F5, and 20% of KAlF4. By adopting the three-component molten salt system of the present invention, recovery rates of rare earth elements extracted from NdFeB waste all can reach 98% or above. By adopting the three-component molten salt system, extraction temperature is 100-400° C. lower than that of all current similar halogenation methods, and extraction time is fold shorted to 1-3 h. The reduction of the extraction temperature and the shortening of the melting time greatly reduce the energy consumption of extracting rare earth elements from NdFeB waste, and the economic benefits are remarkable.
US12104221B2
An induction heating method for a metal strip is provided to heat a continuously conveyed metal strip using an induction heating device disposed at a first position on a pass line. The induction heating method includes a step of detecting a displacement from a predetermined datum line of a width direction center line of the metal strip at a second position on the pass line that is different from the first position, a step of computing an estimated displacement of the width direction center line of the metal strip at the first position by temporal and spatial extrapolation of the displacement based on a function expressing a time series of changes in the displacement, and a step of controlling a relative positional relationship between the induction heating device and the metal strip in a width direction of the metal strip based on the estimated displacement.
US12104220B2
Welding base metal for recycling railway wheel and method for recycling railway wheel using the same
The present disclosure relates to a welding base metal for recycling a railway wheel and a method for recycling a railway wheel using the same, which can overlay-weld a railway wheel with a welding base metal suitable for overlay-welding a railway wheel through a heat treatment, form a surface hardened layer, and strengthen the metal structure of the railway wheel, in order to recycle the railway wheel. The welding base metal for recycling a railway wheel may be used as a surface hardened layer of a railway wheel because the welding base metal has high hardness while exhibiting a similar property to the railway wheel. Furthermore, the welding base metal can change the metal structure of the recycled railway wheel, and thus delay the initial wear time of the recycled railway wheel. The method for recycling a railway wheel may overlay-weld the damaged railway wheel to its original size, form a surface hardened layer, and change the metal structure of the railway wheel by changing the composition of the welding base metal and performing the pre-heat treatment and the post heat treatment, thereby minimizing the occurrence of damage to the recycled railway wheel.
US12104206B2
The present disclosure provides methods and kits for direct sequencing of nucleic acid targets. Such methods can be used to determine if one or more nucleic acid targets are present in a sample.
US12104204B2
The present invention provides a use of a high-temperature-resistant Cas protein, and a system and reagent kit for detecting a target nucleic acid molecule; specifically, the present invention provides a reaction system used for detecting a target nucleic acid molecule, said reaction system comprising: a guide RNA, Cas12b (formerly known as C2c1), and a nucleic acid probe; after a reaction is completed, detection of the nucleic acid is performed. In addition, by means of combining with nucleic acid amplification techniques (such as LAMP and the like), the sensitivity of the described detection method can be significantly improved. The detection system provided by the present invention can be used for rapidly detecting pathogenic microorganisms, gene mutations, single nucleotide polymorphisms, specific target DNA, and the like, and for quantifying nucleic acid samples.
US12104201B2
The present invention relates to the field of protein engineering, molecular imaging, and molecular diagnostics. More particularly, provided herein are novel synthetic aptamers produced using the Gyrl-like family of proteins as a scaffold. Methods of obtaining and using the synthetic mutein aptamers are also provided.
US12104200B2
The present disclosure provides methods and systems for processing nucleic acid molecules from one or more cells. A cell may be comprised in a cell bead. Processing may comprise uniquely identifying nucleic acid molecules. Nucleic acid molecules may be identified by barcoding. Barcoding may be combinatorial barcoding. Combinatorial barcoding may allow for generation of a large number of barcodes, thereby uniquely identifying nucleic acids from a large number of single cells. Combinatorial barcoding may be performed in successive operations. Successive operations may be performed in partitions.
US12104187B2
Disclosed herein is one or more subtilisin variant useful for cleaning applications and in methods of cleaning. One embodiment is directed to one or more subtilisin variant, including one or more Bacillus sp. subtilisin polypeptide variant, and one or more cleaning composition comprising one or more such variant.
US12104185B2
Modified PH20 hyaluronidase polypeptides, including modified polypeptides that exhibit increased stability and/or increased activity, are provided. Also provided are compositions and formulations and uses thereof.
US12104178B2
The present invention is related to compositions and methods for the regulated and controlled expression of proteins.
US12104169B2
Compositions and methods are described herein for chemically inducing cells to change their differentiation state and become neuronal cells.
US12104168B2
The present invention relates to a cell culture medium for preparing liver, gastric, pancreatic, colon or intestinal adult stem cell isolated from adult tissue, as well as for maintaining such stem cell in the undifferentiated state. The cell culture medium comprises a base medium; an ABL and SRC dual kinase inhibitor/an ABL kinase inhibitor and a SRC kinase inhibitor; a mitogenic factor; a WNT signalling pathway activator; a stimulator for NAD+ and NADP+ generation; and a cAMP/PKA pathway activator. In a particular embodiment, the ABL and SRC dual kinase inhibitor is Dasatinib; the mitogenic factor is EGF; the WNT signalling pathway activator is R-Spondin 1; the stimulator for NAD+ and NADP+ generation is nicotinamide; and the cAMP/PKA pathway activator is cholera endotoxin.
