US11720729B2
Described is a method comprising a processing, an establishing, and/or a determining. In the processing, an inputted capabilities list including one or more hardware design capabilities may be processed. In the establishing, one or more candidate components for the one or more hardware design capabilities may be established. In the determining, a set of unique candidate netlists capable of satisfying the one or more hardware design capabilities may be determined, the set of unique candidate netlists being based upon the set of candidate components.
US11720726B1
A global computer aided engineering (CAE) model representing an electronic product that contains solder joints and an individual detailed solder joint model are received. The solder joint model can include a solder ball, one or more metal pads, a portion of printed circuit board, and a portion of semiconductor chip component. The global CAE model includes locations of the solder joints to be evaluated in a drop test simulation. The solder joint model is replicated at each location to create a local CAE model via a geometric relationship between the global CAE model and the local CAE model. Simulated physical behaviors of the product under a design condition are obtained in a co-simulation using the global CAE model in a first time scale and the local CAE model in a second time scale. Simulated physical behaviors are periodically synchronized based on kinematic and force constraints.
US11720720B2
A method of automatically generating AutoCAD drawings includes: generating a data sheet by using only input data which is necessary for generating drawings of a heat exchanger and obtained from strength calculation data provided by a strength calculation program; loading the data sheet by a loading unit; and generating AutoCAD drawings of the heat exchanger by activating an automatic AutoCAD drawing generation interface by a user's selection, the automatic AutoCAD drawing generation interface being activatable only after the data sheet may be loaded, wherein the input data includes both machine data and thermal data.
US11720711B2
A system and method for block management of interactions comprising a network-connected block management computer connected to a plurality of connected devices and to one or more blockchains to enable an object compiler to receive a plurality of criteria from a requesting device. The compiler the receives a plurality of blocks from the blockchains based on the criteria. Each block corresponding to a preconfigured interaction object previously written by devices either during or after the completion of a transaction. The compiler analyzes the preconfigured interaction objects to determine if there is corresponding supplemental object. The compiler requests the supplemental blocks from the blockchains, and processes supplemental objects based on type, if no corresponding supplemental object it found, the associated interaction object is flagged.
US11720703B1
Systems and methods electronically determine whether a dataset is permitted or excluded based on permission digital rules. Primary entities often are required, or choose to, exclude proposed relationship instances with secondary entities. The systems and methods described herein allow permission digital rules to be defined and applied to datasets obtained from secondary entities relating to a proposed relationship instance with the primary entity, and permit or exclude a resource from being produced for the dataset based on the permission digital rules.
US11720694B2
An image transmission system includes an information processing apparatus and an image reading apparatus. In the information processing apparatus, a first controller generates, upon receipt of authentication information, location information, and restriction information, an access code using the cited information, and transmits the cited information and the access code to the image reading apparatus. In the image reading apparatus, a second controller stores the cited information and the access code, upon receipt thereof, in a storage device. In the case where an image file satisfies a condition indicated by the restriction information, when the information indicating the access code is received, the second controller transmits the image file to the shared folder indicated by the location information, using the authentication information, but keeps from transmitting the image file when the image file does not satisfy the condition indicated by the restriction information.
US11720693B2
According to one example, a system includes a first computing device that determines data for transmittal to a second computing device, and determines transmittal mapping data. The first computing device also breaks the data into one or more portions, and, for each of the one or more portions of the data, the first computing device replaces the respective portion of the data with a transmittal token included in the transmittal mapping data. The first computing device also transmits the transmittal tokens for receipt by the second computing device.
US11720690B2
A processing device of a memory sub-system is configured to receive, from a host system, host data to be stored at a memory sub-system in an encrypted form; determine that the host data exceeds a threshold size associated with an encryption operation; separate the host data into a plurality of segments based on the threshold size associated with the encryption operation; determine that a particular segment of the plurality of segments does not satisfy a size requirement of data associated with the encryption operation; modify the particular segment to satisfy the size requirement of data associated with the encryption operation; encrypt each of the plurality of segments based on the encryption operation; and store the encrypted plurality of segments at the memory sub-system.
US11720671B2
Techniques for preventing ransomware from encrypting files on a target machine are disclosed. In some embodiments, a system/process/computer program product for preventing ransomware from encrypting files on a target machine includes monitoring file system activities on a computing device; detecting an unauthorized activity associated with a honeypot file or honeypot folder; and performing an action based on a policy in response to the unauthorized activity associated with the honeypot file or honeypot folder.
US11720669B1
Telemetry associated with an Exec( ) Event denoting that a program has been invoked via a process is received. A determination is made that the process is a shell. Subsequent to determining that the invoked program is a shell, additional information comprising information that the program has attempted to obtain terminal information is received. Based at least in part on the received additional information, a determination is made that the program is an interactive shell. An action is taken in response to the determination that the program is an interactive shell.
US11720664B2
Systems, devices, and methods for password protection of defined spaces in a memory device. The method includes receiving a data block from a host. The data block includes a user-defined current password, a user-defined new password, a password length of the current password, a password length of the new password, and a user-defined address range field including start and end addresses of a defined space in the memory device. The method further includes matching password lengths of the user-defined current password and a current password length of a current password for the defined space already stored in the memory device. The method also includes comparing the user-defined current password and the current password of the defined space. The method further includes replacing or resetting the current password of the defined space with the user-defined new password based on a result of the matching and a result of the comparing.
US11720659B2
A computer-implemented method of comparing one or more genetic traits of two users. Each user has a wearable device storing data indicative of the one or more genetic traits, the data having been obtained by an analysis of a biological sample provided by the user. The method comprises: transmitting the data indicative of the one or more genetic traits from a first of the wearable devices to a first computer device using a short-range wireless data connection; transmitting the data from the first computer device to a second computer device over a data network; transmitting the data from the second computer device to a second of the wearable devices over a short-range wireless data connection; and comparing the data from the first wearable device with the data stored on the second wearable device to determine whether there is a match between the users' one or more genetic traits.
US11720652B2
An operating system monitors a computing device to determine that one or more events, including background activity, have occurred. In response to detecting the background activity, data associated with the background activity is automatically obtained from the computing device. An application is initiated on the operating system of the computing device, and the data is transmitted to the application.
US11720651B2
Techniques are disclosed for text-conditioned image searching. A methodology implementing the techniques includes decomposing a source image into visual feature vectors associated with different levels of granularity. The method also includes decomposing a text query (defining a target image attribute) into feature vectors associated with different levels of granularity including a global text feature vector. The method further includes generating image-text embeddings based on the visual feature vectors and the text feature vectors to encode information from visual and textual features. The method further includes composing a visio-linguistic representation based on a hierarchical aggregation of the image-text embeddings to encode visual and textual information at multiple levels of granularity. The method further includes identifying a target image that includes the visio-linguistic representation and the global text feature vector, so that the target image relates to the target image attribute, and providing the target image as an image search result.
US11720638B2
A network platform for managing agricultural display content (e.g., seed listings) can be implemented to enable posting users to create complex listings that have static data, variable data, and geographic data associated with each listing. One or more map user interfaces have different viewing levels to specify network site visibility for each listing at different viewing levels (e.g., region level, subregion level).
US11720636B2
A user selects a data source, and a computer displays a data visualization in a data visualization user interface according to the data source. The data visualization includes visual data marks representing data from the data source. The user selects a subset of the visual data marks. In response, the computer displays a view data window having a summary of the selected data marks. The computer obtains a data model encoding the data source as a tree of logical tables. The computer identifies aggregate measures corresponding to the selected data marks, where each aggregate measure is aggregated from logical tables of the data model. The computer displays each aggregate measure in the view data window. The computer also displays, in the view data window, one or more level of detail calculations referenced in the selected subset of visual data marks.
US11720626B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for providing content. One of the methods includes receiving a target image at an image platform; determining one or more images related to the target image; determining queries associated with the related images; deriving candidate keywords from the determined queries; filtering the candidate keywords to select one or more keywords; and providing the image to one or more users in response to respective incoming queries based on the one or more keywords.
US11720622B2
Machine learning multiple features of an item depicted in images. Upon accessing multiple images that depict the item, a neural network is used to machine train on the plurality of images to generate embedding vectors for each of multiple features of the item. For each of multiple features of the item depicted in the images, in each iteration of the machine learning, the embedding vector is converted into a probability vector that represents probabilities that the feature has respective values. That probability vector is then compared with a value vector representing the actual value of that feature in the depicted item, and an error between the two vectors is determined. That error is used to adjust parameters of the neural network used to generate the embedding vector, allowing for the next iteration in the generation of the embedding vectors. These iterative changes continue thereby training the neural network.
US11720616B2
A digital magazine server generates a digital magazine for user based on a received request for the digital magazine identifying one or more topics. The digital magazine server applies one or more machined trained models to obtained content items to select content items for the topic. A hierarchy of the topics included in the received request may be determined by the digital magazine server and used by the trained models to select content items. When generating the digital magazine, the digital magazine server also includes one or more editorial content items that are manually selected. The digital magazine serer may reposition one or more content items selected by the trained models to include an editorial content items.
US11720614B2
For various applications (for example, a Virtual Assistant), mechanisms that are capable of collecting user queries and generating responses are being used. While such systems handle structured queries well, they struggle to or fail to interpret an unstructured Natural Language (NL) query. The disclosure herein generally relates to data processing, and, more particularly, to a method and a system for generating responses to unstructured Natural Language (NL) queries. The system collects at least one NL query as input at a time, and generates a sketch, where the sketch is a structured representation of the unstructured NL query. Further by processing the sketch, the system generates one or more database queries. The one or more database queries are then used to search in one or more associated databases and to retrieve matching results, which are then used to generate response to the at least one NL query.
US11720602B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a system for analyzing and correlating layered electronic data logs for monitored events on a network. The system is configured for identifying one or more entity resources associated with an entity, continuously monitoring the one or more entity resources, identifying at least a first event and a second event associated with at least one entity resource of the one or more entity resources, and performing a correlation analysis at the entity resource prior to transferring the data to a centralized data lake. In this way, the system streamlines the process for correlative analysis by performing resource heavy analysis at the edge of the network and later consolidating such data for further review.
US11720596B2
Proposed are concepts for identifying OLAP dimensions from a spreadsheet. Such a concept may determine contents and structure of an OLAP dimension from a spreadsheet using position, formatting, data and formulae. This may, for example, facilitating creation of an OLAP mode in a manner that would otherwise not be possible with the existing tools.
US11720590B2
Systems and methods for personalized visualization recommendation are described. Embodiments of the described systems and methods are configured to identify a first matrix representing user interactions with a plurality of data attributes corresponding to a plurality of datasets, a second matrix representing user interactions with a plurality of visualizations, and a third matrix representing a plurality of meta-features for each of the data attributes; compute low-dimensional embeddings representing user characteristics, the data attributes, visualization configurations, and the meta-features using joint factorization of the first matrix, the second matrix and the third matrix; generate a model for predicting visualization preference weights based on the low-dimensional embeddings; predict the visualization preference weights for a user corresponding to a plurality of candidate visualizations of dataset using the model; and generate a personalized visualization of the dataset for the user based on the predicted visualization preference weights.
US11720581B2
Systems and methods for query decomposition for scalability of continuous query processing are disclosed. In some examples, it is determined whether a query is fully stateful. If it is, the query may be divided into two functions, an aggregate function and a global function. The aggregate functions may be distributed across multiple distributed nodes and executed in parallel. The global function may then receive the results from the distributed nodes and join the results to achieve the fully stateful result.
US11720577B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus for receiving a request that includes an entity identifier of an entity referenced by a search query and one or more context terms that are included in the search query; determining that the one or more context terms describe a relationship connecting the entity referenced by the search query with a plurality of other entities; and in response to determining that the one or more context terms describe the relationship, generating user interface elements that provide facts related to the entity referenced. Generating the user interface may include identifying relationship knowledge elements that include facts relating to at least some of the other entities connected to the entity by the relationship, and identifying one or more additional knowledge for the entity referenced by the search query. The ranking the relationship knowledge elements may be highest ranked knowledge elements in the user interface elements.
US11720573B2
Systems and methods for intelligently pre-fetching data for input controls are disclosed. In particular, the disclosed systems and methods predict whether an input control is likely to be edited and only pre-fetches data for the input controls that have a high likelihood of being edited. This way, the presently disclosed systems and methods not only reduce latency in displaying recommended data results for input controls that are likely to be edited but also reduces the number of calls made to the backend server to retrieve the data as the data is not retrieved for all rendered input controls, but only the ones that are likely to be edited.
US11720560B2
Techniques for suggesting a filter field based on a user input are disclosed. A system trains a machine learning model by obtaining historical data including sets of user search input, including a first search term and a first value for a first filter field. Based on the historical data, the system trains the machine learning model to associate the first filter field with the first search term. The system receives a first query for execution. The system applies the machine learning model to the first query to identify the first filter field as a suggestion. The system: recommends the first field for filtering a first set of search results corresponding to the first query. Responsive to receiving user input selecting a first value for the first filter field, the system filters using the first value to generate a set of filtered search results, and presents the filtered search results.
US11720556B1
In a controlled-environment facility resident-to-resident communication management system a controlled-environment facility electronic digital mail center, and/or the like, receives and creates a digital version of an original mail item received at a controlled-environment facility, and a controlled-environment facility mail database, and/or the like, that stores digital versions of original mail items received at the controlled-environment facility. A centralized controlled-environment facility investigative data aggregation and analysis platform, and/or the like, identifies a sender and/or sending address of the original mail item from the digital version of the original mail item, queries a database using identification of the sender and/or the sending address, determines whether the sender is a resident of another controlled-environment facility, and in response to a determination that the sender is a resident of another controlled-environment facility, flags the digital version of the original mail item as a controlled-environment facility resident-to-resident communication.
US11720555B1
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. An update to a survey data file is detected. The updated survey data is stored in a SQL database configured to utilize a composite index of the updated survey data that optimizes database query time. A set of affected entity segment identifiers is determined. A set of affected category identifiers is determined. A set of affected cognitive intelligence (CI) datapoint identifiers is determined as CI datapoint identifiers associated with each combination of an affected entity segment identifier and an affected category identifier. Metrics for each allowable response question identifier are calculated and stored in a NoSQL database configured to act as cache for generating visualizations.
US11720546B2
Systems and methods for providing content items can generate the content items based on impact scores associated with actions of the content items. The system and methods can include accessing, for an entity, a plurality of record objects linked with one or more electronic activities having the entity as a participant, each record object corresponding to an event to be completed; identifying, for each record object of the plurality of record objects, an action to perform to increase a completion score; determining, for each action, using the electronic activities linked with the record object and a current completion score of the record object, an impact score indicating an amount of change in the completion score of the record object corresponding to the action; and providing, for presentation to a device of the entity, a content item corresponding to the action based on the impact score.
US11720541B2
A system for confirming file integrity of automatically generated documents is disclosed. The system comprises one or more processors that execute instructions to receive a document template specifying one or more sections, each section comprising a set of labels for attributes and receive two or more automatically generated documents, each comprising the set of labels for attributes and values of each of those attributes. The system extracts the set of labels for attributes and values of each of those attributes from each of the two or more automatically generated documents. Finally, the system generates a tabular report comparing the values of each of the attributes and generates an alert for a human user if the value for any attribute in a first document is different from the value for that attribute in a second document.
US11720538B2
Information corresponding to one or more traversable map elements (TMEs) within a zone of interest is accessed from the geographic database. A respective category of a plurality of categories is determined for each of the one or more TMEs based at least in part on the information corresponding to the TME. A first category encoding data structure is generated based at least in part on map version agnostic identifiers corresponding to TMEs determined to be in a first category of the plurality of categories, wherein the first category encoding data structure is a probabilistic data structure configured to not provide false negatives for TMEs within the zone of interest. The first category encoding data structure is provided such that a mobile apparatus receives the first category encoding data structure.
US11720533B2
Techniques for automatically determining different data types found in databases are disclosed. In one example, a computer implemented method comprises receiving a portion of identifying information for one or more components of a database, and generating one or more descriptions for the one or more components based at least in part on the portion of the identifying information for the one or more components. The one or more descriptions are inputted to one or more machine learning models, and, using the one or more machine learning models, one or more data types associated with the one or more components are predicted. The prediction is based at least in part on the one or more descriptions.
US11720527B2
This invention relates generally to data assembly and analytics, as can be used in the personal finance and banking field, and more particularly to the field of lending and credit notification methods and systems. Preferred embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for creating objects which can be used in multiple implementations to generate scores.
US11720521B2
An accelerator system can include one or more clusters of eight processing units. The processing units can include seven communication ports. Each cluster of eight processing units can be organized into two subsets of four processing units. Each processing unit can be coupled to each of the other processing units in the same subset by a respective set of two bi-directional communication links. Each processing unit can also be coupled to a corresponding processing unit in the other subset by a respective single bi-directional communication link. Input data can be divided into one or more groups of four subsets of data. Each processing unit can be configured to sum corresponding subsets of the input data received on the two bi-directional communication links from the other processing units in the same subset with the input data of the respective processing unit to generate a respective set of intermediate data. Each processing unit can be configured to sum a corresponding set of intermediate data received on the one bi-directional communication link from the corresponding processing unit in the other subset with the intermediate data of the respective processing unit to generate respective sum data. Each processing unit can be configured to broadcast the sum data of the respective processing unit to the other processing units in the same subset on the respective sets of two bi-directional communication links.
US11720517B2
An information handling system bus port above a subject information handling system bus device may host an information handling system bus out of band message access control list of information handling system bus target device identifiers of other information handling system bus connected devices that the subject device is permitted to communicate with. The port may compare an information handling system bus target device identification field in out of band messages from the subject device to the list and route only out of band messages from the subject device in which the target device identification in the target device identification field is on the access control list through the information handling system bus. The port may discard (and generate error notifications, statuses, etc.) for out of band messages in which the target device identification in the target device identification field is not on the access control list.
US11720516B2
An electronic device includes a bus driver and circuitry. The bus driver is coupled to a parallel bus including N data lines. The circuitry is configured to receive a data unit for transmission over the N data lines, to determine a first count indicative of a number of data bits in the data unit having a predefined value, and a second count indicative of a number of inverted data bits relative to corresponding bits in a previously transmitted data unit, to make a decision of whether to invert the data unit based on the first and second counts, depending on whether such inversion is expected to reduce power consumption of transmitting the data unit over the bus, to produce an output data unit by retaining or inverting the data unit based on the decision, and to transmit the output data unit over the data lines via the bus driver.
US11720515B2
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium may be executable by a processor to receive a designation of a message bus producer, a set of business logic to be stored in a set of containers, a designation of a message bus consumer, and a designation of a set of message-handling functions. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium may generate a serverless application stack, based upon the message bus producer, the set of business logic, the message bus consumer, and the set of message-handling functions. The non-transitory computer-readable storage medium may cause the serverless application stack to receive a message stream from the message bus producer as streaming data, process the message stream according to at least one function, stored in the set of containers, perform at least one message-handling function of the set of message-handling functions on the message stream, and transport the set of messages to the message bus consumer.
US11720511B2
An apparatus comprises interface circuitry to receive requests and selection circuitry responsive to the interface circuitry receiving a given request to select, from a pool of items, at least one selected item to be associated with the given request. The selection circuitry comprises a plurality of nodes arranged in a tree structure, each node being configured to select m output signals from n input signals provided to that node, wherein n>m. The apparatus comprises control circuitry configured to output, in dependence on a type of the given request, a suppression signal, and the tree structure comprises a gate node configured to suppress, in response to the suppression signal having a first value, selection from input signals received from a given portion of the tree structure to prevent a subset of the pool of items from being selected for at least one type of request.
US11720507B2
A message-level policy implemented with for a message routing system may be used to mediate between a variety of message sources and message targets that receive and use messages. The message-level policy may allow fine grained message-by-message policy assessment that a message routing system policy may be able to provide. The message-level policy may furthermore interact with the message routing system policy to provide mechanisms to avoid accidental leakage of protected messages or spill-over to protected regions.
US11720499B2
A graphics pipeline includes a texture cache having cache lines that are partitioned into a plurality of subsets. The graphics pipeline also includes one or more compute units that selectively generates a miss request for a first subset of the plurality of subsets of a cache line in the texture cache in response to a cache miss for a memory access request to an address associated with the first subset of the cache line. In some embodiments, the cache lines are partitioned into a first sector and a second sector. The compute units generate miss requests for the first sector, and bypass generating miss requests for the second sector, in response to cache misses for memory access requests received during a request cycle being in the first sector.
US11720498B2
An arithmetic processing device including: request issuing units configured to issue an access request to a storage; and banks each of which includes: a first cache area including first entries; a second cache area including second entries; a control unit; and a determination unit that determines a cache hit or a cache miss for each of the banks, wherein the control unit performs: in response that the access requests simultaneously received from the request issuing units make the cache miss, storing the data, which is read from the storage device respectively by the access requests, in one of the first entries and one of the second entries; and in response that the access requests simultaneously received from the request issuing units make the cache hit in the first and second cache areas, outputting the data retained in the first and second entries, to each of issuers of the access requests.
US11720496B2
A method for cache coherency in a reconfigurable cache architecture is provided. The method includes receiving a memory access command, wherein the memory access command includes at least an address of a memory to access; determining at least one access parameter based on the memory access command; and determining a target cache bin for serving the memory access command based in part on the at least one access parameter and the address.
US11720492B1
A ternary content addressable memory is provided comprising; a memory device that includes a plurality of memory address locations; hash logic operative to determine a hash value, based upon a ternary key, wherein the determined hash value corresponds to a memory address location of the memory device; an encoder operable to convert the ternary key to a binary bit representation; wherein converting includes determining binary mapping bits based upon number and positions of ternary non-X (don't care) value bits of the ternary key; wherein converting further includes determining a different binary data bit to correspond to each different ternary non-X value bit of the ternary key; and memory controller logic to cause the memory device to store the binary bit representation at the memory address location that corresponds to the determined hash value.
US11720489B2
A variety of applications can include apparatus and/or methods of operating the apparatus in which storage in the memory device is managed. An allocation can include conducting a garbage collection procedure to free up one or more blocks. In various embodiments, execution of a garbage collection procedure can be based on operation of two tables with respect to a logical to physical mapping table split into logical to physical mapping table regions saved in the memory device. The first table can maintain counts of valid pages in blocks for a logical to physical mapping table region. The second table can include bits to identify logical to physical mapping table regions involved in the garbage collection procedure based on the entries in the first table. Search of the second table can determine logical to physical mapping table regions involved in the garbage collection. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed.
US11720485B2
A memory device having a DRAM core and a register stores first data in the register before receiving first and second memory access commands via a command interface and before receiving second data via a data interface. The memory device responds to the first memory access command by writing the first data from the register to the DRAM core and responds to the second memory access command by writing the second data from the data interface to the DRAM core.
US11720482B1
Test cases written to test a software application can be dynamically distributed among different sets of test cases that can be executed simultaneously in different parallel threads, thereby speeding up testing relative to executing the test cases sequentially in a single thread. Although executing the test cases in parallel threads can cause the test cases to execute in a different order than intended by developers, any test cases that fail due to database conflicts or other errors as a result of the parallelization can be retried at least once. Re-executing failed test cases at a later time can lead to the full set of test cases ultimately succeeding, despite errors that may have been caused by the parallelization.
US11720478B2
A system and method for automated validation testing of software applications during software development and after development stages of the product life lifecycle. The disclosed system uses pre-trained machine learning models and image recognition algorithms to generate test cases and test data from text and images in product specification documents of the software applications.
US11720473B2
Various methods, systems, apparatuses, and media for implementing a log file processing module are disclosed. A database stores a plurality of log files each having one or more lines with keywords for searching common keywords of errors and warnings appearing in testing an application. A receiver receives a log file from the database via a communication network. A processor operatively connected to the receiver and the database via the communication network dynamically and automatically summarizes contents of the log file by generating a reduced data file in a human readable format by automatically executing a summarization algorithm.
US11720471B2
A computer system determines stack usage. An intercept function is executed to store a stack marker in a stack, wherein the intercept function is invoked when a program enters or exits each function of a plurality of functions of the program. A plurality of stack markers are identified in the stack and a memory address is determined for each stack marker during execution of the program to obtain a plurality of memory addresses. The plurality of memory addresses are analyzed to identify a particular memory address associated with a greatest stack depth. A stack usage of the program is determined based on the greatest stack depth. Embodiments of the present invention further include a method and program product for determining stack usage in substantially the same manner described above.
US11720470B2
A performance-monitoring system is configured to determine whether a diminished performance of a computing system warrants prompt remedial action by generating a score indicative of various aspects of the computing system. In some examples, the performance-monitoring system identifies a change to a computing system comprising at least one server running two or more applications; runs one or more diagnostic tests on each of the two or more applications to collect additional performance data; determines, based on the additional performance data, a relative performance score for each of the two or more applications, wherein the relative performance score for a respective application indicates at least an effect of the change on an ability of a user to use the respective application to perform one or more user operations; determines that the performance score is less than a threshold score; and automatically reduces a rate of transaction requests sent to the server.
US11720469B1
A computer-implemented method, a computer system and a computer program product customize generation and application of stress test conditions in a processor core. The method includes receiving a workload at the processor core, where the workload includes a plurality of instructions and the processor core comprises a plurality of macros. The method also includes obtaining macro performance data for each macro in the plurality of macros from the processor core. The method further includes determining a switching activity level for each macro in the plurality of macros when each instruction in the plurality of instructions is run based on the macro performance data. Lastly, the method includes generating a stressmark comprising the plurality of instructions in the workload, where the stressmark is associated with a macro in the plurality of macros when the switching activity level for the macro is above a minimum threshold.
US11720464B1
Methods and systems for managing data collection are disclosed. To manage data collection, a system may include a data aggregator and a data collector. The data aggregator and/or data collector may utilize inference models to predict the future operation of the data collector. To minimize data transmission, the data collector may transmit a representation of data to the data aggregator only if the representation of data falls outside a threshold. The threshold may be adapted by the data aggregator in response to the needs of downstream consumers of the data.
US11720459B2
Devices, systems, and methods for event input device testing are described herein. In some examples, one or more embodiments include a controller comprising a memory and a processor to execute instructions stored in the memory to cause a first event input device of a group of event input devices to perform an automated test process, and determine whether a second event input device of the group of event input devices has detected a hazard event while the first event input device is performing the automated test process.
US11720457B2
Techniques for implementing RDMA-based recovery of dirty data in remote memory are provided. In one set of embodiments, upon occurrence of a failure at a first (i.e., source) host system, a second (i.e., failover) host system can allocate a new memory region corresponding to a memory region of the source host system and retrieve a baseline copy of the memory region from a storage backend shared by the source and failover host systems. The failover host system can further populate the new memory region with the baseline copy and retrieve one or more dirty page lists for the memory region from the source host system via RDMA, where the one or more dirty page lists identify memory pages in the memory region that include data updates not present in the baseline copy. For each memory page identified in the one or more dirty page lists, the failover host system can then copy the content of that memory page from the memory region of the source host system to the new memory region via RDMA.
US11720454B2
A method for managing data includes obtaining, by a management module, a resource device replacement request specifying a first resource device, in response to the resource device replacement request: updating a resource allocation master list to specify a failed status of the first resource device, selecting a second resource device using the resource allocation master list based on a standby status of the second resource device, updating a resource device entry associated with the second resource device to specify an in use status of the second resource device, and initiating a resource device replacement for the second resource device.
US11720450B2
A system includes a data management server and a data store. The data store uses an external file system to store data block of a client virtual machine. The client virtual machine uses an internal file system. The data management server comprises a proxy agent and a staging virtual machine. In response to receiving a request to retrieve a file indexed by the client virtual machine, the proxy agent imports data of the internal file system to a staging virtual machine. The proxy agent determines an internal file address that corresponds to the requested file. The staging virtual machine translates the internal file address to an external file address of the external file system. The staging virtual machine retrieves the file stored in the data store based on the external file address. The staging virtual machine provides the retrieved file to the target device.
US11720445B2
Read parameter estimation techniques are provided that obtain information from multiple read operations to customize read parameters for data recovery. One method comprises performing the following steps, in response to a decoding failure of a codeword of the memory: obtaining at least three read values of the codeword; calculating a signal counts metric value from the at least three reads; computing an optimal reference voltage offset from the signal counts metric and a correlation between optimal reference voltage offsets and a signal counts metric associated with the memory; determining a new center read reference voltage based on a current center reference voltage and the optimal reference voltage offset and performing at least one subsequent read of the codeword following the decoding failure utilizing the new center read reference voltage.
US11720444B1
A system captures errors and stores an obsolete line bit qualifier per cache entry that can be used to dynamically mark a specific cache entry as obsolete. For example, the cache entry can be marked as obsolete after detecting repetitive single-bit errors on a same cache entry within a predetermined period of time. For cache lines marked as obsolete, a cache controller can ensure that the cache line entry remains unused. The detection of a repetitive single-bit error can be accomplished by implementing a counter per cache entry and a timer. The counter counts errors within a timer window, and a repetitive error is reported if the counter reaches a threshold level. By catching repetitive single-bit errors before such errors spread to multi-bit errors, the system can increase the life span of the server computer.
US11720434B2
An apparatus comprises at least one processing device that is configured to implement a data collection agent and obtain a telemetry data collection specification. The at least one processing device is configured to train the data collection agent based at least in part on the telemetry data collection specification and to obtain an issue description corresponding to a technical support issue associated with a source device of an information processing system. The at least one processing device is configured to generate a telemetry data collection query based at least in part on the obtained issue description using the trained data collection agent and to submit the query to the source device. The at least one processing device is configured to obtain from the source device, telemetry data generated based at least in part on the query and to present the telemetry data to a user via a graphical user interface.
US11720432B2
Systems and methods for detecting and managing incidents are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for detecting an incident includes receiving issue data created for an issue tracking system; analyzing the received issue data over a predetermined interval; determining whether a potential incident has occurred based on the analysis; upon determining that a potential incident has occurred, creating an incident management assistant program; identifying one or more relevant users to communicate an alert to; and communicating the alert to the identified relevant users, the alert including a pointer to the incident management program.
US11720425B1
Connectivity between a radio-based application pipeline processing server and a control plane of a provider network is verified. Based on requests received at the control plane, a first isolated request handler, a second isolated request handler and an offloading manager are launched at the server. The offloading manager causes a first network function for which a request is received from the first request handler to be executed at a first network function accelerator of the server, and a second network function for which a request is received from the second request handler to be executed at a second network function accelerator of the server.
US11720424B2
Methods, systems, and devices supporting data processing are described. In some systems, a user device may leverage a single flow execution (SFE) service for an application including a flow. A connector may retrieve one or more messages using a polling source, and a processing component may process a single message of the retrieved messages (e.g., to avoid processing complexity and error propagation associated with batch or periodic polling). The processing component may disable the connector upon retrieving at least one message and may execute the flow for the deployed application on the single message of the retrieved message, for example, based on an indication to run the SFE. Upon completion of executing the flow on the message, the processing component may store, at a collector, information related to the flow execution and may undeploy the application from a runtime engine instance based on completing the SFE for the application.
US11720420B2
An Application Programming Interface (API) call that is directed from a first application to a second application is intercepted. A first version number is identified for the first application and a second version number is identified for the second application. One or more transformations are processed on the API call to produce a compatible API call that is compatible with the second application. The compatible API call is provided to the second application for processing on behalf of the first application.
US11720415B2
Executing and managing flow plans by performing at least the following: receiving an indication to initiate a task flow including a plurality of discrete but related operations at a customer instance environment of a cloud-based computing platform; obtaining a definition of the task flow identifying run-time requirements for each of the plurality of operations; determining a first execution environment for the first of the plurality of operations; initiating execution of the first operation in the first execution environment; and determining the proper execution environment for subsequent operations of the task flow until all operations of the task flow are complete. Factors, such as look-ahead optimization, environmental operational capabilities, access and security requirements, current load, future load, etc. may be considered when determining the proper execution environment for a given operation. Operations may be executed in environments hosted in the public cloud or in environments present in a dedicated private network.
