US11593474B2
For building a representation of behavior of a container, an apparatus is able to: inject a probe in an operating system associated with the container to monitor system calls coming from the container, produce records for respective system calls, each record containing an identifier of a system call and a stack size used by the container for the system call, the records being put in an ordered queue, process the records in the ordered queue into a graph comprising nodes respectively associated with used stack sizes and edges respectively associated with identifiers of system call between nodes, wherein an edge from one record is associated with the identifier of the system call of the one record and links a node associated with a previous record to the node associated with the one record.
US11593470B2
A method, apparatus and computer program product for using a volumetric CAPTCHA display to verify that a human is present at a computer. Responsive to a request for a computer resource, a volumetric CAPTCHA is displayed in a user interface at the computer. The volumetric CAPTCHA has a first three dimensional (3D) feature and a second 3D feature. The user is prompted to answer a question about the first 3D feature of the volumetric CAPTCHA display. The received user response to the question is evaluated for correctness in describing the first 3D feature of the volumetric CAPTCHA. In response to the received user response being correct, the user is allowed access to the computer resource. The first 3D feature and the second 3D feature have a relationship with each other in the volumetric CAPTCHA.
US11593468B2
A method may include acquiring first physiological data relating to a first subject, extracting at least one first physiological feature from the first physiological data relating to the first subject, determining a first model relating to at least one first reference physiological feature, generating, based on the first model and the at least one first physiological feature, a second model, the second model relating to at least one second reference physiological feature corresponding to the second model, and determining, based on the second model and the at least one first physiological feature, at least one identification physiological feature relating to the first subject. In some embodiments, the at least one identification physiological feature may correspond to the at least one second reference physiological feature.
US11593458B2
Implementations are directed to receiving a set of training data including a plurality of data points, at least a portion of which are to be labeled for subsequent supervised training of a computer-executable machine learning (ML) model, providing at least one visualization based on the set of training data, the at least one visualization including a graphical representation of at least a portion of the set of training data, receiving user input associated with the at least one visualization, the user input indicating an action associated with a label assigned to a respective data point in the set of training data, executing a transformation on data points of the set of training data based on one or more heuristics representing the user input to provide labeled training data in a set of labeled training data, and transmitting the set of labeled training data for training the ML model.
US11593457B2
A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium having stored therein an analysis program causing a computer to execute processing includes: generating a regression function including a plurality of explanatory variables and an objective variable based on regression analysis using observed values of a plurality of physical elements each related to motion of a moving object; dividing an explanatory variable space containing the plurality of explanatory variables into a plurality of regions by using the regression function; and generating contribution information on a contribution of each of the plurality of explanatory variables to the objective variable for each of the plurality of regions.
US11593451B2
A system and method for comparing zones for different versions of a website based on performance metrics are provided. The method includes collecting comparison versions of at least one website specified in a received comparison request; identifying at least one comparison zone in the collected comparison versions, wherein a comparison zone is a zone included in the at least one specified website; collecting at least one comparison zone metric for each of the at least one comparison zones for the collected comparison versions, wherein the at least one comparison zone metric is a numerical value related to a user interaction metric with the at least one comparison zone; analyzing the collected comparison zone metrics to determine zone performance; and returning the analysis results.
US11593439B1
Methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable storage media are disclosed for determining clusters of similar digital documents using unique document signatures. Specifically, the disclosed system processes digital text in a digital document to tokenize character strings (e.g., words) in the digital document by combining a subset of character values and string lengths in the character strings. Additionally, the disclosed system generates a document signature for the digital document by combining subsets of tokens generated for the digital document into a token sequence indicative of the digital text in the digital document. The disclosed system determines a cluster of similar digital documents including the digital document by comparing the document signature of the digital document to document signatures corresponding to a plurality of digital documents.
US11593438B2
The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media for clustering media items in a semantic space to generate theme-based folders that organize media items by content theme. In particular, the disclosed systems can access media items that are stored in an original folder structure. The disclosed systems can generate content-based tags for each media item in a collection of media items. Based on the generated tags, the disclosed systems can map the collection of media items to a semantic space and cluster the collection of media items. The disclosed systems determine themes for the clusters based on the generated tags. The disclosed systems can present a media item navigation graphical user interface comprising the collection of media items organized by themes. The disclosed system can present the media item navigation graphical user interface without altering the original folder structure.
US11593434B2
The present disclosure provides a sentence recommendation method and apparatus based on associated points of interest. The method includes: obtaining an input sentence from a user; extracting a keyword in the input sentence, and searching for a current point of interest matching the keyword in a preset point of interest association network determining a plurality of associated points of interest matching the current point of interest according to the preset point of interest association network, and filtering out an extension point of interest from the plurality of associated points of interest according to a preset filter strategy; and retrieving a first reply sentence and a second reply sentence from a preset corpus according to the current point of interest and the extension point of interest, and providing them to the user.
US11593432B2
Methods, systems, and media for providing search suggestions are provided. In accordance with some embodiments, the method comprises: receiving user input that includes a partial search query; identifying a group of candidate search suggestions; determining whether each candidate search suggestion is included on a list of search suggestions that are prohibited, wherein the list is generated by: receiving previously submitted search queries and search results; determining, for each of the search queries, a number of search results associated with a particular content rating; determining whether the number meets a threshold value; and in response to determining that the number does not meet the threshold value, inserting the search query to the list; generating a modified group of search suggestions by removing search suggestions that are on the list; and causing a subset of the modified group of search suggestions to be presented as the remaining portion of the search query.
US11593431B2
Example embodiments of the present disclosure include a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program and a computer-implemented method for providing a dynamic content delivery search system. In example embodiments, entry of a first keyword of a search string comprising a plurality of keywords is detected. The first keyword is identified after entry of the first keyword and prior to entry of a second keyword of the search string. A first set of matching results that match the identified first keyword is determined. Entry of the second keyword is detected and the second keyword identified. Using the second keyword, the first set of matching results is refined. The resulting search results are presented to a user.
US11593422B2
A computer system including a server having a processor and a memory, the memory having a video database and a music database, the video database storing at least one video file having a plurality of video file markers, and the music database storing at least one music file having a plurality of music file markers, wherein the server receives and decodes encoded data from computer readable code, identifies and retrieves from the music database a music file based on the decoded data, synchronizes the retrieved music file with one of the video files by aligning the video file markers of the video file with the music file markers for the retrieved music file to produce a synchronized video-music file, and transmits the synchronized video-music file to a display, wherein the video file markers are generated for each video file and the music file markers are generated for each music file.
US11593414B2
An approach and system incorporating obtaining a semantic model for a device, identifying properties from the semantic model, processing the properties, obtaining a property role, identifying a property role filter that correlates to the property role, and generating parameter values associated with the property role filter.
US11593410B1
In an example, a computer-implemented method to group graphical objects includes displaying, on a display device, a graphical diagram with multiple graphical objects that represent data of a data source. The method includes receiving input to define one or more groups. The method includes, in response to the input, generating one or more containers, each of the one or more containers representing a different one of the one or more groups; and graphically depicting membership of the graphical objects in the one or more groups by relative arrangement of the graphical objects and the one or more containers according to group membership of each of the graphical objects.
US11593406B2
In some embodiments, a number of inputs for a machine learning model may be dynamically scaled based on a record update. In some embodiments, an account record may be obtained based on an obtained record update, and a first model may determine a category value based on the account record. A graph that includes a node mapping to the account record may be obtained. In some embodiments, a threshold may be selected based on the category value, and the graph may be traversed via a set of paths to select nodes of the graph, such that the paths are based on the threshold. Record values associated with the set of nodes may be provided to a second model to determine whether the record update satisfies a set of criteria. If so, the record update may be stored in an aggregated set of record updates.
US11593405B2
Provided is a technique for matching different user representations of a person in a plurality of computer systems may be provided. The technique includes collecting information sets about user representations from a plurality of computer systems; normalizing the information sets to a unified format; grouping the information sets in the unified format into indexing buckets based on a user name using a non-phonetic algorithm; determining a similarity score for each pair of information sets in each of the indexing buckets; classifying each information set pair into a set of classes based on the similarity scores, wherein the set of classes comprise at least matches and non-matches; and using a data structure for merging information of information set pairs classified as matches.
US11593403B2
A method for a multi-cluster warehouse includes allocating processing units as part of a data warehouse. The processing units access data within one or more databases in cloud storage resources. The method also includes providing one or more queries to each processing unit within the data warehouse. In response to the queries, each processing unit performs database operations on a particular portion of a database table. The method also includes monitoring a workload of the processing units to determine that a processing capacity of the processing units has reached a threshold processing capacity. The method also includes dynamically adding additional processing units to and removing processing units from the data warehouse as needed based on a workload of the processing units.
US11593399B2
System and method for managing copy-on-write (COW) B tree structures for metadata of storage objects stored in a storage system determine, when a request to modify a target storage object stored in the storage system that requires a modification of a target leaf node in a B tree structure for metadata of the target storage object is received, whether an operation sequence number of the target leaf node is greater than a snapshot sequence number of a parent snapshot of a running point of the B tree structure. When the operation sequence number is greater than the snapshot sequence number, the target leaf mode is modified in place without copying the target leaf node. When the operation sequence number is not greater than the snapshot sequence number, the target leaf node is copied as a new leaf node for the B tree structure and the new leaf node is modified.
US11593397B2
A poll of a first database is initiated (e.g., a SOT database). The poll of the first database is to identify if any transactions have occurred since a previous poll of the first database. Based on the poll of the first database, information is received that identifies one or more transaction identifiers. A missing transaction identifier is identified based on a contagious list of transaction identifiers. In response to identifying the missing transaction identifier, the missing transaction identifier is stored in a list of missing transaction identifiers for use in a later poll of the first database. By tracking the missing transaction identifier, the process can identify transactions that take longer to commit without introducing lag for transactions that commit quickly.
US11593396B2
A method is provided, comprising: receiving, from a host device, a request to create a token that represents one or more data items that are stored in a first volume, the first volume being stored in a source system; estimating an I/O latency limit for the first volume; estimating a token creation time for the token; comparing the token creation time to the I/O latency limit; when the token creation time matches the I/O latency limit: creating the token, creating a snapshot pair, mapping the token to the snapshot pair, and returning the token to the host device; when the token creation time does not match the I/O latency limit: creating the token, creating a first snapshot of the first volume at the source system, mapping the first snapshot to the token, and returning the token to the host device.
US11593392B2
Transformation rule generation and validation functionality is provided herein. Transformation rules can be generated for one or more mappings in an alignment between a source database and a target database. The transformation rules can transform instance data from the source data model to a form matching the target data model. One or more transformation rules can be generated for a mapping between fields in a source database and a field in a target database. The transformation rules can be generated based on one or more source fields and a target field of a mapping, and one or more identified functions. Evaluating the transformation rules can include generating test data based on the transformation rules applied to instance data from the source database. The test data can be evaluated against instance data from the target database. The transformation rules and the evaluation results can be provided in a user interface.
US11593391B2
According to examples, an apparatus may include a processor and a memory on which is stored machine-readable instructions that when executed by the processor, may cause the processor to receive a request for result data from a requestor and determine queries to create the result data. The processor may determine a subset of a data set based on the queries. The subset of the data set may be displayed in small multiples by the requestor. The processor may output the subset of the data set as the result data to the requestor. In some examples, the processor may receive a request for additional result data from the requestor. The processor may determine a second subset of the data set to be displayed in the small multiples and output the second subset of the data set as the additional result data to the requestor.
US11593390B2
A system, method and computer program product automating time management, includes an automated time management framework using an AI engine to for making trade offs among tasks as unexpected events occur. Each day is divided into blocks of time called Skeds. Once a Sked has begun, scheduled tasks and tasks that have been manually or automatically added to the Sked are treated as a collection. It is determined if the Sked is balanced based on total available labor minutes compared time to perform uncompleted tasks. If not, a score is calculated for each uncompleted task based on its ratings, including priority, movability, optionality, difficulty, and/or unpleasantness of the task. The uncompleted tasks are ranked using the scores, and abandoned or moved to later Skeds based on the ranking until the Sked is balanced. The balancing process is repeated until the Sked is balanced and, if not, until an end thereof.
US11593380B2
Techniques for generating a dataflow graph include generating a first dataflow graph with a plurality of first nodes representing first computer operations in processing data, with at least one of the first computer operations being a declarative operation that specifies one or more characteristics of one or more results of processing of data, and transforming the first dataflow graph into a second dataflow graph for processing data in accordance with the first computer operations, the second dataflow graph including a plurality of second nodes representing second computer operations, with at least one of the second nodes representing one or more imperative operations that implement the logic specified by the declarative operation, where the one or more imperative operations are unrepresented by the first nodes in the first dataflow graph.
US11593378B2
A method comprising receiving by an arbitrary query engine a user request to perform a query associated with user data including first data and second data; partitioning the query into first and second sub-queries; providing the first sub-query to a first service provider interface (SPI) integrated into a first service configured to operate on the first data in a first datastore, the first SPI including a common interface component configured based on a uniform access specification to facilitate external communication between the arbitrary query engine and the first SPI, and the first SPI including a first service interface component configured to transform between the uniform access specification and a first service data specification and to facilitate internal data management; obtaining from the first datastore the first data formatted according to the first service data specification; transforming the first data; and providing the transformed first data to the arbitrary query engine.
US11593374B2
Computer-implemented techniques for data extraction are described. The techniques include a method and system for retrieving an extraction job specification, wherein the extraction job specification comprises a source repository identifier that identifies a source repository comprising a plurality of data records; a data recipient identifier that identifies a data recipient; and a schedule that indicates a timing of when to retrieve the plurality of data records. The method and system further include retrieving the plurality of data records from the source repository based on the schedule, creating an extraction transaction from the plurality of data records, wherein the extraction transaction comprises a subset of the plurality of data records and metadata, and sending the extraction transaction to the data recipient.
US11593371B2
A relational database management system (RDBMS) accepts a workload comprised of one or more queries against a relational database. The RDBMS evolves a default cost profile into a plurality of cost profiles using fixed or dynamic evolution, wherein each of the cost profiles captures one or more cost parameters for the workload. The cost profiles are represented by a multi-dimensional matrix that has one or more dimensions, and each of the dimensions represents one of the cost parameters. The RDBMS dynamically determines which of the cost profiles is an optimal cost profile for the workload by mapping the cost profiles to the workload using a random walk scoring algorithm or a biased walk scoring algorithm that searches the multi-dimensional matrix to identify the optimal cost profile. The RDBMS selects and performs one or more query execution plans for the workload based on the optimal cost profile for the workload.
US11593369B2
One method includes receiving a database query, receiving information about a database table in data storage populated with data elements, producing a structural representation of the database table that includes a formatted data organization reflective of the database table and is absent the data elements of the database table, and providing the structural representation and the database query to a plan generator capable of producing a query plan representing operations for executing the database query on the database table. Another method includes receiving a query plan from a plan generator, the plan representing operations for executing a database query on a database table, and producing a dataflow graph from the query plan, wherein the dataflow graph includes at least one node that represents at least one operation represented by the query plan, and includes at least one link that represents at least one dataflow associated with the query plan.
US11593367B1
When a query is received by a stateful data processing service, the service determines, for each table scan (and associated operations) of a query, whether to select the table scan for execution by a stateless data processing service. The selected table scans are sent to the stateless data processing service for execution, and results are received by the stateful data processing service. The stateful data processing service may also execute other table scans of the query locally, against a local data cache. If the data is not present in the local data cache, then the stateful data processing service will copy the table data into the local data cache before executing the table scan. A query result based on the remote and/or local table scans may then be returned to the client.
US11593363B1
Some embodiments of the invention provide a method for defining code-based policies. The method generates a policy-builder first view of a policy for display in a graphical user interface (GUI) by processing a syntax tree that is generated from a code second view of the policy. The method receives, through the policy-builder first view, a modification to a portion of the policy. To reflect the modification, the method updates a portion of the syntax tree that corresponds to the portion of the policy that is affected by the modification. Based on the updating of the syntax tree, the method updates the code second view by modifying a portion of the code second view that corresponds to the updated portion of the syntax tree.
US11593360B2
An empirical approach to providing differential privacy includes applying a common statistical query to a set of databases to produce sample values, both with and without any particular entity's data. The probability density is empirically estimated by sorting the sample values to generate an empirical cumulative distribution function. The cumulative distribution function is differenced across approximately the square root of the number of sample points to get an empirical density function. The statistical query is empirically (ε,δ)-private if the empirical densities with and without any particular individual differ by a factor of no more than exp(ε), with the exception of a set for which the densities exceed that bound by a total of no more than δ.
US11593354B2
A database platform authenticates a system user for access via an application to a database that is associated with a customer account of the database platform. The system user is a first object in a first account-level namespace of the customer account, and the first account-level namespace is distinct from a default account-level namespace of the customer account. The database platform sends, as the system user, a query to the database via the application. The database platform receives, as the system user, results of the query from the database, and stores, as the system user, the results of the query in a first-namespace stage, which is a second object in the first account-level namespace.
US11593352B2
Systems and methods include determination of a first logical page number of a first database page to be persisted, identification of a first blockmap page associated with the first logical page number, determination, from the first blockmap page, of a block number associated with the first logical page number, determination that the block number is an object key, determination, in response to the determination, that the block number is an object key, determination of a first object key to associate with the first logical page number, and writing of the first database page to the object store using the first object key.
US11593349B2
A method, a system, and a computer program product for execution master data substitution. One or more first data objects in a master data storage are determined for replacement. One or more second data objects are identified for replacing the first data objects for storage in the master data storage. Replacement of the first data objects with the second data objects is performed in accordance with one or more data object requirements. Replacement of the first data objects by the second data objects is executed in accordance with the one or more data object requirements. A resulting replacement data set is generated and stored.
US11593338B2
A computer-implemented method for database management is provided. The method comprises: receiving, from a client device , first data to be stored in a database system that comprises first data storage configured to store a data table and a deletion history table; storing the first data in second data storage that is external to the database system and that is in communication with the database system via a network; obtaining a link that enables access, via the network, to the first data stored in the second data storage; storing the link in the data table; and performing a deletion operation of the first data, in response to a request from the client device to delete the first data from the database system, wherein the deletion operation comprises: deleting the link from the data table without deleting the first data from the second data storage; and storing the link in the deletion history table with a timestamp corresponding to a point in time when the link is deleted from the data table.
US11593334B2
An apparatus, method and computer program product for physical database design and tuning in relational database management systems. A relational database management system executes in a computer system, wherein the relational database management system manages a relational database comprised of one or more tables storing data. A Deep Reinforcement Learning based feedback loop process also executes in the computer system for recommending one or more tuning actions for the physical database design and tuning of the relational database management system, wherein the Deep Reinforcement Learning based feedback loop process uses a neural network framework to select the tuning actions based on one or more query workloads performed by the relational database management system.
US11593328B2
In some examples, a system performs data deduplication using a deduplication fingerprint index in a hash data structure comprising a plurality of blocks, wherein a block of the plurality of blocks comprises fingerprints computed based on content of respective data values. The system merges, in a merge operation, updates for the deduplication fingerprint index to the hash data structure stored in a persistent storage. As part of the merge operation, the system mirrors the updates to a cached copy of the hash data structure in a cache memory, and updates, in an indirect block, information regarding locations of blocks in the cached copy of the hash data structure.
US11593322B1
An example method for mapping data can include: generating a user interface configured to enable a user to create a data element of a mapping specification, wherein the mapping specification includes a spreadsheet having a plurality of data fields; allowing for dragging of the data element onto the user interface and multi-selection of the data element with other data elements; allowing for dropping of the data element into a desired location of the user interface and the multi-selection of the data element; storing the data element in a temporary schema independent from a database schema of the data warehouse; and enabling the user to associate the data element with one or more physical data elements in the database schema.
US11593317B2
Systems and methods are provided for monitoring and logging all activity occurring in a system. The logged activity may include keystroke entries input into the system, user and/or application interactions with the system, access restriction conflicts, and the like. The logged activity may be stored in at least two datastores, at least one of which is an immutable, append-only datastore. Storage of the logged activity in the immutable, append-only datastore is performed using hash algorithms. Attempts at manipulating or at hiding malicious or unauthorized activity can be recognized due to all activity being captured in the immutable, append-only datastore.
US11593316B2
An example operation may include one or more of generating a snapshot of a state of a permissioned blockchain, generating a unique identifier of the state snapshot that distinguishes the state snapshot from other state snapshots of the permissioned blockchain, storing the state snapshot in a data store, and storing proof of the state snapshot including the unique identifier and a storage location of the state snapshot on a public blockchain.
US11593313B2
An apparatus in one embodiment comprises at least one processing device comprising a processor coupled to a memory. The processing device is configured to identify at least first and second datasets to be scanned to generate a data reduction estimate for a prospective combination of the first and second datasets, to designate a scan criterion to be utilized in the scan of each of the datasets, and for each of a plurality of pages of each of the datasets, to scan the page, where scanning the page comprises performing a computation on the page to obtain a page result, determining whether or not the page result satisfies the designated scan criterion, and responsive to the page result satisfying the designated scan criterion, updating a corresponding entry of a data reduction estimate table for the dataset. The processing device merges contents of the data reduction estimate tables, and generates the data reduction estimate based at least in part on the merged contents.
US11593305B2
Systems and methods for improved data conversion and distribution are provided. A data subscription unit is configured to receive data and information from a plurality of data source devices. The data subscription unit is in communication with a virtual machine that includes backtesting utility configured to generate backtesting data using one or more statistical models and one or more non-statistical models. The backtesting utility may translate the backtesting results into one or more interactive visuals, and generate a graphical user interface (GUI) for displaying the backtesting results and the one or more interactive visuals on a user device. The backtesting utility may update one or more of the displayed backtesting results and the one or more interactive visuals without re-running the modeling steps.
US11593298B2
The present disclosure presents an exemplary tier-based reconfigurable security architecture that can adapt to different use-case scenarios by selecting security tiers and configure parameters in each security tier based on system requirements. An exemplary system comprises a security agent that is configured to monitor system characteristics of embedded components on a system-on-chip and communicate a status of the system characteristics to a reconfigurable service engine integrated on the system-on-chip, such that the reconfigurable service engine is configured to activate one of a plurality of tiers of security based at least upon the status of the system characteristics communicated.
US11593295B2
Systems, methods, and apparatuses relating to operations in a configurable spatial accelerator are described. In one embodiment, a configurable spatial accelerator includes a first processing element that includes a configuration register within the first processing element to store a configuration value that causes the first processing element to perform an operation according to the configuration value, a plurality of input queues, an input controller to control enqueue and dequeue of values into the plurality of input queues according to the configuration value, a plurality of output queues, and an output controller to control enqueue and dequeue of values into the plurality of output queues according to the configuration value.
US11593291B2
Methods and apparatus for efficient scaling of fabric architectures such as those based on PCIe technology, including up to very large fabrics and numbers of hosts/devices for use in ultra-high performance applications such as for example data centers and computing clusters. In one aspect, methods and apparatus for using Non-Transparent Bridge (NTB) technology to export Message Signaled Interrupts (MSIs) to external hosts are described. In a further aspect, an IO Virtual Address (IOVA) space is created is used as a method of sharing an address space between hosts, including across the foregoing NTB(s). Additionally, a Fabric Manager (FM) entity is disclosed and utilized for programming e.g., PCIe switch hardware to effect a desired host/fabric configuration.
US11593289B2
A memory contains a linked list of records representative of a plurality of data transfers via a direct memory access control circuit. Each record is representative of parameters of an associated data transfer of the plurality of data transfers. The parameters of each record include a transfer start condition of the associated data transfer and a transfer end event of the associated data transfer.
US11593288B2
Methods and apparatus for efficient data transmit and receive operations using polling of memory queues associated with interconnect fabric interface. In one embodiment, Non-Transparent Bridge (NTB) technology used to transact the data transmit/receive operations and a hardware accelerator card used implement a notification mechanism in order to optimize of receive queue polling are disclosed. The accelerator card comprises a notification address configured to signal the presence of data, and a notification acknowledgement region configured to store flags associated with memory receive queues. In one implementation, the interconnect fabric is based on PCIe technology, including up to very large fabrics and numbers of hosts/devices for use in ultra-high performance applications such as for example data centers and computing clusters.
US11593285B2
A memory system includes a memory device, a memory controller configured to control the memory device, and an interface device configured to perform an interfacing operation for transmission of a control signal and data between the memory device and the memory controller. The interface device activates a blocking function for the interfacing operation in response to a configuration command of the memory controller including a blocking activation signal and performs an interface configuration operation in response to an interface configuration command of the memory controller while the blocking function is activated.
US11593275B2
Operating system deactivation of write protection for a storage block is provided absent quiescing of processors in a multi-processor computing environment. The process includes receiving an address translation protection exception interrupt resulting from an attempted write access by a processor to a storage block, and determining by the operating system whether write protection for the storage block is active. Based on write protection for the storage block not being active, the operating system issues an instruction to clear or modify translation lookaside buffer entries of the processor associated with the storage block, absent waiting for an action by another processor of multiple processors of the computing environment, to facilitate write access to the storage block proceeding at the processor.
US11593273B2
In connection with an access of content from a cache, a snoop request can be sent to one or more remote cache devices to determine if any other cache has a copy of the content. A link between the cache and the remote cache devices can include a snoop bypass device. The snoop bypass device can monitor content cached by the one or more remote devices on a cache line or coarser granularity. The snoop bypass device can respond to the snoop request with a negative indication based on a coarser granularity tracking of content of the one or more remote cache devices.
US11593270B1
Systems and methods are described for providing rapid access to data objects stored in a cache. Rather than storing data objects directly, each object can be broken into a number of parts via erasure coding, which enables the object to be generated from less than all parts. When servicing a request for the data object, a device can attempt to retrieve all parts, but begin to generate the data object as soon as a sufficient number of parts is retrieved, even if requests for other parts are outstanding. In this way, the data object can be retrieved without delay due to the slowest requests. For example, where one or more requests timeout, such as due to failure of cache devices, this timeout may have no effect on time required to retrieve the data object from the cache.
US11593267B1
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to asynchronous memory management. In embodiments, an input/output (IO) workload is received at a storage array. Further, one or more read-miss events corresponding to the IO workload are identified. Additionally, at least one of the storage array's cache slots is bound to a track identifier (TID) corresponding to the read-miss events based on one or more of the read-miss events' two-dimensional metrics.
US11593265B2
A graphics processing system is disclosed having a cache system (24) arranged between memory (23) and the graphics processor (20), the cache system comprising a first cache (53) for transferring data to and from the graphics processor (20) and a second cache (54) arranged and configured to transfer data between the first cache (53) and memory (23). When data is to be written from the first cache (53) to memory (23), a cache controller (55) determines a data type of the data and, in dependence on the data type, either causes the data to be written into the second cache (54) without writing the data to memory (23), or causes the data to be written to memory (23) without storing the data in the second cache (54). In embodiments the second cache (54) is write-only allocated.
US11593262B1
Systems and methods are disclosed for the intelligent scheduling of garbage collection operations on a solid state memory. In certain embodiments, a method may comprise initiating a garbage collection process for a solid state memory (SSM) having a multiple die architecture, determining an order of die access for the garbage collection process based on an activity table indicating a use of one or more die in the multiple die architecture, and performing the garbage collection process based on the determined order of die access. Garbage collection reads may be directed to idle die to avoid conflicts with die busy performing other operations, thereby improving system performance.
US11593247B2
Performance of devices can be evaluated and enhanced in software-defined systems. For example, a computing device can receive, at a server of a software-defined system, a first plurality of properties describing a client system in the software-defined system. The computing device can compare, by the server, the first plurality of properties to additional properties describing at least one additional client system in the software-defined system. The computing device can determine, by the server, an adjustment for the client system based on the comparison and a similarity of the client system to each of the at least one additional client system. The computing device can output, by the server, an indication of the adjustment to the client system.
US11593234B2
A method of restarting a virtual machine (VM) running in a cluster in a first data center, in a second data center, includes: transmitting images of VMs, including a first VM, running in the cluster of hosts at a first point in time to the second data center for replication in the second data center; generating difference data representing a difference in an image of the first VM at a second point in time and the image of the first VM at the first point in time; transmitting the difference data to the second data center; setting the first VM to be inactive in the first data center; and communicating with a control plane in the second data center to set as active, and power on, a VM in the second data center using the replicated image of the first VM updated with the difference data.
US11593228B2
An illustrative approach accelerates live browse operations for block-level backup copies in a data storage management system. A cache storage area is maintained for locally storing and serving key data blocks, thus relying less on retrieving data on demand from backup copies. Live browse operations are used for populating the cache storage area for speedier retrieval during subsequent live browsing and/or file indexing of the same backup copy, and vice versa. The key data blocks cached while file indexing and/or live browsing an earlier backup copy help to pre-fetch corresponding data blocks of later backup copies, thus producing a beneficial learning cycle. The approach is especially beneficial for cloud and tape backup media, and is available for a variety of data sources and backup copies, including block-level backup copies of virtual machines (VMs) and block-level backup copies of file systems, including UNIX-based and Windows-based operating systems and corresponding file systems.
US11593225B2
A method and system for live-mounting database backups. Specifically, disclosed method and system entail recovering database data—in entirety or at any granular level—without needing to provision storage resources for point-in-time database copies (i.e., backup database data), or without needing to wait for large amounts of data, representative of the point-in-time database copies, to traverse a network from backup storage to a target device. Substantively, through live-mounting, the physical point-in-time database data, as well as the associated structural metadata, may be retained on backup storage while a pointer-based snapshot, mapping to the physical point-in-time database data and structural metadata, may be generated thereon. Thereafter, a file system—mapping to the pointer-based snapshot on the backup storage—may be mounted on the target device, which exposes an interface through which the backup database data may be accessed and/or manipulated using a distributed file system protocol.
US11593224B2
Rather than relying on pre-defined scheduling of secondary copy operations such as backup jobs, the illustrative opportunistic approach initiates secondary copy operations based on changing operational conditions in a storage management system. An adaptive backup readiness score is based on a number of backup-readiness operational factors. An illustrative enhanced data agent which is associated with the target database application (or other executable component) may monitor the operational factors and determine the backup readiness score based on weights assigned to the respective operational factors. The enhanced data agent may evaluate recent backup jobs to determine which of the operational factors that contributed to the backup readiness score may have been most relevant. Based on the most-relevant analysis, the enhanced data agent may adapt the weights assigned to the monitored operational factors, so that the backup readiness score may be more suitable and responsive to ongoing operational conditions in the system.
US11593217B2
Described in detail herein are systems and methods for managing single instancing data. Using a single instance database and other constructs (e.g. sparse files), data density on archival media (e.g. magnetic tape) is improved, and the number of files per storage operation is reduced. According to one aspect of a method for managing single instancing data, for each storage operation, a chunk folder is created on a storage device that stores single instancing data. The chunk folder contains three files: 1) a file that contains data objects that have been single instanced; 2) a file that contains data objects that have not been eligible for single instancing; and 3) a metadata file used to track the location of data objects within the other files. A second storage operation subsequent to a first storage operation contains references to data objects in the chunk folder created by the first storage operation instead of the data objects themselves.
US11593209B2
A method for targeted repair of a hardware component in a computing device that is part of a cloud computing system includes monitoring a plurality of hardware components in the computing device. At some point, a defective sub-component within the hardware component of the computing device is identified. In addition to the defective sub-component, the hardware component also includes at least one sub-component that is functioning properly and a spare component that can be used in place of the defective sub-component. The method also includes initiating a targeted repair action while the computing device is connected to the cloud computing system. The targeted repair action prevents the defective sub-component from being used by the computing device without preventing sub-components that are functioning properly from being used by the computing device. The targeted repair action causes the spare component to be used in place of the defective sub-component.
