US11676288B2
A data processing device for detecting motion in a sequence of frames each comprising one or more blocks of pixels, includes a sampling unit configured to determine image characteristics at a set of sample points of a block, a feature generation unit configured to form a current feature for the block, the current feature having a plurality of values derived from the sample points, and motion detection logic configured to generate a motion output for a block by comparing the current feature for the block to a learned feature representing historical feature values for the block.
US11676285B1
An image of a check is captured by an imaging device and a digital image of the check on a replacement background may be created. The check may be placed on any background while the image of the check is being captured. The replacement background replaces, in the digital image, the background that the check is placed on while its image is being captured. The replacement background may comprise a predetermined image or color(s). The image of the check and the replacement background may be provided into a digital image file that may be transmitted to an institution system for deposit of the check into an account.
US11676284B2
Various types of image analysis benefit from a multi-stream architecture that allows the analysis to consider shape data. A shape stream can process image data in parallel with a primary stream, where data from layers of a network in the primary stream is provided as input to a network of the shape stream. The shape data can be fused with the primary analysis data to produce more accurate output, such as to produce accurate boundary information when the shape data is used with semantic segmentation data produced by the primary stream. A gate structure can be used to connect the intermediate layers of the primary and shape streams, using higher level activations to gate lower level activations in the shape stream. Such a gate structure can help focus the shape stream on the relevant information and reduces any additional weight of the shape stream.
US11676278B2
Techniques related to automatically segmenting video frames into per pixel dense object of interest and background regions are discussed. Such techniques include applying a segmentation convolutional neural network (CNN) to a CNN input including a current video frame, a previous video frame, an object of interest indicator frame, a motion frame, and multiple feature frames each including features compressed from feature layers of an object classification convolutional neural network as applied to the current video frame to generate candidate segmentations and selecting one of the candidate segmentations as a final segmentation of the current video frame.
US11676274B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for processing an electronic image corresponding to a specimen. One method for processing the electronic image includes: receiving a target electronic image of a slide corresponding to a target specimen, the target specimen including a tissue sample from a patient, applying a machine learning system to the target electronic image to determine deficiencies associated with the target specimen, the machine learning system having been generated by processing a plurality of training images to predict stain deficiencies and/or predict a needed recut, the training images including images of human tissue and/or images that are algorithmically generated; and based on the deficiencies associated with the target specimen, determining to automatically order an additional slide to be prepared.
US11676272B2
Apparatus and methods are described including, using a computer processor, automatically identifying whether a given pixel within an image corresponds to a portion of an object. A set of concentric circles that are disposed around the pixel are sampled, and a first function is applied to each of the circles such that the circles are defined by a first set of rotationally invariant descriptors. A second function is applied to the set of circles to generate a second set of descriptors, each of which represents a difference between respective pairs of the circles. A third function is applied such that the second set of descriptors becomes rotationally invariant. The processor identifies whether the given pixel corresponds to the portion of the object, based upon the first and second sets of rotationally invariant descriptors. Other applications are also described.
US11676271B2
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium stores a program that causes a computer to perform an obtaining process, an analyzing process, and an extracting process. In the obtaining process, the computer obtains a radiographic moving image showing a motion of a specific part of an examinee. In the analyzing process, the computer analyzes the radiographic moving image obtained in the obtaining process. In the extracting process, the computer extracts, among frames constituting the radiographic moving image, a specific frame that visibly shows a detection target in the specific part, based on a result of analyzing a dynamic state of the specific part in the analyzing process.
US11676269B2
The present invention relates to a novel automated pattern recognition and scoring method of histological images.
US11676266B2
A method for detecting defects on a sample based on a defect inspection apparatus is provided. In the method, an image data set that includes defect data and non-defect data is organized. A convolutional neural network (CNN) model is defined. The CNN model is trained based on the image data set. The defects on the sample are detected based on inspection data of the defect inspection apparatus and the CNN model. The sample includes uniformly repeating structures, and the inspection data of the defect inspection apparatus is generated by filtering out signals of the uniformly repeating structures of the sample.
US11676261B2
Systems and methods for diagnosing and facilitating repair of system components and/or improving watering schedules are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of diagnosing a sprinkler system component is disclosed that includes initiating a sprinkler system zone run for a particular zone of a sprinkler system, capturing image data for the sprinkler system run, uploading the image data to a network node, processing the image data at the network node to produce data on the sprinkler system or a sprinkler system component, and generating an action item for the sprinkler system or sprinkler system component based on the data produced at the network node.
US11676253B2
In accordance with some aspects, systems, methods and media for hierarchical progressive point cloud rendering are provided. In some aspects, a method for point cloud rendering is provided, the method comprising: rendering a first image based on point cloud data; requesting point cloud points, first synthetic point cloud points, and an octant of a second synthetic point cloud that intersects a new viewing frustum; reprojecting points used during rendering of the first image into frame buffer objects (FBOs) of different resolutions; replacing reprojected points if a received point corresponding to the same pixel is closer to the camera; determining that a pixel in the highest resolution FBO is unfilled; copying a point that originated in a lower resolution FBO to the gap in the highest resolution FBO; and when the highest resolution FBO is filled, rendering a second image based on the contents.
US11676250B1
Techniques for using motion data to generate a high resolution output color image from multiple images having sparse color information are disclosed. A camera generates multiple images. The camera's sensor is configured to have a sparse Bayer pattern. While the camera is generating the images, IMU data for each image is acquired. The IMU data indicates a corresponding pose the camera was in while the camera generated each image. The images and the IMU data are fed as input into a motion model. The motion model performs temporal filtering on the images and uses the IMU data to generate a red-only image, a green-only image, and a blue-only image. A high resolution output color image is generated by combining the red-only image, the green-only image, and the blue-only image.
US11676244B2
Implementations relate to crop yield prediction at the field- and pixel-level. In various implementations, a first temporal sequence of high-elevation digital images may be obtained that capture a first geographic area and are acquired over a first predetermined time interval while the first geographic area includes a particular crop. A first plurality of other data points may also be obtained that influence a ground truth crop yield of the first geographic area after the first predetermined time interval. The first plurality of other data points may be grouped into temporal chunks corresponding temporally with respective images of the first temporal sequence. The first temporal sequence and the temporal chunks of the first plurality of other data points may be applied, e.g., iteratively, as input across a machine learning model to estimate a crop yield of the first geographic area at the end of the first predetermined time interval.
US11676233B2
A method of handling a client's request for origin/destination and/or departure/arrival time is provided. Data is gathered from content-provider platforms and transport-service graphs, corresponding to public-transportation networks, are generated with their nodes representing stops in a corresponding public-transportation network and their internal edges representing connections. A connection graph including the transport-service graphs is generated. Origin/destination nodes are selected in the connection graph as well as routes between these nodes. Therein, successive segments for a route, corresponding to transportation connections between nodes of a transport-service graph are joined. Queries asking price, availability, departure/arrival time based on departure/arrival time of the request and estimated travel duration of a selected route's segment are sent to content-provider platforms. Responses to the queries are aggregated to build a set of itineraries and sending an offer comprising this set to the client.
US11676231B1
This disclosure describes, in part, techniques for performing automatic document analysis. For instance, one or more computing devices may obtain a plurality of documents for analysis. The one or more computing devices may then analyze the documents to determine a respective comparative breadth score representing a breadth of each document, a respective comparative portion count score representing a number of documents portions included in each document, and a respective comparative differentiation score representing differentiation between the documents portions included in each document. In some instances, the one or more computing devices determine each of the scores based on comparing the respective breadth, respective number of document portions, and respective differentiation for each of the documents under analysis. The one or more computing devices can then determine a comprehensive score for each document using the respective scores, and generate a user interface that includes the overall scores.
US11676229B2
A system and method for document transformation and recordation is provided. Documents for a transaction of real property are identified based on a jurisdiction in which the real property is located. Each document includes a plurality of data fields and each data field is associated with a data field identifier. A data value is received in at least one of the data fields of one or more of the documents. The data fields in the documents associated with the data field identifiers that match the data field identifiers of the data fields in which the data values are received are identified. The identified data fields are automatically populated with the data values based on the data field identifiers associated with the data values. A completeness rule is applied to the documents by verifying whether all required documents for completing the transaction in the jurisdiction are satisfied by the documents.
US11676216B1
A system and method for automatically detecting a vehicle collision and taking action in response to the vehicle collision is disclosed. The vehicle collision can be detected by analyzing information from sensors onboard a vehicle, in a mobile device disposed within the vehicle or from roadway sensors. When a collision is detected, an insurance provider can automatically open a new insurance claim. The provider may also use sensed information to detect damaged components of a vehicle and provide information about the damaged components to a vehicle repair facility.
US11676211B2
Techniques are disclosed to calculate a “life script.” The life script may include various behaviors and/or monetary allocations required for a user to meet one or more user-defined objectives. These objectives may indicate various lifestyle habits desired by the user such as where to live, a maximum commuting time to work, how often to travel, etc. Because each of these objectives requires the user to allocate his funds in a certain way and to live in accordance with a particular set of restraints, user information may be collected and aggregated from several sources to generate a user profile indicating the user's financial information, demographics, psychographics, and lifestyle information. The user profile may then be analyzed to calculate a constraint framework that guides the generation of a life script to allow the user to achieve the desired objectives.
US11676210B2
A computer implemented method and associated hardware provides optimization of a delivery or settlement process for a group of portfolios and calculation of a transaction suggestion to one or more participants. Data records, identified in a portfolio data structure, are indicative of obligations between participants. A weighted directed graph data structure is generated and includes vertex data records representing the participants and edge data records representing the obligations between participants. The weighted directed graph structure is analyzed for at least one series of multiple vertex data records or multiple edge data records. A proposed edge associated with a first vertex of the series and a second vertex of the at least one series is identified. A report is generated that describes at least one transaction in response to the proposed edge associated with the first vertex of the series and the second vertex of the series for the at least one of the participants.
US11676205B2
In order to protect a trading party from predatory trading strategies employed by some market participants, especially during certain periods when quotes for a particular security are experiencing rapid changes or transitions, embodiments of the present invention facilitate and support various new type of trading orders whose booking and execution behaviors are dynamically varied in response to environmental market conditions and/or predefined rules. For example, the orders may be allowed to trade at more aggressive price levels if the market is relatively stable, and the orders can only trade at less aggressive price levels or be automatically suspended or even cancelled when the market is unstable.
US11676200B2
Systems and methods are provided for the generation of augmented reality (AR) scenery for a physical item. The AR scenery allows a customer to interact with the physical item in the real-world, while also allowing the customer to view the physical item in a virtual setting that may be tailored to the customer and/or to the physical item. According to an embodiment, an AR scene is generated for a physical item. The AR scene includes computer-generated scenery and at least a portion of an image of the physical item, where the computer-generated scenery is based on information associated with the user and/or the physical item. The AR scene is then displayed on a device.
US11676188B2
An online store can transmit an online account token to an electronic device or to a biometric sensing device after a user successfully enters his or her account password. The electronic device or the biometric sensing device can countersign the online account token when the one or more biometric images match reference biometric images and the account password matches user identifier data stored in the electronic device or in the biometric sensing device. The countersigned online account token can then be transmitted to the online store. The user can then make one or more purchases after the online store receives the countersigned online account token.
US11676183B1
Techniques are described herein for providing adaptable testing and benchmarking of user experiences with respect to one or more products. In some embodiments, the techniques include systems and methods for predicting performance of facets of a user experience under new testing and benchmarking methodologies. The systems and methods may generate a prediction for the results of a UX test even though the methodology and mechanics to quantify the user experience may vary significantly from previous methodologies. The techniques allow for methodologies to evolve over time without losing historical context or the ability to meaningfully compare historical test results with tests run using updated testing and benchmark models. Further, the techniques allow for benchmarks to be computed in real-time or near real-time as methodologies change without requiring tests to be run according to the new methodologies.
US11676175B1
Methods, systems, and storage media for assigning multiple identifiers to user accounts are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: receive an indication of an event; associate the event with a user; associate the user with at least a first account identifier of a plurality of accounts of the user; associate the user with at least a second account identifier of the plurality of accounts of the user, the second account identifier different than the first account identifier; add at least one of the first account identifier or the second account identifier to a custom audience relating to the event; target the custom audience through directed advertising; and deliver advertisements to the custom audience.
US11676170B2
A system and method for processing promotions in connection with digital purchasing. Data associated with a digital purchase request made by a consumer (the data comprising a token, an amount associated with the transaction, a promotional code for each item included in the digital purchase request associated with a promotion, a default transaction amount, and a single default promotional code) is received from a merchant server. The single default promotional code is assigned to all items included in the digital purchase request that are associated with promotions. Using the token, account information associated with the consumer is retrieved from a database. For each promotional code received, promotional information is retrieved. The retrieved promotional information is displayed. The digital purchase request is submitted for processing using the single default promotional code.
US11676168B2
A method can include retrieving product information from a website database to identify a first product as a value-sensitive product identified with at least a value price tag. The method can include determining second users who are not value conscious about the first product. The method can also include preparing first and second recommendations and promotions for the first product, wherein the first recommendation comprises one or more value-sensitive products. The method additionally can include transmitting machine readable instructions to display the first recommendations and promotions for the first product for viewing by the first user. The method also can include transmitting machine readable instructions to display the second recommendations and promotions for the first product for viewing by the second user. Other embodiments are disclosed herein.
US11676166B1
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for personalized product communication, conversion, and retargeting. In some embodiments, the disclosure is directed to systems and methods that allows users to capture product-specific purchase intent by sending a cellular message containing a picture of a product tag, receiving that product's internet URL in reply via cellular message, and receiving later promotions related to that product from a retailer via cellular messages. In some embodiments, the present inventions allows the unique capability to capture and convert in-store interest with product specific promotions and conversions in a way not previously utilized in the retail space.
US11676164B2
A computer-implemented method for determining auction prices of vehicles may include obtaining wholesale auction price data indicative of wholesale auction prices and vehicle attribute values of a plurality of vehicles; grouping the plurality of vehicles into a plurality of vehicle groups respectively associated with a plurality of characteristics; determining a plurality of regression models respectively based on the plurality of vehicle groups; obtaining information describing a target vehicle; based on the target-vehicle values and values for the one or more economic indicators, determining an estimated wholesale auction price of the target vehicle using an identified regression model of the plurality of regression models; determining a discount factor representing an expected discount of a post-repossession auction price of the target vehicle from the estimated wholesale auction price; and determining an estimated post-repossession auction price of the target vehicle based on the estimated wholesale auction price and the determined discount factor.
US11676161B2
Systems and methods for demographic determination using image recognition. The method includes analyzing an image with a pre-trained lightweight neural network model, where the lightweight neural network model generates a confidence value, and comparing the confidence value to a threshold value to determine if the pre-trained lightweight neural network model is sufficiently accurate. The method further includes analyzing the image with a pre-trained heavyweight neural network model for the confidence value below the threshold value, wherein the pre-trained heavyweight neural network model has above about one million trainable parameters and the pre-trained lightweight neural network model has a number of trainable parameters below one tenth the heavyweight model, and displaying demographic data to a user on a user interface, wherein the user modifies store inventory based on the demographic data.
US11676160B2
Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture to estimate cardinality of users represented in arbitrarily distributed bloom filter arrays are disclosed. An apparatus includes a communications interface to obtain a first Bloom filter array generated by a first computer of a first database proprietor and obtain a second Bloom filter array generated by a second computer of a second database proprietor. The apparatus includes a cardinality analyzer to estimate a total number of unique users included in a union of corresponding ones of the first and second users represented in the first and second Bloom filter arrays regardless of whether the first and second users are mapped, based on a first distribution or a second distribution different than the first distribution, to the corresponding first and second Bloom filter arrays.
US11676143B2
Systems and methods for payment processing using cryptocurrency assets.
US11676136B1
A computer system and method for enabling or disabling a payment vehicle at the request of a payment card holder from a remote device. The computer system comprises a computer having memory and a processor for processing input data received from a remote device. The input data comprises an instruction executable by the processor in a form of a text message or electronic mail received from the remote device, with the instruction to enable or disable a payment card of a payment card holder by changing the status of the payment card. An interactive remote interface computer software application is provided to the payment card holder for use on the remote or other device.
US11676132B2
Digital or “smart” contracts execute in a blockchain environment. Any entity (whether public or private) may specify a digital contract via a blockchain. Because there may be many digital contracts offered as virtual services, the contract identifier uniquely identifies a particular decision table and/or the digital contract offered by a virtual machine, vendor or supplier. The blockchain is thus not burdened with the programming code that is required to execute the decision table and/or the digital contract. The blockchain need only include or specify the contract identifier (and perhaps one or more contractual parameters), thus greatly simplifying the blockchain and reducing its size (in bytes) and processing requirements.
US11676128B2
A payment device comprising of a housing, a slot for insertion of a user instrument located on a front surface of the housing, and wherein the housing includes a smart card interface integrated circuit that is configured to read an EMV chip located on the user instrument, and a universal serial bus (USB) type C male connector configured to be inserted into a female connector on a computing device, wherein the USB type C male connector is located on a back surface of the housing, and wherein a size of the USB type C male connector is configured so that when the USB type C male connector is inserted into the female connector on the computing device, the back surface of the housing is within a distance of three centimeters of a surface of the computing device.
US11676126B1
A computing system may include a network circuit configured to communicate with a third party computing device via a network, one or more interface elements (e.g., application programming interfaces and/or software development kits) providing account open functionality, and an account open circuit configured to: accept, via the interface elements, a set of user data and an account open request for opening a new account with the provider, where the set of user data is received from a user computing device of a user via a third party website or application; establish the new account by generating a set of account data associated with the new account without directing the user to the operating environment of a website or application of the provider; and transmit the set of account data to the third party computing device for use by the third party computing device in a transaction with the user.
US11676123B2
An apparatus and a computer implemented method for managing data streams to a terminal device according to peak levels is disclosed. A streaming device (e.g., exchange device) may provide the data streams in response to requests received from the terminal devices. A network device in the communication path between the streaming device and the terminal device may route the data streams. At least one of the exchange device, the network device, and the terminal device is configured to identify an extended time period for a data stream between a streaming device and a terminal device, determine at least one representative time period within the extended time period, determine a quantity of discrete messages for the at least one representative time period, and calculate the coincident value for the streaming device and the terminal device over the extended time period based on the quantity of discrete messages, for the at least one representative time period, from the exchange device to at least the terminal device.
US11676121B2
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can receive a first content item uploaded by a first user. Content ownership information can be updated to associate the first content item with the first user. The first user can be provided with content item analytics pertaining to the first content item in a content item analytics interface.
US11676113B2
A device may receive images of an object and information identifying the object, process the images using an artificial intelligence technique to identify parts of the object that are depicted in the images, and receive information identifying a location of damage on the object and information regarding the damage on the object. The device may process the information identifying the location of damage to identify a damaged part of the object, identify images depicting the damaged part, and identify, in the images, a location of the damaged part. The device may generate a first content item for display at the location of the damaged part in the images and generate a second content item for display with the images based on user interaction with the first content item, where the second content item includes information based on the information regarding the damage on the object.
US11676108B1
Disclosed herein are methods and systems to generate and communicate interactive digital proofs of transaction. In one implementation, the method may include receiving an indication of a payment transaction between a merchant and a user and processing payment for the payment transaction. The payment processing system generates one or more interactive digital proofs of transaction including at least details of the payment transaction and availability of a vacancy or resource at the payee location. The user may respond via the interactive receipt.
US11676097B1
Systems and methods which facilitate fixed rate shipping through the use of perpetual value bearing shipping labels are disclosed. The substantially perpetual viability of the value borne by perpetual value bearing shipping labels herein provides a shelf life which exceeds a shipping rate change epoch. Perpetual value bearing shipping labels of embodiments, although providing valid viable postage for use in obtaining shipping services, are provided as fungible products and do not include delivery or date information as pre-produced and made available to shippers in advance of their shipping activity. An on-line fulfillment system may be provided in which shippers may select a desired number of perpetual value bearing shipping labels in one or more value bearing amount for purchase by and delivery to the shipper for later use. Perpetual value bearing shipping labels may also be made available to shippers is through point of sale acquisition.
US11676096B2
A system and method for optimized packaging of food delivery and take-out orders. The system is a cloud-based network containing an optimization server, portals for restaurants, customers, and drivers to enter their information, a rules library, a label manager, and a food packaging optimization module which determines optimal packaging groupings and configurations based on a multitude of variables associated with the restaurant, customer preferences, and the available menu. The system may be accessed through web browsers or purpose-built computer and mobile phone applications.
US11676085B2
A system is provided for identifying consumer packaged goods (CPGs). The system comprises an imaging device mounted on a mobile platform; a CPG detector which is equipped with a neural network and which (a) utilizes the imaging device to obtain an image containing a plurality of CPGs, (b) detects a set of CPG superclass features in the image, and (c) generates a CPG feature map which maps the location of CPG features in the image, wherein said neural network has been trained on a set of images of CPGs to recognize which of a set of superclasses a detected CPG belongs to; a region proposal network which accepts the CPG feature map as input and which returns a first set of regions in the image where a CPG could be located; a superclassifier which examines each region in the first set of regions to determine if the region contains an instance of a superclass of a CPG, and which outputs a second set of regions containing a CPG; and a superclass proposal layer which operates on each member of the second set of regions and returns a set of superclass proposals for each region.
US11676082B2
Technologies for interruptibility analysis and notification are disclosed. In at least one illustrative embodiment, a method may comprise generating a live data stream including activity data received from one or more sensors associated with a worker, repeatedly generating an interruptibility status of the worker as a function of the activity data in the live data stream over a recent time period, and transmitting a signal that causes one of a plurality of status indicators to be displayed, the displayed status indicator corresponding to the current interruptibility status of the worker.
US11676076B2
The present invention provides a prediction method and system of high slope deformation. First, historical deformation data of each period of each part of a high slope is obtained as sample data; the sample data is divided into training samples and test samples; then a parameter group of a Support Vector Machine (SVM) model is optimized by using the training samples and a particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm to determine an optimal parameter group of the SVM model, to obtain a trained SVM model; whether the trained SVM model satisfies a condition is verified by using the test samples, and when the SVM model does not satisfy the condition, an optimal parameter group of the SVM model is re-determined; and finally the deformation of each area of the high slope is predicted by using the SVM model that satisfies the condition.
US11676070B1
The Multidimensional Machine Learning Data and User Interface Segment Tagging Engine Apparatuses, Methods and Systems (“MLUI”) transforms ambient condition data, sales data, user interface selections, cognitive intelligence question input inputs via MLUI components into project projections, campaigns, user interface visualizations, cognitive intelligence question output outputs. A cognitive intelligence (CI) datapoint identifier cache datastructure is generated, the CI datapoint identifier cache datastructure configured to comprise a category identifier and an entity segment identifier. A CI datapoint value cache datastructure is generated, the CI datapoint value cache datastructure configured to comprise a set of module datastructures, each module datastructure corresponding to a module identifier associated with the category identifier, each module datastructure comprising a set of metric datastructures, each metric datastructure corresponding to a set of calculated metrics. The generated CI datapoint identifier cache datastructure and the generated CI datapoint value cache datastructure are stored as a key-value pair.
US11676069B2
Techniques for synthetic data generation in computer-based reasoning systems are discussed and include receiving a request for generation of synthetic data based on a set of training data cases. One or more focal training data cases are determined. For undetermined features (either all of them or those that are not subject to conditions), a value for the feature is determined based on the focal cases. In some embodiments, the generated synthetic data may be checked for similarity against the original data, and if similarity conditions are met, it may be modified (e.g., resampled), removed, and/or replaced.
US11676049B2
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for updating static machine-learning models (e.g., a Doc2Vec model) without needing to retrain the models. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to systems and methods that can be used to add new data to a base model by training a client model using the new data, and transforming the vector space of the client model to align with the vector space of the base model. The base model can then be updated using the realigned client model. As such, the base model can be updated with the new data without needing to retrain the base model, which can be burdensome to processing resources, insecure, and time consuming.
US11676040B2
A cognitive information processing system environment which includes a plurality of data sources; a cognitive inference and learning system coupled to receive a data from the plurality of data sources, the cognitive inference and learning system processing the data from the plurality of data sources to provide cognitively processed insights, the cognitive inference and learning system further comprising performing a learning operation to iteratively improve the cognitively processed insights over time; and, a destination, the destination receiving the cognitively processed insights.
US11676039B2
Aspects of the invention include an optimal interpretable decision tree using integer linear programming techniques. A non-limiting example computer-implemented method includes receiving, using a processor, a plurality of data inputs from a process and selecting, using the processor, a data subset from the plurality of data inputs by solving linear programming to obtain a solution. The method builds and optimizes, using the processor, an optimal decision tree based on the data subset and alerts, using the processor, a user when a prediction of the optimal decision tree is greater than a threshold value.
US11676036B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for training a previously trained neural network with incremental dataset. Original train data is provided to a neural network and the neural network is trained based on the plurality of classes in the sets of training data and/or testing data. The connected representation and the weights of the neural network is the model of the neural network. The trained model is to be updated for an incremental train data. The embodiments provide a process by which the trained model is updated for the incremental train data. This process creates a ground truth for the original training data and trains on the combined set of original train data and the incremental train data. The incremental training is tested on a test data to conclude the training and to generate the incremental trained model, minimizing the knowledge learned with the original data. Thus, the results remain consistent with the original model trained by the original dataset except the incremental train data.
US11676029B2
The present disclosure relates to a neural network quantization parameter determination method and related products. A board card in the related products includes a memory device, an interface device, a control device, and an artificial intelligence chip, in which the artificial intelligence chip is connected with the memory device, the control device, and the interface device respectively. The memory device is configured to store data, and the interface device is configured to transmit data between the artificial intelligence chip and an external device. The control device is configured to monitor the state of the artificial intelligence chip. The board card can be used to perform an artificial intelligence computation.
US11676019B2
Systems, devices, media, and methods are presented for graphical icon identification within an image or video stream. The systems and methods receive an image including a graphical icon. The systems and methods identify a set of proposed regions of the image, at least one proposed region of the set of proposed regions containing the graphical icon and extract a set of semantic features for each proposed region of the set of proposed regions. Based on the set of semantic features of the set of proposed regions, the systems and methods identify a set of proposed icons corresponding to the graphical icon included in the image and determine a match between the graphical icon and at least one proposed icon of the set of proposed icons.
US11676013B2
Based on historic job data, a computer processor can predict a configuration of a computer node for running a future computer job. The computer processor can pre-configure the computer node based on the predicted configuration. Responsive to receiving a submission of a job, the computer processor can launch the job on the pre-configured computer node.
US11676006B2
According to some embodiments, a universal modeling system may include a plurality of domain expert models to each receive raw input data (e.g., a stream of audio frames containing speech utterances) and provide a domain expert output based on the raw input data. A neural mixture component may then generate a weight corresponding to each domain expert model based on information created by the plurality of domain expert models (e.g., hidden features and/or row convolution). The weights might be associated with, for example, constrained scalar numbers, unconstrained scaler numbers, vectors, matrices, etc. An output layer may provide a universal modeling system output (e.g., an automatic speech recognition result) based on each domain expert output after being multiplied by the corresponding weight for that domain expert model.
US11675998B2
Disclosed herein includes a system, a method, and a device for receiving input data to generate a plurality of outputs for a layer of a neural network. The plurality of outputs are arranged in a first array. Dimensions of the first array may be compared with dimensions of a processing unit (PE) array including a plurality of PEs. According to a result of the comparing, the first array is partitioned into subarrays by the processor. Each of the subarrays has dimensions less than or equal to the dimensions of the PE array. A first group of PEs in the PE array is assigned to a first one of the subarrays. A corresponding output of the plurality of outputs is generated using a portion of the input data by each PE of the first group of PEs assigned to the first one of the subarrays.
US11675988B2
An apparatus detects a plurality of areas from an overall image, determines on each of the plurality of areas whether the area is a candidate for an area including an object as a processing target based on a determination reference value (first determination processing), acquires a zoom-in image of the area determined to be the candidate for the area including the object in the first determination processing, and determines whether the acquired zoom-in image is an image of the object (second determination processing). The apparatus identifies an area, in the overall image, corresponding to the zoom-in image determined not to be the image of the object in the second determination processing, and performs control to update the determination reference value used in the first determination processing based on image information of the identified area in the overall image.
US11675982B2
A natural language processing system includes logic circuitry that receives, from a first user channel, a user query including natural language (NL) input in a colloquial format from an end user, selects a first NLP application from a plurality of NLP applications, transforms, using the first NLP application, the NL input into a plurality of language tokens, extracts a command trigger from the language tokens, determines that the command trigger is linked to a command executable by a first wagering game channel, transmits a command query incorporating the command to the first wagering game channel, receives a command reply including wagering game data associated with the command from the first wagering game channel, generates, using the first NLP application, an NL response that includes the wagering game data and is structured in a colloquial format, and transmits the NL response to the end user via the first user channel.
US11675965B2
An example method is provided for encoding text for language processing. The method may be executed by a processing system, and the method includes receiving text comprising a plurality of alphanumeric characters or symbols and converting the text into a numerical vector comprising a plurality of numerical values, by mapping each alphanumeric character or symbol of the text to a vertex coordinate of one of a plurality of vertices of a hypercube, wherein a number of the plurality of vertices is equal to or greater than a number of the plurality of alphanumeric characters or symbols, wherein the numerical vector consumes less space in memory than the text. An amount of time consumed by language processing of the numerical vector may be less than an amount of time consumed by language processing of the text.
US11675964B2
Methods and systems for modifying display of applications displayed on local computing devices are described herein. A local computing device may request, from a remote application server, one or more remote applications. The local computing device, user of the remote computing device, and/or the one or more applications may be associated with layout preferences. The layout preferences may be based on a location of the local computing device, a device type and/or device properties of the local computing device, or other similar context information. Display of the one or more remote applications may be modified based on the layout preferences. A user may alter display of the one or more remote applications, and the layout preferences may be modified.
US11675962B2
A method of enhancing a layout pattern includes determining a target layout pattern comprising a disk shape associated with a hole. The method includes defining a polygon having a plurality of vertices on the disk shape. The plurality of vertices coincide with a boundary of the disk shape and the polygon is an initial layout pattern of the hole. The method includes performing an iterative correction of the initial layout pattern. The iterative correction includes projecting the layout pattern of the hole onto a substrate, determining an error between the target layout pattern and the projected layout pattern, and adjusting the layout pattern by moving the vertices of the polygon to generate a next iteration of the layout pattern. The method includes continuing the adjusting, projecting, and determining until a criterion is satisfied and a final iteration of the layout pattern of the hole is generated.
US11675960B2
Embodiments of a system and method for generating integrated circuit layouts are described herein. A computer implemented method for generating integrated circuit layouts includes receiving a first layout for an integrated circuit, segmenting the first layout into a plurality of different patches, each patch of the plurality of patches describing a discrete portion of the first layout, identifying a non-compliant patch of the plurality of patches, the non-compliant patch violating a design rule governing the manufacture of the integrated circuit, generating a transformation of the non-compliant patch using a machine learning model, and generating a second layout using the transformation and the first layout, where the second layout is compliant with the design rule.
US11675958B2
In a method of optimizing a lithography model in a lithography simulation, a mask is formed in accordance with a given layout, a wafer is printed using the mask, a pattern formed on the printed wafer is measured, a wafer pattern is simulated using a wafer edge bias table and the given mask layout, a difference between the simulated wafer pattern and the measured pattern is obtained, and the wafer edge table is adjusted according to the difference.