US12104163B2
The disclosure provides nucleic acids (comprising AAV expression cassettes), AAV vectors, and compositions for use in methods for treating and/or delaying the onset of diseases associated with mutations in the mecp2 gene, such as Rett Syndrome. Also, provided herein are methods for treating and/or delaying the onset of brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF)-associated diseases.
US12104156B2
Disclosed herein are polynucleic acid molecules, pharmaceutical compositions, and methods for treating Facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy.
US12104148B1
Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to apparatuses and methods for a pulsing system which can be configured to provide pressure pulses to a fluid communication tube to/from a bioreactor (for example). Such a system may comprise one or more of, and preferably a plurality of a pulsing motor, a compression plate, one or more fluid communications tubes comprising a biomedia fluid tube configured to direct biomedia fluid into and out of one or more bioreactors, and/or an intra-luminal fluid tube configured to direct intra-luminal fluid through a mandrel tube provided in each bioreactor, and one and/or another of a cam, gearing, and/or actuator configured to repetitively moving the compression plate so as to repetitively compress and release at least a portion of a respective intra-luminal fluid tube for a respective bioreactor to effect a temporary pressure increase (distension or strain) in a respective mandrel-tube according to the predetermined time period.
US12104140B2
The present disclosure relates to a polymerizable surfactant with reducibility and a preparation method thereof. The acid anhydride is reacted with a long-chain fatty alcohol to obtain an intermediate of an anhydride monoester, and then the obtained intermediate is reacted with the hydrochloride of dimethylaminohalogenated alkane, and a polymerizable surfactant with reducibility is obtained by post-processing. The polymerizable surfactant can not only play a role as a reactive emulsifier and copolymerize with monomers to obtain a soap-free emulsion, but also form a redox initiation system with peroxide, and conduct redox emulsion polymerization at room temperature. The soap-free emulsion synthesized by the polymerizable surfactant synthesized can greatly reduce the energy consumption in production, and can carry out one-step emulsion polymerization at normal temperature or low temperature to obtain an environment-friendly emulsion with a branched structure, thereby obtaining coatings with excellent water resistance, weather resistance, and impact resistance.
US12104137B2
The present invention provides an engine oil composition including 70 to 95 percent by weight of a base oil and 0.01 to 15 percent by weight of a dispersant comb polymer, based on the overall weight of the engine oil composition. The dispersant comb polymer consists of 13.7% by weight of a macromonomer, which is an ester of methacrylic acid and a hydroxylated hydrogenated polybutadiene with Mn of 4750 g/mol; 51.5% by weight of n-butyl methacrylate; 17.3% by weight of LMA; 11.2% by weight of styrene; 0.2% by weight of methyl methacrylate; and 6.10% by weight of N,N-dimethylaminoethyl methacrylate. The modified dispersant inhibitor package contains 30 wt % or less of succinimide type dispersant based on the overall weight of the modified dispersant inhibitor additive package, and the engine oil composition has an SAE viscosity grade of 0W-X, wherein X is 30 or less.
US12104135B2
Provided is a lubricant composition including a bicyclic liquid crystal of formula (1), tricyclic liquid crystal compounds of formula (2), and formula (3). The composition is suitable for use in a clean environment, under a high vacuum, under high temperature and a bearing. R1 and R2 are the same or different from each other, and each is —OCH2CH2CH(R′)CH2CH2OR. R11 and R21 are the same or different from each other, and each is —OR. R12, R13, R22 and R23 are the same or different from each other, and each is hydrogen or a group —OR. R31 and R41 are the same or different from each other, and each is —OCH2CH2CH(R′)CH2CH2OR. R32, R33, R42, and R43 are the same or different from each other, and each is hydrogen or —OCH2CH2CH(R′)CH2CH2OR. R is a linear or branched CnH2n+1, 1≤n≤20, and R′ is methyl or ethyl.
US12104128B2
An apparatus to simulate biocide performance in crude oil pipeline conditions is disclosed. The apparatus includes: a reactor to simulate a two-phase crude oil pipeline which includes a crude oil phase above a water phase. The reactor has an agitator to control a flow of the water phase in the reactor in response to a motor that drives an agitation rate of the agitator. A crude oil inlet supplies crude oil to the reactor for the crude oil phase. A water inlet supplies water to the reactor for the water phase. A control circuit is configured by code to control a proportion of the water to the crude oil supplied to the reactor and to control the motor to drive a desired agitation rate of the agitator. A biocide inlet supplies biocide to the reactor. A water sample outlet enables sampling of the water phase of the reactor.
US12104127B2
A method for producing a low-viscosity high-aromatic non-carcinogenic petroleum-based process oil which can be used as a plasticizer oil or an extender oil in the manufacture of synthetic rubber and tyres is described. The oil is obtained from by-product fractions of secondary petrochemical processes by fractional distillation, wherein the used by-product fractions of secondary petrochemical processes are products of catalytic cracking, or products of catalytic reforming, or aromatic extracts, or mixtures thereof, which have an initial boiling point of no less than 200° C. and above and a final boiling point of no less than 360° C. at atmospheric pressure, and contain no less than 85% of aromatic constituents and no more than 10.0 mg/kg of the sum of the following polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons: benz[a]anthracene; chrysene; benzo[b]fluoranthene; benzo[i]fluoranthene; benzo[k]fluoranthene; benzo[e]pyrene; benzo[a]pyrene; and dibenzo[a,h]anthracene.