US11593188B2
Method and apparatus for providing asynchronicity to microservice application programming interfaces
A method of handling an API call includes receiving a first API call from a job requestor, the first API call including a job to be executed by a microservice. The method also includes adding the job to a job queue, making a second, synchronous, API call including the job to the microservice, updating the job queue upon successful completion of the job by the microservice, and notifying the job requestor of the successful completion of the job.
US11593185B2
A processing system comprising multiple tiles and an interconnect between the tiles. The interconnect is used to communicate between a group of some or all of the tiles according to a bulk synchronous parallel scheme, whereby each tile in the group performs an on-tile compute phase followed by an inter-tile exchange phase with the exchange phase being held back until all tiles in the group have completed the compute phase. Each tile in the group has a local exit state upon completion of the compute phase. The instruction set comprises a synchronization instruction for execution by each tile upon completion of its compute phase to signal a sync request to logic in the interconnect. In response to receiving the sync request from all the tiles in the group, the logic releases the next exchange phase and also makes available an aggregated a state of all the tiles in the group.
US11593184B2
Methods, systems and apparatuses for graph processing are disclosed. One graph streaming processor includes a thread manager, wherein the thread manager is operative to dispatch operation of the plurality of threads of a plurality of thread processors before dependencies of the dependent threads have been resolved, maintain a scorecard of operation of the plurality of threads of the plurality of thread processors, and provide an indication to at least one of the plurality of thread processors when a dependency between the at least one of the plurality of threads that a request has or has not been satisfied. Further, a producer thread provides a response to the dependency when the dependency has been satisfied, and each of the plurality of thread processors is operative to provide processing updates to the thread manager, and provide queries to the thread manager upon reaching a dependency.
US11593180B2
In an approach, a processor receives a request to deploy a workload in a container environment, where: the container environment comprises a plurality of external providers running container environment clusters; and the request (i) includes one or more requirements of the workload and (ii) does not specify a particular external provider of the plurality of external providers. A processor determines a cluster, from the plurality of external providers running the container environment clusters, that meets the one or more requirements of the workload. A processor deploys the workload on the determined cluster.
US11593176B2
A transfer method is performed by an information processing apparatus. The method includes: selecting, based on a load status of the information processing apparatus, candidate transfer data that is among the received data and to be transferred to one or more other information processing apparatuses; selecting, based on load statuses of multiple other information processing apparatuses, one or more candidate transfer destination apparatuses among the multiple other information processing apparatuses as candidate transfer destinations of the data; determining, based on throughput between the information processing apparatus and the candidate transfer destination apparatuses, data to be transferred among the candidate transfer data, transfer destination apparatuses of the data to be transferred among the candidate transfer destination apparatuses, and the sizes of data groups including the data to be transferred; and transferring, to the transfer destination apparatuses determined for the determined data groups, the determined data to be transferred.
US11593169B2
A method of memory deallocation across a trust boundary between a first software component and a second software component is described. Some memory is shared between the first and second software components. An in-memory message passing facility is implemented using the shared memory. The first software component is used to deallocate memory from the shared memory which has been allocated by the second software component. The deallocation is done by: taking at least one allocation to be freed from the message passing facility; and freeing the at least one allocation using a local deallocation mechanism while validating that memory access to memory owned by data structures related to memory allocation within the shared memory are within the shared memory.
US11593168B2
Zero copy message reception for devices is disclosed. For example, a host has a memory, a processor, a supervisor, and a device with access to device memory addresses mapped in a device page table via an IOMMU. An application has access to application memory addresses and is configured to identify a first page of memory addressed by an application memory address to share with the device as a receiving buffer to store data received by the device for the application, where the first page is mapped to a first device memory address in a first device page table entry (PTE). A supervisor is configured to detect that the first application has disconnected from the device, and in response to detecting the application disconnecting, to update the first device PTE to address a second page instead of the first page.
US11593167B2
Methods and systems for locking a cache line of a cache. A cache line is locked based on a count of a plurality of threads that access the cache line and maintained in the cache until all of the plurality of threads have loaded the cache line.
US11593165B2
A resource-usage notification framework can be implemented for distributed computing environments. For example, a system can determine the resource usage of a software application in a distributed computing environment. The system can determine if the resource usage is within a predefined range of a predefined resource-consumption limit. If so, the system can generate an event notification and transmit the event notification to the software application. The software application can receive the event notification and perform a mitigation operation in response. The mitigation operation can be configured to prevent the resource usage from exceeding the predefined resource-consumption limit or to mitigate an impact of the resource usage exceeding the predefined resource-consumption limit.
US11593155B2
Disclosed are various approaches for workflow service application networking. In some aspects, a workflow creation user interface is provided to create a networking workflow with at least one networking action. A networking action is specified for a first application to utilize application content from a second application. The networking action is verified based on a response to a test action request transmitted to the workflow service. The networking action is transmitted from the workflow application to a workflow service to cause the first application to utilize the application content from the second application according to the networking action.
US11593152B1
In an application execution system having a plurality of application servers, each application server stores a plurality of applications, and has computational resources for executing applications in response to received requests. Each application server also includes instructions for loading a respective application into volatile storage and executing the application in response to a request from a client, and for returning a result. A generic application instance may be cloned, creating a pool of generic application instance clones that can be loaded with code for a requested application to produce an application instance. The application instance can then be stored in a cache to be used for a future application request.
US11593151B2
A semiconductor device includes three integrated circuits. One of the integrated circuits includes: a first connector configured to connect to a device; and a transmitter. The transmitter is configured to transmit to another integrated circuit, first data on each of a plurality of pieces of packet data. The transmitter is also configured to, when the first connector is connected to the device, while a second controller is performing a second process, transmit, to a first controller, a request to process data transmitted from the device.
US11593150B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for network based media processing. For example, an apparatus in a cloud for network based media processing (NBMP) includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry receives information associated with an entity in the cloud for NBMP. The processing circuitry obtains an NBMP entity identifier from the information associated with the entity. Then, the processing circuitry interprets the information associated with the entity based on the NBMP entity identifier.
US11593145B2
Some embodiments provide method for implementing a logical router of a logical network. The method receives a configuration for a first logical router. The configuration includes a static route for the first logical router. The method defines several routing components with separate routing tables for the logical router. The method adds a first route, having a first static route type, for the static route to the routing tables of at least a first subset of the routing components. Based on the connection of a second logical router to the first logical router, adding a second route, having a second static route type, to the routing tables of at least a second subset of the routing components.
US11593141B2
An information handling system may include at least one processor, and a non-transitory memory coupled to the at least one processor. The information handling system may be configured to execute a configuration procedure to set up a plurality of information handling resources of the information handling system, and wherein the configuration procedure includes a plurality of logical groups related to different types of configuration. Each logical group may include one or more atomic groups, each atomic group including a plurality of logically related atomic operations. In response to a failure of a particular atomic operation of a particular atomic group, the information handling system may be configured to roll back the particular atomic operation and allow the configuration procedure to be restarted at a beginning of the particular atomic group.
US11593138B2
A physical server with an offload card including a SoC (system-on-chip) and a FPGA (field programmable gate array) is disclosed. According to one set of embodiments, the SoC can be configured to offload one or more hypervisor functions from a CPU complex of the server that are suited for execution in software, and the FPGA can be configured to offload one or more hypervisor functions from the CPU complex that are suited for execution in hardware.
US11593137B2
Upon receiving a request to hibernate a hypervisor of a virtualization system running on a first computer, acts are carried out to capture a state of the hypervisor, where the state of the hypervisor comprises hypervisor logical resource parameters and an execution state of the hypervisor. After hibernating the hypervisor by quiescing the hypervisor and storing the state of the hypervisor into a data structure, the data structure is moved to a different location. At a later moment in time, the data structure is loaded onto a second computing machine and restored. The restore operation restores the hypervisor and all of its state, including all of the virtual machines of the hypervisor as well as all of the virtual disks and other virtual devices of the virtual machines. Differences between the first computing machine and the second computing machine are reconciled before execution of the hypervisor on the second machine.
US11593136B2
Described are platforms, systems, and methods for resource fairness enforcement. In one aspect, a programmable input output (IO) device comprises a memory unit, the memory unit having instructions stored thereon which, when executed by the programmable IO device, cause the programmable IO device to perform operations comprising: receiving an input from a logical interface (LIF); determining, by at least one meter, a metric regarding at least one resource used during a processing of the input through a programmable pipeline; and regulating additional input received from the LIF based on the metric and a threshold for the at least one resource.
US11593128B2
A method of generating a user interface for presentation to a user. The method comprises executing a first application computer program to provide a user interface, executing agent computer program code to interrogate and modify said user interface during execution of said first application computer program, and presenting said modified user interface. The first application computer program may be run on a server, while the modified user interface may be presented to a user at a client connected to said server.
US11593113B2
Unaligned atomic memory operations on a processor using a load-store instruction set architecture (ISA) that requires aligned accesses are performed by widening the memory access to an aligned address by the next larger power of two (e.g., 4-byte access is widened to 8 bytes, and 8-byte access is widened to 16 bytes). Data processing operations supported by the load-store ISA including shift, rotate, and bitfield manipulation are utilized to modify only the bytes in the original unaligned address so that the atomic memory operations are aligned to the widened access address. The aligned atomic memory operations using the widened accesses avoid the faulting exceptions associated with unaligned access for most 4-byte and 8-byte accesses. Exception handling is performed in cases in which memory access spans a 16-byte boundary.
US11593111B2
An apparatus and method are provided for inhibiting instruction manipulation. The apparatus has execution circuitry for performing data processing operations in response to a sequence of instructions from an instruction set, and decoder circuitry for decoding each instruction in the sequence in order to generate control signals for the execution circuitry. Each instruction comprises a plurality of instruction bits, and the decoder circuitry is arranged to perform a decode operation on each instruction to determine from the value of each instruction bit, and knowledge of the instruction set, the control signals to be issued to the execution circuitry in response to that instruction. An input path to the decoder circuitry comprises a set of wires over which the instruction bits of each instruction are provided. Scrambling circuitry is used to perform a scrambling function on each instruction using a secret scrambling key, such that the wire within the set of wires over which any given instruction bit is provided to the decoder circuitry is dependent on the secret scrambling key. The decode operation performed by the decoder circuitry is then adapted to incorporate a descrambling function using the secret scrambling key to reverse the effect of the scrambling function. As a result, independent of which wire any given instruction bit is provided on, the decode operation is arranged when decoding a given instruction to correctly interpret each instruction bit of that given instruction, based on knowledge of the instruction set, in order to determine from the value of each instruction bit the control signals to be issued to the execution circuitry in response to that given instruction.
US11593109B2
Aspects are provided for sharing instruction cache footprint between multiple threads using instruction cache set/way pointers and a tracking table. The tracking table is built up over time for shared pages, even when the instruction cache has no access to real addresses or translation information. A set/way pointer to an instruction cache line is derived from the system memory address associated with a first thread's instruction fetch. The set/way pointer is stored as a surrogate for the system memory address in both an instruction cache directory (IDIR) and a tracking table. Another set/way pointer to an instruction cache line is derived from the system memory address associated with a second thread's instruction fetch. A match is detected between the set/way pointer and the other set/way pointer. The instruction cache directory is updated to indicate that the instruction cache line is shared between multiple threads.
US11593105B2
Systems, methods, and apparatuses relating to performing logical operations on packed data elements and testing the results of that logical operation to generate a packed data resultant are described. In one embodiment, a processor includes a decoder to decode an instruction into a decoded instruction, the instruction having fields that identify a first packed data source, a second packed data source, and a packed data destination, and an opcode that indicates a bitwise logical operation to perform on the first packed data source and the second packed data source and indicates a width of each element of the first packed data source and the second packed data source; and an execution circuit to execute the decoded instruction to perform the bitwise logical operation indicated by the opcode on the first packed data source and the second packed data source to produce a logical operation result of packed data elements having a same width as the width indicated by the opcode, perform a test operation on each element of the logical operation result to set a corresponding bit in a packed data test operation result to a first value when any of the bits in a respective element of the logical operation result are set to the first value, and set the corresponding bit to a second value otherwise, and store the packed data test operation result into the packed data destination.
US11593104B2
Methods and systems for a platform development version control system for monitoring contributors to software platform development. The methods and systems generate data analytics on contributors to software platform development using group affiliations as listed in a group directory (e.g., a corporate directory for an entity providing the software platform) as a common organizing factor. For example, by organizing the methods and systems according to the group affiliations, the methods and systems may generate data analytics on contributions of contributors within those groups, irrespective of whether or not the group members are working on the same project. The methods and systems may then provide recommendations and graphical representations based on the data analytics.
US11593103B1
Disclosed are various embodiments for anti-pattern detection in extraction and deployment of a microservice. A software modernization service is executed to analyze a computing application to identify various applications. When one or more of the application components are specified to be extracted as an independently deployable subunit, anti-patterns associated with deployment of the independently deployable subunit are determined prior to extraction. Anti-patterns may include increases in execution time, bandwidth, network latency, central processing unit (CPU) usage, and memory usage among other anti-patterns. The independently deployable subunit is selectively deployed separate from the computing application based on the identified anti-patterns.
US11593088B2
A procedure for changing, in particular for updating, a firmware of a head station of a modular node, having a transfer of a compatibility verification routine stored on the head station from the head station on which a first firmware is stored in a nonvolatile manner to a computer connected to the head station, a verification using the verification routine executed on the computer as to whether a second firmware is compatible with the head station, and a replacement of the first firmware on the head station by the second firmware if the verification has the result that the second firmware is compatible with the head station, and also a suitably equipped head station.
US11593087B2
An electronic apparatus installable with firmware updatable via a network includes an input unit configured to receive an operation performed by a user; and circuitry configured to display, on a display, a first screen for displaying a first function of firmware that can be installed on the electronic apparatus, and a second screen for displaying a second function of the firmware, the second function including a plurality of second functions and the second screen including a plurality of second screens prepared for each one of the plurality of second functions, enable the first function in response to an operation for the first function displayed on the first screen, and enable the second function in response to an operation for the second function displayed on the second screen. The circuitry enables the second functions selected from the plurality of second functions respectively displayed on the plurality of second screens.
US11593086B2
A method for shared aeronautical object management includes receiving, from an owner flight application at a server, a share command for an aeronautical object, and flagging the aeronautical object as a shared object. The method further includes transmitting, to a first recipient flight application, the first shared object, receiving an update to the shared object, and transmitting, responsive to receiving the update, the update to the first recipient flight application based on the first recipient flight application being connected to the server when the first update is received. The method further includes receiving a shared object changed version command from the second recipient flight application, and transmitting, responsive to receiving the shared object changed version command, the update to the second recipient flight application.
US11593081B2
A method for monitoring medical data is disclosed, the method being applicable to a system comprising a portable medical device, a mobile communications device, and, optionally, a medical care server. The portable medical device and the mobile communications device each comprise at least one interface for data transfer. The method comprises a step of establishing a download link between the mobile communications device and a download server. The method comprises a step of selecting an appropriate communication software package from a plurality of communication software packages for controlling data transfer between the mobile communications device and the portable medical device from the download server. Further, the method comprises a download step for downloading communication software packages from the download server to the mobile communications device and a step of installation of the communication software package on the mobile communications device.
US11593080B1
Dataflow optimization by dead store elimination focusing on logically dividing a contiguous storage area into different portions by use to allow a different number and type of dataflow and dead store techniques on each portion. A first storage portion, containing the storage for control flow related metadata, is split from a remaining storage portion. Liveness analysis is executed on the first storage portion using bitvectors with each bit representing four bytes. The remaining storage portion, containing the temporary storage for computational values, is processed using a deadness-range-based dataflow analysis. IN and OUT sets for each basic block are generated by processing blocks GEN and KILL sets by performing a backwards intersection dataflow analysis. Stores that write to the set of dead ranges in the IN sets of blocks are eliminated as dead stores.
US11593074B2
A method for data-centric networked application development includes: modifying a graphical user interface of a networked application development environment with a selectable component for including a reusable data entity in a project, the reusable data entity being defined and bound to a form component via interaction with the graphical user interface; and configuring a block of a data-centric form of the project with the form component in response to selection of the selectable component at a design surface of the graphical user interface.
US11593070B2
According to one embodiment, an arithmetic device includes an arithmetic circuit. The arithmetic circuit includes a memory part including a plurality of memory regions, and an arithmetic part. One of the memory regions includes a capacitance including a first terminal, and a first electrical circuit electrically connected to the first terminal and configured to output a voltage signal corresponding to a potential of the first terminal.
US11593067B1
This disclosure describes systems and methods that identify activities for which scripts can be built to perform an activity when requested by a user. The scripts can be voice-activated by a defined customized voice command and can include delivery preferences. The user's identity can be verified by analyzing voice biometrics of the customized voice command. After performance of the activity, results can be delivered to the device in the format indicated in the script.
US11593062B2
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for detecting a wearing status of a wearable device, the wearing status indicating whether a user is wearing the wearable device and sending wearing status data to a companion communication device to control a behavior of the companion communication device.
US11593060B2
Recorded broadcast programs, including advertisements, are selected for playback responsive to user input. The user input may include pressing a button multiple times to cause recorded programs to be scanned through for a particular preset channel from newest recorded to oldest recorded. Pressing another button multiple times causes the recorded programs to be scanned through for the particular present channel from oldest recorded to newest recorded.
US11593050B2
A printing system is provided including a printer server accessible over a first network at a first location and a cloud service accessible from both the first location and a second network at a second network. A user with a client computer moving between the first network and the second network can print using either the printer server, when the user is on the first network, or the cloud service, when the user is on the second network. The client computer is configured detect its location and receive configuration information from the cloud service. The configuration information changes the method used by the client computer to print depending upon the client computer's detected location.
US11593042B2
A printing method includes a customizing step of receiving a customization instruction of an administrator and customizing a printing screen, a printing step of performing printing in response to reception of a printing start instruction, and a displaying step of displaying the customized printing screen during the printing step, in which when an error occurs in the printing step and then the error is resolved and printing is resumed, a display is performed by switching to an uncustomized printing screen immediately after resuming.
US11593037B2
A method includes receiving a workload in a multi-tier enterprise storage system. The workload including a database. A processor determines if historical query logs present for the workload. Upon a determination that historical query logs are present for the workload: the processor analyzes a query log of historical queries for the database; an inter- and intra-query weighted column relationship graph is created based on the analyzing; and weights are assigned to the weighted column relationship graph based on an optimization process that maximizes performance for the historical queries in a training window.
US11593036B2
Staging data on a storage element integrating fast durable storage and bulk durable storage, including: receiving, at a storage element integrating fast durable storage and bulk durable storage, a data storage operation from a host computer; storing data corresponding to the data storage operation within fast durable storage in accordance with a first data resiliency technique; and responsive to detecting a condition for transferring data between fast durable storage and bulk durable storage, transferring the data from fast durable storage to bulk durable storage in accordance with a second data resiliency technique.
US11593034B2
A simulated stretched volume may be configured from multiple volumes of a single data storage system. The volumes may be assigned unique identifiers. The volumes may be exposed to a host over paths from the single data storage system as the same volume having the same unique identifier. The single data storage system may include sets of target ports with each set simulating paths to a different data storage system. A management command may be received that is directed to the simulated stretched volume having the unique identifier. The management command may be received on a path from the host to a target port of the single data storage system. Servicing the management command may include the single data storage system simulating either the local or remote system depending on the set of target ports including the target port.
US11593030B2
The described technology is generally directed towards cross-stream transactions in a streaming data storage system, which allows a writer application to commit multiple events to distinct data streams in a single transaction. The system creates a cross-stream transaction for a writer application, and the writer application adds events to the cross-stream transaction, indicating which destination data stream(s) each event's data is to be appended. The system adds the event to a subordinate transaction created for each specified data stream. Upon committing the cross-stream transaction, the system coordinates the committing of the subordinate transactions to their respective data streams. Alternatively, an application writer can request that an event be committed to multiple writer-specified data streams via a cross-stream micro-transaction, in which the streaming data storage system obtains the appropriate segment store instances and segments for each data stream, and coordinates the direct appending of the event to the appropriate segments.
US11593016B2
Techniques are provided for serializing replication operations. A plurality of operations are implemented upon a first storage object and are replicated as a plurality of replication operations. An order with which the plurality of replication operation are to be executed upon a second storage object is determined. Execution of the plurality of replication operations upon the second storage object is serialized according to the order.
US11593012B1
Methods and systems for performing a partial pass-through transfer are described. In an aspect, a method includes: receiving, from a first computing system, pass-through transfer definition data to be associated with a first logical storage area, the pass-through transfer definition data including a trigger condition for a pass-through transfer and an apportionment value for the pass-through transfer; storing a representation of the pass-through transfer definition data in association with the first logical storage area; detecting a first data transfer to the first logical storage area, the first data transfer representing a transfer of a resource; determining that the first data transfer satisfies the trigger condition; and in response to determining that the first data transfer satisfies the trigger condition: identifying a portion of the resource based on the apportionment value; and initiating a second data transfer.
US11593004B1
Computer-implemented methods for optimized compute resource addition and removal in a distributed storage platform. In a case of a newly added compute resource being connected to a storage subsystem shared by compute resources in the distributed storage platform, the distributed storage platform formulates a redistribution plan to redistribute a subset of a global address space of the storage subsystem to a newly added logical volume in the storage subsystem. In a case of a removed compute resource being disconnected from the storage subsystem, the distributed storage platform formulates a redistribution plan to redistribute respective logical blocks in a logical volume for the removed compute resource to respective remaining logical volumes for respective remaining compute resources in the distributed storage platform. The distributed storage platform executes the redistribution plan to reassign data block ownerships on one or more physical memory devices in the storage subsystem.
US11592999B2
The storage part receives an I/O request including the ID of software, information regarding a storage area to and from which the software performs input and output, and a token. The storage part checks the I/O request against the software ID, the information regarding the storage area, and the token received from an I/O control part so as to determine whether access to the storage part is allowed. Upon determination that the access to the storage part is allowed, the storage part processes the I/O request.
US11592995B2
Data storage device and method for preventing accidental updates and deletions using data versioning
A data storage device and method for preventing accidental updates and deletions using data versioning are provided. In one embodiment, a data storage device is provided comprising a memory and a controller. The controller is configured to: receive a command from a host to modify data stored in the memory, wherein the data is associated with a host identifier created by the data storage device; determine whether the host is associated with the host identifier; in response to determining that the host is associated with the host identifier, modify the data; and in response to determining that the host is not associated with the host identifier, create a new version of the data without modifying the data. Other embodiments are provided.
US11592989B1
Features are disclosed for forecasting a usage of a block storage volume with a first configuration by a user. A computing device can forecast the usage of the block storage volume based on the historical usage of the block storage volume by the user. The computing device can determine additional potential configurations of the block storage volume. The computing device can further simulate the additional potential configurations of the block storage volume based on the forecasted usage of the block storage volume. The additional potential configurations may include a volume type, a volume size, or other volume characteristics. Based on the simulations of the additional potential configurations, the computing device may determine a recommended configuration. The computing device can dynamically modify the block storage volume based on the recommended configuration of the block storage volume.
US11592988B2
A technique manages data within a storage array. The technique involves forming a hybrid tier within the storage array, the hybrid tier including SSD storage and HDD storage. The technique further involves, after the hybrid tier is formed, providing hybrid ubers (or Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) extents) from the SSD storage and the HDD storage of the hybrid tier. The technique further involves, after the hybrid ubers are provided, accessing the hybrid ubers to perform data storage operations.
US11592979B2
A whiteboard template can include multiple regions that are associated with different data sources. Each region can be associated with a different data source and can present objects based upon logical representations stored in an associated data source. Logical representations of objects in a region can include links to other objects in other regions associated with other data sources. When an object is moved between regions, transformations can be applied to the logical representation associated with the object. If the object is linked to other objects, the transformation can be propagated to the logical representations of the linked objects. In this manner, a single movement of an object between regions in a template can result in the updating of multiple objects and associated data sources, the updating of the visual properties of objects in multiple regions, and updating the visual properties of the regions themselves.
US11592975B2
Systems and methods for managing food processing and inventory. Food inventory held at food holding locations can be monitored. Food can be transferred among holding locations and served from holding locations. A prioritized food type list indicates food types to be processed and lists food types in order of determined priority. Food may be transferred to default destination holding locations. Food may be moved to and served from primary holding locations. Buttons associated with holding location displays can be actuated by different types of user engagement for executing various food management operations.
US11592967B2
Generating unique document identifiers from content within a selected page region is disclosed. A selection of a first region within a first page of the documents is received from a user, and is defined by a set of first boundaries relative to the first page. A text string of a first base selection page content within the first region is retrieved from the first page. Then the retrieved text string is assigned to a page location index associated with the first page. A text string of a first replicated selection page content is retrieved from a second page. The first replicated selection page content is included in the same first region defined by the set of first boundaries relative to the second page. The retrieved text string of the first replicated selection page content is assigned to a page location index of the second page.
US11592966B2
Embodiments described include systems and methods for displaying overlays for a network application. A client application on a client device can establish a session to a network application accessed via an embedded browser of the client application. The embedded browser of the client application may receive and display a web page of the network application. Based on one or more conditions and/or policies, the client application may identify and display overlay content over the web page in the embedded browser. The overlay content may include, but is not limited to, training videos, tutorials, social options (e.g., emoticons, likes), form help text, form autofill suggestions, and/or navigation assistance. Once the overlay content is presented, feedback can be received in order to modify the subsequent overlays.
US11592964B2
An image display device includes: an operation receiver that receives an operation to select and move, as a movement source icon, at least one of a plurality of icon images displayed on a display screen; and a hardware processor that, once the operation receiver receives the operation, changes a display position of the movement source icon while assuming that a first position of the movement source icon is selected on the display screen.
US11592960B2
A media system has a server executing software from a non-transitory medium, a content server storing instances of digital media, and a first interactive interface provided by the software to individual ones of network-connected computerized appliances. The first interactive interface displays a plurality of individual first interactive graphic objects in a pattern, each interactive graphic object representing a specific digital experience (DE), being a plurality of specifically-related instances of digital media, and wherein selection, by a user of one of the network-connected computerized appliances, of an individual one of the interactive graphics objects provides a second interactive interface displaying a pattern of second graphic objects, each representing an individual one of the instances of digital media in the DE, and wherein selection of one of the second graphic objects, by the user of the network-connected computerized appliance, streams the selected digital media to the computerized appliance to be played.
US11592949B2
The touch panel built-in display includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and a third electrode for detecting the pressed state in which the protective plate is pressed. The first electrode is provided in the peripheral region on the back surface of the protective plate. The second and third electrodes are provided adjacent to each other in the peripheral region on the principal surface of the sensor substrate. That is, the first electrode, the second electrode, and the third electrode are provided in the peripheral region as a configuration for detecting the pressed state.
US11592945B2
An optical coating has a siloxane polymer and noble metal particles. The coating has an index of refraction that is different for in-plane and out-of-plane. The coating has reverse optical dispersion within the visible wavelength range, and preferably a maximum absorption peak between 400-1000 nm wavelength range is greater than 700 nm. In one example the metal particles are noble metal nanorods having an average particle width of less than 400 nm.
US11592940B2
A touch display apparatus includes a first sensing element, a flexible display device, and a second sensing element. The flexible display device is disposed below the first sensing element. The flexible display device is located between the first sensing element and the second sensing element. The second sensing element includes a pressure sensing layer and a reaction force layer. The pressure sensing layer is located between the flexible display device and the reaction force layer.
US11592933B1
A display with integrated touch screen includes pixels distributed in an array of rows or pixels connected by row wires and columns of pixels connected by column wires defining a display area on a display substrate. The pixels can comprise mutually exclusive subarrays of pixels forming clusters. Each cluster can be independently controlled and can comprise a touch controller for sensing touches. Each pixel can include one or more micro-iLEDs. A first row wire can be driven with a display signal at the same time the touch controller senses one or more second row wires different from the first row wire. The touch controller can sense multiple row wires at a time or can receive a control signal at a frequency of no less than one MHz on a row wire. In some embodiments, the touch controller comprises a capacitance circuit in an integrated circuit separate from the display substrate.
US11592931B2
A display panel includes common electrodes in an active area and a first driving circuit on one side of the active area and a second driving circuit on the other side of the active area. First read-out lines are electrically connected to the common electrodes, respectively, and to the first driving circuit. Second read-out lines are electrically connected to the second driving circuit, and to the first read-out lines, respectively. An output signal of phototransistors may be detected using read-out lines connected to a common electrode serving as a touch sensor, such that touch sensing and photosensing can be performed using the shared read-out line. No disconnection areas are provided between the read-out lines driven by the different driving circuits, or the disconnection areas are distributed. Abnormalities in image quality due to the disconnection areas are prevented, and a sensing function using the shared read-out lines is provided.
US11592924B2
A touch operation processing method includes detecting a touch operation of a user, which starts from a border of a screen display area to the screen display area, using the first point touched by the touch operation in the screen display area as a starting point, and performing, according to the touch operation, reduction processing on an operation interface displayed in the screen display area, where one edge of an operation interface after the reduction processing includes the starting point.
US11592913B2
Methods, apparatus and systems for wireless writing tracking are described. In one example, a described system comprises: a transmitter configured for transmitting a first wireless signal through a wireless multipath channel of a venue; a receiver configured for receiving a second wireless signal through the wireless multipath channel; and a processor. The second wireless signal comprises a reflection of the first wireless signal by a tip of a writing instrument in the venue. The processor is configured for: obtaining a time series of channel information (CI) of the wireless multipath channel based on the second wireless signal, wherein each CI comprises at least one of: a channel state information (CSI), channel impulse response (CIR), channel frequency response (CFR), or received signal strength index (RSSI); and tracking a movement of the tip of the writing instrument based on the time series of CI (TSCI).
US11592910B2
Managing input sensitivity of an information handling system, including performing a calibration and configuration of an input sensitivity management model, including: identifying contextual data associated with the information handling system, the contextual data including i) system characteristics of the information handling system and ii) o user characteristics of a user of the information handling system; identifying historic states of the information handling system, the historic states including for each state in time of the information handling system, inputs to the information handling system and outputs of the information handling system based on the inputs to the information handling system; training, based on the contextual data and the historic states, the input sensitivity management model for determining an input sensitivity of the inputs to the information handling system; performing, after performing the calibration and configuration of the input sensitivity management model, a steady-state monitoring of the information handling system.
US11592909B2
This document describes techniques for fine-motion virtual-reality or augmented-reality control using radar. These techniques enable small motions and displacements to be tracked, even in the millimeter or sub-millimeter scale, for user control actions even when those actions are small, fast, or obscured due to darkness or varying light. Further, these techniques enable fine resolution and real-time control, unlike conventional RF-tracking or optical-tracking techniques.
US11592906B2
A position within displayed digital content that a user is ocularly focused on (e.g., where within displayed content the user is looking) may be determined. Digital content comprising a visual indication of the position may be rendered. The visual indication of the position may be displayed on the same display that the user is looking at and/or a different display. In some embodiments, the position may be determined based on data generated by a sensor physically attached to the user. Additionally or alternatively, the position may be determined based on data generated by a stationary computing device comprising a sensor configured to track changes in ocular position of the user. In some embodiments the digital content may comprise digital images and/or video (e.g., broadcast content, on-demand content, images and/or video associated with a computer application, or the like).
US11592905B2
In an embodiment an apparatus includes a base plate, an interface with a touch-sensitive surface, a piezoelectric actuator and a mechanical reinforcing element, wherein the mechanical reinforcing element is fastened to the piezoelectric actuator, wherein the mechanical reinforcing element is fastened to the interface, wherein the mechanical reinforcing element is configured to deform, as a result of a change of an extension of the piezoelectric actuator, in a first direction such that a partial region of the mechanical reinforcing element is moved relative to the piezoelectric actuator in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction and a force is applied to the interface, wherein the interface is moved, by the force applied, in a direction lateral to the touch-sensitive surface, or wherein the interface is moved, by the force applied, in a direction perpendicular to the touch-sensitive surface.
