US11461710B2
A network-based work assignment platform is provided. Employers and workers are registered on the platform. A registered employer posts a temporary job on the platform. The platform matches a registered worker to the temporary job. The platform facilitates, coordinates, and monitors performance of the temporary job by the registered worker and processes payment to the registered worker for performance of the temporary job on behalf of the registered employer.
US11461706B2
According to some embodiments, an analytics computing environment data store may contain a set of electronic data records, each electronic data record being associated with a predictive analytic algorithm and including an algorithm identifier and a set of algorithm characteristic values. An analytics environment computer may receive an adjustment from a user associated with an enterprise, the adjustment changing at least one of the set of algorithm characteristic values for a predictive analytic algorithm. Deployment of the predictive analytic algorithm may then be initiated in an enterprise operations workflow and at least one result may be generated. The deployed predictive analytic algorithm may then monitor the result and generate an alert signal when the result exceeds a boundary condition.
US11461705B2
Provided are methods, systems, devices, and tangible non-transitory computer readable media for providing data including vehicle map service data. The disclosed technology can perform operations including receiving vehicle map service data from client systems. The vehicle map service data can include information associated with a geographic area or sensor observations of a vehicle. Two or more portions of the vehicle map service data to which a client system is subscribed can be determined. Fused data based on the two or more portions of the vehicle map service data to which the client system is subscribed can be generated. Furthermore, the client system can be provided with access to the fused data. Access to the fused data can include authorization to send or receive portions of the vehicle map service data associated with the fused data.
US11461703B2
Methods and systems for selecting and performing group actions include selecting parameters for an approximated action-value function, which determines a reward value associated with a particular group action taken from a particular state, using a determinant of a parameter matrix for the action-value function. A group action is selected using the approximated action-value function and the selected parameters. Agents are triggered to perform respective tasks in the group action.
US11461699B2
A method of location determination with a WiFi transceiver and an AI model includes jointly training, based on various losses: a feature extractor, a location classifier, and a domain classifier. The domain classifier may include a first domain classifier and a second domain classifier. The losses used for training tend to cause feature data from the feature extractor to cluster even if a physical object in an environment has moved after training is completed. Then, the location classifier is able to accurately estimate the position of, for example, a person in a room, even if a door or window has changed from open to close or close to open between the time of training and the time of estimating the person's position.
US11461697B2
Provided is a system and method for building context from software applications and applying the context to visual settings in a graphical user interface. In one example, the method may include receiving an identification of actions performed by a user with respect to a user interface of a software application, receiving application metadata of the actions from the software application, the application metadata providing context associated with the actions, training one or more predictive models to predict user interface preferences for the user based on the actions and the application metadata, and storing the one or more trained predictive models via a storage device.
US11461694B2
Methods are provided for implementing training of a machine learning model in a processing system, together with systems for performing such methods. A method includes providing a core module for effecting a generic optimization process in the processing system, and in response to a selective input, defining a set of derivative modules, for effecting computation of first and second derivatives of selected functions ƒ and g in the processing system, to be used with the core module in the training operation. The method further comprises performing, in the processing system, the generic optimization process effected by the core module using derivative computations effected by the derivative modules.
US11461691B2
An algorithm data store may contain information about a pool of available algorithms (e.g., to improve operation of an industrial asset). A deployment platform may be implemented in an edge portion at an industrial site associated with a live environment executing a current algorithm. A lifecycle manager of the deployment platform may manage execution of the current algorithm in the live environment creating source data. A performance manager may receive an indication of a selected at least one potential replacement algorithm from the pool of available algorithms and manage execution of the at least one potential replacement algorithm in a shadow environment using the source data. The performance manager may then report performance information associated with the at least one potential replacement algorithm. When appropriate, the potential replacement algorithm may replace the current algorithm.
US11461686B2
The present invention provides a method for determining consumption of appliances within a surveyed household in which there are no sensors for measuring consumption of specific appliances. The method comprises—pre-processing historical consumption of appliances in a group of sampled household, based on measurements performed by sensors associated with said appliances, in relation to profiles of households, including characteristics of each household and/or lifestyle of the occupants and environmental time dependent parameters, —detecting presence of an appliance in a surveyed household based on correlations between the household profile and consumption patterns based on sampled measurement taken at predefined discrete time periods such 1 minutes, —detecting periodic activation in the surveyed household based on detection of presence of each appliance, identified correlations to household profile and consumption pattern and—estimating consumption of each appliance is the surveyed households based on detection of periodic activation of each appliance, identified correlations to households profile and consumption pattern.
US11461684B2
Parallel processing suitable for convolution operation in a convolutional neural network is executed. Each of a plurality of selectors sequentially selects data, which is held in a two-dimensional shift register, in predetermined two-dimensional regions at least partially different from each other. Each of a plurality of two-dimensional convolution operation circuits multiplies the data selected by the corresponding selector by coefficient data stored in a coefficient memory and accumulates results of the multiplication to calculate, in parallel, two-dimensional convolution operation results in the two-dimensional regions. Each of a plurality of adder circuits adds operation results of the two-dimensional convolution operation circuits in a channel direction to output a three-dimensional convolution operation result.
US11461683B2
Methods, apparatuses and systems directed to pattern learning, recognition, and metrology. In some particular implementations, the invention provides a flexible pattern recognition platform including pattern recognition engines that can be dynamically adjusted to implement specific pattern recognition configurations for individual pattern recognition applications. In certain implementations, the present invention provides for methods and systems suitable for analyzing and recognizing patterns in biological signals such as multi-electrode array waveform data. In other implementations, the present invention also provides for a partition configuration where knowledge elements can be grouped and pattern recognition operations can be individually configured and arranged to allow for multi-level pattern recognition schemes. In other implementations, the present invention provides methods and systems for dynamic learning of patterns in supervised and unsupervised manners.
US11461681B2
Methods and systems for multi-modality soft-agents for an enterprise virtual assistant tool are disclosed. An exemplary method comprises capturing, with a computing device, one or more user requests based on at least one multi-modality interaction, populating, with a computing device, soft-queries to access associated data sources and applications, and mining information retrieved by executing at least one populated soft-query. A soft-query is created from user requests. A multi-modality user interface engine annotates the focus of user requests received via text, speech, touch, image, video, or object scanning. A query engine populates queries by identifying the sequence of multi-modal interactions, executes queries and provides results by mining the query results. The multi-modality interactions identify specific inputs for query building and specific parameters associated with the query. A query is populated and used to generate micro-queries associated with the applications involved. Micro-query instances are executed to obtain results.
US11461678B2
A method includes receiving, by a loan program executing on a loan computing system, conditions from an originator program executing on an originator computing system. The conditions are sent, by the loan program, to a wallet program executing on a wallet computing system. Cryptographic proof that the conditions are met is received by the loan program from the wallet program. Ownership data of the loan program is updated by the loan program to identify a buyer program executing on a buyer computing system in response to invocation of a purchase function of the loan program. Payment receipt data is appended, by the loan program, to the loan program in response to invocation of a payment append function of the loan program by a loan service program executing on a loan service computing system.
US11461675B2
A method for determining a causal relationship between events in a plurality of parameter time series, the method including: identifying a first event associated with a parameter excursion event; identifying a second event associated with a failure event, wherein there are a plurality of events including the first events and second events; determining values of transfer entropy for pairs of the events to establish a causal relationship for each of the pairs of events; using the determined values of transfer entropy and identified causal relationships to determine a process network, wherein each of the events is a node in the process network, the edges between nodes being dependent upon the values of transfer entropy; identifying a directed cycle within the plurality of events and the causal relationships; classifying a directed cycle; and classifying one or more events having a causal relation to the classified directed cycle.
US11461671B2
An apparatus includes a database and a processor. The database stores a set of columns and rules assigned to each column. The rules are used to assess the quality of the data stored in the columns. The processor determines, based in part on the set of rules, the set of columns, and metadata and statistical properties of the columns, a machine learning policy adapted to generate a set of candidate rules for a given column. The processor further determines those columns of the set of columns that are similar to a subject column based on the names of the columns and the names of the tables storing the columns. The processor applies the machine learning policy to the subject column of data, rules of the similar columns, and metadata and statistical properties of the subject column to determine a set of candidate rules for the subject column.
US11461667B2
In a system for knowledge system management, the system includes: a processor; and a memory coupled to the processor, wherein the memory has stored thereon instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to: receive a question from a customer; determine whether to not the question satisfies a first criterion for obtaining an automated response to the question; in response to determining that the question satisfies the first criterion, transmit the question to a knowledge system for generating automated responses to questions; receive the automated response to the question from the knowledge system; determine whether or not the automated response satisfies a second criterion for providing the automated response to the customer; and in response to determining that the automated response satisfies the second criterion, transmit the automated response to an electronic device operated by the customer.
US11461659B2
A feature set determining method includes obtaining, according to a received feature set determining request, data used for feature learning. The feature set determining request includes a learning objective of the feature learning. The method includes performing type analysis on the data to divide the data into first-type data and second-type data. The method includes performing semi-supervised learning on the first-type data to extract multiple first-type features. The method includes performing adaptive learning on the second-type data to extract multiple second-type features. The method includes evaluating the first-type features and the second-type features to obtain an optimal feature set.
US11461658B2
Provided is a time series deep survival analysis system combined with active learning. The system includes: a data collection module, an active learning module, and a time series deep survival analysis module; the data collection module is used for obtaining survival data of objects to be analyzed; combined with an active learning method, the active learning module selects a part of right censored data to label a survival time; and the time series deep survival analysis module constructs a time series deep survival analysis neural network model, and takes uncensored data and right censored data as model inputs, so as to obtain survival time prediction results of the objects to be analyzed. The present application can make full use of the right censored data in the survival data and time series features.
US11461650B2
According to an aspect of an embodiment, operations may include receiving a first data point associated with a real-time application and predicting a first class for the received first data point, by a Deep Neural Network (DNN) pre-trained for a classification task of the real-time application. The operations may further include extracting, from the DNN, a first set of features and a corresponding first set of weights, for the predicted first class. The extracted first set of features may be associated with a convolution layer of the DNN. The operations may further include determining, by a pre-trained classifier associated with the predicted first class, a confidence score for the predicted first class based on the extracted first set of features and the corresponding first set of weights. The operations may further include generating output information to indicate correctness of the predicted first class based on the determined confidence score.
US11461642B2
An apparatus for processing a signal for input to a neural network, the apparatus configured to: receive a signal comprising a plurality of samples of an analog signal over time; determine at least one frame comprising a group of consecutive samples of the signal, wherein the or each frame includes a first number of samples; for each frame, determine a set of correlation values comprising a second number of correlation values, the second number less than the first number, each correlation value of the set of correlation values based on an autocorrelation of the frame at a plurality of different time lags; provide an output based on the set of correlation values corresponding to the or each of the frames for a neural network for one or more of classification of the analog signal by the neural network and training the neural network based on a predetermined classification.
US11461636B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for applying neural networks in resource-constrained environments. A system may include a sensor located in a resource-constrained environment configured to generate first sensor data and second sensor data of the resource-constrained environment. The system may also include a first computing device not located in the resource-constrained environment configured to produce a neural network structure based on the first sensor data. The system may also include a second computing device configured to determine a state of the resource-constrained environment based on input of the second sensor data to the neural network structure. The system may also include a controller located in the resource-constrained environment configured to control a device in the resource-constrained environment based on the state of the resource-constrained environment determined by the second computing device. The second computing device may be further configured to calculate an activation area for the neural network structure.
US11461633B2
A semiconductor device includes an image recognition device having a convolution arithmetic processing circuit. The convolution arithmetic processing circuit includes a coefficient register where coefficients of an integration coefficient table are set, a product calculation circuit that calculates products of an input image and the coefficients, a channel register where a channel number of the integration coefficient table is set, a channel selection circuit that selects an output destination of a cumulative addition arithmetic operation on the basis of the channel number, and a plurality of output registers that store a result of the cumulative addition arithmetic operation. The integration coefficient table is a table where a plurality of input coefficient tables are integrated and the integration coefficient table has a size of N×N. The product calculation circuit can calculate data of N×N all at once.
US11461622B2
Embodiments include techniques for enabling execution of N inferences on an execution engine of a neural network device. Instruction code for a single inference is stored in a memory that is accessible by a DMA engine, the instruction code forming a regular code block. A NOP code block and a reset code block for resetting an instruction DMA queue are stored in the memory. The instruction DMA queue is generated such that, when it is executed by the DMA engine, it causes the DMA engine to copy, for each of N inferences, both the regular code block and an additional code block to an instruction buffer. The additional code block is the NOP code block for the first N−1 inferences and is the reset code block for the Nth inference. When the reset code block is executed by the execution engine, the instruction DMA queue is reset.
US11461614B2
A novel and useful system and method of data driven quantization optimization of weights and input data in an artificial neural network (ANN). The system reduces quantization implications (i.e. error) in a limited resource system by employing the information available in the data actually observed by the system. Data counters in the layers of the network observe the data input thereto. The distribution of the data is used to determine an optimum quantization scheme to apply to the weights, input data, or both. The mechanism is sensitive to the data observed at the input layer of the network. As a result, the network auto-tunes to optimize the instance specific representation of the network. The network becomes customized (i.e. specialized) to the inputs it observes and better fits itself to the subset of the sample space that is applicable to its actual data flow. As a result, nominal process noise is reduced and detection accuracy improves. In addition, the mechanism enables the reduction of the representation space and further reduces the memory (and energy thereof) needed to represent the network properties.
US11461612B2
An RFID tag that includes an RFID tag body having a conductor in a loop-like shape or a coil-like shape, and metal fixtures for fixing the RFID tag body to a metal surface of an article. The conductor is formed in an element body in a rectangular parallelepiped shape that has first and second side surfaces facing each other, third and fourth side surfaces facing each other and orthogonal to the first side surface, a top surface, and a bottom surface serving as a mounting surface. A plane of an opening of the conductor is parallel to the first side surface and the second side surface, and the metal fixtures each include a first portion protruding along an extension surface of the bottom surface, a second portion disposed along the third side surface or the fourth side surface, and a third portion disposed along the top surface.
US11461611B2
A system and method which provides RFID enabling for cryo-vials and other cryogenic items is disclosed. The system and method is a two part method wherein first each vial is individually RFID tagged and then a plurality of tagged vials are secured into a cane. The second part comprises creating an RFID tag and attaching the tag to the top of the cane of vials. The individual RFID tags on the vials are then associated with the RFID tag on the cane.
US11461607B2
A method for detecting a component including a concealed pattern includes: detecting infrared electromagnetic radiation reflected or emitted by a component including a first pattern, the component including: a substrate; the first pattern disposed over at least a portion of the substrate; an optional primer layer disposed between at least a portion of the substrate and at least a portion of the first pattern; and a first visibly opaque layer including an infrared transparent pigment, the first visibly opaque layer disposed over at least a portion of the first pattern; and comparing the reflectivity and/or absorbance of infrared electromagnetic radiation by the first pattern at one wavelength to the reflectivity and/or absorbance by the primer layer and/or the substrate at the same wavelength.
US11461603B2
In some examples, a non-transitory machine readable medium can include instructions executable by a processing resource to assert a low print media level notification responsive to determination that a first amount of print media in a media receptacle of an imaging device is less than a set value, detect a second amount of print media in the media receptacle of the imaging device, compare the detected second amount of print media to a print media threshold that is based on the set value and a selectable print media value, and maintain the low print media level notification responsive to a determination that the detected second amount of print media is less than the print media threshold.
US11461601B2
A confidential information provision device includes: an information acquisition unit configured to acquire a confidential level of information that is to be printed on a recording medium; and a provision unit configured to provide confidential information to the recording medium in accordance with the confidential level, the confidential information provided to the recording medium being constituted of a material that is detectable in a non-contact manner.
US11461599B2
Systems and methods are described for image classification. An example method may comprise receiving an image comprising an object of interest and determining, based on a first convolution neural network, a first classification of the image. The first convolution neural network may be optimized for a first factor. The method may comprise determining, based on a second convolution neural network, a first classification of the image. The second convolution neural network may be optimized for a second factor. The method may comprise determining, based on the first classification and the second classification, a characteristic of the object of interest. The method may comprise providing the characteristic of the object of interest.
US11461594B2
Discussed herein are devices, systems, and methods for disentangling static and dynamic features of content. A method can include encoding by a transform disentangling autoencoder (AE), first content to generate first static features and first dynamic features and second content to generate second static features and second dynamic features, and constructing, by the AE, third content based on a combination of third static features and the first dynamic features and fourth content based on a combination of fourth static features and the second dynamic features, the third and fourth static features being determined based on the first static features and the second static features.
US11461586B2
Providing learned interactions in a virtual reality or augmented reality (collectively, a computer-mediated reality) can include determining a probable physical action of a user interacting with a computer-mediated reality (CMR) environment. A learned interaction corresponding to the probable physical action can be generated based on a CMR-physical action (CMRPA) model that correlates physical actions with results of the physical actions in a CMR scenario of the CMR environment. In response to determining, based on at least one identified characteristic of the user, a statistical likelihood of benefiting the user by providing the learned interaction, a learned interaction corresponding to the probable physical action can be provided to the user.
US11461582B2
A machine learning system may automatically produce classifier algorithms and configuration parameters by selecting them into a set of predetermined unitary algorithms and associated parametrization values. Multiple digital representations of input object items may be produced by varying the position and orientation of the object to be classified and/or of the sensor to capture a digital representation of the object, and/or by varying a physical environment parameter which changes the digital representation capture of the object by the sensor. A robot arm or a conveyor may vary the object and/or the sensor positions and orientations. The machine learning system may employ generic programming to facilitate the production of classifiers suitable for the classification of multiple digital representations of input object items. The machine learning system may automatically generate reference template signals as configuration parameters for the unitary algorithms to facilitate the production of classifiers suitable for the classification of multiple digital representations of input object items.
US11461574B2
A bioptic reader assembly includes a scale assembly, bioptic barcode reader, and video upgrade module. The scale assembly includes a support frame and a platter and has a width that is less than or equal to 11½ inches. The bioptic barcode reader is mounted to the support frame and includes a lower housing portion positioned below the platter, an upper housing portion extending above the lower housing portion and the platter, and a camera. The video upgrade module is operatively connected to the bioptic barcode reader, is in communication with the camera, and is configured to process and interpret images received from the camera. The video upgrade module is positioned within the width of the scale assembly and within a height defined from a top surface of the platter to a bottom of the lower housing portion, which is preferably less than or equal to 4 inches.
US11461572B2
A booklet may include multiple customized booklet pages. The booklet pages may include including a barcode page that may include multiple barcode labels that can be selectably disposed on physical media items. The booklet pages may include pages with instructions, upgrade labels, shipping labels, or other information. The booklet pages may be customized to a customer digitization order. A system with a barcode scanner, physical media item converter, and a computing device may scan the barcode labels of the physical media items, read the content stored on the physical media items, convert the content to a digital format, and associate the digitally formatted content with the corresponding barcode label. The system may allow a customer to access the content in the digital format, such as a DVD, digital download, or a thumb drive.
US11461562B2
A method for coordinating actions between an audio channel and a synchronized non-audio channel includes receiving an indication of a start of a session associated with a user and having an audio channel that is synchronized with a non-audio channel. Thereafter, repeated determinations are made as to whether a prompt on the non-audio channel has been received from the user. In response to each determination that the prompt on the non-audio channel has not been received from the user, a signal is sent to cause an inaudible output on the audio channel to the user. In response to a determination that the prompt on the non-audio channel has been received from the user, an audible output is selected based on an activity by the user on the non-audio channel, and a signal is sent to cause the audible output to be output on the audio channel.
US11461558B2
A machine-learning method for training a decision-making model includes: obtaining a rationale vector group for a rationale included in a labeled natural language text file; assembling an effective vector group for the labeled natural language text file by connecting the rationale vector groups for the rationales using a specific order; and executing a supervised classification algorithm to train the decision-making model using the effective vector group and a target decision for the natural language text file. The decision-making model is trained to be configured to label an unlabeled natural language text file using one of a plurality of potential decisions that serves as a target decision.
US11461551B1
A method may include generating word string vectors for word strings in a document, obtaining encrypted word string vectors by encrypting the word string vectors, generating a search vector for a search query, obtaining an encrypted search vector by encrypting the search vector, calculating encrypted distances between the encrypted word string vectors and the encrypted search vector, obtaining a decrypted distance by decrypting an encrypted distance, and using the decrypted distance, determining a semantic match between the search query and the document.
US11461536B2
A method of manipulation of content provided by a hosting server using swipe gesture recognition on a user device having a touch input display. The method includes storing the content, combined with a swipe gesture recognition module to form a content package, on the hosting server. The swipe gesture recognition module is associated with at least one displayable content element of the content. The method further includes receiving, at the hosting server, a request for the content package from the user device and transmitting the content package from the hosting server to the user device for display by an application running on the user device. A defined action is applied to the at least one displayable content element if it is determined that a swipe gesture has occurred on the at least one displayable content element.
US11461531B2
Systems and methods related to learning-based analyzers (both supervised and unsupervised) for mitigating latch-up in integrated circuits are provided. An example method includes obtaining latch-up data concerning at least one integrated circuit configured to operate under a range of temperature conditions, where the at least one integrated circuit comprises a core portion including at least a plurality of devices each having one or more structural features formed using a lithographic process, and an input/output portion. The method further includes training the learning-based system based on training data derived from the latch-up data and a first layout rule concerning a first spacing between the core portion and the input/output portion. The method further includes using the learning-based system generating a second layout rule concerning the first spacing between the core portion and the input/output portion, where the second layout rule is different from the first layout rule.
US11461524B2
An information processing apparatus includes a central processing unit (CPU), a plurality of field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) connected to the CPU to communicate with the CPU, and a plurality of memories provided in a one-to-one relationship with the plurality of FPGAs. Each of the plurality of memories is configured to store configuration data of a corresponding one of the plurality of FPGAs. One of the plurality of FPGAs is configured to update the configuration data of each of the plurality of FPGAs stored in a corresponding one of the plurality of memories.
US11461523B1
A method for performing glitch power analysis of a circuit, comprising receiving no-timing waveform simulation data for the circuit, the waveform simulation data including a first signal, and identifying a delayed stimulus injection point (DSIP) for the first signal. The method further comprises determining a total delay for the first signal and performing waveform replay simulation including injecting the first signal at the DSIP at a time based on the total delay for the first signal.
US11461518B2
The disclosure notably relates to a computer-implemented method for instancing a global physics simulation. The method includes obtaining a set of local simulations. The set of local simulations includes at least one local simulation. A local simulation is a physics simulation that is part of the global physics simulation and that can be computed alone and independently of the global physics simulation. Each local simulation of the set of local simulations is already computed. The method further includes, for each local simulation of the set of local simulations, computing a respective reduced model of the local simulation. The method further includes computing each global simulation of a set of at least one global simulation. Each global simulation is an instance of the global physics simulation. This constitutes an improved method for instancing a physics simulation.
US11461513B2
In disclosed techniques, simulations are performed to determine data center performance under certain conditions. The simulations are dynamic and allow for changes in power demand due to temporal data center activities. In order to accommodate predicted and unpredicted fluctuations in power demand of a data center, one or more power caches are configured to supply additional power during periods of peak demand. Power caches provide supplemental power during periods of peak demand. The simulations are used for a variety of purposes, including determining the effects of power caches going offline under various conditions. Disclosed techniques can simulate the cycling of a power cache and can determine if additional configuration changes to the data center are warranted to maintain optimal health of the power caches. Thus, power scenario simulation of a data center can provide information vital to efficient operation of the data center.
US11461509B2
A screen control method and a terminal. The method is applied to a terminal that has a touchscreen and a screen fingerprint sensor. The method includes: when the touchscreen is in a lighted state, receiving, by the terminal, a first touch operation; obtaining, by the terminal, texture information and touch information of the first touch operation by using the touchscreen and the screen fingerprint sensor, where the texture information is skin texture information corresponding to the first touch operation, and the touch information includes at least one of a touch position and a touch area; and turning off, by the terminal, the touchscreen based on the texture information and the touch information.
US11461501B2
A portable terminal device (1) sets a security level for each application in accordance with position, and stores the level in a memory (102). The security level determines whether each application is displayed or made executable on a display portion (114a) in locked state and unlocked state. A control unit (101) refers to the security level and determines the application displayed on the display portion (114a) in accordance with position information acquired by a position information acquisition unit (GPS reception unit) (104), and makes executable the application selected by the user. Thus, the portable terminal device (1) offers user-friendliness while ensuring security strength.
US11461494B2
Various examples for providing for the secure view of content on devices are disclosed. In one example, a content modification service, such as an email modification service, can access a document from a server destined for a client device and generate a modified form of the document by adjusting a visual setting associated with a display of the content that affects an ability to view the content from an area beyond a predetermined range. The content modification service or a client application can selectively provide the document or the modified version of the document in a display of the client device based on a setting of the client device, a device profile, or compliance rules specified by an administrator of a management service.
US11461493B1
Systems, methods, and devices for generating a secure join of database data are disclosed. A method creates a secure view of datapoints of a consumer account and processes, using a secure user defined function (UDF), the datapoints of the consumer account and datapoints of a provider account to generate a secure join key. The datapoints of the consumer account are provided to the secure UDF using the secure view. The method further performs, by a processor, an analysis of the datapoints of the consumer account and the datapoints of the provider account of the secure join key. The analysis returns a count value of overlapping datapoints between the consumer account and the provider account. The method further adjusts the count value of overlapping datapoints based on a number of distinct rows associated with the provider account, and provides the adjusted count value of overlapping datapoints to the consumer account.
US11461489B2
A first access key, which is provided by a key server for decrypting a file and the encrypted file is published on a public network by a first user. Every time the secured file is accessed by a second user, the first access key is provided by the key server to decipher the file. The first user can control access to the file by deleting the first access key on the key server, thus denying the second user access to the access key preventing de-encryption of the secured file.
US11461488B2
Methods and systems disclosed herein describe a universal access layer that allows a plurality of applications to obtain data and/or information from a plurality of heterogeneous data stores. The universal access layer may include one or more application data objects to validate requests, transform a format of the request, determine which data stores comprise the requested data and/or information, encrypt the request, combine responses into a single response, and retransform the response prior to sending it to the requesting application. By using the universal access layer, applications may improve the speed with which they access data and/or information from the plurality of heterogeneous data stores.
US11461485B2
Provided is a process, including: accessing, with a processor of an embedded computing device, immutable executable code stored in read-only memory of the embedded computing device; executing, with the processor of the embedded computing device, instructions of the immutable executable code that retrieve, from the read-only memory, a network-layer address of a tamper-evident, immutable data repository and an application-layer address of firmware of the embedded computing device stored in the tamper-evident, immutable data repository; executing, with the processor of the embedded computing device, instructions of the immutable executable code that, using the network-layer address and the application-layer address, download the firmware of the embedded computing device from the tamper-evident, immutable data repository; and executing, with the processor of the embedded computing device, instructions of the immutable executable code that store the downloaded firmware in re-writeable memory of the embedded computing device.
US11461481B1
Security enhancement herein primarily relate to digital code undergoing a first fortification protocol by which a digital package is prepared, a secure execution environment being configured for use with the package at or via a source facility, and at least some of the package being executed in in the secure execution environment at a destination facility. Such enhanced configurations may arrive to or from a remote facility, for example, without a concomitant loss of performance.
US11461480B1
System and methods for synchronizing and encrypting profile information are provided. A method establishes a first browser instance on a first virtual machine being in communication with a first browser profile sync and encrypt agent. The method also establishes a second browser instance on a second virtual machine. The method may use the first browser profile sync and encrypt agent acting through a profile helper service to encrypt profile changes involving the first browser instance on an encrypted master profile and use the second browser profile sync and encrypt agent acting through the profile helper service to encrypt profile changes involving the second browser instance on the encrypted master profile. The method maintains a browser profile persistence for the first browser instance and for the second browser instance, using the encrypted master profile, on a single on-disk profile.
US11461477B1
An example method includes initializing, by an obfuscation computing system, communications with nodes in a distributed computing platform, the nodes including one or more compute nodes and a controller node, and performing at least one of: (a) code-level obfuscation for the distributed computing platform to obfuscate interactions between an external user computing system and the nodes, wherein performing the code-level obfuscation comprises obfuscating data associated with one or more commands provided by the user computing system and sending one or more obfuscated commands to at least one of the nodes in the distributed computing platform; or (b) system-level obfuscation for the distributed computing platform, wherein performing the system-level obfuscation comprises at least one of obfuscating system management tasks that are performed to manage the nodes or obfuscating network traffic data that is exchanged between the nodes.
US11461473B2
Systems and methods for controlling the exposure of data privacy elements are provided. The systems and methods may generate an artificial profile model. The artificial profile model may include a constraint for generating new artificial profiles. A signal may be received indicating that a computing device is requesting access to a network location. One or more data privacy elements associated with the computing device can be detected. An artificial profile can be determined for the computing device. The artificial profile may be usable to identify the computing device. The one or more data privacy elements may be automatically modified according to the constraint included in the artificial profile model. The method may include generating a new artificial profile for the computing device. The new artificial profile may include the modified one or more data privacy elements. The new artificial profile may mask the computing device from being identified.
US11461470B2
A system is configured for determining an API to perform a task includes a processor configured to receive a request from a user to determine an API to perform the task. The input and output parameters of the API are determined. A set of APIs is determined from an API library that is capable of providing the output parameter given the input parameter. Each API from among the set of APIs is evaluated by determining a quality value; a security value, and a performance value of the API. An API score value is determined based on a combination of the quality value, the security value, and the performance value of the API. A particular API having an API score value that is the highest compared to other APIs from among the set of APIs is determined. The particular API is hosted on a web application to perform the task.
US11461456B1
In certain embodiments, resource allocation related to records may be facilitated by generating and using modified instances of such records. In some embodiments, a set of records associated with a user may be stored in a memory area, where each such record includes a record identifier. In response to obtaining one or more commands related to a resource transfer from a user device associated with the user, a new set of records associated with the user may be generated such that each record of the new set is (i) a modified instance of a corresponding record of the record set and (ii) includes a record identifier different from the record identifier of the corresponding record. In one use case, the new records and its data may then be utilized to perform operations related to the user commands. In another use case, the new records may replace its older corresponding records.
US11461455B2
The present invention relates to the secure configuration of electronic devices, such as for example network-connected “smart” devices and appliances, collectively referred to as “IoT devices”. A computer-implemented method of secure configuration of at least one electronic device is provided. According to the method, the electronic device connects to a blockchain database; determines from said blockchain database a configuration block comprising block identification data, where the block identification data corresponds to device identification data, stored with the electronic device; obtains configuration information from said configuration block; and using the configuration information, conducts configuration of the electronic device.
US11461451B2
Disclosed are various approaches for signing documents using mobile devices. A request is sent to a certificate authority for a signing certificate. The signing certificate is then received from the certificate authority. The signing certificate is then stored in the memory. Next, a file is received from a client application executed by the processor of the computing device. Then, the file is signed with the signing certificate to create a signed file. The signed file is then returned to the client application.
US11461440B2
One or more graphical user interfaces (GUIs) and/or a console management, modeling, and analysis system is described. In some embodiments, the GUI and/or management system can be used to analyze investment purchases and/or sales. In some embodiments, users may be allowed to enter data used to produce dynamic models. In some embodiments, data may be aggregated from various users and/or sources to provide adaptive, dynamic models and/or projections.