US11675957B2
A method of verifying an integrated circuit stack includes adding a dummy layer to a contact pad of a functional circuit, wherein a location of the dummy layer is determined based on a location of a contact pad of a connecting substrate. The method further includes converting the dummy layer location to the connecting substrate. The method further includes performing a layout versus schematic (LVS) check of the connecting substrate including the dummy layer in response to a determination that the dummy layer is aligned with the contact pad of the connecting substrate.
US11675955B1
Various embodiments provide for routing a net of a circuit design using rule-based routing blockage extension, which may be part of electronic design automation (EDA). In particular, some embodiments route a net of a circuit design by determining a dimension extension value based on a design rule of the circuit design and applying the dimension extension value to at least one existing routing blockage.
US11675949B2
A method includes laying out a standard cell region, with a rectangular space being within the standard cell region. The standard cell region includes a first row of standard cells having a first bottom boundary facing the rectangular space, and a plurality of standard cells having side boundaries facing the rectangular space. The plurality of standard cells include a bottom row of standard cells. A memory array is laid out in the rectangular space, and a second bottom boundary of the bottom row and a third bottom boundary of the memory array are aligned to a same straight line. A filler cell region is laid out in the rectangular space. The filler cell region includes a first top boundary contacting the first bottom boundary of the first row of standard cells, and a fourth bottom boundary contacting a second top boundary of the memory array.
US11675947B2
A network device includes processing circuitry configured to: determine whether to initiate a temporal reconfiguration or a spatial reconfiguration of a partial reconfiguration slot on a programmable device, and initiate the temporal reconfiguration or the spatial reconfiguration of the partial reconfiguration slot in response to determining that the temporal reconfiguration or the spatial reconfiguration is to be initiated.
US11675944B2
In an approach utilizing static analysis, a processor receives a netlist for an integrated circuit. For at least one node of the integrated circuit in the netlist, a processor calculates (i) a total capacitive load of the respective node and (ii) a minimum required driver size. For a driver of the respective node, a processor (i) determines an effective driver size of the driver based on at least a number of fins of the driver and (ii) determines that the effective driver size exceeds the minimum required driver size multiplied by a predefined sizing margin. A processor, responsive to determining that the effective driver size exceeds the minimum required driver size multiplied by the predefined sizing margin, generates a report, where the report includes at least the driver and a suggestion to reduce the effective size of the driver.
US11675943B2
Embodiments are directed towards a method to create a reconfigurable interconnect framework in an integrated circuit. The method includes accessing a configuration template directed toward the reconfigurable interconnect framework, editing parameters of the configuration template, functionally combining the configuration template with a plurality of modules from an IP library to produce a register transfer level (RTL) circuit model, generating at least one automated test-bench function, and generating at least one logic synthesis script. Editing parameters of the configuration template includes confirming a first number of output ports of a reconfigurable stream switch and confirming a second number of input ports of the reconfigurable stream switch. Each output port and each input port has a respective architectural composition. The output port architectural composition is defined by a plurality of N data paths including A data outputs and B control outputs. The input port architectural composition is defined by a plurality of M data paths including A data inputs and B control inputs.
US11675930B2
A client device instantiates an isolator application. A request to instantiate a remote application in a server device is sent by the isolator application instance. The isolator application instance receives, from the remote application instance, draw commands and position information that correspond to the draw commands. The isolator application instance renders one or more portions of output based on the draw commands and the position information.
US11675927B2
Content management systems are implemented according to a multitenant architecture by which software and its supporting architecture serves multiple customers of a service. Each tenant may be given a share of the application's data, configuration, user management, and other aspects of the application. Each tenant's data is isolated and typically remains invisible to other tenants so that tenants do not share or see each other's data. Embodiments described herein provide mechanisms by which a tenant can delegate administrator rights to an external user such that the external user can grant other users access to the tenant's content while the tenant controls the level of access that is provided to the external users.
US11675922B2
The invention relates to a method for cryptographically secure storing a file (101) using a web application executed by a web browser (106) on a user computer system (104, 162, 168) of a user (102, 160). The method comprises: encrypting the file (101) on the user computer system (104, 162, 168) by the web application, providing a distribution plan by the web application, fragmenting the encrypted file (101) on the user computer system (104, 162, 168) by the web application into a plurality of file fragments (F1-F4) according to the distribution plan, sending the resulting file fragments (F1-F4) by the web application over the network (178) to the storage services identified by the distribution plan (SD1-SD6).
US11675916B2
A system for managing composed information handling systems to manage access to data by applications hosted by the composed information handling systems includes a system control processor that instantiates a composed information handling system using a compute resource set that hosts applications and a hardware resource set that stores a portion of the data, associates, using authorization information, storage areas of the at least one hardware resource set with the applications to obtain storage area associations, obtains a data access request from the compute resource set for the portion of the data which is stored in a storage area of the storage areas, makes a determination, based on the storage area associations and an initiator of the data access request, that the initiator of the data access request is not authorized to access the portion of the data, and refuses to service the data access request.
US11675913B2
One example method includes packaging a containerized application into at least two images. The first image may include the main application and the second image includes a decryptor. Sensitive information associated with the application is encrypted and included in the second image. The decryptor operates separately from the main application. After the decryptor successfully completes, the main application is run. The main application may include a copier layer to copy any data decrypted by the decryptor into the main application.
US11675906B1
Infection by viruses and rootkits from data memory devices, data messages and data operations are rendered impossible by construction for the Simultaneous Multi-Processor (SiMulPro) cores, core modules, Programmable Execution Modules (PEM), PEM Arrays, STAR messaging protocol implementations, integrated circuits (referred to as chips herein), and systems composed of these components. Greatly improved energy efficiency is disclosed. A system implementation of an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) communicating with a DRAM controller interacting with a DRAM array is presented with this resistance to virus and rootkit infection, and simultaneously capable of 1 Teraflop (Tflop) FP16, 1 TFlop FP32 and 1 Tflop FP64 performance while accessing 1 Tbyte of DRAM with a power budget comparable to today's desktop or notebook computers accessing 8 Gbytes of DRAM. Innovations to the STAR communication apparatus will enable the optical communication between chips to carry at least ½ Tbit/second data to and from DRAMs, and each other.
US11675902B2
A system and method of de-elevating a process created in a computing device of a computer system are disclosed. In certain aspects, a method includes detecting a user login within a login session of a computing device in the computer system, the login session having a default security context. The method also includes creating a de-elevated security context for the login session, wherein the de-elevated security context has fewer privileges than the default security context. The method also includes detecting a process being created within the login session. The method further includes determining that the process is potentially malicious by comparing an intended state and a digital profile of the computing device. The method also includes launching the process using the de-elevated security context.
US11675891B2
An image forming apparatus includes: a processor configured to: execute a linking application for a linkage with a specific service, to receive a linkage request from a user through the specific service; and perform an authenticating process that authenticates a user who uses the image forming apparatus, using user information on the user who uses the specific service linked as a result of an approval of the received linkage request.
US11675886B2
An apparatus verifies hosted information associated with a user. The apparatus establishes, by the online host serving as a relying party system (RPS), a secure connection between the RPS and a user mobile-identification-credential device (UMD). The RPS sends a mobile identification credential (MIC) user information request to the UMD, via the secure connection, seeking release of MIC user information (official information). The RPS obtains from authorizing party system (APS) verification of the MIC user information received in response to the MIC user information request. The RPS stores the MIC user information as hosted information pertaining to the user. The RPS designates the hosted information as base truth information representing the user.
US11675881B2
Systems and methods enable automated and scalable obfuscation detection in programming scripts, including processing devices that receive software programming scripts and a symbol set. The processing devices determine a frequency of each symbol and an average frequency of the symbols in the script text. The processing devices determine a normal score of each symbol based on the frequency of each symbol and the average frequency to create a symbol feature for each symbol including the normal score. The processing devices utilize an obfuscation machine learning model including a classifier for binary obfuscation classification to detect obfuscation in the script based on the symbol features. The processing devices cause to display an alert indicting an obfuscated software programming script on a screen of a computing device associated with an administrative user to recommend security analysis of the software programming script based on the binary obfuscation classification.
US11675876B2
Training a robust machine learning model by mapping an input data set to a first feature space, applying a transformation to the first feature space, yielding a second feature space, and training a dense model using the first feature space, and the second feature space.
US11675839B2
The present invention relates to data processing system and method in supply chain application. The data processing system includes clustering of received supply chain data after normalization, tokenization and vectorization through graph-based analysis.
US11675831B2
A messaging server system receives audio data packages from a plurality of client devices. Each audio data package includes audio content captured by a respective client device from the plurality of client devices, and location data describing a location of the respective client device when the audio content was captured. The messaging server system identifies, based on the location data included in the audio data packages, a subset of the audio data packages that include audio content captured within a predetermined geographic area. The messaging server system generates, based on the subset of the audio data packages, a playlist of audio content items for the predetermined geographic area, and provides the playlist of audio content items to at least a first client device.
US11675830B2
System, apparatuses, and methods can provide customized exercise sessions and customized videos corresponding to the exercise session. Audio clips can be dynamically selected to make custom audio content for an exercise session. The audio clips and metadata can be obtained, where the audio clips correspond to categories. The exercise session can include one or more components. A destination timeline for a component can include one or more first segments that require audio, and one or more second segments that can optionally have audio. Audio clips can be selected for the various segments, where a segment can be designated for a particular category of audio clips. Identification information for the selected audio clips can be saved and used to generate the custom audio content.
US11675828B2
A method, a computer program product, and a computer system determine and arrange images to include in a visual representation. The method includes receiving a textual statement and identifying a plurality of terms in the textual statement that are to be visualized in the visual representation. The method includes generating a plurality of sequences of images where each image in a given one of the sequences is associated with one of the terms. Each image is associated with at least one tag. The method includes determining a global coherence and a local coherence for each of the sequences based on the tags of the images. The method includes selecting one of the sequences based on the global coherence and the local coherence. The method includes generating the visual representation where the images of the selected sequence are included.
US11675827B2
Disclosed embodiments provide a multimedia file categorizing, information processing, and model training method, system, and device. The method comprises determining a plurality of feature combinations according to respective feature sets corresponding to at least two types of modality information in a multimedia file; determining a semantically relevant feature combination by using a first computational model according to the plurality of feature combinations; and categorizing the multimedia file by using the first computational model with reference to the semantically relevant feature combination. The technical solutions provided by the disclosed embodiments identify a semantically relevant feature combination in a process of categorizing a multimedia file by synthesizing features corresponding to a plurality of modalities of the multimedia file. The semantically relevant feature combination has a stronger expression capability and higher value. Categorizing the multimedia file by using this feature combination can effectively improve the categorization accuracy of the multimedia file.
US11675817B1
Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are disclosed for synthetic data generation and dynamic processing model selection. An example method includes receiving a request for synthetic data generation where the request for synthetic data generation includes one or more configuration data parameters. The method further includes selecting at least one processing model from amongst a plurality of processing models based upon the one or more configuration data parameters. The method also includes generating one or more synthetic datasets that include one or more synthetic data values via the selected at least one processing model. The method further includes providing, to a user via a user interface, the one or more generated synthetic datasets.
US11675815B1
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.
US11675812B1
Methods and apparatuses are described for synchronization of metadata between databases in a cloud computing environment. A computing device identifies jobs that synchronize metadata from a first database instance to a second database instance, each job comprising synchronization tasks for a different portion of the metadata. The computing device determines a count of the synchronization tasks for each job. The computing device allocates each job to a first queue where the count of the synchronization tasks for the job is below a threshold value, and allocates the synchronization tasks for each job to a second queue where the count of the synchronization tasks for the job is at or above the threshold value. The computing device executes the jobs in the first queue and executes the synchronization tasks in the second queue to synchronize the corresponding metadata to the second database instance.
US11675802B1
One example of the present disclosure can include a system configured to provide a graphical user interface that includes a set of graphical input elements for receiving a selected condition and a selected action for a new rule. The system can generate a new rule definition for the new rule based on the selected condition and the selected action. The system can store the new rule definition in a rule database. The system can then select a subset of rule definitions from the rule database. The system can apply the subset of rule definitions to user data to determine whether the user data matches the subset of rule definitions. If the user data matches a rule definition, the system can execute at least one action associated with the rule definition.
US11675800B2
Disclosed are some implementations of systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products for facilitating version control for a client device. A server system may select one of two or more versions of a procedure based, at least in part, on a user profile. The server system may generate a message including a procedure name of the procedure, a version identifier identifying the selected version of the procedure, a set of computer-readable instructions corresponding to the selected version of the procedure, and a client directive pertaining to storing the procedure in a database. The server system may transmit the message to a client device associated with the user.
US11675797B2
A method includes receiving a first signal and updating a bitmap index responsive to the first signal. The bitmap index includes a plurality of bit strings, where a value stored in a particular location in each of the bit strings indicates whether a corresponding signal associated with a signal source has been received. Updating the bitmap index responsive to the first signal includes updating a first bit of the bitmap index and updating first metadata values stored in the bitmap index, wherein the first metadata values comprise a plurality of sort index values indicating relative ranks of the first bit string relative to other bit strings. The method also includes outputting query results based on a query, wherein the query results identify one or more signals associated with one or more bit strings of the plurality of bit strings and one or more signal sources of a plurality of signal sources, and wherein the query results are sorted according to one of the first metadata values.
US11675790B1
Methods and systems for enriching an information system containing information about companies with additional competitor information. The information system, which could be a database, a knowledge base, or a knowledge graph, is assumed to contain information about a plurality of single companies, the information comprising data such as industry codes, competitors, and possibly also keywords for each company. The disclosed methods determine new competitor pairs by combining (i) the generation of new competitor candidate pairs by inference from existing competitors and other company-specific knowledge with (ii) the validation of such competitor candidates pairs by checking for joint occurrence in documents of a document repository.
US11675789B2
A storage control system manages a utilization of data blocks of a storage volume which is partitioned into data blocks having a unique block identifier (ID) and a same block size. The storage control system receives data items and assigns a respective unique data ID to each data item, which include consecutive data IDs. The data items are written to a free data block as a whole, and a record for the written data block is inserted into a node of a first tree structure. The record includes the unique block ID of the written data block, a first data ID of the data items, and a bitmap which maps the consecutive data IDs of the data items in the written data block, starting from the first data ID, to a respective bit whose value indicates whether the data item associated with the data ID is valid or invalid.
US11675783B2
Examples of the present disclosure describe systems and methods for determining relationships between content items to create a visualization associated with the various content items. The visualization may provide information regarding what various individuals in a group, team, or organization have been working on (e.g., content, documents, projects).
US11675781B2
Embodiments include methods and systems for configuring a dashboard with a plurality of components. Data sets populated by a plurality of data attributes and associated data attribute values can be received, where the dashboard is configured to display data from the data sets. A plurality of components can be provided on the dashboard including a guided discovery component that displays suggested filters for the dashboard according to one or more of the received data sets. A selection of a filter for the dashboard can be received at one of the components and the components can be dynamically filtered based on the received filter. The suggested filters displayed by the guided discovery component can also be dynamically adjusted based on the received filter, where one or more suggested filters are dynamically hidden and one or more suggested filters are dynamically displayed based on the received filter.
US11675779B2
A database system supporting persistent queries, using an enhanced persistent query service and various data sources. On receiving a request to create a persistent query from a client software application, the persistent query service: creates a query virtual table; parses the persistent query; creates a plurality of intermediate virtual tables; establishes listeners for the query virtual table; creates a plurality of data source virtual tables; causes the plurality of data source virtual tables to retrieve initial data from data sources; and propagates data via intermediate virtual tables to the persistent query virtual table.
US11675778B2
A method may include responding to a transaction by sending, to a first data partition participating in the transaction, a first request to set a first transaction control block at the first data partition to a preparing state. In response to the transaction affecting multiple data partitions, a second request to set a second transaction control block at a second data partition to the preparing state may be sent to the second data partition. A third request to add the first data partition and the second data partition as participants of the transaction may be sent to the transaction coordinator. The transaction coordinator may determine, based on a first response of the first data partition and a second response of the second data partition, an outcome of the transaction. The transaction may be rolled back if the first response and/or the second response indicate an inability to commit the transaction.
US11675769B2
Indexing natural language processing, a request is received from a user to access a document at a server, the server routes the request to an indexing server. A validation service checks if the CUID of the document is available in the indexing server repository or a file system associated with the indexing server. If the CUID of dataset exists, determine if a timestamp of the new document matches the timestamp of the previously indexed document. Upon determining that the above conditions are fulfilled, the previously indexed data is returned to the server. If it is determined that the above conditions do not match, then a transformation service is invoked at the indexing server. The transformation service compares a hash value of a dataset. If the transformation service determines that the hash value of a dataset in the document is not available, an indexing service is invoked to index the document.
US11675764B2
Techniques described herein may support a learned ontology or meaning for user, organization, or customer specific data. According to the techniques described herein, a set of datasets corresponding to an entity may be processed to generate a master dataset including rows that include at least a field name and a value corresponding to the field. The master dataset is processed to generate a corpus of text strings that is input into a word embedding function which generates a set of vectors based on the corpus. Because the configuration of the text string positions values by field names and field values, implicit relationships and contexts are identified within the data using the word embedding function.
US11675763B2
Methods, systems and apparatus for performing indexed operations using a unary iteration quantum circuit. In one aspect, a method includes encoding an index value in an index register comprising index qubits; encoding the index value in a control register comprising multiple control qubits; and repeatedly computing and uncomputing the control qubits to perform, conditioned on the state of the control qubits, the operation on one or more target qubits corresponding to the index value, wherein during the encoding, computing and uncomputing: the multiple control qubits are made available in sequence, and the multiple control qubits correspond to a one-hot encoding of the encoded index value.
US11675755B2
According to one embodiment, an information management device includes an individual information manager configured to allocate a second identifier to a second individual obtained by performing a first operation on a first individual to which a first identifier is allocated; and a data generator configured to generate first data including the first identifier, the first operation, and the second identifier.
US11675753B2
System and method for updating customer data that includes a plurality of electronically stored contact records that each include contact information for a respective individual contact. Filtering is applied to the customer data to identify contacts that fall within defined filtering criteria. Information about the identified contacts is provided to a decision making authority for a further layer of filtering. Customer data is updated based on feedback derived from the decision making authority.
US11675752B2
The present disclosure describes systems and methods for processing schemas to generate set representations thereof. Schema set representations can be used to generate schema coverage notifications. Set operations can be performed on schemas to compare schemas and identify whether any support changes have been made thereto.
US11675750B2
In some embodiments, an input document is received at a tagging platform, via a communication device, and associates it with a tag request. The tagging platform automatically selects at least one electronic record associated with a first user from a user data store containing electronic records associated with users (each record including at least a user identifier and a user communication address). The input document and tag request are transmitted to the communication address associated with the first user, and a document tag is received from the first user. The tagging platform may then store the document tag in a document mining result database by adding an entry to the database identifying the received document tag and transmit an indication associated with the document mining result database to a plurality of risk applications.
US11675747B2
A method, computer program product, and computer system for obtaining, by a computing device, one or more pages from a log to complete a write transaction. Parity of a line in a multi-line physical layer block may be calculated. The one or more pages may be written to the line in the multi-line physical layer block. The parity to the line may be written in the multi-line physical layer block. A bitmap associated with the physical layer block may be updated based upon, at least in part, writing the one or more pages and the parity to the line in the multi-line physical layer block.
US11675746B2
Examples described herein include virtualized environments including a virtualized file server. Examples of secure domain join processes are described which may facilitate joining a virtualized file server or portions thereof to a domain. In some examples, the secure domain join process itself, and/or an associated file server virtual machine, may have insufficient credentials to write objects into an active directory. The active directory credentials need not be shared with the file server virtual machine. Rather, in some examples, the secure domain join process may provide a user system with a list of actions to be performed using active directory credentials.
US11675745B2
A method for managing data associated with objects stored in a cloud storage is provided. The method receives, at a first compute node, first data associated with an object stored in the cloud storage, the first compute node being one of a plurality of compute nodes that store data associated with different objects as storage objects in a log-structured merging (LSM) tree data structure. The method then assigns a first unique name to a first storage object associated with the first data, the first unique name comprising a combination of at least an identifier identifying the first compute node and a first incremental local value. The method stores the first storage object in a first level (L0) of the LSM tree data structure.
US11675744B2
Embodiments relate to a system, method and program product for performing code conversions. In one embodiment the method includes determining size of encoding space for a source file and a target file upon receipt of a code conversion request and generating a main conversion file upon determination that a target encoding space associated with said target file is smaller than a source encoding space associated with the source file. Subsequently an extension converted file is generated from the source file according to a pre-established mapping table of code conversion stored in a memory. The code conversion request is completed by using the main conversion file and said extension file together so that the source file does not need to be truncated in order to fit into the target conversion space.
US11675743B2
Approaches for parallelized data deduplication. An instruction to perform data deduplication on a plurality of files is received. The plurality of files is organized into two or more work sets that each correspond to a subset of the plurality of files. Responsibility for performing each of said two or more work sets is assigned to a set of nodes in a cluster of nodes. The nodes may be physical nodes or virtual nodes. Each node in the set performs data deduplication on a different work set. In performing data deduplication, each node may store metadata describing where shared chunks of data are maintained in a distributed file system. The shared chunks of data are two or more sequences of bytes which appear in two or more of said plurality of files.
US11675738B2
Systems and methods for locking databases during database operations, such as logical mechanisms for locking a local number portability (LNP) database associated with the Number Portability Administration Center (NPAC), are described. For example, the systems and methods may utilize various logical constructs, such as parameters that identify items or records within a database (e.g., object type and value information), and lock records that include such parameters.
US11675732B2
Methods and systems are described for receiving an input data voltage signal at a first data decision circuit of set of pipelined data decision circuits, receiving an aggregate decision feedback equalization (DFE) correction current signal from a first analog current summation bus, the aggregate DFE correction current signal comprising a plurality of DFE tap-weighted currents from respective other data decision circuits of the set of pipelined data decision circuits, determining a data output decision value based on the received input data voltage signal and the received aggregate DFE correction current signal, and generating at least one outbound DFE tap-weighted current on at least one other analog current summation bus connected to at least one other data decision circuit of the set of pipelined data decision circuits.
US11675731B2
A data protection system and a data protection method for handling an errored command are provided. The data protection system includes a master device and a slave device. The master device is configured to send command. The slave device is coupled to the master device. The save device is configured to receive the command from the master device. The master device includes a master interface. The slave device includes a slave interface. The master interface and the slave interface are electrically connected via one or plurality of bonds and/or TSVs and configured for interfacing between the master device and the slave device. The errored command represents the command having a parity or other error. The slave device is further configured to receive the errored command and to respond the errored command according to read or write operation.
US11675730B2
A USB module includes a first USB port configured to connect a first USB-compatible device with a first USB cable and a USB plug, and a second port configured to connect a second USB-compatible device with a second USB cable. The USB cables are multi-core and respectively comprise first and second configuration lines. An interface is arranged between the first USB port and the second port in a housing interior of a housing of the USB module. The interface makes at least the first configuration line connectable to the second configuration line. The interface comprises a semiconductor module configured to reference to a ground potential of the USB module at least one output signal at the USB module on a configuration connection between the first and second configuration lines.
US11675728B2
Methods, systems, and apparatuses related to configured dual register clock driver (RCD) devices on a single memory subsystem using different configuration information are described. In some examples, configuration of the two RCD devices with different configuration information may include use of a serial data bus to receive and store first RCD configuration data, which is provided to both of the RCD devices to configure one or more parameters of each respective RCD device. One of the RCD devices may receive second configuration data via a command and address bus to independently update the one or more configuration parameters of one of the two RCD devices.
US11675716B2
Techniques for command bus training to a memory device includes triggering a memory device to enter a first or a second command bus training mode, outputting a command/address (CA) pattern via a command bus and compressing a sampled CA pattern returned from the memory device based on whether the memory device was triggered to be in the first or the second command bus training mode.
US11675709B2
In one approach, a computer storage device has one or more pivot tables and corresponding bit maps stored in volatile memory. The storage device has non-volatile storage media that stores data for a host device. The pivot tables and bit maps are used to determine physical addresses of the non-volatile storage media for logical addresses received in commands from the host device that are determined to be within a sequential address range (e.g., LBAs that are part of a prior sequential write operation by the host device). When a command is received by the storage device that includes a logical address within the sequential address range, then one of the pivot tables and its corresponding bit map are used to determine the physical address of the non-volatile storage media that corresponds to the logical address.
US11675696B2
A value setting associated with one or more parameters of a host-side interface and a memory-side interface of an input/output (I/O) expander is configured to enable Open NAND Flash Interface (ONFI)-compliant communications between a host system and a target memory die of a memory sub-system. The I/O expander processes one or more ONFI-compliant communications between the host system and the target memory die, wherein the one or more ONFI-compliant communications relate to execution of a memory access operation.
US11675694B2
Embodiments of the invention utilize an improved LSM-tree-based key-value approach to strike the optimal balance between the costs of updates and lookups and storage space. The improved approach involves use of a new merge policy that removes merge operations from all but the largest levels of LSM-tree. In addition, the improved approach may include an improved LSM-tree that allows separate control over the frequency of merge operations for the largest level and for all other levels. By adjusting various parameters, such as the storage capacity of the largest level, the storage capacity of the other smaller levels, and/or the size ratio between adjacent levels in the improved LSM-tree, the improved LSM-tree-based key-value approach may maximize throughput for a particular workload.
US11675693B2
A novel and useful neural network (NN) processing core incorporating inter-device connectivity and adapted to implement artificial neural networks (ANNs). A chip-to-chip interface spreads a given ANN model across multiple devices in a seamless manner. The NN processor is constructed from self-contained computational units organized in a hierarchical architecture. The homogeneity enables simpler management and control of similar computational units, aggregated in multiple levels of hierarchy. Computational units are designed with minimal overhead as possible, where additional features and capabilities are aggregated at higher levels in the hierarchy. On-chip memory provides storage for content inherently required for basic operation at a particular hierarchy and is coupled with the computational resources in an optimal ratio. Lean control provides just enough signaling to manage only the operations required at a particular hierarchical level. Dynamic resource assignment agility is provided which can be adjusted as required depending on resource availability and capacity of the device.
US11675691B2
A framework and a method for ad-hoc batch testing of APIs are provided, where batches of API calls are dynamically generated directly through the framework according inputs identifying the required tests and the sources of the test data, rather than through execution of prewritten test scripts that explicitly write out the test API calls in preset sequences. When performing the validation for an API test, a test payload is generated for the test, an endpoint is called using the test payload to obtain the response used for validation, where generating the test payload includes determining an API reference corresponding to the test, obtaining relevant data from the test data according to a reference key in the test, generating input assignment operations for one or more input parameters in the API reference according to the relevant data, and generating an API call based on the API reference.
US11675686B2
A device comprising: a bus forming a ring path for circulation of one or more data packets around the bus, wherein the one or more data packets comprises a trace report packet for collecting trace data from a plurality of components attached to the bus, wherein the bus is configured to repeatedly circulate the trace report packet with a fixed time period taken for each circulation of the ring path performed by the trace report packet; and the plurality of components, each of which comprises circuitry configured to, upon reception of the trace report packet at the respective component, insert one or more items of the trace data that have been obtained by the respective component.
US11675676B2
The present disclosure relates to a neural network quantization parameter determination method and related products. A board card in the related products includes a memory device, an interface device, a control device, and an artificial intelligence chip, in which the artificial intelligence chip is connected with the memory device, the control device, and the interface device respectively. The memory device is configured to store data, and the interface device is configured to transmit data between the artificial intelligence chip and an external device. The control device is configured to monitor the state of the artificial intelligence chip. The board card can be used to perform an artificial intelligence computation.
US11675667B2
One example method includes performing data protection operations including backup operations. Backups of an availability group include a full backup, transaction log backups, and differential backups. Each differential backup includes transactions since the full backup. The differential backups are performed based on a trigger and, during a restore operation, the differential backups reduce the number of restores that need to be performed and can be restored instead of restoring the corresponding transactional log backups.
US11675662B2
Methods, systems, and devices for extended error detection for a memory device are described. For example, during a read operation, the memory device may perform an error detection operation capable of detecting single-bit errors, double-bit errors, and errors that impact more than two bits and indicate the detected error to a host device. The memory device may use parity information to perform an error detection procedure to detect and/or correct errors within data retrieved during the read operation. In some cases, the memory device may associate each bit of the data read during the read operation with two or more bits of parity information. For example, the memory device may use two or more sets of parity bits to detect errors within a matrix of the data. Each set of parity bits may correspond to a dimension of the matrix of data.
US11675655B1
Systems and methods for selecting an optimal error recovery procedure for correcting a read error in a solid-state drive are provided. A machine learning model is trained to forecast which error recovery procedure of a plurality of error recovery procedures is most likely to achieve a predetermined goal given a state of a solid-state drive. The predetermined goal is based on at least one of a read latency and a failure rate of the solid-state drive. A current state of the solid-state drive is determined. An error recovery procedure is selected from among the plurality of error recovery procedures by inputting the current state of the solid-state drive into the trained machine learning model, thereby triggering the trained machine learning model to output the selected error recovery procedure. The selected error recovery procedure is executed to recover data from the solid-state drive.
US11675651B2
Methods, apparatus, computer program products for handling critical problem exceptions during an execution of an application are provided. The method comprises: detecting, by one or more processing units, an occurrence of a certain type of critical problem exception during an execution of an application, the critical problem exception resulting in a termination of the application; instructing, by one or more processing units, to call a Super Handling Routine (SHR) corresponding to the type of the critical problem exception at a pre-configured address based on a pre-determined context registered by the application, the SHR being configured to handle critical problem exceptions; and handing, by one or more processing units, control to the SHR to handle the type of the critical problem exception.
US11675648B2
Non-limiting examples of systems, methods, and devices for automatic triaging of diagnostic failures for heterogeneous groups of tenants of a Software-as-a-Service, multi-tenant environment are disclosed herein. In an implementation, telemetry data for the heterogeneous groups of tenants is analyzed to classify individual tenant failures and detect the health status of the individual tenant. Tenant failures and/or tenant health statuses are filtered according to a threshold level. Anomalies having metrics that meet or exceed the threshold level are further analyzed to determine their priority (e.g., to a specific tenant). If the anomalies are known, then an existing entry for the anomaly is tagged and its priority may be changed. If the anomalies are unknown, then an entry is generated for the anomaly and prioritized. Tenants may be notified of a detected anomaly and may provide feedback. The feedback may be used to update triaging models.
US11675644B2
Techniques for suppressing notifications are disclosed. An incident may repeatedly flap between various resolved and unresolved states. Furthermore, other incident attributes may flap between various states such as, for example, varying levels of incident severity. Each change in state results in the transmission of a notification. In order to reduce the number of notifications, the system estimates a flapping window for the incident based on the flapping behavior of prior incidents. The system computes a notification suppression window based at least in part on the estimated flapping window. The system suppresses notifications corresponding to changes in incident state that are detected during the notification suppression window. The notification suppression window may be extended in response to extending the estimated flapping window.
US11675635B2
An information handling system includes a plurality of containerized applications, a container service, a hardware device, and a host processor to initialize a host service. The container service is associated with the containerized applications. The hardware device is virtualized to the containerized applications. The host processor identifies the hardware device that is virtualized to the containerized applications. The host processor receives a power notification from the container service. Based on the power notification, the host processor changes a power state of the hardware device.
US11675632B2
Various methods, apparatuses/systems, and media for implementing a single window integrated platform are disclosed. A processor is operatively connected with one or more memories via a communication network. The processor receives a request from a user via a user computing device to develop a micro service; authenticates the user based on verifying login information of the user; receives information data related to the requested micro service; generates products application programming interface (API) to display selectable products based on the information data of the requested micro service. The processor also receives input on selected products; triggers a dynamic workflow based on the selected products; interacts with onboarding APIs to develop the micro service in response to the triggering of the dynamic workflow; and transmits a notification to the user computing device when an end state of the dynamic workflow is detected.