US12104120B2
Disclosed herein is a method and system for converting biomass to biofuel, comprising a reaction apparatus including: a reaction tank configured to hold a process fluid; at least one mechanical rotating device comprising: a submergible chamber configured to operate within process, the submergible chamber having a first section including a first rotatable member and configured to receive biomass feedstock; a second section including a second rotatable member and configured to process biomass feedstock; and a third section including a third rotatable member and configured to treat the processed biomass feedstock effective to convert the processed biomass feedstock; a shaft in operable communication with each of the first, second, and third rotatable members for rotating said rotatable members about an axis; and a drive source for driving the shaft about said axis. Also disclosed herein are kits and methods for using the disclosed system to produce biofuel.
US12104115B2
The present application provides a composite material and a method for producing the same. The present application can provide a composite material which comprises a metal foam and a polymer component, and has other excellent physical properties such as impact resistance, processability and insulation properties while having excellent thermal conductivity.
US12104109B2
A liquid-crystal (LC) material having negative dielectric anisotropy and the use thereof for optical, electro-optical and electronic purposes, such as for example in LC displays, in particular energy saving displays based on the ECB, IPS or FFS effect, where the liquid crystal medium contains one or more compounds of formula I and one or more compounds compounds of formulae IIA, IIB, IIC and IID
US12104097B2
The present invention relates to a hot-melt adhesive composition comprising at least one polyester polyol based on Betulin and at least one NCO-terminated compound as well as a method for the production of a laminated article using the inventive hot-melt adhesive composition.
US12104095B2
The present invention relates to specially formulated adhesives and methods for preparing such adhesives. The present invention also relates to composites and materials formed from such adhesives. More specifically, the present invention is concerned with specially formulated adhesives comprising phenolic resins.
US12104092B2
An adhesive composition having excellent adhesiveness to a cycloolefin resin or the like. The adhesive composition of the present invention includes a polymer having a repeating unit derived from a polymerizable compound represented by formula (I): Y—N(Ar)(R) Formula (I), in which Ar represents an unsubstituted or substituted C6 to C14 aryl group or an unsubstituted or substituted C6 to C10 aryl C1 to C3 alkyl group; R represents an unsubstituted or substituted C1 to C6 alkyl group, an unsubstituted or substituted C3 to C6 cycloalkyl group, an unsubstituted or substituted C6 to C14 aryl group, or an unsubstituted or substituted C6 to C10 aryl C1 to C3 alkyl group; and Y represents a polymerizable functional group. In Formula (I), a substituent on Ar and a substituent on R can bond to form a divalent organic group.
US12104091B2
Undesirable materials that are frequently discarded from recycling desirable polymer-containing materials may be processed and used in the production of soft surfaces to produce soft surfaces with improved properties.
US12104090B2
A method of making an adhesive for an ice protection assembly includes mixing ferrous nanoparticles into the adhesive. Removal of the adhesive for ice protection assembly inspection or repair includes heating the ferrous nanoparticles in the adhesive to soften the adhesive and allow for easy removal or repositioning of the ice protection assembly.
US12104089B2
The present invention relates to a water-soluble pre-reacted binder composition, a method of its manufacture, a use of said pre-reacted binder composition, a method of manufacturing a collection of matter bound by a polymeric binder, a binder solution or dispersion comprising said pre-reacted binder composition, as well as products comprising the pre-reacted binder composition in a cured state.
US12104081B2
The present invention relates to an antimicrobial coating composition having antiviral activity against coronavirus, the composition comprising: an adhesive having adhesiveness to a surface coated therewith; and a coronavirus antiviral material which is to be attached to the surface by the adhesiveness of the adhesive and exhibits antiviral activity against coronavirus.
US12104069B2
The present invention provides an epidermal penetration type ink composition comprising: a fluorescent colorant containing at least one selected from the group consisting of indocyanine green (ICG), cyanine, phthalocyanine, oxazine, rhodamine, and a mixture thereof; a binder resin containing at least one of polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) and polyvinylbutyral (PVB); and a solvent containing at least one of ethanol and isopropanol.
US12104055B2
The invention relates to a polyamide molding composition with good weathering resistance containing or preferably consisting of the following components: 85 to 99.85% by weight of a component A, where component A consists of polyamide A1 or of a mixture of the polyamides A1 and A2, where A1 is at least one amorphous or microcrystalline polyamide having more than 60 mol % of monomers having exclusively aliphatic structural units, based on the total amount of monomers, and A2 is at least one acyclic aliphatic polyamide, and where the sum of components A1 and A2 gives 100% by weight of component A; 0.05 to 2.0% by weight of at least one colorant B; 0.10 to 3.0% by weight of at least one stabilizer C; 0 to 10% by weight of additives D, other than A, B and C; the proportions by weight of components A to D summing to 100% by weight, wherein the polyamide molding composition comprises neither carbon black nor nigrosine, the color lightness L*, determined according to DIN EN ISO 11664-4:2020 in the CIELAB color space on a plate of the dimension 60×60×2 mm, being at most 32, and the polyamides A1 having a transparency of at least 88% and a haze of at most 5%, in each case determined according to ASTM-D1003-21 on a plate of the dimension 60×60×2 mm.