US11461425B2
A system and a method are disclosed that enable a mobile device to use an encoded tag to initiate and maintain communications with at least one remote server. The encoded tag is positioned to identify a point of interest, and in response to using the mobile device to scan the encoded tag, communications regarding the point of interest may be initiated. A single encoded tag may be used to obtain and update recorded information about the point of interest, to notify others about an issue related to the point of interest, to log into the system, and to wait to be alerted about an issue related to the point of interest. If an issue relating to a point of interest has been reported, the system and method may monitor the reported issue to ensure that an action has been taken to address the reported issue.
US11461422B2
Techniques are disclosed for providing personalized pages. An example methodology implementing the techniques includes, displaying, by a computing device, a plurality of elements in a page and monitoring interaction with the displayed page. The method also includes, responsive to determining a topic based on the interaction with the plurality of elements in the displayed page, identifying one or more files related to the identified topic and providing an element on the page, the element configured to provide access to one of the identified one or more files in response to an input received on the element. The element may be provided in a file zone in the displayed page.
US11461419B2
Systems and methods are described that include determining an intent from an intent library that matches a received query, identifying, based on the intent, at least one mini-app from a first provider and at least one mini-app from a second provider, ranking the identified mini-apps, and triggering rendering of search results, the search results including at least a first ranked mini-app in an expanded state and the remaining ranked mini-apps in a collapsed state.
US11461399B2
According to embodiments of the present disclosure, a method and an apparatus for responding to a question, and a storage medium are provided. The method includes: determining a question characteristic representation corresponding to a question for an object; determining a comment characteristic representation corresponding to a first comment for the object; generating a first target characteristic representation by utilizing the question characteristic representation and the comment characteristic representation; and determining an answer for the question based on the first target characteristic representation.
US11461396B2
This disclosure relates to method of extracting an information associated with design of formulated products and representing as a graph. A graph domain model of a plurality of vertices, and at least one formulation text as text file are received as an input. The information extraction is applied to identify at least one sentence and extract at least one subject-verb-object triple from every sentence of the at least one formulation text. A sentence including an ingredient listing and associated weights indicated by presence of weight numerals, and a sentence including at least one verb from the at least one subject-verb-object based on the graph domain model are classified. A representation of the recipe text is generated in terms of at least one action, ingredients on which the at least one action is performed, and condition. An insert query string is generated and executed to store the formulations as the graph.
US11461393B1
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for systems and methods for automated identification and mapping of objects in video content. Example methods may include determining a first set of frames in video content, determining, using one or more object recognition algorithms, a first object present in the first set of frames, determining that a first product corresponding to the first object is present in a product catalog comprising a set of product images, associating a first product identifier of the first product with a video identifier of the video content, and causing presentation of a set of product identifiers associated with the video identifier.
US11461387B2
In an aspect, provided are methods, systems, and apparatuses comprising receiving a query specifying one or more materials of a floor/ceiling assembly and/or a classification or result, determining one or more media files responsive to the query, and providing the one or more media files for playback.
US11461386B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus for receiving a query image and a user tap location, processing the received query image based on the user tap location, identifying one or more entities associated with the processed query image and in response to receiving (i) the query image, and (ii) the user tap location, providing information about the identified one or more of the entities.
US11461384B2
A facial images retrieval system is provided. The facial images retrieval system is adapted to receive an initial textual description of a facial image to perform an initial facial image search that obtains a plurality of facial images based on the textual description. The facial images retrieval system then receives a selection of the first and second facial images that are relatively close to a desired facial image to perform a further facial image search to obtain another facial image.
US11461383B2
Certain aspects involve a machine-learning query system that uses a dual deep learning network to service queries and other requests. In one example, a machine-learning query system services a query received from a client computing system. A dual deep learning network included in the machine-learning query system matches an unstructured input data object, received from the client computing system, to an unstructured reference data object. The matching may include generating an input feature vector by an embedding subnetwork, based on the unstructured input data object. The matching may also include generating an output probability by a relationship subnetwork, based on the input feature vector and a relationship feature vector that is based on the unstructured reference data object. The machine-learning query system may transmit a responsive message to the client system.
US11461364B1
A computing system is configured to access a plurality of remote databases in order to identify data inconsistencies between the remote databases and provide user interfaces to a user in order to initiate communication via one or more APIs to certain remote databases indicating updates that reconcile said data inconsistencies.
US11461362B2
Embodiments extend using sparse Merkle trees for smart synchronization of S3 buckets by overcoming fixed size limitations through creating another Merkle tree when the fixed size limit of the first tree is exceeded, and creating yet another tree when the second tree is filled up, and so on as needed. The method maintains a super Merkle tree of trees, in which each tree can be synchronized separately by keeping a strict division to trees according to generation number. The generation is passed from a source site to a target site during replication operations. Syncing between two data sites is efficient as the super Merkle tree of the source is synced with the super Merkle tree of the target using the hashes on the nodes, as in normal Merkle tree sync operations.
US11461358B2
A system displays summaries of relationships of a selected data asset with other data assets at a limited number of levels upstream and downstream from the selected data asset in rows above and below the selected data asset. In each row, data assets are arranged in order of usage, with most used data asset displayed directly above or below the selected data asset. The user views grandparent-level data assets of a parent-level data asset that is directly above the selected data asset. The system includes a carousal feature to further navigate the lineage data upstream or downstream. By selecting a new data asset in the parent row, the user can view grandparent-level data assets of the newly selected data asset. The user can view multiple upstream or downstream levels arranged in respective rows displayed above or below the selected data asset. The system can analyze data from any application.
US11461344B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a data processing method, an electronic device and a computer-readable storage medium. The data processing method comprises: obtaining a model representing causal relations among a plurality of variables based on a set of observation data of the plurality of variables; determining, based on the obtained model, a first and a second variables having direct causal relation in the plurality of variables; determining whether the first and second variables are independent from each other; and in response to the first and second variables being independent from each other, deleting the direct causal relation between the first and second variables from the obtained model. With the data processing method of the present disclosure, pseudo-causes can be removed effectively so that causal relations among a plurality of variables can be represented more accurately.
US11461343B1
Embodiments of the systems and methods disclosed herein provide a prescriptive analytics platform and polarity analysis engine in which a user can identify a target objective and use the system to find out whether the user's objectives are being met, what predictive factors are positively or negatively affecting the targeted objectives, as well as what recommended changes the user can make to better meet the objectives. The systems and methods may include a polarity analysis engine configured to determine the polarity of terms in free-text input in view of the target objective and the predictive factors and use the polarity to generate the recommended changes.
US11461334B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for processing queries against one or more dataset sources utilizing dynamically allocated partitions operating on one or more worker nodes. The results of the processing are stored in a dataset destination. The queries can identify data in the one or more dataset sources for processing and a manner for processing the data. In addition, the queries can identify the dataset destination for storing results of the query. To process the query, a query coordinator can dynamically allocate partitions operating on worker nodes to retrieve data for processing, process the data, and communicate the data to the dataset sources. In addition, the query coordinator can dynamically allocate partitions based on an identification of the dataset destination.
US11461330B2
Queries may be received and executed by a managed query service. A query directed to data sets that are separately stored in a remote data store may be received. Computing resources to execute the query may be provisioned from a pool of computing resources that are configured to execute queries. The query may be routed to the provisioned computing resources to execute the query. Results may be obtained from the computing resource and provided to a submitter of the query.
US11461328B2
Herein, a computer stores metadata that defines an analytic view that is based on organizing operation(s) that respectively specify organizing column(s) of organizing table(s), including a join operation that specifies a dimension column of a dimension table and a join column of a fact table. An original query is received that does not reference the analytic view. The original query specifies at least one organizing operation that is identical, somewhat similar, or compatible to an organizing operation on which the analytic view is based. Based on that at least one organizing operation that the original query specifies and the metadata that defines the particular analytic view, the original query is determined to satisfy rewrite criterion(s). In response to determining that the original query satisfies the rewrite criteria, a rewritten query that references the analytic view is generated based on the original query that does not reference the analytic view.
US11461321B2
A first table has more than one key column, and a hash array is built for the table, which includes computing hash indices for respective rows of the first table based on more than one key column. Building the hash array also includes writing in the hash array for each row at a respective location in the hash array, wherein each location is indicated by each row's respective hash index computed from the more than one key column. The hash array is probed responsive to the second table. In the building of the hash array for the first table, the writing in the hash array for each row at a respective location in the hash array writes only one of the key columns as a single key field in the hash array for each row.
US11461318B2
Examples of the present disclosure describe systems and methods for ontology-based graph query optimization. In an example, ontology data relating to a graph or isolated collection may be collected. The ontology data may comprise uniqueness and topology information and may be used to reformulate a query in order to yield a query that is more performant than the original query when retrieving target information from a graph. In an example, reformulating a query may comprise reordering one or more parameters of the query relating to resources, relationships, and/or properties based on uniqueness information. In another example, the query may be reformulated by modifying the resource type to which the query is anchored based on the topology information. The reformulated query may then be executed to identify target information in the isolated collection, thereby identifying the same target information as the original query, but in a manner that is more performant.
US11461317B2
Embodiments of the present specification disclose a method, an apparatus, a system, a device, and a storage medium for answering user questions, including: obtaining a user question; encoding the user question and a schema level of pre-constructed structured data to obtain a first feature vector, wherein the structured data further comprises a data level, wherein the data level comprises knowledge for answering questions structured according to the schema level; retrieving one or more candidate sub-graphs related to the user question from the structured data; encoding the one or more candidate sub-graphs to obtain a second feature vector; performing multi-task classification for the user question based on the first feature vector and the second feature vector; and obtaining answer content for the user question based on a result of the multi-task classification.
US11461316B2
There is a need for more effective and efficient detection of cross-data-column relationships. This need can be addressed by, for example, techniques for detecting cross-data-column data relationships that utilize at least one of feature-based similarity models and deep-learning-based similarity models. The cross-data-column data relationships may be displayed to an end-user using a cross-column relationship detection user interface.
US11461315B2
In an approach for improving performance of a batch job running on database servers in an active-active architecture. A processor, responsive to a batch job being ready to be executed on a source database server, sends a first communication to a target database server with a synchronization start point. While executing the batch job, a processor utilizes a pre-lock function, pre-load function, and lock avoidance function to prevent lock conflicts. A processor, responsive to either the source database server or the target database server encountering a commit statement, suspends the respective database server and sends a second communication to ask if the other respective database server is ready to complete the commit statement. A processor, responsive to the other respective database server confirming its ready to complete the commit statement, completes the commit statement on both the source database server and the target database server.
US11461313B2
Systems and methods for automatically creating and managing electronic data tables are disclosed. The method includes receiving a metric request descriptor from a client device, the metric request descriptor including at least information for creating a metric query and an identifier of an electronic data table; automatically generating a custom metric query based on the information for creating the metric query and one or more predefined metric templates; creating the electronic data table based on the identifier of the electronic data table received in the metric request descriptor; applying the custom metric query to a data store storing a plurality of event records; extracting metric data from the data store based on the custom metric query; and storing the metric data in the electronic data table.
US11461310B2
A computer-implemented method for performing by a node of a network of nodes for maintaining at least part of a distributed ledger maintained by the network of nodes is described. The method comprises maintaining at least part of the distributed ledger. The at least part of the distributed ledger is configured to store records and associated verification data for the records. The verification data for a record identifies: (i) a sequence of nodes in the network which received the intended record during a verification procedure; and (ii) the respective event state assigned by each node of the sequence of nodes to the intended record during the verification procedure.
US11461307B2
A central service provider manages a blockchain network that writes the cryptographic hash of each executed transaction in a block to the blockchain network. For each executed transaction, the central service provider generates and transmits a transaction receipt such that a party can verify that the transaction was appropriately executed. Additionally, a party can check that the party's records are correct by providing transaction data describing details of transactions recorded in the party's records to the central service provider. The central service provider verifies the party's records by comparing the transaction data in the party's records to the blocks of transaction records in the blockchain network. In some scenarios, the central service provider may identify or receive an identification of a discrepancy arising from one or more transactions. The central service provider can reconcile the identified discrepancy.
US11461303B2
A node mask of a global metadata structure entry representing an MD portion in GM may be updated when an entry of a local MD table representing the MD portion is removed in response to receiving an IO operation, without negatively impacting performance of the IO operation. An update process that is independent of the process executing the IO operation may update the node mask so that performance of the IO operation is not negatively affected. In response to the entry for the MD portion being removed from the local MD table, an entry may be added to a queue. The update process may include accessing the entries in the queue, and, for each entry, updating the node mask (e.g., clearing a bit representing the processing node) and removing the entry from the queue.
US11461301B2
In an approach for database index optimization, a processor detects a pattern of characters and numeric digits of an index key. The index key provides an access to a database through an index access without a sorting operation. A processor determines a converting format based on the pattern of the index key. The pattern includes a string of the numeric digits. A processor converts the index key into a converted key by converting the string of the numeric digits into an integer. A processor saves the converted key into a storage.
US11461292B2
A computer-implemented method for quick data exploration of data to be uploaded may be provided. The method comprises uploading, from a local system, a first data set of a first size and determining that the first data set is not corrupted. The method also comprises in parallel to the uploading performing selecting from the first data set a predefined number of records and building a second data set, determining statistical data and metadata about the first data set, and visualizing the second data set, the statistical data and the metadata.
US11461288B2
The present disclosure is directed to a discovery process that enables discovery of database management systems (DBMSs) hosted by at least one client device of a client network. The disclosed discovery process involves a discovery server disposed on the client network accessing the client device hosting the DBMS to collect configuration item (CI) data on the configuration and operation of management, extraction, and replication processes of the DBMS. More specifically, this discovery process involves the discovery server requesting and receiving certain CI data from the management process of the DBMS, requesting and receiving certain CI data from an operating system (OS) of the client devices, as well as parsing and retrieving certain CI data from configuration and report files of the DBMS. Additionally, the disclosed discovery process is designed to be performed without being granted special or additional privileges within the DBMS itself.
US11461274B2
The subject technology receives an operation to perform on an external data source accessible via a network, the external data source being hosted by an external system separate from a network-based database system. The subject technology determines a set of shards corresponding to the external data source. The subject technology determines a set of offsets of each shard of the set of shards. The subject technology, based on the set of shards and the set of offsets, performs the operation on the external data source. The subject technology provides an indication that the operation is complete.
US11461264B2
A method and system for flexible deployment and easy CPLD management of a backplane are provided. An EEPROM module is added on a backplane; a connection configuration mode of a hard disk backplane and a motherboard controller is stored in the EEPROM module; and a CPLD reads connection relationship information from the EEPROM by means of I2C so as to perform a lighting function and other similar control functions. In addition, by means of adding a connection of a BMC management module on a motherboard to the EEPROM module, when the configuration is changed, a BMC directly upgrades the stored information in the EEPROM module by means of an I2C bus without needing to disassemble a machine. In the method and system, only two pins of the CPLD need to be occupied, without needing to consider that more CPLD pins are required for more complex configurations.
US11461258B2
A Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) (125) that may configure itself is disclosed. The BMC (125) may include an access logic (415) to determine a configuration of a chassis (105) that includes the BMC (125). The BMC (125) may also include a built-in self-configuration logic (420) to configure the BMC (125) responsive to the configuration of the chassis (105). The BMC (125) may self-configure without using any BIOS, device drivers, or operating systems.
US11461256B2
A processing device, operatively coupled with a memory device, is configured to receive a direct memory access (DMA) command to perform a memory access operation, the DMA command comprising a priority value; assign the DMA command to a priority queue of a plurality of priority queues based on the priority value of the DMA command; and execute a plurality of DMA commands from the plurality of priority queues according to a corresponding execution rate of each priority queue of the plurality of priority queues.
US11461249B2
To provide a structure capable of more reliably completing a series of processes performed by a plurality of devices. There is provided a system comprising: a plurality of processing devices that execute a predetermined process according to an input process request, wherein each of the plurality of processing devices is connected to at least one other processing device such that information is transmittable, wherein the process request is input from an external device connected to any of the plurality of processing devices, and wherein each of the plurality of processing devices starts the predetermined process on the basis of, among the other processing devices, all processing devices receiving information from the external device via the processing device having completed the predetermined process normally.
US11461240B2
Example implementations relate to storing manifest portions in a metadata cache. An example includes receiving, by a storage controller, a read request associated with a first data unit. In response to receiving the read request, the storage controller stores a manifest portion in a metadata cache, the stored manifest portion comprising a plurality of records, the plurality of records including a first record associated with the first data unit. The storage controller determines storage information of the first data unit using pointer information included in the first record of the stored manifest portion, and replaces the pointer information in the first record with the determined storage information of the first data unit.
US11461231B2
A computer-implemented method includes: measuring, by a computer device, a current value of an operating parameter of an origin server in an existing content delivery network (CDN) having a number of other servers, the other servers being servers other than the origin; determining, by the computer device, that the current value of the operating parameter is outside of an acceptable range for the operating parameter; measuring, by the computer device, a time to live (TTL) of data caches on a plurality of the other servers of the existing CDN; and determining, by the computer device and based on the measuring of the TTL, an alteration to a configuration of the other servers in the existing CDN that changes the current value of the operating parameter to a value inside the acceptable range.
US11461227B2
A storage device for performing a garbage collection operation using a partial block erase operation includes: a memory device including a plurality of main blocks each including a plurality of sub-blocks; and a memory controller configured to perform a garbage collection operation for securing free blocks in which no data is stored, among the main blocks, wherein the memory controller includes a write handler configured to erase at least a portion of a target block, among the main blocks, according to whether an amount of valid data in at least one victim block exceeds a storage capacity of one main block.
US11461222B2
An example includes the following operations: identifying parameters associated with a test program, where the parameters are based on at least one of a device under test (DUT) to be tested by the test program or a type of test to be performed on the DUT by the test program; assigning weights to the parameters; generating a numerical value for the test program based on the parameters, the weights, and equations that are based on the parameters and the weights, where the numerical value is indicative of a complexity of the test program; and using the numerical value to obtain information about effort needed to develop future test programs.
US11461215B2
System and methods for analyzing workflow processes by recording a series of screen captures in real-time that can assist in capturing the steps for completing the business workflow process across one or more business applications in a workflow data file. The workflow data file includes a graphical representation of the steps in a sequential order for performing the business workflow process. The workflow data file is compatible with a workflow application.
US11461213B2
A system is described herein for mitigating slow process instances in a streaming application. The system includes a slow process instance candidate identifier configured to identify, based on a relative watermark latency, a set of slow process instance candidates from among a plurality of process instances that comprise the streaming application. The system further includes a set of filters configured to remove false positives from the set of slow process instance candidates. The filters account for window operations performed by the process instances as well as stabilization time needed for downstream process instances to stabilize after a slow upstream process instance is mitigated by a mitigation implementer, which may also be included in the system.
US11461206B2
Cloud simulation or validation system allows for the simulation of a future node that may be deployed on a piece of hardware. The system may attempt to simulate the operating system for node-A on top of the hardware for node-A, including basic network connectivity. When a host is booted up with the simulated configuration, validation scripts may be run to verify that the site is correctly prepped for cloud deployment. With its pre-staged RAM-based OS temporarily loaded into the host's RAM memory, any set of OS-based scripts, tools or binaries, may be executed for simulation and validation based upon the intended role of the host onto which the cloud simulation or validation system configuration is loaded.
US11461205B1
An error management system can include register sets associated with an error reaction. The test errors are injected in functional signals based on activation of multiple bits in one of the register sets. When the functional signals with the injected test errors are received by the error management system, multiple bits in the other register set are activated. The error management system generates an activated indication signal when a number of the activated bits in one register set matches a number of activated bits in the other register set. When the indication signal is activated, the error management system generates a reaction signal indicative of the error reaction. Thus, the error management system generates a single reaction signal in response to the injected test errors requiring the same reaction.
US11461199B2
A redundancy method includes that a first disaster management function (DMF) device on a first site side receives a first request including identification information of a first virtual machine (VM) and a recovery point objective (RPO), allocates a maximum allowable delay time to each node that input/output (IO) data of the first VM passes through in a redundancy process, and sends a second request to a second DMF device on a second site side. The second request includes a maximum allowable delay time of a second replication gateway function (RGF) device on the second site side, and a maximum allowable delay time of an IO writer function (IOWF) device on the second site side and requests the second site side to perform redundancy on the first VM. Hence, the RPO requirements of the tenants can be satisfied in an entire redundancy process.
US11461186B2
A system and method to receive, from a database service executing on a cloud infrastructure, information indicating metrics regarding backups for the database service, the information including at least an indication of an age of a last complete backup for the database service, an indication of a size of changed data since the last complete backup, and an indication of a number of data units changed since the last complete backup; determine a type of backup strategy to instruct the database service to perform based on the received information, the type of backup strategy being one of a complete backup of the database service, a delta backup of the database service, and no backup of the database service; and issue, in response to the determination, an instruction to the database service to execute the determined type of backup.
US11461185B2
An event processing system may identify duplicate events and prevent one or more of the duplicate events from being processed. The event processing system may determine the duplicate events, which are not permitted to be processed more than once, and allow these duplicate events to be processed exactly once. The event processing system may allow events, which are permitted to be processed more than once, to be processed without determining whether the events are duplicate events. If a main data center of the event processing system fails, a backup data center may take over instantly event processing from the main data center and may prevent events that have been processed by the main data center from being processed. Multiple data centers may work together and process events in an active-active mode by offering the exactly once processing as well as removing any duplicate events from upstream systems.
US11461180B2
Storing documents in an object store in the cloud by creating a container for the documents, defining a document record including unique document ID and an index. A backup record for every backup includes a timestamp for each backup, and a bitmask for each document in the container has a single bit position for each document to indicate the corresponding document as unchanged or that it has been changed/deleted. Each bit location in the bitmask is referenced by the index in the document record. Large documents have a multi-part record identifying the containers. During point-in-time recovery, containers that match a given timestamp are found, and documents where the bitmask bit is set are restored.
US11461168B1
Continuity-based data protection may be implemented by systems and methods described herein for collecting a set of data that corresponds to a graphical representation of a computing environment, determining a plurality of subsets of the set of data, wherein a subset of the plurality has mathematical continuity, compressing at least the subset of the plurality, thereby generating one or more compressed subsets, and providing the one or more compressed subset to another computing entity, the other computing entity being able to determine the graphical representation of the computing environment, wherein the graphical representation is presentable to a user of the other computing entity.
US11461160B2
A method and a device for a reaction-free and integrity-protected synchronization of log data between at least one first network and a second network is provided. The log data is copied by means of a monitoring device upon being transmitted from devices to a first log server in the first network. Metadata of the log data is additionally generated in a first managing unit, the metadata including time information, integrity information, origin information, and/or completeness information. The copied log data and the corresponding metadata are transmitted to the second network via a unidirectional coupling unit in a reaction-free manner. The lot data is checked and ordered chronologically in the second network using the metadata. Thus, a synchronized copy of the log data from the first network is promptly provided in the second network.
US11461157B2
A peripheral device according to the present invention includes: a memory; and a processor. The processor performs operations. The operations includes: detecting a failure related to the peripheral device and notifying a host device of occurrence of the failure; transmitting the failure information to the host device when failure information relating to the failure is requested by the host device after notifying of the occurrence of the failure, storing the failure information in the memory when there is no request for the failure information from the host device, and reading the failure information from the memory and transmitting the read failure information to the host device when the stored failure information is requested by the host device; and initializing the peripheral device after storing the failure information in the memory when initialization is instructed by the host device.
US11461154B2
Systems and methods are described for implementing a coordinator within a coordinated environment, which environment includes set of coordinated devices managed by the coordinator. The coordinator can be provisioned with a set of tasks, each task corresponding to a segment of code that can be executed by the coordinator, such as to manage the coordinated devices. The coordinator can further be provisioned with event flow information designating a routing of inputs to the coordinator computing device to destinations, such as task executions or coordinated devices. On receiving input, the coordinator can reference the event flow information to pass the input to an appropriate destination.
US11461153B2
A system and method are provided for monitoring events in process management systems. The method is executed by a device having a communications module and includes receiving via the communications module first event data from at least one process management system, the first event data comprising a unique identifier associated with a corresponding process flow. The method also includes storing the first event data in an event repository of the memory. The method also includes, asynchronously from receiving the first event data, providing second event data to a monitoring tool via the communications module, by accessing the first event data stored in the event repository, to enable events associated with all of the at least one process management system to be viewed, to initiate feedback to the at least one process management system for updating or advancing process workflows, and to enable notifications to be sent to clients of the at least one process management system.
US11461151B2
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a computer-implemented method for controller address contention assumption. A non-limiting example computer-implemented method includes a shared controller receiving a fetch request for data from a first requesting agent, the receiving via at least one intermediary controller. The shared controller performs an address compare using a memory address of the data. In response to the memory address matching a memory address stored in the shared controller, the shared controller acknowledges the at least one intermediary controller's fetch request, wherein upon acknowledgement, the at least one intermediary controller resets, wherein the acknowledging comprises exchanging tokens by the shared controller and the at least one intermediary controller, wherein the at least one intermediary controller transmits an identity of the first requesting agent and a type of operation associated with the requested data, and wherein the shared controller transmits an acceptance.
US11461144B2
Method by which a plurality of processes are assigned to a plurality of computational resources, each computational resource providing resource capacities in a plurality of processing dimensions. Processing loads are associated in each processing dimension with each process. A loading metric is associated with each process based on the processing loads in each processing dimension. One or more undesignated computational resources are designated from the plurality of computational resources to host unassigned processes from the plurality of processes. In descending order of the loading metric one unassigned process is assigned from the plurality of processes to each one of the one or more designated computational resources. In ascending order of the loading metric any remaining unassigned processes are assigned from the plurality of processes to the one or more designated computational resources whilst there remains sufficient resource capacity in each of the plurality of processing dimensions.
US11461142B2
Automatic memory management method, corresponding micro-controller unit and computer program product
Methods, microprocessors, and systems are provided for implementing an artificial neural network. Data buffers in virtual memory are coupled to respective processing layers in the artificial neural network. An ordered visiting sequence of layers of the artificial neural network is obtained. A virtual memory allocation schedule is produced as a function of the ordered visiting sequence of layers of the artificial neural network, the schedule including a set of instructions for memory allocation and deallocation operations applicable to the data buffers. A physical memory configuration dataset is computed as a function of the virtual memory allocation schedule for the artificial neural network, the dataset including sizes and addresses of physical memory locations for the artificial neural network.
US11461134B2
Provided is a method for scheduling of tasks for an operating system on a multi-core processor. The method includes receiving a system call for initiating a scheduling operation on a second core and invoking a scheduling instance to the second core, and the scheduling instance notifies the scheduling operation of an incoming high priority task. Further, the method includes deferring a switching context instance at the second core, and the deferring the switching context instance at the second core includes unblocking the first core to perform other tasks.
US11461131B2
At least a portion of a virtual machine is hosted on at least one node of a first subset of a plurality of nodes of a secondary storage system. The virtual machine comprises a plurality of portions that can be distributed between the plurality of nodes and is configured into a first state of a plurality of states, such that, in the first state, the plurality of portions is distributed between a first subset of the plurality of nodes and each of the first subset of nodes stores a portion of the virtual machine in its corresponding storage device. A node from the second subset of the plurality of nodes to host the virtual machine in a second state of the plurality of states is selected based on at least one of storage, memory or processing resources of one or more nodes of a second subset of the plurality of nodes.
US11461130B2
In an embodiment, a computer of a cluster of computers receives graph logic that specifies a sequence of invocations, including a current invocation and a next invocation, of parallelism operations that can detect whether the graph logic should prematurely terminate. The computer initiates, on the computers of the cluster, execution of the graph logic to process a distributed graph. Before the current invocation, the graph logic registers reversion logic for a modification of the distributed graph that execution of the graph logic has caused. During the current invocation, it is detected that the graph logic should prematurely terminate. Execution of the graph logic on the cluster is terminated without performing the next invocation in the sequence of invocations. The reversion logic reverses the modification of the distributed graph to restore consistency. The distributed graph is retained in volatile memory of the cluster for reuse such as relaunch of the graph logic.
US11461113B2
An electronic device includes: a memory device; a nonvolatile memory configured to store a plurality of first configuration parameters respectively corresponding to operating voltages of the memory device and a plurality of second configuration parameters respectively corresponding to operating temperatures of the memory device; and a memory controller configured to: determine a value of a third configuration parameter corresponding to an operating voltage of the memory device among the plurality of first configuration parameters stored in the nonvolatile memory without performing a training operation, determine a value of a fourth configuration parameter corresponding to an operating temperature of the memory device among the plurality of second configuration parameters stored in the nonvolatile memory without performing the training operation, and drive the memory device according to the determined values of the third and the fourth configuration parameters.
US11461106B2
A method includes executing software code comprising a plurality of execute packets; responsive to an execute packet of the software code being executed by a data processor core, advancing a value of a test counter register; and responsive to the value of the test counter register being equal to a terminal value, triggering an event to be handled by the software code.
US11461105B2
Methods and systems are disclosed using an execution pipeline on a multi-processor platform for deep learning network execution. In one example, a network workload analyzer receives a workload, analyzes a computation distribution of the workload, and groups the network nodes into groups. A network executor assigns each group to a processing core of the multi-core platform so that the respective processing core handle computation tasks of the received workload for the respective group.
US11461103B2
In one embodiment, a branch processing method comprising receiving information from at least two branch execution units; writing two updates per clock cycle to respective first and second write queues based on the information; and writing from the first write queue up to two updates per clock cycle into plural tables of a first predictor and a single update for the single clock cycle when there is an expected write collision, the first predictor comprising a single write or read/write port.
US11461092B2
A method, system, and software for adding to, extending or otherwise modifying a pre-existing computer program, written in a scripting language, with a new source code, written in a scripting language, without the need to sham underlying source code of the pre-existing computer program or the newly modified source code.
US11461091B2
In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for use with a cloud computing environment, for creating or updating tenant artifacts using microservices. A multi-tenant cloud service provides a loosely-coupled and distributed approach for consistently creating or updating tenant artifacts through the use of multiple independent microservice's lifecycle containers, each having their own requirements during the creation or update of a tenant instance. The development and packaging of lifecycle containers is simplified by managing the software code responsible for artifact creation or update within a microservice code repository. The system can use a deployment approach of loosely-coupled microservice lifecycle containers together with an infrastructure lifecycle service that coordinates tenant artifact creation/update across multiple microservices.
US11461087B2
An example operation includes one or more of detecting, by a transport, a difference between sensor data associated with a location outside the transport and data stored on the transport and updating, by the transport, the data stored on the transport with the difference.
US11461085B2
A multiple storage node system including a first and second node is provided. The first node includes a first baseboard management controller (BMC), a first flash ROM configured to store a first flash image, and a first switch device configured to connect the first BMC to the first flash ROM. The second node includes an exact configuration of the first node. The first BMC is connected to the second switch device, and the second flash image is the same as the first flash.
US11461081B2
Implementations are described herein for adapting existing source code snippets to new contexts. In various implementations, a command may be detected to incorporate an existing source code snippet into destination source code. An embedding may be generated based on the existing source code snippet, e.g., by processing the existing source code snippet using an encoder. The destination source code may be processed to identify one or more decoder constraints. Subject to the one or more decoder constraints, the embedding may be processed using a decoder to generate a new version of the existing source code snippet that is adapted to the destination source code.