US11720414B2
This disclosure describes techniques that enable a parallel execution controller to execute partitioned segments of a data model in parallel and on different network resources. The resultant processed data from each partitioned segment may be combined to form an aggregated set of results data. The parallel execution controller may identify model attributes of a data model and determine whether the data model is partitionable, based on the model attributes. If the data model is partitionable, the parallel execution controller may partition the data model, initiate a parallel execution of the individual partitioned segments on available network resources, and combine the corresponding results data into an aggregated set of results data.
US11720405B2
A processor-implemented accelerator method includes: reading, from a memory, an instruction to be executed in an accelerator; reading, from the memory, input data based on the instruction; and performing, on the input data and a parameter value included in the instruction, an inference task corresponding to the instruction.
US11720400B2
A multi-layer serverless sizing stack may determine a compute sizing correction for a serverless function. The serverless sizing stack may analyze historical data to determine a base compute allocation and compute buffer range. The serverless sizing stack may traverse the compute buffer range in an iterative analysis to determine a compute size for the serverless function to support efficient computational-operation when the serverless function is instantiated.
US11720397B2
A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium has stored therein a program that causes a first apparatus to execute a process, the process including: when a load of a first resource existing in a first group is equal to or more than a first threshold value, searching the first group for a first destination resource that is a migration destination of a first task performed using the first resource, the first apparatus being included in the first group; when the first destination resource is not found in the first group, selecting a second group based on first information; transmitting a first request to search for the first destination resource to a second apparatus included in the second group; and when a second resource that is the first destination resource is found in the second group, updating the first information based on second information that is transmitted from the second apparatus.
US11720392B2
Dynamic relocation of virtual machines among hypervisors in a relocation domain is provided. A hypervisor is initialized in a subdomain of the relocation domain. A record of architecture characteristics is retrieved for each hypervisor in the relocation domain. A new canonical architectural description (ARD) is created for each subdomain in the relocation domain. An effective adapter characteristic representation is created for each virtual machine defined to the hypervisor. The record of architecture characteristics for each hypervisor in the relocation domain is updated.
US11720374B1
Dynamically overriding a function based on a capability set. A computer system reads a portion of an executable image file. The portion includes a first memory address corresponding to a first callee function implementation. The first memory address was inserted into the portion by a compiler toolchain. Based on extensible metadata included in the executable image file, and based on a capability set that is specific to the computer system, the computer system determines a second memory address corresponding to a second callee function implementation. Before execution of the portion, the computer system modifies the portion to replace the first memory address with the second memory address.
US11720371B2
A control apparatus includes a processor, a storage controller, and a boot loader memory. The processor executes a control process using data stored in a main memory. The storage controller includes a storage device, stores stored data in an encrypted state if an encryption function is enabled, and stores the stored data in the storage device in a non-encrypted state if the encryption function is disabled. The stored data includes a memory image related to a state of the main memory after completion of an activation process of an operating system. The boot loader memory is configured to store instructions that cause the processor to (a) activate the operating system using the memory image in response to a determination that the encryption function is disabled and (b) activate the operating system without using the memory image in response to a determination that the encryption function is enabled.
US11720370B2
A method of executing an application program in an electronic apparatus is provided. The method includes storing device support information corresponding to at least one application program, receiving device information from an external device, searching for one or more application programs supporting the external device based on the device information and the device support information, and executing an application program among the found one or more application programs.
US11720366B2
An arithmetic processing apparatus includes two instruction decoders. A first decoder processes instructions in a single cycle, while a second decoder processes instructions in a plurality of cycles. The apparatus further includes a determination circuit that causes the first decoder to process an instruction to be processed when the instruction to be processed is a specific instruction and there is no previous instruction being processed, and causes the second decoder to process the instruction to be processed when the instruction to be processed is not the specific instruction or there is a previous instruction being processed.
US11720360B2
Techniques are disclosed relating to data synchronization barrier operations. A system includes a first processor that may receive a data barrier operation request from a second processor include in the system. Based on receiving that data barrier operation request from the second processor, the first processor may ensure that outstanding load/store operations executed by the first processor that are directed to addresses outside of an exclusion region have been completed. The first processor may respond to the second processor that the data barrier operation request is complete at the first processor, even in the case that one or more load/store operations that are directed to addresses within the exclusion region are outstanding and not complete when the first processor responds that the data barrier operation request is complete.
US11720358B2
Embedded systems and methods of starting an embedded system are disclosed. A method of starting an embedded system includes executing first instructions, distinct from instructions of an operating system of the embedded system. The method further includes causing the storage of at least one application into a non-volatile memory in response to executing the first instructions.
US11720355B2
One embodiment provides a graphics processor comprising a memory controller and a graphics processing resource coupled with the memory controller. The graphics processing resource includes circuitry configured to execute an instruction to perform a matrix operation on first input including weight data and second input including input activation data, generate intermediate data based on a result of the matrix operation, quantize the intermediate data to a floating-point format determined based on a statistical distribution of first output data, and output, as second output data, quantized intermediate data in a determined floating-point format.
US11720353B2
The present disclosure provides a processing device and method. The device includes: an input/output module, a controller module, a computing module, and a storage module. The input/output module is configured to store and transmit input and output data; the controller module is configured to decode a computation instruction into a control signal to control other modules to perform operation; the computing module is configured to perform four arithmetic operation, logical operation, shift operation, and complement operation on data; and the storage module is configured to temporarily store instructions and data. The present disclosure can execute a composite scalar instruction accurately and efficiently.
US11720352B2
Disclosed are apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media for providing flexible command pointers to microcodes in a memory device. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed comprising receiving a command to access a memory device; accessing a configuration parameter; identifying a program counter value based on the configuration parameter and the command; and loading and executing a microcode based on the program counter.
US11720344B2
A code hot-update method and terminal are provided. The method includes: code to be hot-updated is translated into first-type intermediate code, wherein the first-type intermediate code is compiled by using a compiler of a target-type operating system; the first-type intermediate code is translated into bytecode to be run, wherein the bytecode to be run is interpreted by an interpreter of the target-type operating system; and the bytecode to be run is interpreted by using the interpreter to hot-update the code to be hot-updated.
US11720342B2
Systems and methods include execution of a first application associated with a first access schema and a first data model in a data schema of a database system. While the first application is receiving incoming user requests, the first data model in the data schema is extended based on a second data model of a second application, a second access schema of the second application is prepared in the database system, data of the first data model in the data schema is migrated to the second data model, data of the first data model in the data schema is replicated to the second data model while the first application is receiving incoming user requests, the second application is executed, the incoming user requests are re-directed to be received by the executing second application, and the replication of data of the first data model in the data schema to the second data model is stopped. While the second application is receiving incoming user requests, data of the second data model in the data schema is replicated to the first data model.
US11720338B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to cloud service automation of common image management. An image update orchestrator may receive a request to upgrade a virtual machine image. The image update orchestrator may spin up an instance of a virtual machine and provision the instance of the virtual machine with a virtual machine image and cause to install a plurality of software updates to the instance of the virtual machine. The image update orchestrator may take a snapshot of the instance of the virtual machine and generate a sealed master image. Finally, the image update orchestrator may cause to deploy, to one or more policy managed devices, the sealed master image.
US11720337B2
Embodiments of the present invention are directed at methods and systems for providing a partial personalization process. For example, personalization profiles associated with multiple versions of the application may be stored at a provisioning system and the provisioning system may determine the appropriate partial provisioning information to update the application for each migration notification. Partial personalization information that is to be updated for the updated version of the application may be generated and installed to enable new functionality and/or update the information contained within an updated application without requiring re-personalization of all personalized information.
US11720328B2
A parallel processing unit employs an arithmetic logic unit (ALU) having a relatively small footprint, thereby reducing the overall power consumption and circuit area of the processing unit. To support the smaller footprint, the ALU includes multiple stages to execute operations corresponding to a received instruction. The ALU executes at least one operation at a precision indicated by the received instruction, and then reduces the resulting data of the at least one operation to a smaller size before providing the results to another stage of the ALU to continue execution of the instruction.
US11720323B2
An audio device being a mobile terminal includes: first and second playback units; and a display controller that causes a display to display a screen including an operation element for accepting a user operation. The display controller includes: a first display controller to display a first screen including an operation element for the first music data; a second display controller to display a second screen including an operation element for the second music data; a third display controller to display a third screen including a third operation element including one of an operation element for both the first and second music data or an operation element for adjusting an audio output ratio, the third screen not including an operation element related to the playback setting; and a display transition controller to display the first-third screens so as to make transition between the first-third screens based on the user operation.
US11720320B2
A first playback device, while operating in a first media playback system, receives from a computing device over a WAN an indication that a second playback device operating in a second media playback system has initiated sharing of a playback session. The first playback device transmits a request to join the playback session, and then receives, from the computing device over the WAN, playback session information including indications of (i) one or more media items in a queue designated for playback by the second playback device and (ii) a playback position of the second playback device within the one or more media items. The first playback device retrieves, from a media service, the one or more media items in the queue designated for playback by the second playback device. The first playback device then plays back the one or more media items beginning at the playback position.
US11720315B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media related to multi-stream video encoding for screen sharing a communications session. The system may determine a sub-area and a remaining area of a display region. A first video stream of the sub-area is generated at a first frame rate. A second video stream of the remaining area is generated at second frame rate, where the second frame rate is a frame rate lower than the first frame rate. A client device may transmit the first video stream and the second video stream to a second client device.
US11720314B1
An electronic device includes a display presenting content. A communication device is electronically in communication with a content presentation companion device operating as a primary display for the electronic device. The communication device receives signals indicating a geometric orientation of the content presentation companion device in three-dimensional space. One or more processors alter the content being presented on the display to obtain altered content configured in accordance with one or more content input parameters required for content presentation on the content presentation companion and defined by the geometric orientation of the content presentation companion device in the three-dimensional space.
US11720310B2
In a case where the setting information does not include a frequency band information corresponding to the first frequency band and does not include a frequency band information corresponding to the second frequency band or in a case where the setting information includes the frequency band information corresponding to the first frequency band and the frequency band information corresponding to the second frequency band, the communication apparatus wirelessly connects with the external apparatus using the first frequency band with priority than the second frequency.
US11720305B2
A printer includes a processor receiving a print job from a first driver and a second driver supporting a smaller number of initially set sizes of printing media selectable by a user than a number of initially set sizes of printing media supported by the first driver, determines which driver the print job is received from, performs suspension control suspending print job execution in a case where there occurs a disagreement state in which a size of a printing medium designated by the print job and a size of a printing medium supplied from a supply section during execution of the print job are different from each other during execution of a print job received from the first driver, and performs continuation control continuing execution of the print job in a case where there occurs the disagreement state during execution of a print job received from the second driver.
US11720302B2
Methods and apparatus to protect sensitive information on media processing devices are disclosed. An example media processing device includes a processing engine configured to process a media processing instruction received at the media processing device, wherein the media processing instruction includes a command and data to cause a component of the media processing device to perform a function; and a data protector configured to determine whether the command is a data protection command; and when the command is the data protection command, modify the function to provide protection to the data.
US11720301B2
An image forming apparatus includes a consumable cartridge and a main body. The consumable cartridge includes a cartridge memory storing usage information and identifying information. The main body includes a main memory and a controller. The controller stores the identifying information stored in the cartridge memory in the main memory and rewrites the usage information stored in the cartridge memory into information indicating that the consumable cartridge is used in a case where the usage information indicates that the consumable cartridge is unused. The controller allows the image forming apparatus to execute printing in a case where the usage information indicates that the consumable cartridge is used and the identifying information stored in the cartridge memory is stored in the main memory or executes a specific error process in a case where the usage information indicates that the consumable cartridge is used and the identifying information stored in the cartridge memory is not stored in the main memory.
US11720299B2
Sheet feeding has been started after storing image data for one page of a document. A control method for a printing apparatus includes feeding a sheet from a sheet holding unit by a feeding unit, reading an image of a document by a reading unit, storing image data of the document read by the reading unit in a storing unit, and reading out, before image data for one page of the document is stored in the storing unit, the image data of the document from the storing unit and printing, by a printing unit, the image based on the read image data to the sheet fed from the sheet holding unit by the feeding unit, in which the feeding unit is able to start to feed the sheet from the sheet holding unit before the image data for the one page of the document is stored in the storing unit.
US11720293B2
When first print data and second print data are selected as a target of collective printing and when a first print setting applied to printing of the first print data and a second print setting applied to printing of the second print data are inconsistent with each other, a printing apparatus provides a user with a first procedure for making the first print setting and the second print setting consistent with each other, and when the first print setting and the second print setting are consistent with each other, the printing apparatus performs collective printing of the first print data and the second print data.
US11720291B2
A method includes retrieving, by a workspace client on a computing device, a first set of resource associations from a workspace server. The first set of resource associations identify one or more data file-types executable by each application on a virtualization server. The method also includes generating, by the workspace client, from the first set of resource associations, a second set of resource associations. The second set of resource associations identify a subset of applications on the virtualization server operable to perform operations on each of the one or more data file-types. The method further includes obtaining, by a storage provider client on the computing device, the second set of resource associations. The storage provider client is configured to enable one or more applications on the virtualization server to execute at least one data file accessible from a storage provider.
US11720289B2
An example memory sub-system includes a memory device and a processing device, operatively coupled to the memory device. The processing device is configured to receive a read command specifying an identifier of a logical block and a page number; translate the identifier of the logical block into a physical address of a physical block stored on the memory device, wherein the physical address comprises an identifier of a memory device die; identify, based on block family metadata associated with the memory device, a block family associated with the physical block and the page number; determine a threshold voltage offset associated with the block family and the memory device die; compute a modified threshold voltage by applying the threshold voltage offset to a base read level voltage associated with the memory device die; and read, using the modified threshold voltage, data from a physical page identified by the page number within the physical block.
US11720288B2
Memory system with controller to write data to memory based on lifetime information in write command
According to one embodiment, a memory system detects a first block in which an elapsed time from a time point at which the block has been filled with write data exceeds a first period. The memory system notifies a host of a list of identifiers capable of identifying valid data portions stored in the first block or a list of identifiers capable of identifying all data portions stored in the first block. When receiving, from the host, a first copy request specifying one or more valid data portions stored in the first block as copy target data and specifying the second block group as a copy destination block group, the memory system copies the one or more valid data portions specified as the copy target data from the first block to the second block group.
US11720286B2
An indication of a programming temperature at which data is written at a first location of the memory component is received. If it is indicated that the programming temperature is outside of a temperature range associated with the memory component, the data written to the first location of the memory component is re-written to a second location of the memory component when an operating temperature of the memory component returns within the temperature range.
US11720285B2
A computer system is provided, including a first data storage with a first retrieval latency, a second data storage with a second retrieval latency that is higher than the first retrieval latency, and a processor coupled to a memory that stores instructions, which cause the processor to store a series of recovery points of a data collection in the first data storage. For a current recovery point of the series of recovery points, the processor is further configured to compute a difference between an incremental changed block value of one or more prior recovery points and a number of memory blocks inherited from the one or more prior recovery points. The processor generates and outputs a storage transfer recommendation to store a subset of the one or more of the prior recovery points in the second data storage rather than the first data storage, based on the computed difference.
US11720283B2
A method and system for maintaining coherency between DMA and NVMe data paths are disclosed. As DMA requests are received in the PMR region, a device controller will translate these into NVMe commands with a dedicated queue that is hidden from a host that has higher priority than the corresponding host (NVMe) commands. The payload returned from an internally executed NVMe command is stored in a buffer used to complete the DMA request. As memory reads are submitted, the controller will mark corresponding LBA ranges for overlap, ensuring coherency between these reads and writes from other queues. Since the internal PMR queue has a higher priority than host-facing queues (e.g., NVMe), and the PMR is read-only, read coherency against host writes to the same region may be achieved.
US11720281B2
Methods, systems, and devices for status information retrieval for a memory device are described. In some examples, a memory device may include a set of status registers, each of which may be configured to store a corresponding set of status information. For example, at least some of the status registers may store status information for a corresponding portion of the memory device. The memory device may receive a command to output status information along with an indication of one or more particular status registers from which to output status information in response to the command. In response to the command and indication, the memory device may output status information from any quantity of status registers, including any type of status information, in a single stream or burst.
US11720280B2
A storage system and method for improving utilization of a communication channel between a host and the storage system are provided. In one embodiment, a method is provided that is performed in a storage system in communication with a host via a communication channel. The method comprises determining utilization of the communication channel; and selecting a command for execution from a queue based at least in part on the determined utilization of the communication channel. The command can be selected also based on at least one other factor and based on a weighted priority-based function. Other embodiments are provided.
US11720279B2
An apparatus and method for managing packet transfer between a memory fabric having a physical layer interface higher data rate than a data rate of a physical layer interface of another device, receives incoming packets from the memory fabric physical layer interface wherein at least some of the packets include different instruction types. The apparatus and method determine a packet type of the incoming packet received from the memory fabric physical layer interface and when the determined incoming packet type is of a type containing an atomic request, the method and apparatus prioritizes transfer of the incoming packet with the atomic request over other packet types of incoming packets, to memory access logic that accesses local memory within an apparatus.
US11720266B2
Automatic memory overclocking, including: increasing a memory frequency setting for a memory module until a memory stability test fails; determining an overclocked memory frequency setting including a highest memory frequency setting passing the memory stability test; and generating a profile including the overclocked memory frequency setting.
US11720265B2
In some implementations, a computing device may configure a new device based on a current state of an old device, including settings, preferences, and other user data. The data may be transferred from the old device to the new device, and then relocated according to a manifest that details positions of the data on the old device. The destination device may be rebooted into a configuration mode to allow for the relocation of the transferred data, and then rebooted again to configure the destination device to provide access to the data in its respective relative locations on the destination device.
US11720262B2
A request is received from a host system to execute a portion of a memory management operation associated with a memory cell of a plurality of memory cells of one or more memory devices. A voltage parameter level associated with execution of the portion of the memory management operation is identified. A determination is made that a comparison of the voltage parameter level with a voltage parameter level threshold satisfies a condition. A power management action is performed in response to the condition being satisfied.
US11720256B2
A storage system such as a storage array in a data center calculates per-application power utilization based on monitored IOs. IOs generated by applications that are tolerant of rescheduling may be rescheduled to a time when power is less costly or more available. Storage array power consumption is reduced if all services host applications can tolerate greater IO latency without service level violations. Server power consumption is reduced if all services host applications can tolerate greater IO latency without service level violations. Power consumption by the servers, storage array, or both is reduced if power consumption reaches a predetermined level relative to available power.
US11720255B1
A method includes receiving a value and an identifier from a first memory and hashing the identifier to produce a memory block identifier. The method also includes routing, based on the memory block identifier, a read request to a memory block of a plurality of memory blocks and updating the value received from the first memory based on a property received from the memory block in response to the read request. The memory further includes storing the updated value in the first memory.
US11720246B2
An information processing system includes a display controller that causes a display device to display a first input field in which predetermined information can be input, and an input information acquirer that acquires the predetermined information input by a user terminal when the user terminal becomes communicable. The display controller displays the predetermined information acquired by the input information acquirer in the first input field.
US11720238B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus for selecting an input mode are described. In one aspect, a method includes receiving request data specifying a request to launch a virtual assistant application from a lock screen of a mobile device. In response to receiving the request data, input signals are obtained. A selection of an input mode for the virtual assistant application is made, from candidate input modes, based on the input signals. Each candidate input mode is of an input type different from each other input type of each other candidate input mode. The input types include an image type and an audio type. The input mode of the image type receives pixel data for input to the virtual assistant application. The input mode of the audio type receives audio input for the virtual assistant application. The virtual assistant application presents content selected based on input signals received using the selected input mode.
US11720237B2
Techniques for input session between devices based on an input trigger are described and may be implemented to enable a first device (e.g., a mobile device) to serve as an input device for a second device. Generally, the described implementations enable multiple different input triggers to be utilized to trigger an input session between devices, such as for enabling proximity-based input (e.g., stylus input, touch input, etc.) to a first device to be provided as input to a second device.
US11720236B1
Systems and methods for generating a multi-view report in a content management system. A number of report views may be defined and a report type may be configured. The report type configuration may define the report views to be included, the field the report views match on, and how the report views should be joined. The multi-view report is generated according to the report type configuration.
US11720235B2
A method and an apparatus for browsing a table in a document, and an electronic device and a storage medium. The method includes: in a process of editing a table in an online document, receiving a table page jump instruction of a first table and jumping from a document page corresponding to the online document to a first table page for display; receiving a table switching instruction in the first table page; and switching from the first table page to a second table page for display according to the table switching instruction; where the first table page is used to display the first table, and the second table page is used to display a second table. Tables can be switched quickly, and the browsing speed of tables can be improved.
US11720220B1
In some implementations, a system may obtain a graphical user interface (GUI) template that includes tiles corresponding to plug-ins. The system may generate, from the GUI template, category GUIs corresponding to categories and including a subset of the tiles. The system may identify account identifier(s) associated with a user identifier and one or more of the categories. The system may generate a user-specific GUI associated with a user account associated with the user identifier and including a subset of the category GUIs based on the account identifier(s). The the plug-ins corresponding to the subset of the tiles may incorporate account data associated with at least one of the user account or the account identifier(s). The system may transmit, to a user device associated with the user account, the user-specific GUI.
US11720215B2
A touch control structure is provided. The touch control structure includes a plurality of first touch electrodes arranged in a plurality of rows and a plurality of second touch electrodes arranged in a plurality of columns. The plurality of rows of the plurality of first touch electrodes respectively extend to a first edge of the touch control structure. A respective one of a plurality of edge-adjacent electrode blocks directly adjacent to multiple first edge electrode blocks respectively from a plurality of rows of the plurality of first touch electrodes includes a truncated protrusion. An edge of the truncated protrusion is spaced apart from the first edge by a gap. An average width of the truncated protrusion along a direction perpendicular to the first direction is less than an average width of a respective one of the multiple non-truncated protrusions along the direction perpendicular to the first direction.
US11720210B2
An optical input device includes at least one optically clear plate having at least one light source positioned at a peripheral edge thereof and arranged and configured to transmit frequency modulated light into the optically clear plate along its planar length at an angle such that the modulated light is contained within the plate via total internal reflection thereof. At least one photodetector is configured to receive some or all of the modulated light. A least one input mechanism is embedded within the optically clear plate and is mechanically moveable relative thereto. A processing module receives signals from the photodetector and generates data representative of information to be displayed on a display screen. Both mechanical movement of the input mechanism relative to the optically clear plate and the application of pressure to the clear plate generate respective changes in the modulated light received by the photodetector. A change in the modulated light received by the photodetector causes the processing module to generate data representative of a change in information to be displayed on the display screen.
US11720206B2
A touch panel device includes processing circuitry to generate coordinate information based on a signal outputted from the touch panel and to output a detection value based on depressing force. The processing circuitry previously stores a plurality of pieces of predictive detection value information, selects a piece of predictive detection value information based on a gradient of the detection value, obtains a final predictive detection value that the predictive detection value finally reaches by using the selected predictive detection value information, obtains a present predictive detection value by using the selected predictive detection value information, and executes a correction process of reducing influence of a memory effect by bringing a present detection value close to the final predictive detection value when an absolute value of a difference between the present predictive detection value and the present detection value is less than or equal to a predetermined threshold value.
US11720205B2
A method for reporting touch on a touchscreen includes detecting first touch data from the touchscreen corresponding to a first touch on the touchscreen; determining coordinates of the first touch from the first touch data; reporting the coordinates of the first touch at a first time; determining predicted coordinates of a second touch based on a linear regression of historical touch data; and reporting the predicted coordinates of the second touch at a second time, where the second time occurs after the first time.
US11720201B2
A combination touch and transducer input system is provided, which facilitates user input into an electronic system with a finger and/or a transducer (e.g., a stylus). The system includes a transducer configured to generate an electric field, and a sensor including an array of electrodes and a controller. The transducer is configured to transmit digital data, such as pen pressure data and switch status data, to the sensor. For example, the transducer comprises electronic circuitry configured to encode the digital data in a signal for transmission to the sensor. The sensor controller is configured to operate both in a touch sensing mode and in a transducer sensing mode. During the touch sensing mode, the controller determines a position of a proximate object (e.g., a finger) by capacitively sensing the object with the array of electrodes. During the transducer sensing mode, the controller determines a position of the transducer based on a signal received by the array of electrodes from the transducer, and also receives and decodes the digital data encoded in the received signal. Digital data can be encoded in a signal using any suitable digital modulation techniques, such as a Frequency-Shift Keying (FSK) technique.
US11720188B2
According to various embodiments, there is provided a user input device including: a chassis including a socket configured to releasably receive a panel; a memory storing a plurality of button maps, wherein each button map of the plurality of button maps defines functions of at least one button of a respective panel of a plurality of panels, each of which being receivable in the socket; and a processor configured to read an identity code of the received panel, and further configured to identify a matching button map from the plurality of button maps based on the identity code, wherein the matching button map defines the functions of the at least one button of the received panel.
US11720184B2
A display device includes a thin-film transistor layer disposed on a substrate, the thin-film transistor layer including a thin-film transistor, a light emitting element layer disposed on the thin-film transistor layer, the light emitting element layer including a pixel defining layer defining emission areas, and a pixel electrode disposed in each of the emission areas, a touch electrode disposed on the light emitting element layer, the touch electrode overlapping the pixel defining layer and sensing a touch, and a code pattern defined by a planar shape of the pixel defining layer that is distinguished from the pixel electrode and the touch electrode, the code pattern having position information.
US11720182B2
A key indication method, applied to an electronic device, is provided. The electronic device has at least one key, and the method includes: obtaining state information of the electronic device; and in a case that the state information meets a preset condition, displaying a target indication icon corresponding to the key in a first manner, in a key display area corresponding to the key on a display screen.
US11720180B2
A region of space may be monitored for the presence or absence of one or more control objects, and object attributes and changes thereto may be interpreted as control information provided as input to a machine or application. In some embodiments, the region is monitored using a combination of scanning and image-based sensing.
US11720171B2
In some embodiments, an electronic device navigates between user interfaces based at least on detecting a gaze of the user. In some embodiments, an electronic device enhances interactions with control elements of user interfaces. In some embodiments, an electronic device scrolls representations of categories and subcategories in a coordinated manner. In some embodiments, an electronic device navigates back from user interfaces having different levels of immersion in different ways.
US11720168B1
A method for a wearable computing device is presented. The wearable computing device includes one or more radio frequency (RF) antennas that are driven to expose a first body part of a user to an E-field. The first body part of the user located within a threshold distance of the RF antennas when the wearable computing device is worn by the user. Movement of the first body part of the user is determined based on changes in electrical conditions at the RF antennas over time. Movement of a second body part of the user is inferred based on the determined movement of the first body part, the second body part being located outside of the threshold distance of the RF antenna. The first and second body parts are coupled via interconnective tissues. An indication of the inferred movement of the second body part is output.
US11720167B2
This disclosure describes an artificial reality system that presents artificial reality content or artificial reality effects based on, or in response to, interactions with one or more physical objects within a physical environment. In one example, this disclosure describes a method that includes determining that a user has performed a trigger action on a trigger object; responsive to determining that the user has performed the trigger action, generating artificial reality content; presenting the artificial reality content on a display associated with a head-mounted display; determining that the user has performed a de-trigger action; and responsive to determining that the user has performed the de-trigger action, discontinuing presentation of the artificial reality content.
US11720166B2
To provide a display system which changes a video in accordance with the position of a real object on a display screen, and which provides a strong sense of immersion and a strong sense of presence in a scene. A video display system 100 comprises: a rendering device 10 which generates a two-dimensional video as seen from a specific camera position; a display device 20 which displays the video on a display screen; and a sensor device 30 which detects the position of a real object on the display screen. The rendering device 10 changes the camera position and renders a predetermined object within the video on the basis of the position of the real object the display screen.
US11720164B1
A data storage system with multi-core processors dynamically enables and disables processor cores in order to manage power consumption while maintaining performance. One or more active processor cores are disabled responsive to determining that the current workload can be serviced with fewer active processor cores than are currently enabled while maintaining performance. One or more inactive processor cores are enabled responsive to determining that the current workload cannot be serviced with the currently active processor cores while maintaining performance. Separate utilization thresholds may be implemented for enabling inactive processor cores and disabling active processor cores to promote stability.
US11720162B2
A method of adjusting power consumption of a server is implemented by a baseboard management controller (BMC). The server includes the BMC and a processing module that are connected to each other. The BMC is connected to a power supply for receiving electrical energy supplied thereby, and the processing module operates based on the electrical energy thus received according to a current setting value of a power consumption limit. The method includes steps of: obtaining consecutive values of power conveyed by the power supply to the server; and based on the values of power currently obtained, adjusting the current setting value of the power consumption limit to be within a defined range.
US11720155B2
A method of regulating usage of an electronic device is provided that includes at least one remote server, a user personal computing (PC) device, an administrator PC device, at least one electronic device, and a computerized regulating adapter. The method begins by monitoring a current date-and-time with the computerized regulating adapter. An electrical plug is then physically secured to the computerized regulating adapter with a locking mechanism of the computerized regulating adapter. The electronic device is then electrically powered with the computerized regulating adapter, if the current date-and-time is any date-and-time from the plurality of available date-and-times. The electronic device is then disabled with the computerized regulating adapter, if the current date-and-time matches an arbitrary blocked date-and-time, wherein the arbitrary blocked date-and-time is any date-and-time from the plurality of blocked date-and-times.
US11720135B2
Methods and systems for connecting a photovoltaic module and an inverter having an input capacitor are presented. The photovoltaic system includes a maximum power point tracking (MPPT) controller coupled between the inverter and the photovoltaic module. The MPPT controller includes a direct current (DC) converter configured to reduce, in a forward buck mode, a voltage of the photovoltaic module, to supply power from the photovoltaic module to the input capacitor of the inverter. The photovoltaic system also includes a microcontroller unit (MCU) configured to control the DC converter to allow the photovoltaic module to operate at a maximum power point, and to increase, in a reverse boost mode, a voltage of the input capacitor of the inverter, to dissipate power from the input capacitor in the photovoltaic module, and the MPPT controller is configured to, based upon one or more triggers.
US11720131B2
A power supply circuit, includes: an N-channel depletion type output transistor connected between an input terminal of an input voltage and an output terminal of an output voltage; and an operational amplifier configured to control a gate of the output transistor so that a feedback voltage corresponding to the output voltage matches a reference voltage.
US11720128B2
In an embodiment, a linear voltage regulator includes: an output transistor having a first current path terminal configured to be coupled to a load, and a second current path terminal coupled to a first supply terminal, where the output transistor is configured to provide, at the first current path terminal, a regulated output voltage; a voltage source circuit configured to provide, in an open loop manner, a first voltage to a control terminal of the output transistor; and a feedback loop coupled between the first current path terminal of the output transistor and the control terminal of the output transistor, the feedback loop including a sense transistor having a first current path terminal coupled to the first current path terminal of the output transistor.
US11720126B2
Systems, devices, media, and methods are presented for detecting and interpreting motion of a device and a remote object to control operations of the device. The systems and methods identify a sensor input within a drone. The sensor input indicates movement of the drone within a three dimensional space. The systems and methods determine one or more movement attributes from the sensor input and, in response to the one or more movement attributes, selects one or more maneuvers corresponding to at least one movement attribute. The system and methods then execute the one or more maneuvers by controlling one or more drone control components to move the drone within the three dimensional space.
US11720125B2
An electric aircraft with flight trajectory planning. The electric aircraft includes a sensor. The sensor is coupled to the electric aircraft. The sensor is configured to detect a plurality of weather measurements. The electric aircraft includes a processor. The processor is communicatively connected to the sensor. The processor is configured to receive, from the sensor, a weather measurement of the plurality of weather measurements. The processor is configured to receive, from a user, a destination datum and a desired altitude datum. The processor is configured to determine an optimal trajectory of the electric aircraft as a function of the destination datum, weather datum, and altitude datum.