US12104044B2
A fiber-reinforced thermoplastic resin filament for a 3D printer is formed by impregnating a thermoplastic resin into a plurality of continuous reinforcing fibers, wherein: an average value S of a roundness parameter s of a cross section is 60% to 100%, the average value S being evaluated by (i) taking a photograph of the cross section perpendicular to the axial direction of the filament, (ii) drawing an inscribed circle and a circumscribed circle of the filament in a cross-sectional image and determining the diameter length of each, (iii) calculating the roundness parameter s defined by equation (1), and (iv) repeating (i)-(iii) at a plurality of locations on the filament and calculating the average value S of the roundness parameter s; and the coefficient of variation of the diameter length of the circumscribed circle is 0% to 10%.
US12104043B2
A protective film that includes at least one of a transparent polyolefin resin layer and a surface protection layer, and that has excellent weather resistance and a low level of white turbidity, which is a factor that impairs design properties; and a sheet using the protective film. The protective film comprises at least a transparent polyolefin resin layer, wherein the transparent polyolefin resin layer contains a first hydroxyphenyltriazine-based ultraviolet absorber (UVA-A) having a structure represented by the general formula below. In the general formula, R1-R3 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, a methyl group, a phenyl group, or an alkoxy group, and at least two of R1-R3 are an alkoxy group having 8-18 carbon atoms, R4 and R5 each independently represent a hydroxyl group, a methyl group, or a hydrogen atom, and R6-R8 each independently represent a methyl group or a hydrogen atom.
US12104038B2
The subject invention is based upon the unexpected discovery that the use of a very specific combination of hydrophobating silanes and sulfur crosslinkable silanes can be used to attain outstanding performance characteristics in silica reinforced rubber formulations. More specifically, these rubber formulations provide a highly desirable combination of both improved abrasion characteristics and reduced hysteresis without compromising other important rubber characteristics. The present invention more specifically discloses a sulfur cured rubber formulation which is the reaction product of (1) at least one rubbery polymer, (2) sulfur, (3) silica, (4) 2 phf to 12 phf of a hydrophobating silane, and (5) 0.5 phf to 3 phf of a crosslinkable silane. The weight ratio of the hydrophobating silane to the crosslinkable silane will typically be within the range of about 2:1 to about 20:1.
US12104029B1
A preparation method of a high-barrier antibacterial flame-retardant food packaging film solves problems that an existing food packaging film is non-degradable, poor in preservation effect, and inflammable. The preparation method includes: performing blending reaction on chitosan quaternary ammonium salt and phytic acid to generate a polyelectrolyte complex; and adding the polyelectrolyte complex into a polyvinyl alcohol solution, heating the polyvinyl alcohol solution added with the polyelectrolyte complex to obtain a film-forming solution, pouring the film-forming solution into a mold, leveling and drying the film-forming solution to obtain the high-barrier antibacterial flame-retardant food packaging film. The food packaging film has water vapor permeability in 1.82-2.58×10−8 g·s−1·m−1·Pa−1, oxygen permeability in 1.63-12.31 cm3·mm−2·Pa−1·day−1, and a value of limiting oxygen index (LOI) in 28.10%-33.33%. The food packaging film performs an instant self-extinguishing behavior after ignition; and can inhibit Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli when used in packaging.
US12104028B2
The present disclosure provides an ionic gel film preparation method, a chemical sensor and preparation method thereof, relating to the field of sensor technology. The preparation method of ionic gel film includes: blending a vinyl-free ionic liquid with a vinyl-containing ionic liquid and a specified additive to obtain a homogenous solution, taking a predetermined amount of the homogenous solution and dropping it onto a first substrate equipped with interdigital electrodes, flattening the homogenous solution on the first substrate using a second substrate, curing the flattened homogenous solution on the first substrate using ultraviolet light of a preset wavelength, and curing until the vinyl-containing ionic liquid polymerizes in situ to form an ionic gel film. The preparation method of ionic gel film, chemical sensor, and preparation method thereof of the present disclosure have the advantages of good device consistency, high conductivity, and good sensing performance when using the ionic gel film.
US12104025B2
Provided is a biaxially oriented polypropylene film that has high stiffness, has excellent heat resistance at a high temperature of 150° C., easily maintains a bag shape when being made into a packaging bag, and has less pitch shift during printing or fewer wrinkles in a sealed portion when being heat-sealed. A biaxially oriented polypropylene film, wherein a maximum elongation of the biaxially oriented polypropylene film at 150° ° C. or lower measured by a thermomechanical analyzer (TMA) is not larger than 1.5 mm in a longitudinal direction and not larger than 0.1 mm in a width direction, and a heat shrinkage rate of the biaxially oriented polypropylene film at 150° C. is not higher than 10% in the longitudinal direction and not higher than 30% in the width direction.
US12104013B2
The present application relates to a process for preparing polyesters comprising reacting a dicarboxylic acid with butanediol in the presence of a catalyst, wherein in the process an aluminosilicate is present, as well as the use of aluminosilicates in such a process.
US12104012B2
A polymer is made by polymerization of CBDA-4 monomers with a glycerol linker through a condensation reaction. The resulting polymer is thermally cleavable having a plurality of CBDA-4 monomers linked with the glycerol linkers, making it recyclable when heated and degraded. The resulting intermediate material can be hydrolyzed back to initial starting material for synthesizing CBDA-4 monomers.