US11461080B1
Embodiments described herein provide techniques for in-line compiling of UDFs in other programming languages. These techniques enable faster programming iterations because it allows users to compile directly in the cloud processing system. Moreover, it allows the UDFs to tie into existing libraries. The compiled results are treated as sensitive and handled with appropriate security policies, as with any other user data in the system.
US11461079B2
A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored therein a program for causing a computer to execute a process, the process includes detecting a conflict between a first library and a second library in a first program based on a first definition file indicating that the first program depends on the first library and the second library among a plurality of libraries, generating a logical formula indicating that the first program depends on the first library and does not depend on the second library, and outputting a second definition file indicating that the first program depends on the first library and does not depend on the second library when the logical formula is determined to be satisfiable.
US11461078B2
Embodiments of the innovation relate to, in a development device, a method of generating a backend application for execution by a server device. The method comprises receiving, by the development device, ontology information associated with an enterprise domain, the ontology information including syntactic information and semantic information; applying, by the development device, a metaprogramming engine to the ontology information to generate the backend application; and forwarding, by the development device, the backend application to the server device.
US11461072B1
A movie theater audio distribution system includes a visual display associated with a theater, the visual display having a transmitter; a server to control the visual display; a computer having an audio programing platform to command the server to control the visual display; a headphone device having a transceiver to communicate wirelessly with the server, the headphone device having a control system to receive commands from the server; the audio programming platform provides a way to command the server to transmit an audio to the headphone device correlated to the visual display; and the transmitter is to wirelessly communicate with the transceiver thereby activating the audio associated with the visual display to play through the headphone device when the headphone device is in close proximity to the visual display.
US11461070B2
A method of delivering audio to one or more client computing devices includes receiving, by an audio server computing device, a live audio signal starting at a first time; processing, by the audio server computing device, the live audio signal, thereby creating a data representation of the live audio signal; transmitting, by the audio server computing device, via a wireless network in electronic communication with the audio server computing device, the data representation of the live audio signal to the one or more client computing devices; interpreting, by the one or more client computing devices, the data representation of the live audio signal, thereby producing an interpreted audio signal; and providing, by the one or more client computing devices, the interpreted audio signal to a user listening device starting at a second time. A latency between the first time and the second time is less than 100 milliseconds.
US11461065B2
A mobile device generates and transmits to a print cloud server application via email, a print cloud request that specifies information to be printed. The print cloud server application generates and assigns a print job to a printing device group that corresponds to the destination email address of the print cloud request. A user is authenticated at a printing device and the printing device generates and transmits, to the print cloud server application, a request for print jobs. The request for print jobs includes user information that identifies the user and data that identifies the printing device group for the printing device. The print cloud server application provides, to the printing device, data that identifies print jobs that correspond to both the user information and the printing device group. The user selects one or more of the print jobs and the selected print jobs are released to the printing device.
US11461063B2
A control apparatus has a display unit, a first changing unit and a second changing unit. The display unit displays a print preview showing a print medium on which a sheet region corresponding to a predetermined paper size is provided. The first changing unit changes, based on a setting in a first setting item being changed, an orientation of the sheet region in the print preview displayed by the display unit. The second changing unit changes a positional relationship among a multiple pages on the print medium shown by the print preview based on a setting in a second setting item being changed by a user. Orientations of the multiple pages and the positional relationship and a setting in a second setting item are changed based on a change, by a first changing unit, of the orientation of the sheet region having the multiple pages arranged therein.
US11461042B2
Apparatus and methods are provided for operating a non-volatile memory module. In an example, a method can include filling a first plurality of pages of a first non-volatile memory with first data from a first data lane that includes a first volatile memory device, and filling a second plurality of pages of the first non-volatile memory device with second data from a second data lane that includes a second volatile memory device. In certain examples, the first plurality of pages does not include data from the second data lane.
US11461035B2
A method is described that includes determining a number of program and erase cycles associated with a block of pages of a memory device and determining a preprogram voltage based on the number of program and erase cycles to apply to the block of pages prior to an erase operation. The method further includes applying the preprogram voltage to the block of pages and performing an erase operation on the block of pages following application of the preprogram voltage to the block of pages.
US11461030B2
Methods, systems, and devices for one or more clock domain crossing queues are described. A queue can receive, from a first clock domain, a first command to store data in the queue. The queue can store the data at a first location indicated by a first pointer. The queue can receive, from the first clock domain, a second command to cause the second clock domain to retrieve the data from the queue. The queue can generate, based on receiving the second command, a third command synchronized with a clock of the second clock domain and to cause the second clock domain to retrieve the data. The queue can retrieve the data from the first location in the queue indicated by a second pointer associated with retrieving data based at least in part on generating the third command. The queue can transmit, to the second clock domain, the data.
US11461025B2
A memory controller accesses a memory page in a memory block of a storage memory array of a memory device. The memory controller reads memory data stored in the accessed memory page. The memory controller determines a number of error bits associated with the memory data. The memory controller obtains an erase count corresponding to the accessed memory page, the erase count indicating a number of erase operations performed on the accessed memory page. The memory controller determines, from among one or more error threshold values, an error threshold value based at least on the erase count. The memory controller determines a relationship between the number of error bits and the error threshold value. The memory controller triggers a data refresh for the accessed memory block if the relationship between the number of error bits and the error threshold value satisfy a known criterion.
US11461023B1
Flexibly expanding the storage capacity of a data storage system by adding a single physical storage device or any number of disk drives to an existing storage system without the need to reconfigure existing erasure encoding groups of the system. The physical storage devices of a data storage system may be divided into a plurality of slices, and each slice may be a member of an erasure encoding group. Physical storage devices that are added to the data storage system may be divided into same number of slices and/to slices of a same size, which then may be added to existing erasure encoding groups, utilized as spare slices or left idle until all of the slices are integrated into the data storage system.
US11461021B2
An electronic device is provided. A computing system includes a storage device and a host. The storage device includes a memory device including a write protection area. The host performs an operation of providing, to the storage device, a first request regarding security write and write data in parallel with an operation of generating a host authentication code based on the write data and a key shared with the storage device.
US11461019B2
A memory device includes a memory component that stores data and a processor. The processor may receive requests from a requesting component to perform a plurality of data operations, generate a plurality of packets associated with the plurality of data operations, and continuously transmit each of the plurality of packets until each of the plurality of packets are transmitted. Each of the plurality of packets after the first packet of the plurality of packets is transmitted on a subsequent clock cycle immediately after a previous packet is transmitted.
US11461017B2
A memory device includes a memory component that stores data. The memory device also includes a processor that receives a signal indicating that the memory component is coupled to the processor and retrieves information from the memory component. The information may include one or more algorithms capable of being performed by the memory component. The processor may then receive one or more packets associated with one or more data operations regarding the memory component. The processor may then perform the one or more data operations by using the memory component to employ the one or more algorithms.
US11461006B2
A communication device includes a wireless communication interface, a memory configured to store information, and a processor configured to write the setting information received by the wireless communication interface into the memory. The setting information is information regarding a setting necessary for the wireless communication interface to perform the wireless communication. The wireless communication interface includes a first wireless communication interface configured to perform communication in conformity with a first wireless communication standard and a second wireless communication interface configured to perform communication in conformity with a second wireless communication standard. The processor includes first and second processors, and the memory includes first and second memories. The second wireless communication interface starts wireless communication with another device and after starting the wireless communication with the other device, the second wireless communication interface writes the setting information into the second memory.
US11461004B2
A method of operating a display unit enhances functionality of one hand control and a terminal supports the same. The method of operating the input area, output on the display unit, includes: determining whether one-hand operation mode is set; and displaying a first input module in which a key map area is displayed to be biased to a specific direction based on a center of the display unit when the one-hand operation mode is set.
US11461003B1
The subject matter of this specification can be implemented in, among other things, a computer-implemented user interface method. A method includes: receiving, by a computing system, a user search query; identifying that the user search query is a location specific search query; submitting, by the computing system to a search engine, the user search query and information indicative of a current location of a computing device, wherein the information indicative of the current location of the computing device is submitted to the search engine responsive to identifying that the user search query is a location specific search query, and wherein the information indicative of the current location of the computing device is in addition to content of the user search query; receiving, by the computing system and from the search engine, a plurality of search results identified by the search engine based on the user search query and the information indicative of the current location of the computing device; and providing, by the computing system, indications of the received plurality of search results for presentation by a display device.
US11460995B2
The disclosed embodiments relate to systems and methods for combining dual volatility measurements on a graphical user interface (GUI) of a computer system. The method may include receiving, via the GUI, a user selection for an anchor point, selecting a time window including the anchor point, calculating, using a volatility processor, a set of past volatility values based on the time window and the anchor point, calculating, using the volatility processor, a set of future volatility values based on the time window and the anchor point, and generating a dual volatility display for the GUI including the set of past volatility values and the set of future volatility values.
US11460994B2
An information processing apparatus includes a setting unit that sets setting information including notification information from a first user to a second user, an output location of the notification information in a physical space, and a notification condition that is a condition for outputting the notification information, and an output control unit that controls an output device to output the notification information to the output location when the notification condition is satisfied, based on the setting information set by the setting unit.
US11460981B1
An asset management mapping system including a microphone recording the audio of the asset inspector and a condition signal generator generating an condition signal based on asset inspector input from a keypad including condition selectors recorded into a global positioning system recorder that associates the audio, condition signal, and video with a gps location to create a pavement condition database. The database is interpreted to generate a condition output map of the areas inspected and provide associated video of each location on the map.
US11460979B2
According to an embodiment disclosed in the specification, a display device may include a microphone, a display displaying a screen including a plurality of layers, a memory storing a plurality of application programs, and at least one processor displaying a first user interface (UI) for interacting with a user on a first layer among the plurality of layers, displaying a second UI for displaying information obtained by performing the interaction on a second layer among the plurality of layers, and displaying an image at least partly overlapping with the first UI and the second UI on a third layer among the plurality of layers.
US11460978B2
When a page image is to be displayed, a display apparatus changes a display mode in which the page image is displayed on a display section according to both the orientation of the page image and the orientation of the display section.
US11460977B2
A method that prepares data for analysis includes displaying a user interface that includes a data a data flow pane that displays a flow diagram having a plurality of nodes, each node specifying a respective primary operation, a change list pane corresponding to a user-selected node in the data flow pane, and a data pane that displays a plurality of rows for an intermediate dataset of the user-selected node. The method also includes, in response to receiving a user input to perform a secondary operation at the user-selected node: (i) displaying, in the change list pane, an ordered list of secondary operations performed at the user-selected node, including displaying the secondary operation, and (ii) updating the data pane in accordance with the secondary operation, including updating the plurality of rows for the intermediate dataset.
US11460973B1
Node-link data can be converted into audio outputs. For example, a system can generate a graphical user interface (GUI) depicting a node-link diagram having nodes and links. The GUI can include a virtual reference point in the node-link diagram and a virtual control element that is rotatable around the virtual reference point by a user to contact one or more of the nodes in the node-link diagram. The system can receive user input for rotating the virtual control element around the virtual reference point, which can generate a contact between the virtual control element and a particular node of the node-link diagram. In response to detecting the contact, the system can determine a sound characteristic configured to indicate an attribute associated with the particular node. The system can then generate a sound having the sound characteristic, for example to assist the user in exploring the node-link diagram.
US11460972B2
A method for displaying a background screen in a mobile terminal is provided. The method includes resizing at least one of a plurality of background screens according to a first input, displaying at least one of the at least one resized background screen, detecting a second input, and transitioning among the resized background screens based on the detected second input, wherein the background screens respectively include an icon.
US11460966B2
A display device including a display panel, and an input sensor on the display panel, and in which an active area and a peripheral area and includes a first area and a second area spaced apart in a first direction, are defined, the input sensor including first sensing electrodes extending in the first direction, and arranged in a second direction crossing the first, second sensing electrodes extending in the second direction, and arranged in the first direction, first sensing lines extending in the second direction within the active area, connected to the first sensing electrodes, and partially located in the first area, respectively, second sensing lines electrically connected to the second sensing electrodes, respectively, and at least partially located in the second area, and a first guard electrode between the first sensing lines and the second sensing lines, and at a boundary between the first area and the second area.
US11460947B1
A touch screen includes a touch panel including a plurality of touch blocks, and a knob, being touch-sensitive and rotatable, disposed on top of the touch panel. An area of the touch panel not covered with the knob is defined as a first area, an area of the touch panel covered with the knob is defined as a second area, and touch blocks belonging to both the first area and the second area are defined as overlapped blocks. Sense signals associated with the overlapped blocks are de-emphasized.
US11460941B2
A touch display panel comprises a base substrate, a thin film transistor device structure, an organic light-emitting diode device structure, a packaging structure, and a touch screen structure that are sequentially arranged from bottom to top. The touch display panel further comprises a first induction electrode lead and a second induction electrode lead, wherein the first induction electrode lead is provided in the touch screen structure; the second induction electrode lead is provided in the thin film transistor device structure; and the first induction electrode lead is electrically connected to the second induction electrode lead.
US11460929B2
The technology disclosed relates to creating user-defined interaction spaces and modalities in a three dimensional (3D) sensor space in response to control gestures. It also relates to controlling virtual cameras in the 3D sensor space using control gestures and manipulating controls of the virtual cameras through the control gestures. In particular, it relates to defining one or more spatial attributes of the interaction spaces and modalities in response to one or more gesture parameters of the control gesture. It also particularly relates to defining one or more visual parameters of a virtual camera in response to one or more gesture parameters of the control gesture.
US11460927B2
A system automatically frames locations by detecting a user's presence within a virtual detection space. The system detects sound in the detection space and converts the sound into electrical signals. The electrical signals are converted into a digital signals at common or periodic sampling rates. The system identifies speech segments in the digital signals and attenuates noise like components within or adjacent to them. The system identifies the physical locations of a speech source generating the speech segments and automatically adjusts a camera framing based on the estimated location of the active speech source generating the speech segments.
US11460921B2
Embodiments of the invention are directed to a system, method, and computer program product for wireless communication between a brain activity morning system and a resource. The system first transmits a request for a password associated with a resource account based on determining a user is utilizing a brain activity measuring device. The system determines, based on a first brain activity signal, that the first brain activity signal indicates the password associated with the resource account. The system can also perform a resource transaction based on the first brain activity sign and the resource account.
US11460918B2
Various embodiments include processing devices and methods for managing multisensor inputs on a mobile computing device. Various embodiments may include receiving multiple inputs from multiple touch sensors, identifying types of user interactions with the touch sensors from the multiple inputs, identifying sensor input data in a multisensor input data structure corresponding with the types of user interactions, and determining whether the multiple inputs combine as a multisensor input in an entry in the multisensor input data structure having the sensor input data related to a multisensor input response. Various embodiments may include detecting a trigger for a multisensor input mode, entering the multisensor input mode in response to detecting the trigger, and enabling processing of an input from a touch sensor.
US11460912B2
A system and a method related to data fusing are provided. The first and second sensing data are obtained. The data combination is determined based on the first and second sensing data. The third sensing data is obtained based on images. Whether the human body portion exists in the third sensing data is determined during the first duration. The motion information is determined by a first determining factor, which includes the data combination and the third sensing data of the first duration, in response to the human body portion existing in the third sensing data. The motion information is determined by a second determining factor, which includes the data combination and the third sensing data of the second duration, in response to the human body portion not existing in the third sensing data. The human body portions of the user exist in the third sensing data during the second duration.
US11460911B2
A system that incorporates the subject disclosure may include, for example, device may perform operations for receiving a signal from an operational space associated with an accessory device, determining hand feature information according to the signal, accessing device location information associated with the computing accessory device, generating hand-device interaction information according to the hand feature information and device location information associated with the accessory device, and transmitting the hand-device interaction information to a virtual reality system, wherein the virtual reality system generates, according to the hand-device interaction information, a virtual hand and a virtual accessory device in a virtual reality image. Additional embodiments are disclosed.
US11460909B2
Disclosed are a device and a method for reducing standby power consumption in an electronic device. An electronic device includes a power supply device for supplying power for driving the electronic device; and a system device driven on the basis of the power supplied from the power supply device, wherein the power supply device can include a AC-DC converter for converting alternating current power received from an external power device into direct current power; and a connection circuit for selectively connecting the external power device and the direct current converter on the basis of an operation mode of the electronic device. Other embodiments can be possible.
US11460908B2
A storage system includes a first storage device and a second storage device, a first programmable chip of the first storage device and a second programmable chip of the second storage device are connected in series, and the second storage device is in a sleep state. The first programmable chip sends a wakeup instruction to the second programmable chip to instruct the second storage device to enter a working state. In this way, the second storage device is switched from the sleep state to the working state by using a programmable chip of the storage device.
US11460902B2
Presented herein are methodologies for providing power for last gasp operations of a circuit board when power is unexpectedly interrupted. A method includes monitoring a voltage of a main power supply; when the voltage of the main power supply falls below a predetermined threshold, disabling a first point of load (POL) converter that is being powered by the main power supply; boosting a voltage of an output capacitor of the first point of load converter to obtain a boosted voltage; and supplying the boosted voltage to an input of a second point of load converter.
US11460898B2
A storage system with temperature control. The system includes a plurality of storage devices such as solid state drives, a system controller such as a baseboard management controller, and one or more cooling fans. Each storage devices includes a controller configured to estimate the heat load in the storage device and/or an effective temperature, resulting from operations performed in the storage device. The system controller employs active disturbance rejection control to adjust the fan speed based on the estimated heat loads, the estimated temperatures, and/or the sensed internal temperatures, of the storage devices.
US11460894B2
An under-display camera is provided, wherein an image acquisition unit including the under-display camera is configured to generate an evaluation image based on a first light, by using an imaging unit including an image sensor. The first light is output by a light emitting unit, including a light source, and passes through a display panel. The under-display camera is controlled based on a result of evaluating a performance of the under-display camera, the result being obtained by calculating a feature value based on the evaluation image, calculating a reference value based on a reference image, and comparing the feature value with the reference value, the reference image being obtained based on a second light output by the light emitting unit, the second light not passing the display panel.
US11460893B2
Disclosed in various embodiments of the present document are: a structure including a nonmetallic material and guiding, in one direction, light incident on one side; and an electronic device including the structure in an inner space thereof. According to the various embodiments, provided is an electronic device comprising: a housing having an inner space, and including an outer surface facing a first direction, an inner space facing the direction opposite to the first direction, and a display unit which is formed between the outer surface and the inner space and which has a thickness through which light passes through; a printed circuit board arranged in the inner space; at least one light-emitting element arranged in the inner space; and a nonmetallic structure arranged in the inner space, wherein the nonmetallic structure includes: a first part having a light guide between the light-emitting element and the display unit and including a transparent or translucent first material; a second part which is integrally formed with the first part, includes the first material, and is directly or indirectly fixed to the printed circuit board or the housing; and a third part encompassing at least a portion of the light guide and including a translucent second material. The nonmetallic light guide structure and the electronic device including same can be varied according to embodiments.
US11460891B2
An electronic device including a device body, a first antenna module, a second antenna module, and an electrically conductive structure is provided. The first antenna module is disposed on the device body, and the second antenna module is disposed on the device body. The electrically conductive structure includes a first section and a second section, and the first section is connected between the first antenna module and the second section. The first section is extended along a first direction, the second section is extended toward the second antenna module along a second direction not parallel to the first direction, and the second section and the second antenna module have a gap therebetween.
US11460888B2
A flexible display device is disclosed. The flexible display device includes a first body, a second body, a flexible display, and a lubrication rail. The lubrication rail is made of self-lubricating engineering plastic, and is provided as a pair of lubrication rails. When the first body and the second body move relative to each other, a surface of the lubrication rail significantly reduces friction that occurs in a contact portion between the first body and the second body.
US11460881B2
An electronic device includes a chassis, an input device provided on a top surface of the chassis and configured to receive an input operation, and a pen holder provided so as to project from a side surface of the chassis and configured to be able to hold a pen device in a posture along the side surface. The pen holder has a pen holding part composed of stretchy fabric formed into a loop and configured to be able to hold the pen device by insertion of the pen device through its inner periphery part, and a bracket having a cutout part in which a part of the pen holding part is disposed and to be fixed to the chassis.
US11460879B1
Methods and apparatuses control electrical current supplied to a plurality of processing units in a multi-processor system. A plurality of current usage information corresponding to the processing units are received by a controller to determine a threshold current for each of the processing units. The controller determines a frequency reduction action and an instructions-per-cycle (IPC) reduction action for the each of the processing units based on the threshold current and regulates operations of the processing units based on the determined frequency and IPC reduction actions.
US11460878B2
According to one embodiment, an interface system includes a receiver, a first clock generator, a second clock generator, and a sampling circuit. The receiver is configured to receive a first clock and serial data from a host. The first clock generator includes a first voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) and is configured to generate a second clock on the basis of the first clock. The second clock generator includes a second voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) and is configured to generate a third clock on the basis of the serial data. The sampling circuit is configured to sample reception data on the basis of the third clock and the serial data.
US11460876B1
A method includes obtaining a plurality of entangled qubits, with high fault tolerance, represented by a lattice structure. The lattice structure includes a plurality of contiguous lattice cells. A first subset of the plurality of entangled qubits defines a first plane, and a second subset of the plurality of entangled qubits defines a second plane that is parallel to and offset from the first plane. The plurality of entangled qubits includes a defect qubit that is entangled with at least one face qubit on the first plane and at least one edge qubit on the second plane.
US11460868B2
A flow splitter including a first plate being immobile and a second plate being turnable with respect to the first plate. The first plate includes a central part, and the central part includes a slot and two side parts disposed at two ends of the slot, respectively. The second plate includes a first subplate and a second subplate, and the first subplate includes one end provided with a flange. The second plate is coupled to the first plate. The first subplate and the second subplate are disposed at two side of the slot; two sides of the second plate include two gaps, respectively. The two side parts of the first plate are disposed in the two yaps, respectively.
US11460867B2
A system of multi-view imaging of an environment through which a target moves includes pluralities of drones, each drone having a drone camera. A first plurality of drones moves to track target movement, capturing a corresponding first plurality of images of the target's face, making real time determinations of the target's head pose and gaze from the captured images and transmitting the determinations to a second plurality of drones. The second plurality of drones moves to track target movement of the target, with drone camera poses determined at least in part by the head pose and gaze determinations received from the first plurality of drones, in order to capture a second plurality of images of portions of the environment in front of the target. Post-processing of the second plurality of images allows generation of a first-person view representative of a view of the environment seen by the target.
US11460866B2
A system comprising: an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) carrier comprising a power supply, the UAV carrier connected, via respective wires, to one or more UVs, wherein: (a) each of the UVs is capable of performing maneuvers irrespective of maneuvers of the UAV carrier during performance of a mission; and (b) each of the UVs receives at least one of an electrical current from the power supply or digital data from the UAV carrier through the respective wires, during performance of the mission.
US11460856B2
Systems and methods for driver behavior recognition is provided. In one embodiment a computer implemented method includes receiving image data associated with a general objects. The method also includes identifying a reactive object and an inert object from the general objects based on the image data. An ego reactive graph is generated for the reactive object based on a reactive feature of the reactive object and a reactive position vector. An ego inert graph is generated for the inert object based on an inert feature of the inert object and an inert distance. The method further includes performing interaction modeling based on the ego reactive graphs and the ego inert graphs to generate updated features. The method also includes performing temporal modeling on the updated features. The method further includes determining an egocentric representation of a tactical driver behavior based at least in part on the updated features.
US11460854B1
An autonomous mobile device (AMD) moving in a physical space determines the presence of obstacles using images acquired by a stereocamera and avoids those obstacles. A floor with few visible features is difficult to characterize. The floor and any obstacles thereon may be difficult to characterize due to noise, perspective effect, and so forth. A score is determined that indicates whether a particular pixel in an image is deemed to be associated with a parallel surface (the floor) or a perpendicular surface (an obstacle). The score is computationally inexpensive to calculate and allows for highly accurate and low latency determinations as to the presence of an obstacle that would impede movement of the AMD. Orientation changes in the AMD, such as movement over a bumpy floor, are well tolerated as are floor features such as flooring transitions, ramps, and so forth which the AMD is able to traverse.
US11460839B2
An unmanned aerial vehicle access method being used for a base station includes: receiving a random access request sent by an unmanned aerial vehicle, the random access request including a random access preamble; when it is determined to respond to the random access request of the unmanned aerial vehicle, sending a random access initial response to the unmanned aerial vehicle; receiving a first message sent by the unmanned aerial vehicle, the first message including terminal indication information, the terminal indication information being used for indicating that a terminal, which requests to access, is the unmanned aerial vehicle; and when it is determined to allow the access of the unmanned aerial vehicle, sending, to the unmanned aerial vehicle, a second message for indicating that access is allowed.
US11460835B2
Some embodiments of the present BOP control systems include a system controller configured to actuate a first BOP function by communicating one or more commands to one or more nodes of a functional pathway selected from one or more available functional pathways associated with the first BOP function, each node comprising an actuatable component configured to actuate in response to a command received from the system controller, each node having one or more sensors configured to capture a first data set corresponding to actuation of the component and a processor configured to analyze the first data set to determine a useful life remaining of the component and/or compare the first data set to a second data set corresponding to a simulation of actuation of the component.
US11460834B2
There are described a method, apparatus, and kit for validating an upgrade to a data acquisition system (DAS). The method comprises acquiring measurement data from a composite part using an upgraded DAS, the composite part representing a family of parts and having features from different parts of the family of parts incorporated thereon; comparing the measurement data to reference data defining tolerances for the measurement data; and validating the upgrade to the DAS based on the comparing of the measurement data to the reference data.
US11460830B2
Disclosed herein is a duplicator assembly for forming a first void, which can be layered, in a laminated material of a part that matches a second void in a scarf repair guide. The duplicator assembly comprises an arm that comprises a first end portion and a second end portion. The first end portion is spaced apart from the second end portion. The duplication assembly also comprises a probe that is fixed to the first end portion of the arm and configured to trace the second void in the scarf repair guide. The duplication assembly further comprises a milling tool that is fixed to the second end portion of the arm such that the milling tool is co-movably coupled with the probe via the arm.
US11460828B2
A method for accessing a computer-numerically-controlled machine can include receiving a command to be executed by the computer-numerically-controlled machine. A hardware state of a component in the computer-numerically-controlled machine can be determined by receiving, from the component, data indicative of the hardware state. An origin of the command including a user identification of a user who sent the command and/or a machine identification of a device that sent the command can be determined. Whether the computer-numerically-controlled machine is allowed to execute the command can be determined by applying a set of rules and based on the hardware state and/or the origin of the command. In response to determining that the computer-numerically-controlled machine is allowed to execute the command, the command can be executed at the computer-numerically-controlled machine.
US11460827B2
In a controller and a machine learning device capable of suppressing an influence of an abnormal value based on noise, etc., the machine learning device included in the controller includes a state observation unit for acquiring input data including at least one of internal data and external data of the manufacturing machine controlled by the controller, an input safety circuit for detecting an abnormality in the input data and outputting safe input data, a machine learning unit for executing learning of a learning model and inference using the learning model based on the safe input data and outputting inference data as an inference result, an output safety circuit for detecting an abnormality in the inference data and outputting safe inference data, and an output unit for outputting output data based on the safe inference data.
US11460823B2
Provided is a subject device comprising: a control permission issuance part for issuing a new control permission each time a control permission issuance request is received from any of a plurality of control devices, and for returning information of the new control permission to the control device having transmitted the issuance request; a control permission management part for managing the control permissions such that only one among the issued control permissions is valid and the other issued control permissions are invalid; and a mutual exclusion part for, upon receipt, from any of the plurality of control devices, of a control commencement request to which the information of the control permission has been appended, verifying whether the control permission appended to the control commencement request is valid, allowing exclusive control by the control device having transmitted the control commencement request if the control permission is valid, and denying control by the control device having transmitted the control commencement request if the control permission is invalid.
US11460822B2
A self-perturbing extremum-seeking controller for a plant that includes at least a static portion includes a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to obtain a value of a performance variable characterizing a performance of the plant. The processing circuit is configured to determine a sign of a gradient of the performance variable with respect to an input to the static portion of the plant. The processing circuit is configured to adjust a control input for the plant using the sign of the gradient, and provide the control input to the plant to affect the performance variable.
US11460818B2
An evaluation apparatus includes a storage unit that stores a model modeling a state of a facility provided in a plant, a simulator that adjusts a parameter that is set in the model so that a difference between an actual measurement value based on a process value of the facility in a first state and a first simulate value calculated by using the model is equal to or less than a threshold, and an estimation unit that estimates a first estimated operating point that indicates an operation state of the facility in the first state based on the adjusted parameter.
US11460817B2
The present disclosure relates to a clothes treating apparatus that operates by executing an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm and/or a machine learning algorithm in a 5G environment connected for Internet of Things, and a method for operating the clothes treating apparatus. The method for operating the clothes treating apparatus includes acquiring a clothing image by using a camera to photograph a user wearing clothes and standing in front of a mirror display placed on a front surface of the clothes treating apparatus, analyzing the clothing image, setting an operation mode of the clothes treating apparatus according to the result of analyzing the clothing image, and causing the clothes treating apparatus to operate according to the set operation mode. It is possible to improve user satisfaction by automatically setting and activating an operation mode of a clothes treating apparatus based on clothing image information.
US11460816B2
A method for monitoring and controlling an industrial process which changes condition over time includes collecting sensor data from a sensor affected by the industrial process and transmitting it to a gateway for processing, transmitting processed sensor data using a cellular device from the gateway to a remote data storage for further processing, sending instructions back to the gateway using the cellular device, producing control signals at the gateway based on the instructions, and sending the control signals to a control device connected to the industrial process.
US11460813B2
A case includes a main case body and an exterior member. The exterior member is welded to the main case body with laser light. The laser light is irradiated onto a welding part of the main case body and the exterior member and reflected at an irradiation surface, and a reflected-light receiving part is formed at a position where the reflected laser light is irradiated according to an incidence angle of the laser light to the irradiation surface. The exterior member includes a flange part which is disposed on an upper side of the main case body and which protrudes toward an inner side of the main case body. A lower surface of the flange part includes a module receiving surface which receives a module to be disposed inside the main case body, and the reflected-light receiving part is formed at a part of the module receiving surface.
US11460806B2
A fixing device includes a first feeder provided downstream of a fixing portion heating a toner image formed on a first side of a sheet in a feeding direction, a second feeder provided adjacent downstream of the first feeder, and a guide contacting with a second side of the sheet fed by the first feeder and guiding toward the second feeder, a blower, a first duct guiding the air at a first position between the first and feeders, and a second duct at a second position between the first position and the first feeder. The first and second feeders are contactable to the sheet over an entire width. The air from the blower passes through the first duct, is sent to a feeding passage formed between the first and second feeders from the first position, and sent to the second side, then, the air passes through the second duct from the feeding passage via the second position and is exhausted.
US11460805B2
An image forming apparatus includes a fixing device, a discharge roller pair, a cooling fan, a detection portion, and a cooling fan control unit. The discharge roller pair discharges a sheet on which a toner image has been fixed in the fixing device to a discharge tray via a discharge port. The cooling fan cools the sheet discharged on the discharge tray by blowing air thereto. The detection portion detects a rear end of the sheet being conveyed from the fixing device toward the discharge port. The cooling fan control unit performs control so that, within a prescribed period from a point in time of detection of the rear end of the sheet by the detection portion to when the rear end passes through the discharge roller pair, a rotation speed of the cooling fan is reduced to be lower than a reference speed used to cool the sheet.