US11720117B1
An autonomous mobile device (AMD) uses sensors to explore a physical space and determine the locations of obstacles. Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) techniques are used to process images from cameras to determine location and trajectory of the device. As the AMD moves and explores to generate an occupancy map, errors in the localization accrue. The occupancy map is processed to determine a graph that is based on, for a given point in physical space, a distance, relative direction, and a characteristic of a closest obstacle. A first graph based on a global occupancy map may be compared to a second graph based on a local occupancy map to determine a displacement between the local occupancy map and the global occupancy map. To facilitate loop closure, the AMD may navigate to a point along the first graph, where a loop closure process may be performed.
US11720114B2
An example operation includes one or more of detecting, by a processor of a transport, an exit on a road, calculating, by the processor of the transport, a probability that the transport is not prepared to exit, requesting, by the processor of the transport, at least one other transport proximate to the transport to alter its speed if the probability exceeds a threshold, and responsive to a detecting of an altering of the speed by the at least one other transport, triggering the transport to exit the road.
US11720109B2
A moving apparatus that performs control to stop the moving apparatus at a position close to a user and to rotate the moving apparatus at a stop position, thereby making it easy to take out a product carried on the apparatus. The moving apparatus includes a control unit that executes traveling control of the moving apparatus, an upper unit that has an article storage unit, and a lower unit that houses a drive unit, in which the control unit inputs detection information of a sensor, and executes control to stop the moving apparatus at a position close to a user and rotate the moving apparatus at a stop position on the basis of input sensor detection information. The control unit performs display control of a traveling route recognition display line indicating a traveling route of the moving apparatus.
US11720106B2
Examples described herein provide a computer-implemented method that includes defining, by a processing device, a plurality of parameters so that any orthogonal intersection can be described. The method further includes building, by the processing device, an orthogonal parameterized model that can represent any orthogonal intersection based at least in part on the plurality of parameters that can describe any intersection of interest. The method further includes expanding, by the processing device, the orthogonal parameterized model to generate a fully parameterized intersection model that accounts for intersection complexities. The method further includes building, by the processing device, a low-fidelity analytical that computes various metrics based on the fully parameterized intersection model.
US11720104B2
An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) assessment and reporting system may conduct micro scans of a wide variety of property types. Scan data from any of a wide variety of sensor types may be compared with profile data using computer vision techniques to identify characteristics, defects, damage, construction materials, and the like. A hierarchal structure of the scan data may reduce the size of data sets used for property identification. For example, identifying a material type of a property may reduce or eliminate the need to compare scan data with specific data profiles for defects not related to the identified material type. Similarly, identifying a particular characteristic of a property may narrow down the data sets of possible material types. A rule set evaluator may evaluate matched profile data to determine adaptive actions to modify the navigation or scanning process of the UAV.
US11720103B2
The present disclosure provides a system, method and associated apparatus for autonomous vehicle transportation. The system includes: an operation system configured to generate a transportation plan for a vehicle and transmit the transportation plan to a vehicle controller of the vehicle; and the vehicle controller configured to control, in accordance with the transportation plan, the vehicle to autonomously move to a position of a checkpoint at an entrance to a target highway port, and interact with a checkpoint controller corresponding to the position of the checkpoint for autonomously passing the checkpoint; and control the vehicle to autonomously move from the position of the checkpoint to a specified loading/unloading position in the target highway port, and interact with a loading/unloading control apparatus for autonomous loading/unloading at the loading/unloading position. The system, method and associated apparatus can achieve fully autonomous goods transportation, save transportation costs and reduce driving security risks.
US11720099B2
A control method of automatic driving imported “Smart Gains” model can bypass the problem caused by high levels of complexity that currently trouble automatic driving control systems. The knowledge generated by a Gaussian process machine learning model with the maximum probability can carry out the closed-loop control of automatic driving with a given trajectory, can solve the nonlinear adjustment problem of the actuators of the automatic driving vehicle, as well as the optimization control problem of the randomness of the control object. This feature can also make the automatic driving vehicle run smoothly, save energy, be comfortable and fast, and achieve automatic driving above Level 4.
US11720098B1
An autonomous mobile device (AMD) may move around while performing tasks. If the AMD is lifted, the AMD responds to ensure safety of the user, modify ongoing operation, and so forth. For example, the AMD may stop the wheels, retract a mast, or suspend navigation tasks. To accurately determine whether or not the AMD has been lifted, the AMD uses one or more sensors to determine a vertical lift distance and rotation of the AMD with respect to one or more axes. For example, while the AMD is stationary, the sensors used may include an accelerometer or a gyrometer. While the AMD is moving, data from time-of-flight sensors or one or more cameras may also be used. If the AMD is stationary low-level sensor thresholds are used. If the AMD is moving steadily, medium-level sensor thresholds are used. If the AMD is suddenly decelerating, high-level sensor thresholds are used.
US11720087B1
A system receives operations data and determines operations indicator(s) from the operations data. An operator on a manufacturing line reports a downtime event via a human machine interface device. The system receives downtime event and uptime information. The system calculates an operations indicator, such as an overall equipment effectiveness indicator, from the downtime event and uptime information. A user interface of the system includes the operations indicator(s) and visualizations. Some visualizations include a timeline indicating downtime events and other operations events. Additional downtime and uptime information is received by the system in substantially real-time. The system dynamically calculates updated operations indicator(s) from the additional downtime and uptime information.
US11720085B2
Systems and methods for providing network connectivity and remote monitoring, optimization, and control of pool/spa equipment are provided. “Internet-of-Things” (IoT) functionality is provided for pool and spa equipment in a flexible and cost-effective manner. Network connectivity and remote monitoring/control of pool and spa equipment is provided by various components such as a network communication and local control subsystem installed in pool/spa equipment, and other components. Also disclosed are various control processes (“pool logic”) which can be embodied as software code installed in any of the various embodiments of the present disclosure.
US11720072B2
A system for analyzing operational data associated with a plant that has processing equipment configured and controlled to run a process involving at least one tangible material. Actual operational data corresponding to plant operations is received by a computing device that may relate to production, equipment, workforce, automation systems, safety, and/or cybersecurity of the plant. A model of the plant is generated based on the actual operational data, where the model indicates ideal plant operations including model operational data. The actual plant operational data and the model operational data are compared. Based on the operational data and the comparison of the operational data to model operational data, at least one recommendation for an action associated with the plant is determined.
US11720070B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for determining causal models for controlling environments. One of the methods includes obtaining data specifying baseline probability distributions for each of a plurality of controllable elements; maintaining a causal model; repeatedly performing the following: selecting control settings for the environment based on the causal model and values for a particular internal parameter of the control system that are sampled from a range of possible values; selecting control settings for the environment based on the baseline probability distributions; monitoring environment responses to the control settings selected based on the causal model and the control settings selected based on the baseline probability distributions; determining, for each of the possible values, a measure of a difference between a current system performance and a baseline system performance; and updating how frequently each of the possible values is sampled.
US11720060B2
A single-shot Fresnel non-coherent correlation digital holographic device based on a polarization-oriented planar lens, comprising: A polarization-oriented planar lens (1) for wavefront modulation and beam splitting, a focusing element (2), a half-wave plate (3) with a small hole and a polarization imaging camera (4). Incident light passes through the polarization-oriented planar lens (1) and the focusing element (2) and is divided into two beams with different polarizations, that is, focused and parallel or focused and divergent beams, wherein the focused beam passes through the small hole of the half-wave plate (3), the parallel or divergent beam passes through the half-wave plate (3), so as to make the polarization of the two beams consistent behind pass through the half-wave plate (3).
US11720059B2
A method, apparatus, and system that provides a holographic layer as a micro-lens array and/or a color filter array in an imager. The method of writing the holographic layer results in overlapping areas in the hologram for corresponding adjacent pixels in the imager which increases collection of light at the pixels, thereby increasing quantum efficiency.
US11720054B2
A process cartridge for use with a main assembly of an electrophotographic image forming apparatus, the main assembly including a driving shaft, to be driven by a motor, having a rotational force applying portion, wherein the process cartridge is dismountable from the main assembly in a direction substantially perpendicular to an axial direction of the driving shaft, the process cartridge includes i) an electrophotographic photosensitive drum having a photosensitive layer at a peripheral surface thereof, the electrophotographic photosensitive drum being rotatable about an axis thereof; ii) process means actable on the electrophotographic photosensitive drum; iii) a coupling member engageable with the rotational force applying portion to receive a rotational force for rotating the electrophotographic photosensitive drum, the coupling member being capable of taking a rotational force transmitting angular position for transmitting the rotational force for rotating the electrophotographic photosensitive drum to the electrophotographic photosensitive drum and a disengaging angular position in which the coupling member is inclined away from the axis of the electrophotographic photosensitive drum from the rotational force transmitting angular position, wherein when the process cartridge is dismounted from the main assembly of the electrophotographic image forming apparatus in a direction substantially perpendicular to the axis of the electrophotographic photosensitive drum, the coupling member moves from the rotational force transmitting angular position to the disengaging angular position.
US11720043B2
A recording material transport device including a transport section that transports a recording material and a support member disposed to extend in a direction intersecting with a vertical direction, and supporting the recording material from below with the transport stopped, in which the support member is provided to be capable of descending, and, as the support member descends, both of one end portion and the other end portion in the direction intersecting with the vertical direction descend and are inclined such that the one end portion is positioned below the other end portion.
US11720042B2
A printing system for printing on tabbed media having a plurality of tab positions. A media transport system picks the next sheet of tabbed media from a media tray. A detection system detects the tab position for the sheet of tabbed media. The detected tab position is compared to an expected tab position and if the detected tab position is different from the expected tab position then either the front end is used to supply image data to be printed on the sheet of tabbed media having the detected tab position, or the media transport system is controlled to direct the sheet of tabbed media into a waste receptacle and pick one or more additional sheets of tabbed media until the detected tab position is the same as the expected tab position.
US11720029B2
A method and apparatus of detection, registration and quantification of an image is described. The method may include obtaining an image of a lithographically created structure, and applying a level set method to an object, representing the structure, of the image to create a mathematical representation of the structure. The method may include obtaining a first dataset representative of a reference image object of a structure at a nominal condition of a parameter, and obtaining second dataset representative of a template image object of the structure at a non-nominal condition of the parameter. The method may further include obtaining a deformation field representative of changes between the first dataset and the second dataset. The deformation field may be generated by transforming the second dataset to project the template image object onto the reference image object. A dependence relationship between the deformation field and change in the parameter may be obtained.
US11720028B2
A measurement illumination optical unit guides illumination light into an object field of a projection exposure apparatus for EUV lithography. The illumination optical unit has a field facet mirror with a plurality of field facets and a pupil facet mirror with a plurality of pupil facets. The latter serve for overlaid imaging in the object field of field facet images of the field facets. A field facet imaging channel of the illumination light is guided via any one field facet and any one pupil facet. A field stop specifies a field boundary of an illumination field in the object plane. The illumination field has a greater extent along one field dimension than any one of the field facet images. At least some of the field facets include tilt actuators which help guide the illumination light into the illumination field via various field facets and one and the same pupil facet.
US11720025B2
A method of forming an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) mask includes forming a multilayer Mo/Si stack comprising alternating stacked Mo and Si layers over a mask substrate; forming a ruthenium capping layer over the multilayer Mo/Si stack; doping the ruthenium capping layer with a halogen element, a pentavalent element, a hexavalent element or combinations thereof; forming an absorber layer over the ruthenium capping layer; and etching the absorber layer to form a pattern in the absorber layer.
US11720021B2
A positive resist composition comprising a base polymer comprising recurring units (a) containing an imide group having an iodized aromatic group bonded thereto and recurring units (b1) having an acid labile group-substituted carboxyl group and/or recurring units (b2) having an acid labile group-substituted phenolic hydroxyl group has a high sensitivity and resolution and forms a pattern of good profile with reduced edge roughness and size variation.
US11720016B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to methods of forming a substrate having a target thickness distribution at one or more eyepiece areas across a substrate. The substrate includes eyepiece areas corresponding to areas where optical device eyepieces are to be formed on the substrate. Each eyepiece area includes a target thickness distribution. A base substrate thickness distribution of a base substrate is measured such that a target thickness change can be determined. The methods described herein are utilized along with the target thickness change to form a substrate with the target thickness distribution.
US11720013B2
A multilayer stack in the form of a Bragg reflector comprising a graded interfacial layer and a method of manufacturing are disclosed. The graded interfacial layer eliminates the formation of low-reflectivity interfaces in a multilayer stack and reduces roughness of interfaces in a multilayer stack.
US11720009B2
An illumination system configured to provide an illumination beam is provided. At a timing for blue light, first blue light penetrates a light homogenizing element, so that the illumination system outputs blue light of the illumination beam. At a timing for green light, the first blue light is converted into first green light via a phosphor wheel and penetrates the light homogenizing element. At the same time, second blue light is converted into second green light via the phosphor wheel and penetrates the light homogenizing element, so that the illumination system outputs green light of the illumination beam. A projection device is also provided. According to the illumination system and the projection device provided herein, each light source may be effectively utilized.
US11720001B2
The present disclosure provides a driving video recorder for an automotive, which includes: a housing having a side wall, a top wall with an air outlet, and a bottom wall with an air inlet; a first electric fan arranged on the bottom wall above the air inlet and in a vertical middle plane of the housing for directing outside air into the housing; two sets of lenses for image capturing arranged at the side wall and positioned symmetrically on both sides of the vertical middle plane of the housing; and heat generating electrical components provided within the housing. The driving video recorder according to the present disclosure has a symmetrically distributed lens structure ensuring system stability, reliability, and enhanced functionality.
US11720000B1
A 360-degree camera device having atmosphere lamp includes a supporting platform, a supporting spindle, a supporting base, and a rotating shooting bracket. The supporting platform includes a first supporting element, a tempered glass, a first light source, and a reflecting mirror. The first supporting element is configured to support the tempered glass. The tempered glass is a single-sided perspective glass including a light-transmitting surface and a reflecting surface. An interval area is disposed between the tempered glass and the reflecting mirror. The reflecting mirror and the reflecting surface are oppositely disposed. The first light source is disposed in the interval area. The first light source is in a shape of graphics and/or characters. The first light source includes a plurality of point-shaped light-emitting parts. The first light source is substantially disposed in an annular shape and disposed along edge contour of the tempered glass or the reflective mirror.
US11719998B2
A lens selector for selectively exposing one camera lens and covering other camera lenses of a cell phone or the like is shown and described. The lens selector comprises a base which grips the cell phone and a lens cover movable between two or more positions. The lens cover may slide along the base when moving between positions. An arm resiliently biased into an engaged positions may lock the lens cover into a selected position on the base. The lens selector may substantially cover that side of the cell phone having lenses, and may grip edges of the cell phone. The lens selector may include a socket for centering an associated cell phone with respect to an optical device such as a spotting scope, so that the cell phone may capture images visible through the scope.
US11719980B2
A high-definition liquid crystal display device is provided. A liquid crystal display device with a high aperture ratio is provided. A liquid crystal display device with a high contrast ratio and display quality is provided. A liquid crystal display device capable of being driven at a low voltage is provided. The display device includes, between a pair of substrates, a pixel electrode, a first common electrode, a second common electrode, and a liquid crystal layer. The pixel electrode and the first common electrode are positioned between the liquid crystal layer and one of the substrates. The second common electrode is positioned between the liquid crystal layer and the other substrate. The same potential is supplied to the first common electrode and the second common electrode. The first common electrode includes a portion overlapping with the second common electrode between the display regions of two adjacent subpixels that exhibit different colors. At least one of the pixel electrode and the first common electrode includes a portion that does not overlap with the second common electrode in the display region of the subpixel.
US11719976B2
A display apparatus includes a liquid crystal panel, and a backlight unit configured to emit light to the liquid crystal panel. The backlight unit includes a substrate, a light emitting diode (LED) provided on the substrate and configured to emit light, and a refractive cover formed by being provided at a plurality of points separated from each other, and configured to enclose the LED.
US11719966B2
The present application discloses a test structure, a substrate and a method for manufacturing the substrate. The substrate includes a stacked substratum, a metal layer and an insulating layer; first via holes and second via holes disposed in different areas and passing through the insulating layer, and first transparent electrodes and second transparent electrodes disposed in different via holes and connected with the metal layer. The first via holes and the second via holes are formed through the same manufacture procedure, and the first transparent electrodes and the second transparent electrodes are formed through the same manufacture procedure.
US11719962B2
A liquid crystal display includes a first substrate including: a display area including a plurality of pixels on the first substrate, a non-display area which is disposed on an outside of the display area and in which a dummy wire is disposed on the first substrate, and an image input hole which is defined therein in the non-display area and in which an image input device is disposed, a second substrate facing the first substrate and including a display area and a non-display area corresponding to those of the first substrate, a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first and second substrates, and a sealant which is in the non-display area of the first and second substrates and seals the liquid crystal layer between the first and second substrates. The dummy wire is disposed near the image input hole.
US11719961B1
A method of controlling shade of light valve for auto darkening filter includes: controlling the current shade of the light valve at a first shade, continuously detecting a welding arc signal until it is detected; controlling the first shade of the light valve to change to a target shade, and maintaining the target shade for welding work until the welding arc signal is interrupted; controlling the light valve to transition from the target shade to the first shade within a time period T2, wherein at least one intermediate shade is passed during the transition. For the conventional ADF, after the welding arc signal disappears, the control circuit immediately switches the light valve from the target shade to the light state shade. The switch of the light valve from the target shade to the light state shade occurs instantaneously, therefore the user may feel dazzling, causing damage to vision.
US11719959B2
Apparatus and methods are described including a corrective optical element having a thickness and/or a curvature that is different in different regions of the corrective optical element, such that the corrective optical element is configured, upon being adhered to any one of a plurality of differently-shaped optically-corrective single-vision lenses, to change a focal length of the optically-corrective single-vision lens differently in different regions of the optically-corrective single-vision lens. The corrective optical element is shapeable such that the corrective optical element can conform with a shape of any one of the plurality of differently-shaped optically-corrective single-vision lenses. Other applications are also described.
US11719956B2
An ophthalmic lens incorporating an array of microlenses.
US11719954B2
A driving control apparatus, a device, an optical module, and a driving control method will be provided, the driving control apparatus including: an acquiring unit to acquire a detection signal depending on a detection result of sensing a position of a driving target object; a driving control unit to generate a driving signal to move the driving target object to a target position based on the detection signal; an oscillation detecting unit to detect oscillation in a signal at a predetermined object point on a signal path from the detection signal to the driving signal; and an oscillation suppressing unit to suppress oscillation of the signal path according to detection of the oscillation.
US11719945B2
A method for locating a VR device and a VR device is applied to a head-mounted displaying device of the VR device, and includes: sending a locating and synchronizing signal to the handle at a first preset interval, so that the handle controls each of LED lights of the LED light ring according to the locating and synchronizing signal to lighten for a first preset duration; simultaneously while the head-mounted displaying device is sending the locating and synchronizing signal, controlling, by the head-mounted displaying device, the camera to expose for a second preset duration to photograph the handle to obtain at least one locating photograph, wherein a starting time of the second preset duration is earlier than a starting time of the first preset duration, and the second preset duration is longer than the first preset duration; and determining spatial-position information of the handle according to the locating photograph.
US11719943B2
A display and method for providing an image to an eye of a viewer is provided. The display comprises at least two projector assemblies. Each projector assembly comprises a light-guide optical element (LOE), and an image projector arrangement for generating a partial image and being deployed to introduce the partial image into the LOE for coupling out towards the eye of the viewer. The at least two projector assemblies cooperate to display the image to the eye of the viewer with partial overlap. The display further comprises a controller associated with the image projector arrangements and configured to reduce a pixel intensity of selected pixels in a region of partial overlap between the first and second part of the image so as to enhance a perceived uniformity of the image.
US11719935B2
The present disclosure provides an optical display system and method, and a display device. The optical display system includes: a display screen; a light split member configured to split light from the display screen into a first polarized light and a second polarized light with different polarization directions; a first optical waveguide configured to guide the first polarized light to a light exit side of the optical display system; and a second optical waveguide located at a light exit side of the first optical waveguide, spaced apart from the first optical waveguide, and configured to at least partially transmit the first polarized light and guide the second polarized light to the light exit side of the optical display system.
US11719934B2
Aspects of the present invention relate to suppression of stray light in head worn computing.
US11719919B2
Methods and systems are provided that provide multiple simultaneous beams at differing angles used in scanning a light sheet for single plane illumination and applications thereof. The use of multiple beams reduces shadows that would otherwise stretch across the entire illumination sheet. The multiple beams may be created with a spatial light modulator as part of the illumination system.
US11719918B2
The present disclosure discloses a zoom lens assembly including, sequentially from an object side to an image side along an optical axis, a first lens group having refractive power; a second lens group having negative refractive power; a third lens group having refractive power; and a fourth lens group having refractive power. The zoom lens assembly may be continuously zoomed by changing positions of the second lens group and the third lens group along the optical axis. A total effective focal length ft of the zoom lens assembly in a telephoto state, and a total effective focal length fw of the zoom lens assembly in a wide-angle state satisfy: 1.3
US11719914B2
A six-piece optical image capturing system is disclosed. In order from an object side to an image side, the optical lenses along the optical axis include a first lens with refractive power; a second lens with refractive power; a third lens with refractive power; a fourth lens with refractive power; a fifth lens with refractive power, and a sixth lens with negative refractive power. At least one lens among the first lens to the fifth lens has positive refractive power. The image-side surface and object-side surface of the sixth lens are aspheric, and at least one of the image-side surface and the object-side surface of the sixth lens has an inflection point. The optical lens of the optical image capturing system can increase aperture value and improve the imagining quality for use in compact cameras.
US11719910B2
An optical imaging system includes a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, and a sixth lens sequentially arranged on an optical axis from an object side to an image side, wherein an image-side surface of the first lens and an image-side surface of the sixth lens may be concave, and 0.7
US11719909B2
An optical lens, in order from an object side to an image-forming side, includes: a first lens having negative refractive power, a second lens having positive refractive power, a third lens having positive refractive power, a fourth lens having refractive power, and a fifth lens having refractive power. The fourth lens may be positive refractive power, or the fourth lens may have a fourth object-side surface which curves toward the image-forming side. The fifth lens may be negative refractive power, and a spacing may be between the fourth lens and the fifth lens.
US11719902B2
Embodiments of a furcated optical fiber cable are provided. A main distribution cable has optical fibers surrounded by a cable jacket. The optical fibers are divided into at least two furcation legs. A furcation plug is located at a transition point between the main distribution cable and the at least two furcation legs. The furcation plug surrounds at least a portion of the main distribution cable and each of the at least two furcation legs. Optical connectors are provided for each of the at least two furcation legs, and each connector includes optical fibers that are spliced at a splice location to the optical fibers of the connector's respective furcation leg. The splice location is closer to the connector than to the furcation plug. A method of furcating an optical fiber cable and a pulling configuration for the furcated optical fiber cable are also provided.
US11719897B2
In various embodiments, laser emissions are steered into different regions of an optical fiber, and/or into different optical fibers, in a temporal pattern such that an output has different spatial output profiles. The temporal pattern has a frequency sufficient such that a workpiece is processed by an effective output shape combining the different spatial output profiles.
US11719887B2
An optical device includes a waveguide including a first medium, which is transparent and has a first index of refraction at a target wavelength and which has mutually-parallel first and second surfaces arranged so that light at the target wavelength propagates within the waveguide by internal reflection between the first and second surfaces. A coupling layer is disposed over the first surface of the waveguide and includes a second medium having a second index of refraction at the target wavelength, which is greater than the first index of refraction, and is patterned to define a periodic array of cylinders, which have respective cylinder axes perpendicular to the first surface and have respective heights and diameters that are smaller than the target wavelength, and which are spaced apart such that a distance between each of the cylinders and a neighboring cylinder in the array is less than the target wavelength.
US11719885B2
Disclosed are apparatuses for optical coupling and a system for communication. In one embodiment, an apparatus for optical coupling including a substrate and a grating coupler is disclosed. The grating coupler is disposed on the substrate and includes a plurality of coupling gratings arranged along a first direction, wherein effective refractive indices of the plurality of coupling gratings gradually decrease along the first direction.
US11719884B2
An optical fiber alignment tool includes a fiber aligner that includes: separators that assort optical fibers; and fiber insertion portions each disposed between a respective pair of the separators and that align the optical fibers in an alignment direction in a predetermined order when the optical fibers are inserted into the fiber insertion portion; and a fiber holding portion that includes a mount surface on which the optical fibers are mounted. The fiber aligner and the fiber holding portion are relatively movable in the alignment direction of the optical fibers.
US11719879B2
An optical fiber includes: a core portion made of glass; a cladding portion that is located on an outer periphery of the core portion and that is made of glass having a lower refractive index than a refractive index of the core portion; and a coating portion that covers an outer periphery of the cladding portion. Further, an average value of a relative refractive-index difference of a center core of the core portion is 0.1 to 0.5%, a fiber diameter including the coating portion is equal to or smaller than 220 μm, an effective cutoff wavelength is longer than 1260 nm and smaller than 1530 nm, and a mode field diameter of light at 1550 nm is equal to or larger than 9 μm.
US11719878B2
An optical fibre includes a glass core, a glass cladding, a primary coating layer and a secondary coating layer. The glass cladding surrounds the glass core. The glass cladding has a cladding refractive index. The primary coating layer is sandwiched between the glass cladding and the secondary coating layer. The primary coating layer may have one of a primary in-situ modulus in the range of 0.1 to 0.2 mega pascal and a primary coating thickness in the range of 2.5 micrometers to 10 micrometers. The secondary coating layer may have one or more of the secondary in-situ modulus greater than or equal to 1.2 giga pascal and the secondary coating thickness in a range of 2.5 to 17.5 micrometers.
US11719877B2
According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first transparent substrate including a first main surface, a second transparent substrate including a first end portion, a liquid crystal layer containing strip-shaped polymers and liquid crystal molecules, a third transparent substrate including a second end portion and a second main surface, a first light-emitting element and a first light guide. The first light guide includes a first surface and a second surface. A height from the first main surface to the second surface is less than a height from the first main surface to the second main surface.
US11719874B2
A light guide, including a light input surface, a longitudinal path, a lateral surface, wherein at least a portion of the lateral surface is configured as a light exit surface, wherein a first and a second light guide section includes a plurality of light redirection elements, which are configured to redirect light towards the light exit surface, wherein the light exit surface is a curved surface with a primary focal line, wherein each light redirection element has a certain incision-depth, which increases along the longitudinal path, wherein the light exit surface of the second light guide section has a protrusion, which has a secondary focal line, which is closer to the light exit surface than the primary focal line, wherein the light redirection elements of the first light guide section intersect the primary focal line, wherein the light redirection elements of the second light guide section intersect the primary focal line and the secondary focal line.
US11719873B2
A solid body made of an inactive, light transmissive material has embedded therein an optical fiber having a lengthwise segment in which a scattering structure is formed that is to redirect primary propagating light sideways out of the fiber. An active photoluminescent layer integrated in the optical fiber is to wavelength-convert the primary light into secondary light. The solid body is generally cylindrical but without rotational symmetry about the center longitudinal axis of the fiber. A portion of the outer side surface of the body is curved and is covered by an external reflector, while another portion of the outer side surface is uncovered by the reflector in order for the secondary light to emerge. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
US11719869B2
A polarizing plate and a polarizing plate-carrier film laminate are provided. A method for manufacturing a polarizing plate-carrier film laminate and a method for manufacturing a polarizing plate using the same polarizing plate-carrier film laminate are also provided. An active energy ray curable composition for a polarizing plate protective layer is also provided.
US11719863B2
A light blocking sheet having a central axis includes a central hole and a plurality of inner extended portions. The central axis passes through the central hole, which is enclosed by a hole inner surface. The hole inner surface has a first corresponding circle and a second corresponding circle, wherein a diameter of the first corresponding circle is greater than a diameter of the second corresponding circle. The inner extended portions are adjacent to and surround the central hole, wherein each of the inner extended portions is extended and tapered from the first corresponding circle towards the second corresponding circle and includes an inner surface, and the inner surface includes a line pair. The line pair includes two line sections, wherein one end of one line section thereof and one end of the other line section thereof are towards the second corresponding circle and approach to each other.
US11719861B1
Gradient refractive index lenses (GRI-Ls) and methods of fabricating the same are provided. GRI-Ls can be fabricated by stereolithography (SLA) and/or photo-assisted, thermal-assisted, and/or other laser-based curing from at least two precursors with a preset refractive index gradation along the planar axis. These lenses are self-focusing lenses and may be convergent or divergent for decreasing and increasing refractive indices from the center, respectively. Rather than a gradation in lens thickness from the center, the GRI-Ls can have a gradation of composition from the center.
US11719845B2
A downhole tool having an acoustic transducer for downhole measurements. A backing is in contact with an inner surface of the transducer. A first structure is coupled to a first housing. A second structure is coupled to a second housing. A member includes first, second, and third portions. The first portion is coupled to the first structure. The second portion is coupled to the second structure. At least one of the first and second structures is coupled to the member and has a degree of freedom relative to the member. The third portion extends longitudinally through the backing between the first and second portions such that compressional forces on the first and second housings are transferred through the first and second structures and the backing. A canister contacts an outer surface of the transducer and exerts radial forces on the transducer when exposed to pressures higher than atmospheric pressure.
US11719844B2
There is disclosed a system and method for analyzing geological features of a reservoir, such as a subterranean hydrocarbon reservoir undergoing changes during different stages of its production, by utilizing an artificial neural network to learn from hydrocarbon reservoir production project. In an aspect, there is provide a system and method for utilizing data collected from 4D seismic studies in order to train an artificial neural network to recognize how physical properties of a hydrocarbon reservoir change over time, as the hydrocarbon reservoir is produced. In an embodiment, the system and method are adapted to generate and obtain a plurality of image slices or image planes derived from a 3D seismic baseline and at least one monitor acquired over the course production of the hydrocarbon reservoir. Corresponding 2D image slices derived from the 3D seismic baseline and a subsequent monitor are correlated and matched and are then used to train an artificial neural network to create a predictive model of how the reservoir may change over time.
US11719842B2
A system, method and program product for implementing a machine learning platform that processes a data map having feature and operational information. A system is disclosed that includes an interpretable machine learning model that generates a function in response to an inputted data map, wherein the data map includes feature data and operational data over a region of interest, and wherein the function relates a set of predictive variables to one or more response variables; an integration/interpolation system that generates the data map from a set of disparate data sources; and an analysis system that evaluates the function to predict outcomes at unique points in the region of interest.
US11719833B2
Disclosed are a radon measuring apparatus and method. A radon measuring apparatus according to the present invention can comprise: a housing having two separate spaces and through holes formed such that each space communicates with the outside; a probe unit having first and second probe rods which are respectively disposed inside each space in the opposite direction from each other inside the housing; a control unit disposed inside the housing and connected to the probe unit; and a switching unit for controlling the electrical connection between the first and second probe rods.
US11719832B2
The present invention relates to a silicon carbide telescopic detector for ionizing radiation or a measuring instrument equipped with such a telescopic detector for identifying the type of ionizing radiation and/or measuring a dose released by the radiation, a detector production procedure, as well as uses and original methods which use the detector.
US11719830B2
A navigation system for a mobile object generates navigation data for the mobile object based on satellite navigation signals received from a plurality of satellites and base data received from a stationary base station. The navigation data includes code phase estimates and carrier phase estimates for the plurality of satellites. The system computes position, velocity and time estimates for the mobile object in accordance with the code phase estimates and carrier phase estimates, and performs a navigation function for the mobile object in accordance with the position, velocity and time estimates. The system generates code phase estimates by performing a Vector Delay Locked Loop (VDLL) computation process that drives a code NCO for each channel of a plurality of channels, and generates carrier phase estimates for the plurality of satellites by performing a RTK Vector Phase Locked Loop computation process that drives a carrier NCO for each channel.