US11675631B2
In an approach for balancing mainframe and distributed workloads, a processor receives a request to allocate an application workload to a mainframe platform and a distributed computing platform. The application workload includes a plurality of work units. A processor collects performance and cost data associated with the application workload, the mainframe platform, and the distributed computing platform. A processor determines the mainframe platform and the distributed computing platform for the plurality of work units of the application workload, based on the analysis of the performance and cost data. A processor allocates the plurality of work units of the application workload to run on the mainframe platform and the distributed computing platform respectively to balance performance and cost in real time.
US11675627B1
The present invention discloses a method for implementation of a software application implemented by a processor of a computer system, wherein said software application enables mapping of one or more diagramming elements to one or more cloud computing server, wherein said method comprising: Configuring, by an application interface, at least a 2D or 3D network architecture model on a first cloud computing platform, using one or more cloud components directly from a graphical drawing tool; deploying, by said application interface, said network architecture model on said first cloud computing platform to create a cloud application network; requesting, by said application interface, a copy of said cloud application network from said first cloud computing platform; shifting, by said application interface, said cloud application network from said first cloud computing platform to said second cloud computing platform for deploying said cloud components in a second cloud computing platform.
US11675621B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes at least one processor and a memory storing instructions executed to enable the at least one processor to identify a plurality of processes associated with an application, identify at least one process to be operation-restricted during at least partial time of a time of running the application among the plurality of processes, restrict an operation of the at least one identified process during the at least partial time of the time of running the application, and release the operation restriction on at least some of the at least one identified process in response to meeting a preset condition.
US11675618B2
A method and an electronic device are provided in which, in response to a first user input, a stack of partially overlaid visual elements is displayed in response to the first user input. Each visual element corresponds to an application that is running in the electronic device and includes an index item representing the corresponding application. A second user input for selecting a visual element from the stack of partially overlaid visual elements is received through the touchscreen. An execution screen of an application corresponding to the selected visual element is displayed.
US11675606B2
User inputs received through a graphical user interface of a programming tool are used to define a set of capability abstractions for a particular application and further define, based on the one or more user inputs, relationships between the set of capability abstractions. The particular application is to utilize a machine-to-machine network, and the set of capability abstractions include: a sensor capability abstraction, an actuator capability abstraction, a computation logic capability abstraction, an input user interface (UI) capability abstraction, and an output UI capability abstraction for the particular application. The relationships include a relationship between the input UI capability abstraction and the computation logic capability abstraction, where the input UI capability is to provide an input to the computation logic capability abstraction. Service logic for the particular application is generated to deploy an instance of the particular application in an environment based on the set of capability abstractions and relationships.
US11675599B2
An information handling system may include a processor, one or more accelerators communicatively coupled to the processor, and a management controller communicatively coupled to the processor and the one or more accelerators and configured for out-of-band management of the information handling system, the management controller further configured to receive information regarding the one or more accelerators, determine a criticality factor for each of the one or more accelerators based on the information, determine an accelerator health status for each of the one or more accelerators, and determine an overall system health of the information handling system based on the criticality factors and the accelerator health statuses.
US11675598B2
Representative apparatus, method, and system embodiments are disclosed for configurable computing. A representative system includes an interconnection network; a processor; and a plurality of configurable circuit clusters. Each configurable circuit cluster includes a plurality of configurable circuits arranged in an array; a synchronous network coupled to each configurable circuit of the array; and an asynchronous packet network coupled to each configurable circuit of the array. A representative configurable circuit includes a configurable computation circuit and a configuration memory having a first, instruction memory storing a plurality of data path configuration instructions to configure a data path of the configurable computation circuit; and a second, instruction and instruction index memory storing a plurality of spoke instructions and data path configuration instruction indices for selection of a master synchronous input, a current data path configuration instruction, and a next data path configuration instruction for a next configurable computation circuit.
US11675589B2
Serial interfaces with shadow registers, and associated systems, devices, and methods are described herein. In one embodiment, a serial interface is an IEEE 1500 interface, such as of an interface die of a high bandwidth memory (HBM) device. The IEEE 1500 interface includes (a) a primary wrapper data register (WDR) configured to store first information received in a first wrapper serial input (WSI) signal, (b) a shadow WDR configured to store second information received in a second WSI signal, and (c) a multiplexer. The multiplexer is configured to (i) receive the first information from the primary WDR, (ii) receive the second information from the shadow WDR, and (iii) output the first information or the second information based at least in part on a control signal input into the multiplexer.
US11675586B2
Devices and techniques are disclosed herein for more efficiently exchanging large amounts of data between a host and a storage system. In an example, a read command can optionally include a read-type indicator. The read-type indicator can allow for exchange of a large amount of data between the host and the storage system using a single read command.
US11675585B2
Methods and apparatus to deploy workload domains in virtual server racks are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a policy manager to determine an availability option and a performance option of the workload domain based on a domain type and determine capacity options based on a user selection of the availability option and a user selection of the performance option by a first user, a deployment manager to identify first ones of a plurality of computing resources to form a placement solution for the workload domain based on the user selection of the availability and performance options, and based on a user selection of one of the determined capacity options by the first user, the plurality of computing resources stored in a resource database accessible by the first user and a second user, and a resource manager to reserve the first ones of the plurality of computing resources to deploy the workload domain for the first user.
US11675583B2
A system, method, and computer-readable medium for providing documentation supporting continuous development and continuous integration for specific product lines is described. Source code from product development is received as to issues, such as bugs, defects, fixes and enhancements related to specific product lines. A determination is performed if the source code is complete or locked. Complete source code is converted to a standardized language. Another determination is performed as to whether the converted source code is compliant to a document standard. Compliant document standard source code can be consumed by an authoring environment for the documentation related to the specific product line.
US11675582B2
Search elements are extracted from requirement definitions of a requirement management tool for managing a project. The search elements may be extracted using natural language processing. The search elements are used to identify source code from source code repositories. Machine learning correlates the requirement definitions to source code subject matter. The extracted source code is confirmed by a stakeholder of the requirement management tool.
US11675580B2
An apparatus comprises at least one processing device coupled to memory. The at least one processing device is configured to obtain an operating system image from a production server or other computing device and to implement a first operating system configuration on a non-production server, a test server or other type of server based at least in part on the operating system image. The at least one processing device is further configured to modify the first operating system configuration to generate a second operating system configuration on the server and to generate a modified operating system image-based at least in part on the second operating system configuration. The at least one processing device is further configured to provide the modified operating system image to the computing device.
US11675575B2
A computer-implemented method includes receiving, by a processor, an updated version of a computer program that includes several source code changes. A compiler preprocesses the source code changes for a target computing platform. The preprocessing includes identifying a compile time condition associated with one or more computer instructions enclosed by a macro, determining a current value of the compile time condition at the time of compiling, and determining corresponding object code based on the current value. Further, a macro information record for the macro is generated that includes the compile time condition, the current value, and an identification of the computer instructions. Further, a linker preprocesses the source code changes. This preprocessing includes determining that the object code is not included in an executable file, and updating the macro information record to indicate that the macro is not included in the executable file.
US11675569B2
Provided is a random number generator including a single-photon emitter configured to emit single photons by pumping, a waveguide configured to guide the single photons emitted from the single-photon emitter to the inside of the waveguide, the waveguide including a first output terminal and a second output terminal that are respectively provided at both end portions of the waveguide, the single photons being output from the first output terminal and the second output terminal, and a first single-photon detector and a second single-photon detector respectively provided at the first output terminal and the second output terminal and configured to detect the single photons output from the first output terminal and the second output terminal, respectively.
US11675568B2
A processing system executes wavefronts at multiple arithmetic logic unit (ALU) pipelines of a single instruction multiple data (SIMD) unit in a single execution cycle. The ALU pipelines each include a number of ALUs that execute instructions on wavefront operands that are collected from vector general process register (VGPR) banks at a cache and output results of the instructions executed on the wavefronts at a buffer. By storing wavefronts supplied by the VGPR banks at the cache, a greater number of wavefronts can be made available to the SIMD unit without increasing the VGPR bandwidth, enabling multiple ALU pipelines to execute instructions during a single execution cycle.
US11675567B2
An information processing device that executes calculation of a neural network, includes a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and the processor configured to: set a division position for quantization of a variable to be used for the calculation so that a quantization error based on a difference between the variable before the quantization and the variable after the quantization is reduced; and quantize the variable based on the division position set.
US11675549B2
A print control apparatus is configured to transfer transparent protective ink onto an image printed on a substrate. The print control apparatus includes an extraction unit configured to extract a contour of a subject in the image, and a control unit configured to generate print data for transferring the protective ink using a printing apparatus, based on the extracted contour of the subject. The control unit generates the print data by assigning a high gradation value to a contour line corresponding to the extracted contour of the subject, assigning a low gradation value to a region corresponding to the subject, and assigning a mixture of the high gradation value and the low gradation value to an outer peripheral region of the subject.
US11675547B2
An information processing system includes an image capturing device, an information processing apparatus, and processing circuitry. The image capturing device is installed to capture an image of a range in which a position of an object to be managed is managed. The information processing apparatus recognizes a code image corresponding to the object from a captured image captured by the image capturing device and manage the position of the object. The processing circuitry generates spatial coordinate information of the code image based on a position of the code image recognized from the captured image, a size of the code image recognized from the captured image, and a size of a reference code image, and manages the position of the object corresponding to the code image, with plane coordinate information of the code image corrected using the spatial coordinate information of the code image.
US11675541B2
A memory device includes a command interface configured to receive a command from a host device via multiple command address bits. The memory device also includes a centralized command decoder configured to receive the command and to determine whether the command matches a bit pattern corresponding to multiple command types, such as a write command and a read command. The centralized command decoder is also configured to, in response to the command matching the bit pattern, asserting a latch signal. The memory device also includes a latch configured to capture the multiple command address bits based at least in part on assertion of the latch signal.
US11675540B2
A system includes a storage device and a computational storage processor. The storage device includes media. The computational storage processor is configured to, after issuance of a single command from a host device, receive data corresponding to the command, process the data as the data is received using a filter program and provide results data from the processed data.
US11675537B2
A controller for controlling a memory device is provided to include: a request receiver configured to receive a request including a logical address from a host; a dependency checker configured to acquire the request from the request receiver and check a dependency of the request; a map manager configured to generate a command including a physical address mapped to the logical address of the request in response to a result of checking that the request has no dependency on the prior incomplete request; and a command submitter configured to provide the memory device with the command generated by the map manager, wherein the request receiver, the dependency checker, the map manager and the command submitter are structured to configure a data pipeline such that operations of the request receiver, the dependency checker, the map manager, and the command submitter deliver are performed in series.
US11675536B2
An intelligent method of scheduling garbage collection (GC) in a storage system. A GC scheduler obtains capacity utilization and ingest rate of the storage system and calculate therefrom a predicted capacity utilization. When the predicted capacity utilization reaches a threshold, the GC scheduler invokes GC, but otherwise skips GC until such time as predicted capacity utilization reaches the threshold. The ingest rage may be calculated by performing linear fit on past data ingest. The GC scheduler may calculate predicted capacity utilization periodically according to preset period. The GC scheduler may calculate the predicted capacity utilization to a future date beyond the next period. The future date may be at least as far as the next period plus total ingest time.
US11675532B2
An apparatus is described. The apparatus includes a memory controller having an interface to communicate with a memory. The memory controller comprising logic circuitry to specify one of multiple possible write values to the memory during a write operation with multiple bits of a command that is sent on a command address bus that emanates from the interface. The memory to write any one of the possible write values into its storage cells while the memory interface is in a power saving state wherein the specified one write value is not articulated by the memory controller on a data bus of the interface as part of the write operation.
US11675531B2
A link startup method of a storage device connected to a host through a plurality of lanes includes performing an initialization operation in the storage device; establishing data communication through a connected transmission lane and a connected reception lane among the plurality of lanes; transmitting a high speed link up message to the host through the connected transmission lane of the storage device; and performing a link startup operation in a high speed mode through the connected transmission lane of the storage device and the connected reception lane of the host, based on the high speed link up message transmitted by the storage device.
US11675526B2
An electronic device comprises a processor, a memory, a memory controller for controlling access to the memory, a hardware security module, and a bus system, to which the processor, the memory controller, and the hardware security module are connected. The hardware security module uses its connection to the bus system to detect requests on the bus system that are sent by the processor. The hardware security module has a secure state and a non-secure state. When in the secure state, the hardware security module adds a secure-state signal to requests sent by the processor over the bus system. The memory controller determines whether memory-access requests include the secure-state signal, and denies access to a secure region of the memory in response to receiving memory-access requests that do not include the secure-state signal.
US11675521B2
An inventory of computer resources requiring backup data protection including an estimate of future growth of storage resources along with a set of data retention policies, rules, and outcomes in conformance with business requirements, is created. An architecture for initial ingest of protected data and a backup execution approach is created, based on the resource inventory, a sizing and assumptions of resources and data, and the set of data retention policies, rules, and outcomes. An initial ingest copies the protected data to the backup storage. The initial ingest architecture is transformed to a steady-state ingest phase, by incrementally adjusting the resources based on progress of the initial ingest. Responsive to completing the initial ingest of protected data, a steady-state backup ingest is performed. A validity of the sizing and assumptions of architecture resources is determined and an adjustment to the resources is performed based on the validity determination.
US11675520B2
In a particular embodiment, a dataset that is synchronously replicated across a plurality of storage systems is stored on a particular storage system. The storage system identifies input/output (I/O) requests directed to the dataset. The one or more I/O requests are initiated by an application hosted on a platform of the first storage system. The storage system services the one or more I/O requests directed to the dataset.
US11675513B2
A computer-implemented method, according to one embodiment, includes: storing records in an input data buffer, where each of the records include a key which is appended to payload data in the respective record. Moreover, for each of the records: shearing the key associated with the record from the payload data, normalizing the sheared key, and storing the normalized sheared key in a first target area of memory. A determination is made as to whether a size of the payload data in the record is outside a predetermine range, and in response to determining that the size of the payload data in the record is outside the predetermine range, the payload data is stored in a second target area of memory. A data locator is also appended to the normalized sheared key in the first target area of memory to form a sheared record.
US11675505B2
Various embodiments for configurable memory storage systems are disclosed. The configurable memory storages selectively choose an operational voltage signal from among multiple voltage signals to dynamically control various operational parameters. For example, the configurable memory storages selectively choose a maximum voltage signal from among the multiple voltage signals to maximize read/write speed. As another example, the configurable memory storages selectively choose a minimum voltage signal from among the multiple voltage signals to minimize power consumption.
US11675499B2
Systems and methods for distributed storage systems using synchronous discovery logs for fabric subsystem discovery. Storage nodes may be configured with fabric services and a management service may provide synchronization of discovery logs across fabric subsystems and between peer fabric nodes. The peer fabric nodes may communicate with one another using a fabric network protocol and corresponding fabric subsystems may communicate with each peer fabric node. When a target subsystem fabric node updates its discovery log, the updated discovery log is sent to the corresponding peer fabric node. The corresponding peer fabric node sends the updated discovery log to each subsystem fabric node and to each peer fabric node for synchronization across all subsystem fabric nodes. A host may contact any subsystem fabric node for the updated discovery log.
US11675496B2
An apparatus includes circuitry. The circuitry acquires hand drafted input data based on hand drafting that is input to a hand drafted input area. The circuitry displays at least a part of the hand drafted input area on a display screen. The circuitry displays, on the display screen, a panoramic screen area that includes the hand drafted input data.
US11675495B2
A computer-implemented method for generating feedback based on a handwritten text, comprises the steps of initializing a writing instrument to be used in a writing operation comprising a handwritten text and capturing and processing the handwritten text to generate digital text data. The method further comprises the steps of identifying at least one handwritten text attribute associated with the digital text data, comparing the at least one handwritten text attribute with predefined textual feature attributes, and generating a textual feature based on the compared at least one handwritten text attribute and predefined textual feature attributes. In addition, the method comprises the steps of modifying the digital text data using the textual feature and generating feedback to a user based on the modified digital text data.
US11675494B2
Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for displaying augmented reality content. The program and method provide for displaying, within a messaging application running on a device, a first user interface for viewing a media content item, receiving user input via the first user interface, the user input corresponding to a predefined touch gesture; and in response to receiving the user input, switching, within the messaging application, from the first user interface to a second user interface in which a camera of the device is activated to capture an image, and displaying, via the second user interface, a resized version of the media content item with the image.
US11675492B2
Techniques for measuring a user's level of interest in content in an electronic document are disclosed. A system generates a user engagement score based on the user's scrolling behavior. The system detects one scrolling event that moves content into a viewport and another scrolling event that moves the content out of the viewport. The system calculates a user engagement score based on the duration of time the content was in the viewport. The system may also detect a scroll-back event, in which the user scrolls away from content and back to the content. The system may then calculate or update the user engagement score based on the scroll-back event.
US11675484B2
Systems and methods for generating an interactive user interface data for validating one or more contacts and/or updating actions for an individual. In some embodiments, an interactive user interface can be generated including a first portion including a selectable list of primary contact information items associated with the individual and a second portion including a selectable list of secondary contact information items associated with the individual. After receiving a first user input in the second portion selecting a secondary contact information item, the interactive user interface can be updated to receive further user inputs, such as a new primary contact information item. The interactive user interface can then be updated to include the new primary contact information item in the first portion.
US11675479B2
The present disclosure provides a list display method, including: creating a type cache pool, the type cache pool caches: a correspondence between structure types of a plurality of types of data and items corresponding to the respective structure types; and respective layout information is recorded in each item, acquiring the structure type of each data in a list; displaying the respective data to be displayed in a region to be displayed in the list, step of displaying the respective data to be displayed includes steps of: determining the item corresponding to the structure type of the data to be displayed according to the correspondence; displaying the data to be displayed according to the layout information of the item corresponding to the structure type of the data to be displayed; wherein the region to be displayed is a region to be displayed on a screen in the list.
US11675478B2
A page element display method and an electronic device (100 or 1500) are provided. The method includes: The electronic device (100 or 1500) displays a first interface, where the first interface includes a first page element (1401); the electronic device (100 or 1500) detects a first operation performed by a user on the first page element (1402); the electronic device (100 or 1500) adjusts a size of the first page element in response to the first operation (1403); and the electronic device (100 or 1500) automatically displays a second interface after adjusting the size of the first page element. The method helps to enhance an effect of feedback from the electronic device (100 or 1500) to the user when the user performs the operation.
US11675471B2
A UI for presenting and reviewing a document is optimized based upon the type of computing device being utilized to present the document. One such UI includes a first pane showing a view of the document under review that is sized and formatted for display on a large-format display device. The first pane can also be utilized to emphasize a portion of the document. The UI also includes a second pane that includes indicators for each of the reviewers of the document. The selection of an indicator will cause a portion of the document being reviewed by the corresponding reviewer to be displayed in the first pane. The UI also includes a third pane that includes a scaled image of the document shown in the first pane. Selection of a portion of the scaled image causes the selected portion of the document to be displayed in the first pane.
US11675465B2
A display device includes a display area in which red, green, and blue sub-pixels are arranged, and a touch sensing layer including a conductive pattern, the conductive pattern including touch electrodes arranged in a row direction and a column direction in the display area, and trace lines electrically connected to the touch electrodes, respectively, and extending in the column direction in the display area. Here, the conductive pattern includes touch pattern unit blocks arranged along the row direction, each of the touch pattern unit block including some parts of the plurality of trace lines and at least one touch electrode among the plurality of touch electrodes, and the touch pattern unit block has a size corresponding to an integer multiple of a size of a pixel unit block, wherein the pixel unit block is a minimum repetition unit of the red, green, and blue sub-pixels.
US11675464B2
A touch input sensing device configured to be added to an electronic device, the electronic device including a touch input unit, the touch input unit including a first touch member integrated with a housing. The touch input sensing device includes a resonant circuit configured to generate a resonance signal having a resonant frequency that varies based on a touch of the touch input unit, a digital frequency counter configured to count a reference frequency signal based on the resonance signal, or count the resonance signal based on the reference frequency signal, to generate a count value, and a touch detector configured to detect whether the touch of the touch input unit has occurred based on the count value generated by the digital frequency counter, and output a touch detection signal indicating whether the touch has occurred.
US11675458B2
The present invention relates to a touch detection device, an electronic apparatus and a touch detection method. Each frame of touch related data corresponding to n*m capacitive nodes is obtained by producing n*m coupled signals from encoding operations and subjecting the n*m coupled signals to multiple access accumulation process, common mode suppression process, ADC process and decoding processes. Additionally, touch location information of the n*m capacitive nodes is obtained by acquiring two consecutive frames of touch related data and performing a subtraction operation between the two consecutive frames of touch related data. Therefore, relatively high touch sensing sensitivity is achievable. Before the subtraction operation, common-mode analog voltage amounts subtracted in the common mode suppression process may be not added back for each single frame of touch related data obtained from decoding process. This avoids introduction of errors, as well as a larger circuitry area and increased power consumption.
US11675457B2
A mobile device includes a housing, a display unit installed in the housing, wherein the display unit includes a panel which has a display panel to display a menu image and a touch panel to receive a touch input from a user, the panel having a first portion and a second portion with a transparency condition, and a sensing unit installed in the housing and disposed at a bottom of the panel to receive a user input through the panel, wherein the sensing unit includes a camera disposed to correspond to the second portion of the panel and to photograph a user through the second portion of the panel, and a sensing element to sense an object through the panel.
US11675452B2
An input/output device includes a first sensor electrode and a second sensor electrode. In addition, the input/output device includes a first electrode and a second electrode which are electrodes for a display element, and a substrate sandwiched between the first sensor electrode and the second sensor electrode. The second sensor electrode is formed concurrently with the first electrode using the same material. The input/output device sensors a change in capacitance of a capacitor formed between the first sensor electrode and the second sensor electrode. Furthermore, a third sensor electrode to which a floating potential is applied may be provided to overlap with the first electrode. In the input/output device, either a liquid crystal element or a light-emitting element may be used, or both the liquid crystal element and the light-emitting element may be used.
US11675443B2
A method for generating mark information in a virtual environment includes displaying a target-perspective picture showing the virtual environment including a virtual character from a perspective, a sight bead and a mark control interface being displayed in the target-perspective picture. The method also includes receiving a first-perspective switching operation, and changing an observation direction of the target-perspective picture and an aiming position of the sight bead according to the first-perspective switching operation. The method further includes receiving a mark operation triggered on the mark control interface, and generating, according to the mark operation, mark information on a virtual object to which the aiming position points.
US11675441B1
A display having a touchscreen is coupled to a processor that acquires a plurality of first detection positions on the touchscreen at a predetermined detection interval by an operation medium, calculates a predictive position indicative of a predicted subsequent position of the operation medium based on the plurality of first detection positions, corrects the predictive position based on a plurality of second detection positions and a weighting value, the plurality of second detection positions being a subset of the plurality of first detection positions selected at an interval greater than the predetermined detection interval, the weighting value being based on an angle between at least latest three detection positions among the plurality of second detection positions, and displays, on the display, a trajectory line including the plurality of first detection positions and the corrected predictive position.
US11675430B1
A display apparatus including: light source(s); gaze-tracking means; and processor(s) configured to: determine gaze directions of user's eyes; send, to rendering server, information indicative of gaze direction determined at first time instant; receive image frame(s) generated according to gaze, and being optionally timestamped with second time instant; display image frame(s) at third time instant; determine time lag between any one of: first time instant and third time instant, or second time instant and third time instant; detect whether or not time lag exceeds first predefined threshold; when time lag exceeds first predefined threshold, switch on gaze-lock mode; select forward line of vision as fixed gaze direction; send, to rendering server, information indicative of fixed gaze; and receive image frames generated according to fixed gaze; and display image frames.
US11675428B2
A system and a method for determining a gaze direction of a user viewing a scene is provided. The system comprises a camera for obtaining an image of at least one of the user's eyes, a depth information detection device for obtaining depth data related to the image, and a processing unit. The processing unit is configured to define a surface at a predetermined position relative to the user's eye based on the depth data, obtain a normalized image by projecting the image onto the surface and determine a normalized gaze direction based on the normalized image. The processing unit is further configured to determine a gaze direction based on the normalized gaze direction and the depth data.
US11675424B2
A mixed reality presentation system may include a headwear to present virtual images to a person wearing the headwear and a main unit. The main unit may include sensors to sense a surrounding physical environment and position and orientation of the headwear, a virtual image generator and a transmitter. The virtual image generator is to generate the virtual images based on the sensed surrounding physical environment and the sensed headwear position and orientation. The transmitter is to transmit the generated virtual images to the headwear for presentation.
US11675412B2
In an embodiment, a device may include an attention detection service. The attention detection service may monitor various peripheral devices in the device for indications that a user is paying attention to the device. Various clients may register for notification of attention detection and attention lost (attention no longer detected) events, or may poll the service for the events. If a user is not paying attention to the device, it may be possible to take various actions to permit reduced energy consumption.
US11675408B2
A computing device and a series power supply method are disclosed. The computing device includes: a hash board, including a series power supply circuit, which includes m layers of to-be-powered chips that are connected in series between a power supply positive electrode and a power supply negative electrode of the hash board, wherein highest-layer to-be-powered chips are connected to the power supply positive electrode, and bottommost-layer to-be-powered chips are connected to the power supply negative electrode, wherein the power supply positive electrode is configured to receive a higher potential relative to the power supply negative electrode; a control board, configured to provide, to the hash board, control signals and communication signals that are accessed to the series power supply circuit through a communication interface of the highest-layer to-be-powered chips and communicated to lower layers through the m layers of to-be-powered chips that are connected in series.
US11675405B2
An information processing device includes an acquirer that acquires first date and time information including information relating to a date and time at which a battery detachably installed in a moving body capable of moving by use of electric power is used and second date and time information including position information of a user's portable terminal and information relating to a date and time at which the position information is acquired; and an integrator that generates position history information of the battery on the basis of the first date and time information and the second date and time information acquired by the acquirer.
US11675400B2
A computing system includes a housing, processing circuitry, one or more additional components, and a cryogen evaporator plate. The housing includes a cryogen input port, a cryogen output port, and an interior chamber. The processing circuitry and the one or more additional components are in the interior chamber of the housing. The cryogen evaporator plate is thermally coupled to the processing circuitry and configured to receive a cryogen via the cryogen input port, cool the processing circuitry using the cryogen such that the cryogen is evaporated during the cooling of the processing circuitry to provide evaporated cryogen, and provide the evaporated cryogen into the interior chamber of the housing such that the evaporated cryogen is distributed over the one or more additional components to cool the one or more additional components.
US11675397B2
An information handling system includes multiple hard disk drives, a central processing unit (CPU) and memory complex, a graphics processing unit (GPU) and input/output (I/O) complex, multiple cooling fans, and first and second airflow vanes. The cooling fans pull in airflow through the hard disk drives and push the airflow through both the CPU and memory complex and the GPU and I/O complex. The first and second airflow vanes are located between the hard disk drives and the cooling fans. The first and second vanes are in a first configuration when the information handling system is in a CPU and memory centric configuration, and in a second configuration when the information handling system is in a GPU and I/O centric configuration.
US11675384B2
A reference voltage circuit includes a first circuit including a first PN junction device and a first resistor connected in series between a power supply node and a first node, and a second resistor connected between the first node and an intermediate node, and a third resistor connected between the intermediate node and a reference voltage output node, and a second circuit including a second PN junction device connected between the power supply node and a second node and a fourth resistor connected between the second node and the intermediate node. A feedback current causes voltage across the first resistor to offset changes in voltage across the first PN junction device. A correction current is applied to boost and or sink current in the voltage reference generator to extend the operating temperature range.
US11675380B2
A voltage regulator circuit may generate a regulated voltage level using a voltage level of a feedback node. The regulated voltage level may be distributed, via a power distribution network, to package power supply node of a package, into which an integrated circuit has been mounted. Power switches included in the integrated circuit may couple the package power supply node to respective local power supply nodes in the integrated circuit. A particular power switch may selectively couple different ones of the local power supply nodes to the feedback node, allowing the voltage regulator circuit to compensate for reductions in the regulated voltage level due to the power distribution network, as well as adjust the regulated voltage level based on power consumptions of load circuits coupled to the local power supply nodes.
US11675376B2
A temperature-controlled pressure regulator assembly includes a regulator having a regulator body, a valve seat, an inlet, an outlet, and defines a flow passage connecting the inlet and the outlet. A control element controls the device, a portion of the flow passage extends through a heat chamber, and a heater is positioned to heat the chamber thereby conveying heat to a fluid in the flow passage. A controller is electrically coupled to the heater and is coupled to a power source. A thermal cut-off fuse is coupled to a control circuit, with the thermal cut-off fuse arranged to electrically decouple the heater from the control circuit in response to a temperature exceeding a threshold, thereby deactivating the heater. The thermal cut-off fuse is disposed in a circular fuse holder and positioned adjacent the heater and adjacent a longitudinal center of the heat chamber.
US11675373B2
Provided is a method of modeling behavior for a self-driving vehicle, e.g., as a follower vehicle. Also provided is a vehicle configured to execute the behavior model to cooperatively navigate at least one structural element in an environment. The structural element can be or include a door, a vestibule, and/or an elevator, as examples. The behavior model can be formed by a method that includes tracking and measuring leader-follower interactions and actions with at least one structural element of an environment, representing the leader behaviors and the follower behavior in a behavior model, and electronically storing the behavioral model. The leader-follower interactions and actions can include leader behaviors and follower behaviors, including starts, stops, pauses, and movements of the leader, follower vehicle, and/or objects.
US11675367B2
In a vehicle system that can receive remote support from a remote support server (e.g., interfacing with a human or computer teleoperator), a local normalization engine locally normalizes operation of the vehicle based on locally available sensor data that may not be accessible to the remote support server. The local normalization engine applies transformations to control commands received from the remote support server to transform the command to compensate for conditions that are locally sensed and may be unknown to the remote support server. Alternatively, or in addition, the local normalization engine controls auxiliary functions of the vehicle (e.g., by activating one or more auxiliary actuators) that may not be under direct control of the remote support server.
US11675364B2
A system to prevent depletion of a robotic energy source includes: a mobile robot; a server operably connected to the robot via a communication system, the server configured to manage the robot; a robotic energy source configured to provide energy to the robot; a controller operably connected to the robot, the controller operably connected to the server, the controller configured to control the robot, the controller further configured to monitor an energy level of the robot; and a charging station configured to operably connect to the energy source, the charging station further configured to replenish the energy source.
US11675363B2
Embodiments of the present invention relates to a self-moving device, moving and working in a working region, and including: a housing; a movement module, mounted at the housing, and driven by a drive motor to enable the self-moving device to move; a control module, controlling movement and working of the self-moving device; and a detection unit, electrically connected to the control module, and detecting a movement and/or status parameter of the self-moving device, where when the detection unit detects that the movement and/or status parameter of the self-moving device satisfies a preset condition, the control module alternately decreases and increases an acceleration of the movement of the self-moving device, so as to keep a speed of the movement of the self-moving device in a preset range.
US11675358B2
A vehicular autonomous driving system includes a time division multiplexed (TDM) bus, an autonomous driving (AD) controller coupled to the TDM bus, and a plurality of AD sensors coupled to the TDM bus. The AD sensors are configured to collect AD data and transmit collected AD data to the AD controller on the TDM bus in an assigned time slot at a first power level. A first AD sensor of the plurality of AD sensors is configured to, based upon collected AD data, detect an AD emergency event. In response to the detection, the first AD sensor is configured to transmit an AD emergency message on the TDM bus in a non-assigned time slot and at a second power level that exceeds the first power level. The AD sensor may transmit the AD emergency message in a particular sub-slot of the non-assigned time slot.