US12104001B2
The present invention relates to a process for producing of solid particulate olefin polymerisation catalyst or catalyst carrier comprising forming a solution of the catalyst or a catalyst carrier in a solvent, subjecting the solution into an atomization by spraying the solution via a capillary vibrating spray nozzle with a capillary orifice having a diameter of 5 to 100 μm generating a laminar jet of liquid, which disintegrates into liquid droplets entering into the spray-dryer, transforming the droplets with aid of a gas to solid particulate catalyst or carrier in the spray-dryer and recovering the solid particulate olefin polymerisation catalyst or carrier having particle size distribution defined by a volumetric SPAN of 0.7 or less. The invention further relates to the catalyst produced by the methods, and use thereof in olefin polymerisation process.
US12104000B2
The present disclosure provides a photopolymerizable composition. The photopolymerizable composition includes at least one polypropylene oxide component and an initiator, plus optionally a urethane component, a multifunctional reactive diluent, and/or an inhibitor. The present disclosure also provides an article including the reaction product of the photopolymerizable composition. Typically, the article exhibits an elongation at break of 30% or greater. Further, the present disclosure provides a method of making an article. The method includes (i) providing a photopolymerizable composition and (ii) selectively curing the photopolymerizable composition to form an article. The method optionally also includes (iii) curing unpolymerized polypropylene oxide component, urethane component and/or multifunctional reactive diluent remaining after step (ii). Further, methods are provided, including receiving, by a manufacturing device having one or more processors, a digital object comprising data specifying an article; and generating, with the manufacturing device by an additive manufacturing process, the article based on the digital object. A system is also provided, including a display that displays a 3D model of an article; and one or more processors that, in response to the 3D model selected by a user, cause a 3D printer to create a physical object of an article.
US12103996B2
Element tags based on novel metal-polymer conjugates are provided for elemental analysis of analytes, including ICP-MS. A polymer backbone is functionalized to irreversibly bind metals that are selected prior to use by the user. The polymer is further functionalized to attach a linker which allows for attachment to antibodies or other affinity reagents. The polymer format allows attachment of many copies of a given isotope, which linearly improves sensitivity. The metal-polymer conjugate tags enable multiplexed assay in two formats: bulk assay, where the average biomarker distribution in the sample is diagnostic, and single cell format to distinguish a rare (for example a diseased) cell in a complex sample (for example, blood).
US12103992B2
A polymer material is provided that can be used to produce an intraocular lens having a high refractive index and low adhesion on a lens surface and suppressing the occurrence of glistening and sub-surface nano glistening. Further, an intraocular lens with the properties mentioned above is provided. The polymer material can preferably be used to produce an intraocular lens. The polymer material is formed by polymerizing a liquid monomer mixture containing 11 to 30% by mass of a macromonomer (A) represented by the following formula (I) and at least a (meth)acrylate monomer (B) with an aryl group. [In the formula, four n respectively and individually representing 1 or 2, a, b, c, and d being respectively and individually integers of 4 or more, and four Z being respectively and individually substituent groups containing a (meth)acryloyl group.]
US12103983B2
Disclosed are a novel compound having a higher angiogenic effect than that of a known peptide-based angiogenic agent, and an angiogenic agent including the novel compound. The compound is represented by the following formula [1]: Cyclic(Cys-O2Oc-SVV(F/Y)GLRG-Cys)-NH2 (wherein the number of oxyethylene units, represented by O2Oc, is within the range of 2 to 6), the following formula [II]: Cyclic(O2Oc-SVV(F/Y)GLRQ)-NH2 [II] (wherein the number of oxyethylene units, represented by O2Oc, is within the range of 2 to 6), or the following formula [III]: O2Oc-SVV(F/Y)GLR-NH2 [III] (wherein the number of oxyethylene units, represented by O2Oc, is within the range of 2 to 6).
US12103978B2
This document provides methods and materials for treating a mammal having HER2-expressing cancers. For example, antibody drug conjugates containing an anti-HER2 antibody and at least one molecule of an anti-cancer drug are provided, as well as methods of administering such antibody drug conjugates to a mammal (e.g., a human) having a HER2-expressing cancer to treat the mammal.
US12103969B2
Disclosed herein is a novel monoclonal antibody exhibiting binding affinity to Siglec-3 receptor. According to the embodiment, the monoclonal antibody is capable of reversing HBV-induced immunosuppression. Accordingly, also disclosed herein are the uses thereof in the treatment and/or prophylaxis of hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection.
US12103967B2
The present invention relates to bispecific anti-CCL2 antibodies binding to two different epitopes on human CCL2, pharmaceutical compositions thereof, their manufacture, and use as medicaments for the treatment of cancers, inflammatory, autoimmune and ophthalmologic diseases.
US12103966B2
Isolated or recombinant EphA5 or GRP78 targeting antibodies are provided. In some cases, antibodies of the embodiments can be used for the detection, diagnosis and/or therapeutic treatment of human diseases, such as cancer. A method of rapidly identifying antibodies or antibody fragments for the treatment of cancer using a combination of in vitro and in vivo methodologies is also provided.
US12103961B2
Compositions for increasing half-life of a therapeutic agent in livestock animals and methods of use
Provided are compositions for increasing the half-life of a polypeptide or polypeptides in a livestock animal and methods of their use. The compositions involve variant IgG Fc regions.
US12103958B2
The invention provides LFA3 polypeptide molecules, e.g., variant LFA3 fusion polypeptide molecules. The invention includes uses, and associated methods of using the LFA3 polypeptide molecules.