US11719828B2
Techniques disclosed herein are directed to detect the presence of false, incorrect, or spoofed Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) signals. Embodiments may comprise receiving, at a mobile device, a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) signal via a GNSS antenna of the mobile device; determining first movement data based on the GNSS signal; determining second movement data based on data from one or more motion sensors of the mobile device, wherein the first movement data and the second movement data each comprise respective movement-related information regarding the mobile device during a time period; and providing an indication that GNSS error is occurring based on a determination that a difference between first movement data and the second movement data exceeds a threshold.
US11719824B2
The present invention is to provide a distance measuring device capable of distinguishing between a reflection from fog or the like and a reflection from an actually existing object in an environment such as fog. The invention is a distance measuring device including a light-emitting element 12 that transmits a signal, a light-receiving element 15 that receives a signal transmitted by the light-emitting element 12 and reflected by an object, and outputs a reception signal corresponding to a received signal strength, a comparator 19 that outputs a first signal equal to or greater than a first threshold value with respect to signal strength and a second signal equal to or greater than a second threshold value higher than the first threshold value from the reception signal, and a signal processing unit 10 that distinguishes the reception signal as valid or invalid or not from a relationship between a first time span from when the first signal becomes equal to or greater than the first threshold value until the first signal becomes less than the first threshold value and a second time span from when the second signal becomes equal to or greater than the second threshold value until the second signal becomes less than the second threshold value.
US11719823B2
An autonomous vehicle having a LIDAR system mounted thereon or incorporated therein is described. The LIDAR system has N channels, with each channel being a light emitter/light detector pair. A computing system identifies M channels that are to be active during a scan of the LIDAR system, wherein M is less than N. The computing system transmits a command signal to the LIDAR system, and the LIDAR system performs a scan with the M channels being active (and N-M channels being inactive). The LIDAR system constructs a point cloud based upon the scan, and the computing system controls the autonomous vehicle based upon the point cloud.
US11719807B2
Systems and devices for phase-accurate vehicle positioning are disclosed. These systems and devices facilitate high-precision estimations of positions, orientations, velocities, and accelerations of signal nodes in a distributed network (e.g., including base stations and vehicles, such as aircraft or unmanned aerial systems (UASs)). The positioning estimations are based on time-of-arrival estimations of low-bandwidth signals and a phase-accurate distributed coherence algorithm. In some cases, the low-bandwidth signals may further facilitate joint communications and positioning estimations between the signal nodes.
US11719806B2
The embodiments described herein provide ranging capabilities in RF-opaque environments, such as a jungle, utilizing transponders located on a property line. In particular, the embodiments described herein provide for determining a perpendicular distance to a property line from a ranging device. The transponders are located on the property line and a separated from each other by a known distance. The ranging device transmits RF signals to the transponders, which are received by the transponders and re-broadcasted back to the ranging device on a different frequency. The ranging device uses information about the transmitted and received RF signals and the known distance to calculate a perpendicular distance from the ranging device to the property line.
US11719799B2
A computer implemented method is provided for determining a collision free space in front of a host vehicle. A plurality of limiting points is detected via a detection system of the host vehicle, wherein each limiting point is located at a respective obstacle free distance with respect to the vehicle. A dynamic grid is formed in front of the host vehicle, wherein the dynamic grid is based on the course of a lane being determined in front of the host vehicle via the detection system of the host vehicle, and wherein the dynamic grid comprises a plurality of cells. An obstacle free subset of the cells is determined based on the plurality of limiting points, wherein the obstacle free subset of the cells defines the collision free space in front of a host vehicle.
US11719790B2
An electromagnetic wave detection apparatus (10) includes a separation unit (16), a first detector (17), a switch (18), and a second detector (20). The separation unit (16) separates incident electromagnetic waves so that the electromagnetic waves propagate in a first direction (d1) and a second direction (d2). The first detector (17) detects the electromagnetic waves that propagate in the first direction (d1). The switch (18) includes a plurality of switching elements (se). The switching elements (se) are capable of switching the propagation direction of the electromagnetic waves that propagate in the second direction (d2) to a third direction (d3) and a fourth direction (d4). The second detector (20) detects the electromagnetic waves that propagate in the third direction (d3).
US11719782B2
A method includes communicating first and second signals between a first node and a second node, where the first signal includes a sonic signal and the second signal includes an electromagnetic signal. The method also includes using the electromagnetic signal to one of start or stop a timer and using the sonic signal to another of stop or start the timer. The method further includes identifying a one-way time-of-flight associated with the sonic signal traveling between the first and second nodes using the timer. The one-way time-of-flight associated with the sonic signal is indicative of a distance between the nodes.
US11719781B2
The location system includes two measurers apart from each other and configured to measure first and second variables in accordance with times of arrival of radio waves and first reception strengths, respectively; a memory configured to store first data associating a plurality of zones with first and second reference variables corresponding to times of arrivals of radio waves with respect to the two measurers for a case where the radio waves are transmitted from the plurality of zones, and second data associating the plurality of zones with first and second reference reception strengths with respect to the two measurers for the case where the radio waves are transmitted from the plurality of zones; and a processor configured to identify from among the plurality of zones a zone having a highest probability of including a position from where radio waves are transmitted.
US11719778B1
Methods and systems generate synthetic late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) magnetic resonance images using a magnetic resonance fingerprinting (MRF) acquisition. From a single acquisition, MRF image data is obtained, including co-registered T1 and T2 tissue property maps. Different tissue regions of interest are identified, such as viable myocardium, scar, and blood and T1 and T2 values for each are determined. Based on these, different sets of pulse sequence parameters are determined, e.g., using different synthetic image contrast models receiving the MRF image data. Synthetic LGE images at different contrasts are generated as a result, including a synthetic bright-blood LGE image, a synthetic dark-blood/gray-blood LGE image, and a synthetic optimized imaged.
US11719769B1
A sensor includes a first sensing element configured to sense a parameter and generate a first sensing element output signal indicative of the parameter, a first front end element configured to receive the first sensing element output signal and to generate a first front end signal, a second sensing element configured to sense the parameter and generate a second sensing element output signal indicative of the parameter, a second front end element configured to receive the second sensing element output signal and to generate a second front end signal, a difference block configured to receive the first and second front end signals and generate a difference signal indicative of a difference between the first and second front end signals, an absolute value block configured to receive the difference signal and generate an absolute difference signal indicative of an absolute value of the difference signal, and an offset comparator configured to compare the absolute difference signal to an offset threshold to detect whether a difference between an offset associated with the first front end signal and an offset associated with the second front end signal is within a predetermined tolerance.
US11719758B2
A load abnormality detecting circuit for an inverter to detect abnormality of a load during an operation of the inverter which has a self-arc-extinguishing element as a switching element and a phase synchronizing loop controlling an output frequency to be a resonance frequency of the load, the load abnormality detecting circuit includes a phase shift detection part that detects a phase shift between a gate voltage signal controlling ON/OFF of the self-arc-extinguishing element and an output current of the inverter which is applied to the load, and that sends a first abnormal load signal based on the phase shift.
US11719755B2
A method of charging a battery, the method comprising the steps of: providing a charging current to the battery; determining a property of the battery substantially continuously during charging; and varying a property of the charging current in dependence on the determined property of the battery.
US11719754B2
A battery management system for integrated management of high and low voltage batteries may include: a control unit; a low voltage monitoring unit connected to the control unit, and configured to transmit a monitoring result for a low voltage battery to the control unit; and a high voltage monitoring unit including a plurality of sensing ICs connected to each other in a daisy chain manner, wherein at least one sensing IC of the plurality of sensing ICs is connected to the low voltage monitoring unit, and transmits a monitoring result for a high voltage battery to the control unit through the low voltage monitoring unit.
US11719747B2
An embedded logic analyzer of an integrated circuit includes a comparison block configured to generate a capture data signal and a plurality of comparison enable signals based on an input data signal from one of function blocks included in the integrated circuit such that the comparison enable signals are activated respectively based on different comparison conditions; an operation block configured to perform a logic operation on the comparison enable signals to generate a data enable signal indicating a data capture timing; and packer circuitry configured to generate a packer data signal including capture data and capture time information based on the capture data signal, the data enable signal and a time information signal.
US11719744B2
An inspection apparatus includes: an acquisition part configured to acquire first coordinate information indicating a position of an inspection object on a stage and a plurality of pieces of second coordinate information indicating positions of a plurality of temperature sensors on the stage when performing an inspection of the inspection object; a calculation part configured to calculate a Mahalanobis distance between a position specified by an average vector of the first coordinate information and the positions of the plurality of temperature sensors; a selection part configured to select at least one temperature sensor including a temperature sensor having a smallest Mahalanobis distance, among the plurality of temperature sensors; and a controller configured to control a temperature of the inspection object using temperature data measured by the selected at least one temperature sensor.
US11719743B2
A method and apparatus for conducting burn-in testing of semiconductors is provided. A semiconductor device under test (DUT) with a plurality of contact pads is placed into a seal carrier. The seal carrier is then placed within a plurality of first inner walls of an outer housing of a burn-in testing apparatus that is fastened to a cold plate through a printed circuit board (PCB). The seal carrier has a plurality of second inner walls that define a recessed cavity. A lid is placed over the seal carrier and fastened to the outer housing to seal the recessed cavity. The recessed cavity is pneumatically pressurized to force the contact pads of the semiconductor DUT into electrical contact with a plurality of resiliently compressible pins of a socket of the PCB. The socket is then energized to conduct a burn-in test of the semiconductor DUT.
US11719731B2
Provided are a method, apparatus and system for measuring a resistance parameter of a grounding system, and a monitoring network. The method comprises: inputting a driving current into a plurality of sections of a grounding system path (S602), wherein the grounding system path comprises at least a grounded apparatus, a grounding body, and a downlead connecting the grounded apparatus and the grounding body; measuring response voltages generated by the plurality of sections, and acquiring a response current flowing through the downlead (S604); and determining a resistance parameter of the grounding system path according to the driving current, the response voltages and the response current (S606).
US11719727B1
A computing system obtains test data for a particle source. The test data was generated by the particle source when the particle source was caused to emit particles. The test data comprises a first set of measurements of a first type and a second set of measurements of a second type. The computing system applies a data agnostic predictive model to the test data. The data agnostic predictive model is generated without a parametric analysis of variables of the first type and variables of the second type. The data agnostic predictive model outputs, based upon the test data, a value that is indicative of whether or not the test data is abnormal. Based upon the value, the computing system outputs an indication that the particle source was operating sub-optimally when emitting the particles.
US11719725B2
In embodiments, it is provided an integrated device for providing a measure of a quantity dependent on current through an electrical conductor, having: a sensing and processing sub-system; an electrical conductor to conduct a current; an insulating material encapsulating the sensing and processing sub-system and maintaining the electrical conductor in a fixed and spaced relationship to the sensing and processing sub-system, wherein the insulating material is configured to insulate the electrical conductor from the sensing and processing sub-system; sensing circuitry comprising a plurality of magnetic field sensing elements arranged on the sensing and processing sub-system adjacent to the electrical conductor, wherein the sensing circuitry is configured to provide a measure of the quantity as a weighted sum and/or difference of outputs of the magnetic field sensing elements caused by the current flowing through the electrical conductor adjacent to the plurality of magnetic field sensing elements; a voltage sensing input for sensing a measure of voltage associated with the current conductor; and output circuitry on the sensing and processing sub-system arranged to provide an output measure of the quantity from the sensed measure of current and sensed measure of voltage.
US11719722B2
According to one embodiment, a sensor includes a base including a first face, and a first structure body fixed to the first face. The first structure body includes first and second support portions, a first movable portion, and a first fixed electrode. The first support portion is fixed to the first surface. The second support portion is fixed to the first face and provided around the first support portion. The first movable portion is supported by the first and second support portions and apart from the base. The first fixed electrode is fixed to the first face. The first movable portion includes a first movable electrode and a first conductive member. A first current is configured to flow the first conductive member. The first fixed electrode faces the first movable electrode. A first gap is provided between the first fixed electrode and the first movable portion.
US11719721B2
A test-and-measurement probe (200) for a test-and-measurement instrument (101), the test-and-measurement probe having a probe head (103) and a touchscreen user interface (250). The probe head is configured to obtain a signal from a device under test. The touchscreen user interface is configured to visually convey test-and-measurement information to a user and to accept user touch input. In embodiments, the touchscreen user interface is removably connected to a compbox (105) of the test-and-measurement probe, through a wired connection or wirelessly.
US11719720B2
Disclosed is a spring probe, which comprises a needle tube, a needle with a tail end clamped in the needle tube and capable of moving axially along the needle tube, and a spring arranged between the front end of the needle and the inner bottom of the needle tube and applying thrust to the needle. The open end of the needle tube is circumferentially provided with a plurality of elastic sheets with elasticity. The inner sides of the elastic sheets are provided with first flanges for preventing the needle from separating from the needle tube. The first flanges are pressed against the outer wall of the needle under the action of the elastic force of the elastic sheets. The outer wall of the tail end of the needle head is provided with a second flange which can abut against the first flanges under the action of the spring.
US11719717B2
A whispering gallery mode inertial sensor includes a whispering gallery mode resonator; an evanescent coupler configured to couple with an evanescent field of the resonator so that light is transmitted to and received from the resonator by the coupler; a displacement sensor configured to determine a displacement of the resonator according to the light received from the resonator by the coupler; a controller configured to determine an acceleration and/or rate of rotations experienced by the resonator based on the displacement of the resonator, the controller being further configured to apply a restoring force to the resonator in a closed feedback loop based on the displacement of the resonator in order to maintain a predetermined mechanical state of the resonator; and a timing sensor configured to determine a timing signal based on an optical frequency comb produced by the resonator.
US11719713B2
A skewer-type gripper for one-sidedly receiving a test sample positioned in a defined manner and still compressed by plungers in a punching device and consisting of viscoelastic materials with an upper side and an edge area. The gripper has a base and skewer-type means arranged in a plane therein, which can pierce into the edge area of the still compressed test sample parallel to the upper side. The skewer-type means are configured in such a way that the test sample can be received and held in a torque-proof manner by the skewer-type means. The gripper is configured and set up for horizontally receiving the test sample from a punching device, and the gripper or skewer-type means can be exposed to a feed force for this purpose.
US11719710B2
The present disclosure relates to the field of laboratory diagnostics. Specifically, means and methods are disclosed for determining a patient's risk of suffering from acute kidney injury after a surgical procedure based on the detection of GDF-15, troponin T and/or a natriuretic peptide.
US11719704B2
The present disclosure relates to the characterization and production of biologics.
US11719699B2
Antibodies, compositions, systems, and methods for detecting C4.4a, for example immunohistochemistry methods for detecting C4.4a using a C4.4a antibody. The antibody may be obtained by immunizing a host with a C4.4a protein such as a peptide downstream of the signal peptide. The antibodies may be adapted to detect the uPAR-like domain 1 and uPAR-like domain 2. Also featured are methods for diagnosing C4.4a-associated tumors using C4.4a antibodies disclosed herein.
US11719691B2
Light harvesting luminescent multichromophores that are configured upon excitation to transfer energy to, and amplify the emission from, an acceptor signaling chromophore in energy-receiving proximity therewith are provided. Also provided are compositions for labelling a target. The labelling composition may include a donor light harvesting multichromophore and an acceptor signaling chromophore in energy-receiving proximity to the donor light harvesting multichromophore. Also provided is an aqueous composition for labelling a target, including: a donor light harvesting multichromophore; an acceptor signaling chromophore in energy-receiving proximity therewith; and a sensor biomolecule. Methods for using the subject compositions are also provided.
US11719686B2
A system for measuring cellular forces exerted on a surface comprising: a deformable sensor that has a deformable surface adapted to deform on application of a cellular force, and an optical detector for optically detecting deformation of the surface.
US11719683B2
Systems and methods for generating pressure data from at least two pressure sensors, storing one or more parameters indicative of water cut in a neural network model, receiving pressure data from at least the two pressure sensors respectively indicative of the pressure at two points of a well bore, determining a pressure drop between the two points, generating an input water cut estimate, estimating a dynamic pressure loss to initiate an iterative process, estimating a potential energy loss, inverse modeling a water cut estimate, comparing the water cut estimate to the input water cut estimate to generate a water cut Δ, utilizing the water cut estimate as the input water cut estimate for the iterative process when the water cut Δ exceeds a threshold, and continuing the iterative process until the water cut Δ is below the threshold.
US11719677B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for integrating a monitoring system with one or more air quality sensors. The method includes receiving data indicating a level of volatile organic compounds within an area, determining an increase in the level of volatile organic compounds within the area, receiving video data that shows the area, detecting, from the video data, a new item of furniture within the area, sending a notification that indicates an increase in the level of volatile organic compounds is likely caused by the new item of furniture.
US11719671B2
A method of distinguishing between a first-type touch event and a second-type touch event is disclosed. A force-measuring and touch-sensing system includes piezoelectric force-measuring elements (PFEs) and piezoelectric ultrasonic transducers (PUTs), wherein each PUT can be configured as a transmitter (PUT transmitter) and/or a receiver (PUT receiver). The force-measuring and touch-sensing system is configured at a sense region. Each PUT transmitter transmits ultrasound signals towards the sense region and voltage signals are generated at the PUT receivers in response to ultrasound signals arriving from the sense region. Voltage signals are generated at PFEs in response to a low-frequency mechanical deformation of the respective piezoelectric capacitors. An event is determined to be a first-type touch event or a second-type touch event depending on a PUT data decrease and a magnitude of PFE data.
US11719670B2
A predictive diagnostics system for monitoring mechanical seals. The system autonomously detects a loss of lubrication within a sliding seal interface of a mechanical seal, the system including a loss of lubrication failure mode logic module configured to monitor data sensed by one or more sensors and diagnose conditions relating to a loss of lubrication within the sliding seal interface, and a plurality of other failure mode logic modules configured to monitor data sensed by the one or more sensors and diagnose conditions relating to specific types of mechanical failures known to occur in mechanical seal systems, the loss of lubrication failure mode logic module configured to determine which of the plurality of other failure mode logic modules are activated during the diagnosis of conditions related to a loss of lubrication within the sliding seal interface.
US11719669B2
A device for determining information of a substance in a matter comprising a substrate layer; an inter-layer dielectric disposed on the substrate layer; an electronic circuitry substantially formed in the inter-layer dielectric and includes a plurality of metal layers with at least one metal layer being used as an inner electrode, a sensing instrument having at least one sensing component that includes a piezoelectric layer and the inner electrode that is positioned adjacent to an inner surface of the piezoelectric layer, and at least one binding layer disposed on the inter-layer dielectric for binding the substance, wherein the sensing component allows the device to determine the information of the substance upon detecting presence of the substance at the binding layer.
US11719665B2
The present application provides a package structure for a chemical system, which comprises an inner glue frame and a first outer glue frame. The inner glue frame forms an accommodating space for accommodating a chemical system. The first outer glue frame is further disposed outside the inner glue frame and used for isolating the ambient environment and thus avoiding the influence of the ambient environment on the chemical system. A second outer glue frame is further disposed for avoiding damages such as side bumps and falls of the chemical system or contact with foreign metals. Thereby, the performance of the chemical system can be maintained.
US11719650B2
A smart conversion and calibration of the defect coordinate, diagnosis, sampling system and the method thereof for manufacturing fab are provided. The intelligent defect diagnosis method includes receiving pluralities of defect data, design layout data, analyzing the defect data, design layouts, by a Critical Area Analysis (CAA) system. The method utilizes the precisely calibrated coordinate, the defect layout pattern, and the higher accurate calibrated defect size value. So, a more precise killer defect index can be generated with calibrated coordinate deviation calibration and defect size deviation calibration. When judging a defect relating to short circuit or open circuit failure probability, the defect failure result is more accurate and less incorrect judgment.
US11719649B2
A smart conversion and calibration of the defect coordinate, diagnosis, sampling system and the method thereof for manufacturing fab is provided. The intelligent defect diagnosis method includes receiving pluralities of defect data, design layout data, analyzing the defect data, design layouts, by a Critical Area Analysis (CAA) system. The method utilizes the precisely calibrated coordinate, the defect layout pattern, and the higher accurate calibrated defect size value. So, a more precise killer defect index can be generated with calibrated coordinate deviation calibration and defect size deviation calibration. When judging a defect relating to short circuit or open circuit failure probability, the defect failure result is more accurate and less incorrect judgment.
US11719647B2
Methods and systems are disclosed for analyzing one or more images of a textile to determine a presence or absence of defects. In one example, an image of at least a portion of a textile may be obtained and compared to a reference image of a reference textile. Based on the comparison, one or more areas indicative of a height variation between the textile and the reference textile may be determined. An action may be performed based on the one or more areas indicative of the height variation.
US11719646B1
In one embodiment, a method for mapping pipes under inspection includes generating, from a video inspection camera inserted into a pipe, one or more images of the interior of the pipe, generating video camera velocity data, and determining, based at least in part on the one or more images and the velocity data, an estimation of the interior size of the pipe.
US11719644B2
Disclosed is a composite particle for use in a marking that is suitable for identification/authentication purposes. The particle comprises at least one superparamagnetic portion and at least one thermoluminescent portion and optionally also a thermoconductive portion between the superparamagnetic and thermoluminscent portions.
US11719642B2
A hand-held microfluidic testing device is provided that includes a housing having a cartridge receiving port, a cartridge for input to the cartridge receiving port having a sample input and a channel, where the channel includes a mixture of Raman-scattering nanoparticles and a calibration solution, where the calibration solution includes chemical compounds capable of interacting with a sample under test input to the cartridge and the Raman-scattering nanoparticles, and an optical detection system in the housing, where the optical detection system is capable of providing an illuminated electric field, where the illuminating electric field is capable of being used for Raman spectroscopy with the Raman-scattering nanoparticles and the calibration solution to analyze the sample under test input to the cartridge.
US11719639B2
Some aspects relate to an integrated circuit, comprising at least one photodetection region configured to generate charge carriers responsive to incident photons emitted from a sample, at least one charge storage region configured to receive the charge carriers from the photodetection region, and at least one controller configured to obtain information about the incident photons, the information comprising at least one member selected from the group comprising pulse duration and interpulse duration and at least one member selected from the group comprising wavelength information, luminescence lifetime information, and intensity information. In some embodiments, the information comprises at least three, four, and/or five members selected from the group comprising wavelength information, luminescence lifetime information, intensity information, pulse duration information, and interpulse duration information. In some embodiments, the information obtained may be used to identify the sample.
US11719636B2
An integrated circuit includes a photodetection region configured to receive incident photons. The photodetection region is configured to produce a plurality of charge carriers in response to the incident photons. The integrated circuit also includes at least one charge carrier storage region. The integrated circuit also includes a charge carrier segregation structure configured to selectively direct charge carriers of the plurality of charge carriers into the at least one charge carrier storage region based upon times at which the charge carriers are produced.
US11719626B2
Ultra-miniature spatial heterodyne spectrometers (SHSs) are presented. Ultra-miniature SHSs in accordance with the invention, comprise a beam-splitter and gratings configured to generate a fringe pattern for spectroscopic detection. Many embodiments include input optics and a sensor and are configured in a way to omit collimating optics and imaging optics from the SHS. Compared to conventional SHSs known in the art, the present invention enables fewer parts, significantly smaller and lighter SHSs, are more efficient and robust, and require less maintenance. Many embodiments are field-deployable, in that such embodiments can be deployed for hand held use in real-world or remote activities outside of research or diagnostic facilities.
US11719624B2
The present invention relates to a liquid immersion micro-channel measurement device and measurement method which are based on trapezoidal incident structure prism incident-type silicon, and according to one embodiment of the present invention, the liquid immersion micro-channel measurement device based on trapezoidal incident structure prism incident-type silicon comprises: a micro-channel structure including a support and at least one micro-channel, which is formed on the support and has a sample detection layer to which a first bioadhesive material for detecting a first sample is fixed; a quadrangular pyramid-shaped prism formed on the upper part of the micro-channel structure; a sample injection unit for injecting, into the micro-channel, a buffer solution containing the first sample; a polarized light generation unit for emitting incident light polarized through the prism on the micro-channel at an incident angle that satisfies a p-wave non-reflection condition; and a polarized light detection unit for detecting, from the polarized incident light, a polarization change in a first refection light reflected from the sample detection layer, wherein the prism completely reflects, from the polarized incident light incident on the prism, on an upper boundary surface of the prism, second reflection light reflected from a lower boundary surface of the prism and a boundary surface of the buffer solution injected into the micro-channel.
US11719623B2
The present invention belongs to the technical field of new energy detection, in particular to a material uniformity detection device and method. The purpose of the present invention is to provide a material uniformity detection device which can meet the requirement of detection of diversified materials such as biomass slurry aiming at the problem of difficulty in quantifying uniformity state of the biomass slurry. The sample pool is driven by the rotating lifting device for lifting and spiral motion, data collection is performed on the sample pool in the form of a certain path, and an image is established for the relationship between a large number of light intensity values of transmission light and heights measured for multiple times to respectively display the uniformity of horizontal layering and uniformity in the vertical direction, to judge the overall uniformity of the material samples.
US11719613B2
A method for quantifying viscoelasticity of a medium includes: obtaining a position-time graph of vibration propagation after the medium is subjected to a vibration excitation, determining an angle with maximum signal energy in the position-time graph by using angle projection, where the angle with the maximum signal energy corresponds to a slope of the position-time graph and the slope of the position-time graph is the propagation velocity of the vibration in the medium. Since the propagation velocity of the vibration in the medium is related to the viscoelasticity of the medium, a viscoelasticity parameter of the medium can be quantitatively calculated after the slope of the position-time graph is obtained. The method does not need to select a feature point from the position-time graph to calculate the slope of the position-time graph, and can efficiently and accurately quantifies viscoelasticity of the medium.
US11719602B2
A method that may include obtaining environmental parameters related to one or more routes of a trip for a first vehicle system, and determining one or more expenditure sections and one or more charging sections of the one or more routes by predicting where the first vehicle system will consume energy and where the first vehicle system will generate the energy, respectively, during the trip based on the environmental parameters. A first trip plan may be obtained for the trip based on the one or more expenditure sections and the one or more charging sections, the trip plan designating one or more operational settings for the first vehicle system for travel during the trip.
US11719595B2
The disclosure discloses a testing device and a testing system for testing high-pressure and large-scale gap dynamic sealing performance of a plunger sleeve. The testing device includes two cylinders, first and second plunger rods and a piston rod. A first chamber is formed between an end of the first plunger rod and a first cylinder, and a second chamber is formed between an end of the second plunger rod and a second cylinder. The first chamber and the second chamber are provided with high-pressure liquid, and the two chambers communicate with each other. When being driven by a driving device, the piston rod drives the first and second plunger rods to reciprocate left and right. The plunger sleeve and a locking plunger sleeve are disposed outside each of the first and second plunger rods. The locking plunger sleeve has a leakage port. When the first and second plunger rods reciprocate, the high-pressure liquid in the chambers leaks from the leakage port.
US11719587B2
A sensing device including a first stator tooth with a plurality of first teeth, a second stator tooth with a plurality of second teeth, in which the first tooth overlaps the second tooth in a radial direction from a center of the stator, and a first angle formed between two ends of a first pole of a magnet based on the center of the stator is the same as a second angle formed between two ends of the first tooth based on the center of the stator.
US11719581B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a bolometer having a high TCR value and a low resistance, and a method for manufacturing the same. The present invention relates to a bolometer manufacturing method including: fabricating a set of two carbon nanotube wires that are approximately parallel to each other at edges of a line shape, or fabricating a circular shape carbon nanotube wire at a circular circumference of a circular shape, by applying a semiconducting carbon nanotube dispersion liquid in the line shape or the circular shape on a substrate, and drying the dispersion liquid, a width of each wire being 5 μm or more; and connecting a part of each wire to a first electrode and a second electrode.
US11719578B2
A computer-implemented method for identifying an effect pigment, the method comprising executing, on at least one processor of at least one computer, steps of: a) acquiring sample image data describing a digital image of a layer comprising a sample effect pigment b) determining, based on the sample image data, sparkle point data describing a sample distribution of sparkle points defined by the digital image, wherein the sample distribution is defined in an N-dimensional color space, wherein N is an integer value equal to or larger than 3; c) determining, based on the sparkle point data, sparkle point transformation data describing a transformation of the sample distribution into an (N−1)-dimensional color space; d) determining, based on the sparkle point transformation data, sparkle point distribution geometry data describing a geometry of the sample distribution; e) acquiring reference distribution geometry data describing a geometry of a reference distribution of sparkle points in the (N−1)-dimensional color space; f) acquiring reference distribution association data describing an association between the reference distribution and an identifier of the reference distribution; g) determining, based on the sparkle point distribution geometry data and the reference distribution geometry data and the reference distribution association data, sample pigment identity data describing an identity of the sample effect pigment.
US11719572B2
A method of monitoring ultraviolet radiation reflectance is provided for activating an ultraviolet radiation reflectance digital sensor and display monitor; capturing ultraviolet radiation reflectance passing through a lens onto the digital senor; analyzing ultraviolet radiation reflectance against a preloaded and predetermined color palate; generating a video image; and outputting the video image to the display monitor. A device is also provided for an ultraviolet radiation reflectance monitoring application which receives data from an ultraviolet radiation sensitive digital imaging plate installed on the device; wherein the application processes data received from the digital imaging plate and generates an output image of ultraviolet radiation reflectance to a video monitor communicatively connected to the device.
US11719567B2
A method for controlling an electronic scale in disclosed in this disclosure, which is applied to measure and indicate a state of an external force, comprises the following steps. A weight sensor detects the external force, and a controller drives a prompting device to emit a first light with a first optical characteristic when the external force detected by the weight sensor reaches a first weight. The controller drives the prompting device to emit a second light with a second optical characteristic when the prompting device emits the first light for a predetermined period, wherein the prompting device continuously emits the second light until the external force reaches a second weight.
US11719562B2
An adapter for installing a sensor, more particularly designed as a fire alarm, has a sensor housing which can be connected to a building and is designed to accommodate electrical and/or electronic components of the sensor. To simplify and accelerate the installation, an adapter is designed to be connected, by way of a direct installation technique, to the building by means of an adapter top side and to the sensor by means of an adapter bottom side.
US11719558B2
A linear encoder for numeric-control machine tools is provided that includes: a substantially rectilinear section-bar, which is adapted to be fixed on the structure of the machine tool; a substantially rectilinear scale strip, which is fixed on the section-bar so as to extend along the section-bar parallel to the section-bar longitudinal axis; a movable slider which is fitted/mounted on the section-bar so as to be able to move along the section-bar parallel to the section-bar longitudinal axis and skimming the scale strip, and which is adapted to be rigidly fixed to the movable piece of the machine tool; an electronic reading apparatus which is at least partially placed aboard the movable slider and is adapted to read the position of the movable slider on the scale strip; and a thermal-stabilization device which is adapted to bring and maintain substantially the whole scale strip stably at a predetermined target temperature.
US11719556B2
A position detection device includes a magnetic field generator and a magnetic sensor. The magnetic field generator is configured so that a mode of variation of a direction of a target magnetic field relative to variations in a position of a lens is such that the direction of the target magnetic field varies nonlinearly relative to the variations in the position of the lens. The magnetic sensor is configured so that a mode of variation of a detection signal relative to variations in the direction of the target magnetic field is such that the detection signal varies nonlinearly relative to the variations in the direction of the target magnetic field.