US11460803B2
A developing roller and a photosensitive drum are aligned in a second direction different from a first direction. A toner storage portion stores toner to be supplied to the photosensitive drum by the developing roller. A waste-toner storage portion stores toner conveyed through a conveyance pipe. The waste-toner storage portion has a main portion and a protruding portion protruding from the main portion in the first direction. A drum cartridge has a guide portion configured to guide the protruding portion of the waste-toner storage portion when a developing cartridge is being mounted on the drum cartridge. The guide portion includes first and second guides. The first guide extends in a third direction different from the first and second directions. The second guide continues from the first guide and is located closer to the photosensitive drum than the first guide is. The second guide extends in the second direction.
US11460799B2
An example image forming apparatus includes a coupling device to perform coupling or decoupling between the image forming apparatus and a consumable, a sensor to sense an opening of a cover of the image forming apparatus, and a processor. When receiving an opening sensing signal of the cover from the sensor, the processor determines whether the consumable coupled to the image forming apparatus corresponds to a consumable access condition, and based on a result of determination, transmits a signal requesting decoupling of the consumable corresponding to the consumable access condition to the coupling device.
US11460797B2
A binding unit is a binding unit used in staple-less binding in which mediums are bound by being interposed between binding units having plural recesses and projections in a thickness direction of a bundle of the mediums, in which, among the plural projections, a tip end of a projecting portion, which is at a central portion in an arrangement direction of the projections, protrudes further than a projecting portion disposed at a position different from the central portion.
US11460795B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member, an exposure unit, a developing member, and a control unit. The exposure unit exposes a surface of the image bearing member to light to form an electrostatic latent image. The developing member develops the electrostatic latent image by using toner to form a toner image. In image formation based on input image data, the control unit uses the exposure unit to control a maximum gradation value of the toner image to be formed on the image bearing member surface, based on a repetition length of a dither pattern. The control unit performs control so that the maximum gradation value is larger in a case where a first dither pattern having a first length as the repetition length is used than where a second dither pattern having a second length longer than the first length as the repetition length is used.
US11460784B2
A method of determining candidate patterns from a set of patterns of a patterning process. The method includes obtaining (i) a set of patterns of a patterning process, (ii) a search pattern having a first feature and a second feature, and (iii) a search condition comprising a relative position between the first feature and the second feature of the search pattern; and determining a set of candidate patterns from the set of patterns that satisfies the search condition associated with the first feature and the second feature of the search pattern.
US11460783B2
A focus-sensitive metrology target may be formed and read-out by a fabrication tool. A resulting overlay signal may be translated into a focus offset by comparison to a previously-determined calibration curve. One or more translated signals may be fed back to the fabrication tool for focus correction or used for prediction of on-device overlay (correction of overlay metrology results). In one embodiment, focus and overlay may be measured using a single target, where one portion of the target is formed on a first layer and includes a focus-sensitive design, and where another portion of the target is formed on a second layer and includes a relatively less focus-sensitive design. In some embodiments, a relative difference in focus response may be used to estimate an impact of focus error on device overlay and calculate non-zero offset contributions.
US11460780B2
A method adjusts a first element of a lithography apparatus toward a second element of the lithography apparatus via a tunable spacer which is arranged between the first element and the second element. The method includes: determining an actual location of the first element; determining a nominal location of the first element; unloading the tunable spacer; adjusting a height of the tunable spacer to bring the first element from the actual location to the nominal location; and loading the tunable spacer.
US11460776B2
A method of making a semiconductor device is provided. The method includes forming a photoresist material over a substrate, the photoresist material having a polymer that includes a backbone having a segment and a linking group, the segment including a carbon chain and an ultraviolet (UV) curable group, the UV curable group coupled to the carbon chain and to the linking group; performing a first exposure process that breaks the backbone of the polymer via decoupling the linking group from the connected UV curable group of each segment; performing a second exposure process to form a patterned photoresist layer; and developing the patterned photoresist layer.
US11460770B2
A resist composition containing a base material component of which solubility in a developing solution is changed due to an action of an acid and a compound represented by Formula (bd1); in the formula, Rbd1 to Rbd3 each independently represent an aryl group which may have a substituent, provided that one or more of Rbd1 to Rbd3 are aryl groups having a fluorinated alkyl group which may have a substituent, and at least one of the fluorinated alkyl groups which may have a substituent in these aryl groups is bonded to a carbon atom adjacent to a carbon atom that is bonded to a sulfur atom in the formula, and a total number of the fluorinated alkyl groups which may have a substituent is 2 or more; X− represents a counter anion.
US11460769B2
An actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive composition, and an actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive composition obtained by the method for producing an actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive composition each contain a cation having a metal atom, and a ligand, in which a value of σ represented by Equation (1) is 2.2 or less. A pattern forming method and the method for manufacturing an electronic device each use the actinic ray-sensitive or radiation-sensitive composition. σ = ∑ k = 1 N { ( μ - X k ) 2 × y k } ( 1 )
US11460752B2
A wavelength conversion device includes a nonlinear optical medium and a controller. The nonlinear optical medium configured to generate light from signal light and excitation light, the excitation light having a wavelength different from a wavelength of the signal light and having a second electric field strength than a first electric field strength of the signal light, the light having a wavelength different from a wavelengths of the signal light and the excitation light. The controller configured to control a first temperature of the nonlinear optical medium based on an intensity of the light.
US11460745B2
An LCD apparatus includes a first substrate and a second substrate. A first TFT array is deposited on the first substrate. A first array of drive electrodes is also deposited on the first substrate. A second TFT array is deposited on the second substrate. A second array of drive electrodes is deposited on the second substrate. The first TFT array, the second TFT array, the first array of drive electrodes and the second array of drive electrodes are configured to enable pixels or sub-pixels of the LCD apparatus to modulate light. The first TFT array may at least partially overlap the second TFT array, and the first array of drive electrodes may at least partially overlap the second array of drive electrodes, from an LCD viewing perspective.
US11460743B2
An array substrate, a light control panel and a display device are provided. The array substrate includes a plurality of gate lines respectively extending along a first direction, a plurality of data lines respectively extending along a second direction intersected with the first direction, and a plurality of light control pixel units. Each of the plurality of gate lines includes a plurality of grid parts arranged side by side along the first direction and connected in sequence, and each of the plurality of grid parts includes a grid line and an opening area surrounded by the grid line.
US11460742B2
A display apparatus (100) having a displaying region (RD) of a non-rectangular shape includes: a plurality of gate lines (22) being disposed in the displaying region (RD) and extending along a first direction; a plurality of source lines (24) extending along a second direction; a plurality of gate drivers (20G) and a plurality of source drivers (20S) disposed in the frame region (RF); and a gate connection line (26) being provided in the displaying region (RD) so as to extend along a direction which intersects the first direction and connected to one of the gate drivers (20G) and one of the plurality of gate lines (22). A region in which the plurality of gate drivers (20G) are provided and a region in which the plurality of source drivers (20S) are provided are opposite from each other, with the displaying region (RD) being interposed therebetween.
US11460741B2
A transistor substrate is provided. The transistor substrate includes a plurality of data lines and a plurality of scan lines, wherein the scan lines intersects with the data lines to define a plurality of pixel units. One of the pixel units includes a first electrode having a slit substantially parallel to the data lines. The pixel units include a second electrode and a switching transistor. The switching transistor includes a gate electrode connecting to one of the scan lines. The gate electrode has a first edge substantially parallel to the extending direction of the scan lines. The switching transistor includes a drain electrode electrically connected to one of the first electrode and the second electrode. The drain electrode includes an extending portion which extends toward the slit and extends away from an extending line of the first edge. The drain electrode and the slit have an overlapping region.
US11460740B2
An array substrate includes a plurality of driving units, where each of the plurality of driving units includes a first electrode, a second electrode and at least one thin film transistor; the first electrode and the second electrode are configured to be connected to an anode and a cathode of a light-emitting diode, respectively, such that a vertical projection of the light-emitting diode on the array substrate overlaps with the at least one thin film transistor, and in a light-emitting direction of the light-emitting diode, the at least one thin film transistor is disposed on a backlight side of the light-emitting diode; and each of the plurality of driving units controls the light-emitting diode to be turned on or off according to a driving signal.
US11460736B2
A liquid crystal lens has at least two driving regions, and the liquid crystal lens includes a first electrode layer and a second electrode layer. The first electrode layer includes a plurality of first electrode groups, and each first electrode group includes a plurality of first electrodes. The plurality of first electrodes included in each first electrode group is configured to receive a plurality of first driving signals in a one-to-one correspondence manner, and each driving region in the at least two driving regions corresponds to at least one first electrode group. The second electrode layer is disposed opposite to the first electrode layer, and includes at least one second electrode configured to receive at least one second driving signal in a one-to-one correspondence manner.
US11460731B2
A lens diffusing light emitted from a light source includes a concave light-incident surface, a light guide portion, and a light-emitting surface. The light-incident surface includes a plane portion opposed to the light source and an optical function portion that is formed on the plane portion and one of scatters and diffuses the light. The light emitted from the light source enters the light-incident surface. The light that has entered the light-incident surface passes through the light guide portion. The light-emitting surface emits the light passed through the light guide portion.
US11460729B2
Provided are a novel optical element that can be used as a sensor or the like and a sensor including the same optical element. The optical element includes a cholesteric liquid crystal layer, in which the cholesteric liquid crystal layer has a liquid crystal alignment pattern in which a direction of an optical axis derived from a liquid crystal compound changes while continuously rotating in at least one in-plane direction, and in a case where a cross-section taken in a thickness direction conforming the in-plane direction in which the direction of the optical axis rotates is observed using a scanning electron microscope, a portion where a bright line and a dark line derived from the cholesteric liquid crystalline phase are discontinuous is provided in the cholesteric liquid crystal layer in the in-plane direction in which the direction of the optical axis rotates.
US11460723B1
Disclosed is a system and method for solid-state 2D optical phased arrays (OPAs), which are fabricated from In-rich In1-xGaxN/GaN multiple quantum wells (MQWs). In-rich InxGa1-xN alloys possess the unique properties of exceptionally high free-carrier-induced refractive index (n) change and low optical loss. InGaN/GaN MQW pixels play the role of using a very small fraction of a laser beam to modulate the phase of the laser beam. The phase of each MQW pixel in the OPA is controlled independently via electro-optic effect through the integration between OPA pixels with a Laterally Diffused MOSFET (LDMOS) integrated circuit driver to achieve the manipulation of the distribution of optical power in the far field. The present invention is applicable to a wide range of applications, including the operation of LIDAR systems, laser weapons, laser illuminators, and laser imaging systems.
US11460719B2
Dynamic contact lenses fabricated with a dynamic portion that extends outward from the peripheral portion are disclosed. When worn on an eye the dynamic portion forms a tear lens for correcting vision. The dynamic portion can also be configured to provide a dynamic tear lens that changes optical power with forces applied by eyelids. The dynamic portion can be configured to assume a conforming configuration and at least one non-conforming configuration, or can be configured to assume at least two non-conforming configurations. The dynamic contact lenses can be used for correcting vision such as correcting presbyopia.
US11460716B2
A method for producing a spectacle lens 2 including a base portion 2 that is made of a resin material and includes a convex object-side face and a concave eyeball-side face, and an optical element 12 that is made of a material different from the material for forming the base portion and is embedded in the base portion, is described. The method includes: arranging an optical element in a cavity 28 of a mold including a first mold part 20 and a second mold part 24 that can be opened and closed; introducing a resin material for forming a base portion of the spectacle lens into the cavity of the mold; obtaining the spectacle lens by curing the resin material that is a resin for forming the base portion; disassembling the mold; and detaching the spectacle lens from the mold.
US11460710B2
Ununiformity of a light intensity of a laser beam is appropriately reduced. An optical element receives a laser beam having a light intensity distribution and provides wavefront aberration of the received laser beam in a first direction orthogonal to a traveling direction larger than a diffraction limit, and provides wavefront aberration of the received laser beam in a second direction orthogonal to the traveling direction and the first direction equal to or smaller than the diffraction limit.
US11460704B2
Provided are an optical system for an augmented reality apparatus and an augmented reality apparatus. The optical system includes an image source; a polarizing beam splitter including a polarizing beam splitting film and a polarizing film; a polarizer disposed between the image source and the beam splitting side of the polarizing beam splitter; a wave plate adjacent to the beam splitting side; a semi-reflector located downstream of the wave plate in an optical path of the reflected light; and an additional wave plate and an additional polarizer which are sequentially located distal to the semi-reflector. The image source has a planar image source for emitting light, wherein a plane where the beam splitting side of the beam splitter component locates is at a first angle (β) relative to a normal of the image source, the first angle has a value between 11° and 79°.
US11460699B2
An augmented reality device, an augmented reality system and an information prompt method thereof. The augmented reality device includes a micro display, an augmented reality element and an optical waveguide element. The micro display is configured to emit light carrying display content, the light includes a first light portion in a first polarization state and a second light portion in a second polarization state; the augmented reality element is configured to allow the first portion to convert from the first polarization state into the second polarization state, to allow the second light portion to convert from the second polarization state into the first polarization state, and to couple the first light portion in the second polarization state and the second light portion in the first polarization state to the optical waveguide element; the first polarization state is perpendicular to the second polarization state.
US11460696B2
A method of assisting a user wearing a head mountable display (HMD) when determining that the user may be in a pathological state includes: detecting, by one or more sensors, one or more parameters indicating one or more current properties of the user, generating information indicating the one or more current properties of the user based on the one or more parameters, determining whether the user may be in a pathological state or a non-pathological state based on the information indicating one or more of the current properties of the user, and performing a process under instruction of a processor in response to determining that the user may be in a pathological state, the process comprising one or more operations that the user can voluntarily instruct when the user is in a non-pathological state.
US11460695B2
A display apparatus includes a light source array in which a plurality of light sources emitting light by a local dimming are arranged, a color conversion layer comprising color conversion particles that convert the emitted light into light of a certain color, and configured to emit white light by using the converted light, a display panel configured to generate an image by using the white light, and a selective transmission member arranged between the light source array and the color conversion layer. The selective transmission member is configured to transmit the light to the color conversion layer, and avoid transmitting the light in the color conversion layer to the light source array.
US11460694B2
An optical waveguide device for use in a head up display. The waveguide device provides pupil expansion in two dimensions. The waveguide device comprise a primary waveguide and a secondary waveguide, the secondary waveguide being positioned on a face of the primary waveguide. The secondary waveguide has a diffraction grating on a face opposite to the face which contacts the primary waveguide. The diffraction grating diffracts light into more than one diffraction order. Rays diffracted into a non-zero order are trapped in the secondary waveguide by total internal reflection.
US11460693B2
Provided are a lens and a lens assembly including a lens barrel defining a receiving space and provided with a light-through hole and the lens received in the receiving space. The lens includes an optical portion for imaging and a peripheral portion provided with through holes penetrating through the peripheral portion along an optical axis of the lens. The through holes are distributed on circumferences of different diameters, centers which are located on the optical axis. The farther the circumference is from the optical axis, the more through holes are arranged on the circumference. When light enters regions of the lens where the through holes are arranged, stray light is absorbed, effectively reducing the reflection of the stray light at the peripheral portion and improving imaging quality. The through holes do not affect assembly accuracy of the lens and reduce appearance yield of the lens or increase cost.
US11460692B2
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.
US11460685B2
Methods, devices and systems for up to three-dimensional scanning of target regions at high magnification are disclosed.
US11460673B2
Provided is a camera optical lens including, sequentially from an object side to an image side: a first lens having a positive refractive power; a second lens having a negative refractive power; a third lens having a negative refractive power; 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 having a negative refractive power. The camera optical lens satisfies following conditions: 0.85≤f1/f≤1.00; 1.50≤f3/f2≤5.00; and 3.00≤R7/d7≤7.00. The camera optical lens can achieve high optical performance while satisfying design requirements for ultra-thin, wide-angle lenses having large apertures.
US11460671B2
The application discloses a camera lens assembly, and the lens assembly includes, sequentially from an object side to an image side along an optical axis: a first lens having a positive refractive power, an image side surface of which is a concave surface; a second lens having a refractive power; a third lens having a refractive power; a fourth lens having a refractive power; a fifth lens having a refractive power; a sixth lens having a positive refractive power, an object side surface of which is a concave surface; a seventh lens having a refractive power; and an eighth lens having a negative refractive power, an object side surface of which is a concave surface. A total effective focal length f of the camera lens assembly and an entrance pupil diameter EPD of the camera lens assembly satisfy f/EPD≤2.0.
US11460667B2
An optical imaging lens assembly is provided. The optical imaging lens includes a first lens (E1), a second lens (E2), a third lens (E3), a fourth lens (E4), a fifth lens (E5), a sixth lens (E6) and a seventh lens (E7) which are provided in sequence from an object side to an image side along an optical axis and have refractive powers. The first lens has a positive refractive power. The fourth lens has a positive refractive power. The sixth lens has a negative refractive power. The seventh lens has a negative refractive power. An object-side surface (S7) of the fourth lens is a concave surface, and an image-side surface (S8) is a convex surface. An object-side surface (S9) of the fifth lens is a convex surface.
US11460661B2
An embodiment includes a housing including a guide protrusion projecting from an upper surface thereof and a guide groove formed adjacent to the guide protrusion, a first magnet disposed at the housing, a bobbin on which a lens is mounted, a first coil disposed on an outer circumferential surface of the bobbin to move the bobbin by interaction with the first magnet, an upper elastic member coupled to the bobbin and the housing and having an end disposed in the guide groove, a damping member disposed between a side surface of the guide protrusion and a first end of the upper elastic member disposed in the guide groove, and a second coil for moving the housing by interaction with the first magnet.
US11460643B2
The present disclosure discloses a guarding wall mechanism (100) for an optical fiber (101). The mechanism (100) comprises a housing (202) adapted to house the optical fiber (101), wherein the housing (202) defines a space (108) between the optical fiber (101) and a guarding wall of the housing (202). A plurality of suction units (103) disposed in the space (108). Each of the plurality of suction units (103) are configured to selectively exert suction pressure on an examination surface in contact with a free end (109) of the optical fiber (101). The guarding wall mechanism (100) of the present disclosure eliminates leakage of light and reduces Fresnel losses. Also, the mechanism (100) improves comfort to the patient during examination.
US11460626B2
The technology involves an in-vehicle communication system with a console that is positioned within the cabin of the vehicle, for instance between the front seats so that passengers in the second row can view and access it. The console is configured to provide contextual information to passengers. The console includes a monitor assembly that has a display screen and a notification region. The notification region includes one or more displayable icons and at least one receptacle for a communication device of a passenger. The notification region has a first section comprising an outer cover layer with a first series of masking, diffuser and illuminating layers to selectively illuminate the one or more displayable icons. The notification region has a second section comprising the outer cover layer with a second series of masking, diffuser and illuminating layers to selectively illuminate the at least one receptacle for the communication device.
US11460617B2
Provided are an imaging apparatus capable of acquiring an image having a small transmission wavelength shift at a plurality of wavelengths and an image processing apparatus capable of measuring a subject on the basis of an image which has a small transmission wavelength shift and which is acquired at a plurality of wavelengths. High image height rays imaged at a position of which an image height is high is incident at a large angle with respect to the optical axis. Therefore, the transmission wavelength shift increases. However, in the imaging apparatus according to the first aspect, the first optical system causes the high image height rays to be incident into the first optical filter and the second optical filter in a state where the upper ray and the lower ray are parallel. Accordingly, in the first and second optical filters, the transmission wavelength shift due to an difference in incident angle of the high image height rays is suppressed, and an image with a small transmission wavelength shift can be acquired simultaneously at a plurality of wavelengths.
US11460615B2
A reflector having an information generation function, wherein information allowing a quick and clear understanding of a traffic system and the surrounding environment thereof can be generated by a combination of unit reflectors recognizable by a light detection and ranging (Lidar) or radio detecting and ranging (Radar) system, is proposed. The reflector includes a plurality of unit reflectors for representing information through code generation, wherein each of the unit reflectors represents information by reflecting light beams or radio waves therefrom or transmitting the same therethrough, whereby binary-coded information is generated using the reflector, which allows a Lidar system or a Radar system to recognize the generated information.
US11460604B2
Disclosed are systems and methods for obtaining input data comprising properties associated with at least one parent well and a child well associated with the at least one parent well, dividing the input data into a training data subset, a validation data subset, and a test data subset, selecting at least one machine learning model using the training data subset, the validation data subset, and the test data subset based on k-fold cross validation, tuning hyper parameters for each of the at least one machine learning model, and generating a learning output using the at least one machine learning model and the hyper parameters for each of the at least one machine learning model, the learning output indicating a test root-mean-square error (RMSE) and a training RMSE.
US11460601B1
A method for determining a distribution of a uranium deposit is provided, including: acquiring a remote detection result of a target area; acquiring a chemical detection result of soil in the target area; delineating a plurality of exploration regions in the target area according to the remote detection result and the chemical detection result; and providing boreholes in the plurality of exploration regions for gamma detection to determine a distribution and a trend of a uranium deposit according to a result of the gamma detection.
US11460593B2
An apparatus obtains measurements from a seismic sensor, wherein the seismic measurements include a set of seismic waves having at least a subset of seismic multiples and a machine-readable medium having program code executable by a processor to cause the apparatus to determine seismic measurements of the seismic waves, fit reflectivity model based on a set of reflectivity models using a nonlinear scheme to the seismic measurements, and identify a subset of the seismic measurements corresponding to the subset of seismic multiples. The apparatus also includes program code to cause the apparatus to generate a set of reduced-noise seismic measurements based on attenuation of the subset of the seismic measurements.
US11460588B2
The present invention provides a method and system for real-time high-precision positioning in the deep sea. The present invention, based on a ray theory model, uses an azimuth angle, a transmission delay, a deep-sea vehicle depth and a depth of an acoustic transducer of a water surface monitoring platform as an eigenray emergence angle, an eigenray transmission time, eigenray emergence depth and an eigenray end point depth respectively, quickly calculates an eigenray that connects the water surface monitoring platform with the deep-sea vehicle, accurately calculates a position of the deep-sea vehicle relative to the water surface monitoring platform, and converts the position into absolute position information of the deep-sea vehicle through the latitude and longitude of the water surface monitoring platform, thereby achieving real-time high-precision positioning.
US11460583B2
A method for providing correction data for satellite navigation, includes determining the correction data using a plurality of state signals relating to the Earth's ionosphere, each of the state signals associated with one of a plurality of signals which have been received by an interface for a plurality of mobile satellite receivers, the plurality of mobile satellite receivers provided for satellite navigation. Each of the plurality of state signals identify a geographical position of an associated one of the plurality of mobile satellite receivers and an item of state information relating to the Earth's ionosphere which is determined using at least one satellite signal transmitted between at least one satellite and the associated one of the plurality of mobile satellite receivers. The correction data is transmitted to the at least one satellite and then transmitted from the at least one satellite.
US11460582B2
A vehicle exterior environment detection apparatus includes a distance image generator, a vehicle detector, a search processor, a vehicle width calculator, and a predictor. The distance image generator generates a plurality of distance images including a first distance image, a second distance image, and a third distance image, on a basis of a plurality of stereo images including a first stereo image, a second stereo image, and a third stereo image each including a left image and a right image. The predictor predicts a position of a target vehicle in the left image and the right image included in the third stereo image, on a basis of a first vehicle image width calculated on a basis of the first distance image and a second vehicle image width calculated on a basis of a selected image of the second stereo image.
US11460581B2
In one embodiment, a system for removing LiDAR points is provided. An image is received from a camera and a plurality of points is received from a LiDAR sensor. The points are placed on the image based on coordinates associated with each point. The image is divided into a plurality of cells by placing a grid over the image. For each cell, a threshold is calculated based on the minimum distance between the points in the cell and the camera. The threshold may control how many points are allowed to remain in each cell. After calculating the thresholds, points are removed from each cell until the number of points in each cell do not exceed the threshold for the cell. The image and/or the reduced plurality of points are then used to provide one or more vehicle functions.
US11460579B2
A road surface detection device, which detects a road surface of a road on which a host vehicle runs, includes: a sensor configured to detect three-dimensional positional information at individual detection points by scanning a layer that includes the road surface; and an external environment recognition unit configured to calculate two-dimensional positional information in which positional information in a height direction has been removed from the positional information at the individual detection points included in the layer, to calculate, based on the two-dimensional positional information, a point sequence of the individual detection points in a two-dimensional coordinate plane, and to detect a trench existing in the road surface in accordance with a state of change of the point sequence.
US11460578B2
A method and system for sensing objects disposed about a vehicle includes LIDAR sensors in a LIDAR sensing unit mounted above the vehicle. The system includes outputting a plurality of laser beams from lasers while rotating the LIDAR sensing unit and simultaneously oscillating or changing an axis of rotation for the LIDAR sensing unit. The LIDAR sensors receive a reflection of the laser beams and convert optical signals to electrical signals. An electronic processor is configured to determine a presence or absence of objects from the electrical signals and provide a warning indication or control movement of the vehicle in response to detection of objects. The oscillating of the LIDAR sensing unit causes the laser beams to change an angle with respect to horizontal during rotation. The change in oscillation or offset angle for an axis of rotation is accounted for by the electronic processor to map the presence of objects. An autonomous vehicle is controlled based on the sensed objects or a warning is provided.
US11460565B2
A shield member electromagnetically shielding at least part of an electric circuit has a first end and a second end. The first end is configured to be constantly connected to a ground wire to electromagnetically shield at least part of the electric circuit; and the second end is configured to be selectively connectable to a power source, the shield member being configured to generate heat when energized while the second end is connected to the power source. Accordingly, the shield member electromagnetically shielding at least the part of the electric circuit can serve as a heater for preventing freezing and snow attachment.
US11460563B2
Automatic calibration of laser sensors carried by a mobile platform, and associated systems and methods are disclosed herein. A representative method includes determining an overlapping region of point cloud data generated by laser sensors, comparing surface features of the point clouds within the overlapping region, and generating calibration rules based thereon.
US11460557B2
An apparatus for distance measurement, having one or several optical detector modules and a readout module is provided. The optical detector modules each have a plurality of optical detector elements having one or several optical detectors and a counter indicating a count value, the optical detector elements each being in an active state or an inactive state. Each optical detector module has a timer element configured to determine a current time value and configured to continuously update the current time value, and a memory element for storing a plurality of time values stored. The readout module is configured to determine and output, for each detector module of the one or several optical detector modules, at least for each optical detector element of the optical detector elements of this optical detector module, which is in an inactive state, a time value for this optical detector element in dependence on the count value of the counter of this optical detector element and on the plurality of time values stored.
US11460555B2
A thermal-optical phase shifter includes a substrate layer, a cladding layer, and a beam in the cladding layer. The thermal-optical phase shifter includes a waveguide and a heating element disposed in the beam. The thermal-optical phase shifter includes a thermally conductive structure disposed on the cladding layer to disperse heat from the beam. The thermally conductive structure may include a metal strip disposed longitudinally along the beam, may include thermally conductive pads, and/or may include thermally conductive vias coupled between the cladding layer and the substrate layer. The thermal-optical phase shifter may be incorporated into light detection and ranging (LIDAR) devices, telecommunications devices, and/or computing devices.
US11460553B1
A lidar system that includes a laser source and a scannable mirror can be controlled to schedule the firing of laser pulse shots at range points in a field of view. A first mirror motion model can be used to govern the scheduling of the laser pulse shots, and a second mirror motion model can be used to govern when firing commands are to be generated for the scheduled laser pulse shots. The first and second mirror motion models model motion of the scannable mirror over time. A system controller can use the first mirror motion model as a coarse mirror motion model for the purpose of shot scheduling, while a beam scanner controller can use the second mirror motion model as a fine mirror motion model for the purposes of generating firing commands for the laser source.
US11460552B1
A lidar system that includes a variable energy laser source and transmits laser pulses produced by the variable energy laser source toward range points in a field of view can use a laser energy model to model the available energy in the variable energy laser source over time. The timing schedule for laser pulses fired by the lidar system can then be determined using energies that are predicted for the different scheduled laser pulse shots based on the laser energy model. This permits the lidar system to reliably ensure at a highly granular level that each laser pulse shot has sufficient energy to meet operational needs, including when operating during periods of high density/high resolution laser pulse firing. The laser energy model is capable of modeling a variable rate of energy buildup in the variable energy laser source per unit time.
US11460551B2
A pulsed light source illuminates a scene with a virtual array of points. Light reflected by the scene is detected by a small pixel array, allowing generation of a three-dimensional map of the scene. A processing element processing data output by the small pixel array uses a multipath resolution algorithm to resolve individual objects in the scene.
US11460546B2
A sensor apparatus includes a cylindrical sensor window defining an axis oriented substantially vertically, an air nozzle positioned below the sensor window and aimed upward, and a sensor-housing-top cap positioned above the sensor window and including a sensor-housing top and a circumferential cap. The sensor-housing-top cap is a single piece. The circumferential cap includes a topside and an underside. The topside and the underside are disposed radially outward from the sensor window. The underside includes a groove having a cross-section elongated circumferentially around the axis. The cross-section of the groove curves from a lower end upwardly and outwardly to an upper end.
US11460542B2
Multi-channel radio frequency (RF) transmitter (100) and method of calibrating the transmitter are provided. In an embodiment, the method involves applying an intermediate frequency (IF) signal with different compensation values on a first phase rotator (128) in a first channel transmitter module (TX1) of the transmitter, wherein the different compensation values are designed to compensate for a particular phase influencing factor, applying phase codes with the same different compensation values for different phases on a second phase rotator (132) in a second channel transmitter module (TX2), measuring resultant phase errors due to phase errors of the first and second channel transmitter modules for the different compensation values, and based on the resultant phase errors, selecting one of the different compensation values to be used as a calibrated compensation value for the first and second phase rotators in the first and second channel transmitter modules to compensate for the particular phase influencing factor.
US11460539B2
A method for operating multiple sensors of a vehicle in at least partially spatially coinciding detection areas and in a shared frequency domain. In the method, at a transmission point in time, at least two sensors transmit simultaneously on separate instantaneous frequencies separated by a frequency gap, the frequency gap including at least one instantaneous receive bandwidth of the sensors, each instantaneous frequency being blocked for a use by the sensors after the transmission point in time for the duration of a time gap, the time gap including at least one signal propagation time across a reception range of the sensors.
US11460534B2
Embodiments herein describe performing AoA resolving to identify a plurality of AoAs corresponding to a multipath signal and then using AP voting to identify a location of the client device. AoA resolving enables an AP to identify the different angles at which a multipath signal reaches the AP. That is, due to reflections, a wireless signal transmitted by a single client device may reach the AP using multiple paths that each has their own AoA. The AP can perform AoA resolving to identify the AoAs for the different paths in a multipath signal. In one embodiment, the AoAs for two APs (or a subset of the APs) can be used to identify cross points or intersection points that represent candidate locations of the client device. A voting module can determine whether those cross points corresponds to AoAs identified by the remaining APs.
US11460532B2
A user equipment uses positioning reference signals (PRS) and non-PRS signals for position measurements. The non-PRS signals may be downlink and sidelink signals wherein the non-PRS are downlink or sidelink signals that are transmitted for purposes unrelated to positioning. Positioning assistance data is provided to the UE that associates the non-PRS signals with PRS-IDs. The association of the non-PRS signals to the PRS-IDs may be provided by a location server or serving base station. After performing positioning measurements using non-PRS signals, the UE reports measurement information using the PRS-IDs to identify the non-PRS signals used to generate the positioning measurements.