US11675355B2
A method of controlling a path providing device for providing a path to a vehicle, where the method includes: receiving, through a telecommunication control unit, high-definition map data from an external device, wherein the high-definition map data is received as a plurality of tile units; varying at least one of a size or a shape of at least one tile unit of the high-definition map data; generating, based on the high-definition map comprising the plurality of tile units, forward path information for guiding a path on a road ahead of the vehicle, wherein the forward path information is generated in units of lanes of the road ahead of the vehicle; and providing the forward path information to at least one electrical part provided in the vehicle.
US11675354B2
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.
US11675346B2
In an illustrative embodiment, the present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and an industrial internet of things (IIOT) platform and environment for generating a device integration definition to be used for configuring a new device type for interoperability with the IIOT platform and environment, where the device integration definition includes a standardized format in a programming language syntax, the device integration definition is customizable using code hook templates for issuing commands to the device type, and the device integration definition is customizable using control templates for applying the device integration definition as a foundation for preparing a graphical user interface for configuring devices of the device type with the IIOT platform and environment.
US11675338B2
A control device includes a program execution module, a communication unit, and a collection module connected to the communication unit. The program execution module generates control instructions for a control target in accordance with a user program that is freely created. The communication unit transmits and/or receives communication data to and/or from an external device through a network. The collection module collects data satisfying a filtering condition from among the communication data that is transferred on the network. The collection module changes the filtering condition in accordance with an instruction included in the user program.
US11675337B2
A system for acceleration adjustment of machine tool at rapid traverse includes a signal measurement module, a signal judgment module and an acceleration optimization module. The machine tool has a servo motor and a working platform. The signal measurement module measures signals while the servo motor drives the working platform from a first specific position to a second specific position, or from the second specific position back to the first specific position. The signal judgment module judges whether the actual maximum current value of the motor is equal to the manufacturer's specification according to the signals; and if negative, the acceleration optimization module calculates and optimizes an axial acceleration till an optimal value is achieved. Then, a curve smoothing time of the optimal acceleration is calculated and optimized by the acceleration optimization module. In addition, a method for acceleration adjustment of machine tool at rapid traverse is provided.
US11675336B2
A method of controlling a pumping sequence of a fracturing fleet at a wellsite. A managing application executing on a computer in the control van can retrieve the pumping sequence from a local or remote storage computer. The managing application can establish an electronic communication link to receive sensor data from a plurality of fracturing units. The managing application can control the plurality of fracturing units with a stage script with multiple sequential instructions for a pumping stage of a pumping sequence while receiving one or more periodic data sets from the plurality of fracturing units wherein the data sets are indicative of the current state of the pumping stage of the pumping sequence.
US11675330B2
Aspects of the disclosed technology provide an Artificial Intelligence Process Control (AIPC) for automatically detecting errors in a manufacturing workflow of an assembly line process, and performing error mitigation through the update of instructions or guidance given to assembly operators at various stations. In some implementations, the disclosed technology utilizes one or more machine-learning models to perform error detection and/or propagate instructions/assembly modifications necessary to rectify detected errors or to improve the product of manufacture.
US11675329B2
A functional safety system performs safety analysis on three-dimensional point cloud data measured by a time-of-flight (TOF) sensor that monitors a hazardous industrial area that includes an automation system. To reduce the amount of point cloud data to be analyzed for hazardous conditions, the safety system executes a real-time emulation of the automation system using a digital twin and live controller data read from an industrial controller that monitors and controls the automation system. The safety system generates simulated, or shadow, point cloud data based on the emulation and subtracts this simulate point cloud data from the measured point cloud data received from the TOF sensor. This removes portions of the point cloud data corresponding to known or expected elements within the monitored area. Any remaining entities detected in the reduced point cloud data can be further analyzed for safety concerns.
US11675328B2
An encoder includes a disc and a sensor. The disc has a circular surface with a central axis and is rotatable around the central axis. The disc has a slit row provided on the circular surface. The slit row includes slits arranged in a circumferential direction of the circular surface around the central axis and in a radial direction of the circular surface. The sensor is provided opposite to the slit row on circular surface. The sensor has a first light receiver and a second light receiver. The first light receiver is configured to output a first light receiving signal as the slit row rotates along the circumferential direction when the disc rotates around the central axis. The second light receiver is configured to output a second light receiving signal as the slit row moves along the radial direction when the disc rotates around the central axis.
US11675316B2
A millimeter wave apparatus, with a substrate, a transceiver in a first fixed position relative to the substrate, and a gas cell in a second fixed position relative to the substrate. The clock apparatus also comprises at least four waveguides.
US11675312B2
Timepiece regulator comprising a detached lever escapement mechanism, and a resonator with a quality factor Q including an inertia element including an impulse pin cooperating with a fork of the lever, subjected to the return force of two flexible strips attached to the plate, defining a virtual pivot having a main axis (DP), the lever pivoting about a secondary axis (DS), and the lift angle (β) of the resonator, during which the impulse pin is in contact with the fork, is less than 10°, and the ratio IB/IA between the inertia IB of the inertia element with respect to the main axis (DP) and the inertia IA of the lever with respect to the secondary axis (DS) is greater than 2Q·α2/(0.1·π·β2), where α is the lift angle of the lever corresponding to the maximum angular travel of the fork.
US11675311B2
A volume holographic film (such as a photopolymer) that is pre-recorded with patterns subsequently is used to encode LED or low-power laser light reflections from an eye into a binary pattern that can be read at very high speeds by a relatively simple complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) sensor that may be similar to a high framerate, low resolution mouse sensor. The low-resolution mono images from the film are translated into eye poses using, for instance, a look up table that correlates binary patterns to X, Y positions or using a pre-trained convolutional neural network to robustly interpret many variations of the binary patterns for conversion to X, Y positions.
US11675309B2
An image forming apparatus includes: a drum cartridge; a toner cartridge; a toner data electrical contact surface; a drum data electrical contact surface; and a controller. The drum cartridge includes: a drum memory storing data relating to the drum cartridge; and a first drum electrical contact for communication of data stored in the drum memory. The toner cartridge includes a board having: a first relay electrical contact for relaying the data stored in the drum memory; a toner memory storing data relating to the toner cartridge; and a first toner electrical contact for communication of data stored in the toner memory. The controller is configured to: read the data stored in the drum memory through the drum data electrical contact surface contacting the first relay electrical contact; and read the data stored in the toner memory through the toner data electrical contact surface contacting the first toner electrical contact.
US11675306B2
An image forming apparatus includes an apparatus body, a photoconductor unit, and a developing cartridge. The apparatus body includes a controller and a body-side contact portion. The photoconductor unit includes a photoconductor, a charger, and a frame body. The developing cartridge includes a developing roller, a storage medium configured to store information, and a cartridge-side contact portion. The photoconductor unit includes a first contact portion configured to be electrically connected to the body-side contact portion, a second contact portion configured to be electrically connected to the cartridge-side contact portion, and a wiring portion electrically connecting the first contact portion and the second contact portion. The photoconductor unit further includes a separating member. The separating member is arranged to separate the charger and the part of the wiring portion when viewed in the rotational axis direction of the photoconductor.
US11675305B2
An image forming apparatus includes a main body housing, a photosensitive drum, an exposure device, a developing device, a toner container, a transfer roller, a fixing device, a cleaner and a waste toner container. The main body housing includes a front wall and a rear wall opposite to the front wall in a horizontal direction. The photosensitive drum is located further from the front wall than the photosensitive being from the rear wall. The toner container includes a first front end. The waste toner container including a second front end. A distance between the second front end of the waste toner container and the front wall of the main body housing in the horizontal direction is smaller than a distance between the first front end of the toner container and the front wall of the main body housing in the horizontal direction.
US11675304B2
In an image forming apparatus a toner cartridge includes a toner memory storing toner identification information. The toner cartridge is detachably attachable to a drum cartridge. The drum cartridge includes a drum memory storing drum identification information. The drum cartridge is detachably attached to the main-body casing. A controller performs a request process to request execution of a density correction process to correct a density of developer, in a case where a toner identification information determination process determines that the toner identification information stored in the toner memory does not match the toner identification information which is stored in the main-body memory in a toner identification information storing process or a drum identification information determination process determines that the drum identification information stored in the drum memory does not match the drum identification information which is stored in the main-body memory in the drum identification information storing process.
US11675287B1
A hierarchical printhead system supports multiple print modes. A first print mode uses a first subset of light sources having a first spacing. A second print mode uses a second subset of light sources having a second spacing which is less than the first spacing. Image data for lines of image data are sequentially loaded into the printhead, wherein if the specified print mode is the first print mode, image data for a first group of light sources corresponding to the first subset are loaded, and if the specified print mode is the second print mode, image data for the first group of light sources are first loaded, and then image data for a second group of light sources corresponding to the light sources in the second subset that are not in the first subset are loaded.
US11675282B2
The present invention provides an electrophotographic member having excellent deformation recovery even when stored or used under a high temperature and high humidity environment, which is useful in forming a high-quality electrophotographic image; a process cartridge; and an electrophotographic apparatus. The electrophotographic member of the present invention includes a conductive mandrel and an electro-conductive layer; the electro-conductive layer including a resin synthesized from an ion conducting agent and a compound being able to react with the ion conducting agent; the ion conducting agent including a specific anion and a cation having at least three hydroxyl groups; the compound being able to react with the hydroxyl group.
US11675248B2
An optical element driving mechanism is provided. The optical element driving mechanism includes a fixed part, a movable part, a driving assembly, and a sensing assembly. The movable part moves relative to the fixed part. The driving assembly drives the movable part to move relative to the fixed part. The sensing assembly senses the movement of the movable part.
US11675236B2
A display device with less light leakage and excellent contrast is provided. A display device having a high aperture ratio and including a large-capacitance capacitor is provided. A display device in which wiring delay due to parasitic capacitance is reduced is provided. A display device includes a transistor over a substrate, a pixel electrode connected to the transistor, a signal line electrically connected to the transistor, a scan line electrically connected to the transistor and intersecting with the signal line, and a common electrode overlapping with the pixel electrode and the signal line with an insulating film provided therebetween. The common electrode includes stripe regions extending in a direction intersecting with the signal line.
US11675234B2
Provided are a method of manufacturing a display apparatus and the display apparatus. A method of manufacturing a display apparatus includes preparing a first substrate including a display; adhering a second substrate to the first substrate by using a sealing element; exposing the sealing element by using a blocking member including a plurality of blocking patterns arranged apart from one another; and cutting the first substrate and the second substrate along portions thereof inside the blocking member.
US11675230B2
To provide a backlight that reduces the number of LEDs used while facilitating the attempt to make the backlight smaller in thickness. On a mount substrate (11), LEDs (13) are mounted in a square lattice arrangement. Over a portion near the center of each unit of the square lattice, protrusions (15) of a diffusion plate (14) are disposed. Among light emitted from the LEDs (13), light traveling in lateral directions between the mount substrate (11) and the diffusion plate (14) is captured by the protrusions (15). The captured light is refracted and reflected by the interfaces of the protrusions (15), and diffused due to diffusing particles, with the result that the light is turned into upward illumination light.
US11675220B2
Provided in a method of fabricating an optical element array including providing a silicon substrate, providing a first element layer on the silicon substrate, the first element layer including a plurality of passive optical elements, providing a plurality of semiconductor blocks on a compound semiconductor wafer, providing semiconductor dies by dicing the compound semiconductor wafer by the plurality of semiconductor blocks, and providing a second element layer by providing the semiconductor dies on the first element layer, each of the plurality of semiconductor blocks contacting at least one corresponding passive optical element from among the plurality of passive optical elements.
US11675216B2
Improved wearable optics is disclosed. The wearable optics comprises a frame member and a lens. The wearable optics also includes circuitry within the frame member for enhancing the use of the wearable optics. A system and method in accordance with the present invention is directed to a variety of ways to enhance the use of eyeglasses. They are: (1) media focals, that is, utilizing the wearable optics for its intended purpose and enhancing that use by using imaging techniques to improve the vision of the user; (2) telecommunications enhancements that allow the eyeglasses to be integrated with telecommunication devices such as cell phones or the like; and (3) entertainment enhancements that allow the wearable optics to be integrated with devices such as MP3 players, radios, or the like.
US11675207B2
The techniques described herein enable a head-mounted display device to use a fiducial marker to identify an Internet of Things (IoT) device. The head-mounted display device can use the identifier to establish a network connection with the IoT device. For example, the identifier can include an Internet Protocol (IP) address, a Bluetooth address, a cloud IoT identifier (e.g., AZURE hub IoT identifier), or another type of an identifier. By using an electronic paper display, the IoT device can dynamically generate and display a new fiducial marker when a new identifier is assigned to the IoT device or is generated by the IoT device. Consequently, the head-mounted display device can detect the fiducial marker and extract the identifier for the IoT device from the fiducial marker so that the identifier can be used to establish a network connection with the IoT device.
US11675205B2
An image display device according to the present disclosure includes a first self-luminous display element that self-emits an image of first color light, a second self-luminous display element that self-emits an image of second color light, a third self-luminous display element that self-emits an image of third color light, and a prism including a dichroic mirror that synthesizes images of three colors, the first, the second, and the third self-luminous display element are each configured to extract light from a side of a semireflective semitransmissive electrode included in the first, the second, and the third self-luminous display element, and at least one of sums of a thickness of a transparent electrode and a thickness of an optical adjustment layer differs from other in the first, the second, and the third self-luminous display element.
US11675201B2
A packaging structure of head mounted terminal and a head mounted terminal are disclosed. The packaging structure comprises an annular rear casing and a soft rubber member, and the soft rubber member is disposed between the rear casing and two lenses of the head mounted terminal. The outer edge of the soft rubber member is fixed on the inner ring of the rear casing, the soft rubber member comprises two lens barrels arranged symmetrically, and the two lens barrels are respectively sleeved on the two lenses of the head mounted terminal. The soft rubber member further comprises an extending and folding part disposed on an outer periphery of the lens barrel, which is used to realize the extension of the lens barrel with the left and right movement of the lens.
US11675192B2
A multi-functional diffractive optical element (DOE) for redirecting light into a waveguide and providing higher order aberration correction is described. The multi-functional DOE may be positioned on, connected to, adjacent to, or within a waveguide, and in some examples is positioned at, or near, the exit pupil of the projector lens. In an example, a head-mounted display (HMD) is configured to output artificial reality content, comprising a waveguide configured to receive input light and configured to output the received input light to an eyebox. The HMD further comprises a projector configured to input light into the waveguide, the projector comprising a display, a projection lens, and a multi-functional diffractive optical element (DOE) configured to redirect light from the projector into the waveguide and provide higher order aberration correction of the light from the display.
US11675185B2
An actuator device includes: a support portion; a movable portion; a first connection portion connecting the movable portion to the support portion on a first axis so that the movable portion is swingable around the first axis; and a first wiring provided on the first connection portion. The first wiring includes a first main body formed of a metal material having a Vickers hardness of 50 HV or more. The first main body includes a first surface facing the first connection portion and a second surface other than the first surface. The second surface has a shape in which a curvature is continuous over the entire second surface in a cross-section perpendicular to an extension direction of the first wiring.
US11675176B2
Methods and systems are provided for synchronizing image capture at a multi-detector imaging system. In one example, a method includes coordinating cycling of each microscope assembly of the multi-detector imaging system through a selection of illumination channels, each microscope assembly configured to obtain an image of a portion of one of more than one microplate wells simultaneously, to generate complete images of the more than one microplate wells concurrently.
US11675164B2
An imaging lens system and an imaging device capable of capturing a long-distance image in a central direction of an optical axis with high resolution and capturing a neighborhood image at a wide angle. An imaging lens system includes, in order from an object side: a first lens group including at least a first lens, a second lens, and a third lens; an aperture stop (STOP); and a second lens group including two or more lens and having a positive combined power, an image side of the first lens has a concave surface, a combined focal length of the first lens and the second lens is negative, the third lens is a lens having a positive power, an object side of the first lens has an aspherical surface, and an incident-side surface (object side) of the first lens has an inflection point.
US11675163B2
An optical imaging system includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, and a seventh lens sequentially disposed in numerical order along an optical axis of the optical imaging system from an object side of the optical imaging system toward an imaging plane of the optical imaging system; and a spacer disposed between the sixth and seventh lenses, wherein the optical imaging system satisfies 0.5
US11675162B2
There is provided an imaging lens with high resolution which satisfies in well balance the low-profileness and the low F-number and properly corrects aberrations. An imaging lens comprises a first lens having positive refractive power, a second lens having the positive refractive power, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens being a double-sided aspheric lens, and a sixth lens being double-sided aspheric lens and having a concave surface facing the image side near the optical axis, wherein the image-side surface of the sixth lens is an aspheric surface changing to the convex surface at a peripheral area.
US11675157B2
The present embodiments relates to a lens driving device including: a housing; a bobbin disposed in the housing; a coil disposed on the bobbin; a first magnet which is disposed on the housing and faces the coil; a second magnet disposed on the bobbin; and a sensor which is disposed on the housing and faces the second sensor, wherein the sensor includes an upper surface, a lower surface disposed opposite the upper surface, an inner surface facing the second magnet, an outer surface disposed opposite the inner surface, and both lateral surfaces connecting the inner surface with the outer surface, the upper surface and the lower surface of the sensor are fixed to the housing, and one of the side surfaces of the sensor is opened.
US11675156B2
A lens unit with a central axis is provided. The lens unit includes a fixed portion, a movable portion, and a first driving assembly. The fixed portion includes an outer frame and a bottom combined with the outer frame. The outer frame and the bottom are arranged along the central axis. The movable portion is movably connected to the fixed portion, and carries a lens with an optical axis. The central axis is not parallel to the optical axis. The first driving assembly is connected to the movable portion, and drives the movable portion to move relative to the fixed portion. The first driving assembly also includes a biasing element made of a shape memory alloy.
US11675154B2
A camera module is attached to an inside of a windshield of a vehicle to capture an image of an outside view. The camera module includes an imager, a lens set equipped with a first lens and a second lens, a lens barrel in which the lens set is disposed, and a main spacer fit in the lens barrel. The lens barrel retains the first lens using an axial force oriented along an optical axis of the lens set. The main spacer is disposed between the first and second lenses and transmits the axial force from one of the first and second lenses to the other. This structure enables the camera module to be reduced in size without sacrificing the optical performance thereof.
US11675139B2
A dustcap comprises a body having a cylindrical portion configured to receive a ferrule of an optical fiber connector, and an end portion opposite the cylindrical portion. The end portion includes a receptacle. The dustcap has a built-in cleaner disposed within the receptacle. The dustcap further comprises a removable cover configured to couple to the end portion of the dustcap. In another embodiment, the end portion includes a flat surface, the cleaner is disposed on the flat surface of the end portion, and the cover is configured to receive the end portion of the dustcap. In another embodiment, the cover has a receptacle and the cleaner is disposed within the receptacle, whereas the body comprises an end portion configured to receive at least a portion of the cover with the built-in cleaner. Embodiments encompass cleaner assemblies and adapter dustcaps having built-in cleaners.
US11675137B2
Embodiments disclosed herein are directed to a device and system of devices including: a connector comprising a housing comprising a groove lengthwise in a surface of the housing and a push-pull tab comprising a protrusion, a widthwise recess on the connector housing accepting protrusions on a removable anchor device that retains the connector in a port, wherein the push-pull tab releases the connector from the port using protrusions on the anchor device and the receiver device comprising one or more ports for receiving one or more connector types; and the receiver device comprising one or more ports without an anchor; said port secures a second connector type comprising a latch release mechanism; and the receiver device ports are opposite one another; wherein the opposite ports can accept a first connector and a second connector; wherein the first connector release mechanism and differs from the second connector release mechanism.
US11675135B2
A rotatable connector for rotatable mounting an optical fiber, comprising a hollow shaft for introducing and fixing an optical fiber mechanically to the hollow shaft, furthermore comprising one or more bearings, whereby, in the case of a two bearing construction, the interior of a first bearing is fixed onto the hollow shaft, as well as the interior of a second bearing being fixed onto the hollow shaft, whereby the second bearing is spaced apart from the first bearing, the exterior of at least one bearing is in contact with the interior of a hollow stationary part, the latter having a thread, which can be screwed together with the counter thread of a cap or cap nut, which may apply an axial clamping force onto the bearings, when tightened.
US11675132B2
A photonic system includes a passive optical cavity and an optical waveguide. The passive optical cavity has a preferred radial mode for light propagation within the passive optical cavity. The preferred radial mode has a unique light propagation constant within the passive optical cavity. The optical waveguide is configured to extend past the passive optical cavity such that at least some light propagating through the optical waveguide will evanescently couple into the passive optical cavity. The passive optical cavity and the optical waveguide are collectively configured such that a light propagation constant of the optical waveguide substantially matches the unique light propagation constant of the preferred radial mode within the passive optical cavity.
US11675129B2
A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a waveguide over a substrate. The semiconductor device includes a first dielectric structure over the substrate, wherein a portion of the waveguide is in the first dielectric structure. The semiconductor device includes a second dielectric structure under the waveguide, wherein a first sidewall of the second dielectric structure is adjacent a first sidewall of the substrate.
US11675125B2
A single mode optical fiber is provided that includes a core region having an outer radius r1 and a maximum relative refractive index Δ1max. The single mode optical fiber further includes a cladding region surrounding the core region, the cladding region includes a depressed-index cladding region, a relative refractive index Δ3 of the depressed-index cladding region increasing with increased radial position. The single mode optical fiber has a bend loss at 1550 nm for a 15 mm diameter mandrel of less than about 0.75 dB/turn, a bend loss at 1550 nm for a 20 mm diameter mandrel of less than about 0.2 dB/turn, and a bend loss at 1550 nm for a 30 mm diameter mandrel of less than 0.005 dB/turn. Additionally, the single mode optical fiber has a mode field diameter of 9.0 microns or greater at 1310 nm wavelength.
US11675123B2
Techniques are provided for radiation-induced birefringence in a Polarization-Maintaining Fiber (PMF). In one example, a fiber is obtained. At least one local volume of the fiber is irradiated to induce an end-to-end birefringence in the fiber. Based on the end-to-end birefringence induced in the fiber, a PMF is produced.
US11675110B2
A system and method for diamond based multilayer antireflective coating for optical windows are provided. An antireflective coatings for optical windows may include an optical grade silicon substrate, a first polycrystalline diamond film on the silicon substrate, a germanium film on the first polycrystalline diamond film, a fused silica film on the germanium film; and a second polycrystalline diamond film on the fused silica film. A method of fabricating a diamond based multilayer antireflective coating may include the steps of cleaning and seeding an optical substrate, forming a first diamond layer on the optical substrate, forming a germanium layer on the first diamond layer, forming a fused silica layer on the germanium layer, cleaning and seeding the germanium layer, and forming a second diamond layer on the germanium layer.
US11675104B2
A system and method for detecting a suspicious object, including a wireless signal transmitter with first and second transmitter antennas, a first wireless signal receiver on an opposite side of the object from the transmitter having first and second receiver antennas, and a second wireless signal receiver on a same side of the object as the transmitter having a third receiver antenna. The transmitter may emit wireless signals from each of the transmitter antennas. The signals emitted by the first transmitter antenna may be received at the first and second receiver antennas. The signals emitted by both transmitter antennas may be received at the third receiver antenna. The object's material type may be determined based on channel state information of the wireless signals received at first receiver. A size of the object may be determined based on channel state information of the wireless signals received at the second receiver.
US11675101B2
A method for determining depth of a material is disclosed. The method includes transmitting a signal from an antenna at a location. The signal includes a fundamental frequency and the signal penetrates ground under the location. The location is selected to locate a material at a depth under the location. The fundamental frequency matches a known resonant frequency of a resonant atom of a molecule of the material. The method includes detecting a reflected wave on the antenna, determining a time difference between transmission of the signal and detection of the reflected wave on the antenna, and determining the depth to the material based on the time difference and a reflected velocity corresponding to the resonant atom.
US11675093B2
The present invention relates to an apparatus for determining the location of a radiation source. The apparatus for determining the location of a radiation source according to the present invention comprises: a collimator part for selectively passing radiation therethrough according to the direction in which the radiation is incident; a scintillator part for converting the radiation incident from the collimator part into a light ray; a first optical sensor for converting the light ray incident from one end of the scintillator part into a first optical signal; a second optical sensor for converting the light ray incident from the other end of the scintillator part into a second optical signal; and a location information acquisition part for acquiring information on the location where the light ray is generated in the scintillator part, by using the second optical signal and the second optical signal.
US11675089B2
A system and a method are disclosed for enabling seamlessly tracking a location of a water vessel by supplementing satellite data with mobile data location based on proximity of a water vessel to shore. The system receives a Global Positioning System (GPS) location of the water vessel, the GPS location of the water vessel based on using the satellite data of the water vessel. The system determines that the GPS location is within a threshold distance of a boundary. Responsive to determining that the GPS location is within the threshold distance of the boundary, the system initiates monitoring for a mobile signal emanating from a trajectory path of the water vessel. The system detects, during the monitoring, the mobile signal, the tracking the location of the water vessel based on mobile data of the mobile signal. The system provides the tracked location to a monitoring device.
US11675076B2
A sensor system can comprise a detector with a plurality of units, wherein the detector is configured to generate a first set of electrical signals based on received photon energy of a light beam that is reflected back from a first plurality of points on one or more objects, in a first configuration. Additionally, the detector is configured to generate a second set of electrical signals based on received photon energy of a light beam that is reflected back from a second plurality of points on one or more objects in a second configuration, wherein the first configuration and the second configuration are with a predetermined correlation. Furthermore, the detector can determine distance to each of the first plurality of points and the second plurality of points on the one or more objects based on the first set of electrical signals and the second set of electrical signals.
US11675062B2
Various technologies described herein pertain to context aware real-time power adjusting for steerable lidar. A lidar system can include a laser source (e.g., FMCW) configured to emit an optical signal. The lidar system can further include a scanner configured to direct the optical signal emitted by the laser source from the lidar system into an environment. The optical signal can be directed over a field of view in the environment during time periods of frames. The lidar system can further include a controller configured to modulate a power of the optical signal emitted by the laser source between the frames and/or within one or more of the frames. The controller can modulate the power of the optical signal emitted by the laser source based on a position of the lidar system in the environment and a direction in which the optical signal is to be transmitted into the environment.
US11675049B2
A method for fabricating a plurality of Time-of-Flight sensor devices (1) comprises a step of providing a wafer (100) including a plurality of wafer portions (110) for a respective one of the Time-of-Flight sensor devices (1), wherein each of the wafer portions (110) includes a first light detecting area (10) and a second light detecting area (20) and a respective light emitter device (30). The respective light emitter device (30) and the respective first light detecting area (10) is encapsulated by a first volume (40) of a light transparent material (130), and the respective second light detecting area (20) is encapsulated by a second volume (50) of the light transparent material (130). Before singulation of the devices (1), an opaque material (60) is placed on the wafer portions (110) in a space (120) between the respective first and second volume (40, 50) of the light transparent material (130).
US11675044B2
At least some embodiments of the present invention are directed to RFID reader systems configured to estimate a directional bearing of an RFID tag. In an embodiment, the present invention is an RFID system configured in a way that upon a detection of a variance in the direction of a maximum RSSI value for a given RFID tag in response to a plurality of interrogation signals transmitted by an RFID reader over a respective plurality of different directions, the RFID reader retransmits the plurality of interrogation signals over the respective plurality of different directions with successively lower power levels until the only response(s) being received no longer exhibit the previously detected variance.
US11675038B2
A fat suppressed diffusion image determination apparatus, a corresponding method and a corresponding computer program determine a diffusion weighted magnetic resonance image (DWI) of an object. The fat suppressed diffusion image determination apparatus includes a diffusion reference image providing unit for providing a diffusion reference MR image of the object, a fat image determination unit for determining a fat image from the diffusion reference MR image, a diffusion weighted image providing unit for providing a diffusion weighted MR image of the object, a fat suppressed image determination unit for determining a fat suppressed diffusion weighted MR image using a combination of the diffusion weighted MR image and the fat image.
US11675037B2
Systems and methods for magnetic field-dependent relaxometry using magnetic resonance imaging (“MRI”) are provided. Relaxation parameters, including longitudinal relaxation time (“T1”) and transverse relaxation time (“T2”), are estimated from magnetic resonance signal data acquired at multiple different magnetic field strengths using the same MRI system. By measuring these relaxation parameters as a function of magnetic field strength, T1 dispersion data, T2 dispersion data, or both, are generated. Based on this dispersion data, quantitative physiological parameters can be estimated. As one example, iron content can be estimated from T2 dispersion data.
US11675028B2
A magnetic sensor comprises a magnetoresistive effect element including a first side surface and a second side surface facing in opposite directions along a first axis and a first end surface and a second end surface facing in opposite directions along a second axis substantially orthogonal to the first axis. The sensor has a sensitivity axis extending in a direction of the first axis, a first yoke unit provided adjacent to the first side surface of the magnetoresistive effect element, and a first bias magnetic field generation unit provided adjacent to the first end surface of the magnetoresistive effect element. The first bias magnetic field generation unit is provided to be capable of applying a bias magnetic field on the magnetoresistive effect element and the first yoke unit.
US11675024B2
Hall sensing signals are received in a spinning readout pattern of subsequent readout phases, wherein the pattern is cyclically repeated at a spinning frequency and a polarity of the Hall sensor signals is reversed in two non-adjacent readout phases of the readout pattern. A signal storage circuit includes signal storage capacitors. An accumulation circuit includes accumulation capacitors. A switch network is selectively actuated to couple the signal storage capacitors with the accumulation capacitors synchronously with phases in the spinning readout pattern in subsequent alternating first and second periods. The spinning output is stored with alternating opposite signs on the signal storage capacitors and the Hall sensing signals are stored in the signal storage capacitors and then accumulated on the accumulation capacitors with alternate signs in subsequent periods. The accumulated output signal is then demodulated with a demodulation frequency half the spinning frequency.
US11675007B2
This disclosure describes a test architecture that supports a common approach to testing individual die and dies in a 3D stack arrangement. The test architecture uses an improved TAP design to facilitate the testing of parallel test circuits within the die.
US11674997B2
A test system is disclosed. The test system includes a programmable switching array including input terminals, output terminals, and an array of programmable switches configured for selectively connecting any one of the input terminals to any one of output terminals; and a current supply device comprising a multiplexed digital bus and a plurality of a power supplies connected in parallel between the multiplexed digital bus and the input terminals of the programmable switching array.
US11674996B2
A testing system for test sockets is presented having a removable device under test printed circuit board (DUT PCB) that electrically connects with the electrical testing components of the system. A top stiffener is attached to the lower surface of the DUT PCB and is locked in place by engagement members of a locking mechanism, that is operated by an actuating mechanism, that includes a rack and pinion arrangement that converts rotational movement of the pinions to lateral movement of the racks thereby locking the stiffener connected to the DUT PCB to the socket plate so as to facilitate testing. The upper surface of the DUT PCB has an infinite top plane that is uninterrupted and can be of any size and shape. The system is also modular and can be formed of any number of modules depending on the pin count density required.
US11674987B1
One or more embodiments relate to a switch-mode power supply control circuit that can be used to provide power to regular single phase or three phase energy meter, while also offering a simple low cost method to detect a magnetic tampering event that usually occurs on energy meter. In one example, the switch-mode power supply for the energy meter is a flyback type switch mode power supply comprising a power switch, a switching controller, and a slew rate based magnetic field detection circuit which is configured to enable a magnetic tampering detection signal that can be communicated to the switching controller. Upon detection of a magnetic tampering event, the power supply and the supporting circuitry can raise the switching frequency of the power switch in order to provide more power to the output or cutoff power to the consumer's power outlet and even report the tampering event to the power station.