US11719552B2
An information providing apparatus is configured to be used in a target vehicle and display power feeding facilities on a map, the target vehicle being configured such that a vehicle-mounted battery can be charged with DC power supplied from outside the target vehicle. The information providing apparatus is configured to display an electrical outlet-type AC stand on the map in a manner of being distinguished from a cable-equipped AC stand, when the target vehicle is a vehicle not including an AC charger and a prescribed first condition is satisfied. In contrast, the information providing apparatus is configured to display the electrical outlet-type AC stand and the cable-equipped AC stand on the map without distinguishing between the electrical outlet-type AC stand and the cable-equipped AC stand, when the target vehicle is a vehicle including the AC charger and a prescribed second condition is satisfied.
US11719547B2
A computer-implemented method for determining whether an electric vehicle (EV) requires a current charge. The method analyzes a set of EV data, wherein the set of EV data comprises a battery level, a destination, a current position, and a predicted arrival time to the destination. The method further constructs a charging regulation model for the EV, based on the analyzed set of EV data. The method further computes a risk score pertaining to charging the EV, based on the constructed charging regulation model for the EV, and determines whether the EV requires a current charge based on the computed risk score. The method further engages one or more wireless charging points on a roadway, if the computed risk score is below a threshold value.
US11719545B2
Methods and systems for assessing, detecting, and responding to malfunctions involving components of autonomous vehicle and/or smart homes are described herein. Autonomous operation features and related components can be assessed using direct or indirect data regarding operation. Such assessment may be performed to determine the condition of components for salvage following a collision or other loss-event. To this end, the information regarding a plurality of components may be received. A component of the plurality of components may be identified for assessment. Assessment may including causing test signals to be sent to the identified component. In response to the test signal, one or more responses may be received. The received response may be compared to an expected response to determine whether the identified component is salvageable.
US11719540B2
A microelectromechanical system (MEMS) gyroscope sensor has a sensing mass and a quadrature error compensation control loop for applying a force to the sensing mass to cancel quadrature error. To detect fault, the quadrature error compensation control loop is opened and an additional force is applied to produce a physical displacement of the sensing mass. A quadrature error resulting from the physical displacement of the sensing mass in response to the applied additional force is sensed. The sensed quadrature error is compared to an expected value corresponding to the applied additional force and a fault alert is generated if the comparison is not satisfied.
US11719533B2
A method for imaging overlay targets on a wafer includes (1) using a sensor to acquire images of overlay targets on a wafer while the wafer is in motion and (2) accelerating and decelerating the wafer to move the overlay targets into alignment with the sensor between acquiring images of the overlay targets. Accelerating/decelerating the wafer may include: (1) accelerating the wafer at a maximum acceleration and then decelerating the wafer at a maximum deceleration, (2) accelerating/decelerating the wafer in a triangular waveform pattern, (3) accelerating/decelerating the wafer in a sinusoidal pattern, or (4) accelerating/decelerating the wafer in a near-sinusoidal pattern (created by combining a pure sinusoidal profile with one or more harmonic profiles). A system is also provided for implementing the above method(s).
US11719531B2
A holographic interferometer, comprising: an imaging device capturing an interference pattern created by at least two polarized light beams; a structured phase retardation element located in an optical path of at least one polarized light beam of the at least two polarized light beams; and a polarizer located between the imaging device and the structured phase retardation element, the polarizer projects each polarization of each of the at least two polarized light beams on a single axis to create the interference pattern on the imaging device.
US11719527B2
In one aspect, an angle sensor includes magnetic-field sensing elements that include a first pair, a second pair, a third pair and a fourth pair of magnetic-field sensing elements; and processing circuitry configured to determine an angle of a rotating ring magnetic having a plurality of North-South pole pairs each having a unique period length. The processing circuitry includes a first bridge formed from the first and second pairs of magnetic-field sensing elements and a second bridge formed from the third and fourth pairs of magnetic-field sensing elements. The angle includes a value from 0° to 360°. The first, second, third and fourth pairs of magnetic-field sensing elements are each disposed on a first axis. The first, second, third and fourth pairs of magnetic-field sensing elements each have a sensitivity in a first direction along the first axis. The angle sensor is formed on a single die.
US11719516B2
Liners (150), fittings (11-22), and spacers (23-25) are provided to assemble the jet (170) units, which work as explosives (110) and detonators (120) to form stand-off distance and air-deck (140) space. The liners (150) release jets (170) and the fittings (11-22) and spacers (23-25) are designed to attach the liner (150) firmly to the explosives (110), inducing the cavity effect. The objective of the present invention is to provide a blasting method using a jet (170) unit to overcome the limits of sympathetic detonation, applying a mechanism that is ideal according to the analysis of observations in blast-hole (100) blasting. The application of jet (170) units for jet (170) detonation in blast-hole (100) blasting overcomes the performance limits of explosives (110) manufacturing and the conceptual limits of detonators (120) functionalities and improves the channel effect, dead pressing, loss of power, and stopping of detonation etc. Particularly, the application of controlled blasting and air-decking can be carried out without restriction while maintaining the safety of the slurry or emulsion explosives (110).
US11719512B2
The present application provides a remote-controlled gun, comprising a gun base, a gun body, an angle adjustment device, a camera, and a remote controller, wherein the angle adjustment device is connected with the gun body and the gun base, and configured for adjusting a pitch shooting angle of the gun body with respect to the gun base in a vertical plane and a left and right swing angle of the gun body with respect to the gun base in a horizontal plane; the camera is configured for monitoring a shooting target and a front sight of the gun body; the remote controller is connected with the camera and configured for displaying a monitoring image of the camera; and the remote controller is also connected with the angle adjustment device and configured for controlling the gun body to rotate with respect to the gun base until the front sight is aligned with the shooting target within a monitoring area; and the remote controller is also connected with the gun body, and configured for controlling the shooting of the gun body. Compared with the prior arts, this remote-controlled gun makes the user's shooting behavior be changed from operation at site to remote operation, which greatly increases the safety of use; the flexibility of operation be greatly increased, the user can concentrate on a screen of the remote controller to find a target; the aiming be improved, without the need to aim by a naked eye and manual firing, reducing effects due to human factors.
US11719509B2
A projectile launch detector, including a body, a mast and a blade rigidly connected to the mast; the mast being capable of sliding between a retracted configuration and a deployed configuration, and capable of pivoting between a first and a second angular position. The detector may further includes a first elastic return element to return the mast to the deployed configuration relative to the body; and a first associated sensor; and a second elastic return element to return the mast to the first angular position relative to the body; and a second associated sensor.
US11719507B2
A toy projectile launcher having a projectile drum, a cocking slide, and a housing is disclosed. The projectile drum contains projectile holders that are adapted to hold a projectile, such as a foam dart. The cocking slide can be moved forward and backward. The housing houses a launch barrel and an air piston assembly. When the cocking slide is moved backward the air piston barrel moves backward, the launch barrel is moved forward away from a first projectile holder in the plurality to facilitate loading of a projectile into a holder. When the cocking slide is moved forward an air nozzle forms an airtight seal between the air piston barrel and the projectile holder, while the launch barrel is moved backward to form an airtight seal between the projectile holder and the launch barrel.
US11719499B1
A trigger assembly apparatus for a firearm which allows adjustment of the pre-travel distance a trigger travels before initiating a firing sequence and method of making the pre-travel adjustment using the apparatus disclosed herein. The apparatus generally comprises a trigger and a trigger bow, with the trigger bow having at least one threaded receptacle in a front lateral portion thereof. The pre-travel adjustment can be achieved by rotating a threaded fastener within the threaded receptacle and the method of adjusting the pre-travel can be accomplished without complete disassembly of the firearm.
US11719498B2
In the case of a trigger device for a buttstock loader including a trigger rod for triggering an impact device of the buttstock loader with a first end of the trigger rod, it is suggested that the trigger device further includes a trigger lever, wherein the trigger rod is at least indirectly connected to the trigger lever by means of a pivot joint, wherein the trigger lever includes a trigger tongue and an extension wherein the pivot joint is arranged substantially between the trigger tongue and the extension, wherein the extension comprises a first abutment surface for at least indirectly abutting against a second abutment surface of the buttstock loader, so that upon actuation of the trigger tongue with a first force the trigger rod moves with a second force, which second force is greater than the first force, in the direction of the first end of the trigger rod.
US11719495B2
A plate heat exchanger includes heat transfer plates having openings at four corners thereof, having outer wall portions at their edges, and stacked together. The heat transfer plates are partially brazed together such that a first flow passage for first fluid and a second flow passage for second fluid are alternately arranged, with a heat transfer plate interposed between these flow passages, the openings communicating with each other, forming a first header allowing the first fluid to flow into and out of the first flow passage and a second header allowing the second fluid to flow into and out of the second flow passage. One heat transfer plate located between the first or second flow passage is formed by stacking two metal plates. Space between the metal plates includes a fine flow passage located within a heat exchange region, and a peripheral leakage passage outward of the fine flow passage.
US11719492B2
A heat exchanger comprising a primary side; a secondary side; at least one primary structure on the primary side defining at least one primary space on the primary side; and at least one secondary structure on the secondary side defining at least one secondary space on the secondary side; wherein one or more of the at least one primary structure and one or more of the at least one secondary structure delimit a coolant volume separated from the at least one primary space and separated from the at least one secondary space; wherein one or more of the at least one primary structure and/or one or more of the at least one secondary structure comprises a three dimensional lattice body.
US11719491B2
A heat transfer member reinforcement structure includes a main body. The main body has a first side, a second side and a reinforcement member. The reinforcement member is selectively disposed between the first and second sides or inlaid in a sink formed on the first side. The reinforcement member is connected with the main body to enhance the structural strength of the main body.
US11719490B2
A loop heat pipe includes an evaporator to vaporizes a working fluid, a condenser to liquefy the working fluid, a liquid pipe to connect the evaporator and the condenser, and a vapor pipe to connect the evaporator and the condenser, and form a loop-shaped passage together with the liquid pipe. A recess is formed in at least a portion of an outer wall surface of a pipe wall of the evaporator, the condenser, the liquid pipe, and the vapor pipe.
US11719488B2
The present invention relates to a lyophilization process for preparing a teverelix-TFA lyophilizate, said process comprises the following steps: a) providing a lyophilization suspension by mixing teverelix and trifluoroacetate at a molar ratio sufficient for providing a microcrystalline teverelix-TFA suspension without formation of a gel, and b) lyophilizating the lyophilization suspension, thereby providing a teverelix-TFA lyophilizate. The process provides the possibility of obtaining a “pure” teverelix-TFA lyophilizate i.e. without any undesirable residues in the composition.
US11719478B2
An ice maker, according to the present invention, comprises: a first tray forming a part of an ice-making cell; a second tray forming another part the ice-making cell; and a heater which is disposed so as to be adjacent to the first or the second tray, wherein the heater turns on during a period when cold air is being supplied to the ice-making cell, and the output of the on heater can vary.
US11719466B2
A system and method for controlling power to a water heater. The method comprises providing the water heater in a locked state, wherein at least one heating element of the water heater is inoperable when the water heater is in the locked state, coupling a digital key module to a communications port of the water heater, and receiving a digital key from the digital key module through the communications port. The method comprises coupling an electrical grid controller to the water heater through the communications port and placing the water heater in an unlocked state, wherein the at least one heating element of the water heater is operable when the water heater is in the unlocked state.
US11719460B2
A network of wireless remote climate sensors in a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) system permits the creation of personalized microclimates within an enclosed space. In addition to collecting temperature and humidity data, the wireless remote climate sensors can detect whether the enclosed space is occupied by a human. Human detection is made possible by optional cameras, microphones, and gas sensors on the wireless remote climate sensors. As the human moves throughout the enclosed space, the HVAC system is able to track the human's movement using the wireless remote climate sensors. The HVAC system may adjust airflow to different portions of the enclosed space based on the human's location. The result is an efficient use of system resources to keep users at their ideal temperature.
US11719459B2
Aspects of the invention are directed towards a system and a method of controlling temperature of different zones inside premises based on determining an effective temperature set point. One or more dynamically sensed parameters are received from a plurality of sensors strategically placed within and outside of a building. One or more static parameters corresponding to building configurations and temperature thresholds from a memory unit are retrieved. A correlation engine determines the effective temperature set point for individual VAV controller associated with a particular pre-defined zone in the building by establishing a correlation between the one or more dynamically sensed parameters and static parameters corresponding to that zone. The effective temperature setpoint is transmitted to a VAV controller for associated zone.
US11719452B2
A controller of an HVAC system is communicatively coupled to a liquid-side sensor and a shutoff switch. The controller stores measurements of a liquid-side property over an initial period of time. The controller detects that the shutoff switch is tripped at a first time stamp corresponding to an end of the initial period of time. The controller accesses the measurements of the liquid-side property. The controller determines, based on the measurements of the liquid-side property, that the liquid-side property has an increasing trend. In response to determining that the liquid-side property has the increasing trend, a blockage of the refrigerant conduit subsystem is determined to have caused the shutoff switch to trip.
US11719451B2
A building system for detecting faults in an operation of building equipment. The building system comprising one or more memory devices configured to store instructions thereon that cause the one or more processors to perform a cumulative sum (CUSUM) analysis on actual building data and corresponding predicted building data to obtain cumulative sum values for a first plurality of times within a first time period; analyze cumulative sum values associated with a second plurality of times occurring before the first time to identify a second time of the second plurality of times at which a second cumulative sum value is at a local minimum; and determine that a first fault began at the second time.
US11719448B2
An air conditioner unit may include a housing, an outdoor heat exchanger assembly, an indoor heat exchanger assembly, a compressor, and a sterilization light assembly. The housing may define an indoor portion and an outdoor portion. The housing may further define an exhaust outlet downstream from the indoor portion to exhaust air therefrom. The outdoor heat exchanger assembly may be disposed in the outdoor portion and include an outdoor heat exchanger. The indoor heat exchanger assembly may be disposed in the indoor portion and include an indoor heat exchanger and an indoor fan. The compressor may be in fluid communication with the outdoor heat exchanger and the indoor heat exchanger to circulate a refrigerant between the outdoor heat exchanger and the indoor heat exchanger. The sterilization light assembly may be disposed within the indoor portion and directed at the indoor fan to transmit an ultraviolet light emission thereto.
US11719444B2
A water heater system includes a controller configured to integrate control of both recovery and recirculation operations of a recovery pump and a recirculation pump. As such, a separate device, installation location, and power source (e.g., available outlet) is not needed with the controller. Because a single controller is configured to control both recovery and recirculation operations, additional control functions are available. The controller may be in communication with an internal controller of the water heater and configured to receive an error notification upon abnormal operation of the water heater. The controller can stop recovery and recirculation operations in response to an error notification, unlike with traditional water heating systems which may otherwise continue to function. The recovery and recirculation operations are based on a setpoint temperature of the water heater such that changes made to the setpoint temperature will automatically adjust in the recovery and recirculation operations.
US11719418B2
A back panel for a lighting device includes a front panel holding portion, the front panel holding portion has a configuration capable of setting a size of a gap between a front panel held by the front panel holding portion and a panel main body to an arbitrary size.
US11719415B2
A method of manufacturing a wavelength conversion member includes: preparing a composite by layering a layered body and a ceramic sheet that includes a phosphor, the layered body including a pair of light-reflective green sheets each containing a reflective material, and a light-shielding green sheet containing a light shielding material with the light-shielding green sheet being layered between the pair of reflective green sheets; and pressurizing and firing the composite.
US11719406B2
The invention relates to a light module, in particular for a motor vehicle, comprising a light source capable of emitting light rays; a collector with a reflective surface configured to collect and reflect the light rays emitted by the light source into a light beam along an optical axis of the module; an optical system configured to project the light beam. The collector is configured so that a portion of the light rays of the light beam are parallel to the optical axis or have an angle of inclination α smaller than or equal to 25° in a vertical plane with respect to said axis; and the optical system is configured to form an image of the reflective surface of the collector. The invention also relates to a light device comprising one or more such light modules.
US11719401B1
An LED candle flame light has a base member and an LED candle flame light filament component which extends upwardly therefrom. An inner transparent cover having the same outline shape of the filament is formfitted around the filament and encases it. An outer transparent cover encloses the inner cover. A heat sink member has an upper section and a lower section having a heat sink component fabricated of heat absorbent material. The heat sink component is configured to absorb heat generated by the filament. The component is threadably engaged to the base member such that it is adjacent to the base member, allowing it to absorb heat generated by the filament components. The outer covers can be of different shapes and are interchangeably attached to the base member.
US11719397B1
An LED lamp with an adjustable space illumination angle comprises two movable light sources and a lamp head assembly. The two movable light sources are disposed on two sides of the lamp head assembly and spaced apart from each other in a length direction of the lamp head assembly. The two movable light sources are rotatably connected to the lamp head assembly. The two movable light sources are configured to be rotated about an X-axis or a Y-axis to change an included angle between the two movable light sources. The lamp head assembly comprises a first part connected with the two movable light sources and a second part connected with a lamp holder, and the first part is rotatably connected to the second part so as to enable the two movable light sources and the first part to rotate relative to the second part about a Z-axis.
US11719396B2
The driveway edge illumination system may comprise one or more edge lights, one or more sensors, and at least one controller. The one or more edge lights may be positioned along one or more edges of a driveway and may be illuminated to mark the one or more edges of the driveway at night. The at least one controller may illuminate the one or more edge lights based upon one or more sensor signals received from the one or more sensors. The one or more sensors may inform the at least one controller of activity within one or more monitored zones via the one or more sensor signals. As non-limiting examples, the activity may be the presence or movement of a person or a vehicle within the one or more monitored zones. The at least one controller may be operable to extinguish the one or more edge lights.
US11719383B2
Installation of a removable tripod foot is facilitated by a cross-axis aperture in the foot and loosening of the threaded connection of the foot and the tripod's leg is resisted by a resilient element engaging interfacing surfaces of the foot and the leg.
US11719378B2
A vacuum adiabatic body includes a first plate, a second plate, a space between the first plate and the second plate configured to be a vacuum state, a support including at least a pair of support plates that maintain a distance between the first and second plates, and at least one radiation resistance sheet provided between the pair of support plates to reduce heat transfer between the first plate and the second plate.
US11719365B2
A threaded connection for large diameter steel pipe exhibits high torque resistance and high sealability and, at the same time, provides a shear resistance that suits the size of the steel pipe to be connected. The threaded connection includes a tubular pin provided on a tip of a steel pipe with large diameter, and a tubular box 20 adapted to be drawn up on the pin as the pin is screwed in. The pin includes a male threadform made with a taper thread. The box includes a female threadform made with a taper thread. Each of the threadforms are wedge threads and have a dovetail-shaped cross section. The male threadform is designed such that the width of the thread in an end region of the male threadform closer to the tip is set to a size corresponding to the size of the pipe body of the steel pipe.
US11719360B2
To generate a setpoint signal to stroke a valve during a partial-stroke test, a first target is determined for the setpoint signal based at least on a travel displacement threshold, the travel displacement threshold corresponding to a desired extent of travel of the valve during the partial-stroke test; the setpoint signal is ramped from an initial value to the first target, during a first time interval; subsequently to the first time interval, the setpoint signal is maintained at the first target during a second time interval; a second target is determined for the setpoint signal based at least on the initial value; and during a third time interval subsequent to the second interval, the setpoint signal is ramped from the first target to the second target in a direction opposite to the ramping of the setpoint signal during the first time interval.
US11719355B2
A method for controlling a magnetic valve and particularly a method for dispensing and/or aspirating a volume of liquid as well as a corresponding dispenser/pipetting apparatus is disclosed. The method for controlling a magnetic valve has measuring a capacitance at the magnetic valve and determining a position of a plunger based on the measured capacitance. The method for dispensing or aspirating a volume of liquid has controlling a flow of a system fluid by a magnetic valve located between a pressure source and a dispenser/pipetting tip, dispensing or aspirating a volume of liquid through an exterior opening of the tip dependent on the flow of the system fluid, wherein controlling the flow and determining a flow time in dependence of the volume of liquid to be dispensed or aspirated, and controlling the magnetic valve is held open for the duration of the flow time.
US11719354B2
A check valve assembly for use with a liquid jet cutting system can include a check valve body a high-pressure fluid inlet on one end and a high-pressure fluid outlet on the other end along a central axis of the check valve body. The check valve body can have a first metallic seal surface on an outer surface of the check valve shaped to engage an endcap of the liquid jet cutting system to form a first seal. The assembly can include an annular low-pressure fluid chamber surrounding a portion of the check valve body and defined at least in part by an annular gasket, the check valve body, the first seal, and the endcap. The check valve body can include a low-pressure fluid channel, and a check valve positioned between the low-pressure fluid channel and a high-pressure fluid chamber.
US11719349B2
A valve assembly includes a valve body defining a cylindrical passage therein about an axis. An inlet port is defined in or near a first end of the valve body. First and second outlet ports are defined in the valve body extending radially outward from the cylindrical passage. A cylindrical valve spool having a central passage is positioned within, and sealingly engaged with, the cylindrical passage. The valve spool is moveable along the axis among: a first position wherein the inlet port is in fluid communication with the first outlet port but not the second outlet port, a second position wherein the inlet port is in fluid communication with the second outlet port but not the first outlet port, and an intermediate position between the first and second positions wherein the inlet port is in fluid communication with both of the first and second outlet ports.
US11719345B1
An example method includes moving a first portion of a control element and a second portion of the control element coupled to the first portion from a closed position to an intermediate position. In the closed position, the first portion being seated against a first valve seat thereby preventing flow through a first orifice and the second portion being seated against a second valve seat thereby preventing flow through a second orifice. In the intermediate position, flow through the first orifice is deterred and flow through the second orifice is permitted. The method includes moving the first portion and the second portion from the intermediate position to an open position. In the open position, the first portion being spaced from the first valve seat thereby permitting flow through the first orifice and the second portion being spaced from the second valve seat thereby permitting flow through the second orifice.
US11719322B2
A multi-segment sprocket assembly including a sprocket hub and a multi-segment sprocket. The multi-segment sprocket includes a first partial annular sprocket having a first end that includes a first flange, a second partial annular sprocket having a second end that includes a second flange, and at least a first fastener for releasably securing the first and second partial annular sprockets to the sprocket hub. Also disclosed is a harvester reel including a reel drive mechanism that includes a shaft, and the aforementioned multi-segment sprocket attached to the shaft. Also disclosed is a method for changing speeds of a drive mechanism of for a header of and agricultural harvester. The method includes removing the aforementioned multi-segment sprocket having a first overall diameter from a shaft of the header, and replacing the removed multi-segment sprocket with an aforementioned multi-segment sprocket having a second overall diameter that differs from the first overall diameter.
US11719321B2
A method for producing a flywheel includes producing a damping plate part by permanently connecting at least a first metallic plate element provided for the flywheel to at least one further material layer to form a sandwich component. According to the method, the first plate element is connected by a joining process to at least a second, parallel plate layer, so that they lie on one another to form a disc-shaped structural unit. According to the method, at least two sheet metal layers from different materials and/or at least two sheet metal layers having different material strengths are connected with each other. This enables a large variance for the production of flywheels. In this way, it is possible, for example, to produce a flywheel having a plurality of superimposed plates adapted to the respective load situation in a defined flexibility.
US11719320B2
A driving device includes a motor, a wave gear device including a wave generator having first thickness, a flex spline, and a circular spline having thickness larger than the first thickness, a housing functioning as a housing of the motor and including a flange, and an oil seal fixed to the inner side of the flange and extending along the outer circumference of the shaft. The wave generator is set closer to the opposite direction of the flange to configure an internal space with the members. When the internal space is filled with grease, a distance between the oil seal and the wave generator is set smaller than distances among the other members.
US11719317B2
An electric vehicle transmission (7) has a drive input shaft (10), a drive output shaft (11), a first planetary gearset (P1), a second planetary gearset (P2), and a third planetary gearset (P3). The drive input shaft (10) is designed to be coupled to an electric machine (6). In addition, at least functionally a first shifting element (A), a second shifting element (B), a third shifting element (C), and a fourth shifting element (D) are provided. Also disclosed is a drive system (4), a vehicle drive-train (5), and an electric vehicle incorporating an electric vehicle transmission of this type.
US11719313B2
An actuator assembly for actuating air blocking elements of an outlet assembly is provided. The actuator assembly includes an actuator arm and a selector member operatively connected to the actuator arm to rotate the actuator arm about an arm axis. The actuator arm is operatively connected to a first air blocking element to rotate the first air blocking element towards its air blocking position without moving a second air blocking element upon rotation of the actuator arm in a first direction from a neutral, non-blocking position of the actuator arm about the arm axis. The actuator arm is operatively connected to the second air blocking element to rotate the second air blocking element towards its air blocking position without moving the first air blocking element upon rotation of the actuator arm in a second direction opposite the first direction from the neutral, non-blocking position.
US11719310B2
A speed reduction mechanism and a motor equipped with the speed reduction mechanism are provided. A pinion gear is provided with one spiral engagement projected part, and a helical gear is provided with a plurality of engagement recessed parts with which the engagement projected part is engaged. The engagement projected part and the engagement recessed part are formed so that their cross-sectional shapes along a direction orthogonal to an axial direction of the pinion gear are in arc shapes. A shape of helical teeth and a shape of the engagement recessed part are determined based on a shape of the engagement projected part provided on a spiral tooth.
US11719308B1
The present invention of damping segmental ring structure for subway tunnels built in grim environments of deformable ground can mitigate the stress-concentration of the tunnel lining structures. The deformable ground can be caused by differential settlement or high-intensity earthquakes. Embodiments of the invention have self-adjustment features and forms for deformation and rotation, which comprise one adapter in the middle, two transitional grooved segmental structures, and an internal steel tube. All three forms comprised 3 or 4 pieces with the same features so they can be easily installed, transported and erected on sites and bolts are used to bolt them together to form an integrity structure with damping characteristics. The damper placed in the middle comprises two loading plates that form the shell of the damper, the internal core of the damper which includes interbedded installed rubber pads and steel plates within the loading plates and spring systems that compress the internal core. The springs are locked to the loading plates using locking clamps and the loading plates are bolted to the transitional grooved segmental ring structures, and the transitional grooved segmental ring structures are bolted themselves in the circumferential direction to form a ring structure and bolted with the regular segmental ring structures in the longitudinal direction. The internal steel tube is concentric with the damper but has a smaller diameter so it can support the damper by fastening the counter-reaction bolts installed in the bent-up flanges of each piece. Waterproof anti-slippery rubber pads are placed in all interfaces between the damper, and the transitional segmental ring structure, the regular segmental ring structure and the internal steel tube. The invention of the damping segmental ring structure has self-adjustment capabilities for deformation and rotation whereas the stiffness remains sufficient to resist soil and groundwater pressure. The invented damping segmental ring structure can be manufactured in factories that manufacture the regular segmental ring structure and can be shipped to and installed on-site using the same equipment that installs the regular segmental ring structure. The internal steel tube provides double-safety for the stiffness of the damper and the supports can be adjusted during tunnel operations.
US11719305B2
A continuously variable damper is disclosed. The damper includes an elongate outer tube and inner tube with a piston in the inner tube. The piston defines a rebound working chamber and compression working chamber. An active rebound valve is in fluid communication with the rebound working chamber through a rebound down tube, and an active compression valve is in fluid communication with the compression working chamber through a compression down tube. An intake compression valve is in fluid communication with the rebound working chamber through the rebound down tube, and an intake rebound valve is in fluid communication with the compression working chamber through the compression down tube. The opposite position of the intake valves balance the active rebound and compression valves to avoid asymmetric/bending loads on the inner tube in the damper.
US11719303B2
A shock absorber includes a cylinder that includes a cylinder body defining a disposing space, a piston movably disposed in the disposing space and dividing the disposing space into a liquid space and an air space, and an electronic control device disposed in the air space and dividing the air space into a first chamber space and a second chamber space. The electronic control device has an electromagnetic unit and a rod unit that includes a blocking member, and that is controllable by the electromagnetic unit to convert between a blocking state and an unblocking state, in which the blocking member respectively prevents and permits fluid communication between the first chamber space and the second chamber space.
US11719296B2
A brake system that includes a brake caliper, a motor, and a torque distributing assembly configured to distribute torque from the motor to a first brake piston and/or to a second brake piston. The torque distributing assembly includes a gear set that includes gears that are configured to rotate about an axis. One of the first brake piston and the second brake piston is configured to move along the same axis during a brake apply or a brake release.
US11719295B2
The present disclosure relates to a brake drum for a drum brake for a vehicle. The brake drum comprises a braking surface adapted to receive at least one brake shoe of the drum brake. The brake drum further comprises a cooling arrangement comprising a set of cooling conduits located between a braking surface and an outer surface. The material of the brake drum located radially between the set of cooling conduits and the braking surface at an inner axial cross-section has an inner axial aggregate thermal conductance and the material of the brake drum located radially between the set of cooling conduits and the braking surface at the outer axial cross-section has an outer axial aggregate thermal conductance. Accordingly, the inner axial aggregate thermal conductance is different from the outer axial aggregate thermal conductance.
US11719291B2
The present disclosure discloses one example of a one-way coupling that eliminates the need for a component corresponding to a guide piece. The one-way coupling of the present discloser includes an input shaft and an output shaft, and is configured to transmit a drive force from the input shaft to the output shaft, and inhibit the drive force inputted to the output shaft from being transmitted to the input shaft. The one-way coupling includes: a transmitter; an immovable ring; a pressure-contact cam; a first wedge member displaceable between a locked position and an unlocked position, and receiving a pressing force from the pressure-contact cam when the drive force is inputted to the input shaft, and thereby the first wedge member is displaced to the locked position; and a first holder holding an arrangement of the first wedge member when the drive force is inputted to the output shaft.
US11719285B2
A damper device includes an input shaft member to which a driving force from a crankshaft of an internal combustion engine is input, an output shaft member capable of outputting the driving force transmitted from the input shaft member, an input side cam and an output side cam respectively connected to the input shaft member and the output shaft member, and a damper bearing pivotable on the input side cam or the output side cam, wherein a damper bearing assembly has a bearing shaft supporting a plurality of damper bearings, bearing axes of the plurality of damper bearings are arranged along a bearing shaft axis of the bearing shaft, the bearing shaft is orthogonal to a rotation axis, and a shaft support portion supporting the bearing shaft, is provided between the adjacent damper bearings of the damper bearing assembly.
US11719284B2
A coupling assembly arranged between an input shaft and a rotor shaft of a supercharger includes a first hub, a second hub, a first side coupling assembly, a second side coupling assembly, a central hub and a plurality of coupler pins. The first hub is mounted for concurrent rotation with the input shaft. The second hub is mounted for concurrent rotation with the rotor shaft. The first side coupling assembly has a first side coupling body and a first side elastomeric insert. The first side coupling body includes an inboard body portion having a first series of pockets and an outboard body portion having a second series of pockets. The first side elastomeric insert has a first and second plurality of lobes. The pockets of the first and second series of pockets are tangentially offset relative to each other and each receive respective first and second plurality of lobes therein.
US11719278B2
A compressible bushing includes an end having a first outer diameter. The compressible bushing also includes a bumper section having a second outer diameter greater than or equal to the first outer diameter and may include of a compressible material. The compressible bushing also includes an opening passing through the end and the bumper section, the opening having an inner diameter.
US11719268B2
A closing device for releasably connecting a first part to a second part. The closing device may have a first closing unit including a spherical engaging part, and a first retaining device for attaching the first part. The closing device also may include a second closing unit which has a second retaining device for attaching the second part, and a cut out, which is delimited by a wall, for receiving the spherical engaging part, where the cut out has an opening for inserting the spherical engaging part. A sliding unit may be located in the cut out, the sliding unit being preloaded in the direction of the opening, and the sliding unit can be displaced into an open position and a closed position. In the open position of the sliding unit, the spherical engaging part may be received in the cut out.
US11719265B2
A work machine includes a frame, a traction system supporting the frame, an implement system supported by the frame, and a hydraulic system. The hydraulic system includes a hydraulic oil tank, a control circuit, an oil cooler, and a cooler bypass valve assembly. The cooler bypass valve assembly is connected to the control circuit by a control circuit return line, and includes an unloading valve configured to allow hydraulic oil to flow from the control circuit return line to the hydraulic oil tank if a pressure of hydraulic oil in the control circuit return line exceeds a first threshold, a backpressure valve configured to allow hydraulic oil to flow from the return line to the oil cooler through an oil cooler inlet line if a pressure of hydraulic in the oil control circuit return line exceeds a second threshold, and an orifice configured to limit the flow of hydraulic oil through the backpressure valve.