US11460530B1
A slide screw tuner control mechanism uses linear actuator movement with numerically controlled PITCH (number of threads per inch). The PITCH is adjustable using the concept of a differential screw, implemented by independent control of the rotation of the actuator built-in ACME screw, yielding a numerically controllable overall effective PITCH. Tuner calibration and tuning can use dynamically adjustable horizontal movement increments increasing tuning speed at low frequencies without loss of fine-tuning resolution at high frequencies.
US11460524B2
A radio frequency coil according to an embodiment is configured to receive a magnetic resonance signal from an examined subject. The radio frequency coil includes an expandable and contractible first element and an expandable and contractible second element. The radio frequency coil has an overlap region where a first loop formed by the first element overlaps with a second loop formed by the second element. The ratio of the area of the overlap region to the area of the region enclosed by the first loop changes in accordance with expansion/contraction of the first element forming the first loop. The first element and the second element include liquid metal in at least a part thereof.
US11460520B2
A sensor test system having excellent throughput is provided. The sensor test system 1 includes a test apparatus group 20 including a plurality of sensor test apparatuses 30A to 30D coupled to each other so that the sensor 90 can be transferred, and each of the sensor test apparatuses 30A to 30D includes an application unit 40 including an application device 42 including a socket 445 to which the sensor 90 is electrically connected, and a pressure chamber 43 which applies a pressure to the sensor 90, a test unit 35 which tests the sensor 90 via the socket 445, and a conveying robot 33 which conveys the sensor 90 into and out of the application unit 40.
US11460517B2
There is provided systems, apparatus, and methods for locating a fault in a plurality of windings of a transformer. In one embodiment, the apparatus may include: a measurement device configured to measure electrical flow parameters of the transformer when the transformer is in an online mode; and a fault location determination unit configured to determine electrical flow parameters of the windings from the measured electrical flow parameters of the transformer, wherein the fault location determination unit is configured to process the determined electrical flow parameters of the windings to determine the location of the fault in the windings.
US11460515B2
A circuit includes a voltage comparator with an output, a first input and a second input, the first input being coupled to a first reference voltage terminal. An operational transconductance amplifier has an output coupled to the second input of the voltage comparator, an inverting input coupled to the output of the operational transconductance amplifier, and a non-inverting input coupled to a second reference voltage terminal. A filter capacitor is coupled in series between a power supply terminal and the second input of the voltage comparator.
US11460514B2
A battery degradation evaluation system includes a memory and a processor. The processor is configured to acquire state quantities of a battery mounted at a vehicle, derive probabilities, and evaluate degradation of the battery based on the derivation results. The probabilities are a short-term degradation probability of the battery degrading in a pre-specified short period, a medium-term degradation probability of the battery degrading in a period that is longer than the short period, and a long-term degradation probability of the battery degrading in a period that is longer than the medium period. When a number of the state quantities is smaller, the processor sets a higher weighting for a combined degradation probability for the short period and medium period, which is calculated from the long-term degradation probability. When the number of state quantities is larger, the processor sets a higher weighting for the short-term degradation probability.
US11460511B2
A battery management system is provided. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, the battery management system for managing a battery pack including a plurality of battery modules may include a plurality of individual battery management units respectively corresponding to the plurality of battery modules and a management module configured to integrally manage the plurality of individual battery management units, wherein each of the individual battery management units includes a state-of-health (SOH) calculator to calculate SOH of each of the plurality of battery modules and a state-of-charge (SOC) calculator to calculate SOC of each of the plurality of battery modules, the management module manages a performance state of all of the plurality of battery modules on the basis of the SOH and SOC of each battery module and the SOC of each battery module is corrected by the SOH of each battery module.
US11460479B2
This sample injection device is provided with a plunger drive unit for driving a plunger by a pulse motor, an encoder for detecting an operating position of the pulse motor, and a control unit for adjusting a reference position of the tip end of the plunger with respect to the syringe based on the operating position detected by the encoder when the tip end of the plunger is brought into contact with the end portion in the syringe on the tip end side.
US11460476B2
Devices, kits, and methods are disclosed for use in detecting a concentration of an analyte of interest in a patient's liquid test sample. The devices, kits, and methods employ the use of one or more solid reagent zones that includes at least one analytical reagent for detection of an analyte of interest. The solid reagent zone(s) also includes at least one dye for determining whether results obtained from the diagnostic assay for the at least one analyte of interest are biased or inaccurate due to a loss of volume of a liquid reagent during the dispensing of the liquid reagent.
US11460474B2
The present disclosure is directed to a method of identifying a patient having heart failure as likely to respond to a therapy with a statin. The method is based on measuring the level of at least one marker selected from GDF-15 (Growth Differentiation Factor 15), Urea, SHBG (Sex Hormone-Binding Globulin), Uric acid, PLGF (Placental Growth Factor), IL-6 (Interleukin-6), Transferrin, a cardiac Troponin, sFlt-1 (Soluble fms-like tyrosine kinase-1), Prealbumin, Ferritin, Osteopontin, sST2 (soluble ST2), and hsCRP (high sensitivity C-reactive protein) in a sample from a patient. Further envisaged is a method of predicting the risk of a patient to suffer from death or hospitalization, wherein the patient has heart failure and undergoes a therapy with a statin. The method is also based on the measurement of the level of at least one of the aforementioned markers.
US11460473B2
Quantitation of specific antibodies for at least one redox form of High mobility group box 1 (HMGB1) contained in a biological sample. An in vitro method for assessing the state of progression of a disease or a disorder in which HMGB1 is involved. An in vitro method for the identification of predisposition, prognostic or diagnostic biomarkers of a disease or a disorder in which HMGB1 is involved. A kit to quantitate said specific antibodies for at least one redox form of HMGB1.
US11460465B2
A device includes an input chamber, an attractant chamber, a migration channel arranged in fluid communication between an outlet of the input chamber and inlet of the attractant chamber, a baffle arranged in fluid communication between the outlet of the input chamber and the migration channel or within the migration channel, and an exit channel in fluid communication with the migration channel at a point beyond the baffle and before the migration channel enters the inlet of the attractant chamber. The baffle is configured to inhibit movement of a first type of cell through the baffle to a greater extent than the baffle inhibits movement of a second type of cell through the baffle.
US11460448B2
A wear sole, an ultrasonic inspection apparatus having a wear sole, and methods for using the same are provided. In one embodiment, the ultrasonic inspection apparatus can include a body, a wear sole, and a fluid channel. The body can define a first chamber configured to receive a first volume of ultrasonic couplant and a distal end of an ultrasonic probe. The wear sole can define a second chamber configured to receive a second volume of ultrasonic couplant and the wear sole can be removably coupled to a distal end of the body. The wear sole can also have a membrane extending thereacross for separating the first chamber from the second chamber. The fluid channel can extend through the body and the wear sole can be configured to deliver the second volume of ultrasonic couplant to the second chamber.
US11460446B2
A method is provided of inspecting a nested multi-layer structure including a first and second electrically conductive layer and a third layer disposed behind the second conductive layer. The method includes deploying a sensor device including an electromagnetic acoustic transducer to a borehole location proximate to the structure, generating a drive signal including a plurality of frequencies, applying an electrical current signal to the sensor device based on the drive signal and inducing currents in the first conductive layer that induce currents generating acoustic signals having the plurality of frequencies, detecting a first set of resonant frequencies based on received electromagnetic signals, detecting a second set of resonant frequencies based on received acoustic signals, estimating a property of the first and/or the second conductive layer based on the first set of resonant frequencies, and estimating a property of the third layer based on the second set of resonant frequencies.
US11460443B2
A fluid analysis system for characterizing a multiphase fluid includes a first set of acoustic probes disposed at a first angular position about a central axis of the fluid analysis system and oriented to direct first sound waves along a first direction that is parallel to the central axis, a second set of acoustic probes disposed at a second angular position about the central axis that is opposite to the first angular position and oriented to direct second sound waves along the first direction, a third set of acoustic probes spanning the central axis and oriented to direct third sound waves along a second direction that is perpendicular to the central axis, and an analysis unit. The analysis unit is configured to determine a location of a fluid interface within the multiphase fluid based on first, second, and third parameters respectively associated with the first, second, and third sounds waves.
US11460441B2
A system for non-destructive inspection of a structure includes a magnetostrictive strip, a plurality of coil circuits, a jacket assembly, and a tensioner. The magnetostrictive strip is configured to be induced with a bias magnetic field and wrapped at least partially around an outer surface of a structure. The plurality of coil circuits disposed on a flexible circuit board having at least two layers of conductive signal traces. The jacket assembly includes an inner jacket component, an outer jacket component, and a mid-layer component configured to be disposed adjacent to the plurality of coil circuits. The tensioner is configured to provide a mechanical pressure coupling between the magnetostrictive strip and the structure. Each coil circuit is individually controllable by a plurality of channels to at least one of excite or detect guided waves in the structure.
US11460433B2
In a floating gate semiconductor nanostructure biosensor and a method for manufacturing the biosensor, the nanostructure biosensor includes a substrate, an insulating layer, a nanostructure, a source electrode and a drain electrode, a floating gate and a biological sensing material. The insulating layer is formed on the substrate. The nanostructure is protruded from the insulating layer. The source electrode and the drain electrode are formed on the insulating layer and dispose the nanostructure therebetween. The floating gate has a metal pattern or a polysilicon pattern, and extends with contacting the nanostructure. The biological sensing material has a first end combined with an immobile molecule on the floating gate, and a second end combined with a bio molecule.
US11460429B2
The present disclosure discloses a method for producing an ISE half-cell, including the steps of: immersing a first end of a hollow body into a membrane solution comprising at least one solvent and an ion-specific ionophore; removing the hollow body from the membrane solution; drying the hollow body and evaporating the solvent from the membrane solution, whereby an ion-selective membrane is created at the immersed end of the hollow body; and completing the hollow body to make an ISE half-cell. The present disclosure also discloses an ISE half-cell that is produced according to such a method. The present disclosure further discloses a sensor and a multiparameter sensor comprising several such ISE half-cells.
US11460422B2
The invention provides a method for on-site monitoring of the quality of the gases delivered to a consumer site, the monitoring being carried out during the delivery, in order to declare the delivery compliant or non-compliant with specifications, being characterized in that, during the delivery, a monitoring of the gas(es) delivered is carried out by the thermal conductivity technique.
US11460418B2
Methods and systems for measuring structural and material characteristics of semiconductor structures based on wavelength resolved, soft x-ray reflectometry (WR-SXR) at multiple diffraction orders are presented. WR-SXR measurements are simultaneous, high throughput measurements over multiple diffraction orders with broad spectral width. The availability of wavelength resolved signal information at each of the multiple diffraction orders improves measurement accuracy and throughput. Each non-zero diffraction order includes multiple measurement points, each different measurement point associated with a different wavelength. In some embodiments, WR-SXR measurements are performed with x-ray radiation energy in a range of 10-5,000 electron volts at grazing angles of incidence in a range of 1-45 degrees. In some embodiments, the illumination beam is controlled to have relatively high divergence in one direction and relatively low divergence in a second direction, orthogonal to the first direction. In some embodiments, multiple detectors are employed, each detecting different diffraction orders.
US11460408B2
A system for geochemical characterization of a sample includes a closed reaction chamber configured to perform a high temperature and high-pressure acid digestion test, a spectrometry system configured for performing trace element analysis, and a controller. The controller includes a processor and a memory. The memory includes instructions stored thereon, which, when executed by the processor, cause the system to mineralize the sample based on a microwave process using the closed reaction chamber, and perform trace element analysis on the mineralized sample by the spectrometry system.
US11460405B2
Provided are methods, devices, assemblies, and systems for dispensing into the wells of a multi-well device and imaging such wells from multiple Z-planes. Multi-Z imaging of the present methods and systems may allow for the detection of wells of a multi-well device that contain a desired number of cells. Also provided are methods, devices, assemblies, and systems for processing cell-containing wells of a multi-well device identified through the use of multi-Z imaging.
US11460398B2
The present application relates to a new terahertz spectrum analyzer, which adopts a detector based on an NMOSFET gate rasterization structure, a detector based on a Schottky contact rasterization structure, a detector based on an HMET gate rasterization structure, and a detector based on a “wave-to-heat conversion structure”, an NMOSFET detector based on a multi-frequency terahertz antenna structure, and an SBD detector based on the multi-frequency terahertz antenna structure as a core component (i.e. sensor) for electromagnetic wave detection, so that the coverage band is wider. In addition, all circuits can be realized by a common integrated circuit process, so that the terahertz spectrum analyzer proposed by the present application has the advantages of small size, low cost, and low power consumption.
US11460395B2
A portable colorimetric assay system includes an opto-mechanical reader configured to be detachably mounted to a mobile phone having a camera or other camera-containing portable electronic device. The opto-mechanical reader includes one or more light sources configured to illuminate a test sample holder and control sample holder disposed in the opto-mechanical reader along an optical path aligned with a camera of the mobile phone or other camera-containing portable electronic device. One or more serum separation membranes are disposed in the opto-mechanical reader and define a sample receiving pad configured to receive a blood sample. A moveable serum collection membrane is membrane is also disposed in the reader and is configured to contact the sample receiving pad in a first position and moveable to a second position where the serum collection membrane is disposed inside the test sample holder.
US11460393B2
An accelerated weathering device, system and method is provided for rapidly weather testing insulating glass units (IGUs). The accelerated weathering system can include an air sealed vessel that can removably house an IGU, an air flow system in fluid communication with a chamber in the vessel, the air flow system operable to increase or decrease a pressure in the chamber, an exchanger system in communication with the chamber and operable to increase or decrease one or both of a temperature and a humidity level of the chamber, one or more UV bulbs, and a computer system operable to control the air flow system and exchanger system to vary one or more of the following parameters in the chamber: temperature, relative humidity, and pressure.
US11460388B2
A fatigue test apparatus includes a control system configured to receive, during a first iteration of a fatigue test of an article under test, a command signal corresponding to a particular test step of the fatigue test. The control system is configured to generate, based on the command signal and during the first iteration, a test output signal to cause a force to be applied to the article under test. The control system is configured to generate an error signal associated with the particular test step during the first iteration. A gain calculation device is configured to generate, based on the error signal, a gain adjustment value associated with the particular test step. A variable gain feedforward device is configured to provide, during a second iteration of the fatigue test and based on the gain adjustment value, a stabilization gain to the control system.
US11460378B2
An autonomous soil sampling device. The device including a vehicle for generally autonomously navigating a given area for sampling and adapted with systems to generally avoid obstacles during maneuvering. The device including a soil sampling system designed for placement on a platform of the vehicle and including an extraction arm having a probe and auger to probe into the soil for extracting a quantity of soil. The extraction arm received on a housing and including a pair of rails to enable movement of the probe and auger and a collection bucket for depositing the quantity of extracted soil into a packaging assembly for collection, labeling, and storage of the individual samples.
US11460370B2
A multi-axis vibration test system uses a mounting fixture formed from a solid block of Aluminum alloy, at least 20″ per side, and machined to form bearing recesses that receive the pad bearings to overcome the problems of existing systems and deliver the required amplitude of linear displacement over the frequency test band in all three, and possibly six, axes simultaneously and uniformly over the mounting surface(s) for both commercial and the more stringent military standards.
US11460366B2
A refrigeration servicing system includes an apparatus and user equipment in electronic communication with the apparatus. The apparatus includes a body having a first end and a second end, wherein a passage extends within the body from the first end to the second end. A recess is formed within the body at the second end. The body comprises an inlet at the first end configured to directly engage with a portion of the refrigeration system, a conduit in fluid communication with the inlet, and a plunger. The conduit and plunger are each positioned in the passage. The apparatus also includes a housing at least partially positioned in the recess and in fluid communication with the conduit. The housing includes a sensor configured to directly contact the fluid and measure a parameter of the fluid. A method of servicing a refrigeration system is also provided.
US11460360B2
A force sensor comprising a beam having a longitudinal axis and a proximal end portion and a distal end portion; a first Wheatstone bridge disposed on a first face of the beam, including multiple tension gauge resistors and multiple compression gauge resistors; a second Wheatstone bridge disposed on the first face of the beam, including multiple tension gauge resistors and multiple compression gauge resistors; wherein at least one tension gauge resistor and at least one compression gauge resistor from each of the first and second Wheatstone bridges is disposed at a proximal end portion of the beam; wherein at least one tension gauge resistor and at least one compression gauge resistor from each of the first and second Wheatstone bridges is disposed at a distal end portion of the beam.
US11460358B2
The present strain gauge includes a substrate having flexibility; a resistor formed from a material containing at least one of chromium and nickel, on the substrate; a pair of wiring patterns formed on the substrate and electrically connected to both ends of the resistor; and a pair of electrodes formed on the substrate and electrically connected to the pair of wiring patterns, respectively. The wiring patterns include a first layer extending from the resistor, and a second layer having a lower resistance than the first layer and layered on the first layer. On the substrate, an electronic component mounting area is demarcated, on which an electronic component electrically connected to the electrodes is mounted.
US11460356B2
Disclosed are functional materials for use in additive manufacturing (AM). The functional material can comprise an elastomeric composition (e.g., a silicone composite) for use in, for example, direct ink writing. The elastomeric composition can include and elastomeric resin, and a magnetic nanorod filler dispersed within the elastomeric resin. Nanorod characteristics (e.g., length, diameter, aspect ratio) can be selected to create 3D-printed constructs with desired mechanical properties along different axes. Furthermore, since nickel nanorods are ferromagnetic, the spatial distribution and orientation of nanorods within the continuous phase can be controlled with an external magnetic field. This level of control over the nanostructure of the material system offers another degree of freedom in the design of functional parts and components with anisotropic properties. Magnetic fields can be used to remotely sense compression of the constructs, or alternatively, control the stiffness of these materials.
US11460355B2
An antenna device according to an exemplary embodiment includes a first metal layer, a first dielectric layer, a second metal layer, and a second dielectric layer. The first dielectric layer has a thermal conductivity and heat resistance that are higher than those of an FR-4 resin. The antenna device includes a first metal terminal and a second metal terminal, and a thermosensor. A pair of an input terminal and an output terminal of the thermosensor are electrically connected to the first metal terminal and the second metal terminal, respectively, and the second metal layer includes a first segment and a second segment. The first metal terminal is disposed above the first segment, and the second metal terminal is disposed above the second segment.
US11460351B2
A coaxial thermocouple includes a wire, an insulation layer surrounding the wire, a sheath surrounding the insulation layer, and an electrical junction formed between the wire and the sheath and at one longitudinal end of the coaxial thermocouple, the electrical junction including a swaged end with an outer diameter of the sheath reducing in diameter along a longitudinal length of the coaxial thermocouple until the sheath contacts the wire within the insulation layer. The wire includes a first material and the sheath includes a second material where the first material includes one of molybdenum (Mo) or niobium (Nb) and the second material includes the other of molybdenum (Mo) or niobium (Nb).
US11460337B2
One variation of a method for monitoring lift events at a construction site includes: deriving a lifting profile from a first timeseries of load values, output by a load sensor coupled to a crane hook, during a first time period; deriving an oscillation characteristic from a first timeseries of motion values, output by a motion sensor coupled to the crane hook, during the first time period; identifying a type of an object carried by the crane hook during the first time period based on the lifting profile and the oscillation characteristic; selecting a load handling specification for the object based on the type of the object; accessing a second timeseries of motion values output by the motion sensor during a second time period; and, in response to the second timeseries of motion values deviating from the load handling specification, activating an object motion alarm for the object.
US11460336B2
A method of providing electrical energy to a dewar containing a cryogenic liquid including introducing an insulated heat pipe, with a distal end and a proximal end, into a cryogenic dewar comprising an exterior surface. And providing a Seebeck module, with a cold junction and a hot junction. The distal end is in thermodynamic contact with a cryogenic fluid and the proximal is thermodynamically connected to the cold junction. The hot junction is thermodynamically connected to the exterior surface of the dewar, thereby producing an electrical flow in the Seebeck module. A level probe may be calibrated by taking a first capacitance reading with the dewar full, and a second capacitance reading when the cryogenic liquid level is within a calibration gap. The level probe is calibrated by utilizing the first capacitance reading and the second capacitance reading.
US11460334B2
A aerosol-generating system includes a liquid storage portion, a liquid pressure sensor within the liquid storage portion, and a control unit that is in communication with the pressure sensor. The aerosol-generating system further includes an atmospheric pressure sensor in communication with the control unit. The atmospheric pressure sensor is configured to sense the atmospheric pressure of the environment. The control unit is configured to receive the pressure signals from the liquid pressure sensor and the atmospheric pressure sensor. The control unit is further configured to determine the fill level of the liquid aerosol-forming substrate based on a comparison of the pressure signals from the liquid pressure sensor and the atmospheric pressure sensor.
US11460332B2
Gas meter includes shutoff valve, return unit, flow rate measurer, display, communication unit that communicates with an outside, controller, area information setting unit, and area information comparator. The gas meter compares, by area information comparator, a preset area information held in area information setting unit with a specified value of area information added to a remote shutoff instruction received by communication unit, and when the preset area information and the specified value of the added area information match, shutoff valve is closed.
US11460331B2
A magnetic-inductive flowmeter for determining the flow of a medium, having a measuring tube for guiding the medium and having two electrodes for tapping a measuring voltage induced in the medium, wherein the measuring tube has an inflow section, a measuring section and an outflow section arranged one after the other in the flow direction of the medium, the inflow section having a cross section which decreases in the flow direction, the measuring section having a constant cross section and being symmetrical with respect to a measuring section symmetry plane which runs parallel to the longitudinal axis of the measuring tube, and the outflow section having a cross section which increases in the flow direction and is formed at least partially asymmetrically with respect to the measuring section symmetry plane in order to increase measuring accuracy.
US11460323B2
A magnetic field sensor package is disclosed. The package includes a substrate that has a front side and a back side opposite the front side. The substrate can comprise a lead frame. The package also includes a first magnetic field sensor die that is electrically and mechanically mounted on the front side of the substrate. The package also includes a second magnetic field sensor die that is electrically and mechanically mounted on the front side of the substrate. The package further includes a magnet that is disposed on the back side of the substrate. The magnet can provide a bias field for the first magnetic field sensor die and the second magnetic field sensor die. The package can also include a molding material that is disposed about the lead frame, the first magnetic field sensor die, the second magnetic field sensor die, and the magnet.
US11460318B2
A method for reconstructing a motion track applied to a terminal is provided. The method includes: obtaining a data set, the data set including positioning data obtained by positioning a target object; performing data fitting on target data in the data set to obtain a plurality of segments of first curves, the target data being positioning data obtained by performing noise filtering on the data set; and determining a motion track of the target object based on the plurality of segments of first curves. Counterpart apparatus and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium embodiments are also contemplated.
US11460315B2
An approach is provided for providing a shared vehicle parking search route. The approach involves determining that a vehicle is nearing a destination. The approach also involves determining a boundary of a service area in which the vehicle is to remain. The approach further involves generating a parking search route for the vehicle to locate a parking space in proximity to the destination based, at least in part, on the boundary.
US11460313B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to field device maintenance request management associated with one or more faulty field devices. Non-limiting example systems in which embodiments function include control system in communication with a plurality of field devices and associated sensors, and at least one client device. Embodiments include apparatuses, computer program products, and methods for retrieving monitoring data, identifying faults, retrieving request handling information, generating a corresponding field device maintenance request, and transmitting the maintenance request to one or more client devices, as well as optionally setting one or more operational modes for field devices, and/or processing a response from the client device. Other embodiments receive a field device maintenance request, extract request handling information, various particular interfaces for efficient analysis, and optionally include interface elements for providing and causing storage of a response to the request.
US11460307B2
Embodiments are directed to a system and method for ingesting location event data and identifying a journey for a vehicle from the event data. The journey identification includes identifying whether a given vehicle is moving for purposes of driving to a journey destination.
US11460301B2
An angular rate sensor includes first and second proof masses spaced apart from a surface of a substrate. One each of first and second drive systems is interconnected with one each of the first and second proof masses. The first and second drive systems enable drive motion of the first and second proof masses along both of first and second axes in an orbital drive direction at a drive frequency, the first axis being perpendicular to the surface of the substrate and the second axis being parallel to the surface of the substrate. The sensor is sensitive to angular velocity about a third axis oriented parallel to the surface of the substrate and perpendicular to the second axis, and the drive frequency of the drive motion of the first and second proof masses changes in response to the angular velocity of the angular rate sensor about the third axis.
US11460296B2
The invention relates to a long range optical device with at least a first visual optical path and a focusing device for focusing the at least first visual optical path. The long range optical device may also include a laser distance meter with a laser transmitter and a laser receiver, wherein a part of an optical path of the laser receiver extends in the at least first visual optical path to the objective lens. A region of the deflection of the optical path of the laser receiver out of the at least first visual optical path may be disposed on at least one optical component. The focusing device may be disposed between the at least one optical component for deflecting of the optical path of the laser receiver and the objective lens.
US11460292B2
An optical coherence tomography (OCT) scan device includes an OCT scan device housing, an interferometer disposed in within the OCT scan device housing and including a light source, a fiber optic coupler including an interferometer output, a reference-arm, and a sample-arm. The OCT scan device further includes a power source configured to provide power to the light source and the remaining components of the OCT scan device, and a controller disposed within the OCT scan device housing and configured to adjust lens focusing parameters in the reference-arm and the sample-arm, and control a scanning function of an optical beam emitting from the sample-arm. The OCT scan device is further configured to transmit and receive control instructions and transmit fundus image data.
US11460291B2
A process for determining the total pitch deviation of a position sensor fitted with a magnetic disk and a magnetic detector, the magnetic disk comprising pairs of magnetic poles, the process includes recording, over one mechanical turn, an angular signal of the magnetic intensity measured by the magnetic detector as a function of the angle of rotation of the magnetic disk, determining zero-crossing positions based on the angular signal recorded and the number of zero-crossing position determined, determining the pole pair lengths based on the zero-crossing positions, and determining the total pitch deviation based on the pole pair lengths.
US11460290B2
A measuring method is provided. A probe and a first sensor are disposed over a jig including a bar protruding from the jig. The probe is moved until a first surface of the probe is laterally aligned with a second surface of the bar facing the jig. A first distance between the second surface of the bar and the first sensor is obtained by the first sensor. The probe and the first sensor are disposed over a magnetron. Magnetic field intensities at different elevations above the magnetron are measured by the probe. A method for forming a semiconductor structure is also provided.
US11460285B2
A workpiece holder, measuring device, and a method for executing a measurement by using the workpiece holder. The workpiece holder is configured to hold a workpiece with two opposite arranged workpiece surfaces to be measured in a way that both are accessible by a moveable probe unit and can thus be measured in one setting of the workpiece. For this the workpiece holder comprises a support and a holding body. The holding body has a holding end away from the support with at least one holding surface at which the workpiece is held. In the holding body a free space is formed that adjoins the workpiece surface facing the support when a workpiece is held and makes the workpiece surface accessible for measuring or probing. The accessibility for the probe unit is provided by a transverse channel extending obliquely or orthogonally to the longitudinal axis of the workpiece holder.
US11460282B1
An insensitive munition initiation canister includes a first cylindrical body having an external surface, which includes a first set of threads arranged circumferentially around the first cylindrical body, and a second cylindrical body connected to the first cylindrical body including an external surface having a second set of threads arranged circumferentially around the second cylindrical body. The first cylindrical body includes a first internal region set to retain an explosive charge having a detonation capability sufficient to detonate an insensitive munition. The first cylindrical body is set to sit inside a munition fuze well. The threads of the first cylindrical body are set to engage the munition fuze well.
US11460280B2
A grenade firing mechanism 12 has a body 18 defining an internal chamber 32 in which a firing pin structure 40 is located. The firing pin structure is actuated by an inertia toggle 64 having a first end contained within the chamber and a second end region 72 which projects from the body. A safety lever 16 is releasably mounted to the second end region 72 of the inertia toggle in an operative position to prevent the inertia toggle moving to actuate the firing pin structure. A lever spring 104 is operative to eject the lever from the inertia toggle allow the firing pin structure to be actuated when the grenade is deployed. The lever 16 carries an abutment pin 120 which extends through the body to engage the firing pin structure 40 to inhibit the firing pin structure moving in a firing direction when the lever is in its operative position. The inertia toggle may have a convex abutment surface which engages the firing pin structure. The firing mechanism is particularly suited to a sound flash distraction grenade.
US11460277B2
The invention relates to an igniter unit for a munition, comprising a housing and at least one pyrotechnic charge, the igniter unit comprising a control and communication device arranged in the housing and at least one interface connected to the control and communication unit and arranged in the housing.
US11460275B2
Device, system, and method of aircraft protection and countermeasures against threats. A system for protecting an aircraft against a threat, includes a dual frequency Radio Frequency (RF) module, which includes: a dual-band RF transmitter and a dual-band RF receiver, to transmit and receive high-band RF signals and low-band RF signals; and a threat confirmation and tracking module, to confirm and track a possible incoming threat based on processing of high-band RF signals and low-band RF signals received by the dual-band RF receiver. The system further includes a dual frequency band antenna, to transmit and receive the high-band RF signals and the low-band RF signals. The system also includes a directed high-power laser transmitter, to activate a directed high-power laser beam as countermeasure towards a precise angular position of a confirmed threat.
US11460274B2
Sight systems comprise a sight receiver and a base attachable to and detachable from a sight receiver. A base carries a sighting component, such as an iron sight or optic sight. A sighting component may be attachably and detachably mounted to a base, or a sighting component may be made integrally with a base. A base may carry plural sighting components. Sight systems may include plural interchangeable sight receivers, bases, and/or sighting components. In some embodiments, interfitting structures at least partially restrain or retain a base and a sight receiver in longitudinal and lateral alignment, with such structures being longitudinally oriented. In some embodiments, interfitting structures at least partially restrain or retain a base and a sighting component in longitudinal alignment and lateral alignment, with such structures being longitudinally oriented. Some embodiments provide a fastener operable with a compatible and/or complementary surface, together used to urge interfitting parts together tightly.
US11460271B2
Various embodiments of the present technology may provide a dry fire training device for use with a pistol having a magazine compartment and a trigger mechanism. The dry fire training device includes a magazine including a lever providing a means for interaction between the trigger mechanism and a detent reed. The lever may be configured to move between a resting position and a firing position. The magazine may also include a compression spring configured to bias the lever to the resting position. The magazine may further include a swing lock component configured to move the lever to the firing position behind the trigger mechanism when the magazine is inserted into the magazine compartment.
US11460265B2
A buttstock assembly configured to work in conjunction with a compact buffer assembly consisting of a buffer tube, spring and bolt carrier with an integral buffer is provided. The buttstock assembly, buffer tube and bolt carrier are configured to work with AR15/M16 type firearms and their derivatives. By incorporating the buffer onto the bolt carrier, which is used in conjunction with a buffer tube of reduced length, the overall length of the host firearm is reduced by approximately 3.2 inches. No permanent modification need be made to the host firearm in order to utilize the compact buffer assembly and buttstock assembly disclosed herein.
US11460262B2
A malfunction insert is for a firearm that includes a magazine. The malfunction insert includes a narrow end comprising a narrow edge, a concave surface disposed at an opposite end of the malfunction insert from the narrow end, and a central member that connects the concave surface and the narrow end. The malfunction insert is configured to be inserted into the magazine.