US11674985B2
An electrical safety monitoring system is provided. The system includes an analog circuit having line inputs for hardwiring an L1, an L2, an L3, and a GND three-phase connections, the analog circuit configured to monitor if voltage exists between any two of the line inputs, a heartbeat circuit electrically connected to the analog circuit to provide a heartbeat signal indicative of voltage present on any of the line inputs, an isolated voltage source electrically connected to the heartbeat circuit to power the heartbeat circuit with a VDC+ and a VDC−, and a logic circuit in operative communication with the heartbeat circuit for monitoring input from the heartbeat circuit and decoding the input from the heart beat circuit. The isolated voltage source may be supplied by a programmable logic controller (PLC) and the logic circuit may be implemented within the same PLC as a function block.
US11674981B2
An arc detector for detecting arcs in an RF plasma system includes at least two inputs configured to connect to an RF source, at least one output configured to connect to a plasma load, and a 3 dB coupler connected to the at least two inputs and the at least one output. The arc detector further includes a measuring device configured to measure at least two physical quantities transmitted between the 3 dB coupler and the at least one output, a determinator configured to determine an evaluation quantity based on the at least two physical quantities, and a differentiator configured to differentiate the evaluation quantity. The arc detector additionally includes a comparator configured to compare the output quantity of the differentiator with a reference value indicative of an arc.
US11674976B2
A scanning probe microscope including a holder having at least one electric port, wherein the holder is configured to support a sample to be imaged. The scanning probe microscope further includes a probe and an actuator configured to move at least one of the holder and the probe up to three directions. The scanning probe microscope further includes a reflectometer configured to measure reflection and/or transmission coefficients at each of the at least one electric ports of the holder by feeding each of the at least one electric ports of the holder with electromagnetic wave signals.
US11674975B2
An inertial sensor includes a substrate, a first supporting beam being a first rotation axis extending along a first direction, a first movable member swingable around the first rotation axis, a second supporting beam being a second rotation axis extending along a second direction crossing the first direction, a second movable member swingable around the second rotation axis, a third rotation axis extending along a second direction, a third movable member swingable around the third rotation axis, and a projection, wherein the second and third movable members are line-symmetrically placed with a center line of the first movable member along the second direction as an axis of symmetry, a center of gravity of the second movable member is closer to the center line than the second supporting beam, and a center of gravity of the third movable member is closer to the center line than the third supporting beam.
US11674956B2
Disclosed herein are methods for collecting data from chip arrays and for piecewise real-time scanning and stitching of said data. Such arrays can comprise a plurality of microarrays, each microarray comprising biomolecular features that are attached to a surface of the microarray.
US11674953B2
Methods for identifying animals that are genetically superior, drugs, nutritional strategies, or physiological manipulations that improve feed efficiency or productivity of animals, e.g., selecting animals that are genetically superior for feed efficiency or productivity based on metabolic rates of particular tissues, wherein metabolic rates of certain tissues such as skeletal muscle are inversely proportional to feed efficiency, while metabolic rates of other tissues such as mammary gland are directly proportional to milk production. Thus, animals with low skeletal muscle metabolic rates are generally more feed efficient, e.g., gain more weight per unit of food. The methods herein may be used to improve the genetics, nutrition, and handling or animals more efficiently produced animal products, e.g., meat production, milk, production, egg production, wool production, etc. The methods herein may also be used to determine estimated breeding values of animals for feed efficiency, growth, or production.
US11674951B2
The disclosure relates to biomarkers of rheumatoid arthritis, e.g., PTPN22, PFKFB3, ATM, IL-17A, and IL-17F, and methods of using these biomarkers for selecting an effective treatment for rheumatoid arthritis.
US11674950B2
The present invention is based in part on the identification of DPH1 and other members of the diphthamide synthesis pathway as biomarkers of resistance to an ADP-ribosylating toxin in a cell, and methods for identification, assessment, and treatment of a condition that is resistant to an ADP-ribosylating toxin.
US11674938B2
A method of assessing odors, comprises providing an electronic nose that extracts measurements from odors, from which measurements at least n chemical descriptors are extracted where n is greater than unity, and typically around 18. The electronic nose is applied to an odor, and odor information is extracted. The information is plotted to a first location on an n-dimensional sample space, each dimension being related to a respective one of the n chemical descriptors or otherwise optimized for the particular enose and the measurements it makes; and an assessment of the odor is provided based on the plotted location. The assessment may be a description based on odor describing terms, or may be a chemical description in terms of chemicals that can synthesize the odor, and the odor may then be synthesized based on the chemical description.
US11674934B2
The present disclosure relates to methods for compositional analysis of algal biomass, specifically weight percent elemental composition. In at least one embodiment, a method for compositional analysis of an algae sample includes flash combusting a first portion of the algae sample to provide a carbon wt %, a hydrogen wt %, and a nitrogen weight %. The method includes pyrolysing a second portion of the algae sample to provide an oxygen wt %. The method includes scanning a third portion of the algae sample using x-ray fluorescence to provide an elemental intensity. The method includes normalizing the elemental intensity using the carbon wt %, the hydrogen wt %, the nitrogen wt %, and/or the oxygen wt %.
US11674931B2
Photoacoustic detecting device (1), intended to be applied, via a contact face (3), against a medium to be analysed, the device comprising: a hollow cavity (20) comprising a first aperture (22) produced in the contact face, the cavity being bounded by a containment shell (21) that extends around the first aperture; a pulsed or amplitude-modulated light source (10) configured to emit, in an emission spectral band (Δλ), an incident light wave (11) through the cavity (20) to the first aperture; an acoustic transducer (28) linked to the cavity and configured to detect a photoacoustic wave (12) extending through the cavity. The photoacoustic detecting device is optimized to increase the amplitude of the photoacoustic wave detected by the acoustic transducer.
US11674927B2
The eddy current flaw detection apparatus includes: a pair of detecting coils 10a, 10b arranged in coaxial and spaced relation with a specimen 3; and a bridge circuit two sides of which are constituted by the detecting coils so that magnetic fields generated by these detecting coils 10a, 10b are in opposite phases to each other. A pair of exciting coils 11a, 11b are arranged coaxially with the detecting coils 10a, 10b in a manner to sandwich the pair of detecting coils 10a, 10b therebetween. A distance D between the detecting coil and the exciting coil adjacent thereto is set to a distance where a vibrational noise signal excited in the exciting coil and detected by its adjacent detecting coil is in opposite phase to that of a vibrational noise signal excited in the detecting coil and detected by the detecting coil.
US11674926B2
A magneto acoustic emission detection method for fatigue damage of ferromagnetic metal components: First, generating an excitation magnetic field by using a sine wave voltage signal, gradually increasing a loading voltage until a magneto acoustic emission signal of a bimodal envelope with an obvious tail peak is acquired, and taking a corresponding voltage peak value as a reference voltage; second, generating an excitation magnetic field by using a square wave voltage signal equal to or higher than a reference voltage, and acquiring a magneto acoustic emission signal with a T-shaped envelope; and third, calculating the average value of peak-to-peak values of the magneto acoustic emission signal in multiple periods to serve as a characteristic parameter, and enabling the characteristic parameter to have inflection point change along with the development of the initiation and expansion of the fatigue crack, and giving a timely early warning for the failure of the component.
US11674915B2
A sensor system includes a multi-frequency sensor assembly including a single sensor body housing with a sensing region circuit and a sensor reader disposed in the sensor body. The sensor body is configured to be in operational contact with a fluid. The sensing region circuit is configured to generate different electric fields having different frequencies in the fluid. The sensor reader includes one or more processors configured to examine one or more impedance responses of the sensing region circuit at different frequencies and to determine one or more properties of the fluid based on the one or more impedance responses that are examined.
US11674914B2
A sensor having a sensor head including a unibody construction, a first electrode, and at least one second electrode is provided. The first electrode can include a first pair of sensing elements coupled to each over via at least one bridge element extending from a first sensing element to a second sensing element. The at least one second electrode can include a second pair of sensing elements interleaved with the first pair of sensing elements. The second pair of sensing elements can be coupled to each other via at least one second bridge element extending from a third sensing element to a fourth sensing element. A method of manufacturing the sensor is also provided.
US11674911B2
In an embodiment, a system for wear monitoring, includes a wear surface, a metallic reflector embedded in the wear surface, a radio-wave transmitter, and a radio-wave receiver. The metallic reflector reflects radio waves transmitted by the radio-wave transmitter for detection by the radio wave receiver. Attenuation of the radio waves between transmission by the radio-wave transmitter and detection by the radio-wave receiver indicates a degree of wear of the wear surface.
US11674902B2
A system and method are presented, for monitoring and/or imaging of a sample. The system comprises: a light unit configured for illuminating the sample in at least two different wavelength ranges; a collection unit configured for collecting a light emitted from the sample in at least a third wavelength range and directing said emitted light towards at least one detector; and an activation unit configured for providing activation signal to selectively activate at least a portion of fluorescent substance in the sample; and a processing circuitry configured for operating the light unit to determine a selected temporal illumination profile of said at least two different wavelength ranges and for operating the activation unit for controllable activation.
US11674899B2
A sensing system for characterizing analytes of interest in a sample comprises a photonic integrated circuit with an integrated interferometer. The integrated interferometer is configured for spectroscopic operation. The integrated interferometer comprises at least a sensing arm and a reference arm, both the sensing arm and the reference arm having an exposable segment available for interaction with the sample, whereby the exposable segment of the reference arm has an optical path length which is smaller than twice the optical path length of the exposable segment of the sensing arm. The exposable section of the sensing arm is selective to the analyte of interest, whereas the exposable section of the reference arm is not selective to the analyte of interest.
US11674880B2
Methods for determining a radius of gyration of a particle in solution using a light scattering detector are provided. The method may include passing the solution through a flowpath in a sample cell, determining respective angular normalization factors for first and second angles of the detector, obtaining a first scattering intensity of the particle in solution at the first angle, obtaining a second scattering intensity of the particle in solution at the second angle, obtaining a 10° scattering intensity of the particle in solution at an angle of about 10°, determining a first particle scattering factor, determining a second particle scattering factor, plotting an angular dissymmetry plot, fitting a line to the angular dissymmetry plot, determining a slope of the line at a selected location on the line, determining the radius of gyration of the particle in solution from the slope of the line, and outputting the radius of gyration.
US11674877B2
Method of and apparatus for performing cyclic flow cytometry analysis on a sample population of cellular entities including: causing each cellular entity to be labeled with an optical identifier; for each cellular entity, performing a first pass of flow cytometry measurement over a flow channel with respect to a first set of parameters, under conditions of determining an identification for the cellular entity for which values of the first set of parameters are being obtained, and storing the values of the first set in association with the identification; and performing a second pass of flow cytometry measurement over the flow channel with respect to a second set of parameters, under conditions of separately determining an identification for the cellular entity for which values of the second set of parameters are being obtained, and storing the values of the second set in association with the identification.
US11674867B2
An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) test bench, which falls within the technical field of UAV test, comprising a support component, a universal rotating component, a fixed component and a return component: the universal rotating component slides along the Z direction and is arranged on the support component, and one end of the universal rotating component can rotate in a universal way relative to the other end of the universal rotating component. The fixed component is connected to one end of the universal rotating component, and the fixed component is configured to fix the UAV. One end of the return component is connected to the support component, the other end is connected to the other end of the universal rotating component, and the return component is configured to drive the universal rotating component and the fixed component to reset.
US11674860B2
An apparatus for orienting an accelerometer on a post-tensioned rod is provided. The apparatus includes a first open channel having a first sidewall forming a substantially half cylinder shape along at least a portion of a length of the first open channel, and a first axis along a length of the first open channel. The apparatus further includes a second open channel having a second sidewall forming a substantially half cylinder shape along at least a portion of a height of the second open channel, and a second axis along a height of the second open channel. The apparatus further includes a stopper wall having an inner surface disposed internal to a top end of the second channel. The inner surface of the stopper wall is substantially perpendicular to the second axis. The first axis is substantially perpendicular to the second axis. The first and second channels are contiguous.
US11674855B2
A temperature-to-digital converter includes a temperature sensor circuit, an analog-to-digital converter (ADC), and a digital processing circuit. The temperature sensor circuit is configured to generate first and second complementary-to-absolute-temperature (CTAT) voltages based on a sensed absolute temperature. The ADC is configured to receive the first and second CTAT voltages. Further, during first and second conversion cycles of the ADC, the ADC is configured to receive the first and second CTAT voltages, and generate first and second digital voltages, respectively. The first and second digital voltages are generated based on the first and second CTAT voltages, respectively, and a difference between the first and second CTAT voltages. The digital processing circuit is configured to generate, based on the first and second digital voltages, a temperature output voltage that is independent of a gain of the ADC and a digital representation of the absolute temperature.
US11674849B2
Methods and systems for determining a radar compatible coating are provided. In one example, the method includes obtaining a reflectance measurement of a target coating to characterize a color of the target coating. One or more candidate formulas are generated to determine color matching to the color of the target coating. A corresponding color and a corresponding radar property for each of the one or more candidate formulations is predicted. A radar compatible coating composition that is the same or substantially similar in appearance to the target coating is generated. Generating the radar compatible coating composition is based at least in part on the corresponding color and the corresponding radar property for one of the one or more candidate formulations.
US11674845B2
A typical configuration of the angle adjustment mechanism according to the present invention is provided with a parabolic mirror, a housing accommodating a parabolic mirror, a screw including a head arranged outside the housing and a shaft engaged with the parabolic mirror through a hole formed in the housing, and a base portion in contact with both the housing and the parabolic mirror. A force is applied to an engaging portion of the parabolic mirror in a direction approaching the housing and a force is applied to a portion of the parabolic mirror in contact with the base portion in a direction away from the housing. The angle of the parabolic mirror with respect to the housing changes in accordance with the change in the length of a portion where the shaft and the parabolic mirror engage.
US11674838B2
A sensor for measuring multiple properties of a fluid, such as oil, including level, temperature, water contamination, and dielectric where the sensing elements include two or more interdigitated electrodes, a capacitive relative humidity sensor, and a temperature sensing element.
US11674823B2
A device for sensing the relative rotary position of first and second parts about a rotation axis, the device comprising a follower constrained to move on a first track fast with the first part and on a second track fast with the second part, the first track being linear and the second track comprising a plurality of circular arcs and at least one transition section connecting one of the circular arcs to another, the tracks being arranged so as to convert relative rotation of the parts into linear motion of the follower, wherein the second track is generally spiral, each circular arc is of constant radius about the rotation axis and the first track is perpendicular to the rotation axis.
US11674821B2
A mounting system for a field device is provided, including at least one field device including a first housing part; at least one mounting adapter including a second housing part configured to captively receive the first housing part, the first housing part including at least one mount and/or the second housing part includes at least one mount, the mount being disposed such that the field device is engageable with the second housing part in a first orientation and with the second housing part in a second orientation.
US11674820B2
A vehicle safety analytics and routing system can be used to identify high risk areas and to assist in routing vehicles. The vehicle safety analytics and routing system brings together a variety of vehicle incident data that can be used in identifying high risk areas and in predicting risks for a vehicle. The routing aspect of the system uses vehicle incident data to assess the distribution of risk over a geographic area and to calculate risks associated with different potential vehicle routes. The calculated risks can be used to route vehicles around high risk intersections and stretches of road.
US11674817B2
A method for relocating a mobile vehicle in a simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) map is provided. The method can be used in the mobile vehicle moving in an area and includes: using SLAM to establish the SLAM map that corresponds to the area at an initial time point; detecting, by a non-SLAM positioning device, a first position trajectory and a first azimuth trajectory of the mobile vehicle on the SLAM map; detecting, by a SLAM positioning device, a loss probability of the mobile vehicle between a first timestamp and a second timestamp; determining whether a condition is satisfied; and updating the SLAM map to a new SLAM map corresponding to a current time point and updating positioning information of the mobile vehicle in the new SLAM map when the condition is satisfied at the current time point.
US11674812B2
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can determine at least one potential route for navigating a vehicle within a geographic region. A score that measures a comfort level associated with the potential route can be determined, wherein the score is determined based on at least one sensor map that segments the geographic region into a grid of cells, and wherein the comfort level for the potential route is determined based at least in part on cells through which the vehicle travels while navigating along the potential route. A determination is made whether to use the potential route for navigating the vehicle based at least in part on the score.
US11674808B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for dynamic content delivery based on vehicle navigational attributes. An example apparatus includes at least one memory, machine readable instructions, and processor circuitry to execute the machine readable instructions to at least obtain navigational attributes from an electronic device of a vehicle via a network, determine a relevancy score for respective ones of first sporting event data items based on the navigational attributes, based on a determination that the navigational attributes correspond to a driving condition, identify a second sporting event data item of the first sporting event data items based on a relevancy score of the second sporting event data item corresponding to the driving condition, and transmit the second sporting event data item to the electronic device of the vehicle to cause the second sporting event data item to be presented.
US11674806B2
Systems and methods for conveniently providing anchoring assistance onboard a watercraft are provided herein. An example system includes a display and a processor in communication with a marine system. The processor is configured to receive marine data from the marine system and/or one or more user inputs and cause the display to show one or more anchoring locations with visual indications of the anchorage quality index based on at least the marine data and/or user inputs. The one or more anchoring locations may be shown as a heat map overlaid on a map. The system may use real-time marine data, environmental data, weather data, tide data, etc. to dynamically adjust the anchoring locations and anchorage quality index. The system may enable convenient and helpful suggestions and notifications to the user when anchoring a watercraft. Some examples provide automatic deployment of an anchoring system and monitoring of a current anchoring.
US11674788B2
A valve clearance measuring assembly includes a panel having a first side, a second side, a forward edge and a rearward edge. The forward edge is extendable between a valve tip and a rocker arm. The first and second sides of the panel each are planar and orientated planar with respect to each other. A head includes a central member and a pair of arms. The arms extend in a generally same direction with respect to each other to define a space between the arms. The panel is attached to the arms and traverses the space. The forward edge is in static communication with the arms such that the forward edge is in a linear configuration as the forward edge traverses the space.
US11674784B2
Various types of structures, along with associated systems, are disclosed herein and configured for responding to an energy wave for changing a state of a mechanism to which said structures are operatively coupled. In at least one embodiment, the structure provides a material selectively changeable upon exposure to the energy wave to cause at least a portion of the material to mechanically degrade from a first state to a second state. When the material is in the first state, the material forms a mechanical or electrical link with the mechanism such that a force or an electrical current can be transmitted through the structure. When the material is in the second state, degradation of at least the portion of the material disrupts the mechanical or electrical link and inhibits transmission of the force or electrical current through the structure.
US11674781B2
The invention relates to bullets having increased frangibility (or which can be easily fragmented) and to powder materials and processes for the manufacture of such bullets. The bullets of the present invention are made from an iron alloy containing 75-81% Hoeganaes MH-100 Iron 0.6-0.09% Carbon, and balance of admixed Copper powder. Said bullets are then coated for lubricity so the bullet does not prematurely wear the barrel of a gun. Additionally, the invention provides a simple low cost process to make bullets that is amenable to mass production via automation.
US11674771B2
A suppressor for a firearm comprises an inner chamber through which a projectile fired by the firearm passes along a projectile pathway through the suppressor. The suppressor further comprises a first baffle, a plurality of apertures at an outer perimeter of the first baffle, and a plurality of inner baffles spaced apart along the length of the inner chamber between the first baffle and an exit end of the suppressor. The side wall of the first baffle is configured to direct a flow of gases received from the firearm through the plurality of apertures at the outer perimeter of the first baffle, and the side wall of each inner baffle is an asymmetric side wall.
US11674763B2
A damping assembly for a firearm is provided. The damping assembly includes at least a gas piston and a recoil spring, which may be arranged coaxially or in parallel. The gas piston is disposed within a gas tube which has access to the bore of the firearm through a gas inlet. Pressurized gas from the bore can enter the gas tube via the inlet and push against the gas piston, which can dampen the cycle rate of the firearm.
US11674762B2
A bolt action firearm has a frame defining a bolt passage, an elongated bolt assembly configured to reciprocate within the bolt passage, the elongated bolt assembly defining a firing pin passage, a firing pin assembly received in the firing pin passage, a bolt handle having an inner end configured to removably engage the firing pin assembly and an opposed free end, the bolt handle inner end having opposed spaced-apart prongs defining a bolt handle channel, the bolt handle defining a pocket associated with the bolt handle channel, the firing pin assembly having a handle engagement portion having a first section configured to be received in the bolt handle channel, and the firing pin assembly having a second section adjacent to the first section such that when the second section is biased into the pocket, the firing pin assembly is secured against passage through the bolt handle channel.
US11674758B2
A heat exchanger plate for provides heat transfer between a first flow along a first flowpath and a second flow along a second flowpath. The heat exchanger plate comprised a body having: a first face and a second face opposite the first face; a leading edge along the second flowpath and a trailing edge along the second flowpath; a proximal edge having at least one inlet port along the first flowpath and at least one outlet port along the first flowpath; and at least one passageway along the first flowpath. Along a proximal portion, the first face and the second face converge at a first angle. Along a distal portion, the first face and the second face converge at a second angle less than the first angle.
US11674756B2
A single inlet/single outlet modular counterflow cooling tower having two heat transfer sections installed atop two cold water basin sections and below three fan sections, each heat transfer section having its own water distribution system and draining into its own distinct cold water basin section. The water distribution system can provide flow over both heat transfer sections or over only a single section. The center fan support section supports the mechanical drive system for the fan and has a sealing plate at its bottom for sealing the gap between the two heat transfer sections.
US11674744B2
A divider assembly to be mounted in a storage container for dividing the storage container during use, includes a guiding rail having a first surface and a second surface facing each other and extending in a sliding direction, a slider slidably movable in the guiding rail, and a divider attached to the slider and movable with the slider in the storage container for dividing the storage container into sections. The slider includes at least two slider arms extending in opposite directions. Each slider arm has at least one ball-shaped roller. The ball-shaped rollers roll on at least one of the first surface or second surface of the guiding rail when the divider assembly moves in the sliding direction. A cooling device including the divider assembly is also provided.
US11674742B2
The present embodiment relates to a refrigerator comprising: a cabinet forming a storage space; a door for opening and closing the storage space and provided with a receiving space; a see-through portion extending through the door and communicating with the receiving space; a door light for illuminating a rear space of the door; a transparent panel assembly for shielding the see-through portion and becoming transparent or opaque so as to selectively visualize the see-through portion according to On/Off states of the door light; and a heat insulating member, formed along a perimeter of the transparent panel assembly, for insulating a perimeter portion of the transparent panel assembly.
US11674734B2
A refrigerator includes a temperature-controlled drawer within a fresh food compartment. The drawer includes a temperature dampening member in thermal communication with a freezing air source and an interior or the drawer. The member is made of a thermally conductive material. In use, heat is conducted away from the interior of the drawer through the temperature dampening member in communication with the freezing air source. Thus, freezing of a foodstuff within the drawer is minimized or prevented, a temperature variance within the drawer is minimized, and humidity within the drawer is not adversely affected by dry freezing air source.
US11674733B2
A cold insulation container includes: a cold insulation storage including a coolant vessel; a circulating air fan that causes cold air from the coolant vessel to circulate in the cold insulation storage; a thermoelectric generating module attached to an outer surface of the coolant vessel; and a temperature controller that adjusts a temperature in the cold insulation storage. A temperature difference between the coolant vessel and circulating cold air in the cold insulation storage causes the temperature controller and the circulating air fan to be driven by thermoelectric power generated by the thermoelectric generating module.
US11674726B2
A method of controlling a transport climate control system includes detecting for leaking of working fluid from a climate control circuit. The method also includes isolating a high-pressure side of the climate control circuit when leaking of the working fluid is detected. A method of controlling a transport climate control circuit includes detecting for overcharge and/or an undercharge of the climate control circuit. A transport climate control system includes a climate control circuit and a climate controller that is configured to detect for working fluid leaking from the climate control circuit. The climate controller configured to isolate a high-pressure side of the climate control circuit when leaking of the working fluid is detected.
US11674721B2
A refrigerator according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a compressor configured to compress a refrigerant; and an inverter module configured to control the compressor, wherein the inverter module includes: a heatsink provided with a cooling passage through which coolant passes; a coolant inlet connected to the heatsink to communicate with an inlet of the cooling passage; a coolant outlet connected to the heatsink to communicate with an outlet of the cooling passage; at least one insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) disposed on a top surface of the heatsink; and at least one diode disposed to be spaced apart from the IGBT on the top surface of the heatsink, wherein the cooling passage includes: an IGBT cooling passage that is closer to the coolant inlet among the coolant inlet and the coolant outlet; and a diode cooling passage that is closer to the coolant outlet among the coolant inlet and the coolant outlet, wherein the diode cooling passage is disposed behind the IGBT cooling passage in a flow direction of the coolant.
US11674720B2
A diffusion absorption refrigeration apparatus includes a bubble pump; a gas-liquid separator; a condenser; a gas branch pipe; an evaporator; an absorber; a gas heat exchanger; a storage tank; and a solution heat exchanger, in which a single material of trans-1,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene (R-1234ze(E)) and 2,3,3,3-tetrafluoropropene (R-1234yf), which have a low global warming potential (GWP), or a mixture thereof at a predetermined ratio is used as a refrigerant. Accordingly, the stability is high and a low GWP can be achieved.
US11674719B2
A refrigeration system includes a receiver, a gas bypass valve, a parallel compressor, and a controller. The gas bypass valve and the parallel compressor are fluidly coupled to an outlet of the receiver in parallel and configured to control a pressure of a gas refrigerant in the receiver. The controller is configured to switch from operating the gas bypass valve to operating the parallel compressor to control the pressure of the gas refrigerant in the receiver in response to a value of a process variable crossing a switchover setpoint. The value of the process variable depends on an amount of the gas refrigerant produced by the refrigeration system. The controller is configured to automatically adjust the switchover setpoint in response to the amount of the gas refrigerant produced by the refrigeration system being insufficient to sustain operation of the parallel compressor.
US11674718B2
A well completion to convert a hydrocarbon production well into a geothermal well includes flow tubes to transport a working fluid through the well and a heat exchanger at a downhole location coupled to the flow tubes to exchange heat of the formation at the downhole location with the working fluid. A heat exchange fluid surrounds the heat exchanger at the downhole location to be heated by the formation at the downhole location. The heat exchanger heats the working fluid to a state in which the working fluid rises to the surface. At the surface, a power plant uses the heated working fluid to generate work. The working fluid is then cooled and returned to the downhole location to repeat the work generation cycle.
US11674716B2
A noise suppression apparatus for an air handling unit includes an inlet section connectable to a fan of the air handling unit. The inlet section includes a forward wall spaced apart from an aft wall to define an internal chamber, and an inlet wall extending between the forward wall and the aft wall, the inlet wall defining an inlet air opening. A plurality of internal walls in the inlet wall define a plurality of resonator openings that each open to at least one of a plurality of resonator sections within the internal chamber. The plurality of resonator sections include at least one quarter wave tube section and at least one Helmholtz resonator section. One or more resonator sections are configured to attenuate noise generated by the fan at two or more frequencies. At least one resonator opening of the plurality of resonator openings opens to a plurality of resonator sections.
US11674709B2
In an air conditioning system, a return compartment which is adjacent to a plurality of rooms 13, 14, 15 is formed in a building 1, the respective rooms 13, 14, 15 are provided with air intake sections 18a, 18b, 18c, 18d which spout air sent from a blowing section 40a, 40b, 40c 40d having a DC motor, an exhaust section 52 which forms exhausting current directed from the respective rooms 13, 14, 15 toward the return compartment is provided between the respective rooms 13, 14, 15 and the return compartment, the plurality of blowing sections 40a, 40b, 40c 40d and at least one air conditioning section 30a are placed in the return compartment, a total blast volume of the plurality of blowing sections 40a, 40b, 40c 40d is greater than a conditioned air volume of the air conditioning section 30a, and a blast volume of the blowing section 40a, 40b, 40c 40d is adjusted by an air conditioning load of the room 13, 14, 15. According to this, it is possible to provide the air conditioning system 29 having a relatively simple configuration, capable of changing temperature in the respective rooms 13, 14, 15 and coping with load variation caused by solar radiation if necessary, while comfortably and uniformly keeping temperature of the entire house with saved energy.
US11674707B2
A system and method for minimizing indoor infection risk and improving indoor air quality (IAQ) while maximizing energy savings. The system integrates occupancy detection and forecasting, outdoor weather conditions and forecasting, indoor infection risks and air quality modeling, any tunable air filtration, the clean air delivery rate, and any portable air cleaners. The system outputs the total amount of outdoor air intake, the air temperature of the supply air into the space, the supply air flow rate into the space, the operation mode of tunable air filtration/purification/disinfection, the operation mode of the in-room air cleaner, and space/room temperature set-points, and thus can serve as the central controller for an HVAC system.
US11674697B2
An indoor unit for an air conditioner, in which a diffuser outlet through which humidified air is discharged is placed between a front panel and a grill that guides the discharged air, may produce the effect that discharged air pushes discharged humidified air, thereby allowing the humidified air to flow far away from a lateral outlet. As a result, formation of droplets on a surface of the front panel made of a metallic material may be minimized.
US11674693B2
An apparatus for cleaning, storing or cooking items includes a housing formed by walls enclosing an internal space; at least one support arrangement removable from the housing; and at least one locking unit arranged at the support arrangement. The support arrangement includes at least one rail system having at least two rails connected together and moveable relative to each other and at least one support element. The locking unit includes at least one locking element which can be transferred between a blocking position and a free position, wherein, when the support arrangement is mounted to the housing, the locking unit is in its free state in which the locking element enables extension of the rail system. When the support arrangement is separated from the housing, the locking unit is in its blocking state in which the locking element blocks extension of the rail system with the formation of a positively locking relationship.
US11674676B2
A hand holdable light comprises: a light body having a forward portion, a rearward portion, and a central portion between the forward portion and to the rearward portion; a light source proximate a forward end; and a switch for energizing the light source. The rearward portion has a non-circular cross-section; the switch is on the forward portion; and the central portion has a recess opposite the switch. The light is holdable by a hand with a finger or thumb proximate the recess and the other of a finger or thumb proximate the switch. A battery assembly comprises: a battery housing for receiving and connecting a battery; an electrical switch on a first end of the battery housing; and a pattern of electrical contacts on a second end of the battery housing, wherein ones of the electrical contacts are connected to the battery.
US11674674B2
A telescopic lamp comprising a lamp handle; a first support, having a first light-emitting member disposed thereon; a second support, extending in the same direction as the first support, slidably connected to the first support along a length direction of the first support, and having a second light-emitting member mounted thereon; wherein, the second light-emitting member and the first light-emitting member extend in the same direction and are staggered in arrangement; during a process of relative sliding of the second support and the first support, the second support has a contracted state, in which the second support is stacked on the first support. When storing the lamp, the second support is slid to the contracted state, and the second light-emitting member and the first light-emitting member are stacked in arrangement, which can shorten the overall length of the lamp, especially lamps with an elongated strip shape.
US11674673B2
A site light including a body, a power system with an AC input and battery terminal, and a telescopic arm assembly supported by the body, where the telescopic arm includes a first end fixed relative to the body and a second end opposite and movable with respect to the first end. The site light also includes a light assembly in operable communication with the power system and coupled to and movable together with the second end of the telescopic arm, where the light assembly is operable in a first light mode in which the light assembly outputs approximately 13,000 lumens of light, and a second light mode in which the light assembly outputs approximately 20,000 lumens of light.