US12103948B2
Provided is a separating agent with an improved dynamic binding capacity (DBC) to a target substance. The separating agent includes a carrier and a protein, wherein the protein is a given protein, and a surface of the carrier and added lysine residues in the protein are bound by chemical bonds.
US12103947B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a novel method having high efficiency and versatility for a peptide thioester and peptide. The present invention provides a method for producing a peptide thioester, comprising the steps of: (1) providing a peptide thioester having a CGC triplet at the C-terminal; (2) causing a transfer between an SH group of the C-terminal cysteine and a carbonyl group of the glycine in the CGC triplet to obtain an R-X-CG-thioester; and (3) causing, in the R-X-CG-thioester, a transfer between the SH group of the cysteine and a carbonyl group of X, and a transfer between an amino group of the cysteine and a thiol group of the glycine to obtain a peptide thioester, and a method for producing a peptide using the peptide thioester produced by this method.
US12103946B2
Steroid compounds are disclosed that have a formula represented by the following: (I) and wherein R1, R2, R3a, R3b, R4a, R4b, R5, R6a, R6b, R7, R8, and n are as described herein. The compounds may be prepared as pharmaceutical compositions, and may be used for promoting differentiation of T regulatory (Treg) lymphocytes, and for the prevention and treatment of a variety of conditions in mammals including humans, including by way of non-limiting example, inflammatory conditions, autoimmune disorders, and graft-versus-host disease.
US12103939B2
A gold(III) complex of formula (I) or formula (II) wherein R1 and R2 are each independently a hydrogen, an optionally substituted alkyl, an optionally substituted cycloalkyl, an optionally substituted arylalkyl, or an optionally substituted aryl; R3 and R4 are each independently a hydrogen, an optionally substituted alkyl, an optionally substituted cycloalkyl, an optionally substituted arylalkyl, an optionally substituted aryl, an optionally substituted heterocyclyl, an optionally substituted alkoxy, a hydroxyl, a halo, a nitro, a cyano, a N-monosubstituted amino group, or a N,N-disubstituted amino group; and X is Cl, Br, or I. A pharmaceutical composition containing the gold(III) complex of formula (I) or (II), and a method of treating cancer are included.
US12103935B2
The present invention primarily relates to compounds of formula (I) and compositions comprising one, two, three or more compound(s) of formula (I) or consisting of two, three or more compound(s) of formula (I). The invention further relates to methods for producing a compound of formula (I) or a composition as defined herein, the use of a compound of formula (I) as defined herein as a fragrance substance, the use of a composition as defined herein as a fragrance substance mixture and the use of a compound of formula (I) or a composition as defined herein for imparting, modifying and/or enhancing one or more olfactory notes selected from the group consisting of the notes ambergris, woody and animalic. Moreover, the present invention relates to fragrance substance compositions and perfumed products as defined herein, methods for producing a perfumed product, methods for perfuming a product and methods for perfuming hair, skin, textile fibres, surfaces and/or ambient air.
US12103927B2
A ligand of Formula (A): or a carboxylate salt thereof; wherein Y1, Y2 and Y3 each independently represents —COOH or a picolinate of Formula (i): wherein each R1 independently represents a chromophore group; L1, L2 and L3 each independently represents a single bond or a linker; and X1, X2 and X3 each independently represents a hydrogen atom, a coupling function or a bio-vectorizing group. Also, a process for manufacturing the ligand and to a process for manufacturing a chelate by complexation by the ligand of a rare-earth cation, preferably a lanthanide cation. Further, a use of the ligand and/or the chelate in biological imaging and/or photoluminescence imaging.
US12103925B2
The present application provides a crystalline form of tolebrutinib, an amorphous form, and a method of preparation thereof and a use thereof, and the crystalline form of tolebrutinib provided in the present application has at least one of the following advantages: good stability, low moisture attraction, uniform particle size distribution, solubility meeting the requirements for medicinal use, stable storage, avoiding phase transformation of the drug in the process of development and in storage, and a reliable method for the preparation thereof, which has a great development value. The amorphous form of tolebrutinib provided in this application, while possessing better solubility than that of tolebrutinib in the crystalline state, still possesses good stability of placement and acceptable hygroscopicity, and has high medicinal value.
US12103919B2
The present disclosure relates to compounds of formula (I) and pharmaceutical compositions and their use in reducing Widely Interspaced Zinc Finger Motifs (WIZ) expression levels, or inducing fetal hemoglobin (HbF) expression, and in the treatment of inherited blood disorders (e.g., hemoglobinopathies, e.g., beta-hemoglobinopathies), such as sickle cell disease and beta-thalassemia.
US12103910B1
Novel organoselenium selective ligands are presented and designed to determine metal ions in a sample. These ligands are used as complexing agents in a dispersive liquid-liquid microextraction procedure of copper and zinc ions. The procedure has a shortened extraction time, minimal organic solvent types, and lower amounts of solvents, as well as easy operation and high enrichment efficiency.
US12103905B2
Process for the preparation of urea granules comprising the steps of obtaining an aqueous urea solution from one or more synthesis and recovery steps wherein ammonia and carbon dioxide are reacted together, subjecting the aqueous urea solution to an evaporation step wherein water is removed to obtain a urea melt (1), processing and treating said urea melt in a granulation step (7) and optionally in a cooling section (10) to obtain solid urea granules (14); the process further comprises a scrubbing step (3) of granulation offgas and an atmospheric evaporation step (32) to recover a urea solution (2) and a water-saturated air stream (18): the water-saturated air stream is fed back to the scrubbing section (3) without condensation, and the recovered urea solution is conveyed to the granulation step (7).