US11592900B1
A method for operating a laser unit as a function of a detected state of an object. The method includes: outputting a light beam having a light beam intensity, using the laser unit, during a first time period and a second time period; receiving at least one reflected partial beam having a partial beam intensity during the first and second time periods; making the light beam and the partial beam interfere with each other in the first and second time periods to obtain a first interference parameter for the first time period and a second interference parameter for the second time period; ascertaining the state of the object; changing an operating state of the laser unit as a function of the ascertained state of the object.
US11592897B2
Apparatuses and methods of operating the same are described. An apparatus including a display, an input device, and a processing device coupled to the display and the input device. The processing device may send an output to the display. The output may include a graphical object associated with a first step of a user-implemented procedure. The processing device may receive an input from the input device. The input may indicate a progress on an execution of the first step by an operator. The processing device may determine whether the input indicates that the operator has completed the first step. The processing device may determine whether the first step is a final step in the user-implemented procedure. The processing device may identify a second step in the user-implemented procedure when the input indicates that the operator has completed the first step and the first step is not a final step.
US11592892B2
A data processing apparatus includes a plurality of power domains controlled by respective power control signals PCS. Power control circuitry includes mapping circuitry which maps a plurality of power status signals PSS indicative of the power status of respective power domains, and received from those power domains, to form the power control signals which are then supplied power domains. The mapping circuitry may be controlled by mapping parameters stored within a memory mapped array. The mapping parameters may specify that a given power control signal is either sensitive or insensitive to the power status of a particular other power domain within the data processing apparatus-2. The mapping parameters may be fixed or software programmable.
US11592891B2
An information handling system includes resistive short detection circuitry that measures a first amount of power provided by a power supply system, and measures a second amount of power drawn by components. The resistive short detection circuitry compares the first amount of power with the second amount of power. In response to first amount of power being greater than the second amount of power, the resistive short detection circuitry determines that a short exists within the information handling system.
US11592884B2
Apparatus and methods for managing power consumption of a data-path in a computer system are provided, the data-path comprising a first port and a second port, the first port comprising a high-speed and the second port comprising a low-speed port. The disclosed method including connecting a device to the data-path, determining that the connected device is to communicate using the second port and turning off an active circuit associated with the first port of the data-path.
US11592879B2
A modular back panel assembly for a display structure comprises at least one back panel defining front face apertures. The back panel rear face is comprises at least one elongated channel aligned with the front face apertures. An elongated electrical conductor is mountable within the elongated channel and defines conductor apertures for being coaligned with the front face apertures. A display member is mountable to the back panel front face of the back panel and comprises an electrical conductor with a mounting element that is insertable within the coaligned front face and conductor apertures. An electrical assembly provides electrical power to the elongated electrical conductor. Insertion of the mounting element within the coaligned front face and conductor apertures provides for mounting the display member to the front face and for electrical communication with the electrical conductor thus allowing the elongate electrical conductor when electrically powered by the electrical assembly to provide electrical power to the display member electrical conductor.
US11592874B1
A device having a flexible touch screen display configured to display images in at least a first touch area and a second touch area. The first touch area is configured to rotate with respect to the second touch area along a folding axis. A first plurality of touch sensitive column electrodes are integrated into the first touch area, a second plurality of column electrodes are integrated into the second touch area of the flexible display, and a plurality of row electrodes are integrated into and extend across the first touch area and the second touch area. Also included are a plurality of drive-sense circuits that drive sensor signals on the electrodes. A processing module senses, based on the sensor signals, an electrical characteristic of at least one row electrode and at least one column electrode of the first plurality of column electrodes or the second plurality of column electrodes and determines, based on the electrical characteristic, a proximal touch to at least one of the first touch area or the second touch area.
US11592869B2
A display apparatus includes a substrate having a display area with a display device to display an image, and a non-display area around the display area. The non-display area has a bending area bent about a bending axis. An encapsulation layer is located over the display area. A touchscreen layer is located over the encapsulation layer and includes a touch electrode. A touch wire is connected to the touch electrode, and extends from an upper portion of the encapsulation layer, and at least partially into the bending area. A fan-out wire configured to apply an electric signal to the display area and is at least partially disposed in the bending area. The touch wire and the fan-out wire are on different layers from each other in the bending area.
US11592865B2
An electronic device includes a hinge module; a first housing, a second housing, and a flexible display. The first housing is connected to the hinge module. The second housing is connected to the hinge module. The flexible display is disposed through at least a portion of the first and second housings. The flexible display includes a display panel includes a first surface facing in a first direction and a second surface facing in a direction opposite, when the electronic device is in an unfolded state. The flexible display also includes a window layer disposed at the first surface and a metal sheet layer. The display panel, the window layer, and the metal sheet layer are disposed so that a separation distance between the display panel, the window layer, and the metal sheet layer and inner side walls of the first and second housings and generates different interlayer slips.
US11592853B2
An on-chip resistor correction circuit includes a first MOS transistor connected between VDD and a reference resistor, the other end of the reference resistor being grounded; an operational amplifier for outputting a first control signal based on a reference voltage and a voltage of the reference resistor; a second MOS transistor connected between VDD and a reference node; a branch where each of the on-chip resistors is located is controllably connected between the reference node and ground; a comparator for generating a comparison signal based on the voltage of the reference node and the reference voltage; and a controller for generating a control signal under the action of the comparison signal to control the branch where each of the on-chip resistors is located to turn on or off.
US11592852B2
A system and approach for developing a periodic water usage profile and demand for controlling a water heater. A mode may be selected for demand for a certain amount of water of a particular temperature range to be available for use from the water heater. Data on hot water usage may be collected and the usage profile and demand may be calculated from the data. The water heater may be programmed to operate in a certain fashion based on the usage profile and demand. A control knob may be on the water heater control to select a particular demand. Control of the water heater may be operated from a remote device connected in a wireless or wired fashion. An optimization program may be implemented in the control of the water heater for achieving one or more beneficial goals related to water heater performance and hot water production.
US11592848B2
In a pressure controller for adjusting a pressure in a container connected downstream of the pressure controller and in fluid communication therewith, the pressure controller includes a main fluid duct having a fluid input and a fluid output leading to the container and a control valve for adjusting a fluid pressure at the fluid output, a bypass duct branching off from the main fluid duct downstream of the control valve, configured for venting of the main fluid duct, and a flow cross-section of the bypass duct being smaller than a maximum flow cross-section of the main fluid duct.
US11592836B2
A system includes at least partially autonomous vehicles, at least partially separated interconnected roadways, and a management system. Each of the vehicles is configured to cooperate with another vehicle or an area controller. The management system is configured to receive requests to transport, which may have respective start points and respective destinations. Additionally, the management system is configured, responsive to receiving the request, to assign a vehicle to fulfill the request. The assigned vehicle is configured to transport a person from the respective start point, at least in part via the interconnected roadways, to the respective destination.
US11592832B2
Disclosed are methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable media that control an autonomous vehicle via at least two sensors. One aspect includes capturing an image of a scene ahead of the vehicle with a first sensor, identifying an object in the scene at a confidence level based on the image, determining the confidence level of the identifying is below a threshold, in response to the confidence level being below the threshold, directing a second sensor having a field of view smaller than the first sensor to generate a second image including a location of the identified object, further identifying the object in the scene based on the second image, controlling the vehicle based on the further identification of the object.
US11592829B2
A control device and a control method can quickly estimate a self-location even when the self-location is unknown. In a case of storing information supplied in a time series detected by LIDAR or a wheel encoder and estimating a self-location by using the stored time-series information, when a position change happens unpredictably in advance such as a kidnap state is detected, the stored time-series information is reset, and then the self-location is estimated again. Example host platforms include a multi-legged robot, a flying object, and an in-vehicle system that autonomously moves in accordance with a mounted computing machine.
US11592822B2
One or more information maps are obtained by an agricultural work machine. The one or more information maps map one or more agricultural characteristic values at different geographic locations of a field. An in-situ sensor on the agricultural work machine senses an agricultural characteristic as the agricultural work machine moves through the field. A predictive map generator generates a predictive map that predicts a predictive agricultural characteristic at different locations in the field based on a relationship between the values in the one or more information maps and the agricultural characteristic sensed by the in-situ sensor. The predictive map can be output and used in automated machine control.
US11592821B2
The present disclosure provides a method including determining an operational mode of a vehicle based on data accumulated from at least one vehicle information system associated with the vehicle; selecting one of a plurality of power consumption profiles for the vehicle based on the determined operational mode; and applying the selected one of the power consumption profiles to the vehicle.
US11592819B2
A robotic lawn mower includes a first wheel driven by a first electric wheel motor, a second wheel driven by a second electric wheel motor, a cutting implement driven by an electric cutting implement motor, a power system for powering the electric wheel motors and the electric cutting implement motor, and a controller configured to control operation of the electric wheel motors and the electric cutting implement motor to autonomously mow a yard. The power system includes multiple removable rechargeable battery modules and multiple receptacles, each receptacle configured to receive one of the battery modules.
US11592818B2
Techniques for utilizing multiple scales of images as input to machine learning (ML) models are discussed herein. Operations can include providing an image associated with a first scale to a first ML model. An output of the first ML model can include a first bounding box indicative of a first region of the image representing a first object, with the first bounding box falling within a first range of sizes. Next, a scaled image can be generated by scaling the image. The scaled image can be provided to a second ML model, which can output a second bounding box indicative of a second region of the image representing a second object, the second bounding falling within a second range of sizes. Thus, inputting a scaled image to a same ML model (or to different ML models) can result in different detected features in the images.
US11592816B2
A driving assistance device, including an automated driving switch; an emergency button; and a controller configured to provide either automated driving in which travel is performed along a current travel path of a host vehicle or automated stopping in response to manipulation by a driver of the automated driving switch or of the emergency button.
US11592798B2
A system (100) for controlling a plurality of lines (10), with each line (10) being at least one of a production line and a distribution line, comprises: a first subsystem (30), hereinafter referred to as “master room subsystem”, comprising a first control device (40) hosting an OPC UA server (45); and, for each line (10), a second subsystem (50), hereinafter referred to as “line control subsystem”, comprising: (a) a second control device (60) on which an operating system is running, the second control device (60) hosting an OPC UA client (65); (b) at least one field device (70); and (c) a connection device (80) arranged for allowing communication between the field device(s) (70) and the second control device (60). The field device(s) (70) is connected to the second control device (60) through a point-to-point digital communication interface, the second control device (60) having one port per field device (70).
US11592791B1
A system for flight control system using simulator data for an electric aircraft is presented. The system includes a computing device, the computing device configured to receive a plurality of measured flight data, simulate a plurality of aircraft performance model outputs as a function of a flight simulator and the plurality of measured flight data, determine a moment datum as a function of the plurality of measured flight data and the plurality of aircraft performance model outputs, generate an allocation command datum as a function of the moment datum and the plurality of aircraft performance model outputs, and perform a torque allocation on a flight component of a plurality of flight components as a function of the allocation command and the moment datum.
US11592786B1
A time-to-digital converter (TDC) includes a count logic and a digital core. The count logic generates a first sequence of counts representing a first sequence of edges of a first periodic signal, and a second sequence of counts representing a second sequence of edges of a second periodic signal. The digital core generates a sequence of outputs representing the phase differences between the first periodic signal and the second periodic signal from the first sequence of counts and the second sequence of counts. Each output is generated from a pair of successive edges of the first direction of one of the periodic signals and an individual one of the other periodic signal occurring between the pair, and the output is set equal to the minimum of difference of the individual one with the first value of the pair and the individual one with the second value of the pair.
US11592782B2
An image forming apparatus includes a cartridge and a main body into which the cartridge is removably installed. The cartridge includes a first unit and a second unit that is movably connected to the first unit. The main body includes a rotating member, a supporting member disposed at a position away from the rotating member, and a swingable member that is pivotally movable about the supporting member and configured to be moved by the rotating member. The swingable member is movable between a first position at which the swingable member is in contact with the second unit and a second position at which the swingable member is retracted from the first position. Installation and removal of the cartridge into and from the main body is enabled in a state where the swingable member is at the first position and is supported by the rotating member.
US11592774B2
An image forming apparatus includes a transfer belt, a forming unit, a detection unit, a correction unit, a drive system, a determination unit, and a notification unit. The forming unit forms an image-misregistration detection pattern of a plurality of colors on the belt. The correction unit corrects an image misregistration of an image of each color based on a detection result of the pattern. The determination unit detects a difference amount between a pattern interval of the pattern on the belt and a pattern interval serving as a reference value for each color and determines that an abnormality has occurred in a driving state of the drive system, in response to the difference amount equal to or greater than a threshold value. The notification unit notifies occurrence of the misregistration when the determination unit determines that the driving state is abnormal, based on the difference amount of any one color.
US11592751B2
In a method of manufacturing a photo mask used in a semiconductor manufacturing process, a mask pattern layout in which a plurality of patterns are arranged is acquired. The plurality of patterns are converted into a graph having nodes and links. It is determined whether the nodes are colorable by N colors without causing adjacent nodes connected by a link to be colored by a same color, where N is an integer equal to or more than 3. When it is determined that the nodes are colorable by N colors, the nodes are colored with the N colors. The plurality of patterns are classified into N groups based on the N colored nodes. The N groups are assigned to N photo masks. N data sets for the N photo masks are output.
US11592750B2
Exposure apparatus includes illumination optical system and projection optical system for forming projected image with light from the illumination optical system. The illumination optical system forms, on pupil plane of the illumination optical system, light emission region including first and second regions. The projected image is composited from images including first image formed by first light from the first region and second image formed by second light from the second region. The first light and/or the second light is broadband light. Increase/decrease change in line width in the second image caused by defocus has different sign with respect to increase/decrease change in line width in the first image caused by defocus, and increase/decrease change in line width in image obtained by compositing the first image and the second image, which is caused by defocus, is decreased.
US11592744B2
A positive-type photosensitive resin composition comprises a (a) polybenzoxazole precursor, a (b) crosslinking agent, a (c) photosensitive agent, and a (d) solvent, wherein the (a) polybenzoxazole precursor comprises a structure represented by Formula (1) below, and the (c) photosensitive agent is a compound comprising a structure represented by Formula (2) below. In Formula (1), U is a bivalent organic group, a single bond, —O—, or —SO2—, V is a group comprising an aliphatic structure, and the carbon number in the aliphatic structure is 1 to 30.
US11592741B2
An imprinting method includes dispensing a first liquid on a first region of a substrate. The first liquid is a photocurable resist precursor. A second liquid is dispensed on a second region of the substrate. The second region is adjacent to and surrounding the first region. The second liquid is non-photocurable as dispensed. The first region is then irradiated with light while a patterned template is being pressed against the first liquid. The light cures the first liquid and forms a resist pattern corresponding to the patterned template. The patterned template and the substrate are then separated from each other. The second liquid is then selectively removed from the substrate while leaving the resist pattern on the substrate.
US11592733B2
Provided is a structured light projector including a light source configured to emit light, and a nanostructure array configured to form a dot pattern based on the light emitted by the light source, the nanostructure array including a plurality of super cells each respectively including a plurality of nanostructures, wherein each of the plurality of super cells includes a first sub cell that includes a plurality of first nanostructures having a first shape distribution and a second sub cell that includes a plurality of second nanostructures having a second shape distribution.
US11592729B2
An accessory mount can be inserted through the camera body mount without any of the first through third tabs being hindered by any of three camera body-side tabs at the camera body mount, as long as the accessory mount is inserted into the camera body mount at a correct interlock phase. The first, second, and third tabs extend over varying lengths along the circumferential direction. The first tab extends over a greatest length and the third tab extends over a smallest length, along the circumferential direction. The accessory mount includes a restricting member, a fitting portion, and a lock pin hole. The restricting member is disposed at a position assumed on a side substantially opposite from the lock pin hole across the fitting portion.
US11592728B2
A camera module includes: a first driving unit including a rotating plate disposed in a housing so as to be rotatable about an optical axis, and a first shape memory alloy (SMA) wire configured to rotate the rotating plate in response to a first applied current; and an optical module disposed in the housing and coupled to the rotating plate.
US11592722B2
Conventional electrochromic devices frequently suffer from poor reliability and poor performance. Improvements are made using entirely solid and inorganic materials. Electrochromic devices are fabricated by forming an ion conducting electronically-insulating interfacial region that serves as an IC layer. In some methods, the interfacial region is formed after formation of an electrochromic and a counter electrode layer. The interfacial region contains an ion conducting electronically-insulating material along with components of the electrochromic and/or the counter electrode layer. Materials and microstructure of the electrochromic devices provide improvements in performance and reliability over conventional devices. In various embodiments, a counter electrode is fabricated to include a base anodically coloring material and one or more additives.
US11592716B2
According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate and a liquid crystal layer. The first substrate includes a first insulating substrate, a scanning line, a signal line, a switching, and a pixel electrode. The liquid crystal layer includes a polymer in a shape of a streak and a liquid crystal molecule. The scanning line includes a conductive layer located between the first insulating substrate and the liquid crystal layer, and a first reflective layer located between the first insulating substrate and the conductive layer and having a reflectance higher than a reflectance of the conductive layer.
US11592714B2
A method of coating a polyimide film and a method of fabricating a display panel are provided by the embodiments of the present invention. The method of coating a polyimide film includes providing a glass substrate and at least one nozzle; forming a nanomaterial filled graphic letterpress on the glass substrate, wherein the nanomaterial filled graphic letterpress is formed with a plurality of protrusions; and spraying a polyimide liquid on the nanomaterial filled graphic letterpress by the at least one nozzle to form a polyimide film.
US11592713B2
Provided is a liquid crystal aligning agent composition including a urea-based compound that contains two or more urea functional groups and has a structure in which a hydroxyalkyl group is substituted for a terminal amino group of a urea functional group, together with polyimide and its precursor polymer.
US11592712B2
According to an aspect, a display apparatus includes: a first light-transmissive substrate; a second light-transmissive substrate arranged to face the first light-transmissive substrate; a liquid crystal layer including polymer dispersed liquid crystals sealed between the first light-transmissive substrate and the second light-transmissive substrate; at least one light-emitting device arranged to face at least one of a side surface of the first light-transmissive substrate or a side surface of the second light-transmissive substrate; and at least one reflector arranged on at least one of a side surface of the first light-transmissive substrate or a side surface of the second light-transmissive substrate, the side surface of the first or second light-transmissive substrate being on an opposite side of the side surface of the first or second light-transmissive substrate to which the at least one light-emitting device faces, and configured to reflect light at the side surface on the opposite side.
US11592707B2
Disclosed is a display device. The display device includes a display panel; a frame positioned in a rearward direction of the display panel; a substrate which is positioned on the frame, and has a light source providing light; an inner frame which is coupled to the frame, and supports the display panel; an optical layer which is positioned between the display panel and the inner frame, and in contact with the inner frame; and a side reflector which is positioned between the optical layer and the frame, and coupled to the inner frame, wherein the side reflector includes: a base surface positioned adjacent to the substrate; an inclination surface which is positioned adjacent to a lower surface of the optical layer, and reflects the light provided from the light source to the optical layer; and a side surface which connects the base surface and the inclination surface, and reflects the light provided by the light source.
US11592704B2
A dimming panel includes: a transparent base substrate and a plurality of dimming cells disposed on the transparent base substrate; each of the plurality of dimming cells comprises a refractive structure and an electric field structure disposed outside the refractive structure, the refractive structure comprises at least two film layers stacked, a refractive index difference between any two adjacent film layers in the at least two film layers is variable under an action of an electric field applied by the electric field structure.
US11592703B2
Provided are an optical film, a circularly polarizing plate, and an image display apparatus in each of which the occurrence of cracks is suppressed in the obtained film in a case of being punched. The optical film includes a stretched resin film and a liquid crystal layer formed by fixing a liquid crystal compound twist-aligned along a helical axis extending along a direction in thickness, in which a δa value calculated using a three-dimensional solubility parameter of a resin in the stretched resin film is 8.0 MPa1/2 or less, the liquid crystal layer contains a cured substance of a polyfunctional compound having two or more polymerizable groups in one molecule, and an absolute value of a difference between the δa value calculated using the three-dimensional solubility parameter of the polyfunctional compound and the δa value calculated using the three-dimensional solubility parameter of the resin is 4.0 MPa1/2 or less.
US11592699B2
The present invention is for a backplane substrate including an in-cell type touch panel advantageous to reducing the number of masks and the number of processes, a liquid crystal display device including the same, and a method of manufacturing the same, includes a plurality of interlayer dielectric layers disposed above a drain electrode of a thin film transistor are simultaneously patterned after forming a sensing line and a common electrode.
US11592687B2
A method for determining an ophthalmic lens (1) for a wearer with a personalized light-filter pattern (3) defined by pattern parameters, wherein the method comprises collecting data relating to the wearer and determining the pattern parameters based on the data relating to the wearer.
US11592682B2
A display apparatus includes an image light generating unit that includes a laser light source unit and a MEMS mirror configured to reflect laser light emitted from the laser light source unit, and that is configured to generate image light, an exit pupil expander configured to expand a luminous flux diameter of the image light from the image light generating unit, a light-guiding plate, a first surface relief-type diffraction grating provided at a light incidence portion of the light-guiding plate and on which the image light passing through the exit pupil expander is incident and enters the light-guiding plate, and a second surface relief-type diffraction grating provided at a light emission portion of the light-guiding plate and through which the image light propagating inside the light-guiding plate exits, in which the image light generating unit includes a speckle noise reduction section configured to reduce speckle noise in the image light.
US11592681B2
A device includes a waveguide, an in-coupling element, and an out-coupling element coupled with the waveguide. The waveguide, the in-coupling element, and the out-coupling element are configured to deliver a plurality of portions of an image light to an eye-box of the device. At least one of the in-coupling element or the out-coupling element includes a polarization selective diffractive element. The polarization selective diffractive element includes a grating including a plurality of microstructures defining a plurality of grooves filled with a passive optically anisotropic material having a first effective refractive index along a groove direction of the grooves and a second effective refractive index along an in-plane direction perpendicular to the groove direction. One of the first effective refractive index or the second effective refractive index substantially matches with a refractive index of the microstructures.
US11592675B2
An electronic display assembly includes a display element and a corrective element coupled to the display element. The display element has a first plurality of sub-pixels of a first type and a second plurality of sub-pixels of a second type. Two adjacent sub-pixels of the first plurality of sub-pixel are separated by a sub-pixel distance. The corrective element has a plurality of features configured to diffuse light emitted by the first plurality of sub-pixels such that an apparent distance between the two adjacent sub-pixels of the first type, viewed at a viewing distance away from the electronic display assembly, is less than the sub-pixel distance.
US11592665B2
Systems and methods for depth plane selection in display system such as augmented reality display systems, including mixed reality display systems, are disclosed. A display(s) may present virtual image content via image light to an eye(s) of a user. The display(s) may output the image light to the eye(s) of the user, the image light to have different amounts of wavefront divergence corresponding to different depth planes at different distances away from the user. A camera(s) may capture images of the eye(s). An indication may be generated based on obtained images of the eye(s), indicating whether the user is identified. The display(s) may be controlled to output the image light to the eye(s) of the user, the image light to have the different amounts of wavefront divergence based at least in part on the generated indication indicating whether the user is identified.
US11592656B2
An object of the present invention is to provide an image processing apparatus, an image processing program, and an image processing method capable of specifying and correcting desired motion. An image processing apparatus includes: global motion estimation means for estimating global motion indicating motion of a specific region containing a specific object in a moving picture from a plurality of frame images contained in the moving picture; local motion estimation means for estimating local motion indicating motion of the specific object in the moving picture from the plurality of frame images; and image correction means for correcting the motion of the specific object or the specific region in the moving picture on the basis of the estimated global motion or the local motion.
US11592648B2
An imaging lens includes a first lens having positive refractive power; a second lens; a third lens; a fourth lens; a fifth lens; a sixth lens; a seventh lens; an eighth lens; and a ninth lens, arranged in this order from an object side to an image plane side. The imaging lens has a total of nine lenses. The first lens is formed in a shape so that a surface thereof on the image plane side has an aspherical shape. The ninth lens is formed in a shape so that a surface thereof on the image plane side has an aspherical shape.
US11592647B2
The application discloses an optical imaging lens. The optical imaging lens sequentially includes from an object side to an image side along an optical axis: a first lens having a focal power; a diaphragm; a second lens having a focal power; a third lens having a focal power, and provided with an object-side surface and an image-side surface, the object-side surface is convex surface, the image-side surface is a concave surface; a fourth lens having a positive focal power, and provided with an object-side surface and an image-side surface, the object-side surface is a concave surface, the image-side surface is a convex surface; and a fifth lens having a negative focal power; at least one aspherical mirror surface is included in an object-side surface of the first lens to an image-side surface of the fifth lens; the optical imaging lens meets the following relational expressions: f/EPD<1.5, and 2 mm
US11592644B2
In a state in which a position sensor for focusing is viewed in the direction of an optical axis, a line connecting the position sensor for focusing to the optical axis is set as a first reference line and a line orthogonal to the first reference line and passing through the optical axis is set as a second reference line. The position sensor for focusing is disposed in a first region of the first region and a second region partitioned by the second reference line. An X-direction VCM and a Y-direction VCM are arranged in the second region. The influence of magnetism from the X-direction VCM and the Y-direction VCM on the position sensor for focusing is suppressed.
US11592642B2
Provided are a lens driving motor and an elastic member of the lens driving motor. The elastic member of a lens driving motor, the elastic member includes a first spring and a second spring. The second spring is different from the first spring and disposed together with the first spring on one side of a carrier to support the carrier. A first lead line of a coil and a first external power source are connected to the first spring, and a second lead line of the coil and a second external power source are connected to the second spring to supply power to the coil. Since the carrier can be assembled to other part after a (+) lead line and a (−) lead line of the coil are connected to the first and second springs, respectively, using solder, a process is simple and convenient.
US11592638B2
A thermal management system for a power and fiber splice enclosure that includes a housing including electrical components is provided. The thermal management system includes a solar shield disposed external to the housing and covering at least a major portion of the housing. The thermal management system includes a vent disposed in the housing for venting hot air from the enclosure. The thermal management system includes a condenser thermally coupled to a heat conducting component of the enclosure for cooling at least the heat conducting component.
US11592637B2
A cable organizer for fiber optic cables includes a support structure, and a groove plate mounted to the support structure. The groove plate has an access groove for managing fiber optic cables on the groove plate. Fiber optic trays are pivotally mounted to the groove plate, and each fiber optic tray is configured to manage an optical fiber from the fiber optic cables. The access groove is at an angle relative to the fiber optic trays to provide a side access to the fiber optic cables.
US11592624B2
A micro connector kit includes first and second ferrules and first and second micro connector ferrule housings. Each first and second micro connector ferrule housing defines a cavity sized and shaped to receive a respective one of the first and second ferrules with the first and second ferrules being disposed in closely spaced relation with the respective first or second micro connector ferrule housing when in each cavity. The first and second micro connector ferrule housings can be releasably coupled together such that the first and second ferrules form an optical connection when the first and second micro connector ferrule housings are coupled together. The first and second micro connector ferrule housings have first and second connection structure for releasably coupling the first and second micro connector housings together.
US11592618B2
A method includes forming a first photonic package, wherein forming the first photonic package includes patterning a silicon layer to form a first waveguide, wherein the silicon layer is on an oxide layer, and wherein the oxide layer is on a substrate; forming vias extending into the substrate; forming a first redistribution structure over the first waveguide and the vias, wherein the first redistribution structure is electrically connected to the vias; connecting a first semiconductor device to the first redistribution structure; removing a first portion of the substrate to form a first recess, wherein the first recess exposes the oxide layer; and filling the first recess with a first dielectric material to form a first dielectric region.
US11592615B2
Embodiments relate to a polymer waveguide including a substrate, a cladding layer made of a first polymer, formed on the substrate, wherein a first monomer is polymerized into the first polymer, and the cladding layer has a groove for the waveguide by removing part of the cladding layer, and a core accommodating graphene therein, formed on the groove, a method for manufacturing the same, and a passively mode-locked laser based on the polymer waveguide.
US11592614B2
Improvements to gratings for use in waveguides and methods of producing them are described herein. Deep surface relief gratings (SRGs) may offer many advantages over conventional SRGs and Bragg gratings, an important one being a higher S-diffraction efficiency. In one embodiment, deep SRGs can be implemented as polymer surface relief gratings or evacuated Bragg gratings (EBGs). EBGs can be formed by first recording a holographic polymer dispersed liquid crystal (HPDLC) grating. Removing the liquid crystal from the cured grating provides a polymer surface relief grating. Polymer surface relief gratings have many applications including for use in waveguide-based displays.
US11592613B2
Multicore optical fibers with low bend loss, low cross-talk, and large mode field diameters In some embodiments a circular multicore optical fiber includes a glass matrix; at least 3 cores arranged within the glass matrix, wherein any two cores have a core center to core center spacing of less than 29 microns; and a plurality of trench layers positioned between a corresponding core and the glass matrix, each trench layer having an outer radius of less than or equal to 14 microns and a trench volume of greater than 50% Δ micron2; wherein the optical fiber has a mode field diameter of greater than about 8.2 microns at 1310 nm, and wherein the optical fiber has an outer diameter of less than about 130 microns.
US11592605B2
A color developing structure that exhibits good color development and ensures a desired transmittance while diffusing reflected light in multiple directions. A color developing structure includes a concave-convex layer in which a first surface has a concave-convex structure, and a reflective layer formed on the first surface to extend along the concave-convex structure. A convex surface of the concave-convex structure has a first pattern composed of a plurality of strip portions in plan view. The strip portion has a width in a first direction and a length in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The width is smaller than the wavelength of the incident light, and a standard deviation of the lengths of the plurality of strip portions is larger than a standard deviation of the widths.
US11592603B2
An optical filter (1a) includes a UV-IR-absorbing layer and has the following characteristics (i) to (v) when light with wavelengths of 300 nm to 1200 nm is incident at an incident angle of 0°: (i) an average transmittance of 78% or more in the wavelength range of 450 nm to 600 nm; (ii) a spectral transmittance of 1% or less in the wavelength range of 750 nm to 1080 nm; (iii) a spectral transmittance of 1% or less in the wavelength range of 300 nm to 350 nm; (iv) a decreasing spectral transmittance with increasing wavelength in the wavelength range of 600 nm to 750 nm and a first IR cut-off wavelength in the wavelength range of 620 nm to 680 nm; and (v) an increasing spectral transmittance with increasing wavelength in the wavelength range of 350 nm to 450 nm and a first UV cut-off wavelength in the wavelength range of 380 nm to 430 nm.
US11592596B2
The invention relates to a method for creating a space of invisibility, which comprises: (a) providing a metamaterial plate having a subwavelength thickness, said metamaterial plate having bottom and top surfaces; (b) radiating the bottom surface of the metamaterial plate by a primary radiation thereby to form a space of invisibility above the top surface of the metamaterial plate, said space of invisibility being located within a space of a secondary radiation above the metamaterial plate which is in turn formed as a result of said primary radiation passing through metamaterial plate.
US11592590B2
A method may include calculating a first set of hash values for a set of well log channels, extracting a well log channel snippet from an unknown well log channel, calculating a second set of hash values for the well log channel snippet, identifying, for the unknown well log channel, a matching well log channel by searching the first set of hash values with the second set of hash values, and storing, for the unknown well log channel, a channel context corresponding to the matching well log channel.
US11592585B2
The present disclosure relates to a PET detector and a PET frame. The PET detector may include a plurality of detector modules and a plurality of installing modules configured to install the plurality of detector modules. The plurality of installing modules may be coupled together to form a detector ring. The PET frame may include a detector stabilizing cylinder configured to stabilize a detector and a fixing support configured to support the detector stabilizing cylinder. The detector stabilizing cylinder may be rotatably fixed on the fixing support.