US11460261B2
A kit for modifying a firearm includes an adapter, and the adapter includes an external threaded surface configured to detachably couple to an internal threaded surface of a receiver of the firearm. An adapter bore is disposed opposite the external threaded surface, and the adapter bore is configured to receive a barrel of the firearm. The kit further includes a securing element, and the securing element includes a securing element bore configured to receive the barrel. The securing element is configured to detachably couple to the adapter and thereby secure the barrel to the adapter.
US11460254B2
A heat pipe includes a container including a container substrate and a working fluid enclosed in the container. The working fluid contains water. The heat pipe includes a first film containing tin and/or a tin alloy on at least an inner surface of the container substrate and a second film formed on at least a part of a surface of the first film and containing an oxide and/or hydroxide containing tin.
US11460253B2
A method for designing startup critical tube diameter of pulsating heat pipe in vertical state, including the following steps: step 1. establishing a first model of working medium mass in pulsating heat pipe; step 2. establishing a second model of working medium mass in pulsating heat pipe, the second model including the vapor working medium mass model and the liquid working medium mass model in the pulsating heat pipe; step 3. according to the law of conservation of mass, combining the first model and the second model, and determining the volume percentage of the liquid working medium in the total length of the pulsating heat pipe under the condition of heat addition; step 4. determining the startup critical tube diameter of the pulsating heat pipe according to the volume percentage of the liquid working medium in the total length of the pulsating heat pipe under the condition of heat addition obtained in step 3, the physical properties of the working medium in the pulsating heat pipe, the temperatures at the heat-absorbing end and heat-releasing end, the heating power, and the filling factor.
US11460252B2
A heat exchanger includes first and second fluid circuits. The first fluid circuit is formed by a first set of fins, a first inlet header, and a first outlet header. The first set of fins extend radially and are coaxial with each other. The first inlet header is fluidly connected to and is disposed on an upstream end of the first fins. The first outlet header is fluidly connected to and is disposed on a downstream end of the first fins. The second fluid circuit is formed by a second set of fins, a second inlet header, and a second outlet header. The second fins extend radially and are coaxial with each other. An annular shape of the second inlet header conforms to the circular shape of the first inlet header. An annular shape of the second outlet header conforms to the circular shape of the first outlet header.
US11460251B2
A container and apparatus for preparing dental prosthetics. The container comprises a body having an interior and a top edge, a penetrable lid sealably secured to the top edge and containing a quantity of glazing liquid mixture liquid less than a volume of the body and a quantity of gas having a density greater than air. The apparatus comprises the container, a lid penetrator operable to form at least one penetration through the lid at at least one dipping location, an arm adapted to hold at least one dental prosthetic and pass each dental prosthetic through the at least one penetration into and thereafter out of the glazing liquid mixture, and wherein the arm is adapted to move the at least one dental prosthetic in a drying path after dipping in the glazing liquid mixture so as to form a consistent glazing layer thereover.
US11460249B2
Embodiments provide a multi-pass kiln with two or more chambers, an entrance and an exit at a proximal end of the kiln, and a reciprocal flow path extending through the kiln from the entrance to the exit. Lumber charges traveling along the reciprocal flow path may travel in a first direction along one side of the heated second chamber before traveling in a substantially opposite second direction along the opposite side of the second chamber. The distal end of the kiln may be substantially sealed, and a pressure differential between the distal end and the proximal end may draw moist heated air from the heated chamber toward the exit and entry to preheat and/or condition lumber charges traveling through the first chamber.
US11460244B2
A system and a method for producing liquefied natural gas are provided. The system includes a refrigeration loop system for providing a cold stream of refrigerant, a supersonic chiller for receiving and chilling a first gaseous natural gas stream to produce a liquefied natural gas liquid and separating the liquefied natural gas liquid from the first gaseous natural gas stream to obtain a second gaseous natural gas stream, and a cold box for receiving the cold stream of refrigerant and the second gaseous natural gas stream and cooling the second gaseous natural gas stream to obtain a liquefied natural gas by heat exchanging between the second gaseous natural gas stream and the cold stream of refrigerant.
US11460240B2
A refrigerator having a first storage compartment with a first storage space and a movable shelf assembly disposed in the first storage space, wherein the movable shelf assembly includes a movable shelf movably disposed in the first storage space, a plurality of links, one end of each of the links being pivotably coupled to each of both sides of the movable shelf, and a driver coupled to the other end of each of the links such that each link pivots, wherein the driver is configured to move each link forwardly and outwardly of the first storage space and, at the same time, to pivot each link.
US11460236B2
A refrigerator having a first storage compartment with a first storage space defined therein; an inner door to open and close the first storage space, wherein the inner door has an inner door receiving space that is separate from the first storage space; a receiving casing attached to a back face of the inner door; and an outer door pivotally mounted to the inner door to open and close the inner door receiving space, wherein the receiving casing includes a frame surrounding the inner door receiving space, wherein the frame has a cold-air hole defined therein, and a transparent plate attached to the frame to separate the inner door receiving space from the first storage space.
US11460234B2
A refrigerator includes a body including at least one storage compartment and a cooling module accommodating space, a door to open and close the storage compartment, and a cooling module accommodated in the cooling module accommodating space. The cooling module may include a heat radiating part, a heat absorption part, and a cooling module barrier to separate the heat radiating part and the heat absorption part. The heat radiating part may be disposed eccentrically on one of lateral sides of the cooling module and the heat absorption part may be disposed at a lateral side of the heat radiating part.
US11460232B2
An icemaker appliance includes a cabinet forming an ice storage compartment, a first reservoir provided within the ice storage compartment, a circulation system arranged within the first reservoir, an ice maker provided within the first reservoir to dispense ice into the ice storage compartment, a second reservoir connected to the ice storage compartment, a return line conduit connected to the second reservoir and the first reservoir to direct melt water from the second reservoir to the first reservoir, a second pump provided at the second reservoir to pump melt water through the return line conduit, and a cleanout line having a first end connected to the second reservoir and a second end exposed outside of the cabinet.
US11460230B2
A method for controlling a vapour compression system (1) is disclosed, the vapour compression system (1) comprising at least one expansion device (8) and at least one evaporator (9). For each expansion device (8), an opening degree of the expansion device (8) is obtained, and a representative opening degree, ODrep, is identified based on the obtained opening degree(s) of the expansion device(s) (8). The representative opening degree could be a maximum opening degree, ODmax, being the largest among the obtained opening degrees. The representative opening degree, ODrep, is compared to a predefined target opening degree, ODtarget, and a minimum setpoint value, SPrec, for a pressure prevailing inside a receiver (7), is calculated or adjusted, based on the comparison. The vapour compression system (1) is controlled to obtain a pressure inside the receiver (7) which is equal to or higher than the calculated or adjusted minimum setpoint value, SPrec.
US11460229B2
An air-conditioning apparatus includes a refrigerant circuit that is formed of an outdoor unit and an indoor unit connected through indoor/outdoor connection pipes. The outdoor unit includes a compressor, an outdoor heat exchanger, and an expansion valve. The indoor unit includes an indoor heat exchanger. Combustible refrigerant is used as refrigerant flowing through the refrigerant circuit. The outdoor unit includes a refrigerant filling-dedicated connection port to fill the refrigerant and an evacuation-dedicated connection port to evacuate the refrigerant inside the refrigerant circuit. The refrigerant filling-dedicated connection port is provided inside a machine chamber that accommodates the compressor and the expansion valve, and the evacuation-dedicated connection port is provided outside the machine chamber.
US11460225B2
A system is described herein for repurposing waste heat from a refrigeration cycle to improve the efficiency of the cycle and power electronic devices. The system may include a compressor, a turbine, an accumulator, a condenser, a throttle, and an evaporator. The accumulator may include a high-pressure chamber connected between the turbine and condenser, and a low-pressure chamber connected between the evaporator and the compressor. The high-pressure chamber may be segregated from the low-pressure chamber such that high-pressure refrigerant in the high-pressure chamber is prevented from mixing with low-pressure refrigerant in the low-pressure chamber. The high-pressure chamber and low-pressure chamber may be thermally coupled such that liquid refrigerant in the low-pressure chamber is vaporized by heat exchange with the high-pressure chamber. The turbine may power an electronic component of the refrigerator or may feed electricity back into a community grid power system.
US11460211B2
An air-conditioning apparatus includes a fan to send air to an air-conditioned space through a duct, a current measurement unit to measure a value of a current applied to a motor as a motor current, an inlet temperature measurement unit to measure a temperature of air flowing into the duct as an inlet temperature, and a controller to control the fan. The controller includes a memory storing current characteristic data associating the motor current and a rotation frequency of the motor with an external static pressure. The controller performs a correction process based on the inlet temperature to the motor current to obtain a control current, estimate the external static pressure by comparing the obtained control current and the rotation frequency of the motor with the current characteristic data, and control a rotation frequency of the fan, on the basis of the estimated external static pressure.
US11460201B2
A passive ventilation control system and method. The system includes passive vents throughout a building. The vents may be arranged in multiple sets, with each set being substantially vertically aligned through multiple floors or the entire height of the building. Sensors are positioned inside and/or outside the building for sensing different environmental parameters or atmospheric conditions. The sensors send signals to a controller, which automatically adjusts airflow through the vents in response to the signals from the sensors.
US11460198B2
A humidifier including a humidifier housing with an adjustable backplane configured to fit to a variety of humidifier pad sizes. Different sizes of humidifier pads are available, and the choice of humidifier pad may depend on the capacity of the HVAC system. The backplane of this disclosure may be adjusted by moving to one position to accommodate a larger humidifier pad or to a second position for a smaller humidifier pad. The backplane of the humidifier housing is configured to mount over an opening of an air duct of an HVAC system such that air is directed along an air path defined by the humidifier housing, through the humidifier pad positioned in front of the air duct and into the air stream of the HVAC system. Water flows through inlet tubing to a water distributor, which may direct the water to the top of the humidifier pad.
US11460195B2
A cooking appliance includes sidewalls and a rear wall defining a heating cavity. At least one heat source is in thermal communication with the heating cavity. An oven cavity connector is disposed within an interior surface of the heating cavity. The oven cavity connector is in communication with the heating cavity. A first tray sliding structure is disposed proximate opposing vertical sidewalls of the heating cavity. A second tray sliding structure is disposed proximate the opposing vertical sidewalls and is vertically offset relative to the first tray sliding structure. A powered accessory tray has a connecting plug, the powered accessory tray being alternatively and selectively engaged with one of the first and second sliding tray structures, and the connecting plug is in selective communication with oven cavity connector when the powered accessory tray is engaged with any one of the first and second tray sliding structures.
US11460194B2
The disclosure relates to a cooking appliance capable of reducing noise generated when a door is closed using a buffer member that is easily fixed to a hinge unit. The cooking appliance includes a main body, a cooking chamber provided to have a front surface opened inside the main body, a door to open and close the cooking chamber, a hinge unit coupled to the main body to rotatably support the door, and a buffer member fixed to the door to buffer an impact generated when the door is closed by contacting the hinge unit when the door is closed.
US11460190B2
A gas burner assembly for a cooktop appliance includes a flame ring comprising a plurality of flame ports arranged in an annular array. An outer ring and an inner ring collectively define each flame port of the plurality of flame ports. The outer ring and the inner ring are concentrically aligned and concentrically mated. As a result of this arrangement of the outer ring and the inner ring, the plurality of flame ports are defined by the outer ring and the inner ring. The plurality of flame ports extend radially between the inner ring and the outer ring.
US11460189B2
A collar configured to couple a burner to a partition plate is provided including a body having a diameter configured to couple to a diameter of the burner. A flange extends outwardly from the body. The collar is formed from a heat resistance material such that heat transfer between the burner and the partition plate is limited.
US11460184B2
An electrical fixture has a plug or socket of the type including concentric terminal rings, the plug having a spindle that is releasably receivable within a central channel of the socket to form a latch. Either the plug or the socket is attached to a hub having peripheral electrical connectors. Modules can be connected to the hub by the peripheral electrical connectors, the modules including electrical components each having one or more features. The modules are selectable for desired features, including transmitting and receiving, or sensing a condition in the environment, such as a security camera, glass breakage detector, motion/presence detector, and lighting. The hub can include a central circuit board which is electrically connected to the peripherally attached modules. The hub is further connected to electrical wiring of the edifice within which the fixture is installed.
US11460180B1
A Light Emitting Diode (LED) Luminaire retrofit kit used with Exit Signs. This kit has an integral Driver On-Board (DOB) . The integrated Circuit Chip (IC Chip) on Printed circuit Board (PCB) eliminates the need for a separate LED Driver to drive the LEDs is on Board. The PCB includes a metal oxide varistor (MOV), and an array of Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) arranged in an optimized configuration. An integral plastic Diffuser provides a uniform Light to the exit sign. All the components are laid out in a single low profile PC Board. The system provides maximum power output consuming very low input power. The system can operate at 120 or 277 Volts 60 Hz. The specially designed diffuser is positioned over LEDs for uniform illumination over desired area eliminating the Dot Matrix Pattern produced by LEDs. The luminaire can be made to varying lengths.
US11460174B2
A lamp bracket and bracket-type UV fluorescent lamp. The lamp bracket includes: a backboard component, the first lamp base component, the second lamp base component and an inductive component; the first lamp base component is provided on one end of the backboard component; the second lamp base component is provided on the other end of the backboard component, connects to the first lamp base component electrically and is provided with a mounting groove, and works with the first lamp base component and backboard component to form a containing groove in an enclosure way which is used for installing UV fluorescent tube; inductive component is provided in the mounting groove, connects to the second lamp base component and/or the first lamp base component electrically, is used for sensing humans, works with the second lamp base component and/or the first lamp base component to turn on or turn off the fluorescent tube.
US11460170B2
A luminaire includes a lightguide panel that is configured to receive light from a light source through an edge thereof and emit light through major surfaces thereof. Further, the luminaire includes an electrochromic film that is disposed on one of the major surfaces of the lightguide panel to adjust an amount of light exiting through the one major surface by controlling an opacity of the electrochromic film. The opacity of the electrochromic film is controlled by controlling an electrical power supplied thereto. In another example, the electrochromic film is disposed on a major surface of a lens that is disposed below and spaced apart from a light source that emits light in a first direction. The opacity of the electrochromic film is controlled by controlling the electrical power supplied thereto to adjust an amount of light that is reflected by the lens to a second direction.
US11460160B2
The present disclosure discloses a lamp holder, a battery assembly and a supplementary lighting lamp. The lamp holder includes a housing and a rotation assembly rotating relative to the housing, wherein the rotation assembly includes a cover body, a resisting member and an adjusting member moving relative to the cover body, and the housing includes a fastener formed on a first end thereof. The adjusting member moves on the cover body so that the resisting member is resisted against the fastener, thus the rotation assembly is clamped with the housing or separated from the housing. The present disclosure has the advantages of convenient disassembly and good waterproof performance.
US11460156B2
The present application provides an LED film module installable on a surface having various shapes. The present application provides a flexible LED film module comprising: a flexible LED film; and a mounter provided on the flexible LED film so as to install the flexible LED film on a predetermined surface, and formed to be deformable according to the shape of the predetermined surface, wherein the mounter comprises: a base; and a supporter disposed along the edge of a plate and extending to a predetermined height from the base so as to support the flexible LED film to be spaced apart from the base.
US11460152B2
A manifold for a steam system is provided with a body forming a first chamber extending between an inlet and an outlet along a first axis and a second chamber extending from a face of the body along a second axis to intersect the first chamber. A first piston valve sub-assembly is disposed in the second chamber to enable and disable steam communication between the second chamber and a first port. A second piston valve sub-assembly is disposed in the second chamber to enable and disable steam communication between the second chamber and a second port. A handle is mounted for rotation relative to the face. A valve stem is connected to the handle and mounted for translation within the second chamber in response to rotation of the handle between four positions to individually activate and deactivate the first piston valve sub-assembly and the second piston valve sub-assembly.
US11460151B2
A clamping device and a mobile terminal holder are provided. The clamping device comprising a rotating part, a screw mounted in the rotating part, a nut in threaded connection with the screw, a first and a second clamping parts. One end of the first clamping part is arranged in the rotating part and is connected to the nut, and the other end extends out of the rotating part. The rotating part is sleeved on the second clamping part in a rotatable manner. In use, the rotating part is rotated to drive the screw to rotate, such that the nut moves along the axial direction of the screw, which in turn drives the first clamping part to move along the axial direction of the screw, such that the first clamping part is close to or far away from the second clamping part.
US11460147B2
A multifunction display stand configured to support a display, the display stand can include a display mount assembly configured to mount to and support a display, a hub assembly comprising a recess configured to receive a modular unit positioned therein, the modular unit comprising one of: a lighting unit, a mobile power supply unit, an air purifier unit, and a speaker unit, and a legs or other type of support assembly. The modular units can be selectively installed within the recess to provide additional functionality for the display stand as desired.
US11460141B2
An assembly is provided that includes first and second end plates adapted to be coaxially aligned when in use. One or more members extend from the end plates or an annular ring, the annular ring provided between the end plates, the other of the end plates or annular ring comprising one or more first slots at one end thereof to be aligned with and for receiving the one or more members of the first end plate, and one or more second slots at the other end thereof to be aligned with and for receiving the one or more members. Resilient sealing members are provided around the one or more members between the end plates and annular ring, and an urging mechanism urges the first and second end plates towards the annular ring to deform the first and second resilient sealing members to engage the inner wall of the pipe.
US11460132B2
Locator systems and methods for hose clamps include at least one a locator tab. Each locator tab includes a main body, a clamp end, and at least one flange. The main body includes a crossbar having opposing first and second ends, a first leg extending from the first end, and a second leg extending from the second end. The clamp end extends from the main body and is configured to be secured to a hose. The at least one flange extends from the main body and is configured to retain a band of the hose clamp between the at least one flange and the crossbar until the band is tightened around the hose. The crossbar is non-parallel to the band when the band is retained between the at least one flange and the crossbar.
US11460131B2
Systems and methods for sealing bolted flange joints to stop or prevent leakage are disclosed. The system includes a sealant injection nut. The sealant injection nut generally comprises a threaded nut configured to be threaded onto a stud bolt of a flange joint. The nut is configured to inject sealant into the internal passages of the flange joint. The nut includes a passageway drilled through the sidewall. Fitted to the passageway is a high-pressure sealant-compatible injection fitting and an internal check-valve. Provided within the central cavity of the nut, at the flange-facing end, is a groove that facilitates the flow of sealant injected through the passageway into the passages of the bolted flange. A method is also provided for manufacturing the sealant injection nut. A method is also provided for repairing leaking bolted flange joints using the sealant injection nut.
US11460128B1
A flanged conduit support for running electrical cables between horizontal floors or vertical walls. The flanged conduit support includes a flange and a hub with a socket. A locking means on the flanged conduit support enables the locking together of two or more supports together in a spaced relationship. The locking means includes a male snap member with a tab and a tapered end and the female snap member includes a receiving slot. The flanged conduit support provides a means for rapidly securing a first end of conduit to a form and capping the opposite ends of the conduit to prevent the entry of concrete during the concrete pour. A removable flange portion may be removed after the concrete cures to provide one or more open pathways for running electrical cables through the horizontal floors or vertical walls.
US11460116B2
A valve for regulating a fluid flow includes a body with an opening at a top. The valve also includes a bonnet arranged within the opening, The valve further includes a coupling mechanism joining the body to the bonnet. The coupling mechanism includes a plurality of body lugs extending radially inward toward a stem axis, each body lug of the plurality of body lugs being separated from an adjacent body lug by a body opening. The coupling mechanism also includes a plurality of bonnet lugs extending radially outward from the stem axis, each bonnet lug of the plurality of bonnet lugs being separated from an adjacent bonnet lug by a bonnet opening. Each bonnet lug is adapted to axially move through a corresponding body opening to transition an axial position of the bonnet relative to the body.
US11460113B2
The invention relates to a vacuum valve for the substantially gas-tight closure of an opening, comprising a closure element having a closure side and a coupling unit arranged on a rear side opposite the closure side, and a valve wall having valve seat surrounding the opening. The valve further comprises a linear drive unit enabling the closure element to be adjustable in at least two adjustment directions. The closure element is adjustable between an open position releasing the opening, an intermediate position pushed over the opening and a closed position closing the opening. The vacuum valve comprises a guide for the closure element associated with the opening. The closure element comprises a guide element interacting with the guide during an adjustment from the open position to the closed position and back.
US11460104B2
An electronic shift lever includes a motor part configured to generate a driving force according to an input signal from a controller which receives an input signal from a user, an output shaft assembly coupled to the motor part and rotated by a driving force of the motor part, a manual shaft coupled to the output shaft assembly and configured to receive the driving force of the motor part, a support member disposed between the motor part and the output shaft assembly and between the housing and the output shaft assembly, a magnet rotor having a first end into which the output shaft assembly is inserted and a second end through which the manual shaft passes, a Hall sensor configured to detect a rotational position of the magnet rotor, and the housing which accommodates the motor part, the output shaft assembly, the support member, and the Hall sensor.
US11460096B2
An electric drive axle for a motor vehicle including an axle housing, an electric motor having an output shaft directly driven by a bevel pinion gear coupled thereto, a fixed ratio planetary gear arrangement, a differential unit including a differential gear arrangement housed within a differential case and a first clutch selectively operable to connect a portion of the planetary gear set to a stationary member of the drive axle so that the drive axle operates in a first gear ratio.
US11460094B1
A spacer includes a first surface and a second surface. The first surface and the second surface respectively have two opposite first roller accommodating grooves and two opposite second roller accommodating grooves. The first and second roller accommodating grooves of the first surface correspond to the second and first roller accommodating grooves of the second surface. The spacer defines a reference plane, which is perpendicular to a horizontal direction and passes through a center point of the maximum thickness of the spacer. The horizontal distance from the reference plane to the center of each first roller accommodating groove is different from the horizontal distance from the reference plane to the center of each second roller accommodating groove. By flipping the spacer of the present invention, the spacing of two adjacent rollers can be adjusted. In addition, the present invention further provides a cycloidal reducer with the aforementioned spacer.
US11460081B2
A braking system for safely collecting brake dust produced by operation of a braking mechanism. The braking system comprises a collector apparatus coupled with a braking mechanism. The collector apparatus is able to include a shroud that surrounds the braking mechanism and a catch element coupled with the shroud for collecting brake dust exiting the shroud. As a result, when coupled with the braking mechanism, the collector apparatus is able to ensure that most or all brake dust, such as copper or other particles from the braking mechanism that break off from the breaking mechanism during operation of the braking mechanism, are removed from the braking mechanism and collected by the filter/catch of the collector mechanism.
US11460078B2
A modular clutch assembly with two independent power sources and a connection with an output device. The two independent power sources and the output device can take many different forms. The modular clutch assembly has a housing that connects the two power sources with the output device and controls power transfer using an inner clutch and an upper clutch. There is further provided an output hub connected to the output device, where the output hub extends into the modular clutch assembly for selective rotation. The output device in one exemplary embodiment of the invention is a transmission of a vehicle.
US11460074B2
Sealing device for a wheel hub assembly provided with a rolling bearing, the sealing device being provided with a shield mounted on an outer ring of the bearing and with an annular cylindrical wall having an inner lateral surface mounted on an outer lateral surface of a collar of the outer ring; and with a sealing material fixed to the shield; an annular snap catch being positioned radially inside the cylindrical wall and extending radially from the inner lateral surface through a specified radial thickness so as to be snap-fitted into a circular groove formed on the outer lateral surface of the collar, and the sealing material being positioned behind the catch before the shield is mounted on the outer ring, with a radial overall dimension smaller than the thickness of the catch.
US11460071B2
An object of the present invention to provide a tapered roller bearing in which a flange portion is formed at a large-diameter end of an outer ring track surface of an outer ring, capable of providing high moment stiffness and long life without extremely decreasing its pure axial load capacity. The tapered roller bearing comprising: an outer ring 12 having an outer ring track surface 12a on its inner circumferential surface; an inner ring 13 having an inner ring track surface 13a on its outer circumferential surface; a plurality of tapered rollers 14 rotatably disposed between the outer ring track surface 12a and the inner ring track surface 13a; and a retainer 15 having a plurality of pockets for retaining the plurality of tapered rollers 14 at a predetermined interval; the outer ring track surface 12a of the outer ring 12 having a small-diameter end and a large-diameter end, the inner ring track surface 13a of the inner ring 13 having a small-diameter end and a large-diameter end, and, of these four ends, a flange portion 12b that protrudes radially inwardly is formed at the large-diameter end of the outer ring track surface 12a of the outer ring 12; wherein the tapered roller bearing has a contact angle greater than 35° and a roller angle not greater than 3.5°.
US11460069B2
The invention relates to a belt retractor (10) for a safety belt device, comprising a belt reel (20) for winding and unwinding the safety belt. According to the invention, it is provided that at least one reel end (21) of the belt reel (20) is mounted in a bearing which comprises at least two bearing sections (110, 120, 150) having different play.
US11460068B2
An axial ball joint is provided with: a ball stud including a stud section and a ball section; a metallic housing which rotatably supports the ball section of the ball stud; and a resin-made ball seat which is provided to be interposed between the ball section and the housing. The housing is formed into a bottomed cylinder shape by pressing. The thickness of a bottom wall and the thickness of a circumferential side wall of the housing are set to be equal to each other. A plurality of bead sections are formed on the inner bottom of the housing by press-molding or forging.
US11460056B2
A helix amplifier pipe fitting may include an elbow or straight pipe fitting including an expanded helix portion, a plurality of helix vanes at an angle of incidence to the incoming fluid flow to impart rotational velocity on the fluid. A helix amplifier may include a helix discharge amplifier having a tapered canister, a tapered helix portion including a plurality of helix vanes, and a tapered mixing chamber.
US11460055B2
An air-preparation device for a motor vehicle, including: at least one first compressed air connection and a second compressed air connection; and a first air-preparation component and a second air-preparation component; wherein the first air-preparation component has at least one first solenoid valve, a second solenoid valve and a third solenoid valve, a first air drier cartridge, a first main nonreturn valve, a first regeneration nonreturn valve, a first regeneration throttle and a first inlet valve, wherein the second air-preparation component has at least one second air drier cartridge, a second main nonreturn valve, a second regeneration nonreturn valve, a second regeneration throttle and a second inlet valve, wherein the first solenoid valve and the second solenoid valve are for controlling the first air-preparation component, and wherein a control line is configured so that the second air-preparation component is connected to the third solenoid valve of the first air-preparation component.
US11460033B2
An inflation device relates to the technical field of inflation equipment. The inflation device includes an inflation shell and a control main board. The inflation shell is arranged in an inflatable product, and is provided with an air outlet cavity; the air outlet cavity is provided with an air outlet; an inflation upper cover and the inflation shell are detachably and fixedly assembled; the inflation upper cover is provided with an air inlet end part; the air inlet end part passes through the inflatable product and extends towards the outer side of the inflatable product; the air inlet end part is provided with an air inlet; the air inlet communicates the air outlet cavity with the outside of the inflatable product. The inflation device using the above technical solution has the advantages of simple and convenient assembling, good leakproofness, high yield, high production efficiency, ingenious design, and easy maintenance.
US11460030B2
A connection system for an implantable blood pump including a pump housing having an impeller disposed therein and a motor housing including a motor disposed therein, the motor housing spaced a distance from the pump housing. A flexible outer sheath couples the pump housing to the motor housing, the outer sheath defining a maximum total length between 7 and 10 centimeters. An inner shaft is coaxial with the outer sheath and couples the motor to the impeller.
US11460029B2
The compressor includes a rotor that applies rotational power to a compressor unit, wherein the rotor includes a rotor core and an upper rotor-end plate, the rotor core has a plurality of through-holes through which a refrigerant passes, the upper rotor-end plate covers the upper rotor-end face of the rotor core, where one end of each of the plurality of through-holes is formed, the upper rotor-end plate has a plurality of upper openings that allow communication of the plurality of through-holes with an internal space in a compressor container, the plurality of upper openings are adjacent to the plurality of through-holes in the upper rotor-end face, and a plurality of upper inner peripheral-side adjacent areas, which are on the inner peripheral-side closer to a rotation axis than the plurality of through-holes, are exposed to the internal space.
US11460009B1
Systems and methods relate to a manner of improving an actuator used to hold an object. In one embodiment, an actuator includes a body that is bi-stable with a coiled state and an uncoiled state. The actuator also includes a strip, coupled to the body, that coils the body according to a power source that activates in response to a detected proximity of an object. The actuator also includes a wire coupled to a side of the body opposite from the strip and the wire uncoils the body in response to heat caused by the power source.
US11460004B2
A reduced profile wind tower system includes a slim cylindrical spinal core extending up vertically from a foundation. A turbine nacelle is mounted on a top end of the core. Wind turbine blades extend out from the nacelle. A plurality of axially loaded tubular arms, braced by the core, are spaced around the core and link to the core through continuous shear wings or discrete bracket assemblies. The tubular arms and shear wings extend up from said foundation. The tubular arms can be set either vertically or slightly sloped; cables may substitute for the tubular arms and a pontoon may substitute for an on ground foundation.
US11460000B2
This invention relates to a root end structure, a wind turbine blade comprising such a root end structure and a method of manufacturing such a wind turbine blade. The root end structure comprises a plurality of fastening members distributed along a root end of a blade part, wherein a plurality of pultruded elements are arranged in between the fastening members. Each pultruded element has a second side surface facing a first side surface of an adjacent fastening member. Gaps are formed between the first and second side surfaces in at least the thickness direction, wherein the gaps enable an adaptive positioning of the pultruded elements relative to the outer layers during the vacuum assisted resin infusion process.
US11459990B2
An injector nozzle having a first part having a stem and a flange, the flange having a flange surface, a body including a wall defining a hole, an annular nozzle ring having a first surface and a second surface wherein the first surface and/or the flange surface include a plurality of grooves, the stem being received in the hole, the first part being secured to the body to secure the nozzle ring in place such that the first surface engages the flange surface, the second surface engages the body, and the plurality of grooves define a plurality of injector holes.
US11459987B2
A valve assembly for a pump includes an electrical actuator having a stator and an armature. The stator includes an annular outer stator portion and an annular inner stator portion, and an annular channel formed radially between the outer stator portion and the inner stator portion. A first radial channel extending through the annular outer stator portion between an outer surface of the outer stator portion and the annular channel, and at least one second opening in the annular outer stator portion results in magnetic symmetry of the stator. Upon activating the electrical actuator, the attraction of the armature towards the stator is uniform thus displacing fluid between the stator and armature in a uniform manner and to avoid high velocity, potentially damaging fluid flow.
US11459967B2
A combustion mode module is configured to switch operation of a low-temperature combustion (LTC) engine between a spark ignition (SI) mode, a positive valve overlap (PVO) mode, and a negative valve overlap (NVO) mode. A spark control module is configured to control a spark plug to generate a spark in a cylinder of the LTC engine when the LTC engine is operating in the SI mode. A valve control module is configured to control intake and exhaust valves of the cylinder to yield a PVO and a NVO when the LTC engine is operating in the PVO mode and the NVO mode, respectively. An air/fuel (A/F) control module is configured to adjust a desired A/F ratio of the LTC engine to a rich A/F ratio when operation of the LTC engine is switched to the PVO mode from either one of the SI mode and the NVO mode.