US11719255B2
Pumping liners for process chambers including a first ring-shaped body and a second ring-shaped body are described. The first ring-shaped body has a first plurality of openings and the second ring-shaped body has a second plurality of openings. The first ring-shaped body and the second ring-shaped body are rotatable relative to each other around a central axis to at least partially overlap the first plurality of openings and the second plurality of openings to change the area of conductance through the openings. Methods of removing gases from a processing chamber are also described.
US11719251B2
A system for controlling a fan is provided, which includes a processor, a driver, a power supply module, an instruction output module and a level control module. The power supply module is configured to supply power to the level control module when the server is started up and when the server is shut down. The instruction output module is configured to output a mode control instruction. The level control module is configured to output a first level to the PWM pin and output a second level to the TACH pin based on the mode control instruction and then control the power supply module to supply power to the processor and the driver. The processor is configured to determine a mode of the fan based on the first level and the second level and control a rotation speed of the fan based on the mode of the fan.
US11719250B2
A neck fan includes an arc-shaped shell configured to hang around user's neck and at least four fan assemblies arranged in the shell. The shell includes a first part and a second part. Each of the first part and the second part defines an accommodating space, air inlets and air outlets communicated with the accommodating space, at least one partition is arranged in the accommodating space and configured to divide the accommodating space into at least two accommodating parts arranged along an extension direction of the shell. Each of the fan assemblies is arranged in one of the at least two accommodating parts and is configured to direct air into the one of the at least two accommodating parts through corresponding air inlets and to direct air out of the one of the at least two accommodating parts through corresponding air outlets.
US11719245B2
A gas turbine engine includes a fan section that includes a fan with fan blades. The fan section drives air along a bypass flow path in a bypass duct. A gear reduction is in driving engagement with the fan and has a gear reduction ratio of greater than 3.0 and less than 4.0. A low spool includes a low pressure turbine that drives a low pressure compressor and drives the gear reduction to drive the fan at a speed slower than the low pressure turbine. The low pressure compressor includes a greater number of stages than the low pressure turbine. A high spool includes a high pressure turbine that drives a high pressure compressor. The high pressure compressor is a nine stage high pressure compressor and includes a pressure ratio per stage of greater than or equal to 1.20 and less than or equal to 1.33.
US11719240B2
A rotary pump, preferably a vane cell pump or a pendulum slider pump, includes a stator and a rotor which rotates about a rotational axis within the stator. The rotor includes multiple delivery elements which move radially in relation to the rotational axis, and two adjacent delivery elements limit a delivery cell together with the outer surface area of the rotor and the inner surface area of the stator. At least two delivery cells, preferably two adjacent delivery cells, exhibiting a first maximum cell volume form a first delivery cell group and at least two other delivery cells, preferably two other adjacent delivery cells, exhibiting a second maximum cell volume form a second delivery cell group. The first maximum cell volume of the delivery cells of the first delivery cell group is larger than the second maximum cell volume of the delivery cells of the second delivery cell group.
US11719226B2
A method of controlling a wind turbine including a plurality of rotor blades, a first controller for controlling an adaptive flow regulating system having a plurality of individually controllable adaptive flow regulating devices arranged on the rotor blades, and a second controller for controlling a pitch regulating system for regulating a pitch angle of each rotor blade. The method includes (a) determining a diagnostic value indicative of an operational efficiency of the adaptive flow regulating system, (b) determining a first gain value for the first controller and a second gain value for the second controller based on the diagnostic value, (c) applying the first gain value to control signals for the adaptive flow regulating system generated by the first controller, and (d) applying the second gain value to control signals for the pitch regulating system generated by the second controller, is provided.
US11719211B2
A engine starting method is carried out to start an engine of a vehicle. The vehicle includes a first hub, a second hub, and a damper. The damper connects the first hub and the second hub in a power transmission path between the engine and a generator capable of power generation and powered travel. The engine starting method determines whether or not the engine needs to be started, begins to crank the engine via the generator when the engine needs to be started, performs a first ignition when torque fluctuation caused by torsion in the first hub and the second hub is in a range of being absorbable by the damper during the cranking, and suppresses engine torque generated by the first ignition below engine torque generated by second and subsequent ignitions.
US11719207B2
A plunger is provided for reciprocating inside the barrel of a fuel pump. The plunger has a proximal end and a distal end. The proximal end of the plunger includes a cavity that defines a depressed volume within the plunger. A volume filler is disposed in the cavity, where the volume filler is constrained in the cavity by a retaining element.
US11719197B2
In a fuel tank system, a control unit diagnoses a failure of a fuel storage unit and a processing unit. The fuel storage unit includes a vapor passage through which a fuel tank and a sealing valve are communicated with each other, a first pressure detection unit, and a second pressure detection unit disposed at a position different from the first pressure detection unit. The control unit specifies a presence or an absence of a clogging of the vapor passage based on a first pressure value detected by the first pressure detection unit and a second pressure value detected by the second pressure detection unit when the pressure in the fuel tank is changed by the pressure generation unit in a condition that the sealing valve is controlled to be opened.
US11719196B2
A gas fuel vehicle includes gas fuel engine, a gas fuel supply circuit comprising at least one tank assembly, the tank assembly including a gas fuel tank and a tank valve, an electronic central unit configured to control operation of the gas fuel vehicle, The tank assembly is provided with specific identification data, and the electronic central unit is configured to process the identification data of the tank assembly and to enable an actuation of the tank valve between closed and open states only if the identification data are recognized.
US11719191B2
In some embodiments, 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 and a wall arm opposite the flap arm. A distal end portion of the flap arm may comprise a first skirt and the distal end portion of the wall arm may comprise a second skirt that engages the first skirt. When positioned in a gap between the movable flap and the stationary structure, the skirted leaf seal may exert a force to urge the flap arm towards the flap and to urge the wall arm towards the structure to seal the gap.
US11719186B2
The present disclosure relates to a piston for an internal combustion engine. The piston comprises a cover which at least partially covers a piston basehead of the piston. A heat-isolating air gap is formed between the cover and the piston basehead, which is fluidically connected to a combustion chamber and/or an upper side of the cover facing away from the heat-isolating air gap. The fluidic connection permits a fluid exchange to take place between the heat-isolating air gap and the combustion chamber. In this way, a pressure gradient can be reduced between the combustion chamber and the heat-isolating air gap. As a result, the cover is/can be kept thin without being deformed during combustion.
US11719182B1
An engine is provided with a cylinder liner that extends beyond the surface of the crankcase surrounding the cylinder. When the engine is oriented in an inverted V-block configuration, the extension of the cylinder liner provides a barrier to oil that can pool on the crankcase surface and otherwise enter the interior of the cylinder, absent such a barrier.
US11719180B1
An abnormality diagnosis apparatus performs a stop process for stopping the supply of fuel to at least one of a plurality of cylinders and supplying fuel to the other cylinders or cylinder. The abnormality diagnosis apparatus performs a catalyst abnormality diagnosis process for diagnosing that there is an abnormality in an exhaust gas control apparatus, based on the value of a first misfire counter indicating the number of times of detection of a misfire during the operation of an internal combustion engine by a prescribed amount. In the catalyst abnormality diagnosis process, the abnormality diagnosis apparatus diagnoses that there is an abnormality in the exhaust gas control apparatus with the value of the first misfire counter being smaller when the stop process is performed than when the stop process is not performed during the operation of the internal combustion engine by the prescribed amount.
US11719175B2
Methods, systems, and devices for operating an engine controller in a vehicle for managing motor torque smoothing. One controller is configured to select a periodic disruptive waveform generated over a period of time to approximate that is associated with the vehicle being at idle, determine a first harmonic sinusoid from a group of harmonic sinusoids that reduces the error between an approximated waveform and the disruptive waveform, and initiate a supplemental quantity of torque during the period of time based on the disruption quantity of torque.
US11719174B2
New and/or alternative approaches to physical plant performance control that can account for the health of the physical plant. A physical plant may be controlled by configurable controller, which may further comprise a low level controller associated with a higher level controller such as an Engine Control Unit (ECU). The ECU uses modeling to calculate an estimated operating value of a first parameter in the physical plant, and also uses a sensor to measure an operating value of the first parameter. The measured and modeled values are compared to determine the state of health (SOH) of the physical plant or a component thereof. The SOH may be stored, transmitted, or used to modify one or more control values used by the low level controller.
US11719173B2
The present invention relates to a method for operating an internal combustion engine provided as a medium-speed gas engine or dual fuel engine in a gas fuel mode. The method comprises the step of directly injecting a gas fuel into a combustion chamber of the engine at a maximum injection pressure that is lower than a compression-end pressure of the engine.
US11719172B2
A method performed by a control unit (11) for controlling exhaust valves (1A-6A, 1B-6B) of cylinders (1-6) in an internal combustion engine (10) is provided. The method comprise controlling (410) a number of first exhaust valves (1A-3A) for a first set of cylinders (1-3) to transfer exhaust gas to a turbine (8)) during part of an exhaust phase (Δt1) of the first set of cylinders (1-3) via a first exhaust manifold (12). Also, the method comprises controlling (420) a number of second exhaust valves (1B-3B) for the first set of cylinders (1-3) to transfer exhaust gas to an exhaust gas recirculation, EGR, conduit (9)) during part of the exhaust phase (Δt1) of the first set of cylinders (1-3) via a second exhaust manifold (7). The method further comprises controlling (430) a number of first exhaust valves (4A-6A) for a second set of cylinders (4-6) to transfer exhaust gas to the turbine (8) during part of an exhaust phase (Δt2) of the second set of cylinders (4-6) via the first exhaust manifold (12). Furthermore, the method comprises controlling (440) a number of second exhaust valves (4B-6B) for the second set of cylinders (4-6) to transfer exhaust gas to the EGR conduit (9) during a part of the exhaust phase (Δt2) of the second set of cylinders (4-6) via the second exhaust manifold (7). Here, the exhaust phase (Δt1) of the first set of cylinders (1-3) is separated in time from the exhaust phase (Δt2) of the second set of cylinders (4-6). A control unit (11), a computer program, a carrier, an internal combustion engine and a vehicle is also provided.
US11719171B2
An electronic control method for a throttle by an electronic control throttle device that controls the throttle while an electronic control unit generates a control signal based on an input data signal. The method may include calculating an engine rotation speed deviation from a difference between an engine rotation speed and an input engine rotation speed command, calculating an engine rotational acceleration based on the engine rotation speed, obtaining a proportional torque from a product of the engine rotation speed deviation and a predetermined coefficient, obtaining an integral torque by integrating a value obtained by subtracting a product of the engine rotational acceleration and the predetermined coefficient from the product of the engine rotation speed deviation and the predetermined coefficient, and generating a control signal for the throttle by using a sum of the proportional torque and the integral torque as a value of a torque command.
US11719167B2
There are described methods and systems for operating an aircraft turboprop engine. The method comprises controlling a propeller of the turboprop engine based on a selected one of a reference propeller rotational speed and a minimum propeller blade angle while the turboprop engine is running; detecting an inflight restart of the turboprop engine; and controlling the propeller during the inflight restart in accordance with at least one of a modified reference propeller rotational speed and a modified minimum propeller blade angle to maintain an actual propeller blade angle above an aerodynamic disking angle during the inflight restart.
US11719161B2
A gas turbine engine according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a propulsor section, a geared architecture, a high spool and a low spool. The high spool includes a high pressure compressor and a high pressure turbine. The low spool includes a low pressure compressor and a low pressure turbine. At least one stage of the turbine section includes an array of rotatable blades and an array of vanes. A ratio of the number of vanes to the number blades is greater than or equal to 1.55. A mechanical tip rotational Mach number of the blades is greater than or equal to 0.5 at an approach speed.
US11719159B2
A transfer tube assembly comprises a transfer tube slidably engaged in sealing engagement with a first component. The transfer tube has a shoulder engageable with a stopper for limiting relative axial movement between the transfer tube and the first component. The shoulder has an abutment surface facing a corresponding bore surface of the first bore of the first component. The abutment surface and the bore surface are configured to generate axially opposing reaction forces in response to the abutment surface and the bore surface contacting each other.
US11719153B2
An ignition device of the present embodiment is an ignition device for an internal combustion and includes an ignition plug, an operating information acquisition unit and an ignition control unit. The ignition plug includes an accessory chamber and an injection hole from which flame is to be injected from the accessory chamber to a main combustion chamber. The operating information acquisition unit is configured to acquire operating information regarding an operating state of the internal combustion. The ignition control unit is configured to control an ignition energy profile that affects an ignition state of an air-fuel mixture based on the operating information acquired by the operating information acquisition unit.
US11719149B2
The invention proposes a method for operating a metering system (32) with a plurality of metering valves (34, 35) for an SCR catalyst system, in which opening times for the injection of reducing agent are calculated for the metering valves (34, 35) based on a metering amount requirement. In the calculations of the opening times, a metering-valve-specific adaptation factor is used, w herein a deviation (Δp) of a system pressure (pist) in the metering system (32) from a target pressure (psoll) and a weighting factor are used for calculation of the metering-valve-specific adaptation factor. The weighting factor depends on a proportion (r34, r35) of the required metering amount ((formula (I)), (formula (II)) of the respective metering valve (34,35) in relation to a total metering amount ((formula (I)), (formula (II)) of all metering valves (34, 35).
US11719148B2
A diesel exhaust fluid transfer circuit providing a fluid transfer connector for securely connecting a port fitting of a diesel exhaust fluid device to a diesel exhaust fluid hose. The fluid transfer connector comprises an attachment nut attachable to a port fitting of the diesel exhaust fluid device. The fluid transfer connector further comprises a hose adapter including a fluid conduit and an annular wiper seal coaxially aligned with the fluid conduit. With the attachment nut attached to the port fitting, the fluid conduit is slidable over the port fitting and connectable to the attachment nut, and the annular wiper seal wipes any residue on the port fitting as the fluid conduit is slid over the port fitting.
US11719142B2
The present disclosure relates to porous ceramic materials and porous ceramic articles, including honeycomb structure bodies and porous ceramic filters comprised of plugged honeycomb bodies. In various embodiments, a particulate filter is disclosed herein, such as suitable as a gasoline particulate filter (GPF) for use with a gasoline engine and treating its exhaust, and/or such as a diesel particulate filter (DPF) suitable for use with a diesel engine and treating its exhaust.
US11719131B2
A strut provided in an exhaust diffuser and having an airfoil-shaped cross-section is provided. The strut may include a cut portion configured to be formed in a trailing edge in a span direction. The cut portion is configured to provide a stepped portion in at least a portion of the trailing edge.
US11719129B2
Disclosed is a compressor housing and method of assembling. The compressor housing may comprise an outer volute, a cavity, an impeller cover, a compressor diffuser and an inner volute. The outer volute includes a back wall and a curved casing. The back wall may include a receptacle and a first plurality of annular steps. The receptacle configured to receive an alignment pin. The cavity is configured to receive the compressor impeller and is at least partially defined by the back wall of the outer volute and the impeller cover. The impeller cover is configured to fragment during impact with the compressor impeller during a failure condition of the compressor impeller. The impeller cover is disposed between the inner volute and the cavity. The compressor diffuser is disposed between the back wall and the impeller cover.
US11719120B2
A method is provided for testing an annular seal within a gas turbine engine. During this method, a vacuum is applied to a first volume through a conduit. The annular seal is between the first volume and a second volume. A vacuum pressure is measured within the conduit while the vacuum is applied. The measured vacuum pressure is compared to a threshold vacuum pressure. A difference between the measured vacuum pressure and the threshold vacuum pressure is indicative of leakage across the annular seal from the second volume to the first volume.
US11719118B2
A system configured to compress air to be used by a power generation system includes a first compressor stage configured to be driven by exhaust air from the power generation system and a second compressor stage configured to be driven by electrical power generated by the power generation system.
US11719112B2
A tube gallery for a gas turbine engine includes a body. The body includes an external surface. The body also includes a plurality of channels defined in the body. Each channel includes an inlet disposed on the external surface, an outlet spaced apart from the inlet and disposed on the external surface, and a passage extending between and fluidly communicating the inlet to the outlet. The passage of each channel has a non-circular cross-sectional shape. The non-circular cross-sectional shape has a first maximum dimension along a first direction and a second maximum dimension along a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. The first maximum dimension is greater than the second maximum dimension by a factor of at least 1.2.
US11719105B2
A method of coating a component including aluminizing an array of internal passageways within the component; and chromizing a portion of the array of internal passageways within the component. A component, including an airfoil having an array of aluminized internal passageways, the array of aluminized internal passageways chromized up to a demarcation.
US11719102B2
A blade for a turbomachine, extending longitudinally between a base and an apex, comprising a lower surface wall, an upper surface wall, a leading edge and a trailing edge and comprising a plurality of internal ventilation cavities which form a cooling circuit of the blade, wherein at least one ventilation cavity is a ventilation cavity of a first type comprising at least one ascending portion which extends substantially longitudinally between the base and the apex, engaged with the lower surface wall and spaced from the upper surface wall, and at least one discharge portion which extends substantially transversely and which opens at the trailing edge via at least one port of the trailing edge, and wherein at least one ventilation cavity of the first type further comprises at least one descending portion which extends substantially longitudinally from the apex, engaged with the upper surface wall and spaced from the lower.
US11719099B2
The invention relates to a milling machine having a replaceable milling drum, different types of milling drums being capable of being associated with the milling machine; and having a control unit for controlling the milling machine, machine parameters of the milling machine being settable by way of the control unit. Provision is made that the milling machine has associated with it at least one means that is designed to detect at least one characteristic feature of the milling drum; that the at least one means is connected to the control unit; and that the control unit is designed to specify for at least one machine parameter, indirectly or directly from the characteristic feature, a value to be set, and/or a setting range. The invention further relates to a corresponding milling drum and to a corresponding method. The milling machine, milling drum, and method allow the selection of machine parameters for operation of the milling machine to be simplified.
US11719098B2
A tool retainer is provided. The tool has a retainer sleeve having a longitudinal external tab to engage with an internal recessed radial groove with a tool holder, and wherein the retainer sleeve has two internal radial tabs that engage with a recessed groove in a rotating tool shank. A cutting tool assembly including a cutting bit and the retainer sleeve is provided.
US11719091B2
To estimate natural fracture properties based on production from hydraulically fractured wells, a computer system receives hydrocarbon reservoir production information associated with a naturally fractured hydrocarbon reservoir with entrapped hydrocarbons in which a wellbore has been formed to produce the hydrocarbons. The information includes a wellbore pressure measured over production time. From the wellbore pressure, the computer system determines a time rate of change of the wellbore pressure over the production time. From a plot of a logarithmic time rate of change of the wellbore pressure over logarithmic production time, the computer system identifies multiple plot sections, each representing a respective flow regime of a flow of the hydrocarbons from the reservoir. For each plot section, the computer system determines a corresponding time rate of change of the wellbore pressure intersect value and a reservoir parameter for each corresponding time rate of change of the wellbore pressure intersect value determined for each plot section.
US11719090B2
Methods and apparatus for inspecting oilfield infrastructure components. Methods include methods of identifying a micro-annulus outside a casing in a cemented wellbore. Methods may include transmitting an acoustic pulse incident on the casing; making a measurement of a first acoustic impedance property value from pulse-echo information generated responsive to an echo of the acoustic pulse reflected from the casing; propagating a circumferential guided wave in the casing; making a measurement of a second acoustic impedance property value from propagating wave information generated responsive to the propagating acoustic wave; and determining from the first acoustic impedance value and the second acoustic impedance value a presence of a micro-annulus between the casing and the cement.
US11719088B2
In one embodiment, a method includes facilitating a real-time cross-plot display of drilling-performance data for a current well. The real-time cross-plot display includes a plurality of data plots represented on a common graph such that each data plot specifying at least two drilling parameters. Each data plot includes a plurality of data points such that each data point is expressable as Cartesian coordinates in terms of the at least two drilling parameters. The method further includes receiving new channel data for the current well from a wellsite computer system. In addition, the method includes creating, from the new channel data, new data points for the plurality of data plots as the new channel data is received. Moreover, the method includes updating the plurality of data plots with the new data points as the new data points are created.
US11719082B2
A method and system generate steam for SAGD operation wherein steam generator blowdown water is acidified, cooled and clarified before reuse. Acid Clarification Treatment, or “ACT”, mitigates organic fouling in Once-Through Stream Generators. Lab tests quantitatively and qualitatively show that ACT reduces Total organic carbon (TOC) and ‘bad actors’ TOC, respectively, in blowdown streams.
US11719080B2
The way in which a fiber optic cable is wrapped around a casing string in a wellbore can be modeled using information from downhole sensor devices. For example, a system can include a fiber optic cable located along a length of a wellbore. The system can also include sensor devices located near the fiber optic cable at various depths to transmit acoustic signals indicating depths and orientations of segments of the fiber optic cable. The system can build a model describing how the fiber optic cable is positioned around the casing string based on the acoustic signals transmitted from the sensor devices. The system can also determine a target position for a perforating gun to perform a perforation operation through the casing string that avoids damaging the fiber optic cable. The system can output the target position for the perforating gun to an electronic device to facilitate the perforation operation.
US11719078B2
A method and apparatus for detonating a power charge in downhole wellbore using a heating element embedded within the energetic material of the power charge.
US11719076B2
An apparatus for activating chambers of downhole hydraulic screens. The apparatus comprises an outer sleeve, an inner sleeve, and a flow path. The outer sleeve is coupled to one hydraulic screen on one end and another hydraulic screen on another end. The inner sleeve couples to base pipe at both ends. The flow path is an annulus defined between the outer diameter of the inner sleeve and the inner diameter of the outer sleeve. Hydraulic seals are formed at the interfaces between the inner sleeve and base pipe and the outer sleeve and hydraulic screens. In practice, the assembled apparatus and hydraulic screens are ran downhole to a production zone using production tubing and a running tool. Fluid from the surface is pumped into the production tubing, diverted therefrom, and into chambers of the hydraulic screens using the flow path to conduct fluid between the hydraulic screens.
US11719071B2
A technique facilitates monitoring of parameters related to a downhole operation, e.g. a water injection operation. A completion string may be deployed in a borehole with at least one water injection mandrel combined with a side pocket. A sensor tool is constructed for conveyance down through the completion string and into sealing engagement with the interior surface of the side pocket. The sensor tool comprises at least one sensor for sensing a desired parameter or parameters, e.g. pressure and/or temperature. Additionally, the sensor tool comprises a nose which is positioned to mechanically open a check valve coupled to the side pocket so as to enable monitoring of the desired parameter or parameters via the at least one sensor.
US11719066B1
An oil well rotating cement head includes a swivel assembly and a plug launcher assembly. The swivel assembly includes a swivel shaft and a collar-shaped, outer swivel subassembly. The swivel shaft has an internal through bore and windows extending through the swivel shaft, and extends through the outer swivel subassembly. The swivel shaft and outer swivel subassembly enclose an inner annular gap in fluid communication with the windows of the swivel shaft. A material inlet formed in the outer swivel subassembly is in fluid communication with the inner annular gap. The plug launcher assembly is affixed to the swivel shaft and releasably holds one or more oil well cementing plugs. The plug launcher assembly provides fluid communication from the internal through bore of the swivel shaft to a bottom end of the plug launcher assembly.
US11719060B2
A hydraulic protection system for preventing collapse of a hydraulic line is provided. The system includes a pressure sensing assembly which is arranged to monitor a pressure differential between fluid external to and fluid contained within the hydraulic line; a pressure compensation assembly adapted to be coupled to the hydraulic line. In the event of a loss of pressure in the hydraulic line occurring, the pressure compensation assembly employs the pressure of the fluid external to the hydraulic line to increase the pressure of the fluid contained within the hydraulic line. The system is arranged so that the pressure compensation assembly is operated when the pressure differential monitored by the pressure sensing assembly reaches a predetermined level, which is below a collapse pressure of the hydraulic line, so that exposure of the hydraulic line to the collapse pressure is avoided.
US11719048B2
A method for steering a downhole tool includes receiving an electromagnetic (EM) signal from the downhole tool. The downhole tool is in a wellbore in a formation. The EM signal comprises a gap voltage and a gap current that are measured across a gap sub in the downhole tool. The method also includes determining a gap impedance based at least partially upon the gap voltage and the gap current. The method also includes determining a first formation resistivity at a first location in the wellbore based at least partially upon the gap impedance. The method also includes steering the downhole tool based at least partially upon the first formation resistivity.
US11719045B2
The invention relates to a drill drive device (10) for an earth drilling apparatus with a spindle arrangement which has an inner spindle unit (20) and an outer spindle unit (40) that is supported in an axially displaceable manner on the inner spindle unit (20) and floating between two spring means (50, 60). According to the invention provision is made in that a first front spring means (50) which is arranged on a drilling tool side comprises a combination of at least a compression coil spring and a first disk spring arrangement (54) and in that a second rear spring means (60) which faces away from the drilling tool side has a second disk spring arrangement (64).
US11719044B2
A robot, robotic systems, and methods for conducting a subterranean operation. In some embodiments, a robot may include: a main body comprising a housing; a powered clamping system; a controlled atmosphere volume disposed within the housing or within the clamping system; and an electrical component disposed within the controlled atmosphere volume. In some embodiments, the controlled atmosphere volume may comprise an EX-certified volume and the electrical component may be disposed within the EX-certified volume, such that the electrical component may be disposed in the EX-certified volume that is disposed in the housing and/or an EX-certified volume that is disposed in the clamping system, such as in an electrically powered tong.
US11719041B2
Disclosed is a drive system for driving a screen, that includes an actuator designed to drive in rotation a winding shaft associated with the screen, and a compensation spring. The compensation spring includes a first series of tums having a first spacing; and at least one second series of turns having a second spacing, with a value that is greater than the value of the first spacing.
US11719040B2
The invention relates to a door comprising a door leaf (10) which can be moved between an open position and a closed position and a guide arrangement for guiding the movement of the door leaf along a predefined path between the open position in the closed position, wherein the guide arrangement has at least one guide web (100) which is arranged fixedly with respect to a wall opening, extends at least along a portion of the predetermined path, and has two outer boundary surfaces (102, 104) and at least two guide devices (32, 34) which are fastened to the door leaf (10), wherein a first outer boundary surface (102) of the guide web (100) forms a surface for a first guide device (32) and the second outer boundary surface (104) of the guide web (100) forms a second guide surface (104) for a second guide device (34). Magnetic devices (1000, 1010, 1100) can be arranged on the door leaf and on the guide bar for guiding in a contactless manner.
US11719039B2
This disclosure provides connectors for smart windows. A smart window may incorporate an optically switchable pane. In one aspect, a window unit includes an insulated glass unit including an optically switchable pane. A wire assembly may be attached to the edge of the insulated glass unit and may include wires in electrical communication with electrodes of the optically switchable pane. A floating connector may be attached to a distal end of the wire assembly. The floating connector may include a flange and a nose, with two holes in the flange for affixing the floating connector to a first frame. The nose may include a terminal face that present two exposed contacts of opposite polarity. Pre-wired spacers improve fabrication efficiency and seal integrity of insulated glass units. Electrical connection systems include those embedded in the secondary seal of the insulated glass unit.
US11719029B2
A hinge assembly with reinforced abutment surfaces via the use of multiple strike plates. The strike plates are made from stronger and more robust materials than the underlying hinge, such that the strike plates bear the loads (vs. the underlying hinge material) to prevent deformation of the hinge components during use over time.
US11719026B2
An integrated latch apparatus for a securing and releasing computer equipment from a chassis includes a support bracket, a rotating shaft, a sliding plate having a latching extension, and a handle having a rotating end. The handle is secured at the rotating end to the support bracket about the rotating shaft. The rotating end of the handle includes nudging extensions. A torsion spring is disposed on the rotating shaft such that the torsion spring biases the support bracket against the handle such that the handle is in an open position when the torsion spring is extended towards an equilibrium state and in a closed position when the torsion spring is biased toward a fully compressed state. The nudging extensions engage and laterally move a sliding plate when the handle is rotated between the open position and the closed position.
US11719024B2
A method of deactivating a secondary lock feature of a vehicle includes sensing a movement of an interior door handle, and determining a status of the secondary lock feature to ascertain whether the secondary lock feature is active. The method includes starting a timer to measure an elapsed time since sensing the movement of the interior door handle, sensing an environmental condition of an interior passenger compartment of the vehicle with a sensor, and setting an unlock delay time based on the environmental condition. When the secondary lock feature is disposed in an active state and the elapsed time period is greater than or equal to the unlock delay time, the method includes automatically generating a control signal to thereby deactivate the secondary lock feature.
US11719021B2
An exemplary method generally relates to operating an access control device including a motor, a locking member, and a target component operably connected with the locking member. The motor may be operated to drive the locking member in a first direction from an initial position toward a desired position. When the locking member is blocked from moving beyond a blockage position, a target location of the target component is detected. The motor may then be operated to drive the locking member in a second direction opposite the first direction. The motor may then be operated to drive the locking member in the first direction toward the blockage position while monitoring the location of the target component. As the target component reaches the target location, the motor is supplied with a boost current to drive the locking member beyond the blockage position and toward the desired position.
US11719018B2
A handle assembly for an access panel is described and includes a support structure including upper and lower supports attached to the access panel, each of the upper and lower supports comprising a top face and a bottom face; a handle for selectively engaging with the support structure, the handle comprising a grip portion and upper and lower flanges extending perpendicularly from the grip portion, each of the upper and lower flanges comprising a top face; and a retention mechanism for retaining the handle in contact with the support structure with a combination of magnetic and mechanical force.
US11719017B2
An inflatable drive through tunnel system comprised of an inflatable main tunnel and an inflatable positive pressure booth area for performing simple medical diagnostic tests or the like. A patient can drive into the inflatable tunnel. Medical personnel can take samples from patients who remain in their vehicles. The medical personnel can then store the samples in the positive pressure booth area. The positive pressure ensures that outside contaminants are not brought into the booth through the air when the personnel enter and leave the booth.
US11719016B2
A fence post mount device comprising: a base having at least one cavity; a first universal collet having a plurality of collet legs attached to each other through at least one of a plurality of separation notches, wherein a distal end of the first universal collet is inserted into the cavity from a proximal end of the base; a first cap nut inserted into the first universal collet; a post inserted into the cavity of the base; a full thread nut threaded into the first cap nut from a distal end of the base through an opening, wherein each of the plurality of separation notches are broken when the full thread nut is tightened into the first cap nut and each of the collet legs of the first universal collet deforms an inner wall of the post such that the post is securely locked within the cavity of the base.
US11719014B2
Provided is a coupling assembly of a wind turbine including a first coupling part and a second coupling part, the first coupling part and the second coupling part being configured to be coupled with each other, the first coupling part including a first surface with a first insertion hole being configured to be inserted by a fastener, the second coupling part including a second surface with a second insertion hole being configured to be inserted by the fastener, the first surface being configured to abut the second surface.
US11719010B1
A demolition tool comprises first and second elongated bar portions, and first and second fork portions integrally formed at an angle to the first and second elongated bar portions respectively. The first and second elongated bar portions are generally parallel to each other, spaced apart at a predetermined distance, and connected together via plates and/or cross bars. In use, the demolition tool is grasped by the user with two hands at its handle end portions.
US11719006B2
Disclosed herein is a clamp for interconnecting two components of a support apparatus such as components of a shoring apparatus for concrete forming systems. A clamp member having a moveable jaw is received for pivotal movement in a housing that is secured to one of the components. A plurality of flutes disposed at an angle to the pivot axis of the clamp member are received in coacting recesses in the housing and a proximal cap maintains the desired position of the clamp member within the housing. Axial movement of the clamp member will pivot the swing arm and a coacting, moveable jaw toward a fixed jaw formed in the housing to releasably secure the clamp to the other component.