US11592580B2
A Real-Time Kinematic (RTK) solution is provided to mobile devices having multi-constellation, multi-frequency (MCMF) functionality, in which a single base station may have a baseline much farther than traditional base station and where the high accuracy positioning is achieved in a relatively short period of time. To enable this, embodiments involve modeling of an ionosphere-free carrier phase corresponding to combinations of at least three signals received from one or more satellites. The modeling retains the integer nature of carrier phase ambiguities, thereby allowing for fast convergence in determining the integer ambiguity of the carrier phases.
US11592576B2
A satellite positioning receiver includes a local oscillator, a front-end circuit with having an analog mixer, a number of signal processing channel circuits, and a processing circuit. The satellite positioning receiver performs a method that includes (i) acquiring a first satellite using a first frequency search space that spans both uncertainties due to the first satellite's orbit and uncertainties due to the clock bias or a time rate of change of the bias; and (ii) using the bias or the time derivative of the bias determined during the acquisition of the first satellite, acquiring a second satellite using a second frequency search space that spans substantially only uncertainties due to the second satellite's orbit.
US11592573B2
Robot localization or mapping can be provided without requiring the expense or complexity of an “at-a-distance” sensor, such as a camera, a LIDAR sensor, or the like. Landmark features can be created or matched using motion sensor data, such as odometry or gyro data or the like, and adjacency sensor data. Despite the relative ambiguity of adjacency-sensor derived landmark features, a particle filter approach can be configured to use such information, instead of requiring “at-a-distance” information from a constant stream of visual images from a camera, such as for robot localization or mapping. Landmark sequence constraints or a Wi-Fi signal strength map can be used together with the particle filter approach.
US11592572B2
In one embodiment, a system includes at least one projector comprising a plurality of light emitters, where the projector is configured to project a projected pattern comprising a plurality of projected features having different locations; a camera configured to capture an image comprising a detected pattern corresponding to a reflection of the projected pattern; and one or more processors configured to: identify at least one detected feature of the detected pattern, wherein the detected feature corresponds to at least one reflection of the projected features; and activate or deactivate one or more of the light emitters based on the detected feature. The light emitters may be activated or deactivated by determining a detected feature measurement based on the detected feature, and activating or deactivating one or more of the light emitters when the detected feature measurement satisfies a threshold feature measurement condition.
US11592556B2
An object capturing device includes light emission, receiving, and scanning units, and distance calculation, and object determination units. The scanning unit measures light from the emission unit to head toward a measurement target space to perform scanning, and to guide reflected light from the object with respect to the measurement light to the receiving unit. The distance calculation unit calculates a distance to the object in association with a scanning angle of the scanning unit. The object determination unit determines whether the object is a capture target based on whether a scanning angle range within which a difference between distances is equal to or less than a predetermined threshold value corresponding to a reference scanning angle range of the capture target, and a determination of whether intensity distribution of the reflected light within the scanning angle range corresponds to reference intensity distribution of the reflected light from the capture target.
US11592553B2
Provided are a pulse laser ranging system and method employing a time domain waveform matching technique. The system comprises a software part and a hardware part. The hardware part comprises an optical collimation system, an FPGA, a filter, a photoelectric conversion system, an analog amplifier circuit, a laser transmitter, a signal combination system, an ADC sampling system and a narrow pulse laser transmitting circuit. When transmitting a control signal to control laser transmission, the FPGA sends a time reference pulse to the signal combination system. The signal combination system integrates the time reference pulse with a fixed amplitude analog echo signal to form an echo signal with a time reference. The echo signal with a time reference is quantified into a digital detection signal in the ADC sampling system. The digital detection signal is sent to the FPGA to undergo data analysis. The software part is used to perform time domain waveform matching analysis to obtain a ranging result. The ranging result is output by the FPGA.
US11592552B2
An optoelectronic sensor, in particular a laser scanner, for detecting an object in a monitored zone is provided having a light transmitter for transmitting a light beam into the monitored zone; a light receiver for generating a received signal from the light beam remitted by the object; a moving deflection unit for a periodic deflection of the light beam to scan the monitored zone in the course of the movement; and having a control and evaluation unit that is configured to determine the time of flight between the transmission and reception of the light beam and to determine the distance from the object therefrom, wherein the sensor has a correction of the signal dynamics, i.e. of the relative reception power in dependence on the distance of the scanned object, The control and evaluation unit is here configured to correct the signal dynamics by adapting the sensitivity of the sensor.
US11592549B2
Technologies for calibrating radars and tracking space objects. Some of such technologies enable a technique for calibrating a radar based on using -A- an elemental antenna (308), which can be embedded on a housing hosting a set of antenna elements, or -B- an antenna (146) mounted to a reflector. Some of such technologies enable a radar site containing a first 1D phased array (112) and a second 1D phased array (112), where the first 1D phased array sends a set of signals and receives a set of reflections based on the set of signals, and the second 1D phased array receives the set of reflections.
US11592539B2
Described herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media for performing an alignment between a first vehicle sensor and a second vehicle sensor. Two-dimensional (2D) data indicative of a scene within an environment being traversed by a vehicle is captured by the first vehicle sensor such as a camera or a collection of multiple cameras within a sensor assembly. A three-dimensional (3D) representation of the scene is constructed using the 2D data. 3D point cloud data also indicative of the scene is captured by the second vehicle sensor, which may be a LiDAR. A 3D point cloud representation of the scene is constructed based on the 3D point cloud data. A rigid transformation is determined between the 3D representation of the scene and the 3D point cloud representation of the scene and the alignment between the sensors is performed based at least in part on the determined rigid transformation.
US11592538B2
A calibration method implemented by a computer, includes: measuring, with a laser ranging sensor, markers attached to at least two predetermined positions of a bed portion of a trampoline and calculating coordinates of the markers in a first coordinate system with a position of the laser ranging sensor being an origin; and calculating a conversion parameter to convert coordinates of respective positions of the first coordinate system into coordinates of respective positions of a second coordinate system with a center position of the bed portion being an origin based on a relationship between the calculated coordinates of the markers and the at least two predetermined positions of the bed portion.
US11592537B2
A method of detecting optical crosstalk in a LIDAR system includes selectively activating and deactivating light sources of a light source array; triggering a measurement of the field of view (FOV) during which at least one targeted region of the FOV is illuminated by the light source array and at least one non-targeted region of the FOV is not illuminated by the light source array; generating electrical signals based on at least one reflected light beam being received by a photodetector array, where the photodetector array comprises a targeted pixel group corresponding to the at least one targeted region of the FOV and a non-targeted pixel group corresponding to the at least one non-targeted region of the FOV; and detecting optical crosstalk that appears at at least one portion of the non-targeted pixel group based on electrical signals from the targeted pixel group and the non-targeted pixel group.
US11592530B2
A lidar system includes a laser source, an emission lens configured to collimate and direct a laser beam emitted by the laser source, a receiving lens configured to receive and focus a return laser beam reflected off of one or more objects to a return beam spot at a focal plane of the receiving lens, and a detector including a plurality of photo sensors arranged as an array at the focal plane of the receiving lens. Each photo sensor has a respective sensing area and is configured to receive and detect a respective portion of the return laser beam. The lidar system further includes a processor configured to determine a respective time of flight for each respective portion of the return laser beam, and construct a three-dimensional image of the one or more objects based on the respective time of flight for each respective portion of the return laser beam.
US11592517B2
Disclosed is an approach to enable radio map download for Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)-denied areas. In particular, processor(s) (e.g., of positioning server(s)) could identify GNSS-denied area(s) in an initial radio map, the GNSS-denied area(s) being (i) one or more areas in which at least one GNSS signal is or was unavailable and (ii) a subset of a plurality of areas represented by the initial radio map. Subsequently, the processor(s) could generate a partial radio map representing radio data only for the GNSS-denied area(s) identified in the initial radio map, and could then transmit the partial radio map to a mobile device for storage at the mobile device. In this way, the mobile device could optimize resource usage and perform radio-based position estimations at least in the GNSS-denied area(s) that were identified.
US11592512B2
A method for calibrating a magnetometer. The magnetometer travels through (Si) a set of path positions, and acquires (S2) a plurality of measurements of the magnetic field. Trajectory information (S3) is provided representative of the location and the orientation of a point integral with the magnetometer. The measurements of the magnetic field are matched up (S4) with the trajectory information. A determination (S5) is made of calibration parameters of the magnetometer by the minimisation of a cost function involving, for a plurality of determination times, at least the calibration parameters, a measurement of the magnetic field, and a relationship linking the change in a magnetic field with the change in the location and in the orientation of the magnetometer derived from the trajectory information.
US11592506B2
The present disclosure provides a system and method for magnetic resonance imaging. The method may include obtaining first k-space data collected from a subject in a non-Cartesian sampling manner. The method may also include generating second k-space data by regridding the first k-space data. The method may further include generating third k-space data by calibrating the second k-space data, wherein a calibrated field of view (FOV) corresponding to the third k-space data is constituted by a central portion of an intermediate FOV corresponding to the second k-space data. The method may still further include reconstructing, using at least one of a compressed sensing algorithm or a parallel imaging algorithm, a magnetic resonance (MR) image of the subject based at least in part on the third k-space data.
US11592503B2
A method for hyperpolarizing spins includes the following steps: a) placing a sample containing spins (s) in a stationary magnetic field; b) magnetically coupling the sample to an electromagnetic resonator having a resonance frequency ω0 equal to the Larmor frequency of the spins in the stationary magnetic field, such that the coupling with the resonator dominates the relaxation dynamics of the spins; and c) reducing the effective temperature of the electromagnetic field inside the electromagnetic resonator below its physical temperature and that of the sample; whereby the polarization of the spins of the sample is established at a value higher than its thermal equilibrium value. An apparatus for implementing such a method is also provided.
US11592502B2
An integrated sensor includes a sensor cell, a signal source, an input optical rotator, and a signal detector. The integrated sensor includes a positioner for a signal-processing component. The positioner may be a linear positioner for the signal-processing component, such as a signal source or a signal detector, or may be a rotational positioner for the signal-processing component, such as a polarizer or a polarized signal source. The signal-processing component is located on a signal path of the integrated sensor. A method of adjusting a linear position or rotational position of a signal-processing component is also disclosed. A linear position or a rotational position of the signal-processing component may be adjusted to improve performance of the integrated sensor.
US11592500B2
An embodiment of a magnetic-field sensor includes a magnetic-field sensor arrangement and a magnetic body which has, for example, an inhomogeneous magnetization. The magnetic body has a recess facing the magnetic-field sensor arrangement and resulting in a non-convex cross-sectional area, the magnetic body is annular or comprises an annular section, and the magnetic body is fixedly arranged with respect to the magnetic-field sensor arrangement and forms a back-bias magnet for the magnetic-field sensor arrangement.
US11592495B2
Disclosed is a test system including a transmitter, a receiver, a measuring circuit, and a control circuit. The transmitter is coupled to the receiver in a DC coupling manner, and includes: a signal input circuit determining an output signal according to an input signal; a current source coupled between the signal input circuit and a low power-supply terminal and configured to determine a total current passing through the signal input circuit in a non-open/short-circuited condition; and a signal output wire circuit outputting the output signal for a performance test. The receiver includes: an impedance circuit coupled to the signal output wire circuit; and a coupling circuit coupling the impedance circuit with a high power-supply terminal. The measuring circuit measures a target current/voltage between the high power-supply terminal and low power-supply terminal to generate a measurement result. The control circuit determines whether the transmitter/receiver is open/short-circuited according to the measurement result.
US11592488B2
A battery monitoring system includes a data acquiring unit and a failure determining unit. The data acquiring unit acquires a plurality of types of monitoring data to monitor a state of a secondary battery. The failure determining unit determines whether the secondary battery has failed. The failure determining unit performs sparsity regularization using the monitoring data as variables and calculates a partial correlation coefficient matrix of the monitoring data. The failure determining unit calculates, as an abnormality level, an amount of change in a partial correlation coefficient, which is a component of the partial correlation coefficient matrix, between two partial correlation coefficient matrices calculated at different periods. The failure determining unit determines that the secondary battery has failed when the calculated abnormality level exceeds a predetermined threshold.
US11592486B2
A method for automatically testing a relay is provided. The method includes applying power to a testing device for automatically testing the relay, determining a position of a selector switch based on a user selection for testing, selectively energizing the relay based on the position of the selector switch, detecting, by a hardware processor, an energize status signal from the selector switch, testing, by the hardware processor and based at least on the energize status signal, a control coil or a contact of the relay to generate a test result, and displaying, using display, the energize status signal and the test result.
US11592482B1
Scan channel slicing methods and systems for testing of scan chains in an integrated circuit (IC) reduce the number of test cycles needed to effectively test all the scan chains in the IC, reducing the time and cost of testing. In scan channel slicing, rather than loading and unloading into scan chains high-power patterns having numerous switching transitions over the length of each scan chain, loading and unloading the entirety of the scan chain scan while observing it, chain load data is sliced, apportioning between the different scan chains independently observable sections (slices) of transition data in which all four bit-to-bit transitions (“0” to “0”, “0” to “1”, “1” to 0”, “1” to “1”) are ensured to exist. The remainder of the scan chain load data, which is not observed in the test procedure, can be low-transition data that consumes low dynamic power, such as mostly zeroes or mostly ones.
US11592481B1
An apparatus includes a core logic circuit, one or more integrated clock-gating (ICG) cells, and one or more ICG control cells (ICCs). The core logic circuit generally comprises a plurality of flip-flops. The plurality of flip-flops may be connected to form one or more scan chains. Each of the one or more integrated clock-gating (ICG) cells may be configured to gate a clock signal of a respective one of the one or more scan chains. Each of the one or more ICG control cells may be configured to control a respective one or more of the one or more ICG cells.
US11592478B2
A semiconductor package test system includes a test pack on which a semiconductor package is loaded, and a semiconductor package testing apparatus. The semiconductor package testing apparatus includes a receiving section that receives the test pack. The receiving section includes a pack receiving slot into which the test pack is inserted. The test pack includes a chuck on which the semiconductor package is fixed, a probe block disposed above the chuck, and a connection terminal. The receiving section includes a receiving terminal that is electrically connected to the connection terminal when the receiving terminal contacts the connection terminal. The probe block includes at least one needle configured to be electrically connected to the semiconductor package disposed on the chuck upon the chuck moving toward the semiconductor package. The receiving section is provided in plural.
US11592474B2
Functional test equipment including relay system and test method using the functional test equipment
The present disclosure provides functional test equipment for a device under test and method of testing the device under test. The functional test equipment includes a first power supply, a second power supply and a relay system. The first power supply is configured to generate a first supply voltage. The second power supply is configured to generate a second supply voltage different from the first supply voltage. The relay system is configured to electrically couple the first power supply or the second power supply to the device under test, wherein the first supply voltage is applied to the device under test for a first duration and the second supply voltage is applied to the device under test for a second duration less than the first duration.
US11592466B2
A probe card device and a self-aligned probe are provided. The self-aligned probe includes a fixing end portion configured to be abutted against a space transformer, a testing end portion configured to detachably abut against a device under test (DUT), a first connection portion connected to the fixing end portion, a second connection portion connected to the testing end portion, and an arced portion that connects the first connection portion and the second connection portion. The fixing end portion and the testing end portion jointly define a reference line passing there-through. The first connection portion has an aligned protrusion, and a maximum distance between the arced portion and the reference line is greater than 75 μm and is less than 150 μm.
US11592458B2
A wind direction indicator includes a smoke generator, a housing, an electrical power source, an air pump and a switch all arranged such that the indicator may be actuated by a user using a single hand. The smoke generator may be a cartomizer as an example. The indicator may include a rechargeable battery, a power outlet circuit and a SD card reader and transmitter for transmitting data from the SD card to a cellphone via a wireless connection such as Wi-Fi or bluetooth.
US11592457B2
Described herein are new methods and systems for profiling tunnels. A method comprises moving a shuttle within a shuttle track extending between a boring apparatus (inside a tunnel) and a base station (outside the tunnel). The shuttle is equipped with a movement sensor, which records various movement parameters (e.g., linear and/or angular accelerations) while the shuttle moves within the shuttle track. These movement parameters are then transferred to a tunnel profiler (e.g., a base station) and the profile of the tunnel is determined based on these movement parameters. For example, a shuttle track can be a flexible tube (e.g., continuous or segmented) with the shuttle positioned within the tube. The shuttle can be removed from the tube or remain in the tube while the movement parameters are transferred and, in some examples, while the shuttle is recharged.
US11592450B2
The invention relates to a method for the diagnosis and/or risk stratification of invasive fungal infections (IFI)/invasive fungal diseases (IFD) and in particular associated with sepsis or septic shock, wherein a determination of the marker proadrenomedullin (proADM) or a partial peptide or fragment thereof, in particular midregional proadrenomedullin (MR-proADM), or contained in a marker combination (panel, cluster), is carried out from a patient to be examined. Furthermore, the invention relates to a diagnostic assay and a kit for carrying out the method.
US11592449B2
The present disclosure provides methods and compositions for the determining the abundance and/or concentration of protein biomarkers in a biological sample.
US11592409B2
A system includes a slurry pipe and a pipe liner disposed within an inner diameter of the slurry pipe. At least one redundant transducer wear ladder sensor is disposed within the pipe liner. A computer controller is operatively coupled to the at least one redundant transducer wear ladder sensor via a flexible ribbon cable. A radio-wave transmitter is operatively coupled to the computer controller. A radio-wave receiver is operatively coupled to the computer controller. A power source is operatively coupled to the radio-wave transmitter and to the radio-wave receiver.
US11592404B2
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for determining a presence of an object located close to a lens (301) of a camera monitoring a scene. A first infrared illumination source (302) arranged to illuminate the scene from a first angle is activated. A first image (304) is acquired by the image capturing device (300). The first infrared illumination source (302) is deactivated, and a second infrared illumination source (306) arranged to illuminate the scene from a second angle is activated. A second image (308) is acquired by the image capturing device (300). Intensity information of the first image (304) and the second image (308) is compared to determine the presence of an object located close to the lens (301).
US11592403B2
In a method for imaging a container holding a sample, the container is illuminated with a laser sheet that impinges upon the container in a first direction corresponding to a first axis. A plane of the laser sheet is defined by the first axis and a second axis orthogonal to the first axis. The method also includes capturing, by a camera having an imaging axis that is substantially orthogonal to at least the first axis, an image of the container. The method further includes analyzing, by one or more processors, the image of the container to detect particles within, and/or on an exterior surface of, the container.
US11592400B2
Inspection data that corresponds to potential defects of an object may be received. A first set of locations of first potential defects can be identified. The first set of locations of the first potential defects can be imaged with a review tool to obtain a first set of review images. The first potential defects can be classified based on the first set of review images to obtain first classification results of the first potential defects. An instruction can be determined for the review tool based on the first classification results, the instruction being associated with detecting potential defects. Using the instruction, a second set of locations of second potential defects of the plurality of potential defects to be imaged with the review tool can be identified.
US11592395B2
The present invention provides a wide-area sample-based reader design which serves as a diagnostic detection device for bio-particles.
US11592392B2
A method of determining a phase shift caused by reflection at, or transmission through, a dielectric coating as a function of wavenumber includes obtaining a nominal phase shift for the dielectric coating as a function of wavenumber, determining a first wavenumber and a second wavenumber for performing measurements of phase shift at these wavenumbers based on the nominal phase shift, determining a wavenumber shift based on a first measurement of phase shift at the first wavenumber, a second measurement of phase shift at the second wavenumber, and the nominal phase shift as a function of wavenumber, and determining the phase shift as a function of wavenumber based on the wavenumber shift and the nominal phase. Further described is a method of determining a layer design for a dielectric coating, wherein the dielectric coating comprises a plurality of stacked layers.
US11592391B2
Mid-infrared photothermal heterodyne imaging (MIR-PHI) techniques described herein overcome the diffraction limit of traditional MIR imaging and uses visible photodiodes as detectors. MIR-PHI experiments are shown that achieve high sensitivity, sub-diffraction limit spatial resolution, and high acquisition speed. Sensitive, affordable, and widely applicable, photothermal imaging techniques described herein can serve as a useful imaging tool for biological systems and other submicron-scale applications.
US11592387B2
A method for testing physical properties of a material includes inserting coherent light into a waveguide such that the coherent light exits the waveguide at an end of the waveguide that is embedded within the material, thereby causing the coherent light to interact with the material. The method also includes detecting a reaction of the material to the coherent light.
US11592384B2
A device for detecting (D) at least one predetermined particle (P) includes an interferometric element (EI) arranged so as to be illuminated by an incident radiation (Lin) and comprising at least one so-called thin layer (CM) disposed on top of a so-called substrate layer (Sub), the particle being attached to a surface (Sm) of the thin layer, the interferometric element (EI) forming a Fabry-Pérot cavity with or without attached particle P; a matrix sensor (Det) adapted to detect an image comprising a first portion (P1) deriving from the detection of the incident radiation transmitted (LTBG) by the interferometric element alone and a second portion (P2) deriving from the detection of the incident radiation transmitted (LTP) by the interferometric element and any particle (O, P) attached to a surface (Sm) of the thin layer; a processor (UT) linked to the sensor and configured: to calculate, as a function of wavelengths of the incident radiation λi i∈[1,m], the variation of intensity of at least one first pixel of the first portion, called first variation (FBG) and of at least one second pixel of the second portion, called second variation (FP), to determine a trend, as a function of the wavelengths of the incident radiation λi i∈[1,m], of a phase shift ϕi between the first variation and the second variation; to detect the attached particle when the phase shift ϕi is not constant as a function of the wavelengths of the incident radiation λi i∈[1,m].
US11592374B2
A cryostat chuck is disclosed. The disclosed chuck may be configured for use in a frozen-sectioning device, such as a cryostat, or other suitable host equipment. The disclosed chuck may include a tab portion configured, in accordance with some embodiments, to provide a means for gripping the chuck by hand (e.g., human or robotic) or by a tool or other desired interfacing element. The tab portion may serve to distance a user's hand or piece of gripping equipment from the sharp microtome of the host cryostat, reducing the opportunity of sustaining bodily injury or equipment damage. Moreover, the tab portion may provide a means by which the cryostat chuck may be manipulated when inserting, adjusting, or removing the chuck prior to, during, or after engagement by the cryostat (or other suitable host equipment).
US11592373B2
The disclosure relates to a method for pretreating a sample for metals determination. The method includes: providing an aqueous sample mixture comprising a sample containing or suspected of containing one or more metals for detection; contacting the aqueous sample mixture with a first electrode (anode) comprising electrically conducting boron-doped diamond (BDD); electrically contacting the aqueous sample mixture with a second electrode (cathode); applying an electrical potential between the first electrode and the second electrode (i) to provide an electrical current therebetween and through the aqueous sample mixture, (ii) to generate hydroxyl ion (OH−) species at the first electrode, (iii) to oxidize and free the one or more metals for detection in the sample, thereby forming a pretreated aqueous sample comprising free metal ions in aqueous solution and corresponding to the one or more metals in the original sample; and withdrawing the pretreated aqueous sample comprising the free metal ions in aqueous solution. The pretreated aqueous sample can be analyzed for metal content using any desired conventional analysis technique.
US11592363B2
The present invention relates to a sampler for taking samples from a molten metal bath, particularly a molten steel bath, the sampler comprising: a carrier tube having an immersion end; a sample chamber assembly arranged on the immersion end of the carrier tube, the sample chamber assembly comprising a cover plate and a housing, wherein the housing comprises an immersion end having an opening; an inflow conduit having a first end for receiving molten metal and a second end, opposite the first end, wherein the second end is in communication with the opening, wherein the opening is configured to receive the molten metal from the inflow conduit; a measuring head, wherein the sample chamber and the second end of the inflow conduit are at least partly arranged in the measuring head; and a de-oxidant material arranged along a central axis of the inflow conduit, wherein at least part of the de-oxidant material is arranged near the second end of the inflow conduit inside the measuring head, and wherein the inflow conduit comprises first coupling means, arranged on the second end of the inflow conduit, wherein the de-oxidant material comprises second coupling means, to interact with the first coupling means on the inflow conduit to anchor the de-oxidant material in a position along the central axis of the inflow conduit. The invention also relates to a sampler for taking samples from a molten metal bath, particularly a molten steel bath, the sampler comprising: a carrier tube having an immersion end; a sample chamber assembly arranged on the immersion end of the carrier tube, the sample chamber assembly comprising a cover plate and a housing, wherein the housing comprises an immersion end having an opening; an inflow conduit having a first end for receiving molten metal and a second end, opposite the first end, wherein the second end is in communication with the opening, wherein the opening is configured to receive the molten metal from the inflow conduit; a measuring head, wherein the sample chamber and the second end of the inflow conduit are at least partly arranged in the measuring head; and a metal bushing, wherein the metal bushing coupling the inflow conduit to the sample chamber.
US11592361B2
A system for generating data relating to a tissue core comprises a core needle biopsy module configured to obtain a tissue core from a locus within the body, and a tissue disintegration module operably connected to the core needle biopsy module and configured to receive a tissue core from the core needle biopsy module and convert at least a portion of the tissue core into gaseous tissue molecules. The system also comprises first vacuum pump means configured to convey a tissue core from the needle biopsy module to the tissue disintegration module, and second vacuum pump means configured to convey gaseous tissue molecules from the tissue disintegration module to an analyser module.
US11592360B2
A method for testing a technical system. Tests are carried out with the aid of a simulation of the system. The tests are evaluated with respect to a fulfillment measure of a quantitative requirement on the system and different error measures of the simulation. On the basis of the fulfillment measure and each of the error measures, a classification of the tests is carried out as either reliable or unreliable case by case. A selection among the error measures is made on the basis of a number of the tests classified as reliable.
US11592359B2
This disclosure relates generally to a system and method to estimate an operational risk associated with one or more failures in at least one unit of a process plant. There is a continuous stream of operational data of several variables such as temperature, pressure, etc. Detections are defined in terms of acceptable/unacceptable ranges of parameters over a finite period and operating load of the unit. Often, these predefined parameters must be within a specified range based on operating condition of the process plant and when the measured parameters go beyond, a failure is detected. A risk priority number is estimated from number of occurrences of failure mode, average percentage change from dynamic limits with severity and degree of correlation with detectability from operational data and dynamic limits. Herein, operational risk associated with failure modes can be calculated and updated from time to time automatically from the stream of operational data.
US11592355B2
Embodiments of an axle monitoring system of the present invention generally include an oil bath cap plug equipped with a sensor assembly containing one or more power provision components, and an oil level monitor, a humidity/temperature sensor, a vibrational energy detector, and/or a GPS tracking chip, all of which are mounted on a microcircuit board, wherein the sensor assembly is adapted and configured to be fitted inside the axle oil bath cap plug. In various embodiments, information and/or data obtained by the sensor assembly can be transmitted, in raw or processed form, to one or more remote devices. Embodiments of a method of using embodiments of an axle monitoring system of the present invention are also provided.
US11592350B2
A test apparatus determines the state of torsional balance of an elongate device about its longitudinal axis. It has a base plate, supporting two sets of longitudinally spaced-apart low-friction roller bearings. The second bearings are mounted on the base at a higher location than the first bearings. A support for the second bearings has a side opening to allow lateral movement of the device under test into engagement with the underside of the second bearings which resting on the upper side of the first bearings. The device under test may be a rifle or a golf putter, the barrel or shaft respectively of which is supported on the roller bearings of the first set and in contact with the underside of the second bearings. The device will rotate about the longitudinal axis if not balanced about the axis. It is very easy and convenient for the user to place the tube in the guide to check for balance whenever checking balance of the item. The side opening allows use with a variety of devices having irregular shapes along its length.
US11592339B2
A device may comprise: a storage for storing a reference output representing an output of an electrical circuit at a reference temperature; one or more processors, configured to: determine a temperature shift based on a comparison of an output of the electrical circuit sensed at a sensing temperature and the reference output; determine a plurality of coefficients of a model of the temperature shift, wherein the model implements one or more functions that associate the plurality of coefficients and a temperature with the temperature shift at the temperature.
US11592334B2
A sensor package includes a semiconductor sensor chip having multiple light sensitive regions each of which defines a respective light sensitive channel. An optical filter structure is disposed over the sensor chip and includes filters defining respective spectral functions for different ones of the light sensitive channels. In particular, the optical filter structure includes at least three optical filters defining spectral functions for tristimulus detection by a first subset of the light sensitive channels, and at least one additional optical filter defining a spectral function for spectral detection by a second subset of the light sensitive channels encompassing a wavelength range that differs from that of the first subset of light sensitive channels.
US11592328B2
Systems and methods for determining sound-producing characteristics of electroacoustic transducers are disclosed. According to an aspect, a system includes electroacoustic transducers configured to generate sound. The system also includes an acoustoelectric transducer configured to convert sound produced by the electroacoustic transducers into one or more electrical signals. Further, the system includes a computing device configured to apply one or more patterns of electrical signals to the electroacoustic transducers to test for one or more sound-producing characteristics. The computing device is also configured to receive, from the acoustoelectric transducer, electrical signals that resulted from application of the patterns of electrical signals to the electroacoustic transducers. Further, the computing device is configured to determine, based on the received electrical signals, the sound-producing characteristics of the electroacoustic transducers for use in controlling the electroacoustic transducers to generate one or more predetermined sounds.
US11592326B2
A filling level indicator for determining a filling level in a tank, having a resistor network, a contact element, and a magnetic element. The contact element is spaced apart from the resistor network and the magnetic element is movable relative to the resistor network and the contact element. The contact element has a contact region deflectable by the magnetic element. An electrically conductive connection between the contact region and the resistor network is produced by deflection of the contact region. The contact region is formed by a planar tape-shaped element and the contact region has contact portions that are spaced apart from one another in the circumferential direction. The contact portions are separated from one another by separation regions.
US11592325B2
A solid colorant dispensing unit for dispensing charges of solid spherical colorant particles in a time-controlled way, the dispensing unit having a supply container having a nozzle for dispensing the particles having a number average particle size and a number particle size distribution, wherein a ratio of the standard deviation of the number particle size distribution to the number average particle size of the particles is less than 25%. The nozzle having a dispensing outlet having a diameter taking into account the number average particle size of the particles. The dispensing unit having a control assembly for controlling the dispensing of the charges of the particles by taking into account the properties of the particles and the diameter of the outlet of the nozzle. A tinting machine having the solid colorant dispensing unit.
US11592305B2
The present invention provides a method, system, terminal, and storage medium for rapid generation of reference lines. Path planning points are classified according to driving difficulty of different road segments, and the segments with low driving difficulty are assigned reference lines obtained by geometric processing; the segments with high driving difficulty are assigned reference lines obtained by algorithmic processing in combination with vehicle dynamics constraints. Then the reference lines of all segments are combined to form a complete reference line. This method requires little system resource and the algorithm consumes less time.
US11592302B2
A mobile robot is disclosed. The mobile robot may include a wireless transceiver, a driver, and a processor. The mobile robot may execute an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm and/or a machine learning algorithm, and perform communications with other electronic devices in a 5G communication network. Accordingly, user convenience can be significantly improved.
US11592301B2
A computer-implemented method for providing a digital road map for testing an at least partially automated vehicle system. the method includes: accessing a database in which are stored permissible characteristics of the road properties for a multitude of road properties; creating at least one road map section by one of the possible characteristics being selected for the road map section for the first of the multitude of road properties, in each particular case in automated fashion from the database; providing the digital road map, the digital road map including the at least one road map section.
US11592294B2
An assembly for mounting to a head-worn accessory, the assembly includes a body configured to be affixed onto the accessory. The body has a level bubble tube. A second body configured to be affixed onto the accessory, the second body having a second level bubble tube. The second body is pivotably attached to the first body by a connection that allows pivoting of the second body relative to the first body.
US11592280B2
A method for compensating interference in a measured angle signal of a magnetic angle sensor of an electrical machine, wherein the method includes: receiving a measured angle signal, estimating a current error and/or a misalignment error in the measured angle signal, calculating an expected rotor angle from the measured angle signal, taking into account the estimated current error and/or the estimated misalignment error, such as during operation of the electrical machine. The present invention furthermore relates to a microcontroller for calculating interference in a measured angle signal of a magnetic angle sensor of an electrical machine, to an electrical machine having a magnetic angle sensor and a microcontroller and to a computer program product.