US11459966B2
Methods and systems for operating an on-off valve coupled to a system for regulating a system parameter are described herein. The method comprises setting an upper limit on a duty cycle of a pulse width modulation (PWM) signal for controlling the valve, generating the PWM signal with the duty cycle less than or equal to the upper limit and applying the PWM signal to the valve, monitoring the system parameter as the PWM signal is applied, and increasing the upper limit on the duty cycle over time until the system parameter reaches a target.
US11459965B2
Managing firing fraction transitions of a variable displacement internal combustion engines by (a) avoiding transport delays in an Exhaust Gas Recirculation (EGR) feed by starting movement of an EGR valve position after a decision to transition to a new firing fraction has been made, but prior to the start of the transition and (b) adjusting the EGR valve as needed during the transition so as to maintain an EGR fraction within a predetermined range during the transition. By performing both (a) and (b), spikes of nitrous oxide (NOx) and/or hydrocarbon emissions are reduced or altogether eliminated during the transition.
US11459960B2
A method for checking the maximum available power of a turbine engine of an aircraft equipped with two turbine engines configured to operate in parallel and together to supply a necessary power to the aircraft during a flight phase includes: placing one of the turbine engines in a maximum take-off power regime, and adjusting a power supplied by the other turbine engine, such that the turbine engines continue to supply the necessary power to the aircraft during the flight phase; determining a power supplied by the turbine engine placed in the maximum take-off power regime, and processing the supplied power determined in this way, in order to deduce a piece of information relating to the maximum available power.
US11459957B2
A gas turbine engine comprises a fan drive turbine driving a shaft. The shaft engages a gear reduction. The gear reduction drives a fan rotor at a speed that is less than the speed of the fan drive turbine. The gear reduction is a non-epicyclic gear reduction.
US11459955B2
A method of deactivating a liquid distribution system of a gas turbine engine in the event of a fire condition includes introducing a quantity of air into the liquid distribution system at a location upstream of a liquid pump of the liquid distribution system. The quantity of air is greater than a liquid discharge capacity of the liquid pump, thereby starving the liquid pump.
US11459946B2
A system includes a gas turbine engine having a low speed spool and a high speed spool. The system also includes a spool coupling system configured to mechanically link the low speed spool and the high speed spool. A controller is operable to determine a mode of operation of the gas turbine engine, monitor for a spool coupling activation condition associated with the mode of operation, and activate the spool coupling system based on the controller detecting the spool coupling activation condition. Engagement and power transfer between the low speed spool and the high speed spool occurs based on activation of the spool coupling system and reaching an engagement condition of the spool coupling system.
US11459935B2
The present disclosure provides a device for preventing the backward air flow of a reservoir tank for a vehicle, which may mount an backward air flow prevention tube extending to coolant on a connector of a reservoir tank to which a degassing hose is connected, and form an air collection slit hole communicating with an upper space of the reservoir tank in the upper portion of the tube to be openable or closable, thereby easily preventing the phenomenon in which the air within the reservoir tank flows back toward an engine, and easily collecting the air introduced from the engine side.
US11459933B2
A clutch assembly includes a journal bracket having a center shaft, a drive feature rotatably supported on the center shaft of the journal bracket and configured to accept a torque input to the clutch assembly, a clutch pack that is controllable to selectively transmit torque between an input and an output, a housing attached to the clutch pack that includes a stub shaft, a removable connection engaged between the drive feature and the stub shaft such that torque is transmittable through the removable connection during operation of the clutch assembly, and one or more perpendicular engagement features on the stub shaft configured to accept a tool to engage and disengage the removable connection. At least one of the perpendicular engagement features is exposed to line-of-sight access from a location substantially perpendicular to an axis of rotation of the clutch pack.
US11459929B2
A mixer for a vehicle exhaust system includes a mixer housing that defines an interior cavity for engine exhaust gases, and which includes a doser opening formed within a wall of the mixer housing. A cone has a cone inlet opening aligned with the doser opening and a cone outlet into the interior cavity. A diverter has at least one first opening that is open to the interior cavity and a second opening that surrounds the cone outlet. Exhaust flow is directed by the diverter to the cone inlet opening to be mixed with a fluid injected through the doser opening.
US11459925B2
An exhaust gas purification structure of an outboard motor includes an exhaust gas pipe that has an exhaust gas passage through which exhaust gas of an engine can flow; and a catalyst that is provided in the exhaust gas passage and purifies the exhaust gas by allowing the exhaust gas to pass through the inside thereof. The exhaust gas pipe includes a coolant flow passage allowing a coolant that cools the exhaust gas to flow therethrough. An exhaust gas bypass passage allowing the exhaust gas to flow without passing through the catalyst is formed between the catalyst and an inner surface of the exhaust gas pipe forming the exhaust gas passage.
US11459924B2
A porous ceramic honeycomb body (10) including intersecting walls that form channels (22) extending axially from a first end face to a second end face and layered plugs (62) comprised of a first layer (64) disposed on channel walls and a second layer (66) disposed inward toward an axial center of each respective channel on the first layer. The plugs seal at least one of a first portion of the channels at the first end face and a second portion of channels at the second end face of the porous ceramic honeycomb body.
US11459920B2
This blow-by gas discharge device is provided with: blow-by gas piping 23 which is extended from the height position of the upper end of an internal combustion engine 1 to the height position of the lower end, is exposed to the outside air, and has an outlet 33 open to the atmosphere; and a heating chamber 24 which is provided between the ends of the blow-by gas piping, is formed in the flywheel housing 10 of the internal combustion engine, and heats blow-by gas.
US11459901B1
An airfoil with dual-wall cooling for a gas turbine engine comprises a spar having a pressure side wall and a suction side wall meeting at a leading edge and a trailing edge of the airfoil. An interior of the spar comprises a coolant cavity. The suction side wall includes an arrangement of rails on an outer surface thereof, where each rail extends along a non-chordal direction and terminates at or near the trailing edge. The airfoil also comprises a suction side coversheet overlying the suction side wall, where an inner surface of the suction side coversheet is in contact with the arrangement of rails so as to define a plurality of angled channels between the suction side wall and the suction side coversheet. The suction side wall also comprises inlet holes in fluid communication with the coolant cavity for feeding coolant to the angled channels, and the arrangement of rails is configured to direct the coolant through the angled channels and toward the trailing edge of the airfoil.
US11459899B2
A hollow turbine airfoil or a hollow turbine casting including a cooling passage partition. The cooling passage partition is formed from a single crystal grain structure nickel based super alloy, a cobalt based super alloy, a nickel-aluminum based alloy, or a coated refractory metal.
US11459898B2
Component for gas turbine engines are described. The components include a component wall having an inner wall surface and an outer wall surface and a cooling hole formed within the component wall. The cooling hole has an inlet formed in the inner wall surface and an outlet formed in the outer wall surface and defines a fluid path through the component wall. The cooling hole has a metering section extending from the inlet to a transition point and a diffusing section extending from the transition point to the outlet. The metering section is defined by a uniform geometry and the diffusing section is defined by a lobed portion that extends from the transition point toward the outlet. The lobed portion has a first lobe and a second lobe divided by a ridge surface and each lobe defines continuous curved surfaces along the length of the ridge surface.
US11459896B2
The present disclosure provides methods, assemblies, and systems for power production that can allow for increased efficiency and lower cost components arising from the control, reduction, or elimination of turbine blade mechanical erosion by particulates or chemical erosion by gases in a combustion product flow. The methods, assemblies, and systems can include the use of turbine blades that operate with a blade velocity that is significantly reduced in relation to conventional turbines used in typical power production systems. The methods and systems also can make use of a recycled circulating fluid for transpiration protection of the turbine and/or other components. Further, recycled circulating fluid may be employed to provide cleaning materials to the turbine.
US11459895B2
A turbine blade includes an airfoil including a pressure side and a suction side. A platform includes a pressure side wall and a suction side wall, and has a leading edge end wall and a trailing edge end wall. A pocket is positioned under the platform on the pressure side. A hole has a first end communicating with the pocket and having a second end communicating with the pressure side wall. A gas turbine engine is also disclosed.
US11459894B1
An airfoil fairing includes an airfoil section that is formed of a fiber-reinforced composite wall. The airfoil section has first and second radial ends, pressure and suction sides, leading and trailing ends that join the pressure and suction sides, an internal cavity, and a rib that extends radially in the internal cavity. The rib has a radial rib end at the first radial end of the airfoil section and extends across the internal cavity from a first rib side at the pressure side to a second rib side at the suction side. The rib defines at the radial end first and second shoulders. The first and second shoulders define a radial notch there between.
US11459893B2
A gas turbine engine that has improved fuel burn provides operability and/or maintenance requirements when installed on an aircraft. The gas turbine engine is provided with a core compressor that includes twelve, thirteen or fourteen rotor stages. The gas turbine engine has a ratio of a core compressor aspect ratio divided by a core compressor pressure ratio is in the range of from 0.03 to 0.09. This results in an optimum balance between installation benefits, operability, maintenance requirements and engine efficiency when the gas turbine engine is installed on an aircraft.
US11459887B2
A system for navigation detection and inclination measurement of advanced hydraulic supports, including a detection device module, a signal transfer transmission module, connected to the detection device module, and used to integrate ultrasonic signals and inclination signals received from all advanced hydraulic supports and then wirelessly transmit all the signals to an analysis and processing module. The analysis and processing module, connected to the signal transfer transmission module, and used to receive the signals from the signal integration and transmission device for analysis, where if an analysis result shows an abnormal situation, an alarm will b e immediately given to a worker. If the analysis result shows a continuous abnormal situation, or a relatively large value indicating the abnormal situation is generated, a command will be immediately sent to make the advanced hydraulic supports stop operating in a current mode.
US11459883B2
During pulse power drilling, the formation rock type is determined by analyzing organic and inorganic chemical reaction products. Plasma pulses interact with the solid rock of the formation to shift downhole chemical reactions. The formation type may act as a catalyst or an inhibitor to enhance or degrade reactions. The concentration of organic and inorganic chemical reaction products is determined by analyzing the reactions occurring at the drill bit. From the concentrations, the formation rock type is determined.
US11459861B1
Double barrier gas lift flow control devices that utilize first and second check valve assemblies disposed in series. A check valve assembly configured for disposition within an interior of a gas lift flow control device, the check valve assembly having flow channels disposed radially outward from a valve head of the check valve assembly. A check valve assembly configured to engage a nose end of gas lift flow control device.
US11459854B2
A flow control apparatus with a guide housing having one or ports, a breakable bond, and a platform with an upper surface having one or more pistons. The platform and guide housing have a first bonded configuration where the pistons are received in the ports, a breaking configuration, an opening configuration where the platform is movable away from the guide housing, and a misaligned configuration where the platform is displaced with respect to the guide housing. The guide housing has a guide bore and the platform has a guide projection extending into the guide bore. The guide bore has a groove and the guide projection has an extension extending in the groove for transitioning between configurations.
US11459850B2
A bridge plug includes a mandrel, a setting cone disposed at least partially about the mandrel, and a slip ring and a sealing element disposed at least partially about the setting cone. A guide shoe is operatively coupled to a downhole end of the mandrel and the bridge plug is actuatable from a run-in state to a deployed state. When the bridge plug is in the deployed state, the mandrel is axially movable relative to the setting cone to seal or open a flow path through the bridge plug.
US11459845B2
An improved method and apparatus for dropping a ball, plug or dart during oil and gas well operations (e.g., cementing operations) employs a specially configured tool body assembly having valving members (e.g., safety or kelly values) and valving members holding plugs, balls, or darts to be dropped. In one embodiment, the ball(s), dart(s) or plug(s) are contained in a sliding sleeve that shifts position responsive to valve rotation. An optional indicator indicates to a user or operator that a ball or plug has passed a selected one of the valving members. A transmitter (or transceiver) provides an ability to generate a wireless signal that is received by receivers (or transceivers) on the tool body assembly. Each receiver (or transceiver) controls an electrical actuator that engages a valving member or the indicator. Wireless signals can be used to open or close a valve or to reset a “tripped” indicator.
US11459836B2
A drilling rig system may include a drilling rig including a plurality of surface rig equipment thereon and a plurality of orientation sensors disposed on the plurality of surface rig equipment. The plurality of orientation sensors may be configured to provide relational positioning of the plurality of surface rig equipment on the drilling rig.
US11459834B2
A centraliser includes a number of members extending between two collars for mounting the centraliser on a casing. The members are configured to contact a wall of the bore and centraliser the casing in the bore. The members are radially moveable between the casing and the bore wall. The members further include an intermediate portion and end portions, the end portions being relatively more flexible than the intermediate portion.
US11459823B2
The present invention discloses a box cover device extended and retracted in a transmission manner and a control method thereof. The device comprises a transmission gear, a roller shutter shaft gear and a clutch gear. The transmission gear and the roller shutter shaft gear are arranged oppositely, and a clutching space is reserved between the transmission gear and the roller shutter shaft gear. A middle shaft is arranged at the center line of the clutching space vertical to the center connection line of the transmission gear and the roller shutter shaft gear. The box cover device extended and retracted in a clutch type transmission manner of the present invention is convenient and quick to operate and has high working efficiency
US11459820B2
A covering for an architectural covering is provided. The covering may include a multiple stage spring assembly. The spring assembly may include a non-rotatable first member, a first spring including a first end portion and a second end portion, and a second spring including a first end portion and a second end portion. The first end portion of the first spring may be coupled to the first member. The first end portion of the second spring may be coupled to the second end portion of the first spring to rotate with the second end portion of the first spring.
US11459818B2
A barrier that includes four structurally different corner connections for fixing a gate frame of the barrier to and between opposing vertical surfaces. A first connection includes a headed straight pin engaging a pivot hook and socket, a second connection includes a headed straight pin engaging a socket, a third connection includes headless bent pin engaging a socket and a limiter, and a fourth connection includes a headless bent pin engaging a socket.
US11459815B2
A dynamic multi-pane insulating assembly and system including methods for dynamically maintaining the thermal resistance value of the assembly and system. The dynamic multi-pane insulating assembly and system includes first and second gas permeable panes defining an evacuated gap in communication with a vacuum source; a first exterior pane spaced from the first gas permeable pane defining a first pressurized gap in communication with a source of pressurized gas; and a second exterior pane spaced from the second gas permeable pane defining a second pressurized gap in communication with the source of pressurized gas.
US11459814B2
A vacuum insulated glass product and the method for making the same, wherein the vacuum insulated glass comprises: a first glass substrate; a second glass substrate disposed facing the first glass substrate; a sealing structure provided between the first glass substrate and the second glass substrate and used for airtight binding of the first glass substrate and the second glass substrate to form a vacuum cavity; and a plurality of supports provided inside the vacuum cavity for bearing pressure from the first glass substrate and the second glass substrate. The sealing structure comprises: metal layers which are fixedly formed on facing surfaces of the first glass substrate and the second glass substrate, and an intermediate solder layer which is disposed between and connects the metal layers. The sealing structure has arc-shaped transition structures at the corner areas of the glass substrates.
US11459795B2
An electric strike for a door frame, comprising: a body; a keeper moveably attached to the body for selectively retaining a latch bolt on a door; a blocking element movable between a blocking position in which the blocking element locks the keeper to prevent a latch from being moved past the keeper, and an unblocking position in which the blocking element unlocks the keeper to allow the latch to move past the keeper; an electronically controlled electric actuator for moving the blocking element between the blocking position and the unblocking position; and an override mechanism to override the electric actuator.
US11459794B2
The present invention provides a motorised door lock assembly 10 in order for a user to be able to lock and unlock a door remotely and/or with a conventional key or with a thumb turn 22 from the inside. In particular, a user may decide to continue to use a key from the outside and the thumb turn (or an internal key mechanism) from the inside but at any stage the user (or a different user) may decide to operate the lock remotely. The motorised system may be activated by a number of actuators and, in particular, the motorised system may be activated by a remote key fob, a smart phone, an internally mounted push button or an external key pad. The assembly of the present invention is able to provide a continuous choice of all three methods (where permitted) without the risk of the lock becoming stuck in one position and without the user having to perform an elaborate particular sequence to operate the lock. The present invention is particularly for use with a Euro cylinder lock combined with a multipoint locking system 14 which thereby has operating limitations. The remotely activated motorised mechanism comprises a motor 50, a worm gear 52, a driven gear 54, rotary locking spindle engagement means 30 to transmit movement of the motor 50 to a rotary locking spindle of the cylinder lock, and a remote control actuator, the remotely activated motorised mechanism further comprising a multipoint monitoring system to determine an operational status of the multipoint locking mechanism and a rotary lock bolt monitoring system to determine an operational status of the lock bolt; and wherein the rotary locking spindle engagement means is arranged to directly engage a component of a thumb turn mechanism of a door lock.
US11459789B2
A hammock and tent assembly for viewing the sky includes a frame, a shell, and a hammock. The frame comprises a plurality of segments, which are hingedly interconnected so that the frame is selectively positionable in a deployed configuration and a stowed configuration. In the deployed configuration, the frame is substantially cuboid shaped and defines an interior space. In the stowed configuration, the segments are proximally positioned. The hammock is selectively engageable to the frame so that the hammock is suspended therefrom and positioned in the interior space. The shell is selectively positionable over and around the frame and can shelter a user positioned on the hammock. At least a portion of the shell positioned over the top is substantially transparent, thereby allowing the user a view therethrough.
US11459788B1
A privacy and weather shield for use with an automobile having a side door includes a canopy including first and second panels pivotally coupled together and each having opposed front and rear edges, respectively, each panel having a framework covered by a waterproof material. The canopy includes a runner slidably coupled to a shaft and a plurality of stretchers are operatively coupled to the runner and to the canopy such that movement of the runner causes the stretchers to move the canopy between a stowed configuration in which the panels are folded/stowed and a deployed configuration in which the panels are extended/deployed. The canopy may be secured atop an automobile cab and door with an elastic fastener extending between the runner and the side door of the automobile. First and second curtains may be releasably coupled to the canopy.
US11459786B2
An anchored umbrella base is provided with a screw-in base member threaded to an anchor and protruding through a dome to receive a lower umbrella pole.
US11459784B2
The anchor disc device supports and anchors an umbrella and includes a tube post to receive the free end of the pole of a beach umbrella with an anchor disc portion attached to the free end of the tube post. An end cap is installed in the free end of an extension of the anchor disc portion. The anchor disc portion includes an outwardly extending flange for engagement with sand into which the device is buried to help avoid disengagement of the umbrella from the sand from wind and the like. For removal, the umbrella is rotated in large circular motions to form a cone-shaped hole after which the umbrella and connected anchor disc device can be removed. The anchor disc device can then be detached from the umbrella, if desired.
US11459782B2
A precast, prestressed concrete tank and method that facilitates construction of a primary inner tank within a secondary outer tank, and which permits for the construction of the primary inner tank after the secondary outer tank has been erected, but without requiring insertion through a top of the secondary outer tank, or by tunneling underneath the secondary outer tank, is disclosed. The primary inner tank has an inner wall and the secondary outer tank has an outer wall (precast, prestressed concrete) and wire windings. The primary inner tank is disposed inside of the secondary outer tank. The secondary outer tank has a plurality of first precast outer wall panels, and a temporary construction opening frame. The temporary construction opening frame defines an access doorway during construction of the tank. The temporary construction opening frame is disposed on a foundation base slab.
US11459776B2
The disclosure belongs to the technical field of soundproof flooring, and discloses a floor mat and a floor. The floor mat includes a floor mat body made of foamed material. At least one surface of the floor mat body is provided with a number of soundproof units with the same area. Each of the soundproof unit has at least one soundproof structure. At least one of the numbers, shapes and distribution positions of the soundproof structures are different. The floor mat of the present disclosure can play a sound absorption effect; at the same time, a plurality of chaotic sounds are dispersed and mutually offset, which effectively isolates most of the sounds and has a good soundproof effect.
US11459770B1
A rain screen metal wall panel system is disclosed herein. Specifically, the system is directed to a metal wall panel assembly that includes a plurality of metal panels with a tab and slot design that accurately aligns the panels in three axes simultaneously. This increases the speed of installation while maintaining a properly aligned finished wall surface, join distances, and reduces cost by eliminating unnecessary clips and rails. The bottom panel(s) of the metal wall panel system of at least one embodiment includes a flat or generally planar bottom edge, with an attachment zee connection to the support structure.
US11459767B1
An exterior finishing system for a building is disclosed herein. The exterior finishing system may include a panel comprised of high density closed-cell foam, the panel securable to a substrate of a building. The exterior finishing system may further include a bonding layer disposed upon a surface of the panel, the bonding layer comprising water and acrylic polymer. The exterior finishing system may further include an exterior layer comprising calcium carbonate disposed upon a surface of the bonding layer. Methods of use of the exterior finishing system are also disclosed.
US11459757B2
A system includes a plurality of roofing shingles installed on a roof deck. Each of the roofing shingles includes first and second ends, first and second edges, a head lap, a reveal portion, a first side lap at the first end, and a second side lap at the second end. The second side lap includes a first surface, which has an adhesive. The first side lap of a first one of the roofing shingles overlays and is attached to the second side lap of a second one of the roofing shingles to form a sealed portion between the head lap of the first one of the roofing shingles and the head lap of the second one of the roofing shingles.
US11459740B2
A drain assembly includes a drain body and an expanding assembly. The drain body defines an axis and includes a first flange extending away from an inner surface of the drain body toward the axis and a second flange extending away from the inner surface of the drain body toward the axis. The expanding assembly is positionable within the drain body between the first flange and the second flange. The expanding assembly includes a lattice body and a fastener. The lattice body is positionable between the first flange and the second flange and a portion of the lattice body defines an aperture extending therethrough. The fastener is adjustably coupled to the lattice body at the aperture. The fastener is configured to be adjusted relative to the lattice body such that the expanding assembly applies an axial force to the first flange and the second flange.
US11459737B2
A water production system including a radiative cooling/heating unit comprising an oscillating heat pipe (OHP) heat spreader. The radiative cooling/heating unit lowers the temperature of the OHP heat spreader below the temperature of the ambient environment. The system additionally including a first OHP heat exchanger thermally connected to the OHP heat spreader such that the first OHP heat exchanger will acquire substantially the same temperature as the OHP heat spreader, a second OHP heat exchanger thermally connected to the OHP heat spreader such that the second OHP heat exchanger will acquire substantially the same temperature as the OHP heat spreader, and a rotatable OHP water absorption bed disposed in thermal contact with the radiative cooling/heating unit such that the OHP absorption bed will acquire substantially the same temperature as the OHP heat spreader.
US11459733B2
A control system for a work includes an operating device and a controller. The operating device outputs an operation signal indicative of an operation by an operator. The controller is in communication with the operating device. The controller determines a target profile of a terrain to be worked on. The controller generates a command signal to operate the work implement according to the target profile. The controller receives the operation signal from the operating device. The controller determines an operation of the work implement based on the operation signal. The controller corrects the target profile according to the operation by the operator when the operation of the work implement by the operator is performed.
US11459721B2
The present invention relates to an erosion control apparatus and methods of using and installing the apparatus. The apparatus is constructed to prevent erosion of soil during typical weather conditions and adverse weather events. The apparatus can include a plurality of anchored rolls and soil lifts operative to stabilize the shoreline.
US11459714B2
A subterranean housing and post system for connection to a traffic guardrail is disclosed. The housing comprises an interior space and a soil plate extending outward from the housing. The interior of the housing comprises a lower post guide, a lower post stop, and an upper post stop. A lower post has a U-channel shape with outwardly extending flanges. The lower post is insertable into the lower end of the housing, between the lower post guide and the housing body, with insertion limited by engagement with the lower post stop. An upper post has a U-channel shape with outwardly extending flanges. The upper post is insertable into the upper end of the housing, between the lower post and the housing body. Insertion of the upper post is limited by engagement with the upper post stop. The upper post is connectable to a guardrail.
US11459713B2
A roadside delineator device that includes a breakaway shear pin feature that allows the upper portion of the device to break away from the lower portion of the device during a vehicular accident. The upper and lower halves can be reconnected by replacing the broken shear pins.
US11459710B2
A continuous asphalt mixture production plant based on double-horizontal-shaft forced mixing includes a cold aggregate bin, a continuous aggregate conveying and metering system, a drying drum, an aggregate elevator, a double-horizontal-shaft continuous mixing host, a continuous asphalt metering and conveying system, a continuous powder conveying and metering system and a finished product bin. The double-horizontal-shaft continuous mixing host includes a first double-horizontal-shaft mixing cylinder and a second double-horizontal-shaft mixing cylinder connected in series. The first double-horizontal-shaft mixing cylinder is provided with an aggregate inlet, an asphalt inlet, a powder inlet and a first discharging port, and the second double-horizontal-shaft mixing cylinder is provided with a mixture inlet and a second discharging port. The aggregate inlet, the asphalt inlet and the powder inlet are respectively connected with an outlet of the aggregate elevator, the continuous asphalt metering and conveying system and the continuous powder conveying and metering system correspondingly.
US11459709B2
An asphalt mixing plant includes several transportable modules, each module being formed by a normalized transport container in which at least one of the primary pieces of equipment of the asphalt mixing plant is incorporated, the primary equipment being installed permanently in the container while being mounted stationary in the container or mounted movable in the container between a transport position and a usage position, at least one of the modules including a placement device incorporated into the container and configured to position the container as a whole relative to the ground and/or to position a movable primary piece of equipment in the usage position relative to the container.
US11459707B2
A dual ballast cribber for on-rail operation for preventing and removing cemented ballast with minimal site preparation can include a central frame, a plurality of wheels, a first pivot arm, a second pivot arm, a first cribber bucket, a second cribber bucket, a first clamp, a second clamp, and a hydraulic system. The dual ballast cribber may perform a digging cycle in 2 minutes or less. Preferably the digging cycle is performed in 45 seconds or less.
US11459698B1
An antimicrobial coated textile is provided. The antimicrobial coated textile includes a textile substrate including a plurality of textile fibers and a coating. The coating includes 77.5 to 97.45 wt. % silica, 0.05 to 2.5 wt. % titanium dioxide, and 2.5 to 20 wt. % an oxide of a second metal, each based on a total weight of the coating. The second metal is selected from a group including zinc (Zn), selenium (Se), iron (Fe), copper (Cu), and zirconium (Zr), and the coating is disposed on a surface of the textile fibers. A method of preparing the antimicrobial coated textile is also provided.
US11459694B2
A laundry appliance includes a cabinet and a tub that is disposed within the cabinet. A first door is coupled to the cabinet and is operable between open and closed positions. A second door is operably coupled to the tub. The second door is configured to move with the tub and independently of the first door in the closed position. A coupling member is at least partially disposed on the first door. The first and second doors are operably coupled by the coupling member.
US11459692B2
Systems, apparatuses and methods for easily modifying and using a laundry washing machine to recirculate water and spray wash water and cleaning compositions onto textiles in order to optimize water usage, wash temperature, and composition dosage are provided. An apparatus comprising a replacement door window, a spray nozzle, a pump, tubing, and connectors for use in the modified laundry washing machine is further provided. The modification system provides improved cleaning performance and effective cleaning even in low water conditions.
US11459688B2
Disclosed is a washing system capable of detecting a level of contamination of a laundry tub by executing a big data, an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm and/or a machine learning algorithm in a 5G environment connected for things Internet. The washing system capable of detecting a level of contamination of a laundry tub according to one embodiment of the present disclosure includes a composite sensor for detecting a level of contamination of a laundry tub, a washing machine controller that receives a digital signal from the composite sensor to determine a level of contamination of the laundry tub, and a server communicating with the washing machine. The washing machine controller or the server learns AI model with the training data set through a machine learning algorithm in order to predict a progressing degree of contamination of the laundry tub.
US11459683B2
Disclosed is a control method of a laundry apparatus comprising: a drum provided to hold clothes; and a drive unit configured to rotate the drum, the control method comprising: an accelerating step for accelerating the drum; a decelerating step for decelerating the drum; and a laundry load sensing step for sensing the laundry load of the clothes held in the drum based on a measured acceleration value of the drive unit during the accelerating step and a measured deceleration value of the drive unit during the decelerating step.
US11459681B2
A hopping foot guide device for use with a longarm quilting machine to guide the longarm machine's hopping foot sewing needle mechanism across material in an intricate pattern without the need to reset at every turn or otherwise move as the stitching progresses, and capable of accurate repetition.
US11459668B2
An enclosure for a portable electronic device can include a titanium substrate defining a textured surface and a nominal surface. The titanium substrate can include a first region that extends above the nominal surface and a second region adjacent to the first region and extending below the nominal surface. A separation distance between an apex of the first region and a bottom of a trough defined by the second region can be at least 1 micrometer. A metal oxide layer can overlay the trough defined by the second region.
US11459652B2
Embodiments herein include void-free material depositions on a substrate (e.g., in a void-free trench-filled (VFTF) component). In some embodiments, a method may include providing a plurality of device structures extending from a base, each of the plurality of device structures including a first sidewall opposite a second sidewall and a top surface extending between the first and second sidewalls, and providing a seed layer over the plurality of device structures. The method may further include forming a dielectric layer along just the top surface and along an upper portion of the first and second sidewalls using an angled deposition delivered to the plurality of device structures at a non-zero angle of inclination relative to a perpendicular extending from an upper surface of the base, and forming a fill material within one or more trenches defined by the plurality of device structures.
US11459643B2
A high-strength and high-toughness tube for perforating gun, having a formulation of chemical elements in percentage by mass as follows: C: 0.15%-0.22%, Si: 0.1%-0.4%, Mn: 0.5%-1%, Cr: 0.3%-0.7%, Mo: 0.3%-0.7%, Nb: 0.01%-0.04%, V: 0.1%-0.2%, Ti: 0.02%-0.05%, B: 0.0015%-0.005%, Al: 0.01%-0.05%, Ca: 0.001%-0.004%, N≤0.008%, and the balance of Fe and other inevitable impurities. Accordingly, further disclosed is a method for manufacturing a high-strength and high-toughness tube for perforating gun. The high-strength and high-toughness tube for perforating gun of the present invention has high strength, good toughness and uniform circumferential strength, and is suitable for application in the field of petroleum exploration and exploitation.
US11459635B2
A device for the production of a metallic strip using a rapid solidification technology is provided. The device includes a movable heat sink with an external surface onto which a melt is poured and on which the melt solidifies to produce the strip, and which device includes a rolling device which can be pressed against the external surface of the movable heat sink while the heat sink is in motion.
US11459630B2
A bearing steel part having a predetermined chemical composition, in which the number density of oxide particles having an equivalent circle diameter of 5 μm or more, and containing CaO, Al2O3 and SiO2, such that the content ratio of Al2O3 with respect to the total mass of CaO, Al2O3, and SiO2 is 50% by mass or more, is 3.0/cm2 or less in an arbitrary cross section of the part, and in which the Vickers hardness at a depth of 50 μm from a rolling surface is 750 or more, and in which the compressive residual stress at the rolling surface is 900 MPa or more. Also provided is a steel bar for a bearing steel part that is suitable for obtaining the foregoing bearing steel part.
US11459617B2
Provided herein are methods of determining tumoral sensitivity to hormonal (endocrine) therapy based upon an index of estrogen receptor (ER)- and progesterone receptor (PR)-related genes, referred to as the sensitivity to endocrine therapy index (SETER/PR index), and may have additional consideration for the proportion of ER gene (ESRI) RNA transcripts that contain a mutation relative to the value of the SETER/PR index. Further provided are methods of treating breast cancer patients determined to be sensitive to an endocrine therapy by the SETER/PR index.