US12103904B2
Disclosed are compounds of formulae: and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein the variables, R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R11, R12, R13, R14, R15, R16, R17, n, and m are defined herein. These compounds are useful for treating Gram-negative bacteria infections. Also disclosed are methods of making these compounds.
US12103902B2
Provided herein are compounds and pharmaceutical compositions comprising said compounds that are useful for treating diseases, such as cancers. Specific cancers include those that are mediated by YAP/TAZ or those that are modulated by the interaction between YAP/TAZ and TEAD.
US12103901B2
The invention relates to a method for producing a composition containing at least one metal amino acid compound, in which method—a basic compound of a divalent metal is first reacted together with an alpha amino acid in a molar relationship of one to at least two in water during heating of up to 60° C. to 100° C.,—a reaction equilibrium is awaited,—the reaction solution is then mixed with a water-soluble salt of the same divalent metal at a quantity such that the molar total quantity of the divalent metal from the basic compound of the metal and the metal salt does not exceed the molar quantity of the alpha amino acid,—the metal salt is allowed to completely dissolve,—the reaction solution is then dried thereby obtaining a solid composition.
US12103898B2
The present invention relates to the field of organic synthesis and more specifically it concerns a process for preparing compound of formula (I) catalyzed by a nickel complex. The compound of formula (II) is also part of the invention.
US12103897B2
The present invention describes a processes, systems, and catalysts for the conversion of carbon dioxide and water and electricity into low carbon or zero carbon high quality fuels and chemicals. In one aspect, the present invention provides an integrated process for the conversion of a feed stream comprising carbon dioxide to a product stream comprising hydrocarbons between 5 and 24 carbon atoms in length.
US12103896B2
The present disclosure concerns fertilizer particles comprising calcium nitrate and potassium nitrate. It is found that fertilizer particles comprising 43 to 47% w/w calcium nitrate and 46 to 54% w/w potassium nitrate can be produced by melt granulation. Due to undercooling problems, such particles were not expected to be suitable for industrial production by melt granulation. However, the present disclosure provides a composition which forms a low viscosity melt with short solidification time. This was successfully achieved by reducing the water content of a fertilizer melt comprising 43 to 47% w/w calcium nitrate and 46 to 54% w/w potassium nitrate to less than 3% w/w of the melt.
US12103887B1
Foamed glass beads can be made from glass, a hydrated foaming agent, a hydrated binding agent, a sealing agent, a fluxing agent, and a solvent. The hydrated binding agent can hold the glass and the hydrated foaming agent in solution. The glass can be derived from glass cullet that is ground into powder. The glass powder, the hydrated foaming agent, the hydrated binding agent, the sealing agent, the fluxing agent, and the solvent can be mixed together to create a preform material that is pelletized to make preform pellets. The preform pellets can be dried and then heated to a predetermined temperature. The heating process can create the final, foamed glass beads.
US12103866B2
Systems for removing one or more contaminants from water are provided that can include a hydrate formation chamber assembly; a contaminated water diffusion assembly within the hydrate formation chamber assembly; a space between a wall of the hydrate formation chamber assembly and the diffusion assembly; and a guest compound conduit configured to provide a guest compound within the space and form a hydrate comprising water and the guest compound. Methods for removing one or more contaminants from water are provided that can include providing a contaminated water mixture and one or more guest compounds; forming a hydrate complex comprising water and the one or more guest compounds; and separating the water from the guest compounds to provide water with less contaminant. Mixtures are also provided that can include a liquid component comprising water and at least one contaminant, and a solid component comprising a hydrate complex. One embodiment of the system provides methods for production of excess electric power as a byproduct of the desalination process.
US12103864B2
The present invention describes a water distribution system 1 comprising a water supply, a heating source 100, at least one temperature sensor, a flow path for water with a user outflow UO, and a control unit for operation of the water distribution system 1, said temperature sensor being connected to the control unit, wherein the control unit also is connected to at least one presence sensor PS arranged for the detection of presence of a human or animal body in physical proximity to the user outflow UO and/or in an outflow direction area from the user outflow UO and wherein the control unit is arranged to drive a hot water pasteurization procedure of at least a portion of the flow path and out from the user outflow UO based on a response or an indication of no presence of a human or animal body in physical proximity to the user outflow UO and/or in an outflow direction area from the user outflow UO.
US12103854B2
A method for fabricating nanodiamond particles in a nanodiamond fabrication reactor, which method entails: a) forming a composite of a plurality of diamond monolayers interspersed with a plurality of non-monolayer dihydrobenzvalene (DHB), one over the other, by reacting kinetically energized carbyne radicals with a supported layer of DHB, thus sealing off any subtended, unreacted DHB from further reaction with the kinetically energized carbyne radicals. b) subjecting the diamond monolayers to an anvil having a nanomachined strike face, with sufficient force to fracture the diamond monolayers, to thereby produce nanodiamond having a shape in the X-Y plane matching that of the nanomachined strike face and a Z-axis dimension (thickness) which is that of a diamond monolayer.