US11592262B2
A brace assembly includes a firearm attachment member to which a pivot arm is pivotally attached at a pivot. The pivot arm includes a brace member at an end opposite to the pivot. The firearm attachment member includes firearm mounting structure which includes a receiver support shelf for supporting thereon a receiver of a firearm, and a distal abutment against which a forward end of a receiver and/or a slide of the firearm is abuttable.
US11592260B2
An airgun has a high pressure reservoir for providing a pressurized motive gas to a breech to fire a projectile. A regulator is intermediate the high pressure reservoir and a downstream firing pressure reservoir for providing a consistent regulated pressure of the motive gas in the firing pressure reservoir. The airgun includes a bypass line for selectively connecting the high pressure reservoir to the firing pressure reservoir, independently of the regulator. Thus, an operator can select a firing of the airgun with either a regulated gas pressure in the firing reservoir or the pressure of the high pressure reservoir.
US11592251B2
An assembly of a breech (1), a breech block (2) and an ejector (3) wherein the breech (1) is connected to the breech block (2) with the use of a groove (10), arranged in the breech block (2), and a corresponding recess, arranged in the breech (1). An ejector (3) is arranged in the breech (1) that is longitudinally adjustable in a sliding way between the front and rear end position. The ejector (3) is biased by a spring (6) against the shooting direction. On the back of the ejector (3) a recess is arranged that a peg (7) that protrudes from the breech (1) reaches into. At the rear side of the ejector (3), a longitudinal pin (4) is arranged that fits into an opening (5) in the breech block (2) in the rear end position of the ejector (3). On the part of the ejector (3) that protrudes out of the breech (1), a stop surface (9) is arranged for bearing on the breech guide (11) that protrudes out of the breech (1) block.
US11592250B2
Proposed is a magazine having a magazine body of which the upper portion is not deformed by high-temperature heat that is generated at the moment that a bullet is fired. The magazine includes: a magazine body that is made of synthetic resin, has front and rear plates and two side plates, a cartridge outlet formed at a top thereof, a front groove being open upward and formed at a top of the front plate, and a rear groove being open upward and formed at a top of the rear plate, and has guide plates bent toward the inside of the cartridge outlet at rear portions of top of the side plates and preventing cartridges from separating upward; two side reinforcing metal plates inserted and fixed by insert molding inside upper portions of the side plates and the guide plates not to be exposed to the outside.
US11592249B2
A system includes a movable assembly configured for pushing a piece of ammunition into a breech ring of a firearm and/or closing the breech ring, under control of a motor. A feeding device is configured for feeding the piece of ammunition into a position situated between the movable assembly and the breech ring. A synchronization device co-operates with the motor on one side and with the feeding device on the other side. The synchronization mechanism provides for selective transmission of motion, under control of the movable assembly, from the motor to the feeding mechanism, when the movable assembly is in a position away from the breech ring.
US11592246B2
Nanostructured coating materials, methods of their production, and methods of use in a variety of applications are described. The nanostructured materials described herein include one or more 2+ and/or 3+ metal ion(s), optionally in a ternary phase, on a substrate.
US11592243B2
There is disclosed a heat exchanger comprising a first channel, for communicating between a first channel inlet and a first channel outlet, a second channel for communicating between a second channel inlet and a second channel outlet, a third channel for communicating between a third channel inlet and a third channel outlet, a first conduit interconnecting the first channel and the third channel, and thereby defining a first group of interconnected channels, the first conduit extending through the second channel.
US11592239B2
A flow distributor for a heat transfer device having a plurality of channels includes a sheath defining a plurality of distributor holes, each distributor hole configured to be in fluid communication with a respective channel inlet of each channel of the heat transfer device and an insert defining a plurality of fluid channels therein and a fluid inlet, each fluid channel in fluid communication with the fluid inlet. The insert is disposed within the sheath to seal the fluid channels with each fluid channel in fluid communication with a respective one of the distribution holes. The fluid inlet includes an inner inlet and an outer inlet radially outward from the inner inlet for mixing a fluid flow in the fluid inlet for evenly distributing fluid flow (e.g., a two phase flow) into the fluid channels of the insert and into each channel of the heat transfer device.
US11592236B2
Roll-to-roll freeze-drying (lyophilization) system and process for facilitating freeze-drying processes and enabling the collection of data by which a freeze-drying process can be monitored and evaluated. Such a system includes a roll-to-roll freeze-drying apparatus adapted to continuously freeze and dry a liquid to form a freeze-dried and encapsulate freeze-dried sheet portions of the freeze-dried sheet to create premeasured pouches containing the freeze-dried sheet portions. The system further includes a metrology section that monitors any of the freeze-dried sheet and the freeze-dried sheet portions during the freezing and drying of the liquid to generate data for controlling the freezing and drying of the liquid.
US11592235B2
In a method for reducing the amount of ambient radio frequency electromagnetic and pulsating magnetic fields (“electrosmog”), resonance circuit units placed in a predetermined environment are energized by radio frequency electromagnetic and pulsating magnetic field energy transmitted to the resonance circuits by an electromagnetically connected antenna, at least a portion of energy is consumed as resonance circuit loss, reducing the amount of the ambient fields. An apparatus implementing the method comprises passive resonance circuits formed by an antenna comprising logarithmic spiral coils with identical or different pitches and passive resonance circuits formed by opposite logarithmic spiral coil panels, the resonance circuits are connected to each other and to the antenna by electrically conductive spacers, a shielding metal plate connected to ground potential is arranged adjacent to the antenna, latter is coaxial with the resonance circuit panels, which are also connected to each other via a supply line.
US11592234B2
One aspect of the invention relates to a hydrocarbons fluid liquefaction system, having a first heat-exchange module having a pre-cooling exchanger having a pre-cooling circuit and a plurality of pre-cooling refrigerant circuits for pre-cooling the feed stream through the circulation of an expanded first mixed-refrigerant stream, and a second heat-exchange module having a liquefaction exchanger having a liquefaction circuit and a liquefaction refrigerant circuit for liquefying the feed stream through the circulation of an expanded second mixed-refrigerant stream, wherein each heat-exchange module has thermally insulating walls and a framework that allows the module to be transported and secured, and allows the first heat-exchange module to be stacked on top of the second heat-exchange module.
US11592232B2
A water dispensing system for a refrigeration appliance includes a three-way connector operably coupled to an inlet water source and configured to direct incoming water from the inlet water source into an ambient water holding portion and a cold water tank. A water dispenser is coupled with said refrigeration appliance. A three-way control valve is configured to provide water to the water dispenser from at least one of the ambient water holding portion and the cold water tank. A valve actuator is slidable between first, second, and third positions. The three-way control valve is configured to provide water from the ambient water holding portion when the valve actuator is in the first position, from the cold water tank when the valve actuator is in the second position, and from both the ambient water holding portion and the cold water tank when the valve actuator is in the third position.
US11592231B2
A refrigeration device includes a cabinet surrounded by a thermally-insulated housing having a sidewall facing outside and an inner liner spaced apart from the sidewall. At least one door is hinged to the housing by at least one hinge element and a front frame part is provided at a side of the housing facing the door. The housing includes a reinforcing member provided at a region of the housing adjacent a respective hinge element, so as to connect a pair of frame parts extending vertically between the sidewall and the inner liner to each other and to the respective hinge element and sidewall.
US11592229B2
A refrigerator includes a cabinet: a door formed to open and close the cabinet; an upper moving part coupled to the door and formed to be moved in a first direction with respect to the cabinet; a lower moving part disposed under the upper moving part, including an upper adjustment member configured to move the upper moving part in the first direction, and guiding the upper moving part to be linearly moved in the first direction; and a fixing part fixed to the cabinet under the lower moving part, including a lower adjustment member configured to move the lower moving part in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, and guiding the lower moving part to be linearly moved in the second direction.
US11592228B2
A refrigerator includes a cabinet configured to have an inner case in which a storage chamber is formed, a cooler configured to cool the storage chamber, a heating device configured to be spaced apart from the cooler and heat the storage chamber, a circulation fan configured to circulate air in the storage chamber, and a controller configured to operate the circulation fan when the heating device is operated.
US11592217B2
A fluoropropene composition comprising Z-1,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene, E-1,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene, 1,1,3,3,3-pentafluoropropene, 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene, and optionally 1,1,1,3,3-pentafluoropropane wherein the 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene being present in an amount of 0.00001 to 1.0%. A method of producing the fluoropropene, methods for using the fluoropropene and the composition formed are also disclosed.
US11592214B2
A multiple-circuit heating and cooling system includes a first refrigeration circuit having a first condenser and a first evaporator and a second refrigeration circuit having a second condenser and a second evaporator. The first condenser and the second condenser are arranged in a first row split configuration, and the second condenser is downstream of the first condenser relative to a first air flow directed across the second condenser and the first condenser. Additionally, the first evaporator and the second evaporator are arranged in a second row split configuration, and the first evaporator is downstream of the second evaporator relative to a second air flow directed across the first evaporator and the second evaporator.
US11592205B2
The present disclosure relates to a silencer module for a silencer bank of an air handling unit. The silencer module includes a support shell having a first inner wall and a second inner wall opposite the first inner wall. The silencer module also includes a first baffle coupled to the first inner wall, where the first baffle includes a first perforated baffle sheet, and a second baffle coupled to the second inner wall, where the second baffle includes a second perforated baffle sheet. The silencer module further includes an air flow gap that extends between the first perforated baffle sheet and the second perforated baffle sheet, where the air flow gap has a width that is substantially constant along a dimension of the first perforated baffle sheet and the second perforated baffle sheet that extends generally parallel to a direction of air flow through the air flow gap.
US11592199B2
Techniques for providing an adaptive energy management system for responding to extreme weather conditions are described herein. In an embodiment, a server computer stores multiple policy datasets each representing HVAC control policy for different structure locations and one or more extreme weather conditions. The server computer receives weather condition data comprising a condition identifier of a then-current extreme weather condition in association with a location identifier specifying a particular geographical region. Based on the location identifier, a particular structure location, being within the particular geographic region, is identified. Based on the particular structure location, a particular policy dataset from among the policy datasets is identified. The particular policy dataset is transformed into HVAC equipment instructions, which the server computer transmits, over a network, to HVAC equipment at the particular structure location which, when executed, cause the HVAC equipment to execute an action in accordance with the particular policy dataset.
US11592197B2
A bottom-mounted whole house fan assembly includes an intake plenum mounted over an opening in a ceiling of a building. The intake plenum is supported on the ceiling in the attic of the building. One end of a flexible duct is connected to the intake plenum and the other end of the duct is connected to a fan so that the fan draws air in the building through the intake plenum and duct and exhausts the air in the attic from whence the air is vented to atmosphere. The fan is supported by at least one vertical strut that is connected to the ceiling at the lower end of the strut and to a housing of the fan at the upper end of the strut. A sound dampener is interposed between the strut and the fan housing and/or the ceiling beam to which the strut is attached.
US11592190B2
A hot water recirculation system for a house or other building causes water to be recirculated to a water heater for reheating until the water is above a set-point temperature at which time the heated water is made available for use at a faucet or other hot water plumbing fixture. Recirculation of hot water takes place only when there is demand for hot water at a hot water plumbing fixture. A flow switching module for use in the hot water recirculation system can selectively direct water supplied to the flow switching module from a water heater either to a hot water plumbing fixture or to return piping for returning the water to the water heater. The flow switching module may be operated manually, automatically, or semi-automatically.
US11592184B2
A system and method is disclosed for the start-up and control of pulsejet engines and this system includes an Electronic Fuel Injection (“EFI”) system that further includes one or more electrically controlled fuel injectors that can be selectively operated for start-up and control of such pulsejet engines. According to the system and method, the rate and/or pattern of fuel delivery to pulsejet engines can be varied not only by controlling the amount of time the fuel injectors are open versus closed to define a “duty cycle,” but also with the capability to selectively disable one or more fuel injectors in the programmed manner for start-up and control of such pulsejet engines.
US11592180B2
A nozzle for a combustor in which a fuel containing hydrogen is burned is provided. The nozzle includes a first tube disposed in a center of the nozzle and having a first diameter, a plurality of second tubes circumferentially disposed around the first tube to be spaced apart from the first tube and each having a second diameter smaller than that of the first tube, and a plurality of third tubes disposed around the first tube and each having a diameter smaller than the second diameter, wherein the first tube, the plurality of second tubes, and the plurality of third tubes are arranged in parallel with each other.
US11592178B2
A combustor for a gas turbine engine having a compressor upstream of the combustor and a turbine downstream of the combustor. The combustor also includes a combustor chamber, an oxy-fuel pilot burner (104) centrally positioned at an end of the combustor chamber, and an air-fuel premix burner configured to at least partially premix air and fuel. The air-fuel premix burner surrounds the oxy-fuel pilot burner (104) in an annular configuration.
US11592159B2
Provided is a light source system, including: a light-emitting module configured to emit first light along a first light path and second light along a second light path; a wavelength conversion device configured to receive the first light and emit excited light with a color different from the first light; and a compensation device configured to guide the second light and adjust its luminous intensity distribution so that the luminous intensity distribution of the second light exiting from the compensation device is substantially identical to the excited light. The compensation device includes a compensation element configured to adjust luminous intensity distribution of a light beam so that an emergent light beam of the compensation element has reduced overall luminous intensity compared with an incident light beam. The second light exiting from the compensation device is combined with the excited light to form third light.
US11592152B2
A lighting system configured for daylight emulation. The system includes a plurality of light sources for generating a daylight-emulating output light spectrum and a ventilation element for generating a simulated breeze to artificially emulate conditions in an outside environment of an enclosed structure in which the lighting system is disposed. The system also includes a controller for dynamically controlling at least one of the intensity, directionality and color temperature to emulate sun position for at least one of a geography and time of day. The controller also controls the generated simulated breeze of the ventilation element to be one of a cool breeze and a warm breeze to artificially emulate the outside environment in correspondence with the artificially emulated daylight spectrum. The system further includes a networking facility that facilitates data communication with at least one external resource.
US11592148B2
The disclosure provides a luminaire and a luminaire combination. The luminaire combination includes at least two luminaires. The luminaire includes a housing and a light source module received in the housing. The housing defines a connecting groove therein. The connecting groove is in a flat strip shape and extends from an outer surface of the housing. One end of the connecting groove is opened for insertion of a connector. The connecting groove is provided with a limit portion on each of two opposite side walls thereof. A gap between each limit portion and a bottom surface of the connecting groove forms a channel guide. The connector is provided with a connecting portion on each of two opposite sides thereof. The connecting portion is operable to be inserted into and matched with the channel guide corresponding to the connection portion.
US11592139B2
A mounting assembly includes a base; a post extending from the base, the post defining a vertical axis; a beam mounted on the post and being pivotable about the vertical axis, the beam comprising a first portion extending in a first horizontal direction and terminating in a first end, and a second portion extending in a second horizontal direction opposite of the first direction and terminating in a second end; an equipment mounting bracket at the first end; a latch along the beam and having an engaged position and release position, wherein in the engaged position the latch prevents the beam from pivoting; and a latch release along the second portion of the beam. A method of accessing equipment mounted on the mounting assembly includes actuating the latch release such that the latch moves from the engaged position to the release position; and rotating the beam about the vertical axis.
US11592132B2
The invention relates to a fluid coupling (1) with tolerance compensation for the flexible connection of two media-conducting elements. The invention was based on the object of improving a fluid coupling (1) of the described type in such a manner that the use of complicated latching systems for transport can be omitted. This object is achieved in that the fluid coupling (1) has at least one transport securing device (8, 12), by means of which a separation of the components (2, 3) of the fluid coupling (1) from one another prior to installation can be prevented.
US11592125B2
A flexible pipe for subsea transportation of production fluids, a method of manufacturing flexible pipe body and a method of providing corrosion protection to armour wires of at least one tensile armour layer of a flexible pipe having a breached pipe annulus are disclosed. The flexible pipe comprises a fluid retaining layer, an outer sheath and at least one tensile armour layer comprising a plurality of helically wound monofilament armour wires of a first material, each having a non-circular cross section with an aspect ratio of greater than 1:2 disposed between the fluid retaining layer and the outer sheath. The tensile armour layer further comprises at least one helically wound elongate anode element substantially having a cross-section aspect ratio of 1:1 and comprising a further material, interposed between armour wires, the anode element cross section having an area that is 50% or less of a corresponding area of said non-circular cross section.
US11592121B2
A device and method of positioning a component on a cable. The method includes: moving a collet into position on the component; engaging the component with the collet; moving the collet with the component positioned thereon into alignment with an end of the cable; securing the collet to the end of the cable; moving the component from the collet to the cable; and removing the collet from the end of the cable.
US11592113B2
The present disclosure describes one or more embodiments of a device for localized flow control. The device includes a plunger configured to slide along a longitudinal axis; a gate connecting to a proximal end of the plunger and configured to slide with the plunger; a spacer disposed along the longitudinal axis and on a same side with the gate relative to the plunger; a soft tube disposed in a gap between the spacer and a proximal end of the gate; and a plunger controller configured to slide the plunger between a closed position and an open position. In response to the plunger at the open position, the device is at an open state configured to allow a flow in the soft tube, and in response to the plunger at the closed position, the device is at a closed state configured to cut off the flow in the soft tube.
US11592110B2
A seal assembly includes an outer annular case disposed within and coupled with a rotatable outer member to be angularly displace about a central axis. An annular flexible seal is disposed within and coupled with the case to angularly displace about the central axis when the outer member rotates about the axis. The flexible seal has elastomeric sealing lip(s) engageable with an outer circumferential surface of the shaft or of a sleeve disposed about the shaft. An annular inner rigid seal is disposed within the outer case and has an inner end coupled with the shaft or the sleeve, the flexible seal being radially displaceable with respect to the inner rigid seal. An outer annular rigid seal is disposed about the inner seal and has an inner end sealing against the inner rigid seal. A biasing member biases the outer rigid seal against the inner rigid seal.
US11592101B2
A gear unit includes a housing, a trough for guiding oil and reducing losses due to splashing surrounding a circumferential section of a toothing part, the trough including at least three parts, e.g., at least one bottom plate and two side walls, the bottom plate being screw-connected to the two side walls, the trough being fastened to the housing, the trough having an opening, the bottom plate and the side walls being stamped bent parts.
US11592097B2
A bicycle rear wheel sub-assembly having a sprocket-carrying body, a cogset including a plurality of axially adjacent sprockets with at least three of the plurality of sprockets formed into a monolithic set and a ring nut securing the cogset to the sprocket-carrying body. The ring nut is formed as two parts assembled together—an axially outer first part on which a tubular body and a flange are formed, and an axially inner second part on which a threaded portion is formed. This structure provides a simple and effective coupling of the ring nut with the monolithic sub-set of the cogset and the sprocket-carrying body.
US11592092B1
A torque converter, including: a cover arranged to receive torque and supported for rotation around an axis of rotation; an impeller; a turbine in fluid communication with the impeller; a stator including a stator blade axially disposed between the turbine and the impeller; a vibration damper including a cover plate, an output flange arranged to non-rotatably connect to an input shaft of a transmission, and a spring engaged with the cover plate and the output flange; a hub non-rotatably connected to the cover; a lock-up clutch including a piston plate; and a first washer directly connected to the output flange, axially disposed between the hub and the output flange, and separated, in an axial direction parallel to the axis of rotation, from the hub by a first gap. A straight line, parallel to the axis of rotation, passes through, in sequence, the output flange, the first washer, and the hub.
US11592091B1
A torque converter assembly is disclosed herein. The torque converter assembly includes a thrust washer having a radially inner surface configured to engage against a drive shaft. A first axial surface of the thrust washer is configured to contact a cover. A second axial surface of the thrust washer is configured to contact a damper flange. The second axial surface of the thrust washer partially defines a first flow path. The thrust washer further comprises a second flow path configured to direct fluid in a first direction and a third flow path configured to direct fluid in a second direction. The thrust washer disclosed herein both provides an axial thrust bearing feature, and also provides three distinct flow paths or passages.
US11592088B2
A removable fixing device 1 for fixing equipment A on a support B, with: a compressible planar piece 5, an operating lever comprising a cam lever 2, and an assembly rod 3 having a first end and a second end; with: the second end of the assembly rod 3 being provided with a tightening means (4); the compressible planar piece 5, said operating lever comprising a cam lever 2 and the tightening means 4 arranged in tightened position being disposed around the assembly rod 3 in an assemblage; said operating lever comprising a cam lever 2 being arranged so that a rotation of the cam lever 2 about an axis y at right angles to the axis z of the assembly rod 3 induces a displacement of the cam lever 2 between a tightened position and a loosened position.
US11592087B2
A force transmission mechanism includes a chassis that supports a rotatable arm, which includes a slot. A rotatable lever is supported by the chassis. A protrusion at an end of the lever engages the slot. A sliding drive element is supported by the chassis. A proximal termination of the drive element engages a second end of the lever. The chassis may support an elongate tube with an end effector fixed to the tube. The drive element may extend through the elongate tube. The elongate tube may rotate relative to the chassis. The drive element may rotate in unison with the elongate tube with the proximal termination rotating relative to the fork. The drive element may be a tube that provides a fluid passage to the end effector. The lever may be a bell crank with arms at a right angle.
US11592084B2
A sheave/sprocket tension adjustment and alignment tool (STAT) for adjusting alignment between a sheave/sprocket of a motor and a sheave/sprocket of an application machine includes a plate, a securing unit, and an adjusting unit. The plate has a first side and a second side, each of which is an opposite side of a plane of the plate. The securing unit is coupled to the first side of the plate and is configured to protrude in a first direction from the first side of the plate. The adjusting unit is coupled to a second side of the plate. The adjusting unit includes an adjustable protrusion that is configured to adjustably protrude in a second direction, which is substantially parallel to the plane of the plate.
US11592079B2
This helically toothed belt power transmitting device (1) has: a toothed belt (10) having a plurality of teeth (12) tilted relative to the width direction of the belt; a drive pulley; and a driven pulley. The width of the helically toothed belt (10) is 1 mm to 20 mm, inclusive. The core (13) of the toothed belt (10) is a twisted cord containing high-strength glass fibers or carbon fibers and has a diameter of 0.2 mm to 0.9 mm, inclusive. The compressibility of the teeth (12) of the toothed belt (10) compressed by the grooves of the drive pulley and the driven pulley is 0% to 5%, inclusive.
US11592077B2
A vibration damping device including a vibration-damping device main unit attached to a bracket from a lateral side by a second attachment member being fitted to opposed walls provided on widthwise opposite sides of the bracket. The bracket includes flexible latches extending from the respective opposed walls forward in a direction of attachment. The second attachment member includes outer recesses respectively opening onto surfaces overlapped with the respective opposed walls. Each latch has a slope portion sloping inward in a width direction of the bracket such that a distal end face of the latch is inserted in the corresponding outer recess. The distal end face of the latch is latched by a forward wall inner face of the outer recess, and displacement of the second attachment member relative to the bracket in a direction of dislodgment opposite to the direction of attachment is limited.
US11592071B2
A pneumatic actuator having therein a venting element and a porous element, compression and elongation of the actuator creating an air flow in the venting element and porous element to output lubricant as a mist toward a sliding interface of the actuator. A bow using the actuator and a bow having a double string preventing sideward movement when launching an arrow. A compound bow having limbs with multiple rotatable elements and an actuator rotating such elements to launch an arrow.
US11592062B2
A composite part is provided and includes a component, a first set of first composite plies with finite lengths and a second set of second composite plies with finite lengths. A respective end of each of the first composite plies is wrapped around the component in a clockwise wrapping direction and includes first fibers. A respective end of each of the second composite plies is wrapped around the component in a counter-clockwise wrapping direction and includes second fibers.
US11592055B2
An adjustable stroke mechanism has a housing with a central axis and a wall defining a cavity. At least one counterweight is movably disposed, at least partially, within the cavity. A mounting assembly is disposed, at least partially, within the cavity. The mounting assembly has a workpiece attachment mechanism. A stroke adjustor couples the at least one counterweight with the mounting assembly. The stroke adjustor enables the counterweight and mounting assembly to move with respect to one another such that a distance between the counterweight and the mounting assembly may be variably adjusted which, in turn, variably adjusts a stroke radius of the workpiece attachment mechanism with respect to the central axis of the housing.
US11592054B1
A bolt includes a shank having a first end, a second end, a first external thread proximate to the first end, and a second external thread proximate to the second end. The first external thread twists in a first direction, the second external thread twists in a second direction, and the first direction is different from the second direction. The first external thread includes a minor diameter, the second external thread includes a major diameter, and the minor diameter of the first external thread is greater than the major diameter of the second external thread.
US11592053B2
A blind fastener may include a bolt. The bolt includes a head, a shank coupled to the head, and a number of external threads formed on the shank. The blind fastener may also include a mount coupled to the bolt, and a fastening block coupled to the mount. The mount may include a body, at least one arm extending from the body, and at least one pivot mount formed on and extending from the arm about which the fastening block pivots.
US11592032B2
A centrifugal fan includes: a fan, blades; and a scroll casing housing the fan, the scroll casing including a discharge portion, and a scroll portion including a side wall, a circumferential wall, and a tongue portion. In the circumferential wall, at a first end between the circumferential wall and the tongue portion, and at a second end between the circumferential wall and the discharge portion, a distance between an axis of the rotational shaft and the circumferential wall is equal to a distance between the axis of the rotational shaft and a standard circumferential wall, and is greater than or equal to the distance between the first end and the second end of the circumferential wall, the circumferential wall including a plurality of extended portions between the first end and the second end of the circumferential wall.
US11592027B1
Pneumatic air systems for use onboard aircraft include a compressor configured to receive air from an air supply and increase a pressure of said received air to generate compressed air, a heat exchanger configured to receive the compressed air as a first working fluid and a treating air as a second working fluid, the heat exchanger configured to convert the compressed air to compressed and temperature treated air, one or more aircraft systems configured to receive the compressed and temperature treated air, and a surge prevention circuit arranged to prevent surge of air at the compressor, wherein the surge prevention circuit comprises a mechanical valve that is actuated based on a detected pressure within a sense line operably coupled to the mechanical valve.
US11592024B2
A multi-stage rotary vane pump comprising at least two rotor elements. The rotor elements are supported by a rotor shaft. The rotor elements and the rotor shaft are in the form of a single piece.
US11592021B2
A pump having an adjustable delivery volume, including: a pump housing featuring a delivery chamber which includes a delivery chamber inlet for a fluid and a delivery chamber outlet for the fluid; a delivery member, which can be rotated within the delivery chamber, for delivering the fluid; an adjusting device featuring a setting structure, which is mounted such that it can move back and forth within the pump housing in order to adjust the delivery volume of the pump, and a helical spring for applying a spring force, which acts in a setting direction, to the setting structure, wherein the windings of the helical spring are enclosed by an envelope lying on the outside of the helical spring wherein the cross-sectional area of the envelope as measured transversely with respect to the longitudinal direction of the spring changes progressively in the longitudinal direction of the spring.
US11592011B2
A fluid end for use with a power end. The fluid end comprises a plurality of fluid end sections positioned adjacent one another. Each section includes a single horizontally positioned bore. A plunger is installed within the bore and includes a fluid passageway. Low-pressure fluid enters the bore through the plunger and high-pressure fluid exits the fluid end through an outlet valve installed within the bore. The intake of low-pressure fluid within the fluid end section is regulated by an inlet valve installed within the plunger. Low-pressure fluid enters the plunger through an inlet component attached to both the plunger and an inlet manifold.
US11592006B2
A wind turbine including a hub to which the rotor blades are arrangeable, wherein the hub is rotatable around a rotating axis is provided. The wind turbine further includes a generator including a rotor arrangement and a stator arrangement, wherein the rotor arrangement and the stator arrangement are rotatable with respect to each other around the rotational axis. Further the rotor arrangement is coupled to the hub. The wind turbine further includes a grounding system which is fixable to a nacelle of the wind turbine, wherein the grounding system is configured for transferring lightning current between the rotor arrangement and the nacelle and for providing an EMF shielding of the generator, wherein the generator is arranged along the rotational axis of the hub between the hub and the grounding system.
US11592003B2
A yaw braking assembly of a wind turbine is presented. Accordingly, the yaw braking assembly includes a bedplate support frame having an annular flange defining a plurality of recesses formed into a lower-most annular surface of the annular flange and extending at least partially through an axial thickness of the annular flange. Each of the plurality recesses define an open exterior circumferential side. The yaw braking assembly also includes a plurality of brake pads which are positioned within the plurality of recesses and configured to engage at least one race of an adjacent yaw bearing. The yaw braking assembly further includes a plurality of actuators for driving the plurality of brake pads to engage the yaw bearing.
US11591995B2
A fuel injector includes an injector housing, an outlet check, an injection control valve assembly, and a valve seat orifice plate integrating a valve seat and various orifices for outlet check control. In the valve seat orifice plate a drain orifice extends between a valve seat surface and a check control chamber formed between a closing hydraulic surface of the outlet check and the valve seat orifice plate. First and second re-pressurization orifices extend between an outer surface of the valve seat orifice plate and the check control chamber.
US11591966B2
Features and methods for modulating a flow of cooling fluid to gas turbine engine components are provided. In one embodiment, an airfoil is provided having a flow modulation insert for modulating a flow of cooling fluid received in a cavity of a body of the airfoil. In another embodiment, a shroud is provided comprising a cooling channel for a flow of cooling fluid and an insert that varies in position to modulate the flow of cooling fluid through the cooling channel. In yet another embodiment, a method for operating a gas turbine engine having a cooling circuit for cooling one or more components of the gas turbine engine comprises increasing power provided to the engine and decreasing power provided to the engine to modulate a position of a flow modulation insert located in the cooling circuit and thereby modulate the flow of cooling fluid through the cooling circuit.
US11591962B1
Systems and methods for generating an oblique shock in a supersonic inlet are disclosed. The system can comprise an inlet with a slot disposed at an oblique angle to the main incoming air stream. High-pressure air can be provided through the slot into the main air stream. The high-pressure air can be introduced at a high enough pressure ratio—i.e., the ratio of pressure of the air stream from the slot to the pressure for the main flow—such that an aerodynamic ramp is created in the main air flow. The aerodynamic ramp, in turn, can cause one or more oblique shock waves to eventually slow the main air stream velocity to a subsonic speed prior to the face of the engine. Systems and methods for controlling the slot pressure ratio to create these shocks are also disclosed.
US11591961B1
A jet engine screen assembly for protecting a jet engine from debris includes a mounting ring which forms a closed loop thereby facilitating the mounting ring to be mounted to an intake of a jet engine. A grate is hingedly disposed on the mounting ring. The grate is comprised of a plurality of intersecting members that are arranged to define a plurality of holes to facilitate air to pass through the grate. The grate is comprised of a rigid material to inhibit debris from entering into the jet engine. The grate is positionable in a closed position has the grate covering the intake of the jet engine. Conversely, the grate is positionable in an open position having the grate being displaced from the intake of the jet engine.
US11591958B2
There is provided a turbofan engine having: a fan rotatable about an axis within a case; a first acoustic treatment lining a first portion of the case upstream of the fan; and a second acoustic treatment lining a second portion of the case downstream of the fan, the first acoustic treatment having different noise-attenuating characteristics relative to the second acoustic treatment.
US11591954B2
A genset enclosure includes a frame system, a plurality of side panels, a plurality of roof panels, a first connector, and a second connector. The frame system includes a plurality of interconnected frame members. The plurality of side panels are coupled to opposing sides of the frame system. The plurality of roof panels are coupled to a roof of the frame system and extend between the opposing sides of the frame system. The plurality of roof panels are oriented perpendicular to the plurality of side panels. The frame system, the plurality of side panels, and the plurality of roof panels together define an enclosure portion having a first open end and a second open end. The first connector and second connector are engageable with one another and are coupled to the frame system along a perimeter of the first open end and the second open end, respectively.