US11459616B2
Methods are provided to improve the positive predictive value for cancer detection using cell-free nucleic acid samples. Various embodiments are directed to applications (e.g., diagnostic applications) of the analysis of the fragmentation patterns and size of cell-free DNA, e.g., plasma DNA and serum DNA, including nucleic acids from pathogens, including viruses. Embodiments of one application can determine if a subject has a particular condition. For example, a method of present disclosure can determine if a subject has cancer or a tumor, or other pathology. Embodiments of another application can be used to assess the stage of a condition, or the progression of a condition over time. For example, a method of the present disclosure may be used to determine a stage of cancer in a subject, or the progression of cancer in a subject over time (e.g., using samples obtained from a subject at different times).
US11459612B2
The present invention provides an in vitro method for obtaining data useful for diagnosing a cardiomyopathy in a human subject, wherein the method comprises using, as an indicator, the expression levels, obtained from a biological sample isolated from the human subject, preferably a plasma sample, of one or more of the following miRNAs miR-721 and/or miR-155); and obtaining a result of the method by comparing the expression levels of said one or more miRNAs with a reference value or with the expression levels of a control, indicator of the absence of cardiomyopathy.
US11459608B2
Fluorescence imaging system designs are described that provide larger fields-of-view, increased spatial resolution, improved modulation transfer and image quality, higher spatial sampling frequency, faster transitions between image capture when repositioning the sample plane to capture a series of images (e.g., of different fields-of-view), and improved imaging system duty cycle, and thus enable higher throughput image acquisition and analysis for genomics and other imaging applications.
US11459607B1
Provided herein are methods, compositions, and systems for multiplexed analysis of individual cells or cell populations. Cells encapsulated in beads and/or biomolecules are sequentially co-partitioned, allowing for analysis of two different types of biomolecules (e.g., RNA and DNA). The present invention leverages different polymer dissociation mechanisms, accompanied with barcoding of biomolecules (e.g., nucleic acid molecules) for multiplexed measurements in single cells. Sequential co-partitioning and barcode technology enables identification and quantitation of DNA and RNA from single cells.
US11459605B2
The present invention relates to a method for the in vitro diagnosis or prognosis of prostate cancer, which includes a step of detecting at least one expression product of at least one HERV nucleic acid sequence, the use of said nucleic acid sequences, once isolated, as one or more molecular marker(s) and a kit comprising at least one specific binding partner of at least one of the expression products of the HERV nucleic acid sequences.
US11459604B2
Apparatus and methods for analyzing samples, including for example, samples containing nucleic acids, antibodies, and/or antigens are described. The apparatus may include a frame having a cartridge receiver, two optical devices, thermal cycler, lysis assembly, hybridization heater, and sample transfer assembly. In use, the apparatus may perform multiple sample preparation and analysis processes within the same disposable cartridge including, for example, performing a PCR assay and immunoassay in the same cartridge.
US11459599B2
The present disclosure provides methods for detecting a single-stranded target RNA. The present disclosure provides methods of cleaving a precursor C2c2 guide RNA array into two or more C2c2 guide RNAs. The present disclosure provides a kit for detecting a target RNA in a sample.
US11459585B2
Methods of multiplex genome engineering in cells using Cas9 is provided which includes a cycle of steps of introducing into the cell a first foreign nucleic acid encoding one or more RNAs complementary to the target DNA and which guide the enzyme to the target DNA, wherein the one or more RNAs and the enzyme are members of a co-localization complex for the target DNA, and introducing into the cell a second foreign nucleic acid encoding one or more donor nucleic acid sequences, and wherein the cycle is repeated a desired number of times to multiplex DNA engineering in cells.
US11459584B2
A gene sequence of recombinant human type II mitochondrial dynein-like GTPase having a nucleotide sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 1 and uses thereof. A fusion nucleic acid comprising a nucleic acid encoding human type II mitochondrial dynein-like GTPase. A recombinant expression vector comprising the nucleic acid or a fusion nucleic acid. A transformant by which the nucleic acid or the fusion nucleic acid is introduced into a host. A non-human mammalian ADOA model based on the inactivation of the gene of type II mitochondrial dynein-like GTPase, which can effectively improve the pathological manifestations of ADOA using a recombinant expression vector encoding the human type II mitochondrial dynein-like GTPase. The expression level of the nucleic acid encoding the human type II mitochondrial dynein-like GTPase is higher, therefore, more human type II mitochondrial dynein-like GTPase can be obtained in the mitochondria. which can better treat eye diseases such as ADOA.
US11459574B2
Provided is a method for improving productivity in producing an organic compound in a bacterium that originally does not have an inherent ED pathway. In one aspect, provided is a transformant of a coryneform bacterium that is obtained by introducing the Entner-Doudoroff pathway into the coryneform bacterium as a host. In another aspect, provided is a transformant of a coryneform bacterium that is obtained by introducing, into a coryneform bacterium as a host a gene in which an enzyme having glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase activity is encoded, a gene in which an enzyme having 6-phosphogluconate dehydratase activity is encoded, and a gene in which an enzyme having 2-keto-3-deoxy-6-phosphogluconate aldolase activity is encoded.
US11459565B2
Embodiments of the disclosure include methods and compositions for the renewal of cardiomyocytes by targeting the Hippo pathway. In particular embodiments, an individual with a need for cardiomyocyte renewal is provided an effective amount of a shRNA molecule that targets the Sav1 gene. Particular shRNA sequences are disclosed.
US11459558B2
Disclosed are methods for performing transcription-dependent directed evolution (TRADE) and novel AAV capsids selected using such methods.
US11459557B2
Methods and compositions for inducing a plurality of mutations in transgenic Cas9 eukaryotes to model a neuronal disease or disorder. The invention further comprehends testing putative treatments with such models, e.g., testing putative chemical compounds that may be pharmaceutically relevant for treatment or gene therapy that may be relevant for treatment, or combinations thereof. The invention allows for the study of genetic diseases and putative treatments to better understand and alleviate a genetic disease or a condition, e.g., autism, autism-spectrum disease or disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, or psychiatric disorders.
US11459554B2
The present invention relates to an enzyme complex which the following (i) to (iv) are combined: (i) chimeric beta-agarase formed by a fusion of beta-agarase and the dockerin module of endo-β-1,4-glucanase-B; (ii) chimeric kappa-carrageenase formed by a fusion of kappa-carrageenase and the dockerin module of endo-β-1,4-glucanase-B; (iii) chimeric anhydro-galactosidase formed by a fusion of anhydro-galactosidase and the dockerin module of endoβ-1,4-glucanase-B; and (iv) mini cellulose-binding protein A, and to a method of degrading red algal biomass using the same. According to the present invention, an enzymatic degradation process is applied for the production of agar degradation products, deviating from conventional methods that relied on physical and chemical pretreatment processes. Thus, the present invention will greatly contribute to efficiently converting marine algae into valuable products by use of a convenient, cost-effective, highly efficient and environmentally friendly degradation system while controlling the products.
US11459548B2
The present invention relates to a recombinant host comprising a recombinant nucleic acid sequence encoding a polypeptide having at least about: a. 85% identity to the amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 1; b. 85% identity to the amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 3; c. 85% identity to the amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 6; d. 85% identity to the amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 9; e. 85% identity to the amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 11; f. 85% identity to the amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 14; g. 85% identity to the amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 17; h. 85% identity to the amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 20; i. 85% identity to the amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 22; or j. 85% identity to the amino acid sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 25.
US11459547B2
The present invention provides a method of producing an osteoblast construct from human iPS cells, the method including the steps of: (1) inducing formation of an embryoid body by subjecting undifferentiated human iPS cells to non-adherent culture; (2) inducing differentiation of the human iPS cells into mesodermal cells by subjecting the embryoid body of the human iPS cells obtained in the step (1) to non-adherent culture; and (3) inducing differentiation into osteoblasts by subjecting the mesodermal cells of the human iPS cells obtained in the step (2) to non-adherent culture.
US11459541B2
Methods for culturing filamentous fungi, in which the filamentous fungi are grown in a colloid of air and a fermentation medium, are provided. The methods result in more rapid and prolific growth of the filamentous fungus than has been achieved by previous methods. Biomats produced by the methods and air-medium colloids for use in the methods are also provided.
US11459540B2
Separation of materials is achieved using affinity binding and acoustophoretic techniques. A column provided with a fluid mixture of materials for separation and support structures may be used with acoustic waves to block flow of the support structures. The support structures can have an affinity for one or more materials in the fluid mixture. By blocking flow of the support structures, materials bound or adhered to the support structure are also blocked.
US11459539B2
Anaerobic digestion apparatus comprises a first chamber for retaining organic matter before and/or during anaerobic digestion and a second chamber for retaining organic matter during anaerobic digestion. The anaerobic digestion apparatus is configured to refrigerate or heat the first chamber to suppress methanogenesis in the first chamber. The anaerobic digestion apparatus comprises a controller programmed to regulate the anaerobic digestion process and to thereby reduce system perturbations. The flow of organic matter to the second chamber where methanogenesis is regulated. There is disclosed an inoculum for anaerobic digestion comprising Acetobacterium woodii and Methanosaeta concilii.
US11459537B2
A sensor device according to the present technology includes a stack sensor. The stack sensor includes a first sensor layer and a second sensor layer. The first sensor layer has, as a detection target, a first substrate in a culture solution, the first substrate being changed in accordance with a change in a state of a cell. The second sensor layer has, as a detection target, a second substrate in the culture solution and is provided on the first sensor layer, the second substrate being changed in accordance with the change in the state.
US11459536B1
A bioreactor includes a base and a lid. The base includes two opposing curved or convoluted surfaces, two opposing flat surfaces, a window disposed on one of the flat surfaces, the window having a higher degree of transparency compared to other portions of the base, wherein images or videos of cells are captured through the window by non-invasive ISM device, and a rounded bottom. The lid is attachable to the base. The lid includes a shaft and a semipermeable membrane attached to the shaft, the semipermeable membrane being permeable to oxygen but impermeable to viruses and bacteria. The PAT-based online analysis directs the adaptive manipulations of bioreactor towards efficient, automated, and GMP-compliant clinical protocols of cell culture.
US11459534B2
An organ container includes flexible films and a tube holder. The films hold an organ in contact with the surface of the organ. The tube holder holds tubes that extend between the organ in the films and an outside of the films. This makes it possible to hold and preserve the organ while allowing a liquid to be perfused through the organ via the tubes. It is also possible to reduce movements of the organ relative to the organ container and to reduce damage to the organ.
US11459527B2
A cleansing composition comprising an aqueous solution of an anionic polymer, a nonionic polymer and a system of surfactants. Solutions as described herein comprise two distinct aqueous phases having different compositions and density. Further methods of use are also disclosed.
US11459517B2
A process for treatment of PFO from a steam cracking zone includes selectively hydrogenating PFO or a portion thereof for conversion of polyaromatics compounds contained in the PFO into aromatic compounds with one benzene ring to produce a selectively hydrogenated stream. The selectively hydrogenated stream is selectively hydrocracked for selective ring opening and dealkylation to produce a selectively hydrocracked BTX+ stream. The selectively hydrocracked BTX+ stream is separated into BTX compounds. Optionally the PFO is separated into a first stream containing C9+ aromatics compounds with one benzene ring, and a second stream containing C10+ aromatic compounds, whereby the first stream containing C9+ aromatics compounds with one benzene ring is passed to the selective hydrocracking step, and the feed to the selective hydrogenation step comprises all or a portion of the second stream containing C10+ aromatic compounds.
US11459510B2
The invention relates to a process for producing an upgraded renewable oil from renewable carbonaceous material(-s) comprising providing a low sulphur oxygen containing renewable crude oil having a sulphur content of less than 0.5 wt % and an oxygen content from about 2.0 wt to about 20 wt %, pressurising the low sulphur oxygen containing renewable crude oil to an operational pressure in the range 20 to 200 bar, adding and mixing hydrogen to the pressurized low sulphur oxygen containing crude oil, heating the oil to an operational temperature in the range 180-410° C. in one or more steps, contacting said oil with at least one heterogeneous catalyst contained in a first reaction zone, contacting the effluent from said first reaction zone with at least one heterogeneous catalyst contained in a second reaction zone, where in at least one of the heterogeneous catalysts in the first reaction zone and/or the second reaction zone is on a non-sulphided form.
US11459506B2
An additive includes an additive molecule having a structure represented by formula (I): wherein R1, A1, A2, Z1, K1, n1, and n2 are defined as in the specification.
US11459493B2
This invention relates to a curable composition comprising: I. Component (I) comprising at least one resin having at least one functional group selected from the group consisting of β-ketoester and malonate functional groups, II. Component (II) comprising at least one curing agent having at least one aldehyde functional group, and III. Component (III) comprising at least one compound having amine functionality, salts thereof, or combinations thereof; IV. Component (IV) which is at least one additive comprising at least one adhesion promoter, at least one green strength enhancer, or combinations thereof, or wherein said at least one additive is both an adhesion promoter and a green strength enhancer.
US11459490B2
The adhesive composition comprising emulsion polymers and microspheres and articles made therefrom are provided. The adhesive is particularly suitable for packages for consumer products that provide sufficient strength and thermal insulation while reducing the overall basis weight of the substrates.
US11459487B2
A gummed paper comprises a first substrate having an uncovered region on an upper surface thereof; and a second substrate, in which in a thickness direction, a projection of the second substrate partially covers a projection of the first substrate, a dyne value of an upper surface of the second substrate is greater than or equal to 40 dyn/cm, and a dyne value of the uncovered region is less than the dyne value of the upper surface of the second substrate.
US11459486B2
There are provided a polishing composition that gives, in the step of polishing a wafer, a flat polished surface having a reduced height difference between a central region and a peripheral region (laser mark region) of the wafer, and a method for producing a wafer using the polished composition. A polishing composition comprising water, silica particles, an alkaline substance, and an amphoteric surfactant of formula (1): wherein R1 is a C10-20 alkyl group, or a C1-5 alkyl group containing an amide group; R2 and R3 are each independently a C1-9 alkyl group; and X−is a C1-5 anionic organic group containing a carboxylate ion or a sulfonate ion. Silica particles in the form of an aqueous dispersion of silica particles having a mean primary particle diameter of 5 to 100 nm may be used. A method for producing a wafer, wherein in the step of polishing a wafer, polishing is performed until a height difference between a central region and a peripheral region of the wafer becomes 100 nm or less.
US11459485B2
The present invention relates to a coating composition with 10 to 100% by weight of a non-fluorinated compound mixture, which comprises at least one compound b and at least one compound a, c, or d: a) alkali metal salt of poly(meth)acrylic acid, alkali metal salt of poly(meth)acrylic acid copolymer, ammonium compound or amine salt of poly(meth)acrylic acid, ammonium compound or amine salt of poly(meth)acrylic acid copolymer, or mixtures thereof; b) silicone polyether, alkali metal salt of silicone polyether carboxylate, ammonium compound or amine salt of silicone polyether carboxylate, or mixtures thereof; c) salt of hydrolyzed α-olefin/maleic anhydride copolymer, salt of esterified α-olefin/maleic anhydride copolymer, α-olefin/maleic anhydride copolymer amic acid resin or salt thereof, or mixtures thereof; or d) polycarboxylate calcium sequestrants or mixtures thereof. Such coatings exhibit improved soil and stain cleaning performance.
US11459484B2
A mixed acrylate-siloxane polymer can be used to create three-dimensional (3D) structures of arbitrary shape via nanolithography. Treatment of such structures with amine (such as diamine) makes them permissive for neuronal cell adhesion and growth without need of additional modification such as poly-lysine (D or L) nor laminin.
US11459475B2
A method of printing using a thermo reversible gelling primer composition, a thermo reversible gelling primer composition, and an ink set comprising the thermo reversible gelling primer composition.
US11459472B2
Described herein are printing ink compositions suitable for printing of microwavable flexible packaging. The printed black ink exhibits low microwave energy absorption, thus minimizing the risk of charring, arcing, ignition, distortion or burning during microwave heating processes. Nitrocellulose resin, a solvent, a polyurethane resin, and a carbon black pigment having at least one of an imaginary permittivity of ≤3, preferably ≤2, and a surface oxygen content of 1 wt % to 3 wt %, preferably 1.5 wt % to 2.5 wt % are among the components of the printing ink compositions. Also described is packaging suitable for exposure to microwave energy upon which the inks have been printed.
US11459463B2
Provided is a method for forming a multilayer coating film, comprising simultaneously curing an uncured base coating film, an uncured effect coating film, and an uncured clear coating film. In this method, an effect pigment dispersion (Y) contains water, a rheology control agent (A), and a flake-effect pigment (B), and has a solids content of 0.5 to 10 mass %; the flake-effect pigment (B) is an interference pigment in which a transparent or translucent base material is coated with a metal oxide; and the flake-effect pigment (B) is contained in an amount of 30 to 90 parts by mass based on 100 parts by mass of the total solids content in the effect pigment dispersion (Y).
US11459462B2
A charge transport material containing a charge transport polymer that satisfies at least one of (I) or (II) described below: (I) to independently have both a monovalent substituent having an alicyclic structure of 7 or more carbon atoms, and a monovalent substituent having a carbonyl-containing group; and (II) to have a monovalent substituent that includes a monovalent substituent having an alicyclic structure of 7 or more carbon atoms bonded directly to a carbonyl-containing group.
US11459449B2
The present invention relates to a thermosetting resin composition for coating a metal film having excellent crack resistance and a metal laminate using the same.
US11459447B2
In accordance with the invention a wire coat rubber composition for a tire comprises from 70 phr to 100 phr of cis 1,4-polyisoprene rubber, from 0 phr to 30 phr of solution styrene butadiene rubber, from 65 phr to 95 phr pre-silanized precipitated silica, from 0.1 phr to 5 phr of a cobalt salt, up to 15 phr carbon black, up to 10 phr of a resin, and up to 10 phr oil. Further the present invention is directed to a tire comprising such a wire coat composition.
US11459441B2
Disclosed is a thermosetting composite resin composition including a thermosetting resin, particularly an unsaturated polyester resin, a low-profile additive and an inorganic filler, and to a method of manufacturing an automobile shell plate using the same. The thermosetting composite resin composition can be used to manufacture not only automobile shell plates having low specific gravity and superior surface smoothness and mechanical properties but also structural parts such as interior parts for airplanes or railways.
US11459436B2
Provided are poly(3-hydroxyalkanoate) foam particles, which can give a foam molded article having good surface aspects and a low shrinkage ratio of a molding, and the foam molded article. The poly(3-hydroxyalkanoate) foam particles have at least two melting peaks on a DSC curve obtained by differential scanning calorimetry and in which a melting calorie (X) on a high temperature side is 0.1 to 20 J/g, a gel fraction (Y) is 20 to 75% by weight, and the melting calorie (X) and the gel fraction (Y) satisfy Formula: X+Y≥30.
US11459424B2
A process for preparing polycarbonate by the phase interface process in the presence of at least one catalyst, wherein immediately after the optionally first addition of the at least one catalyst, from 0.01 to 20 J/kg of mixing energy is introduced into the system comprising the at least one catalyst within a time of from 2 to 1200 s. A mixture, an organic phase, and a process for distributing at least one catalyst in a system comprising an organic phase and an aqueous phase are also disclosed herein.
US11459423B2
A process for polymerizing β-butyrolactone that includes contacting racemic β-butyrolactone or an enantiomer thereof with a catalyst/initiator system which includes a rare earth metal, a chiral ligand, at least one nucleophilic ligand, optionally at least one solvent ligand, and optionally an alkali based co-catalyst. The chiral ligand is an enantiomer of a unit of formula I Each Rz independently is substituted or unsubstituted linear C1-C20 alkyl, or substituted or unsubstituted branched, or cyclic C3-C20 alkyl, substituted or unsubstituted C6-C20 aryl, substituted or unsubstituted C5-C20 heteroaryl, or halogen. Each Ra independently is H, Me+, (MeZ)+, wherein Z is a charge equalizing anion, or wherein two Ra together are alkaline earth metal, wherein Me+ is alkali metal or alkaline earth metal.
US11459421B2
A one-component moisture curing composition and a method for sealing construction joints against penetration of water. The one-component moisture curing composition includes at least one isocyanate-functional polyurethane polymer, at least one inorganic swelling agent selected from the group including aluminum sulfate and magnesium sulfate, and at least one hydrophilic aldimine of formula (I).
US11459419B2
The present invention relates to a waterborne dispersion comprising (A) amphiphilic block copolymer obtained with a controlled radical polymerization process and comprising at least blocks [A] and [B], whereby block [A] comprises ethylenically unsaturated monomer(s) bearing water-soluble and/or water-dispersible functional groups (monomer(s) (i)), and block [B] comprises ethylenically unsaturated monomer(s) different from monomer(s) (i) (monomer(s) (ii)); and (B) polymer P comprising ethylenically unsaturated monomer(s) different from (i) (monomer(s) (ii)), characterized in that the amount of block copolymer is higher than 1 and lower than 30 wt. %, based on the total weight of monomers used to prepare the block copolymer and polymer P; the acid value of the composition consisting of block copolymer and polymer P is higher than 1 and at most 35 mg KOH per g of the block copolymer-polymer P composition; the block copolymer has a calculated glass transition temperature of higher than 10° C. and lower than 250° C.; and polymer P comprises at least 20 wt. % (relative to the total monomer composition to prepare the polymer P) of a polymer fraction with calculated glass transition temperature higher than 10° C. and lower than 100° C.
US11459417B2
The present invention provides a block copolymer composition comprising a block copolymer B formed by introducing a functional group capable of forming a non-covalent bond into a block copolymer A including at least one aromatic vinyl polymer block and at least one conjugated diene polymer block, wherein: the block copolymer B includes an ionic group as the functional group capable of forming a non-covalent bond.
US11459402B2
A hybridoma cell stain and a monoclonal antibody secreted therefrom and application thereof belong to the technical field of prevention and treatment of Trichinella spiralis (T. spiralis). Aiming at the technical problem of how to specifically diagnose trichinellosis, the disclosure provides a hybridoma cell strain deposited under an accession number of CGMCC No. 18317. Tests show that the monoclonal antibody Ts-ZH68-2A4-Ab secreted by the hybridoma cell strain can compete with the positive serum of pigs infected with T. spiralis for binding to Ts-ZH68 antigen, and the recognition peptide is 222GVDRSATCQGDSGGP236. The monoclonal antibody of the disclosure and the Ts-ZH68 protein B cell epitope polypeptide recognized by the monoclonal antibody can be used to prepare a reagent or a vaccine for diagnosing or preventing infection of T. spiralis, laying the foundation for establishment of a serological diagnosis method of T. spiralis.
US11459397B2
Provided are self-crosslinking meditope-enabled antibodies. Also provided are methods for altering the distribution of a cell surface antigen using self-crosslinking meditope enabled antibodies, compositions for use in the methods, and methods of producing, using, testing, and screening the same, including therapeutic and diagnostic methods and uses.
US11459396B2
The present disclosure includes a fusion protein, called a “Seldeg”, including a targeting component that specifically binds to a cell surface receptor or other cell surface molecule at near-neutral pH, and an antigen component fused directly or indirectly to the targeting component. The antigen component is configured to specifically bind a target antigen-specific antibody. The present disclosure also includes a method of depleting a target antigen-specific antibody from a patient by administering to the patient a Seldeg having an antigen component configured to specifically bind the target antigen-specific antibody.
US11459388B2
Methods and compositions are provided for inducing phagocytosis of a target cell, treating an individual having cancer, treating an individual having an intracellular pathogen infection (e.g., a chronic infection), and/or reducing the number of inflicted cells (e.g., cancer cells, cells infected with an intracellular pathogen, etc.) in an individual. Methods and compositions are also provided for predicting whether an individual is resistant (or susceptible) to treatment with an anti-CD47/SIRPA agent. In some cases, the subject methods and compositions include an anti-MHC Class I/LILRB1 agent. In some cases, the subject methods and compositions include an anti-MHC Class I/LILRB1 agent and an anti-CD47/SIRPA agent (e.g., co-administration of an anti-MHC Class I/LILRB1 agent and an anti-CD47/SIRPA agent). Kits are also provided for practicing the methods of the disclosure.
US11459382B2
Provided are methods for clinical treatment of a protein-losing enteropathy, such as lymphangiectasia, using an anti-C5 antibody, or antigen binding fragment thereof, in patients (e.g., pediatric patients).
US11459379B2
The present invention concerns gp36 immunoreactive compositions for E. canis and gp 47 immunoreactive compositions for E. chaffeensis. In particular, epitopes for E. canis gp36 and E. chaffeensis gp 47 are disclosed. In certain embodiments, the immunoreactive compositions comprise tandem repeats having carbohydrate moieties.
US11459373B2
The present disclosure pertains to compositions comprising aflibercept and methods for producing such compositions in chemically defined media and using anion exchange chromatography to produce aflibercept with a specific glycosylation profile. In particular, these methods produce aflibercept with a glycosylation profile with specific ranges of % total fucosylated glycans, total sialylated glycans, mannose-5, and galactosylated glycans.
US11459371B2
The present invention relates to peptides, proteins, nucleic acids and cells for use in immunotherapeutic methods. In particular, the present invention relates to the immunotherapy of cancer. The present invention furthermore relates to tumor-associated T-cell peptide epitopes, alone or in combination with other tumor-associated peptides that can for example serve as active pharmaceutical ingredients of vaccine compositions that stimulate anti-tumor immune responses, or to stimulate T cells ex vivo and transfer into patients. Peptides bound to molecules of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), or peptides as such, can also be targets of antibodies, soluble T-cell receptors, and other binding molecules.
US11459369B2
Disclosed is a fusion protein for α-Melanocyte stimulating hormone, the fusion protein containing a protein transduction domain (PTD), a human serum albumin (HSA) and an α-Melanocyte stimulating hormone (α-MSH). Also disclosed are a method for preparing the fusion protein and a use thereof for inhibiting or treating central nervous system inflammations.
US11459367B2
A heterodimeric Fc-fused protein and a pharmaceutical composition comprising the heterodimeric Fc-fused protein are disclosed. The heterodimeric Fc-fused protein includes first and second Fc regions of an immunoglobulin heavy chain constant region (Fc) pair and in which IL-21 is bound to at least one of the N-terminus or the C-terminus of the first Fc region and/or the second Fc region, wherein CH3 domains of the first Fc region and the second Fc region are mutated such that the formation of a heterodimer is promoted. When the heterodimeric Fc-fused protein is used, an in vivo half-life of IL-21 included in the heterodimeric Fc-fused protein may be significantly increased.
US11459358B2
The invention provides conjugates, comprising an organ or tissue targeting moiety linked to a biologically active moiety or linked to a diagnostic moiety. Such a biologically active or diagnostic moiety can be, for example, an oligonucleotide, small interfering RNA, a gene, a virus, a protein, a drug, a small organic molecule, a pharmaceutical, or a detectable agent.
US11459357B2
The invention provides a polymyxin compound of formula (I) and salts, solvates and protected forms thereof, pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds of formula (I), and the use of the compounds and compositions in methods of treatment, such as methods for the treatment of microbial infections. The compounds of formula (I) are represented thus: wherein —R15 is a group: and —R16 is hydrogen; —R17 is hydrogen -L- is a covalent bond or methylene; and —Ar is optionally substituted aryl. The groups —X—, —R1, —R2, —R3, —R4, and —R8 are as defined herein.
US11459345B2
The present invention is directed to a method of making an asymmetric polysulfide, comprising the step of simultaneously reacting an olefinically unsaturated compound, elemental sulfur, and a thiol in the presence of a catalytic amount of a base to produce the asymmetric polysulfide.
US11459332B2
Provided are certain TRK inhibitors of formula (I): pharmaceutical compositions thereof, and methods of use thereof.
US11459328B2
Salts of cytisine have been prepared and incorporated in stable pharmaceutical compositions, including compositions comprising lactose. The salts are prepared by adding acid stock solutions to solutions of cytisine with heating, followed by cooling to ambient temperature. The salts and compositions are indicated in the treatment of nicotine addiction.
US11459326B2
Disclosed are compounds useful as inhibitors of the Wnt signalling pathway. Specifically, inhibitors of Porcupine (Porcn) are contemplated by the invention. In addition, the invention contemplates processes to prepare the compounds and uses of the compounds. The compounds of the invention may therefore be used in treating conditions mediated by the Wnt signalling pathway, for example, in treating cancer, sarcoma, melanoma, skin cancer, haematological tumors, lymphoma, carcinoma, and leukemia; or enhancing the effectiveness of an anti-cancer treatment.
US11459319B2
The present invention provides compounds having the general structural formula (I) (I) and pharmaceutically acceptable derivatives thereof, as described generally and in classes and subclasses herein, and additionally provides pharmaceutical compositions thereof, and methods for the use thereof for the treatment of any of a number of conditions or diseases involving fibrosis and proliferation, and where anti-fibrotic or anti-proliferative activity is beneficial.
US11459316B2
A compound for an organic optoelectronic device, a composition for an organic optoelectronic device including the same, an organic optoelectronic device, and a display device, the being represented by Chemical Formula 1:
US11459314B2
A method for producing an aromatic dianhydride includes reacting an aromatic diimide with a substituted or unsubstituted phthalic anhydride in an aqueous medium in the presence of an amine exchange catalyst to provide an aqueous reaction mixture including an N-substituted phthalimide, an aromatic tetraacid salt, and at least one of an aromatic triacid salt and an aromatic imide diacid salt. The method further includes removing the phthalimide from the aqueous reaction mixture by extracting the aqueous reaction mixture with an organic solvent using a sieve tray extraction column. The aromatic tetraacid salt is converted to the corresponding aromatic dianhydride. Aromatic dianhydrides prepared according to the method are also described.
US11459311B2
A composition for promoting longitudinal bone growth, according to the present invention, promotes the proliferation of the chondrocytes and the differentiation of the osteoblasts and has effects of simultaneously increasing longitudinal bone length and thickness (bone density), and thus has an advantage of being widely prescribable to various age groups, thereby being usable as a pharmaceutical composition for promoting the growth of longitudinal bone length and thickness. An indirubin derivative according to the present invention has prevention or treatment effects through oral administration. In addition, unlike conventional therapeutic agents, the pharmaceutical composition for preventing or treating bone diseases of the present invention is a stable compound, which is known to be substantially noncytotoxic to the human body, and is a material of which adverse effects have not been identified and has excellent treatment effects for bone diseases and osteogenesis imperfecta.
US11459307B2
Disclosed herein are new heterocyclic compounds and compositions and their application as pharmaceuticals for the treatment of disease. Methods of inhibiting PAS Kinase (PASK) activity in a human or animal subject are also provided for the treatment of diseases such as diabetes mellitus.
US11459306B2
In an aspect, the disclosure provides for compounds (II), compositions, and methods of administering the compounds and compositions to a patient in need thereof. In another aspect, the disclosure relates to compounds and compositions for treating cancer, for example, lymphoid leukemia. The disclosure further provides for compounds which inhibit two phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) isoforms, y and δ, pharmaceutical compositions comprising said compounds, and methods of using said compounds and pharmaceutical compositions for treatment, amelioration, and/or prevention of non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
US11459301B2
The invention is directed to a novel crystalline S-apomorphine hydrochloride hydrate salt.
US11459299B2
The invention generally relates to conducting reactions in Leidenfrost-levitated droplets.