US11674666B2
A light-emitting module includes: a light source; a light guide plate including an upper surface and a lower surface, the lower surface being at a side opposite to the upper surface, the light guide plate being configured to guide light from the light source; a wavelength conversion sheet located at an upper surface side of the light guide plate; a first light-reflective member located at a lower surface side of the light guide plate, the first light-reflective member including: a first resin member, and a first reflector, where a refractive index of the first reflector is lower than a refractive index of the first resin member; and a second light-reflective member located at a lower surface side of the first light-reflective member, wherein the second light-reflective member includes: a second resin member, and a second reflector, where a refractive index of the second reflector is higher than a refractive index of the second resin member.
US11674665B2
A lighting device (1) comprising a light generating element (2; 3), and a micro-lens array (4) comprising a focal plane (Fp), wherein the light generating element (2; 3) is arranged to emit a light output towards the micro-lens array (4), wherein the lighting device (1) comprises an array of micro-logos (81-83), and wherein the array of micro-logos (81-83) is located in the focal plane (Fp) of the micro-lens array (4).
US11674663B1
A beam pattern module includes a heatsink base, at least one LED light and light reflector housing. The heatsink base includes a base frame and at least one at least one chip mounting surface. The chip mounting surface protrudes on an inner side surface of a base plate of the heatsink base, and the LED light is disposed on the chip mounting surface. The light reflector housing includes a side portion and a reflecting portion. The side portion is provided with a one cut-out. The side portion is fitted on the inner side surface, and the chip mounting surface and the LED light are exposed in the mounting space. The reflecting portion extending from an edge of the side portion and coupled to a rear plate of the base frame, so as to form a single module to be installed to a vehicle light device.
US11674660B2
A vehicle headlamp device to be applied to a vehicle includes a light source, a lens, and a controller. The light source is configured to emit light. Light emitted from the light source is to pass through the lens. The controller is configured to control light distribution patterns for the light. The light distribution patterns include at least a first light distribution pattern and a second light distribution pattern. The first light distribution pattern illuminates an area ahead of the vehicle during running of the vehicle. The second light distribution pattern is projected as a marking at an optical axis adjustment that is performed during manufacturing of the vehicle. The controller causes a part of the light source to emit light so that the second light distribution pattern is formed.
US11674657B1
A luminaire bezel attachment assembly with a lens that is defined by a lens body with one or more bezel engagement keyways, and a flange around the lens body. An inner bezel is coupled to the lens and defined by one or more inner bezel keys receivable within the corresponding one of the one or more bezel engagement keyways of the lens. An outer bezel is coupled to the lens and defined by one or more outer bezel keys that are receivable within the corresponding one of the one or more bezel engagement keyways of the lens. The outer bezel keys overlap the corresponding one of the one or more inner bezel keys.
US11674656B2
The present disclosure relates to a vehicle lamp module, and the vehicle lamp module includes a light source device including a substrate and a plurality of light sources mounted on the substrate, a rod device that provides a path through which light generated by the light source device moves and forms a predetermined beam pattern, and a lens device provided so that the light emitted from the rod device is transmitted and discharged to an outside, wherein some of the plurality of light sources are arranged on the substrate in two rows in a longitudinal direction.
US11674654B2
A vehicle light optical element (VLOE) comprises a light incident portion, a transmission portion, and a light emitting portion sequentially arranged from back to front. The light incident portion comprises an illuminating light incident structure (ILIS) and at least one high-beam light incident structure (HBLIS), in which an illuminating light incident surface of the ILIS is adapted to receive auxiliary light during low-beam lighting. Alternatively, the light incident portion comprises an ILIS and at least one HBLIS, in which the ILIS is either a flat surface, a curved cylindrical body protruding backwards, a hemispherical body protruding backwards, or a light condensing structure. The ILIS is adapted to receive auxiliary lighting light during low-beam lighting. The ILIS is provided on the VLOE, such that when a vehicle light is in a low-beam lighting mode, the VLOE is also luminous, thereby improving the aesthetic appearance of the vehicle light.
US11674643B2
The invention relates to a corner structure (16) for a leaktight and thermally insulating tank for storing a fluid, comprising a plurality of walls (1, 101, 201); the said corner structure (16) being intended to be arranged in a corner between a first wall (101) and a second wall (201) and comprising: a first angle bracket (32) anchored to an anchoring device (16) intended to be fastened to the supporting structure (3) of the first and second walls (101, 201); the anchoring device (16) comprising a first tab (18) and a second tab (19) intersecting one another, each of the first and second tabs (18, 19) comprising an external portion (24, 25) and an internal portion (22, 23) which are arranged on either side of an intersection between the first tab (18) and the second tab (19); the corner structure (16) furthermore comprising a first insulating panel (42) which is arranged in a first space delimited by the internal portion (22) of the first tab (18) and the external portion (25) of the second tab (19), and a first lateral insulating packing element (48) which is compressed between the first insulating panel (42) and the external portion (25) of the second tab (19).
US11674631B2
A method of joining together liner sections within a polymer-lined pipe energises an induction coil inside the pipe to spot-heat part of a circumferential interface between the liner sections. This melts and fuses the polymer material locally. The induction coil is then moved along the interface to heat other parts of the interface successively above the melting temperature. An apparatus for performing the method has a power supply for energising the induction coil and a drive system for moving the energised induction coil relative to a body of the apparatus. The apparatus may be configured as a carriage that is movable along the pipe.
US11674629B2
A pipe replacement system and method are shown. Configurations are shown that include a pulley that does not damage a bursting tool, as the bursting tool is pulled into a pit. Configurations are also shown that include a boom that does not need an extraction cage for the bursting tool.
US11674627B2
A coupling part for a hose coupling, a hose coupling provided therewith and method for coupling a hose or hose part. The coupling part includes an annular element; a number of hook-like coupling elements arranged at or on the annular element and configured to engage on a corresponding coupling element of a corresponding coupling part for the purpose of forming a coupling; and a wall surface provided on the inward directed side of the hook-like coupling element and provided at an angle of chamfer to the main throughflow direction of the coupling part.
US11674625B2
The clamping collar comprises a metal belt carrying a protruding lug in the vicinity of a first end and a hook in the vicinity of a second end. The hook has a front wall and a common part. The wall is intended to be retained behind the lug while the hook is hooked on the lug to keep the collar in the clamped state. The common part links the front wall to the belt and has a gripping surface protruding radially outwardly and two lateral borders which extend axially on either side of the gripping surface by being radially set back from the gripping surface.
US11674624B2
A load bearing flexible conduit system for use in a body of water and adapted for deployment from a reel located on a water going vessel into the body of water is disclosed. The system comprises a number of lengths of load bearing flexible conduit, each length of load bearing flexible conduit provided with an inner layer having a throughbore and a load bearing outer layer. A joint for connecting the lengths together has a body having a longitudinal axis and a throughbore and at least one flexible coupling to permit at least one of the ends of the respective first and second lengths of load bearing flexible conduit to move relative to the longitudinal axis of the joint.
US11674621B2
A hammer union includes a male sub, a threaded female sub, a threaded union nut disposed around abutting ends of the threaded female sub and the male sub, the abutting ends of the threaded female sub and the male sub include contact surfaces perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the hammer union, and an outermost diameter of the perpendicular contact surfaces and a minor thread diameter of the female sub are equidistant from a longitudinal axis of the hammer union. A method of assembling a hammer union includes inserting a plurality of load segments between a threaded union nut and a male sub, threadedly engaging internal threads of the threaded union nut with external threads of a female sub, and engaging flat contact surfaces of abutting ends of the male sub and the female sub.
US11674619B2
Woven irrigation tubing comprises a woven, extrusion coated & laminated tube formed of a high density polyethylene (HDPE) outer layer, a low density polyethylene (LDPE) middle layer and a linear low density polyethylene (LLDPE) inner layer. The finished tubing is treated for ultraviolet resistance. The tubing is tied off at a distal end with a proximal end connected to a pressurized irrigation source. Watering holes are created in the tubing at spaced intervals and the resulting water streams are directed into parallel plowed furrows. The tubing is completely recyclable. The tubing is formed by manufacturing tape for the woven outer tubing cover, stretching the tape along its length to strengthen it, weaving the outer layer from the tape, flattening the woven outer layer, extrusion coating each surface of the outer layer with LDPE, laminating the LLDPE inner layer to the LDPE, reversing and winding the tubing for storage and distribution.
US11674616B2
A pipe puller system and methods of pipe extraction are shown. In one example a pipe to be replaced is pulled by attaching a pulling force to multiple locations along a length of the pipe. In one example pulling forces can be varied between different attachment locations to better control or eliminate tearing of the pipe. In one example, a pipe loosening device may be used prior to pulling the pipe from the ground.
US11674612B2
A valve includes: a housing; a solenoid arranged in the housing; a pin movable by the solenoid; and a pot-shaped piston connected to the pin. The solenoid has a coil body having a central opening, an upper stator arranged in the central opening, and a lower stator configured to receive the coil body. The pin is mounted in first and second bearings arranged in the upper stator and a bushing, respectively. A guide sleeve is arranged at least in the central opening of the coil body, and the upper stator and the bushing are arranged in the guide sleeve.
US11674606B2
In accordance with an example, a process control system includes a fluidic line having a longitudinal axis and including a fluidic connection. The fluidic connection has an axis angled relative to the longitudinal axis of the fluidic line. The process control system includes a primary block valve having an inlet port and an outlet port. The inlet port is coupled to the fluidic connection. The process control system includes a monoflange including a male portion forming an inlet port and including an external threaded surface. The monoflange includes an outlet and a flanged interface surrounding the outlet port of the monoflange. The monoflange includes a bleed port. The monoflange includes a bleed valve adapted to control fluid flow from the bleed port and a secondary block valve adapted to control fluid flow from the outlet port. The external threaded surface of the male portion threadably engages the outlet port of primary block valve.
US11674605B2
A meter bar includes a housing comprising an inflow end and an outflow end, a key assembly arranged within housing, the key assembly including a key, the key defining an interior and providing a fluid pathway from the inflow end to the outflow end; the key defining a pair of upper portals, one upper portal proximate the inflow end and one upper portal proximate the outflow end; the key defining a pair of lower portals, one lower portal proximate the inflow end and one lower portal proximate the outflow end; the key defining a pair of bypass portals; the key assembly arrangeable within the housing to selectably direct fluid flow from the inflow end to the outflow end either through a meter or bypassing the meter.
US11674603B2
A diaphragm valve includes: a valve body having flow paths of fluids formed therein and having a diaphragm-arrangement portion on one surface; a diaphragm arranged in the diaphragm-arrangement portion and can open and close the flow path and adjust the opening degree of by elastic deformation; and a driving unit having a stem for pressing the diaphragm to elastically deform and an actuator for driving the stem, wherein the stem is axially movably held via a resin sleeve by a bonnet fixed to the valve body side.
US11674602B2
A low-weight, low material automated line blind valve with an actuator for moving the blind between an open and closed position, a sealing mechanism that can create a tight seal with the blind in either the open or closed position, and a biasing mechanism to improve the seal, wherein the biasing mechanism includes a ring with a sealing lip capable of creating a tight seal with a mating surface.
US11674588B2
A differential case includes an outer shell wall portion configured to accommodate a pinion gear therein, and a first groove is formed in an inner surface of the outer shell wall portion on a back surface side of the pinion gear. In addition, a convex portion is formed on the inner surface of the outer shell wall portion on the back surface side of the pinion gear, and the first groove is formed in the convex portion. Further, a diameter of the convex portion is equal to or larger than a diameter of a back surface of the pinion gear.
US11674586B2
A pulley device for a tensioner roller or winding roller of a transmission element, having a fixed inner element configured to receive a screw, a rotating outer element that is mounted to rotate coaxially about the fixed inner element and is intended to cooperate with the transmission element, and an annular protective flange bearing against a lateral surface of the fixed inner element. The fixed inner element provides a sleeve axially protruding from the lateral surface. The flange provides an inner axial portion mounted securely on an outer surface of the sleeve.
US11674581B2
Methods and systems for a locking differential are provided. The locking differential system includes an electromagnetic solenoid actuator configured to induce locking and unlocking of the differential and a circuit board assembly designed to programmatically control the locking and unlocking functionality. The circuit board assembly includes a multi-sensor sub-assembly having two or more sensor configured to monitor a position of the electromagnetic solenoid actuator.
US11674576B2
A speed-changing device (21) is provided with an input shaft (22), an output shaft (23), a planetary gear mechanism (29), a first variator (33), a second variator (34), and a controller (25). The planetary gear mechanism (29) is configured to include a carrier (29A) connected to the input shaft (22), a first sun gear (29B) connected to the first variator (33), and a second sun gear (29C) connected to the output shaft (23). The second variator (34) transmits power transmitted from the first variator (33) to the output shaft (23), or transmits power transmitted from the output shaft (23) to the first variator (33). The controller (25) changes the rotation speed of the first variator (33), thereby changing the rotation speed of the output shaft (23) in relation to the rotation speed of the input shaft (22).
US11674568B2
Methods and systems are provided for a tensioning arm. In one example, the tensioning arm comprises a plurality of carbon fibers with electrically conductive fibers arranged therein configured to supply current to a pair of bushings arranged distally to one another to heat lubricant arranged proximally thereto in response to a temperature of the tensioning arm being less than or equal to a threshold temperature.
US11674563B2
The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, an actuator that includes a worm drive assembly having a worm shaft, and a worm wheel configured as a ring having a radially outer perimeter comprising a first collection of gear teeth extending radially outward from the radially outer perimeter and at least partly engaged with the worm shaft, and a coaxial radially inner perimeter comprising a second collection of gear teeth extending radially inward from the inner perimeter, and an epicyclic gear assembly having a sun gear and a planet gear engaged with the sun gear and the second collection of gear teeth.
US11674562B2
A chain includes a plurality of interconnected chain links, wherein at least one of the chain links comprises a Turk's head braided core having at least two consecutive turns of at least one primary strand. The at least one primary strand includes polymeric elongated elements having a tenacity of at least 1.0 N/tex.
US11674557B2
A brake assembly for an electric motor includes: a magnetic body, a winding, a bolt, a housing part with a brake surface, an armature disk, a brake pad plate, a shaft, a spring part, and a first bushing. The housing part is connected to the magnetic body by the bolt, with a positive fit in at least the circumferential direction. The first bushing is accommodated in a second bushing. The spring part supported on the housing part presses the first bushing and/or the second bushing toward the magnetic body. The radial clearance range covered by the armature disk includes the radial clearance range covered by the second bushing, and the axial region covered by the armature disk includes the axial region covered by the second bushing.
US11674552B2
A tensioning arrangement for a bearing ring, which introduces a compressive force towards a rotational centre of the bearing ring, to prevent the bearing ring distorting as a shaft supported by the bearing turns. The tensioner arrangement includes a strap and a tensioner. The strap has a connector at each end, and tensioner has an element for connecting to the connectors. The tensioner also has an element for applying tension to the strap. In use, the strap is arranged around the bearing ring and a circumferential length of the strap in contact with the bearing ring is reduced, thereby applying compressive force to the bearing ring.
US11674548B2
A bearing assembly of a gas turbine engine includes a bearing inner race, a bearing outer race located radially outboard of the bearing inner race and a plurality of bearing elements located between the bearing inner race and the bearing outer race. A centering spring is operably connected to and supports the bearing outer race. The centering spring is an annular structure including a base portion, a tip portion, and a plurality of beams extending axially between the base portion and the tip portion.
US11674543B2
A threaded element (1) is designed as a cold extrusion part made of metal and has a longitudinal center axis (L). The threaded element has a thread (5) having a thread pitch angle. The threaded element (1) can be screwed to a threaded connection partner having a mating thread by rotation in a tightening circumferential direction (F) and can thereby be moved in an axial movement direction (T) oriented along the longitudinal center axis (L) onto a support portion (17) of the threaded connection partner or of a component separate therefrom. The threaded element (1) has a ring portion (8) for support on the support portion (17). An anchor (9) for interlocking anchoring in the support portion (17) to establish an interlocking connection is formed on the ring portion (8). The anchor has a plurality of forming portions (10), spaced apart in the tightening circumferential direction (F) and are preferably uniformly distributed in the circumferential direction and which each comprise a lower forming edge (11) extending in the axial movement direction (T). Ahead of each forming portion (10) in the tightening circumferential direction (F), there is a recess (12) for receiving support portion material (18) deformed by means of the forming portion (10) in question.
US11674537B2
The present disclosure relates to a solar power system including at least one mounting assembly including a rail, at least one framed solar module, and at least one clip to secure the solar module to the rail. The clip includes at least a pair of sidewalls extending from a top plate or rear wall, each sidewall including a slot, a recess, and a locking member, at least one of the slot, recess, or both include a serrated edge. The clips may secure a solar module to the rail by coupling to the frame of the solar module to a rail of the mounting assembly within the slots of the sidewalls. The clips may be secured to the mounting assembly by locking members positioned on a distal end thereof. The clips may establish an electrical grounding connection between the frame of the solar module and the rail.
US11674529B2
A system filled with a fluid, designed for underwater applications, in which the interior of a housing and/or tank forms a fluid region which is sealed with respect to the surrounding seawater region, includes at least one hydraulic pressure compensation device, which at least raises the pressure level of the fluid region to the ambient pressure prevailing in the seawater region. The pressure compensation device is constructed in two stages in such a way that at least one store having a flexible wall region and at least one piston store having a displaceable piston are arranged in series. The use of the pressure compensation device to pressurize at least one housing filled with fluid for a hydraulic actuating shaft is also proposed.
US11674525B2
A system and method for records management and classification of files in a content management system having a server system that stores the files. A system detects when at least one of the files is classified by a user of a client computing system as a classified file, and based on the detecting of the classification of the one or more files, each classified file is removed from the client computing system. The system further detects when at least one of the files is declared as a permanent record by the user of the client computing system, and based on the detecting of the declaration as a permanent record, prevents editing by the client computing system of each file declared as a permanent record.
US11674524B2
An oil bearing structure of a fan includes a shaft seat, a rotating shaft, and an oil bearing. The shaft seat includes a boss. A middle portion of the boss defines a slot. One end of the rotating shaft is inserted into the slot. Another end of the rotating shaft is a free end. The oil bearing is sleeved on an outer periphery of the rotating shaft. An axis of the rotating shaft and an axis of the oil bearing are perpendicular to the shaft seat. An effective length of the oil bearing and the rotating shaft is 50%-70% of a length of the fan.
US11674517B2
A device to assist the performance of a heart with at least one pump that is formed as a rotary pump and driven via a magneto coupling.
US11674515B2
A scroll compressor includes a casing, a scroll compression mechanism, a motor, a crankshaft, a bearing, a frame fixed to the casing; and an oil separation member fixed to the frame. The motor includes a stator and a rotor rotatable in a rotational direction. The bearing rotatably supports the crankshaft. The oil separation member suppresses mixing of a refrigerant and a lubricating oil. The frame supports the bearing and has first and second fixed legs fixed to the casing. The oil separation member has a first horizontal and inclined surfaces. The first inclined surface has a first inclined surface upstream portion and a first inclined surface downstream portion. The first inclined surface downstream portion is disposed higher than the first inclined surface upstream portion. The first horizontal surface, the first inclined surface, and the first fixed leg are disposed in order from upstream to downstream in the rotational direction.
US11674509B2
A long sleeve cartridge for being inserted into a fluid end block of a pump is disclosed. The long sleeve cartridge includes a body and a sleeve bore extending through the body. The sleeve bore includes a first inner diameter and a second inner diameter. The first inner diameter is less than the second inner diameter. A first aperture is located on the body, and a second aperture is located on the body in a radial position substantially diametrically opposite of the first aperture. A packing seal assembly is secured within the long sleeve cartridge. The packing seal assembly includes one or more seals and a biasing mechanism to provide a compression force on the seals. The packing seal assembly is arranged within the second inner diameter when the packing seal assembly is disposed within the long sleeve cartridge.
US11674498B1
A system and method are provided for controlling a wind turbine of a wind farm. Accordingly, a controller prepares a yaw bias correction function based, at least in part, on a yaw offset function, and on wind speed measurement data and wind direction reference data of a wind event acting on at least a portion of the wind farm. The controller also applies the yaw bias correction function based at least in part on position data of a nacelle of the wind turbine, to yaw the nacelle of the wind turbine.
US11674497B2
This invention relates to an airfoil modifying device, a wind turbine blade and a method of modifying an airfoil profile of the wind turbine blade. The airfoil modifying device comprises a deformable element connected to a filler element, both configured to deform between a retracted position and an extended position. The airfoil modifying device is passively deformed by the local air pressure acting on the blade surface and thus the airfoil modifying device.
US11674484B2
A hydraulic fracturing system for fracturing a subterranean formation is disclosed. In an embodiment, the system can include a plurality of electric pumps fluidly connected to a well associated with the subterranean formation and powered by at least one electric motor, and configured to pump fluid into a wellbore associated with the well at a high pressure; at least one generator electrically coupled to the plurality of electric pumps so as to generate electricity for use by the plurality of electric pumps; a gas compression system fluidly coupled to the at least one generator so as to provide fuel for use by the at least one generator; and a combustible fuel vaporization system gaseously coupled to the gas compression system so as to provide at least one of vaporized fuel or gasified fuel, or a combination thereof, to the gas compression system.
US11674482B2
An outboard motor includes an engine, a pressure charger, an intercooler, a bypass air passage, and an air bypass valve to open and close the bypass air passage. The engine includes a cylinder block and an air intake passage and an exhaust passage both of which are connected to the cylinder block. The pressure charger is located in the air intake passage. The intercooler is located in the air intake passage between the cylinder block and the pressure charger. A first end of the bypass air passage is connected to a region of the air intake passage upstream of the pressure charger. A second end of the bypass air passage is connected to a region of the air intake passage downstream of the pressure charger. The air bypass valve is directly attached to the intercooler.
US11674481B2
The resonator is configured to attenuate the noise in a duct delimiting an internal channel for the flow of a fluid according to a reference axis, of the type including an annular compartment configured to extend around the channel and provided with at least one orifice forming a neck for communication with the flow channel so as to form a resonance chamber. Accordingly, the compartment has an inner structure with a geometry shaped so as to produce a revolution annular asymmetry of the resonance chamber about the reference axis, adapted to generate a phase shift of an acoustic pressure wave reflected inside the chamber relative to an acoustic pressure wave incident from the main flow.
US11674479B2
A fluid mixing device that includes a housing having a fuel inlet and at least one primary orifice positioned at the inlet, wherein the at least one orifice configured to disperse a stream of fuel into a plurality of fuel droplets. The plurality of fuel droplets contact a fuel impingement surface to break up the plurality of fuel droplets into a plurality of smaller secondary droplets and create a thin film of secondary droplets on the impingement surface. At least one pressurized air channel delivers an airflow into contact with the secondary droplets. The secondary droplets pass through a plurality of secondary outlet orifices to exit the housing. A size of the plurality of secondary droplets is reduced when passing out of the plurality of secondary orifices.
US11674458B1
An electronic throttle body with an improved structure includes a throttle body. A plurality of vertically through airflow channels are provided on the throttle body, and a butterfly valve controlling a vent flow and a fuel atomizing ring configured to atomize fuel are arranged in each airflow channel. Centers of one or more butterfly valves are connected in series through rotating shafts to implement linked flipping, the rotating shafts are arranged parallel to each other, a drive gear is fixedly mounted to one end of each rotating shaft extending out of the throttle body coaxially, and the rotating shafts rotate synchronously through a servo driving apparatus. The servo driving apparatus and electrically controlled sprays respond synchronously, thereby improving the combustion efficiency of fuel in an engine. When the engine is idle, butterfly valves are directly driven through the servo driving apparatus to accurately control an air inflow of the engine.
US11674449B2
The relative position and orientation between an auxiliary gearbox and a casing of an aircraft engine can be set including engaging a localizing feature of the accessory gearbox with a localizing feature of the casing; and a load path between auxiliary gearbox can subsequently be defined including securing at least two brackets between the accessory gearbox and casing.
US11674447B2
Apparatuses are provided herein useful to sealing a gap between a movable flap and a stationary structure, such as a gap between a gas turbine engine nozzle flap and a corresponding sidewall. An apparatus for sealing such a gap may be a dynamic skirted leaf seal which may include a flap arm, a wall arm opposite the flap arm, and a support arm disposed between the flap and wall arms. A distal end portion of the flap arm may comprise a first skirt and a distal end portion of the support arm may comprise a second skirt that engages the first skirt. When positioned in a gap, the skirted leaf seal may exert a force to urge the first flap arm towards the flap and to urge the wall arm and the support arm towards the structure to seal the gap.
US11674443B2
A fuel system for a vehicle having an engine is provided. The fuel system including: a fuel tank for holding a hydrogen fuel in a liquid phase; a fuel delivery assembly extending from the fuel tank to the engine for providing the hydrogen fuel from the fuel tank to the engine; a vaporizer in communication with the fuel delivery assembly for heating the hydrogen fuel in the liquid phase to a gaseous phase, to a supercritical phase, or both; and a high pressure pump in fluid communication with the fuel delivery assembly at a location downstream of the vaporizer for inducing a flow of the hydrogen fuel through the fuel delivery assembly to the engine.
US11674439B2
Apparatus, systems, and methods store energy by liquefying a gas such as air, for example, and then recover the energy by regasifying the liquid and combusting or otherwise reacting the gas with a fuel to drive a heat engine. The process of liquefying the gas may be powered with electric power from the grid, for example, and the heat engine may be used to generate electricity. Hence, in effect these apparatus, systems, and methods may provide for storing electric power from the grid and then subsequently delivering it back to the grid.
US11674435B2
A fan assembly for a gas turbine engine includes a fan disk, a trunnion, an actuation device, a fan blade, and a counterweight assembly. The trunnion is mounted to the fan disk. The actuation device is operably coupled to the trunnion. The fan blade is rotatably attached to the fan disk. The counterweight assembly includes a link arm, a lever arm, a hinge, and a counterweight. The link arm is connected to the trunnion, to the actuation device, or to both. The link arm is configured to drive rotation of the trunnion relative to the fan disk. The hinge is pivotably connected to the lever arm. The lever arm is connected to the link arm and is disposed to rotate about a connection point of the lever arm and the hinge. The counterweight is mounted to the lever arm at a location spaced from the hinge.
US11674433B2
A watercraft propulsion system includes a propulsion unit to be driven by an engine. The engine includes a cylinder block, an air intake channel, an exhaust channel, a supercharging device, and a fuel injector. The watercraft propulsion system includes the engine, the propulsion unit to be driven by the engine, a rotation speed sensor to detect a rotation speed of the engine, an air intake pressure sensor to detect an air intake pressure of the engine, and a controller. The controller is configured or programmed to compute a command fuel injection amount so that the engine performs a combustion operation at an air/fuel ratio in a lean-burn range (lean-combustion range) according to the rotation speed detected by the rotation speed sensor and the air intake pressure detected by the air intake pressure sensor, and to drive the fuel injector based on the computed command fuel injection amount.
US11674430B2
The adjustable exhaust backpressure device allows for post-installation adjustment of additional backpressure. This allows a user to adjust how much backpressure is generated by testing, adjusting, and then re-testing. The adjustment can generally be performed without removing the device from the exhaust, and without replacing any parts. The adjustable exhaust backpressure device can be placed in any location following the engine. The adjustable exhaust backpressure device includes a body with an exhaust inlet and an exhaust outlet.
US11674420B2
A heating member for a vehicle exhaust gas purification device includes an electrically conductive outer peripheral frame that has a geometric center and is symmetrical about an axis. An electrically conductive central support is centered on the geometric center, and a perforated heating grid is centered on the geometric center. The heating grid extends between the electrically conductive central support and the electrically conductive outer peripheral frame. The heating grid is formed of a plurality of strands connected by nodes, with the plurality of strands delimiting openings therebetween.
US11674413B2
A gas turbine engine according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a fan and a braking system. The braking system is configured to selectively engage the fan during ground windmilling to apply a first level of braking to slow rotation of the fan. Further, when the rotation of the fan sufficiently slows, the braking system is further configured to apply a second level of braking more restrictive than the first level of braking.
US11674405B2
An abradable insert for a gas turbine engine, the abradable insert including: a base layer; a lattice layer connected to the base layer, wherein the lattice layer comprises a series of walls that define a plurality of cells; and a sheet layer connected to the lattice layer on an opposite side on the lattice layer from the base layer, wherein the sheet layer is curved and includes a direction of concavity that points away from the base layer, wherein the lattice layer and the sheet layer are integrally formed together and are a monolithic piece of material.
US11674403B2
A shroud assembly including a shroud support and an annular shroud is provided. The shroud assembly includes one or more pins for securing the annular shroud to the shroud support. The pins having a block capable of translating radially to allowing the shroud to expand and contract in the radial direction. A gas turbine engine having a compressor section, a combustion section, a turbine section and a shroud assembly is also provided. The shroud assembly includes one or more pins for securing the continuous shroud to the shroud support. The pins having a block capable of translating radially to allowing the shroud to expand and contract in the radial direction. Methods for assembling a shroud assembly structure in a gas turbine engine are also provided.
US11674377B2
An apparatus for inspecting a well having nested multi-tubular structure, includes: an acoustic transducer conveyed in an inner-most tubular in the structure and configured to receive a return acoustic signal having a plurality of resonances due to the structure; an acoustic impedance matching material disposed on a sensing face of the acoustic transducer; a signal generator that generates a signal having a plurality of frequencies to drive the acoustic transducer; a signal shaper that modifies the signal to provide a drive signal to the acoustic transducer; and a processor configured to determine an annulus distance of any tubular in the structure with respect to an adjacent tubular using a time of flight of a transmitted acoustic signal, an acoustic speed in a component in the nested multi-tubular structure using the annulus distance and the plurality of resonances, and a characteristic of the component that corresponds with the acoustic speed.
US11674367B2
A workflow for fracturing a subterranean formation includes providing fracturing databases or models for the hydrocarbon wellbore, selecting one or more fracturing fluid systems for fracturing the subterranean formation based on the fracturing databases or models and recommending at least one of the one or more selected fracturing fluid systems for fracturing the subterranean formation. Additionally, a workflow controller for fracturing a subterranean formation includes a workflow processing unit having fracturing models or databases to determine functional aspects of one or more fracturing fluid systems to provide a fracturing fluid system recommendation for the subterranean formation, and a fracturing fluid delivery unit that applies the fracturing fluid system recommendation to the subterranean formation. A hydrocarbon wellbore fracturing system for a subterranean formation is also provided.
US11674366B2
A method of predicting hydrocarbon production from one or more artificial lift wells is disclosed. Measurements and/or well test data are obtained from one or more artificial lift wells representing well performance at more than one time period. A statistical model, representing well performance, is generated. Using the statistical model and the measurements and/or well test data, real-time production of the one or more artificial lift wells is predicted and a measure of confidence is generated. Potential optimization opportunities are identified for well performance based on the predicted real-time production of the one or more artificial lift wells. The optimization opportunities are outputted. Hydrocarbon production activities are modified using the optimization opportunities.
US11674364B2
A system includes a sleeved valve disposed within a casing string. The sleeved valve has a first cement port configured to open and close to an annulus and a first opening. The first opening and the first cement port are hydraulically connected within the sleeved valve. The system further includes a tool made of a tubular body having an outer diameter smaller than an inner diameter of the casing string. The tool includes a tool orifice and a cement injection needle in hydraulic communication with the tool orifice. The cement injection needle fits inside the first opening and, upon entering the first opening, a first hydraulic connection is created between the tool orifice and the first cement port.