US11591953B2
A method for controlling hydrogen combustion in a hydrogen internal combustion engine system includes a combustion chamber linked to an intake port via an intake valve, the hydrogen internal combustion engine system comprising a piston slidably moving between a top dead center position and a bottom dead center position, characterized by the steps of: injecting water in liquid phase in the intake port when the piston is between 0 and 40 crank angle degrees before opening of the intake valve, injecting hydrogen after opening of the intake valve and when the piston is between 0 and 60 crank angle degrees after the top dead center position, stopping hydrogen injection when the piston is between 0 and 100 crank angle degrees before the bottom dead center position.
US11591950B2
A heat exchanging member including a hollow pillar shaped honeycomb structure having partition walls defining cells, the cells penetrating from a first end face to a second end face to form flow paths for a first fluid, an inner peripheral wall, and an outer peripheral wall; and a covering member being configured to cover the outer peripheral wall of the pillar shaped honeycomb structure. The heat exchanging member is configured to perform heat exchange between the first fluid and a second fluid flowing through an outer side of the covering member. In the heat exchanging member, in a cross section of the pillar shaped honeycomb structure perpendicular to a flow path direction of the first fluid, the cells are radially provided, and each of the inner peripheral wall and the outer peripheral wall has a thickness larger than that of each of the partition walls.
US11591948B2
The invention relates to a vibrating plate for ground compaction, comprising a drive motor, an exciter unit which is driven by the drive motor and by means of which a base plate can be set in vibration, an adjustably mounted hood, which can be adjusted between an operating position at least partially covering the drive motor and a maintenance position at least partially exposing the drive motor, an exhaust air guiding device leading from the drive motor to an exhaust air opening in the hood for the cooling air of the drive motor, the exhaust air guiding device being formed in two parts and comprising an exhaust air adapter on the drive motor side and an exhaust air guide on the hood side, the exhaust air adapter and the exhaust air guide together forming a continuous exhaust air path from the drive motor to the exhaust air opening in the hood when the hood is in the operating position, the exhaust air adapter being attached to the drive motor, and the exhaust air guide being attached to the hood such that it is adjustable with the hood between the operating position and the maintenance position.
US11591946B1
Methods and systems are provided for maintaining a temperature of exhaust gases of an engine within a temperature range at which catalytic conversion is most efficient. In one example, a method for controlling a temperature of exhaust gases entering a Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) system for an engine comprises delivering pressurized air into the exhaust gases upstream of the SCR system, the pressurized air cooled by an air cooler; and adjusting a degree of pressurization by adjusting operation of a turbocharger pressurizing the pressurized air. In one embodiment, the air cooler may be a charge air cooler of a primary turbocharger of the engine, which may flow pressurized air both to the engine and to the SCR system. In other embodiments, the air may be pressurized by an air pump or a secondary dilution turbocharger, and cooled by a secondary charge air cooler.
US11591944B2
A controller for removing deposits in a vehicle is disclosed. The controller includes at least one processor and a memory storing instructions therein that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to: determine an amount of deposits accumulated in the vehicle based on an amount of time; determine a combustion target for the vehicle in response to determining that the amount of deposits exceeds a deposit threshold; and modulate a fluid flow of the vehicle based on the determined combustion target.
US11591938B2
If an engine coolant temperature is equal to or lower than a first low-temperature determination value and a battery temperature is equal to or lower than a second low-temperature determination value when a request to start up an engine is made, the advancement driving of a variable valve operating mechanism is first started. Then, when an advancement amount of the variable valve operating mechanism later becomes equal to or larger than a prescribed startup start determination value, is started.
US11591936B2
Provided are techniques for proactively operating gas-oil separation plant (GOSP) type process facilities that include determining historical operational characteristics of a GOSP for a past time interval using historical operational data for the GOSP, determining expected operating characteristics of the GOSP for a subsequent time interval using the historical operational characteristics, determining an operating plan for the GOSP using the expected operating characteristics, and operating the GOSP in accordance with the operating plan.
US11591931B2
Various methods and systems are provided for a radial turbocharger. In one example, the turbocharger comprises a turbine case housing a turbine wheel and a compressor case housing a compressor wheel, the turbine case including a vaneless turbine nozzle integrated into the turbine case, a bearing case surrounding a shaft connecting the turbine wheel to the compressor wheel and arranged between the turbine case and compressor case, a plurality of long bolts arranged around a circumference of the turbine case, and a plurality of slots arranged around a circumference of the turbine case, a slot length of each slot extending in a radial direction and adapted to receive a dowel pin having a diameter smaller than the slot length, where each dowel pin, via a corresponding slot, couples the bearing case to the turbine case.
US11591924B2
An assembly for a turbomachine turbine includes a housing (1) extending circumferentially about an axis X, sectors (2) intended to form a ring capable of delimiting a gas flow path, each sector (2) comprising a first side (17) and a second side (18) extending radially and circumferentially about the said axis X and spaced axially from each other, each side (17, 18) of the sector (2) including at least one radial bearing surface of an oblong hole capable of cooperating with support pins (13, 14) of the housing (1), at least one of the sides (17, 18) including means (23) for the circumferential positioning of the sector (2) with respect to the housing (1), wherein each radial bearing surface is cylindrical relative to axis X and is capable of bearing on a complementary cylindrical surface relative to axis X of a support pin.
US11591923B1
Disclosed herein are a ring segment having an air pouch and a first cooling hole formed therein, and a turbine including the same. The air pouch and the first cooling hole are formed in a shield wall, thereby achieving an improvement in cooling performance as well as simplification of production process.
US11591919B2
Sacrificial inserts for use in gas turbine engines to reduce friction and wear damage between compressor fan blades and the fan rotors are disclosed. The consumable metallic shims have low friction and reduce fretting and galling on fan blade roots and fan rotor dovetail slots thereby increasing their operating lives, as well as reduce engine noise and improve engine efficiency. The electroformed, compliant, multi-purpose shims may have variable thickness and, when positioned between the blade dovetail root and the rotor disk dovetail slot, prevent movement and slippage between air foil blades and the rotor.
US11591918B2
An article includes a substrate, a ceramic barrier coating, and a layer of networked ceramic nanofibers. The ceramic barrier coating is disposed on the substrate and has a porous columnar microstructure. The layer of networked ceramic nanofibers is disposed on the ceramic barrier layer and seals the pores of the porous columnar microstructure.
US11591916B2
A turbine rotor includes a base and a plurality of blades. The base and the blades curve such that radially outward portions of the base and the blades extend in a direction with a greater component in a radial direction than in an axial direction. Radially central portions of the base and the blade extend in a direction with the two components being closer. Radially inner sections of the base and the blades extend in a direction with a greater component in the axial direction than in a radial direction. There is a cooling channel arrangement in the turbine rotor. The cooling channel arrangement includes impingement cooling for a nose and serpentine passages for cooling sections of the platform circumferentially intermediate the blades, and distinct serpentine passages for cooling the plurality of blades. A turbomachine and method are also disclosed.
US11591910B2
A hydrostatic axial piston machine includes a pressing pressure chamber for the cylinder drum which is supplied with pressing pressure from a circular-arc-like elongate hole of a distributor plate or from a plurality of connection channels of the cylinder drum. The pressing pressure chamber is delimited radially outwardly by the cylinder drum and radially inwardly by the drive shaft. The pressing pressure chamber is delimited axially at both sides by seals which are both arranged between the radially inner rotating drive shaft and a radially outer stationary component. The radially outer component may be the cylinder drum or, in the case of the distributor-plate-side seal, also a gap seal between the drive shaft and a bearing bush of the distributor plate. Both seals are arranged at the distributor plate side with respect to a tooth arrangement or a retraction ball.
US11591906B2
A cutting tool with a cutting region and a connecting support region where the support region is designed to connect to an external motor assembly. The cutting tool is also has a porous region that is integrated within a portion of the tool such that as the tool cuts material the porous region can allow samples of the cut material to permeate into an internal chamber of the tool. Once in the internal chamber material samples can be analyzed in-situ for direct composition analysis.
US11591898B2
An array of sensors provided on the outside of a tubular string for measuring a property within the tubular string. The array of sensors may include a plurality of connected sensors, wherein at least one of the plurality of connected sensors is at least partially encompassed in a shroud. A snorkel line may extend from the shroud, the snorkel line capable of coupling with a sensor port in a tubular of the tubular string. The snorkel line may establish fluid communication between one of the sensors at least partially encompassed in the shroud and a corresponding sensor port of a tubular in the tubular string.
US11591895B2
A system and method for controlling a drilling tool inside a wellbore makes use of simulated annealing and Bayesian optimization to determine optimum controllable drilling parameters. In some aspects, a computing device generates sampled exploration points using simulated annealing and runs a Bayesian optimization using a loss function and the exploration points to optimize at least one controllable drilling parameter to achieve a predicted value for a selected drilling parameter. In some examples, the selected drilling parameter is rate-of-penetration (ROP) and in some examples, the controllable drilling parameters include such parameters as rotational speed (RPM) and weight-on-bit (WOB). In some examples, the computing device applies the controllable drilling parameter(s) to the drilling tool to achieve the predicted value for the selected drilling parameter and provide real-time, closed-loop control and automation in drilling.
US11591892B2
A gas separation and injection system includes a lower separator that receives and separates a production stream into higher and lower density streams, a turbine-compressor including a turbine that receives the lower density stream to rotate a shaft that drives a compressor and subsequently recombines the lower and higher density streams into a recombined production stream. An upper separator receives the recombined production stream and includes a gas inlet tube that conveys a gas stream to the compressor to produce a compressed gas stream. A shuttle valve assembly axially interposes the upper separator and the turbine-compressor and includes a mandrel assembly received within a body and having the gas inlet tube extending within the mandrel assembly, a valve seat secured to the gas inlet tube, a piston movably arranged within the inner annulus between closed and open positions, and a shuttle valve operatively coupled to the piston.
US11591886B2
The present disclosure provides a gullet mandrel for fluid flow optimization in a wellbore. The gullet mandrel may be coupled to a downhole valve, such that a tubing string in a wellbore will have a plurality of valves coupled to a plurality of mandrels. Each gullet mandrel may have a valve recess and one or more gullets (or grooves) located in an exterior portion of the mandrel body. The gullets may have a wide variety of configurations, and may be formed in a portion, a majority, or substantially all of the mandrel. The gullets may direct movement of fluid exterior to the tubing string and help force fluid into a laminar or linear flow pattern and prevent the formation of slug flows and/or lessen the problems encountered by slug flows. The disclosed gullet mandrel may be used in any fluid injection or production operation, such as gas-lift operations.
US11591872B2
A setting tool having a tool body, a chamber configured to contain a non-explosive fuel configured to generate gas and plasma, a cavity, a bleed sub located between the chamber and the cavity. The bleed sub is configured to bleed pressure from the chamber to the cavity after the non-explosive fuel has been initiated. The setting tool also includes a piston disposed within the cavity oriented to stroke in a first direction after the non-explosive fuel has been initiated. The piston may divide the cavity into an upper volume that may receive the pressure increase from the bleed sub and a lower volume. The setting tool may also include a shaft mechanically connected to the piston within the lower volume of the cavity. The shaft may include a dampening conduit configured to drain a fluid from the lower volume after the non-explosive fuel has been initiated.
US11591871B1
An electric motor-actuated packer and/or anchor (EMAP/A) apparatus and method for use in downhole operations. The apparatus includes a packer subassembly and/or a slip subassembly and can be: set in a packer and anchor mode; set in an anchor-only mode without energizing the packer elements; repeatedly set and unset without run-in string manipulation; run in a multiple, or redundant, configuration within a given tool string, with each EMAP/A apparatus capable of being set/unset independently of the others; and combined within a tool string in a straddle packer configuration, with inverted and non-inverted EMAP/As providing the ability to isolate an interval of interest from both above and below the interval. Among other uses, the apparatus and method are well suited for application in a single-trip, e-coil conveyed completion system, and particularly one providing for radial hydraulic jetting.
US11591854B1
The disclosure relates to portable staircases having a staircase assembly including an outer staircase and an inner staircase that can move in a telescoping relationship with respect to the outer staircase. Portable staircases of the disclosure are particularly useful for accessing an oil drilling rig as they are independently supported with respect to the drilling rig, thus providing numerous safety improvements and advantages. Methods of using the portable staircases of the disclosure are also disclosed.
US11591852B2
An improved roller shade system provides increased support, additional adjustments and/or increased safety. The slip plate allows the brake to slip forward and minimize damage to the clutch spring when a user pulls too hard on the hembar. The center drive mechanism extends through a bracket to allow the drive shaft to distribute power in both directions and drive two shade tube simultaneously. The tube adapter absorbs force from the spinning shade tube to minimize damage to the other components and the bead chain. The sprocket has a back wall supporting the sprocket, allowing the sprocket 130 to rest on the back flange of the sun gear to minimize pressure on the gears. An adjustment arm is adjusted to help level the shade band. The shade bands may be removed without disturbing the other shade bands in the system. A height of a hembar may be adjusted by rotating a rod within the hembar.
US11591844B2
A system for improving the alignment of building product frame members. The system includes a first and second clip member each with an arcuate edge releasably positioned into a channel within the opposed frame members. A longitudinally extending banding strap looped through openings in both first and second clip member. The first end of the longitudinally extending banding strap is inserted into a banding strap tensioning apparatus and tension is applied to the first end as well as to a longitudinally disposed segment of the banding strap that is also inserted into the banding strap tensioning apparatus. Once the specified span is achieved, the overlapping first end and longitudinally disposed segment are bonded together using the banding member tensioning apparatus thereby preventing movement of the first and second frame members away from one another. Sealant is applied to the frame members and the banding strap clip members are removed.
US11591842B2
Lightweight, glidable shielded components (e.g. doors) may be used in conjunction with accredited enclosures to provide electromagnetic, acoustic and CBR protection.
US11591841B2
A system for adjusting a vehicle door relative to a vehicle body including an adjusting device, a control device for controlling the adjusting device. The control device is configured to receive an operating command and control the adjusting device based on receiving the operating command, and a sensor device for detecting an object. The control device is configured to evaluate for the purpose of collision protection monitoring whether an operating command is received in a near area relative to the vehicle door via an operating device. For collision protection monitoring, the control device is configured to use a first recognition area in a first operating mode upon receiving an operating command via an operating device in the near area, and in a second operating mode to use a second recognition area different from the first recognition area when an operating command is not received in the near area.
US11591835B2
Narrow backset auto-latching mortise lock for sliding door is a mortise lock that is fully contained within a 1.5 inch wide casing or housing that includes actuated automatic latching and automatic unlatching mechanism. Narrow backset auto-latching mortise lock for sliding door is a mortise lock that properly fits a narrow backset sliding door with a backset dimension of 1.25 inches. The design of narrow backset auto-latching mortise lock for sliding door has been elongated so that the latch or bolt is moved downwards and positioned below the lever hub. The positioning of the latch or bolt at a location below the lever hub requires special linkage and mechanical components in order to make the mortise lock function properly. This design required all new lock components, including a new latch lever with a dual hub arm, a dual latch arm, and a dual latch arm pin.
US11591829B2
In a lid opening and closing device for a vehicle, a restriction member restricting movement of a rod and an electric motor driving the restriction member are housed in a case fixed to a vehicle body outer plate. An emergency operation member extends movably through a vehicle body inner plate while enabling the restriction member to move when the electric motor malfunctions, the emergency operation member being resiliently urged toward an initial position side at least when being operated. A grommet for preventing intrusion of water is provided between the emergency operation member and the vehicle body inner plate. The grommet includes a grommet main portion liquid-tightly mounted on the vehicle body inner plate while having the emergency operation member movably inserted therethrough, and an elastic portion integrally connected to the grommet main portion while enabling the emergency operation member to be resiliently urged toward the initial position side.
US11591827B2
A lock includes a base and movable element connected to a handle operable by a user and movable between a first position corresponding to an open condition of the handle and a second position corresponding to a closed condition. An operating element is rotatably mounted on the base and connected to a device for releasing a closing panel, and is rotatable between a first position corresponding to an open condition of the panel and a second position corresponding to a closed condition. A transmission acts between the movable an operating elements and kinematically connects the movable and operating elements such that movement of the movable element causes rotation of the operating element. An uncoupling device acts on the transmission for disengaging kinematically, and in a controlled way, the movable element from the operating element to disable actuation of the operating element by the movable element.
US11591826B2
A storage container securing system, in one embodiment, may include a base for receiving at least a portion of a storage container, such as a cooler, and a shelf adjustably positioned within the base to adjust the location of the storage container. In another embodiment, a storage container securing system is described having slidable inserts configured to matingly engage a slot in a storage container. In another embodiment, a storage container securing system is described having a receiving slot configured to receive a protrusion of a storage container.
US11591825B2
A sliding door handle and strike assembly includes a locking member for engaging the strike to prevent the door from opening. The locking member is biased to an unlocked position, until it is moved into a locking position, in which magnetic co-operation acts to hold the locking member in the locking position.
US11591821B2
A modular closure device for different closure elements, such as finger levers, plate cylinders, profile cylinders, profile half cylinders, for locking a pivot lever in a recess, is described, wherein the closure elements can be inserted and fastened in a receptacle arranged in the recess or the pivot lever, either from the front or from the rear, characterised in that the closure device, which has an interchangeable insert adapted to the closure device and having a different design for the various receptacles, interacts with a guide in such a way that this can be inserted into the recess or into the pivot lever, and the recess or the pivot lever having the inserted interchangeable insert can be plugged in a door leaf through an opening in the door leaf or the like and can be fastened with a cap.
US11591818B2
Memorialization structures, niches, and methods for manufacturing niches having a recess or cavity that is accessible after installation of the memorialization structures and/or post-burial or post-entombment of a deceased are generally described. In some embodiments, a memorialization niche may include a recess and a door configured to enclose the recess. The door may include a lock configured to prevent public access to the recess. A patron associated with the niche may unlock the door and access the recess. The patron may remove objects from and/or insert objects into the recess post-burial or -entombment of the deceased without disturbing the memorialization structure and/or adjacent memorialization structures and/or requiring a memorial operator to unseal the recess. Accordingly, the patron may continually update the personalization effects of a memorialization structure and achieve a dynamic memorial for the deceased while maintaining the security of any bodily remains and/or personal objects stored in the recess.
US11591817B2
This invention improves seismic resistance of structures by transition from stiff to non destructible flexible state at a threshold earthquake level higher than prior art maximum design earthquake level of stiff structures. Functional characteristics of the category of auto-reversing stiff-to-flexible seismic structures comprise: a limited six degree of freedom motion; a laterally-stable limited rising-twist-sway ascent; a self-centering diagonal-untwist auto-descent; a multidirectional flexibility; and a multi-phase split-force-impact seismic protection. Seismic construction technologies of the category of structures comprise: base split-force-impact technology; cluster split-force-impact technology; tuned segment split-force-impact technology; and tuned spine split-force-impact technology. The auto-reversing stiff-to-flexible seismic joints of the structures are low-cost, simple and easy to manufacture, and especially suitable for mass industrial application.
US11591815B2
A modular commercial structure includes a first exterior module defining a first interior space therein in which office furnishings are disposed in the first interior space. The first exterior module has an interior elongated side that defines an opening for customers to access to the first interior space. A second exterior module defines a second interior space for conducting business activities therein, including an interior elongated side that opens to facilitate interaction between the customers and employees. A conveyance mechanism moves the first exterior module and the second exterior module between a first position and a second position to prevent access to the first interior space and to the second interior space while in the first position and to provide access to the first interior space and to the second interior space while in the second position.
US11591809B2
A levelling spacer device for laying slab-shaped products including a base having a lower surface and an opposite upper surface defining a support plane for at least two tiles placed side by side, which is placed at a first distance from the lower surface, a spacer bridge provided with two legs placed side by side between each other along a flanking direction and each one rising from a portion of the opposite upper surface. Each leg is frangibly connected to the respective base portion by a predefined fracture line placed at a second distance from the lower surface greater than the first distance. A crosspiece, joins the top of the two legs, and a through opening peripherally delimited at the top by the crosspiece, laterally by the legs and at the bottom by a central portion of the upper surface coplanar with the support plane.
US11591804B2
Building panels, such as a floor or wall panels. The panels include a first mechanical locking system include a first locking strip at one of the third edge or fourth edge configured to cooperate for horizontal locking with a first locking groove at the other of the third or fourth edge of an adjacent building panel, preferably by means of a folding motion, and a second locking system including a second locking strip at one of the first edge or second edge, configured to cooperate for horizontal locking with a second locking groove at the other of the first or second edge of an adjacent building panel. The thickness of the second locking strip, in a thickness-direction of the building panel, exceeds the thickness of the first locking strip.
US11591803B2
A panel fastening system includes a panel having a visible side and a rear side, at least one slot which is introduced into the rear side of the panel and which extends along a longitudinal axis, and which has at least one stop face, wherein a first slot portion extends between the at least one stop face and the rear side, and wherein a second slot portion extends between the at least one stop face and the slot base, and at least one fastening element which is inserted into the slot and which has a fastening portion and a contact face, wherein the contact face of the fastening element abuts against the at least one stop face, wherein the panel fastening system further comprises at least one securing element which can be arranged in the slot to secure the fastening element.
US11591801B2
A gutter cover, components thereof, and associated methods. The gutter cover is configured to be installed over a gutter to prevent debris from entering the gutter. The gutter cover can be made of a webbing material having openings through which water can pass. The gutter cover includes features that facilitate water penetration through the gutter cover for the water to enter the gutter.
US11591799B2
An anchor platform assembly for anchoring an object to a raised, generally flat roof-like structure, has an anchor baseplate having a top surface and a bottom surface, and an internally threaded blindbore extending at least partially from the top surface generally towards the bottom surface and fasteners for fastening an object to the anchor baseplate via its blindbore and for fastening the anchor baseplate to a top surface of a roof-like structure. The assembly is especially intended for supporting, e.g., glass railings on balconies terraces and flat roofs and for mounted solar panels on both flat and pitched roofs which provides strength and affords watertight performance.
US11591798B2
A surface-reinforced bitumen roofing membrane includes at least two layers, namely 1) a bitumen compound layer, and 2) a fiber mat, and can optionally include a) an optional bleed blocker layer that is located between the bitumen compound layer and the fiber mat, b) an optional liquid applied coating that partially or fully encapsulates the fiber mat, c) an optional release liner that is releasably positioned on the bottom surface of the bitumen roofing membrane, and/or d) an optional release film that is releasably positioned on the fiber mat surface.
US11591797B2
An insulated construction member has a first wooden rail and a second wooden rail. The second wooden rail is positioned in parallel spaced relation to the first wooden rail. This parallel spaced relation creates a thermal break between the first wooden rail and the second wooden rail. A series of planar wooden connectors are positioned at spaced intervals along the length of the first wooden rail and the length of the second wooden rail. Each of the planar wooden connectors extends across the thermal break between the first wooden rail and the second wooden rail. A polymer insulation is positioned between the first wooden rail and the second wooden rail completely filling the thermal break. The polymer insulation encapsulates the series of planar wooden connectors, with the polymer insulation being reinforced by the series of planar wooden connectors.
US11591795B2
An end cap for a ceiling panel of a ceiling system. The end cap includes a face plate having an inner surface, a bottom edge, a top edge, a first side edge, and a second side edge. A first insertion plate extends from the inner surface of the face plate at the top edge of the face plate. A second insertion plate extends from the inner surface of the face plate at the bottom edge of the face plate. A concealment portion extends from the inner surface of the face plate along the first and second side edges of the face plate. The concealment portion may include an upper section positioned above the first insertion plate and spaced from the first insertion plate by a first gap and a lower section of positioned below the second insertion plate and spaced from the second insertion plate by a second gap.
US11591787B2
A drain assembly comprises a shroud, a shank, and a frame. The drain assembly may further comprise a shim with an angled top surface. The frame may have an angled bottom surface. A rotational orientation of the angled top surface of the shim relative to the shank and a rotational orientation of the angled bottom surface of the frame relative to the shank may be independently adjustable, thereby allowing for the top surface of the frame to be both angularly and rotationally adjusted relative to a central axis of the drain assembly independent of the positional height of the shank. The drain assembly may further comprise a cover having bendable tabs. The bendable tabs may be disposed around a periphery of the cover and may be configured to contact an angled inner surface of an upper bowl of the shroud, such that the bendable tabs bend around the frame, thereby locking the cover onto the frame.
US11591772B2
A work machine control device for controlling a work machine includes a transport vehicle information acquisition unit and a dumping position specifying unit, the work machine including a swing body and work equipment attached to the swing body and including a bucket. The transport vehicle information acquisition unit acquires position information and azimuth direction information of an unmanned transport vehicle, the position information and the azimuth direction information being detected by the unmanned transport vehicle. The dumping position specifying unit specifies a dumping position for loading earth and sand onto the unmanned transport vehicle based on the position information and the azimuth direction information.
US11591765B2
A structure and method for three-dimensional restoration of slope soil in an abandoned ion-absorbed rare earth mining area, belonging to the field of ecological restoration technologies. The structure for three-dimensional restoration of slope soil in an abandoned ion-absorbed rare earth mining area provided by the present invention includes an ecological water-harvesting pond, ecological intercepting ditches, an improved soil layer laid on the surface of a to-be-restored slope region and a soil restoration ecological network disposed on the improved soil layer. The improved soil layer, the ecological water-harvesting pond and the ecological intercepting ditches are each provided with a combined plant synusia system. The restoration structure provided by the present invention can effectively improve an extremely degraded ecological environment of the abandoned ion-absorbed rare earth mining area caused by tailings waste land and restore the degraded or polluted mining area soil and environment caused by mine destruction during rare earth mining.
US11591761B2
A snow plow having a wing that is rotatably coupled to a side of a primary plow, and configured to rotate about a first axis substantially parallel to the side of the primary plow. A portion of the wing is operable to rotate about a second axis that is non-parallel to the first axis, where the portion is operable to rotate upward about the second axis relative to the ground in response to the wing encountering an obstruction. A snow plow having a receiver coupled to a surface of the primary plow and an actuator coupled to the receiver. The receiver allows the snow plow to move proximally and distally with respect to a vehicle.
US11591756B2
The present invention relates to an artificial turf suitable for sports fields consisting at least of a substrate to which first artificial grass fibres are attached and of a granular infill, which is provided between said first artificial grass fibres, wherein said granular infill is made of a foam material comprising polylactic acid or a derivative thereof.
US11591748B2
The invention relates to a process for manufacturing a multilayer knitted textile by heating a multi-layer knitted textile in the presence of one or more dye compounds, wherein the multilayer knitted textile comprises a fabric outer layer and a fabric inner layer, wherein the fabric outer layer is knit from a first yarn containing a combination of modacrylic fibers and cotton fibers, wherein the fabric inner layer is knit from a second yarn made from 50-90% HBA/HNA filaments, wherein the heating shrinks the outer layer from about 5 to 25% in length, width, or both.
US11591738B2
A method of operating a washing machine appliance is provided. The washing machine appliance includes a rotatable basket and a motor configured to drive the rotatable basket. The method includes sensing an attribute of articles in the basket. The method also includes determining a pause duration for an agitation operation based at least in part on the sensed attribute of the articles in the basket. The method further includes performing the agitation operation for a period of time. The agitation operation includes activating a motor of the washing machine appliance to agitate the articles within the basket for an agitation duration and deactivating the motor of the washing machine appliance for the pause duration. The period of time is equal to the sum of the agitation duration and the pause duration.
US11591735B2
The present invention relates to an improved washer and dryer combination. The washer and dryer are in a side by side configuration that has the ability to transfer washed clothes from the washer to the dryer. The washer has a movable platform that can be tilted via hydraulic arms such that any clothes within the washers can slide down a chute that connects the interior spaces of the washer and dryer to one another. When clothes are not being transferred from the washer to dryer, the chute is covered by sliding doors. In addition, the device may use a mobile application that notifies a user of the various stages of the washing, drying, and transfer process have been completed.
US11591734B2
A tufting machine with a needle bar and looper system provides individual loopers which cooperate with needles of the needle bar selectively between an engage and a disengage configuration whereby when in the engage configuration at least some of the loopers hold yarn directed by the needle through the backing as the needle cycles into and out of the backing to form a first loop having a height of a distance of the looper from the backing, but when in the disengage configuration, the looper is spaced from the yarn so that any loop formed is shorter than the first loop.
US11591726B2
Aspects herein are directed to a spacer textile comprising a first layer, a second layer, and a plurality of tie yarns that interconnect the first layer and the second layer. The spacer textile further comprises one or more discrete areas from which the first layer is absent along with a portion of the length of the tie yarns in those areas.
US11591721B2
An object is to provide an acid-type carboxymethylated cellulose nanofiber in which the viscosity is not excessively high at the time of preparing a dispersion liquid and the introduced carboxymethyl group is desalted to convert the acid type, and the acid-type carboxymethylated cellulose nanofiber has 0.01 to 0.50 of the degree of substitution with carboxymethyl group per glucose unit, wherein the B-type viscosity in an aqueous dispersion with a concentration of 0.95 to 1.05% by mass is 1000 mPa·s or more under the condition of 60 rpm and 20° C., and 7000 mPa·s or more under the condition of 6 rpm and 20° C.
US11591718B2
The present invention relates to a method for screening an antibody or antigen-binding fragment thereof by using cells bearing magnetic beads and, more particularly, to a method for screening an antibody binding specifically to an antigen protein or an antigen-binding fragment thereof, in which cells having biotinylated phospholipids in the cell membranes thereof and a streptavidin-magnetic bead complex fused to the surfaces thereof, and a magnetic-based system are utilized.
US11591716B2
An ultra-hard carbon film is formed by the uniaxial compression of thin films of graphene. The graphene films are two or three layers thick (2-L or 3-L). High pressure compression forms a diamond-like film and provides improved properties to the coated substrates.
US11591714B2
A method of producing silicon carbide is disclosed. The method comprises the steps of providing a sublimation furnace comprising a furnace shell, at least one heating element positioned outside the furnace shell, and a hot zone positioned inside the furnace shell surrounded by insulation. The hot zone comprises a crucible with a silicon carbide precursor positioned in the lower region and a silicon carbide seed positioned in the upper region. The hot zone is heated to sublimate the silicon carbide precursor, forming silicon carbide on the bottom surface of the silicon carbide seed. Also disclosed is the sublimation furnace to produce the silicon carbide as well as the resulting silicon carbide material.
US11591713B2
Aluminum oxide provides, at a thickness of 5 mm, an internal transmittance of 90% or higher for light at a wavelength of 193 nm.
US11591706B2
The present invention relates to an electrolytic copper foil having excellent handling characteristics in the manufacture of copper foil and in post-processing for manufacturing a secondary battery. The present invention provides an electrolytic copper foil having a first surface and a second surface, wherein the texture coefficient of the (220) plane of the electrolytic copper foil is 0.4-1.32, the difference (|Δ(Rz/Ra)|) between Rz/Ra on the first surface and Rz/Ra on the second surface, of the electrolytic copper foil, is less than 2.42, and the difference (|ΔPD|) in peak density (PD) between the first surface and the second surface, of the electrolytic copper foil, is 96 ea or less.
US11591703B2
Metallurgical assemblies and systems according to the present technology may include a refractory vessel including sides and a base. The base may define a plurality of apertures centrally located within the base. The sides and the base may at least partially define an interior volume of the refractory vessel. The assemblies may include a lid removably coupled with the refractory vessel and configured to form a seal with the refractory vessel. The lid may define a plurality of apertures through the lid. The assemblies may also include a current collector proximate the base of the refractory vessel. The current collector may include conductive extensions positioned within the plurality of apertures centrally located within the base.