US12103853B2
A polycrystalline element includes a table formed of polycrystalline diamond. The table includes a first surface; a second surface spaced apart from the first surface; and at least one side extending between the first surface and the second surface. The table also includes a plurality of extensions also formed of polycrystalline diamond, wherein at least one extension of the plurality of extensions extends away from at least one of the first surface and the at least one side. A radial line extends radially outward from a center axis of the first surface intersects each of a long axis of a subset of a plurality of extensions. Optionally, the polycrystalline diamond of at least one extension of the plurality of extensions is contiguous with the polycrystalline diamond of the table. The polycrystalline element may be used in downhole tools for boring and well drilling, machine tools, and bearings.
US12103852B2
A method for the manufacture of graphene oxide from Kish graphite including the pretreatment of kish graphite and the oxidation of pre-treated kish graphite into graphene oxide, the graphene oxide obtained with at least 45% by weight of oxygen functional groups and the use of the graphene oxide.
US12103851B2
Graphene based sensor technology is described. Certain aspects relate to graphene containing ink formulations suitable for fabricating sensor electrodes via inkjet printing methods and to sensor electrodes produced from such ink formulations. Certain further aspects relate to processes for fabricating functionalized graphene materials for use in such ink formulations. Further still, certain aspects relate to sensors comprising graphene sensor electrodes.
US12103842B2
Devices, systems, and methods for thermally regulating and dispensing beverages are described herein. More particularly, in one aspect, jackets for thermally regulating a beverage container are described. Such a jacket can comprise an interior temperature control layer defining an interior space for receiving the beverage container, and an exterior fabric layer disposed over the interior temperature control layer. The interior temperature control layer comprises a first phase change material (PCM) having a first phase transition temperature corresponding to a desired service temperature of a beverage contained in the beverage container.
US12103837B2
This invention relates to a gas tank handling attachment for a truck mounted forklift truck (TMFL) comprising a frame, a pair of clamping arms pivotably mounted on the frame, and a pair of pivoting rams mounted on the frame, operable to pivot the clamping arms to and from a stowed configuration and an operating configuration. The frame comprises a pair of spaced apart uprights bridged by a bracing cross-member, and there is provided, mounted on the frame, means to releasably engage a fork carriage. One of the clamping arms is mounted on one upright and the other clamping arm is mounted on the other upright. In the stowed configuration, the clamping arms are substantially parallel to and extend upwardly from the uprights, and in the operating configuration the clamping arms are substantially orthogonal to and project forwardly from the uprights. An operator can operate the attachment to engage/disengage a gas tank from inside the driver's station of the TMFL.
US12103832B2
A method and apparatus for moving objects between locations using a moving apparatus coupled to a lifting device, such as a forklift. The moving apparatus is engageable with the lifting device when seated on a surface and is secured to the lifting device by a retaining assembly when the lifting device lifts the moving apparatus off the surface. The moving device includes a connector assembly which is used to retain or secure an object, article, or piece of equipment to the moving apparatus. The connector assembly may be any suitable hitch-type apparatus such as a standard ball hitch or a gooseneck hitch. In other embodiments, the connector assembly may include a platform which is rotatably mounted to a body of the moving apparatus. The platform defines a platform channel into which a portion of the object, article, or piece of equipment is received.
US12103829B2
A chain inlet/outlet, from which a load chain on a load side is hauled in or paid out, has a first guide groove having a first longitudinal groove and a first lateral groove. The chain inlet/outlet also has a second guide groove that is provided on a deeper side of a body part than the first guide groove is and has a second longitudinal groove and a second lateral groove. The first guide groove has narrowed parts that determine, when each link of the load chain is pulled in, into which of the first longitudinal groove and the first lateral groove the link is introduced, and expanded groove parts having a width larger than the groove width of the narrowed parts and provided on the outer side, farther away from the center of the chain inlet/outlet than the narrowed parts.
US12103822B2
A braking mechanism includes a wedge selectably engageable with a guide rail, and a frictional surface defined on the wedge configured for selective engagement with the guide rail in an overspeed condition. The frictional surface includes a friction coating of polycrystalline blocky diamond material. An elevator system includes an elevator car, a guide rail along which the elevator car travels, and a braking mechanism located at the elevator car and selectably engageable with the guide rail to slow or stop travel of the elevator car along the guide rail. The braking mechanism includes a wedge having a frictional surface configured for selective engagement with the guide rail in an overspeed condition. The frictional surface includes a friction coating of polycrystalline blocky diamond material.
US12103821B2
The present disclosure relates to an elevator having a function of removing dust adhered to an object aboard, including: a car which provides a boarding space, and in which a pair of air holes disposed in a diagonal direction each other at a same height of an inner space are formed; and a pair of fan modules that generates whirlwind rotating in the inner space of the car by ejecting air traveling from one of the pair of air hoes in a direction away from a center of the inner space of the car and ejecting air traveling from the other of the pair of air hoes in a direction away from the center of the inner space of the car, in which dust adhered to the object aboard inside the car is separated from the object aboard by the whirlwind generated inside the car.
US12103816B2
An elevator data communication system is configured to communicate between a plurality of elevator systems and a datacenter remotely located from the plurality of elevator systems. The elevator data communication system includes a software-based cloud communication platform and a server. The software-based cloud communication platform is configured to receive and send communications to the plurality of elevator systems. The server is remotely located from the plurality of elevator systems and is configured to send and receive the communications between the datacenter and the software-based cloud communication platform. The server includes a plurality of software-based simulated modems each assigned to a respective one of the plurality of elevator systems.