US11674352B2
A hydraulic fracturing system has a pump driven by an electrically powered motor. The pump pressurizes fluid which is piped into a wellbore to fracture a subterranean formation. The pump and motor are mounted on a trailer that is hitched to a tractor. A platform assembly is mounted onto the trailer, and which is selectively moveable between deployed and stowed configurations. The platform assembly includes a platform, a lateral rail assembly mounted to the platform, and gates on the forward and aft ends of the platform. The rail assembly and gates define a safety barrier to prevent operations personnel from falling off the platform. In the stowed configuration the platform assembly is anchored in place over wheels on the trailer. In the deployed configuration, the platform assembly provides work surface so that operations personnel can readily access the pump on the trailer.
US11674348B2
A cable drive device of an adjustment system of a motor vehicle has an actuating drive and a cable drive housing in which a cable drum that is rotatably coupled to the actuating drive and has a traction cable wound thereon is received. The cable drum, for receiving a cable nipple fastened to the traction cable, on at least one end side has a nipple chamber having a chamber opening and mutually spaced apart chamber walls. The nipple chamber on at least one of the chamber walls has a delimiting element. The cable nipple when introduced into the nipple chamber by way of the chamber opening engaging below the delimiting element.
US11674337B2
An inside door opener arrangement (99) for a vehicle door has a housing (5) containing a lever (3) that is pivotable about an axis (4) and is connectable to a door lock. The housing (5) has a first fastening element (6) for fastening the housing (5) to a door lining (1) and a second fastening element (9) for fastening the housing (5) to a door structure (11). A sleeve (13) is provided for the door-specific bridging of the distance between the second fastening element (9) and the door structure (11). The sleeve is connected to the housing (5) in the region of the second fastening element (9).
US11674333B2
An electronic locking device to secure linear transitioning or sliding doors. The electronic lock may include a bolt driven by a motor between a locked or extended position and an unlocked or retracted position. The bolt may be coupled to a sled, the sled moved by the motor between a forward position, placing the bolt in the locked position, and a rearward position, placing the bolt in the unlocked position. The motor may drive a drive screw to move the sled.
US11674324B2
A multi-unit residential building having a perimeter residential units along the perimeter of the building, and a common area with occupiable spaces that are generally centrally located to the residential units creating two parallel corridors between the residential units and the common area for easy and efficient access to the common areas by residents of the residential units. The common area provides typical amenities and rooms normally found inside a private residential unit. A reservation system can be used to coordinate efficient use of the common areas. Non-residents can rent out the common areas with proceeds used to offset building costs to lower costs for the residents.
US11674317B2
A production line and process including a moving carrier web for transporting the panel, and a device for controlling thickness of a formed, but not yet set, fiber reinforced cementitious panel slurry on the web. The thickness control device may include an angled rigid plate for contacting a downstream end of the angled plate with the slurry on the moving carrier web and a mounting stand for mounting the angled rigid. The thickness control device may include a flat horizontal plate at a fixed height over the moving carrier for contacting the entire lower surface of the horizontal plate with a facer on the slurry on the moving carrier web. Or, the thickness control device may include the angled plate and include the horizontal plate that contacts the facer.
US11674316B2
A facade support system for supporting a veneer on a structure includes a bracket configured to be attached to the structure. The bracket includes a back panel having opposite front and rear faces and a connecting member extending from the back panel in a generally forward direction. The connecting member defines a recess adjacent a front end of the connecting member. The bracket includes a support attachment member at least partially disposed within the recess. The facade support system includes a veneer support constructed to be attached to the bracket by the support attachment member. The veneer support is constructed to be disposed in a mortar bed joint of the veneer.
US11674315B2
The sealing device for construction comprises a duct and a linking member mounted around and rigidly connected to the duct, wherein the duct comprises: an axial main portion around which the linking member is mounted, a radial bead formed on the main portion and extending radially outwards, and a distal end portion extending the main portion radially outwards and which is axially facing the bead to form therebetween an outwardly radially open annular mounting slot, the distal end portion extending radially beyond the bead, the main portion, the distal end portion and the bead of the duct being made of one piece, the linking member being mounted in the mounting slot and gripped axially between the bead and the distal end portion of the duct.
US11674309B2
A connecting element is provided for connecting an essentially vertically arranged or arrangeable upright for a non-bearing wall structure with an essentially horizontal bar, in particular a steel profile with a U-shaped cross section, preferably a ceiling profile, to allow a sliding compensation movement in essentially the vertical direction, and with at least one fastening section for fastening to the bar or the preferable ceiling profile of a load-bearing or non-loading-bearing ceiling structure and with a least one sliding guide for the upright.
US11674308B1
A system includes at least one interior wall having a first interior facing side and a second side opposite the interior facing side, at least one exterior wall having a first interior facing side and a second exterior facing side, at least one first attachment device for each interior wall, and at least one second attachment device for each exterior wall, each first attachment device connecting to a respective second attachment device to temporarily attach a respective interior wall to a respective exterior wall and create a cavity between the second side of the interior wall and the first interior facing side of the exterior wall.
US11674296B2
At least one embodiment relates to a quick-coupling mechanism including a clamp spring configured to receive a valve body. The clamp spring is coupled to a release button configured to manipulate one or more arms of the clamp spring. The quick-coupling mechanism includes a base structure coupled to the toilet pedestal/bowl. The base structure is configured to hold the clamp spring in place. In a locking-state, the clamp spring seats in a groove in the valve body thus securing the valve body in place and preventing an axial movement of the valve body relative to the clamp spring. In a non-locking state, the release button bends the arms of the clamp spring outwardly to increase the diameter of the clamping portion, thus releasing valve body such that the valve body can move axially relative to the clamp spring.
US11674293B2
A plumbing fitting includes a housing and a missing valve. The housing includes a first aperture, a second aperture, a third aperture, and a mixing chamber in fluid communication with the first aperture, the second aperture, and the third aperture. The mixing valve is disposed within the housing. The mixing valve includes a first flow control valve that is configured to control a first flow of fluid from the first aperture to the mixing chamber.
US11674289B2
The present invention includes: a base carrier; a revolving superstructure provided above the base carrier in a manner capable of revolving; a boom bracket supported by the revolving superstructure in a horizontally rotatable manner; a work machine supported by the boom bracket in a vertically rotatable manner; a first position detecting device that detects a horizontal position of the boom bracket with respect to the revolving superstructure; a second position detecting device that detects a vertical position of the work machine with respect to the revolving superstructure; and an arithmetic unit that calculates a position of a working end of the work machine based on the results of detection by those position detecting devices.
US11674284B2
A safety apparatus includes a safety fabric that in use is positioned in an access opening of a subsurface chamber. The safety fabric has a mesh with a plurality of mesh openings and a band formed around a perimeter of the mesh. At least one safety indicator is attached to the band by at least one strap. The safety indicator may be positioned outside of the access opening by extension of the strap when the safety fabric is positioned in the access opening. The subsurface chamber with the access opening may be an inlet chamber of a lift station.
US11674277B2
A snowblower comprises an auger housing extending along a longitudinal axis and being configurable in a compacted configuration and in an extended configuration wherein a length of the auger housing considered along the longitudinal axis is greater in the at least one extended configuration than in the compacted configuration; and an auger assembly mounted to the auger housing and comprising: a telescopic drive shaft assembly including at least first and second shaft sections slidably mounted to each other to substantially conform to the length of the auger housing in each one of the compacted configuration and the at least one extended configuration; and snow-gathering devices mounted to the at least first and second shaft sections and rotatable therewith.
US11674276B2
Disclosed is a guardrail including a post and a longitudinal beam, the post and longitudinal beam being linked via at least one fastener and mounting plate. The mounting plate in one embodiment includes a rigid body configured to mate with the at least one fastener; and at least one deformable region or regions about or alongside the body that, in the event of an impact on the guardrail, bends and/or breaks thereby releasing the body from the remainder of the mounting plate and in doing so allowing the post and longitudinal beam to separate. A guardrail post including at least one fastener and at least one mounting plate is also described along with a mounting plate for use in a guardrail assembly.
US11674274B2
A traffic director includes a distal end and a proximal end, two or more sides extending upward from the proximal end at an angle toward the distal end, a proximal notch disposed near the proximal end between two adjacent sides, and the proximal notch forms a first flexion point of the traffic director. The traffic director can further include one or more recessed channels formed in at least one of the two or more sides. The one or more recessed channels forms a second flexion point of the traffic director. The traffic director can further include a removable indicator sleeve having an advertisement or directional indicator printed thereon.
US11674271B2
A paving system includes a paving machine and a controller. The paving machine includes a drive assembly, a paving material delivery system, including a hopper, a conveyor assembly, an auger, and a screed assembly, and at least one material sensor configured to monitor a delivery of paving material from the hopper to the auger by the conveyor assembly. The controller is coupled to the at least one material sensor and the conveyor assembly to control the delivery of paving material from the hopper to a ground surface.
US11674252B2
A method of drying laundry in a laundry treating appliance having a treating chamber in which the laundry is received for drying comprises moving the treating chamber to redistribute the laundry, supplying air to the treating chamber to define a supply air flow, exhausting the supplied air from the treating chamber to define an exhaust air flow, actuating a heater at full output to heat the air supplied to the treating chamber, turning the heater off, and maintaining a maximum evaporation rate for a duration of time by operating the heater.
US11674249B2
Provided are: a sewing device provided with a sewing mechanism which performs sewing on a work to be sewn using a sewing-machine needle, while holding the work to be sewn in a state of being shaped in a predetermined shape on a plurality of seating portions arranged in a sewing direction; and a sewing method. When the seating portions are withdrawn from the work to be sewn so as to avoid interference between the sewing mechanism and the seating portions, a guiding mechanism enables movement in a first withdrawing direction for avoiding a first undercut portion of the work to be sewn, and movement in a second withdrawing direction for avoiding a second undercut portion of the work to be sewn.
US11674237B2
Fabricating a crystalline metal-phosphide layer may include providing a crystalline base substrate and a step of forming a crystalline metal-source layer. The method may further include performing a chemical conversion reaction to convert the metal-source layer to the crystalline metal phosphide layer. One or more corresponding semiconductor structures can be also provided.
US11674235B2
A method of plating a copper substrate with gold that reduces or eliminates the presence of microvoids at the interface of the gold/copper substrate is described. Suitably, live entry of the substrate into the plating bath is performed with application of external current to the bath such that no portion of the substrate is exposed to the bath for more than one second without the application of the external current. Increase of the applied current for gold strike to the mass-transfer-limit for gold reduction accomplishes the full measure of improvement in eliminating microvoids.
US11674230B2
Provided is a treatment liquid for a semiconductor with ruthenium, containing a hypobromite ion. Also provided is a treatment liquid for a semiconductor with ruthenium, containing at least a bromine-containing compound, an oxidizing agent, a basic compound, and water which are added and mixed, wherein the liquid has the bromine-containing compound added in an amount of 0.01 mass % or more and less than 2 mass % as a bromine element content with respect to the total mass of the liquid, has the oxidizing agent added in an amount of 0.1 mass % or more and 10 mass % or less with respect to the total mass, and has a pH of 8 or more and 14 or less. Further provided is a method of producing a treatment liquid for a semiconductor with ruthenium, including a step of mixing a bromine-containing compound with a solution containing a hypochlorous acid compound and a basic compound.
US11674224B2
A film forming method includes: accommodating a substrate in a processing container of a film forming apparatus; supplying an inert gas to the processing container at a flow rate equal to an average flow rate of a plurality of gases to be supplied into the processing container in a film forming process and maintaining a pressure of the processing container to be substantially same as an average pressure of the processing container in the film forming process; and alternately supplying the plurality of gases into the processing container and forming a film on the substrate.
US11674219B1
A method for densifying one or more porous substrates with pyrolytic carbon by chemical vapour infiltration, includes admitting, at the inlet of the densification furnace, a reactive gaseous phase including at least one pyrolytic carbon precursor; reacting at least a fraction of the reactive gaseous phase with the porous substrate or substrates; extracting, at the outlet of the densification furnace, gaseous effluents originating from the reactive gaseous phase; reintroducing, with the reactive gaseous phase admitted at the inlet of the densification furnace, at least a fraction of the gaseous effluents extracted at the outlet of the furnace, wherein the fraction of the gaseous effluents introduced with the reactive gaseous phase includes at least one polyaromatic hydrocarbon compound.
US11674218B2
A lightweight display includes a plurality of display modules having a plurality of pixels carried by a display mounting frame. A support frame integral with the display mounting frame provides support. An electronic support member carries electrical components electrically communicating with the plurality of display modules for controlling the display of an image. Wherein the depth of the plurality of display modules, display mounting frame, support frame and electronic support member is less than four inches when defining a display assembly. Also wherein the display assembly has a screen size measured diagonally in a range of 114 inches to 224 inches and a weight in the range of 90 pounds to 120 pounds and wherein the display assembly has an aspect ratio ranging from 1.67 to 1.82.
US11674212B2
The present invention provides a cast product that can further enhance the stability of a barrier layer and can exhibit further superior oxidation resistance, carburization resistance, nitriding resistance, and corrosion resistance, when used under a high-temperature atmosphere, the cast product having a surface with a barrier layer comprising an Al-containing metal oxide expressed in (Al(1-x)M(x))2O3, where M is at least one of Cr, Ni, Si, and Fe, wherein the Al-containing metal oxide includes a solid solution of at least one of Cr, Ni, Si, and Fe with Al, in a relationship of Al/(Cr+Ni+Si+Fe)≥2.0 in an atomic % ratio, the barrier layer being composed of two layers consisting of a first Al-containing metal oxide layer and a second Al-containing metal oxide layer formed between the surface of the cast product and the first Al-containing metal oxide layer, and the second Al-containing metal oxide layer being greater than the first Al-containing metal oxide layer with respect to the atomic % ratio of Al/(Cr+Ni+Si+Fe), and having a thickness that is at least one fifth of a thickness of the barrier layer.
US11674210B2
An abradable powder composition is includes a metal component, a lubricant component, and a polymer component. A portion of the metal component is wrapped in the lubricant component to achieve high lubricity and abradability. The abradable powder composition can be used to form an abradable seal coating provided for use in a turbo machinery having a housing and a wheel having multiple blades. The housing houses the wheel which rotates therein. The seal coating is formed on the inner walls of housing adjacent where the wheel blades pass during their rotation. When the wheel is rotated such that the blades contact the seal coating, it is abraded to form a close fit gap. The abradable seal coating preferably does not produce significant wear of the blade tips or transfer abradable material significantly to the blade tips upon being abraded.
US11674204B2
Some variations provide an aluminum alloy feedstock for additive manufacturing, the aluminum alloy feedstock comprising from 81.5 wt % to 88.8 wt % aluminum; from 1.1 wt % to 2.1 wt % copper; from 3.0 wt % to 4.6 wt % magnesium; and from 7.1 wt % to 9.0 wt % zinc. The aluminum alloy feedstock may be in the form of a free-flowing powder or a feedstock ingot, for example. In some variations, the aluminum alloy feedstock comprises from 84.9 wt % to 88.3 wt % aluminum; from 1.2 wt % to 2.0 wt % copper; from 3.2 wt % to 4.4 wt % magnesium; and from 7.3 wt % to 8.7 wt % zinc.
US11674203B2
New 6xxx aluminum alloys having an improved combination of properties are disclosed. The new 6xxx aluminum alloy generally include from 0.30 to 0.53 wt. % Si, from 0.50 to 0.65 wt. % Mg wherein the ratio of wt. % Mg to wt. % Si is at least 1.0:1 (Mg:Si), from 0.05 to 0.24 wt. % Cu, from 0.05 to 0.14 wt. % Mn, from 0.05 to 0.25 wt. % Fe, up to 0.15 wt. % Ti, up to 0.15 wt. % Zn, up to 0.15 wt. % Zr, not greater than 0.04 wt. % V, and not greater than 0.04 wt. % Cr, the balance being aluminum and other elements.
US11674202B2
The invention discloses a high-throughout continuous casting and rolling Al—Mg—Mn alloy plate for ships and the preparation process thereof. The chemical components of the Al—Mg—Mn alloy in percentage by mass percentage are: Mg: 0.80-2.80%, Mn: 0.00-1.40%, Zr: 0.10-0.50%, Cr: 0.15-0.35%, Sr: 0.00-0.10%, Er: 0.00-0.60%, Si: 0.10-0.40%, Cu: 0.01-0.10%, Ti: 0.01-0.05%, Fe: 0.00-0.40% and the rest is Al. The preparation processes mainly include smelting and melt treatment, continuous casting, continuous rolling and cold rolling. The invention solves the problems of easy segregation, low strength and toughness and poor formability in the preparation of high-throughout continuous casting and rolling Al—Mg—Mn plates for ships.
US11674195B2
The present disclosure relates to an ultra-high-strength plated steel sheet and a method for molding the same, and more particularly, to an ultra-high-strength plated steel sheet having high tensile strength without the occurrence of plating peeling and hydrogen delayed fracture phenomenon during roll forming molding, and a method for molding the same.
US11674193B2
A canted coil spring includes a core wire 10 formed of steel having a pearlite structure; and a copper plating layer 20 formed of copper or a copper alloy and covering an outer circumferential surface 11 of the core wire 10. The steel contains 0.5 mass % or more and 1.0 mass % or less carbon, 0.1 mass % or more and 2.5 mass % or less silicon, and 0.3 mass % or more and 0.9 mass % or less manganese, with the balance being iron and inevitable impurities. The copper plating layer 20 has a crystallite size of 220±50 Å.
US11674188B2
This invention relates to the detection and diagnosis of tuberculosis. More specifically, the invention relates to new biomarkers and combinations thereof that enable the accurate detection and diagnosis of tuberculosis.
US11674184B2
The present invention relates to a biomarker composition for diagnosing radiation-resistant cancer comprising PMVK as an active ingredient and a method of diagnosing radiation-resistant cancer using the same, and when the PMVK is knocked down, it is confirmed that the survival rate of cancer cells decreases during radiation treatment, and based on this, the possibility as a factor related to radiation therapy resistance to cancer was suggested, and the PMVK can be used as a new target to enhance the effect of radiation therapy on human cancer cells.
US11674182B2
The present invention provides MEL-18, which is a biomarker for human epidermal growth factor receptor2 (HER2)-positive cancer and anti-HER2 therapy, and a use thereof. According to the present invention, MEL-18 is a prognostic factor or predictor for a response of subjects to an anti-HER2-targeted drug in HER2-POSITIVE cancer and may be used in companion diagnostics for HER2-targeted drugs in subjects with HER2-positive cancer. Therefore, HER2-positive cancer may be more effectively treated by overcoming resistance to HER2 therapeutic agents and enhancing therapeutic efficacy by determining whether ADAM10/17 inhibitors are administered or co-administered with HER2-targeted drugs.
US11674179B2
The invention relates to improved methods, devices, and kits for identifying and implementing an appropriate treatment regimen for subjects suffering from hypertension.
US11674178B2
Compositions, kits and methods for detecting a plurality of targets are provided herein. A probe-set composition is provided, including one or more first probes and one or more second probes. Each of the first probe includes a nucleic acid sequence complementary to a nucleic acid barcode of a corresponding target-specific binding partner, a first label, and a cleavage site for a first cleavage agent, wherein the first cleavage agent is capable of releasing the first label. Each of the second probes includes a nucleic acid sequence complementary to a nucleic acid barcode of a corresponding target-specific binding partner, a second label, a quench moiety that renders the second label undetectable, and a cleavage site for the first cleavage agent. The first cleavage agent is capable of releasing the quench moiety, whereby the second label is rendered detectable.
US11674176B2
The present invention provides apparatus and methods for enriching components or cells from a sample and conducting genetic analysis, such as SNP genotyping to provide diagnostic results for fetal disorders or conditions.
US11674166B2
A device for sampling microorganisms comprising a hollow probe that can be inserted into a growth substrate or water system, the probe containing a growth medium for microorganisms wherein the growth medium contains a chemoattractant particularly a plant pathogen chemoattractant wherein the growth medium is specific for the microorganism/microorganisms which a grower wishes to know if they are present in the growth substrate or water system.
US11674158B2
Disclosed herein are homology-independent targeted integration methods of integrating an exogenous DNA sequence into a genome of a non-dividing cell and compositions for such methods. Methods herein comprise contacting the non-dividing cell with a composition comprising a targeting construct comprising the exogenous DNA sequence and a targeting sequence, a complementary strand oligonucleotide homologous to the targeting sequence, and a nuclease, thereby altering the genome of the non-dividing cell.
US11674154B2
In some aspects, the disclosure relates to compositions and methods for treating fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP) in a subject. In some aspects, the disclosure provides isolated nucleic acids, and vectors such as rAAV vectors, configured to express transgenes that inhibit (e.g., decrease) expression of mutated AVCR1 gene in muscle cells or connective tissues.
US11674152B2
Provided is a novel anti-armyworm use of cry1Ab/cry1AcZM gene. Said gene can be used for controlling or killing Mythimna separate (Walker) and reducing injury to plants by Mythimna separate.
US11674144B2
A method of controlling the number of cells in a population of cells having silenced transcription of a target nucleic acid as a function of time includes recruiting a chromatin regulator (CR) to a site proximal to a transcription initiation site of the target nucleic acid to form a fraction of silenced cells in the population of cells. The chromatin regulator may be EED, KRAB, DNMT3, HDAC4, EZH2, REST, or a combination thereof.
US11674141B2
The present invention provides an antisense nucleic acid medicine that can modulate expression of a target transcriptional product in an ischemic site of a subject. The present invention also provides a composition for modulating expression of a target transcriptional product in an ischemic site of a subject, having a nucleic acid complex formed by annealing together a first nucleic acid strand having an antisense oligonucleotide region with respect to the target transcriptional product, and a lipid-conjugated second nucleic acid strand having a complementary region that is complementary to at least part of the first nucleic acid strand.
US11674134B2
The invention discloses a method of isolating nucleic acid and the system thereof, which relates to the following process: (1) providing a biological sample containing cells; (2) performing a cell concentration procedure; (3) performing a magnetic separation procedure through a magnetic separation unit; (4) performing a suspension procedure through a suspending unit; (5) performing a lysis procedure through a lysis unit; and (6) performing a nucleic acid extraction procedure to extract the nucleic acids from the biological samples; wherein the cell concentration procedure does not involve any means of centrifugation. Therefore, the method is simple and efficient, and it is particularly favorable in full automation of nucleic acid isolation. Furthermore, the method and the system as a whole further include a clarification procedure executed by a clarification unit without using centrifugation means, so that improves the quality of nucleic acid isolation.
US11674131B2
The present invention is directed to indirect ultrasonic cavitation-derived perivascular cells, to methods of use of a perivascular cell composition, to a method of processing a tissue and to an apparatus for the processing of a tissue. The methods include the mechanic indirect ultrasonication of a cellular non-structural tissue, and produce a perivascular fraction which includes perivascular cells. The methods of use are directed to the treatment of a variety of diseases and disorders and to the improvement of a tissue in a subject. The apparatus is provided for the processing of cellular non-structural tissue.
US11674126B2
A method for the recombinant production of cannabigerolic acid in a host organism may use a modified prenyltransferase. A modified prenyltransferase, a nucleic acid molecule that codes for the modified prenyltransferase, and a recombinant organism that includes the modified prenyltransferase and/or the nucleic acid are also disclosed here.
US11674125B2
This disclosure relates to glycoengineering, and methods of utilizing glycoengineering for various therapeutic purposes.
US11674123B2
Methods for generating human arterial endothelial cells under defined conditions in the absence of insulin are described. In particular, provided herein are efficient, defined, and scalable methods for generating human arterial endothelial cells from human pluripotent stem cells. Also provided herein are uses of human arterial endothelial cells obtained according to these methods. For example, methods of treating peripheral arterial disease and methods of screening agents for that effect adhesion of leukocytes to arterial endothelial cells are also provided.
US11674117B2
The present invention relates to a starter culture comprising at least two Streptococcus thermophilus strains, wherein a first and a second Streptococcus thermophilus strain are chosen from RGP group 1, RGP group 2, RGP group 3 and RGP group 4, with the proviso that the first and second Streptococcus thermophilus strains do not belong to the same RGP group.
US11674116B2
An imaging system and method for microbial growth detection, counting or identification. One colony may be contrasted in an image that is not optimal for another type of colony. The system and method provides contrast from all available material through space (spatial differences), time (differences appearing over time for a given capture condition) and color space transformation using image input information over time to assess whether microbial growth has occurred for a given sample.
US11674111B2
The invention meets the needs above by providing a surfactant system, mixture or blend that can be used as a part of a soaking composition. The surfactant system is capable of forming emulsions with, and thus removing, oily and greasy stains. In a preferred embodiment the surfactant compositions of the invention can remove non-trans fat and fatty acid stains. The invention involves foaming soaking compositions that have some or part of the anionic surfactant present in the same replaced with an extended chain anionic surfactant.
US11674110B2
Disclosed in certain embodiments are compositions for malodor reduction in fabric and methods for reducing malodor in fabric.
US11674109B2
A cleaning composition may include at least one amine oxide, at least one fatty alcohol ether sulfate, an active protein of at least one amylase having at least 90% sequence identity with the amino acid sequence recited in SEQ ID NO:1 or SEQ ID NO:2, an active protein of at least one protease having at least 90% sequence identity with the amino acid sequence recited in SEQ ID NO:3 or SEQ ID NO:4, at least one betaine, optional additional substances and/or additives, and water.
US11674095B2
A process of reforming a diesel feedstock to convert diesel to a gasoline blending component may include desulfurizing and denitrogenizing the diesel feedstock to reduce the sulfur and nitrogen content; and then hydrocracking the diesel feedstock over a metal containing zeolitic catalyst to produce an isomerate fraction. The diesel feedstock may have boiling points ranging from 200 to 360° C.
US11674094B2
The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of catalyst(s), comprising the cokneading of boehmite with an active phase comprising a salt of heteropolyanion of Keggin and/or lacunary Keggin and/or substituted lacunary Keggin and/or Anderson and/or Strandberg type, and their mixtures, exhibiting, in its structure, molybdenum and cobalt and/or nickel. The present invention also relates to a process for the hydrotreating and/or hydroconversion of a heavy hydrocarbon feedstock in the presence of catalyst(s) prepared according to said process.
US11674093B2
Processes for preparing a low particulate liquid hydrocarbon product are provided and includes blending a tar stream containing particles with a fluid to produce a fluid-feed mixture containing tar, the particles, and the fluid, and centrifuging the fluid-feed mixture at a temperature of greater than 60° C. to produce a higher density portion and a lower density portion, where the lower density portion contains no more than 25 wt % of the particles in the fluid-feed mixture.
US11674089B2
Systems and methods are provided for conversion of a combined feed of oxygenates (such as methanol or dimethyl ether) and olefins to a high octane naphtha boiling range product with a reduced or minimized aromatics content. The oxygenate conversion can be performed under conditions that reduce or minimize hydrogen transfer. Optionally, a catalyst that further facilitates formation of branched paraffins can be used, such as a catalyst that has some type of 12-member ring site available on the catalyst surface.
US11674086B2
A system and method for torrefying a combination of biomass and biochar colloidal dispersion is provided.
US11674085B2
A fire insulation precursor material formed of cement, in an amount of between 10-30% w/w; and an aluminium or magnesium hydroxide, huntite or hydromagnesite in an amount of between 60-90% w/w/. A fire insulation material is provided including the previously mentioned precursor material. Further described are methods of forming a fire insulation material and applications for such material in sheaths, duct coatings, cable trays and other elongate components.
US11674071B2
This disclosure provides drilling fluids and additives as well as fracturing fluids and additives that contain cellulose nanofibers and/or cellulose nanocrystals. In some embodiments, hydrophobic nanocellulose is provided which can be incorporated into oil-based fluids and additives. These water-based or oil-based fluids and additives may further include lignosulfonates and other biomass-derived components. Also, these water-based or oil-based fluids and additives may further include enzymes. The drilling and fracturing fluids and additives described herein may be produced using the AVAP® process technology to produce a nanocellulose precursor, followed by low-energy refining to produce nanocellulose for incorporation into a variety of drilling and fracturing fluids and additives.
US11674069B2
A method of producing a synthetic functionalized additive including the steps of mixing an amount of a magnesium salt with a fluid medium to produce a magnesium-containing fluid, adding an amount of a silane to the magnesium-containing fluid to produce a reactant mix, adding an amount of an aqueous hydroxide to the reactant mix to produce a reaction mixture, mixing the reaction mixture for a mix period, refluxing the reaction mixture for a reflux period to produce a product mix, treating the product mix to separate the synthetic functionalized additive.
US11674068B2
According to one embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a hydrogen extraction reactor, comprising a chamber including an inner space; a reaction unit which is provided to pass through the inside of the chamber and where an endothermic reaction for hydrogen extraction occurs; a heating unit which is provided to be spaced apart from the reaction unit inside the chamber and transfers heat to the inside of the chamber; and a heat transfer material which is provided between the reaction unit and the heating unit in the chamber, wherein the heat transfer material undergoes a phase transition between a gas phase and a liquid phase according to the entry and exit of heat from the heating unit or the reaction unit.
US11674064B2
The present invention is directed to a sealing composition comprising: (a) a polysiloxane; (b) a reactive polysiloxane comprising at least one reactive functional group; and (c) water; wherein the weight ratio of polysiloxane to reactive polysiloxane is from 2.7:1 to 4:1. Also disclosed are coated substrates and methods of coating a substrate.
US11674053B2
A composition for forming an underlayer film necessary for facilitating alignment of self-assembled film into desired vertical pattern. Composition for forming an underlayer film of self-assembled film including a polymer having unit structure containing aliphatic polycyclic structure of aliphatic polycyclic compound in main chain. The polymer is a polymer having unit structure containing aliphatic polycyclic structure of aliphatic polycyclic compound with aromatic ring structure of aromatic ring-containing compound or polymer chain derived from vinyl group of vinyl group-containing compound in main chain. The polymer has unit structure of Formula (1): X—Y Formula (1) wherein X is single bond, divalent group having vinyl structure as polymer chain, or divalent group having aromatic ring-containing structure as polymer chain, and Y is divalent group having aliphatic polycyclic structure as polymer chain. The aliphatic polycyclic compound is bi- to hexa-cyclic diene compound. The aliphatic polycyclic compound is dicyclopentadiene or norbornadiene.
US11674052B2
An optical element has a lanthanum-containing glass substrate and a light-shielding film on part of the surface of the glass substrate. The light-shielding film is made from a light-shielding paint that contains at least an epoxy resin, fine particles of titania, a dye, an organic solvent, and an amine-based curing agent. The organic solvent in the light-shielding paint has a vapor pressure of 160 Pa or more and 960 Pa or less at a temperature of 20° C. The viscosity of the light-shielding paint is 10.0 mPa·s or more and 100 mPa·s or less.
US11674050B2
Provided herein are coated substrates. Also provided herein are methods for attaching phosphonates, phosphonic acids, or derivatives thereof to an organic or an inorganic substrate (e.g., a metal oxide substrate) via phosphonate chemistry to form the coated substrates provided herein.
US11674039B2
Disclosed are a polyamideimide resin composition comprising (A) a polyamideimide resin, (B) a 3-alkoxy-N,N-dimethylpropanamide, and (C) water; and a fluorine-based coating material comprising the polyamideimide resin composition and a fluororesin.
US11674036B2
A thermoplastic resin composition comprises: about 100 parts by weight of a polycarbonate resin; about 50 parts by weight to about 250 parts by weight of a polyester resin; about 10 parts by weight to about 200 parts by weight of an aromatic polyphosphonate having a weight average molecular weight of about 65,000 g/mol to about 130,000 g/mol; and about 0.1 parts by weight to about 2 parts by weight of an organic acid comprising citric acid, lactic acid, malic acid, tartaric acid, and/or glycolic acid.