US11591699B2
This application relates to new process that utilizes electrodes that incorporate acids that facilitate upgrading of methane and other low molecular weight alkanes to higher order hydrocarbon molecules, such as paraffins, olefins, and aromatics, at temperatures less than 250° C. A primary focus of the invention includes methane conversion to ethylene. The first step of the process includes acid containing electrodes that facilitate the activation of the alkane in the anode layer of the electrochemical reactor. Subsequent steps include the separation of protons from produced longer chain hydrocarbons followed by subsequent electrochemical reduction of the protons to yield hydrogen at the cathode or protons combined with oxygen at the cathode to yield water. The reaction steps in the anode upgrade methane to higher order hydrocarbon products.
US11591696B2
An inhibition corrosion package for use with an acidic composition, where the package comprises a terpene component; a propargyl alcohol or derivative thereof; at least one amphoteric surfactant; and a solvent. Also disclosed are acidic compositions combining the corrosion inhibition package according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention for use in various industrial operations including but not limited to oil and gas operations. Also disclosed are methods of use of such compositions.
US11591694B2
A method includes forming a film on a substrate by performing a cycle a predetermined number of times, the cycle including non-simultaneously performing: (a) forming a first layer by supplying a precursor to the substrate; and (b) forming a second layer by supplying a reactant to the substrate and modifying the first layer. The (a) includes: (a-1) supplying the precursor to the substrate from a first supply part while supplying an inert gas at a first flow rate, and supplying an inert gas at a second flow rate from a second supply part; and (a-2) supplying the precursor to the substrate while supplying the inert gas at a third flow rate from the first supply part, or supplying the precursor from the first supply part while stopping the supply of the inert gas, and supplying the inert gas at a fourth flow rate from the second supply part.
US11591688B2
Provided is a sputtering target containing 0.05 at % or more of Bi, and having a total content of metal oxides of from 10 vol % to 70 vol %, the balance containing at least Ru.
US11591687B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a sputtering target that can suppress a generation amount of fine nodules which lead to an increase in substrate particles during sputtering, and a method for producing the same. A ceramic sputtering target, the sputtering target having a surface roughness Ra on a sputtering surface of 0.5 μm or less and an Svk value measured with a laser microscope on the sputtering surface of 1.1 μm or less.
US11591679B2
Provided according to a preferable aspect of the present invention are a low-temperature steel material having excellent toughness in a welding portion thereof and a manufacturing method therefor, the low-temperature steel material comprising, by weight %, 0.02-0.06% of C, 6.0-7.5% of Ni, 0.4-1.0% of Mn, 0.02-0.15% of Si, 0.02-0.3% of Mo, 0.02-0.3% of Cr, 50 ppm or less of P, 10 ppm or less of S, 0.005-0.015% of Ti, 60 ppm or less of N, with a Ti/N weight % ratio of 2.5 of 4, and the balance of iron (Fe) and other inevitable impurities; and having: an effective grain size of 50 micrometers or less, with a boundary angle found to be 15 degrees or greater as measured by EBSD in an area of a fusion line (FL)-FL+1 mm in a weld heat-affected zone of a weld portion welded at a heat input of 5-50 kJ/cm; and an impact toughness of 70 J or higher at −196° C. as measured in an area of fusion line (FL)-FL+1 mm.
US11591676B2
Provided is a steel sheet used as a material for an automotive exterior panel, etc., and a method for manufacturing the same. More particularly, provided is a cold-rolled steel sheet and a hot-dip galvanized steel sheet, which have excellent bake hardening properties, corrosion resistance, and anti-aging properties, and a method for manufacturing the same.
US11591674B2
An aluminum-alloy sheet has a chemical composition containing Si: 2.3-3.8 mass %, Mn: 0.35-1.05 mass %, Mg: 0.35-0.65 mass %, Fe: 0.01-0.45 mass %, and at least one element selected from the group consisting of Cu: 0.0010-1.0 mass %, Cr: 0.0010-0.10 mass %, Zn: 0.0010-0.50 mass %, and Ti: 0.0050-0.20 mass %. The ratio of the Si content to the Mn content is 2.5 or more and 9.0 or less. The aluminum-alloy sheet exhibits an elongation of 23% or more and a strain hardening exponent of 0.28 or more at a nominal strain of 3%. Such an aluminum-alloy sheet is well suited for press forming (stamping) applications, such as forming automobile body panels.
US11591672B2
A grey gold alloy which is nickel-free, cobalt-free, iron-free, silver-free, copper-free, zirconium-free, niobium-free, chromium-free and manganese-free, including, expressed in weight percent, from 75.0 to 76.5% of Au, from 15 to 23% of Pd, from 0.5 to 5% of Rh, from 0 to 7% of Pt, and from 0 to 5% of at least one of the alloying elements Ir, Ru, Ti, In, Ga, B and Re, the respective percentages of all the alloying elements adding up to 100%.
US11591662B2
A method for operating a metallurgical furnace and a simplified way of providing synthesis gas for a metallurgical furnace, includes the following steps performing a combustion process outside the metallurgical furnace by combusting a carbon-containing material with an oxygen-rich gas to produce an offgas, which offgas is a CO2 containing gas; and combining the offgas, while having an elevated combustion-induced temperature due to the combustion process, with a hydrocarbon-containing fuel gas to obtain a first gas mixture having a temperature above a reforming temperature necessary for a reforming process, preferably a dry reforming process; the first gas mixture undergoing the reforming process, thereby producing a synthesis gas containing CO and H2, the reforming process being performed non-catalytically; and feeding the synthesis gas into the metallurgical furnace.
US11591658B2
This invention relates to a novel approach for the identification and stratification of subtypes of cancer, particularly subtypes of cancer characterized by an increased expression of BCAT1, particularly Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML). The invention furthermore relates to a novel approach with respect to the treatment of cancer, particularly subtypes of cancer characterized by an increased expression of BCAT1, particularly Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML).
US11591653B2
This disclosure provides systems and methods for sample processing and data analysis. Sample processing may include nucleic acid sample processing and subsequent sequencing. Some or all of a nucleic acid sample may be sequenced to provide sequence information, which may be stored or otherwise maintained in an electronic storage location. The sequence information may be analyzed with the aid of a computer processor, and the analyzed sequence information may be stored in an electronic storage location that may include a pool or collection of sequence information and analyzed sequence information generated from the nucleic acid sample. Methods and systems of the present disclosure can be used, for example, for the analysis of a nucleic acid sample, for producing one or more libraries, and for producing biomedical reports. Methods and systems of the disclosure can aid in the diagnosis, monitoring, treatment, and prevention of one or more diseases and conditions.
US11591649B2
Methods for non-invasive prenatal paternity testing are disclosed herein. The method uses genetic measurements made on plasma taken from a pregnant mother, along with genetic measurements of the alleged father, and genetic measurements of the mother, to determine whether or not the alleged father is the biological father of the fetus. This is accomplished by way of an informatics based method that can compare the genetic fingerprint of the fetal DNA found in maternal plasma to the genetic fingerprint of the alleged father.
US11591644B2
The present invention relates to methods for the detection of nucleic acids of defined sequence and kits for use in said methods. The methods employ nicking agent(s), polymerase and oligonucleotide probes to produce probe fragments in the presence of a target nucleic acid.
US11591642B2
Methods and systems described herein involve using long cell-free DNA fragments to analyze a biological sample from a pregnant subject. The status of methylated CpG sites and single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) is often used to analyze DNA fragments of a biological sample. A CpG site and a SNP are typically separated from the nearest CpG site or SNP by hundreds or thousands of base pairs. Finding two or more consecutive CpG sites or SNPs on most cell-free DNA fragments is improbable or impossible. Cell-free DNA fragments longer than 600 bp may include multiple CpG sites and/or SNPs. The presence of multiple CpG sites and/or SNPs on long cell-free DNA fragments may allow for analysis than with short cell-free DNA fragments alone. The long cell-free DNA fragments can be used to identify a tissue of origin and/or to provide information on a fetus in a pregnant female.
US11591626B2
A DNA expression construct comprising a polynucleotide encoding an unnatural UstD enzyme, the unnatural enzyme itself, and a method of making gamma-hydroxy amino acids by contacting an aldehyde-containing substrate, an amino acid, and the unnatural, purified UstD enzyme under conditions and for a time sufficient to react at least a portion of the aldehyde-containing substrate with at least a portion of the amino acid, to yield a gamma-hydroxy amino acid product.
US11591622B2
Disclosed herein are methods and compositions for targeted, nuclease-mediated insertion of transgene sequences into the genome of a cell.
US11591616B1
A recombinant myxoma virus that encodes the orfC gene of walleye dermal sarcoma virus (WDSV). The orfC gene of walleye dermal sarcoma virus (WDSV) plays a role in induction of seasonal regression of tumors caused by WDSV. This gene was isolated from WDSV and recombined into myxoma virus (MYXV orfC) for use as an oncolytic therapy. The recombinant myxoma virus can be used in oncolytic virus therapy to specifically target and lyse cancer cells without harming healthy cells in cancer patients.
US11591614B2
Provided herein are methods and compositions for treatment of Batten disease. Such compositions include a recombinant adeno-associated virus (rAAV), said rAAV comprising an AAV capsid, and a vector genome packaged therein, said vector genome comprising (a) an AAV 5′ inverted terminal repeat (ITR) sequence; (b) a promoter; (c) a CLN2 coding sequence encoding a human TPP1; (d) an AAV 3′ ITR.
US11591608B2
Disclosed herein are artificially synthesized nucleic acid constructs to guide an epigenetic modification for at least partially silencing or activating a target gene in an organism such as a plant or seed, and formulations thereof. Also disclosed are methods of applying such nucleic acid constructs to the plant or to the seed. Also disclosed are engineered seeds and plants obtained by the epigenetic modification.
US11591596B2
The present disclosure relates to a compound including a nucleic acid sequence conjugated to an anti-microRNA or a microRNA-mimic or a compound including a modified anti-microRNA sequence, compositions of such a compound, and method of treatment of a disease, and method of suppressing microRNA activity by the disclosed compound or composition.
US11591585B2
The present invention relates to subtilase variants suitable for use in, e.g., cleaning or detergent compositions, such as laundry detergent compositions and dish wash compositions, including automatic dish wash compositions. The present invention also relates to isolated DNA sequences encoding the variants, expression vectors, host cells, and methods for producing and using the variants of the invention.
US11591580B2
The invention provides a plant EPSPS mutant (i.e. 5-enolpyruvylshikimate-3-phosphate synthase mutant), which is derived from plant, and has glyphosate resistance after mutation. Also provided is an encoding gene, which can encode the above plant EPSPS mutant; and a vector containing the above encoding gene; and a cell containing the above vector. Further provided are uses of the above plant EPSPS mutant.
US11591577B2
A novel method of producing high-purity hydroxy-L-pipecolic acids in an efficient and inexpensive manner while suppressing the production of hydroxy-L-proline is provided. The method includes allowing an L-pipecolic acid hydroxylase, a microorganism or cell having the ability to produce the enzyme, a processed product of the microorganism or cell, and/or a culture liquid comprising the enzyme and obtained by culturing the microorganism or cell, to act on L-pipecolic acid as a substrate in the presence of 2-oxoglutaric acid and ferrous ion, wherein the L-pipecolic acid hydroxylase has the properties: (1) the enzyme can act on L-pipecolic acid in the presence of 2-oxoglutaric acid and ferrous ion to add a hydroxy group to the carbon atom at positions 3, 4, and/or 5 of L-pipecolic acid; and (2) the enzyme has a catalytic efficiency (kcat/Km) with L-proline that is equal to or less than 7 times the catalytic efficiency (kcat/Km) with L-pipecolic acid.
US11591575B2
Disclosed are genetically modified nudiviruses capable of being sexually transmitted by an insect useful for controlling pest populations. The genetically modified nudiviruses are capable of causing sterility in a target population of insects. Also disclosed are insects infected with the disclosed genetically modified nudiviruses, methods of making the genetically modified nudiviruses, and methods of using the genetically modified nudiviruses to control an insect pest population.
US11591569B2
Methods for generating high-yield, high-purity epicardial cells are described. Wnt/β-catenin signaling is first activated in human cardiac progenitor cells, by, for example, inhibiting Gsk-3 to induce differentiation into epicardial cells. Methods for long-term in vitro maintenance of human cardiac progenitor cell-derived epicardial cells and method comprising chemically defined, xeno-free, and albumin-free culture conditions are also provided.
US11591556B2
A reactor system includes a support housing having an interior surface bounding a chamber, the chamber having a vertically extending central longitudinal axis. A flexible bag is disposed within the chamber of the support housing and has an interior surface bounding a compartment. A mixing element is disposed within the compartment of the flexible bag. A drive element, such as a drive shaft, is secured the mixing element, wherein the mixing element is laterally offset from and/or is angled relative to the vertically extending central longitudinal axis of the support housing.
US11591552B2
Multicompartment water-soluble unit dose articles and methods of making them.
US11591550B2
The disclosure is directed to cleaning compositions, methods of making the cleaning compositions, and methods of using the cleaning compositions. The cleaning compositions comprise an enzyme composition, a nonionic surfactant, and a quaternary amine. Preferably, the enzyme compositions included in the cleaning compositions comprise a cellulase, an AA9 polypeptide having cellulolytic enhancing activity, a hemicellulase, an esterase, an expansin, a laccase, a ligninolytic enzyme, a pectinase, a peroxidase, a protease, a swollenin, or a combination or mixture thereof. The compositions are useful for degradation of bacterial cellulose.
US11591545B2
The present invention relates to a method of producing fatty acid alkyl ester from an organic oil source containing at least one free fatty acid, wherein the oil source has an acid number of at least 30 mg KOH/g oil source and wherein the method comprises the steps of a) reacting the oil source with glycerol at a temperature, which does not exceed 180° C. during the reaction, in the presence of a catalyst comprising at least one alkyl or aryl sulfonic acid or an homoanhydride thereof; and b) transesterification of the reaction product from step a) with an alkanol; and c) isolating the fatty acid alkyl ester from the reaction product of step b).
US11591543B2
The present invention relates to aroma chemical compositions containing 3,5-diethyl-2-propyl-tetrahydropyran, a 3,5-diethyl-2-propyl-dihydropyran or a 3,5-diethyl-2-propyl-pyran, a mixture of such compounds, a stereoisomer of one of these compounds, or a mixture of stereoisomers of one or more of these compounds. The invention further relates to a method for preparing such compounds, stereoisomers or mixtures thereof, to the composition obtainable by this method, to the use of such compounds as an aroma chemical or for modifying the scent character of a fragranced composition; and to a method for preparing a fragranced composition or for modifying the scent character of a fragranced composition using said compounds. Moreover, the invention relates to 3,5-diethyl-2-propyl-tetrahydropyran, to its stereoisomers and to mixtures of these stereoisomers.
US11591528B2
A method is provided for reprocessing a petroleum-based waste oil feedstock into diesel fuel. The method includes forming a treated feedstock by (a) filtering the feedstock, thereby removing solids and metals from the feedstock, and (b) dehydrating the feedstock; vaporizing the treated feedstock to produce an oil vapor; passing the oil vapor through at least one catalyst bed and subsequently through a cooler, thereby converting the oil vapor to a hydrocarbon liquid product with a diesel product boiling point range; and removing contaminants from the hydrocarbon liquid product, wherein the contaminants are selected from the group consisting of particulates and color precursors.
US11591518B2
A quantum dot including: a core including a first semiconductor nanocrystal material including zinc, tellurium, and selenium; and a semiconductor nanocrystal shell disposed on the core, the semiconductor nanocrystal shell including zinc, selenium, and sulfur, wherein the quantum dot does not include cadmium, and in the quantum dot, a mole ratio of the sulfur with respect to the selenium is less than or equal to about 2.4:1. A production method of the quantum dot and an electronic device including the same are also disclosed.
US11591516B2
High photoluminescence, high stability, inorganic perovskite compounds comprising an alkali metal selected from potassium (K), rubidium (Rb), and cesium (Cs); copper (Cu); and at least one halogen selected from chlorine (Cl), bromine (Br), and iodine (I). The perovskites may be free of lead (Pb). The inorganic perovskite compound may be used in an optoelectronic device. The optoelectronic device optionally contains a phosphor such as a blue-emitting phosphor. The inorganic perovskite compound may be used as an anti-counterfeiting nanotaggant applied on or within an object that susceptible to counterfeiting to enable confirmation of an authentic object.
US11591514B2
The present invention relates to semiconducting light emitting nanoparticles and compositions.
US11591513B2
An organic compound is represented by general formula (1) below: where X1 and X2 are each independently selected from the group consisting of an alkyl group, an aryl group, and an aralkyl group; R11 to R16 are each independently selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, an aryl group, a heterocyclic group, and a halogen atom; R21 and R22 are each independently selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an aryl group, and an aralkyl group; and A1− and A2− each independently represent a monovalent anion.
US11591504B2
A composition including a lubricant based on polyol esters (POEs) or PVE and a refrigerant F including from 1 to 99% by weight of trans-1,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene (trans-HFO-1234ze) and from 1 to 99% by weight of 1,1,1,2-tetrafluoroethane. Also, the use of the composition including a lubricant and refrigerant in refrigeration, air conditioning and heat pumps.
US11591496B2
A non-sticking lip tipping paper is disclosed that includes a base paper, a color layer and a surface coating. The color layer is formed by printing and drying a color ink on the base paper; the surface coating includes a water-based glue and is coated thereon after drying the color layer. The water-based glue includes the following components by weight: 30-65 parts of a modified water-based resin solution, 10-20 parts of water, 8-15 parts of ethanol, and 5-12 parts of a water-based additive. The water-based additive is a mixture of a wax emulsion and magnesium silicate in a weight ratio of 1:5. A preparation method and a method of applying the non-sticking lip tipping paper are also disclosed.
US11591494B2
The present disclosure is drawn to multi-fluid kits for three-dimensional printing, three-dimensional printing kits, and methods of making three-dimensional printed articles. In one example, a multi-fluid kit for three-dimensional printing can include a fusing agent, a first reactive agent, and a second reactive agent. The fusing agent can include water and a radiation absorber. The first reactive agent can include a first liquid vehicle and an epoxy compound having multiple epoxide groups. The second reactive agent can include a second liquid vehicle and an amine compound having multiple amino groups.
US11591489B2
An aqueous ink jet composition contains: C.I. Disperse Red 364; a material A which is at least one compound selected from the group consisting of a compound represented by the following formula (1), a compound represented by the following formula (2), an ethylene oxide adduct of tristyrylphenol, a derivative of the ethylene oxide adduct of tristyrylphenol, a polyalkylene glycol, and a derivative of the polyalkylene glycol; and an anionic dispersant.
US11591483B2
Water-based nanoparticle inks may be formulated to be compatible with printed electronic direct-write methods. The water-based nanoparticle inks may include a functional material (nanoparticle) in combination with an appropriate solvent system. A method may include dispersing nanoparticles in a solvent and printing a circuit in an aerosol jet process or plasma jet process.
US11591475B2
Provided are a polycarbonate resin composition comprising a polycarbonate resin, pentaerythritol tetrastearate, a black dye, and a blue dye, and an optical molded product comprising same.
US11591469B2
A resin composition includes a first prepolymer and a second prepolymer, the first prepolymer being prepared from a first mixture subjected to a prepolymerization reaction, the second prepolymer being prepared from a second mixture subjected to a prepolymerization reaction, wherein the first mixture includes a maleimide resin and a benzoxazine resin, and the second mixture includes a maleimide resin and a bis(trifluoromethyl)benzidine. The resin composition may be used to make various articles, such as a prepreg, a resin film, a laminate or a printed circuit board, and at least one of the following properties can be improved, including copper foil peeling strength, dissipation factor, ratio of thermal expansion, cure shrinkage and glass transition temperature.
US11591462B2
The invention relates to polymer blends of a styrene copolymer A selected from the group consisting of styrene acrylonitrile copolymers (SAN), styrene acrylonitrile maleic anhydride terpolymers (SMA), styrene acrylic copolymers, acrylonitrile butadiene styrene terpolymers (ABS), acrylonitrile butadiene styrene terpolymers with polyamide (ABS/PA), and acrylonitrile styrene acrylate terpolymers (ASA); and at least one copolymer B selected from the group consisting of styrene-butadiene block copolymers (SBC) and styrene-isoprene block copolymers (SIS); wherein the mold shrinkage of the polymer blend is reduced by at least 5% compared to the mold shrinkage of the pure styrene copolymer A.A process for the preparation of the polymer blends and the uses of the polymer blends in an injection molding process are described.
US11591451B2
A polymer composition includes at least one poly(aryl ether ketone) (PAEK) component and at least one low molecular weight aromatic compound. A polymer metal junction including the polymer composition and a method of making a polymer metal junction are also described.
US11591445B2
Provided is a barrier film and a manufacturing method thereof. The barrier film has a structure comprising a polysilazane barrier layer, which can exhibit excellent running properties in a so-called roll-to-roll process or the like, and can maintain or improve the performance of the barrier layer even during an unwinding and/or winding process, and the like.
US11591437B2
Provided is a polycarbonate polyol used as a raw material of a polyurethane that yields a polyurethane solution having good storage stability and exhibits excellent flexibility and solvent resistance. This polycarbonate polyol is a polycarbonate diol that includes structural units represented by the following Formulae (A) and (B), wherein, R1 and R2 each independently represent an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms and, in this range of the number of carbon atoms, optionally have an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom, a nitrogen atom, a halogen atom, or a substituent containing these atoms; and R3 represents a linear aliphatic hydrocarbon having 3 or 4 carbon atoms. This polycarbonate diol has a molecular weight of 500 to 5,000, and the value of the following Formula (I) is 0.3 to 20.0: (Content ratio of branched-chain moiety in polymer)/(Content ratio of carbonate group in polymer)×100(%) (I).
US11591435B2
There are provided a carbodiimide compound excellent in storage stability, and performance as a crosslinking agent, and a method for producing the same, and a resin composition excellent in the film forming properties and solvent resistance of a coating made at low temperature. A polycarbodiimide compound derived from an aliphatic diisocyanate compound having at least one primary isocyanate group, the polycarbodiimide compound having a structure in which all ends are capped with an organic compound having a functional group that reacts with an isocyanate group, carbodiimide group concentration A (%) and weight average molecular weight Mw satisfying the following formula (1), and a resin composition comprising the carbodiimide compound and an aqueous resin having a predetermined acid value at a predetermined ratio. (A/Mw)×1000≥0.55 (1).
US11591431B2
This disclosure relates to a milling blank for the production of medical-technical molded parts, in particular dental splints or ear molds, as well as a method for the production of such a blank.
US11591429B2
Grafted, crosslinked cellulosic materials include cellulose fibers and polymer chains composed of at least one monoethylenically unsaturated acid group-containing monomer (such as acrylic acid) grafted thereto, in which one or more of said cellulose fibers and said polymer chains are crosslinked (such as by intra-fiber chain-to-chain crosslinks). Some of such materials are characterized by a wet bulk of about 10.0-17.0 cm3/g, an IPRP value of about 1000 to 7700 cm2/MPa·sec, and/or a MAP value of about 7.0 to 38 cm H2O. Methods for producing such materials may include grafting polymer chains from a cellulosic substrate, followed by treating the grafted material with a crosslinking agent adapted to effect crosslinking of one or more of the cellulosic substrate or the polymer chains. Example crosslinking mechanisms include esterfication reactions, ionic reactions, and radical reactions, and example crosslinking agents include pentaerythritol, homopolymers of the graft species monomer, and hyperbranched polymers.
US11591423B2
Aqueous polymer dispersions are produced by radically initiated emulsion polymerization of ethylenically unsaturated monomers in the presence of protective colloids and/or emulsifiers in a continuously operated tubular reactor, characterized in that the direction of flow of the reactor contents is reversed along the longitudinal axis of the reactor over the course of polymerization.
US11591419B2
The present disclosure provides base stocks and processes for producing such basestocks by polymerizing internal olefins. The present disclosure further provides base stocks, comprising low molecular weight polyolefin products, having one or more of improved flow, low temperature properties, and thickening efficiency. The present disclosure further provides polyolefin products useful as base stocks and or diesel fuel. In at least one embodiment, a process includes introducing a feedstream comprising C4-C30 internal-olefins with a catalyst system comprising a nickel diimine catalyst optionally in the presence of a solvent. The method includes obtaining a C6-C100 polyolefin product having one or more of a carbon fraction of epsilon-carbons of from about 0.08 to about 0.3, as determined by 13C NMR spectroscopy, based on the total carbon content of the polyolefin product.
US11591413B2
A methodology useful for predicting the texture of a heated starch suspension by predicting the storage modulus (G′) of the starch suspension resulting from starch granule swelling during heating has been developed. The methodology is based on the physical properties of the starch granules in the starch suspension and the temperature history of the heated starch suspension.
US11591403B2
Provided by the disclosure are compositions and methods for modulating differentiation of regulatory T cells. In some embodiments, methods include selectively decreasing IL-23R activity and/or IL-23R expression without significantly decreasing IL-12RP activity and/or IL-12RP expression.
US11591402B2
New antibodies and methods of use are described.
US11591394B2
The invention relates to compounds, in particular polypeptides that specifically bind to the non-classical MHC protein CD1d and modulate CD1d-mediated biological functions. The invention in particular relates to such compounds and polypeptides comprising or consisting of at least one single domain antibody, and wherein at least one single domain antibody specifically binds to CD1d. Also provided is for methods and use employing such compounds, polypeptides and/or single-domain antibodies.
US11591391B2
The present invention relates to the field of the production, identification and selection of biological binding molecules such as antibodies or fragments thereof, as well as to their use in the therapy and prophylaxis of cancer diseases, such as, in particular, malignant B-cell neoplasia. The binding molecules are able to selectively bind to autonomously active or autonomously activated B-cell receptors, the autonomously active or autonomously activated B-cell receptors being characterized by the presence of structural domains to which the binding molecule selectively binds and which are responsible for the autonomously active or autonomously activated state of the B-cell receptors.
US11591386B2
Provided are antibodies and antigen-binding fragments thereof that bind specifically to human complement factor C2 and are capable of inhibiting activation of the classical and lectin pathways of the complement system. The antibodies and antigen-binding fragment exhibit improved manufacturability, pharmacokinetics, and antigen sweeping. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions comprising the antibodies and antigen-binding fragments, nucleic acids and vectors encoding the antibodies and antigen-binding fragments, host cells comprising the nucleic acids or vectors, and methods of making and using the antibodies and antigen-binding fragments. The antibodies and antigen-binding fragments can be used to inhibit the classical pathway of complement activation in a subject, e.g., a human. The antibodies and antigen-binding fragments can also be used to inhibit the lectin pathway of complement activation in a subject, e.g., a human.
US11591380B2
The invention provides novel compounds which are peptide hormone analogues, and which are useful in treating disorders such as diabetes and obesity. The compounds of the general sequence recited in the specification possess a tailored profile with regards to potency properties at the glucagon and GLP-1 receptors. With regard to in vivo properties, administration of example peptides of the invention has been shown, in animal models, to result in increased weight loss.
US11591370B2
A peptoid compound, a manufacturing method of a peptoid compound, an oligomer, a pharmaceutical composition, use of the pharmaceutical composition in the preparation of a medicament for detecting or diagnosing a disease related to tyrosine kinase HER2, and a kit for identifying circulating tumor cells are provided, the peptoid compound includes: a cysteine (Cys) subunit, a butanediamine (Nlys) subunit, a 3,4-methylenedioxybenzylamine (Npip) subunit, a 3-aminopropanic acid (Nce) subunit and a 1-naphthylamine (Na) subunit, and both the peptoid compound and the oligomer have a strong ability to bind to HER2 protein on surfaces of circulating tumor cells (CTCs), and a technology of diagnosing breast cancer on the basis of the peptoid compound can realize non-invasive and label-free rapid diagnosis, in addition, the methods for synthesizing the peptoid compound and the oligomer are simple, the preparation efficiency is high, and the production cost is low.
US11591366B2
The present invention provides a macrocyclic compound of formula (I) compositions and kits comprising this compound and their use for preventing or treating pain, or inducing hypothermia or hypotension.
US11591362B2
The present invention relates to the field of stereodefined phosphorothioate oligonucleotides and to stereodefining nucleoside monomers comprising an amine containing chiral auxiliary group, and methods of orthogonally protecting the nitrogen of chiral auxiliaries during oligonucleotide synthesis, preventing post elongation chain cleavage, increasing yield and purity of stereodefined phosphorothioate oligonucleotides.
US11591357B2
The present invention relates to payloads containing functionalized platinum-(benz)acridine hybrid agents as cytotoxic warheads and a method of synthesizing the payloads. The payload can be regioselectively conjugated to a biologically active moiety in order to facilitate the delivery and/or enhance the activity of the platinum compound.
US11591356B2
Provided is an organometallic complex including a ligand LA having a structure represented by one of the following formulas and coordiated to Ir.
US11591355B2
The present disclosure provides compounds of Formula (II) wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, W1, W2, W3, X, Y, and A are as described herein. The disclosed compounds modulate CD73 activity. The present disclosure also provides, pharmaceutical compositions containing these compounds, and methods of using these compounds for treating diseases associated with CD73 activity.
US11591345B2
The present invention relates to crystalline polymorph forms of (S)-2-((2-((S)-4-(difluoromethyl)-2-oxooxazolidin-3-yl)-5,6-dihydrobenzo[f]imidazo[1,2-d][1,4]oxazepin-9-yl)amino)propanamide (GDC-0077), having the structure, Formula I: or stereoisomers, geometric isomers, tautomers, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, and processes of preparing the polymorph forms.
US11591344B2
A compound having anticancer activity, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof is provided. Used is a compound represented by the following formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof: (wherein, L1 and L2 are the same or different and each represents a group represented by one formula selected from the group consisting of formulas (A) to (F), and S represents a group represented by one formula selected from the group consisting of formulas (S1) to (S18)).
US11591332B2
The present invention provides compounds, compositions thereof, and methods of using the same.
US11591331B2
Described herein are PARP1 inhibitors and pharmaceutical compositions comprising said inhibitors. The subject compounds and compositions are useful for the treatment of cancer.
US11591329B2
The present invention relates to bicyclic heterocycles, and pharmaceutical compositions of the same, that are inhibitors of the FGFR3 enzyme and are useful in the treatment of FGFR3-associated diseases such as cancer.
US11591328B2
The present invention relates to a CSF1R inhibitor, and in particular to a highly active CSF1R inhibitor compound having the structure of formula (I). Said compound of the present invention has high inhibitory activity on CSF1R.
US11591325B2
The present invention provides a 2-polysubstituted aromatic ring-pyrimidine derivative and an optical isomer thereof, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or solvate thereof, the compound, and an optical isomer thereof or a pharmaceutically thereof acceptable salts or solvates can be used in the preparation of anti-tumor drugs. The invention designs and synthesizes a series of novel small molecule Chk1 inhibitors by using N-substituted pyridin-2-aminopyrimidine obtained by structure-based virtual screening as a lead compound, and carries out Chk1 kinase inhibitory activity test. The experiment confirmed that said compounds possess potent anticancer activity, Chk1 kinase inhibitory activity, and are promising Chk1 inhibitors, and can be used as new cancer therapeutic drugs, which can be applied to treat solid tumors or hematologic tumors related to proliferative disease of human or animal. The 2-polysubstituted aromatic ring-pyrimidine derivatives provided by the present invention has the structure of the formula I:
US11591321B2
The present disclosure provides compounds of Formula (III) and pharmaceutical compositions thereof, for use in, e.g. treating type 2 diabetes mellitus, pre-diabetes, obesity, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, non-alcoholic steatohepatitis, and cardiovascular disease.
US11591314B2
Disclosed is a process for preparing Compound 8: comprising the step of reacting Compound of 7: wherein R is C1-8 alkyl or benzyl in the presence of a base. Also disclosed are intermediates and processes for preparing the intermediates.
US11591312B2
The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of pyridine derivatives of the formula (I) comprising two steps, namely, a selective chlorination followed by a selective fluorination.