US11719003B2
A floor board including a decorative surface layer applied to a substrate, where the substrate has MDF or HDF material at a side edge thereof, where the side edge is treated both with an impregnation agent and/or a sealing agent based on a super absorbing material. Also, a method for manufacturing such floor boards.
US11719002B2
A flooring board spacing assembly including an elongate platform member locatable on a flooring joist, the platform member having a plurality of first spacers evenly spaced at regular intervals along the length of the platform member, wherein, in use each of the first spacers separates adjacent flooring boards located on the platform member and forms a predetermined space between the adjacent flooring boards.
US11718999B2
A grab rail has an elongate shaft and attachment fittings to attach the shaft to a wall. The attachment fittings are configured with at least two connections that are selectively engageable with the elongate shaft to enable the spacing between contact surfaces on the attachment fittings to be varied.
US11718996B2
A gutter cover for a rain gutter includes a U-shaped rear portion, a forward edge portion, and a perforated horizontal central portion spanning between the rear and forward edge portions. The forward edge portion includes a web extending upwardly from the central portion, and a covering flange and downward hooked edge portion extending forwardly from the web. The hooked edge portion having an end positioned for engagement with the underside of a front lip of the gutter.
US11718992B1
This invention is a hip and ridge liner for a roof on a building. It is a waterproof and weather proof barrier that is installed on top of a hip line or a ridge line on a roof. Hip and ridge shingles are then installed on top of the hip and ridge liner. Embodiments of this invention include a plurality of external tabs which function to securely retain the hip and ridge shingles and keep them in place for many years. Other embodiments of this invention include a plurality of internal tabs which function to securely retain the hip and ridge shingles and keep them in place for many years. Other embodiments of this invention include a plurality of shingle retaining clips which function to securely retain the hip and ridge shingles and keep them in place for many years.
US11718990B2
A rebar anchoring system and method are provided. The system includes: a rebar, with an external thread formed on the periphery of at least one end; an anchoring head, with a first perforation and a second perforation disposed respectively at both ends extending axially into the anchoring head and communicating with each other, the inner sides of the first and second perforations being formed respectively with a first internal thread matching with the external thread of the rebar and a second internal thread, and the anchoring head being mounted on the end of the rebar through the first internal thread and the external thread of the rebar; and a bolt, having a screw rod matching with the second internal thread, the screw rod being locked into the second perforation of the anchoring head, and the end of the screw rod pressing against the end of the rebar.
US11718985B2
A mortarless block system for forming walls from blocks which are stackable in sequential rows upon each other. Upper rows of blocks positioned upon lower rows are securable by positioning of support rods through aligned passages thereof. The passages extend between upper and lower notches in each respective block. The support rods are engaged to connectors which are sized to fit completely within the notches to thereby leave the upper and lower surfaces of each lower row flush to stacking overhead rows thereon.
US11718979B2
A blank for fabricating a wear member for a ground-engaging tool includes a one-piece block having a boss channel and a lock bore each formed therein. The one-piece block includes a peripheral edge that projects upon lateral sides and a front end of the one-piece block, the peripheral edge originating and terminating at a back end of the block, to form a continuous welding interface that is partially perimetric of the one-piece block, for welding to a body of a wear member. The blank can be used to fabricate a variety of different wear members including shrouds, tooth tips, edge protectors, or others.
US11718978B2
A system includes a work machine having a work implement including a bucket, and a server capable of communicating with the work machine. The work machine transmits an identification number associated with the work machine to the server. The server obtains basic data based on the identification information and used for calculating the position of teeth of the bucket. The server transmits the obtained basic data to the work machine.
US11718975B2
A work vehicle comprising a material management system using moldboard gates. A sensor is configured to generate a signal indicative of a ground feature and a location of the ground feature. A moldboard is coupled to the work vehicle and is configured to move a ground material. A gate is coupled to the moldboard and a gate actuator is coupled to the gate. The gate actuator is configured to move the gate to an open position, a closed position, or to a position in between. A controller which is in communication with the sensor is configured to receive the signal indicative of the ground feature and the location and control the gate actuator to move the gate based on the ground feature and the location.
US11718970B2
A monopile foundation guiding device is provided. The monopile foundation guiding device includes at least one guiding unit; each of the at least one guiding unit includes a single driving unit, a transmission unit, and a clamping unit; the clamping unit includes at least two clamping arms, and a clamping space for clamping a monopile foundation is formed between the at least two clamping arms; the single driving unit transmits power to the transmission unit, and the at least two clamping arms are driven to operate synchronously by means of the transmission unit, so that the clamping unit is opened or closed.
US11718967B2
A guidance vehicle guides a dog for a walk, and includes a leash attachment, a distance sensor, and an electronic control unit. The leash attachment is configured to attach a leash that connects the dog. The distance sensor is configured to detect a dog-to-vehicle distance being a distance between the dog and the guidance vehicle. The electronic control unit is configured to execute a travel control of the guidance vehicle. The electronic control unit includes, as one of modes of the travel control, a walk guidance mode that causes the guidance vehicle to automatically travel along a walk route while guiding the dog to walk. The walk guidance mode executed by the electronic control unit includes a basic walk mode that controls the dog-to-vehicle distance so as to maintain a constant distance when the dog is moving along the walk route.
US11718962B2
A nonwoven web, containing at least one first homogeneous layer consisting of a blend of at least one of defibrated natural plant based fibers, individualized natural plant based fibers and staple fibers is provided. The nonwoven web contains no binder, adhesive or thermal bonding fibers and a basis weight of the at least one homogeneous layer is from 20 g/m2 to 100 g/m2. When a weighted average fiber length of the blend is greater than about 4.0 mm, the nonwoven web is a non-dispersible product which does not meet the requirement for dispersibility in accordance with INDA/EDANA GD4, and when a weighted average fiber length of the blend is less than about 4.0 mm, the nonwoven web is a dispersible product as defined in accordance with INDA/EDANA GD4. Methods to prepare the nonwoven web are provided.
US11718958B2
The object of the invention is to provide a shoe press belt which has an excellent strength while the variation in strength among its parts being suppressed, and to provide a method for producing such a shoe press belt. Provided is a shoe press belt for use in a papermaking machine comprising at least one resin layer, wherein the resin layer comprises a polyurethane resin formed by curing an urethane prepolymer having an isocyanate group with a curing agent having an active hydrogen group, wherein the curing agent comprises one or more polycarbonate diol(s) expressed by the following formulae (1) and (2). HO-Am-Bn—R1OH (1)
US11718956B2
A cable-stranding apparatus includes a stationary guide, a motor, a driven guide, and a controller electrically coupled to the motor. The stationary guide is configured to guide strand elements in a spaced-apart configuration and to pass a core member. The motor is operatively associated with a guide driver. The driven guide is disposed at least partially within the guide driver so as to rotate therewith. The driven guide is configured to receive the strand elements from the stationary guide, individually guide the strand elements received from the stationary guide, and to further pass the core member. The controller is electrically coupled to the motor and configured to control the rotational speed and direction of the motor.
US11718943B2
A clothing management apparatus may include a display and a processor to, based on a state of a garment in an image of the garment, determine a management necessity of the garment, based on the management necessity, determine a management completeness that is expected when the garment is managed according to a management mode among a plurality of management modes, based on the management completeness, generate an expected image of the garment when the garment is managed according to the management mode, and control the display to display the expected image to a user.
US11718942B2
The disclosure relates to the technical field of after-finishing of textile products, and in particular relates to a delayed-cure durable press finishing technology for cotton fabrics, including the following steps: singeing, desizing, liquid ammonia finishing, mercerizing, liquid ammonia finishing and post-cure finishing. The disclosure significantly improves the stability of a delayed-cure sensitized fabric during delayed-curing, relieves the problems caused by a slow reaction in the storage process of the delayed-cure sensitized fabric, and is favorable for improving the product quality.
US11718940B2
An embroidery system including an embroidery frame assembly having an inner first frame (51) and an outer second frame (53), a portion of a planar formation to be processed being able to be clamped therebetween. The first frame (51) is connected by a bridge (61) to a radially outer secondary connector (57), and a connecting portion (63) of this bridge (61) bridges the second frame (53) when the latter is connected to the first frame (51). When combined with an embroidery module connected to a free arm sewing machine, the embroidery frame assembly enables in a simple manner the embroidering of pouch-type and tubular planar formations.
US11718931B2
This weaving machine (2) is for simultaneously weaving top and bottom pile fabrics (F2, F4) presenting some pile patterns (P2, P2′, P4) and including tufts, made from warp yarns (24), binding warp yarns (14, 16) and inwoven weft yarns. This machine includes a pile warp yarns feeding unit (20), a binding warp yarns feeding unit (18), a shedding unit (6) and a weft insertion unit (8) for inserting the weft yarns in the shed. The machine also includes a beating-up mechanism (32), a take up system (70), a drawing-in unit (26), and a control unit (80). A treatment unit (90) is located, along a path of the pile warp yarns (24), between the pile warp yarns feeding unit (20) and the shedding unit (6), for applying different segments of treatment on at least some of the pile warp yarns (24).
US11718926B2
A method of single crystal growth includes disposing a polycrystalline source material in a chamber of a single crystal growth apparatus, disposing a seed layer in the chamber of the single crystal growth apparatus, wherein the seed layer is fixed below a lid of the single crystal growth apparatus, heating the polycrystalline source material by a heater of the single crystal growth apparatus to deposit a semiconductor material layer on the seed layer, and after depositing the semiconductor material layer, providing a coolant gas at a backside of the lid to cool down the seed layer and the semiconductor material layer.
US11718923B2
Provided is a method for forming a metal film capable of forming a homogeneous metal film having a uniform film thickness by stably ensuring a fluid pressure of an electrolytic solution during film formation. The method places a substrate on a mount base. While sucking a gas between the substrate and a porous film through which the electrolytic solution can pass from a suction port of a suction passage formed on the mount base, the method brings the porous film into contact with the surface of the substrate. The method interrupts the suction passage while the porous film contacts the surface of the substrate. While interrupting the suction passage, the method allows the electrolytic solution to pass through the porous film while pressing the porous film against the surface of the substrate with a fluid pressure of the electrolytic solution and deposits metal from metal ions in the passed electrolytic solution on the surface of the substrate, thereby forming the metal film.
US11718922B2
[Problem] To provide a stacked structure including electrodes that can effectively prevent misalignment between units. [Solution] A stacked structure 2 including electrodes 232, 332, 412, 233, 333, 422, wherein multiple units 23, 33, 24, 41, 42 including flat units are stacked and fastened by fasteners 25, the respective units 23, 33, 24, 41, 42 comprising frame-shaped fastening portions 237a, 237b, 337a, 337b, 247a, 247b, 417a, 417b, 427a, 427b on outer peripheral portions on both surfaces thereof, being stacked by the surfaces of the respective fastening portions 237a, 237b, 337a, 337b, 247a, 247b, 417a, 417b, 427a, 427b being pressed against each other, and being formed so that the width of fastening portions 247a, 247b, 337a, 337b, 427a, 427b on one unit is different from the width of fastening portions 237a, 237b, 417a, 417b on another unit.
US11718917B2
A phosphor thermometry device includes a laser that generates a laser pulse onto a thermal barrier coating (TBC) applied onto a substrate. A metallic bond coat layer is on the substrate. A ceramic top coat layer is on the bond coat layer and includes an undoped layer and a doped sensing layer having co-doped first and second rare-earth luminescent dopants that emit respective first and second different emission wavelengths upon excitation by the laser pulse. A detector receives reflected, convoluted luminescence signals from the TBC. First and second photomultiplier devices detect respective first and second different emission wavelengths of the convoluted luminescence signals. A controller receives and processes signals generated from respective first and second photomultiplier devices and determines luminescence lifetime decay and intensity variations for each of the respective first and second rare-earth luminescent dopants for temperature monitoring of the TBC.
US11718910B2
A method of pre-coating an inner surface of a chamber, which includes a surface of a substrate-supporting support base installed in an internal space in the chamber, includes: forming a first film on the inner surface by supplying a first gas; forming a second film on the first film by supplying a second gas; and forming a third film on the second film by supplying a third gas, wherein a flow rate ratio of a hydrogen-containing gas to a metal source gas in the first gas is set to be higher than flow rate ratios of the hydrogen-containing gas to the metal source gas in the second gas and the third gas, and wherein the flow rate of the metal source gas in the first gas is set to be lower than the flow rates of the metal source gas in the second gas and the third gas.
US11718908B2
A method of depositing a film on a substrate is provided. The method includes positioning the substrate on a substrate support in a chamber and depositing the film on the substrate using a DC magnetron sputtering process in which an electrical bias signal causes ions to bombard the substrate. The substrate support includes a central region surrounded by an edge region, the central region being raised with respect to the edge region, and the substrate is positioned on the central region so that a portion of the substrate overlays the edge region and is spaced apart therefrom.
US11718907B2
A sputtering target according to one embodiment is an integrated sputtering target comprising a target portion and a backing plate portion, both of them being made of copper and unavoidable impurities, wherein a Vickers hardness Hv is 90 or more, and wherein a flat ratio of crystal grains in a cross section orthogonal to a sputtering surface is 0.35 or more and 0.65 or less.
US11718903B2
The present disclosure discloses a preparation method of a multi-functional marine engineering alloy. Through the coupling of a multi-principal alloy structure, structural entropy, and temperature and powder metallurgy and heat treatment, mutual solubility between elements and free energy of an alloy system are regulated, Cu grain boundary segregation is eliminated, and uniform and dispersed nano-precipitation of the anti-fouling element Cu in corrosion-resistant and high-plasticity multi-principal alloys is realized. The preparation method is simple and controllable to operate, and the prepared material has plasticity higher than 75%, high yield strength, excellent corrosion resistance and anti-fouling property, and has important application prospects in the field of marine engineering.
US11718899B1
A preparation method of cemented carbide with FeCoCu medium-entropy alloy as binding phase is provided. The preparation method includes: 1) preparing FeCoCu precursor powders by solution combustion synthesis; 2) preparing FeCoCu medium-entropy alloy powders by mechanical alloying; 3) evenly mixing the FeCoCu medium-entropy alloy powders with ultra-fine WC powders and a binder to obtain mixed powders and pressing the mixed powders into a shaped green body; 4) preparing a WC-FeCoCu cemented carbide by microwave sintering after removing the binder from the shaped green body. The preparation method reduces sintering temperature and time and obtains a new-type cemented carbide with fine grains, high hardness and good toughness while reducing the cost.
US11718893B2
A method for recovery of gold from gold-containing materials, such as electronic waste material, minerals and sands is described. The method includes crushing the gold containing material to obtain a particulate material. The particulate material is then preheated in an oxygen-containing gas environment in a preheating zone. The method also includes mixing the oxidized particulate material with a chlorine-containing material and treating the mixture in a reaction zone. The treatment is carried out by heating the mixture to provide thermal decomposition of the chlorine-containing material and produce a chlorine-containing gas mixture, and by applying an electromagnetic field to the chlorine-containing gas mixture to provide ionization of chlorine. A volatile gold-containing chloride product, produced in the reaction zone as a result of a chemical reaction between gold and chlorine ions, is then cooled to convert the volatile gold-containing chloride product into solid phase gold-containing materials.
US11718889B2
A method for producing a hot-dip galvanized steel sheet includes supplying humidified gas to the soaking zone 12 in a manner such that: in passes in which the steel sheet moves upward, the humidified gas is supplied from first humidified gas supply ports 40A to 40E provided at positions higher by 1.0 m or more and 5.0 m or less than the centers of lower hearth rolls 54 and overlapping the steel sheet in the passes when viewed from the side of the soaking zone; and in passes in which the steel sheet moves downward, the humidified gas is supplied from second humidified gas supply ports 42A to 42E provided at positions lower by 1.0 m or more and 5.0 m or less than the centers of the upper hearth rolls 52 and overlapping the steel sheet in the passes when viewed from the side of the soaking zone.
US11718887B2
Disclosed is a ferritic stainless hot-rolled annealed steel sheet with excellent impact properties of 6 mm or more in thickness and a manufacturing method thereof. A ferritic stainless steel with excellent impact toughness according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes, in percent (%) by weight of the entire composition, C: more than 0 and 0.01% or less, Si: 0.8% or less, Mn: 0.5% or less, Cr: 10 to 14%, Ti: 0.01 to 0.45%, N: more than 0 and 0.015% or less, the remainder of iron (Fe) and other inevitable impurities, and an average misorientation between grains of microstructure is 0.6 to 1.1°.
US11718876B2
The present disclosure provides a panel of nucleic acid molecule primers specific for HLA-specific alleles and other genetic polymorphisms, which are useful for quantitatively amplifying these markers to detect, diagnose, and monitor individuals who have or are at risk of certain disease conditions, such as autoimmune disease, proliferative disease, infectious disease, allograft rejection, or pregnancy-related pathologies.
US11718873B2
Sequencing nucleic acids can identify variations associated with presence, susceptibility or prognosis of disease. However, the value of such information can be compromised by errors introduced by or before the sequencing process including preparing nucleic acids for sequencing. Blunting single-stranded overhangs on nucleic acids in a sample can introduce deamination-induced sequencing errors. The disclosure provides methods of identifying and correcting for such deamination-induced sequencing errors and distinguishing them from real sequence variations.
US11718868B2
Lipase activity can be detected with a biosensor that includes a quantum dot adhered to a construct having a lipase-cleavable ester to attach a fluorophore acceptor configured as a Förster resonance energy transfer (FRET) acceptor to the QD when the construct is bound thereto. Cleavage of the ester by a lipase results in a measurable reduction in FRET. In further embodiments, the cleavable ester can be used to detect esterase activity, or the ester could be replaced with a glycosidic linkage to detect glycoside activity.
US11718859B2
Compositions and methods for controlling pests are provided. The methods involve transforming organisms with a nucleic acid sequence encoding an insecticidal protein. In particular, the nucleic acid sequences are useful for preparing plants and microorganisms that possess insecticidal activity. Thus, transformed bacteria, plants, plant cells, plant tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions are insecticidal nucleic acids and proteins of bacterial species. The sequences find use in the construction of expression vectors for subsequent transformation into organisms of interest including plants, as probes for the isolation of other homologous (or partially homologous) genes. The pesticidal proteins find use in controlling, inhibiting growth or killing Lepidopteran, Coleopteran, Dipteran, fungal, Hemipteran and nematode pest populations and for producing compositions with insecticidal activity.
US11718854B2
Fungi that are genetically inactivated for the mstC gene (or a homolog thereof) are provided, which can also be genetically modified to increase production of heterologous proteins from a glucoamylase promoter. Methods of using these fungi, for example to degrade a biomass, are also provided.
US11718853B2
The present invention is drawn to methods and compositions for treating inflammatory disorders of the lower airways, comprising administering an effective amount of an agent, which modulates the expression and/or activity of a proinflammatory cytokine or fragment thereof, preferably in a human. The proinflammatory cytokine contemplated by the invention includes IL-1, IL-6, IL-8 and TNF-alpha. The present invention describes a kit comprising a delivery device and a pharmaceutical composition for administration of the agent. The pharmaceutical composition includes at least one proinflammatory cytokine inhibitor, optionally one or more additional active ingredients, and at least one pharmaceutically active carrier. The delivery device further comprises a nebulizer, an inhaler, a powder dispenser, an intrapulmonary aerosolizer and a sub-miniature aerosolizer.
US11718852B2
The present invention provides novel, stable lipid particles having a non-lamellar structure and comprising one or more active agents or therapeutic agents, methods of making such lipid particles, and methods of delivering and/or administering such lipid particles. More particularly, the present invention provides stable nucleic acid-lipid particles (SNALP) that have a non-lamellar structure and that comprise a nucleic acid (such as one or more interfering RNA), methods of making the SNALP, and methods of delivering and/or administering the SNALP.
US11718837B2
To find a novel lipase suitable for processing of oils and fats and to use and apply the lipase. Provided are a novel lipase including an amino acid sequence having 90% or more identity with an amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 1 or 2, and an enzyme preparation containing the same as an active ingredient. The enzyme preparation is used for modifying and improving the physical properties of oils and fats.
US11718830B1
Systems and methods for creating cell sheets with high extracellular (ECM) content, while controlling cell alignment, are described. The method is simple, easy to perform, has a low-cost, and uses non-toxic and food-grade and food-safe materials. The method allows for cell alignment in sophisticated patterns using simple molding process with 3D printed molds prepared with cheap open-source 3D printers and using different types of filament materials. The method allows for the reuse of the silicone-based membranes by simple autoclaving and/or an isopropanol washing step. The method also creates multi-layer cell constructs and induced ECM production with optional ECM crosslinking using food-grade materials resulting in strong sheets formed in a short process that can be formed using simple scraping.
US11718825B2
Methods are provided of generating functional human oocytes following nuclear transfer of first polar body (PB1) genomes from metaphase II (MII) oocytes into enucleated donor MII cytoplasm (PBNT) and using mitochondrial replacement techniques to circumvent mother-to-child mtDNA disease transmission.
US11718821B2
A method for growing probiotic organisms wherein the growth media includes prebiotics especially selected and prepared to be paired with the probiotic organisms being grown. The prebiotic formula is optimized to grow the desired probiotic organisms, as well as important byproducts of the growth process. Specialized freeze-drying buffers may also be paired with certain probiotic organisms for the freeze-drying process.
US11718819B2
A bioreactor includes a culture medium vessel housing culture medium. The culture medium vessel further includes a first side surface including a first transparent optical window; and a second side surface parallel to the first surface and including one or more sensor adapters to fix optical sensors. A cell retention vessel is disposed underneath and connected to the culture medium vessel, the cell retention vessel housing biological cells and having: a top surface that intersects a base of the culture medium vessel, and a second transparent optical window indented into the top surface at a first corner of the top surface. A semipermeable membrane is disposed at a bottom of the cell retention vessel, and a frame comprising a grid is disposed underneath the semipermeable membrane.
US11718816B2
A microplastic-free, in-vitro opacified detergent composition includes a surfactant component present in an amount of about 8 to about 65 weight percent actives and including (1) an alcohol ethoxy sulfate having a C8-C20 backbone that is ethoxylated with from about 1 to about 10 moles of ethylene oxide, (2) at least one non-ionic surfactant having an alkoxylated alcohol, and (3) at least one anionic surfactant having a linear alkylbenzene sulfonate. The detergent composition also includes water present in a total amount of from about 5 to about 90 weight percent, free fatty acids in a total amount from about 1 to 15 weight percent and a magnesium cation in a total amount of from 0.005 to 0.3 weight percent. The composition has a turbidity value of at least 250 NTU at 75° F.
US11718810B2
A lubricating oil composition including: a lubricating base oil; (A) a first defoaming agent, the first defoaming agent being (A1) a first polymer, or (A2) a second polymer, or any combination thereof; and (B) a second defoaming agent, the second defoaming agent being a silicone defoaming agent, the (A1) first polymer including: a first polymer chain including a polysiloxane structure, the polysiloxane structure having a polymerization degree of 5 to 2000 and being represented by the following general formula (1); and a second polymer chain bonded with the first polymer chain, the second polymer chain including a repeating unit represented by the following general formula (2), the (A2) second polymer being a copolymer of a first monomer component and a second monomer component, the first monomer component represented by the general formula (7) or (8), the second monomer component represented by the general formula (9).
US11718804B2
The present invention relates to a combustion additive comprising a colloidal solution containing dispersed fine metal particles. The present invention also relates to a method for producing the colloid. More particularly the present teaching relates to a combustion additive having a colloid, wherein the colloid comprises metal particles providing in an alkaline aqueous solution, the metal particles being dispersed within that solution and having an average diameter in the range of 30 nm to 30 μm. The colloid can partly/fully substitute water of a water injection system or used as an air humidification component for combustion.
US11718802B2
Applying heat from a heat source to a first region to cause a first pyrolysis process, the first pyrolysis process resulting in a gaseous mixture, and applying heat from the heat source to a second region to cause a second pyrolysis process, the second pyrolysis process being applied to the gaseous mixture, wherein the second region is located closer to the heat source than the first region. Pyrolysis is used to destroy oils, tars and/or PAHs in carbonaceous material.
US11718801B2
An apparatus to simulate biocide performance in crude oil pipeline conditions is disclosed. The apparatus includes: a reactor to simulate a two-phase crude oil pipeline which includes a crude oil phase above a water phase. The reactor has an agitator to control a flow of the water phase in the reactor in response to a motor that drives an agitation rate of the agitator. A crude oil inlet supplies crude oil to the reactor for the crude oil phase. A water inlet supplies water to the reactor for the water phase. A control circuit is configured by code to control a proportion of the water to the crude oil supplied to the reactor and to control the motor to drive a desired agitation rate of the agitator. A biocide inlet supplies biocide to the reactor. A water sample outlet enables sampling of the water phase of the reactor.
US11718800B2
The present disclosure relates to methods for preparing aviation fuel component from a feedstock containing fossil hydrotreating feed and a second feed containing esters of fatty acids and rosins, free fatty acids and resin acids. The method includes subjecting the feedstock to hydrotreatment reaction conditions to produce a hydrotreated stream, separating the hydrotreated stream to three fractions from which at least part the highest boiling fraction is subjected to hydrocracking reaction to produce a hydrocracked stream. At least part of the hydrocracked stream is admixed with at least part of the hydrotreated stream, and their admixture is processed further until desired conversion of the feedstock to the aviation fuel component is obtained.
US11718798B2
It has been discovered that contaminants such as metals and/or amines can be transferred from a hydrocarbon phase to a water phase in an emulsion breaking process by using a composition that contains water-soluble C5-C12 polyhydroxy carboxylic acids, ammonium salts thereof, alkali metal salts thereof, and mixtures of all of these. The composition may also optionally include a mineral acid to reduce the pH of the desalter wash water. The method permits transfer of metals and/or amines into the aqueous phase with little or no hydrocarbon phase undercarry into the aqueous phase. Resolving the emulsion into the hydrocarbon phase and the aqueous phase occurs in a refinery desalting process using electrostatic coalescence. The composition is particularly useful in treating crude oil emulsions, and in removing calcium and other metals therefrom. The polyhydroxy carboxylic acid additionally inhibits metal corrosion of metal pipe or other equipment used in a crude unit.
US11718794B2
A process for the production of a fractionated product is disclosed, comprising providing a solid hydrocarbonaceous material, wherein the material is in particulate form, and wherein at least about 90% by volume (% v) of the particles are no greater than about 500 μm in diameter. The solid hydrocarbonaceous material is combined with an unrefined liquid hydrocarbonaceous material, such as crude oil, in order to create a combined solid-liquid blend; and the combined solid-liquid blend is subjected to fractionation in order to generate one or more fractionation products. Typically the solid hydrocarbonaceous material comprises coal, optionally the coal is ultrafine coal, and suitably the coal is comprised of microfine coal. The coal may be dewatered and deashed prior to combination with unrefined liquid hydrocarbonaceous material. Compositions and products of the process are further provided.
US11718793B2
Method and apparatus to facilitate recycling of at least one fraction of bitumen-containing materials. This can be accomplished by dissolving the at least one fraction, for example, maltenes or asphaltenes in roofing shingles, into at least one solvent. In one aspect, the apparatus comprises a dissolution vessel, a tumbler positioned therein, and at least one solvent distributor. The tumbler is configured to facilitate wetting the bitumen-containing materials with solvent. In a second aspect, a system comprises the apparatus, a solid-liquid separator, for example, a vibratory screen, and at least one solvent-fraction separator, for example, a flash drum. The at least one solvent can comprise one or more solvents useful to extract the at least one fraction. In a third aspect, a first fraction is extracted from the bitumen-containing materials with a first solvent composition, then a second fraction is extracted from the remaining bitumen-containing materials with a second solvent composition.
US11718782B2
A compound for use in oil recovery includes a quantum dot and a zwitterionic surfactant. The quantum dot has a diameter no greater than 25 nm and the quantum dot is bonded to the zwitterionic surfactant. A nanofluid for use in oil recovery includes the compound described above and a fluid carrier. A method for recovering oil from a formation includes flooding the formation with a nanofluid. The nanofluid has a quantum dot diameter no greater than 25 nm bonded to a zwitterionic surfactant and a fluid carrier.
US11718781B2
A method for the preparation of a scale inhibitor and a method of inhibiting the formation of scale uses a water soluble polymeric gelling agent, in particular synthetic polymer, which has been degraded and reduced in its molecular weight.
US11718779B2
A method for the use of a monocarboxylic acid composition additive to inhibit formation of naphthenic deposits from crude oil is described. The invention provides for the inhibition of naphthenic using environmentally acceptable compositions, reducing waste water contamination. In use of the monocarboxylic acid compositions, the requirements for further additives, such as emulsion breakers, may also be reduced or eliminated.
US11718776B2
Provided is a loss circulation material that may consist essentially of an acidic nanosilica dispersion and an activator. The acidic nanosilica dispersion may consist of acidic silica nanoparticles, stabilizer, and water, and may have a pH in a range of 3 to 6. The activator may be one or more from the group consisting of sodium bicarbonate, sodium chloride, or an amine salt. A method is provided for controlling lost circulation in a lost circulation zone in a wellbore comprising introducing the loss circulation material and forming a gelled solid from the loss circulation material in the lost circulation zone.
US11718774B2
An abrasive particle having a body including a first major surface, a second major surface opposite the first major surface, and a side surface extending between the first major surface and the second major surface, such that a majority of the side surface comprises a plurality of microridges.
US11718768B2
A polishing composition according to the present invention contains silica, a nitrogen-containing alkaline compound, and hydrogen peroxide, in which a content of the hydrogen peroxide is more than 0% by mass and less than 0.03% by mass with respect to the total mass of the polishing composition, and a pH exceeds 9.
US11718763B2
Water-based stains are based on an oil-in-water emulsion having a binder that includes, consists of, or consists essentially of drying oil combined with a non-aqueous polymer dispersion. The compositions can be tinted using traditional water-based pigment dispersions, yet the overall hydrophobicity results in minimal interaction with the polar cellulosic structure of wood.
US11718762B2
A curable coating composition includes: (a) a binder having a film-forming resin with at least two functional groups, and (ii) a curing agent reactive with the functional groups of the film-forming resin; and (b) solid vulcanized rubber particles that are unreactive with the binder. The curable coating composition is a solid particulate powder coating composition. Multi-layer coating systems and methods of preparing the curable coating composition are also included.
US11718760B2
The present invention provides a carbon black molded body having different pore structure from conventional carbon black. A carbon black molded body of the present invention includes a peak M of a pore volume being exist in a specified pore diameter in the specified Log differential pore volume distribution; a specified half band width of the peak M; a specified ratio of the half band width/an area-based median diameter; and a specified difference between a maximum value and a minimum value of a Log differential pore volume.
US11718756B2
Pavement aging can be reduced by applying to an asphalt-containing pavement a topcoat layer or a surface treatment containing asphalt binder emulsion with sterols.
US11718753B2
Novel compositions and systems for closure of wounds are disclosed. The compositions provide devices of improved flexibility and elasticity and are readily applied to wound sites or over wound closure devices. The present invention is also directed to a novel platinum catalyst for use in such compositions. The catalyst provides for rapid curing on topical surfaces such as skin and bonds to such surfaces in about 2-5 minutes.
US11718751B2
This invention pertains to a water-borne polyaryletherketone composition which possesses outstanding shelf stability and which, when coated onto a variety of substrates, provides for excellent adhesion, to a method of coating a substrate using the same, and to coated substrates obtained therefrom.