US11674022B2
The present invention relates to a multimodal polyethylene composition comprising: (A) 40 to 65 parts by weight, preferably 43 to 52 parts by weight, most preferred 44 to 50 parts by′ weight, of the low molecular weight polyethylene having a weight average molecular weight (Mw) of 20,000 to 90,000 g/mol, wherein the low molecular weight polyethylene has a MI2 of 500 to 1,000 g/10 min according to ASTM D 1238; (B) 5 to 17 parts by weight, preferably 10 to 17 parts by weight, most preferred 10 to 15 parts by weight, of the first high molecular weight polyethylene having a weight average molecular weight (Mw) of more than 150,000 to 1,000,000 g/mol or the first ultra high molecular weight polyethylene having a weight average molecular weight (Mw) of more than 1,000,000 to 5,000,000 g/mol; and (C) 30 to 50 parts by weight, preferably 37 to 47 party by weight, most preferably 39 to 45 parts by weight, of the second high molecular weight polyethylene having a weight average molecular weight (Mw) of more than 150,000 to 1,000,000 g/mol or the second ultra high molecular weight polyethylene having a weight average molecular weight (Mw) of more than 1,000,000 to 5,000,000 g/mol, wherein the density of the first high molecular weight polyethylene or the first ultra high molecular weight polyethylene and the second high molecular weight polyethylene or the second ultra high molecular weight polyethylene is in the same range and both densities are in the range from 0.910 to 0.940 g/cm3; and the molecular weight distribution of the multimodal polyethylene composition is from 18 to 30, preferably 20 to 28, measured by gel permeation chromatography, film comprising the multimodal polyethylene composition and the use thereof.
US11674019B2
A tire is provided with an external sidewall, said external sidewall comprising a composition based on at least one elastomeric matrix comprising at least one diene elastomer selected from the group consisting of butadiene polymers having a glass transition temperature of less than or equal to −50° C., and a thermoplastic elastomer comprising at least one elastomer block and at least one thermoplastic block, the thermoplastic elastomer not comprising a polyisobutylene block; a liquid plasticizer exhibiting a glass transition temperature of less than −70° C.; a crosslinking system; and a reinforcing filler.
US11674016B2
The invention relates to a polymer composition comprising a polyethylene, a crosslinking agent and antioxidant(s), wherein the polymer composition contains a total amount of vinyl groups which is B vinyl groups per 1000 carbon atoms, and B1≤B, wherein B1 is 0.12, when measured prior to crosslinking according to method ASTM D6248-98, the crosslinking agent is present in an amount which is Z wt %, based on the total amount (100 wt %) of the polymer composition, and Z1≤Z≤Z2, wherein Z1 is 0.005 and Z2 is 2.0, and the antioxidant(s) is/are nitrogen containing antioxidant(s) being present in an amount which is W wt %, based on the total amount (100 wt %) of the polymer composition, and W1≤W≤W2, wherein W1 is 0.005 and W2 is 1.0, an article being e.g. a cable, e.g. a power cable, and processes for producing a polymer composition and an article; useful in different end applications, such as wire and cable (W&C) applications.
US11674002B2
Disclosed herein are various cable gel seal arrangements and thermoplastic gels useful therein. The thermoplastic gels are prepared from a composition including a styrene triblock copolymer, a styrene diblock copolymer, an oil extender, and an additive selected from poly(2,6-dimethyl-1,4-phenylene oxide), a C9 resin, poly(alpha-methylstyrene), a coumarone-indene resin, and combinations thereof, wherein the additive has a Tg from about 95° C. to about 200° C. The thermoplastic gels advantageously exhibit low compression set.
US11674000B2
Branched organopolysiloxanes are prepared from alkoxysilanes and polydiorganosiloxanes over two stages by basic equilibration and subsequent acid-catalyzed reaction with water to the desired degree of condensation, wherein the entire process does not require the use of additional organic solvent, no wastewater is generated and the process is particularly suitable for the controlled production of so-called DT resins.
US11673999B2
A polyimide precursor solution includes: a polyimide precursor; a resin particle having 55% by weight or more of a structural unit derived from a styrene derivative; and a mixed solvent containing a first organic solvent (S1) and a second organic solvent (S2), wherein the polyimide precursor solution satisfies the following conditions (1) to (4), condition (1): a weight ratio (S1/S2) of the first organic solvent (S1) to the second organic solvent (S2) is from 50/50 to 90/10, condition (2): a HSP distance between the first organic solvent (S1) and the resin particle is 11 or more and less than 16, condition (3): a HSP distance between the second organic solvent (S2) and the resin particle is 16 or more, and condition (4): a HSP distance between the mixed solvent and the polyimide precursor is 12 or less.
US11673998B2
A triazine ring-containing polymer, having a structural unit represented by the following formula (1), in which a peak top molecular weight obtained by gel permeation chromatography is 19,000 or less.
US11673996B2
Provided is a tape including a composition having a copolyester including polymeric units derived from ethylene glycol and terephthalic acid or a diester thereof and >0.50 and <5.00 wt % of polymeric units with regard to the total weight of the polyester derived from an oligomeric dihydroxy compound having a number average molecular weight of >500 g/mol and <5000 g/mol. Such tape has an improved tensile-impact strength and a reduced proneness to splitting during weaving.
US11673995B2
A polyol polymer is obtained from reactants including: a) a non-aromatic epoxy functional compound that includes at least 30 weight % of the total solids weight of the reactants; and b) an aromatic mono-carboxylic acid functional compound, or anhydride thereof, that is substantially free of non-aromatic ethylenic unsaturation. The polyol polymer has ester linkages and hydroxyl functional groups. Further, if the reactants further include an aromatic polycarboxylic acid, the aromatic polycarboxylic acid makes up less than 15 weight % of the total solids weight of the reactants. A coating composition is also prepared with the polyol polymer.
US11673990B2
The present invention relates to systems and methods for solid freeform fabrication, especially selective laser sintering, as well as various articles made using the same, where the systems and methods utilize certain thermoplastic polyurethanes which are particularly suited for such processing. The useful thermoplastic polyurethanes are derived from (a) a polyisocyanate component, (b) a polyol component, and (c) an optional chain extender component; wherein the resulting thermoplastic polyurethane has a melting enthalpy of at least 5.5J/g, a Tc (crystallization temperature) of more than 70° C., a Δ(Tm:Tc) of from 20 to 75 degrees, where Δ(Tm:Tc) is the difference between the Tm (melting temperature) and Tc.
US11673983B2
A curable resin composition which provides a cured product excellent in impact resistance and flexural modulus and has a low viscosity comprising a component (A), a component (B) and a component (C). The component (A) is a compound represented by formula (1), In formula (1), R is hydrogen or a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms. The hydrocarbon group optionally has a substituent. The component (B) is a compound having one or more caprolactone modified structures and two or more radically polymerizable groups per molecule, and the component (C) is a radical polymerization initiator.
US11673982B2
A method of producing a surface sizing composition, the method comprising: providing a metal salt having at least 3 valence electrons, wherein the metal salt is selected from the group of aluminium sulfate, aluminium chloride, aluminium nitrate, polyaluminium sulfate (PAS), polyaluminium chloride (PAC), and polyaluminium chloride sulfate (PACS), polyaluminium formiate, polyaluminium nitrate, and any combination thereof; providing an aqueous polymer dispersion, wherein the aqueous polymer dispersion is an aqueous polymer dispersion (A) and an aqueous prepolymer composition (B), wherein the aqueous polymer dispersion (A) is obtainable by free radical emulsion copolymerizing a first ethylenically unsaturated monomer blend, and wherein the aqueous prepolymer composition (B) is obtainable by free radical emulsion copolymerizing in a polymerization solvent comprising C1-6-carboxylic acid and C1-6-carboxylic acid anhydride, a second ethylenically unsaturated monomer blend; and mixing the metal salt and the aqueous polymer dispersion to provide a surface sizing composition to be used in papermaking.
US11673980B2
Radically polymerizable material, which contains (a) 0.01 to 5 wt.-% of at least one transfer reagent, (b) 5 to 60 wt.-% of at least one multifunctional (meth)acrylate or a mixture of mono- and multifunctional (meth)acrylates, (c) 0.01 to 3.0 wt.-% of a mixture of at least one monomolecular and at least one bimolecular photoinitiator, (d) 30 to 90 wt.-% of at least one filler, and (e) optionally additive(s), wherein the material contains as transfer reagent (a) at least one allyl sulfone of Formula I and/or a vinyl sulfone ester of Formula II.
US11673973B2
The present invention relates to a chitin having a molecular mass of more than 855 kg·mol-1 and to a process for obtaining chitin and/or chitosan by separating cuticles from the soft part of the insect and by a basic treatment of the cuticles.
US11673971B2
Multispecific, e.g., bispecific, antibody molecules that include a kappa light chain polypeptide and one lambda light chain polypeptide, and methods of making and using the multispecific antibody molecules, are disclosed.
US11673969B2
The present disclosure provides an anti-biotin antibody, and provides an amino acid sequence encoding the CDRs of the antibody. Studies have shown that the antibody only reacts with a biotin conjugate or derivative, and does not react with free biotin. The present disclosure further provides applications of the antibody in, including but not limited to, ELISA, cell capture, sorting and enrichment, western blotting, flow cytometry, immunocytofluorescent staining, and immunohistochemistry. The anti-biotin antibody conjugated immunomagnetic beads can specifically and directly recognize a biotin labeled antigen, and do not bind to free biotin which is often presented in clinical samples and culture media. In addition, the anti-biotin antibody-conjugated magnetic beads or anti-biotin antibody-fluorescein provide an ideal solution for the isolation of specific cells, and can even enrich and separate target cells from samples rich in debris or other rare biological materials.
US11673958B2
The invention provides an antibody comprising human IgG1 or IgG3 heavy chain constant domains that are glycosylated with a sugar chain at Asn297, said antibody being characterized in that the amount of fucose within said sugar chain is at least 99%, and in addition the amount of NGNA is 1% or less and/or the amount of N-terminal alpha 1,3 galactose is 1% or less, and uses thereof.
US11673955B2
The present invention relates to targeted prevention of vertical transmission of infection between mother and foetus. More particularly, the invention relates to methods of preventing neonatal Fc receptor (FcRn)-mediated transmission of virus, preferably flavivirus, more preferably Zika virus (ZIKV), from a mother immune to a cross-reactive virus e.g. Dengue virus (DENY) to her foetus, and to reagents that block or inhibit said FcRN-mediated transmission of virus.
US11673949B2
A method for modulating the adrenomedullin (ADM) activity of a patient by administering to the patient an anti-adrenomedullin (ADM) antibody or an anti-adrenomedullin antibody fragment. The method may be used, for example, in therapy of a chronical or acute disease or acute condition of a patient for prevention or reduction of organ dysfunction or organ failure. In a preferred embodiment the method is for use in therapy of a chronical or acute disease or acute condition of a patient for prevention or reduction of kidney dysfunction or kidney failure or liver dysfunction or liver failure.
US11673941B2
The invention provides a method for culturing mammalian cells. The method provides greater control over cell growth to achieve high product titer cell cultures.
US11673926B2
Materials and methods for in vivo de-glycosylation of recombinant N-glycosylated proteins by co-expression with bacterial PNGase F (Peptide: N-glycosidase F) in plants, using a transient expression system are described. Methods are described which, for example, produce recombinant proteins of interest in plants in a non-glycosylated form. A method of expressing active bacterial PNGase F in plants also is provided.
US11673924B2
The invention relates to pea proteins having improved flavour, a method of producing same involving wet grinding, and the use of these proteins in a food or pharmaceutical composition.
US11673912B2
A continuous, solvent-free and non-enzymatic method for synthesizing a compound of formula (I): Ra-POLYPEP-Rc (I) wherein: POLYPEP is a poly-amino acid compound, Ra and Rc are as specified, the method including the steps of: a) feeding an extrusion reactor with (1) a compound of formula (II) Ra-PEPNt-Rg (II) wherein; PEPNt is a mono- or a poly-amino acid compound, Ra and Rg are as specified, and (2) a compound of formula (III) H-PEPCt-Rc (III) wherein: PEPCt is a mono- or a poly-amino acid compound, and Rc is as defined in the absence of any solvent, so that the compound of formula (II) and the compound of formula (III) react together for generating a compound of formula (I), and b) collecting the compound of formula (I) from the extrusion reactor.
US11673909B2
Disclosed are a furaneone glycoside compound, a pharmaceutical composition thereof, a preparation method therefor, and an application thereof. Specifically disclosed are a compound as represented by formula A-1, a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof or a crystal form thereof. Also disclosed is a pharmaceutical composition, which comprises the compound as represented by formula A-1, the pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and a pharmaceutical adjuvant. Also disclosed is an application of the compound as represented by formula A-1, the pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, the crystal form thereof, or the pharmaceutical composition in the preparation of drugs. The drugs are drugs for treating inflammatory bowel diseases. The furaneone glycoside compound has a good effect of treating inflammatory bowel diseases, particularly ulcerative colitis.
US11673899B2
Disclosed are a crystal form of a thieno[2,3-c]pyridazine-4(1H)-one compound, a preparation method therefor and the use thereof in the preparation of a drug as an inhibitor of ACC1 and ACC2.
US11673894B2
This application relates to compounds of Formula (I): or pharmaceutically acceptable salts or stereoisomers thereof, which modulate the activity of adenosine receptors, such as subtypes A2A and A2B receptors, and are useful in the treatment of diseases related to the activity of adenosine receptors including, for example, cancer, inflammatory diseases, cardiovascular diseases, and neurodegenerative diseases.
US11673889B2
The invention provides compounds of Formula (A) that may inhibit ENPP1, and that are accordingly useful for treatment of disorders related to ENPP1. The invention further provides pharmaceutical compositions containing these compounds and methods of using these compounds to treat or prevent disorders related to ENPP1.
US11673886B2
The present invention provides compounds of Formula (I): or stereoisomers, tautomers, or pharmaceutically-acceptable salts thereof, wherein all the variables are as defined herein. These compounds are selective ROCK inhibitors. This invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds and methods of treating cardiovascular, smooth muscle, oncologic, neuropathologic, autoimmune, fibrotic, and/or inflammatory disorders using the same.
US11673885B2
The present disclosure provides γ-diketones or analogs thereof, that activate Wnt/β-catenin signaling and thus treat or prevent diseases related to signal transduction, such as osteoporosis and osteoarthropathy; osteogenesis imperfecta, bone defects, bone fractures, periodontal disease, otosclerosis, wound healing, craniofacial defects, oncolytic bone disease, traumatic brain injuries or spine injuries, brain atrophy/neurological disorders related to the differentiation and development of the central nervous system, including Parkinson's disease, strokes, ischemic cerebral disease, epilepsy, Alzheimer's disease, depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia; otic disorders like cochlear hair cell loss; eye diseases such as age related macular degeneration, diabetic macular edema or retinitis pigmentosa and diseases related to differentiation and growth of stem cell, such as hair loss, hematopoiesis related diseases and tissue regeneration related diseases.
US11673881B2
Isoquinoline compounds for treating various diseases and pathologies are disclosed. More particularly, the present disclosure concerns the use of an isoquinoline compound or analogs thereof, in the treatment of disorders characterized by the activation of Wnt pathway signaling (e.g., cancer, abnormal cellular proliferation, angiogenesis, Alzheimer's disease, lung disease, inflammation, auto-immune diseases and osteoarthritis), the modulation of cellular events mediated by Wnt pathway signaling, as well as neurological conditions/disorders/diseases linked to overexpression of DYRK1A.
US11673879B2
The present disclosure provides inhibitors of activin receptor-like kinase 5 (ALK5). Also disclosed are methods to modulate the activity of ALK5 and methods of treatment of disorders mediated by ALK5.
US11673859B2
The present invention relates to an N-(4-((4-(3-phenylureido)phenyl)sulfonyl)phenyl)benzenesulfonamide in the polymorphic form ω18.9, characterised by an x-ray powder diffractogram having the Bragg angles (2θ/CuKα) 10.9, 11.7, 14.6, 15.0, 15.8, 16.6, 17.6, 18.9, 19.4, 20.9, 21.2, 22.0, 23.3, 24.4, 24.7, 26.1, 27.4, 29.4, 34.2, or in the polymorphic form α21.2, characterised by an x-ray powder diffractogram having the Bragg angles (2θ/CuKα) 8.7, 9.8, 10.8, 13.2, 13.9, 14.9, 15.2, 16.0, 17.4, 17.7, 18.7, 20.4, 21.2, 21.6, 22.3, 23.0, 23.3, 23.9, 24.4, 25.0, 25.8, 26.6, 28.1, 28.9, 29.4, 30.1, 30.6, 31.8, 34.5, 35.3, 35.6, 36.9, a method for production thereof, use thereof as a colour developer in a heat-sensitive recording material, and a heat-sensitive recording material comprising N-(4-((4-(3-phenylureido)phenyl)sulfonyl)phenyl)benzenesulfonamide in the polymorphic form ω18.9 or in the polymorphic form α21.2.
US11673857B2
A preparation method of 1-(4-aminophenyl)cyclopentanecarbonitrile includes the following steps: step 1: in the presence of Li2CuCl4, adding a nitrochlorobenzene-zinc reagent dropwise to a 1-chlorocyclopentanecarbonitrile solution to prepare a compound 1-(4-nitrophenyl)cyclopentanecarbonitrile; and step 2: subjecting the compound 1-(4-nitrophenyl)cyclopentanecarbonitrile obtained in step 1 to a nitroreduction reaction under the action of a catalyst to prepare the compound 1-(4-aminophenyl)cyclopentanecarbonitrile. The preparation method involves cheap and easily-available raw materials, mild reaction conditions, and convenient operations, leads to high yield, and is environmentally-friendly and suitable for industrial large-scale production.
US11673837B2
Disclosed herein are embodiments of materials having high thermal conductivity along with a high dielectric constants. In some embodiments, a two phase composite ceramic material can be formed having a contiguous aluminum oxide phase with a secondary phase embedded within the continuous phase. Example secondary phases include calcium titanate, strontium titanate, or titanium dioxide.
US11673833B2
The invention discloses a strontium ferrite-based sacrificial mortar and its preparation method, the strontium ferrite-based sacrificial mortar mainly comprises 720-1000 parts of sulphoaluminate cement, 100-300 parts of strontium ferrite, 600-650 parts of quartz sand, 400-450 parts of water and 0.01-35 parts of superplasticizer. The preparation process is simple, and the strontium ferrite-based sacrificial mortar can be prepared by using a conventional forced single horizontal shaft concrete mixer. The obtained mortar has excellent working performance, compressive strength and corrosion resistance. It can be used in the current third and future fourth generation nuclear power plant core catchers, and has obvious engineering application value.
US11673823B2
A glass tube element having a hollow cylindrical section with a shell having an outer diameter is provided. A first ratio is a difference value to a mean value. The difference value is a difference of a minimal and maximal value of the outer diameter. The mean value is a mean of the minimal and maximal values. A sub-section having a start, an end, and a distance of 1 meter measured along a straight line from the start to the end and intersecting with a center axis of the sub-section at the start and the end. The sub-section having, for every point of the center axis, a shortest distance to the straight line. A second ratio of a specific distance to 1 meter, the specific distance being defined as a largest of all shortest distances. A product of the first and second ratio is smaller than 4×10−6.
US11673819B2
Use of an alkyltrichlorosilane of the following formula I: R—SiCl3, wherein: R represents an alkyl group, Si represents a silicon atom and Cl represents a chlorine atom, and/or of a silsesquioxane of the following formula II: [RSiO3/2]n, wherein: R represents an alkyl group, Si represents a silicon atom, O represents an oxygen atom and n represents an integer, for the removal of microplastic particles from water and/or for the treatment of water. Further, a method for the removal of microplastic particles from water and/or for the purification of water is provided, as well as an inclusion and/or intercalation compound, a kit for the removal of microplastic particles from water and/or for the purification of water as well as a water treatment system.
US11673813B2
Methods and apparatus for producing a magnetic nanoparticle suitable for additive manufacturing techniques includes providing a solution having a plurality of metallic precursors to produce magnetic nanoparticles, a coordinating solvent, and a chelating agent. The solution is mixed and heated to grow nanoparticles wherein magnetic nanoparticles are formed. The solution is then cooled and a magnetic field is applied to the solution wherein ferrite nanoparticles are at least partially separated by size.
US11673809B2
An apparatus for manufacturing polysilicon rod by a Siemens method has a base plate 20; and a holding body 100 provided on the base plate 20 so as to be movable in a horizontal direction and electrically connect between a core wire holder 1 and an electrode 4. The holding body 100 is configured to rotatably hold the core wire holder 1 with respect to the base plate 20.
US11673806B2
A carbon nanotube composite assembled wire is a carbon nanotube composite assembled wire including a plurality of carbon nanotube composites, each of the plurality of carbon nanotube composites including one carbon nanotube and an amorphous carbon-containing layer that coats the carbon nanotube, the carbon nanotube having a D/G ratio of 0.1 or less, the D/G ratio being a ratio of a peak intensity of a D band to a peak intensity of a G band in Raman spectroscopic analysis with a wavelength of 532 nm, each of the plurality of carbon nanotube composites being fibrous and having a diameter of 0.1 μm or more and 50 μm or less, the plurality of carbon nanotube composites being oriented in a longitudinal direction of the carbon nanotube composite assembled wire.
US11673805B2
The invention relates to a process for preparing hydrogen by reforming hydrocarbons with steam, and for separation of carbon dioxide. The process includes one endothermic and one autothermal reforming step for production of a synthesis gas stream, wherein heat generated in the autothermal reforming step is utilized for heating in the endothermic reforming step. The process also includes a step of converting the synthesis gas stream obtained for enrichment with hydrogen, a step of separating the hydrogen thus prepared by pressure swing adsorption, and a step of separation of carbon dioxide from the residual gas obtained in the pressure swing adsorption. The reforming units for the endothermal and autothermal reforming steps are arranged parallel to one another or in series.
US11673804B2
Proposed is a process and a plant for production of pure carbon monoxide and hydrogen by steam reforming of hydrocarbons, preferably methane or naphtha, to afford a raw synthesis gas and subsequent, multistage workup, purification and fractionation of the raw synthesis gas to afford the target products, wherein the material streams obtained as by-products of the process chain are also to be advantageously utilized. This is achieved according to the invention by providing the recirculating compressor provided for recycling of the by-product material streams with a plurality of parallel, independently operable compressor stages.
US11673794B2
An actuator device includes a support part, a first movable part, and a second movable part. The second movable part includes a pair of first connection portions positioned on both sides of the first movable part on a first axis and connected to a pair of first connecting parts, and a pair of second connection portions positioned on both sides of the first movable part on a second axis and connected to a pair of second connecting parts. An outer edge of each of the pair of the first connection portions includes a first linear portion that extends along a second axis direction. An outer edge of each of the pair of the second connection portions includes a second linear portion that extends along a first axis direction.
US11673787B1
A system and method detection of an empty keg is provided. Carbonated beverages from a keg communicates a carbonated alcoholic beverage to a Foam on Beer (FOB) detector. The FOB forms a reservoir and containing a float. Level detection sensors in operative communication with the float identifies the position and movement of the float. An keg's status can thereby be anticipated by float level and speed changes. A the FOB status can thereby operate a touchless tap including a control valve via a tap control board (TCB) that actuates the control valve. A controller in operative communication with the TCB communicates with the control valve, the actuation button and in communication with the level sensor.
US11673783B1
Certain exemplary embodiments can provide a system comprising a rotatable aerial platform. The rotatable aerial platform comprises a yoke assembly, an annular base member, an upper frame, a chain drive, and a load supporting deck. The annular base member is coupled to the yoke assembly. The load supporting deck coupled to the upper frame, the load supporting deck constructed to support personnel and materials. The rotatable aerial platform is rotatable and positionable about a vertical axis permitting access to elevated locations.
US11673775B2
A vehicle crane comprising a jib that is raised and lowered by at least one main tensile connector, and a counter jib, where the main tensile connector extends between a first connecting point in the region of a jib head and a second connecting point in the region of a counter jib head. To reduce loading on the jib, in particular during raising and lowering and increase its bearing load overall, the jib has a third connecting point between the first connecting point and its foot opposite the head, and a secondary tensile connector extends between the third connecting point and a fourth connecting point in the region of the head of the counter jib, or the secondary tensile connector extends between the third connecting point via a seventh connecting point on the main tensile connector and a fourth connecting point in the region of the main jib foot.
US11673772B2
An aligning device for aligning a guide rail of an elevator system has lower and upper rail bracket parts and at least two movement elements. The lower rail bracket part is fixed to an elevator shaft wall and the upper rail bracket part holds a guide rail. The lower and upper rail bracket parts each have a connecting region for fixing to one another. The movement elements move the lower rail bracket part relative to the upper rail bracket part. Each of the movement elements interacts with both of the connecting regions of the rail bracket parts. Each of the movement elements is rotatable about an axis of rotation and interacts, eccentrically with respect to the axis of rotation, with at least one of the rail bracket parts so as to abut laterally opposite contact surfaces of this rail bracket part.
US11673769B2
An illustrative example embodiment of an elevator system includes a machine including a motor and a brake. The machine is configured to selectively cause movement of an elevator car. At least one vibration sensor situated near the machine provides an indication of operation of the machine to indicate at least stops and starts of the machine associated with stopping and starting movement of the elevator car.
US11673764B2
Techniques for implementing a pipe deployment system that includes a pipe reel, in which the pipe reel includes reel ends and a reel drum and the pipe reel enables a pipe segment to be wrapped on the reel drum. The pipe deployment system includes a brake assembly with a brake wheel having a shaft socket keyed with flat inner surfaces, and a shaft adapter assembly, which includes an adapter head to be coupled between the pipe reel and the brake assembly. The adapter head includes an adapter shaft keyed with flat outer surfaces, in which the adapter shaft matingly interlocks with the shaft socket and is to be partially inserted through a reel end of the pipe reel, and a rotation control pin coupled to the adapter shaft, in which the rotation control pin is to be inserted between adjacent reel spokes in the reel end of the pipe reel.
US11673760B2
A medium discharge device includes a discharge roller pair that is provided with a discharge driving roller and a discharge driven roller which drivably rotates in contact with the discharge driving roller, and a medium receiving tray which receives the medium that is fed and discharged by the discharge roller pair, in which the medium receiving tray includes a guide member which guides such that a tip end of the medium which is discharged from the discharge roller pair enters the medium mounting surface at a predetermined angle, and the guide member is provided to be elastically displaceable in an advancing and retreating direction with respect to the medium mounting surface of the medium receiving tray and is displaced in a direction coming close to the medium mounting surface according to raising of a pressing load due to the medium that is discharged to the medium receiving tray.
US11673752B2
In one embodiment, the present disclosure includes a dispenser vane comprising a flexible outer surface and a plurality of flexible teeth arranged along the length of the outer surface. The flexible outer surface and flexible teeth are radially moveable.
US11673737B2
An apparatus for high speed continuous thermoforming of pulp materials into pulp based products including a beverage dispensing capsule comprising a body having a side wall and a base formed entirely of moulded pulp fibres, said apparatus comprising a holding tank for water and pulp fibres in suspension, a continuous feed belt of articulated mesh toolsets contoured to the preform shape of said products, said belt being inclined to allow partial immersion and partial withdrawal from said suspension by continuous rotation of said belt, vacuum means applied to said mesh toolsets to draw said pulp fibres onto said mesh toolsets immersed in said suspension to form a preform pulp mat of said product.
US11673732B2
A method for treating open cut edges of a packaging sleeve, blank or web material of a packaging material rolled up into a roll, in particular a composite cardboard/plastics material, by applying or introducing a disinfectant-containing treatment agent to or into the outer region of the cut edges. To provide a particularly resource-efficient composite packaging and a production method required for this purpose, it is proposed that at least some of the treatment agent is not applied directly to the cut edges, but that a load carrier is loaded, which load carrier absorbs the treatment agent so that an actively sterilising atmosphere which is created then acts on the open cut edges of the packaging sleeve, blank or web material and performs the desired sterilisation. The invention also relates to a packaging material, to a combipack produced therefrom and to a container for receiving the packaging material.
US11673727B2
A dispensing system for a flexible bag including a spout having a body, a plug and a first and second flexible coupling. The body includes a central bore extending therethrough, with a lower ring wall at a lower end. The plug has a cavity and plug ring wall attachable to the lower ring wall in sealed engagement. The first flexible coupling and the second flexible coupling each being formed from a base web and extending from the lower end of the body. A first arm is coupled to the base web at a first hinge. A second arm is coupled to the first arm opposite the base web at a central hinge. The plug is coupled to the second arm opposite the first arm at a plug hinge. A probe is likewise disclosed that is insertable into a flexible bag, as is a flexible bag assembly and method.
US11673724B2
Improved releasable bundling ties having unique releasable locks are provided. In various embodiments, the releasable locks have a two-way operation, wherein a bundling tie can be fastened or locked in either one or both of two directions.
US11673716B2
The description pertains to a bag for shipping goods in the mail order business with a front side, a back side, a left side, a right side, a bottom side and a bag opening with an opening edge for the insertion and removal of the goods. This bag should be further developed in such a way that, on the one hand, it can accommodate a variety of different and differently sized goods in a manner that is safe for shipping and transport and on the other hand that it can be used as a reusable mailing bag in order to avoid unnecessary waste. To solve this problem, it is proposed to arrange back-side closure means at a back distance from the opening edge and to arrange first closure means on the front side at a first front-side distance from the opening edge and second front-side closure means at a second front-side distance from the opening edge, wherein the first front-side distance is smaller than the second front-side distance and the back-side distance is smaller than the first front-side distance, so that the bag opening becomes closable by turning over an upper region of the back side to the front side and connecting the back-side closure means to the first front-side closure means to provide a larger bag volume or to the second front closure means to provide a smaller bag volume.
US11673715B1
A card carrier includes a presentation substrate, a pocket layer connected to an interior side of the presentation substrate, and a notification carrier configured to fit within a receiving pocket. The presentation substrate defines a presentation address window. The receiving pocket is defined by the pocket layer and the presentation substrate. The pocket layer defines an interior display window configured for displaying card object data and is connected to the presentation substrate such that the interior display window is positioned in a top half of the presentation substrate. When the notification carrier is positioned within the receiving pocket, an address on the notification carrier is visible through the presentation address window.
US11673710B2
A securing apparatus configured to assist in securing objects to a pallet during packaging and shipping includes a main body having first and second wall portions spaced from one another to define a channel, and a hook extending from the main body via a neck portion. At least one of the first and second wall portions includes an anchor for engaging and being embedded in a pallet. A fastener may be received through an aperture of the main body to releasably attach the securing apparatus to a pallet, and the anchor may be at least partially embedded in the pallet. So configured, a filament may be looped about the hook to assist in securing objects to the pallet in a first securing configuration, and another filament may be received in the channel to assist in securing objects to the pallet in a second securing configuration.
US11673697B2
A food dispensing module for a delaminating food dispensing system includes an outer housing; and a delaminating housing. The delaminating housing has a first portion being located within the outer housing and a second portion located outside the outer housing. The delaminating housing includes delaminating nips, a first film take-up roller, a second film take-up roller, an output opening, and a trap void. The output opening is located in the second portion of the delaminating housing.
US11673695B2
Provided herein are various improvements to launch vehicle payload systems, such as employed to launch and deploy secondary payloads into orbit. In one example, a system includes a fairing configured to encase a payload within an envelope of a primary fairing of a launch vehicle, and a mount system configured to adapt a mounting port for the payload to a mounting port associated with the launch vehicle. The system also includes a fairing door configured to be commanded open for deployment of the payload after the primary fairing has open.