US11591306B2
The present invention relates to a vitamin E-based amphipathic compound, a method for producing same, and a method for extracting, solubilizing, stabilizing, or crystallizing a membrane protein using same. By using a compound according to the present invention, not only is an excellent membrane protein extraction and solubilization effect achieved, but the membrane protein can be stably stored for a long period of time in an aqueous solution, and thus the compound can be utilized in analyzing the function and structure of the membrane protein. Moreover, the vitamin E-based amphipathic compounds exhibited superb properties in the visualization of protein compounds through an electron microscope. Membrane protein structure and function analysis is one of the fields of greatest interest in biology and chemistry today, and since at least half of new drugs currently being developed target membrane proteins, the vitamin E-based amphipathic compounds may be applied to the membrane protein structure research, which is closely related to the development of new drugs.
US11591298B2
The present invention relates to novel bisaminoquinoline compounds, pharmaceutical compositions comprising these novel compounds and methods for inhibiting autophagy in biological systems. Methods of treating cancer in patients in need using compounds and/or compositions according to the present invention alone or in combination with at least one additional anticancer agent represent additional aspects of the invention. Methods of treating disease states and/or conditions in which inhibition of autophagy plays a favorable treatment role including rheumatoid arthritis, malaria, antiphospholipid antibody syndrome, lupus, chronic urticaria and Sjogren's disease, with compounds according to the present invention represent additional aspects of the invention.
US11591297B2
The present invention provides a compound of formula (I): or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein R1, R2, m and n are as defined in the specification, with an inhibitory effect of PD-L1 expression and an inhibitory effect of reduced production of IL-2 and a medicament useful for the treatment of a disease associated with the reduced immune function caused by the formation of PD-1/PD-L1 binding.
US11591294B2
Aqueous electrolytes comprising fluorenone/fluorenol derivatives are disclosed. The electrolyte may be an anolyte for an aqueous redox flow battery. In some embodiments, the compound, or salt thereof, has a structure according to any one of formulas I-III where Q1-Q4 independently are CH, C(R1) or N, wherein 0, 1, or 2 of Q1-Q4 are N; Q5-Q8 independently are CH, C(R2), or N, wherein 0, 1, or 2 of Q5-Q8 are N; Y is C═O or C(H)OH; R1 and R2 independently are an electron withdrawing group; n is an integer >1; and x and y independently are 0, 1, 2, 3, or 4, where at least one of x and y is not 0.
US11591289B2
The present invention comprises novel aromatic molecules, which can be used in the treatment of pathological conditions, such as cancer, skin diseases, muscle disorders, and immune system-related disorders such as disorders of the hematopoietic system including the hematologic system in human and veterinary medicine.
US11591286B2
The present invention provides methods of synthesizing (6S,15S)-3,8,13,18-tetraazaicosane-6,15-diol and salts thereof.
US11591280B2
The invention relates to new intermediates in the synthesis of Eldecalcitol and to processes for the preparation of said intermediates and of Eldecalcitol.
US11591271B2
The present invention relates to a fertilizer comprising at least one basic L-amino acid, such as arginine or lysine, wherein a substantial portion of the basic L-amino acid content is present as its monophosphate. The basic L-amino acid phosphate may be combined with a binder and/or provided with an outermost layer acting as a coating. The invention also relates to a method of enhancing the growth of a plant by making a basic L-amino acid phosphate available to the plant.
US11591265B2
Batch compositions containing pre-reacted inorganic spheroidal particles, small amount of fine inorganic particles (“fines”), and an extremely large amount of liquid vehicle. The batch compositions contain pre-reacted inorganic particles having a particle size distribution with 20 μm≤D50≤100 μm, D90≤100 μm, and D5≥10 μm; less than 20 wt % of fine inorganic particles (fines) whose particle distribution(s) have a median diameter of less than 5 μm; and a liquid vehicle in a weight percent (LV %≥28%) by super-addition to all inorganic particles in the batch composition. Fast extruding batch compositions having extremely high Tau Y/Beta ratios are provided. Green bodies, such as green honeycomb bodies and methods of manufacturing green honeycomb bodies are provided, as are other aspects.
US11591258B2
An article that includes: a substrate having a glass, glass-ceramic or a ceramic composition and comprising a primary surface; and a protective film disposed on the primary surface. The protective film comprises a thickness of greater than 1.5 microns and a maximum hardness of greater than 15 GPa at a depth of 500 nanometers, as measured on the film disposed on the substrate. Further, the protective film comprises a metal oxynitride that is graded such that an oxygen concentration in the film varies by 1.3 or more atomic %. In addition, the substrate comprises an elastic modulus less than an elastic modulus of the film.
US11591257B2
A multi-layer and method of making the same are provided. The multi-layer, such as a sensor, can include a high strength glass overlay and a lamination layer on a substrate layer. The overlay can be less than 250 micrometers thick and have at least one tempered surface incorporating a surface compression layer of at least 5 micrometers deep and a surface compressive stress of at least 200 MPa. The overlay can exhibit a puncture factor of at least 3000 N/μm2 at B10 (10th percentile of the probability distribution of failure) in a multi-layer structure, an apparent thickness of less than 0.014 mm, and a pencil hardness greater than 6H. The method can include ion-exchange tempering at least one major surface of a glass sheet, light etching the major surface to remove flaws and laminating the glass sheet on the tempered and lightly etched major surface to a substrate layer.
US11591252B2
A production method and others according to the present embodiment are provided with a structure for effectively preventing occurrence of accidental spiking during drawing of a preform. In order to control the residual He-concentration in the center part of the preform, a transparent glass rod that has a predetermined outer diameter and is already sintered but is not doped with an alkali metal yet is annealed in in the atmosphere not containing He gas for an annealing time determined by referring to result data in which the relationship between the annealing time and the residual He-concentration is previously recorded for each outer diameter. In the result data, actually measured data of the residual He-concentration in a produced optical fiber preform and the annealing time are accumulated as annealing treatment results.
US11591249B2
Articles and methods related to the cold-forming of glass laminate articles utilizing stress prediction analysis are provided. A cold-forming estimator (CFE) value that is related to the stress experienced by a glass sheet of a glass laminate during cold-forming is calculated based on a plurality of geometric parameters of glass layer(s) of a glass laminate article. The calculated CFE value is compared to a cold-forming threshold related to the probability that defects are formed in the complexly curved glass laminate article during cold-forming. Cold-formed glass laminate articles are also provided having geometric parameters such that the CFE value is below the cold-forming threshold.
US11591247B2
Installation including an industrial glass furnace (1) including a tank (2) for molten glass (3), a combustion heating chamber (4) situated above the tank (2), and a duct for evacuation of flue gases in communication with said heating chamber (4), and a stone furnace including a firing zone (21) for stone to be fired, the flue gas evacuation duct including a flue gas outlet that is connected to the firing zone (21) of stone to be fired and supplying the firing zone (21) of stone to be fired with flue gases at high temperature.
US11591244B2
Header-equipped air diffusion devices includes, in the header, an air storage unit, on its lower end including inlet(s) for water to be treated, and air supply part(s) and air sending part(s) on the air storage unit upper section. The air diffusion device's air sending part and horizontal tube are connected, air sent from the header being diffused by the air diffusion device, and air sending in the air storage unit is above the air supply part's air supply port. The air storage portion's partition portion, with a 50+mm height, partitions the upper portion into an air supply and an air feeding portion side. The partition portion forms a cylindrical portion and an upper plate portion and the air storage portion's trunk portion serves as part of the air supply portion, and an opening end on a lower end side of the partition portion serves as the air supply port.
US11591223B2
Methods for making nanocomposites are provided. In an embodiment, such a method comprises combining a first type of nanostructure with a bulk material in water or an aqueous solution, the first type of nanostructure functionalized with a functional group capable of undergoing van der Waals interactions with the bulk material, whereby the first type of nanostructure induces exfoliation of the bulk material to provide a second, different type of nanostructure while inducing association between the first and second types of nanostructures to form the nanocomposite.
US11591208B2
A modified saddle D-ring having a loop of a varying radius for supporting a stirrup strap on a saddle. The stirrup supporting strap is looped around a lower span portion of the D-ring which has an upper span portion anchored to the saddle. The lower span has an upper surface that abuts against the saddle supporting strap and such upper surface includes first and second contiguous portions disposed at a preselected angle to one another with the length being greater than the width of the stirrup supporting strap. The D-ring includes an elongated curved loop extending forward at a varying radius depicting a parabolic curve. The elongated D-ring allows limited pivotal forward movement of the stirrup with respect to the saddle. One or more “T” shaped projections may extend upward from one a selected position at the bottom of the D-ring for adjusting and holding the D-ring in position.
US11591207B2
The system (10) for the transfer of fluid comprises a tubular fluid transfer line (2) comprising at one of its ends a coupling system (32) adapted to be connected to a target duct (33) for the transfer of fluid, and electrical actuators (11-13) for controlling the movement of the transfer line in space, each via an actuating shaft, characterized in that each of the actuators for controlling the movement of the transfer line comprises an electric motor with an output shaft, a speed reducer, the actuating shaft being rotationally driven by the motor output shaft by means of the speed reducer, which is reversible, so as to enable the actuating shaft to turn when an actuating torque is directly applied to it, and braking means for locking the actuator in position when movement control is in course and that actuator is not activated for that control.
US11591202B2
Beverage dispensing assembly (1), comprising a dispenser (2) and a beverage container (3), wherein the beverage container (3) has a neck portion (7) and a shoulder portion (8) adjacent the neck portion (7), wherein the neck portion (7) is provided with at least an outflow opening and at least one gas inlet opening (9) and wherein the dispenser (2) comprises a housing (4), wherein the housing (4) is provided with a receptacle (5) for receiving at least part of the container (3), wherein the container (3) is positioned in the dispenser (2) with the neck (7) and shoulder portion (8) facing downward, such that the neck portion (7) and at least part of the shoulder portion (8) are received in the receptacle (5), wherein part of the shoulder portion (8) extends close to and/or is in contact with a wall of the receptacle (5), wherein preferably a lid (12) is provided over the container (3), enclosing a part of the container (3) extending outside the receptacle (5).
US11591195B2
A swing arm restraint system for an automotive lift includes a movable carriage including a swing arm mounting portion. A first swing arm restraint housing is non-rotatably connected to the swing arm mounting portion, the first swing arm restraint housing including a first internal space. A first swing arm is pivotally connected to the swing arm mounting portion and is rotatable relative to the first swing arm restraint housing. A first restraint device is located in the first internal space and connected to the the swing arm restraint housing. A second restraint device is operably connected to the first swing arm such that the second restraint device rotates with the first swing arm relative to the first swing arm restraint housing. The first and second restraint devices are configured to be selectively arranged in either one of: (i) a locked position where the first and second restraint devices are non-rotatably coupled such that said first swing arm and said second restraint device are non-rotatably coupled to said first swing arm restraint housing; (ii) an unlocked position where the first and second restraint devices are decoupled with respect to each other such that said first swing arm and said second restraint device are rotatable relative to said first swing arm restraint housing.
US11591190B2
A hydraulic crane comprising: —a rotatable column (7); —a crane boom system (10) comprising two or more liftable and lowerable crane booms (11, 13); and —an electronic control device (25), which is configured to prevent an execution of crane boom movements that would make the lifting moment of the crane exceed the maximum allowed lifting moment of the crane, and to continuously establish position information as to the prevailing position of the load suspension point (P) of the crane boom system. When the lifting moment of the crane has reached a limit value at a given level below the maximum allowed lifting moment, the electronic control device is configured to prevent the execution of any combination of crane boom movements that would increase the horizontal distance between the load suspension point and said vertical axis of rotation and at the same time allow the execution of any combination of crane boom movements that keeps said horizontal distance unchanged or reduces said horizontal distance.
US11591187B2
A linear propulsion system and method of assembling and testing the same is disclosed. The linear propulsion system may comprise a track, a vehicle, a mover mounted to the vehicle, and a dual inverter system. The track may comprise a first plurality of stator sections interleaved with a second plurality of stator sections. The dual inverter system may include first and second multi-phase inverters that share input hardware.
US11591182B2
A presence detection system includes a support layer operable to act as an underlying surface for supporting object(s), a sensor layer disposed beneath the support layer and operable to output readings indicating the presence of object(s) supported on the support layer and a controller for receiving the presence readings from the sensor layer and determining, based on the readings, an indicator of the occupancy status and/or an occupancy level of the support layer. The presence detection system can be used within an access gate system whereby the access gate is operated to a blocking position upon the presence detection system detecting more than one human supported on the support layer, this operation overriding a reading of an authenticated user token. The presence detection system can also be used within an elevator system wherein the elevator door subsystem and the elevator displacement subsystem are controlled based on an occupancy level detected by the detection system. Methods for detecting object are also contemplated.
US11591168B2
A robotic system for arranging packages at a destination according to a stacking sequence. The robotic system uses a storage area for temporarily storing packages that arrive out-of-sequence until they are next-in-sequence for placement at the destination. The robotic system processes an incoming package, determines if it is next-in-sequence for placement at the destination, and if it is, places the package at the destination. On the other hand, if it is not next-in-sequence for placement at the destination, it stores the package in the storage area. A package in the storage area is transferred to the destination when it is next-in-sequence for placement at the destination. By using the temporary storage for storing out of sequence packages, the robotic system eliminates the need for receiving the packages in a stacking sequence, which also eliminates the need for sequencing machines.
US11591164B2
Repaired combine augers are provided that can include: a central cylindrical object configured to support flighting extending about the central cylindrical object, wherein at least one portion of the flighting is damaged and defines non-linear portions, openings, and/or bent sections; and at least one semi-circular repair component bound to the portion to align with remainder of the flighting.
US11591162B2
A conveyor system for a working machines such as a cold planer is disclosed. The working machine that can optionally have a frame, a rotor moveable relative to the frame to remove material from a surface of a working area and the conveyor system. The conveyor system can optionally include a first belt and a second belt. The conveyor system can be positioned to receive loose material from the rotor and transport the loose material relative to the frame away from the rotor. Optionally, the second belt can be positioned adjacent to and extending along the first belt and moveable relative to the frame.
US11591155B2
In accordance with one or more embodiments of the invention, a stand up device is presented, including a substantially ring-shaped grip portion, a height adjustment tube, a frame, a securing mechanism, and a plurality of legs. The stand up device provides additional support when installed with a mattress, and facilitates getting up from, and standing up from, a bed.
US11591149B2
The presently disclosed subject matter is generally directed to a packaging film constructed from water-dispersible and/or biodegradable compositions. Particularly, the disclosed film comprises a first layer constructed from one or more water-dispersible materials, such as water-dispersible paper. The film further comprises a second layer constructed from one or more biodegradable materials, such as poly(hydroxyalkanoate). The first and second layers can be constructed to form a packaging material used to enclose a wide variety of products, including liquids and moisture-sensitive solids. Advantageously, the disclosed film (and associated packaging materials) are dissolvable in water and/or biodegrade when exposed to landfill conditions and/or water.
US11591146B2
This application discloses a container. The container comprises a base, two pairs of opposite side plates and a lid. The two pairs of opposite side plates are both connected to the base. The lid can be locked to the top of the side plate via a locking device. Each of the four top corners of the container is provided with one locking device. The four locking device are arranged opposite to each other tin pairs along the corresponding diagonal of the lid, and each of the locking device includes one locking tongue member provided on the lid and one locking groove provided on the corresponding side plate. The locking tongue member has a locking tongue and is arranged to be movable relative to the lid so that the locking tongue is insertable into the locking groove to lock the lid to the side plate and is detachable from the locking groove to unlock the lid. Each of the locking grooves extends outwardly from the side plate along the corresponding diagonal direction of the lid. The lid of the container of the present application can be unlocked from any direction.
US11591131B2
A collapsible box can include a top panel; a front panel hingedly attached to the top panel; a first side panel hingedly attached to the top panel and the front panel; a second side panel hingedly attached to the top panel and the front panel; a rear panel hingedly attached to the top panel, the first side panel, and the second side panel; and a bottom panel hingedly attached to the front panel, the rear panel, the first side panel, and the second side panel; and wherein the front panel defines a frame portion and a lower flap portion connected together by a front line of weakness; wherein the frame portion is coupled to the first side panel, the second side panel, and the bottom panel; and wherein the lower flap portion is coupled to the top panel.
US11591129B2
Disclosed are preforms which incorporate improvements in the region of the neck and upper segment of the body to allow the production of lightweight containers, such as bottles suitable for containing water or other beverages. In accordance with certain embodiments, the improvements include a thinner neck finish area than conventional bottles, where the thinner area is extended into the upper segment of the body portion below the support ring. Reducing the thickness in these areas of the bottle allows for less resin to be used in forming the preform and bottle.
US11591118B2
A layered food packaging system includes: a carrier device configured to convey a sandwich in a horizontal posture in which a layering direction of the sandwich is substantially vertical; a temporary placement table configured to temporarily place the sandwich thereon in a vertical posture in which the layering direction of the sandwich is substantially horizontal; a first robot and a second robot configured to grip the sandwich that is conveyed by the carrier device, lift the sandwich from the carrier device, change the posture of the sandwich from the horizontal posture to the vertical posture, and temporarily place the sandwich on the temporary placement table; and a third robot configured to grip the sandwich that is temporarily placed on the temporary placement table, and insert the sandwich into a bag for packaging the layered food.
US11591117B2
Provided is a reaction wheel assembly ruggedized for use in kinetically launched satellites. An example reaction wheel assembly may include a shaft mounted to a body of a satellite, a wheel mounted to the shaft, wherein a center of a gravity of the wheel is co-aligned with the shaft, and a support device mounted to the body of the satellite. The reaction wheel assembly may include bearings for holding the shaft to the body of the satellite and allowing a rotation of the wheel. The support device can be engaged to support the wheel to reduce a load on the shaft and the bearing, the load being caused by an acceleration of the satellite during a kinetic launch of the satellite. After the satellite is launched into space, the support device can be disengaged from supporting the wheel to allow the wheel to spin.
US11591111B2
An apparatus for launching, recovering, transporting, and storing vehicles is disclosed. The apparatus stabilizes the vehicle while it is in operation or inactive and has a frame connected to at least one stabilizer. In certain configurations, the apparatus stabilizes the vehicle without using the vehicle's onboard landing gear. The apparatus may also include at least one pad connected to the apparatus.
US11591097B2
Aircraft nacelles having adjustable chines are described. An example apparatus includes a chine coupled to a nacelle. The chine is oriented along a fore-aft direction. The chine is rotatable relative to the nacelle about an axis of rotation. The axis of rotation is substantially perpendicular to a plane of the chine defined by an outer mold line of the chine.
US11591095B2
A pressure relief valve may comprise a housing, a disk, and a seal. The disk may be configured to deflect relative to the housing. The seal may form a sealing interface with at least one of the housing or disk. The pressure relief valve may be coupled to an inflatable slide or an aspirator.
US11591088B2
A method is provided. An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is operated. A position of the UAV is determined while in flight, and a nonce is generated. A Merkel root is generated based at least in part on a timestamp and the position of the UAV. A current block is calculated based at least in part on a previous block, the Merkel root, and the nonce, and the current block, the timestamp, the nonce, the prior block, and the position of the UAV are transmitted.
US11591086B2
A hybrid unmanned aerial vehicle (10) is provided which comprises a multicopter frame (14) having a plurality of operable multicopter propulsion units (22) thereon, and an airframe body (16) which is connected to the multicopter frame (14). There is also a pair of wings (34) positioned on opposite sides of the airframe body (16) and a wing control means for manipulating the pair of wings (34) with respect to the airframe body (16) to alter an angle-of-attack of the pair of wings (34). In a first wing condition, the angle-of-attack of the pair of wings (34) is alterable with respect to a relative airflow so as to produce zero lift, and, in a second wing condition, the angle-of-attack of the pair of wings (34) is alterable with respect to the relative airflow so as to produce an optimum or near optimum lift. A method of improving the manoeuvrability of the hybrid unmanned aerial vehicle (10) is also provided, as is a method of improving the operational range of unmanned aerial vehicles.
US11591072B2
Linkage assemblies for moving tabs on control surfaces of aircraft are disclosed herein. An example aircraft includes a wing including a fixed wing portion and a trailing edge control surface. The trailing edge control surface includes a fore panel rotatably coupled to the fixed wing portion and an aft panel rotatably coupled to the fore panel. The wing also includes a linkage assembly including a rocking lever rotatably coupled to a bottom side of the fore panel, a trailing edge link having a first end rotatably coupled to the fixed wing portion and a second end rotatably coupled to the rocking lever, and an aft panel link having a first end rotatably coupled to the rocking lever and a second end rotatably coupled to a bottom side of the aft panel.
US11591069B1
A system for retaining a folded proprotor blade in flight. The system includes a rotary actuator mechanism operable to generate torque via a shaft that rotates about an axis generally parallel to a chordwise direction of the folded proprotor blade, a pair of clamping arms movable in a direction generally parallel to a beamwise direction of the folded proprotor blade, a pair of linkage arms interoperably responsive to the rotary actuator mechanism and coupled between the rotary actuator mechanism and the pair of clamping arms, and a first guide rod extending between the pair of clamping arms in the direction generally parallel to the beamwise direction.
US11591068B2
A wing assembly includes a swept wing body, a leading edge of the wing body extending outward and rearward from a wing root to a wing edge; a first slat selectively movably connected to the wing body; and a second slat selectively movably connected to the wing body, the second slat being disposed outboard of the first slat, a flexible sealing member disposed and connected between the first slat and the second slat; at least a portion of the first slat, at least a portion of the second slat, and at least a portion of the flexible sealing member defining a slat gap therebetween, at least a majority of the slat gap being substantially parallel to a predetermined local airflow direction. An aircraft is also disclosed which includes a fuselage; and two oppositely disposed wing assemblies connected to the fuselage.
US11591062B2
An aircraft cabin door system has a cabin door having an outer side and an inner side, a drive device coupled to the cabin door for moving the cabin door into an open position, a first actuation device, a second actuation device, and an emergency chute unit coupled to the cabin door and having an emergency chute and an actuation mechanism. The emergency chute unit can be moved into an active state, in which opening the cabin door leads to activation of the emergency chute, and an inactive state, in which opening the cabin door does not lead to activation of the emergency chute. The emergency chute unit is in the inactive state when the cabin door is opened after actuation of the first actuation device. The emergency chute unit is in the active state when the cabin door is opened after actuation of the second actuation device.
US11591057B2
A propulsion device for marine vessel. A base is configured to be coupled to the marine vessel, the base having sides that extend downwardly from the marine vessel. A propulsor is pivotally coupled to the base and pivotable into and between a deployed position and a stowed position. The propulsor comprises a propeller having a hub with blades extending away therefrom. The propulsor is configured to propel the marine vessel in water when in the deployed position by rotating the propeller. An alignment device aligns the blades of the propeller between the sides of the base when the propulsor is in the stowed position.
US11591052B2
A gyroscopic roll stabilizer includes an enclosure, a flywheel assembly, a bearing, a motor, and a bearing cooling circuit. The enclosure is mounted to a gimbal for rotation about a gimbal axis and configured to maintain a below-ambient pressure. The flywheel assembly includes a flywheel and flywheel shaft. The bearing rotatably mounts the flywheel assembly inside the enclosure for rotation about a flywheel axis. The bearing has an inner race and an outer race. The inner race is affixed to the flywheel shaft, and the outer race is held rotationally fixed relative to the enclosure. The motor is operative to rotate the flywheel assembly. The bearing cooling circuit is configured to transfer heat away from the bearing by recirculating cooling fluid along a closed fluid pathway. The gyroscopic roll stabilizer is configured to transfer heat away from the inner and/or outer race of the bearing to the cooling fluid.
US11591048B1
A pulley system for tying a boat to an anchor comprising a block and tackle assembly and a jammer. The block and tackle assembly has a plurality of pulleys arranged on a first bracket and a second bracket, and a first rope strung sequentially through each of the pulleys, ending with a last pulley. The jammer is coupled to the second bracket and has a channel and a jammer exit at the end of the channel. The last pulley, the channel, and the jammer exit are configured to create a tortuous path for the rope through the second bracket. The channel may be misaligned with the last pulley. A swivel and a rope clip may be coupled to the block and tackle assembly. The swivel is configured to rotate at least 360 in either direction. The rope clip is configured to allow for quick tightening of the pulley system.
US11591043B2
A cogset with a plurality of sprockets has a subset of the sprockets connected together in a monolithic subset that is mounted directly in engagement with a coupling profile on the radially peripheral surface of a sprocket in the monolithic subset. The direct shape coupling between the sprocket of the monolithic subset and the sprocket-carrying body makes it possible to have very high solidity and rigidity of coupling to ensure the maximum precision of actuation of the gearshift that uses the sub-assembly.
US11591042B2
A power supply device is provided for a human-powered vehicle. The power supply device comprises a base, a first electrical port, a second electrical port and a third electrical port. The first electrical port is provided to the base. The first electrical port has a first connection configuration. The second electrical port is provided to the base, and having a second connection configuration. The third electrical port is provided to the base, and having a third connection configuration. The first connection configuration, the second connection configuration and the third connection configuration have a same shape.
US11591038B2
This specification relates to portable conveyances, and in particular to a dual-function apparatus that functions as a rack in a first attachment position on the portable conveyance when the portable conveyance is in an unfolded position, and that functions as a stand in a second attachment position on the portable conveyance when the portable conveyance is in a folded position.
US11591035B2
A bicycle cover (10) comprising a first material piece (11), a second material piece (12), and a first resilient element, the first resilient element being provided about a periphery (13) of the first material piece, the bicycle cover having a folded configuration in which portions of the first material piece and the second material piece lie adjacent one another and an expanded configuration in which the cover is adapted to receive a bicycle between the first and second material pieces, the first resilient element being biased to urge the cover towards the expanded configuration.
US11591017B2
A pilot neutralizing system of a work vehicle may include a pilot neutralizer. The work vehicle may include a first frame portion and a second frame portion. The work vehicle has an actuating assembly used to pivot the first frame portion relative to the second frame portion. The pilot neutralizer is electrically coupled to a controller receiving a signal indicative of an articulation position. The pilot neutralizer is hydraulically coupled between an operator control member and a steering valve to selectively change a pilot signal at the steering valve. The pilot signal is used to switch the steering valve to change a direction of a hydraulic fluid flowing from the steering valve to the actuating assembly. When the articulation position reaches a cushion region during steering, the pilot neutralizer is de-energized or energized by the controller to change the pilot signal at the steering valve to resist the actuating assembly from moving.
US11591007B2
A guide wheel shock absorbing device includes an attachment arm, a shock absorbing link provided on the attachment arm and extending in one direction, a shock absorbing link support portion provided on the shock absorbing link and supporting the shock absorbing link in a state of being oscillatable with respect to the attachment arm, a guide wheel coming into contact with a guide rail laid on a traveling track of a vehicle, a guide wheel support portion provided on the shock absorbing link and supporting the guide wheel in a rotatable state, and a shock absorbing elastic portion elastically supporting the shock absorbing link with respect to the attachment arm. The shock absorbing elastic portion has first and second elastic bodies different in displacement with respect to a guide wheel load.
US11591001B2
A steering column may include a first adjustment drive for adjustments in a length adjustment direction and a second adjustment drive for adjustments in a height adjustment direction. The adjustment drives each have a drive motor. A joint control unit for the drive motors comprises three half bridges arranged in parallel and connected between two voltage potentials. Each half bridge has a high-side switch and a low-side switch connected in series via a connection point. The connection point of the first half bridge is electrically conductively connected to a first connection of a first drive motor. The connection point of a second half bridge is electrically conductively connected to a second connection of the first drive motor and to a first connection of the second drive motor. The connection point of a third half bridge is electrically conductively connected to a second connection of the second drive motor.
US11590998B2
A stroller frame, comprising at least one motor, particularly an electric motor, for assisted driving of the stroller frame, a pusher bar for pushing the stroller frame and at least one force sensor device for detecting a direction and/or an amount of force and/or a force component acting on the pusher bar, and/or for detecting a value derived from said force or force component, particularly a temporal change of the force or force component.
US11590997B1
In an example implementation, a smart cart system may include a cart including a frame and an item holder supported by the frame and configured to transition between an open position and a storage position that is more compact than the open position. The smart cart system may include a motivator configured to provide a motive force to the cart, a power source coupled with the motivator, and a charging interface attached to the frame of the cart and that interacts with a cart charging system of a cart storage rack to charge the power source. The smart cart system may also include a user interface device, a computing device, and a smart cart controller operable on the computing device to receive information describing an attribute of an item and provide information describing the attribute of the item for presentation by the user interface device.
US11590991B2
A bogie and a rail vehicle, wherein the bogie includes: a framework, a wheel pair connected to the framework, a braking hanger fixed to the framework, a hanger slider used for fixedly connecting to a vehicle wheel braking clamp, and a transmission member; the hanger slider is connected to the braking hanger, and the transmission member is connected to the hanger slider; a first end of the transmission member extends to a side surface of a vehicle wheel in the wheel pair, and the transmission member is used to drive the hanger slider to move along the lateral direction with respect to the braking hanger when the first end is subjected to a thrust applied in the lateral direction by the vehicle wheel, so that the vehicle wheel braking clamp moves to a position corresponding to the vehicle wheel.
US11590984B2
A control system and method for controlling a vehicle subsystem are provided. The control system includes a remote parameter sensor configured to generate a remote parameter signal indicative of a value of a universal parameter associated with an environment in which a vehicle is operating. The system further includes a local parameter sensor configured to generate a local parameter signal indicative of the value of the universal parameter and a local controller. The controller is configured to receive the local parameter signal along a first signal path, receive the remote parameter signal and a command signal configured for controlling a function of the vehicle subsystem along a second signal path, compare the local and remote parameter signals and implement the function of the vehicle subsystem responsive to the command signal if the remote parameter signal meets a predetermined condition relative to the local parameter signal.
US11590983B2
A vehicle slip control apparatus to be installed in a vehicle including a drive source configured to output power to a driving wheel of the vehicle and a gear pair interposed between an output shaft of the drive source and the driving wheel includes a rotating speed detector, a slip determination unit, and a slip determination prohibition unit. The rotating speed detector is configured to detect a rotating speed of the output shaft. The slip determination unit is configured to determine, when an absolute value of an angular acceleration of the rotating speed detected by the rotating speed detector exceeds a set threshold, that the driving wheel is in a slip state. The slip determination prohibition unit is configured to prohibit the determination by the slip determination unit until a predetermined time elapses after a direction of torque outputted from the drive source is inverted.
US11590976B2
An apparatus and method for controlling a vehicle speed based on information about forward vehicles that travel in the same lane may be acquired using Vehicle to Everything (V2X) communications in a cooperative adaptive cruise control (CACC) system. The CACC system includes a communication unit receiving vehicle information from neighboring vehicles using V2V communications; an information collection unit collecting vehicle information of the neighboring vehicles and the subject vehicle using sensors; and a control unit determining a forward vehicle and a far-forward vehicle using the sensors, selecting first and second target vehicles for being followed by the subject vehicle based on the vehicle information of the forward vehicle and the far-forward vehicle and the vehicle information of the neighboring vehicles, and controlling the driving speed of the subject vehicle based on speed information of the first and second target vehicles.
US11590975B2
A vehicle control device has a first calculating unit calculating a first arrival time until a vehicle reaches a lane change position where a first lane along which the vehicle is traveling and a second lane merge, or the first lane and the second lane separates, a second calculating unit calculating a second arrival time until another vehicle traveling along the second lane reaches the lane change position, and a speed control unit controlling the speed of the vehicle such that the vehicle enables to make a lane change to the second lane ahead of the other vehicle when the first arrival time is shorter than the second arrival time, and controlling the speed of the vehicle such that the vehicle enables to make a lane change to the second lane behind the other vehicle when the first arrival time is equal to or greater than the second arrival time.