US11718749B2
The present invention relates to a polycarbonate composition and the process for the production thereof and molded articles. The polycarbonate composition provided in the present invention comprises A) 8-70 wt. % of a polycarbonate component, B) 25-90 wt. % of a polysiloxane-polycarbonate copolymer component, C) a flame retardant component, which comprises 0.5-6 wt. % of a cyclic phosphazene of formula (X) and D) an impact modifier component, which comprises 0.5-6 wt. % of methyl methacrylate-butadiene-styrene, with the above weight percentages based on said polycarbonate composition as 100 wt. %. The polycarbonate composition provided in the present invention has a high flame-retardant level, an excellent low-temperature impact-resistant property and good heat resistance, and is suitable for the use requirement of casings for electrical devices which have relatively high flame-retardant levels (such as UL94 5VB) and require an excellent low-temperature impact-resistant property.
US11718739B2
A thermoplastic resin composition of the present invention comprises: polypropylene resin; polyolefin copolymer resin; and zinc oxide, wherein the zinc oxide has an average particle size of about 0.5 to about 3 μm, a specific surface area BET of about 1 to about 10 m2/g, a 2θ peak position in the range of 35° to 37° in X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis, and a crystallite size value calculated by formula 1 in the range of about 1,000 to about 2,000 Å. The thermoplastic resin composition has excellent antibacterial properties, impact resistance, chemical resistance, weather resistance, fluidity, etc.
US11718735B2
A composition for three-dimension (3D) printing, a method for 3D printing, and a resulting article having porous structure are provided. Such a composition includes from 50% to 100% o by weight of a base polymer comprising polyolefin (such as ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene), from 0% to 50% by weight of a glue polymer (such as HDPE or PP), and optionally additive. A composition can be applied in a layer, and the base polymer and the glue polymer each has a predetermined size or size distribution. The composition is sintered in a selected area to form a layer of a solid article, which has a predetermined pore size or pore size distribution. The predetermined particle size or size distribution for each of the base polymer and the glue polymer is determined through computer simulation based on the predetermined pore size or pore size distribution in the layer of the solid article.
US11718729B2
An insulating filler composed of a mixed powder in which a hydrophobic fumed oxide powder having an average primary particle size D1, which is smaller than an average primary particle size D2, is adhered to the surface of a magnesium oxide powder and/or a nitride-based inorganic powder having the average primary particle size D2, wherein: the ratio D1/D2 of the average primary particle size D1 to the average primary particle size D2 is 6×10−5 to 3×10−3; the volume resistivity of the mixed powder is 1×1011 Ω·m or more; and the content ratio of the hydrophobic fumed oxide powder in the mixed powder is 5-30 mass %. Also provided is an insulating material in which the above-mentioned insulating filler is contained in a resin molded body.
US11718716B2
An aerogel and drying method, the aerogel having a larger size, good productivity, and high transparency. The aerogel has a silsesquioxane structure and exhibits two exothermic peaks observed in a temperature range of 300 to 600° C. as measured by TG-DTA (thermogravimetry-differential thermal analysis) under an inert gas atmosphere containing 80% by volume of an inert gas and 20% by volume of oxygen. A method for producing aerogel includes a drying step including a first step in which an aerogel which has undergone condensation of a hydrolysate is placed in a liquid phase system having a first liquid phase and a second liquid phase; a second step in which a first solvent constituting the first liquid phase is evaporated from the first liquid phase at a temperature greater than room temperature; and a third step in which heating is still continued after the first liquid phase is evaporated off.
US11718710B2
A method of light-promoted frontal ring-opening metathesis polymerization includes providing a monomer solution including dicyclopentadiene, a ruthenium-based catalyst and a phosphite inhibitor, and exposing the monomer solution to ultraviolet light having a wavelength in a range from 315 nm to 400 nm, thereby initiating an exothermic polymerization reaction and generating a self-propagating polymerization front. The polymerization front moves through the monomer solution and polymerizes the dicyclopentadiene.
US11718708B2
A curable composition is provided that includes an alkenyl phenol A, an epoxy-modified silicone B, an epoxy compound C other than the epoxy-modified silicone B, and a thermosetting resin E, in which the thermosetting resin E contains one or more selected from the group consisting of a maleimide compound, a cyanate ester compound, a phenolic compound, an alkenyl-substituted nadimide compound, and an epoxy compound.
US11718707B2
The present disclosure relates to epoxide containing compounds comprising three benzene units linked by bridging groups. The disclosure also relates to the production of curable epoxy resin formulations comprising said epoxide containing compounds, and their possible incorporation into composite materials such as fibre reinforced composites. Possible methods for formulating the compounds epoxide containing compounds, as described herein, are also disclosed.
US11718697B2
Disclosed herein is an aqueous latex composition comprising a substantially acrylic core-shell latex, wherein a water-retaining monomer is copolymerized to the shell. The Tg of the core ranges from about 0° C. to about 12° C., and the Tg of the shell ranges from about 13° C. to about 40° C. The mean volume average particle size of the latex ranges from about 125 nm to about 200 nm. The core-shell latex comprises at least one acrylic monomer having a solubility that ranges about 10 g/L to about 30 g/L at 30° C., and this at least one acrylic monomer is present in the shell polymer in an amount greater than about 50 wt. % of all monomers in the shell. Preferably, the at least one acrylic monomer is methyl methacrylate.
US11718692B2
A copolymer of ethylene and of a 1,3-diene of formula CH2═CR—CH═CH2 is provided. The ethylene units represent between 50 mol % and 95 mol % of the ethylene units and of the units of the 1,3-diene, and the units of the 1,3-diene of 1,2 and 3,4 configuration represent more than 50 mol % of the units of the 1,3-diene. The symbol R represents a hydrocarbon chain having from 3 to 20 carbon atoms. Such a copolymer exhibits an improved compromise between the degree of crystallinity and the stiffness and makes it possible to widen the field of application of ethylene-rich diene copolymers in rubber compositions.
US11718678B2
The present invention demonstrated that the modification of the Fc region of an antigen-binding molecule into an Fc region that does not form in a neutral pH range a heterotetramer complex containing two molecules of FcRn and an active Fcγ receptor improved the pharmacokinetics of the antigen-binding molecule and reduced the immune response to the antigen-binding molecule. The present invention also revealed methods for producing antigen-binding molecules having the properties described above, and successfully demonstrated that pharmaceutical compositions containing as an active ingredient such an antigen-binding molecule or an antigen-binding molecule produced by a production method of the present invention have excellent features over conventional antigen-binding molecules in that when administered, they exhibit improved pharmacokinetics and reduced in vivo immune response.
US11718661B2
The invention is in the field of therapy of antibody deficiencies. Inventors demonstrate for the first time in both controls and IgA-deficient patients, systemic anti-microbiota IgG responses correlate with reduced inflammation suggesting that systemic IgG responses contribute to the gut microbiota confinement. Furthermore, SIgAd-associated inflammation is inversely correlated with systemic anti-commensal IgG responses, which may thus serve as a second line of defense. Altogether, these data suggest that systemic IgG and intestinal IgA cooperate in different body compartments to limit systemic pro-inflammatory pathways. As selective IgA deficient patients harbour elevated seric anti-commensal IgG levels, these findings suggest that in selective IgA deficiency, microbiota confinement is obtained at the price of a strong inflammatory response. Accordingly, the invention relates to a composition containing immunoglobulins A (IgA), more particularly secretory IgA, for use by oral administration in the prevention or treatment of antibody deficiencies such as SIgAd (Selective IgA deficiency) or common variable immunodeficiency (CVID) and associated inflammatory diseases.
US11718654B2
IL-2Rβγc binding compounds, and pharmaceutical compositions comprising the IL-2Rβγc binding compounds are disclosed. IL-2Rβγc binding compounds can act as IL-2R agonists and are useful in treating cancer, autoimmune diseases and inflammatory diseases.
US11718652B2
The present invention relates to a recombinant fusion protein comprising a fragment of the cardioprotective protein neuregulin-1 (NRG-1) fused to a monoclonal antibody (mAb) backbone and to a method of treating a disease or condition in a subject in need thereof comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of the recombinant fusion protein or the pharmaceutical composition comprising the recombinant fusion protein disclosed herein.
US11718651B2
Described herein are engineered microbe-targeting molecules, microbe-targeting articles, kits comprising the same, and uses thereof. Such microbe-targeting molecules, microbe-targeting articles, or the kits comprising the same can bind or capture of a microbe or microbial matter thereof, and can thus be used in various applications, such as diagnosis or treatment of an infection caused by microbes in a subject or any environmental surface.
US11718639B2
Compositions, methods, and systems are provided for fluorescent polymerase enzyme substrates comprising protein shields for improving enzyme photostability in single molecule real time sequencing. Fluorescent polymerase enzyme substrates of the invention have a protein shield between the fluorescent dye moieties and nucleotide moieties of the polymerase enzyme substrate. The polymerase enzyme substrates have a nucleotide component and a dye component, each attached to a protein. The attachments can be covalent. The protein can, for example, prevent the direct interaction of the fluorescent dye moiety with the enzyme when carrying out nucleotide synthesis, preventing photodamage to the enzyme. The polymerase enzyme substrates of the invention can have multiple dyes and multiple nucleotide moieties.
US11718632B2
The present invention relates to a catalyst composition including an oxonium ion-based catalyst and an aluminum-based cocatalyst, and a method for preparing an isobutene-based polymer using the same.
US11718624B2
The present disclosure relates to: a) solid state forms of a compound of Formula (I), a compound of Formula (II), and a compound of Formula (III); b) pharmaceutical compositions comprising one or more solid state forms of a compound of Formula (I), a compound of Formula (II), and a compound of Formula (III), and optionally, a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier or diluent; c) methods of treating tumors or cancers by administering one or more solid state forms of a compound of Formula (I), a compound of Formula (II), and a compound of Formula (III) to a subject in need thereof; and d) methods for the preparation of solid state forms of a compound of Formula (I), a compound of Formula (II), and a compound of Formula (III).
US11718611B2
An N-benzenesulfonylbenzamide compound represented by the formula (I), or a crystal form, a prodrug, pharmaceutically acceptable salts, a stereoisomer, a solvate or a hydrate thereof, a pharmaceutical composition containing same, and a use thereof as a Bcl-2 protein inhibitor for preparing a medicament for treatment of leukemia or a cancer.
US11718610B2
Disclosed is a class of compounds containing arylsultam, and specifically disclosed are a compound represented by formula (II), and a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or an isomer thereof.
US11718604B2
Described herein are 4-amino-6-(1,3-benzodioxole)picolinic acids, compositions comprising 4-amino-6-(1,3-benzodioxole)picolinic acids, and the use of these compounds and compositions to control undesirable vegetation.
US11718593B2
The present disclosure is concerned with 2,5-amino-thiazole compounds that are capable of activating NF-κB signaling. The present disclosure is also concerned with methods of using these compounds for the treatment of neurological disorders such as, for example, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, spinal muscular atrophy, traumatic brain injury, vascular dementia, Huntington's disease, mental retardation, and attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and neuromuscular disorders such as, for example, Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD). This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present invention.
US11718591B2
In one aspect, the invention relates to a crystalline form of the structure: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, having neprilysin inhibition activity. In another aspect, the invention relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising this crystalline form; methods of using this crystalline form and its soluble form (I); and processes for preparing soluble (I) and crystalline (I′) forms.
US11718583B2
The present disclosure belongs to the field of organic electroluminescent materials, and specifically relates to a nitrogen-containing compound, an electronic component using the nitrogen-containing compound and an electronic device using the nitrogen-containing compound. The nitrogen-containing compound has a structure as shown in Formula 1. When the nitrogen-containing compound of the present disclosure is used in an organic electroluminescent device, properties of the device can be effectively improved.
US11718566B2
The invention provides composite materials comprising novel bonding elements exhibiting unique microstructures and chemical compositions, and methods for their manufacture and uses, for example, in a variety of concrete components with or without aggregates in the infrastructure, construction, pavement and landscaping industries.
US11718561B2
According to aspects of the present disclosure, a composition is disclosed, which can be utilized to construct a retention structure, e.g., for use with hardscape such as pavers, tile, stone, and other building materials. The composition is a mixture of a cement component (e.g., Portland cement), a sand component, a gravel component, a silica fume component, and fiber component, the above-components mixed in varying ratios. When the cement component, sand component, gravel component, silica fume component, and fiber component are mixed in an effective amount, combined with a water component, and applied against a hardscape, the composition, once cured, defines a retention structure that abuts to, but is not adhered to the hardscape.
US11718559B2
An improved lime mud recycling system including a camera proximate the kiln outlet imaging the granular lime and providing outlet images of the granular lime exiting the kiln, a processor analyzing the outlet images of the granular lime and providing pebble size distributions for the granular lime exiting the kiln, as well as a controller communicating with the processor comparing the pebble size distribution of the granular lime exiting the kiln with predetermined prescribed operating parameters for pebble size distributions for the granular lime exiting the kiln and issuing (I) a notification and/or (II) a control signal prompting remedial action when the pebble size distributions for the granular lime exiting the kiln are outside of the predetermined prescribed operating parameters.
US11718558B2
Aspects of the invention include a method of producing a cement material comprising step of: first reacting a calcium-bearing starting material with a first acid to produce an aqueous first calcium salt; second reacting the aqueous first calcium salt with a second acid to produce a solid second calcium salt; wherein the second acid is different from the first acid and the second calcium salt is different from the first calcium salt; and thermally treating the second calcium salt to produce a first cement material. Preferably, but not necessarily, during the second reacting step, reaction between the first calcium salt and the second acid regenerates the first acid.
US11718550B2
A water-treatment cartridge (3) for a water-treatment device, wherein the water-treatment device comprises a head with a port for feeding water for treatment to the cartridge and a port for discharging water from the cartridge (3) after treatment. The water-treatment cartridge (3) according to the invention comprises an inlet channel for feeding water for treatment to the cartridge (3) for making a fluid communication with the port of the head for feeding water for treatment to the water-treatment cartridge (3), and an outlet channel for discharging water after treatment from the water- treatment cartridge (3) for making a fluid communication with the port for discharging water after treatment from the water-treatment cartridge (3), at least one water-treatment bed, which the at least one water-treatment bed is in a fluid communication with the inlet channel for feeding water for treatment and with the outlet channel for discharging water after treatment. The water-treatment cartridge (3) is characterized in that it comprises orientating means (10) configured to make a flow of water for treatment from the port of the head for feeding water for treatment with the inlet channel, when the water-treatment cartridge (3) is installed in the head of the water-treatment device. The invention also relates to a head of a water- treatment device for use with a water-treatment cartridge (3). In addition, the invention relates to a water-treatment device comprising a head and a water-treatment cartridge (3).
US11718549B2
A water treatment system comprises a flow path through a first activated carbon filter, a second activated carbon filter downstream of the first activated carbon filter, a particulate filter downstream of the second activated carbon filter, for example a ceramic membrane, and a UV sterilizer downstream of the particulate filter. Ozone is introduced into the process water ahead of a water storage vessel for storing treated water produced by the system. A recycle subsystem is periodically operated to withdraw treated water from the water storage vessel to form recycled water, introduce the recycled water to the water lines upstream of the UV sterilizer, and return the recycled water to the water storage vessel. A main programmable logic controller (PLC) controls a flow of the process water through the water treatment system and controls the recycle subsystem.
US11718546B2
A method and a system comprising an integrated water purifying apparatus with a pre-filter circuit including a particle filter and an activated carbon filter arranged to produce pre-treated water; a fluid circuit arranged to receive pre-treated water from the pre-filter circuit, the fluid circuit including an RO-pump and a Reverse Osmosis (RO) device arranged to produce purified water; a heating device arranged to heat purified water from the RO device to a temperature above 65°0 C.; the water purifying apparatus further arranged to heat disinfect the fluid circuit using the heated purified water. The system further comprises a line set connected to the purified water outlet connector at a water line connector of the line set, wherein the line set includes at least one sterile sterilizing grade filter arranged to further filter the purified water.
US11718523B2
The present invention provides a novel method for producing hydrogen fluoride which can suppress the occurrence of the pasty state over the whole process of producing hydrogen fluoride, reduce the problem of corrosion caused by sulfuric acid, and improve energy efficiency of the process. A method for producing hydrogen fluoride by reacting calcium fluoride and sulfuric acid comprises: (a) mixing and reacting calcium fluoride and sulfuric acid such that a mixture comprising calcium fluoride particles and sulfuric acid substantially maintains a form of particulate to obtain hydrogen fluoride while supplying sulfuric acid to the calcium fluoride particles at a flow rate of 0.002 to 1 mol/min relative to 1 mol of calcium fluoride to such an amount that a molar ratio of sulfuric acid/calcium fluoride is 0.9 to 1.1.
US11718520B2
A hydrogen storage system includes a pressure-sealed sleeve defining an interior and having an outlet, a shaft extending through the interior of the sleeve, a set of porous chambers arranged axially along and concentric to the shaft, and a hydrogen storage, wherein at least some hydrogen gas is supplied to the outlet.
US11718509B2
A vehicle (2) comprising a working equipment (4) equipped with a movable loading arrangement (5) comprising a first attachment member (7), said vehicle further comprises a sensor system (6) configured to capture environmental data reflecting the environment around the vehicle and to determine, based on said data, image data (8) representing an area at least partly surrounding the vehicle (2). The sensor system (6) is configured to detect and track positions of the first attachment member (7) and a mating second attachment member (9) of the object (20) to load in said image data representation, and, the detected and tracked positions of the first and second attachment members (7, 9) are used to generate a first set of operation instructions for the loading arrangement (5) of the working equipment that decreases the distance between said first and second attachment members such that said attachment members (7, 9) come into position to engage to each other. The control unit 16 is configured to verify that said attachment members (7, 9) are engaged based on the detected and tracked positions from the sensor system (6), and in response to verifying that said attachment members (7, 9) are engaged, enable activation of an object loading mode in which the control system generates a second set of operation instructions for the working equipment to move the loading arrangement (5) so that the object to load is loaded on the vehicle.
US11718501B2
An illustrative example embodiment of an elevator sheave wear monitoring device includes at least one detector situated to detect a position of elevator roping that is indicative of a condition of a sheave that the roping at least partially wraps around, the at least one detector providing an output corresponding to the detected position of the elevator roping and indicating an amount of wear of the sheave that exceeds at least one threshold.
US11718488B2
A linear motor conveyor system having a moving element including a first and a second magnetic element on opposite sides; a first track including a first linear motor configured to generate a dynamic magnetic field which acts on the first magnetic element to provide a first lateral force and a first longitudinal force; a second track with a transfer region positioned adjacent to the first track, the second track configured to generate a magnetic field that acts on the second magnetic element to provide a second lateral force; and a controller to control the first linear motor such that the first dynamic lateral force is configured to bias the moving element toward the first linear motor until the moving element reaches a switch point in the transfer region, where the first and second lateral forces are selectively adjusted to bias the moving element toward the second track.
US11718484B2
In order to be able to shingle articles individual slices or partial portions of slices shingled in a longitudinal direction in a transverse direction relative to the running direction of conveyor units on which these articles are transported, the two conveyor units, on each of which one of the two articles is fully supported, are not brought to overlap in order to achieve the transverse shingling, but one of the articles is transported on its conveyor unit with a lateral overhang to the other conveyor unit, and the other article placed there on the edge side with such a height difference that the two articles can finally overlap and be placed on top of each other. However, the two conveyor units only have to be guided closely next to each other for this purpose without overlapping themselves. This simplifies the design of the overlapping unit and reduces its overall height.
US11718480B1
A chain conveyor paddle attachment bracket for coupling a paddle to a chain link is disclosed. In embodiments, the chain conveyor paddle attachment bracket includes a bent sheet of metal that forms a first portion and a second portion substantially perpendicular to one another. The first portion of the bent sheet of metal includes two notches on opposite sides of the first portion, wherein the two notches are configured to form a welding interface between the first portion of the bent sheet of metal and a sidebar of the chain link. The second portion of the bent sheet of metal includes an opening configured to receive a fastener for connecting the paddle to the second portion of the bent sheet of metal.
US11718475B2
An automated storage and retrieval system including at least one autonomous rover for transferring payload within the system and including a communicator, a multilevel storage structure, each level allowing traversal of the at least one autonomous rover, at least one registration station disposed at predetermined locations on each level and being configured to communicate with the communicator to at least receive rover identification information, and a controller in communication with the at least one registration station and configured to receive the at least rover identification information and at least one of register the at least one autonomous rover as being on a level corresponding to a respective one of the at least one registration station or deregister the at least one autonomous rover from the system, where the controller effects induction of the at least one autonomous rover into a predetermined rover space on the level.
US11718469B2
An article reversing/discharging box 1 includes a box main body 2 that accommodates scrap, hook members 3, 4 having insertion holes 3a, 4a through which forks of a forklift are inserted above the box main body 2, and a reversing mechanism 5 capable of reversing the box main body 2. The reversing mechanism 5 includes a bottom plate 6 integrally extending from a lower end of the movable hook member 4 along the bottom surface 2d, and a hinge 7 provided at a distal end portion of the bottom plate 6. When the forks are inserted into the insertion holes 4a of the movable hook member 4 and the forks are removed from the insertion holes 3a of the fixed hook members 3, the box main body 2 is turnable about the distal end portion of the bottom plate 6 by the hinge 7.
US11718458B2
A fastener includes an elongate body defined by a first end, a second end, a first side portion, and a second side portion. The elongate body includes a plurality of discrete slits along at least the first side portion, and the plurality of slits extend at least partially into the elongate body of the fastener. The elongate body of the fastener includes a biodegradable material.
US11718454B1
A flow control closure is provided. The closure having a body member with a base wall, a body skirt, and a spout extending from the base wall away from the body skirt; a lid member with a top wall and a lid skirt, the lid member being movable between an open position and a closed position, the top wall having a seal positioned to engage the spout when the lid member is in the closed position; and a hinge member that joins the lid member with the body member. The spout can include an orifice with an outer profile having a first diameter and an inner profile having a second diameter, the orifice can include one or more uvulas that partially obstructs the first diameter. The flow control closure can be molded as one unitary piece.
US11718453B2
A pouring system comprising a spout retainer and a pour spout that form a liquid-tight seal when attached to, or disposed with respect to, a liquid container, such as a bottle, thereby reducing or eliminating losses from poor seals suffered by use of conventional pour spouts. A spout retainer is configured to forms an essentially liquid-proof seal with an open portion of a container and a pour spout inserted into the container.
US11718452B2
A stopper holder device for bottles is provided that includes a base-part associated with a bottle neck, a latch articulated in the base-part respect to which can swing, and a bracket which supports the stopper and which is articulated at the latch. The base-part includes an elastically deformable portion with means to release the elastically deformable portion from the bottle neck when causing an elastic deformation on the deformable portion, or to embrace the portion to the neck of the bottle when not causing the elastic deformation, so that the same stopper can be used in different bottles. The base-part also includes first structures, where the latch is articulated, and slots for housing wings of the bracket when the bottle is closed. The bracket includes second structures to which the latch is swingly attached. The latch includes third structures cooperating with the first structures and fourth structures cooperating with the second structures.
US11718448B2
Provided is a container with handle including an upper surface portion, a side surface portion, a bottom surface portion, and a grip portion formed to the side surface portion, in which the grip portion includes a first connecting end portion, a second connecting end portion, a grip body portion, and a hollow portion, and an area of a cross section of the hollow portion cut by a plane, which passes through a first end point of the second connecting end portion closest to a central axis of the container and is orthogonal to a central axis, is larger than an area of a cross section of the hollow portion cut by a plane which is at the grip body portion and is orthogonal to the central axis.
US11718447B2
A pallet made of plastic, having a pallet deck and pallet runners. The runners extend the length of the pallet and have a substantially rectangular form. The runners and the pallet deck have formations that allow a form-fit engagement of two pallets of the same type that are stacked one above the other. The form-fit engagement creates a stable stack. The formations on the pallet deck are also designed to allow wooden pallets to be stacked on the pallet according to the invention.
US11718445B2
A packaging device comprises a bod, a neck receiver, and a holder. The box is cuboidal in shape with multiple openings to accommodate a container. The neck receiver is positioned within the box to receive a neck portion of the container. The holder is inserted within the neck receiver to mount an elastic band, wherein the neck receiver is pulled out and pulled into position within a channel defined on the box using the elastic band. In an embodiment, the container is a bottle, where the neck receiver receives the neck portion of the bottle at a curved section of the neck receiver and an extended section of the neck receiver is designed to traverse along a channel defined on the box.
US11718441B2
Provided is a resin container for a water server, the container including an upper surface portion where a liquid inlet and outlet portion is formed, a side surface portion connected to the upper surface portion, and a bottom surface portion disposed on a side opposite to the upper surface portion and connected to the side surface portion. A round corner surface portion is formed to the side surface portion such that the container has a polygonal shape with round corners when the container is viewed from an upper surface portion side. A wall thickness of a shoulder portion of the upper surface portion which is defined between the round corner surface portion of the side surface portion and the inlet and outlet portion is larger than a wall thickness of a portion of the upper surface portion which is adjacent to the shoulder portion.
US11718435B2
A method includes separating a portion of a flattened tube of stock packing material to a custom length to form a pouch pre-form and closing a first end of the pouch pre-form leaving a second end of the pouch pre-form open. The method can include placing product into the pouch pre-form and closing the one open end of the pouch pre-form to form a closed pouch containing the product.
US11718422B2
A satellite includes a plurality of thrusters disposed about the satellite, each of the plurality of thrusters having a minimum thruster firing time, and a control circuit connected to the plurality of thrusters. The control circuit is configured to identify violations of the minimum thruster firing time in a non-compliant thruster firing pattern selected to achieve a specified movement, generate a plurality of compliant thruster firing patterns by replacing each of the violations of the non-compliant thruster firing pattern by zero and a minimum time in different combinations, select a compliant thruster firing pattern from the plurality of compliant thruster firing patterns to produce a satellite movement that is within a predetermined range of the specified movement, and cause the plurality of thrusters to fire according to the compliant thruster firing pattern.
US11718421B2
An antenna assembly has a solar layer having one or more solar cells generating solar power, an antenna layer connected to the solar layer and having electronic components utilizing the solar power generated by the solar layer, and a thermal dissipation device dissipating heat locally at the antenna assembly. A large number of antenna assemblies are connected to form an antenna array in which heat is generated locally at each antenna assembly and dissipated locally at each antenna assembly.
US11718417B2
A gripping device for a panel of a section of a fuselage of an aircraft, the panel including a skin and having an arcuate shape about a longitudinal axis X. The gripping device includes two gripping subsystems arranged at a distance from one another parallel to the longitudinal axis X, and each gripping subsystem includes a central element fastened to the panel, and two lateral elements fastened on either side of the central element by fasteners, and each lateral element includes pressurizers which come against the skin to apply a tension thereto in the opening direction of the arcuate shape. Such a gripping device makes it possible to ensure the shape of the panel when it is transported and until it is fastened to other panels in order to produce the section of the fuselage.
US11718414B2
A flight-time variable associated with an aircraft is determined including by determining the flight-time variable while the aircraft is flying. It is determined whether the aircraft is airworthy based at least in part on the flight-time variable. In response to determining that the aircraft is not airworthy, the aircraft is automatically landed.
US11718395B2
A vertical takeoff and landing aircraft system includes a gas turbine engine coupled to a variable pitch propeller. The gas turbine engine is also coupled to a power split device including a first motor generator, a second motor generator, and a planetary module therebetween. The planetary module includes a sun gear, a ring gear, and a planet carrier. The motor generators are coupled to inverters, a DC bus and a battery. The battery is configured to power balance fans disposed on wings and horizontal stabilizers of the aircraft system. The balance fans can be closed off after vertical lift has been achieved.
US11718394B2
Tail boom drive systems for helicopters are described which utilize a fan internal to the tail boom to provide yaw control, and an external propulsor to provide forward thrust. In one embodiment, the tail boom drive system includes a shaft, a fan, and a propulsor. The shaft is disposed lengthwise within an interior space of the tail boom, and the shaft has a first end and a second end. The fan is mechanically coupled coaxially to the shaft within the interior space between the first end and the second end, and the fan generates a variable airflow directed towards the second end that is ejected from the interior space substantially perpendicular to the tail boom. The propulsor is external to the tail boom and is mechanically coupled coaxially to the shaft at the second end, and the propulsor generates a variable thrust directed towards the first end.
US11718392B2
Tail rotor control system is described for helicopters. A pedal position sensor operable by a pilot yields greater tail rotor RPM relative to the main rotor RPM, giving the pilot increased control over the vehicle. This proves especially useful in certain situations, such as high altitude, where increasing tail rotor speed from main rotor speed can give a pilot increased maneuverability and stability.
US11718386B2
A cupola fairing (250) for reducing drag and increasing lift on an aircraft fuselage (210) and wings (220). The fairing includes a housing length extending along a longitudinal axis, and a variable width extending normal to the longitudinal axis. The housing width is variable and defined by a plurality of cross-sectional areas of the cupola fairing. The fairing has a substantially smooth exterior surface that is curved along the length and the variable width of the housing. The housing surface has its longitudinal and transverse curvatures being defined by metrics corresponding to a reference wing root chord of the aircraft (200), a cross-sectional area of the fuselage, a percentage of the cross-sectional area to be covered by the fairing, and positioning of the cupola fairing on the crown portion of the fuselage (210). The housing has a lower surface configured to conform to a shape of the crown at which the cupola fairing (250) is positioned.
US11718378B2
A water-jet propulsion unit includes a body, an impeller for moving water, the impeller disposed in an impeller tunnel, an impeller shaft for driving the impeller, a first bearing housing to support the impeller shaft on the body, and a jet nozzle for forming a water jet. The body comprises a shaft opening for the impeller, a flow duct having a first contact surface, an inlet opening, and an outlet opening, the planes of which are at an angle α relative to each other. The impeller tunnel has a first end comprising a planar second contact surface and a second end comprising a planar third contact surface to seal the impeller tunnel between the body and the jet nozzle. The second and third planar contact surfaces of the impeller tunnel are arranged at an angle relative to each other. The impeller shaft is adapted for alternative types of installation by turning the impeller tunnel through 180° about the rotational axis of the impeller shaft. Support equipment supports the impeller shaft on the body in the alternative positions.
US11718372B2
A boat includes at least three trim devices positioned aft of the boat's transom. To improve the boat's ability to get on place, each trim device is initially positioned to a deployed position. The speed of the boat is then determined as the boat gains speed. When the speed of the boat exceeds a first predetermined threshold, the first trim device is moved from the deployed position to a non-deployed position. When the speed of the boat exceeds a second predetermined threshold, the second trim device is moved from the deployed position to a non-deployed position. When the speed of the boat exceeds a third predetermined threshold, the third trim device is moved from the deployed position to a non-deployed position. At least one of the first, second, and third predetermined thresholds is different from the other two of the first, second, and third predetermined thresholds.
US11718366B2
A pedal for bicycles comprising: a pedal-pin which extends along a reference axis, a pedal-body that comprises a hub coupled in a freely rotatable manner on the pedal-pin, an electronic measurement circuit firmly coupled to the pedal-pin to provide electrical measurement signals indicative of the deformation of the pedal-pin, a mechanical clamping member comprising: a first clamping element which is arranged on the pedal-pin to rotate around the reference axis and is positioned in abutment against a shoulder of the pedal-pin in order to be axially clamped along said axis), and a second clamping element that firmly couples the hub to the first clamping element so that the hub is axially clamped to the pedal-pin.
US11718362B2
A crown assembly including at least one crown fluid chamber having a first volume, and a fork side opening for fluidly coupling the at least one crown fluid chamber with at least one fluid spring chamber of a fork leg to provide an additional amount of available fluid volume to the at least one fluid spring chamber.
US11718359B2
Provided are an output device, a method for generating a machine learning model, and a computer-readable storage medium for properly controlling a human-powered vehicle so as to travel comfortably for a long time by using a machine learning model. The output device includes an acquisition unit that acquires input information related to traveling of a human-powered vehicle, and a processor configured to train a machine learning model in accordance with an index value indicating electric power consumption efficiency in a power supply device for supplying electric power to a component of the human-powered vehicle, and to output output information related to controlling the component when the input information is inputted.
